Chapter 3. Rooming Arrangements
"Oy, it's Snivelly!" yelled Sirius.
"I've heard a rumor that you actually run to Malfoy for protection," James sneered.
"Well you've heard wrong," Snape muttered, turning red a bit, but furious, nonetheless.
"Whatever, anyways, Snivells, I have a question for you, what's your favorite color, besides black?" asked Sirius, as though trying an attempt at kindness, but Snape knew better.
"Why," he slowly asked, expression filled with suspicion.
"Just wonderin'," Sirius said, shrugging.
"Well, you can take your 'wonderin' and shove it up your fuc..." Snape was cut off in the middle of his sentence.
"What are you all doing?" Professor McGonagall, who looked much younger (duh!), asked sternly.
"We were just having some fun, you know, everything's cool," Sirius said with a weird grin on his face.
"Well, since we obviously have some new students, Dumbledore found it necessary for them to be sorted immediately."
"Told you," Hermione hissed, while Gemini nodded vigorously in agreement with Hermione.
They all could have sworn that their Professor had just given her a look of approval, but then it was once again replaced by sternness.
"Follow me," she instructed, waving an arm to indicate Harry and his gang. The Marauders made to follow, but Professor McGonagall glared at them, causing them to back off.
"Ok, then, we'll be over here," Sirius called needlessly.
"Hope to see you in Gryffindor!" James and Remus yelled together.
"Slytherin's an option, too!" Snape hollered after them, trying to gain some followers, or maybe just friends.
The rest of the voices droned out as they walked through corridors to what they recognized as Dumbledore's office.
"Well, so it's our new entertainers. I imagine that our infamous Marauders were not so happy about it," he greeted them.
"Yeah, but I think we grew on them," Fred, or maybe it was George (will we ever know?) told him.
"I see. Well, we were absolutely not informed of your arrival, or you would have been sorted along with the first years."
"Well, you see, sir," Hermione began, "we all are from the future. Fred and George here upgraded a time turner, and we ended up here. But we were all in Gryffindor in the future, honestly.
"A time turner, you say," Dumbledore asked, clearly interested.
"Yeah, we found it... somewhere," George said, with a sort of finalty in his voice, not wanting Dumbledore to find out he swiped it.
"Ah, I see," their headmaster said, but curiosity still lingered in his voice. "Well, now. Since you insist that you were in Gryffindor, I believe you. But I must insist that you don't tell anyone about what has happened through the years. We cannot end up with everything changed and all."
"We know that, Professor. I have used a time turner before, so I know everything about what can happen."
All right, then, off you go to bed. I will inform ahead of time that nine new beds will be arranged into rooms," Professor McGonagall informed them.
"Ah, but one more thing, you see, I believe that after seeing a couple of you, a change of names is definitely in order," Dumbledore cut in.
"We've already taken care of that, Professor. All of us girls kept our names, because we're muggle born, Harry is Harry Pratter, and Fred, George, and Ron are the Wessles," Gemini listed out.
"You remembered that? I didn't even remember my last name," Harry mumbled.
"Alright then, since you have all taken care of everything, I suggest that you all get to bed. A schedule will be given to you with the rest of the students in the morning. I suggest you get a good nights rest, and we'll go from there. Tell everyone you are exchange students and decide when you are going to return home, so that you can tell them the same story. Create a school which you all agree on and you can easily remember. Good night," Professor Dumbledore told them, before turning into a different chamber.
Professor McGonagall led them out of the office to the Gryffindor common room, which also had the Fat Lady occupying the entrance.
"Wonder how long she's been here," Ron said absently.
"Now, the password is 'house elf'. I wish to you a good night."
And with that, Professor McGonagall walked away.
"House elf, how appropriate!" Ron laughed, staring at Hermione.
"Ron, do you always have to act so childish?" she asked him.
"Why shouldn't I, is there something wrong about being childish, is there a rule, did I miss a memo?" Ron babbled out.
"Ronnie, you've missed a lot of memos," George informed him.
"Well, maybe we can get him some post-it pads, you know, so that every morning or when something happens, we can write it down and put it on his forehead, and he'll know what it says 'cause when people see it, they'll read it out loud," Raven said sincerely.
"What are you talking about?" Ron asked.
"I think we just might have to do that," Fear said, acting as though she was fearing (excuse the pun) for Ron's sanity.
Gemini leaned over to Hermione and whispered loudly into her ear, "You know, friends are like fudge, mostly sweet with a few nuts."
"Hey, who are you calling a nut?" Ron asked.
"You, you stupid Macadamia ( I can't spell it, HELP!)," Raven laughed.
"A what?" questioned Ron.
"It's a nut, Ron," Harry explained exasperatedly.
"Hey, I am not!" Ron said defiantly.
"Are you guys planning on coming in any day soon?" the Fat Lady asked angrily.
"Oh, right," Hermione said, having totally forgotten about the common room. "House elf."
They entered the room and were greeted by the Marauders.
"So I see that you have all been chosen to be in Gryffindor, wonderful!" Sirius said excitedly.
"He was worried that Slytherin would end up having some decent prank competitors," Remus informed them.
"I knew that the likes of these people would surely be entered into Gryffindor," Sirius said, a little too enthusiastically.
"Sirius, Remus, and I were all wondering if Fear, Raven, and Silvia would join us on a date tomorrow night," Frank told them.
"Sure, but who's with who?" the three asked in unison.
"Well, Remus and Silvia, Sirius and Raven, and me and Fear," he told them, going a little bit red in the end.
"Alright," Raven said, nodding at Sirius who grinned.
"Fabulous," he responded in a weird accent.
"If it's alright with you guys and Gemini, could we come along?" Harry asked, looking mostly at Gem.
"Sure, if she's cool with it," Frank told him.
"Are you asking me out?" Gemini asked with a smirk.
"Uhhhh, yeah, well, if you want to, but if you don't I am not, no.." he began babbling.
Gemini leaned in close and kissed him on the cheek. "I'd love to," she told him.
"Uhhh, ok."
"What about you two love birds? James is coming too, to help out with some things," Sirius directed the question to Hermione and Ron.
"Do we have to?" asked Ron.
"Just pretend he's Brad Pitt or something, ok?" Gem whispered to Hermione, but Ron overheard.
"Hey!" he yelled, enraged.
"I was just joking, Ron," Gemini said hurriedly.
"Ok, well then, the date starts at 9:00 P.M.," Frank was telling Fear.
"I think we should all go to bed, if you don't mind, but all of this traveling has made me incredibly tired," Raven said, stretching.
"Yeah, I'm with Raven," Fred said, yawning. They had been spending the last couple minutes gagging behind the other boy's backs.
"Well, then see you all in the morning!" all the girls called, running up the stairs to their dormitories.
"'Night," all the boys sent up to the girls, and then turned slowly toward their dormitories.
"Girls," they all murmured.
"Boys," the girls giggled in the other room, laughing hysterically.
Well, what do you all think?
"Oy, it's Snivelly!" yelled Sirius.
"I've heard a rumor that you actually run to Malfoy for protection," James sneered.
"Well you've heard wrong," Snape muttered, turning red a bit, but furious, nonetheless.
"Whatever, anyways, Snivells, I have a question for you, what's your favorite color, besides black?" asked Sirius, as though trying an attempt at kindness, but Snape knew better.
"Why," he slowly asked, expression filled with suspicion.
"Just wonderin'," Sirius said, shrugging.
"Well, you can take your 'wonderin' and shove it up your fuc..." Snape was cut off in the middle of his sentence.
"What are you all doing?" Professor McGonagall, who looked much younger (duh!), asked sternly.
"We were just having some fun, you know, everything's cool," Sirius said with a weird grin on his face.
"Well, since we obviously have some new students, Dumbledore found it necessary for them to be sorted immediately."
"Told you," Hermione hissed, while Gemini nodded vigorously in agreement with Hermione.
They all could have sworn that their Professor had just given her a look of approval, but then it was once again replaced by sternness.
"Follow me," she instructed, waving an arm to indicate Harry and his gang. The Marauders made to follow, but Professor McGonagall glared at them, causing them to back off.
"Ok, then, we'll be over here," Sirius called needlessly.
"Hope to see you in Gryffindor!" James and Remus yelled together.
"Slytherin's an option, too!" Snape hollered after them, trying to gain some followers, or maybe just friends.
The rest of the voices droned out as they walked through corridors to what they recognized as Dumbledore's office.
"Well, so it's our new entertainers. I imagine that our infamous Marauders were not so happy about it," he greeted them.
"Yeah, but I think we grew on them," Fred, or maybe it was George (will we ever know?) told him.
"I see. Well, we were absolutely not informed of your arrival, or you would have been sorted along with the first years."
"Well, you see, sir," Hermione began, "we all are from the future. Fred and George here upgraded a time turner, and we ended up here. But we were all in Gryffindor in the future, honestly.
"A time turner, you say," Dumbledore asked, clearly interested.
"Yeah, we found it... somewhere," George said, with a sort of finalty in his voice, not wanting Dumbledore to find out he swiped it.
"Ah, I see," their headmaster said, but curiosity still lingered in his voice. "Well, now. Since you insist that you were in Gryffindor, I believe you. But I must insist that you don't tell anyone about what has happened through the years. We cannot end up with everything changed and all."
"We know that, Professor. I have used a time turner before, so I know everything about what can happen."
All right, then, off you go to bed. I will inform ahead of time that nine new beds will be arranged into rooms," Professor McGonagall informed them.
"Ah, but one more thing, you see, I believe that after seeing a couple of you, a change of names is definitely in order," Dumbledore cut in.
"We've already taken care of that, Professor. All of us girls kept our names, because we're muggle born, Harry is Harry Pratter, and Fred, George, and Ron are the Wessles," Gemini listed out.
"You remembered that? I didn't even remember my last name," Harry mumbled.
"Alright then, since you have all taken care of everything, I suggest that you all get to bed. A schedule will be given to you with the rest of the students in the morning. I suggest you get a good nights rest, and we'll go from there. Tell everyone you are exchange students and decide when you are going to return home, so that you can tell them the same story. Create a school which you all agree on and you can easily remember. Good night," Professor Dumbledore told them, before turning into a different chamber.
Professor McGonagall led them out of the office to the Gryffindor common room, which also had the Fat Lady occupying the entrance.
"Wonder how long she's been here," Ron said absently.
"Now, the password is 'house elf'. I wish to you a good night."
And with that, Professor McGonagall walked away.
"House elf, how appropriate!" Ron laughed, staring at Hermione.
"Ron, do you always have to act so childish?" she asked him.
"Why shouldn't I, is there something wrong about being childish, is there a rule, did I miss a memo?" Ron babbled out.
"Ronnie, you've missed a lot of memos," George informed him.
"Well, maybe we can get him some post-it pads, you know, so that every morning or when something happens, we can write it down and put it on his forehead, and he'll know what it says 'cause when people see it, they'll read it out loud," Raven said sincerely.
"What are you talking about?" Ron asked.
"I think we just might have to do that," Fear said, acting as though she was fearing (excuse the pun) for Ron's sanity.
Gemini leaned over to Hermione and whispered loudly into her ear, "You know, friends are like fudge, mostly sweet with a few nuts."
"Hey, who are you calling a nut?" Ron asked.
"You, you stupid Macadamia ( I can't spell it, HELP!)," Raven laughed.
"A what?" questioned Ron.
"It's a nut, Ron," Harry explained exasperatedly.
"Hey, I am not!" Ron said defiantly.
"Are you guys planning on coming in any day soon?" the Fat Lady asked angrily.
"Oh, right," Hermione said, having totally forgotten about the common room. "House elf."
They entered the room and were greeted by the Marauders.
"So I see that you have all been chosen to be in Gryffindor, wonderful!" Sirius said excitedly.
"He was worried that Slytherin would end up having some decent prank competitors," Remus informed them.
"I knew that the likes of these people would surely be entered into Gryffindor," Sirius said, a little too enthusiastically.
"Sirius, Remus, and I were all wondering if Fear, Raven, and Silvia would join us on a date tomorrow night," Frank told them.
"Sure, but who's with who?" the three asked in unison.
"Well, Remus and Silvia, Sirius and Raven, and me and Fear," he told them, going a little bit red in the end.
"Alright," Raven said, nodding at Sirius who grinned.
"Fabulous," he responded in a weird accent.
"If it's alright with you guys and Gemini, could we come along?" Harry asked, looking mostly at Gem.
"Sure, if she's cool with it," Frank told him.
"Are you asking me out?" Gemini asked with a smirk.
"Uhhhh, yeah, well, if you want to, but if you don't I am not, no.." he began babbling.
Gemini leaned in close and kissed him on the cheek. "I'd love to," she told him.
"Uhhh, ok."
"What about you two love birds? James is coming too, to help out with some things," Sirius directed the question to Hermione and Ron.
"Do we have to?" asked Ron.
"Just pretend he's Brad Pitt or something, ok?" Gem whispered to Hermione, but Ron overheard.
"Hey!" he yelled, enraged.
"I was just joking, Ron," Gemini said hurriedly.
"Ok, well then, the date starts at 9:00 P.M.," Frank was telling Fear.
"I think we should all go to bed, if you don't mind, but all of this traveling has made me incredibly tired," Raven said, stretching.
"Yeah, I'm with Raven," Fred said, yawning. They had been spending the last couple minutes gagging behind the other boy's backs.
"Well, then see you all in the morning!" all the girls called, running up the stairs to their dormitories.
"'Night," all the boys sent up to the girls, and then turned slowly toward their dormitories.
"Girls," they all murmured.
"Boys," the girls giggled in the other room, laughing hysterically.
Well, what do you all think?