COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION
A discourse concerning Malcolm's fourth year as a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as written down by HiBob.
Our Story so far:
In Year One (Hogwarts in the Middle) Malcolm and Reese find themselves on board the Hogwarts express heading toward the school. Malcolm decides to sneak into the school and discovers to his dismay that he can't sneak out. As a result, he has to stay there as a student.
Reese discovers his match in Draco Malfoy, another boy who likes to annoy and harass people. He ends up being hexed and shipped home via UPS.
Despite ending up in Gryffindor, Malcolm and Draco develop a strong friendship, marred only by the fact that everyone in Malcolm's house hates everyone in Draco's house, and vice-versa.
Malcolm solves this problem by inviting Draco to his house for Christmas, as well as Ginny Weasley. The two fall for it, and for each other. They even pose for a photo, kissing under the mistletoe, for a popular weekly magazine.
Despite all of that, everyone has a good time until the end of the story, when Malcolm realizes that not only can he finally go home, he has to. The only one smiling is his mother.
In Year Two (Life is Unfair) Malcolm returns to Hogwarts having fully restored Ginny and Draco's love affair by having them both arrested. Then, for some strange reason, he's forced to go see a psychiatrist. He avoids that by trying out for the Quidditch team. Despite Quidditch being cancelled because of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, Malcolm still makes the team but it is the wrong team. He ends up as Slytherin's seeker.
Malcolm wins the match for his team despite the fact that the match was rigged for his team to lose. He does this by becoming an animagus after falling off his broom from a great height. It should be noted that he manages to do this before hitting the ground, making it rather convenient.
Malcolm now is an owl and thus can deliver his own mail. He also goes to the hospital and entertains the children. His other choice is to go there and entertain the psychiatrist. Anyway, Everything is fine until Draco's brother dies. (The sickly one that was hidden away that no one even knew he had.) After that, Malcolm is kidnaped and taken to a cemetery to meet You-Know-Who. Had things happened differently with Potter, Malcolm would have been welcomed as the first student of the new Hogwarts, to be renamed Voldemort University. Instead he is merely inconvenient and is poisoned and left for dead. Malcolm nearly dies, only to find out upon his recovery that his parents have come to visit him. As a result, he wishes he were dead. Oh yeah, along the way, Malcolm falls in love but the girl dumps him, and the Malfoys give the family a house elf as a Christmas present.
In Year Three (Harry And Malcolm: Together Again) the author has trouble thinking up a good title and comes up with something totally useless. As it is, the plot goes something like this:
Dewey, who is ten, is eleven and goes to school with Malcolm. He's in Slytherin. Malcolm spends the summer with Dennis Creevey and the Krelboynes. (You know, that sounds like a rock group.) Draco Malfoy spends the summer as Malcolm.
Back at school, Malcolm is punished for being smart by not having any classes to go to. He turns this around by becoming a teacher and teaching his own classes. Dewey makes friends with the Giant Squid. The house elf turns human and is adopted by the family. And Narcissa Malfoy tries to adopt Dewey. Everyone regrets that this does not happen. Except for Draco and Lucius.
Hallowe'en comes and Malcolm ends up with the School Ogress's daughter as his date. It turns out that the daughter looks like her father and she already has a date. Malcolm ends up dating the girl who dumped him last year. Their picture makes the Daily Prophet.
Moving right along, Malcolm finds out he's the reason that Dewey fell back in time, his best friend EJ and EJ's girlfriend Amber turn out to be his great grandparents, which means his dad's really a squib with his memory of magic erased. On the other side of the family, his grandmother had an affair with Draco's grandfather, which means that Lois is a half-sister of Lucius. Lois's mother is also a witch, but that is a reference to her personality and not her magical ability.
As the story lumbers to a close, Malcolm loses his mind, his girlfriend finds it for him, and his great-grandmother shows him how to put it back in place. All in all, everyone had a good time . . . at one time or another.
As a side note, Reese got sent away to a boarding school, and the family lived next door to the Weasley's for the year while the house was being rebuilt. The official report was that it was a gas main explosion but the police still want to talk to Reese.
In Year Four (Could You Repeat The Question) Malcolm goes back to school after another eventful summer where nothing really happened. Everyone pretended they were someone else in hopes that their lives would be marginally better. That didn't work so everybody went back to school. Except Francis who got a job on a ranch.
Everybody kind of lumbered along, not really doing anything, until the end of the year when everything became confusing. At one point, a conversation goes like this: "Can we trust him? Does it matter?"
If you read, Harry Potter Book VI then you know there isn't really a happy ending. As a result, this story doesn't have an ending either. At least not until Book VII comes out.
Just a note to everyone. The first chapter of this story is being posted on October 31. As readers from the last story will remember, October 31 is New Year's Day in the ancient Celtic calendars (The feast of Samhain). And because they had a Lunar Calendar, the new year begins when the sun sets. Now you know why Hallowe'en parties got started.
DISCLAIMERS
Here is where I deny everything. And I do. There are quite a few references in the story and I want to include them all. JK Rowling and Warner Brothers own all the rights to HP characters and movies. Linwood Boomer and Fox Television Network have the rights to Malcolm and those characters. Terry Prachett has the rights to the Unseen University, which will not make an appearance in this story. I also make clear and obvious references to the movies, Casablanca and Citizen Kane. Also include in the story are characters borrowed from Neil Gaiman and Vertigo comics. (The specific references for this will appear in the bibliography.) Also, I need to give credit to an old show, Eerie, Indiana. The episode, Reality takes a Holiday, was where I stole the plot device I used for the storyline tangent that follows the Hallowe'en party (Somewhere around Chapter Twenty)
CHAPTER LIST
Chapter 01: Introduction
Chapter 02: Relative Experiences
Chapter 03: Home Alone . . . Almost
Chapter 04: House Party
Chapter 05: Adventures With Reese
Chapter 06: As Time Goes By
Chapter 07: The Good Son
Chapter 08: Louis Through The Looking Glass
Chapter 09: And What He Found There
Chapter 10: Draco's Adventures In Wonderland
Chapter 11: The Prodigal Owl
Chapter 12: Back To School
Chapter 13: King's Cross and the Hogwart's Express
Chapter 14: The Great Hall
Chapter 15: The First Day
Chapter 16: The School Year Progresses
Chapter 17: September Reminiscing
Chapter 18: School Night
Chapter 19: Hallowe'en
Chapter 20: The Feast
Chapter 21: Not Again
Chapter 22: Been There, Done That
Chapter 23: What Was And Will Be
Chapter 24: There and Back Again
Chapter 25: All Good Things
Chapter 26: The Holidays Are Coming
Chapter 27: The Happy Holidays
Chapter 28: Back At School
Chapter 29: Springtime
Chapter 30: The Way Of Things
Chapter 31: Emotions Abound
Chapter 32: Welcome to June
Chapter 33: Meeting Of The Minds
Chapter 34: Something Happens
Chapter 35: The End Justifies The Means
Chapter 36: Repercussions
Chapter 37: The Farewell
Chapter 38: Extra Stuff