Hogwarts Ten Year Reunion
~* Edited Chapter 1, to everyone who was left hanging with this fiction, I will get back to it, but first I am re-writing all the chapters. The chapters will be mostly the same, with some parts added, some taken out. I hope you all are still interested in this fiction, because I'm going to take out that awful excuse for a last chapter and turn it into a real ending! *~
Chapter 1 ~ The Many Letters Sent Out
Headmaster Severus Snape was sitting in his round office. When Albus Dumbledore had been Headmaster, the office was filled with strange, cool gadgets. Now, however, the room was made similar to the Slytherin Dungeons, damp, dark and uninviting. Students were afraid of their Headmaster, as he was slimey haired, evil, and took pleasure in taking points from unaware Gryffindors.
This particular Monday morning, the Headmaster for the past six years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was in a particularly good mood. Snape stretched his legs out, and reached for a quill, and some pieces of parchment.
He wrote -
Dear Hogwarts Graduate of the year 1997,
We at Hogwarts School are proud to inform you that your class will be having a ten year reunion, to be held at the school, in the Great Hall.
The Hogwarts Express will take you from Kings Cross Station at eleven o'clock sharp on Saturday the 19th of March, 2007.
I will be expecting to see you all attend, no matter what your "chosen path" happens to be. Also, I kindly ask that you wear your old house colours, this way, your past peers will be able to identify you.
Yours truly,
Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,
Severus Snape.
Using a special spell, Snape copied the writing onto thirty-two separate pieces of parchment, along with the original, made thirty three;
Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Andrea Newbury, Terry Boot, Mandy Brocklehurst, Blaise Zabini, Lavender Brown, Millicent Bullistrode, Justin Finch- Fletchley, Lisa Turpin, Neville Longbottom, Morag MacDougal, Dennis Moon, Theodore Nott, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Pansy Parkinson, Sally-Anne Perks, Eloise Midgen, Ernie MacMillan, Sasha Shannon, Judy Fairweather, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Parvati Patil, Padma Patil, Cora Black, Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley, Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter.
Snape tucked the letters into a small hessian bag, and headed to the owlery. On his way, he deducted no less that thirty points from Gryffindor, and handed out no less that fifty points to Slytherin.
By the time he arrived at the owlery, Snape was in an excellent mood. If he was still a teacher, and a stink pellet had been released in his class, he would have only taken five house points off the culprit.
Calling down thirty one owls, Snape shuddered at the thought of seeing some old school enemies, such as Harry Potter, and everyone who wasn't in Slytherin in their time. None the less, Snape handed each school owl a letter of their own to deliver, and left the owlery.
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Harry Potter rolled in his sleep. He lived in America. Harry had moved there after school to play championship Quidditch, and had gotten quite the more famous than he already was. There was a loud, annoying tapping on the window. He looked over. An owl. A scrawny barn owl. Harry was quite used to getting owls from fans, and admirers, but never before at this time of the morning. he gazed at his bedside clock. 6.15am.
He got up, after realising that the owl wouldn't go away. Harry walked over to the window and opened it, letting the scrawny owl fly in. It did a few laps of Harry's bedroom, before dropping a thin, faded letter onto his bed, and flying back out the window.
Harry watched the owl until he could see it no more. It was then which he decided to open his mail.
A reunion? Is he for real? Snape, the Headmaster? Why would he have a reunion for this class? So many questions filled Harry's mind. He decided to take the opportunity to go to the reunion, it would give him the chance to meet up with his best friends Hermione and Ron again. He hadn't seen them since he had moved to America, and wondered greatly how they were, and what they were doing.
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Hermione Granger was wide awake, of course, working on some charts when she received her owl. It had been a long time since Hermione had gotten an owl. It landed on her desk, atop her charts.
'Hi there, what do you have? A letter, thanks!' Hermione cooed at the bird, which was quite obviously tired from its flight. She got it some water before sitting to open the letter.
What the heck? A ten year reunion? Why? Hermione thought upon finishing the letter. Oh well, it will be a great opportunity to see Harry and Ron again, it's been far too long since I've seen them!
She placed the letter to one side, and tried to resume work on her Astronomy Charts, but Hermione found that she couldn't focus. The excitement of seeing Harry and Ron again was getting to her. Hermione gave a quick glance at her watch, 3.15am.
Enough work for one night, Hermione thought, and went to bed.
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Ron Weasley was in Romania, staying in a small hotel with his brother Charlie. He had taken a vast interest in his brother's career with Dragons, and wanted to follow in Charlie's footsteps. So Ron had moved to Romania, with no word from his best friends, Harry and Hermione. Ron knew that Harry lived in America, and as for Hermione, well, he hadn't heard from her in seven years.
It was three in the afternoon, and Ron was out in the desert fields with Charlie and a few other dragon tamers. They were taking on a Romanian Longhorn. The Longhorn has dark green scales and long, glittering golden horns with which it gores its prey before roasting it. Not many Longhorns are left in the wild, many are imprisoned in dragon reservations.
'Hey, Weasley,' Someone shouted out. Ron and Charlie both turned their heads, wandering over to the man. 'Ronald Weasley,' Charlie immediately resumed position with the Romanian Longhorn.
'That's me,' Ron answered.
'You have yourself an owl, looks like he's travelled a fair distance,' He informed Ron.
'Thank you,' Ron took the letter from the owl and read it.
Snape's Headmaster? How did that happen? More importantly, he's having a reunion, that guy's nuttier that I thought… well, it would be a great chance to catch up with Harry and Hermione, I haven't heard from them in years. Ron made up his mind to go. The nineteenth of March was only ten days away, so he decided to break the news to Charlie as soon as possible.
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~* Edited chapter 1 finished. I hope you liked it. *~
~Gryffindor Gal~