Part 6-
Headmistress Krum paced behind her desk, her bathrobe around her and a shower cap on her head. She yawned and then looked at the six students before her. She sat down at her desk and tapped her pencil on the desk rapidly and then looked up at them. She yawned again.
"Could you have pulled this stunt at a more Godly hour?" She asked. Megan bit her lip and then answered.
"Yes, but we shouldn't have done it at all?" She half-asked/half-said. Headmistress Krum looked up at her in awe.
"That was a rhetorical question." Hermione rubbed her eyes and then looked at the kids. "Everyone needs to leave except Megan."
"Why?" Louie asked, ready to stand up for his best friend.
"Because I think she is the ringleader of this little idiotic stunt." Louie sunk back and then turned with the rest of the group.
"She is." He replied as they walked out the door. Professor Krum looked at Megan who stood with her hands inside her sleeves nervously and wasn't looking at anything in particular.
"What possessed you to do this, Megan?" She asked. She sighed and sat down in the chair across from the desk and bit the inside of her mouth. She searched her mind for what to say and came up empty.
"Jell-O..." Poured out of her mouth. Megan listened to her own voice with the same degree of confusion that was on Professor Krum's face.
"Why on earth did you just say that?" She asked her.
"It's quite tasty, we should have it here!" She proclaimed. Megan was still confused by her words. She looked at Hermione who asked her again why she pulled this stunt. "Because Cliffe kissed me."
"That's not a very good reason, Megan." Professor Krum said and shook her head.
"It worked in my brain." She searched the room aimlessly and then her eyes found Hermione's.
"Oh, there's a brain up there?" She said and flicked a piece of paper at her. Megan shook her head in suprise and then looked at her Headmistress. Hermione sighed and looked back at her.
"That's really mean, Professor. You know I have a brain. I mean I may not be the most intelligent person at Hogwarts but..."
"Your flaws have to be that you're loud, obnoxious, you come up with these idiotic plans, you carry out these idiotic plans..."
"They're not idiotic." Megan interrupted.
"And then there's your violence."
"What violence? I'm not violent!"
"Yes you are." Megan began to retort but Hermione raised her hand to stop her. "Now about your punishment." Megan looked down at her feet, which were pointing at each other (a nervous tick she had). "Well, we can't suspend you or expel you. You don't show up for detentions and taking away house points doesn't faze you." Megan smiled inside her mind to that fact. "So, we're calling your parents." Megan stomped her feet and shot up out of the chair.
"WHAT! NO!" She objected loudly. Headmistress Krum sent her out of the room and told her to bring in Louie. She walked out into the waiting room and the rest of her friends (and Cliffe) were sitting in chairs, looking sad, tired and a little out of breath. Cliffe's right cheek was bright red and Louie was massaging his ear which was also red. Megan could tell they'd been fighting.
She pursed her lips and sat down in the empty seat next to Cliffe. She pointed her head in the direction of the door and told Louie to go on in. He shot an evil glare to Cliffe and Cliffe returned the stare. Megan looked across the room at Brody and Joel who were sleeping on each other's shoulders and Alice who had her legs crossed in the seat and was biting her nails worriedly.
"Why do we go through with these plans you come up with, Meg?" She asked and stopped biting her nails.
"Because you have fun doing them you have to admit." She replied and looked over at Cliffe's face. He pointed his face straight forward and then turned his neck slowly to Megan.
"Can I help you?" He asked. She drew back quickly and then looked down at her hands and rolled her fingers around in their fists. He turned his head and looked back at Brody and Joel sleeping on each other. "Are those two, like together?" He asked and looked down at Megan. She looked up at him with awe.
"Why did you kiss me?" Alice stared at them intently, waiting for Cliffe's response. He smirked evily and then turned back to Brody and Joel. "I'm serious." She persisted and pulled at his arm.
"Why do you care?" He asked. Megan still had a hold on his arm and looked around the room with confusion.
"Because you kissed me and it's my lips and I have a boyfriend and it didn't make any sense." She answered. "Now, you tell me or I'll..."
"Enjoy it?" He interrupted.
"I hate you." She said and let go of his arm and crossed her own across her chest.
"No you don't." He replied and smiled again.
Megan grumbled and shook her leg quickly. She crossed her right leg under her butt and then stayed still a moment. A few seconds later she was sprawled out across the chair and started tapping the arms of the chair. Not long after that she was upside down in the chair.
Cliffe stared down at her and with a baffled look on his face asked "What are you doing?"
"I can't stay still." She said and paused between her words. Alice chuckled and went back to biting her nails.
"I love conflict." Alice said under her breath.
"It's simple, just don't move." Megan sat up when the blood began to fill her head.
"I can't keep still though. It gets on my nerves." She said. Louie came out into the waiting room and felt the stillness of the room.
"Yeah." He said and shook his head. "They're calling Mom and Dad, Cliffe. I hope you're happy." Cliffe sat smugly with an 'I-Don't-Give-A-Shit' look spread across his face. "You ought to care, because I'm telling dad that you kissed Megan."
Cliffe shook his head with indifference and sent Alice into the office. The room was silent and they slept. Joel was the last one out of the office and he woke up everyone with his sobs. Megan rubbed her eyes and looked at Joel with comfort. He pointed at her and sent her to the office without words. She gulped and headed in. Professor Krum nodded at her as she came in. She was now dressed in her robes with her hair loose and sitting around her shoulders. Harry's face looked at her from the fire place. Megan gulped again and waved gingerly at her father.
"Good morning, Megan." He said irritably.
"Hey dad, how goes it?" She asked more inquisitively than with a greeting undertone.
"Not so good. I just heard my daughter broke into the Slytherin dungeons and broke all their furniture."
"Word travels fast..." She said and rubbed the back of her neck. Harry shook his head.
"I'm too busy to come down there. I suppose you should just give her detentions and an earlier curfew and make her fix the furniture." He offered and looked over at Hermione. At that moment Megan heard a door slam. She wasn't sure where it came from because it was off in the distance. Then she heard a man's voice.
"Who are you talking to Mr. Potter?" The voice said. Harry turned his head and replied to the man.
"My daughter got in a little trouble at school, that's all." He answered and turned back to Hogwarts.
"Mr. Potter, excuse me for trying to tell you how to do your job, but when Megan gets in trouble, that affects you and that affects the ministry and we can't have that." Megan felt a twist in her stomach and looked desperately at the portrait of Albus Dumbledore. Whenever she was in trouble and in Professor Krum's office it always made her feel better to see his smiling blue eyes.
"But how do Megan's actions affect the ministry." Harry asked.
"She does things and her peers write home about it. Her peer's parents think that they might have put the wrong person in office and impeach you." Megan looked at the fireplace with her mouth agape.
"Who ever that is talking to Dad: YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" She exclaimed. Harry turned to Hermione and then looked at Megan.
"Exactly how many rules did Megan break?" The voice asked. Megan looked at Hermione with desperation.
"Well, she was out past curfew, broke into three houses, used magic in the hallways, destroyed property, and then there were the past few weeks. She got in two fights, disrespected Professor Snape, Eckleburt, Creevy and myself, and snuck out on two different occasions and I've heard of multiple occasions where she was seen making VERY public displays of affection with Peter Zahut." She began counting these events on her fingers and then turned back to the fireplace. "That's at least fifteen."
"I hate you now." Megan mumbled.
"Your daughter seems like a freed prisoner of Azkaban." The voice said.
"We'll discuss this further when I have time. But until then, stick with the punishment I said." Harry face disappeared in the fire and Professor Krum turned to Megan.
"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" She asked and crossed her fingers on the table.
"Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God." She went on shaking in her chair, with complete and utter fear in her eyes.
"Go back to the Gryffindor tower, please Megan." Megan moved out of the office without thought. She felt like she was floating and there was a numbness all down her body.
She continued 'floating' down the hallway and it was daylight now. Breakfast was about to start and here she was looking like a wreck passing everyone in the hallways. They were in uniform and she was wearing her tousled black clothes from last night. Her makeup smeared under her eyes and her hair was greasy from missing its washing. Lauren Phillips and Rebecca Nielsen came around the corner and smiled at Megan.
"How goes it, Meg?" Lauren asked and grinned at her.
"Not well at all." She said and looked past the crowds of people heading to the Great Hall.
"Why, what's wrong?" Rebecca asked and the group stopped. Megan looked down at the floor and slapped her hands on her legs in desperation.
"I got in trouble last night for sneaking into the Slytherin common room and busting up all the furniture and now the entire Ministry is coming down here to straighten me out. I'm so scared." Lauren and Rebecca looked at her with solace.
"It must be nice, having someone to come down and do your dirty work when your kid gets in trouble." Lauren wondered aloud, a trait very common to her.
"My dad is still coming, you know." She said to Lauren. Lauren made an 'O' with her lips and turned to Rebecca.
"Man, I hope you don't get into too much trouble. We'll be rooting for you." Rebecca said and went on to breakfast.
Megan went up to the Gryffindor common room while down in Professor Krum's office, Draco and Iris were listening to the list of offenses their two sons. Iris eyeballed Louie as his rap sheet grew. Louie bit his bottom lip and stared at the bottom of his mother's legs. He felt her eyes on his back and sat up.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" Professor Krum asked.
"Well," Louie stammered and then looked at Cliffe who was still sitting smugly. "Radcliffe kissed Megan." He shot up out of his chair and pointed an accusing finger at him.
"WHAT!" Draco looked at Cliffe with contempt. Iris' eyes widened, but not with anger. Her face blossomed into a smile as she thought of the feuding between the Potters and Malfoys becoming a Shakespearean romance; then she remembered how Romeo and Juliet ended.
"I did not!" Cliffe argued.
"Yep, yes he did! I'm surprised he didn't put a little tongue in there." He said and looked at his parents as if he had delivered at crushing blow.
"I did." He defended and then stopped his voice and looked angrily at Louie. "I did... not even touch the Mudblood."
"Shut up, Son." Draco growled.
The Malfoys left the office and Brody Alexander's parents strolled in. Chaz, a tall gangly red-head, and Amber, short with blonde bangs and brown hair other than that. Brody came in behind them, twisting three strands of green hair together into a braid. Professor Krum began to read off her offenses and as she did so, Chaz leaned over to Amber and whispered in her ear.
"What are we doing here?" He asked.
"Your daughter got in trouble." Amber answered.
"My daughter got in trouble? So why do I have to be here?" He asked. Amber shrugged and looked back at Hermione. "This place seems bigger than before."
"It's been twenty years, Chaz." Amber whispered back to him.
"Yeah, but, still. Bigger." Hermione looked over at Chaz who was about to fall asleep.
"What type of punishment to think would be suitable for this situation?" She asked.
"Hell if I know." He said.
"We don't believe in punishment. Bro-dawg can express her creativity how ever she sees fit." Amber said.
"Bro-dawg?" Hermione's eyes went from mother to daughter with confusion.
"She calls me Mom-dawg and I call her Bro-dawg. It's this special bonding thing we have."
"Yeah." Brody agreed and looked at her father who was now asleep.
"Well, we need to punish her somehow." Hermione said, ignoring Chaz.
"Take off a few points and give her a detention." Amber said and got up out of her chair. "Chaz and I have to be in California in about fifteen minuets, so are we done here?" Hermione sighed and sent them out. Alice and Joel received similar punishments considering all their crimes had been committed with the other three. As they walked out of Krum's office together, Alice looked over at Joel and grinned.
"Megan is such a dumbass." She said and shook her head.
"You don't have to tell me." Joel said and rubbed his red eyes. It was time for their second class by then.
"I totally thought we'd get in so much trouble. And we didn't I'm very happy." She said with no emotion in her voice, as usual. Joel smiled at her. He was cute when he smiled.
"I can tell."
{A/N: Yay for cameo apperances by our friend Amber and her Kool-Aid Chaz! Weren't they fantastic! The Oscar for best cameo apperance in a Fanfiction must go to them! woo woo! Whee for that! Well, we hope you enjoyed it! Much love for all! RRR!}
Headmistress Krum paced behind her desk, her bathrobe around her and a shower cap on her head. She yawned and then looked at the six students before her. She sat down at her desk and tapped her pencil on the desk rapidly and then looked up at them. She yawned again.
"Could you have pulled this stunt at a more Godly hour?" She asked. Megan bit her lip and then answered.
"Yes, but we shouldn't have done it at all?" She half-asked/half-said. Headmistress Krum looked up at her in awe.
"That was a rhetorical question." Hermione rubbed her eyes and then looked at the kids. "Everyone needs to leave except Megan."
"Why?" Louie asked, ready to stand up for his best friend.
"Because I think she is the ringleader of this little idiotic stunt." Louie sunk back and then turned with the rest of the group.
"She is." He replied as they walked out the door. Professor Krum looked at Megan who stood with her hands inside her sleeves nervously and wasn't looking at anything in particular.
"What possessed you to do this, Megan?" She asked. She sighed and sat down in the chair across from the desk and bit the inside of her mouth. She searched her mind for what to say and came up empty.
"Jell-O..." Poured out of her mouth. Megan listened to her own voice with the same degree of confusion that was on Professor Krum's face.
"Why on earth did you just say that?" She asked her.
"It's quite tasty, we should have it here!" She proclaimed. Megan was still confused by her words. She looked at Hermione who asked her again why she pulled this stunt. "Because Cliffe kissed me."
"That's not a very good reason, Megan." Professor Krum said and shook her head.
"It worked in my brain." She searched the room aimlessly and then her eyes found Hermione's.
"Oh, there's a brain up there?" She said and flicked a piece of paper at her. Megan shook her head in suprise and then looked at her Headmistress. Hermione sighed and looked back at her.
"That's really mean, Professor. You know I have a brain. I mean I may not be the most intelligent person at Hogwarts but..."
"Your flaws have to be that you're loud, obnoxious, you come up with these idiotic plans, you carry out these idiotic plans..."
"They're not idiotic." Megan interrupted.
"And then there's your violence."
"What violence? I'm not violent!"
"Yes you are." Megan began to retort but Hermione raised her hand to stop her. "Now about your punishment." Megan looked down at her feet, which were pointing at each other (a nervous tick she had). "Well, we can't suspend you or expel you. You don't show up for detentions and taking away house points doesn't faze you." Megan smiled inside her mind to that fact. "So, we're calling your parents." Megan stomped her feet and shot up out of the chair.
"WHAT! NO!" She objected loudly. Headmistress Krum sent her out of the room and told her to bring in Louie. She walked out into the waiting room and the rest of her friends (and Cliffe) were sitting in chairs, looking sad, tired and a little out of breath. Cliffe's right cheek was bright red and Louie was massaging his ear which was also red. Megan could tell they'd been fighting.
She pursed her lips and sat down in the empty seat next to Cliffe. She pointed her head in the direction of the door and told Louie to go on in. He shot an evil glare to Cliffe and Cliffe returned the stare. Megan looked across the room at Brody and Joel who were sleeping on each other's shoulders and Alice who had her legs crossed in the seat and was biting her nails worriedly.
"Why do we go through with these plans you come up with, Meg?" She asked and stopped biting her nails.
"Because you have fun doing them you have to admit." She replied and looked over at Cliffe's face. He pointed his face straight forward and then turned his neck slowly to Megan.
"Can I help you?" He asked. She drew back quickly and then looked down at her hands and rolled her fingers around in their fists. He turned his head and looked back at Brody and Joel sleeping on each other. "Are those two, like together?" He asked and looked down at Megan. She looked up at him with awe.
"Why did you kiss me?" Alice stared at them intently, waiting for Cliffe's response. He smirked evily and then turned back to Brody and Joel. "I'm serious." She persisted and pulled at his arm.
"Why do you care?" He asked. Megan still had a hold on his arm and looked around the room with confusion.
"Because you kissed me and it's my lips and I have a boyfriend and it didn't make any sense." She answered. "Now, you tell me or I'll..."
"Enjoy it?" He interrupted.
"I hate you." She said and let go of his arm and crossed her own across her chest.
"No you don't." He replied and smiled again.
Megan grumbled and shook her leg quickly. She crossed her right leg under her butt and then stayed still a moment. A few seconds later she was sprawled out across the chair and started tapping the arms of the chair. Not long after that she was upside down in the chair.
Cliffe stared down at her and with a baffled look on his face asked "What are you doing?"
"I can't stay still." She said and paused between her words. Alice chuckled and went back to biting her nails.
"I love conflict." Alice said under her breath.
"It's simple, just don't move." Megan sat up when the blood began to fill her head.
"I can't keep still though. It gets on my nerves." She said. Louie came out into the waiting room and felt the stillness of the room.
"Yeah." He said and shook his head. "They're calling Mom and Dad, Cliffe. I hope you're happy." Cliffe sat smugly with an 'I-Don't-Give-A-Shit' look spread across his face. "You ought to care, because I'm telling dad that you kissed Megan."
Cliffe shook his head with indifference and sent Alice into the office. The room was silent and they slept. Joel was the last one out of the office and he woke up everyone with his sobs. Megan rubbed her eyes and looked at Joel with comfort. He pointed at her and sent her to the office without words. She gulped and headed in. Professor Krum nodded at her as she came in. She was now dressed in her robes with her hair loose and sitting around her shoulders. Harry's face looked at her from the fire place. Megan gulped again and waved gingerly at her father.
"Good morning, Megan." He said irritably.
"Hey dad, how goes it?" She asked more inquisitively than with a greeting undertone.
"Not so good. I just heard my daughter broke into the Slytherin dungeons and broke all their furniture."
"Word travels fast..." She said and rubbed the back of her neck. Harry shook his head.
"I'm too busy to come down there. I suppose you should just give her detentions and an earlier curfew and make her fix the furniture." He offered and looked over at Hermione. At that moment Megan heard a door slam. She wasn't sure where it came from because it was off in the distance. Then she heard a man's voice.
"Who are you talking to Mr. Potter?" The voice said. Harry turned his head and replied to the man.
"My daughter got in a little trouble at school, that's all." He answered and turned back to Hogwarts.
"Mr. Potter, excuse me for trying to tell you how to do your job, but when Megan gets in trouble, that affects you and that affects the ministry and we can't have that." Megan felt a twist in her stomach and looked desperately at the portrait of Albus Dumbledore. Whenever she was in trouble and in Professor Krum's office it always made her feel better to see his smiling blue eyes.
"But how do Megan's actions affect the ministry." Harry asked.
"She does things and her peers write home about it. Her peer's parents think that they might have put the wrong person in office and impeach you." Megan looked at the fireplace with her mouth agape.
"Who ever that is talking to Dad: YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" She exclaimed. Harry turned to Hermione and then looked at Megan.
"Exactly how many rules did Megan break?" The voice asked. Megan looked at Hermione with desperation.
"Well, she was out past curfew, broke into three houses, used magic in the hallways, destroyed property, and then there were the past few weeks. She got in two fights, disrespected Professor Snape, Eckleburt, Creevy and myself, and snuck out on two different occasions and I've heard of multiple occasions where she was seen making VERY public displays of affection with Peter Zahut." She began counting these events on her fingers and then turned back to the fireplace. "That's at least fifteen."
"I hate you now." Megan mumbled.
"Your daughter seems like a freed prisoner of Azkaban." The voice said.
"We'll discuss this further when I have time. But until then, stick with the punishment I said." Harry face disappeared in the fire and Professor Krum turned to Megan.
"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" She asked and crossed her fingers on the table.
"Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God." She went on shaking in her chair, with complete and utter fear in her eyes.
"Go back to the Gryffindor tower, please Megan." Megan moved out of the office without thought. She felt like she was floating and there was a numbness all down her body.
She continued 'floating' down the hallway and it was daylight now. Breakfast was about to start and here she was looking like a wreck passing everyone in the hallways. They were in uniform and she was wearing her tousled black clothes from last night. Her makeup smeared under her eyes and her hair was greasy from missing its washing. Lauren Phillips and Rebecca Nielsen came around the corner and smiled at Megan.
"How goes it, Meg?" Lauren asked and grinned at her.
"Not well at all." She said and looked past the crowds of people heading to the Great Hall.
"Why, what's wrong?" Rebecca asked and the group stopped. Megan looked down at the floor and slapped her hands on her legs in desperation.
"I got in trouble last night for sneaking into the Slytherin common room and busting up all the furniture and now the entire Ministry is coming down here to straighten me out. I'm so scared." Lauren and Rebecca looked at her with solace.
"It must be nice, having someone to come down and do your dirty work when your kid gets in trouble." Lauren wondered aloud, a trait very common to her.
"My dad is still coming, you know." She said to Lauren. Lauren made an 'O' with her lips and turned to Rebecca.
"Man, I hope you don't get into too much trouble. We'll be rooting for you." Rebecca said and went on to breakfast.
Megan went up to the Gryffindor common room while down in Professor Krum's office, Draco and Iris were listening to the list of offenses their two sons. Iris eyeballed Louie as his rap sheet grew. Louie bit his bottom lip and stared at the bottom of his mother's legs. He felt her eyes on his back and sat up.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" Professor Krum asked.
"Well," Louie stammered and then looked at Cliffe who was still sitting smugly. "Radcliffe kissed Megan." He shot up out of his chair and pointed an accusing finger at him.
"WHAT!" Draco looked at Cliffe with contempt. Iris' eyes widened, but not with anger. Her face blossomed into a smile as she thought of the feuding between the Potters and Malfoys becoming a Shakespearean romance; then she remembered how Romeo and Juliet ended.
"I did not!" Cliffe argued.
"Yep, yes he did! I'm surprised he didn't put a little tongue in there." He said and looked at his parents as if he had delivered at crushing blow.
"I did." He defended and then stopped his voice and looked angrily at Louie. "I did... not even touch the Mudblood."
"Shut up, Son." Draco growled.
The Malfoys left the office and Brody Alexander's parents strolled in. Chaz, a tall gangly red-head, and Amber, short with blonde bangs and brown hair other than that. Brody came in behind them, twisting three strands of green hair together into a braid. Professor Krum began to read off her offenses and as she did so, Chaz leaned over to Amber and whispered in her ear.
"What are we doing here?" He asked.
"Your daughter got in trouble." Amber answered.
"My daughter got in trouble? So why do I have to be here?" He asked. Amber shrugged and looked back at Hermione. "This place seems bigger than before."
"It's been twenty years, Chaz." Amber whispered back to him.
"Yeah, but, still. Bigger." Hermione looked over at Chaz who was about to fall asleep.
"What type of punishment to think would be suitable for this situation?" She asked.
"Hell if I know." He said.
"We don't believe in punishment. Bro-dawg can express her creativity how ever she sees fit." Amber said.
"Bro-dawg?" Hermione's eyes went from mother to daughter with confusion.
"She calls me Mom-dawg and I call her Bro-dawg. It's this special bonding thing we have."
"Yeah." Brody agreed and looked at her father who was now asleep.
"Well, we need to punish her somehow." Hermione said, ignoring Chaz.
"Take off a few points and give her a detention." Amber said and got up out of her chair. "Chaz and I have to be in California in about fifteen minuets, so are we done here?" Hermione sighed and sent them out. Alice and Joel received similar punishments considering all their crimes had been committed with the other three. As they walked out of Krum's office together, Alice looked over at Joel and grinned.
"Megan is such a dumbass." She said and shook her head.
"You don't have to tell me." Joel said and rubbed his red eyes. It was time for their second class by then.
"I totally thought we'd get in so much trouble. And we didn't I'm very happy." She said with no emotion in her voice, as usual. Joel smiled at her. He was cute when he smiled.
"I can tell."
{A/N: Yay for cameo apperances by our friend Amber and her Kool-Aid Chaz! Weren't they fantastic! The Oscar for best cameo apperance in a Fanfiction must go to them! woo woo! Whee for that! Well, we hope you enjoyed it! Much love for all! RRR!}