Again, long wait! I put another story up and I figured how to make quicker submissions. Shorter chapters, so I'm trying with all of my stories to make smaller chapters.
Disclaimer: Not mine
Note: I think I made up a word, but oh well. 'Fumbly'. I like that. Last chapter, it said Chapter One and that was for year one. I cleared that up better this chapter.
The Way It Should Have Been
Story Two, Chapter Two: Disaster and Worries
"Oh sweet Merlin! It's our first Lockhart class!" I squealed, my books spread in front of me, all winking and smiling. Kat snorted as she pulled her books out to.
"I wonder if he's evil like Quirrell was." Adrian whispered to Harry.
"What? How can you think that?" Adrian shrugged at me and Harry only smiled slightly.
"Feel any better Harry?" he nodded as Lockhart burst into the room, his blue robes swirling behind him. I sighed, like the rest of the girls (minus Kat).
"Good morning class! It is your first Defense Against the Dark Arts class this year and I thought I'd ask some questions to see if you've went through your books or not."
"Finally! The man thinks." Kat muttered, sitting higher in her chair as Lockhart passed the papers out. When Kat saw the questions, her face fell.
"What is it Kat?" She handed the tests to Adrian, Harry and myself and we saw what was wrong. They were questions about him. 'How wonderful! A test I should do good on!' Kat groaned. 'And a test Kat won't.'
Thirty minutes later he collected them and of course, Hermione got the best score, earning a gasp throughout the room that Kat didn't.
"That had better not have count as a grade." Harry mumbled under his breath. Neville seemed nervous for some odd reason. He kept fidgeting in his seat in front of us.
"Now that the test is over, we can resume class! I thought that we should try a nice hands-on activity." He brought out a cloaked cage and several of the students sat farther back in their chairs, including me. Kat and Adrian seemed intrigued, but when I couldn't see what it was, I didn't want to know. "I am to teach you against the foulest of all creatures!" He looked around the room, into everyone's eyes. "And I bring you..." I sat farther back and held my breath. Neville was doing the same. "the meanest, the foulest of all creatures." Harry had sat back as well. "Cornish Pixies!" Lockhart exclaimed as he whipped the cloak off.
Inside were a dozen or so blue lights with see-through wings. They had big black eyes and funny stick-like things on their heads. They spoke in high pitched voices that sounded like squeaking.
Adrian and Harry barked out laughter, before quickly covering their mouths. Kat snickered and I sat up again, breathing a lot easier.
"Is there something funny boys?"
"Oh no! It's just that I'm terrified of...pixies." Harry stammered out, trying his hardest to not laugh.
"Yes, professor, pixies are indeed the most frightening and foulest of all creatures we'll encounter." Adrian nodded. But that point, everyone knew they were being sarcastic and Lockhart looked at them disapprovingly.
"Do not mock the pixies. They can be quite the tricky little things and I'd hate it if they broke out of the cage with so much rage."
"What?" Kat proclaimed.
"Excuse me?"
"They really don't seem all that mad to me." Seamus said, sitting forward.
"They look like blue lights." Lavender added. "What do they do?"
"You know what! I have the perfect idea! Why don't I let you find out for yourselves?" Kat gasped out a feeble "No." as he opened the cage door. The pixies shot out quicker than lightning. I ducked under the desk as they attacked.
'Good going Adrian and Harry! You made them mad!' I saw paper flying everywhere from under the desk and saw a couple of the boys ducked under their desks as well. I peeked out and saw them ripping pages out of books, them spilling ink wells and making the biggest mess I'd ever seen. I saw Lockhart under his desk as well, wand less. After several moments, things had started to calm down as Kat and Hermione got some of the pixies frozen and shoved back into the cage. When the bell rang, we all made a mad dash for the door.
We had lunch next and I noticed that Adrian and Kat weren't with us. "Where'd Kat and Adrian go?"
"Lockhart made them stay and clean up I guess. Hope they don't start snogging or anything." I laughed as Harry and I sat down. "Hey I'm sorry about last night." He spoke after several moments and I shrugged.
"It's okay Harry. Adrian said you'd been having bad feelings." He nodded.
"The extra sleep helped a lot. But now I'm so backtracked on homework!"
"Don't worry. We all are." He laughed.
"I'm surprised Kat is. She's always the first one done with hers."
"I think she did it in bed. She had her curtains drawn, but I saw light coming from her bed when I woke up for a few minutes to get something to drink." He laughed again.
"Wouldn't doubt that for a second." We started eating and halfway through lunch Kat and Adrian showed up.
"I hate him." Adrian wheezed after he chugged a goblet of water.
"He made you two clean up the whole room?" Kat nodded, piling extra food onto her plate.
"I'm starving." They wolfed down their food while Harry and I sat in surprise. Kat was acting odd.
"Hey, Kat. What's wrong?" I asked and she looked up quickly, her eyes wide.
"What do you mean?"
"You just seem tense, really worked up. We haven't even been in school for a week and you're acting like it's exam time." She laughed and calmed down a lot.
"Nothing, forget it." She looked at her watch and gasped. "Hey, I have to go meet someone. I'll see you after lunch." She hurried away and Harry shook his head.
"Probably asking a teacher for more homework."
"What? She didn't finish hers last night!"
"I saw her late last night. Her curtains were drawn but there was light coming form the corners." I explained to him.
"Kat's acting weird, Neville's acting weird, Harry's freaked out. What next?" Harry snorted and threw a piece of break at Adrian and it landed in his goblet.
"Ah, Harry!" I laughed as Adrian tried to fish the bread out and for the first time, I noticed Neville wasn't at lunch. 'What is wrong with him?' Neville and I had gotten along really well the last year, both being kind of fumbly with all our classes (well Neville is doing good in Herbology, but I have yet to find my class), being over-weight and taken as not-so- bright. I felt hurt that he wasn't talking to me and instead he had gone to Kat, if that was who she was meeting.
After our last class for the day (History of Magic with Professor Binns) I questioned Kat. "Who did you meet?"
"Neville, he needed help with ..." she paused, thinking. "homework." I nodded, acting like I believed her. 'I will find out why they met.' I thought.
Later while sitting in the common room, finishing our homework from last night (Kat had done a lot of it, but not all of it) and tonight's homework I looked for Neville to talk to. He was sitting alone in a corner. I finished and went to talk to him.
"Hi Neville." I breathed out. Neville was the greatest thing, greater than Dumbledore, Merlin and Lockhart put together as far as I'm concerned. I practically worship You-know-who's defeater.
"Hi Sarah." He yawned.
"Can I sit?" He nodded and patted the ground next to him. I sat down and smiled. After a few moments of silence he talked again. "Was there something you wanted to talk about?"
"It's just...that-well...I noticed..." I fumbled. "I noticed that you've seemed edgy over the last few days and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it?" He looked up from the book he was reading and looked into my eyes. I gulped, feeling my face turn bright red and butterflies started flying.
"Thanks Sarah. It's good to know that someone cares about me." I sat there for several seconds. 'What about Kat?' "But I'm too tired to talk. How about we meet tomorrow during break?"
"No problem Neville. That's what friends are for." He nodded happily and stood up. He held his hand out to me and I took it. We smiled bashfully.
"I'm going to go to bed. I'm pretty tired from dodging those pixies. They really were scary." We laughed and I told him good night before sitting back down with the others.
"OOOHHH! Neville and Sarah." Adrian teased.
"Stop. I just wanted to see what was wrong."
"Sure." Harry nodded. Kat smiled secretly at me and winked, before ducking her head down to finish reading the page of her book.
"I'm going to bed you guys. Good night." I stood up.
"Wait. I'm tired too. I'll come up with you." Kat packed her stuff into her bag and we said night to the guys before heading to the dorms for bed.
Yeah another chapter. It was short...er than the rest. That's what I'm going for. Yeah, please review!
Disclaimer: Not mine
Note: I think I made up a word, but oh well. 'Fumbly'. I like that. Last chapter, it said Chapter One and that was for year one. I cleared that up better this chapter.
The Way It Should Have Been
Story Two, Chapter Two: Disaster and Worries
"Oh sweet Merlin! It's our first Lockhart class!" I squealed, my books spread in front of me, all winking and smiling. Kat snorted as she pulled her books out to.
"I wonder if he's evil like Quirrell was." Adrian whispered to Harry.
"What? How can you think that?" Adrian shrugged at me and Harry only smiled slightly.
"Feel any better Harry?" he nodded as Lockhart burst into the room, his blue robes swirling behind him. I sighed, like the rest of the girls (minus Kat).
"Good morning class! It is your first Defense Against the Dark Arts class this year and I thought I'd ask some questions to see if you've went through your books or not."
"Finally! The man thinks." Kat muttered, sitting higher in her chair as Lockhart passed the papers out. When Kat saw the questions, her face fell.
"What is it Kat?" She handed the tests to Adrian, Harry and myself and we saw what was wrong. They were questions about him. 'How wonderful! A test I should do good on!' Kat groaned. 'And a test Kat won't.'
Thirty minutes later he collected them and of course, Hermione got the best score, earning a gasp throughout the room that Kat didn't.
"That had better not have count as a grade." Harry mumbled under his breath. Neville seemed nervous for some odd reason. He kept fidgeting in his seat in front of us.
"Now that the test is over, we can resume class! I thought that we should try a nice hands-on activity." He brought out a cloaked cage and several of the students sat farther back in their chairs, including me. Kat and Adrian seemed intrigued, but when I couldn't see what it was, I didn't want to know. "I am to teach you against the foulest of all creatures!" He looked around the room, into everyone's eyes. "And I bring you..." I sat farther back and held my breath. Neville was doing the same. "the meanest, the foulest of all creatures." Harry had sat back as well. "Cornish Pixies!" Lockhart exclaimed as he whipped the cloak off.
Inside were a dozen or so blue lights with see-through wings. They had big black eyes and funny stick-like things on their heads. They spoke in high pitched voices that sounded like squeaking.
Adrian and Harry barked out laughter, before quickly covering their mouths. Kat snickered and I sat up again, breathing a lot easier.
"Is there something funny boys?"
"Oh no! It's just that I'm terrified of...pixies." Harry stammered out, trying his hardest to not laugh.
"Yes, professor, pixies are indeed the most frightening and foulest of all creatures we'll encounter." Adrian nodded. But that point, everyone knew they were being sarcastic and Lockhart looked at them disapprovingly.
"Do not mock the pixies. They can be quite the tricky little things and I'd hate it if they broke out of the cage with so much rage."
"What?" Kat proclaimed.
"Excuse me?"
"They really don't seem all that mad to me." Seamus said, sitting forward.
"They look like blue lights." Lavender added. "What do they do?"
"You know what! I have the perfect idea! Why don't I let you find out for yourselves?" Kat gasped out a feeble "No." as he opened the cage door. The pixies shot out quicker than lightning. I ducked under the desk as they attacked.
'Good going Adrian and Harry! You made them mad!' I saw paper flying everywhere from under the desk and saw a couple of the boys ducked under their desks as well. I peeked out and saw them ripping pages out of books, them spilling ink wells and making the biggest mess I'd ever seen. I saw Lockhart under his desk as well, wand less. After several moments, things had started to calm down as Kat and Hermione got some of the pixies frozen and shoved back into the cage. When the bell rang, we all made a mad dash for the door.
We had lunch next and I noticed that Adrian and Kat weren't with us. "Where'd Kat and Adrian go?"
"Lockhart made them stay and clean up I guess. Hope they don't start snogging or anything." I laughed as Harry and I sat down. "Hey I'm sorry about last night." He spoke after several moments and I shrugged.
"It's okay Harry. Adrian said you'd been having bad feelings." He nodded.
"The extra sleep helped a lot. But now I'm so backtracked on homework!"
"Don't worry. We all are." He laughed.
"I'm surprised Kat is. She's always the first one done with hers."
"I think she did it in bed. She had her curtains drawn, but I saw light coming from her bed when I woke up for a few minutes to get something to drink." He laughed again.
"Wouldn't doubt that for a second." We started eating and halfway through lunch Kat and Adrian showed up.
"I hate him." Adrian wheezed after he chugged a goblet of water.
"He made you two clean up the whole room?" Kat nodded, piling extra food onto her plate.
"I'm starving." They wolfed down their food while Harry and I sat in surprise. Kat was acting odd.
"Hey, Kat. What's wrong?" I asked and she looked up quickly, her eyes wide.
"What do you mean?"
"You just seem tense, really worked up. We haven't even been in school for a week and you're acting like it's exam time." She laughed and calmed down a lot.
"Nothing, forget it." She looked at her watch and gasped. "Hey, I have to go meet someone. I'll see you after lunch." She hurried away and Harry shook his head.
"Probably asking a teacher for more homework."
"What? She didn't finish hers last night!"
"I saw her late last night. Her curtains were drawn but there was light coming form the corners." I explained to him.
"Kat's acting weird, Neville's acting weird, Harry's freaked out. What next?" Harry snorted and threw a piece of break at Adrian and it landed in his goblet.
"Ah, Harry!" I laughed as Adrian tried to fish the bread out and for the first time, I noticed Neville wasn't at lunch. 'What is wrong with him?' Neville and I had gotten along really well the last year, both being kind of fumbly with all our classes (well Neville is doing good in Herbology, but I have yet to find my class), being over-weight and taken as not-so- bright. I felt hurt that he wasn't talking to me and instead he had gone to Kat, if that was who she was meeting.
After our last class for the day (History of Magic with Professor Binns) I questioned Kat. "Who did you meet?"
"Neville, he needed help with ..." she paused, thinking. "homework." I nodded, acting like I believed her. 'I will find out why they met.' I thought.
Later while sitting in the common room, finishing our homework from last night (Kat had done a lot of it, but not all of it) and tonight's homework I looked for Neville to talk to. He was sitting alone in a corner. I finished and went to talk to him.
"Hi Neville." I breathed out. Neville was the greatest thing, greater than Dumbledore, Merlin and Lockhart put together as far as I'm concerned. I practically worship You-know-who's defeater.
"Hi Sarah." He yawned.
"Can I sit?" He nodded and patted the ground next to him. I sat down and smiled. After a few moments of silence he talked again. "Was there something you wanted to talk about?"
"It's just...that-well...I noticed..." I fumbled. "I noticed that you've seemed edgy over the last few days and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it?" He looked up from the book he was reading and looked into my eyes. I gulped, feeling my face turn bright red and butterflies started flying.
"Thanks Sarah. It's good to know that someone cares about me." I sat there for several seconds. 'What about Kat?' "But I'm too tired to talk. How about we meet tomorrow during break?"
"No problem Neville. That's what friends are for." He nodded happily and stood up. He held his hand out to me and I took it. We smiled bashfully.
"I'm going to go to bed. I'm pretty tired from dodging those pixies. They really were scary." We laughed and I told him good night before sitting back down with the others.
"OOOHHH! Neville and Sarah." Adrian teased.
"Stop. I just wanted to see what was wrong."
"Sure." Harry nodded. Kat smiled secretly at me and winked, before ducking her head down to finish reading the page of her book.
"I'm going to bed you guys. Good night." I stood up.
"Wait. I'm tired too. I'll come up with you." Kat packed her stuff into her bag and we said night to the guys before heading to the dorms for bed.
Yeah another chapter. It was short...er than the rest. That's what I'm going for. Yeah, please review!