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Chapter 3: Polar Bears and Potions.
"Em! Em! Em! Get up!" Jen said, bouncing on the end of her bed like an overly bouncy bouncing ball.
"Piss off!" Em said, throwing a stuffed polar bear at her.
"Why was Rob on your bed?" She said jumping off the bed after the polar bear, which rolled across to Hermione's bed.
"Well I don't know." Em said sleepily "Maybe he walked over here?"
"No he didn't. You stole him!" Jen said accusingly as Em raised herself.
"Oh, bugger off Jen." Em said tiredly. She definitely wasn't a morning person.
Once Em had got up, dressed, yelled at Jen for stealing her Charlie teddy, stole Rob, held him hostage, got yelled at by Hermione for making them all late, told her to piss off, swapped teddies back with Jen and kissed her Dom picture goodbye, they headed down to breakfast.
"Ooh, pineapple for breakfast!" Flick said, excitedly helping herself.
"I think Dumbles knew you were coming!" Em giggled, grabbing a slice of toast.
"Well he did, didn't he" Flick said through a mouthful of pineapple.
"Ooh look, isn't that Harry?" Sandy said pointing at a group of boys that had just entered.
"And Ron!" Nat nodded looking at the approaching boys.
"And Seamus…" Jen said looking like she was about to start to bounce around the room. "He's so dreamy…"
Em poked her.
"Ouch!" Jen complained
Em stuck her tongue out as Jen returned her attention to the incoming Gryffindor's. To her delight they sat down pretty close to them. Ron noticed the five of them and smiled.
"Are you the new girls?" he asked.
"Yes we are!" Jen smiled, battering her eye lids at Seamus, who took a double look at her as he reached for a piece of toast and accidentally put his elbow in some butter and blushed profusely as everyone around him burst into laughter.
"I'm Ron Weasley" Ron smiled "He's Seamus Finnegan, Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom and I'm sure you've all heard of Harry…"
"Nice to meet you all!" Nat smiled.
The other girls nodded.
"I'm Emily Monaghan, that's Jennifer Murray, Natalie Holloway, Felicity Ward and Sandy Place." Em smiled "But we prefer Em, Jen, Nat, Flick and Sandy."
"Are you related to Shayne ward?" Dean asked Flick "You know in fifth year?"
"There's a Shayne ward?" she said, her mouth a gape.
"Er, yeah." he smiled "Never mind""
"I've got to meet him!" Flick giggled in Em's ear.
Flick began to hum That's My Goal as she cut up her pineapple.
"So Seamus…" Jen was smiling, eye lids battering like mad. "Do you know what lessons we have today?"
"I…no." Seamus replied keeping his elbows pressed into his sides as to avoid putting them in any more butter. "They hand out timetables soon. Look, McGonagall is handing them out now" he gestured towards the witch that was coming down the table handing out sheets of parchment to every student.
"Oh no!" Harry complained as he looked at his timetable.
"What?" Sandy asked.
"Potions first thing!" Harry groaned "And on Friday afternoons all afternoon!"
"Is potions horrid?" Em asked innocently, knowing fully well what his answer was going to be.
"Yes!" Harry said hitting his head on the table "Snape's an absolute twat."
"Harry! He's a professor!" Hermione's voice rang out.
"So?" Ron said, rolling his eyes "It doesn't stop him being a wanker."
"Ronald Weasley!" Hermione's shocked voice said as Jen burst into hysterical laughter.
"What's your problem?" Hermione sneered.
Jen just laughed at her.
Em quickly adverted her eyes and checked that day's timetable.
Potions, then Charms, then Transfiguration and finally Divination.
She looked up and raised an eyebrow at Nat across the table, who was also ignoring Jen rolling around on the floor laughing and Hermione yelling at her. Then she noticed a boy, five seats down from Nat with brown hair with blonde highlights. She couldn't stop staring. He looked down the table and their eyes made contact and Em looked away blushing.
Nat winked and Em smiled.
They finished breakfast, broke Jen and Hermione up and then headed down to potions, the boys leading the way. Jen was flirting like mad with Seamus who was blushing like mad back.
They took seats towards the back with Harry, Ron, Hermione and Seamus. (They were all careful to make sure Jen and Hermione were as far apart as possible.) Em's was sat next to Flick and Nat with Sandy next to Nat and Jen on the end of the row. To Flick's left sat Seamus, Ron, Harry and Hermione.
"Good morning class." Snape's icy voice ran through their veins like poison.
Em shuddered.
"Today we will be revising from last year. The instructions are on the board. Get to work."
The girls nervously pulled out their potion kits and got to work.
"He's an absolute vampire!" Nat whispered in Em's ear as they got to work. Em burst out laughing.
"Five points from Gryffindor Miss…" Snape sneered
"Ineedtowashmyhair." Em replied
"Miss Ineedtowashmyhair." Snape sneered before realizing what he had just said. "You little… What is your name?"
"Emily, Emily Monaghan and we know you're secret Snapey poo!" Em smirked back at him.
"Well, Miss Monaghan, 100 points from Gryffindor and detention!" Snape sneered.
Em shrugged and stared him in the eye defiantly.
He gave her another sneer before walking off.
"Classic, Em!" Jen winked
"You know, I think we should be the new marauders." Em grinned back
"Can I be Siri? Please, please, please!" Jen begged
"If you get detention with me!" Em laughed.
Jen winked and raised her hand.
Snape ignored her as he passed.
"Oi!" Jen shouted at his receding back "Can't you see I have my hand up you deranged twat?"
Snape spun on his heel and glared at her.
"100 points from Gryffindor, Miss…"
"Murray." Jen smirked.
"Miss Murray!" Snape Snapped "It looks like there are some more obnoxious brats in Gryffindor this year!"
"Obnoxious, am I?" Jen asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes." Snape sneered, coming up and standing in front of her. Jen took her chance and pretended to reach to put something in the cauldron and accidentally knocked the half finished potion over onto Snape.
The girls hid their laughter as Snape's face turned an angry shade of purple and his robes began to turn pink then suddenly begin to melt. Snape realised what was happening and half ran half hobbled out of the classroom as all the Gryffindor's started to roll around laughing.
Em and Jen high fived each other giggling like mad.
Charms was pretty uneventful. Flitwick was as exciting as he was short. The only slightly eventful thing that happened was Jen flirting with Seamus who was her partner; this in turn caused Seamus to accidentally set the mouse he was charming to not squeak to have its tail set on fire.
At the end of transfiguration, yet another boringly uneventful lesson McGonagall called Jen and Em to talk to her.
"Professor Snape has asked me to inform you that you both have detention with him tonight at five." McGonagall sighed "I hope you won't be making a habit of causing trouble."
"No miss" Jen said innocently "It was an accident anyway"
McGonagall shook her head and they scampered back up to the Great hall for lunch. After Lunch They traipsed up to Divination.
"Why did you lot pick to do divination?" Ron rolled his eyes "It's awful!"
"Dumbledore picked for us…" Nat said rolling her eyes "Reckons it'll be easy to catch up."
"Unlucky" Harry shrugged "Its only easy to catch up cause it's a load of rubbish. Watch it I bet within five minutes she's predicted my death"
"You're Death?" Sandy said attempting to pretend she didn't know this was a regular occurrence.
"Yep" Harry Nodded "Her favorite way to start the lesson, Harry Killing"
"Sounds… Fun…" Em said "If she predicts mine she's going to have a crystal ball thrown at her."
The group snickered
They proceed to climb up the ladder up to divination. Em, Flick, Jen and Seamus took seats round one little table and Nat, Sandy, Harry and Ron took the one next to them.
"Welcome back to another year of divination." Professor Trelawney's Mystical voice rang throughout the room. As Em, Jen and Flick broke down into giggles.
"Dear" Trelawney said mystically to Harry "you are in grave danger!"
Harry simply rolled his eyes
"What from enlighten me…" He asked sarcastically
"Why your death my dear" Trelawney said placing a hand on his shoulder "You will die young I can see it now."
"Really?" Harry said "You predicted that last year."
"Yes, dear!" She said mystically "That is because it is as true now as it was then!"
"I'll bare that in mind." Harry nodded, rolling his eyes.
"On to today's lesson!" Trelawney said in her sing song mystical voice. "You shall be studying the art of crystal balls," Jen burst out laughing and Trelawney ignored her, "and tea leaves. You will all find a crystal ball in front of you, help yourself to cups and pages 65 to 69 of The Art of Divination should help you."
"Watch this" Flick whispered in Em's ear.
"Oh, Professor! I see something!" Flick said, raising her hand.
"Yes, dear?" she said, coming away from Harry to talk to Flick.
"I see a cup… a tournament." Flick said attempting a vague mystical voice.
"Yes. my dear. carry on!" Trelawney said excitedly.
"I see… a cup of tea about to spill on you!" Flick predicted. Jen, seeing her chance, obliged and 'accidentally' knocked over her cup of tea onto the professor.
"My dear! You have the sight!" she said excitedly, ignoring the scolding hot tea Jen had just poured on her.
"Can you tell me what tournament you can see?" Trelawney asked excitedly
"The…tri…tri…biz…no…wiz…wizard…The Tri-wizard Tournament!" Flick said excitedly.
"My dear, you really do have the sight! Only the staff members know that Dumbledore is about to announce the introduction of the Tri-wizard Tournament tonight at dinner!"
Em hid her laughter with a coughing fit. Jen had shoved her fist into her mouth to stop herself from laughing. Nat and Sandy were in silent hysterics at the next table.
Eventually the lesson finished and Em wiped away a tear of laughter.
"The look on her face!" she said with a smile
"Nice work, Flick!" Jen giggled.
That night they all sat down to dinner excitedly. knowing what Dumbledore was about to announce. They listened to his rather dull lecture about the tournament.
"Reckon I should tell her who the champions are going to be?" Flick sniggered in Em's ear as Dumbles announced the champion's selection process. Em started to giggle too.
"Ooh, should I enter?" Jen asked excitedly
"No" Everyone replied at once.
"But..." Jen began to say
"No" They all yelled, causing half the hall to look to see what they were doing.
After dinner, Nat, Flick and Sandy headed back up to the common room while Em and Jen headed to their doom. Or was it his doom? Detention with Snape.