FLAMES

Letter's And Lessons

"Wake up, Ruby." Daphne, my annoying roommate calls.

"Stop calling me Ruby!" I groan, opening my eyes. The sun is shining and the birds are chirping! It's the first day of classes!

"Well, we are certainly not calling you Fox! I can't believe your mother lets you go by that name! It's so inelegant for a lady!" Pansy calls from across the room.

"Fine then, call me Roxanne! Or Anne or Annie! Just don't call me Ruby! Please?" I beg. "Oh, and my mother's dead, by the way!"

"Fine, Roxanne." Daphne says.

"I don't know, I like just Anne." Pansy says.

"No, I agree with Daphne! Roxanne, is better!" Millicent calls stepping out from inside the bathroom.

"Ok, then. Get up! Roxanne!!!" Pansy shrikes.

"Ahh! Fine!" I say, jumping out of bed.

***

"Morning sleepy head!" Theo calls, when I enter the Great Hall for breakfast.

"How are your dorm mates?" Blaise asks.

"Annoying and brainwashed." I answer. Draco, Theo and Blaise look at me expectantly. "Brainwashed by their pureblooded mothers who sit around and do nothing but cook, clean, nit, and well, sit. Brainwashed by their pureblooded fathers who brainwashed their pureblooded mother's. And brainwashed by all the boys their age they hang around, who again, are brainwashed by their mother's and fathers into thinking that all that there is to a girl is beauty. And that makes a girl think that the only thing that matters is how they look, how they act, and boys! Idiot people, I tell you! This is what the world is becoming." I finish. Theo, looks at me impressed. Blaise, looks interested. The Goons, ( who i still don't know the names of!!) as blank as ever. And Draco, confused.

"But isn't that all there is to a girl?" He says. Theo and Blaise give him, 'shut up' looks, which he is obviously oblivious to because he continues, "Beauty?" He finishes, still dumbfounded. Theo and Blaise give him 'you've done it now' looks. And I stand up, reach across the table and slap him right across the face! Theo and Blaise flinch, the Goons look ready to pounce on me for hurting their 'master'. "OWWWW!!!" He yelps, holding his face.

"No." I say simply, brushing my hands together as if I'm Dusting them off in an I've-done-my-job manner.

"No?" He asks. Now he's done it! Idiotic git!

"No. Girls are so much more than beauty! You idiot!!! See!? People like you is the reason girls don't shine enough in this world! If you hadn't locked our inner dragons in cages, there would have been a whole new kind of brains out there working on business problems or whatnot! I don't know if it's just the Slytherin girls or all young girls but this is ridiculous!!!!!! Re-dic-u-liss!!! Do you know what the girls made me let them do this morning!? They kept calling me Ruby, so I finally yelled at them and told them to stop! But they refused to call me Fox, because it wasn't ladylike!! And they wouldn't leave me alone, until I let them call me Roxanne!!! So right now, I was going to tell you how grateful I was to you guys for calling me Fox! But since someone" I stare at Draco, "is being a brainwashed idiot, he will not be receiving a compliment! So, thank you, Blaise. Thank you, Theo, very much! In this case, Flames is even better than Fox! I suppose I should thank you two, even though you always agree with whatever he" I point to Draco, "says, you kept shut up, so thank you for that! By the way, what the heck are your names!! I have only heard anyone call you 'the Goons'?" I ask 'the Goons'.

They grunt, "Crabbe."

"Goyle."

"Your parents named you Crab?" I ask.