| Dugbog
Join Date: May 2010 Location: Iowa , United States
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Second Year | 
Ok, brase yourself THIS IS LONG!!! = DDDDD
I had to add somethings to keep the story long , and now that I have written it , it fits and I love it.
So, again I want to thank you guys for the comments, frankly it helps to keep writing!
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing of the world of Harry Potter.
Chapter 8
Ella felt the tension in the air. How did Harry do it? Fred and George couldn’t do it…. Questions raced through Ella’s mind, and when she glanced up from her plate the whispers around her indicated everyone had questions of their own.
“Harry, get up there now!” Hermione’s voice was low but sounded urgent.
Harry looked as though he was punched in the gut. He finally walked up to Dumbledore and left to go into another room.
Ron, who sat next to Ella, was radiating heat. “How did that happen?” Ella asked Ron.
“What does it look like he put his name in the Goblet?”
“Seriously, there is no way , did you see his reaction Ron?”
“I don’t care, if its attention he wanted he sure got it.” As he spoke his ears gradually got redder and redder.
Ella ignored Ron.
She knew what jealously felt like.
As they all left, to go back to their respective common rooms, Ella noticed a lot of Gryffindor’s were happy and excited.
“Now, we have a Gryffindor champion!” Seamus yelled.
Ella just rolled her eyes.
After a half hour or so, Harry walked in.
“There he is !”
“Go HARRY!!!”
Cheers of Harry and Gryffindor were yelled by most everyone.
“Guys , I didn’t put my name in there, you have to believe me!”
But they didn’t even listen to what he was saying.
“Seriously Ron , your so green.” Ella whispered to him, as she went past .
“Shut it”
“Just what I thought”
The party died down and soon she couldn’t here anything from her dorm. Even with all the excitement of the day, Ella passed out.
…………………………….the next day……………………………………………..
Dear Jenny Greene,
Can we meet, maybe at Hogsmead?, I believe its one of those weekends. I need to know what’s going on. You and I never have secrets. So come on TELL ME!!!! Can’t you see the suspense is driving me crazy!!!???
Your annoyed little sister,
Ella
There she thought, as she tied the letter to her owl. “Find her fast Chauncy.” Her beloved owl hooted and took off.
Herbology, wasn’t a bad subject, Ella began to think as she walked down to the greenhouse where the fourth years were to be, Neville sure loved it, and Professor Sprout was a fair teacher.
Ella loved being alone walking the grounds of Hogwarts. It was beautiful; everything about it eluded history, and greatness.
As she was daydreaming she met with Harry and Hermione and stood waiting in the warm greenhouse waiting for the bell to ring.
Ella, didn’t mind the Hufflepuffs’s she thought they were generally nice people , she didn’t understand why they weren’t respected.
As Ella started to get ready for class she noticed the looks they were receiving.
“Well don’t hide your emotion” Ella remarked at some girls who were staring at Harry coldly.
“How rude, it’s not his fault” Ella whispered to Hermione.
The rest of the Hufflepuffs seemed visibly angry at Harry.
“They don’t get recognition. Ever.” Hermione whispered backto Ella.
“Its only natural, for them to feel like Harry took their thunder.”
Ella nodded, in a way she sympathized with them, she knew how it felt never to be in the limelight.
She glanced at Ron.
That’s what he must feel……
If Ella thought the Hufflepuffs were angry, she didn’t know what to expect walking down by Hagrid’s to Care of Magical Creatures.
“Look, it’s the famous Harry Potter!” Draco Malfoy.
“You know, your not the true Hogwarts Champion.” Before Harry could even have a comeback, Draco spat off even more.
“Ella, my dear when is our lovely date?”
“Shut it Malfoy!” Harry said.
“Ella, my darling , you haven’t answered me ,are we still on for our date???” Draco said in a sarcastic tone
“There is no date” Ella spoke in hateful tone.
The rest of the Slytherins chuckled to themselves.
As Hagrid began talking about the next lesson, Malfoy walked up behind Ella and whispered, “You will like me, Greene”
“Excuse me.” Ella looked shocked.
“I know you won’t be able to resist me”
“Back off, Malfoy” She looked up at Draco, not knowing what else to say.
The rest of the lesson, dealt with more and more things to do with skrewts.
“Did I ever tell you guys, I HATE this class?” Ella said dodging a larger than usual Skrewt. “I would listen to a three hour lecture, on the goblin uprisings , from Binns then take this class.” Ella went on and on.
When supper is over , the Gryffindor’s pile into the common room, where most would just gossip , play cards or talk to their friends . Some though would study or read a few chapters. Ella decided she needed to make up a few potions.
“What are you doing?”, said Lavender
Ella was sitting on the sink, with her cauldron and ladle and few vials.
“Oh, I am making my homemade face cream!”
“Helps smooth the skin and get rid of pimples.”
“Is it easy to make?” Lavender said, clearly interested.
“Oh yes!, I can teach you if you want..”
Lavender opened the door to the bathroom, turned her head and said “Ill be back!”
Within a few minutes, Lavender brought all her supplies plus Parvati Patil.
Ella was ok with Parvati, but they weren’t the best of friends by any means.
“Ok, heat the cauldron” Ella said pulling out her wand.
“With a burner?” said Parvati
“No with your wand, we are not in class.” Ella didn’t want to sound sarcastic, but couldn’t she see she had her wand out?
“Now say chauffer very clearly , keep your wand pointed at the inside of the cauldron , but make sure your not hitting the sides , just the center.”
“Why are we heating a cauldron with nothing in it!” Lavender was confused.
“Watch.” Ella said sternly.
“Now, take your wand of the pot.”
“If you notice the outside of the pot is not hot , so it can be sitting on something.”
“Next take a vial, and fill it up with water all the way to the top and dump it in. “ Do this three times.”
“Now , take a tea bag , and throw it in.”
Ella grabbed three tea bags out of her potions case. “ Now , put 1½ tsp green clay 1½ tbsp aloe vera gel 1, tbsp rosewater and finally 2 drops rose essential oil”
“This is a variation off a known muggle face mask, but I add the heat first and the tea bags, oh and the magic” Ella smiled at her own joke.
“I don’t mean to hurt your feelings Ella, but your weird” Lavender spoke in a soft tone.
“ I’m weird??” “Why!?” Ella said having a puzzled look on her face.
“Well , everyone thinks you belong in Slytherin , because of your obsession with Snape.” Lavender’s tone got softer, while Parvati eyes got wider.
“ My obsession with snape!!???” Ella’s voice was getting loud.
“ There is no such thing!” Ella was hurt.
“Im just sayin” Lavender shrugged her shoulders and started to stir.
“ Well, Lavender , Here is a clue, I don’t care what everyone thinks.”
“ Now, can we get back to the potion , before it doesn’t turn out.”
“ Yeah , Sorry”
“Mix everything really well, then speak cleary with your wand pointed directly at the liquid epaissir!” Ella’s tone was not the nicest, and she didn’t care. These girls were idiots to her.
“Then wait five minutes and pour the thick potion into a few vials.”
After a few minutes of silence, Ella looked at her potion and began pouring, Lavender and Pavarti did too.
“That’s it.”
Ella flicked her wand and the vials went zooming into her case and her cauldron, ladle and notes all flooded back into the case.
Without saying a word, Ella went back to her bed, and laid there again twirling her wand , until she fell fast asleep, dreaming of making antidotes.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
Ella awoke, and started her day in her normal routine. She pulled her hair into a loose bun, applied her makeup and went out the portrait hole, down to breakfast.
She seated away from her fellow Gryffindor students, after knowing they had been talking about her she didn’t want to face them. As she began eating her pancakes, the post came.
“Oh my gosh , I almost forgot Jenny.”
Ella didn’t mean to say that out loud and she realized she didn’t need to freak her fellow classmates out anymore than she had already done.
Chauncy flew down right on the shoulder of Ella, and nudged her cheek.
“ My baby”, Ella snuggled him and asked for letter.
She broke the seal and tore the letter out. She read the brief letter and if
she was confused before , she really didn’t understand what was going on.
Ella went through the rest of her day in a daze. She barely understood anything the teachers said, and twice she got caught gazing at her letter for answers.
“Miss. Greene, pay attention!” Said Professor Binns.
She snapped out of her daze, for potions.
“Antidotes” Snape said slowly.
“Malfoy , and Greene”
Ella rolled her eyes.
What’s new she thought.
“I want to go on a date with you” Draco said softly.
Ella looked in his eyes; she never noticed how deep they were. Suddenly she snapped back to reality.
“If you were a nice person, I would!” Ella whispered.
She made up the antidote, while Malfoy just sat there pretending to take notes.
“You are the prettiest Fourth year , here at Hogwarts.”
“Don’t flatter me , I’m trying to get this right.”
“You know you will.”
“Maybe I wont , if you keep talking!”
Malfoy laughed, I wish you were in Slytherin.
“I don’t belong there, Draco.”
“Yes , you do.”
“No , I do not.”
“Malfoy and Greene, I don’t care to here you two have a lovers quarrel, now shut it!”
“Yes Professor.” Ella and Malfoy said in unison.
The class laughed.
The bell finally rung and Ella ran out the door. So many questions ran through her head.
Maybe she should have been in Slytherin? Maybe Lavender was right……
Ella ate her supper and then went off to get her case for her extra lesson.
She walked down to the dungeons, feeling gloomy.
“What is that?” Snape said pointing at Ella’s potions case.
“ My case..”
“ I’ve never seen that”
“I bring it every time” She unhooked the snaps and opened the case to reveal her cauldron , vials , notes and every supply needed to do a potion. “It doesn’t hold that many ingredients, but it works.”
“I wish I had a cabinet, like you do.”
“That cabinet, over there is for everyday ingredients, and for students.” “ The other one is in the hall way , and well its more like a closet”
“ A CLOSET!”
“ Yes, I will show you.”
They walked outside the class room, and walked a couple of feet to another door, Snape uttered a spell , that Ella could not hear and the door swung open.
“Oh wow!”
“Its like a potion maker’s dream.”
“ A lot of this collection , is stuff I picked up , others of course ordered.”
“The top shelves are for , already made potions.”
Ella stepped on the stool, to get a better look.
“Professor, it looks like your really low on polyjuice.”
Ella glanced back to see a puzzled Snape.
“ So it seems…”
Ella stepped down still in awe with his collection.
“ Heck , I would settle with that cabinet in the class room, you basically have a full room to work with.”
“ Lets get started ,shall we?”
………………………………………11pm……………………………..
“ The lesson went well.” Ella told Harry.
“ Good, at least someone likes Snape.”
Ella smiled.
“Well now I suppose your one of the ones, who think I worship Snape, and I should have been a Slytherin.”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“ Well , Lavender told me , people here think I’m weird.”
“That was your first mistake, do not listen to a girl who thinks Trelawney’s prophecies are correct.”
Ella giggled.
“Thanks Harry”
“No problem.”
“I saw those buttons , Draco made.”
“Me too..”
“I know you didn’t put your name in the goblet of fire.”
“Well you and Mione are the only ones.”
Ella gave Harry a half grin and looked at her watch.
She took out her potions 7th year text book and began thumbing through it.
“Is that seventh year?”
“ Yes.”
“ Maybe you are weird” Harry said laughing
Ella through her book at him
“ Shut up!!”
They laughed and laughed.
“So you live with muggles?”
Harry described is horrible aunt and uncle and fat cousin, even doing impressions of each of them.
“You have not heard my impression of my sister Angela. It will beat your Dudley one.”
“Like, OH MY GOD, check out my new pair of shoes.”
Ella flipped her hair back and began to laugh in a high pitch giggle
Ella sat down and they listen to the radio in silence for awhile.
“What kind off name is Dudley?”
Harry smiled.
“ Beats me.”
Harry glanced at his watch, and Ella began to wonder.
“Harry are you meeting someone?”
“Why would I its twelve thirty in the morning?”
“I don’t know.”
Ella got nervous, how was she going to get rid of him, the letter said 1am sharp?
Little did she know, Harry thought the same thing.
At 12:54 Hermione ran down the stairs.
“Harry can I speak with you?”
“ Ummm yeah sure….”
Ella heard bits and pieces of there conversation
“You were supposed to keep watch!” Harry whispered
Ella was very confused.
She stared the fire, transfixed on how the flames were moving.
Then a face apperard.
Ella , jumped onto the couch, holding her hand over her mouth.
“ Are you Ella Greene?”
“ Y....e...s....”
She stared
“ My name is Siruis Black and I want to marry your sister Jennifer”
It was almost too much to handle.
“Sirius Black?” Ella repeated his name
“Where is my sister, she said she would meet me here?” Ella demanded pointing to the fire.
“She got called to the prophet.”
“She is sorry , she couldn’t talk to you.”
“You can ask her anything but please I beg you do not say my name in your letters.”
Ella nodded.
“Now that you know, I need to talk to my God Son.”
Ella turned to see a dumbfounded Harry and Hermione.
“We will talk about this later.” Ella whispered to Harry who was still in a state of shock.
Shaking, she ran up to her dorm and closed the curtains and opened her desk drawer and pulled out an old daily prophet.
“Sirius Black , mass murderer……”
Ella’s head flew back unto her pillow. |