This chapter was Bettaed by pixiepetals so if it's easier to read you have her to thank.
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When I finally made it to the Gryffindor table I was of course hit with the expected questions from Harry, Ron and Neville. Thankfully Ginny wasn't down yet though it was odd for her to be this late.
I used the opportunity to use my fool proof excuse. The one guaranteed not only to work but to end all discussion on the matter.
"Sorry about that, girl problem's." Ha, not exactly a lie. I was a girl and it was a problem, just not the one they were thinking of.
Just as predicted they all took a moment to look decidedly uncomfortable and changed the subject.
They all believed me so easily. I couldn't help but wonder if I was becoming a better liar. The thought disturbed me a little but I shoved the thought away quickly.
Then Harry asked me "So Abby are you going to Hogsmeade with us this weekend? It's our last chance before break."
"Uh, I hadn't really thought about it to be honest, I've been rather busy lately, I'll think about it." I told him, he looked only a little disappointed before turning to Ron and continuing their conversation on the finer points of why Flitwick would beat Snape in a duel and that all he would need was some proper coaching. I couldn't help but roll my eyes. At least something's were still normal.
Ginny never made it to breakfast and I couldn't help wonder what happened. That wasn't like her but I didn't have long to think about it .I had to head to class.
I took my usual seat next to Millie in the Middle of the room and Malfoy and Blaise were seated right behind us as always. I wasn't going to think about Malfoy. I just had to get through my classes then I could be blissfully alone, I thought as Professor Flitwick was trying to bring the class to order.
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"Settle down class, settle down. your nose is not the proper place for your wand Mr. Crabbe. I would expect that from a first year but not a
seventh year. I don't want to have to tell you again. Miss Patil, please find your own seat, I will not have you sitting on Mr. Finagan 's lap. Thank you. Let's begin shall we?"
The class began and everything was going well, we were covering sticking charms. The idea being that different version's of the Charm worked better for certain things, for instance you wouldn't use the same charm to stick a chair to the floor that you would use to stick a person's feet to the floor.
So our goal was to lift our partner into the air using the advanced Wingardium Leviosa we learned at the beginning of term, then we had to use the right charm to stick them to the wall and let them down again unharmed. This sounded easy enough, until the middle of class when Neville had lifted me a little, ok, a LOT to high before sticking me to the wall which would have been fine, If Neville hadn't been slammed into causing him to loose focus just as he unstuck me.
"AAAHHH!" That was the last thing out of my mouth before I heard the sickening CRACK! and everything went dark.
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I woke up to the smell of disinfectant and the feel of scratchy sheets. "OW!" I moaned as I slowly came around.
"I was wondering when you were going to wake up." came the unmistakable disapproving tone of Madam Pomfrey.
"Dropped from the ceiling in the middle of charms class, that's a new one and that's saying something Miss Loyce."
"Am I going to be alright? I don't feel alright." I told her.
"Well you broke your leg in three places, you have some scrapes and bruises, a minor knock on the head but you should be able to go as soon as tomorrow as long as you take your Potion's and get plenty of rest." She said as she brought out an evil looking bottle of Skello Grow. I had made it in class before and I had seen people drink it but I had hoped ,I would never have to. Harry had said it was dreadful, though it couldn't be worse than the Polly Juice potion.
Madam Pomfrey carefully measured out the potion's I was to take and then watched as I did my best to get them down and keep them there. Harry hadn't been kidding, it was dreadful but if possible the smell was in my opinion, even worse than the taste. It lingered even after the
Potions were gone.
I was given a sleeping potion last, so it was as I was drifting off I asked Madam Pomfrey. "Who brought me here?"
"That would have been the Head Boy. He was determined to stay too. I had to all but throw him out."
That was the last thing I heard as I drifted off to sleep again.
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The next time I woke up it was to someone tapping me it the middle of my forehead. "Wake up"
I opened my eyes to a nervous looking Ginny. "What time is it" I asked
"Shhh, be quiet I'm not supposed to be in here." Ginny said in a harsh whisper.
"What's going on?" I whispered back.
"There are something's you need to know before you see anybody else."
Ok now she had my full attention. I motioned for her to tell me what she knew. "Well I don't know if you noticed that I wasn't at breakfast yesterday morning."
"Yes, I noticed ." I said.
"Well I was in the common room. I had over heard Lavender talking about you. She was saying some really rotten things and I confronted her and we had it out. That's why I wasn't at breakfast it sort of ended with her pulling my hair and me punching her in the nose." Ginny said with a smirk that would make a Slytherin proud.
"What was she so fired up about?" I asked.
"Well that's part of what I wanted to tell you. See the night before, Cormac McClaggen was telling Seamus that he was going to ask you to Hogsmeade this weekend but then Ron jumped in and told him to clear off you're his girl. Only every one knows that's not true. So Cormac says 'May the best man win.' you know what a pompous git he is and Ron agreed. Well Lavender and Parvati and a few other girls over heard and well, Most of them didn't care but Lavender was furious. You know she still has a thing for Ron. So Harry said she's the one that bumped into Neville in class and caused you to fall. She's so jealous she can't stand it. Oh and you need to watch out for Cormac to. He wuv's you." She ended in a goofy face that made me laugh in spite of the news.
Great! What a thing to wake up to. I now have two girls trying to kill me for stealing their boyfriends that I don't want. Instead of just dealing with the fact that the two boy's in question clearly don't want them. Perfect.
"Well, I'll see you later, I don't need to get caught in here." said Ginny.
"Ok see you later. Thanks Gin."
"No problem, what are friends for right?" And with that she slipped back out into the hall quiet as a mouse.
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It wasn't long after Ginny left that I could hear Madam Pomfrey rattling around some where in the back. Shortly after that she was making her way over to me saying "Oh, well you're up early." as she gathered up the Potions that I would need. After a few diagnostics I was proclaimed
'as good as new' well almost. She said I should take it easy on my leg for a few days and excused me from class for the day, claiming my leg wasn't ready for a full day of school yet.
She gave me another dose of Skello Grow, eew! To aid in hardening my bones and a pain killer for later incase it started to ache. She ordered breakfast for me from the kitchen and I was left in peace to eat, dress and be on my way back to my Dorm.
It was still quite early when I left the infirmary and I didn't pass anyone on my way though I did choose a less traveled path. When I reached the
Heads Dorm I found it empty, much to my relief. After standing there for a few minutes I decided I should probably do my homework first, thinking since I'm not going to class there really is no excuse for not getting it done promptly.
So I found my bag someone returned it to my room probably the house elves my wand was on top I must have dropped it in class. I can't believe I didn't think to look for it first thing. What is wrong with me? I quickly dug in to my homework. I'm not certain if it was all the rest, or the quiet of the common room but I was very disappointed to find that I had completed all of my homework and it was only ten o'clock in the morning this was going to be a long, boring day if I didn't find something to do.
Well one thing's for certain I don't want to spend it thinking about the mess that was my love life, if I could even call it that. I didn't want to think about the Grangers either. Christmas was coming and I didn't know what to do about it. Do I get them a gift? Well if I did it would have to be two gift's but I hadn't heard from my muggle dad even once since I left home and I don't know what happened with my muggle mum ether.
My Dad said he would handle it. What did that mean? Should I send her a present like normal? Uhg! I don't know and I don't want to think about it .The whole thing make's my head hurt.
That's when it hit me. I could work on my Animagus transformation. Excellent! It's not like I have to complete it today but I'll have all day to work on it in peace. So with that decided I ran up to my room and grabbed the instructions.
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A few minute later I was back in the common room, instructions in hand. It occurred to me that I should also have a mirror handy just in case so I maade another trip to my room grabbing my large hand mirror leaned it up against the bookcase and cast an enlargement charm on it.
Perfect. So with everything ready, I settled in. Sirius had told us when the Marauders had made their transformation they knew that they needed
to be large animals, so they could help control Remus and that they believed that while they were unable to pick the animal they became, they
believed they could help direct their transformation, so with that in mind.
What am I hoping to get out of this? Alright, for one, I want this as a mean's of escape incase I am ever trapt.
After thinking on all the various animals that could help me with that for a while, my leg started to ache and I got up and to take my pain Potion I couldn't very well be expected to concentrate with my leg throbbing painfully. When it occurred to me, I fell. I fell and broke my leg! I fell out of my window when I ran away from home and I nearly fell from the ledge when I pranked Malfoy. I need wings! With my bad luck with heights it would make sense and the only reason I hate brooms is because I have no control and I'm afraid of falling but if I was a bird I wouldn't have to worry about falling. Would I? Alright! Direction decided! I will focus on being something with wings.
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My pain potion had taken affect and I was feeling much better. Maybe a little to good because as I sat on the floor with my legs crossed, trying to find my inner winged animal I couldn't help but feel a little reckless. The Marauders did the things they did because they had no fear. If
I was going to ever learn this I would have to take the risk some time right? So before I could talk myself out of it I took the next step.
I could feel the animal that I wanted to be there, I just had to let it come forward and take control. I relaxed taking deep even breaths, slowly I felt my skin start to prickle like I was being poked all over. I kept concentrating and suddenly I felt myself falling. I took all my effort to stay calm and focused but when I finally felt it was over I opened my eyes…..
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It was dark, why is it dark? Oh! Oh I see I'm trapped inside of my clothes. Well I guess I'll have to work on that bit then I thought and I couldn't help but be glad that I chose to do this alone in the end. I don't think I could have taken the humiliation of possibly ending up naked with boys around.
After a few minutes I finally found my way out of my clothes and got a look at myself. Ok so it looks like I am a bird. It worked, I can't believe it, I'm a bird! I had to look around for a minute, I was going to have to get used to this everything was so different, and big. I couldn't believe how well I could see and hear. There was a mouse in the corner, I was certain of it. As much as I wanted to chase him I wanted to see myself first.
So I walked or waddled rather over to the mirror and had a look. I was an owl! Oh, my goodness! I could deliver my own mail! Hahaha! Ok now I'm just being silly but I couldn't help it, this was wonderful. I couldn't help but admire my new self . I felt like talking to that mirror owl. Hello there! Ok this must be a bird thing I thought still giddy.
I was small, fluffy white and caramel spotted, with big yellow eyes. I'm not to bad looking if I do say so myself. Maybe I will stay like this. I thought. Whatever kind of owl I am I'm clearly not all that big. Well no big packages then. I thought laughing at myself again.
That's when I heard people. Boy people and they were coming in here. "NO! AHH!" I screeched and without thinking I was on top of the book case.
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"So that's why she was acting so funny yesterday morning?" said Blaise.
"Yep! She's too funny to mess with. You should have seen her face." said Draco, with a smile.
"I did mate I told you, I knew you had to have done something, if she was that worked up so early in the morning. It took Millie a good ten minutes to calm her down, so she could come back to the Great Hall and eat her breakfast." Blaise said laughing.
"Yeah, I'm just that impressive, all the ladies want me." Draco said with an arrogant flourish.
Blaise just laughed.
If owls could blush that's what I would be doing right about now. I can't believe them. This is just some big funny game to them I thought angrily. I should fly down there and peck them, both of them! Maybe I should bite them to just to be sure.
They were looking around the room now when Draco spoke. "Madam Pomfrey said she was here."
"Her door is open." said Blaise as he ran up the stairs to see if I was there.
This was starting to be fun watching them from my hiding spot up high.
"She's not in her room or the bathroom." said Blaise.
"Come and look at this Blaise, her clothes are on the floor and so is her wand."
Blaise walked back into the common room and looked at the clues left around the room. "What's the mirror out for?" he asked. That's when he spotted the instructions on the floor.
"Draco I don't think we're looking for a girl. I think we need to be looking for an animal." he said holding up the instructions.
They both started looking around the room. This was so fun! I finally decided to peek out. "Who!" I said.
Both boy spun around looking everywhere, they finally spotted me though it took them a several minutes.
Draco spoke first. "Abby? Is that you?" he asked in a shocked voice, as he grabbed a chair to stand on to bring himself up to my height.
"Who!" I answered back. He reached his hand out for me and I let him pick me up.
"You're so cute and tiny!" he said. This seemed very odd coming out of Malfoy. He was acting very weird. Or maybe he just like animals or something and wasn't really considering that this was me. Either way it was weird.
Blaise was looking at me to now,he was smiling and petting me on my head that could make me fall asleep. He had my full permission to keep doing that.
I couldn't help but notice how huge they were. They could be really scary if they were mean I thought.
I fit perfectly cupped in Malfoys hands Draco told Blaise to find his copy of the Daily Prophet. He said there was an add for Eeylops Owl Emporium in there and maybe they could find out what kind of owl I was.
Now that, had my interest. He found it and it wasn't long before Blaise was reading the ad.
Little Owls
For sale holiday special 20 % off
These compact little owls average 8 inchs long with a 22 inch wingspan
Perfect for quick delivery of small, missives. They make an excellent gift.
"So I guess she's a little owl, the description fits." he said.
"Did you hear that? You're a Little Owl but we already knew that, didn't we? "Draco baby talked at me.
Ok this had to end, it was just sick and wrong. I thought and I wriggled my way out of his hands and on to the table. I was going to try flying to my room.
Well that was the plan anyway. Sadly I crashed near the stairs. "Ouch!" Not the graceful exit I had envisioned. The boys were laughing. Blaise picked me up. "Let us help you before you break your other leg." he took me up the stairs and laid me on my bed. He shut the door behind him. And I set to work figuring out how to turn myself back.
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Ok so I did a lot of looking for what kind of owl she is. The name the size the coloring is all correct. I just wanted you to know that I didn't just make it up I am researching all the animals for the Animagus transformation so the fact's will be correct for all of them.
I will also tell you the site up loader keeps erasing thing's I re typed them but if something looks funny that why.F Y i I had to write her muggle parents because it kept erasing there names I have no idea why.