Hogwarts Ten Year Reunion
~* Chapter 8 edited, this chapter has changed considerably, as someone pointed out that it's Theodore Nott in Slytherin, and he's mentioned in book 5. *~
Chapter 8 ~ Turn Back Time
Morag MacDougal, Dennis Moon and Terry Boot, former Ravenclaw students, were standing in the middle of the Great Hall having a discussion about what they'd been doing for the past ten years. Morag had been working with the Ministry of Magic in the Magical Creatures Department, Dennis had applied to be a Hogwarts Professor, but had been turned down for lack of skills, and Terry had gotten married and had one son, named Fletcher. Fletcher was now four years old. Terry had decided against bringing him and his wife to the reunion so that he would have time to talk to his friends.
Snape stood at the front of the room, and cleared his throat. When no one turned to look at him, he tried again, clearing his throat even louder than he had done previously. There was still no response. Finally, Snape tried one last time to get his audience's attention, with a loud, spluttery cough.
Several people turned to see if Snape was dying, so he proceeded to talk.
'Now that the reunion has began, I would like everyone to vote. There are several categories of which you can vote for your former peers in. Those include: Most Changed, Most Changed For The Better, Most Weight Gained, Most Weight Lost, Most Successful, Most Overworked, Most Sleazy, and finally, Most Unseccessful,' Snape said. 'Proceed to place your votes in the boxes stationed by the door. Winners will be announced at the end of the night. Boxes have been bewitched so you may only vote once for each category,' Snape finished dramatically.
Morag, Dennis and Terry stared at eachother blankly for about two minutes, before either of them decided to speak.
'Okay, here's what we'll do,' Dennis began. 'We all vote for me in Most Changed, we all vote for Terry in Most Weight Lost, and we all vote for Morag in Most Changed For The Better.'
'Now now, just because I was a little chubby in Hogwarts doesn't mean I should be in Most Weight Lost,' Terry said quickly.
'No, but no one remembers you back at Hogwarts, so they won't even notice the difference,' Morag said.
'Some people might remember me,' Terry argued.
'Well, I can say the same about Morag and I, us three were never involved in anything major back in Hogwarts, we just hung back, and let the other people fight it out, and be hero's,' Dennis stated.
'That is true, do you think we should have gotten involved somehow?' Morag wondered.
'No, I think we did just fine, we weren't involved with the Philosopher's Stone, no one suspected us as being Slytherin's Heir and petrifying students, we didn't face hoards of Dementors, we weren't involved in the Tri-Wizard Tournament illegally, and we didn't go to the Ministry of Magic to fight You-Know-Who,' Terry said.
'You're absolutely right, we have had fullfilling lives, all because we stood back and let things happen without interfering,' Dennis mused.
'Don't you ever wonder if things would have been different, had we been in Gryffindor, or Slytherin even?' Terry pondered.
'Things definitely would have been different if we were in one of those houses, for one, we would have been caught up with the Slytherin trio versus the Gryffindor trio, and secondly, we would have been more involved in things that happened around Hogwarts all those years ago,' Morag explained.
'I'm glad I was in Ravenclaw,' Dennis said.
'Yeah, we led normal school lives, if that's possible,' Morag sighed, thinking back on their time at Hogwarts.
'You know, now that I think about it, Hogwarts was boring!' Terry suddenly exclaimed. Both Morag and Dennis frowned in confusion.
'What do you mean?' Dennis queried.
'Well, think about it, we were never involved in anything interresting that happened back at Hogwarts, we didn't do anything special, it was rather boring,' Terry explained.
'Hey, you're right!' Morag exclaimed.
'Of course I'm right,' Terry said bitterly. 'I think we should get a time turner, go back to first year and do it all over again!' The three boys stood there thinking about it for a few minutes.
'Nah, it'd never work, we'd still be put in Ravenclaw,' Dennis said.
'So, that never stopped Cho Chang from being involved with Harry somehow, I dunno, maybe one of us could be Hermione's boyfriend, look at her, she's beautiful now,' Terry said, eyeing Hermione across the room.
'Well, maybe we could do that next year,' Dennis said.
'I don't want to wait that long,' Morag whined.
'At least wait until this reunion is over, we can go back, do our school all over, then our lives, and we'll come back to this night better people,' Dennis suggested.
'Great idea!' Terry exclaimed.
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~* I changed so much in this chapter, reading back over it, I thought it was incredibly lame. I even changed the title. *~
~Gryffindor Gal~