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Chapter 3: I'm in... Gryffindor?
"Excuse me Sir, but when and where are we exactly?" Luna said quietly.
Dumbledore looked terribly confused. He wasn't sure what was going on. The three girls had never seen Dumbledore so confused. They also saw that Dumbledore had slightly auburn hair and looked much younger than he did when he last saw them. He wore purple robes and small half-moon spectacles.
" She was only joking Professor," said Hermione, frantically. " We'll be right back-"
Before the others had any say of what was going one, Hermione dragged them by the wrist and out of the great hall. She led them to a dark corridor which the decorating didn't seem familiar.
" Hermione," Luna turned to her " I hope that you realize that I wasn't joking-"
"I know you weren't joking!" Hermione said irritably.
"You make me sick, you know that?" Ginny said disgusted facing Hermione " You think you know everything! It's about time that one of your plans backfired! Maybe it'll teach you a lesson, so then you stop being such a bloody know-it-all!"
By now Hermione's nostrils were flaring. She puffed up her chest as if she were about to remark another insult back at Ginny. Luna had had enough of this behavior.
" You're acting like a bunch of children!" Ginny and Hermione went quiet. " We're never going to solve this out unless you two stop it." Luna had gotten much quieter now.
" Well, I do know what we should do." Hermione said, looking down at her feet.
"We need to make up fake identities, I can keep mine , since I come from a muggle family." Luna and Ginny kept listening. " And we'll us these," Hermione conjured up three letters " We'll say that these were from Dumbledore." Hermione inscribed Dumbledore's signature on each letter.
" You're being a bad girl, Hermione!" Ginny laughed, Hermione ignored this comment.
" And we'll say we apparated here," Hermione continued " We missed the train." Hermione gave a little chuckle to herself, as she remembered Harry and Ron missing the train in 2nd year. " We'll go back to where we were before later. So are you guys ready?"
" What do think that was all about?" Sirius asked the other marauders facing him. " They just popped up in mid air..."
" They always could of used one of those good ol' invisibility cloaks" stated Peter " Which would be pretty nifty, cause James has an invisibility cloak, and if they're associated with James in anyway they must be great people. I mean James is just so-"
" Don't you even dare start that speech again..." Remus said, putting his head in his hands. Peter looked down and didn't say a word.
Before the marauders could say anymore, the three girls came into the hallway. They walked in arms hooked together and headed up to the front of the room to face Dumbledore.
" We're so sorry for the intrusion Professor!"Hermione apologized.
" And here are our letters." Ginny said, handing the letters to Dumbledore. He examined them carefully.
"So you three used to go to Durmstrang, I presume." The girls exchanged looks with each other.
" Yeah... we did." Ginny lied.
" But It's such a horrible school, and we've heard such stories of how this place is so amazing, so we asked our parents to transfer us. " Hermione said, proudly.
" Funny, don't recall signing these papers..." Dumbledore said " any how, I'm just an old cook, so how would I remember these things?" The three girls all smiled warmly. They saw that their headmaster hadn't changed one bit.
" We must make sure that these girls can really posses magic." A middle-aged woman said, who looked abnormally like Professor McGonagall. " We have no way of knowing this is simply a trick." she said facing Dumbledore.
" Don't be silly, Minerva." The three girls now knew that the woman was Professor McGonagall. She gave Dumbledore a you- better- do- what- I - say -or- else- look.
" Well I suppose it wouldn't hurt..." the headmaster said.
Dumbledore faced the three girls. " First, what are your names?"
" I'm Hermione Granger."
" I'm Ginny Teasley." she said, trying not to laugh.
"And you?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Luna. Luna wasn't paying much attention. It was just that Luna could sworn that she saw Harry, it was probably one of her dreams again.
" I'm, I'm Luna, Luna Lovejoy."
James looked over at the girl whom had just spoken. She had a pretty name, James thought. She tuned her head as if she were looking at him. She had beautiful eyes, royal blue orbs shone by moonlight, it seemed to James. She had Beatiful lips, thin at the top, but full on the second half. And she had the rosiest of cheeks. It was almost as if James saw his true self inside her. Saddness and feeling empty and alone. She turned her head gracefully around to face the front again.
" So, let's start with Hermione, shall we?"
"Ah, yes." Hermione said a little nervously. She couldn't think of any spells at the moment. Then she remember DA from her 5th year. She drew out her wand and stood between the two tables in the great hall.
" Expecto Patronum!" And with that, a silver otter came charging out her wand. She had performed it successfully. She put her hands on her hips and smiled proudly. The hall was filled with slight applause. They had never seen a patronus like that been done before. Remus had attempted one before, but it wasn't even half as good as that.
Dumbledore gave Professor McGonaglall a I-told-you-so look.
" Ginny, what do have?" Dumbledore could see that these were three very talented witches.
Ginny sprawled a huge smile up her face. She pulled out a small green container from her pocket. And lifted it up for everyone to see.
Does anyone know what this is? It was silent for a few moments when two students broke the silence at once.
"That's Veritaserum, that is." said Lily Evans and Severous Snape at the same time. Lily gave a little giggle and smiled at Snape, which made Snape blush.
" Right." said Ginny. Now, If I could have a volunteer.." At an instant Sirius raised his hand and started to do his charm. It was fairly obvious that he had a very big crush on Ginny only just seeing her now.
Ginny smiled at him. " You." Sirius walked up very casually trying to keep his cool on. And While this was Happening, The marauders were trying so hard not to laugh.
Sirius came up to Ginny. He was slightly taller that she was. Sirius had to admit, of all the girls he had laid eyes on, this one had to have been the best.
Ginny took Sirius' hand and placed the small green bottle in it. Sirius felt a cold shiver go up his back. He started to feel nervous... could it be? Was he really falling in love? Sirius had to focus on what he was doing. She was just so irresistible...
" Drink it." Ginny said.
So Sirius took the top of the small bottle and brought the rim to his mouth and let the liquid run down his throat. The thing tasted horrible. He coughed a little, but tried to kep it back. He had to look good around her. Just maybe she was "the one" and he couldn't lose her. He couldn't let go og her now that he had caught her and reeled her in.
"So tell me, what's your name?" she asked
" Sirius Black." he answered truthfully.
" So tell me Sirius, What's your biggest secret." Sirius tried to hold himself back, but he couldn't. The words were coming out of his mouth.
" Well, you see, last year I ran away from my parents, and went to live with James and his family, but I think my biggest secret would have to be," Remus and James had now gotton up and to the front as quickly as possible. Sirius continued. " this thing with my friends, you se I can turn into-" before he could say anything else, Remus and James locked their hands around Sirius' mouth so that he couldn't say anything.
" What's wrong, boys?" Ginny asked the two charming young men in front of her.
"Well it's just-" Remus began, trying to restrain Sirius from going on " It's a little... personal." James finished.
Ginny put her hands behind her back and put on the cutest puppy dog pout face. "Oh, I see." She sighed and looked back up at Sirius.
"I need to ask you one more question. " Ginny said, looking up at him seriously and thoughtfully " Do you wish that you could snog my head off right now?"
Sirius turned a deep pink and looked at Ginny. "I wish I could." Ginny smiled at his answer.
" I thought it was kind of obvious that you like me," Ginny now found herself turning pink now. " And I really wouldn't mind if you did." Ginny puckered up her lips and stood up on the tips of her feet, waiting for Sirius to "snog her head off". Sirius looked up at her lovingly.
" I wish could, but I can't. I don't know why, but I just can't." He said to her. " I don't love you, yet and I can't use you." Ginny looked down at her feet. He was the kind of guy that she always wanted to meet.
" Bye, Ginny" Sirius waved to her.
"Bye, Sirius" Ginny said as Sirius walked back to where he was sittingFor the first time since harry had spent that last day together with her she felt that someone really cared for her.
" And you, Luna." Dumbledore motioned for Luna to show her magical skills now. Luna knew what she was going to do. She didn't know what it was, really. It was just...magic.
" That boy, there." She pointed at James. " Everyone thinks you have everything. Have gone through nothing. But it's a lie. You've been looking for something all your life, and you think you know what it is, but can't get no matter how hard you reach for it. You don't know for sure, because if it was meant to be it would just be there, be so. You seem full and happy to those around you, but really, you don't know where you belong and you feel...empty."
James looked at the girl. She was the first person, the only person that had ever understood him. Saw him beneath what he appeared and pretended to be. His heart suddenly felt warm. It seemed as if that empty feeling had gone away when she looked at him.
" What sort of magic was that?" Dumbledore was fascinated with Luna. She knew that he wouldn't understand her, so she tought of something related to the magic she used.
" Occlemency, sir." she lied. Dumbledore looked amazed. "Occlemency..." he whispered under his breath.
Dumbledore stood up in front of the hall. Well, it look like we have three amazing student joining us at Hogwarts tonight." Dumbledore smiled at them warmly. The three girls felt like crying. They couldn't think that this man in front of them was dead as they knew him only an hour ago. " Now, we must let them be sorted."
Luna stopped smiling. She would be in Ravenclaw. She wouldn't be able to meet the boy she had felt the magical connection with. She would be all alone, again.
First Hermione and Ginny were sorted, and of coarse, they were put into Gryffindor. Now it was Luna's turn. She was dreading it. She went up to the stool and sat down, while Dumbledore placed the hat on her head.
" Ahh...Luna Lovegood..." Luna wondered how the hat could have possibly remembered her. " I remember everyone I sort, in the past, present and future. Now It seems that you have changed since then... since the last time I sorted you. You seem much more like your mother now... Luna couldn't believe what she was hearing. She always wanted to be her mother, and her mother was in Gryffindor... The Hat paused to make a decision. Luna's mind was wizzing, she never wanted something more, except love, she always wanted love. But this was the way she would get love... " GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted, and there was a huge applause from the Gryffindor table.
Hermione and Ginny couldn't believe what they were hearing! Luna was in Gryffindor?
"Well, this all works out then, doesn't it?" Dumbledore asked " If Miss Evans and Miss Figg would escort theses three young ladies to your dorm rooms?" he asked the favor to Lily and Arabella.
The three young girls sat with their new friends, and couldn't help that everyone was watching them. Everyone really liked them. As Luna sat at the Gryffindor table, she couldn't help to think that this was where she belonged. And she kept saying the same thing to herself over and over again: I'm in...Gryffindor?