Ron and Hermione broke apart, and Ron fell off the bed.
"What are you doing?" Lisa asked, looking over Harry's shoulder.
"Nothing." Hermione said quickly, fixing her hair and straightening her robes. "Nothing, more than Heather and Draco anyway."
"What?" Heather had appeared at the top of the stairs. "Where were you when that happened?"
"Just outside the door." Ron said, groaning as he got off the floor. "We heard Pansy scream at you and you ran right by us."
"Sorry, I didn't see you," Heather said sitting down. "My head was swimming. My head still is swimming actually."
"Awww," the chorus came from both Lisa and Hermione.
"Awww, yourselves."
"Excuse me!" Danie had appeared at the top of the stairs. "Some of us are trying to sleep -" Then she noticed Ron and Hermione siting on the bed, both still looking a little ruffled. "In more than one way. I'll be right back."
Danie walked out of the room, and then came back a few minutes later carrying little sealed packages. She handed one to Ron, who looked at it, turned bright red, and dropped it on the bed.
"Ron, Hermione. A physical relationship can be very pleasing to both partners. However, it is a good idea to use protection when engaging in such activities." Danie said. Then she handed one to Harry, who just stared at it. "You should also consider the consequences before beginning a physical relationship. I can't believe I just said that but..."
"Don't you think you're moving just a little too fast?" asked Heather.
"That's what they all say." Danie said. Then she handed one to Heather. "In case you meet a cute guy."
"I have a cute guy, and I have my own stash of these, I really don't need this." Heather said, handing it back.
Lisa grabbed the one out of Harry's hands, and handed it to Danie. "Yah, same here. You don't have to worry about us Danie, we took the same classes as you did."
Harry was gaping at Lisa.
"I don't sleep around, so don't get any ideas." Lisa said to him. "It's just that the teacher handed out quite a few."
"Maybe we should go." Hermione had finally found her voice.
"Yah," Heather agreed. "People are going to start coming up here soon. It's almost 8:30."
Just then Dean came walking into the room. Danie handed him one of the packages, and he looked at it before handing it back.
"I can get those when I go home for Christmas!" Dean called over his shoulder as he walked away.
Ron's ears turned redder than they were before.
"What's that supposed to mean?" He called after him. "If I find out you're trying to corrupt my little sister I'll..."
"I'll what?" Danie called, walking out of the door. "You're a little occupied with Hermione! DEAN! RUN!"
"Uh, Danie, you may also want to run." Heather said, pointing at Hermione who'd gotten a murderous look on her face.
"Anyone willing to hurt me, there's a scary potions teacher downstairs who's willing to kill you in return."
The girls left the guys alone to fight, but only after Danie called back into the dorm,
****
The next morning was no where near as eventful as the past night. Danie sat sitting counting ceiling tiles again, but quite more gloomily than the first time.
"This is pointless." Danie said. Then she pulled out one of the packages from her pocket and looked at it. "You know, I really should put this to good use, before it's expiry date." she said, tonelessly, as if she didn't care much.
Hermione spit out her coffee. Heather was barely paying attention. Lisa got up and put her arm around her friend, and Harry and Ron's jaws had dropped to the floor.
"I like your thinking!" Lisa said as she sat down. "Let's go get the guys and fill these up!"
Lisa grabbed Danie's hand and dragged Danie up to the boys' dormitory.
Heather seemed to wake up at just that moment. "Huh, what? Wait a minute, wait for me!" and she stood up to run out of the room, then noticed that Harry, Ron and Hermione were still sitting in front of the fireplace.
"Water balloons on the Slytherins! Try and keep up!" Heather said, and ran out of the room.
"Oh!" Harry said. "Wait up!" And he followed them out of the common room, Hermione and Ron hand in hand behind him.
****
After they had filled and loaded a box of slimy water balloon bombs they went and perched themselves on one of the balconies that over look the entrance hall.
"Bomber one has seen her target. Do I have green light to drop bomb?" remarked Danie.
"Green light granted" replied Heather.
"Bomb's away" Said Danie as she released the first order of mayhem.
"Argh!" Shouted Snape as the slimy bomb landed on his equally greasy head.
"Sorry!" Shouted Danie.
"Wasn't me!" Remarked Lisa.
"Don't blame me" Said Heather.
"What are you doing?" Snape shouted at his daughter and her friends.
"Waiting for Crabbe and Goyle" Danie replied thinking fast "They where flirting with me at the dance last night."
Snape then stormed away quickly returning with two very confused People- Crabbe and Goyle. "Here you go" He said, "Bomb's away."
"Target practice!" exclaimed Ron as every started throwing slimy water bombs and dungbombs at Crabbe and Goyle, who appeared to be glued to the spot.
"Snape must be standing there, making sure that they don't move." Draco said to Heather
"I thought they were your best friends!" exclaimed Heather. "Why are you having so much fun with this?"
"They've been trying to push me out ever since Pansy told all of Slytherin house that I'm dating you." Draco replied, chucking a balloon that hit Crabbe square in the face."
"Well isn't that nice."
A minute later after the fun had begun; Professor McGonagall came hurrying down the stairs towards them. "What are you doing!" She exclaimed.
"Throwing water balloons at Crabbe and Goyle" Replied Hermione.
"Why on heavens would you do that for?" McGonagall questioned.
Because my daddy said we could" Danie replied sweetly.
"And why would he do that?" McGonagall asked.
"Because they where flirting with me a the dance last night." Danie said.
"What at time to become an overprotective father" McGonagall grumbled as she headed towards the dungeons.
****
McGonagall returned a few minutes later with Snape on her heels.
"Eleanor" Snape began " I was wrong, you can stop now."
Lisa and Heather winced and tried to confine giggles.
"Okay" Danie replied as the girls bent over to pick up some of the boxes, showing cleavage as they did so.
"Umm... Eleanor I think you might need um...new... ere... undergarments" Snape said as he motioned to his own chest.
"What's the matter... don't you like it?" replied Danie standing up and pulling down her shirt a little. Heather and Lisa did the same.
"Don't do that" Draco snapped quickly.
"Why not?" Heather asked him, turning around and bending over to pick up the box behind her, her low-rise jeans sliding down just a little as she did so.
"Uh, umm," Stammered Draco and Harry.
"That's what we thought." Lisa said, standing up with the box in her hands. "Now put your Princess Sophias away, and help us with these boxes are heavy."
As the girls walked away McGonagall stopped them before they could get very far "Girls you are also supposed to report to the hospital wing immediately. Madame Pomfrey would like to ask you some questions about what happened yesterday in Professor Snape's office, and to see how your feeling." she said
"Okay" Heather said. "We'll see her after we drop these boxes off in the common room."
"What happened yesterday in Snape's office?" Asked Draco
**** Heather, Danie, and Lisa all arrived a few minutes later in the hospital wing, followed by Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco, who wouldn't let them go without them. They assumed Heather was there because of the vision she saw, and that Danie was there because of what she found out about her mother. Lisa was there because the girls seemed to be inseparable.
"I see your finally here." said Madame Pomfrey.
All three girls looked at her, Snape and Dumbledore who were looking back at them.
"Well, sit down" she said looking at the three.
"What do you want us for?" asked Lisa.
"Eleanor, your mother was found in the shrieking shack." Pomfrey started carefully.
"Is she alright?" Danie asked.
"I told you she would be there." Heather said.
"You-know-who had left her." Pomfrey continued, ignoring Heather. "I'm so sorry my dear. She was dead when they found her."
A collective gasp came quietly from the fan club behind the three. The girls sat there, staring back at the woman in front of them, dumbfounded.
"Danie? Are you alright?" Asked Hermione. Danie didn't answer.
Heather was moving her lips but only a soft squeaking sound came out.
"Heather?" Draco asked, moving around to kneel in front of her. "What are you saying?"
"It's... fault" was all they could hear.
"What?" asked Draco again, trying to look into her eyes, but Heather stood up.
"It's my fault!" Heather shouted. "It's all because of me!"
"No, it's not." Hermione said.
"YES IT IS!" Heather shouted even louder. "Don't you see? I saw the first vision in Charms! I didn't tell anyone! Then it took me forever to realize who it was, and then I resisted against going to see Snape! I should've, she'd be, she was trying, he was furious, she knew I was there, she saw me, I was too weak, I was her last hope, it's my fault, she's dead and it's my fault!" Heather screamed at them, tears streaming down her face. "I'm so sorry Danielle." She said, then turned and ran out of the room.
Draco started to head for the door.
"No." Dumbledore had finally spoken up. "She needs some time alone my dear boy. Right now she absolutely will not give up the notion that it's her fault, it's her way of grieving."
"But-"
"No buts. I know you care very much about her, but I think what she needs is family. I'll talk to her later."
"You're family?"
"Yes. I do believe that she did not tell anyone so that the students would not treat her any differently. But at the moment I'm sorry to say, my great- niece is not the priority. Eleanor here is." Dumbledore said, sounding exhausted.
Danie suddenly looked up.
"Stop calling me that." She said viciously.
"It's your name." Snape shot back.
"No it's not." Danie replied.
"You are my daughter and-"
"No I'm not." Danie stood up and walked out of the room, arms crossed, looking at the floor.
Lisa sat there, looking from Snape to the door.
"She didn't mean that, Professor." Lisa said. "She's just mad that you never let her meet her mother before she died. And Professor Dumbledore, I'm sorry but I think you're dead wrong. I've known Heather for a long time, the last thing she needs in a situation like this is to be left alone. Draco, go find her. I'll go find Danie."
Draco and Lisa jogged out of the room, down the stairs and into the main hallway.
"I'll try the astronomy tower, that's where she was last time and-" Draco started.
"No. She'll try to go somewhere that no one will find her. Try Moaning Myrtle's bathroom - come on, it's just a bathroom - and the owlry and the grounds near the forbidden forest." Lisa said, counting off as many places she could think of that didn't normally have many people. "I'm going to try the Gryffindor and Slytherin common rooms and the Astronomy tower. Be prepared, Heather can go off the deep end sometimes!"
Draco's eyes went wide at the thought of Heather committing suicide or something, and took off in the direction of Moaning Myrtle's bathroom as Lisa headed for Gryffindor house.
"I just hope you're not too late." Lisa mumbled as she ran.
"What are you doing?" Lisa asked, looking over Harry's shoulder.
"Nothing." Hermione said quickly, fixing her hair and straightening her robes. "Nothing, more than Heather and Draco anyway."
"What?" Heather had appeared at the top of the stairs. "Where were you when that happened?"
"Just outside the door." Ron said, groaning as he got off the floor. "We heard Pansy scream at you and you ran right by us."
"Sorry, I didn't see you," Heather said sitting down. "My head was swimming. My head still is swimming actually."
"Awww," the chorus came from both Lisa and Hermione.
"Awww, yourselves."
"Excuse me!" Danie had appeared at the top of the stairs. "Some of us are trying to sleep -" Then she noticed Ron and Hermione siting on the bed, both still looking a little ruffled. "In more than one way. I'll be right back."
Danie walked out of the room, and then came back a few minutes later carrying little sealed packages. She handed one to Ron, who looked at it, turned bright red, and dropped it on the bed.
"Ron, Hermione. A physical relationship can be very pleasing to both partners. However, it is a good idea to use protection when engaging in such activities." Danie said. Then she handed one to Harry, who just stared at it. "You should also consider the consequences before beginning a physical relationship. I can't believe I just said that but..."
"Don't you think you're moving just a little too fast?" asked Heather.
"That's what they all say." Danie said. Then she handed one to Heather. "In case you meet a cute guy."
"I have a cute guy, and I have my own stash of these, I really don't need this." Heather said, handing it back.
Lisa grabbed the one out of Harry's hands, and handed it to Danie. "Yah, same here. You don't have to worry about us Danie, we took the same classes as you did."
Harry was gaping at Lisa.
"I don't sleep around, so don't get any ideas." Lisa said to him. "It's just that the teacher handed out quite a few."
"Maybe we should go." Hermione had finally found her voice.
"Yah," Heather agreed. "People are going to start coming up here soon. It's almost 8:30."
Just then Dean came walking into the room. Danie handed him one of the packages, and he looked at it before handing it back.
"I can get those when I go home for Christmas!" Dean called over his shoulder as he walked away.
Ron's ears turned redder than they were before.
"What's that supposed to mean?" He called after him. "If I find out you're trying to corrupt my little sister I'll..."
"I'll what?" Danie called, walking out of the door. "You're a little occupied with Hermione! DEAN! RUN!"
"Uh, Danie, you may also want to run." Heather said, pointing at Hermione who'd gotten a murderous look on her face.
"Anyone willing to hurt me, there's a scary potions teacher downstairs who's willing to kill you in return."
The girls left the guys alone to fight, but only after Danie called back into the dorm,
****
The next morning was no where near as eventful as the past night. Danie sat sitting counting ceiling tiles again, but quite more gloomily than the first time.
"This is pointless." Danie said. Then she pulled out one of the packages from her pocket and looked at it. "You know, I really should put this to good use, before it's expiry date." she said, tonelessly, as if she didn't care much.
Hermione spit out her coffee. Heather was barely paying attention. Lisa got up and put her arm around her friend, and Harry and Ron's jaws had dropped to the floor.
"I like your thinking!" Lisa said as she sat down. "Let's go get the guys and fill these up!"
Lisa grabbed Danie's hand and dragged Danie up to the boys' dormitory.
Heather seemed to wake up at just that moment. "Huh, what? Wait a minute, wait for me!" and she stood up to run out of the room, then noticed that Harry, Ron and Hermione were still sitting in front of the fireplace.
"Water balloons on the Slytherins! Try and keep up!" Heather said, and ran out of the room.
"Oh!" Harry said. "Wait up!" And he followed them out of the common room, Hermione and Ron hand in hand behind him.
****
After they had filled and loaded a box of slimy water balloon bombs they went and perched themselves on one of the balconies that over look the entrance hall.
"Bomber one has seen her target. Do I have green light to drop bomb?" remarked Danie.
"Green light granted" replied Heather.
"Bomb's away" Said Danie as she released the first order of mayhem.
"Argh!" Shouted Snape as the slimy bomb landed on his equally greasy head.
"Sorry!" Shouted Danie.
"Wasn't me!" Remarked Lisa.
"Don't blame me" Said Heather.
"What are you doing?" Snape shouted at his daughter and her friends.
"Waiting for Crabbe and Goyle" Danie replied thinking fast "They where flirting with me at the dance last night."
Snape then stormed away quickly returning with two very confused People- Crabbe and Goyle. "Here you go" He said, "Bomb's away."
"Target practice!" exclaimed Ron as every started throwing slimy water bombs and dungbombs at Crabbe and Goyle, who appeared to be glued to the spot.
"Snape must be standing there, making sure that they don't move." Draco said to Heather
"I thought they were your best friends!" exclaimed Heather. "Why are you having so much fun with this?"
"They've been trying to push me out ever since Pansy told all of Slytherin house that I'm dating you." Draco replied, chucking a balloon that hit Crabbe square in the face."
"Well isn't that nice."
A minute later after the fun had begun; Professor McGonagall came hurrying down the stairs towards them. "What are you doing!" She exclaimed.
"Throwing water balloons at Crabbe and Goyle" Replied Hermione.
"Why on heavens would you do that for?" McGonagall questioned.
Because my daddy said we could" Danie replied sweetly.
"And why would he do that?" McGonagall asked.
"Because they where flirting with me a the dance last night." Danie said.
"What at time to become an overprotective father" McGonagall grumbled as she headed towards the dungeons.
****
McGonagall returned a few minutes later with Snape on her heels.
"Eleanor" Snape began " I was wrong, you can stop now."
Lisa and Heather winced and tried to confine giggles.
"Okay" Danie replied as the girls bent over to pick up some of the boxes, showing cleavage as they did so.
"Umm... Eleanor I think you might need um...new... ere... undergarments" Snape said as he motioned to his own chest.
"What's the matter... don't you like it?" replied Danie standing up and pulling down her shirt a little. Heather and Lisa did the same.
"Don't do that" Draco snapped quickly.
"Why not?" Heather asked him, turning around and bending over to pick up the box behind her, her low-rise jeans sliding down just a little as she did so.
"Uh, umm," Stammered Draco and Harry.
"That's what we thought." Lisa said, standing up with the box in her hands. "Now put your Princess Sophias away, and help us with these boxes are heavy."
As the girls walked away McGonagall stopped them before they could get very far "Girls you are also supposed to report to the hospital wing immediately. Madame Pomfrey would like to ask you some questions about what happened yesterday in Professor Snape's office, and to see how your feeling." she said
"Okay" Heather said. "We'll see her after we drop these boxes off in the common room."
"What happened yesterday in Snape's office?" Asked Draco
**** Heather, Danie, and Lisa all arrived a few minutes later in the hospital wing, followed by Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco, who wouldn't let them go without them. They assumed Heather was there because of the vision she saw, and that Danie was there because of what she found out about her mother. Lisa was there because the girls seemed to be inseparable.
"I see your finally here." said Madame Pomfrey.
All three girls looked at her, Snape and Dumbledore who were looking back at them.
"Well, sit down" she said looking at the three.
"What do you want us for?" asked Lisa.
"Eleanor, your mother was found in the shrieking shack." Pomfrey started carefully.
"Is she alright?" Danie asked.
"I told you she would be there." Heather said.
"You-know-who had left her." Pomfrey continued, ignoring Heather. "I'm so sorry my dear. She was dead when they found her."
A collective gasp came quietly from the fan club behind the three. The girls sat there, staring back at the woman in front of them, dumbfounded.
"Danie? Are you alright?" Asked Hermione. Danie didn't answer.
Heather was moving her lips but only a soft squeaking sound came out.
"Heather?" Draco asked, moving around to kneel in front of her. "What are you saying?"
"It's... fault" was all they could hear.
"What?" asked Draco again, trying to look into her eyes, but Heather stood up.
"It's my fault!" Heather shouted. "It's all because of me!"
"No, it's not." Hermione said.
"YES IT IS!" Heather shouted even louder. "Don't you see? I saw the first vision in Charms! I didn't tell anyone! Then it took me forever to realize who it was, and then I resisted against going to see Snape! I should've, she'd be, she was trying, he was furious, she knew I was there, she saw me, I was too weak, I was her last hope, it's my fault, she's dead and it's my fault!" Heather screamed at them, tears streaming down her face. "I'm so sorry Danielle." She said, then turned and ran out of the room.
Draco started to head for the door.
"No." Dumbledore had finally spoken up. "She needs some time alone my dear boy. Right now she absolutely will not give up the notion that it's her fault, it's her way of grieving."
"But-"
"No buts. I know you care very much about her, but I think what she needs is family. I'll talk to her later."
"You're family?"
"Yes. I do believe that she did not tell anyone so that the students would not treat her any differently. But at the moment I'm sorry to say, my great- niece is not the priority. Eleanor here is." Dumbledore said, sounding exhausted.
Danie suddenly looked up.
"Stop calling me that." She said viciously.
"It's your name." Snape shot back.
"No it's not." Danie replied.
"You are my daughter and-"
"No I'm not." Danie stood up and walked out of the room, arms crossed, looking at the floor.
Lisa sat there, looking from Snape to the door.
"She didn't mean that, Professor." Lisa said. "She's just mad that you never let her meet her mother before she died. And Professor Dumbledore, I'm sorry but I think you're dead wrong. I've known Heather for a long time, the last thing she needs in a situation like this is to be left alone. Draco, go find her. I'll go find Danie."
Draco and Lisa jogged out of the room, down the stairs and into the main hallway.
"I'll try the astronomy tower, that's where she was last time and-" Draco started.
"No. She'll try to go somewhere that no one will find her. Try Moaning Myrtle's bathroom - come on, it's just a bathroom - and the owlry and the grounds near the forbidden forest." Lisa said, counting off as many places she could think of that didn't normally have many people. "I'm going to try the Gryffindor and Slytherin common rooms and the Astronomy tower. Be prepared, Heather can go off the deep end sometimes!"
Draco's eyes went wide at the thought of Heather committing suicide or something, and took off in the direction of Moaning Myrtle's bathroom as Lisa headed for Gryffindor house.
"I just hope you're not too late." Lisa mumbled as she ran.