Half Blood: Philosopher's Stone

Trolls on Halloween

Maddy had her first encounter with Peeves that Sunday, she had figured out that Bellona also had dyslexia and needed help with her reading-heavy homework so she had recruited Hermione to help them, apparently the two were roommates, and Hermione was overly excited to help. The three met up in the library, first they worked on the History of Magic homework since neither Bellona nor Maddy could stay awake during the class, then they moved on to start other homework.

As they left the library there was the sound of something heavy falling -Maddy recognized it as marble- and the trio went to find out what had made the noise. They saw a ghost cackling madly as it knocked some trophies out of the trophy case.

"That's Peeves," Hermione said quickly, her voice full of disdain. "He's a poltergeist. Really quite obnoxious."

Peeves was flying around in a really flamboyant manner, flipping and twisting and turning in a simultaneously clumsy and elegant way as he sang a rather obnoxious song in a nasally voice.

Bellona was about to say something when the caretaker, Filch, arrived and immediately began to blame them for the mess as Peeves had disappeared. He demanded for them to clean it up, which they reluctantly agreed to and he marched away, only for Peeves to appear again and continuously messed up everything that they did, while still singing his obnoxious song.

"Shut up!" Maddy exclaimed after a solid twenty minutes of having to listen to him. He quieted down immediately to both Hermione's and Bellona's surprise. "Go away, Peeves!" He quietly floated away.

"How did you do that?" Bellona asked incredulously.

"What do you mean?"

"Nobody can control Peeves except for the Bloody Baron, we heard the ghost talking about it," Hermione said. "I've also witnessed a few people lose their temper at him but he never does what they say."

"Well, I don't know what I did," Maddy lied, she knew full well it was because of her power over the undead, even though she had never been able to use the ability with ghosts -she had practiced raising skeletons and the such before coming to Hogwarts, but she hadn't been around ghosts long enough to try it with them.

Time passed by rather slowly and Maddy had become rather well acquainted with the Gryffindors, as did the girl who had woken her up on the first friday, Elliot de la Mare, which drew her to be ridiculed by Malfoy's gang as well when she had previously just been ignored by them.

Maddy remained hated by Snape -and the feeling was reciprocated- mostly because of her 'incompetence in potion making' as he put it as well as her 'stubbornness to not fix a dire problem' meaning her decision to not get her dyslexia fixed, and it didn't help that her work was often turned in with little doodles in the margins or that she sometimes ended up drawing instead of taking notes. She still felt fairly neutral about McGonagall, as well as Professor Sinistra, Flitwick and Madam Hooch -though that's only because she skipped every flying lesson-. She quite liked Professor Sprout and wasn't particularly fond of Professor Binns. She didn't like Quirrel at all, looking at him made her blood freeze, there was something wrongabout him and she was desperate to find out what, it was similar to the way she felt when looking at Harry's scar.

Malfoy's antagonistic behavior got worse as the days went on, he repeatedly tried to steal her jar of fire and always found something to mock her about, and nothing was off limits. He found out that Maddy had never met her mother and didn't even know who she was and he would often taunt her about her reading skills.

On Halloween morning they woke to the delicious smell of baking pumpkin wafting through the corridors. Even better, Professor Flitwick announced in Charms that he thought they were ready to start making objects fly, something they had all been dying to try since they'd seen him make Neville's toad fly around the classroom. Professor Flitwick put the class into pairs to practice. Maddy was partnered with Bellona, Elliot was put with Neville, Harry's partner was Seamus Finnigan and Ron was to be working with Hermione, which he seemed very upset about, as did Hermione.