A/N- Finally, here is the lecture à là Fred and George! Hope its okay.
Coming soon are Ron and Hermione's reactions (this time for real), and
Cissa's plan, and much much more! YAY! R/R!
Up in Percy's room, Percy was getting extremely exasperated. Fred, George, Oliver, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie were certainly taking their time in deciding what to say to him. "I'm still waiting. If you don't talk soon, I'm going to walk out of here," Percy said, aggravated.
"Oh no you're not!" Penny said, glaring at him, "But seriously, let's go everyone." Oliver nodded. They had thought for long enough. "Hmm," said George, eyes glimmering, "How can we put this so that you'll understand things? This is tough. I wish you played Quidditch, because I gave Oliver a nice little talk about that. But I'm sure there's something we can tell you that you'll understand."
Suddenly, Fred's eyes widened. "I've got it!" he said, bouncing up and down on the bed, "I've got it!" Everyone looked at him expectantly. "Tell me what your idea is, and I'll tell it!" George said eagerly.
Fred shook his head and stuck his tongue out at George. "I want to tell it!" he said sulkily. They went back and forth for a minute, arguing over who was going to say Fred's idea. Finally, Angelina interrupted their argument. "Alright, as much as we'd all like to tell it, Fred is telling it because it was his idea, and that's all there is to it," she said.
Fred grinned at Angelina for a minute, but then turned back to Percy (and Penny). "Alright Percy. Let me ask you this. Do you consider yourself to be a good student?" he asked laughingly.
Percy looked at him in annoyance. "I'm one the best students at Hogwarts!" he said proudly, "I'm a great student!" Oliver and Penny rolled their eyes. Angelina, Alicia, and Katie gave Penny an awestruck look. They didn't understand how she could deal with him. Percy was an extremely stuck- up prat.
"Okay Percy. It's good to know that confidence isn't one of your problems," Fred sniggered, "Anyway, let me put it in terms for you.
Guys are like quills, and girls are like homework. Now most quills tend to leave homework to the last minute. This is not a good idea at all. It's a very bad idea. The quills may not want to do the homework for any number of reasons. The main reason for this is that the homework sometimes looks like it'll be hard to handle.
It can look intimidating, Percy, and that can scare a quill so much that its ink will run dry. But all the same, whether it looks hard or easy, the homework needs to be done. Even the homework itself may not think so, but deep down, it knows it has to happen sooner or later.
Many things can happen along the way to distract the quill from doing the homework. Some other person may come take the quill away. They might suck on it while try to think of an answer. Quills may welcome this, because it means that the time when they have to work on the homework gets put off.
But when a quill sees another quill doing homework, it's bound to get jealous and upset, because the quill would wish that they could do that. In fact they can, it's just that some quills lack ink, or confidence, if you will.
What really has to happen is for a quill to put aside its fear of getting an answer wrong, and just suck it up and do the homework. The homework will be happy, the quill will be happy, and all the other quills and homeworks will be happy too, because that way they don't have to listen to the lonely quill whine about how they're too scared to do their homework.
So in short, a CERTAIN QUILL should get up off his LAZY BUM, stop WORRYING about whether or not he's GOOD ENOUGH, and DO SOME HOMEWORK! Then we can all point and laugh and all, but at least the DAMN QUILL will be HAPPY! DO YOU GET IT, QUILL-BOY?" Fred asked, laughing uncontrollably along with Oliver, George, and the three girls.
"Are you implying that I don't do my homework on time?!" Percy asked in an outrage. Oliver mock gasped. "Percy! We would *never* imply *that*!" he said, shaking his head as if it was crazy talk. Percy gaped for a second, and then glared at all six of them. "So you're implying that-" he got out before George interrupted him.
"Yes Percy. We are implying that you've been an insensitive jerk to Penny. We are also implying that you have an inferiority complex around girls, and that you need to get over yourself and make a move! And stop being a SCAREDY-CAT!" George laughed, giving Fred a high-five.
Percy glared defiantly at them. "I am *not* a 'scaredy-cat', as you so eloquently put it," he said derisively, "Have I been a 'scaredy-cat', Penny?" All eyes turned to Penny, who smiled ruefully at Percy. "Yeah Percy," she said, "You kind of have been."
Angelina, Alicia, and Katie managed to hold back their laughter, but Fred, George, and Oliver started sniggering uncontrollably at the look on Percy's face. He looked shocked. "I- I- I- what would be my grade here, if this was a homework assignment?" he asked, causing even the girls to break out giggling.
"Percy," Penny said honestly, "that's part of your problem. You are so obsessed with responsibility that you don't let yourself have any fun! None of your brothers have done anything wrong, so there was no cause for worry there. And there was no need to get mad at Oliver."
Percy looked at Oliver irritably. "But- but- he was- with Katie!" he stammered, at a loss for words. Oliver and Katie rolled their eyes. "There was no need to be jealous, Perce," Fred said on a gamble.
"I WAS NOT JEALOUS!" Percy said hotly, looking from Oliver and Katie to Penny. In fact, though, he was jealous. Jealous that Oliver had so much confidence around girls. "I wish girls were as easy to understand as homework," Percy commented, slightly calmer.
This time it was Angelina who burst out laughing. "Percy," she said amid giggles, "Listen. Right now you're failing this assignment, okay? But there's still time to bring your grade up. So I suggest you get to work."
Percy looked startled for a second, and he couldn't seem to decide whether to be really annoyed or slightly relieved. He settled for both. "All six of you have a *lot* of nerve. I cannot even believe that you would do this. I am banishing you all from the room until further notice. Now get out!"
The six intruders laughed, and then, with one last wink at Percy and Penny, they walked out. However, they didn't move very far. They stayed there just long enough to hear Percy say to Penny, "We really need to talk."
"I cannot believe we just did that," Katie said as they walked away from the room. "Neither can I," Oliver laughed, shaking his head. Everyone agreed. It was stupid of them, because if things didn't go well for Percy the rest of the evening, they were likely to be on his hit list for life. But chances were they were going to stay lucky, and their little 'talk' would help Percy rather than hurt him.
As they walked down the corridor and into the common room, Fred's eyes went wide. "What is it?" Angelina asked curiously. Fred didn't answer for a second, then he started smirking like crazy. "Fred, are you feeling okay?" George asked, looking at his twin suspiciously.
Fred nodded. "I've never felt better!" he said perkily, grinning like a Cheshire cat. "Fred, either tell us what you're thinking or stop grinning like a nut," Oliver commanded, rolling his eyes at Fred.
"Alright," Fred said, still smirking, but, Oliver noticed, more at Angelina than anyone else. "Angelina," he began happily, "Do you remember back in the common room a little while ago, we made a little bet?"
Angelina's eyebrows raised, and she looked at him in surprise. "Yeah," she said simply. Plainly, she had been hoping that he would forget. "Well," Fred sniggered, "I believe I just won."
* * * *
"Well," Sevvie said as they reached the door to his office/quarters, "Here we are." He and Ally stood there in front of it, but he made no move to open the door. Ally glanced at him in surprise. "Sev, are you going to open the door?" she asked questioningly.
"I- um- oh yeah," he said, laughing nervously as he opened the door with the hand not occupied with holding Ally's. She giggled, and they walked inside, shutting the door almost all the way behind them.
Ally looked all around. "Hmm. Your office is nicer than mine," she said, laughing, "But if you want to have something to eat, maybe it would be more comfortable to sit on a couch in there?" She pointed through the empty doorframe into the adjoining room, which was Snape's combined bedroom/living room.
Snape had to struggle for breath. He wasn't used to having anyone come past his office. Actually, he was barely used to having anyone *in* his office, save intolerable students who he had to give detentions to. But he was more than happy to have Ally come in. "Sure, let's go," he said in a would-be calm voice as he lead her in.
He sat down on a black leather loveseat at the far end of the sitting room, on the opposite side of the quarters as his bedroom area. After looking around for a minute, Ally came and sat down with him. "Oh yeah," Sevvie said, remembering why they had come down there in the first place, "Do you want anything to eat?"
He took Ally over to his little mini fridge. "Oh, let's have ice cream!" she said, giggling as she took out a pint of coffee ice cream. After Sevvie scooped some quickly into two bowls, he put the container back, and they went and sat back down on the loveseat.
"This is delicious," Ally said after they had sat down. Snape laughed slightly. "That's the first time I've ever heard someone say that about my coffee ice cream. No one ever likes it. Not that many people have tried it," he admitted, "but everyone says that it's too intense."
Ally smiled at him. Sevvie noticed that her eyes looked especially deep in the slightly more dim light of his room. "Well," she said softly as she pushed her hair out of her eye, "I like things intense."
Up in Percy's room, Percy was getting extremely exasperated. Fred, George, Oliver, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie were certainly taking their time in deciding what to say to him. "I'm still waiting. If you don't talk soon, I'm going to walk out of here," Percy said, aggravated.
"Oh no you're not!" Penny said, glaring at him, "But seriously, let's go everyone." Oliver nodded. They had thought for long enough. "Hmm," said George, eyes glimmering, "How can we put this so that you'll understand things? This is tough. I wish you played Quidditch, because I gave Oliver a nice little talk about that. But I'm sure there's something we can tell you that you'll understand."
Suddenly, Fred's eyes widened. "I've got it!" he said, bouncing up and down on the bed, "I've got it!" Everyone looked at him expectantly. "Tell me what your idea is, and I'll tell it!" George said eagerly.
Fred shook his head and stuck his tongue out at George. "I want to tell it!" he said sulkily. They went back and forth for a minute, arguing over who was going to say Fred's idea. Finally, Angelina interrupted their argument. "Alright, as much as we'd all like to tell it, Fred is telling it because it was his idea, and that's all there is to it," she said.
Fred grinned at Angelina for a minute, but then turned back to Percy (and Penny). "Alright Percy. Let me ask you this. Do you consider yourself to be a good student?" he asked laughingly.
Percy looked at him in annoyance. "I'm one the best students at Hogwarts!" he said proudly, "I'm a great student!" Oliver and Penny rolled their eyes. Angelina, Alicia, and Katie gave Penny an awestruck look. They didn't understand how she could deal with him. Percy was an extremely stuck- up prat.
"Okay Percy. It's good to know that confidence isn't one of your problems," Fred sniggered, "Anyway, let me put it in terms for you.
Guys are like quills, and girls are like homework. Now most quills tend to leave homework to the last minute. This is not a good idea at all. It's a very bad idea. The quills may not want to do the homework for any number of reasons. The main reason for this is that the homework sometimes looks like it'll be hard to handle.
It can look intimidating, Percy, and that can scare a quill so much that its ink will run dry. But all the same, whether it looks hard or easy, the homework needs to be done. Even the homework itself may not think so, but deep down, it knows it has to happen sooner or later.
Many things can happen along the way to distract the quill from doing the homework. Some other person may come take the quill away. They might suck on it while try to think of an answer. Quills may welcome this, because it means that the time when they have to work on the homework gets put off.
But when a quill sees another quill doing homework, it's bound to get jealous and upset, because the quill would wish that they could do that. In fact they can, it's just that some quills lack ink, or confidence, if you will.
What really has to happen is for a quill to put aside its fear of getting an answer wrong, and just suck it up and do the homework. The homework will be happy, the quill will be happy, and all the other quills and homeworks will be happy too, because that way they don't have to listen to the lonely quill whine about how they're too scared to do their homework.
So in short, a CERTAIN QUILL should get up off his LAZY BUM, stop WORRYING about whether or not he's GOOD ENOUGH, and DO SOME HOMEWORK! Then we can all point and laugh and all, but at least the DAMN QUILL will be HAPPY! DO YOU GET IT, QUILL-BOY?" Fred asked, laughing uncontrollably along with Oliver, George, and the three girls.
"Are you implying that I don't do my homework on time?!" Percy asked in an outrage. Oliver mock gasped. "Percy! We would *never* imply *that*!" he said, shaking his head as if it was crazy talk. Percy gaped for a second, and then glared at all six of them. "So you're implying that-" he got out before George interrupted him.
"Yes Percy. We are implying that you've been an insensitive jerk to Penny. We are also implying that you have an inferiority complex around girls, and that you need to get over yourself and make a move! And stop being a SCAREDY-CAT!" George laughed, giving Fred a high-five.
Percy glared defiantly at them. "I am *not* a 'scaredy-cat', as you so eloquently put it," he said derisively, "Have I been a 'scaredy-cat', Penny?" All eyes turned to Penny, who smiled ruefully at Percy. "Yeah Percy," she said, "You kind of have been."
Angelina, Alicia, and Katie managed to hold back their laughter, but Fred, George, and Oliver started sniggering uncontrollably at the look on Percy's face. He looked shocked. "I- I- I- what would be my grade here, if this was a homework assignment?" he asked, causing even the girls to break out giggling.
"Percy," Penny said honestly, "that's part of your problem. You are so obsessed with responsibility that you don't let yourself have any fun! None of your brothers have done anything wrong, so there was no cause for worry there. And there was no need to get mad at Oliver."
Percy looked at Oliver irritably. "But- but- he was- with Katie!" he stammered, at a loss for words. Oliver and Katie rolled their eyes. "There was no need to be jealous, Perce," Fred said on a gamble.
"I WAS NOT JEALOUS!" Percy said hotly, looking from Oliver and Katie to Penny. In fact, though, he was jealous. Jealous that Oliver had so much confidence around girls. "I wish girls were as easy to understand as homework," Percy commented, slightly calmer.
This time it was Angelina who burst out laughing. "Percy," she said amid giggles, "Listen. Right now you're failing this assignment, okay? But there's still time to bring your grade up. So I suggest you get to work."
Percy looked startled for a second, and he couldn't seem to decide whether to be really annoyed or slightly relieved. He settled for both. "All six of you have a *lot* of nerve. I cannot even believe that you would do this. I am banishing you all from the room until further notice. Now get out!"
The six intruders laughed, and then, with one last wink at Percy and Penny, they walked out. However, they didn't move very far. They stayed there just long enough to hear Percy say to Penny, "We really need to talk."
"I cannot believe we just did that," Katie said as they walked away from the room. "Neither can I," Oliver laughed, shaking his head. Everyone agreed. It was stupid of them, because if things didn't go well for Percy the rest of the evening, they were likely to be on his hit list for life. But chances were they were going to stay lucky, and their little 'talk' would help Percy rather than hurt him.
As they walked down the corridor and into the common room, Fred's eyes went wide. "What is it?" Angelina asked curiously. Fred didn't answer for a second, then he started smirking like crazy. "Fred, are you feeling okay?" George asked, looking at his twin suspiciously.
Fred nodded. "I've never felt better!" he said perkily, grinning like a Cheshire cat. "Fred, either tell us what you're thinking or stop grinning like a nut," Oliver commanded, rolling his eyes at Fred.
"Alright," Fred said, still smirking, but, Oliver noticed, more at Angelina than anyone else. "Angelina," he began happily, "Do you remember back in the common room a little while ago, we made a little bet?"
Angelina's eyebrows raised, and she looked at him in surprise. "Yeah," she said simply. Plainly, she had been hoping that he would forget. "Well," Fred sniggered, "I believe I just won."
* * * *
"Well," Sevvie said as they reached the door to his office/quarters, "Here we are." He and Ally stood there in front of it, but he made no move to open the door. Ally glanced at him in surprise. "Sev, are you going to open the door?" she asked questioningly.
"I- um- oh yeah," he said, laughing nervously as he opened the door with the hand not occupied with holding Ally's. She giggled, and they walked inside, shutting the door almost all the way behind them.
Ally looked all around. "Hmm. Your office is nicer than mine," she said, laughing, "But if you want to have something to eat, maybe it would be more comfortable to sit on a couch in there?" She pointed through the empty doorframe into the adjoining room, which was Snape's combined bedroom/living room.
Snape had to struggle for breath. He wasn't used to having anyone come past his office. Actually, he was barely used to having anyone *in* his office, save intolerable students who he had to give detentions to. But he was more than happy to have Ally come in. "Sure, let's go," he said in a would-be calm voice as he lead her in.
He sat down on a black leather loveseat at the far end of the sitting room, on the opposite side of the quarters as his bedroom area. After looking around for a minute, Ally came and sat down with him. "Oh yeah," Sevvie said, remembering why they had come down there in the first place, "Do you want anything to eat?"
He took Ally over to his little mini fridge. "Oh, let's have ice cream!" she said, giggling as she took out a pint of coffee ice cream. After Sevvie scooped some quickly into two bowls, he put the container back, and they went and sat back down on the loveseat.
"This is delicious," Ally said after they had sat down. Snape laughed slightly. "That's the first time I've ever heard someone say that about my coffee ice cream. No one ever likes it. Not that many people have tried it," he admitted, "but everyone says that it's too intense."
Ally smiled at him. Sevvie noticed that her eyes looked especially deep in the slightly more dim light of his room. "Well," she said softly as she pushed her hair out of her eye, "I like things intense."
