caput viginti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah whistled cheerfully as she skipped down the halls of Hogwarts to dinner in the Great Hall. She stopped suddenly
"Uh, hello…" She said to the strange translucent man wearing clothes from hundreds of years ago, floating a foot off the ground.
"Ah, hello there! You must be a first year! My name is Sir Nicholas, Nearly Headless Nick." The ghost said.
"Oh… Nearly headless?" She asked
Sir Nick pulled his head to one side, revealing how it had be chopped off almost completely, hanging on by a few threads of skin.
"I see…" Sarah said, trying not to look too green. "I'm Sarah Williams. But I'm in fifth year, not first year."
"I thought you looked a little too old to be in first year. You seemed very happy coming down the hallway just then. Get a good letter from home?" Nick asked, moving aside for a couple of third years to run past.
"You could say that. I just got in contact with some old friends of mine."
"Ah, very nice indeed. I suppose you had better run off to dinner now, otherwise you won't have enough time to do your homework tonight."
Sarah groaned at the thought of the work she had been assigned in her classes.
"I guess you're right…" She said. "Where can I find you?"
"Whatever do you mean dear?"
"Well, I had a nice chat with you! I want to be friends Sir Nicholas! I'll come and see you on the weekends and we can talk about… stuff…" Sarah said
Sir Nicholas beamed.
"I would very much like that!" He said. "I'm usually around the Gryffindor common rooms, and I'll be in the Great Hall at most meals anyway. Why don't I walk you to dinner?" He said cheerfully
"It would be my pleasure" Sarah said, walking beside Nick towards the Great Hall, talking about the other ghosts at Hogwarts.
What they didn't know, was that a pair of eyes followed them the entire way…
GRUB TIME!!!!!!!! ALL STUDENTS ASSEMBLE IN THE GREAT HALL!
"So, Sir Nick." Sarah said sitting down beside Harry and helping herself to some roast beef. "How did you become nearly headless?" Nick sat in the space next to her, unaware that Ron had just entered the hall and was planning on taking that seat.
"Hello Harry, Sarah." He said bitterly.
"Hello Ron. Have you met Sir Nicholas?" Sarah asked cheerfully
"Yes, I have." Said Ron. Although, because he had stuffed his mouth so full of food, it sounded more like ''esh, I hab".
"Hello Ronald!" Sir Nick said merrily. "Where is your other lady friend, Hermione?"
"I don't know. Harry, have you seen her?" Ron replied.
Harry merely growled and continued eating. Ron shrugged and continued to shovel food into his mouth, mixing dessert with his main meal.
"Ronald, that is utterly disgusting!" Came a voice from behind them
"Speak of the devil!" Sarah said, turning to wave to Hermione. "where have you been all day?"
"I have been feeling out of sorts. Nevertheless, I am better now. What's for dinner?" Hermione said, making an attempt at cheerfulness.
"Roast beef and vegetables and stuff." Ron said
Hermione sat down daintily and began to place some food on her plate.
It was then that hey heard another voice behind them
"Hello Sarah." It said. "Who's your new friend?"
"Hello Professor Sidhe." Sarah said monotonously. "This is Nearly Headless Nick."
"I believe we have already met, good sir." Nick said. "On the first night back at school, you were introduced to all of the ghosts and staff members at the school. I am Gryffindor's resident ghost."
"He probably doesn't remember you because he was too drunk" Ron said, pointing at Jareth with his fork. The Goblin King conjured a crystal and began throwing it up and catching it in his hand repeatedly, threateningly.
"I'm just… going to go now…and talk to my… brothers" Ron said, grabbing his plate and running down to the other end of the table, where Fred and George were sitting.
Jareth smirked.
"I say, good sir, that was not a very chivalrous thing to do to ones student."
"That student is not very chivalrous himself." Jareth said, sitting in Ron's seat.
"Ok, first of all: That doesn't make sense. Second, why are you sitting with us rather than with the teachers?" Sarah said, putting down her knife and fork to look inquisitively at her professor.
"Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be powerful and stuff. I guess I'll be going then!" He said, standing up and walking to the staff table.
"Hey, psst! Sarah!" They heard a small voice say. It came from Sarah's pocket. She looked to see what it was, and found that it was her mirror.
"Go away!" She whispered angrily. "Find your own friends."
If she had looked up at the staff table, she would have seen the King of the Goblins pout, shake his fist at the crystal in his hand, before pressing it between his hands until it disappeared.
But she only saw him pout, before the entire mirror clouded over.
"Well Sarah, I am afraid I must take my leave now." Nick said
"Aw, but Sir Nick! We didn't even finish our conversation!" Sarah said
"Another time dear, another time. Business calls me!" Nick said, walking… floating away.
Ron, once he noticed that Sarah now sat with only Hermione and Harry (Who were both completely silent) hurried back to sit with his friends
"Hey Sarah." He said. "Why are you such good friends with Nearly Headless Nick now?" He asked
"He reminds me of a good friend of mine." Sarah said wistfully.
"Who?" Ron asked
"Just this guy I met a short time before I met you guys. He helped me become a better person. He's wise and valiant, chivalrous, but with a pretty horrible sense of smell…" Sarah said smiling.
Ron raised his eyebrows, and would have whispered to someone that Sarah was crazy, but had no one to whisper it to.
He looked to his right at Harry, who sat hunched over his half-empty plate. He looked to his left at Hermione, who held a fork in her hand, pushing a single piece of beef around in the dregs of gravy left on her plate. He sighed.
"Hey, don't sigh so much." Fred said
"Your food will go bad." George said
"Where'd you two come from?" Ron asked, whipping his head around to look at them
"We noticed you were on pretty good terms with the Dark Arts professor Sarah." George said, ignoring Ron
"We had our first lesson with him today." Fred said.
"What happened in your lesson?" Sarah asked
"He threatened us." Fred said "He took out a crystal and put it on the front of his desk"
"Said if we misbehaved he'd send us to the worst place imaginable." Continued George
"The Bog of Eternal Stench? Or an Oubliette?" Sarah asked. Ron shivered when she mentioned the Oubliette.
"Nah, a room full of fairies" Fred said
"That Lauren Fraser girl asked why fairies were so bad" George said "Se he threw the crystal at her, and she disappeared."
"When she came back she was covered in little bites, and wouldn't speak at all the rest of the lesson." Said Fred
"Silly girl" Sarah said, shaking her head "Did she think fairies were nice, granting wishes and stuff?"
"I don't get it." Harry said.
"What do you mean?" Sarah asked
"How come he can make people just disappear like that? I thought you couldn't apparate into or out of Hogwarts?"
"Well, He doesn't actually use Wizard magic." Sarah said
"Oh really, Miss Williams. Would you care to enlighten us on which type of magic Professor Sidhe does use?" Professor Snape, who was standing behind Sarah, asked, loudly enough that everyone in the Great Hall turned to look.
Sarah gulped and looked at Jareth, who stood slowly, scowling.
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This chapter isn't as funny as the others, but it might work a little with storylines… actually, I don't think this story has a storyline, but meh I'll figure something out!
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