-1The final task was tomorrow and I would've preferred to hang out with Harry and give him moral support from now till the time he walked into the labyrinth tomorrow. But Dumbledore wanted me to run an errand for him.
I walked up the gargoyle in front of his door and said the password, "cherry bomb." The gargoyle moved and you walked up the stairs to his office and went through his door.
There was a petite girl with red hair that came a little past her shoulders standing in the middle of his office.
"Can I help you?" I asked. The girl turned around to me and blinked her brown eyes.
"Oh hi," she said.
"Can I help you?" I asked again.
"If you're Hannah Potter you can. Dumbledore told me to wait for you," she said. "I'm Danielle. Danielle D'Loncre. I'm a new student. I just got sorted into Gryffindor."
"A new student? In the last week of May? We get out of school in a week," I said.
"I know, but I just moved to London from the states and I needed to finish my fourth year of school so Dumbledore decided to take me in," Danielle said.
"Oh, it's just like him to do something like this," I said.
"Don't mind me saying, but you don't exactly sound enthused that I'm here," she said.
"It's just Harry, you know, my other over publicized twin, he has to finish the triwizard tournament tomorrow and I'd rather be with him than here with you," I said. "Not that I'm assuming you're a bad person or anything."
"Well I'm not," Danielle said. "And anyway. . .Dumbledore asked if you could show me around the school, being that I'm a noob and all."
"Noob?" I asked.
". . . Noob. Like I'm new and don't know anything?" Danielle asked.
I stared at her. "What?"
"Must be an American thing," she said. "Anyway, can you show me around?"
"I'm kind of obligated to," I said. I let out a deep sigh and led her out of the office into the corridors.
*Am I coming off as an anti-social bitch?*
-Just a little bit.-
I looked over to Danielle.
"Hey look, sorry if I'm coming off as a bit of bitch but it's just that we went through a lot of crap in the last two task and aside from the labyrinth, we don't know what to expect," I said.
"It's alright. It's only natural that you be worried about your brother," Danielle said. "You're like. . . the only family each other has."
"Hmm. . . I guess so huh?" I said. "So, I guess we should start in the Gryffindor Common room. It's probably where you'll spend most of your time, unless you're like Hermione, then you'll spend all your time in the library."
"I'm not much of a bookworm. I'm more of a. . . party girl," Danielle said. I chuckled.
"Well you're in the wrong house. Those Ravenclaw's may be a bunch of stuck up geniuses, but when they party, they go all out," I said. "Although Gryffindor is notorious for the amount of student that have gotten shitfaced in Hogsmeades. Yep. All the future AA members in my house."
"Really? You're lucky. I was too young to drink back in the states," Danielle said.
"We have a limit of three drinks but if you travel from pub to pub adults can't really tell how much you've had to drink already," I said.
"Have you ever gotten wasted at Hogsmeade?" Danielle asked.
"Yeah, but I don't quite remember it. I may've made out with one of my best friend's actually. Lucky for me one of my best friends is a genius and she made me a potion that let me get over my hang over in about three minutes," I said.
"That must've been quite a learning experience," Danielle said.
"Yeah. I learned that me and Fire Whiskey shouldn't be together in public," I said. The two of us laughed as we reached the common room.
I stood in front of the door.
"Caput Draconus," I said. The portrait hole opened and the two of us walked inside.
"You have to move fast or the fat lady will start singing and trying to break glasses and it's not very fun," I said. "And you have to remember the password. This week it's Caput Draconus. It'll be different tomorrow night after the final task. She'll probably tell you as you leave the common room."
"I'll keep that in mind," Danielle said.
"Let me introduce you to my friends," I said. I grabbed Danielle's hand and pull her over to the window where Harry, Hermione and Ron are sitting.
"And you want to know how they take out your brain?" Hermione asked. "They take a red hot poker and shove it up your nose, scramble things about a bit and then yank it all out through your nostrils."
"Wouldn't that hurt?" Ron asked rubbing his nose.
"Well it's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this," Hermione said.
"I think it would be awesome to be mummified," Danielle said. The three turned and looked at her and then at me.
"Hannah what did we tell you about kidnapping strangers?" Ron asked.
I sighed. "That I'm not allowed to and that it's against the law."
"Sorry, about these two. They're a bit psycho. I'm Harry Potter, this is Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger," Harry said. "And you are?"
"Danielle D'Loncre," she answered. "Nice to meet you."
"Whoa. . . You're not freaking out because you're meeting me. . . Maybe people in this world do have common sense," Harry said. "What year are you?"
"Fourth year. I just moved here from the states and I'm finishing my last week of school here," Danielle said.
"Well I'd like to formally invite you to join the Potter posse," Ron said.
"That's the name we gave ourselves when we cheer for Harry," Hermione said.
"I will totally join the Potter Posse. I've been Pro-Potter since I started keeping up with the Tournament," Danielle said. "Though I have to say, I wasn't quite sure what to believe in the papers. That Rita Skeeter sounded awful sketchy."
Harry jumped up and hugged her.
"Oh, we're gonna be great friends. I can already tell," he said.
"Thank you," Danielle said, slightly confused by Harry's random hug.
"You'd have a few more words to say about her if you'd met her," Hermione said.
"Hey you know what I just realized," Ron said.
"Ron's realized something. A miracle," Harry said.
"Shut up Harry," Ron said. "I just realized that in the papers when she said that your most recent prey was 'the Bulgarian bon-bon Victor Krum. . . She was right."
"Not at the time she wasn't," I said.
"Wait. . . You're dating Victor Krum?" Danielle asked.
"Yeah. Although she's some how convinced half the wizarding world that I'm dating him behind Harry's back," Hermione said.
"Hey. . . You're a ginger," Ron said.
"I prefer the term red-head thank you. After that episode of South Park I'm very prone to attitude about the term 'ginger kid.' Mister Parks and Stone must have about a million law suits," Danielle said. "They had all the red head kids try to commit a genocide of non-red headed kids."
"That's terrible! Giving us a bad name like that," I said.
"I hate the media," Hermione said.
"Yeah. They suck," Ron said.
"Uh-huh. . . Anyway, we're having truth-or-dare night tonight and then we're throwing Harry a party. Want to join us?" I asked.
"Truth or dare and a party? I am so in," Danielle said.
"We'll be in Hannah's dorm tonight at seven. You'll know it. It says Hannah, Hermione, Parvati and Emily on the door," Harry said.
"Well I'm gonna show Danielle here the rest of the school. I'll see you guys later," I said.
"Bye."
At Truth-or-Dare Night
We were all spread out over my room, including Seamus who I had made peace with.
"We will begin this truth or dare session by welcoming back Seamus who hasn't been with us since the second truth or dare night," Ginny said.
"And hopefully he's ended his spree of douche baggery," I said.
"I will never cheat on another girl for as long as I live," Seamus said.
"That's good to hear," I said.
"How's about taking me back," Seamus said.
"Don't think my boyfriend would like that very much," I said. "Sorry, dear."
"Oh, darn," he said.
"And also I'd like to welcome Danielle D'Loncre our newest addition to the Potter Posse," I said.
"We were originally gonna have Harry start off our festivities but he's getting a party tonight so we'll let Danielle start us off instead him," Hermione said.
"And go all out. No matter how embarrassing or harsh it may be go for it. Our first game, Harry did a strip show for all the girls in our house while singing that he was to sexy for his clothes," Emily said.
"Sorry I missed that," Danielle said. "Alright, let's do this. Um. . . I don't know most of your names so I'll start small. Hannah, truth or dare?"
"Truth," I replied.
"Okay... What's the craziest thing you've ever done while you were drunk?" Danielle asked.
"Ooh! Tell her about Hogsmeade last week!" Neville said.
I sighed.
"Last week, I got pretty drunk while we were at Hogsmede and it was all of us and my boy friend Draco. Well I was really, really, really, really-,"
"Really, really, really, really," Ginny continued.
"Really, really, drunk," I finished.
"She must've had about twelve shots of fire whiskey's which is insane," Ron said.
"Well we were in the Three Broomsticks and Pansy Parkinson walked in," I said.
"Who is she?" Danielle asked.
"A fat, ugly, stupid, man thieving heifer," I said. "Anyway, she walked in and started hanging all over Draco so I told her to step off or else I would do something crazy but she wasn't stepping of. So I took a bottle, broke it on the table and lunged it at her and she ran out all freaked and stuff. The only thing I remember after that is making out with someone other than Draco."
"Who was it?" Danille asked. "It wasn't Harry was it?"
"No! I'd never be to out of touch with reality to ever do that to my brother," I said. "It was. . . Ginny."
"Who's Ginny?" Danielle asked.
"I am." Ginny raised her hand.
"Wow. . . Pretty interesting bunch you guys," Danielle said.
"She was too drunk to remember her Coyote Ugly imitation on the bar," Dean said. "That was probably the best night off my life."
"Well Hannah, it's your turn," Danielle said.
"Okay, um, Dean truth or dare?" I asked.
"Dare," he said.
"Okay Dean. . . I dare you to go across the hall to Collin Creevey's room and ask him out on date," I said.
"Colin's gay?" Hermione asked.
"No. he's one hundred percent straight," I said. "So go ask out Colin."
Dean got up and walked out the dorm. He came back about three minutes later.
"What did he say?" I asked.
"He said 'for the last time, I like vagina' and slammed the door in my face," Dean said.
"Alrighty then," Danielle said. "I like Gryffindor."
"Wait'll you meet the Weasley twins. You'll love it even more."
At the Party
"We are here today. . . tonight, to have a party because we never have parties and because Harry is going to go into a labyrinth and search for the Triwizard Cup. And even though he's going to win an award tomorrow, we'd like to give him one of our own," Fred announced.
"We are giving Harry this bottle of Metamucil so he can always stay regular on his moral fiber," George said. They tossed the bottle to Harry and everyone started laughing and applauding.
After that the Weasley twins stepped down and walked over to me and Danielle.
"Hey look George, another red head in Gryffindor," Fred said.
"Haven't seen you around here before? What's your name?" George asked.
"Danielle D'Loncre. I just transferred today," she said.
"Well Danielle you came just in time to see the final task," Fred asked. "Too bad you missed the first one though. She got attacked by a dragon."
"And in the second one she almost drowned," George asked.
"Wait a second. Who's competing? You or Harry?" Danielle asked.
"Harry. I've just got really bad luck and an immunity to sleeping spells," I said.
"How terrible for you," she said. "Anyway what kind of party is this? It's so. . . dead."
I looked around. There was music playing and a few people dancing a few eating and a few were talking the rest were being anti-social.
"Yeah, Gryffindor's aren't party animals. It's those Ravenclaws that have the bashes that make people wake up with stories to tell the next day," Ron said walking over.
"Well we'll have to fix that won't we?" Danielle asked. Ron and I exchanged glances.
"What do you mean?" George asked. She winked at him and ran upstairs.
"American's are a strange breed they are," Fred said.
"I couldn't agree more," I said.
Danielle bounced down the stairs with a boombox in hand.
"Dani, if I may call you that, technology won't work in Hogwarts," Hermione pointed out.
"I know. This is a special radio," she said. She sat it on the mantel on the fire place. She then pulled herself on top of it and called for attention.
"Alright. This new girl's pretty cool," Fred said.
"Ladies and gentlemen of Gryffindor house I am Danielle and I'm new and I'm here to get this party started. You say this is a party but come on, old records that you found lying around the dorm? That's not music, well it is but not party music. So I'm gonna turn on this stereo and we're gonna get this party started right. How are you gonna let Harry know he has your support if you're all dead to the world. Act like you actually want him to have fun before the final task. Come people work with me," Danielle said.
Ginny stood up.
"She's right. Turn the radio Danielle," she said. Danielle turned the radio on and started playing Dirty Little Secret. Everyone remained the way they were till she jumped off the mantel on the coffee table and started singing into her wand. Then everyone was pretty much bought on the idea of a party that rivaled that of Ravenclaws.
That Evening
"That Danielle girl is more fun than a barrel full of monkey's," Emily said. "I'm wiped out I had so much fun."
"Who saw her jumping off the mantel coming. That blew me away," Parvati said.
"Not to mention the part where she decided to cast the float charm on her shoes and dance around the room. It was wicked," Hermione said. "I didn't even know you could do that."
"Yeah. Gryffindor's gonna be pretty kick ass with her here now," I said. "In the mean time, I'm going to sleep we have a big day a head of us tomorrow."
Tomorrow of course was the final round of the Triwizard Tournament and who knew what lay ahead.