Chapter Sweet Sixteen

Sarah and Jareth were in Dumbledore's office, waiting for the Headmaster to come and see them. Sarah was missing her afternoon classes…, which wasn't very different to what had happened earlier that morning.

"Man, I still can't get fired." Jareth said.

"Maybe you should paint a mural on the wall that says 'Dumbbydoor smells' on the roof of the great hall." Sarah said, twirling three crystals in her hand

"Nah, he'd probably think it was hilarious." Jareth replied, twirling four crystals in one hand.

Sarah produced two more, and began to spin all five crystals across her hands.

Jareth sent his up and down his arms.

Sarah stood up, sending them rolling down her stomach and onto her ankle.

Jareth stood too, and spun his crystals around his neck and across his chest.

Sarah started juggling her crystals

Jareth tried to juggle six, but failed.

"Damn" He said.

"Hehehe" Sarah said, walking around the room backwards.

Unfortunately, Sarah had wound up in front of the door into the office, which Dumbledore then opened and sent her sprawling onto the floor. The crystals floated towards the ceiling, popping as they hit the roof and turning into fairy dust.

"I CAN FLY!" Dumbledore cried, thinking a happy thought and jumping into the air. Sadly, it wasn't Peter Pan fairy dust, and so he couldn't fly.

Sarah scoffed. Jareth smirked. Professor McGonagall came through the door and just raised her eyebrows.

"Professor Dumbledore, I believe we should probably get down to the matter at hand. It would appear there have been many occurrences today, which I have not been informed of. One teacher found in bed with a student." She said sternly

"In a bed" Jareth interrupted.

"One unlicensed Dralking session, many accounts of a certain Dark Arts professor being drunk whilst he should have been teaching."

"Well, he was really sleeping while he should have been teaching." Sarah interrupted.

"One student attempting to hug a teacher when he was not in the mood for a hug." Jareth said boredly.

"I was going to hug my puppy, not you." Sarah said. "Hey wait, where is my puppy?"

"Well, if you're not responsible enough to look after your own puppy, then I'll just have to take him away from you." Jareth said pompously.

"You took him! I hate you." Sarah said.

"One student telling a teacher she hates him." Jareth said to McGonagall.

"Ooh, write that one down" Dumbledore said.

"One teacher stealing a student's puppy." Sarah said, glaring at Jareth.

"One student poking a teacher." Jareth said

"One teacher poking a student." Sarah said

"One student telling a teacher he doesn't poke hard enough, when clearly he does." Jareth said, poking Sarah

"One teacher not poking hard enough…"

Sarah was interrupted by McGonagall.

"Enough" She said angrily. "Please, behave with some maturity Professor Sidhe, and you, Miss Williams. I think it would be better if you and Professor Sidhe stopped poking each other and started behaving like a real student and teacher would, wouldn't you agree Professor Dumbledore?"

His only reply was to poke McGonagall

"Do not poke me, Head master." She said icily.

"Yes ma'am" He said, sitting back in his chair behind his desk.

"Weird" Sarah whispered to Jareth.

"You're telling me" He said.

"What are you whispering about?" Dumbledore whispered.

"Only cute people can join this conversation." Jareth said

"But I'm cute! I even put a pretty pink ribbon in my beard!" He said. He had. His beard was now plaited with a pink bow at the end.

"Professor Dumbledore, please may we get to the problem we have come here to discuss?" McGonagall said.

"I thought we decided that professor Sidhe and I weren't allowed to be friends anymore?" Sarah said.

"What?!?!" Jareth said. "But I thought we were Best Friends Forever!" Sarah laughed uproariously.

"You are not my best friend, let alone my best friend forever." She said. "Weren't you listening to a thing they said?"

"Nah, I kinda tuned out a little, I was bored."

"Apparently you do that a lot…" Sarah said. "So what is the problem at hand?" Sarah asked McGonagall

"You're new found magic of course!" McGonagall said, flustered. "Where did it come from? What is it? How do you master it?"

"It's easy." Sarah said. "All I have to do is get one of these little twinkly crystals and then spin around on my hands and throw it at stuff." She demonstrated, throwing it at Jareth. "See, now he has a blue shirt on instead of a white one." Sarah said.

"Actually, now I have no shirt on instead of a white one." He said dryly. It was true, and boy did he have abs!

"Dangit." Sarah said. She conjured another crystal and was about to throw it at Jareth.

"I'll get it this time, I swear!"

"No thankyou, I can do it, myself." He said quickly, conjuring another crystal, and, after throwing it gently into the air above him, creating a new white shirt for himself.

"I guess the only one who can really teach Sarah is Professor Sidhe." McGonagall said her face sombre.

"YAY!" Jareth cried. "BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!" He ran over to hug her

"NO TOUCHIES!" She cried, making a cross with her fingers to keep him away. His face fell.

"So when do we have to have lessons?" Sarah asked.

"Well, probably two or three afternoons a week, maybe on weekends." McGonagall said.

"There goes my free time…" Sarah said sadly.

"We could always do it whilst Dralking." Jareth piped in

"Nah, that makes me too tired." Sarah said. "I guess I'm cool with the whole weekend's thing."

"Excellent. You'll start tomorrow. Oh, and tell your friends that there will be a Hogsmeade weekend this weekend, as an extra treat for missing all of their Dark Arts lessons today. Dismissed." McGonagall said.

"Hey, I'm the only one who can say that stuff!" Dumbledore said.

"Oh, yes sir. Sorry sir." McGonagall said quickly.

"Excellent. You'll start tomorrow. Oh, and tell your friends that there will be a Hogsmeade weekend this weekend, as an extra treat for missing all of their Dark Arts lessons today. Dismissed"

"Ok then, bye…" Sarah said, walking out the door towards her History of Magic lesson.

As she walked through the door, slamming it behind her, half the class jerked awake to see what had caused the commotion. Binns didn't even notice she'd come in, continuing to lecture the class about the Great Witch Fire of 1369.

Sarah sat down next to Harry and wrote him a note.

'Sorry, had to see Dumbledore. Did I miss anything in Care of Magical Creatures?'

'No, just Malfoy being an idiot. Hagrid was just giving us an overview of the year. Guess what or first assignment is on.'

'Monkeys?'

'Fleagles. He saw Numy, who followed us down, and decided that next lesson whoever owned that 'beautiful specimen' would bring him and tell us about his habits. Sorry, I didn't want him to make me talk, so I told him it was yours.'

'Gee thanks.'

'HI SARAH, IT'S RON! WHAT ARE YOU AND HARRY TALKING ABOUT? WHAT DID DUMBLEDORE SAY?'

Sarah rolled her eyes.

'There's a Hogsmeade visit this weekend, and I have to do extra lessons

'WHAT A SHAME! WANT TO COME TO HOGSMEADE WITH ME?' The paper here was wet, like Ron had been sweating profusely when writing it.

'Sorry Ron, I have to go to my extra lessons then.'

'THAT'S OK; I'LL JUST GO WITH HARRY AND HERMIONE.'

"Ron, give that back!" Harry whispered angrily. He read it, raised his eyebrows and looked at Ron pointedly, who grinned sheepishly.

'Didn't you say you liked to fly? Quidditch trials are next weekend, you should try for the team. We need a new Chaser on the team'

'We'll see.' Was all Sarah could write, as the bell rang and the students slowly began to wake up and head out of the classroom. The day's classes were now all over, and they were free to do what they wanted.

Sarah walked slowly back to the Gryffindor homeroom, contemplating the day's events.

She heard a noise at her feet and realised Numy was walking along beside her.

"Hello you" She said, squatting down to his level. "What have you been dong all day? I missed you!" She said, hugging him. "Come on, let's go for a fly!"

At this, Numy spread his wings. It was the first time Sarah had seen them. They were black and graceful, almost as long as his body was. Sarah reached out to stroke them, and found they were covered in tiny feathers.

"Aww, you're so handsome!"

"Oh stop!" A voice said. Sarah groaned.

"Not you again. This is the billionth time I've run into you today."

"I know, it's great isn't it? I told you we were best buddies!" Jareth said, stroking Numair, who yapped and jumped up, resting his front paws on his leg. "Now now little Jareth, no jumping!"

"What did you just call my puppy?" Sarah asked

"You're puppy? No no no. don't you remember? You couldn't take care of your puppy, so I said I'd take him. I think Little Jareth is such a befitting name, seeing as he's as handsome as I am!"

"Pfft." Sarah said.

"Would you rather I named him Boby after your brother?"

"My brother's name is Toby, not Boby!"

"Whatever. So how are you finding Hogwarts?" He asked her.

"It's a piece of cake, considering I've had to put up with you all day." She said

"Oh really? A piece of cake? Let's see how you deal with this little slice." He said ominously, conjuring a crystal. Sarah quickly pulled it out of his hand

"Don't" She said softly and angrily. "I don't know how the rest of the school would cope with the cleaners coming to pay a visit."

Jareth rolled his eyes. Sarah threw the crystal at him. He screamed.

And nothing happened.

"And that's why you need private tutoring from me." He said proudly.

"Sarah, can I talk to you?"

Sarah turned and found herself face to face with Hermione, who was avoiding Jareth's gaze.

"With pleasure." Sarah said, glaring at the Goblin King, before following Hermione back to the common room.

CLIFFHANGER! CLIFFHANGER! CLIFFHANGER! CLIFFHANGER!

Well, well, well, what have we here?

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