Title – Completely Different
Author – Akasha (crazygirl8639467aol.com)
Pairing(s) – It's up to you.
Disclaimer – Alas I own nothing, least of all the rights to the characters of this story.
Rating – R
Summary – And so starts your sixth year at Hogwarts, with a vow to become something more than 'just your average student' your sure that this will be your most exciting year yet. What secrets will you uncover and what adventures will you get yourself into? You decide in this interactive story.
"And now for something completely different" this is my attempt at a different concept for storytelling. You all remember those 'Pick You Own Ending' stories? Well this is the same principle. I'll write the story, you (the reviewers) pick the ending and the story will continue from what you decide. Sound fun? We'll see.
Categories – drama/humour
Feedback – Kind of vital for this fiction.
A/N – You chose A which means you are now a fully fledged member of Slytherin house!
You walk towards the Slytherin table; you eyes linger on Draco Malfoy long enough for Caretta to raise an eyebrow questioningly. You shrug it off. You sit down close to the end that's nearest to the teachers table. Some boys you know have saved you a seat.
You warm inside at the knowledge.
You know you're not faint-in-my-wake gorgeous, but you also know you're pretty, to add to that fact you know there are several boys who would go out of their way to go on a date with you.
Unfortunately non of these boys are quite what you're looking for in a boyfriend.
The first years arrive and Professor McGonagall starts the sorting. You watch with a minimal interest, dividing your attention between searching out the school's future 'Harry Potter' and 'Draco Malfoy'. You decide non of them deserve those titles but you see the future Caretta. Sorted into Hufflepuff and biting her nails anxiously.
You let out a snort of laughter and most of the table turn to look at you.
You blush crimson and chance a look to see if Draco Malfoy noticed.
No such luck.
One of the boys' stomach growls.
You sigh heavily and you notice Caretta querying it. Then she nods knowingly, you straighten from your slouching position instantaneously and give her your most desperate 'what-do-you-think-you-know' look. Caretta grins and raises and eyebrow in Draco Malfoy's general direction.
You shake your head.
It wouldn't do for her to know you had a little crush would it?
Shrugging she turns to her empty plate.
A tapping glass is the next thing to catch your attention, you look up to see Professor Dumbledore preparing to give his speech. For a fleeting moment you have the absurd notion that the Headmaster has dentures in, but before you can convey your insanity to your friend there is food on the table and everyone is eating.
You start to wonder about your habits of 'zoning out' as Professor Snape calls it.
When you snap out of it again you notice you're looking directly at Professor Snape who is glaring questioningly at you, you look away quickly.
"Professor Snape, again?" Caretta asks, eating her dinner with a poise and precision you slightly envy.
"No" you choke out, forcefully. Placing some potatoes onto your plate.
"You," Caretta takes a bite of her dinner "would fancy a Hippogriff if it threw an insult at somebody".
Thinking that, that may be an overstatement you shrug and decide to relax remembering your new mantra for the year,
"It would have to be a good insult", you say smoothly. Caretta giggled and some of the boys around you laugh too. You try not to look to impressed that you just made everybody laugh and you turn your attention back to your food.
This time it is the sound of somebody calling your name that catches your attention. Looking around you raise an eyebrow at the fact that nobody is even looking at you.
You decide to fix your hair for good measure.
When your plate is empty you scan the table to see if you're the first one to finish, it turns out that most people are on desert already. 'How did that happen?' you ask yourself.
There goes somebody calling your name again, irritated you start to wonder if anybody else in Hogwarts has your name. It's possible but the hairs standing up on the back of your neck indicate that somewhere in the hall, somebody is indeed watching you.
You see Draco stand up, subtly shooting daggers into Pansy Parkinson's back you turn away just in time to miss Draco push the pug-face girl away. You are still pouting twenty minutes later when Caretta and Mizhelle ('when did she show up', you wonder) decide it is time to go back to the common room. You decide to follow like a good little friend.
You make your way in through the portrait carefully filing away the new password in your mind for future reference. Shockingly, stood in the middle of the common room is Professor Snape. You stop short as do Caretta and Mizhelle and you quickly asses the situation. Snape is standing against the wall and Draco Malfoy is standing in front of him.
If you had less self-control you think you'd be drooling about now.
The two men look at you and you merely raise and eyebrow.
'I'd like to thank the academy' you start reciting in your head, your stomach's doing flip-flops. You may be a good actor but you're pretty sure anymore of this and you may throw up from the excitement.
Professor Snape calls your name.
"Sir?" you reply politely, after he just looks slightly irritated you realise that it was as a greeting. Not a question. Nodding to hopefully indicate your finality on the word (it doesn't – you just appear foolish, a fact that Caretta has no qualms in telling you later that night).
You grab Caretta's hand and make your way up to your dorm.
Mizhelle follows.
When you walk in you see that Caretta's cat has made itself much at home on your bed. You walk over and sit down, and tickle the cat's ears reluctantly. It purrs and rubs its head against your hand.
"So" Caretta attempts to start a conversation, "I heard you blew up another com-pew-ta" she aims at you, you smirk and shake you head,
"Does you father tell you everything that happens at the Ministry?" you ask,
"Only the things that involve my best friend" she smiles warmly and you resist the urge to throw a smirk at Mizhelle who's sitting in-between yours and Caretta's beds because hers is on the other side of the room.
"Yeah, if you brought a computer system into Hogwarts and hooked it up to Windows XP I'm sure they'd all be blown up before the end of a day" you sigh, remembering many a time when you were just happily surfing the internet and your computer decided to jam up. It took you forever to re-find the site you were on.
When your names called, you look at Caretta who is looking worried. You realise your glaring angrily into space.
"Maybe they should just ban com-pew-ta'rs" she suggests, her lips quirking slightly.
You laugh.
The rest of the night just consisted of you and the girls catching up. You were soon joined by Felicity your other roommate. She never really speaks to any of you, she is always smiling and you like her well enough – but she always seems to disappear after the first week and you never see her.
It's hard to bond with somebody as a friend if that person isn't around.
It was around midnight when you all fell asleep. You were happily dreaming of talking dolphins and evil cheese slices dancing merrily in the breeze when you wore up suddenly in a cold sweat.
Sitting up in bed you couldn't for the life of you remember why you woke up so suddenly. Lying back you face the awful notion that after a mere three hours of sleep (it was now 3am) you were no longer tired.
Sighing heavily you decide you have three options.
a) You can lie in bed and read until it's time to go to breakfast,
b) Realising that you're actually rather hungry you could wander down to the kitchens to commandeer some food and risk getting detention if you're caught by Filch
c) Or you go down to the common room and relax there for a bit, hoping in your heart of hearts that the rumours about Draco being an insomniac are true.
-Notes-
Well. What can I say? Thank you for the reviews – I'm kind of glad Slytherin would win out although I had expected some competition on the Gryfindor front. Slytherin actually won 3/1.
Slytherin's GoldenYouku – Your choice won, yey Slytherin! Well, I have to agree you are a bit of a rebel aren't you? Hehe. What will you do though – I mean not sleeping is a terrible thing to happen. You could...cough....read?!
Zanzibar Wowwie – and visit Draco you did. I hope you realise what you're getting yourself into with that boy young lady!
princessangel-star – I understand your logic, I mean gags who would talk about homework? Silly house! Sorry Gryfindor didn't win, that would have been fun to write, possibly easier to find adventures. But hey we can't win all the time – maybe your vote will win this time hopeful that you'll still read and vote
Wyccegurl – yours was a very encouraging review (and being my first I'm very thankful to you). I've never been fond of writing second person but my English teacher insists that I have to broaden my writing boundaries and try out different view points, tenses and things like that. This is mainly an experiment that I'm glad is going well. Hope you keep reading.
And with that I leave you, please review and vote for the choice you want to win. I want to hear your views on...well...yourself and if there's anything you'd like me to change, please tell me!
In your review please state CLEARLY the letter of the option you would like to see win.
Thanks and see you next chapter..
-- Akasha xxx
PS ooohhhh, I wonder what will happen!