Disclaimer: I don't own Hogwarts, Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Professor Quirrell, Gwen Stefani or her music, same with Avril Lavigne, Griffindor, the sorting hat or any Harry Potter related stuff but I do own Tinkles
Hehe more annoying Snape, singing, snazzy outfits and Hogwarts
Chapter 5
The next morning I woke to bright sunlight streaming between the curtains, right into my eyes. "Bloody hell, didn't I close those before I went to bed." I wasn't expecting an answer. "You did miss, I'm the one who opened them." The voice came from the right, so that's where I looked, I saw nothing. "Who, wha?" I managed to mutter "I am Tinkles miss, Headmaster Dumbledore told me to bring you breakfast, then take you to his office." Rolling to the edge of the bed, I looked down and what should I see but a House-elf holding a tray. Falling onto my back I groaned "Too early, too bloody freaking early, the guy's nuts I swear." Piping up yet again, Tinkles said "But miss, it's not early, it's after 11 O' clock." Bolting upright with a shriek I floundered around a bit, before falling off the other side of the bed in a flurry of sheets. Managing to disentangle myself, I stood up "Umm Tinkles, maybe you should have told me this sooner." "I'm sorry miss, it won't happen again." Now I felt guilty, these House-elves did their best, mistakes were allowed, and it was partly my fault for oversleeping. "Sorry Tinkles, I'm cranky when I wake up. Now what was that about breakfast and some sort of meeting?" Immediately perking up, Tinkles replied "I brought your breakfast, and you have half an hour to get to the Headmasters office, Professor Dumbledore himself said that." Thinking for a moment I decided that I'd get dressed then eat. Heading to my wardrobe I took out what I had decided to wear, going for a Goth chick look by wearing a long black velvet skirt, and a black silk top. Turning to Tinkles I said "I'll be back in a minute, help yourself to the food you brought for me if you're hungry, I'll eat on the way to the Headmasters office."
A few minutes later we were in front of the stone gargoyles, me with a half-eaten apple in one hand, and a bowl of fresh blueberries in the other. After entering the outer office area, and I finished my apple, core and all, the door to the inner office opened and from inside, Professor Dumbledore's voice said "Please Miss Knight-Nash, come inside." Turning to Tinkles I said, "Thanks for everything, I hope to see you again." Blushing furiously, and looking down at her toes she replied "'Twas nothing miss, and I hope to see you again too" and she disappeared with a pop. Again facing the door I walked through and was greeted by the sight of all the teachers being present, even Quirrell.
Turning in a full circle and waving in a cheerful manner, I said hello to all the teachers and turned back to the Headmaster. "You wanted to see me Headmaster." With his eyes madly twinkling like they've been known to do he replied "Indeed I did, you have to be sorted into a house and I wanted to introduce you to the faculty." He proceeded to introduce me to the whole staff ending with Professor Snape. Snidely the potions master remarked "We've already met, and I'm quite aware that this is our special case." With the eye twinkle going full tilt Dumbledore replied "Yes, but you don't know how much of a special case she really is. Keely here is more powerful than anyone alive. Ever. Past, present, or future. In fact there will one person ever stronger than her, and she's the one who dropped Miss Knight-Nash off." Blushing furiously ant the fact that everyone was suddenly staring at me with awe, disbelief, and one look of cold calculation (compliments of Professor Quirrell). Continuing to blush and stare at my feet I said to Professor Dumbledore "You've blown it out of proportion Professor, I'm just an ordinary girl who's been gifted with extraordinary abilities, nothing more. And those gifts, perhaps, came at too high a price" I could tell by the look on everyone's face that they had no idea what I was talking about, so I decided to enlighten them "The price was my life. I died, was reborn and am now unable to see anyone I ever cared about ever again." With this statement looks of sympathy came from all except two people. Snape and Quirrell. The former filled with shock at me being able to stay so calm while saying this (given my behavior during our last meeting), and the other as cold as ice, and twice as foreboding. Regaining the composure I had lost, I continued on "well, you wanted mw to be sorted while I'm up here, so shall we get on with it?" Dumbledore sat up with a jerk, as if he'd forgotten all about that part during my little speech. So he summoned the sorting hat to him, then passed it to me. I wasn't really in the moos to stand during this, so I sat on the floor in a cross-legged position, skirt arranged neatly, and the heels of my knee-high, semi-platform, leather boots sticking out. I plonked the hat on my head 'well well what do we have here? A powerful one, brave at heart, and knowledgeable of our world. Where to put you? Keeping a polite tome, I thought to the hat 'If you don't mind I'd prefer to go in Griffindor, I don't think that I'd really fit in anywhere else except Hufflepuff, though yellow's not really my color.' As if pondering what I said, the hat is silent for a few moments before saying 'ok, you win, you're in GRIFFINDOR!' Trembling I took the hat off my head and stood up. "Well that answers that question, doesn't it?" I handed the hat back to Professor Dumbledore who promptly returned it to its place. Turning back to face me, Dumbledore said "As that's taken care of, I'll arrange a room for you with an attachment to the Griffindor common room. As you must already know Professor McGonagall is your head of house, and you'll sit at the Griffindor table. As well I'll introduce you at the start of term feast, you don't have to enter with the first years, but I will ask that you stand up and say hello." The entire time he was speaking I was nodding in an understanding manner. When he was done I said, "I understand, is that all?" Thinking for a moment he added "Due to the unusual circumstances of your enrollment, you don't have to wear the school uniform if you don't want to, as long as what you do wear is within reason, though I will ask that you wear something quite similar to the uniform on certain occasions. Do you understand?" Nodding yes I said, "Thanks, if you don't mind I'd like to get to know the castle and grounds better. I know the forest is forbidden to students, and I'll try to stay away from Fluffy, so don't worry. Ta!" Ignoring the surprised and shocked looks on everyone's faces, I waved goodbye, sauntered out the door, and started walking down the corridor softly singing 'Don't Tell Me' by Avril Lavigne.
Just when I'd gotten to the part about despite the charm and the arm around my neck I heard footsteps behind me. I didn't stop singing, but I did look to my left. Who should be walking behind me but Severus Snape himself. "I thought you didn't like me?" I said nonchalantly, looking ahead "I don't" he replied "but since we had already met, the headmaster thought I should show you around." Chewing my lip and humming the tune to 'He Wasn't' having already finished 'Don't Tell Me' I thought for a moment. "That makes sense, though he must realize that with my personality I'd either drive you insane, or I'd go all hormonal teen with a mild, temporary depression problem and end up crying on you." He agreed with me, and apparently this must be another reason why Dumbledore paired us up. Suddenly I had a thought "I'm sorry about yesterday, I'm not normally quite like that. I'd had quite a few coffees that day, so I was a bit hyper. Not to mention you were the first person to talk to me directly since I arrived. Anyway from the books and movies I've seen and read where I come from, meeting you was bound to be interesting." Then with a smirk I added, "Then there were the fan fictions." At his somewhat confused expression and questioned "books, movies, fan fictions; what in the name of Merlin are you talking about?" I explained. "Where I originally came from no one here actually exists, and neither does magic as you know it. It all started with the books, but I think I shouldn't talk mush about that, it may fall into the wrong hands."
Being on the receiving end of yet another odd look wasn't fun. "Okay" I said "can we swing by my room for a minute, I wanna grab a couple things." Thinking for a moment he gave a grudging 'yes' and followed my lead. A few minutes later we stopped in front of a painting of a unicorn grazing by a stream, "Ah here we are," I said. As we stopped the unicorn gave a whinnied greeting and resumed grazing "supreme Randomness." Grabbing Snape by the hand, I dragged him inside. Stopping in the middle of the sitting room, I pushed him onto the couch. Okay stay here for a few minutes." Ignoring his growl of displeasure, I sauntered over to the temporary setting up of the stereo. Popping in Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. I set it on 'What You Waiting For?' and let it run. Next turning to one of the trunks littering the floor, I dove in looking for my new black leather duster, waggling my butt to the music. After I'd found it, which was after about four songs, I turned around to see Snape staring at where my rear end had been a moment ago, a look of shock upon his face. Looking between the stereo and me his mouth worked wordlessly. "Dude, close your mouth, you look like a landed fish." Just his luck 'Bubble Pop Electric' had just come on, and of course I just love the chorus, so naturally I started to sing along while looking for the rest of the stuff I had come to get.
The song soon came to the part about taking it to the back seat and running it like a track meet. Snape was continuing to make the fish face, but was actually able to speak. "It… who… what. What's a person your age listening to trash like this?" Freezing in mid-stride, as I was walking towards the stereo, I glared at you and practically snarled "for your information this is Gwen Stefani, I bought this CD for the first two songs, I happen to like the quirkiness of the rest of the songs. So to me it's not trash, and you just have bad taste in modern music." Behaving in a huffy manner I stopped the CD, stuck it in its case, and put the case in one of the large pockets of my coat. Another of which held my Discman. Turning around I said to Snape "You're supposed to show me around right? How about I don't insult anything of yours and you don't insult anything of mine. What do you say to that?" Reluctantly he agreed. I grabbed him again, this time by the arm (AN: hehe you thought I got pervy didn't you?), with one hand, and I grabbed my bag with the other and dragged him into the hallway. "Okay Mr. Tour guide, where to first?" Yanking his arm away he said, "might as well start at the top." And walked off down the corridor, robes billowing.
Jogging to keep up, a somewhat difficult thing to do in heels, I muttered "Jeez, cranky aren't we?" Out loud I said "dude, slow down, are you trying to kill me by letting me fall down a flight of stairs, or something?" Considering we happened to be walking up a flight of stairs, my statement made sense, but Mr. I-know-everything-so-I-don't-care-if-you-kill-yourself replied "why should I, Miss Knight-Nash, I'm walking at a perfectly reasonable pace." Stifling a grimace at his arrogance, as well as a few growls and well chosen (or not so well chosen depending on your point of view) words I said "okay, one the only people who could keep up are people with the speed and endurance of a race horse, two I'm wearing high heels so I can't walk as fast, and three please call me by my given name, that's what it's there for." Raising an eyebrow, he replied "and that would be?" "Uh Keely, Professor Dumbledore said it in his office, when he so bluntly described part of my situation."
That shut him up for a while. He did eventually call me by my first name, but it took some insistence on my part.
Classes start soon, so annoying the Slytherins starts with it
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