HESSAC

The next day, eleven-thirty at noon, at platform nine and three-quarters, there were two people attracting people's attention.

The first one was Percy, he became Head Boy recently, the badge on his chest was wiped to sparkle, reflecting the noon sunlight on everyone's faces, he himself was surrounded in dazzling sunlight, looking like an artificial little sun from a distance.

The other one was Ron, he had got extraordinary stature today, just like a cola bottle, especially the convex bosom, showing the line of the beauty of a teenage girl in development.

"Please, Ron, I'm begging you, can't you just take Scabbers out of your chest?"

Ginny dragged and pulled Ron's clothes, Ron swore to defend, a fight was on.

"Can't you see that Hermione's Pancake is staring at me? I'll take him out if you tell her to keep that cat in a cage!"

Ginny turned her head to look at Hermione's face and thought of what had happened last night, finally releasing Ron.

Scabbers must feel that it's better to be eaten. Thought Ginny, frowning.

A few minutes later, with a sharp whistle, the workers at the railway started urging the student on the platform to get on the train quickly, Mr. Weasley and Harry talking beside came hurriedly, everyone was ready to say goodbye.

Mrs. Weasley kissed every child, reminding them, again and again, from eating healthily to dressing warmly, and especially reminding Percy to take care of his brothers and sisters at school.

Percy was very proud of it, pointing at the badge, head raised, swore that he will be loyal to his duty, and marched toward the Head Boy and Girl's carriage with his chest out.

Looking at Percy's shiny figure, Aquamarine sneered.

"Honestly, besides his grades, neither Percy's ability nor his leadership can catch up with senior Edmund of my house, I thought he will be Head Boy this year. But what can I do? Dumbledore always favours Gryffindor."She turned her head back, looked at Ginny, the corner of her mouth curled up, "What do you say?"

Ginny gave a forced smile, didn't say anything, but actually very unconvinced.

What's wrong with abilities? A person has his own ability, and Percy has a beating heart to serve all the people in this school!

When she was absorbed in her thought, someone suddenly grabbed her. Coming back to herself, she saw that her sister was pulling her sleeves, squeezing themselves in the stream of people.

"Don't just stare blankly, wear your Chief badge, let's go to the carriage in the front."

"Why?"Ginny was at a loss what to do, dragged by her sister like a suitcase.

"We are Head Chiefs, we can't stay in the carriage back there. The upper class and the populace both have their own places, as for Chiefs, they're of course with the committee, it's tradition."

"Why?"Ginny was utterly ignorant of socializing and politics, her sociological knowledge was even poorer, she hadn't even figured out why there are countries in the world, and of course, couldn't understand why are there so many ranks and factions just on a single train.

Aquamarine gave her a look of stop-asking, strode to the box at the very front and stopped.

She turned around and warned Ginny, "Don't get me in trouble in front of everyone, just sit aside, pretend to be smart, and nod occasionally. Nod at me."

Ginny nodded blindly, followed her sister into the box blindly, sat in the middle of a pile of strangers blindly, seemed as if she was quite smart, listened to her sister talking to the others, nodded occasionally, and could not put a word in the conversation at all.

Actually, she didn't have the strength to speak, her dizziness was extremely strong today as if split into two forces, tearing her brain from two sides, meddled all her minds.

Soon, several more people entered the carriage successively, Aquamarine arranged everyone to sit at the conference table in the middle of the room. There were twelve people in total, and more than a half of them wore Slytherin badges, only two people came from other houses- Cho Chang from Ravenclaw and Cedric Digory from Hufflepuff.

The hooter went, and the train speeded up. Aquamarine poked Ginny lightly and whispered, "Pronounce that the conference begins."

"What conference?"

"Just pronounce!"Aquamarine tweaked Ginny's arm to threaten.

Ginny was averse, but didn't dare to disobey, got up and said loudly, "Fellow students, the conference begins now!"

Everyone else quieted down, their sights fell on Ginny's face, Ginny looked at her sister, expected her to start speaking, however, Aquamarine was drinking tea leisurely, didn't seem to care about the things that were going to happen next, let her sister stood there alone and received the baptism of gazes. Ginny tried to hint her with the eyes, got nothing but the mockery of her mouth.

Ginny had no choice but to give way.

"This conference will be held by the Vice Head Chief."

"Now the Chief's saying that, I'd rather obey than to be impolite," Aquamarine was very pleased that she could finally control the situation right and proper by herself, she lifted her hand to sign Ginny to sit, took out a stack of brochures, distributed to everyone, "this is the first formal meeting since HESSAC was established… Ginny, no, Chief Weasley, what's up?"

"What's Hessac?"

"That's Hogwarts Education System Supervise & Administrate Committee. The main purpose of today's meeting is… Head Chief, what's up to you again!"

"When was it established?"

"At the end of the last school year."

"Why didn't I know?"

"The notify was posted on the noticeboard."

"How did you choose your members? Why are they all students from Slytherin?"

"The ten people who got the highest score at the Chief preliminaries last year are in. I can say nothing but, it's Slytherin's actual strength."

Ginny thought of Gryffindor's lots drawing, Ravenclaw's shuttlecock kicking competition and Hufflepuff's hide and seek convention, indeed, none of the houses recorded the scores like Slytherin, which was controlled by her sister. So, except for Cho Chang and Cedric Digory who had got into the quarterfinal, the committee had the perfect excuse to refuse to receive students from these three houses.

"But I still don't understand, what's this committee for? Who determined the way you choose members? Why didn't you declare at the competition? Who is actually organizing us? Why are we… "

"Chief Weasley!"Aquamarine's roar interrupted Ginny's questions, "Would you realize that you're the Head Chief! As the highest leader of HESSAC, are you really asking the most basic questions to your underlings?"

Ginny stood there, stunned, at a loss whether to cry, thinking of how the heck was Aquamarine acting the play.

Aquamarine ran her eyes over everybody, scowling, and pronounced that she was just an insignificant Vice Chief who had been invited by the Chief and just hold the meeting for her, didn't have any duty to answer any foolish questions.

"I hope everybody can understand that it's an honour to be in HESSAC, please don't discredit the impartiality at all. You shall know that we're not tied to the school, it's the Department of Education at the Ministry of Magic that is leading us, we can't be more official!"Aquamarine drew out a sheet of authorizing proof from the folder in front of her, the stamp of the Ministry at the right corner was so visible, very solemn and magnificent, "So, Chief, if you have any more questions, you can straightly go for the Director of Education Department. She is your boss!"

One stamp, some words, scared everyone on the scene in silence. Nobody spoke. Everyone just looked at HESSAC regulations, and Aquamarine switched back to the original smile and held the followed conference gently.

She introduced a little about the members of HESSAC, except for Cho Chang and Cedric Diggory, the eight Slytherins are: Enock Sharp for second grade; Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle for third grade, Marcia Dalton for fourth grade, Erwin Defoe for fifth grade, Salas Gauss for sixth grade, and Clarence Brian for seventh grade.

The introduction was over, Aquamarine took up the regulations, read out the general rules, regulations, scope of responsibilities and personnel, meetings, finance and other systems leisurely, and clarified the responsibilities of everyone.

So you called me here to do red tape, damn you! Ginny sat aside, listening attentively, secretly gnashing her teeth, having quite a kind of anger that she was planned to usurp the throne.

The first formal meeting since the establishment of Hogwarts Education System Supervise & Administrate Committee went on harmoniously. No extra voices were heard. Only Aquamarine alone spoke during the whole conference, methodically, placid, mixed with the long afternoon, making people drowsy.

The harmony lasted until three o'clock when the conference came to an end, Aquamarine said to conclude, " From today on, we are a team, we work together for the great future of Hogwarts and education. I hope that everyone can love each other, help each other, uphold the tradition of fairness and justice, carry forward the spirit of democracy, and jointly solve the possible problems in our education system!"

Before she let everyone stand up and sing the national anthem, a peal of shallow laughter and several leisure handclaps broke the barely created solemn atmosphere.

Everybody looked for the source of the sound and found that it had come from a high-backed chair at the front of the room, its backside towards the crowd, they could only see a piece of blue skirt from the conference table.

"Who are you?"Aquamarine frowned, her tone was filled with disdain.

"Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, " the chair turned slowly, a delicate girl appeared in front of the crowd, perfect face, perfect sound, the momentum and the style was roughly the same as Aquamarine, especially her winning smile that made Ginny thought that she was Aquamarine's twin sisters.

"My name is Astoria Greengrass, a new student in Hogwarts." the little girl curled up fairly. "Sorry, you guys haven't come in yet when I entered this carriage, and I didn't want to interrupt you after you started the meeting."

"If you're a new student, we won't pursue it. Please leave immediately, only members of HESSAC can enter here."Aquamarine tried hard to smile more brightly.

"I just listened to the introduction of senior you, I admire you very much, and I also am particularly eager to be one of you."Astoria smiled more more more brightly.

"You're just a new student."

"I think age doesn't matter to serve students, and senior, you are only in second grade."

"You don't even know about the school."

"I can answer any questions about the school, and you will be satisfied with my answer."

"You'd better start from being the class president, that will improve your management ability and leadership."

"I had started managing Green Mansion for my dad since I was three, you know, top class people are always well trained."

They held each other as if telling a joke; with every sentence, they made their smile a little brighter, trying to pressure each other, so bright that they were shining more than Percy's little sun.

The eleven people besides felt very dizzy and moved with the table to the other end of the carriage quickly, watching the battle from distance, filling with boredom. Draco took out two stacks of cards and called everyone to play poker together, three rounds later, the seesaw battle on the other side finally came to a turning point.

"HESSAC needs members with real ability, I'm afraid someone like a beauty pageant queen can't get in."Aquamarine sneered, continued to improve her brightness.

"Although I am new, my potential is not worse than any of you here," Astoria examined the members of the committee one by one, especially stared at Ginny, smiled for a long time, "Potential is also a kind of ability. If you are still worried, you can arrange an exam for me."

The distance of the water blue eyebrows got closer and closer, her eyes narrowed into two cracks, kept quiet for a while, her arms crossed, and finally walked to the meeting table slowly.

"Well, ask them if they would give you the chance," Aquamarine knocked on the table, "Everyone, this little girl plans to join HESSAC, you will vote, whether are we going to arrange an exam for her."

The moment when the vote started, great pain hit Ginny's brain, two forces that were tearing her consciousness, suddenly amplified to the maxima. The forces fought and bit crazily in her mind, snatching her soul with unfathomable murderousness, she realized, the other force was coming from Astoria.

Ginny clenched her teeth, trying not to seem unusual. The others here were also confused, as if standing at a strange fork in the road, didn't know where to go. Eventually, half of the members passed Astoria's request, the other ones the opposite.

Aquamarine completely wasn't expecting such a result, her face went blue, tiny sweat seeping from the tip of her nose, but she immediately calmed herself.

"Sorry, I'm afraid that's not over half."

"Oh, is it? But our chief hasn't voted yet."Astoria, with a lovely smile, wrapped herself cleverly around Ginny's neck."What do you think, Queen Majesty?"

"She's the Head Chief, she cannot vote!"

"What a ridiculous excuse, the Head Chief is also a member of HESSAC, of course she can. At the conference, you said that everyone in the committee was equal and you should put an end to dictatorship."

"I agree!" Ginny couldn't stand the dizzy feeling, just wanted to end this battle and hide aside.

"My lady, the Queen has agreed!"This vote was exchanged for Astoria's victory horn, the little girl cheered with joy, ran to shake hands with every member.

But Aquamarine didn't speak. She held her hands and stared straightly at Ginny.

"She's the younger one, be nice to her… " said Ginny timidly, under her sister's high heat.

She knew she would pay for this betrayal, but now, fortunately, the dizziness was gone.

Aquamarine rolled her eyes to Ginny, passed the bill, scattered the conference, then she and Astoria both sat down side to side, squeezed with Draco Malfoy, making a fuss and serving tea, starting a new battle.

The smell of gunpowder in the air and the constant sound of electricity made all the members went away quickly, Ginny was the last one to go out, leaving the three people in the meeting room.

She caught Malfoy's expression when she closed the door; she finally found out why he had white hair at such a young age.

Even Titanic can't carry so much of a gloomy mood.

The tragic ends of beauties…

Ginny gave a long sigh, and escape as far as she could.