HP-Hogwarts Story So Far

Transcript Two

Inside the Three Broomsticks

 

Madison yawned as she and the other Gryffindors headed toward the Three Broomsticks They took a table and she ordered a butterbeer, then yawned again as they waited for their drinks. "So what's the plan?" she asked, "Are we going to Honeyduke's after this?" Then she smiled mischievously and turned to Marvo. "Or are we going to spy on the Slytherins?"

Marvo takes a Butterbeer, sniffing it first then taking a sip. 'Sorry, what? Oh yes, yes, whatever' He looks over to the table on the other side of the room, where Professor McGonagall, Snape and Hagrid were sitting, whispering to each other, all with rather stern faced.

Elizabeth was savouring her first butterbeer and said with an air of confidence. 'How about we spy on them by letting them spy on us. Much more fun.'

Just then a group of Slytherins came into the Three Broomsticks. Elizabeth winked conspiratorially at her fellow Gryffindors. She also kicked Marvo under the table and mouthed to him - 'don't you have a better way of overhearing what they are discussing?'

Madison nodded drowsily at Elizabeth, then took another sip of her butterbeer. "Spy on the Slytherins? That could be fun...Hmm, those professors look upset about something. I'm more interested in what they're saying. Any ideas on how to find out without getting caught?" She took another sip of butterbeer and, resting her head on her arm, tried to think of an idea.

Morticia enters the Three Broomsticks with Peesey and some other Slytherins. She frowns as she sees Marvo, but she doesn't say anything. Ceridwyn sees the look on Morticia's face at the sight of Marvo. "Don't worry about him, I mean, c'mon, we're in Hogsmeade! That stuff can wait 'til we're back at Hogwarts." Morticia sits down at a table and orders butterbeer for all of them - seems she has quite a lot of money to spend. Arivel, noticing this asks Morticia "Where'd you get all that money?" But Morticia seems to busy looking at Marvo and the Gryffindors to notice Arivel. "Morticia!"

"Huh? Oh! Sorry!" Morticia smiles. "Well, my family is a very old one, you know... we just have some money, and dad used to make a lot of money when he was a Seeker for France."

Marvo gets up to get another round of Butterbeer for the Gryffindors. He chats to the person behind the bar for a few moments then returns to the Gryffindor table as the drinks are taken over to the Slytherings. 'These drinks have already been paid for Miss' says the witch as Morticia goes to pay. Morticia frowns again and puts her money on the table. "I'll not have an unknown person pay for me" she mutters.

Morticia frowns. "And who has paid them?" 'Afraid I don't know Miss. I just serve' Says the Witch and goes back to the bar. Madison seeing this, and raised her eyebrows curiously at Marvo as he sat down, but seemed to understand. She said nothing, and took another sip from her mug.

" I don't think that we should drink these Morticia, it looks like Wart face has paid for them, there could be something the matter with them, I don't trust this at all, I'll go and get us some others." Peesey gets up and goes to the bar and orders some more butterbeers. Then has a word with the Witch, goes back to the table with the other Slytherins on it and some more drinks are taken to the Gryffindor table.

Marvo passing a small bean like object to each Gryffindor. He whispers 'Put this in your ear and you'll hear all the 'Slytherins' are saying.' "Thanks." Madison gave him a small smile as she placed the object in her ear. Immediately, she heard someone say something that sounded like "Wart-boy." She hid a smile and turned back to Marvo. "I think someone's talking about you..."

Morticia brushed off Peesy's concerns: "Nobody will poison us here, Peesey. But my dad always says it can be dangerous to have debts when you don't know who you owe the debt. Thanks for the butterbeer!" She smiles at him.

The drinks arrive at the Gryffindors' table. As a group they raise their drinks in the direction of the Slytherins and say: 'Cheers!'.

The two groups settle down after this into conversation. Marvo engages with some of the other Gryffindors in playing some game. Madison decides to move over to a separate table to get away from the noise. Morticia walks over to Madison and sits down at her table, smiling a bit nervously. "Hi, Maddie... sorry to bother you... I'd - I'd like to know what you saw in the forest. Did you see anything at all? It's just... I had this dream last night and - well. Did you see anything special?"

Madison turned to her, surprised. "It's okay, you're not bothering me." She thought a bit, then turned back to Morticia. "Well, I remember waking up and realising I was in the Forest. I didn't know how I got there, but I heard a sound and I tried to follow it. Um...It brought me to this clearing, then it stopped. I...saw a green light and followed that until it disappeared. Then a dark figure came out of nowhere. It muttered some spell or something, and knocked me out. That's all I know." Then she remembered something. "And just the other night, I wound up in front of the Common Room...but I didn't how I got there. Last thing I remembered that night was that I was sleeping in the infirmary." She looked curiously at Morticia. "Why? What was in your dream?"

Morticia hesitates and lowers her voice. "Well... I was walking through this corridor, must be somewhere in Hogwarts. Then I heard this voice calling my name, or at least something that sounds a bit like it. So I walked toward the voice. It was outside the castle. So I went outside, it was night, and the voice came from the forest. I walked on, and then I saw a figure standing in front of me. The moon was up and very bright, so I could see it was you. I was so confused I woke up then."

Madison's eyes widened as she listened to Morticia. "Me?" she asked, shocked. She lowered her voice. "I've been trying to avoid sleeping. I mean, I sleep lightly, but I'm afraid that if I go into a deep sleep...I don't know what I'll do. That's why I've been so tired. I fell asleep in the Common Room the other day...I woke up when I tripped and found myself in the hallway. I don't know what I've been doing when I'm 'asleep'..."

"Well, it was only a dream! But maybe you should really take care what you do at night. You know what the strangest thing is? The voice that called me! It wasn't yours - it was much deeper, a man's voice." "A man's voice?" Madison asked, surprised. "What do you think your dream means? Maybe you can help me..."

Elizabeth, who had been sitting close to Madison and trying not to eavesdrop, noted the change in Morticia's voice. Almost as though she was suddenly aware that a barrier was in danger of dropping and sought to reassert distance. She thought: "We are all linked in this together somehow."

"I wish I knew! I bought this book on Dreams in one of the shops here." Morticia produces an issue of "Verify your Visions", a very thick book with very small print and some scary-looking pictures of creatures. "I haven't looked into it yet, but the witch in the shop said it was one of the best books on the subject. Maybe... maybe we could go through it together back in Hogwarts?"

Back at the Slytherin table Arivel and the other Slytherins are curious as to why Morticia is being so friendly with a Gryffindor. " I wonder what she's up to. Oh well!" She takes a long gulp of butterbeer and licks her lips. "Ah! I love this stuff!"

Josslin had been listening to Morticia and Madison's conversation with interest from the little corner of the room that seemed completely overlooked behind the two bursting tables of Slytherins and Gryffindors. 'ah the luxuries of being a Ravenclaw' she thought to herself. Kat and her had separated after first going to the sweets shop. Joss just wasn't feeling up to wandering around town looking for answers, she had felt a bit under the weather lately and she had a feeling , at least that didn't have anything to do with the forest, but it was funny that at the moment she wasn't looking for answers they would come to her. She smiled at the thought. 'well at least we've got the voice in common, oh and the green but what else isn't being said?' she thought as she quietly moved closer, causally of coarse.

Madison nodded. "Yeah, we should." She looked around the room to make sure nobody had heard them, and noticed Joss moving closer to them. She realised with a start that from where Joss was sitting, she could hear their entire conversation. "'Tish," she whispered, "Looks like somebody's really interested in our conversation..."

Joss noticed Madison's little glance and tried as best she could to act disinterested once again but knew all to well that it was a hopeless cause, their was no doubt that Madison knew that she had heard, but what they would do about it, that she wondered.

Elizabeth was aware of a stir in the room and appreciative comments and giggles coming from the tables where some of the older girls were sitting. She turned to look and saw that a young wizard, probably in his early 20s, had entered the Three Broomsticks.

Tall and lean with long dark, wavy hair he was dressed in travelling robes and walked with purpose to the table where the Hogwarts teachers were seated and bowing slightly spoke to them. Amazingly Prof. Snape appeared almost gracious as he responded to the young man. He then proffered a note, which Prof. McGonagall took and read.

Marvo spoke to the rest of the table: 'I wonder what that is about?' and strained (as usual) to overhear. Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders feeling as though she didn't want to stare or anything. Marvo appeared to have no such inhibitions.

A few moments later Professor McGonagall and the young man had come across the room to their table. Before the Professor could say anything, the handsome young wizard had addressed Elizabeth: 'Miss Hawkwood?' Elizabeth suddenly felt that every eye in the room was upon her. She blushed furiously and stammered 'yes...'. The Professor came to her rescue. 'It appears you had forgotten you had an appointment this morning'... Elizabeth looked confused..

The young wizard explained: 'Did your father's letter not arrive? It explained the purpose of my visit and served as a letter of introduction." Elizabeth remember the unopened letter that she had stuffed in her robe this morning.

Realising that she obviously did not know why he was there, he continued. "I am here in the service of the ....". Elizabeth seemed to come back to herself with a start and cut him off 'We should really discuss this private. .... Professor?"

Glancing around the room Prof. McGonagall noted the amount of attention they had attracted. "Yes, certainly. I think we can arrange something." A few seconds later Elizabeth and the stranger were escorted by the Professor from the Three Broomsticks.

Marvo, who had been listening closely to Madison and Morticia discussion, was distracted when Elizabeth's 'Friend' arrived and just sat, open mouthed through the encounter. As they left, Marvo continued staring after them open-mouthed. 'Who the.....'

Josslin heard Marvo's, non to softly spoken comment and silently shared the sentiment 'who was this guy, and how do I get to know him?' she thought admiringly as the young "beautifully handsome"(at least in her opinion) man walked out of the pub.

Madison looked around again, and realised Elizabeth had left...Then realised that Marvo was listening too. She turned back to Morticia. "Looks like Joss wasn't the only one interested" she whispered to her," My, aren't we popular all of a sudden." She turned to Marvo. "You and Joss should get together and compare notes."

Morticia laughs a very unfriendly laugh. "You'd think people had enough to do! So did you understand everything, Wart? Or do we need to help you with the essay on other people's private talk?"

Marvo smiles. 'Don't worry... we will'. Then he frowns. 'No, seriously. House 'competitions' aside, I think this is more important than any petty feuds. Let's get together on this.'

Madison hesitated, then nodded. "Well, what should we do? Maybe we should take a look at Morticia's book first and see what we can find..." She paused to take another sip of her butterbeer. "You guys have any ideas as to what's causing this?"

Marvo hesitates a moment then says; "'Y... No, but I think she might be able to help' He looks over towards Kat.

At this, Kat comes over: "I might be able to help you with that" Say's Kat as joins these two in talking about the forest. "Maybe you'd like to hear about what we've seen?"

Kat continues: didn't mean it to seam like either of us was interrupting, it's just that I've continued to have weird dreams with that dreadful drum noise since the first night. So I went digging in the library and I've gained a lot of knowledge about dreams. I've even found out how to create a single dream for all within the local area as someone must have done that first night. I analysed all the dreams I knew of that I and others had experienced and they all lead me to believe that someone was causing the common themes in them.. Someone was trying to make us all believe that our future was bleak and that there was no point fighting it. Like they were trying to soften us up or something

Anyway, last night I didn't dream, but that is because both Joss and I were in the forest most of the night. But the dream you had....Well the a corridor or hall can be seen as your worries or your concern. To dream that you hear the voice of someone you know could foreshadow a long illness or even death for that person. To hear the voice of your loved one calling you may mean a separation due to misunderstandings. If the voice you hear is the voice of someone already dead then this denotes that you are about to commit a bad error in judgement about your business. But that doesn't cover someone you know calling you with a different voice... In terms of a friend or someone you know, if they exhibit staunch friendship for you in your dream then all your current activities will be successes. If you see them as sad or unhappy you will receive news of an illness. But again that isn't much help.

Of course the obvious option is that the voice was trying to communicate with you. That is what I'd interpret it as, especially as I already think that there is some dream communication going on here anyway. Although if it's the same guy as Madison, myself and Joss saw then you don't want to try and talk back."

Morticia interjected: "I think the voice was really calling me. It was no prophecy or whatever! If I hadn't seen Madison, I wouldn't have woken up and I'd have followed the voice." She shudders. "It was a very spooky voice! I hope I'll never hear it again." She glares sideways at Marvo. "You won't talk to anyone about this, do you hear me?"

'and why would I do that my dear?' Marvo smiles. 'Tell us more. did you see a face? an accent'

"Call me 'my dear' once more and you can pick up your teeth from the floor!" growls Morticia, and she really looks like she means it. Then she seems to get a grip. "No, no face, no accent. All I heard was a voice, and all it said was my name, and it's hard to hear an accent in a name. It sounded perfectly normal English."

"That's very interesting Tish" said Marvo.

"'Morticia' to you, Wart! Gosh, why am I sitting here at all? You don't even WANT to get along with me! I'll see you later, Maddy, then we can talk about this!" Morticia gets up so furiously that she knocks her chair over and flees back to her Slytherin friends.

"What was that all about Morticia?" Peesey says to her as she returned in anger, "If you need help in beating up the wart I'll be first in the queue" Peesemould grins and sips his Butterbeer, finding it only to be empty. "UH!" he says in outrage.

"I don't want any trouble. All I want is that this jerk stops teasing me and leaves me alone." She sighs. "By the way, when is the next Quidditch practice? I really need to let off steam! Beating some bludgers would help."

Ceridwyn Lindsley sought to calm her friend, "Hey, c'mon Morticia, let's get out of here and go to Zonko's? Okay with you guys?", She petitions the other Slytherins.

"Yeah, okay, let's go." Morticia looks back to Kat and Maddy, smiles and waves. "See you later, Maddy!" An older Slytherin (6th year or so) who sits in the corner drinking butterbeer mutters something like "fraternising with the enemy, that French girl!", but Morticia ignores it.

'Tish... MORTICIA!....Please. Wait. I... I'm sorry. Old habits die hard you know'. Too bad - Morticia has already left with her Slytherin friends and didn't hear him..

Marvo turned his attention back to Kat. "You obviously have done your homework on this. Mass Dream sending is a very powerful spell, not really 'dark arts' but not something they teach at Hogwarts. I think we can be pretty sure it wasn't a student. "

Kat replied: "I agree. It had to be someone who knew what they were doing. The actual spell is easy enough. Although I've not used it properly, adapting it allows you to change what happens in a dream that someone else leads. I've been doing that with these dreams that I've had. If I hadn't I'd be really depressed by now, and unable to cope with it. What makes it really difficult is the range for which you do it. It's a bit like the strength of a patronis spell."

Marvo continued his train of thought: "However, isn't it possible the one of the teachers sent it? wouldn't they want us to NOT want to go into the forest? mmmm... I'll have to look into that."

"I don't think it is the teachers, otherwise why would I keep on getting those dreams." Replied Kat, " I don't think everyone else is. I think it is connected some how with the forest, and I think the centaurs know something because they always seem to be helpful, or more interrupting I should say, in the dreams I have"

Tell me more about this 'person' who you saw? What Spell did he cast? And I think you should tell us what happened in the forest.'

Kat gave a detailed account:

"The forest, ok. Well we didn't physically go there. We borrowed my cat Scully to go there. Since we were banned, and Scully is much smaller and black into the bargain, Joss and I borrowed some space in her mind. It was really weird with 3 of us in there, especially one speaking cat. I got the idea from a muggle book, and looked into it.

Anyway as Scully we crept into the forest and as we went in we found a strange smell which we followed. It was strange to smell it and to see in the dark too. We could almost fell rather than see a blue/green glow coming from behind some trees as we approached. Getting close Scully heard something and span round to see this huge spider. (It looked terrible being that small) Scully hissed at it and all its 8 red eyes turned to look at us. She almost attacked, but changed her mind and we hid up a tree. The spider then wandered off, but as we watched it, it seemed to be unsteady on its feet. Almost drunk I'd say.

We then had a look round and found that the strange blue/green light was coming from a cauldron. The strange smell was coming from it too. The colour was like that greenish tint that Egreen had. I wonder what he had been doing? And come to think of it he was staggering a bit like that spider when he was looking green earlier...." Kat ponders what she has just said.

"Anyway back to what happened... We edged closer and heard a loud voice say 'WE MUSSSST MAKE READYYY! THE TIME OF FEEEDING ISSSS AT HANDDD' It was a loud deep growling sort of voice. It appeared to come from the other side of the clearing with the cauldron in it. It looked like a large man, I think, dressed in long, tattered deep black robes. His head was covered in a hood so big that we couldn't see inside it. Then another figure entered the clearing also hooded so we couldn't identify him. He has a bony, almost claw like, hand that held the leash to what I first thought was a dog. But it was not like any dog that any of us had ever seen because it had no skin, we could see the glistening muscle and sinew. Its mouth was far too big, and it had lots of really sharp teeth. It made my fur stand on end!" Kat shivered as she described it.

"Then a voice behind us shouted 'YOU!' and Scully was too slow to spin round and see who it was as a spell hit her. It was 'EXOTHO GATOS!' I have no idea what it means.

While Kat was talking Marvo's attention keeps drifting towards the direction in which Elizabeth went. "Oi! Marvo, did you listen to what I just said? I think we need to talk to Egreen too. I'd also like to know about that spell." Kat wonders exactly where Elizabeth has gone, but won't let up this opportunity to talk.

Marvo turns to face Kat. 'Oh, yes... let me see...' He closes his eyes and seems to be concentrating 'mmm...exotho gatos... sounds like it may be a dark derivative of Pellere feles or Expellere Feles... mmm....'

Marvo opens his eyes and looks straight at Kat, his gray eyes looking deep into hers.

'You and your friend were VERY lucky. That spell was an extremely harsh Banishment spell. I believe it was only the fact that three minds were within one body that saved your cat from total destruction. We are dealing with a creature of the highest magnitude!'

Marvo stops and calmly sips his Butterbeer.

 

Part 1 - Arrival at Hogsmeade

Part 3 - Outside the Three Broomsticks