Chapter 6: Homework, Hogsmeade and Hairdos

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Eveline woke up the next morning at about 9. Hermione was gone, probably to take a shower or maybe get breakfast. I wonder what would be the best way to wake up Ginny. I bet she's a really deep sleeper. Hmm. Eveline whacked Ginny near the stomach with her pillow; Ginny just rolled over and murmured. "Jeez, woman!" exclaimed Eveline, and then she decided to clap her hands right in front of Ginny's face. It worked well, Ginny shot up in her bed and exclaimed "Whuzzat?! What's going on?" Eveline burst out laughing and Ginny attacked her with her pillow.

"Well, I'm glad I finally got you to wake up. Let's wash up and then get some breakfast. Mmmm, breakfast!" said Eveline.

"You sure are excited." Ginny said, while they were walking to the washroom.

"Breakfast food is my favorite type of food. I'm going to pop into the shower."

"I hate showering in the morning. Just teeth brushing and face cleaning for me." Said Ginny

"Gross…I love being clean and relaxed yet invigorated by hot water."

"Oh, I'm clean…I just like to bathe at night."

"I take a bath every night too." Said Eveline.

"You must be anal retentive."

"Excuse me, it's relaxing."

After their hygiene talk Ginny and Eveline went to get dressed. Ginny put on a pair of jeans that flared out because a rust orange piece of triangular cloth was sewn into them at about mid-calf and the stitching was red detail. "Cool jeans, I don't feel like wearing my fancy skirt, can I just have a pair of jeans to wear with my shirt?"

" Sure, though they'll probably be way too long." Said Ginny.

"Way to rub the long pretty legs in my face." Laughed Eveline.

"Please, you're gorgeous and you must know it."

"I wouldn't say gorgeous at all. Man, the fact that your pants fit on my stomach makes up for the fact that they're too long. I take it you like your pants on your hips too…and that your hips are freakin' tiny."

"Yep, I'm tall and slim with no change in texture or anything. What an interesting figure." Said Ginny.

"Alright, I've decided something" Said Eveline, she had suddenly remembered Dumbledore's encouraging words. "We both know we're pretty, intelligent and we have 10x the personality or any airhead Barbie look alike. So we should try and eliminate these doubts that we have, qualms with appearance don't matter. No one is perfect."

"Well, I feel like I've stumbled inside muggle T.V." Said Ginny. " But I think you're right. By the way, there aren't that many Barbie look alikes in Hogwarts, well, none in Gryffindor. Slytherin is slightly different. But you'll meet the uber posh Lavendar Brown and Patil sisters and they're both in Gryffindor."

"Sounds fun." Said Eveline, voice dripping with sarcasm I haven't really been thinking about the houses. I'm going to be assigned a house to live in; or near at least, and I'm going to have classes with a certain type of person. I've been so preoccupied with brushing up in transfiguration I haven't really looked at 'Hogwarts: A History'…Tonight I definitely will. "Anyway, after breakfast I thought we'd go back to my room so I could put my stuff back and change and then explore Hogsmeade since I've never been."

"That's perfect. Anything to get my pants back faster…plus we can go to my favorite clothes store." Said Ginny, she seemed to have something else on her mind "It's kind of odd…but it's a great place and all my clothes technically come from there." I wonder if Eveline is rich. She doesn't have any possessions other than her curtains and bedding and other things Dumbledore probably conjured for her and her clothes. I wonder how she'll react to the horribly cheap old witch's clothes. I suppose she'll find out some way that I'm poor; I might as well buy fabric for next year while I she does.

"Brilliant" Said Eveline, I wonder why this place is such a mystery, I'll find out eventually so I won't press Ginny. Then she began to clap her hands and bop "Breeeakfast, aren't you excited?"

"You're insane. How can you be so energetic in the morning?" said Ginny. But I am excited…only in a slightly less manic way. Breakfast is usually the first time in the day I get to see Harry. I hope we haven't missed them already.

As it turns out, they hadn't missed Harry. He, Hermione and Ron were sitting with Fred and George, who were updating their "investor" and his friends on their joke shop. Ginny smiled and thought about how her day had gotten off on the right foot as she greeted everyone. Eveline merely sat down quietly and greeted Hermione, the only one of them who wasn't involved in conversation because she was rapt with her newspaper.

"So, Har, guess what!" Said George while heaping sausage onto his plate.

"I'm the best seeker in the world. Come on, what is it?"

"We've turned enough shiny coin profit to pay you back in full." Said Fred.

"Yeah, the joke shop we started with it has been swamped with kids the past six months, it's brilliant, Harry my lad." Continued George.

"How much money did Harry lend your brothers, and how?" asked Eveline.

"Oh, well back in his fourth year Harry won the Triwizarding tournament and his parents were rich, I'm guessing you know at least the reason why Harry was famous at almost birth." Said Ginny.

"Yeah, I know his basic story."

"Well anyway, Harry just gave the Triwizard prize money to my brothers."

"But isn't that competition dangerous and only open to older students? It always has been. How did Harry enter?"

"An ally of Voldemort masquerading as Mad Eye Moody entered him as the only student in a school." Said Hermione, looking up from her paper and at Eveline.

All Eveline could think to say was "Oh." She was deeply sympathetic to Harry; in addition to losing her parents to Voldemort like herself he also had fought him and was actively pursued by him. Eveline snapped back to breakfast as George got up from his seat and exclaimed "But Harry, you have to let us pay you back."

"Oh, no I don't. I don't need the money. There's no point in paying it back." Fred was about to start protesting when Harry said "Listen, if I ever fall on hard times just know I'll probably ask you for it or something. But please, don't worry about it."

"Fine Harry, someday maybe we'll force it on you." Said George, he was about to sit down when he saw Eveline.

"Why he-llo." He said. George looked over, grinned and said "Hello hello, and good morning. We're Fred and George Weasley, myself being George. We run a joke shop on Diagon Alley, pleased to make your acquaintance…"

"Eveline." Just then George shook her hand and slipped a piece of chocolate in her hand. Two joke shop owners, hmm? And they seriously think I'm going to try this anonymous candy. "Er, no thanks, I don't eat chocolate with breakfast." Said Eveline and then she helped herself to the edible food. Fred whispered to Harry and Ron "Right clever girl, we just made a new line of joke candies involving color changing faces."

Harry smiled; I'm not surprised that she's not easily fooled. She may be small, but she doesn't seem naïve. "Good morning Ginny and Eveline." Said Harry. Ron got that stupid hunter on the prowl look on his face and said " Hi girls." Eveline responded by saying "Oh, don't even start Ronnie."

Harry snickered and then asked, "So, what are the two of you going to be doing today?"

"Well, Ginny thought it would be fun to visit Hogsmeade and do a little pre school year shopping trip. After that I have to work on some work the Professors gave me to evaluate my skills and I have to practice on the piano I moved into my room recently." Said Eveline.

"Sounds like a great day." Said Harry. Ron must've realized Harry was doing all the talking and began a long description of the day Ron had planned, which was basically four man quidditch, lunch, more quiddtich, a huge dinner and then some cramming by the fireside in the common room.

"Anyway," Said Ginny rather abruptly, "Hermione, what are you doing today? You can come with us if you want."

"Thanks, Ginny." Said Hermione. "But I have to get going to the library, this year is a key year that decides who will be Head Boy and Girl of the school. I'm actually done with breakfast so I'll see all of you at dinner at least. Bye!"

"Wow." Said Eveline.

"I guess we should get going too." Said Ginny.

"Hang on, I want one waffle and some...toast." Eveline concluded, after surveying the table.

"Pig" said Ginny.

"Oh shut up" Said Eveline, lightheartedly before she quickly ate the other half of the waffle and then ran off with some bacon. "Bye Harry, Ron. It was nice to meet you, Fred and George."

"Bye guys." Said Ginny. The boys said their goodbyes and then the day at Hogwarts began.

Meanwhile, in southern France a man, if you could call him a man, seemed to drift out of the meditative slumber he had gone into for hours earlier. "Yess, Dumbledore knows about our covert esscapess. I ssay we move our lovely creaturesss towardsss the woods near Hogssmeade sshortly and then if all goesss according to plan we direct them to travel up in the tree cover to the Forbidden Foresst and take the battle to Dumbledore." Then he laughed a high, cruel laugh. Followers in dark cloaks and hoods moved out to England to do the Dark Lords bidding.

Eveline Morgan had almost lead two different lives, when she was younger she remembered being with her parents all the time and they had lived in many different places. They had lived in New York City, Alaska, London and a few other places Eveline doesn't quite remember. But, when she was seven years old, her parents were taken from her. She had even witnessed her own father's murder. And then she was stuck with the twins. She had to wash and mend her own clothes; they only bought her second hand school uniforms, jeans and flannel for her attire. She had to weed, water and tend four patches a year; which is how she learned most of Herbology. She had learned to make potions because she had to assist Henrietta, she learned defense against the dark arts from Dumbledore (as well as arithmancy, charms, basic history of magic and astrology) and she also watched Alabastor vigorously train in the shed, he had always been obsessed with keeping away dark menaces. Eveline often had to amuse herself with history books or would perform simple charms to make amusing things appear or dance around. Henrietta and Alabastor refused to indulged her with toys. Eveline told this to Ginny, leaving out the painful details and as briefly as possible.

Ginny felt horrible, things had been so hard for Eveline. Ginny confessed that she had also had to wear hand me down clothes and she even started to make her own, she confessed that she was poor. Of course, Eveline didn't care. Ginny was sympathetic, but there was a bright side. Eveline could make clothes with Ginny, it would be little projects that they would do. Eveline liked the idea; since sewing was the only thing she was ever left alone while she was doing, so she'd actually enjoyed it. Eveline and Ginny bought old cloaks with the intention of cutting them up. They bought a cloak with a star and moon patterns on a rich blue, different types of paisley cloaks, they also found vintage style flower patterns, and Eveline favored the ones that were art neveau.

Later they ended up joining Harry and the gang in the common room, doing homework. However, only Hermione got a lot of work done. Ginny kept going on about how much Eveline needed to do before the term and so Eveline finished listing all the charms she could successfully complete and then continued goofing around with Ginny, Harry and Ron. Eveline was happy to see that since breakfast Ron had dropped the suave act and seemed to be acting natural.

Ginny had insisted on sleeping on the top bunk of Eveline's bed. It was inside the conical turret of the tower and a good third of the circumference had been cut out and replaced with windowpanes. Just as Eveline was going to wash her hair Ginny said "Hey, Eva, remember when we were talking about how we both had to cut our own bangs and stuff? Well I was just thinking we should give each other beginning of the year haircuts."

"Great idea, Gin." Said Eveline. Eveline volunteered to cut first and cut Ginny's hair from the middle of her shoulder blades to around her collarbone. She also added layering lopping back and layering in the front starting at the top of her cheekbone, just under her eyes. The layering was gradual and it just made Ginny's red hair frame her face and the gradually flow out; it created an effect that made Ginny look like a messenger of the sun. Next, Ginny trimmed about three inches off Eveline's hair so it reached the dead center of her back. She gave Eveline straight layering in the back and then trimmed the hair around Eveline's face up to about her chin and then gradually lengthened out to join the rest of her hair. It was exactly what Eveline wanted; she loved her long hair but wanted it more styled. Ginny went to sleep giddy for the first time in a long while.