Chapter 5 – Hogwarts
She went up to Gryffindor Tower. Percy was outside the Fat Lady portrait to let her in. Fred, George, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Tom were sitting in the common room, waiting for her to tell them what Dumbledore said to her.
"Nikki are you okay?" asked Fred.
"Voldemort killed my parents, two years after he killed Harry's. You were right Harry, we do have a lot in common. I'm going upstairs to bed. See you all tomorrow. Night."
"Night." they all said to Nikki.
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Nikki was turning from side to side on her bed, screaming and shouting.
"Leave her alone!" yelled Nikki. She woke up covered in sweat. She had seen a dream, she had seen it before, but couldn't remember when.
"Nikki are you all right? What happened?" asked Hermione.
"Who were you yelling at?" asked Parvati Patil, another student in Gryffindor.
"I saw this person in a hooded robe, killing a woman with long black hair. I don't know why I just saw that. I don't even know who she was." explained Nikki. "You four go downstairs and I'll meet you at breakfast. I'm fine."
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It was nearly Halloween, and Nikki was getting along really well with everyone in Hogwarts. She was doing great in all of her classes even though she never put her hand up like Hermione always did, she always knew all the answers. Her favourite subjects were Defence Against the Dark Arts and surprisingly Potions. No one in Gryffindor liked Potions, actually they hated that subject. Not because of what they were learning, but from who they were learning. Professor Snape was a very strict teacher and he never showed any emotions, well except for hatred towards Harry and Harry's dad James. But for some reason Nikki still liked Professor Snape.
One day she asked Dumbledore if she could talk to him. She went to his office and said the new password 'Fizzy Pops' and climbed up the spiral staircase.
She knocked on the door.
"Come in." said Professor Dumbledore.
"Sir I wanted to talk to you about Professor Snape."
"Please have a seat and tell me what you want to say."
She went up to Professor Dumbledore's desk and took a seat opposite him.
"Sir the thing is, lots of the students don't like Professor Snape because he is stricter and he doesn't show any emotion other than hatred towards Harry. I think that there's something wrong and that something has happened in his life that he hasn't got over yet. Unlike us, when we have something bad happen to us, we always have friends to go to and talk things through, but I don't think it's the same with Professor Snape. I know he must have had friends when he was a student here, but now that they all have their own lives to live Professor Snape doesn't have anyone to talk to and then when someone in his class messes up, he just gets frustrated and lets his anger out on them. I have tried to tell everyone not to annoy Professor Snape, but I don't think they realise what he's going through right now at this moment."
"Thank you Nikki for sharing that with me and I'll try my best to find out what's wrong and see if I can help. You may go now unless you have anything else to tell me."
She thought about telling him about the dream she keeps having, but decided not to.
"No that is all. Good bye Sir."
"Good bye."
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It was the day before Halloween and everyone was getting ready for the feast tomorrow. Nikki was walking with Harry, Ron and Hermione when Ron started to argue with Hermione.
"Bloody Hell. Hermione why do you have to be such a know-it-all all the time?" shouted Ron.
"I am not a know-it-all."
"Face it Hermione, you do sometimes act like you know everything and we are just complete idiots." said Harry.
Nikki didn't say anything and Hermione ran off crying.
"See what you did now. For once can both of you think before you say anything to her." said Nikki.
"We were only telling her the truth." said Ron.
"How would you two like it, if I kept calling both of you a bunch of complete losers, just like the way Malfoy does."
"That's not the point." said Ron.
She slapped both of them on the head.
"You do know that didn't hurt." said Harry.
Nikki got out her Potions book which was really big and had a hard cover. She then hit both of them really hard on the head with her book.
"OW!!!" they both shouted.
"Nikki what was that for?" said Harry.
"If both of you don't go up to Hermione and apologize for what you said to her, I am going to use such illegal curses on both of you. You better say sorry to her before the feast tomorrow or else."
She ran off behind Hermione to see if she was okay.