HP-Hogwarts Story So Far

Transcript One

The First Night

 

The feast was nearly over. Everyone was ready to go to bed, but before they could go Dumbledore stood up to make a few last announcements.

"Students. Just before you go to bed I have a few last announcements to make. Firstly I'd like to ask you all to be very quiet around the area of the tower as this year we have some students taking exams there. These are for the new wand design subject that a few students requested last year. Any students wishing to join this class should talk to Professor McGonagall..."

Hagrid, who came in and whispered something in his ear, interrupts Dumbledore.

"Now this next announcement is very important. I have said it before, but no student must enter the forest. I have placed the forest under a strict quarantine. Any student who enters will not be allowed to leave. Also no student is to enter greenhouse number 6. There will be severe punishment for not adhering to these rules. Ok, now I think it is time for you all to go to bed so you are awake for your lessons tomorrow."

There are lots of whispers around the hall. What was happening in the wood? Could it really be that bad? What had the green house got to do with things?

At the Gryffindor table Perenelle was looking confused. 'The forest?? Greenhouse 6??' she thought. She definitely needed someone to show her around or at least give her a kind of introduction to Hogwarts. Everyone was milling around and she was having a hard time staying near the Gryffindors.

"Excuse me?? Please, can someone show me the way to where the Gryffindors sleep?" she said to a group.

The student made their way to bed for their first night at Hogwarts.

Josslin Relumes peered down the steps leading to the steps leading to the hallway… etc, which eventually led to the Old Wizard portrait entrance of the Ravenclaw common room. The panting was of a cheerful old wizard with piles of books and either side. Seeing she was non-intentionally causing a traffic jam she descended the stairs quietly. It was just after the first feast and she guessed she was being a bit slow minded. Eventually she made it to the common room and dragged herself into the bed, feather soft and warmed to perfection, she would always love Hogwarts, she thought as the comfort slowly swept her off into a peaceful night of sleep. That is until around after midnight.

A slow constant low pound, was sounding every so often, louder then softer, softer then louder, it continued as she slept, slowly creeping the sound into her dreams of wonder and adventure.

She was walking down stairs, stairs that went forever they seemed, she had her friends of her school house with her fallowing at a easy pace, she even recognised a few of the "friendly" Slytherins she had made friends with. Abruptly their was a wall, not five inches from her nose, her foot banged up against it as it had tried to make another step and she found she was wincing back pain far more painful to be accounted for by a stubbed foot. Instinctively she turned to her right to find a strait hallway with one door, just one, at the end. Not knowing why she went, she did. The thump/pounding slowly began to be heard to her. She turned to she which of the friends was making such nose, for something had been telling her to keep quite. But as she looked behind, her friends were gone, not replaced just gone, no one was there. Surprised this didn't bother her, and she continued on. A wind blew cold down her face and through her hair and she wondered again, where it had come from but paid little head finally she reached the end of the hall to be confronted but large metallic door of large proportions. She reached out to grab the handle but found that where she thought the handle to be, was nothing but air now, just a large metallic plate shoved in place with no apparent way though. Something tugged at her shoulder.

"What?" She said groggy in her sleep turning her head towards the window she merely jumped as Kit's tail suddenly decided to make an appearance smack between the eyes. She didn't notice though, as she pushed the tail down gently and began to pet her cat lovingly, that it had deadened significantly the same thud of her dreams that was still there.

JB was also having dreams. She was dreaming of flying on the back of her mom's broomstick as a little tyke when suddenly something started thumping. "Must be a flat tyre" Mom said.

"Broomsticks don't have tyres," JB was thinking... and then woke up... the thumping wasn't in the dream at all... it was coming from somewhere inside the castle.

JB got out of bed, pulled on a robe, and went out into the Ravenclaw common room. Other Ravenclaws were trickling in to the room, wakened by the strange thumping. She went over to Joss.

"Hi Joss," said JB, "did that noise wake you too? What d'you suppose it is?"

In Kathryn's dream she was out walking across the front of Hogwarts. It was the middle of the night, the moon was high in the sky and the stars were bright. She gazed at them; they were vibrating to a faint drum-like sound. "Bright aren't they?"

Kat span round to see a centaur behind her. He had a chestnut body and tail, and chestnut hair with bright blue eyes that looked very sad. "Such a shame," he said.

Somehow she had come to the edge of the forest, looking round she saw lines of centaurs all different colours. Each held a drum and was picking out a flat rhythm. Thrum, thrum, thrum, thrum. Kat started to feel light headed. The stars were spinning; she could see centaurs circling around her. Dizzier and dizzier, and fading...

Kat opened her eyes. The drumming was still there. She reached out to find the cats. Both were sitting at the end of the bed staring intently at something she couldn't see. There was movement in the next bed and she could hear other students outside the dormitory door. She gathered her dressing gown and went down into the common room.

Students were gathering discussing in whispered voices the dreams they had experienced. Kat walked over to where Joss and JB were talking. "You had strange dreams too?"

Josslin looked over towards Kat, she hadn't even thought about what she had been dreaming just concentrated on the noise, but... what had she been dreaming again? She didn't remember much but she did think she saw something flicker to life in her mind. Kat. Kat had been there in her dream somehow. But how? Darkness. Dark had been with her, but this could hardly be counted strange. But something told her it wasn't coincidence. Kat appeared to be questioning Joss if she was ok. Not verbally, of course. Then asked another question, besides the one posed foremost in their minds.

"Where do you suppose that noise is coming from?" Kathryn said. "I thought it was the forest. After what Dumbledore said last night at the feast I guess I went to bed wondering about the forest. Now the noise seems to come from everywhere, as though from the very building. What do you suppose is causing it?"

Joss cleared her throat. "A good explanation for the dream, but why in the world is the sound getting louder!" She said frustrated buy the constant challenge to get her thoughts straight. The sound was not "loud" just could be very clearly heard at this point, as before it had been but a faint whisper.

Kat looked at the other two worried about what was happening...

Joss got an idea. Looking around she noticed only a fair few people had got up. What about everyone else? Gathering them around she had everyone tell her about their dreams. But in the end nobody could find any pattern in the mess: stars, hallways, centaurs, stairs, brooms, all sorts of things. What did they have to do with each other?

Starting with the most obvious, she went to the window, nothing spectacular, the stars were normal and no centaurs were drumming on the edge of the forest. "Just a thought" she said to herself going back to the others still thinking.

Kat listened carefully as everyone went through his or her dreams, but none of it made sense. That noise was getting really load now! It was starting to give her a headache. She put her hands over her ears and everyone else was doing the same. "Please stop!" Shouted Kat...

Kat removed her hands from her ears. It had gone. She could still hear a faint echo in her ears, but the noise had gone. The gathered students looked at one another.

"It's gone. I thought my ears were going to explode."

Just then the Ravenclaw's prefect came back in.... "Right every one back to bed. There is no need to be out of bed. Nothing to worry about." Kat turned to Joss, "I guess they're going to try and pretend it never happened. Maybe we should investigate tomorrow. My first lesson is herbology with the Gryffindors. I'll try and see if they had the same problem tomorrow. See you at breakfast?"

"Two heads are always better than one. And more than that just keeps getting better!" Joss said yawning and walking with the rest of the girls up to the dormitory.

In the Gryffindor house Perenelle had woken. She was confused. Professor McGonagall had taken her in hand, shown her to her room, discussed her schedule etc. and she'd fallen asleep immediately after going to bed.

Now it was obviously the middle of the night and she recalled that she'd been dreaming about a unicorn just before waking up. She also remembered hearing an insistent pounding noise in her dream - and she still heard it although she was now fully awake.

She got out of bed and went to the window, but saw nothing out of the ordinary. The others in the room were stirring too. Recalling what Dumbledore had said about the forest being dangerous, Perenelle decided that this must have something to do with the forest. As she was talking to the other students and trying to find out what was going on, the noise suddenly stopped. Everyone went back to bed, determined to try to solve the mystery as soon as possible.