Chapter 9: Ze Explanation
She jumped off her glittery red stool and glanced around at the staff. McGonagall looked at her in a horrified manner, and Flitwick looked delighted. Snape looked just as gobsmacked as the rest, except she couldn't help noticing that he looked rather handsome with his mouth hanging open like that, and Hagrid was still crying from their earlier brawl.
"But what is the House of the Sapphire?" questioned Dumbledore. "It is certainly nothing that's happened in my time!" he bellowed.
Binns floated out of knowwhere and explained with his vast intellect that just seemed to float around him like a collection of books in an old dusty library that no one went to anymore, like the one that was just outside of Tamaki's orphanage, except she'd read every book there, and in a week no less. She was just so smart, she couldn't help it.
"The House of Sapphire, minus the second the, is a house of independent study of the secret gems of the world and the magic they hold, which is so glorious that our mere eyes, the ones not being in the house, can't stand to view it. She'll have to teach herself. The house has only ever had one other occupant, the daughter of the last czar of Russia who was a Russian princess and a very beautiful one at that. I taught her myself, as I am a ghost and was merely petrified when I looked at the gems. After she went back to Russia, she was immediately shot and murdered, but it is gossiped that she had gotten pregnant in an illicit affair with an overseas priest. But the fetus was removed. But to where, no one knows." Explained Binns with more drama than any one of them had ever witnessed.
Everyone was stunned. Wondering if perhaps maybe Tamaki was this sperm and egg that had been the daughter of the last princess of Russia.
"BUT THAT WOULD MEAN YOU'RE NOT JAPANOIS TAMAKI!" said Draco, who was taking it all rather calmly.
"But of course je suis japonois et francais! » Tamaki said half-heartedly. She looked to Harry for support, who looked to Snape for support, who was chewing on his beef stake.
Dumbledore said, "Well, Tamaki, you're certainly one of a kind!" and he directed her over to the stool sitting in the middle of the hall, conjured a table to go along with it, and made a special call to the house elves for more food and then he took his seat at the head-table next to Snape and Flitwick and said "NITWICK BLUBBER FLITWICK AND FLUBBER, LET THE FEAST BEGIN!" and started on his macaroni salad.
Tamaki took her seat under the house banner flag that was hanging over her table, which sported a sapphire kitty, as sapphire and pink were her house colours.
Draco instantly conjured a chair next to her, as did Harry, as they both wanted to sit next to her. As they did so, Crabbe and Goyle had no choice but to follow their lead, as they were the leaders. As did Hermione and Ron, as they were Harry's BFFLs.
They ate in peace and harmony and stuff, and Tamaki was happy to note that they had crème brûlée, which was her favourite desert, and Harry said it was his, too.