A/N: Sorry it has been taking me so long to update but I've been busy with my personal life. Hopefully from now on I will be able to update faster. I thank you for your patience. I'm not really sure where this chapter is going but hopefully it will turn out alright. On with the long awaited snorts chapter. Mild language in this chapter.
Chapter 6:
I sighed and tried to fall asleep when somebody else appeared in the bedroom a short fat man who reminded me of a rat.
I sat up really fast and yelled "Who the hell are you, And what are you doing in my room"
"Really there is no need to cause a fuss I'll be gone in a minute. I just need to check on something for my master." He stuttered out real fast.
" Your master....." I trailed off as I remembered something my Mom told me about Voldemort. As I was figuring this out, I noticed he was about to dissappear, "I don't think so." I said as I dove at him and grabbed on to his arm punching him in the stomach so that he lost his concentration. I heard running up the stairs. I knew I had to stall him for a few more seconds. But just as I was about to break his nose. A ghost appeared. Not just any ghost nope it was Sirius's mother. She backhanded me hard and I cracked my head against the dresser as I fell. This gave the man just enough time to disappear.
"No" I yelled but it was to late he was already gone. "Your going to pay for that." I told her while slowly geeting to my feet. Man did my head hurt. Just as I saw several of the order members round the corner the door slammed shut and lock itself.
"Awww is the little mediator a little woozy." Came the annoying snarl from somewhere in front of me. I also heard desperate pounding on the door. I prayed for Jesse to come to my rescue like he always did before it was to late. But as soon as I saw his form I was backhanded again and all went black.
I woke up to several people standing over me looking worried. I let out a loud groan and rolled over to fight the wave of nausea. When I finally gained enough contol over it to look up again. The entire order and all the Weasley's were there. Andy offered a hand down to pull me to my feet. I accepted it.
"Where's Jesse?" I asked when I noticed he wasn't there.
"We sent him away for a few minutes until he calmed down a little." My mom answered as she pulled me into a tight hug before pushing me down onto the bed. "Honey are you all right?" She said while scanning my face.
" Yeah Mom I'm fine I've had worse." I told her trying to be reassuring. Needless to say it didn't work very well. She looked more worried actually, wierd.
"Suze who was in here." Hermione asked.
"Your mother." I said bitterly to Sirius he winced slightly. "And some short fat, rat-like man that was working for Voldemort."
"Is he the one who knocked you out?" Sirius demanded to know sounding real angry.
"Please like he could have done anything to me if he tried. No it was your mother and her ghostly powers that did it." I told him. Just as I said this Jesse appeard right by my side.
"Querida are you alright, by the time I could get here you were already knocked out." Jesse said frantically.
"I'm fine Jesse. Why does everybody keep asking that anyway? It's getting kind of annoying." I said.
This question was ignored however as a greasy looking man entered the room along with Dumbledore somebody else was also behind them but I couldn't see who.
"What happened here?" Dumbledore exclaimed slowly taking in the damage, a hole in the wall and a small pool of blood.
"I thought you were supposed to be all knowing." At my mothers outraged Susannah. I quickly added "It's not my fault , I think it's the minor concussion thats making me say these things"
"Minor concussion?" Came the baffled reply from the doorway.
" We had a minor ghost problem earlier tonight." Came Charlie Weasleys reply.
" Suze are you all right?" Asked Mad eye moody.
My head snapped up from it's position on Jesses shoulder when I heard my name and I nodded weakly I was pretty tired. "Yeah I'm good just really tired and have a headache. Who was the man that was here?"
"It's nobody you have to worry about........." Sirius had started but trailed off at the lethal look I gave him. "It had to have been Pettigrew, he is the most rat-like person I've ever met. Voldemort must know that there is a mediator here"
" So what you all can see ghosts what's the big deal?" I asked confused.
" We can only see them when there is alot of magic in abundance. You can see them all the time. To us they are transparent if we tried to touch them we would fall through. They can hurt us if they concentrate hard enough and we can do nothing back to them. Mediators are very powerful people in are world and Voldemort will most likely stop at nothing to get one." Dumbledore explained to the silent room. " He would force you to help him get spirits into his power. Or any other mediators he could get his hands on. Do you know any others that would join him"
" Well theres Jack Slater but he's only a little kid, Father Dom, the principal at our school but he doesn't have that much power. Paul Slater is the one we have to worry about he wants power, I think he would join Voldemort if he had the chance." I said ignoring the growl from Jesse at Paul's name again. " Who are you by the way?" I asked mr.greasy.
" I am professor Snape potions master at Hogwarts and head of the slytherin house." He said snidely glaring down at me.
I really didn't like this guy so I said. " Wow you must be real proud of yourself, but doesn't being potion master mean you should be able to come up with a shampoo so your hair isn't so greasy and maybe go for a little plastic......" I trailed off as Jesses hand clamped over my mouth.
" Susannah that head injury must really be getting to you, nothing you say is making sense, that must be it right?" I nodded quickly at the glare he gave me. He moved his hand hesitantly away again.
I looked over at Harry, Hermione, and the rest of the Weasley kids and saw them struggling not to laugh.While Sirius was laughing out right, he was nearly falling over, leaning against Lupin. Snape however looked like he was about to kill someone. But before he could Mom said, "Why don't we all go back to bed for the night. Nothing else will happen tonight and in case it does Jesse will you stay with Suze?" At his nod she ordered everybody back to bed. Jesse also stood up and leaned against the wall.
"Night Jesse." I said before crawling under the covers and finally falling asleep with Jesse watching over me.
The Next Day:
I woke up to find Jesse sitting on the side of my bed and shaking me lightly. "Querida wake up your going to be late"
"Late for what Jesse?" I said while trying to get away from him as he shook me.
" You and everybody else are going school shopping. Will you get up?" Jesse asked sounding really annoyed.
" Let them go. I don't want to get up. I'm comfortable." I said.
" Fine then." I felt his weight leave the bed, and I hid a grin thinking that I had won. But instead the covers were yanked away and Jesse picked me up out of the bed and dropped me back down. Okay now I was awake. I heard laughing at the door way. It was Mom, Andy, and Jake.
"Well at least we know a good way to get you up in the morning now." Came Jakes laughing reply.
I rolled my eyes at them and went to get dressed as Jesse disappeared again.
" Jesse seems to disappear alot." came my mothers commet.
" Yeah, it's annoying but you can't stop a ghost from doing it unfourtanatley." I said when I came out of the bathroom. "Where are we going anyway"
" To Diagon Alley." Andy said as if this explained it all.
" Okay and that would be"
" Where all the wizards and witches do their shopping." Andy answered.
" It's not like a mall is it"
" Well yeah I guess....." Andy started at the same time Mom said " No of course not nothing like a mall"
" Right you guys go I'll just stay here." I said while tryimg to turn around but Jake spun me around.
" It can't be that bad. Besides at least now you get to see some of the magic they perform." Jake said as he blocked my way back upstairs.
I sighed and started back down the stairs grumbling the whole way. I really hated malls and mall-like places . We all had a quick breakfast and we walked over to the fireplace.
" So you expect us to throw that powder in the fireplace and walk through it." David said slowly. " It's not scientifically possible the heat would be to much you will burn"
" Honey it's magic theres nothing scientific about it." Mom said trying to be comforting.
" Besides if you believe ghosts are real, why not magic?" I asked and for once he was speechless and then added with a grin. " So how about Brad goes first in case Dave is right." In return Brad just gave me a dirty look.
Eventually we all went through the fireplace to get school supplies. First we went to gringotts to get money, The goblins freaked Brad out a little. We went and bought all of our supplies. But then we reached madame malkins.
" I am not wearing that." I said.
" Suze they aren't that bad. And you would only have to wear them on school day's." Mom said trying to remain calm.
" No, there ugly and show no fashion sense what so ever it's not going to happen." I said being stubborn.
" Mom do you mind if I try for a second?" without waiting for an answer Jake dragged me to an empty part of the store. " Suze I know you hate the robes they wear but guess what you have to where them."
" No." I said simply.
" Then I'll just tell Mom and Dad about you dating Jesse." Jake said while walking back over to mom. I couldn't believe it I was being blackmailed by sleepy, I sighed and followed Jake.
After everybody had finished we went to the leaky cauldron and flooed back to Black Manor. Everybody sat down to eat. After dinner we were all sent upstairs because the order was having a meeting. Me, Dave, Brad, Jake, Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys were in Ron, and Harry's room talking about Hogwarts. We would be going there tomorrow. Sleepy would be helping out the grounds keeper all that he could. Mom and Andy would be teaching assistants too. Mom helping in transfiguration and Andy helping out in defense against the dark arts. Hermione and some of the order members had been showing us simple spells the past few days. Eventually we all went to bed. This time it was Jake who woke me up.
" Come on Suze we have to get to the train station." Jake said while still shaking me." All right already I'm up." I said while crawling out of bed.
As soon as We ate breakfast we were headed out the door. We quickly said out goodbyes to most of the order who weren't coming with us. We had already been told how we would get on the platform. there we said good bye to Mrs.Weasley, we would see Mom, Andy and Jake later at the school. They were going to floo there.
We got on the train and I sat with the trio, Ginny, and David. I'm not sure where the others wound up. We started plaing a game of exploding snap. After a few hours we went to change into our ugly robes. The food trolley came around about half an hour after that.
About an hour after it came the compartment door slid open to reveal a blonde with way to much gel in his hair and two of his goons, who reminded me of Brad and all of his wrestler buddies.
" What one mudblood wasn't enough now you have two Yankee mudbloods, hanging out with you, and I thought you could stoop no lower Potter." The blonde one said sneering.
But before anybody could respond the train lurched to a stop and Blondy and his goons flew forward into the door of the next compartment. We all laughed our way off the train and into the carriges, that were pulled by these wierd looking horses. Hermione explained that anybody who had seen death could see them. I didn't understand why I saw them though I had never seen anyone die, but I didn't mention this to Hermione.
Soon we entered the great hall where David, Brad and I would be sorted with the first years. As Dumbledore stood up to introduce us I started to get worried. What if I wound up in Slytherin and did turn evil?" David was the first to get sorted, he went into gryffindor, I wasn't surprised. Then it was Brad's turn he went into Slytherin, I was a little surprised at that.
Then after what seemed like an eternity it was my turn. After Mcgonagall(sp?) placed the hat on my head I could see nothing and felt incredibly stupid. But then it sterted to speak to me in my head. This freaked me out a little.
The hats voice eventually croaked in my ear, " It's been years since I've met a mediator, and I've never met one of your power. Miss. Simon you have a choice of two houses. You are very cunning and can be evil if you let yourself be. But you also Are very corageous and Brave. So it's either Slytherin or Gryffindor. I think it shall be............."
THE LITTLE THINGS:
yeah, this song is dedicated this is good charlotte
to every kid who ever got picked last in gym class you know what i'm saying, this is for you
to every kid who never had a date to no school dance this is for you
to everyone whose ever been called a freak you all know what i'm saying
this is for you what here we, here we go yeah, what, come on you all know what i'm talking about
yeah, what you all know what i'm saying come on, come on,
come on here we go ohhh... come on ohhh... let's do this here we go
like the time in school when we got free lunch and the cool kids beat us up reduced lunch
and the rich kids had convertibles and we had to ride the bus fifty-five
like the time we made the baseball team but they still laughed at us you still suck
like the time that girl broke up with me 'cause i wasn't cool enough trick!
things... things... here we go
the little things, little things, they always hang around
the little things, little things,
they try to break me down the little things, little things,
they just won't go away the little things, little things,
made me who i am today you wanna hate me now,
but i wont stop now, 'cause i can't stop now yeah, what come on what yeah what come on, come on here we go
like the time mom went to that institute 'cause she was breakin' down i just cant take it
like the car we had that wouldn't start we had to walk to get around can i get a ride
and that same year on christmas eve dad went to the store uhhh... see you kids later
we checked his room, his things were gone we didn't see him no more dick
things... things... here we go
the little things, little things, they always hang around the little things, little things,
they try to break me down the little things, little things,
they just won't go away the little things, little things,
made me who i am today you wanna hate me now,
but i wont stop now, 'cause i can't stop now what, what, what here we go here we go
the little things, little things, little things,little things little things,little things,little things,little things
little things,little things,little things,little things ohhh
little things,little things,little things ohhh...
here we go ohhh... ohhh... and it always seem those little things they take the biggest parts of me ohhh
breakdown ohhh...
i'm breaking down
i'm breaking down
A/N: Finally done with the 6th chapter. I know it sucks but hey it's better than nothing right? I really don't like this chapter It's incredibly boring. This chapter is named after the Good Charlotte song Little Things off of their first album. Which all of you should go and buy now. Please review with lots and lots of constructive criticism so that I can remember how to write.