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Chapter 6: The Hogwarts Activities Club

"I hope we're not late..." said Raven.

It was the last day of classes before the holidays and Raven, Dyani, Devi, Kathrin, and Dyani's cousin, Elle Malfoy (also in her sixth year) were running down the corridor that led to their Defense Against the Dark Arts class. There were no other students in the halls and they were worried that they'd be late. Of course, they had been late before, but if they were late one more time, they wouldn't be allowed to participate in the Activities Club. Their first meeting was after classes ended for the day.

The four girls came rushing into the class room. Once they had sat down, the bell rang throughout the school.

"Made it," Kathrin leaned over and said to Dyani.

"Yes, Miss Potter, made it, but just barely," said Professor Kramer from the front. "Lucky thing too, or I wouldn't be seeing you after school."

"Actually, Professor, you'd be seeing us anyways," said Kathrin. "Being late today would have meant all five of us get detentions."

"Yes, yes, I guess it does. Anyways, as I see no empty seats, on to today's lesson!" she waved her wand and the chalk in front of the chalk board began to write:

Erklings and How to Prevent Them

Notes on Erklings:

Ministry of Magic Classification: XXXX

The Erkling is an elfish creature which originated in the Black Forest in Germany

They are three feet high on average with pointed face

Has a high-pitched cackle that is particularly entrancing to children, whom it will attempt to lure away from their guardians and eat

Strict controls by the Germany Ministry of Magic have reduced Erkling killings dramatically over the last few centuries and the last known Erkling attack, upon the six-year-old wizard Bruno Schmidt, resulted in the death of the Erkling when Master Schmidt hit it very hard over the head with his father's collapsible cauldron.

"Please copy the notes down, and then we can continue," she said.

The rest of the lesson droned on, finally ending just before she had time to bring out an actual living Erkling. The next lesson, would actually teach them how to prevent the Erklings.

Later that night, Dyani, Kathrin, Raven, Devi, and Elle (the boys wanted no part in what they thought would end up being a scrapbook club) were back in their Defense Against the Dark Arts class, conversing amongst themselves while waiting for Professor Kramer to start the first meeting of the Hogwarts Activities Club.

"Ok, first things first," said Professor Kramer, just then entering the classroom from her office, "we need to elect a President, Vice President, and Secretary. Would any one like to offer their services for President?" A girl in the front's hand shot abruptly into the air. "Hermione," she said, flicking her wrist and the chalk began to write on the board again. "Anyone else?"

"I'd like to run," said a snobby voice a few seats to the right of Hermione.

"Miss Parkinson."

"Ick, I don't want that thing to be the president of the club," Kathrin said quietly to her friends with a disgusted look on her face.

"Which one? The Mudblood or the pansy?" said Dyani.

"Pansy. She'll kill the whole thing."

"So, why don't you run?" said Devi. "You could take her down, both of 'em"

"Yeah, why don't you run?" said Raven.

"I don't want to actually run," she said, "I just don't want Pansy to be running this shindig."

"We could always make her run," said Dyani, with a mischievous look on her face.

"Fine, I'll run," said Kathrin, putting her hand in the air.

"Miss Potter. Ok, 3 people for each category. Now, Vice President?" said the professor. After three people had been picked to run for each position, Professor Kramer tapped her wand on a pile of parchment and passed them out. "Vote for only one person, please." She waited 10 minutes, collected the papers, tapped her wand on the pile again, and then said: "The Secretary of the Hogwarts Activities Club is Hannah Abbot, the Vice President is Cristina Lockhart, and our President, its very close, is Kathrin Potter, who was two votes ahead of Miss Parkinson, and one vote ahead of Miss Granger."

Kathrin glanced at Pansy, who had turned completely around to give Kathrin the dirtiest look ever.
"You know, if looks could kill, you'd be dead right now," said Elle.

"Who cares! I won!" said Kathrin, excitedly.

"Ok, the next thing on our agenda, is going to take up the rest of our two hours tonight. Planning this year's Valentine's Dance. Some of the other teachers have already decided on a theme, so that part is out of the way. I personally find the theme not really being a theme, but more of a title the teachers thought up: Valentine Enchantment. The dance is going to be held on Valentine's day, in the West Garden. This gives us I little under a month and a half to plan and prepare for it. We'll spend this meeting doing these three things (the chalk began to write again):

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"I'm going to divide you into groups." She then walked around the room and assigned groups to go to. Dyani, Kathrin, Raven, Devi, and Elle were all put on entertainment, however, they were stuck with both Hermione and Pansy.

"I hear you five have a band," said Hermione. "It would be much more efficient and less costing if you could play."

"No one wants to listen to their garbage, Granger," said Pansy.

"It's not garbage! Its rock... ish I guess," said Dyani.

"Well, even if we do play, Granger, I do not want to play the whole dance," said Devi. "I want to have fun too."

"Well, we could get alternative entertainment for when we aren't playing," said Kathrin.

"Like another band or something?" said Raven.

"Well, yeah I guess. That, maybe we could splurge a little on," said Hermione.

"What kind of word is 'splurge?'" said Dyani.

"It's a Muggle word meaning spend more money on."

"Really odd sounding if you ask me."

"Oh, what about the Weird Sisters? They played at the Yule ball a couple years ago, how 'bout them?" said Devi.

"Oh, yeah!"

"How are you expecting that we are going to be able to keep everyone around after your scummy band plays?" said Pansy.

"It's not 'scummy.' And besides, it's not like you're talented at anything," said Raven.

"I can ride a broom perfectly!"

"Yeah, that's why you fell off three times at tryouts," said Dyani, who had tried out for the team, despite her father telling her not to, and was now a Chaser for Slytherin.

"The only thing she's talented at is being a prude," said Kathrin.

"I think we should have our band play, and the Weird Sisters, and then maybe like a DJ or something for when neither of the bands want to play," said Elle, quickly changing the subject.

"That'll work," said Hermione.

"What is your band's name anyways?" asked Pansy, more snobbishly than her usual tone.

"The Psychotic Pineapples, why do you ask?" said Devi.

"Stupid name for a stupid band," she said standing up. "Well, I've got to cut this meeting short, I'm leaving for the holiday's tomorrow morning, and I don't want to be too tired."

"It's only eight o clock!" said Kathrin.

"Yes well, beautiful people go to sleep early, you obviously aren't one of those people," she said and then turned around and walked away.

"God, I swear, she's lucky she's not staying for the holidays."

"She's still asleep?" said Raven.

"God she's a heavy sleeper," said Elle.

"How could she not have heard that?" Dyani said

"How am I supposed to know?"

"What the hell are you guys talking about?" said Kathrin, as she sat up.

"The fact that you could sleep through Elijah falling into the Christmas tree in the Common Room," said Dyani.

"He fell into the Christmas tree?"

"Yeah, he was trying to find anymore of his presents... he tripped over some first year's present and fell into the tree," said Raven.

"Where's Elle?"

"In the common room with the guys."

"Well, not all of them," said Dyani.

"Well, what do you expect if Crabbe and Goyle leave for the holidays?!" said Raven.

"Hehe... We'll let you get dressed, then you gotta come down for presents, everyone's been waiting for you."

The two left so Kathrin could get dressed and minuets later, Draco, Elijah, Kathrin, Elle, Raven, and Dyani were sitting in the common room opening presents. Everyone enjoyed their gifts to each other. When all the gifts were open, the group went to the Great Hall for some breakfast.

The Great Hall looked spectacular. Christmas wreaths and Christmas trees lined the walls and instead of there being the four big tables, it looked as though someone had cut them all in half, making eight tables half as big as normal. The group sat down at the table farthest away from the teacher's table and enjoyed a big breakfast.

"Well, I don't think I'll be hungry again for a couple more days," said Kathrin.

"Oh, I highly doubt you won't be complaining about your hunger by the time lunch rolls around," said Dyani.

"So, what are we supposed to do today?" said Raven.

"I don't know... what is there to do in a big empty castle with lots of hidden passageways in the middle of some unknown region while it's snowing outside?" said Dyani.

"We could go looking for the secret passageways," said Jett.

"Harry knows where they all are, I could go get his map and-"

"And how are you supposed to get Harry's map when it's in his dormitory in the Gryffindor Tower?" said Elle, cutting short what Kathrin was saying.

"Aha, but that's why we make friends with the Gryffindors!" said Kathrin, pointing to Devi.

"Don't drag me into this!" said Devi.

"Why don't we just look for 'em or something? I mean, it's not like we can get lost, is it?" said Dyani.

"I got lost on my first day here," said Elijah.

"Yeah, well you're- well, you," said Draco.

"Let's just wander around the castle until we find something to do," said Raven.

The group decided to do just this.