First Try, Second Chance
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter blah blah you know the deal
"Angel wake up!" Something was battering her head and making her ears pound.
"Leave me alone, I wanna sleep!" She protested feebley and waved her arms around trying to smack Liana, who responded by pulling back her covers and exposing Angel's bunny patterned pjs. The sudden loss of warmth caused Liana to open her green eyes onto Liana peering over her.
"AAAHHH!!! Don't scare me like that!" Angel jumped, or did the equivalent of a jump on her bed and ended up half falling over the side.
"Yeah I think I will, you're up now and it was fun. Get dressed!" Liana shoved Angels robes at her and went away to do something. Angel mumbled about not being a morning person but pulled on her clothes. Rolling out of bed, she used the nearest post to pull herself into standing position. Still tottering she went to the dormitory bathroom where she saw Sareeka also looking half dead trying to pull a brush through her short dark hair. Only Liana really had any normal amount of energy she was wandering around passing girls things they were too tired to get themselves. Once Angel had washed her face, pulled her hair back, and put some food in the bowl for her bunny named Hamster she headed towards the door with Liana, Sareeka, and Elayne Hoover. Just as they reached the bottom of the staircase though Liana hesitated.
"Um I'll be right back I forgot my Charms book" She ducked back up the stairs before Angel could protest but Sareeka pulled her down the last few steps and across the common room. She didn't protest the extra help moving though. About halfway down to the common room they met up with an equally tired Evan and a freakishly Liana like awake Craig.
"Ahhhh" he gloated at them while stretching his arms lazily "That was a wonderful nights sleep wasn't it? I feel soooooo rested and alive! I could just run-OW!" His sentence ended in a swift smack from Elayne followed by sleepy cheers from the others.
The half alive mood seemed to be true for most people in the Great Hall as well, but of course there were the occasional morning people like Liana and Craig. Angel was attempting to lift her fork of eggs to her mouth and not run over and murder the batch of annoying giggling Gryffindors. The Gryffindors and the Ravenclaws hated each other, it was simple as that.
"Why can't they just shut up for once, being that annoying should be a sin" Liana's voice startled her as the short blonde girl slid into the seat next to her brandishing the Charms book, "I picked up our timetables, it turns out we have Charms first anyways!"
You know what else should be a sin?" Evan mumbled through some toast.
"Will you ever listen to me when I tell you to not eat with your mouth closed?"
"What are you my mother?"
"Apparently I have to be. Now what were you saying?"
Evan was careful to swallow first "I was going to say cheeriness in the morning should be a sin but I think I'll change that to incessant mothering."
Liana laughed and then threw an orange rind at his head "Would your mother do that?" But Evan didn't get a chance to retort because everyone just burst out laughing. As they shoveled food down their throats energy began to return to their limbs and brains. By the time the loud chime rang out clearly through the air for classes to start they were reasonably awake by the time they entered the Charms classroom. Professor Flitwick welcomed them warmly from behind the desk that he barely peeked over. They were all settled and awaiting their instructions from Flitwick when there was a loud knocking at the door. Nick Graham opened it tentatively and jumped back when he opened it to reveal the pink haired girl; Kira, Angel thought her name was.
"Sorry I'm late I only woke up a little while ago" She said it somewhat loudly and defiantly and Angel noticed that she spoke with the strange accent of what sounded like an American. The girl sat down near the back, away from everyone but Angel could swear she gave Liana a glance. Putting it from her mind she concentrated on the Hologram Charm that Flitwick was teaching them. The object was to create an image that you controlled with your mind on your wand. It was difficult and most people couldn't create more than a wisp of what looked like colored fog.
"Hollus!" Liana was chanting resolutely and getting the best results of all of them, hers being a small white ball that lasted a few seconds. Angel looked around to see how the others were doing and noticed that nobody was doing any better than her. Evan was constantly producing jets of black flame, Elayne was trying to stop large bubbles coming out of her wand and everyone else just got bits of fog like her.
"Hollus!" Angel flicked her wand like she was supposed to and watched the intensely blue spurt of fog flicker and die. And by the end of the class nobody had gotten any better although Evan had progressed from fire to smoke.
"It's fine its fine it is a very complex charm and most people don't get it the first time and you all have done well. But practise for next class" Flitwick squeeked.
Herbology didn't go much better, they were trimming the buds off Barking Begonias and Professor Knight didn't warn them to wear their gloves. Everybody had bites by the end of class. In fact most of the day was a disaster which their teachers blamed on a long summer of no studying. The only thing they managed to scrape by was fighting off Redcaps in Defense Against the Dark Arts.
"Aren't we supposed to be smart when we're in Ravenclaw?" Craig wondered aloud.
"Well then maybe we should be glad that we didn't have to watch the Hufflepuffs in Charms." Liana pointed out a row of Hufflepuffs with singed faces and robes. The Hufflepuffs were their friends, but they were also generally on good terms with the Gryffindors. Angel had decided it was after all in their nature to be fair and nice and all that jazz.
After lunch they had as always a rather subdued History of Magic Class and everyone (even Liana) slowed to a stupor over a long double period about the history of the Society of the Reformation of Hags. Once supper rolled around they were all relieved to have only Hologram Charms and a page summary of Barking Begonias for homework. About halfway through dessert Hunter Gilmore, the Ravenclaw Quidditch captain, came over to talk to Angel.
"Angel you have to come to the new beater tryouts on Friday now that we lost Kristina and Dennis." It wasn't really a request, it was an order.
"Yeah yeah I'll be there as long as I don't have too much homework and even then I can get Liana to do it."
"Hey! You have the whole weekend!"
"Yeah but you still get it done faster."
"And we're going to have practice!" Hunter piped up, "I want to get the Cup back from the Gryffindors this year!
"You bet, let's put them through their paces this year!"
"That's the spirit I want" Hunter nodded and then flitted away to find the other team members.
Liana laughed loudly "He's crazy you know that right?"
"Of course I do" she said matter of factly, "Remember last year when he insisted we do four laps around the school chasing birds every practice"
" Ah that was great you were so tired you couldn't make fun of me for once!" Evan cut in.
Angel snorted "Yeah well too bad for you the teachers noticed when Michael Coltrane fell down the stairs while he was asleep and didn't notice. Evan started mumbling about little idiots and pilled more cake onto his plate.
Nighttime found everyone in the common room practicing the Hologram Charms in the common room. With Liana's help they had all gotten to the white ball stage and Liana, Sareeka, and Craig could change the color of theirs. Everyone retired to their dormitories early after a long day and the prospect of more ahead.
Angel was yawning loudly by the time she had undressed and snuggled into bed next to Hamster and fell asleep almost instantly.
It was sometime in the small hours of the morning that Angel woke up. There was some sort of strange light dancing over her face through the crack in her blue curtains. Sleepily she sat up and rubbed her eyes. Angel slid her hand through the crack and slowly drew the curtain back. She was surprised and awed by what she saw. Lying on her bed next to her was Kira still fully dressed and apparently fully awake staring intently at her wand that she was holding point up. The shimmering light was coming from a shining long stemmed rose with petals of a deep sky blue growing from her wand. Angel recognized it as a Hologram Charm but the full extent of it was almost shocking. She had the details down to the curl of each petal and the small but potent thorns on the stem. There were two leaves spreading like little wings from the stem and small dewdrops glittered in the light of the hologram.
"That's beautiful!" Angel said before she could stop herself. The girl's concentration was immediately broken and the rose disappeared leaving them both in darkness. She mumbled something but Angel couldn't hear it, "Sorry I didn't mean to startle you…goodnight I guess"
"Um yeah whatever night." The girl replied and Angel heard the familiar click of closing curtains. Just as she was drifting back to sleep she though, why didn't she do that in class?
A/N: Ok well yeah I don't really have much to say about this one except you will see more of Kira eventually considering she is the main character. I did come up with the Hologram Charm thing myself so I'm proud of that and that's all I can think of to say right now. REVIEW!!