Chapter 5-Durmstrang Institute
Early the next morning, Lilly and Tuesday went to the girl's wash room and took showers and got ready for the day. They didn't really want to see Hilzary until she cooled down so they left for the wash room early. As Tuesday and Lilly were putting on their make up, Tuesday couldn't help but feel right at home.
Outside, the sky was grey and the morning was just creeping upon them as the sun peeked through the moutain tops.
And even though she missed Dudley terribly, Tuesday was glad to be back in the comforts of the castle of Durmstrang.
"I'm so glad to be back," Tuesday sighed as she looked out one of the wash room's fogged up windows, out into the vast grounds that only ended where the mountains began. The garden maze beyond looked the same as it always did, laiden with flowers and long. The courtyard's marble statues guarded the many benches and fountains. Beyond all this was the Quidditch field where the golden goal posts reminded Tuesday of last year's exciting school Quidditch matches.
Lilly and Tuesday walked down to breakfast happily, both fully dressed with their Durmstrang robes over their regular clothes. Lilly and Tuesday were both in such good moods, partly because they were back at Durmstrang and partly because of their headmaster's wonderful news from the previous night.
"I can't beleive me and you are going to the Triwizard Tournament!" Lilly excitedly exclaimed as they walked.
"Me neither," Tuesday agreed, she couldn't help but smile, "It's a good thing the headmaster isn't just taking sixth and seventh years. That would suck!"
"What really sucks, is the fact that we can't even enter anyway!" Lilly added, "A thousand Galleons...that's a lot of cash!"
"Oh yeah it is," replied Tuesday, thinking longly of the wizard gold she couldn't have. But she knew it would be a wonderful treat just to travel to Hogwarts and stay there for a year. She couldn't wait to tell her sister that she was going to get to go to Hogwarts for the tournament.
The dining hall was filled with students eager to start a brand new school year at Durmstrang. Lilly and Tuesday found the table where Nik was sitting with Adam. Tuesday shivered nervously and sat down across from him. Adam and Nik were good friends but at that moment Tuesday was wishing they weren't.
Nik greeted Lilly with a good morning kiss and Adam and Tuesday just sat there. Was it Tuesday's imgination or was Adam looking uncomfortable too? It was possible since they had been so close when they were going out, yet, Adam didn't even know about Tuesday and Dudley, or anything of things she had done with Dudley...
"Course schedules!" Professor Sicilus shrieked, she appeared at their table.
Tuesday looked up suddenly, broken from her thoughts of Dudley.
"Thanks," Lilly grabbed the stack from Professor Sicilus, she walked off to hand out more schedules, and then Lilly handed them to everyone, each had their name on it so she knew which one was whos.
"Wow," said Tuesday, "I'm going to have a lot of free time this year. I forgot I wasn't taking much."
She looked down at her schedule which mapped out her classes:
Study of the Dark Arts
Dark Spells
Hex Studies
Flying Lessons
She compared schedules with her friends. She had every class with Lilly, Study of the Dark Arts and Dark Spells with Nik, and every class but flying lessons with Adam who, surprisingly was quick to point that out.
When breakfast got served, Ivette came up to them and sat down at their table.
"Last night Miranda Holbrock told me that all the Prefects get to go to the Triwizard Tournament!" Ivette shrieked.
"So she's inviting you then?" Tuesday asked as she poured herself some cold pumpkin juice.
"No!" whined Ivette, "She's inviting Lolly Polkiss and Jonathen Waston! You know, Jonathen's the sixth year she's supposebly going out with!"
"Um...great."
"But that doesn't really matter," said Ivette brightly, "You're inviting me aren't you?"
"No," said Tuesday carelessly, "I'm taking Lilly and Nik with me."
"You are?!" cried Nik, sounding confused.
"Well yeah," Tuesday smiled at him, "I'm taking Lilly and you."
"You got that right," said Lilly.
"Thanks Tuesday!" Nik cried.
"No problem," Tuesday replied, she winked at him, "Besides, I couldn't take Lilly and not you too!"
"Fck yeah!" Nik cried. He was wicked excited.
"Hey!" cried Adam, "I want to go!"
"Sorry Adam," replied Tuesday, not feeling bad at all.
"But...what about me?" asked Ivette, "I'm your sister!"
"Ivette! You get to go to Hogwarts next year," said Tuesday, "If you really want to go to the Triwizard Tournament then get some other Prefect to take you."
Ivette rolled her eyes, "Yeah like they would. I already know that Viktor Krum is going!"
"Surprise, surprise," said Lilly, nudging Tuesday.
"Stop!" Tuesday laughed as she was being nudged.
"Oh hey, it's the mail!" cried Lilly suddenly. She pointed up at the dininghall ceiling where a bunch of owls were now soaring in, carrying the mail.
Two owls from the crowd flew down to their table, giving Lilly and Tuesday both letters.
"Hey!" Ivette leaned towards Tuesday, "Who's writing to you?"
Tuesday clutched the letter, hiding it from Ivette's view.
"Never you mind," Tuesday replied. She opened up her Study of the Dark Arts book, pushed the letter inside, and slammed the pages shut with a loud bang.
"What'd you do that for?" Ivette asked, sounding offended.
"No reason, no reason at all!" Tuesday cried.
She stole a glance at Lilly, who gave her a whithered look, then grinned. Tuesday thought she would understand who the letter was from.
"Well, me and Tuesday should be going then," Lilly said loudly. She stood up from the table and grabbed her light blue messenger bag.
"Yeah...we gotta go," Tuesday stood up too.
"Um...see you next class?" Adam asked Tuesday.
"Sure, whatever."
Lilly gave Nik a quick good bye kiss and hug and she and Tuesday left the dininghall and made their way back outside, onto the drawbridge, and then out to the school grounds. Lilly and Tuesday found a stone bench to sit on outside in the courtyard where a few older students were milling around before their first classes were to begin.
"It's from the Muggle isn't it?!" Lilly cried excitedly.
Tuesday nervously glanced around the courtyard.
"Not so loudly okay?" Tuesday shushed her.
"Okay," Lilly lowered her voice, "Can I read it after you?"
"I guess so."
Tuesday recovered the letter from between pages 350 and 351 ("How to Conjure the Best Spells In a Duel") and read the letter. With each sentence she read, she smiled more and more. She giggled softly when she finished the letter and handed it over to Lilly, who smiled and giggled too.
When she finished she gave the letter back to Tuesday.
"He sounds like a wonderful boy," Lilly said.
Tuesday smiled, thinking about Dudley, "Of course he is. Doesn't he sound lovely? I love him so much."
"It sounds a lot like he misses you," Lilly said.
"I miss him too," Tuesday added.
Lilly stood up, "We better be going. Madame Shirley hates it when we're late. Especially on the very first day."
Tuesday stood up too, she tucked the letter back into the pocket of her robes.
"You're right, let's go."
Flying Lessons took place in the very back of the castle, on the Quidditch field which was surrounded by Quidditch stands and marked by the tall gold goal posts.
"Hey everybody!" Lilly greeted their classmates when she and Tuesday joined the class. Luckily, they weren't late at all.
Their broom sticks were all laying on the ground. Lilly and Tuesday stood next to theirs. They each had a Nimbus 2001. The other kids in their class all had different broomsticks, but some others had Nimubses too.
"Welcome class!" a female voice shouted across the field.
In a few moments Madame Shirley, a tall young woman with shining blonde hair held with a bright pink head band and wearing a referee's uniform, came onto the pitch. She was clutching her own broomstick.
"Before we begin, I would like to take the attendance."
As she did that, Lilly and Tuesday talked in low voices to each other.
"Hey Lilly?"
"Yeah what's up?"
"I don't know if I even want to fly anymore," Tuesday admitted.
"What? Why? You're pretty damn good!"
"No way."
"Lilly Darius!!" Madame Shirley interrupted.
"Here!" Lilly shouted, then she whispered to Tuesday, "Why? What's wrong?"
"I'm...uh really lazy?"
"You? Lazy? You're a fcking prefect! How can you be lazy?"
Tuesday shrugged.
Lilly laughed, "Come on! It's only the first day back, things are gonna be fine!"
For the most part their first month back at Durmstrang was fine. Tuesday still didn't enjoy Flying Lessons however. The weather was dropping rapidly and they started wearing their furs outdoors. They learned more spells and hexes in their other lessons too, and learning wasn't the only good part about the lessons in Tuesday's opinion. She thought Adam might still like her again, although when she asked Nik, he said that Adam didn't like her again.
"A likely story," Lilly had told Tuesday, "He totally still likes you."
Tuesday didn't really care whether he really did or did not either. She still had Dudley. She wrote him letters back saying how much she missed him and how rather boring 'boarding school' was. She sent the letters to her mother via school owl and then Mrs. Masters addressed the letters to Dudley's school so he always got them. However, she still dearly wished she could just tell him about being a sorceress.
"The letters would be much more interesting if he knew," Tuesday told Lilly as they sat together on Tuesday's bed one night.
"It really must be hard keeping your relationship with this Muggle boy," Lilly said to Tuesday.
"No, not really," Tuesday insisted brightly, "And you don't have to call him 'The Muggle boy'."
"Right, right," Lilly replied.
On the last day of September at dinner, Professor Sicilus came up to Tuesday.
"The head master would like to get the names of whom you are bringing with you for the Triwizard Tournament tomorrow after you have breakfast."
"All right then," Tuesday replied.
She definetly had her mind made up, her two best friends were coming with her to the tournament at Hogwarts, even though her sister had made several attempts over the month to try and persuade Tuesday to bring her instead. She insisted on Tuesday borrowing her clothes, giving Tuesday candy, and even giving her extra money she just happened to have. Tuesday accepted everything graciously, especially when Ivette offered to do her sister's Hex Studies home work.
"So...you bringing me?" Ivette asked as they finished dessert that night.
"No! I already told you Lilly and Nik are coming with me!" Tuesday said, once again.
Ivette sighed, "I'll do your Study of the Dark Arts home work too if you bring me with you!"
Tuesday shook her head and got up from the table.
"My mind's made up, sorry."
That night Tuesday had a dreamless sleep. Early the next morning, she took a shower and got dressed. She put her Durmstrang robes on and went to breakfast. She sat at the usual table with Nik and Lilly and Adam.
"I still can not beleieve we're going to Hogwarts for the whole school year!" shreiked Lilly happily.
"Me either," Tuesday said.
"Uh...Tuesday?" Adam asked her, "Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Okay."
"Maybe over there?" Adam went on.
"Fine," Tuesday got up, "Be back in a second guys."
She followed Adam to a spot a little ways away from the table. She folded her arms and looked at him darkly.
"What Adam?" she asked irritably.
"Hey Tuesday...I just wanted to say I am really sorry for what happened between us last year," Adam said, "I really am sorry and I mean it. I know I made a big mistake. I screwed up really badly when I dumped you."
Tuesday blushed. This certainly wasn't the time she wanted to hear this. She really didn't know how to reply.
"Is that...all?" she asked akwardly, "Why are you telling me this now?"
Adam shrugged, "I just feel really bad that's all."
"Well," Tuesday said casually, "What's done is done."
"But...I still like you," he admitted.
Tuesday couldn't beleive it! She looked at him shocked.
"You're shitting me," Tuesday said coldy.
"No...I really do like you," Adam said.
"No...you can't...I...hey," Tuesday replied, "I should be going. Got to go to tell the headmaster who's going with me to the tournament."
Tuesday walked away. She felt pretty weird. He still liked her? Well that just couldn't be true. If he liked her he never would've broken up with her in the first place.
Tuesday waited in the library until breakfast was over. She didn't exactly feel that she was up to seeing Adam again for awhile. Plus she certainly was going to tell Lilly and Nik all about it later. When breakfast was over, Tuesday doubled back into the dininghall. She went back up to the headmaster's table with the other three prefects.
Professor Karkaroff gave them all a toothy smile, which Tuesday slowly returned.
Hearing what Adam had told her made her feel that the sooner she got away from Durmstrang, the better. She was eager to find out when they would be leaving for Hogwarts.
"Well, how pleasent it is to see all you Prefects again," the headmaster greeted them, "I assume you all had a nice first month back? September is the hardest month to get by isn't it?" Then he chuckled, "Well I suppose June is too, but you are all here in regards to what's happening this month.
On the Friday the 30th of October, we will be arriving around six o'clock at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, but before I tell you anything else, you must tell me the names of the students you are taking with you to watch and possibly participate in the Triwizard Tournament. Miss Masters?"
"Yes headmaster? Oh, the names. Yes..." Tuesday cast a weary look at the other Prefects before looking back at her headmaster.
"Yes, I will be taking Nik Toya and Lilly Darius with me to the Triwizard Tournament," Tuesday said nervously.
Professor Karkaroff began absentmindedly stroking his goatee as his considered Tuesday, "Mr. Toya and Miss Darius yes? They're both in your year...and good students enough...yes that's fine."
Tuesday grinned. She and her friends were going to witness the Triwizard Tournament together! She almost jumped up and down as Prof. Karkaroff took down the other Prefect's friends names.
"Mr. Pulster? Inviting Viktor? That's great. Perhaps he'll bring even more glory to the school?" He looked at the four Prefects, smiling, "Wonderful Cup wasn't it? Just wonderful!"
"Now," Prof. Karkaroff rose from his seat and beckoned them to follow him, "As I said before, we are to arrive at Hogwarts around six o'clock in the evening on Friday the 30th, but we will be leaving on the 29th," he continued as the four Prefects hastily followed him out onto the vast Durmstrang grounds, "You and the other delegations will meet me in the entrance hall of the castle at seven o'clock that evening. You all will of course be excused from lessons that day so you can prepare for the departure to Hogwarts. In the entrance hall, I will be giving you further information about your lessons for the rest of the year, which will continue when we are at Hogwarts...Now!"
They finally stopped at the water front of the Durmstrang lake. Parked in it, was the massive Durmstrang ship. Tuesday loved the ship, it was the one that had brought her, along with Lilly, Nik, and Adam, to their first year at Durmstrang. It was tradition for first years to ride the ship to school. Tuesday was excited.
"We will be of course taking the ship to Hogwarts, so after I meet you in the entrance hall on the 29th, we will board the ship and take off! By day, I will need each of your help to uh...steer the ship, but by night the houselves will take the wheel...yes, now back to your lessons...if there aren't any er questions?" Prof. Karkaroff smiled again at them.
Tuesday couldn't wait for the end of the month to come.
Tuesday didn't waste anytime telling her friends all about what Prof. Karkaroff told her and the other Prefects about the tournament. She told them in a rush as they sat outside in their furs during break after lunch that afternoon.
"We're riding the ship to Hogwarts?!" shreiked Lilly. She clapped her hands together, not able to obtain her excitement.
"I wonder what Hogwarts is gonna be like? Probably hot British boys everywhere..." Lilly went on.
"Ahem," said Nik loudly.
Lilly chuckled, "You know I don't mean it honey..." but Lilly winked at Tuesday, who tried hard to keep her laugh inside.
"You guys," Tuesday said, "There's something else I have to tell you...Adam likes me again!"
"See I told you!" Lilly cried.
"What should I do?"
"Go back out with him I guess," shrugged Nik.
Tuesday shook her head, "No! I can't do that!"
"So...have you told Dudley about anything yet? He must, must, must hear about the Tournament! It's going to be so exciting, and just think, you'll be closer to him, since we are going to England," said Lilly.
Tuesday looked down at her lap sadly, "I still haven't told him...how can I?"
"I don't know..." Lilly said gently.
Nik stood up from where they were sitting.
"We have more important things to do right now," he said, "Like maybe, class?!"
"You're right Nik," Tuesday sighed, gathering her things and getting up, "Let's go to class..."
The 29th approached slowly and it was all Lilly seemed to be thinking about. She never stopped talking to Tuesday about it. Nik seemed excited too, but he wasn't shouting, "I'm going to the Triwizard Tournament and you're not!" to every innocent face that passed in the school hallways.
Adam seemed upset that Tuesday was going. He kept leaving her notes everywhere. Under the door to her dorm room, in her spell books when she wasn't looking, and at the table for meals, which he wasn't sitting with them anymore. Tuesday didn't respond to any of these notes however.
On the 29th, Lilly, Nik, and Tuesday were each excused from lessons. They sat down at breakfast together as usual and Tuesday found another note from Adam settled under her juice goblet.
"What? Another one!" said Tuesday.
"Just throw it," Lilly advised her.
"No," Tuesday said sternly, "I think it's time I wrote back..."