Dating Dungbombs
Review Answers:
Well, thank you for that little death threat 'evilive'. It doesn't really come along very often. And for the comment that Rachel is too mature? I'll see what I can do. :) Who I am? You're just gonna have to wait.
What happened in the last chapter?
Well ... we met our wonderful new main characters and their personality traits.
Quite smashing, really. :p
This chapter:
Lara's POV. This is what Lara is like. Freaky, huh? Ashlee and Harry hit it off. Elizabeth gets jealous. Lara hates Harry. Harry likes Lara.
Have fun reading this chapter ... and don't forget to review!
~~BlueberryOrchidz
Chapter 2 - Lara's POV - Boys Have Cooties!
It was 7:00am. Light was streaming through the windows in my dormitory. I hate
natural light. It's so happy and springy - the exact opposite of me. I was so tired, but
I couldn't sleep because I happened to get the bed right next to the window.
I got up. There was no use trying to sleep again. I got dressed into my uniform
and opened my dorm door ... and nearly tripped over the bottle of butterbeer on the
threshold. I looked down. It was wrapped in a blue ribbon. Would have looked
better in black.
I picked it up. There was a card.
Dearest Lara:
I hope you enjoy your butterbeer and the rest of your Hogwartian life with me and
everyone else.
Love,
Your Secret Admirer
I groaned. Life at school sucked already. I went back into my dorm, opened the
window, and threw the bottle out. Rachel caught me.
"Lara!" she said drowsily, obviously having too much food yesterday. Typical.
"Hey! Butterbeer!" she got up and stumbled clumsily towards the window.
Too late - the butterbeer had already flown out of the window and into the lake. It
also seemed the giant squid had gotten to it too; the squid's tentacles were flowing
around on the surface of the lake, as if it were evidence that squids should not be
givin butterbeer.
Rachel started sobbing hysterically.
"I wanted butterbeer!" she sobbed into her arms.
"It's OK ..." I comforted in a monotone.
"I reeeaaalllyyy wanted butterbeer!" Rachel cried on further.
I rolled my eyes, patted her on the back sarcastically and then went outside. I suppose that's what 20 mint humbugs does to you.
I went down to the Great Hall and decided to eat breakfast. I sat down at my Gryffindor table, just as the dude with the glasses came and sat down next to me.
"Hi." he smiled nervously. I ignored him, and cut up my bacon.
His smile faultered. "Lara?"
I continued eating, then poured myself some orange juice.
"Lara?" he repeated.
I rolled my eyes mentally and drank some of the juice.
"Did you enjoy your butterbeer?" he asked smugly, deciding that this tactic was the way to go. Guys are so dumb.
I chocked on my juice.
"Is that a yes?" he asked, grinning at me.
"Look you prick!" I shouted after I managed to start breathing again. "I don't like you! I don't like butterbeer! I don't want to do anything else now except for breathe, blink, eat, drink and digest!"
"Haha!" the guy shouted triumphantly. "You said last night that you would cut off all means of communication with me! You broke it!"
So that's where I had seen him.
"Well," I hissed, "I'm starting again NOW, Harvey!" I went back to my wonderful eggs and bacon. Harvey looked crestfallen.
"It's Harry." he whispered, then went to eat himself. Loser.
I was halfway through finishing my meal when Courtney and Karla came down. This was bad. Why? The Great Hall echoes. A lot. These two scream. A lot. Bad. Very bad.
"HI LARA!" Karla screamed. The Hall echoed, and the fake clouds on the roof of the Hall shook. Immediately, all the murmers of chatter from everyone else disappeared. They all looked at Karla. "Why aren't you all still talking?" Karla asked in her usual merry tone.
Everyone kept on staring. "Useless!" she remarked, then sat herself down next to me. Courtney sat on the other side of me. I was trapped.
"So, Lu-Lar ..." Courtney said, pushing eggs onto her plate.
"What?" I asked with a mouthful of bacon.
"What do we have?"
"I dunno."
"Where's our timetables?" Courtney asked.
"I dunno." I replied.
"I have them!" a voice piped suggestively. Damn - it was Harvey!
"Thanks." Courtney and Karla said.
"Aren't you going to take one, Lu-Lar?" Karla asked.
"I don't take anything from pricks."
"Oh." Harvey turned away and kept on eating.
"That wasn't very nice." Courtney said, folding her arms.
"Uhuh."
After a while, everyone else came down.
"Well, that was certainly a wonderful experience yesterday." Linda said.
"What do you mean?" Karla asked.
"Food is good." Linda snickered.
"That's nice." I glanced down towards my timetable. "It looks like we have double potions. I wonder if that's going to be enjoyable."
I pointed my finger at Harvey who was about to say something. He thought better of it.
"Hi." Elizabeth said to Harvey. "My name's Elizabeth."
"Mine's Harry." Harry/Harvey replied.
"Soo ..." Elizabeth said.
"What?" Harry/Harvey said.
"Um ..." Elizabeth was stumped.
"Ashlee Hillary." Ashlee stuck out her hand.
"Harry Potter." Harry shook it.
"So how's it been at Hogwarts, Ashlee?"
"Great, actually." Ashlee smirked. "The food's good."
"Yes, I personally liked the lamb roast ..."
It went on like this for ages. They just talked about food. Gryffindor people are so dumb.
"What are you doing, Potter?" a spiteful little voice said behind me.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked.
"Chatting up yet another girl?" Malfoy replied, sneering. Hey! I liked this kid!
"At least I have girls to chat up!" Harry replied.
"Really now?" Malfoy asked. "My name's Malfoy. Draco Malfoy."
"Nice try, Malfoy," Potter - er - Harry replied, "but if you haven't noticed, I'm not a girl."
"Really now?" Malfoy asked, leering. "That's the exact opposite of your description."
I started laughing. I REALLY like this kid!
"Who are you?" Malfoy asked. I stood up.
"My name's Lara Fathersome."
"Nice to meet you." Malfoy offered his hand. I shook it gleefully. I could see Harry with his mouth open. "So how long have you been with Potty?"
"I've never been with the loser!" I replied, shocked. "Who'd want to know the geek who insulted my name."
"No offence, but I don't like the name."
"That's no problems, neither do I."
"What's you first lesson?"
"Double Potions."
"I suppose I'll see you then."
"Yeah, see you."
And off he went.
"LARA!" I heard a voice. It was Louise.
"What?"
"That was the guy that I like!"
"Your point being?"
Louise started stuttering.
"Why would you want to know a boy anyway?" Rachel cut in suddenly. "They've got..."
"NO!" Ashlee yelled. "NO! DON'T SAY IT!"
"Cooties!"
"Arrrrgggghhh!!!!" Ashlee, Courtney, Karla, Linda, Elizabeth and Louise yelled together. I blinked. Well, it made sense ...
Potions
We forwarded into the room. I sat down near the back.
"Hi." a voice said behind me. I turned around
"Hello, Mr Malfoy." I replied.
"This is Potions."
"I kind of noticed."
"The Professor is great."
"I don't like school."
"It was a general comment."
We smirked at each other. The chamber door opened, and the teacher walked in. He was hook nosed and had greasy black hair. He looked evil.
"Good morning today." he walked towards me. "My name is Professor Snape. I will be your Potions teacher."
Silence.
"YOU!" he said suddenly, pointing at me. "What is the property of the Dilution Potion."
"I don't know." I replied, not the least bit scared. "You didn't even teach us anything." Professor Snape's nostrils flared. Great. First day of lessons and I've already blown it with Snape.
"Name?"
"Lara Fathersome." Here comes the bit where I die ...
"Thank you for expressing your opinion."
"Thanks?" I replied uncertainly.
"Let's great straight into the lesson today ..."
Transfiguration
"My name is Professor McGonagoll." an elderly woman looked out through her glasses at us. "I will be teaching Transfiguration, the art of turning something into something else. I will begin by partnering you all up."
"Well, that's always fun." I remarked at Ashlee.
"Yeah, I know."
"Let's see ..." Professor McGonagoll said. "Linda DeGail - Lavender Brown."
"Lara Fathersome ..." I could see Harry crossing fingers. "Draco Malfoy."
Finally! Somebody who could get their priorities right!
"Karla Feathers - Hermione Granger."
"Elizabeth Fields ..." Liz crossed her fingers, hoping to get Harry. "Ronald Weasley." She deflated.
"Rachel Gilding - Vincent Crabbe." (A/N: HAHA!)
"Courtney Hall - Gregory Goyle." (A/N: HAHA!)
"Ashlee Hilary - Harry Potter." Haha! Sucked in Elizabeth!
"Louise Houston - Parvati Patil."
McGonagoll kept on reading. Wonderful. I got the evil one. I'm satisfied.
Lunch
"Well, that was certainly an interesting Transfiguration lesson ..." I said to everyone as I devoured a salad. We had been transfiguring flowers into anything that we wanted. Me and Draco - er - Malfoy took it in turns to transfigure flowers into knives, guns, nooses and a fake dog that was able to bite your hand (Malfoy's choice).
"Yeah, brilliant." Rachel mutters sarcastically. Our fake dog had decided that it was time to bite Rachel's hands. She was tending to her injury.
"Actually, I thought it was quite good." Louise piped up. "Parvati is really nice ... Even though she thinks that Harry is a freak."
"Now there's a girl that thinks alike!" I said, and started cutting up tomatoes.
"Hermione's really smart!" Karla exclaimed, picking at her cucumber. "She's doing most of the work, which is good because I can hardly pronounce 'Transfunguation'."
" 'Transfiguration', Karla." Linda laughed. "I got Lavender Brown. She's kind of shy, but otherwise is really nice."
"Anyway, how was Goyle?" I asked Courtney. She shuddered.
"How about Crabbe?" I asked Rachel. She pretened to be throwing up.
"And Harry?" I asked Ashlee. She went cross-eyed.
"AND Ron?" Elizabeth shook her head.
"How was MALFOY?" Ashlee taunted.
"Fine." I replied.
"Did you hear that?" Louise sighed. "He's 'FINE'! Just like how I see him ..."
"What's so bad about working with boys anyway?" I asked everyone.
The group stopped eating. They stopped moving.
"What?" Linda asked flatly.
"What's so bad?" I repeated.
"BOYS HAVE COOTIES!!"
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That's the end of the chapter! Have fun hanging on until Chapter 3 comes up. And don't forget - REVIEW IT! And also ... no death threats. Please.
Until Chapter 3 ...
~~BlueberryOrchidz
P.S. Feel free to also email me with reviews. We might be accepting anonymous reviews soon, I'll have to see.
Review Answers:
Well, thank you for that little death threat 'evilive'. It doesn't really come along very often. And for the comment that Rachel is too mature? I'll see what I can do. :) Who I am? You're just gonna have to wait.
What happened in the last chapter?
Well ... we met our wonderful new main characters and their personality traits.
Quite smashing, really. :p
This chapter:
Lara's POV. This is what Lara is like. Freaky, huh? Ashlee and Harry hit it off. Elizabeth gets jealous. Lara hates Harry. Harry likes Lara.
Have fun reading this chapter ... and don't forget to review!
~~BlueberryOrchidz
Chapter 2 - Lara's POV - Boys Have Cooties!
It was 7:00am. Light was streaming through the windows in my dormitory. I hate
natural light. It's so happy and springy - the exact opposite of me. I was so tired, but
I couldn't sleep because I happened to get the bed right next to the window.
I got up. There was no use trying to sleep again. I got dressed into my uniform
and opened my dorm door ... and nearly tripped over the bottle of butterbeer on the
threshold. I looked down. It was wrapped in a blue ribbon. Would have looked
better in black.
I picked it up. There was a card.
Dearest Lara:
I hope you enjoy your butterbeer and the rest of your Hogwartian life with me and
everyone else.
Love,
Your Secret Admirer
I groaned. Life at school sucked already. I went back into my dorm, opened the
window, and threw the bottle out. Rachel caught me.
"Lara!" she said drowsily, obviously having too much food yesterday. Typical.
"Hey! Butterbeer!" she got up and stumbled clumsily towards the window.
Too late - the butterbeer had already flown out of the window and into the lake. It
also seemed the giant squid had gotten to it too; the squid's tentacles were flowing
around on the surface of the lake, as if it were evidence that squids should not be
givin butterbeer.
Rachel started sobbing hysterically.
"I wanted butterbeer!" she sobbed into her arms.
"It's OK ..." I comforted in a monotone.
"I reeeaaalllyyy wanted butterbeer!" Rachel cried on further.
I rolled my eyes, patted her on the back sarcastically and then went outside. I suppose that's what 20 mint humbugs does to you.
I went down to the Great Hall and decided to eat breakfast. I sat down at my Gryffindor table, just as the dude with the glasses came and sat down next to me.
"Hi." he smiled nervously. I ignored him, and cut up my bacon.
His smile faultered. "Lara?"
I continued eating, then poured myself some orange juice.
"Lara?" he repeated.
I rolled my eyes mentally and drank some of the juice.
"Did you enjoy your butterbeer?" he asked smugly, deciding that this tactic was the way to go. Guys are so dumb.
I chocked on my juice.
"Is that a yes?" he asked, grinning at me.
"Look you prick!" I shouted after I managed to start breathing again. "I don't like you! I don't like butterbeer! I don't want to do anything else now except for breathe, blink, eat, drink and digest!"
"Haha!" the guy shouted triumphantly. "You said last night that you would cut off all means of communication with me! You broke it!"
So that's where I had seen him.
"Well," I hissed, "I'm starting again NOW, Harvey!" I went back to my wonderful eggs and bacon. Harvey looked crestfallen.
"It's Harry." he whispered, then went to eat himself. Loser.
I was halfway through finishing my meal when Courtney and Karla came down. This was bad. Why? The Great Hall echoes. A lot. These two scream. A lot. Bad. Very bad.
"HI LARA!" Karla screamed. The Hall echoed, and the fake clouds on the roof of the Hall shook. Immediately, all the murmers of chatter from everyone else disappeared. They all looked at Karla. "Why aren't you all still talking?" Karla asked in her usual merry tone.
Everyone kept on staring. "Useless!" she remarked, then sat herself down next to me. Courtney sat on the other side of me. I was trapped.
"So, Lu-Lar ..." Courtney said, pushing eggs onto her plate.
"What?" I asked with a mouthful of bacon.
"What do we have?"
"I dunno."
"Where's our timetables?" Courtney asked.
"I dunno." I replied.
"I have them!" a voice piped suggestively. Damn - it was Harvey!
"Thanks." Courtney and Karla said.
"Aren't you going to take one, Lu-Lar?" Karla asked.
"I don't take anything from pricks."
"Oh." Harvey turned away and kept on eating.
"That wasn't very nice." Courtney said, folding her arms.
"Uhuh."
After a while, everyone else came down.
"Well, that was certainly a wonderful experience yesterday." Linda said.
"What do you mean?" Karla asked.
"Food is good." Linda snickered.
"That's nice." I glanced down towards my timetable. "It looks like we have double potions. I wonder if that's going to be enjoyable."
I pointed my finger at Harvey who was about to say something. He thought better of it.
"Hi." Elizabeth said to Harvey. "My name's Elizabeth."
"Mine's Harry." Harry/Harvey replied.
"Soo ..." Elizabeth said.
"What?" Harry/Harvey said.
"Um ..." Elizabeth was stumped.
"Ashlee Hillary." Ashlee stuck out her hand.
"Harry Potter." Harry shook it.
"So how's it been at Hogwarts, Ashlee?"
"Great, actually." Ashlee smirked. "The food's good."
"Yes, I personally liked the lamb roast ..."
It went on like this for ages. They just talked about food. Gryffindor people are so dumb.
"What are you doing, Potter?" a spiteful little voice said behind me.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked.
"Chatting up yet another girl?" Malfoy replied, sneering. Hey! I liked this kid!
"At least I have girls to chat up!" Harry replied.
"Really now?" Malfoy asked. "My name's Malfoy. Draco Malfoy."
"Nice try, Malfoy," Potter - er - Harry replied, "but if you haven't noticed, I'm not a girl."
"Really now?" Malfoy asked, leering. "That's the exact opposite of your description."
I started laughing. I REALLY like this kid!
"Who are you?" Malfoy asked. I stood up.
"My name's Lara Fathersome."
"Nice to meet you." Malfoy offered his hand. I shook it gleefully. I could see Harry with his mouth open. "So how long have you been with Potty?"
"I've never been with the loser!" I replied, shocked. "Who'd want to know the geek who insulted my name."
"No offence, but I don't like the name."
"That's no problems, neither do I."
"What's you first lesson?"
"Double Potions."
"I suppose I'll see you then."
"Yeah, see you."
And off he went.
"LARA!" I heard a voice. It was Louise.
"What?"
"That was the guy that I like!"
"Your point being?"
Louise started stuttering.
"Why would you want to know a boy anyway?" Rachel cut in suddenly. "They've got..."
"NO!" Ashlee yelled. "NO! DON'T SAY IT!"
"Cooties!"
"Arrrrgggghhh!!!!" Ashlee, Courtney, Karla, Linda, Elizabeth and Louise yelled together. I blinked. Well, it made sense ...
Potions
We forwarded into the room. I sat down near the back.
"Hi." a voice said behind me. I turned around
"Hello, Mr Malfoy." I replied.
"This is Potions."
"I kind of noticed."
"The Professor is great."
"I don't like school."
"It was a general comment."
We smirked at each other. The chamber door opened, and the teacher walked in. He was hook nosed and had greasy black hair. He looked evil.
"Good morning today." he walked towards me. "My name is Professor Snape. I will be your Potions teacher."
Silence.
"YOU!" he said suddenly, pointing at me. "What is the property of the Dilution Potion."
"I don't know." I replied, not the least bit scared. "You didn't even teach us anything." Professor Snape's nostrils flared. Great. First day of lessons and I've already blown it with Snape.
"Name?"
"Lara Fathersome." Here comes the bit where I die ...
"Thank you for expressing your opinion."
"Thanks?" I replied uncertainly.
"Let's great straight into the lesson today ..."
Transfiguration
"My name is Professor McGonagoll." an elderly woman looked out through her glasses at us. "I will be teaching Transfiguration, the art of turning something into something else. I will begin by partnering you all up."
"Well, that's always fun." I remarked at Ashlee.
"Yeah, I know."
"Let's see ..." Professor McGonagoll said. "Linda DeGail - Lavender Brown."
"Lara Fathersome ..." I could see Harry crossing fingers. "Draco Malfoy."
Finally! Somebody who could get their priorities right!
"Karla Feathers - Hermione Granger."
"Elizabeth Fields ..." Liz crossed her fingers, hoping to get Harry. "Ronald Weasley." She deflated.
"Rachel Gilding - Vincent Crabbe." (A/N: HAHA!)
"Courtney Hall - Gregory Goyle." (A/N: HAHA!)
"Ashlee Hilary - Harry Potter." Haha! Sucked in Elizabeth!
"Louise Houston - Parvati Patil."
McGonagoll kept on reading. Wonderful. I got the evil one. I'm satisfied.
Lunch
"Well, that was certainly an interesting Transfiguration lesson ..." I said to everyone as I devoured a salad. We had been transfiguring flowers into anything that we wanted. Me and Draco - er - Malfoy took it in turns to transfigure flowers into knives, guns, nooses and a fake dog that was able to bite your hand (Malfoy's choice).
"Yeah, brilliant." Rachel mutters sarcastically. Our fake dog had decided that it was time to bite Rachel's hands. She was tending to her injury.
"Actually, I thought it was quite good." Louise piped up. "Parvati is really nice ... Even though she thinks that Harry is a freak."
"Now there's a girl that thinks alike!" I said, and started cutting up tomatoes.
"Hermione's really smart!" Karla exclaimed, picking at her cucumber. "She's doing most of the work, which is good because I can hardly pronounce 'Transfunguation'."
" 'Transfiguration', Karla." Linda laughed. "I got Lavender Brown. She's kind of shy, but otherwise is really nice."
"Anyway, how was Goyle?" I asked Courtney. She shuddered.
"How about Crabbe?" I asked Rachel. She pretened to be throwing up.
"And Harry?" I asked Ashlee. She went cross-eyed.
"AND Ron?" Elizabeth shook her head.
"How was MALFOY?" Ashlee taunted.
"Fine." I replied.
"Did you hear that?" Louise sighed. "He's 'FINE'! Just like how I see him ..."
"What's so bad about working with boys anyway?" I asked everyone.
The group stopped eating. They stopped moving.
"What?" Linda asked flatly.
"What's so bad?" I repeated.
"BOYS HAVE COOTIES!!"
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That's the end of the chapter! Have fun hanging on until Chapter 3 comes up. And don't forget - REVIEW IT! And also ... no death threats. Please.
Until Chapter 3 ...
~~BlueberryOrchidz
P.S. Feel free to also email me with reviews. We might be accepting anonymous reviews soon, I'll have to see.