~* New Faces *~
A/N: Hey! I'm sooooooo sorry for not updatin'until now! Here is the latest on the story, I hope y'all like it!!! Also, there is a part that I absolutely had to put in here, as a tribute to my town.this is mostly a chapter for me, so I'll understand if ya don't like it!
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~* New Years *~
"Wha-what happened?" Eve asked disoriented, "How did I get here?"
"What's the last thing you remember from the night of the ball?" Harry asked her
"Pansy gave me some punch as a peace offering, my stomach kind of contracted and I got sick. Someone held my hair and there was something cool on my head, then it all went black for a moment and all of a sudden I was drowning in freezing water. Then I was in the stands of a Quidditch match. (remembering that it was Harry and Draco, she didn't dwell on the match) and it went black again and I woke up. What happened?"
"Pansy has been taken care of, your friends cornered her and beat her up. She has detention for the rest of the year for trying to kill you, she would be expelled, but 'her father' had something to say about it. You're lucky to be alive! Thank God she sucks at potions, she concocted it wrong." Said Harry
"Well, you passed out in a bathroom stall. Harry carried you to your room and your friends changed your clothes. When you didn't wake up the next morning, we took you to Madam Pomfry. She had to pump your stomach and Snape made all these antidotes, but you wouldn't wake up. You've been out for two days." Draco explained
"I ruined y'alls night!" she wailed, "I'm so sorry!" she tried to sit up, but Harry and Draco's faces swam around her, thought the better of it and laid back down.
"Don't worry about it," they said in mixed unison.
She looked around them; the hospital wing was completely empty. Madam Pomfry, seeing she was awake, hurried over to her bed.
"Hello dear, how do you feel?" she asked her, "You gave us quite a fright!"
"Uh, o.k. I guess. But, I'm starting to get a head ache, could y'all stop moving around, please?" she said, her eyes going in and out of focus. "Delirious" Madam Pomfry was muttering. Noticing Harry and Draco, she said "You two, out! I can handle it from here!"
Reluctantly, they left. Eve lay back down on her pillow. After assuring her she could leave the next day, Madam Pomfry left for her office.
Eve tried to remember her dream, but it was getting fuzzier every time she tried. "I've got to write down what I remember and the rest may piece it's self together!" she said to herself, looking around. Nothing to write on or with. "Damnit" she muttered. She was left to think. A thought hit her, farfetched, but she could try!
She cleared her mind as best she could. "Steven," she thought, "Steven, come visit me in the hospital wing. Visit me and bring my notebook. Bring me my notebook." She repeated to her thoughts. Then a new, strange thought came into her mind: o.k.
Ten min. later, Steven came walking into the wing, her notebook outstretched in front of him.
"I got your message." He said with a wink
"Heh, I wasn't sure it would work! Yay, we're telepathic!"
She told him all that she could remember about the dream.
"Whoa! I think that was just a side effect of the poison, don't you?" he asked
"I hope so, I didn't tell Harry and Draco details, only that I was at a Quidditch match." She replied
"Changing the subject," he said, "we had a meeting about the New Year. Send an owl to your mom and ask her if it's o.k. if we floo in and out of your house Thursday and Friday night at around 10:45 and 7:00, k? We've also decided not to invite anybody to go with us."
"K, here, I'll go ahead and write her and you can take it to the owlery for me." She said, scribbling a note on a piece of parchment.
* * *
In no time at all, it was Thursday. Eve's mom had said she would be glad for them to floo to their house and reminded her about the time difference. They stayed up all Wednesday night so they could sleep all day and not be tired at 3 am and later to leave.
Eve had gotten Colin Creevy to develop the pictures she had taken on Christmas so they moved. She also got multiple prints to give to their friends.
At 10:45 (American time), they floo'd from the Ravenclaw common room to Eve's house in America. They talked with her parents until 11:15, when they bundled up and made their way up town. Most of Athens was there. The kids left Mr. and Mrs. Green to find their friends and get a good view. After hugs, excited conversation, and the passing out of pictures (their muggle friends were amazed at the fact that they moved), the chant began:
***"Good morning to you, Sir.
We wish you a happy New Year,
Great health, long life,
Which God may bestow
So long as you stay here below.
May he bestow the house you are in
Where you go out and you go in
Time by moments steal away
First the hour and then the day
Small the lost days may appear
But yet they soon amount to a year.
This another year is gone
And now it is no more of our own
But if it brings our promises good
As the year before the flood
But let none of us forget
It has left us much in debt
A favor from the Lord received
Since which our spirits hath been grieved.
Marked by the unerring hand
Thus in his book our records stands.
Who can tell the vast amount
Placed to each of our accounts?
But while you owe the debt is large
You may plead a full discharge.
But poor and selfish sinners, say'
What can you to justice pay?
Trembling last for life is past
and into prison you may be cast
Happy is the believing soul.
Christ for you has paid the whole.
We have this New Year's morning called you by your name
And disturbed you from by your rest.
And if it be your desire
Our guns and pistols they shall fire.
Since we hear of no defiance
You shall hear the art of Science.
When we pull trigger and powder burns
You shall hear the roaring of guns.
Oh, daughters of righteousness, we will rise
And warm our eyes and bless our hearts,
For the old years gone and the New Year's come
And for good luck we'll fire out guns
When the old man was finished, the first musket fired. One after another, men of all ages fired guns of all sizes, held together by pounds of painted duct tape and sporting various sizes of confederate flags at the trees, "scaring away the evil spirits for the new year". They were going to stay until the last of the beer and gunpowder (which ever came first) cleared off. By 12:45, the smock cleared, they walked back to Eve's house and floo'd back to Hogwarts.
"Wasn't that great?!?" Eve exclaimed when they arrived back in the common room at about dawn (England time).
"Yeah" the rest answered and they went to their rooms ant went to sleep.
*** The next night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione demanded to go too. Again, they all floo'd to the Green's house. Mr. and Mrs. Green were delighted to meet Harry, Ron and Hermione and bumbarded them with questions until it was time to leave. When they got ready to go, a problem arose. Their car wouldn't fit all 13 of them, so Mr. and Mrs. Green, Dan, Heather, Chessy, and Debby piled into one car; while Steven, Chase, Jeff, Harry, and Ron piled into the other with Eve driving and Hermione on Ron's lap (^__^). They drove to Rudisill stadium. The entire town was present for the end of the ceremony. The kids found their friends and introduced Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They had found a good place to stand and the chant began again like it had the night before.
All the shooters, looking very tired from being up all night and day shooting at various places around town, were lined up around the track. The chanter finished and the first shot fired, the shots traveled around the track, one after another. After it went around twice, someone tapped Eve on the shoulder.
"Kenneth!" she squealed, "How are you?"
The tall, dark haired guy didn't answer, with a mischievous grin, he snapped his fingers. Three other guys showed up by his sides.
"Eve, you're shooting!" and with that, the other guys picked up a screaming Eve and carried her onto the field.
"Put me down!" she kept screaming as Harry and the others were doubled up laughing. "Hickson, I swear to God! Put me down! Dayne, please! Roy, help! Somebody help me!!!!" They finally set her on her feet. Kenneth handed her a loaded gun.
"But I dunno how!" she wailed. Finally, she held the musket up and pulled the trigger. He had over stuffed the gun, it bucked and she did a complete back flip. The crew cheered and applauded as a cussing Eve was carried back to the grass.
"I can't believe you did that!" squealed Hermione
"I hadn't exactly planned on it my self!" she exclaimed
With a last hug from their friends, they went back to Eve's house. They chatted with Eve's parents for awhile (Harry made a very good impression). At about 10:00 (American time) they floo'd back to Hogwarts. It was one of the best New Years many of them had ever had.
A/N: there it is! I hope it was worth the wait.tell me what ya think!
Love, Courtney
*** I got the chant from www.cherryville.com, it is the actual chant they use every January 1st.
A/N: Hey! I'm sooooooo sorry for not updatin'until now! Here is the latest on the story, I hope y'all like it!!! Also, there is a part that I absolutely had to put in here, as a tribute to my town.this is mostly a chapter for me, so I'll understand if ya don't like it!
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~* New Years *~
"Wha-what happened?" Eve asked disoriented, "How did I get here?"
"What's the last thing you remember from the night of the ball?" Harry asked her
"Pansy gave me some punch as a peace offering, my stomach kind of contracted and I got sick. Someone held my hair and there was something cool on my head, then it all went black for a moment and all of a sudden I was drowning in freezing water. Then I was in the stands of a Quidditch match. (remembering that it was Harry and Draco, she didn't dwell on the match) and it went black again and I woke up. What happened?"
"Pansy has been taken care of, your friends cornered her and beat her up. She has detention for the rest of the year for trying to kill you, she would be expelled, but 'her father' had something to say about it. You're lucky to be alive! Thank God she sucks at potions, she concocted it wrong." Said Harry
"Well, you passed out in a bathroom stall. Harry carried you to your room and your friends changed your clothes. When you didn't wake up the next morning, we took you to Madam Pomfry. She had to pump your stomach and Snape made all these antidotes, but you wouldn't wake up. You've been out for two days." Draco explained
"I ruined y'alls night!" she wailed, "I'm so sorry!" she tried to sit up, but Harry and Draco's faces swam around her, thought the better of it and laid back down.
"Don't worry about it," they said in mixed unison.
She looked around them; the hospital wing was completely empty. Madam Pomfry, seeing she was awake, hurried over to her bed.
"Hello dear, how do you feel?" she asked her, "You gave us quite a fright!"
"Uh, o.k. I guess. But, I'm starting to get a head ache, could y'all stop moving around, please?" she said, her eyes going in and out of focus. "Delirious" Madam Pomfry was muttering. Noticing Harry and Draco, she said "You two, out! I can handle it from here!"
Reluctantly, they left. Eve lay back down on her pillow. After assuring her she could leave the next day, Madam Pomfry left for her office.
Eve tried to remember her dream, but it was getting fuzzier every time she tried. "I've got to write down what I remember and the rest may piece it's self together!" she said to herself, looking around. Nothing to write on or with. "Damnit" she muttered. She was left to think. A thought hit her, farfetched, but she could try!
She cleared her mind as best she could. "Steven," she thought, "Steven, come visit me in the hospital wing. Visit me and bring my notebook. Bring me my notebook." She repeated to her thoughts. Then a new, strange thought came into her mind: o.k.
Ten min. later, Steven came walking into the wing, her notebook outstretched in front of him.
"I got your message." He said with a wink
"Heh, I wasn't sure it would work! Yay, we're telepathic!"
She told him all that she could remember about the dream.
"Whoa! I think that was just a side effect of the poison, don't you?" he asked
"I hope so, I didn't tell Harry and Draco details, only that I was at a Quidditch match." She replied
"Changing the subject," he said, "we had a meeting about the New Year. Send an owl to your mom and ask her if it's o.k. if we floo in and out of your house Thursday and Friday night at around 10:45 and 7:00, k? We've also decided not to invite anybody to go with us."
"K, here, I'll go ahead and write her and you can take it to the owlery for me." She said, scribbling a note on a piece of parchment.
* * *
In no time at all, it was Thursday. Eve's mom had said she would be glad for them to floo to their house and reminded her about the time difference. They stayed up all Wednesday night so they could sleep all day and not be tired at 3 am and later to leave.
Eve had gotten Colin Creevy to develop the pictures she had taken on Christmas so they moved. She also got multiple prints to give to their friends.
At 10:45 (American time), they floo'd from the Ravenclaw common room to Eve's house in America. They talked with her parents until 11:15, when they bundled up and made their way up town. Most of Athens was there. The kids left Mr. and Mrs. Green to find their friends and get a good view. After hugs, excited conversation, and the passing out of pictures (their muggle friends were amazed at the fact that they moved), the chant began:
***"Good morning to you, Sir.
We wish you a happy New Year,
Great health, long life,
Which God may bestow
So long as you stay here below.
May he bestow the house you are in
Where you go out and you go in
Time by moments steal away
First the hour and then the day
Small the lost days may appear
But yet they soon amount to a year.
This another year is gone
And now it is no more of our own
But if it brings our promises good
As the year before the flood
But let none of us forget
It has left us much in debt
A favor from the Lord received
Since which our spirits hath been grieved.
Marked by the unerring hand
Thus in his book our records stands.
Who can tell the vast amount
Placed to each of our accounts?
But while you owe the debt is large
You may plead a full discharge.
But poor and selfish sinners, say'
What can you to justice pay?
Trembling last for life is past
and into prison you may be cast
Happy is the believing soul.
Christ for you has paid the whole.
We have this New Year's morning called you by your name
And disturbed you from by your rest.
And if it be your desire
Our guns and pistols they shall fire.
Since we hear of no defiance
You shall hear the art of Science.
When we pull trigger and powder burns
You shall hear the roaring of guns.
Oh, daughters of righteousness, we will rise
And warm our eyes and bless our hearts,
For the old years gone and the New Year's come
And for good luck we'll fire out guns
When the old man was finished, the first musket fired. One after another, men of all ages fired guns of all sizes, held together by pounds of painted duct tape and sporting various sizes of confederate flags at the trees, "scaring away the evil spirits for the new year". They were going to stay until the last of the beer and gunpowder (which ever came first) cleared off. By 12:45, the smock cleared, they walked back to Eve's house and floo'd back to Hogwarts.
"Wasn't that great?!?" Eve exclaimed when they arrived back in the common room at about dawn (England time).
"Yeah" the rest answered and they went to their rooms ant went to sleep.
*** The next night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione demanded to go too. Again, they all floo'd to the Green's house. Mr. and Mrs. Green were delighted to meet Harry, Ron and Hermione and bumbarded them with questions until it was time to leave. When they got ready to go, a problem arose. Their car wouldn't fit all 13 of them, so Mr. and Mrs. Green, Dan, Heather, Chessy, and Debby piled into one car; while Steven, Chase, Jeff, Harry, and Ron piled into the other with Eve driving and Hermione on Ron's lap (^__^). They drove to Rudisill stadium. The entire town was present for the end of the ceremony. The kids found their friends and introduced Harry, Ron, and Hermione. They had found a good place to stand and the chant began again like it had the night before.
All the shooters, looking very tired from being up all night and day shooting at various places around town, were lined up around the track. The chanter finished and the first shot fired, the shots traveled around the track, one after another. After it went around twice, someone tapped Eve on the shoulder.
"Kenneth!" she squealed, "How are you?"
The tall, dark haired guy didn't answer, with a mischievous grin, he snapped his fingers. Three other guys showed up by his sides.
"Eve, you're shooting!" and with that, the other guys picked up a screaming Eve and carried her onto the field.
"Put me down!" she kept screaming as Harry and the others were doubled up laughing. "Hickson, I swear to God! Put me down! Dayne, please! Roy, help! Somebody help me!!!!" They finally set her on her feet. Kenneth handed her a loaded gun.
"But I dunno how!" she wailed. Finally, she held the musket up and pulled the trigger. He had over stuffed the gun, it bucked and she did a complete back flip. The crew cheered and applauded as a cussing Eve was carried back to the grass.
"I can't believe you did that!" squealed Hermione
"I hadn't exactly planned on it my self!" she exclaimed
With a last hug from their friends, they went back to Eve's house. They chatted with Eve's parents for awhile (Harry made a very good impression). At about 10:00 (American time) they floo'd back to Hogwarts. It was one of the best New Years many of them had ever had.
A/N: there it is! I hope it was worth the wait.tell me what ya think!
Love, Courtney
*** I got the chant from www.cherryville.com, it is the actual chant they use every January 1st.