Written by Corinna Due Gitz
I decided to write this story because I found the solution (inside the structures that J. K. Rowling and S. Meyer have established) for Rosalie.
Chapter V
"I have an idea." Alice stated just before we entered The Great Hall. "We should shift places every week. Next week Jasper and I will sit with the slytherins, Rennesmee with the hufflepuffs, Edward, Bella at the Ravenclaw Table and Emmett and Rosalie at the Gryffindor Table." She gave me a look that said: I'm doing this for you, so don't you dare disagree!
"That seems fair." I said quickly, though I didn't really understand the reason. She seemed to approve it. We all agreed - it was Alice, we'd almost do anything the way Alice wanted it, when it came to the future and arrangements. Irrespective of Alice's reasons, I already looked forward to get away from Parkinson and Malfoy.
When Emmett and I sat at the table, Snape walked along the table and handed the students timetables. When he got to us, it looked like he ate a lemon or something very bitter. "Professor?" I asked in an innocent voice.
"Hale, McCarty, you'll follow the slytherin students schedule." He handed us the schedules and was about to walk away when he stopped dead. "You'll need to talk to your headmaster about books and other materiel that you'll need." Apparently Snape hated Carlisle already.
We got up and Carlisle waved us up to the teachers table. "You'll need books and that sort of things." It was Dumbledore who talked. "The things will be in your tower, so go get it before your first lesson start." He smiled and sent us away.
"Where are you having your first lesson?" Bella asked me. We were standing in the Entrance Hall and I hadn't got to see my timetable yet, so we just shifted to look at each other's schedule. Bella and Edward were supposed to be following the Hufflepuff students around which meant; History of Magic and Arithmancy with Ravenclaw, both double lessons, and in the end; Transfiguration and Astronomy with Gryffindor students. I looked it quickly through, I wouldn't need to see it again. Emmett and I would only have one lesson with Edward and Bella; Divination at Monday. I got my own back, quickly remembering it and shifted it with Alice's. She and Jasper were following the Ravenclaw students around and were also having History of Magic and Arithmancy in the first lessons.
"What about the deal we just made about switching tables every week?" Edward asked.
"Easy; we just keep our own timetables and don't change that part." Alice answered, not looking up from my timetable. "Okay, boys, you get the books. Nessie, can I see your timetable?"
"Rosalie?"
"Yes, Nessie?"
"They all complain about having lessons with the Slytherin students. They asked why you and Emmett were sitting at the Slytherin Table."
"Who are `they´?"
"The gryffindors."
"Well, you can tell them, that I won't be there for long. They thought my dress was disgusting and I'll have my revenge for that." I smirked.
"Okay, you'll have to go now or you'll be late for potion, Rosalie. Renesmee, I already have your books, here, and follow the other Gryffindor students in your year. When you are free, you can go outside and finish the tons of homework you'll have or you can do whatever your classmates do. See you later." Then she dragged Bella towards the stairs.
I whirled around and hurried down in the dungeons. Slytherin and Gryffindor students were lined up outside the classroom, or at least they tried to. Malfoy and a read haired boy from Gryffindor (this boy was trying to free himself from a black haired boy and a girl with a big, curled, brown hair) were arguing. Behind Malfoy stood two boys from Slytherin and they seemed to be Malfoys bodyguards.
"Don't bother Ron, it's not worth it." The Gryffindor girl shrieked, still trying to hold his hands.
"Oh, come on Weasley, let's see some more snails coming out of your mouth, bloodtraitors deserve that." Malfoy mocked and the bodyguards laughed. `Ron´ got all read in the face and tried even harder to get his arms free, while mumbling: "Let go of me, I don't need a stick to give him a bloody nose."
"What is going on here?" Emmett said loudly. He had appeared behind me and handed me the bag with books. I could have laughed of what I saw, and I almost did. They were all frozen. No one moved, no one breathed and everyone looked at us. Poor humans. "Wow, I guess you actually are deaf." My man smirked.
Then Snape appeared from the door. "Get inside." He hissed and the students hurried into the room.
On a blackboard behind his disk he had written the orders:
"1: Split into groups, five in each.
2: Create the potions on page 123, 145, 148 & 400.
3: In 3 hours, you'll all take a sample from each potion and leave it on my disk with name.
4: Homework; study for page 105-122."
Groups of five? Well it made sense if we had all in all four pages to do! It would make five or six potions!
"Not you three, Potter, Weasley; in group with McCarty, Hale and Parkinson. Let's see how you do without Granger to whisper in your ears." The groups could have been worse. Potter was the boy with black hair from the argument. Pansy had the same look on her face as Snape had this morning when they came over. The Gryffindor boys too! I wonder why...
I opened my book. We had seven potions to do. "Come on, three hours is not much for seven potions! Emmett, get me some asphodel, ginger, peppermint, scarab beetles, armadillo bile, knotgrass, wormwood, salamander eyes, snake eyes, runespoor eggs and doxy eggs. You two, fire under all cauldrons, Pansy, get a weight." I ordered. I took a pen and some paper and copied the recipes by hand. When Emmet came back I handed a random recipe to everybody.
"Harry, this one will take more than three hours. It takes three hours just in the cauldron, how are we supposed to fix the ingredients in no time?" Ron whispered hopelessly to Potter.
Mine would take two hours, so Í just snapped his out of his hand and handed him mine. "Please just finish something." My voice, icy. I didn't wait to see his reaction; I just started on my recipe as fast as it was humans aloud.
And that's how my first lesson with the gryffindors started. We finished in time. Ron's got all wrong halfway, so he started over, but he at least finished in time. Pansy said scornful words to Harry and kept repeating threats to Ron. Emmett never got the answer of his question from outside the classroom. Sadly - it might have an interesting answer.
History of Magic was also with Gryffindor, but here, there were no threads or mocking. They all simply fell asleep! Oh, one exception; the brown haired girl from Gryffindor, Granger, was awake and wrote notes. Sometimes she pushed some of her classmates awake, so they could write their own notes. It was a boring lesson, so while some of my brain concentrated on writing notes (notes I would never need), my mind remembered when I was human and I could sleep a whole lesson away. Once, I had eyes like violets and a friend called Vera. Once, food tasted good and... and I was human. Maybe magic could help us turning back to human... Well, it was worth studying, even though I did not dare to actually believe in it.
Alice and Jasper was waiting for us outside Divination. Alice seemed to be very excited.
"Do you know what's wrong between Gryffindor's and Slytherin's N.E.W.T. students?" Emmett asked Jasper, but of cause, Alice answered: "They just don't like each other. It's those students that always win the tournaments. Qudditch, the House Cup, everything. They fight passionately about winning. They are not nice to each other at all and doomed be those who are weak and tries to interfere. Not because the other houses are weak, but some of the most powerful witches and wizards were in Gryffindor or Slytherin. Even some of the heads of the houses has fought dirty in the past. It seems to be a tradition that they don't like each other. The Slytherin students are cruel and very nasty. None of the other houses like the slytherins very much." She informed quickly and as she ended her speech; the last students had disappeared into the classroom.
We were supposed to fall into a trauma and tell everybody what we saw. She was a fake, but Alice listened to her and commented differences and similarities to us: "Wow, what she's teaching is prophecies, those that cannot be changed and will happen. Hey, that's not true; Padma's grandmother won't die in any near future. She's just sick in a few days!" And so on.
In the end of the lesson, I was sure that I didn't like the professor.
I had hoped that it was the last lesson, but I knew that Transfiguration was left.
Transfiguration was over in a rush. The poor slytherins and ravenclaws couldn't keep up with McGonagall. They fought hard to follow her stream of words. Professor McGonagall dashed off whatever information she had, while writing homework and things to do during the lesson. Jasper, Alice, Emmett and I had no problems with keeping up. For once, we didn't have to slow down for human's sake.
Apparently, we had to change our selves into furniture. Emmett and I tried the best we had learned, but how could a simple spell change a vampire? It was kind of ironic. We could change other things into different things, but when it came to ourselves, nothing happened. McGonagall was very unhappy with us. How could we possible pass the N.E.W.T.'s if we couldn't even change ourselves? But I looked at the bright side: if we couldn't change ourselves, then how could others? That was at least an advantage in a fight.
"So how was your first day?" I asked Nessie as we finely were settled in the couches in our tower.
"Good. I got to be with my classmates the whole afternoon outside on the lawn. We were having very much fun. Did you have your revenge?"
I smiled widely and shook my head. "There was nothing good enough today. And I'll have to think about a decent vengeance. Have you done your homework?"
"Yes. I just need to read my notes through for Defence Against the Dark Arts. Professor Lupin is very nice, though he smelled bad." Smelled bad? That couldn't be good. I reached out for her hand and she grasped it. A shabby man showed up in my mind. His closes was tattered and he looked like he needed a good night's sleep. How could it be, that we weren't taught by him in the summer holiday? I remembered that we were being educated by Dumbledore himself.
"I thought, it was professor Dumbledore, who taught in Defence Against the Dark Arts." Emmett said.
After I sent Nessie in bed, we hadn't much time for our beloved ones. Everybody had homework to do. The pages for potion were taking exceptionally long. Apparently, there were no potions on these pages. There were just theories from earlier school years. Bella and Edward weren't here yet. They still had Astronomy. I was thirsty. When did I have a proper trip to the forest? About five days ago.
It was Friday tomorrow. There wouldn't be much time to visit the library, but I had a goal now: to find a way to become human again. I admit that when we can't even camouflage ourselves as furniture, the chance of turning into human fell drastic, but I believe that something must work. If not a spell, maybe a potion.
Okay, dear readers. Sorry for taking so long, but I have something for you.
Here is the deal: THE ONE WHO CAN GUESS, HOW SHE WILL TURN HUMAN, GETS TO READ THE CHAPTER WHERE SHE FINDS OUT 2 DAYS BEFORE EVERYBODY ELSE.
I won't tell who is right before the chapter is ready, so everybody has the chance to guess.
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