Hello everyone! Here's another chapter, I hope you'll like it. Thanks to my
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adding new characters doesn't work, I'm glad you think my story is good.
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Juliette
CHAPTER FOUR
Missy closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep. Then the dream came again. Just as horrid as it had been every other time she had dreamt it. Only this time, it was more vivid then ever. She sat up in cold sweat breathing hard and almost cried. She was beginning to get really scared. She wrapped her blanket around herself and went down to sit by the fire. But when she got down to the common room, she saw that someone else was already there.
Mandy closed her eyes and let the room spin around her. She was getting dizzy, just like all of the other times...then she heard it...the noise, that made her want to scream. But she couldn't...her voice wouldn't work... she felt like she was tied down to the bed. Then she heard a high-pitched cackle; a sound that hadn't been there before. Then everything returned to normal.
Lizzy sighed and turned over in bed. She was still trying to think of a way to make things more interesting around Hogwarts. She flipped in the other direction. 'What I really need is Fred and George Weasley.' she thought. She sat up and snapped her fingers. 'That's it!' she thought.
Hermione fell into a deep sleep, and for some reason dreamed that she was at a wedding. She didn't know whose, but she knew that she was the bridesmaid. Then she tripped and fell on her dress and everyone began to laugh at her, even the bride and groom.
Missy smiled, Ron was in the room too. She sat down in a big comfy chair and stared at the fire. She wanted to say something, but every time she opened her mouth, no words came out.
Ron looked up and smiled back at her. "Hi" He finally managed to say.
Missy smiled. "Hey, what are you doing up so late?"
Ron shrugged. "Couldn't sleep, what about you?"
Missy laughed. "I couldn't sleep either."
Ron got up and sat on the couch next to Missy's chair. "So." He said nervously.
Missy smiled. "So."
Mandy waited a few minutes before finally lifting the covers away from her face. She looked around the room, but the only thing that was there was a bunch of sleeping girls. She glanced over at Missy's bed, and noticed she was gone. She was too tired to worry about where Missy was. She wouldn't hear the noise again until tomorrow night. She didn't know how she knew it, but she did. She leaned back down and slowly fell asleep.
Lizzy lay flat on her back down in bed, just before Mandy looked up. She pretended she was asleep. She had the perfect plan, but it had to wait until tomorrow. She rolled over and thought about it for a while, she was going to start working on it first thing in the morning. She thought about it until she fell asleep.
Hermione sat up quickly in bed and sighed. It was only a dream, she thought. She put her head back down on the pillow. Whose wedding had it been? And how could she make such a fool of herself? She smiled; it was probably just because she was afraid of not being able to handle her classes this year. 'Yeah, that's it' She thought. She fell into a peaceful sleep.
Missy looked nervously down at her hands. She had no idea what to say. Ron opened his mouth, and then remembered Harry, Joshua, and Patrick's advice. "So um...how come you couldn't sleep?" "Bad dream." "Oh." he nodded. Missy played with a piece of her hair. "You?" Ron blushed. "Well this is kind of embarrassing, but I was worrying about a date for the Halloween dance." Missy looked shocked. Ron, worrying about a date? She couldn't understand how anybody wouldn't want to have a date with him. Neither one of them spoke. Missy continued playing with a stray curl. And Ron gritted his teeth and focused on that one piece of hair. He wanted to yank it out of her hands. He took a deep breath. "So...care to tell me about your dream?"
A few minutes later, Mandy woke up again. She tossed the blankets off of her and walked over to Missy's bed. Her bed didn't seem so scary. She snuggled down in Missy's still warm blankets and laid back. The silence seemed to swallow her up. Then she heard a strange ticking sound. It began to get louder and louder and louder... and then, just like in the famous story, the pit and the pendulum, she saw a pendulum with a sharp blade swinging lower and lower over her, it's razor sharp edge glinting in the moonlight. She screamed and sat up straight in the bed. She blinked and looked around her. She hadn't realized that she'd fallen asleep. 'Wow.' she thought. 'What a scary dream.'
Oliver Wood tossed and turned in his bed. He was staying the night at Hogwarts, until Dumbledore could help him find a decent job. He wanted to work at Hogwarts, but unfortunately, there weren't any jobs open. He was tossing and turning, because he was thinking about his breakup with his girlfriend Angela. She had been cheating on him the whole time they'd been going out, and now he didn't feel like he could trust anybody. And yet for some reason he couldn't get that 5th years face out of his mind. She seemed to know exactly who he was, so she must have been around while he was still at Hogwarts. He just couldn't get over how he'd just left her behind with such a cute puppy dog look on her face, without even answering her question. Oliver vowed that if he ever saw her again, he would invite her to lunch, even if it killed him. He hated to hurt anyone's feelings.
Missy relaxed a little. "Well, I suppose...I keep having this dream that I hear this loud noise, and it keeps getting louder and louder. Then this pendulum with a sharp blade keeps getting closer and closer to me...And then I wake up. But half the time, it doesn't feel like a dream. I always think it's real..."
Mandy slowly got up from Missy's bed, and headed back for her own. She sank back down beneath the covers and drew her knees up to her chest. She shivered as she thought about her dream. That was enough to scare anybody. She'd heard that dreams had meanings. Did this mean that Voldemort was going to come back? No, it had to have a deeper meaning then that. She wondered if the school library had anything on dreams. She swung her legs over the side of the bed. This was going to kill her until she knew what it meant. She slipped downstairs, unnoticed by the couple in the common room, and crept out the portrait hole and down to the library. She knew she wasn't supposed to be there at night, but how much trouble could she possibly get into by going to a library. Seriously. Unless of course, she was caught by Snape.She shivered at the thought. She snuck into aisle 71 of the library, labeled "Predictions, meanings, and seeing the future." And whom did she find in that aisle, but."Professor Trelawney?" Mandy whispered, shocked. The teacher looked up from the large book she was perusing, and Mandy nearly fell over in shock. This couldn't be Professor Trelawney; there was no way. She wasn't wearing her stupid shawls and gaudy clothes, and she wasn't wearing glasses, or beads, and she didn't reek of stale perfume. She looked rather nice actually. "Oh dear." She sighed. She didn't have the thin, raspy, dreamy like voice she usually had, but a nice normal voice. "I've been found out." She patted the floor beside her. "Have a seat dear." Mandy sat besides her and looked at her, speechless. "Professor Trelawney, you're.normal!" She exclaimed. Then she covered her mouth. "I'm sorry." She quickly apologized. The professor waved her hand. Think nothing of it I get that a lot. Maybe I'd better explain. I only look the way I do in class because my predictions don't come all of the time regularly, I only spout off that ridiculous nonsense because I have to have some material for my class. Mandy isn't it?" Mandy nodded. "So what are you doing here?" She asked. Professor Trelawney sighed. "Trying to find some new lie to tell my class." Mandy was shocked and appalled. "How can you do that, Professor? You are telling kids just like me lies that they actually believe!" Professor Trelawney shook her head sadly. "Well what else am I supposed to do?" "Why don't you try asking Dumbledore?" Mandy pointed out. "I'm sure he would have some insight and be able to give you some help." The professor shook her head. "I should just do away with all that I've been doing and tell the kids it was all wrong and that you can't really predict things, only occasionally something from above may give you a sign, or you may get some psychological reasoning, like symbols." She looked suddenly at Mandy. "What are you doing here?" She asked. Mandy looked guilty. "Well I came to look up dreams." Professor Trelawney looked delighted. "Really? Dreams are my specialty! Fire away!" "Well," Mandy hesitated, trying to remember the dream. "It's like I'm tied to a bed and there's this pendulum, that swings closer and closer to me, I try to scream, but I can't the room is spinning and the pendulum is razor sharp and it's like it's going to slice me in the stomach. And that's all, really." Professor Trelawney looked excited. "I know exactly what this means! Someone is making this dream for you, someone is manufacturing it, they're trying to scare you!" Mandy began to look angry. "Oh right!" She huffed. "That's just stupid. I'm going back to bed!" She stormed out of the library. 'I always knew she was an old fraud.' She thought to herself. Professor Trelawney sighed. "They never believe me when it's actually true."
Juliette
CHAPTER FOUR
Missy closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep. Then the dream came again. Just as horrid as it had been every other time she had dreamt it. Only this time, it was more vivid then ever. She sat up in cold sweat breathing hard and almost cried. She was beginning to get really scared. She wrapped her blanket around herself and went down to sit by the fire. But when she got down to the common room, she saw that someone else was already there.
Mandy closed her eyes and let the room spin around her. She was getting dizzy, just like all of the other times...then she heard it...the noise, that made her want to scream. But she couldn't...her voice wouldn't work... she felt like she was tied down to the bed. Then she heard a high-pitched cackle; a sound that hadn't been there before. Then everything returned to normal.
Lizzy sighed and turned over in bed. She was still trying to think of a way to make things more interesting around Hogwarts. She flipped in the other direction. 'What I really need is Fred and George Weasley.' she thought. She sat up and snapped her fingers. 'That's it!' she thought.
Hermione fell into a deep sleep, and for some reason dreamed that she was at a wedding. She didn't know whose, but she knew that she was the bridesmaid. Then she tripped and fell on her dress and everyone began to laugh at her, even the bride and groom.
Missy smiled, Ron was in the room too. She sat down in a big comfy chair and stared at the fire. She wanted to say something, but every time she opened her mouth, no words came out.
Ron looked up and smiled back at her. "Hi" He finally managed to say.
Missy smiled. "Hey, what are you doing up so late?"
Ron shrugged. "Couldn't sleep, what about you?"
Missy laughed. "I couldn't sleep either."
Ron got up and sat on the couch next to Missy's chair. "So." He said nervously.
Missy smiled. "So."
Mandy waited a few minutes before finally lifting the covers away from her face. She looked around the room, but the only thing that was there was a bunch of sleeping girls. She glanced over at Missy's bed, and noticed she was gone. She was too tired to worry about where Missy was. She wouldn't hear the noise again until tomorrow night. She didn't know how she knew it, but she did. She leaned back down and slowly fell asleep.
Lizzy lay flat on her back down in bed, just before Mandy looked up. She pretended she was asleep. She had the perfect plan, but it had to wait until tomorrow. She rolled over and thought about it for a while, she was going to start working on it first thing in the morning. She thought about it until she fell asleep.
Hermione sat up quickly in bed and sighed. It was only a dream, she thought. She put her head back down on the pillow. Whose wedding had it been? And how could she make such a fool of herself? She smiled; it was probably just because she was afraid of not being able to handle her classes this year. 'Yeah, that's it' She thought. She fell into a peaceful sleep.
Missy looked nervously down at her hands. She had no idea what to say. Ron opened his mouth, and then remembered Harry, Joshua, and Patrick's advice. "So um...how come you couldn't sleep?" "Bad dream." "Oh." he nodded. Missy played with a piece of her hair. "You?" Ron blushed. "Well this is kind of embarrassing, but I was worrying about a date for the Halloween dance." Missy looked shocked. Ron, worrying about a date? She couldn't understand how anybody wouldn't want to have a date with him. Neither one of them spoke. Missy continued playing with a stray curl. And Ron gritted his teeth and focused on that one piece of hair. He wanted to yank it out of her hands. He took a deep breath. "So...care to tell me about your dream?"
A few minutes later, Mandy woke up again. She tossed the blankets off of her and walked over to Missy's bed. Her bed didn't seem so scary. She snuggled down in Missy's still warm blankets and laid back. The silence seemed to swallow her up. Then she heard a strange ticking sound. It began to get louder and louder and louder... and then, just like in the famous story, the pit and the pendulum, she saw a pendulum with a sharp blade swinging lower and lower over her, it's razor sharp edge glinting in the moonlight. She screamed and sat up straight in the bed. She blinked and looked around her. She hadn't realized that she'd fallen asleep. 'Wow.' she thought. 'What a scary dream.'
Oliver Wood tossed and turned in his bed. He was staying the night at Hogwarts, until Dumbledore could help him find a decent job. He wanted to work at Hogwarts, but unfortunately, there weren't any jobs open. He was tossing and turning, because he was thinking about his breakup with his girlfriend Angela. She had been cheating on him the whole time they'd been going out, and now he didn't feel like he could trust anybody. And yet for some reason he couldn't get that 5th years face out of his mind. She seemed to know exactly who he was, so she must have been around while he was still at Hogwarts. He just couldn't get over how he'd just left her behind with such a cute puppy dog look on her face, without even answering her question. Oliver vowed that if he ever saw her again, he would invite her to lunch, even if it killed him. He hated to hurt anyone's feelings.
Missy relaxed a little. "Well, I suppose...I keep having this dream that I hear this loud noise, and it keeps getting louder and louder. Then this pendulum with a sharp blade keeps getting closer and closer to me...And then I wake up. But half the time, it doesn't feel like a dream. I always think it's real..."
Mandy slowly got up from Missy's bed, and headed back for her own. She sank back down beneath the covers and drew her knees up to her chest. She shivered as she thought about her dream. That was enough to scare anybody. She'd heard that dreams had meanings. Did this mean that Voldemort was going to come back? No, it had to have a deeper meaning then that. She wondered if the school library had anything on dreams. She swung her legs over the side of the bed. This was going to kill her until she knew what it meant. She slipped downstairs, unnoticed by the couple in the common room, and crept out the portrait hole and down to the library. She knew she wasn't supposed to be there at night, but how much trouble could she possibly get into by going to a library. Seriously. Unless of course, she was caught by Snape.She shivered at the thought. She snuck into aisle 71 of the library, labeled "Predictions, meanings, and seeing the future." And whom did she find in that aisle, but."Professor Trelawney?" Mandy whispered, shocked. The teacher looked up from the large book she was perusing, and Mandy nearly fell over in shock. This couldn't be Professor Trelawney; there was no way. She wasn't wearing her stupid shawls and gaudy clothes, and she wasn't wearing glasses, or beads, and she didn't reek of stale perfume. She looked rather nice actually. "Oh dear." She sighed. She didn't have the thin, raspy, dreamy like voice she usually had, but a nice normal voice. "I've been found out." She patted the floor beside her. "Have a seat dear." Mandy sat besides her and looked at her, speechless. "Professor Trelawney, you're.normal!" She exclaimed. Then she covered her mouth. "I'm sorry." She quickly apologized. The professor waved her hand. Think nothing of it I get that a lot. Maybe I'd better explain. I only look the way I do in class because my predictions don't come all of the time regularly, I only spout off that ridiculous nonsense because I have to have some material for my class. Mandy isn't it?" Mandy nodded. "So what are you doing here?" She asked. Professor Trelawney sighed. "Trying to find some new lie to tell my class." Mandy was shocked and appalled. "How can you do that, Professor? You are telling kids just like me lies that they actually believe!" Professor Trelawney shook her head sadly. "Well what else am I supposed to do?" "Why don't you try asking Dumbledore?" Mandy pointed out. "I'm sure he would have some insight and be able to give you some help." The professor shook her head. "I should just do away with all that I've been doing and tell the kids it was all wrong and that you can't really predict things, only occasionally something from above may give you a sign, or you may get some psychological reasoning, like symbols." She looked suddenly at Mandy. "What are you doing here?" She asked. Mandy looked guilty. "Well I came to look up dreams." Professor Trelawney looked delighted. "Really? Dreams are my specialty! Fire away!" "Well," Mandy hesitated, trying to remember the dream. "It's like I'm tied to a bed and there's this pendulum, that swings closer and closer to me, I try to scream, but I can't the room is spinning and the pendulum is razor sharp and it's like it's going to slice me in the stomach. And that's all, really." Professor Trelawney looked excited. "I know exactly what this means! Someone is making this dream for you, someone is manufacturing it, they're trying to scare you!" Mandy began to look angry. "Oh right!" She huffed. "That's just stupid. I'm going back to bed!" She stormed out of the library. 'I always knew she was an old fraud.' She thought to herself. Professor Trelawney sighed. "They never believe me when it's actually true."
