Woah, long time no update! Ehh….maybe its because noone came to review me….(sharpens knife) Well, if you're ever here, please please PLEASE tell me what you think…and….Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Most of the characters so far are mine, and based off of my friends. But I wish that I did own Harry Potter!
Part 2: The News
"Wow," said Michelle after opening up the 'Daily Prophet.' "he's on front page again…that Harry Potter is really something." She passed the paper to Violet. "Hmmm…he seems to be the type that girls go after only because he's famous." Violet said as she put down the paper to pour herself some cereal into a bowl. An owl suddenly swooped down and dropped a letter into Michelle's lap.
"Whos that from?" asked Marie, joining the breakfast table and looking extremely tired.
"Its from Cho." said Michelle, opening up the letter carefully.
"Cho?" repeated Kevin. "Your cousin who goes to Hogwarts?"
"Yupp," said Michelle, grabbing a roll from from the basket and taking a bite out of it. "Lets see what she wrote…" She sat there silent for a few minutes and put the letter down. "Marie, do you have a pen?" Michelle asked as she pulled out a parchment from her bag.
"Yea. Why?" responded Marie as she quietly reached for a cup of coffee. She sipped silently for a second and put the cup down.
"I need to write back to Cho," said Michelle. "Can I borrow it?"
"Yea, sure." Marie passed the feather pen towards Michelle while she started on her second cup. "What'd she say?"
"Shes raving on about Cedric Diggory...and Harry."
Violet snorted into her orange juice and looked at Michelle. "Harry? Harry POTTER?" she stared at Michelle. Marie gave an inquisitive look as she drained her second cup. Her hand was slightly unsteady. "Michelle," said Marie, her voice filled with excitement. "Violet? Jared? Kevin? I have some news."
"Uh oh….shes had too much coffee again…." Kevin slapped his hand on his forehead. "Guess what it is, guess what it is, GUESS WHAT IT IS!" yelled Marie, slapping her hands on the table and making her cup of coffee spill across the smooth, polished surface of the table. Everyone in the room was silent and looking at her, and Jared dove under the table to save himself from embarrasment.
Marie stretched her hand out for her cup of coffee, but Kevin lunged at her, pulling her back and hollering, "No more coffee for you, you hear? No more coffee!" He dragged Marie out of the room with some difficulty while Marie was screaming, "GUESS! GUESS! GUESS!" The crowd watched with interest as Marie and Kevin dissapeared from the breakfast room. Violet and Michelle shrugged while the room resumed back to its noisy self again.
After breakfast, all the girls and boys separated for their dormitories. Violet and Michelle muttered the password to a statue in front of them, and soon, there appeared a little doorknob on the foot of the statue. Violet turned the doorknob. She hunched down and crawled in, Michelle closely at her heel. What seemed to be nothing but a small and stony statue on the outside became a large but cozy dormitory fitting all of the 5th year girls comfortably in the inside.
"Where's Marie?" asked Violet as she scanned the gigantic room. "I dunno," replied Michelle, flopping down on her bed. "she was pretty excited about giving us some news, wasn't she?"
"Yeah…" Violet sat on her bed also. "must have been pretty good…"
"You think?" said Michelle, sitting upright. "cause she hasn't been that excited since…." she frowned, trying to recall the last time Marie had an episode concerning caffeine. "Nah, I give up! Too much headache…" and with that, she flopped back on her bed.
Michelle and Violet were in a very deep conversation about their classes when Marie came in, looking calmer than the last time they've seen her, but trying to stifle her excitement.
"Marie!" yelled Violet, making some girls' head turn. She quickly turned crimson. "Where've you been?" she whispered, looking embarrassed.
"The apothecary. Kev said I needed some calming potion and took me to Mr Burns. He made me sit there for an hour….that crazy old man…" she sat there looking disgusted. "Anyway…"
Michelle quickly cut her off. "Yes, Marie! We're dying to hear the news…spill up!"
She grinned. "You remember how Krum said that we're temporarily moving our location?" She lowered her voice so only Violet and Michelle could hear. "We're going to Hogwarts!"
"What? We're going to Hog-"
Violet quickly put her hand over Michelle's face to muffle up her voice. "Sorry," said Michelle apoligetically.
"That's quite alright," said Marie happily. "I knew you'd be excited. Hogwarts is supposed to be the best wizarding school for ages!" She dropped her voice again. "But this is supposed to be a secret. Madame Maxime was here today to tell the Headboy and girl that she'd be taking us to Hogwarts…she wont be breaking the news until next week--so make sure you do not tell anybody!" she seperated the last couple of words dramatically.
"We wont!" chimed Violet and Michelle.
"Good." said Marie, giving a nood of approval. "I'd better go tell the boys what's going on—be back soon!" and with that, she dissapeared out of the room.
The next couple of days were extremely hectic. Apperantly, Jared had trouble keeping the little secret and had blabbed to some boys in his dormitory, (Kevin had to give him a lecture about the level of trust and loyalty in his veins.) and when Marie found out, all she had to do was stop the news spreading towards the other students. (A.N: Yes, quite simple, no?) All afternoon, she tried negotiating with the boys and even tried threatening them—by that time she was extremely paranoid.
"I swear," said Marie through gritted teeth. "that if you blab a single word to the other students, I will permanently stick your mouth together!"
Jared absent-mindedly brought his fingers to his lips and gasped. Violet had a 'I-pity-you-so-much-if-there-was-a-way-to-get-you-some-brains' kind of look.
"Marie, have some breakfast." said Kevin, offering her a piece of buttered toast.
"No thanks," she replied, exhausted. "Now if you don't mind, Im going to report to Krum about the infectious epidemic that some lunatic started. Good day." Jared looked abashed and stared at the ceiling, humming a tune. Michelle stared into nowhere in particular with blank eyes.
"Michelle?" Violet shook Michelle by the arm roughly. "Michelle, you're dribbling your orange juice-"
"I-what?" she spluttered. She hastily wiped her chin with a napkin.
"What were you thinking about?"
"Hogsmeade." said Michelle simply.
"A what?" asked Violet.
"Hogsmeade." She repeated. "It's a village near Hogwarts." she said, answering Violet's questioning looks. They have the most amazing shops there! Cho suggests a tea shop called Madam Puddifoot's--she says its really cute," she paused. "she's been there with Cedric Diggory a couple times. She wants to go there with Harry too."
"Woah!" said Jared. "is she a player?"
Michelle flashed her eyes menacingly. "If you say ONE MORE WORD about my cousin that way, I'll jinx-"
"You? Jinx me? You were never good at jinxes, Chellie, you always-"
"STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" yelled Violet. "I WILL do it for her, Jared! If you don't shut your trap this instant, I WILL jinx you, got it?" Jared looked dumbfounded and opened his mouth several times to speak, but no words came out.
Michelle shot a look of contempt at Jared and breathed heavily. Kevin tried to change the subject. "Cedric Diggory? Isnt he the one that…you know.." he trailed off.
"Yea…Cho is crying everyday. She liked him a lot, you know. She always told me how he was a gentleman and being a Hogwarts champion and all…" Michelle trailed off too. The aura around them became dismal once more.
Violet fiddled with her thumbs. "Well, only 4 more days until the big news!" she eyed Jared coolly. "I hope you can wait until then, Mr. Blabbermouth."
She got up from her seat with Michelle and left for the girls' dormitories leaving Jared sitting with a confused look on his face.
Well how was it? It took me some time to type this up cause I was...(thinks) Ookay...I admit it! I was just being LAZY! NOOOOOO FORGIVE MEEE!T-T
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