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Muggle Magazines and the Figure at the Yule Ball
Soon
after Ann finished her sentence she ran as fast as she could, out of
the classroom. To her surprise, when she ran up the first three sets
of stairs, she could run no longer, and collapsed onto her knees;
crying the whole time. Now, who could it be to see this completely
unconnected, and so not caring about the world and only her misery?
Now just who could that be? Well, a-duh, it was Eric. He had been on
his way the men's room when he saw Ann run up the
staircase.
'What's
Ann doing out of class, and is she?.she's crying!' Eric thought "Ann
are you alright? What's wrong?" Eric walked over to her and
started to comfort her. "Shh, whatever it is, it'll be alright
don't worry."
"No.it'll.never.be
fine! And," Ann couldn't keep herself together. "And go
away!"
"Ann
what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Eric was soothing to Ann, but
she was with Draco, and would never do anything with Eric again, no
matter how much she needed him.
"Mitte
des dunklen Walds!" (A/N it's germen, it means.well you'll find
out?) And with that Ann was gone, but Eric had no clue where she'd
gone to. He decided that he would go talk to Dumbledore, and see if
the man who knew all, knew about this. As Eric walked into
Dumbledore's office, the wise professor said "Yes, yes, I know
Ann has left the campus, what I need to know is what she said."
The old man had that twinkle in his eye.
"Well
it sounded like mittens dies dunk lend welds. I think." He
trailed off and looked up at the professor expectantly.
"Was
it Mitte des Dunklen Walds?" Dumbledore
asked.
"Yeah-that's
it. What was it?"
"Germen.
It means middle of the dark forest, obviously she knows more then she
should, or has figured out some little snippet of info."
Dumbledore saw the look of confusion on Eric's face. "No
worries, I know where she's gone. You tell her cousin that she will
be ok, and back here in a day or so. And don't worry yourself about
what I was mumbling to myself a minute ago!
Ok?"
"Uh.sure."
Meanwhile Ann was crying her eyes out in a place a VERY limited amount of people knew about, such as four people. Her father, Dumbledore, Draco, and herself. And then the man who knew all appeared in front of her.
"Its
okay, Anezka. He will not harm you. I won't allow it. And as for why
he hasn't seen you, you should be well aware that if he has contact
with you it could be traced and that would put your life in danger.
Kern would never want you life to be endangered in any way. He loves
you very, very much. He is your father and has something really, very
important to tell you."
"So
why'd he choose the Yule Ball to tell me? What can be so gad damn
important it has to wait until then to be said, he couldn't even call
me to tell me that he wanted to see me! He didn't write or call or
even floo, no, instead he makes sure he can see me in a month! Oh
what's one more month to the billion he's missed already! Well, I
refuse to see him! And I refuse for him to see me! Wohnung 980 Lilien
Gasse in Zentralem London!" And she was gone again. (A/N you'll
find out what that means, because it's Germen again.)
"Why
does she insist on knowing such good Germen? Well she said
'Apartment 980 Lilly Lane in Central London.' So that is where I must
go, but I wonder how she would react to seeing me. Not very well I do
not intend on following her around the world, I wonder how she would
react to seeing him.?" Dumbledore thought all this out loud.
Then with a sigh, was back at the school.
980 Lilly Lane
'He
may know where I went but he's not just going to come bursting in on
a bunch of muggles!' Anezka thought to herself. She walked up the
grand front steps, '72 stairs-damn' she thought and knocked on the
door.
"Hello
Ms.Cerin, how are you on this bleak day? Soaked to the bone I can
see, come in come in, the Mistress was just about to have some tea.
I'm sure she won't mind your company." The butler Johansson was
such a kind man, and very loyal to the Queen.
Ann
walked through the door and was immediately swept up by the maids to
the guest bedroom where they gave her a nice skirt/shirt outfit. Ann
wasn't about to complain, the Queen was always approached by people
wearing their best, and her friends were to be no different. Sure,
Ann hated the outfit, but it was blue and she was happy that this
time she didn't get dressed into pink. So after getting dressed she
was announced to the Queen who was pleased to see her.
"How
have things been, Anne?" The Queen was the only one allowed to
call her Anne, but Ann didn't mind too much.
"Oh
fine, I suppose. I.uh.got into a bit of a.hassle back at school and
needed to leave immediately. And being back in London made me think
to come and see you." Ann smiled as if trying to prove it to
herself.
"You
know dear, I came to Lilly Lane to get away from my duties as Queen,
and when everyone thinks I'm up at some bloody resort, I'm here
sipping my tea and enjoying the quaintness of this little house. You
know the story of why I come here,"
"Yes,
you come because as a little girl you grew up in this very
house."
"Precisely
and I love every little bit of this house. It's not the palace and
that I am thankful for. But escaping school, dearest you know that
you shouldn't. That is why you must and will go back the day after
tomorrow. Your Headmaster told me of what had happened, and he said
that I should be discreet in telling you to go back to school. But I
will not, and by order of the Queen you will go! Now dear, drink you
tea and then off to bed with you after a bath. 'Tis nearly eleven and
you need you rest."
Ann
sat, legs crossed gracefully, hands holding her cup as gracefully as
could be, but take one look upon her face and it was plain as day to
see the shock that which was there. She recovered rather hastily
after realization, bid the Queen goodnight and went for a bath once
back in her room. Hogwarts
"SHE
WENT WHERE!" Harry was pissed. He had to find this
information out from the one person that he really couldn't
stand.
"Well
Potter maybe if you weren't screaming and were a little less
irritating you would have been told by Pavel, he did, after all, tell
me." Malfoy was enjoying the angriness of Harry's face, he was
getting very, very mad at the boy for the things that he did. Malfoy
tricked Peeves into throwing snail scum on him in the great hall
right after dinner and then only got a day's detention from Snape.
The entire time Ann was gone Malfoy took absolutely no pity on Harry!
None whatsoever!Not such a nice guy after all, now is
he?
"Eric!
Eric Pavel told you where she was before me! When I'm her freaking
cousin! What the hell? I share a dorm with that git! Ugg I know that
you had something to do with this Malfoy, I just know it!" With
that Harry stormed off in search of Eric.
Eric
had been smart and slinked off in search of Hermione. She was the
only one who could possibly get Harry to not tear Eric from limb to
limb. He looked for her in every place she could possibly be, he even
went to the girls dorms and she wasn't there. Eric decided that he
might as well go flying for a while, then head back and find
Hermione.
"Merlin's
uncle." Eric whispered under his breath. There, in the stadium,
flying like none before, was Hermione. "She's so good, why's she
not on the team?" he said aloud, the screamed
"HERMIONE!"
She
froze. "Bloody hell! Since when did he go flying? Well better go
face the music." On her way down, Hermione scolded herself for
using a muggle cliché.
"Bloody
'Mine where'd you learn to fly like that! Because you should be on
the house team! We need a beater and I know you've got one bloody
hell of a right hook to take care of the bludger!" Eric finished
his mouth agape.
"Well
don't you remember that I spent the summer in Albuquerque New
Mexico?" Eric looked confused. "America! You bimbo. Well
anyway I changed a lot there, with my cousins' help and all. Well
mostly her friends' help because it turned out she had a friend named
Rory, who's a witch, who also know a couple other people in the area
who were witches and wizards, and anyway we all went to this club,
and they made me get all dressed up, and I loved it but it's not me.
Well it is.well point being I played the game with them, I got really
good, I've changed but I don't think anyone would like it! So as much
as I think it'd be fun to be a beater, nah but thanks anyway."
And Hermione walked off leaving a very confused Eric.
Back
at 980 Lilly Lane, Ann wasn't enjoying her time away from school. She
couldn't figure out what she would tell everyone back at school. She
was even more worried about her father showing up at the Yule Ball,
and to top it off she was worried the Harry was beating Draco to a
pulp and that Draco was beating Harry to a pulp. She had to go,
without the extra time. And so she got into her jeans and T-shirt,
and went to bid the Queen goodbye.
"I'm
sorry to leave early but I figure I gotta get back. My friends and
family probably need me, so I wish you a good vay-k, and I'll see you
over Christmas vay-k."
"Be
good and have fun Anne."
"Hinter
zu Hogwarts Schule von Hexe Handwerk und Zauberei!" And Ann was
back at Hogwarts. (A/N she said "Back to Hogwarts School of
witch craft and wizardry!")
Draco
sat in the Slytherin common room reading. At first glance, and really
anytime you looked at it, it looked like a wizards magazine. But
really and truly he was looking at a muggle PS2 games magazine. And
if anyone dared to look on the inside of it you could tell. And so
when Ann popped he room as if she had done it a million times, Draco
freaked and threw the magazine up into the air. And up it went and
face down it landed, exposing the inside of the magazine for it's
true self.
"Ann-what
in the bloody seventh hell are you doing here!" Draco
screeched.
"Me,
oh nothing much, I'm just about to castrate you for being a complete
asshole to my cousin!" Ann had her wand pointing at Draco and
was indeed ready to use it. Harry had been the first to talk to her
upon her arrival, and told her all about Draco being an asshole to
him.
"I
didn't do anything to Potter! I promised you I wouldn't and I swear
that I didn't! So why don't you just put down you wand and we'll go
talk about this up in my dorm." Draco planed on Ann believing
him, to bad for him she didn't.
"You
now I'm not usually a bitch about things but when it comes right on
down to it I am. You forget that I didn't grow up in Europe, but in
America! So you know what I'm going to be nice this time, so come
here." Ann gestured Draco over and pretended to be about to kiss
him, and then kneed him in the balls. "Why do guys always think
with their dicks? It does them no good!" and then she left off
in search of Eric.
She
fount him just as Harry was about to punch him. "Harry NO! Eric
made me realize just how big of a jerk Draco really is. And don't
worry about killing him; he'll be hurting for a while because there's
no magical cure for getting rid of the pain from being kneed in the
balls. Which I think is a good thing! So three more days until the
Yule Ball, yeah this'll be so wonderful." She finished leaving
yet again a confused Eric and an even more confused Harry.
So
Harry was smart and went after her. "Ann, what were you talking
about? The Yule Ball'll be wonderful? What does that mean?" he
asked her.
"It
means that my dad is supposed to be there, and after the Yule Ball
it's- what two three more months until summer, remember the note
Harry! 'hopefully see you this summer." I mean come on-I sure as
hell don't want to see my dad let alone Voldie!"
"Oh
come off it. Like Uncle Kern would do anything to harm you! You were
with them your entire childhood and nothing happened to you, so what
are you worried about? Because I see nothing to be scared of! You go
to the ball, have a good twenty minute talk with him, say you want to
dance and as an American would say ditch 'em!"
"Harry
you a freak! Besides I don't even think that I'm going to go, it's
not like I have someone to go with or anything, so what would be the
point?"
"Well,
I do believe that Jake was going to ask you before you and
Draco."
"Jake-that
flipping idiot! He should have told me he wanted to go with me to the
ball, and then nothing between me and Draco would have
happened!"
"So
if I tell him to ask you, you'll be ok with it?"
"As
long as he gets the part about me needing to talk to my dad then
yeah, why not!"
"He'll
be jumping off the bloody walls all night!"
"Ha-ha!
Well I'll see you later, I'm gonna go down to the kitchens to grab
something to eat since I missed dinner, then off to find Hermione for
our study session."
"Test
tomorrow in Arithmacy?" Harry asked nonchantly.
"Yep,
and I gotta study! See ya later." Ann replied
"All
right. Uh, I think that Eric was looking for Hermione too, so you may
want to ask him if he's seen her."
"All
right thanks." And they walked there different ways.
Meanwhile Eric had found Hermione
"'Mione
I really do think that you should dress up as you want. To bloody
hell with your school profile, if you want to be yourself then be
yourself!" Eric was lecturing Hermione, and sadly Hermione
believed him to the fullest because, even sadder was the fact that
Eric had a point.
"All
right Eric, I'll do it. I'll be myself as long as you promise to not
laugh. But I make no promises to this everyday!" And she did
it.
Ten minuets
later Hermione walked out of the girls' dorms and into the common
room and everyone in there at the time stared in
disbelief.
"Wow
'Mione is that you!" Eric asked.
As
Ann walked into the common room she looked at Eric looking at
someone, she turned her head and said "Holy shit Hermione, is
that you!"
"Yes
it's me. Under the make-up and clothes and hair and nails and all
it's me. I swear! But hey-if you don't like it I could go change
before we go to the library!"
"Chick
you aien't going anywhere BUT the library! So grab your books and
lets' go!" replied Ann. Eric's mouth was agape again.
It
was true; Hermione looked truly different. Instead of her unrulely
hair, it was straight and sleek and shiny. And instead of her never
leaving uniform, she was wearing a pair of muggle blue jeans that
weren't anything resembling tight, and held up by a belt. Her shirt
was rather very from fitting with a Fox Racing logo on it. Her nails,
instead of being nice, long and never polished, they were long and
black. She was wearing muggle skater shoes and had sunglasses on her
head. Her make-up wasn't heavy but worked perfectly with her outfit.
Hermione now looked very much as Ann did, given there different
features, but both looked very out of place in a school filled with
sameness.
Walking
down the halls Hermione got a lot of cat-calls and awkward looks from
everyone but the weirdest was from Ms.Foster, the library assistant.
"Uh-hum, nice, uh, changes Ms.Granger." she said and the
two walked to the back to study.
Now
to everyone's amazement, Draco and his knuckle headed body guards
were also in the back of the library as well.
"Mudblood
is that you?"
"If
I were you Malfoy, I'd be watching who I called what, unless you feel
like feeling just how my knee feels in you crotch!"
With
a horror-stricken look on his face Draco said "Come'on let's go.
We don't want to be around Gryffindor filth anyway." And got up
and left.
"Well
at least we don't have to worry about him thinking anything of my new
look." Hermione said cheerfully.
"Well,
if he's smart he'll be keeping to himself for a while!" Ann
replied. They studied for a while then went back up to the
dorm.
Once
there Hermione went straight up to her room, Ann, however stayed back
upon the request of Jake.
"So,
Ann. How are things going?" Jake asked.
"Just
fine and you?" Ann said with a smile.
"Well,
just fine! So, uh, well if you're not going to the Yule Ball, do you
want to be my date?" There was a hopeful glint in his
eye.
"Jake, I
would love to be your date for the dance!" She answered, kissed
him on the cheek and went up to bed.
The Next Day
The
girls went shopping for gowns and the boys went shopping for
tuxes.
They all
fount the perfect one for them, even Hermione fount one for her split
personality!
At the Yule Ball
"Come
on 'Mione or else we'll be late! The Boys are waiting!" Ann
yelled to the bathroom door.
"All
right, I'm coming out now. No laughing!" replied
Hermione.
No one
laughed, because there was nothing to laugh about! All the girls
looked in awe at how pretty she looked in her dress. They
congratulated each other on how they looked then went down to see the
boys.
Hermione was
wearing a black skirt with sky blue lace over it and a matching
strapless top, with ever changing black and pink accessories; and had
dyed her eyes pink for the evening. Ann was wearing a black, one
shoulder strap dress with navy green accessories and navy green eyes.
Kristine and Kristina were wearing matching black dresses with silver
accessories and silver eyes. And the other girls they hung out with
had decided to not go to the ball this year.
When
the girls saw the boys they were pleased. They had told them the
colors of their dresses and they had managed to dress accordingly.
Eric matching Hermione wearing a black suite with a pink tie. Ron and
Harry wearing black suites with silver ties. And Jake wearing a black
suite with a navy green tie. They all looked great. And upon entering
the Ball even Malfoy, who was wearing a Black and god awful orange
tie, and with Parkinson in a god awful orange dress, had to admit
that the four pairs looked great.
Everyone
was dancing to a group called "Ozma", muggle of course but
all the Slytherins had no problems with them. While they were playing
a song called "Rocks" Ann saw a dark figure in the corner
of the great hall.
'Well
it can't be Snape, he's over at the food stand yelling at those poor
fourth year. So that means it's Kern. Well wonderful.' Ann thought to
herself.
Ann and
Jake went back to their table. Harry and the rest of the boys were
singing along.
"To
throw me off your trail you move to boulder Colorado. A hop and skip
and one long jump away. A woow wooooow awooooow a woooow awooooooooow
awwooooooawwwoow awoooow awoow aoh aoh."
"Boys
are dumb." Ann stated.
"Yeah
they are!" Hermione agreed.
"Well
I'm off to go see my father." Ann got up and left the table. She
walked up to him and said "Hi."
Well to be mean I'll leave you there. Sooo sorry for the mega long wait to update, but I wasn't feeling inspired, so hope you like it, and review. All flames will be used for burning my sisters pink boe!
