Hey everyone! No one voted in the poll, for the record, which is why this is the 7th chapter of Missing Moments, whether you like it or not! However, you guys have a choice! Vote in the poll! Also, I'm thinking of doing my own take on the time-travel fics or a version of Harry's yearbook, which I love by the way), what do you guys think? Can Katie the Insane Giggler pull it off? Tell me. Really.

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"Colin, I fell in! ... something in the water grabbed me and pushed me back in the boat!"

"Cool! It was probably the giant squid, Dennis!". – Goblet Of Fire(Paperback) pg. 159

Dennis looked at his brother. That's it? A hat that reads your thoughts? Dennis had assumed that it would be something like killing a basilisk. Harry Potter had done that, and he was only fourteen now. Colin's friend, was it Jenny? was talking to him about someone called 'Serious Black'. He didn't seem to be important any more. Dennis entertained himself by looking out of the window, his breath fogging up the glass.

The ride to Hogwarts was boring at first. Eventually Dennis got up and walked around. The train was big. Up and down he walked. And, as these kinds of things usually lead to, Dennis became lost. He stopped outside a compartment with 4 kids in it. There were three boys and one girl. The first boy was short-ish and had black hair that looked naturally messy. The second was extremely tall with orange-red hair. The last was chubby-ish and had ruler-straight blonde hair.

The girl was pretty but her hair was alarmingly bushy. Dennis was watching them through the compartment door, he had a feeling he was supposed to know them, but still their names eluded Dennis. Maybe the girl was called Harmony? Denis was trying to figure out their names when a random platinum blond guy and two gorillas pushed past him into the compartment.

"Get out of my way you filthy mudblood!" spat the blond.

Mudblood? What does that mean? thought Dennis. He shrugged and walked down the corridor until he came to a seemingly empty compartment. He opened the door. There was a girl sitting on the left window seat. She had copper coloured hair and porcelain skin, but not the good kind, the kind that makes people look pretty. This girl had the porcelain skin of someone sickly, who hasn't seen a lot of daylight. She turned to look at Dennis. Her eyes were black as night.

"Hello," she said coolly.

"Um... hi," Dennis felt awkward. "I'm Dennis,". The girl muttered something under her breath. "What?" asked Dennis. In hindsight, he considered that that probably wasn't the best idea.

"I said, get out MUDBLOOD!" she yelled. Her voice hurt Dennis' ears. He backed out of the compartment, wondering what 'mudblood' meant. It didn't sound nice.

"Oh hey, you lost too?" asked someone. Dennis jumped about a foot in the air. He turned around to see a reddish-brown haired girl trying unsuccessfully to stifle her giggles. He scowled and hoped she wasn't another of those 'mudblood' people.

"I'm sorry I scared you," she had an exceptionally quiet voice.

"S'ok, I'm just looking for someone that doesn't call me 'mudblood'," he replied.

"'Mudblood'? What does that mean?" she asked.

"I don't know," said Dennis, "what's your name? I'm Dennis Creevey,".

"Emma Dobbs," she told him. "Wanna find somewhere to sit?". They trawled around the train for a while, until they found somewhere to sit in the very back of the train. Over the hours, they were joined by several other first years called Owen Cauldwell, Natalie McDonald and Malcolm Baddock. Malcolm was a welcome source of wizarding information.

"I'm half-blood, almost pure, I'll marry a pure-blood, and our kids will be pure-blood because they won't have any muggle heritage," he'd already explained the other reasons he was an idiot.

"So?" asked Owen. Dennis was mystified too. Who cares about what kind of blood you have?

"So, it's about class, the purer your blood the higher you are... and I guess it helps to be in Slytherin if you want to get really high up,". The train pulled up.

"Are we there?" Natalie looked around.

"Guess so," answered Laura. An announcement went over the train.

"Please leave your luggage on the train; it will be taken to the school separately," it echoed. The anxious first years left the train; Dennis, seeing that the others weren't as wary of Malcolm as he was, ducked around and lost himself in the crowd unnoticeably.

An enormous man with a suitably enormous beard yelled that the first-years were supposed to congregate around him and the edge of the lake. It turned out that they were supposed to ride to Hogwarts for the first time with three people in miniature boats in the rain. Dennis had hoped it would have been put off for the weather. He should have listened to Colin, who had told him about them earlier.

He ended up in the last boat with the 'mudblood' girl. She was sitting there primly with her nose in the air. Dennis sat as far as he could away from her. You could have shattered the silence with a liquorice wand Dennis thought, where did that come from? Colin had said that being a wizard was addictive, but didn't think he meant like that. Dennis thought he knew what her name was. He'd heard some other 'mudblood' people calling her Astoria Greengrass.

But Dennis wasn't thinking about who she was anymore. He was thinking more about the pressure on his back, and how the boat was tipping out from under him. He was thinking about how cold the water was and that it didn't really matter because he was already wet. He was thinking about the oddly high giggling coming from above him and the tentacle wrapping around his stomach...

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So, that was kind of weird. You know, I only realised the irony near the end of when I was writing this. Dennis is calling all the pure-bloods mudbloods. LOL XD! Go Dennis! He's rebel. Even if he doesn't know better. Vote in the poll people! So, I'm working on the beginning chapter of my version of the time-travel fic. If there's anyone out there that would beta it, send me a PM. Really, I'll post the summary on my profile (also where poll is, hint, hint, hint) and please somebody get back to it. Also, I've hit a blank for MM ideas, someone PM me!

Later, Katie