Harry Potter and the Attack of the American Fangirls

Chapter Four:

Tales of the Psychotic Duo.

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We stepped past the doors into Dumbledore's office. For a second we just stood there. Then we ran around like little kids at a hands-on science museum.

"Look at all these little things!" I gasped, admiring several silver devices on various tables, which made little whirring sounds, along with puffs of smoke. The devices, I mean, not the tables.

Beth ran over to look. "Whoa! Cool!" She paused. "I wonder what they do." Then she noticed the pictures on the walls. She stared at them. They stared at her.

"Whoa, that's creepy." I turned around. "They're everywhere!"

"And worse than regular posters," Beth added. Then she saw something else.

"Wow! Look at that Veronica! That's the Sorting Hat!"

"Hey cool!" I shouted and ran over. "I wonder what would happen if we tried it on," I wondered aloud.

"I dunno, you try it!" Beth said

"No! You found it, you try it!"

"I wonder if we're allowed to try it on," Beth wondered. We paused.

"You have a point," I replied.

Meanwhile, Snape tried to restore order.

"What are you doing?" he demanded, running around the room like an extra-freaky janitor, making sure nothing was broken. "Why can't you just sit down and wait quietly until Dumbledore comes?"

"That's no fun," I said. Just then something gold flashed in a beam of sunlight by the door.

"Hey Beth, look!" I walked over to inspect it. The flash of gold I'd seen had been a bird perch. And on top of it sat a magnificent red and gold bird. "Wow cool! It's Fawkes!" I frowned and turned to Beth. "Fawkes was her name, right...?" I paused again. "Her? His? Did the book say whether Fawkes was a girl or a boy?" I wondered.

Beth shrugged. "I don't think it said."

"Drat," I said.

"What book?" Snape asked.

"We'll tell you later, if you're nice to us," I replied with a grin.

"AHHHHHH!"

"Poor little man," Beth nodded sympathetically. "I think we're driving him insane." She paused and we both looked at each other.

"YEAY!"

Just then a man that had to be Dumbledore walked in. He had long blue robes that were a shade darker than his eyes, long hair, and a beard that melded together. I think it's funny when people do that for some reason.

"Hello Severus," he said. "I heard shouting and came out to investigate."

"Forgive me Albus," Snape replied, resuming his greasy manner. "I found these two wandering the halls on the 4^th floor." He indicated us. "As they seemed to have no reason to be there, since the term hasn't started yet, I brought them here. They also claim to not be in a house yet. As to what they are doing here , I haven't figure out yet." He paused to glare at us. "I haven't been able to get an intelligent word out of either of them yet."

"HEY!" We were both outraged by this statement.

"Not cool, little man," I said, my typical response for when I don't like something someone has done, regardless of whether they're a little man or not.

"Slimy git," Beth added.

"You've spent too much time on Schnoogle," I told her.

"Which isn't necessarily a bad thing."

"True."

"Hey, by the way, I read that fic you were telling me about."

"Oh, the one where-"

"Excuse me ladies?" We stopped our discussion and looked at Dumbledore, who was smiling, and Snape, who was definitely not. "Could you tell us how you got here?"

"You know, that's kinda weird, 'cuz we don't exactly know how we got here either," I said nodding.

"Yeah, 'cuz we were in her room, and then her closet started doin' some freaky action," Beth added.

"And then there was like, this whirly-pooly thing-"

"In her closet!"

"In my closet!"

"And we don't know how it got there," Beth concluded.

"Describe this 'whirly-pooly thing' to us," said Dumbledore.

"Well, it was blue and white," I said mater-of-factly.

"Hmmm..." Snape pondered.

{Shelby: She pondered.}

{V: Hey! What're you doing here Shelby? You're not in this story.}

{S: Well Beth was busy, so I took over.}

{V: Riiiight...}

"And it was spinning clockwise!" Beth added.

"Clockwise you say?" Suddenly Snape was interested in what Beth had to say.

"Are you sure it was clockwise?" Dumbledore broke in.

"Yeah, it was clockwise," Beth confirmed.

"Definitely clockwise," I added.

Snape looked at me funnily. "Who're you?"

"THAT'S NOT FUNNY!" I went over and banged my head on the wall.

"Dumbledore, I do believe she is unstable," Snape said in his oily manner.

"Shut up," I hissed out between gritted teeth.

"Veronica?" Beth came over. "What's wrong?"

I turned around a forced a smile. "Not that I'm not pleased to be here or anything..." I took a breath to try and calm myself down. Didn't work. "I am tired, a few minutes ago it should have been midnight, and I am in a place that just a little while ago only existed in a book. A Book! You people are Not. Real. Not real!"

{S: You're beginning to repeat yourself a lot.}

{V: Not now! I'm trying to depict my dramatic breakdown here.}

{B: DRAMATIC!!!}

{V: Hey, you're back!}
{B: Oh, the chapter's not over yet? I'll come back next chapter.}

{S: Riiiight...}

{V: Why do you keep saying that?}

{S: I'm trying to act like Beth!}

{V: Riiiight...}

{S&B: NOOOOO!!!}

{V: Mwahaha.

"...and I am seriously losing my grip on reality here, so if you could just direct me to a place where I can get some sleep I will deal with you all in the morning." I let out a deep sigh and blinked. "I feel so much better now."

"Me too," Beth replied. "Can we get someplace to sleep?"

"Of course," Dumbledore answered. "I believe there's two empty guest rooms on the fifth floor..."

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After Dumbledore had shown us the rooms ("Oh so this is what they mean by four-poster bed."), we started to get ready for bed.

"I'm never going to get to sleep, how about you?" I said as I gazed out the window.

Beth pretended to snore.

"Oh you're a riot," I said.

"Seriously though," Beth said sitting up. "What're we going to do?"

"I don't know, I'm the one who had the dramatic breakdown, remember?"

{B: DRAMATIC!}

{V: I'm confused.}

{S: So what else is new?}

{V: I thought Shelby said you were busy.}

{B: Yes, very busy! See ya!}

{V: I think I'm going to have a real breakdown.}

{S: Stop being all dramatic.}

{B: DRAMATIC!}

{S: Riiiight...}

{V: AAAAAAH!!!}

"That was kind of disturbing." Beth looked at me suspiciously. "Almost too disturbing."

"So I exaggerated a bit." I turned around and smiled. "I am meant for showbiz."

"Yeah, horror movies."

I groaned. "Good night Beth." I walked into my room and closed the door.

"Fine, be that way."

*Silence*

"Veronica? Hello? Hello? Oh, whatever."

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Hooray! Finally finished. I shall now experiment with color. [COLOR=deeppink]and[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]Aw[/COLOR][COLOR=orangered]aa[/COLOR][COLOR=orange]aa[/COLOR][COLOR=limegreen]aa[/COLOR][COLOR=royalblue]yy[/COLOR][COLOR=purple]yy[/COLOR][COLOR=teal]...[/COLOR]

*Does the weird jumpy thingy the rainbow dwarves do in the Snow White movie w/Kristin Kruek*

Wow! Did that work?