RAFT tip of the day: If someone ever invites you to hang out with their special friends who all look a bit too happy and eager, beware! For it could be a cult trying to brainwash you!
"….and then the hat went insane"
"What's this?"
"Don't touch that! You haven't paid for it yet! Yeesh, and here I thought this would be a nice relaxing day of skipping class, but no, I had to get stuck with two foolish American girls." Charlie and Alex looked up from the potions they were examining and stared at Draco.
"I'm sorry Blondie were you talking? We don't listing to ranting Brits. Oh check this one out!" Draco rolled his eyes and followed them, grabbing Alex's hand as she was about to pick up a unicorn horn.
"Come up to the front, you can get the standard kits there, I swear, if you weren't sorted into Slytherin, I'd never believe this…."
"But I wasn't sorted…"
"Not you, Charlie, but since the two of you are friends, you probably would've been sorted there too, if not for the accident." The two girls looked at each other nervously.
"Right, accident….heh heh."
!!!!!!Flashback!!!!!!!!
"Now Miss Brown if you would sit down you'll be sorted." Charlie sat down and an old ratty hat was placed on her head. She was worried about the prospect of lice, until the hat started talking, then she decided she had bigger things to worry about.
"Hmm, let's see you believe in love, beauty and justice, but wait… WHAT THE?!"
"SLYTHERIN!!" Charlie shrugged and took the hat off her head, it seemed to react poorly to that bit of information, oh well.
"All right Miss de la Vega, your turn." Alex stepped up to the stool and was about to place the hat on her head, when something horrible happened…the second the hat got near her head, her hair attacked. You see, she hadn't fed it for several days, as such, it was very hungry. It engulfed the hat in it's massive curly wave and began to devour it. Alex sat there calmly while all the professors panicked, Dumbledore finally removed the remains of the hat from Alex's hair using a spell.
"What are you doing? It's best to let it feed, if it's hungry it might go for people next!" Alex nodded while Charlie argued with the professors about whether or not to feed the hat to her hair. Finally Dumbledore sighed.
"Well, until the sorting hat can be repaired, Alex will not be sorted into a house, in fact, the hat will probably never go near her again, so we'll give her a room near the staff quarters to accommodate her for now." Dumbledore nodded to Snape, who came forward to show Charlie to the Slytherin common room.
"Since Alex does not have a house, we will schedule all of her classes with Charlie and the Slytherins, however they will need school supplies. Severus, perhaps you could designate a prefect to accompany them?" Snape nodded curtly before motioning to Charlie to follow him out of the room. Alex immediately followed.
!!!!!!!!End Flashback!!!!!!!
"Come on, the two of you need wands yet. No, not over there! Jeez…." He drug the two of them to Ollivander's wand shop. "Whatever you do, don't touch anything." The girls pouted but stayed still, looking in awe at all the long thin boxes stacked along the walls while Draco rang a small bell that was on the front desk. A tall thin man with crazy white hair appeared from behind a black curtain.
"Why hello there, ah Draco Malfoy, you're here, did something happen to the wand you bought here last time, dragon horn eleven inches, maple wood. Oh ho who are these two? I don't recall ever selling them wands before."
"They're American transfer students, and they both need new wands." Ollivander nodded sagely and walked around the two of them, examining them closely.
"I see. Well, you've come to the right place. I'll do some measurements and they'll have their wands in no time. Now, which one of you would like to go first?" Charlie pointed to Alex who shook her head.
"No no no. I already have a wand, see?" With that, she whipped out a pink wand looking toy with a gold crescent moon on it. Everyone stared.
"Well, I've certainly never seen one like that before, would you please demonstrate?" Alex nodded happily and began twirling around with her wand, pink glitter and sparkles flying all over the place. Draco and Ollivander stood still, stunned.
"Well, American magic certainly is….different, but it looks to be in working order, so we'll move onto this young lady here. You do not have a wand?" Charlie shook her head. "Alright then." He whipped out a tape measurer which immediately began to take Charlie's measurements by itself. Charlie began to panic and tried to fight off the tape measurer, only to tangle herself in it.
"Damn you foul beast!" Ollivander decided it was time to intervene and, flicked his wand, making the tape measurer disappear.
"Well, let's just try a few then." He started handing Charlie wands, telling her to swish them around until something happened. She tried a few and nothing happened, until Ollivander handed her a short orangey-colored wand. She swished it around and orange hearts and stars flew out of the end of the wand, one of them hitting Draco in the eye.
"Ow! What the bloody hell?!"
"I like it, ooohh pretty." She continued to wave it around, orange hearts going everywhere. Alex decided she also wanted to spin around, so she whipped out her moon wand and they began spinning in circles, destroying Ollivander's store in a shower of glitter. Draco and Ollivander panicked.
"Okay, okay, the wand's yours, no need to pay, just take it and go!"
"Okay! Thanks!" Charlie and Alex skipped out of Ollivander's shop, and down the street of Diagon Alley. Draco appeared out of the store looking very disheveled.
"Okay, we just need to get you two some robes and then we can go."
"Yay!!" The girls cheered, and ran off down the street.
"Oh god no."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Back at the castle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Look new friends! I am now like you!" Charlie began dancing around the Slytherin common room in her new robes and wand, orange hearts hitting people in the head. Draco stood looking very embarrassed in the center of the common room. The other Slytherins looked at him angrily for bringing the odd American girl into their room. Suddenly Charlie stopped dancing.
"Everyone out!" The Slytherins looked at her, confused. Charlie threw a sleeping bag into the middle of the floor and began shooing everyone out. "Sleep time for me. What are you doing, go away!" The Slytherins stepped toward her menacingly but started running away after she started swinging her wand around again. Draco sighed and went upstairs with the others. Maybe if he pretended he didn't know her, they wouldn't blame this on him later.
In GryffindorTower…..
"Ah yes Euan, thank you very much. Here, set up this tent. What do you mean you don't know how to set up a tent?" The first year known as 'Euan' mumbled something and stared at the ground nervously. Alex sighed in annoyance. She was currently outside the Gryffindor common room, next to a painting of a fat woman in pink. She had found one of the first years that she and Charlie had gotten drunk earlier and had convinced him to show her to his lair. He, however, was wary.
"What do you mean I have to be a Gryffindor to get in? What kind of rule is that?" Euan panicked and decided that it would be better to let her in, lest she started swinging that anchor around again.
"Mm-mimbulus mimbletonia." The two of them stepped through the portrait hole.
"Ooooooohhhhh!! It's prettier than the other one! Oh hello new friends. I too am a lion, roar! Oh why do you look so angry new friends? Oh I know free hugs for all!" With that Alex proceeded to hug each and every Gryffindor, all of whom were very confused as to why the friend of the new Slytherin was hugging them. Harry sat in the corner after Alex had hugged him and decided that this must be a trick of Voldemort's. She was sent to curse them all in hug form. He knew this year would be a dangerous one. After Fred and George had both gotten two hugs each without Alex noticing, she beamed at all of them.
"All better! Now new friends, let us enjoy these treats of delicious chocolaty-goodness!" With that, she pulled a plate of brownies out of nowhere and began handing them out. Harry eyed the brownies suspiciously before Alex got tired of waiting and just stuffed one in his mouth before moving on. He panicked and swallowed the brownie, before running over to Hermione, who was also enjoying a brownie.
"Hermione, quick! I ate one of her brownies, what if they're poisoned? She's friends with that girl from Slytherin, she can't be trusted! What if---." Hermione held up her hand. Harry waited anxiously for her to speak.
"Alex, do you have anymore?" Alex happily pranced over and handed Hermione another brownie. Harry gaped in horror.
"No, Hermione she got you! It's some kind of mind controlling brownie. I have to go save Ron!" Harry ran around the common room frantically searching for Ron, who was eating brownies in an arm chair with Ginny.
"Is he always like that?"
"It's more a recent problem. Can I have another one?"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!With Charlie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"And the mongoose ate her face after going after the family pet…" Charlie had been currently entertaining a group of Slytherins by telling them ghost stories. After deciding she wasn't so bad after all, they all had a rousing party after they ransacked the kitchen. Charlie had mistaken the house elves for demented lawn gnomes and had threatened to 'plant' them if they did anything suspicious. Thinking she was just like them, the Slytherins accepted her happily.
After they snuck pumpkin juice back to the common room, Charlie decided that they weren't happy enough and decided to spike all of their drinks with vodka from her emergency supply pack. After deciding everyone was happy enough, she skipped up the stairs and jumped on the first bed she found, leaving all the Slytherins drunk in their common room.