Dogtown ran toward the train she jumped on and walked into a compartment."Harmony!"A blonde woman called outside. Sighing, Dogtown stuck her head out of the window and looked at her mother.
"Mom, I'll be fine."
The woman glared up at her,"I better not get a letter this year or I'll send you back to Beaubatons."
"Fine...Bye."The woman walked away and Dogtown tossed her skateboard on the seat.
Ginny came to the door as the train began to move. She looked at her list.
"Hi. I need to know your name and age so i can give you your schedual."
Dogtown looked at the girl,"Uhhhh...My name's Harmony Allen but everyone calls me Dogtown. And I'm in 6th year."
"Nice to meet you Dogtown. Here's you class schedual and the rules for the school and forest." Ginny said, as the paperwork appeared in her hand. She smiled.
"I'm Ginny Weasly."
Dogtown stuffed the papers in her bag and smiled,"Nice to meet you too. And thanks."
"No problem, it's what I get paid for after all." Ginny laughed.
"I want that job. Be a whole lot easier than working at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes...Wait, are you related to Fred and George Weasley?"
"Absolutly. My brothers are a bit strange, but I heard they are pretty cool bosses."Ginny smiled again, pushing the hair hanging in her face behind her ear.
"Yes, but Ginny should be getting a big fat 'ol check for what she does, anyway," input a soft, melodious voice, hinted in amusement.
Lavender rounded the corner of the compartment, her raven hair pulled back into a tight braid, a few loose strands cascading about her finely honed features, her agile, thin, strong being dressed in a draping black cloak, hitched at her collar, over the black tank top, and simple black jeans she usually wore.
She folded her lean, pale arms, and arched an eyebrow, a twitch of a smile hinted upon the curve of her full, smooth lips.
"Why thanks, Lav. Makes me happy to know at least on person notices." She laughed.
Dogtown blinked at the woman who entered the room and said,"Yeah, annoying prats, no offense. But they do have really good senses of humor."
"Yeah, their humor is what keeps them away, thank god." She smiled then sighed.
"I'll see both of you later, I musyt get back to work."
"See ya, Gin."Dogtown sat and pulled her board on her lap.
Ginny turned to leave then stopped.
"Oh, Lav? They said they have a special schedual for you, and to go to the headmaster's office when we reach school."She smiled, apologeticly then left.
"Okay. And you're most welcome Gin. I'll find you later, no doubt. If not, see you at the Ceremony," Lavender called after Ginny, her solemn tones weighed, but with a light sense, that only she could create.
Lavender turned her head and watched out the window for a long moment, her being still, as if entranced with the rolling hillsides of the outdoors, and thickening growth of surplus of the fresh scented outdoors. She refrained from falling too deep into her reverie, reviving quickly, it seemed, her many shaded, moody green eyes returning to Dogtown in a most peculiar, detached way.
"What is that for?" She inquired in interest, her eyes flickering from the board, and returning to the girl, curious. She knew more of non-magical humans than many magical did, but she had never seen such a device. It intrigued her.
"Errrr...It's a skateboard. You use it to go places and get famous."The deck had the Girl logo on it and the griptape was ripped along with the rest of the board.
"So instead of sliding around in shoes, you use a board?" she said quizzically, though she grasped the concept.. a bit. "Interesting. I've never seen one of them before."
Lavender did not understand the foreign sport all to well, but she was deeply understanding of athletic ability, endurance, agility - talent. To be able to ride around, skate, on a non-connected board, would certainly take those things. Lavender could understand that.
Her complex being shifted thought.
"So this is your first year to Hogwarts, yes?"
"Yes...well, no...I'm going to 6th year but this is my first year..."
Lavender inclined her head.
"I do not doubt you will like Hogwarts. Perhaps some things about it will not be to your liking, but ay, none can like it as much as before. Not since the murder of the old Headmaster. Headmistress McGonnagal will probably wish to see you separately, from the rest of the students, to get you situated. If that has not been done already."
Lavender spoke smoothly, calmly, her melodious tones of a gentle sort, yet, at loss of true emotion. Detached. Her thoughts ran a mile a minute, and with a strangled edge in the back of her mind, she became more lost with each word. She was usually very quiet, though she at times spoke in all casualness. Lavender was utterly unique. There was no other that could match each her hurts, thoughts, emotions, or original beauty, in physical sense. She was different, even in a handful of oddballs. She was different.
... She was different.
Lavender found her eyes upon the window once more, and with a slight forcefulness, she turned away, the train slowing to a stop at Hogsmeade..
Dogtown,being the totally observant person that she is, didn't notice how detached Lavender was."Looks like we're here."
Outside Ginny stood before the departing students.
"First years, over to hagrid, everyone else, in a carrige! If I have to break up any fights, you'll do detention with me!" She shouted. Some students shrunk back, for they had done detention with her before, and it wasn't fun.
Dogtown got off the train and walked over toward Ginny,"Where do I go?"
"On the carriges. Your not a first year." Ginny said, looking over Dogtowns head. Anger flashed in her face and she pushed past Dogtown through the crowd to where some seventh years were pesting a first year.
"Break it up you guys!" Ginny shouted, grabbing them by theback of their cloaks.
"Detention, on Sataurday, now get lost!" She pushed them towards the waiting carriges.
Dogtown shrugged and walked toward the carriages.
A smile hinted at Lavenders eyes, and plump lips. She caught herself many times staring off - when others seemed not to notice, or care, she was, if even the tiniest bit, relieved, to be for just a moment, not judged.
"Indeed. Come on then, Ginny will be outside, harassing the students," she winked, "and you should ask her about you assortment. I need to get out here, anyway. Too cramped."
Lavender smiled slightly, turned, and padded out of the compartment, and with quick feet, out of the train. She didn't see Ginny. She didn't see Hagrid, she'd totally forgotten about leading Dogtown. She had stopped dead, her eyes lost as she stared, ever blankly, at the muddy lump of fur before her feet. She crouched down, and picked up the ball of fur, which turned out to be a baby kitten, layered over with a good coat of mud, and grass, and what seemed to be, blood.
"My, my, where have you been to get in this much trouble?" she questioned the little creature, a softness suddenly in her every movement.
A loving smile tipped her lips as the kitten mewed, blinking large, sad blue eyes, a rumbling purr becoming in its chest. She went off the road, stepping to where a deep pool of crystalling water was set deep into the crevice of the fertile earth, and she washed the kitten, whom put up no fight, trusting Lavender, whom cleansed her with sturdy, quick hands. Soon, the raven, silk-furred kitten was clean, but shivering greatly. Lavender wrapped her into her cloak much as a cocoon could hold her, all except her little paws and head concealed in the black cloth. A soft hum of purring filled Lavenders ears, as she clambored up the hillside, back to the road, finally finding Ginny, holding her dozing new friend in the crook of her arm..
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Lavender smiled at Ginny, and stepped out of the way of a few students.
"Heyas Gin," she said, shifting the sleeping lump in the crook of her arm, to her other arm. "Working, still, then?"
pig jumped of the trian happly she took in a deep breath. " its great to be back" she said to herself this was her last year so she knew she better make the most of it.
she looked over evryones heads and spotted ginny and lavander she walked over to them
" hey how was the holldays " she said smilling
"Hi, and fine. Keep going guys, I have to keep my eyes on these students." She said, glancing at them.
"Ya, okay hun. Any trouble, send a thought."
Lavender knew that last sentence was unneeded, but she said it just the same. She wanted her sister-like friend to be, if even in the smallest of ways, reassured, that Lavender would help her with problems little, or big. She offered a smile in Ginny's direction, then she was off, ignoring the carriages - Lavender walked to Hogwarts. She liked it better that day.
With light, quick feet, Lavender entered the great castle doors, before any other students.
Ginny watched as the last of the carriges pulled off and went through the train, checking to make sure no one was left on board. Once she was satisfied, she began her own walk to the school. She could transport, but she had to stop off at the forest before she went to the school.
Pig jumped in a carrage and sat thinking while it trotted up to Hogwarts she was a little worried her boyfriand Nick wasnt on the trian in facted she hasn't seen him for a few weeks.
~ he's fine ~ she thought
the carrige came to a holt and Pig jumped out and walked throught the doors. her two sister came up behind her jippsy placed her arm on her sholder causing her to jump
" hey sis why so jumpy" Jill and jippsy said togher. the bought laughed
" o its nothing"