Can't Go It Alone
Cnorth
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters belong to JK Rowling.
Partial writing credit goes to Pawn-for-the-Powers-that-Play and whitv.
AN: I totally suck at writing in descriptions, so I went onto elouai and designed what the characters look like. The pictures will be on my myspace account, and this is the link:
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"I can't believe we left without them." Lori fumed as they rode down the interstate in a car which apparently had no shocks left, seeing as you could feel every single bump in the road.
"Well, the errors did promise to find some way to get them to safety. Besides, who's to say this guy would have had them killed anyway?" Sam said, tussling her long blonde hair with a well manicured hand while using the window of the car as a mirror.
"They're called aurors, not errors. And our friends are our responsibility…we shouldn't have left them in the lurch like that," came the sharp retort. Everyone in the car except Sam and Joe had seen Lori's infamous temper before, and Joe had better sense than to say anything.
They were on their way to the International Floo System which only had 3 locations in the US. Luckily, the nearest one was in Charleston, since no one was sure how much longer the tempers would stay checked with so many volatile girls in the same general area.
"So….Luna….how much of the books is really accurate?" Shaylin asked, leaning forward with a wild grin on her face.
"Well, I dunno, most of it I guess. JK Rowling is a squib, who makes a living writing about muggle stuff in the wizarding world and magic stuff in the muggle world. Obviously she can't be around all the time, so she misses out on some stuff, but she got the main points right." The day walker said nonchalantly, though most of the girls didn't know how to react once they found out that they had lived with a vampire for a full semester without knowing it.
Meanwhile, Chelli, Whitney, and Hollie were plotting mischief. The three were pranksters to the extreme, who were pretty sure that they could give even the Weasley twins a run for their money. According to Luna, one of the small things that were wrong in the book was ages of people, and what year they were in. Fred and George Weasley, who were only a year ahead of Harry, Ron, and Hermione in school, were coming back this year to finish school since they left when Umbridge was temporarily Headmistress. Oliver Wood, Harry's Quidditch Captain in his first four years of the books, was actually a seventh year this year as well, having stayed on an extra year in order to take advanced Quidditch, a course offered to only a few select students.
"Now that we have magic, we can do twice as much as we could before. Just think of the possibilities! I mean, remember that time in October when we went to all the floors in the building and wrote "Happy Four AM" on their boards…..now we can do that without even leaving our rooms! This is going to be awesome!" Whitney said, as an evil smirk appeared on Chelli's pixyish face, and Hollie threw her head back in somewhat scary laughter that sounded just about right for the evil stepmother in Cinderella.
Just then, Kingsley Shacklebolt, an auror who the girls were familiar with from reading the books (all except Sam, who hadn't read them), apparated into the already crowded car, a dangerous thing to do since it was still moving. Luna turned her head from her spot in the driver's seat, a frown crossing her face. "You dumbass! What do you think you are doing? You could have splinched yourself, or killed somebody by apparating into space they were already in."
"Aurors are specially trained for this. What was I supposed to do, wait for you to get back to England to tell these girls that their friends are safe?" Kingsley spat out, his temper getting the best of him, as it always did with the blonde vampiress.
Joe, tired of being left out of the count by listening to the referrals to "the girls", started fuming in his seat, waiting for anyone to acknowledge that, yes, there was a guy in this car too.
"Anyway, your friends are now sealed in paintings in Hogwarts. Unfortunately, they are stuck that way for at least a year, possibly longer. Nobody had done that spell in hundreds of years, so we aren't exactly sure how long it lasts." Kingsley told them, before giving Luna an irritated glance and apparating out of the car.
"Great, now what?" Lori muttered, before going into research mode. "Maybe if we…."she mumbled, before pulling out one of books Luna had lent to her in order to calm her temper the first time she almost lost it today, which had been when they were loading the car and Hollie was refusing to get in without making sure her friend Jessica made it out.
When they reached the International Floo System, they were expecting a small, discrete building, somewhat like the Leaky Cauldron had been in the movies. They definitely weren't prepared for the large, clearly marked building that's sign read, "Chimneysweep School". Still, prepared or not, they stepped out of the car and went inside, finding a small lobby with two doors, one back and to the left, the other back and to the right, both situated behind a long counter manned by a single man with stunning sapphire blue eyes and platinum blonde hair, which was spiked and had ice blue tips. Hollie's eyes rolled back in her head slightly, in awe at the major hotness. Her attention was quickly diverted, however, when her friend Stacy stumbled into the room from one of the two doors, a strange vacant look on her face.
"Stacy! Are you alright? What's going on? How did you get here?" Hollie cried, running towards her friend. Her attention drawn to the girl, Luna noticed the look on Stacy's face, and her eyes narrowed suspiciously.
"Hollie, stay back. Something isn't quite right here…" Luna's point was quickly proved when another girl who was an exact clone to the first ran out the other door, screamed, "Oh hell no, you don't…." and leapt at her duplicate. Hollie leapt back out of the way as the two went tumbling onto the floor, writhing in a mass of human flesh. Five minutes of hair pulling and hitting over the head later, the second Stacy to emerge came out victorious.
"Sorry, guys. When Voldemort attacked the school, I was hit by a curse. It cloned me, and the clone was hurriedly put under the control of one of the Death Eaters. I played dead, and once there was no chance of me being seen, I followed it here."
"Great, that would be the last thing the world would need. Two of any of you guys," Lori joked, grinning at Chelli, Hollie, Stacy, and Whitney.