Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde (One of my favourite quotes!)
Chapter 5: You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors, it's the morning of your very first day
"Come on Dom!" I groaned. "If you needed to go to the bathroom, why didn't you just ask on of your oh-so-wonderful-cousins?"
"Ha-ha, you are so funny Genevieve!" Dom snapped sarcastically. "First of all, that would be so embarrassing and secondly, why would I need to ask them if I've got you? You went to this school before, did you not?"
"Yes I did but th-"
"Well let's settle it there. Anyway, we've already been to the loo and now we just need to find our way back!" Dom pointed out. I frowned; I haven't attended this school for four years so how the hell was I supposed to know my way around it?
The portraits along the wall chuckled. Apparently a few French kids getting lost was incredibly hilarious. Hogwarts wasn't big, it was just confusing. The stairwells all looked the same and I swear Dom and I had passed that painting with a little girl in it about 10 minutes ago. The landings were marble just like in the Great Hall and the whole place was warm and vibrant, beaming golden rays of light on us.
"Here," I pointed towards a staircase. Dom and I turned and started to make our way down it.
"Seriously!" Dom complained. "They could've at least given us a map or something! We've got a big on at the entrance of Beauxbatons so visitors can know there way around!"
I sighed. "Dom, shut up and he-" but I never got to finish of the sentence because just then I heard a blood curdling scream.
I looked behind me at Dom who was yelling for her life and holding on to the staircase railings for life. The floor, sorry stair underneath me seemed to come to life and started moving along with its other little stair friends to the other end of the room.
"What the he-" I started but then I realized what was happening. 'Dom, the staircase is just shifting! Calm down!" Dom looked like she had been drained of all oxygen.
"WHY IN MERLIN'S NAME WOULD THEY HAVE A FREAKING STAIRCASE THAT FREAKING MOVES! WHAT GOOD DOES THAT DO?"
"Oh how sweet, two little dumb girls who are scared of a staircase!"
Dom stopped screeching immediately and her eyes travelled to the to of my head. I staggered backwards but quickly grabbed the railings too as the moving staircase came to a halt.
The ghost landed in the space between Dom and I. He was transparent and had chains around his hands and legs. He face looked ghastly and bloodshot and even if he was see-through, there was some sort of liquid thing on him, no wait that was just blood.
I swallowed my throat and Dom looked like she'd seen a ghost. Sorry, rephrase, Dom looked like she had deprived of all good things in the world. The Ghost's I'd encountered were fun and cheerful but this one was far from. It took me only a second to realize which ghost it was because even if it had been nearly half a decade since I went to Hogwarts, only one ghost seemed to find it necessary to torment me. Regardless to say, the Bloody Baron was my worst nightmare.
"M-M-mr Baron!" I stuttered.
The Bloody Baron turned his glare to me and just stared. In the space of a second his face expression had turned from 'I'm-gonna-kill-you!' to 'Whaaa?'
The Bloody Baron frowned and so did I to his peculiar response. Well, at least he wasn't going to call that Poltergeist. He whispered something under his breath that I couldn't quite make out. Dominique must off heard it because she frowned too. It was like an all-round frowning party!
"Which way is it to the Great Hall?" I asked.
The Bloody Baron snapped back into reality and shook his head. "Sorry, um... If you follow this staircase down and take a right near the classroom at the end, It'll lead you to the main entrance." And then he floated away.
"What in Merlin's name was that?" I hissed to Dominique.
She shrugged. "I don't know but for some reason Gen, he called you, 'Juilette'"
"'Juliette? Who's Juliette?" Jem asked as we made our way into the Gryffindor Beauxbaton's crowd.
"I really don't know!" I said trying to look over some people's heads to get a better view of where we were going so next time I ever did need to make it back to the Gryffindor Common Rom, I wouldn't get lost. "Anyways, what happened in the Great Hall when Dom and I were gone?" After Dom and I had gotten back to the Great Hall, Professor McGonagall had just taken away dessert (Thanks to Dom's peanut sized bladder we missed Dessert!) and told everyone to go to their Common Rooms and the prefects to lead the Beauxbatons students to where they would be staying for the rest of the year. A part of me still couldn't believe this was happening. At least I was thankful that Potter, Weasley and their clan didn't seek me out. Things had gone a lot more differently than what I had expected them too.
"Well, we got hit on by a few girls-" Mason started.
'Can't you go a day without mentioning girls?" I snapped and he grinned widely.
"-And some boys came down and sat with us-"
"BOYS? What boys?" I said. Mason looked a bit taken aback.
"Normal boys?"
"I mean what did they look like!"
"Well one had blue eyes, olive skin and black hair and his friend had black hair to but he had brown eyes and paler skin-"
"Did girls stare at them?" I asked. "Tell me Mase! Did girls stare at them?"
"Well, they were to busy staring at me- Ok! A few did!"
I swore. "Are you sure it was James and Freddie?" asked Dom who was now holding hands with Tristan.
"James and Freddie? You mean the evil ones?" Jem interrupted. Mason got the murderer's face back.
"Wait? If they hated you then why were they nice to us?" asked Tristan. I shrugged.
Why were they? "What did they say?" I asked him.
"They were normal. Just asked about Quiddich and how we liked it here so far." Tristan replied. I narrowed my eyes. What were they playing at?
"But did they mention Gen?" Dom asked.
"No they didn't. They mentioned you though Dom, how you were their cousin but they didn't mention Gen. In fact, I don't even think they knew Gen."
"What?" I was confused now. Were they trying to win the boys over or something? "That is not normal."
Jem shrugged. "We really don't know Gen. We're going to be spending a year here and it doesn't matter if they were Freddie and James, people change. Maybe you could spend this year in peace? Like you ignore them and they ignore you?"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing! "Jem, i don't think so. They might've just been playing you guys but even if they weren't I don't think I can just live in 'peace' when my childhood tormentors are just 10 meters away from me! That's not natural! And I don't care how long it's going to take but I'm going to make them pay because what they did to me wasn't in anyway humane. You can join me or stay out of it but I swear, I'm going to make James Potter and Freddie Weasley's life a living hell."
"I don't know but I don't think you should. Just take it from me, one day you're going to regret it. Whatever happened in the past stays in the past but what you choose still hasn' happened so do a favor and don't sink to his level."
I felt my face rise in colour. What Jem had just said did make sense but that only made me more annoyed.
"He's actually right Gen." piped Dom. "Don't sink to James's level."
I didn't care about sinking to Potter's level! I just wanted to get revenge but I muttered, "Fine!" anyway.
"Hey! My name's Sarah! Sarah Dillion. Please to meet you guys!" Sarah was shorter than average with honey blonde hair that reached her shoulder and pale, creamy skin. The girl next to her renimded me of Oriel with a short bob cut that was brown instead of blonde and big brown eyes. "This is Ellie Wood."
There was a total of seven girls in our new dormitory, one of them were French and four of them were English with Dom and I half way in-between. The only other Beauxbatons girl was unfortunately Celeste Martin who was a part of the 'Mason-Jem-and-Tristan-fan-club'. She resembled the daughter of a Barbie and a pug with blonde hair and a pug-like face that had been spray tanned orange. Sadly, somehow the vast female population of Witches had been introduced to spray tans somewhere back in 2009 and decided it was absolutely wonderful.
The other two English girls spread of quite a way away from each other. They were each sitting on their own beds, pinning pictures of things they liked on the wall.
"Roxy?" Dom asked in surprise. One girl with long, curly black hair pulled into a pony tail and olive skin smiled nervously. She had the same blue eyes as Dominique but her smile reminded me of someone else.
"Who-" I started but my question was soon answered when I saw her lift up a family portrait. The mother was beautiful with rich, chocolate brown skin and kind brown eyes. Her husband had a crooked mischievous smile on his face, wild red hair and was missing an ear and Roxy's brother was a little taller than her with the same curly black hair, olive skin and bright blue eyes.
Yes people, I did in fact fall over in shock. What? The ground needed a hug!
"Woah!" Dom exclaimed and raced over to help me up.
"Roxanne Weasley." I said quietly. She looked confused as if she didn't recognize me. Roxy had never done anything bad to me but it was the fact that she stood around with her cousins doing whatever the heck they wanted with people that made me annoyed with her. She could at least try and stop them!
"Um, sorry. I don't know who you are." she said.
What? How could you NOT know who I am? I was probably the most bullied person in Hogwarts because of your stupid cousin! (Sorry Dom, four of you in the same year and it tends to get a bit confusing.)
"Did you or did you not hear McGonagall announce it to both the Beauxbatons and Hogwarts population?" asked Dom. She received a few laughs even though I found it quite hard to believe that what she had just said was in anyway funny.
"Wait!" The other English chick just spoke up. "Aren't you like that loser who went to Hogwarts then transferred to Beauxbatons? You're Genevieve Henderson aren't you?" she shrieked with laughter and then started clucking. Dom pulled me back by my cloak as I started advancing towards her. I recognized this girl, he snide remarks and narrowed eyes reminded me a lot of someone I had hated for a long time. Sophie Amelia Harrison was apparently my 'best friend' when Hogwarts started, She was the first girl I had made friends with on the train to Hogwarts and also the first girl who had laughed behind my back. It was stupid little things that caused me to be the main gossip like the light up socks I wore, the type of music I listened to and the type of clothes I wore. When my father had left my mother, she wasn't exactly rich so she could afford the 'latest trends'. Potter being the complete and utter idiot he was decided that joining in with Sophie's name calling was going to be fun and that's how it all started. Till this day I still blamed Sophie for what had happened. She hadn't change very much. She still had the shiny brown hair nearly every girl was envious of and the 'sparkling' light green eyes that made me want to stab her.
"S'il vous plaît arrêtez putain, tu fais un idiot de vous-même." Dominique sighed and the Beauxbatons girl and I burst out laughing.
"Seriously? You think you're so smart insulting me in a language I don't know!" she snapped.
"Well if you want the English translation then OK!" Dom smiled. "Please stop whore, you're making a fool of yourself." Still, only Celeste and I found this funny. The rest were staring, wide-eyed.
"What do you think you are? Funny? Seriously, how much cosmetics did you have to go through to get that face?" Sophie laughed.
"Um sorry to burst you're bubble but I'm part Veela." Dom said and I started laughing all over again.
"Oh really? And I'm part troll!"
"We you sure look it." I pointed out. Sophie gave me an obscene look and stormed out of the room. Dom and I burst into fits of laughter and hi-fived. Even Sarah, Ellie and Celeste thought it was funny. Only Roxy seemed a little worried.
"I don't think you should've done that." she said nervously. "You don't know the things she can do."
"Trust me Roxy, I do." I said. Celeste and Dom had gone to see something Dom had token a picture of.
"Sorry." Roxy said looking down. Her and I were standing near a window that had a wonderful view of the Quiddich field. The Gryffindor Dorm we had gotten, Number 2 wasn't as large as the Beauxbatons rooms but it sure was cute. It had seven, four poster beds with a canopy of rad and the walls were painted red and gold. Gryffindor flags were pinned up in random places and a trunk was at the end of Roxy, Sophie, Sarah and Ellie's beds. Dom, Celeste and I had gotten our chests back.
"What for?" I asked.
"Everything. When we were younger and stuff-"
"You didn't do anything though."
"Exactly. I just stood there, I know I should've done something but-"
"It doesn't matter Roxy. What's done is done. I'm happy you've changed." The conversation was so awkward I wished a hippogriff would burst through the open window now and invite to a game of Quiddich.
"Um...sorry and thanks...you've changed too you know..." I didn't know whether to smile or frown so my eyebrows decided to go one way and my mouth the other. I probably looked like a constipated dolphin.
"How- I mean, really?"
"Yeah!" she said eagerly, seemingly delighted to change the topic. "You're still the same girl but you're more confident and you look happier, remember? You used to have those metal things on your teeth-"
"Oh I remember well." I interrupted. "How your cousin and brother decided to put a magnetic charm on them so every time I walked past something that was metal I'd immediatley be attracted to it."
Roxy looked like she was trying to not smile. "Yeah but you're prettier too...and you look older, more mature."
"Probably 'cause I am." I said smiling. She laughed nervously. "Well, I'm going to take a bath and go to bed!" I announced making my way to my chest.
"It's because you were different!" Roxy said quickly as I was walking away.
I turned around. "What?"
"It's because you were different you know. You were so much more...free...they saw it as a weakness too..."
"Great..." I said unsurely. Was this chick alright?
I sighed. The rest of the year wasn't going to be easy, especially if I was going to share a room with my ex-friend-turned-enemy and ex-enemy-turned-something. Dom on the other hand thought it was going to be hilarious.
"COME ON! BREAKFAST TIME!" Mason said literally skipping ahead of us. The first day of life at Hogwarts, yay! (Not.) Last night had been hard. I had constantly woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares of Freddie and James ordering a dragon to eat me or hanging me upside down in skirt from a broom and ordering it to down several rounds of the school. It was actually quite terrifying. I was still a bit shaken and Dom kept on giving me worried glances.
When we woke up in the morning, Celeste, oand I had found over-sized Gryffindor uniforms at the end of our beds. There was a not saying to try them on and so we did. The uniforms had adjusted themselves to our body size much to Dom's disgust. She really did hate the Gryffindor uniforms, it was also kind of weird seeing my friends in Hogwarts uniforms since I'd been so used to them in the blue silken robes of Beauxbatons.
Morning duties in Hogwarts and Beauxbatons were pretty similar and so were the conditions in the corridors. It was like a huge stampede of wild hungry animals, if you slowed down you'd get trampled. You had to stick with who you know so you wouldn't get left behind and that meant most of the Beauxbatons groups that rarely mixed had become best friends. It was so loud that you could barely hear yourself think and some people pushed others out of the way just to get to the tables first.
And then I got the familiar feeling of weightlessness. My head spun slightly and I felt like I was going to throw up.
I saw a girl with blonde hair running through a deserted hall way. The place was dark so it must've been night time. And then I saw two people run after the girl. A boy and another girl in a cloak, they both looked like they were trying to discover something. The vision zoomed into the cloak and I got a better view of the two people. One had long wavy hair and the other had short black hair. My heart nearly jumped into my throat when I realized that it was in fact Potter and...Wait, me? WHAT WAS I DOING UNDER A CLOAK WITH POTTER? And why were we chasing after someone? Potter and seemed to stop and someone talked, probably the blonde girl but her voice was obscure so I couldn't understand a word but I knew it had to be something pretty bad because Potter looked astonished and my hand flew to my mouth.
And then everything when white. This was unfamiliar. I couldn't see anything and all of a sudden I felt as though I had been hit in the head. I might not of been able to see anything but my hands went to my head instantly. I didn't even know what I was doing, all I could think about was the searing pain in my head as If something inside it was dying to get out. And then there was a thumping noise and every thump sent a new tsunami of pain through my head.
My vision came back after both fifteen seconds but I was still shaking. I was on my knees, clutching my temple and I could barely speak. People around me had stopped to see what the commotion was about and Dom and the boys started to panic, asking me what was wrong. Dom was shaking me and Jem was trying to get me up. The pain started to subside but the whole place was sureal. Everything was at normal speed but sound slowed down for a bit. I had no balance what so ever so I just sat on the floor waiting for everything to return back to normal.
"Oh my god Gen! Someone call a teacher!" Dom yelled. I felt wierd, that had never happened before. Mason seemed to be shooing of the crowd but it wouldn't work. Everybody was in a circle around me. Was that even normal?
My sense came back but I was still a little shocked. What the hell had just happened to me? My face flushed as I realized that right now I was the center of attention.
"Move! What happened!" That definitely wasn't a teacher. Freddie Weasley marched his way to the front of the crowd. He looked just as Mason had described him the other day with mass amounts of curly black hair, flawless olive skin and bright blue eyes lined with dark lashes and he was standing next to the boy I had dreaded to meet again for over three years. Potter was as handsome as always with straight and extremely messy jet black hair and brown eyes. When the pair had made their way to the front of the crowd, Freddie actually looked a bit worried but Potter looked stunned. Wait no, it seemed the world had paralyzed him and he couldn't move for a few seconds. He just stood there and stared at me intently as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"I'M FINE GUYS!" I quickly announced trying to find my feet again. I grabbed onto Jem for support and he hauled me up. Apparently staring at someone so strongly was totally normal because that's what Potter was doing.
"Oh Merlin! What happened!" Dom cried. I had never seen her so worked up over something. She looked so scared and Tristan took over for my support. I never really realized how amazing my friends were.
"I'm fine." I said smiling, releasing myself from the grip of Tristan who looked unconvinced. Mason was going mad, running around the place like a crazy lunatic. I couldn't tell them it was because of a prediction! Everybody would know I was a seer and that really wasn't the best thing for them to find our right now.
People around me started muttering among themselves. I didn't like making such a scene, It embarrassed me.
"Juliette?" The words pierced through me like knives and I instantly turned around to the person who said them. That was about the only word Potter could form but no one except for me seemed to notice, not even Fred. I frowned, who was Juliette? And why had two people so far called me that name? That couldn't be a coincidence.
Unless it was one of Potter and Weasley's stupid pranks. Red hot anger started to rush back inside me. It had to be a prank! "My name isn't Juliette so stop calling me that!" I snapped at him. Potter who was talking to himself looked a bit taken aback.
"I-I'm sorry but you loo-"
I'm sorry? I'm sorry? Merlin's pants, you cannot be freaking kidding me! "I don't care if I look like this girl or not Potter but you of all people shouldn't pretend you don't know who I am!" Dom had seemed to notice me talking to Potter and tried to pull me back probably for his safety. People had stopped talking to hear what we were talking about and the teacher still hadn't arrived yet, not that I cared. I was fine, maybe the pain had just been an after effect of the vision?
"I really don't know-"
"DON'T GIVE ME CRAP POTTER!" I had lost my temper at this guy. He had made my life a living hell for two years and then her pretended he didn't know me?
"Oi! Back off!" Freddie stepped between Potter and me.
I narrowed my eyes. "What? You going to get someone else to fight your battles?" Potter who had pushed Weasley out of the way flushed with embarrassment.
"GEN!" Dom yelled at me in shock. I don't think she every anticipated I would speak to them like this.
"Gen?" Weasley said.
"You mean you're Chicken?" Potter sounded like he was about to faint with laughter.
Oh please destiny, if you love me at all then don't make me marry this git!
If I could've, I would've died of embarrassment right there because all the sixth and seventh years presents started clucking. The other students just stared at us.
I blushed crimson and Wesley started to laugh. I couldn't let the Beauxbatons students see me as like this, being made fun of by two complete imbeciles so I decided to take matters into my own hands and by that I mean, I kicked Potter where it hurt.
He went pale and collapsed on the floor. Then I slapped Weasley across the face. People around us started yelling out random things and Mason tried to pull me back.
"Yes Potter, It's Chicken."
It seemed like the perfect moment where everybody was staring at me like a hero.
Trust a teacher to come and ruin it.
"DETENTION MISS HENDERSON AND MR POTTER!"
Sometimes I really don't like Madame Zellar.
Glossary
S'il vous plaît arrêtez putain, tu fais un idiot de vous-même: Please stop whore, you're making a fool of yourself
A/N: ANOTHER CHAPTER FINISHED! PLEASE REVIEW! I REALLY WANT TO HERE WHAT YOU GUYS THINK! Anyways, how did you like Gen this chapter? Is she getting annoying? Is she emotionally messed up? Did events go a little fast this chapter? AND WHAT ABOUT THAT PREDICITION? What happened to Gen? And who is that blonde girl! Did you like it when Gen kicked Potter? Was Gen fair on Potter? Oh, and the biggest question yet...WHO IS JULIETTE?You'll find these out soon but until then, you'll have to wait for FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS!
Thanks Johnny, Matt, Josh, LEKHA AND LILY!
PS. I'm from Australia so that's why I use something's you might not of recognized (If you're not from Australia!)
PPS. Sorry if you're offended by the amount of swearing in this but it is rated T!
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-Aria
(SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT!)