Bab 32: The Howler
The next morning we all went to the great hall for breakfast and our schedule. Harry and Ron were a little upset about what they had done but Hermione and I were talking to them almost normally.
Rainy- (Hermione is right, we are kids. I can't let some bad words get to me...)
A little later the time for mail came, and with that the owl of the Weasleys, Errol made his entrance crashing against all our food.
Ron- ugh, Errol! Why ar-? oh... oh no...
Harry- what happened?
Ron- m- my mother... she sent me a Howler.
Rainy-!!
Neville- you have to open it, it will be worse if you don't. My gran sent me one once, and i ignored it and... *glup* ...it was horrible.
Harry- but what is a Howler?
Rainy- i-it's an enchanced l-letter... I don't want to be here right now...
Harry/Hermione- (she's scared??)
Neville- open it, Ron. And it will be over in a few minutes...
What followed was arguably the worst five minutes of Ron's life... and pretty bad for us too. His mother begun to scold him with a voice that, I would bet, could be heard in Hogsmeade. It was about stealing the car, the fact that they could have died, and Ron's father had problems at work because of the existence of the car. It really sounded like they had awakened Voldemort or something like that. After the howler finished, i begun to breath again. I looked really bad, and they noticed it.
Hermione- what happened Rainy?
Ron- yeah, i-it's me who has been scolded...
Rainy- w-well i m-might or m-might not h-have a fear to scoldings...
Then they stared at me with blank expressions. The silence was broken by McGonagall who gave us our schedules and we saw we had first double Herbology with the Hufflepuffs. So we headed there while talking.
Hermione- why are you afraid of scoldings?
Rainy- because there's no way you can fight it... when you are wrong and a authoritative figure begins the scolding... it's like knowing you are going to get hurt, really hurt, and you can do nothing to stop it. Mostly because whoever is scolding you normally is on the right. Or can you say, Ron, that your mother said a lie? Or that it wasn't justified? It's horrible.
Hermione-... I really didn't expect it...
Harry- me neither...
Ron- well, for me right now... she has a point.
We arrived to the Herbology class just in time to see professor Sprout walking to us with some bandages and a lot of earth on her clothes. She came back from doing some work on the Whomping Willow, along with Gilderoy Lockhart who supposedly ''helped'' with the tree, but didn't have a single stain on his immaculate robes. By this time I have already read all his books but I can only see a fraud. I can tell that he at least lies on half of the books because there are inconsistencies. So why believe the other half? Anyway it seems he wanted to talk with Harry outside the greenhouse three, which was where we were having today's class. I left the door slightly open, and peered at the conversation
Gilderoy- Harry, Harry, Harry...Gave you a taste for publicity, didn't I? Gave you the bug. You got onto the front page of the paper with me and you couldn't wait to do it again.
Harry- Oh, no, Professor, see-
Gilderoy- Harry, Harry, Harry, I understand. Natural to want a bit more once you've had that first taste, and I blame myself for giving you that, because it was bound to go to your head. But see here, young man, you can't start flying cars to try and get yourself noticed. Just calm down, all right? Plenty of time for all that when you're older. Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking! 'It's all right for him, he's an internationally famous wizard already!' But when I was twelve, I was just as much of a nobody as you are now. In fact, I'd say I was even more of a nobody! I mean, a few people have heard of you, haven't they? All that business with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named! I know, I know, it's not quite as good as winning Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times in a row, as I have, but it's a start, Harry, it's a start.
Rainy-pfff
I quickly went to my place on the greenhouse and waited for Harry to come back from the hell he was living. After a minute, he entered. I couldn't look at him without laughing, but we had a normal session of Herbology with Sprout. It interested me because the mandrakes we were studying today were used to heal curses and bad transfiguration. The curses, i can heal them with Esuna! Like almost everything else, but the transfiguration... knowing that is going to be my best branch of magic, i should know about mandrakes potions. During class, a guy called Justin-something, told us his life and how he admired Gilderoy, i just couldn't hold it anymore and begun laughing uncontrollably. After a minute or so i had calmed down and apologized to Sprout, who thought someone in class had used a cheery charm on me even if we shouldn't have learned them yet. After class we headed to transfiguration.
Hermione- what happened?
Rainy- it's better if Harry says it...
Harry- me? What are you...? wait, you heard Gilderoy?
Rainy- pfff, you bet I did, that was the funniest thing I've heard in a while
Harry- ugh, I'm not laughing...
Rainy- you would if you knew he's a big fraud!
Harry/Ron- what?
Rainy- come on, half of what is written on the books are things almost impossible to achieve, at least for only one person... on one of the books it's clear that there should be at least 3 wizards using spells and he used his name for all of them!
Hermione- she's right... at first I didn't believe her, but we have studied these books half of the summer, that guy's a fraud. Or at least he half-lies about everything.
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