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Chapter 2. Rooster Dung
"My dears, what have you seen in the crystal ball today?" Professor Trelawney stood over Katie, Alicia, and Angelina. Her mouth was slightly open and her bangles and beads hung over her student's heads.
"Erhm", Katie looked guiltily between her friends, all of whom had been fast asleep moments before.
Quickly forming a lie, something she was known for, Katie piped, "Well, looking at the peculiar polygonal shapes, I can decipher that...er...many people will be loosing their appetite's tonight at dinner", she looked up at Trelawney, who seemed remotely pleased, and then back to dis-satisfied.
Katie continued, "And..er..it will begin to get chilly in the weather soon."
"That's because it is fall my dear", Professor Trelawney drawled.
Lamely, she contiuned, her voice gradually becoming smaller, "And..er...ah well I see the out line of an animal. A hawk soaring in the sky. This signifies success! Perhaps an A in class...?"
"Certainly not in this one", Trelawney abandoned Katie's table as the class giggled along.
"As if I give a damn", Katie grumbled to her friends.
"Come on, we have to go to Care of Magical Creatures now", Angelina said reproachfully.
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"Nice predictions in Divination, Bell", Flint shouted, a few yards from where the Gryffindors walked down to Hagrid's cabin.
"Oh you liked them? Well I forgot to mention my prediction where some jerk off Slytherin's get pounded on the Hogwarts grounds", Katie nastily projected back as her peers cheered along.
Before anyone could take things farther, Hagrid came out of his cabin, pulling a long some strange animal on a rope.
" 'Mornin' class! Gather 'round now. Today we'll be studyin' the Troll Roosters!" Groans were heard around the class. They looked at the dark, featherless, rooster tied to the side of Hagrid's cabin.
"Ive got meself 9 more around the back, so come along. Pair up with someone and come along", Hagrid began to drag the screeching rooster around his cabin as his students followed apprehensively.
"What do we plan to do with them exactly?" A Slytherin asked, not trying to hide the fear in his voice.
"Well we're gonna take them for a walk a' course! Oh and remember, if the rooster starts growl, he's only playin' wit ya", Hagrid smiled.
"Here we go", Wood muttered next to Katie.
"Hey! Wanna be my partner?" Katie asked cheerfully. Recently, she had been trying to make up for the Quidditch incidant.
Wood seemed apprehensive, "Well, as long as you don't egg on the rooster to run into my middle or something, yea sure", Wood laughed at the look of horror on Katie's face.
"Shut up! I told you I was sorry", Katie frowned playfully and led him to a rather large rooster, the only one left in the yard.
"Ok here we go now, make sure your ropes are secure, I want both partners to hold onto the rope K?" Hagrid led the group along the rocks of the lake.
It would've been a nice walk, if it hadn't been for the horridly loud screeches from the ugly roosters. And to the displeasure of the students, the atrocious smell of the putrid droppings from the cross-bread animals was filling up everyone's nostrils.
"Crap, I dropped my wand, hold on Kates", Wood bent over.
"Wait Wood! Don't let go of-" and Katie was off. The roosters had surprising strength and speed. That's why Hagrid had asked for people to partner up and hold on. But obviously, mishaps occured.
In about 3 seconds, Katie was wailing and being harshly dragged on her stomach by the wild rooster. She held on for dear life as most of the students whipped out their wands to help, the Slytherins watching and laughing.
"Katieeeeee!" Wood was blindly throwing out spells, trying to make up for his mistake.
"Now now don' worry. Relax! Shire!" Hagrid bellowed at the rooster that was dragging Katie, apparently it's name was Shire. The rooster abruptly stopped and left Katie to land in a pile of excretion.
"Ewwwwwwwww", Katie sat on the ground, limp to the bone and smelling like it. Wood ran over to her and started lifting her up.
"I...Am.......So......Sorry!" Wood seemed horrified at what he had done. Katie didn't forgive him and had taken to whacking him every possibility she got.
"Settle down now Katie! Let Angelina ad Alicia take you up to the infirmiry", Hagrid lowered his voice as he watched Katie's friends lift her up, "Wood, I don' think yer should be by her right now. She needs some time to calm down."
"Yea I know", Wood grumbled, Katie had left bruises on his arm.
"Kates? You awake?" Wood stood over Katie's bed in the hospital wing. He had taken time out of his lunch period to go see her.
"No..uh no, I'm not. Go away!" Katie rolled over her bed, letting Wood talk to her back.
"Katie I'm sooooooo sorry. It was completely stupid of me. I take all of the blame!"
"Well you better! But that doesn't improve anything. You're not the one who was dragged along in Rooster dung! You're not the one everyone's going to make fun of!"
"Well......", he was stumped, she had a good point, "What can I do to make it up for you?"
"Never be my partner for anything!" Katie's back was still turned.
"And that's all?" Wood expected a catch to this.
Katie turned over in her bed and sat up so quickly that it made Wood whimper, "No that's not all! I'm not letting you get off that easy!" Her eyes were hysterical and at that moment, Katie looked cynical. "You..should be my personal slave for a week", she smirked triumphantly.
"No! Last time I was indebted to you, you made me give you piggy back rides every where you had to go!" Wood rubbed his neck at the mere memory.
"Last time you were indebted to me, we were 5! And that time it was only for a day, and the reason was because you stole my cookie! This is entirely different!"
"Ok, fine I'll be your slave. But no piggy back rides?" Wood pleaded.
"I can't make a deal to that. My body is so sore that I may need assistance in walking!"
"Katie", Wood grumbled.
"Wood", Katie leaned into him and glared.
"Fine. Piggy back rides allowed."
"Good."
"Fine."
"OK then!"
"Good bye!"
"See you at dinner....slave!"
Wood trudged out of the infirmiry, mentally kicking himself at what he'd gotten into.