Disclaimer: See earlier chapters. I apologise for the spelling mistakes in
the song lyrics. Yet again I own nothing.
Warning: Characters may act out of character! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 3: Misconceptions of stereotype
The compartment was silent and no one moved, Katie could just imaging one of those tumbleweed things rolling across the floor. The silence seemed to stretch for ever and the astonished stares that she was receiving did little to alleviate Katie's bad temper. Turning to the whimpering bloody nosed girl on the floor Katie snarled "What are you waiting for Parkinson? Christmas?" Scowling at the older girl Pansy tried to pick herself up off the floor with dignity but tripped over her own feet, causing Draco to snigger therefore sending the other occupants in the carriage into rounds of laughter. Pansy haughtily tipped her nose up in the air and flounced off down the hall. Turning to glare at the now giggling Casey, giving her a fierce stare which silenced her and the rest of the compartment Katie returned to her seat. The journey continued in silence until they reached Hogsmeade Station where there was a frantic rush to get off the train.
Meanwhile, in another compartment at the other end of the train Oliver Wood just realised that something, no, someone was missing! "Hey! Has anyone seen Katie?" Angelina scoffed "Merlin Oliver! We've already discussed this, like twelve times already, she's not here!" "Come to think of it, I didn't hear from her over the holidays, not even the once!" chipped in Alicia. "Wonder where she could be?" asked Fred. Just then a sniggering Marcus Flint passed the open carriage doorway. "Something amusing Flint?" growled Oliver. "No, nothing!" "Flint, you haven't seen Katie Bell, have you?" "Bell?" "Don't be an arse Flint! You know Katie Bell, thin, blonde, flat chested." exclaimed Oliver getting angry. "Blonde? No. don't believe I've seen a blonde, flat chested Katie Bell recently." The Gryffindor's looked at each other with confused expressions on there faces as the entire Slytherin Quidditch team, and Crabbe and Goyle walked past sniggering and laughing. "Since when do Slytherin's laugh?"
Whilst all this was taking place Katie was thinking of how many ways she could kill her sister, Merlin she could be such a pain in the arse, but at least she had stopped crying! Ignoring the strange looks she was getting from other students Katie was pushing Casey towards where Hagrid stood with a swelling crowd of first years. A spindly looking dirty blonde haired boy turned around at their approach "Oh thank Merlin you found her, I thought ." He stopped and his eyes took on an evil glint as he recognised who he was thanking "Oh, it's you. I didn't expect to see you here. I'm surprised you could even afford the robes this year." Sick of taking crap from the little retch Katie drawled "I could say the same for you!" A blush coloured Elvis's cheeks but recovering quickly he snarled "Been selling your body Katherine? If so I'm surprised you made any money at all!" Casey stood with her mouth open like a fish gaping from her older "sister" to her brother, they'd always been antagonistic towards each other but this was taking the biscuit! Katie's face flushed and her mouth tightened in anger, she was barely restraining herself from beating the crap out of the little git, how dare he! "Oh Elvis, how silly of you, to get me mixed up with your whore of a mother! Isn't prostitution her line of work?" The short blonde boy took a supposedly menacing step towards Katie with his fists clenched 'Bring it on you little git' thought Katie, suddenly his path was blocked by the towering bulk of Hagrid "'Ere now you too we'll 'ave less o' that, your drawn' a crowd an upsettin' the first years" Shaken out of her angry haze Katie noticed the various students milling about, some making there way into the castle whilst others stood watching the unravelling scene, the small band of first years standing as far away from her as possible. Casey stood by herself on the verge of tears, again. Since Hagrid was now reprimanding Elvis, Katie made her way towards the trembling girl and gave her a hug "I'm sorry sweetheart, I didn't mean it about your mum. He just made me so angry! I've got to go now but I'll see you after you've been sorted, ok?" "You think I'll be in Gryffindor Katie?" "Of course I do. You Casey Bell are most definitely Gryffindor material!" "What about Elvis?" "That slimy little rat? Definitely in Slytherin!" Casey giggled and went over to join the first years climbing into the boats. Katie waved at her before making her way over to an empty carriage to go to the Castle.
Every time she walked towards these castle doors Katie always got a fluttering in her heart, it was the most amazing building she had ever seen and to think it was her school! No retro 1960's buildings for her! Sighing she made her way up the stairs, half heartedly wondering where her friends were, her partly self inflicted exile made her feel a bit guilty, she could have at least contacted them so they knew nothing bad, okay let me rephrase that, nothing too bad had happened. Walking into the foyer Katie made her way towards the open doors of the Great Hall where loud bursts of chatter could be heard and just as she was about to cross the threshold Professor McGonagall's voice rang out "Miss Bell!" 'I'm going to have to get my name changed!' she thought. "Yes Professor?" "I do not think your footwear falls into the category required in your list! Would you care to explain?" "Well you see Professor; I was in a bit of a rush this morning and I left my school shoes in my trunk but had my robes in my shoulder bag" she indicated the red rubber bug bag "and my trunk was in the luggage car so I couldn't get to it" "I understand Miss Bell, don't let it happen again!" "Yes Professor" 'Thank Merlin she didn't see the rest of my outfit!' Katie trudged into the hall towards the Gryffindor table and was met with the roar of chatter from various conversations including those of her friends on the Quidditch team but none of them noticed her or if they did they made no acknowledgement so she sat surprisingly quite happily in solitude, surrounded by her fellow housemates at the opposite end of the table to her friends, as far away from them as possible but still able to hear the sorting. As Katie sat blowing bubble with her chewing gum, the hall fell silent as the first years arrived. Instead of focusing on Dumbledores opening speech Katie searched for Casey and smiled at her, then flipped her middle finger at a glowering Elvis. The Sorting hat appeared at the front of the room in front of the teachers table and Professor McGonagall proceeded to begin reading from the list. When it came to Casey's turn Katie frantically crossed her right fingers and legs, but not her left because she heard that was bad luck, and prayed for the call of Gryffindor. Blowing a rather large bubble, Katie noticed the intense expression on Casey's face as she talked with the hat and no one was more shocked than Katie when it shouted "Slytherin!" THuD! Katie found that trying to stand up when you had your legs crossed and were wearing robes proved to be a hard task, so after righting herself from her ungainly sprawl on the floor and apologising to a second year for spitting chewing gum at them she stood up and shouted "THAT HATS BLOODY FAULTY!" Ignoring the astonished stares of her housemates as she hurried towards the front of the room Katie proceeded to protest that her sister didn't have the characteristics of a Slytherin Professor Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as she made that statement "Miss Bell kindly return to your seat!" exclaimed Professor McGonagall "Its quite alright Minerva, let Miss Bell explain" "Well she's not evil for a start! I mean look at her does she looks like a Slytherin to you?" "It's what's on the inside that is important Miss Bell, as I'm sure you know" Katie turned to look at Casey who was studiously avoiding the malicious glares she was receiving from Pansy Parkinson 'Oh bloody hell!' thought Katie. "Okay, lets test it who's next on the list and prove it!" "Miss Bell the younger please go and join your house" said Professor McGonagall with a smile for the nervous girl As Casey walked past her Katie gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder "It'll be okay, I promise you" she whispered. Katie watched Casey warily join her house then turned back to the sorting of one Elvis Bell, a definite Slytherin in her opinion. It was to her surprise again that the hat shouted "Ravenclaw!" she stood there mouth agape "See I told you it was faulty, this slimy little git should be in Slytherin!" "Miss Bell!" came the astonished reproach fro Professor McGonagall "Oh do shut up Katherine!" exclaimed Elvis in his important voice as he approached her from the podium "Your just jealous." they were now face to face, well his face to her shoulder level. "Me, jealous of you! What drugs are you on sicko!" "Mmm. Definitely jealous that your parentless, friendless and basically a half blood piece of filth that nobody wants to associate with, your birth parents didn't want you neither did your adoptive parents and even your little "Sister" managed to wrangle her way into a different house just to get away from you. Makes you think doesn't it. About what a pathetic little life you'll lead wh." Elvis didn't get to finish because his spiteful tirade was interrupted by a vicious left hook from a very irate Katie, which sent him sprawling to the floor with a busted lip, quite possibly a broken jaw. However before she could do anything else Professor Dumbledore's voice rang out, no longer happy he bellowed "Miss Bell! Return to your seat. Now!" Still fuming Katie made her way back to her seat and watched disinterestedly as Elvis was picked up form the floor and the sorting continued. She didn't join in with the Hogwarts song and when the food appeared she ate sparingly, consumed by her own thoughts.
Warning: Characters may act out of character! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 3: Misconceptions of stereotype
The compartment was silent and no one moved, Katie could just imaging one of those tumbleweed things rolling across the floor. The silence seemed to stretch for ever and the astonished stares that she was receiving did little to alleviate Katie's bad temper. Turning to the whimpering bloody nosed girl on the floor Katie snarled "What are you waiting for Parkinson? Christmas?" Scowling at the older girl Pansy tried to pick herself up off the floor with dignity but tripped over her own feet, causing Draco to snigger therefore sending the other occupants in the carriage into rounds of laughter. Pansy haughtily tipped her nose up in the air and flounced off down the hall. Turning to glare at the now giggling Casey, giving her a fierce stare which silenced her and the rest of the compartment Katie returned to her seat. The journey continued in silence until they reached Hogsmeade Station where there was a frantic rush to get off the train.
Meanwhile, in another compartment at the other end of the train Oliver Wood just realised that something, no, someone was missing! "Hey! Has anyone seen Katie?" Angelina scoffed "Merlin Oliver! We've already discussed this, like twelve times already, she's not here!" "Come to think of it, I didn't hear from her over the holidays, not even the once!" chipped in Alicia. "Wonder where she could be?" asked Fred. Just then a sniggering Marcus Flint passed the open carriage doorway. "Something amusing Flint?" growled Oliver. "No, nothing!" "Flint, you haven't seen Katie Bell, have you?" "Bell?" "Don't be an arse Flint! You know Katie Bell, thin, blonde, flat chested." exclaimed Oliver getting angry. "Blonde? No. don't believe I've seen a blonde, flat chested Katie Bell recently." The Gryffindor's looked at each other with confused expressions on there faces as the entire Slytherin Quidditch team, and Crabbe and Goyle walked past sniggering and laughing. "Since when do Slytherin's laugh?"
Whilst all this was taking place Katie was thinking of how many ways she could kill her sister, Merlin she could be such a pain in the arse, but at least she had stopped crying! Ignoring the strange looks she was getting from other students Katie was pushing Casey towards where Hagrid stood with a swelling crowd of first years. A spindly looking dirty blonde haired boy turned around at their approach "Oh thank Merlin you found her, I thought ." He stopped and his eyes took on an evil glint as he recognised who he was thanking "Oh, it's you. I didn't expect to see you here. I'm surprised you could even afford the robes this year." Sick of taking crap from the little retch Katie drawled "I could say the same for you!" A blush coloured Elvis's cheeks but recovering quickly he snarled "Been selling your body Katherine? If so I'm surprised you made any money at all!" Casey stood with her mouth open like a fish gaping from her older "sister" to her brother, they'd always been antagonistic towards each other but this was taking the biscuit! Katie's face flushed and her mouth tightened in anger, she was barely restraining herself from beating the crap out of the little git, how dare he! "Oh Elvis, how silly of you, to get me mixed up with your whore of a mother! Isn't prostitution her line of work?" The short blonde boy took a supposedly menacing step towards Katie with his fists clenched 'Bring it on you little git' thought Katie, suddenly his path was blocked by the towering bulk of Hagrid "'Ere now you too we'll 'ave less o' that, your drawn' a crowd an upsettin' the first years" Shaken out of her angry haze Katie noticed the various students milling about, some making there way into the castle whilst others stood watching the unravelling scene, the small band of first years standing as far away from her as possible. Casey stood by herself on the verge of tears, again. Since Hagrid was now reprimanding Elvis, Katie made her way towards the trembling girl and gave her a hug "I'm sorry sweetheart, I didn't mean it about your mum. He just made me so angry! I've got to go now but I'll see you after you've been sorted, ok?" "You think I'll be in Gryffindor Katie?" "Of course I do. You Casey Bell are most definitely Gryffindor material!" "What about Elvis?" "That slimy little rat? Definitely in Slytherin!" Casey giggled and went over to join the first years climbing into the boats. Katie waved at her before making her way over to an empty carriage to go to the Castle.
Every time she walked towards these castle doors Katie always got a fluttering in her heart, it was the most amazing building she had ever seen and to think it was her school! No retro 1960's buildings for her! Sighing she made her way up the stairs, half heartedly wondering where her friends were, her partly self inflicted exile made her feel a bit guilty, she could have at least contacted them so they knew nothing bad, okay let me rephrase that, nothing too bad had happened. Walking into the foyer Katie made her way towards the open doors of the Great Hall where loud bursts of chatter could be heard and just as she was about to cross the threshold Professor McGonagall's voice rang out "Miss Bell!" 'I'm going to have to get my name changed!' she thought. "Yes Professor?" "I do not think your footwear falls into the category required in your list! Would you care to explain?" "Well you see Professor; I was in a bit of a rush this morning and I left my school shoes in my trunk but had my robes in my shoulder bag" she indicated the red rubber bug bag "and my trunk was in the luggage car so I couldn't get to it" "I understand Miss Bell, don't let it happen again!" "Yes Professor" 'Thank Merlin she didn't see the rest of my outfit!' Katie trudged into the hall towards the Gryffindor table and was met with the roar of chatter from various conversations including those of her friends on the Quidditch team but none of them noticed her or if they did they made no acknowledgement so she sat surprisingly quite happily in solitude, surrounded by her fellow housemates at the opposite end of the table to her friends, as far away from them as possible but still able to hear the sorting. As Katie sat blowing bubble with her chewing gum, the hall fell silent as the first years arrived. Instead of focusing on Dumbledores opening speech Katie searched for Casey and smiled at her, then flipped her middle finger at a glowering Elvis. The Sorting hat appeared at the front of the room in front of the teachers table and Professor McGonagall proceeded to begin reading from the list. When it came to Casey's turn Katie frantically crossed her right fingers and legs, but not her left because she heard that was bad luck, and prayed for the call of Gryffindor. Blowing a rather large bubble, Katie noticed the intense expression on Casey's face as she talked with the hat and no one was more shocked than Katie when it shouted "Slytherin!" THuD! Katie found that trying to stand up when you had your legs crossed and were wearing robes proved to be a hard task, so after righting herself from her ungainly sprawl on the floor and apologising to a second year for spitting chewing gum at them she stood up and shouted "THAT HATS BLOODY FAULTY!" Ignoring the astonished stares of her housemates as she hurried towards the front of the room Katie proceeded to protest that her sister didn't have the characteristics of a Slytherin Professor Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as she made that statement "Miss Bell kindly return to your seat!" exclaimed Professor McGonagall "Its quite alright Minerva, let Miss Bell explain" "Well she's not evil for a start! I mean look at her does she looks like a Slytherin to you?" "It's what's on the inside that is important Miss Bell, as I'm sure you know" Katie turned to look at Casey who was studiously avoiding the malicious glares she was receiving from Pansy Parkinson 'Oh bloody hell!' thought Katie. "Okay, lets test it who's next on the list and prove it!" "Miss Bell the younger please go and join your house" said Professor McGonagall with a smile for the nervous girl As Casey walked past her Katie gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder "It'll be okay, I promise you" she whispered. Katie watched Casey warily join her house then turned back to the sorting of one Elvis Bell, a definite Slytherin in her opinion. It was to her surprise again that the hat shouted "Ravenclaw!" she stood there mouth agape "See I told you it was faulty, this slimy little git should be in Slytherin!" "Miss Bell!" came the astonished reproach fro Professor McGonagall "Oh do shut up Katherine!" exclaimed Elvis in his important voice as he approached her from the podium "Your just jealous." they were now face to face, well his face to her shoulder level. "Me, jealous of you! What drugs are you on sicko!" "Mmm. Definitely jealous that your parentless, friendless and basically a half blood piece of filth that nobody wants to associate with, your birth parents didn't want you neither did your adoptive parents and even your little "Sister" managed to wrangle her way into a different house just to get away from you. Makes you think doesn't it. About what a pathetic little life you'll lead wh." Elvis didn't get to finish because his spiteful tirade was interrupted by a vicious left hook from a very irate Katie, which sent him sprawling to the floor with a busted lip, quite possibly a broken jaw. However before she could do anything else Professor Dumbledore's voice rang out, no longer happy he bellowed "Miss Bell! Return to your seat. Now!" Still fuming Katie made her way back to her seat and watched disinterestedly as Elvis was picked up form the floor and the sorting continued. She didn't join in with the Hogwarts song and when the food appeared she ate sparingly, consumed by her own thoughts.