Chapter 10: The Fall Children
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Jimmi tossed and turned in his bed, his real bed that is. It was the day after he had been released from the infirmary, and right now he was going crazy from the over-sleep he had. For those of you who don't know what over- sleep is, its simply when you've had too much sleep, which, ironically, makes you more tired. But of course, you cant sleep because you've overslept. If that makes any sense.The first day back, which was Friday, had been awkward. Once again, the rumor mill was back in full strength and many people were extremely hostile to him. Including his friends, Han and Terrence. It wasn't too bad, since that day they had most of their classes with the Gryffindors and he was able to hang out with Artie.But today, almost everything had gone back to normal. The Ravenclaws were still mad at him, but they weren't as cruel about it as they had been before, and Han and Terrence had forgiven him, which helped tons.
Now, though, he was having problems getting to sleep. He kept rolling back and forth, and his sheets were twisted extremely bad. He looked over at his timepiece, and saw that it was 2 AM."Happy Halloween." He grumbled to himself, before regaining his fight with sleep.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Morwen woke up that morning to Leda's loud (and rather off-key) singing. She was twirling around happily too, "This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Everybody make a scream! Halloween, Halloween!"Morwen rubbed her eyes before sliding on her glasses, "What are you singing?" She asked, partially curious, partially irritated."The Halloween song from the Muggle movie, the Nightmare Before Christmas, of course!" She exclaimed, resuming her song.Morwen, having no clue what the Nightmare Before Christmas was, simply shrugged, her eyes drifted over to Jenna, Kayla, and Olivia. All three of them had managed to sleep through Leda's singing, remarkably.Now, Morwen turned to see Leda singing an entirely different song, "Kidnap the Sandy Claws, throw him in a box! Bury him for 90 years, then see if he talks!""Why would someone want to kidnap the famous dead wizard Sandy Claus?" asked Morwen, confused."Oh no, silly, the Muggles have an entirely different idea about Santa Claus." Said Leda matter-of-factly.Morwen raised an eyebrow, "How do you know so much about Muggles anyway?""Well I'm half muggle of course!" Proclaimed Leda, smiling happily. "My dad divorced my mom, and remarried even, so I have full Muggle siblings. Two actually, Leo, who's 10, and Leah, who's 2."
"That's cool," Said Morwen smiling, discovering this new fact about her friend, and also wondering what the whole L-E name scheme in their family was about. "So what should we do for Halloween?""Hm." Thought Leda, "Good question. There's no classes for today, since it's Sunday, and the older kids are all going to Hogsmeade, so we practically have this place to ourselves!"Morwen considered this, "Well, I don't really feel up to loosing our house any more points." She paused, "Or going back to the infirmary, so that's out. I dunno, what do you guys do for Halloween?"Leda shrugged, "I don't know. Stuff."Morwen rolled her eyes, "You're a ton of help."Leda smiled, "I know."Morwen looked at her timepiece, "It's early. 7 am, we have plenty of time to do whatever."Their discussion was interrupted, however, when a small, black owl appeared at their window. Leda opened it, and the owl delivered a piece of parchment to Morwen, and then flew off."What's it say?" asked Leda, curious.Morwen groaned, "I still have a week of detention, starting tomorrow, with Snape." She paused, "And Potter."Leda stuck out her tongue in disgust, "Yuck! I'm glad me, Leif, and Bert got it all over with."Morwen's eyes widened, "What?! You mean I have to be alone with the little creep!"
Leda grimaced, "Sorry. But yes, you're on your own."
"That's cruel," Muttered Morwen.
Leda smiled, "Yep!" she paused, "Let's go down to the commons room and see if anyone's down there." She said.
Morwen nodded, and the duo got dressed and then proceeded downstairs into the commons. Sure enough, Bert was there, tossing up a snitch, and then catching it again."Where's Leif?" asked Morwen.Bert rolled his eyes, "He's doing something with his cat again."Leda winced, "Poor Misery."Morwen's eyes widened, "You named your cat Misery? No wonder Leif torments him." She said.Leda looked confused, "What's wrong with the name Misery? We have another cat at home named Despair, and a canary named Hopeless."Bert and Morwen looked at each other and shook their heads."Anyways, are you guys doing anything for today?" asked Morwen, "We're going crazy from boredom, which is extremely wrong, as it is the best holiday of the year!"Bert shook his head, "Nope, nothing yet.""Hmmph." Said Leda, disappointed, "We'll have to find our own fun, c'mon Morwen!" she said, heading for the door, "Bye Bertie.""Bye Bert." Said Morwen as she hurried after Leda."Bye, please don't loose us anymore house points." Said Bert after them."Like we'd ever do that," called back Leda, before they left through the staircase.The pair made their way out into the hallway, and walked around aimlessly for about an hour."It's crazy!" stated Leda, "The staircases move, the halls change, the paintings lie about directions, and yet, no one's ever seem to have gotten lost."Morwen looked around, for the first time noticing these obvious facts, "Wow. That's peculiar."Leda stroked her chin, "Indeed."
Suddenly, there was the sound of a huge crash down the hall, Leda and Morwen both immediately withdrew their wands, looked at each other, and ran down to find out what had happened.What they saw when they got there, was a tons of loose-leaf papers flying all over the hall, very disgruntled Charms teacher and a rather annoying Poltergeist, "PEEVES!" Cried out Mrs. Krum in fury."Professor, what happened?" Asked Leda, looking at all the mess."Ah! Wee student beasties!" Cheered Peeves with glee, he rubbed his ghostly palms together, "This will be fun!"
Morwen had enough time to give him a skeptic, and confused, look before Peeves snatched her glasses. "Hey!" She yelled at the wall, although she could no longer see that Peeves had moved on to messing with Leda."Ouch! Hey! Ow!" She said, batting at her head to keep Peeves from pulling at her hair. "Quit!"Morwen, who had thought she had seen Peeves, ran right into a wall, as it was only a light shaded portion of the stone, she collided and fell right on her bum, "Ow."
Professor Krum was trying to find a spell that would stop Peeves, but one wouldn't come to her. And Peeves was only getting more annoying, taking the loose-leaf papers and mixing them up with Leda's and Morwen's.
"Refrotardio Mortus!" Krum cried, aiming her wand at Peeves, who froze, halfway in between aiming a spit ball at the back of Morwen's head. "ah." She sighed in relief, picking up Morwen's glasses and handing them to her. "There you go." She said."thanks." Muttered Morwen as her foggy vision became clear.
"No problem, Ms. Malfoy, Peeves has an affinity for causing trouble," She smirked at the frozen in place Poltergeist, "Don't you Mister Peeves?"Peeves couldn't move his mouth, but there was something that could tell you he was mad, as he turned bright red.Leda brushed off her robes and pointed her wand at the mess, "Orderious Grandificous! She spoke clearly, and all the papers realigned themselves.Professor Krum smiled, "Thank you Ms. Lovegood." She said graciously, brushing off her dark red teacher's robes, "Now, what brings you two out here so early?" she asked.
Morwen shrugged, "Looking for some Halloween festivities to take part in." She said.Krum rose her eyebrows, "I hope that doesn't result in loosing any more points from your house."
Both Leda and Morwen turned beat red, but Krum only laughed, "Don't worry about it, there's still quite a lot of time to make those points up." She grinned, "Believe me, when I was a first year, me and my two friends lost our house quite a lot of points as well." Her face broke into a tiny nostalgic smile, "We were caught trying to smuggle a dragon out of the castle."Leda laughed, "Well we," She gestured to herself and Morwen, "Got caught setting a Slytherin Prefect's room on fire!" she puffed out her chest a little, as if trying to show that she was a great trouble maker."Oh really? I heard you turned Professor Snape's room pink?" she gently implored."That was my brother, Robert Davies, and that stupid prat Potter." Said Leda.
Krum had picked up her things and was walking down the hall, Morwen and Leda followed her, seeing it as something to do. "I doubt its exactly considerate to be calling people 'prats' Ms. Lovegood." She said in her best teacher voice.
"Well he is!" said Morwen.Krum smiled, "Well it's good to see some things don't change throughout the years," She eyed Morwen, "Grudges included."
"What do you mean?" asked Morwen.
"Your father and Jimmi's father don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things." Stated Krum simply.
"Why is that? I mean, I know they hate each other, but I never understood why." Said Morwen.
"I'm rather curious too." Agreed Leda.Krum grinned, "Well, Morwen, they were rivals, but it got to the point of unbearable when your father did the unthinkable to Jimmi's father."
"What was that?" asked Morwen and Leda simultaneously.
"He saved his life." She said. She looked down at her watch, "Oh my, I have to run, it was nice talking to you two." She said before going extremely fast towards her quarters.
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The rest of the day flew by rather boringly for Leda and Morwen. For most of the day they hung out with Leif and Bert in the common room, taking turns playing Wizard's Chess of Exploding Snap. They would also pretend to be immune to Jimmi's rather loud laughter (Which always seemed to be in their direction) and the other First and Second year's smoldering gazes.Eventually, it was time for the Great Halloween Feast.
The quartet made their way down the Great Hall as fast as they could, eager to get away from all the other Ravenclaws, especially Jimmi. When they entered, they looked rather shocked, as there were only a few students there.
When they all sat down, McGonagell kindly reminded them all that the older classmen were staying in Hogsmeade for dinner, so the initial shock soonly faded. The dinner was extremely good, and all the food seemed to melt in their mouths.When the feast was over, McGonagell announced that Quidditch season would begin the next Friday, and that all second years were welcome to try out for their house."I can't wait till Quidditch!" Exclaimed Bert, "Next year I'm definitely going out for Seeker!" "I'm going out for Beater!" said Leif, beaming proudly.
"I'm going to be a Chaser," said Leda, "Do you play Quidditch Morwen?"
Morwen shook her head, "Nope, I'm terribly afraid of heights, Mordred though, is the Keeper on the Slytherin team." A shot of sadness went through Morwen, and she was wondering why her brother hadn't bothered talking to her after the incident.
The four quickly made their way to their dorms, and bade each other good night and Happy Halloween!
Morwen rolled her eyes before going to sleep, Krum's information ringing in her head.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::MUAWHAHWAHA, another chapter down! YES! I RULE! Lol 2 updates in one day is extremely good for me (Mind you, I don't have these all written out beforehand, so I'm typing like a mad woman!) and I'm very happy to have new reviewers! Yay!
DISCLAIMER: The Title of the chapter belongs to AFI, as I named it after one of their songs (it's a really rad song too, ch-check it out! [hehe I also like the Beastie Boys]) the few lyrics I had belong to Tim Burton, my god, who created such great films as The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and Sleepy HollowNext Up: The Quidditch Tryouts, and Morwen and Jimmi's totally Non- Excellent Adventure in Snape's dungeonTO THE REVIEWERS:Blaise le Poussin Masque: lol yes indeed, I also like the Lovegoods! I probably would have more readers (sigh) but to be honest, I really don't like Harry, lol and I suppose I just enjoy the freedom of OCs, even though I'm pretty sure they aren't Mary Sues or Joe Bobs, but even if they are I suppose I'll have to get over it. however, thank you a ton for your advice =) I also feel rather bad, I'm giving you a heck of a lot to translate.
Storm and Piper: lol yes! 2 people! Actually, I suppose theres more now! Yay! (Nym does happy dance) thank you for your concern, it was terrible! Because I suppose having a headache gives me a rather bad case of writer's block as well, I can usually write at least a new chapter for one story a day easily, but it was terribly painful to get this out for some reason. Lol as for Mordred, do not worry, all shall be revealed in time (Nym cues the suspenseful music) bawuhauwhauhwauhwa. Bwa. All Hail the Master of the Keyboard and the Supreme Goddess
Hermione-April: Yes! Another Fairly Oddparents fan! I was so glad people were getting that relevance, it made me extremely happy! Thank you a ton for reading and reviewing, it means a lot!
Jamie: lol, Morwen is my 'brain child' I suppose! I didn't like Draco either, but at the same time I could see him becoming a bigger person if time gave him a chance, so that is what I'm trying to do with the story I spose. Morwen is going to be a lot different though (excepting the whole wanting to kill the Potters thing) thank you for reading and reviewing!Charmed1s: Lol, yes I am indeed insane. It's fun. And yet another Fairly Oddparents fan! Oh this is just too much, I'm so happy! Yes, shame on me.
Pat: lol this is the first time I've ever been complimented on my name! Yay! Yes, I am extremely insane, the people at the asylum are looking for me now as we speak. I'm glad you like Morwen and Jimmi, that's awesome! What do you mean by 'like' as in like as in friend like, or like like? Cuz pretty much throughout this year they're going to be at each other's throats, but I'm going to develop a friendship between them as I continue ( I'm aiming to get all 7 years done! Fingers crossed!) and eventually I may pair them together. Lol I wanted to put them in either Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff, as everyone always sees things as either Slytherin or Gryffindor (I myself am guilty of loving Slytherin) and I thought Ravenclaw was just a cooler house lol. Thank you for reviewing and reading!Toodles Y'all!nym!