Search For the Prince
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Harry Potter…..blah, blah, blah
A/N: This is just something I thought up of when the Half-Blood Prince was about to come out….it barely has a discernable plot yet, but I'll think something up…eventually…..
"The Half-Blood Price is out," Faith screamed to Ella as she opened the door to her room.
"I know," Ella squealed back holding up a copy as she jumped up and down. Faith reciprocated the action, bringing out her own edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Both of them squealed in delight and jumped together excitedly before being silenced from a yell downstairs from Ella's brother.
"Hurry up and come in," Ella said opening the door wider so that Faith could slip through.
Faith hopped merrily into the room and bounced onto the bed, cradling her beloved book in her hands.
"Is it good?" Ella asked anxiously, sitting down next to her friend, holding her own book.
"I haven't even started yet! I came here as soon as I got it," Faith stroked the cover of her book lovingly.
"Let's get started then!"
"Where? The beginning, middle, or end?" Faith inquired.
"The middle, I want to read about Hogwarts," Ella opened her book to the table of contents after briefly glancing at the title and dedication pages.
"It's not the first chapter, it could be 'The Slug Club'," Ella said as she looked down the list.
"Probably," Faith chirped flipping through her own book to the page indicated for the chapter.
Faith edged the book closer to Ella. The page showed a promising illustration of what looked like Harry, Luna, and a partially seen character on the Hogwart's express. The friends both eagerly leaned toward the book reading the first word together out loud.
"Harry," they both said before the world turned black.
"Excuse me, are you OK?" a voice said above Faith.
She mumbled incoherently.
"Do you think she's got mumble-mimilius?" a girl's voice asked, "You know it's highly contagious."
Faith opened her eyes to blurred images moving around her.
"I don't think she does...maybe we should get Hermione? She would know what to do," a slightly fuzzy, yet unmistakably human shape said.
"Hermione!" Faith sat up at the sound of the name.
"Where? What?" Faith searched the room. Her gaze moved from a girl sitting in front of her wearing glasses and holding a magazine to a boy standing over her holding a potted plant to another boy standing over what Faith recognized to be Ella's limp form. Faith leaped up in delight, not from seeing her friend, but from the stranger hovering over her friend. Though they had never met before Faith immediately knew who he was, Harry Potter.
