Bon, pour toutes les personnes qui ont lu ma fic Etude des Moldus, Et non ce n'est pas une nouvelle fic que je commence, c'est juste un petit quelque chose sorti de l'inspiration de mon amie Orion...;)
Lisez si ça vous intéresse... Vive Virtual Hogwarts! :)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Harry Potter, and this plot belongs to Orion...;)
OCC : For those interested, I repost here the 2 DADA homeworks which are related to the story.
DADA Homework Lesson 2
Professor Toothill's assignment :
Rp the lesson and taking the potion (which allows you to meet your good side and your bad side). Remember, you can only talk with your other selves. As a precaution the potion will wear off immediately if something wrong starts to happen. Be prudent with what you write, I don't want to hang out detention for overly creative students...
Orion took place among the pupils to get a sip from the vial. Once arrived in front of the desk, Professor Leon gave her a little glass. She thanked him and went back to her seat. She stared at the glass during one or two minutes, wondering if it was a good idea. She was quite afraid meeting her wrong side, but decided to get over her fear and take it anyway.
She drank it, it hadn't a bad taste, green tea and lotus. She felt light-headed almost immediately, and had to put her head in her arms on her desk. She saw the classroom and the other pupils spin faster and faster and everything went black.
Orion woke up with a start. She slowly disentangled her arms and lifted her head, closed her eyes and started to say : "Oh, Professor, your potion didn't work, it just made me sleep..." but after having pronounced the first words, she stopped, intrigued by the lack of sound. She opened her eyes to discover she was completely alone in the classroom.
She thought : "Why didn't they wake me up, instead of letting me asleep on my desk like that ?". She stood and walked towards the door. She opened it and took the direction of the 2nd floor, wanting to apology to Professor Toothill, because she had fallen asleep during his class. She climbed the stairs absent-mindly and automatically took a peer thru the window. She stopped. Nite had already fallen. Orion got suddenly panicked, what was the time, why nobody had awoken her ? What was that mess ? She went to the DADA offices and knocked the door. Nobody. Orion swore and headed to the stairs, decided to go to bed. She would apology the next day.
She stepped in the Ravenclaw Tower and headed to her room. She had her hand on the doorknob when she heard the fainted sound of footsteps. She turned her head toward the sound, slightly panicked, thinking it would be a teacher or a prefect who had caught her. She squinted her eyes to see who would come and just caught sight of two shadows moving away. Puzzled, Orion made a move to enter in her room but stopped. Her mind was telling her to follow the shadows, so she did. She made a run to catch them and got out of the tower. She followed them thru the stairs and the corridor of the 7th floor. It was lit by moonlite, but Orion couldn't see any of the shadows' distinct features. She carried on running and finally arrived at the door of the Astronomy tower. The shadows disappeared here and Orion stopped, thinking that she shouldn't have followed ghosts. The door opened and Orion, surrounded by a strange inspiration, entered. She climbed the steps slowly, not knowing whom she would be in front of upstairs. When she arrived at the top step, she looked up and almost fainted from the shock. She grabbed the banister, to prevent herself from falling down the stairs and affronted the vision. She suddenly understood that the potion had worked. Here, in front of her, were standing the two shadows, and were just like her. They were a little faded, you couldn't see them exactly. Several minutes passed. What did Professor Toothill had said ? Orion tried to remember and almost heard him talking in her head :
"So, what this potion will do once you have taken a little sip, is that it will make you fall in a trance like state. You will be face by two exact replicas of you. To simplify, I will say that one of them is your dark side, while the other is your good side. They can only, and I mean only, talk to you if you are faced with them. Also, you will get to know your ideals, your principles, in resumes, those things you would die protecting. I must say that you will see your extreme opposites, it does not mean you are going to end one way or another. The human being is more complex than that."
Orion just thought at that little part : '...They can only, and I mean only talk to you if you are faced with them...'
What did he mean by facing them ? Accept them ? But they were a part of her very soul, how could she not accept them ?
The two shadows became more precise suddenly. Orion stared at them. At first, when they were not so clear, she had thought she was looking at two exact replicas of herself, but now, she could notice the little changes between the two. One was perfectly neat in a blue kimono, her hair, perfectly combed in a traditional Japanese hairstyle. The other was messier, but not in a nasty way. Disheveled but not neglected. Light and Dark, but with so little difference. What did that mean ? The doubles moved a little and reached each other hand. Orion grasped at this and the two apparitions smiled. Orion let her surprise out :
"Why are you holding hands ?"
The good side and the bad side looked at each other before the good one answered :
OOC: The bad side is bold and the good side is underlined...
"We were expecting that question. But I must answer to another unsaid question before that. Why can you see us clearer than at the beginning ? Just because you thought yourself that you had to accept us....
-... which is a good thing, don't worry, carried on the bad one, Not every people can do that, and I think some of them will spend time to finally find their sides. Some won't.. As for your question, if we hold hands, it's just to show you that you are perfectly balanced between lite and dark. Ok, a little bit more for the good side, but you won't fall in either of your two extremes...
-... apart if you don't pay attention. Which may happen because everybody is tempted one day or the other... Let me see what your Professor did say, oh yes, we've to tell you your ideals, principles and so on...Well, for the good points, you are very courageous.
- But you think you're weak.
- Which is not true.
- But the fact you think you're weak is embarrassing, because it prevents you from doing a lot of things you should do. You love staying alone for example, but you...
- ... should make a little effort to go towards the others. They've got things to teach you, and you've got things to teach them. That weakness may loose you, so be careful about it.. There's also one thing, say it dear :
- Thank you. You don't have any self-confidence. You've got the impression you're not interesting, that the others will reject you because you think you've got nothing in your brain.
- It's not true, you're just different from the others..
- But you didn't accept this difference yet. So try...
- Ok, is the little morality lesson is finished yet ?"
Orion was annoyed in herself because these two diabolical selves had touched a sensible dot.
"Don't be that way, it's not against us you are to be mad at, it's against those bad aspects. They could make you turn away from the path you're already following. You are of great power, but I think you still ignore that because you're only beginnier. But what did the Sorting Hat tell you ?
- Euh, wait, I'm trying to remember..
"Thinks This sorting would be so much easier if half of your thoughts weren't in another language. I'm a hat, not a linguist! Another one that wants Ravenclaw? So you must be the friend that the other one wanted to stay with. I can see why. It seems to be a deep friendship you feel for each other, she told me about the same thing... Wanting to be in Ravenclaw with you, that is. I don't normally take requests, so we'll have to look into your mind and see. Yes, yes, you are most certainly another thinker. You might even be a good Slytherin. All that ambition... What? No? Well, well, I think I made my mind, you're going to go to : RAVENCLAW ! "
I certainly didn't want to go to Slytherin, first, I wouldn't have been with Andie, and from what I heard about them, I.. I should not listen to the others and see by myself, I know...
- You're right, check up everything by yourself. And of course, this is one of the aspects which is good on you, your heart and altruism. You would die to protect somebody you love, this is one of the most precious gift you can offer to somebody. But in the love you're giving, several things can make you go too far. You can suffocate people by being too possessive, and if you do, it will hurt you and it will hurt the other one. You can go too far in the fact of wanting to heal people from their pains. Helping them to ease their pain is good, but taking their pain on you, could make you die of it... And it's not good either, don't you think ?
- But I don't understand, I never...
- Yes you did it with Andie. Not so much with others, but the more people you befriend with, the more you want to help. It's a quality, when you use it normally. But if you want to do it perfectly, there's going to be some problems... You know, I told you you had a great power, it's true, but if you listen to you wrong side that power will make your head swell... So just be careful.
- Can I ask something ?
The apparitions nodded. Orion was sincerely surprised.
- How come you're so, peaceful ? Why don't you show me these things I could do ? Why do you warn me not to do this and that ? I thought that I would see my possible futures, but no, you just act like big sisters or I dunno...
- Of course, we could show what you could do, it's possible, but it's more interesting to talk about it rather than only showing.
- Yes, you can think about it in that way. We don't want to appear as stereotypes. Oh, I can tell you, the wrong side of you wouldn't do terrible things, just silly and idiot things. And your good side would be too assiduous in doing the things in the most perfect way. These are the things you must not fall in, that's all because they are the first steps of more terrible things you could do in a way..
- Look at the way we appear to you ? Neat, and a little less neat. How did you think we would be ? I think you were not that surprised to discover me like this, but as for your dark side, you certainly thought she would be surrounded by darkness and so on ? No.We have just one piece of advice for you.
- Listen to your heart when you do things. You've got a pure heart, that's why I'm not vampire-like frightening... So listen to it, especially at the moment you doubt of everything and yourself. He'll give the best advice.
- Go back now, I think you learned enough. And don't forget we're still in your heart and your mind..
The surroundings and the two replicas disappeared slowly. Orion felt herself diving in the blackness again, and yelled : "Thanks !!!".
She woke up in the classroom, which was, this time, full of people deep in their trance. Orion rubbed her eyes and smiled. She took out a parchment and began to write on it. Nothing appeared. She frowned. And suddenly, her quill escaped from her hand and manipulated by an invisible hand, began to write everything that had happened. The parchment was soon blackened by the ink. Then the quill lifted one more time to rest on the table. Orion put it in her bag, stood and headed to the Professor's desk, to hand back her homework...