Chapter 8: Shocked Reactions and a formation of a Plan
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DISCLAIMER:
Thegoldenphoenix8603: I most certainly do NOT own Harry potter!
Stupid SIS kid: Yes you do!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: I fucking do NOT own it okay? What the hell's wrong with your fucking head?
The Stupid SIS kid: But. I thought you invented it!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *gritting her teeth* N-n-no! I do NOT own IT!
The Stupid SIS kid: really? Then who owns it?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: are you fucking stupid, you goddamn cunt? Haven't you read Harry Potter?
The Stupid SIS kid: Duh! Obviously, I have so much money that I can buy all the books that are published!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: So, whose name is written across it?
The Stupid SIS kid: Uh. your name?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: Oh god! You are a zillion times thicker than I thought!
The Stupid SIS kid: So your name really IS on it, right?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: Fuck it! Read the disclaimer above!
The Stupid SIS kid: What's disclaimer?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *banging her head against the wall like Dobby* Shit! Shit! Shit!! You don't know? You don't fucking know? SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
The Stupid SIS kid: well, what is it?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *casts a long shadow over the SIS kid* I'll just be more direct you piece of meat! *towering over the SIS kid* THE PERSON WHO REALLY OWNS IT IS J. K. ROWLING! J. K. ROWLING! SHE FREAKING WROTE IT! OKAY? SO SHE OWNS IT!
The Stupid SIS kid: oh. Okay, urrrrr, can you stop towering over me, you're starting to scare me.
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *skeptical* do you know how to read?
The Stupid SIS kid: uh, DUH! Of course I do!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: Oh yeah? Then why didn't you notice those nice big letters under the title?
The Stupid SIS kid: OH MY GOD! I NEVER KNEW THAT HARRY POTTER ACTUALLY EXISTED!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *slaps her hand on her forehead* J. K. ROWLING! J. K. ROWLING! DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU THAT YOU SHIT ASS?
The Stupid SIS kid: oh. Right.
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *menancingly* and since you're so fucking thick, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you!
The Stupid SIS kid: What? Why? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
*Thegoldenphoenix8603 takes out a long samuri knife and slits the shit's throat. Blood is everywhere and she mutters something that sounds quite like: "so now, my readers, do not go to SIS or else you'll become as stupid and spoiled as that kid I just killed."*
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RECAP FROM CHAPTER 7
"OH MY GOD!" Harry roared, "IT'S THE BLOODY DANDRISTA!"
Sure enough, in the pouch there were dozens of Dantristas twinkling and flickering and flashing like fire and shining like the finest rubies. From the small mound of Dandristas there came a redish-orange glow that hovered just above the crystals.
Neville opened his, and to his surprise, a huge egg bigger than an ostrich egg came rolling out on his palm. It was silvery-blue and looked like a silvery sapphire that shone brilliantly, so brilliantly that the egg cast eerie pale blue rays of light everywhere. "This is a dream!" Neville whispered.
"COVER IT UP NOW!" Valentis almost yelled. "Do not show it to the rest of the Hogwarts now. Show it when you confront Snape." As Valentis was scolding Neville about the egg, Harry's forefinger came closer and closer to the Dandristas.
"Under any circumstances, DO NOT TOUCH THAT!" Valentis said in a terrible voice.
"Why not?"
"If you touch it, your whole body will burn like never before. It's a nasty, nasty, nasty death!"
"But. but. why didn't the pouch burn up?"
"It's a-errr-it's been magiked." Valentis finished lamely; then she added quickly, "Highly advanced magic." The carriage was deathly silent. Hermione knew that Valentis was keeping something from them. She couldn't figure out what it was.
"I know you're hiding something. What it it?"
"Nothing." Valentis' voice was calm once more.
"No, Seriously, what are you hiding from us?" Ron asked.
"I can't tell."
"You can tell us. We won't tell a soul."
"I'm very sorry, all of you, but. demiobliviate! Hiegylic tohten voiche wan urtisotic ga aviellint doche viehn grienlish! (Translation: all you will remember are the gifts that I have presented to you)"
NOW LET US CONTINUE!
Hermione got out of the carriage happily carrying her bottle of Angel Blood. She could see Snape leering menancingly over all the Gryfindor stupids with a smile of pure bliss. Hermione couldn't stop smiling. When Hermione confronted Snape, he barked, "Show me your homework. or maybe miss know-it-all doesn't have it? Pity, pity-" Hermione proudly presented her bottle of Angel Blood with her parchment of the usual PERFECT essay. Snape just stood there gawking down at her. Hermione smirked, and left her parchment with Snape and sailed gaily into Hogwarts. Snape quickly turned to Harry who presented him with his homework and the rest of the students. Snape then sneered down at Neville who was trembling from fright as he handed his essay with his covered up egg. Snape was so shocked that he just stood there as the rest of the students stood behind Malfoy who was shamefully holding out his homework to Snape.
"Uh, sir, my homework."
"Ah, yes Mr. Malfoy." Snape muttered unconsciously, then, "Weasleys, Potter, Granger, Longbroom! A hundred points from Gryfindor. EACH for cheating and buying illegal items!"
"But Sir!" Hermione sputtered and before she could argue any longer, the musical fluid voice cut her off.
"I'm afraid that, Severus, that cannot be done. They have done nothing wrong."
"Twenty points from whatever house you're from!" Snape sneered at Valentis, who only raised an eyebrow.
"Really? Whatever for?"
"For being rude. Now scurry along before I deduct more."
"I don't think you can, Severus."
"Don't use my name." Snape growled.
"Well, Severus, you cannot take any points from me either."
"Why's that?"
"Because, I don't belong to any houses. yet."
"And I suppose you'll be in Gryfindor for being so brave and talking back to me."
"I'm afraid so, Severus."
"DO NOT USE MY NAME IN VAIN!"
"Temper, temper, temper, Severus, you are not Merlin, you know."
Snape's eyes narrowed into meer slits as he glared menancingly at Valentis, who smiled back and actually WALKED OUT on Snape. Harry and Ron were biting their lips from laughing as Snape just stood there limply holding Pansy's homework, which-consequently-fell on the floor and the jar holding the contents shattered into thousands of pieces. "Sir! My homework!" Pansy squealed in terror. Snape, however, didn't hear her. His expression had changed from shock to familiarity. Something about that girl was familiar, and he did not know what. Could it have been the last and the only Angel remaining on earth? Or was it just a figment of his imagination? Snape literally shook the thoughts out of his head earning curious glances from the other students. When Snape realized that the students were looking at him, he bellowed, "stop staring at me, or else it will be ten points from you. EACH!" The students jerked back into what they were doing before and scurried into the castle of Hogwarts.
At the Great Hall, all houses were chattering with delight. School had started and people were making new friends, meeting new teachers. Hermione noticed that a hooded teacher sat in the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's chair not speaking to anyone. Snape sat next to him still looking frazzled and at the same time looking very vemonous. Valentis could not sit with Hermione and her friends, but she sat at the new students section waiting patiently for the first years to huddle up near the old sorting hat that Professor Mcgonagall had broughten in. Within moments all students were sorted out into their classes and Valentis sat patiently as ever. Dumbledore stood up with that familiar twinkle in his eyes. "Welcome to Hogwarts all students, and I have several announcements to make. One being that there shall be two new events in our school. One of them is the Halloween Masqarade Dance and the Secret Santa-a very muggle thing-which I shall get in depth later on. The second announcement is we have a new student with us this year." All eyes turned to Valentis, who was sitting calmly in the new students section. There were whispers that sounded like, "Oh god! She's so HOT!" Or, "She's so beautiful, and graceful, I wished that I was like her." Dumbledore ignored the comments and continued. "Her name is Valentis Hurley." Claps and applauds exploded thoughout the room. It seemed as if Snape had gotten paler than he usually was. "Of course, we must sort her into the proper hat. Thus, my dear, I would like it if you put the sorting hat on your head." Valentis got up from her chair and lifted the Old Sorting Hat off it's stool and placed it gracefully on her head. Within minutes, the hat shouted, "GRYFINDOR!" Valentis got up and sat in a chair next to Neville (it was the only seat available.) "So now, my dear students, let the feast begin!" Then Dumbledore seated himself and Harry and Ron proceded to shovel food into their mouths. Amazingly, Valentis shoveled the same amount of food into her own mouth, only she didn't make a mess.
"I didn't know that you ate a lot." Ginny commented as Valentis continued eating.
"Of course I eat a lot. We must be grateful to the food we have. Think about the muggle kids who don't eat."
"Right. But you must know that HOUSE ELVES made those." Hermione said sounded disgruntled.
Valentis waved that away saying, "House elves? Well, they like doing that. If you want to go on talking about S.P.E.W., which is conseqently about their rights, you might as well not mention it. You might be asking why you shouldn't mention S.P.E.W., well it's because House elves like to slave away, 'freeing' them would be taking away their rights." Harry and Ron's jaw dropped. They have never met someone who came up with such a strong argument against Hermione.
"Well. I suppose you're right."
"So, you should stop talking about SPEW."
"It's not SPEW Ron, it's S.P.E.W."
"Yes Ron, it's S.P.E.W., never make fun of someone elses' clubs."
"Sorry, but I can't help it." Hermione now looked very smug, and Ron snorted. Now it was Ron's turn to be smug but then the food had disappeared. "Oh no! Where's my food?" Ron half shouted. Everyone around Ron started laughing. SO now the desert had appeared and Ron went back to eating his food again muttering something that sounded strangely like, "MY PRECIOUS!" Hermione rolled her eyes. She remembered that Ron had borrowed her set of The Lord of the Rings and was still pschyched by it. Hermione sighed and went on to eating a little cake. Despite the fact that she realized that freeing House Elves was the same as taking away their rights, she didn't feel very hungry. Within moments, the group got up to stumble sleepily into their rooms.
The reason why Hermione wasn't very hungry was because she was summoning a plan to get Malfoy back. By the time Hermione was in her bed with Valentis and Ginny on either sides of her and Parvati and Lavender across from her, a very good plan was beinning to form inside the mind of Hermione Granger (despite the fact that she was dog tired.)
The next day~*
Hermione woke up with the sun shining brilliantly through the hangings of her four-poster bed. She could hear Ginny (who was Parvati and Lavender's victim for their beauty charms of the day) squealing in terror as Lavender muttered, Beautilia! A sigh from Ginny and on and on it went. Hermione shuddered at the thought of being the victim of Parvati and Lavender. Hermione opened the hangings around her and not surprisingly, she was seized by Parvati who was shining. "I have the perfect hair charm! I've tried it on Ginny and PERFECT!" Sure enough, Ginny was sitting (in her Pajamas) at the edge of her bed looking very sour. Well, her expression was, but she actually looked quite beautiful in the new hairdo. Ginny's supposed-to-be straight red hair now hung down in beautifully limp curls around her shoulders making her shine like a new star. Hermione knew that it was impossible to escape Parvati and Lavender because they were already squirting different types of beauty spells on her. When the agonizing moment was over, both girls stood back and squealed with delight.
"OH MY GOD! You look absolutely gorgeous!" Lavender squealed.
"Stunning!" Parvati exclaimed jumping up and down clapping her hands.
"A complete knock out!"
"Sexy!"
"Wonder girl!"
Hermione sighed, and said, "Now, since your daily practicing has been finished, would you please get rid of the junk that you had done to me?"
"No way! A work of art!"
"Yes. complete success! Like Ginny!" Ginny scowled.
"Yes, they are right Hermione." The familiar fluid voice of Valentis came floating musically into the room.
"Oh no! You got rid of our beauty charms!" Parvati looked forlorn.
"Don't worry, you can throw whatever you want on me before the masquarade and the yule ball."
"Oh Valentine! Now nice of you!" Lavender beamed. "Or was it Valentis?"
"Valentis. You can call me Valentine if that's more comfortable."
"Oh! You're so nice!"
"Thank you. As I was saying Hermione, I really suggest you keep that hair. Makes you look stunning." Hermione's eyes widened.
"You think that THIS is nice?" She asked surprised.
"Yes, and you too Ginny. I'm sure that Harry and Ron will have quite a bit of commentaries to give to you. As for you, Lavender and Paravati, you must love beauty. Those charms are very complicated."
"Thank you! I've never been complimented like that."
"The Pleasure's mine. Well, Ginny? Hermione? Shouldn't we get going?" Hermione looked up dazed and then she remembered that this was Hogwarts. HOGWARTS! School of Witch Craft and Wizardry! She and Ginny quickly jumped up and got changed.
After Breakfast~*
"Well." Harry said calmly, "lucky us! Defense Against the Dark Arts first Period! Unfortunately, we're with Malfoy."
"Don't let Malfoy get you down. You'll find a pleasant surprise waiting for you when you come into the classroom." Harry and Ron and Hermione and Ginny knitted their brows in confusion looking at the calm Valentis.
"What do you mean?"
"You'll see Ginny my dear."
"Uh, okay."
So the group headed to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Everyone but Valentis were wondering who was the new teacher and what the surprise was. Within minutes, they were standing in front of the classroom door. Harry nodded at Hermione who put her hand on the door knob and pushed it open. There in the classroom stood the hooded teacher; and when he (or she) put lowered his or her hood, Harry and his friends (except Valentis, of course) stood their with their jaws on the floor. "Oh Merlin! This is not happening! This is a DREAM!" Harry bellowed as he stood gapping at the teacher.
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A/N: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! CLIFF HANGERS! WHOOOOOPIE! Well, who do you think is the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher (it will be known as DATDA in the next chapter)? Is it Umbridge again? What is Hermione's splendid plan to get Malfoy back? Who exactly IS Valentis, and how does she know everything? Why did Snape turn whiter than before? What is going to happen? Hehehe! Well, these things are yet to come, so hold on to your seats and let the roller coaster go rolling down!
NEXT CHAPTER-( There shall be a lot of Surprises as well as OoTP spoilers!
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DISCLAIMER:
Thegoldenphoenix8603: I most certainly do NOT own Harry potter!
Stupid SIS kid: Yes you do!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: I fucking do NOT own it okay? What the hell's wrong with your fucking head?
The Stupid SIS kid: But. I thought you invented it!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *gritting her teeth* N-n-no! I do NOT own IT!
The Stupid SIS kid: really? Then who owns it?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: are you fucking stupid, you goddamn cunt? Haven't you read Harry Potter?
The Stupid SIS kid: Duh! Obviously, I have so much money that I can buy all the books that are published!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: So, whose name is written across it?
The Stupid SIS kid: Uh. your name?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: Oh god! You are a zillion times thicker than I thought!
The Stupid SIS kid: So your name really IS on it, right?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: Fuck it! Read the disclaimer above!
The Stupid SIS kid: What's disclaimer?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *banging her head against the wall like Dobby* Shit! Shit! Shit!! You don't know? You don't fucking know? SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
The Stupid SIS kid: well, what is it?
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *casts a long shadow over the SIS kid* I'll just be more direct you piece of meat! *towering over the SIS kid* THE PERSON WHO REALLY OWNS IT IS J. K. ROWLING! J. K. ROWLING! SHE FREAKING WROTE IT! OKAY? SO SHE OWNS IT!
The Stupid SIS kid: oh. Okay, urrrrr, can you stop towering over me, you're starting to scare me.
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *skeptical* do you know how to read?
The Stupid SIS kid: uh, DUH! Of course I do!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: Oh yeah? Then why didn't you notice those nice big letters under the title?
The Stupid SIS kid: OH MY GOD! I NEVER KNEW THAT HARRY POTTER ACTUALLY EXISTED!
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *slaps her hand on her forehead* J. K. ROWLING! J. K. ROWLING! DIDN'T I JUST TELL YOU THAT YOU SHIT ASS?
The Stupid SIS kid: oh. Right.
Thegoldenphoenix8603: *menancingly* and since you're so fucking thick, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you!
The Stupid SIS kid: What? Why? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
*Thegoldenphoenix8603 takes out a long samuri knife and slits the shit's throat. Blood is everywhere and she mutters something that sounds quite like: "so now, my readers, do not go to SIS or else you'll become as stupid and spoiled as that kid I just killed."*
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RECAP FROM CHAPTER 7
"OH MY GOD!" Harry roared, "IT'S THE BLOODY DANDRISTA!"
Sure enough, in the pouch there were dozens of Dantristas twinkling and flickering and flashing like fire and shining like the finest rubies. From the small mound of Dandristas there came a redish-orange glow that hovered just above the crystals.
Neville opened his, and to his surprise, a huge egg bigger than an ostrich egg came rolling out on his palm. It was silvery-blue and looked like a silvery sapphire that shone brilliantly, so brilliantly that the egg cast eerie pale blue rays of light everywhere. "This is a dream!" Neville whispered.
"COVER IT UP NOW!" Valentis almost yelled. "Do not show it to the rest of the Hogwarts now. Show it when you confront Snape." As Valentis was scolding Neville about the egg, Harry's forefinger came closer and closer to the Dandristas.
"Under any circumstances, DO NOT TOUCH THAT!" Valentis said in a terrible voice.
"Why not?"
"If you touch it, your whole body will burn like never before. It's a nasty, nasty, nasty death!"
"But. but. why didn't the pouch burn up?"
"It's a-errr-it's been magiked." Valentis finished lamely; then she added quickly, "Highly advanced magic." The carriage was deathly silent. Hermione knew that Valentis was keeping something from them. She couldn't figure out what it was.
"I know you're hiding something. What it it?"
"Nothing." Valentis' voice was calm once more.
"No, Seriously, what are you hiding from us?" Ron asked.
"I can't tell."
"You can tell us. We won't tell a soul."
"I'm very sorry, all of you, but. demiobliviate! Hiegylic tohten voiche wan urtisotic ga aviellint doche viehn grienlish! (Translation: all you will remember are the gifts that I have presented to you)"
NOW LET US CONTINUE!
Hermione got out of the carriage happily carrying her bottle of Angel Blood. She could see Snape leering menancingly over all the Gryfindor stupids with a smile of pure bliss. Hermione couldn't stop smiling. When Hermione confronted Snape, he barked, "Show me your homework. or maybe miss know-it-all doesn't have it? Pity, pity-" Hermione proudly presented her bottle of Angel Blood with her parchment of the usual PERFECT essay. Snape just stood there gawking down at her. Hermione smirked, and left her parchment with Snape and sailed gaily into Hogwarts. Snape quickly turned to Harry who presented him with his homework and the rest of the students. Snape then sneered down at Neville who was trembling from fright as he handed his essay with his covered up egg. Snape was so shocked that he just stood there as the rest of the students stood behind Malfoy who was shamefully holding out his homework to Snape.
"Uh, sir, my homework."
"Ah, yes Mr. Malfoy." Snape muttered unconsciously, then, "Weasleys, Potter, Granger, Longbroom! A hundred points from Gryfindor. EACH for cheating and buying illegal items!"
"But Sir!" Hermione sputtered and before she could argue any longer, the musical fluid voice cut her off.
"I'm afraid that, Severus, that cannot be done. They have done nothing wrong."
"Twenty points from whatever house you're from!" Snape sneered at Valentis, who only raised an eyebrow.
"Really? Whatever for?"
"For being rude. Now scurry along before I deduct more."
"I don't think you can, Severus."
"Don't use my name." Snape growled.
"Well, Severus, you cannot take any points from me either."
"Why's that?"
"Because, I don't belong to any houses. yet."
"And I suppose you'll be in Gryfindor for being so brave and talking back to me."
"I'm afraid so, Severus."
"DO NOT USE MY NAME IN VAIN!"
"Temper, temper, temper, Severus, you are not Merlin, you know."
Snape's eyes narrowed into meer slits as he glared menancingly at Valentis, who smiled back and actually WALKED OUT on Snape. Harry and Ron were biting their lips from laughing as Snape just stood there limply holding Pansy's homework, which-consequently-fell on the floor and the jar holding the contents shattered into thousands of pieces. "Sir! My homework!" Pansy squealed in terror. Snape, however, didn't hear her. His expression had changed from shock to familiarity. Something about that girl was familiar, and he did not know what. Could it have been the last and the only Angel remaining on earth? Or was it just a figment of his imagination? Snape literally shook the thoughts out of his head earning curious glances from the other students. When Snape realized that the students were looking at him, he bellowed, "stop staring at me, or else it will be ten points from you. EACH!" The students jerked back into what they were doing before and scurried into the castle of Hogwarts.
At the Great Hall, all houses were chattering with delight. School had started and people were making new friends, meeting new teachers. Hermione noticed that a hooded teacher sat in the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's chair not speaking to anyone. Snape sat next to him still looking frazzled and at the same time looking very vemonous. Valentis could not sit with Hermione and her friends, but she sat at the new students section waiting patiently for the first years to huddle up near the old sorting hat that Professor Mcgonagall had broughten in. Within moments all students were sorted out into their classes and Valentis sat patiently as ever. Dumbledore stood up with that familiar twinkle in his eyes. "Welcome to Hogwarts all students, and I have several announcements to make. One being that there shall be two new events in our school. One of them is the Halloween Masqarade Dance and the Secret Santa-a very muggle thing-which I shall get in depth later on. The second announcement is we have a new student with us this year." All eyes turned to Valentis, who was sitting calmly in the new students section. There were whispers that sounded like, "Oh god! She's so HOT!" Or, "She's so beautiful, and graceful, I wished that I was like her." Dumbledore ignored the comments and continued. "Her name is Valentis Hurley." Claps and applauds exploded thoughout the room. It seemed as if Snape had gotten paler than he usually was. "Of course, we must sort her into the proper hat. Thus, my dear, I would like it if you put the sorting hat on your head." Valentis got up from her chair and lifted the Old Sorting Hat off it's stool and placed it gracefully on her head. Within minutes, the hat shouted, "GRYFINDOR!" Valentis got up and sat in a chair next to Neville (it was the only seat available.) "So now, my dear students, let the feast begin!" Then Dumbledore seated himself and Harry and Ron proceded to shovel food into their mouths. Amazingly, Valentis shoveled the same amount of food into her own mouth, only she didn't make a mess.
"I didn't know that you ate a lot." Ginny commented as Valentis continued eating.
"Of course I eat a lot. We must be grateful to the food we have. Think about the muggle kids who don't eat."
"Right. But you must know that HOUSE ELVES made those." Hermione said sounded disgruntled.
Valentis waved that away saying, "House elves? Well, they like doing that. If you want to go on talking about S.P.E.W., which is conseqently about their rights, you might as well not mention it. You might be asking why you shouldn't mention S.P.E.W., well it's because House elves like to slave away, 'freeing' them would be taking away their rights." Harry and Ron's jaw dropped. They have never met someone who came up with such a strong argument against Hermione.
"Well. I suppose you're right."
"So, you should stop talking about SPEW."
"It's not SPEW Ron, it's S.P.E.W."
"Yes Ron, it's S.P.E.W., never make fun of someone elses' clubs."
"Sorry, but I can't help it." Hermione now looked very smug, and Ron snorted. Now it was Ron's turn to be smug but then the food had disappeared. "Oh no! Where's my food?" Ron half shouted. Everyone around Ron started laughing. SO now the desert had appeared and Ron went back to eating his food again muttering something that sounded strangely like, "MY PRECIOUS!" Hermione rolled her eyes. She remembered that Ron had borrowed her set of The Lord of the Rings and was still pschyched by it. Hermione sighed and went on to eating a little cake. Despite the fact that she realized that freeing House Elves was the same as taking away their rights, she didn't feel very hungry. Within moments, the group got up to stumble sleepily into their rooms.
The reason why Hermione wasn't very hungry was because she was summoning a plan to get Malfoy back. By the time Hermione was in her bed with Valentis and Ginny on either sides of her and Parvati and Lavender across from her, a very good plan was beinning to form inside the mind of Hermione Granger (despite the fact that she was dog tired.)
The next day~*
Hermione woke up with the sun shining brilliantly through the hangings of her four-poster bed. She could hear Ginny (who was Parvati and Lavender's victim for their beauty charms of the day) squealing in terror as Lavender muttered, Beautilia! A sigh from Ginny and on and on it went. Hermione shuddered at the thought of being the victim of Parvati and Lavender. Hermione opened the hangings around her and not surprisingly, she was seized by Parvati who was shining. "I have the perfect hair charm! I've tried it on Ginny and PERFECT!" Sure enough, Ginny was sitting (in her Pajamas) at the edge of her bed looking very sour. Well, her expression was, but she actually looked quite beautiful in the new hairdo. Ginny's supposed-to-be straight red hair now hung down in beautifully limp curls around her shoulders making her shine like a new star. Hermione knew that it was impossible to escape Parvati and Lavender because they were already squirting different types of beauty spells on her. When the agonizing moment was over, both girls stood back and squealed with delight.
"OH MY GOD! You look absolutely gorgeous!" Lavender squealed.
"Stunning!" Parvati exclaimed jumping up and down clapping her hands.
"A complete knock out!"
"Sexy!"
"Wonder girl!"
Hermione sighed, and said, "Now, since your daily practicing has been finished, would you please get rid of the junk that you had done to me?"
"No way! A work of art!"
"Yes. complete success! Like Ginny!" Ginny scowled.
"Yes, they are right Hermione." The familiar fluid voice of Valentis came floating musically into the room.
"Oh no! You got rid of our beauty charms!" Parvati looked forlorn.
"Don't worry, you can throw whatever you want on me before the masquarade and the yule ball."
"Oh Valentine! Now nice of you!" Lavender beamed. "Or was it Valentis?"
"Valentis. You can call me Valentine if that's more comfortable."
"Oh! You're so nice!"
"Thank you. As I was saying Hermione, I really suggest you keep that hair. Makes you look stunning." Hermione's eyes widened.
"You think that THIS is nice?" She asked surprised.
"Yes, and you too Ginny. I'm sure that Harry and Ron will have quite a bit of commentaries to give to you. As for you, Lavender and Paravati, you must love beauty. Those charms are very complicated."
"Thank you! I've never been complimented like that."
"The Pleasure's mine. Well, Ginny? Hermione? Shouldn't we get going?" Hermione looked up dazed and then she remembered that this was Hogwarts. HOGWARTS! School of Witch Craft and Wizardry! She and Ginny quickly jumped up and got changed.
After Breakfast~*
"Well." Harry said calmly, "lucky us! Defense Against the Dark Arts first Period! Unfortunately, we're with Malfoy."
"Don't let Malfoy get you down. You'll find a pleasant surprise waiting for you when you come into the classroom." Harry and Ron and Hermione and Ginny knitted their brows in confusion looking at the calm Valentis.
"What do you mean?"
"You'll see Ginny my dear."
"Uh, okay."
So the group headed to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Everyone but Valentis were wondering who was the new teacher and what the surprise was. Within minutes, they were standing in front of the classroom door. Harry nodded at Hermione who put her hand on the door knob and pushed it open. There in the classroom stood the hooded teacher; and when he (or she) put lowered his or her hood, Harry and his friends (except Valentis, of course) stood their with their jaws on the floor. "Oh Merlin! This is not happening! This is a DREAM!" Harry bellowed as he stood gapping at the teacher.
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A/N: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! CLIFF HANGERS! WHOOOOOPIE! Well, who do you think is the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher (it will be known as DATDA in the next chapter)? Is it Umbridge again? What is Hermione's splendid plan to get Malfoy back? Who exactly IS Valentis, and how does she know everything? Why did Snape turn whiter than before? What is going to happen? Hehehe! Well, these things are yet to come, so hold on to your seats and let the roller coaster go rolling down!
NEXT CHAPTER-( There shall be a lot of Surprises as well as OoTP spoilers!