*is distinctly ruffled* WELL then. . . *thumbs nose at Voyager Reader*
jerk? HA! If only he knew. . .
Yes, the Voyager Quotes thing isn't fiction but, if, like me, you believe Dimensional Theory then there IS NO FICTION! HELLO! JUST BECAUSE IT IS ON TV DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T REAL!
Ok. Now that I've had my little spaz, back to the story. . . I went and saw LOTR: The Return of the King yesterday (absolutely brilliant movie) and that would be why I haven't written. Sorry Guardian Dimension!
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The twins and Artemis stood in the circular space, staring at the three mahogany doors. To the left, a gold plate with black letters proclaimed the room beyond that door the "Random Room". The one on the right had a gold plate with green letters, saying "Random Room of Requirement." And lastly, the middle door's good plate declared in red letters "Random Bedroom".
Taking a deep breath, an exhausted Artemis leaned forward and opened the middle door.
It opened onto a plain room, with blue-green walls and bunk beds. Very odd bunk beds. Three high, the lowest was on the right, the middle one in the, well, middle, and the highest one suspended on the left. There was a door on the right opening onto a plain bathroom with a shower and wardrobe- bureau things, painted white, under the top two beds.
The beds themselves had blue-green-white striped sheets, one white pillow and one green per bed.
Artemis took this all in with expert eyes in 2 seconds. Looking back at the Weasleys, she closed the door and set the trunks down in the corner.
"Stop gaping, will you? I'm tired!"
Fred closed his mouth and looked at George. "Our hair colour clashes with the walls." He complained.
"Since when did you turn colour-conscious? Besides, it'll be different in the morning."
"Huh?"
"RANDOM bedroom. It'll change at random times. Brilliant, eh?"
"Too much information to contemplate. Must. . .Sleep. . ." George fell on the lower bed.
"Nice to know you want that one, Georgie, cause I'm taking the top-" Fred cut off. Artemis was already there, in green Pj's with a short sleeve white top, sitting on the top duvet.
"Too slow, 'Fredie'."
Artemis lay down, and Fred jumped into his bed. Neither twin bothered to change his clothes.
"Hey, you mind if I make it real dark?" Artemis paused. "Wait, take that back. Stupid question." Only Fred heard her, George was already asleep. The place went black, as black as the abyss they'd fallen into, only half a shade lighter.
Within seconds, the three teens were sleeping soundly.
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The next morning dawned bright and clear, crisp fall air wafting through the half-open window in the 6th-year Gryffindor boys tower. Ron and Harry woke to find Seamus and Dean already up.
"Come on, you two! We've got to get down to breakfast!" Dean pestered.
"Yeah, someone wake up Neville!" Seamus said over his shoulder as he walked out the door.
Harry and Ron shook Neville awake ("I'm up, mom!"), got dressed quickly and went down into the Common Room to find Hermione and Ginny waiting.
"I want to go see Fred and George, find out where they're staying. . ." Ginny started, before being interrupted by Ron.
"They aren't just here to make more Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes, you know. They're also here to take their NEWTs. I heard Mum talking to Dad about it. Dad said that if he'd been there under Umbridge he'd have left too. And Mum said she didn't care who taught, as long as her sons learned proper skills."
Hermione looked more approving. "Well, they should have stuck it out, you know."
"Oh, don't be such a spoil-sport, Hermione!" Harry mock chided as the group left the Common Room. Stepping out, they were brought up short by the sight of three people, all with bright red hair, wrestling in the middle of the hallway.
You couldn't see their faces, because of the general amount of movement, but Ron and Ginny knew immediately who the taller two were.
The shorter one grabbed one of the tall persons in a headlock, which lasted about 2 seconds before the two were jumped by the third person. The short one let the tall one out of the headlock and the two tall ones immediately jumped on her/him.
The shorter one, with redder hair than the others, gave a triumphant "HA!" and Fred and George Weasley flew up and stayed there, floating, upside down.
Artemis walked underneath the two of them, thumbing her nose at them. Turning to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny she bowed, and as she went down, so did the Weasley twins. Landing sprawled on the floor, all five teens standing couldn't help but laugh at them.
"Ha ha, very funny."
"You try wrestling that maniac."
"Why were we, anyway, Fred?"
"Can't remember. Something about breakfast and random rooms."
"I'm HUNGRY!" said Artemis. "And I can't believe you're not."
"Oh, we're STARVING, aren't we George?"
"Absolutely famished." Said George, standing up.
"Good to know. Anyways, good morning Ron, Hermione, Ginny. . . and, er. . . Harry? Yeah, good morning Harry. You guys going to eat anything? Come on, breakfast's almost done!"
Turning, the seven of them walked down the hall, Ginny, Harry and Ron still yawing.
"Nothing like a good wrestle to wake up the senses, eh, George?" Commented Fred after seeing Ron's tonsils for the 8th time.
"Nope. Especially when you're wrestling a master. By the way, Artemis, you cheated."
"Did I?"
"Using magic in a wrestling match is not allowed!"
"Ah, but that wasn't magic, per say. . ."
Ginny interrupted the banter. "Fred, George, where you two staying?"
"With Artemis here." Answered Fred, slapping Artemis on the shoulder. "She found us some rooms, they were going to put us with the Slytherines!"
"Like hell they were. Where really?" Asked Harry.
"The Room of Requirement."
"You're in the Room of Requirement?!"
"No, we were GOING to be, then Artemis- well, there were some unused rooms in the school Dumbledore didn't know about."
"I can't believe that! Dumbledore knows this school inside-out." Protested Hermione.
"He does now. . ." Artemis grinned wickedly. "Anyways, we're here, and I for one want some bacon."
As the group entered the Great Hall for breakfast, some of the people looked up, and whispered and pointed to Artemis and the twins. It was here that Harry saw Draco Malfoy for the first time that year.
"Who would you be?" Malfoy had strolled across the hall to stand in front of Artemis, at the front of the group.
"They said my name last night, didn't they, Draco?" Was Artemis's sardonic reply.
Malfoy looked perturbed for a second, then "How do you know my name? Oh, no doubt Potter here has warned you to stay away from me, hasn't he?"
Harry glared at Draco with a vengeance. "I haven't. But now that I think about it. . ."
"Well Potter, I'm surprised you're here. Managed to pass your OWL's? Shocking, isn't it?"
Harry nearly punched Malfoy then and there, in the doorway, with 7 teachers within view. Artemis stopped him by putting up her hand.
"Now now, boys, no fighting. That would be my job, if you please. What would you like, Draco? Besides to insult Harry, I mean." Artemis looked highly amused.
"I would like to get to know you." Responded Draco, trying to sound offhand.
On either side of her, the twins tensed up. You could feel their anger rising. However, Artemis simply smiled, even more entertained than before.
"Oh, this is brilliant. Are you, hitting on me, Draco?"
Draco's mind buzzed. He had been intrigued by this girl. Whatever was in her head had made the Hat scream, and Draco strongly suspected that the aforementioned Hat had wanted to put her in Slytherine, but had been talked out of it, somehow. But Draco wasn't stupid, and he knew that Artemis was mocking him. The amusement in Hermione and Ginny's eyes was evident.
"More like, welcoming you to Hogwarts." Replied the youth, trying to retain his composure.
"Well, I appreciate the gesture, but I'm afraid I'm famished, as George Weasley would say, and therefore would like to eat. But I'll talk to you later, deal?"
Draco Malfoy was amazed. He'd thought the girl would brush him off. But since she hadn't. . . "Sure!" Was his trying-to-not-sound-enthusiastic-but- definitely-not-succeeding reply. Then he turned and walked back to Slytherine table, amid jitters from Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor.
"You guys. . . just go eat, ok?" Artemis's face seemed to be waging a war. "Excuse me!" She said, before turning back into the Entrance Hall. Once there, she cast some sort of silencing spell and proceeded to fall over in a fit of hilarity. However, she then proceeded to float up into the air, rolling over in somersaults and cartwheels. Then, after about 2 minutes of this, she began to sink down.
"What's so funny?" Asked Fred. He and George hadn't gone to eat breakfast, figuring they had all day, and had only urged the others to go eat because classes started in twenty minutes.
"Dunno." Responded George.
Artemis landed on the floor, picked herself up, and shook the hair out of her eyes. Removing the silencing spell, she walked over to the boys and looked at them, very carefully. They were about 5 foot 10, each of them, so not amazingly tall, and broad across the shoulders, much like herself. (Remember, the twins are like their mother and Charlie, i.e. Stocky rather than lanky.) The three had about the same build, and all had the same sparkle of mischief in their eyes. The twins eyes were a brilliant blue- green, and their mops of red-orange hair were eternally unkempt. Artemis's appearance was changeable, of course, but after looking at the twins her eyes became the same shade of teal-turquoise, he hair got a little orange- ier and became short and tousled to match the twins unique look. Her skin paled slightly and more freckled, and soon she looked exactly like a female version of Fred or George.
Under Artemis's calculated gaze (calculated! Ha ha!), they had been a little unnerved. Then when she'd started to change, the two had been wondering, unsettled and finally down-right scared to see someone who could have been their sister in front of them.
Artemis reached up and ran her hands down the outside of each Weasley jaw. It was an odd moment, but a peaceful one. Then the twins heard a noise behind them and whipped around. A group of Ravenclaws were coming out of the Great Hall. Nothing major. They ignored the twins and headed for classes. Turning back, Fred and George saw that Artemis's hair was the same deep shade of red, her skin was tanned and her eyes were dark blues and grays.
"Let's get food from the Room of Requirement, ok?"
"Check." Said Fred and George, and the three left the Hall.
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So... er... yeah...
Review. Please.
Yes, the Voyager Quotes thing isn't fiction but, if, like me, you believe Dimensional Theory then there IS NO FICTION! HELLO! JUST BECAUSE IT IS ON TV DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T REAL!
Ok. Now that I've had my little spaz, back to the story. . . I went and saw LOTR: The Return of the King yesterday (absolutely brilliant movie) and that would be why I haven't written. Sorry Guardian Dimension!
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The twins and Artemis stood in the circular space, staring at the three mahogany doors. To the left, a gold plate with black letters proclaimed the room beyond that door the "Random Room". The one on the right had a gold plate with green letters, saying "Random Room of Requirement." And lastly, the middle door's good plate declared in red letters "Random Bedroom".
Taking a deep breath, an exhausted Artemis leaned forward and opened the middle door.
It opened onto a plain room, with blue-green walls and bunk beds. Very odd bunk beds. Three high, the lowest was on the right, the middle one in the, well, middle, and the highest one suspended on the left. There was a door on the right opening onto a plain bathroom with a shower and wardrobe- bureau things, painted white, under the top two beds.
The beds themselves had blue-green-white striped sheets, one white pillow and one green per bed.
Artemis took this all in with expert eyes in 2 seconds. Looking back at the Weasleys, she closed the door and set the trunks down in the corner.
"Stop gaping, will you? I'm tired!"
Fred closed his mouth and looked at George. "Our hair colour clashes with the walls." He complained.
"Since when did you turn colour-conscious? Besides, it'll be different in the morning."
"Huh?"
"RANDOM bedroom. It'll change at random times. Brilliant, eh?"
"Too much information to contemplate. Must. . .Sleep. . ." George fell on the lower bed.
"Nice to know you want that one, Georgie, cause I'm taking the top-" Fred cut off. Artemis was already there, in green Pj's with a short sleeve white top, sitting on the top duvet.
"Too slow, 'Fredie'."
Artemis lay down, and Fred jumped into his bed. Neither twin bothered to change his clothes.
"Hey, you mind if I make it real dark?" Artemis paused. "Wait, take that back. Stupid question." Only Fred heard her, George was already asleep. The place went black, as black as the abyss they'd fallen into, only half a shade lighter.
Within seconds, the three teens were sleeping soundly.
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The next morning dawned bright and clear, crisp fall air wafting through the half-open window in the 6th-year Gryffindor boys tower. Ron and Harry woke to find Seamus and Dean already up.
"Come on, you two! We've got to get down to breakfast!" Dean pestered.
"Yeah, someone wake up Neville!" Seamus said over his shoulder as he walked out the door.
Harry and Ron shook Neville awake ("I'm up, mom!"), got dressed quickly and went down into the Common Room to find Hermione and Ginny waiting.
"I want to go see Fred and George, find out where they're staying. . ." Ginny started, before being interrupted by Ron.
"They aren't just here to make more Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes, you know. They're also here to take their NEWTs. I heard Mum talking to Dad about it. Dad said that if he'd been there under Umbridge he'd have left too. And Mum said she didn't care who taught, as long as her sons learned proper skills."
Hermione looked more approving. "Well, they should have stuck it out, you know."
"Oh, don't be such a spoil-sport, Hermione!" Harry mock chided as the group left the Common Room. Stepping out, they were brought up short by the sight of three people, all with bright red hair, wrestling in the middle of the hallway.
You couldn't see their faces, because of the general amount of movement, but Ron and Ginny knew immediately who the taller two were.
The shorter one grabbed one of the tall persons in a headlock, which lasted about 2 seconds before the two were jumped by the third person. The short one let the tall one out of the headlock and the two tall ones immediately jumped on her/him.
The shorter one, with redder hair than the others, gave a triumphant "HA!" and Fred and George Weasley flew up and stayed there, floating, upside down.
Artemis walked underneath the two of them, thumbing her nose at them. Turning to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny she bowed, and as she went down, so did the Weasley twins. Landing sprawled on the floor, all five teens standing couldn't help but laugh at them.
"Ha ha, very funny."
"You try wrestling that maniac."
"Why were we, anyway, Fred?"
"Can't remember. Something about breakfast and random rooms."
"I'm HUNGRY!" said Artemis. "And I can't believe you're not."
"Oh, we're STARVING, aren't we George?"
"Absolutely famished." Said George, standing up.
"Good to know. Anyways, good morning Ron, Hermione, Ginny. . . and, er. . . Harry? Yeah, good morning Harry. You guys going to eat anything? Come on, breakfast's almost done!"
Turning, the seven of them walked down the hall, Ginny, Harry and Ron still yawing.
"Nothing like a good wrestle to wake up the senses, eh, George?" Commented Fred after seeing Ron's tonsils for the 8th time.
"Nope. Especially when you're wrestling a master. By the way, Artemis, you cheated."
"Did I?"
"Using magic in a wrestling match is not allowed!"
"Ah, but that wasn't magic, per say. . ."
Ginny interrupted the banter. "Fred, George, where you two staying?"
"With Artemis here." Answered Fred, slapping Artemis on the shoulder. "She found us some rooms, they were going to put us with the Slytherines!"
"Like hell they were. Where really?" Asked Harry.
"The Room of Requirement."
"You're in the Room of Requirement?!"
"No, we were GOING to be, then Artemis- well, there were some unused rooms in the school Dumbledore didn't know about."
"I can't believe that! Dumbledore knows this school inside-out." Protested Hermione.
"He does now. . ." Artemis grinned wickedly. "Anyways, we're here, and I for one want some bacon."
As the group entered the Great Hall for breakfast, some of the people looked up, and whispered and pointed to Artemis and the twins. It was here that Harry saw Draco Malfoy for the first time that year.
"Who would you be?" Malfoy had strolled across the hall to stand in front of Artemis, at the front of the group.
"They said my name last night, didn't they, Draco?" Was Artemis's sardonic reply.
Malfoy looked perturbed for a second, then "How do you know my name? Oh, no doubt Potter here has warned you to stay away from me, hasn't he?"
Harry glared at Draco with a vengeance. "I haven't. But now that I think about it. . ."
"Well Potter, I'm surprised you're here. Managed to pass your OWL's? Shocking, isn't it?"
Harry nearly punched Malfoy then and there, in the doorway, with 7 teachers within view. Artemis stopped him by putting up her hand.
"Now now, boys, no fighting. That would be my job, if you please. What would you like, Draco? Besides to insult Harry, I mean." Artemis looked highly amused.
"I would like to get to know you." Responded Draco, trying to sound offhand.
On either side of her, the twins tensed up. You could feel their anger rising. However, Artemis simply smiled, even more entertained than before.
"Oh, this is brilliant. Are you, hitting on me, Draco?"
Draco's mind buzzed. He had been intrigued by this girl. Whatever was in her head had made the Hat scream, and Draco strongly suspected that the aforementioned Hat had wanted to put her in Slytherine, but had been talked out of it, somehow. But Draco wasn't stupid, and he knew that Artemis was mocking him. The amusement in Hermione and Ginny's eyes was evident.
"More like, welcoming you to Hogwarts." Replied the youth, trying to retain his composure.
"Well, I appreciate the gesture, but I'm afraid I'm famished, as George Weasley would say, and therefore would like to eat. But I'll talk to you later, deal?"
Draco Malfoy was amazed. He'd thought the girl would brush him off. But since she hadn't. . . "Sure!" Was his trying-to-not-sound-enthusiastic-but- definitely-not-succeeding reply. Then he turned and walked back to Slytherine table, amid jitters from Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor.
"You guys. . . just go eat, ok?" Artemis's face seemed to be waging a war. "Excuse me!" She said, before turning back into the Entrance Hall. Once there, she cast some sort of silencing spell and proceeded to fall over in a fit of hilarity. However, she then proceeded to float up into the air, rolling over in somersaults and cartwheels. Then, after about 2 minutes of this, she began to sink down.
"What's so funny?" Asked Fred. He and George hadn't gone to eat breakfast, figuring they had all day, and had only urged the others to go eat because classes started in twenty minutes.
"Dunno." Responded George.
Artemis landed on the floor, picked herself up, and shook the hair out of her eyes. Removing the silencing spell, she walked over to the boys and looked at them, very carefully. They were about 5 foot 10, each of them, so not amazingly tall, and broad across the shoulders, much like herself. (Remember, the twins are like their mother and Charlie, i.e. Stocky rather than lanky.) The three had about the same build, and all had the same sparkle of mischief in their eyes. The twins eyes were a brilliant blue- green, and their mops of red-orange hair were eternally unkempt. Artemis's appearance was changeable, of course, but after looking at the twins her eyes became the same shade of teal-turquoise, he hair got a little orange- ier and became short and tousled to match the twins unique look. Her skin paled slightly and more freckled, and soon she looked exactly like a female version of Fred or George.
Under Artemis's calculated gaze (calculated! Ha ha!), they had been a little unnerved. Then when she'd started to change, the two had been wondering, unsettled and finally down-right scared to see someone who could have been their sister in front of them.
Artemis reached up and ran her hands down the outside of each Weasley jaw. It was an odd moment, but a peaceful one. Then the twins heard a noise behind them and whipped around. A group of Ravenclaws were coming out of the Great Hall. Nothing major. They ignored the twins and headed for classes. Turning back, Fred and George saw that Artemis's hair was the same deep shade of red, her skin was tanned and her eyes were dark blues and grays.
"Let's get food from the Room of Requirement, ok?"
"Check." Said Fred and George, and the three left the Hall.
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So... er... yeah...
Review. Please.