A Werewolf Romance
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters.
This story contains several of my own characters, if you wish for more detailed profiles please don't hesitate to ask.
It was only 6:00 in the morning and Madame Pomfrey was already waking Micky up to do an examination of her head to check her healing process. She began to prod at her head, quite hard, Micky tried hard not to make a sound. She knew if she did, she might be in there for another day.
"All seems well." Pomfrey said at last. "Your head will be tender for a while, so for heavens sakes girl, try not to get into anymore fights."
"I don't get into fights, they seek me out and attack me when my back is turned."
"Yes well, try not to get this hit again for at least the next week, or it'll never heal."
"Very well, Madame Pomfrey. I won't go looking for trouble."
She then dismissed Micky from the hospital wing, just in time for Micky to run to the dormitory, get ready and then go down to the Great Hall for some breakfast.
When she made it to the Great Hall, she walked down the table to where Kassi and the twins were sitting. She quietly sat down and started to help herself to some food when Kassi began shouting at her.
"What the hell happened to you yesterday?! I asked for some homework help not a hair off Merlin's beard."
"Calm down Kassi please, I'm trying not to draw attention to the fact I'm here."
Micky had just seen Flint on the Slytherin table laughing and miming something about a fight. Her head was still pounding so round 2 wouldn't be an option at the moment.
Kassi turned around to see what Micky was staring at.
"Did some happen between you and Flint?"
After rubbing her head in the memory, Micky told Kassi and the twins about the fight that occurred the day before.
"The cowardly sod, I'll kill him myself," Fred made a motion to stand, but Micky pulled him back to his seat.
"I don't want a fuss made about it ok. Besides I'll get him myself soon enough."
And while she remembered she handed Kassi the NEWT notes she had received from Lupin.
"I did however, manage to get these before losing my consciousness."
Kassi took them and glanced through. "Great! These will help. Thanks Micky."
"No problem, just make sure you share them at lunch, 'cause I need to use them myself."
After breakfast had finished all four of them made their way to Transfiguration. They were actually quite looking forward to this lesson, as it was a lesson on animaguses and you got to find out what your animal was if you were ever successful in transforming.
"I really want to be something majestic, like a lion or a wolf, that'd be cool." Fred was waffling on about his own preferences.
"Try a mouse and you'll be closer to the mark bro." George laughed at his twin.
"Shut up, what about you Kassi? What would you want to be?"
"Something cute and fluffy, like a fox or tiger."
"Hang on you class a tiger as cute and fluffy?" Fred asked.
"Yeah, they are cute, and they have fluffy fur. What's your problem?"
"I'd just be scared of going out with a 'cute and fluffy' tiger that's all."
Micky just laughed as her friends started to bicker on their own animals. She couldn't think of what hers could be. She'd just have to wait and find out.
The good news was that this class was with the Ravenclaws', not the Slytherins. So Micky got at least one hour where she could avoid Flint.
As they reached the class, Lupin was walking in the other direction towards the stairs. As he saw Micky his pace quickened slightly, stopping as he came level with the four students in the corridor.
"I would just like to check that you're alright after yesterday Miss Black. I hear from Prof. Snape that you had a bit of a bang to the head."
"Yeah don't remind me" She mumbled, rubbing her head again, then looked at Lupin and said, "I'm fine Professor, someone just caught me off guard, I'm sure it was an accident."
She could tell that he knew she was lying, but she didn't want to talk to him too much in front of Kassi and the twins, in case one of their tongues slipped and something was said that shouldn't be. He looked at her for a second or so and then bid them goodbye and left.
"Why did you lie to him Micky?" Kassi asked.
"I don't want a fuss made, that's all. Anyway, if Snape's told him what happened, he doesn't need to hear it again from me. Anyway lets get going otherwise we'll be late. And I don't want to see Prof. McGonagall angry."
They all nodded in agreement and sped off. Even though she was head of Gryffindor house, she was still very firm with all her pupils and expected impeccable punctuality.
They made it to the classroom in time (just), and took their seats, in front of them on their desks were blank booklets.
"Good morning class, today we are going to learning about animaguses."
Prof. McGonagall quickly turned into a cat and back again.
"These are witches and wizards who can turn themselves into an animal. Each has their own unique animal in accordance to their personality, attributes and behaviour."
She then waved her wand silently, words and letters started to appear on the parchment. Not sentences, just words floating about the page.
"What you will find out from these pages are your own unique animal, if you ever successful in transforming. However I will ask you not get your hopes up, as it is a very hard thing to accomplish and we have only had about one student every ten years achieve it."
Micky was intrigued by what she heard. She had known it was difficult, almost impossible. On the other hand she loved a challenge, she might try out the theory for herself.
"Right, now what I want you to do it to place you palm on the parchment for five seconds, this will allow these little tests to realise who you are, it will then show up questions that I want you to answer as honestly as you can. The questions will be different for all of you, so there can be no cheating. You may begin."
Micky and everyone else placed their hand on the parchment. Immediately, the words and letters on the page started to whiz around at a great speed. After five seconds she lifted her hand from the surface and found that the words now fell neatly into a set of personality test questions.
The questions were such like:
What would you do if faced with a fight?
If your friend was in danger, what you do?
Those sorts of questions.
Micky tried to answer them as best she could; it was a lengthy test that took about half an hour.
Eventually everyone was finished, as they did the words on the front page seemed to seep through to the one beneath.
"Now," Prof. McGonagall started. "After the front page turns completely blank, you can then turn over and take a look at your animagus form."
Since her page was blank, Micky turned her sheet over. On that page was a picture of a large black dog. It was rather hefty with muscle, it had erect triangular ears and its tail curled over it's back. It looked almost like a Japanese Akita. It was all black save for its muzzle, which had a silver sheen.
Next to the image appeared a description of the animal:
The dog is the sign of loyalty; to all that treat it with kindness it will stay a trusting friend and aid them in times of danger. To those who ill-treat them it will turn vicious and defend itself at all costs. It is a smart animal with a head for challenging situations and getting out of tight spots.
Quite apt Micky thought. It seemed to describe her perfectly. On her left she heard Kassi going 'oh how cute' at hers, so it was definitely cute and fluffy, or her definition of.
Micky had a quick glance over and saw that she was a racoon. 'A fun loving animal that loves to trick others, but is loyal to those it calls friends'
"That's you exactly Kassi."
"You think, I just think it's cute."
Micky then looked over Kassi to the twins.
"What have you two got then?"
Fred spoke first. "I've got a fox."
"Cool Fred, what about you George." Kassi was trying to stare over at his page but couldn't quite see.
"I got an eagle."
"Hang on." Micky said in a mock shocked manner. "The twins for once are not identical."
"I know" George answered, "It's the end of the world as we know it"
At this they all started laughing, attracting the attention of Prof. McGonagall. She came over and glared at the parchments in front of them.
"Well it seems that you have all found a perfect match." That was all she said, she then walked off and checked on the other students.
"Do you think she's learned not to ask about our humour?" Fred asked
"I should hope she has after five years." Micky answered.
They all just continued to laugh as the lesson went on. The theory was easy enough to learn. So Micky made quick plans about trying it out, possibly after lessons that day.
Another chapter over, please review, all feedback welcome. I'm going to be doing exams over the next few weeks so the next chapter may take a while to be posted.