Disclaimer ~ I don't own any of the Harry Potter Characters, its all J.K's
doing.
Author's Note ~ How can anyone study for finals? Thank you Kelei for always reviewing, do you know where I can get a beta reader? ************************************************************************
I flew forward instantly, feeling like I was being drawn in on one of my grandfather's fishing reels. When all the spinning finally stopped I found myself standing on a cement pad with parked cars all around. (I knew muggle studies would pay off one day). I turned round a couple of times looking for the rest of my classmates, who being the loving people they are, had already started walking towards the main building.
"WAIT UP!" I yelled to which they started running, causing me to have to chase after them. They stopped in front of a pillar and waited for me there.
"I always thought Hogwarts was a castle, how do they even manage to play Quidditch?" I asked once I had caught my breath.
"Well I remember reading that this is what Hogwarts looks - " stared Jean sarcastically, which I didn't pick up on till later.
"I remember now! It is supposed to look like this! Where's Harry?"
Mary Sue deiced to help me by pushing me into the pillar. At first I was expecting to ram into something hard but instead I just passed on through it, landing on another platform. This one was called Platform 9 3/4 (What kind of lunatic thought of that, why not a regular number like, pie?) On the tracks was a red and gold train.
"Understand now?" asked Mary Sue who had appeared behind me with Jean, who was making noises that sounded suspiciously like laughs.
"Not really, where's Harry?"
"Monique just get on the train and you will see Harry eventually." Stated Monica Merryweather who had stopped talking to Charity Mauvais just to tell me this. I don't really know this girl to well, she is always hiding in the library and I never see her at meals. She has dark brown hair that looks black and brown eyes. She always looks the same, but Mary Sue said that she is one of Charity Mauvais's best friends, meaning she is probably really smart since Charity Mauvais is one of the smartest girls ever to live. Which leads me to believe that I have never really seen Charity Mauvais at the school either. She too has dark colored hair, but unlike Monica she has naturally tan skin, not naturally white. (Why is it that really smart people don't seem to care about appearances, with the exception of Mary Sue, and change subjects really fast?)
Any way after Monica's little comment I boarded the train, not really having a clue as of what was going on (may be I should have read a little more about Hogwarts and a little less about Harry). Mary Sue lead me to a compartment with four seats which were soon filled with Jean, Mary Sue, Dominic Vocat (One of Jean's friends who I never have really talked to.maybe cause he doesn't ever want to talk to me), and myself. Monica and Charity went off to continue their discussion on the abuses of women in every country imaginable, I think.
"Well Monica, are you still confused?" asked Dominic.
"Not at all, I knew what was going on the whole time, someone has to play dumb among all the geniuses right?" I answered, felling really smart.
"Not when they already dumb." Came his answer, causing my ego to drop back to normal.
Mary Sue came to my rescue by saying, "Just because you aren't intellectually advanced in the subject of Harry Potter doesn't mean you have to get on her case."
"Well as long as she doesn't talk to anyone from Drumstrang I will keep my envy in check." He answered. Am I really that bad?
"Why shouldn't I talk to people from other schools? I mean I will be in the same school as them and maybe the same classes. Just as long as you aren't on my team I am happy." (Take that Dominic)
"First of all you shouldn't even be on this trip, Francis should. Second of all you aren't going to be on my team, you and I have nothing in common. Thirdly I don't want to be associated with the Harry Potter loving freak who can't think of anything but him" At this I jumped up, even if I'm not a genius I can still throw a punch and he was insulting Harry.
Luckily for Dominic we were interrupted, " Oh! Am I interupting anything? Guess not ,would you care to buy anything from the cart? I have every thing from chocolate frogs to pumpkin juice." Asked an elderly lady with blue- white curls.
"Nothing really, we weren't told that we could purchase anything on the train, but would you mind telling us how long of a ride we have left?" Asked Mary Sue, who knew that we all had money with us.
"Well dear, you have about two hours left. Have a nice day." She answered and then turned and left us.
Mary Sue entered commander stage, "Monique you are coming with me. Dominic stay away from us on this trip. We are both sorry that you are under the vain impression that Francis would ever come on this trip when he hates England." Mary Sue then dragged me out of the compartment and pulled me into the one a couple doors away from it. Monica and Charity were in there having a conversation about biology and how the muggles think they have everything so organized, Mary Sue when seeing them pulled me down to another room.
When we had finally found one that was empty she sighed and sat down. "Mary what is with Dominic? Sore over you breaking up with another one of his many friends?"
She smiled, "No, I don't think so. Monique you really need to keep your Harry obsessions in check, where you really going to punch him?"
I blushed. "I was till I was interrupted. You know he was making fun of Harry and me."
"Does Harry come first?" she asked looking highly entertained.
"Today he does, tomorrow he will be above first, cause I will have seen him."
"You are hopeless you know? All right I am now going to tell you what will be happening when you arrive at Hogwarts. Pay attention and you will soon know all that you should have researched."
For the last part of the train ride I was told about how we were to be introduced to Hogwarts and what I was to expect (a feast and a hat telling me where I was to sit and sleep). She told me much more but most of it wasn't important and I have deiced to burn the next copy of Hogwarts, A History.
It was late when the train finally did stop and Mary Sue and I exited and stood with all of the other students. There were a total of twelve of us in all (Six from my school, six from Drumstrang). The kids from Drumstrang were all wearing heavy robes that made them all look like Eskimos. I am so glad I never was given the choice to go to that school, it must be freezing where they come from.
A huge man came up to us saying, "I'm Hagrid. Follow me." He led us to a dock with four boats. "I want you all to get into the boats in groups of four, and then follow me." Mary Sue and I ended up in a boat with Monica and Charity, who had stopped talking as soon as they had seen the boats. Once we were all in the boats they started to move, following Hagrid's boat.
Monica smiled at me as it (the boat) started to move, bringing up the rear. "I'm sorry if I came off as cross but you see I was hoping to scare you into remembering all that you had been instructed in, which has been proven to work in many different sources. But I bet you really don't care about that."
I was surprised that she could speak in a language that I understood and knew that I had no interest in something that she seemed fascinated in. "I must be an exception to that theory."
"Or you have no subconscious senses." Concluded Charity.
Monica gave Charity a glare before turning back to me, "Don't mind her, she isn't a very social person. I was wondering if you could tell me anything about the inhabi- the students at the school."
"Meaning Harry Potter." Stated Charity dryly.
Mary Sue smiled at them as I started to tell them about Harry. They didn't stop me after I had rattled off his birthday, his favorite objects and his childhood. They let me speak till Mary Sue decided it was time for me to stop, which was when the boat stopped. We all got up and I had found a new appreciation for Monica, maybe she was human after all, I still don't know about Charity.
Hagrid led us up a set of stairs where we were introduced to Professor Snape. All I have to say about him is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THAT THING IS MY TUTOR?? Professor Snape instructed us in what we were to do (a repeat of every thing Mary Sue had told me, something about a talking hat and sitting with house memebers) and then led us to the Great Hall. I don't think any other school in the world is this big, even the Drumstrang students seemed to be in shock. We were all lead over to one side of the hall, where a professor called Professor McGonagall placed a stool and a hat.
My first impression was that is it? But then it started to talk.
Never have I before done such a thing
Students not from the school to be sorted
Into their strengths and weaknesses
Who will be in Hufflepuff?
Only the loyalist of them all
Who will be in Slytherin?
Only the most cunning of them all
Who will be in Gryffindor?
Only the bravest of them all
Who will be in Ravenclaw?
Only the smartest of them all
Be one with us
And you will survive
You're two months at Hogwarts
Stick me on your head now to find your future
Professor McGonagall then started to read off our names.
"Mary Sue DeCameron"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Jean Val Jean"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Monique La Demond"
I walked over to the hat, turned my head to a table where Mary Sue was sitting and I saw.I saw him. He was sitting about ten people away from Mary Sue with a brunet and a red head and I swear he smiled at me. Thinking about his smile I placed the sorting hat on my head. I almost pulled it back off when a little voice in my head started mumbling. "Not Gryffindor, not Ravenclaw, not Slyterin, you must be a HUFFLEPUFF!"
I staggered over to the table that was clapping extremely hard and sat down next to Jean. "Way to go." He whispered to me as I sat. I didn't pay attention, I was thinking of how I could turn around a touch Harry's back and make it look like an accident.
"Charity Mauvais"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Monica Merryweather"
" HUFFLEPUFF"
I looked up from my pondering of how to touch Harry without looking to ovious. Did I hear right was Monica a Hufflepuff? I looked round only to see her sitting next to me. "Aren't you supposed to be with Charity?" I asked.
"I heard I was supposed to be a Hufflepuff like you." She said smiling.
"But, you are smart and aren't all smart people supposed to be Ravenclaw?"
"There is more to a person than being smart." She replied looking distracted as she listened to some other students called.
"Dominic Vocat"
"SLYTHERIN!"
Dominic was the last to be sorted. "So the sorting hat does have a logical way of sorting people. Monique notice how all the houses received three new students? That was on purpose, not by chance, I can tell you that." She muttered. I neglected to answer for before me appeared a feast fit of kings and I wasn't about to let it go to waste.
************************************************************************ Author's note: Well that was my study break chapter (there will be more of these as the days go by) so I hope you don't mind if I get a little off track. I HATE finals. On a happy note Lake Tahoe has some really good snow at the moment. (
Author's Note ~ How can anyone study for finals? Thank you Kelei for always reviewing, do you know where I can get a beta reader? ************************************************************************
I flew forward instantly, feeling like I was being drawn in on one of my grandfather's fishing reels. When all the spinning finally stopped I found myself standing on a cement pad with parked cars all around. (I knew muggle studies would pay off one day). I turned round a couple of times looking for the rest of my classmates, who being the loving people they are, had already started walking towards the main building.
"WAIT UP!" I yelled to which they started running, causing me to have to chase after them. They stopped in front of a pillar and waited for me there.
"I always thought Hogwarts was a castle, how do they even manage to play Quidditch?" I asked once I had caught my breath.
"Well I remember reading that this is what Hogwarts looks - " stared Jean sarcastically, which I didn't pick up on till later.
"I remember now! It is supposed to look like this! Where's Harry?"
Mary Sue deiced to help me by pushing me into the pillar. At first I was expecting to ram into something hard but instead I just passed on through it, landing on another platform. This one was called Platform 9 3/4 (What kind of lunatic thought of that, why not a regular number like, pie?) On the tracks was a red and gold train.
"Understand now?" asked Mary Sue who had appeared behind me with Jean, who was making noises that sounded suspiciously like laughs.
"Not really, where's Harry?"
"Monique just get on the train and you will see Harry eventually." Stated Monica Merryweather who had stopped talking to Charity Mauvais just to tell me this. I don't really know this girl to well, she is always hiding in the library and I never see her at meals. She has dark brown hair that looks black and brown eyes. She always looks the same, but Mary Sue said that she is one of Charity Mauvais's best friends, meaning she is probably really smart since Charity Mauvais is one of the smartest girls ever to live. Which leads me to believe that I have never really seen Charity Mauvais at the school either. She too has dark colored hair, but unlike Monica she has naturally tan skin, not naturally white. (Why is it that really smart people don't seem to care about appearances, with the exception of Mary Sue, and change subjects really fast?)
Any way after Monica's little comment I boarded the train, not really having a clue as of what was going on (may be I should have read a little more about Hogwarts and a little less about Harry). Mary Sue lead me to a compartment with four seats which were soon filled with Jean, Mary Sue, Dominic Vocat (One of Jean's friends who I never have really talked to.maybe cause he doesn't ever want to talk to me), and myself. Monica and Charity went off to continue their discussion on the abuses of women in every country imaginable, I think.
"Well Monica, are you still confused?" asked Dominic.
"Not at all, I knew what was going on the whole time, someone has to play dumb among all the geniuses right?" I answered, felling really smart.
"Not when they already dumb." Came his answer, causing my ego to drop back to normal.
Mary Sue came to my rescue by saying, "Just because you aren't intellectually advanced in the subject of Harry Potter doesn't mean you have to get on her case."
"Well as long as she doesn't talk to anyone from Drumstrang I will keep my envy in check." He answered. Am I really that bad?
"Why shouldn't I talk to people from other schools? I mean I will be in the same school as them and maybe the same classes. Just as long as you aren't on my team I am happy." (Take that Dominic)
"First of all you shouldn't even be on this trip, Francis should. Second of all you aren't going to be on my team, you and I have nothing in common. Thirdly I don't want to be associated with the Harry Potter loving freak who can't think of anything but him" At this I jumped up, even if I'm not a genius I can still throw a punch and he was insulting Harry.
Luckily for Dominic we were interrupted, " Oh! Am I interupting anything? Guess not ,would you care to buy anything from the cart? I have every thing from chocolate frogs to pumpkin juice." Asked an elderly lady with blue- white curls.
"Nothing really, we weren't told that we could purchase anything on the train, but would you mind telling us how long of a ride we have left?" Asked Mary Sue, who knew that we all had money with us.
"Well dear, you have about two hours left. Have a nice day." She answered and then turned and left us.
Mary Sue entered commander stage, "Monique you are coming with me. Dominic stay away from us on this trip. We are both sorry that you are under the vain impression that Francis would ever come on this trip when he hates England." Mary Sue then dragged me out of the compartment and pulled me into the one a couple doors away from it. Monica and Charity were in there having a conversation about biology and how the muggles think they have everything so organized, Mary Sue when seeing them pulled me down to another room.
When we had finally found one that was empty she sighed and sat down. "Mary what is with Dominic? Sore over you breaking up with another one of his many friends?"
She smiled, "No, I don't think so. Monique you really need to keep your Harry obsessions in check, where you really going to punch him?"
I blushed. "I was till I was interrupted. You know he was making fun of Harry and me."
"Does Harry come first?" she asked looking highly entertained.
"Today he does, tomorrow he will be above first, cause I will have seen him."
"You are hopeless you know? All right I am now going to tell you what will be happening when you arrive at Hogwarts. Pay attention and you will soon know all that you should have researched."
For the last part of the train ride I was told about how we were to be introduced to Hogwarts and what I was to expect (a feast and a hat telling me where I was to sit and sleep). She told me much more but most of it wasn't important and I have deiced to burn the next copy of Hogwarts, A History.
It was late when the train finally did stop and Mary Sue and I exited and stood with all of the other students. There were a total of twelve of us in all (Six from my school, six from Drumstrang). The kids from Drumstrang were all wearing heavy robes that made them all look like Eskimos. I am so glad I never was given the choice to go to that school, it must be freezing where they come from.
A huge man came up to us saying, "I'm Hagrid. Follow me." He led us to a dock with four boats. "I want you all to get into the boats in groups of four, and then follow me." Mary Sue and I ended up in a boat with Monica and Charity, who had stopped talking as soon as they had seen the boats. Once we were all in the boats they started to move, following Hagrid's boat.
Monica smiled at me as it (the boat) started to move, bringing up the rear. "I'm sorry if I came off as cross but you see I was hoping to scare you into remembering all that you had been instructed in, which has been proven to work in many different sources. But I bet you really don't care about that."
I was surprised that she could speak in a language that I understood and knew that I had no interest in something that she seemed fascinated in. "I must be an exception to that theory."
"Or you have no subconscious senses." Concluded Charity.
Monica gave Charity a glare before turning back to me, "Don't mind her, she isn't a very social person. I was wondering if you could tell me anything about the inhabi- the students at the school."
"Meaning Harry Potter." Stated Charity dryly.
Mary Sue smiled at them as I started to tell them about Harry. They didn't stop me after I had rattled off his birthday, his favorite objects and his childhood. They let me speak till Mary Sue decided it was time for me to stop, which was when the boat stopped. We all got up and I had found a new appreciation for Monica, maybe she was human after all, I still don't know about Charity.
Hagrid led us up a set of stairs where we were introduced to Professor Snape. All I have to say about him is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THAT THING IS MY TUTOR?? Professor Snape instructed us in what we were to do (a repeat of every thing Mary Sue had told me, something about a talking hat and sitting with house memebers) and then led us to the Great Hall. I don't think any other school in the world is this big, even the Drumstrang students seemed to be in shock. We were all lead over to one side of the hall, where a professor called Professor McGonagall placed a stool and a hat.
My first impression was that is it? But then it started to talk.
Never have I before done such a thing
Students not from the school to be sorted
Into their strengths and weaknesses
Who will be in Hufflepuff?
Only the loyalist of them all
Who will be in Slytherin?
Only the most cunning of them all
Who will be in Gryffindor?
Only the bravest of them all
Who will be in Ravenclaw?
Only the smartest of them all
Be one with us
And you will survive
You're two months at Hogwarts
Stick me on your head now to find your future
Professor McGonagall then started to read off our names.
"Mary Sue DeCameron"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Jean Val Jean"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Monique La Demond"
I walked over to the hat, turned my head to a table where Mary Sue was sitting and I saw.I saw him. He was sitting about ten people away from Mary Sue with a brunet and a red head and I swear he smiled at me. Thinking about his smile I placed the sorting hat on my head. I almost pulled it back off when a little voice in my head started mumbling. "Not Gryffindor, not Ravenclaw, not Slyterin, you must be a HUFFLEPUFF!"
I staggered over to the table that was clapping extremely hard and sat down next to Jean. "Way to go." He whispered to me as I sat. I didn't pay attention, I was thinking of how I could turn around a touch Harry's back and make it look like an accident.
"Charity Mauvais"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Monica Merryweather"
" HUFFLEPUFF"
I looked up from my pondering of how to touch Harry without looking to ovious. Did I hear right was Monica a Hufflepuff? I looked round only to see her sitting next to me. "Aren't you supposed to be with Charity?" I asked.
"I heard I was supposed to be a Hufflepuff like you." She said smiling.
"But, you are smart and aren't all smart people supposed to be Ravenclaw?"
"There is more to a person than being smart." She replied looking distracted as she listened to some other students called.
"Dominic Vocat"
"SLYTHERIN!"
Dominic was the last to be sorted. "So the sorting hat does have a logical way of sorting people. Monique notice how all the houses received three new students? That was on purpose, not by chance, I can tell you that." She muttered. I neglected to answer for before me appeared a feast fit of kings and I wasn't about to let it go to waste.
************************************************************************ Author's note: Well that was my study break chapter (there will be more of these as the days go by) so I hope you don't mind if I get a little off track. I HATE finals. On a happy note Lake Tahoe has some really good snow at the moment. (
