Reviews:
Anamaga: Hah! You were wrong! I wasn't on my way to the computer lab! Pthbt!
Xtotallyatpeacex: Cool. Briefness. I know what you mean though, reading a story and your parents think that you are just screwing around…and they are like "TIME TO GO OR NO COMPUTER FOR A WEEK!"…at least…that's what my parents are like…
Come on guys! Eight chapters and only eighteen reviews to show for it! Review-to-hit ratio as of February 15, 2006 at 1.37 pm Eastern time: 18/499 which is 3.6 percent. Sighs at least it is .1 percent better than last time…
Update Review-to-hit-Ratio as of February 16, 2006 at 10.11 am Eastern time: 18/507 which is 3.5 percent! Bad readers, bad! ;-)
So…Yes. I dug this up out of my ahem history computer folder. Go figure! I don't know why it was in there…but anywho this is the original chapter.
My sulky mood has caused me to think that she ain't gonna wind up with Harry. Just friends.
Suggestions as to possible suitors? (Neville, Seamus, Dean…even…gasp Ernie?)
All of the underlined stuff is what I actually found in the file. From Feb. 16. Wow. Like, Ancient History (so that's why I found it in the History Folder…)
The Review-to-Hit-Ratio as of March 6, 2006 at 3.48 Eastern Time (That's what my cell phone says, anyway): 547 hits, 27 reviews. That means…(computing…) 4.9 percent of you are reviewing! Wow! Maybe I should leave it without updates for longer periods of time…but over half of the new reviews are because of some girl with a French Pen Name that I won't even begin to try to type. And, she was evil. Told me that Brianne had no flaws and was a Mary-Sue. Um…no. A.) I wrote this before I even looked at so really, in my eyes, Draco's twin is not a cliché. And B.) She does have flaws. She sucks at Defense against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, and flying. And C.) As for being smart, she is basically a mirror of me. I'm smart, tall, and even though I'm not as pretty as she is, I'm not ugly, either (she's a Metamorphmagus! Der! She can be as pretty as she wants to be!). In addition, Mary-Sues have unique names, like "Jade," "Yasmin," "Althea," and "Iaosdifjaosdifjaosidjf." Molly is a humble, down-to-earth name, and as for Brianne, it is an ancient name that goes back way before "Iaosdifjaosdifjaosidjf." Pay no attention to my crazy rants. I HATE Mary-Sues!
Wow. A whole page in bold print. I'm on a roll.
.:Chapter 8:.
After Potions came Charms with Hufflepuff. Eek. Hufflepuff? At least it was another of her favorite classes, that's all that mattered, right?
Hufflepuffians were just as she expected. But she did meet Ernie MacMillan and Eloise Midgen. They seemed nice enough. Even if they were…loopy. But in a nice, Anamaga/Half-Blood Princess7 way :-D.
Molly decided that she liked Ernie and Eloise. They were the first people that liked her for who she was, not because of her falsified beauty. And that was good.
And then came lunch. She ate at a secluded corner of the Slytherin table, sipping pumpkin juice after wolfing down some tacos (do they eat tacos in England? I hope so. I love tacos) . Care of Magical Creatures awaited her down on the grounds, with Ravenclaw. She didn't really know much about Ravenclaw, just that they were really smart people.
It was a crisp Autumn day as Molly walked down to the Gamekeeper's hut, where Care of Magical Creatures was held. She wondered what type of animals they were working with. It was all very exciting. It hadn't quite registered with her yet that this was her first day of school. It all seemed so natural, even if nobody payed her much mind. She liked it that way.
Molly almost crapped herself and did a doubletake when she met Professor Hagrid. Wow. He was very, very, tall, and very, very, wide. Beyond belief. It was almost as if he was half-giant or something! But, trying not to be too prejudiced like her family, she went to class with an open mind.
"Yer early," he commented in a gruff voice, "and yer new. Name's Hagrid, and I s'pose yer Br-Molly O'Connor. Pleasure ter meet yeh." He extended an enormous, calloused hand to her. Molly was going red in the face, but she took his hand (with both her own) and he shook it so hard she almost fell to the ground. This surprised Molly, because even as Brianne Malfoy she had had large hands, and elected not to change them because she liked them a lot.
"So—so—you—k-know my real name?" she managed to ask.
"Of course, all the fac'lty does, but it's alrigh', yer secret's safe with me, jus' like Professor Dumbledore, and Snape, and McGonagall."
"Oh. OK. So, what are we doing in class today?" Molly was eager to change the subject.
"Well, I'll be showin' yeh some tricks as ter trainin' kelpies, I will,"k?"
"Kelpies! But they're incredibly dangerous! Rated something like at least four x's in Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them,"
Professor Hagrid laughed, and it occurred to Molly that he was perhaps slightly crazy.
"Ye remind me of Hermione Granger, very booksmart," he said, chuckling.
"Um, thanks. I met her today, what is she like?" Molly asked, eager to meet new people.
"Hermione? Well, she's a nice enough girl. A little bossy, but she's the type that al'ays follows the rules, you know? A bit of a bookworm. I bet you'd like 'er."
At that point, Ravenclaws and other Slytherins had begun to make their way down to the paddock; their conversation ended abruptly. The students milled in around Molly and class had begun.
I was really excited to continue this again. I hope you liked it. I know it didn't cover an awful lot of time, but I couldn't wait to get it back up )