New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

I have a FA in my bed at Hogwarts, the one where I am a student, and I realize it almost right away. I do a quick RC to confirm the fact I am dreaming before dressing and coming out into the dorm room with the other three girls I share a room with. Andie looks over at me and asks if I have heard what happened to Umbridge… I say no, I haven't. She says Umbridge was kicked right out of Hogwarts, sent to St. Mungo's. I ask why this happened, she says Umbridge was found with You Know Who's name written clearly on her forehead, flashing in neon colors! Without thinking about it, I say, "You mean Voldemort?" Everyone in the room is shocked that I said the name, so I briefly apologize, saying there is nothing strange about saying a name where I come from… She says that no one says You Know Who's true name, but anyway, Umbridge was wandering around the streets of Hogwarts with that written on her forehead, scaring the shit out of so many of the students and even several of the teachers. Umbridge had claimed she didn't know the writing said that, she thought the writing only announced that she was an UGLY CUNT… and that's supposed to be better somehow?

So the group of us go down to the main common room and then we all head down to the great hall for some breakfast. Dumbledore is there, and he makes an announcement about the next challenge in the Tri-School Tournament. He says things are going to be switched up a bit, the different houses will be swapping participants for this challenge alone. He says that the purpose of this is to encourage the people from different houses to get along with each other better, or at least to learn to tolerate each other enough to work together. He says each participant will be given an envelope that will say who our temporary teammate would be, and we should meet up with our partner and go over strategy for getting the task done… or at least to work out any major differences so we would not be fighting amongst ourselves when the challenge comes around. McGonagall comes down the aisles and hands Draco and me envelopes and then immediately moves on. Draco looks at his envelope briefly and says this is a bunch of shit, he doesn't want to work with a loser from one of the other houses. He opens his envelope and then is clearly not happy with what it says… he throws the paper down in front of me and asks if I can believe they expect him to work with Potter? I look at the paper and see that it says "HARRY POTTER" on it. I look at my paper, and I see that it says "HERMIONE GRANGER, ROBERT ******" on it. I'll be working with MoSh! Yay! I am quite happy with the situation, though right now Draco is bitching all over the place, so I am actually quite glad when breakfast ends and I have an excuse to avoid Draco's bitching for a while.

So now I head out into the halls, following after MoSh, because I want to meet up with him and talk to him for a while. I catch up with him when he is with Hermione, Harry, and Ron. Apparently Ron had decided to speak up again after spending quite some time not speaking to anyone. He bitching about not wanting Hermione and MoSh and Harry to all be working with those rotten Slytherins… Hermione is getting mad at him for talking that way… Harry is bitching about having to work with Draco… MoSh says everything will work out fine, he trusts me, and Hermione can also. Harry says that makes them both better off than he is. MoSh says nothing is going to happen with Harry, either, he says I have had more than enough time to get through to him. Harry asks what MoSh is talking about, MoSh asks if Harry hadn't noticed there hadn't been nearly as much trouble with Draco as there had been in the past, well, that was due to my influence. Harry says MoSh is nuts if he thinks that will make any difference, so great, this next challenge is going to be a disaster… MoSh says he trusts me to make sure nothing happens, Ron says it will be lucky if Harry comes out of it alive. Hermione tells Ron to shut up, there's no need to think that way. She says Draco might be a jerk, but he's not going to try to get anyone killed. Ron says of course he will, he's a death eater, so of course he'd be willing to get someone killed. Look what his father did, after all… his father who is still out there somewhere, having somehow managed to escape from Azkaban, which no one has ever done before… he says they should just lock every Slytherin up in Azkaban right now and save themselves a lot of trouble. Everyone gets mad at him, and he ends up saying fine, if they all want to be out in a dangerous challenge with Slytherins waiting to stab them in the back… he doesn't care. Ron storms off down the hall. Harry looks at MoSh and asks if he really thinks Draco will behave differently. MoSh says yes, he does, besides… Ron was definitely overacting by saying someone would be killed. He said the worst to happen would be Draco would make Harry look like a complete idiot.

I finally join the group, though I feel like I shouldn't have been eavesdropping, and MoSh welcomes me there. We talk a bit about possible strategies for the challenge, I say I am really glad to be working with MoSh. Harry is bitching about having to work with Draco, but not because he thinks Draco is out to kill anyone, just because he figures Draco will be exceedingly annoying and they won't have a chance of doing well in the challenge if they have to work together. I tell Harry that I'll see if I can get Draco to behave himself, after all, it's just for one challenge after all… it's not like the two of them have to be best friends forever. Harry says that's not going to happen. I am about to say something else when a girl I don't recognize comes over to us, she is eyeing MoSh very closely. I wonder where Asuka is, and I am thinking Asuka wouldn't like the way this woman is eyeing MoSh. She looks him over as if appraising him, I am wondering what she is doing. I ask her what she is doing, but she just ignores me completely. After examining MoSh head to foot for a bit longer, she says we all need healing… healing for what? She says we need a healing hug, I am still not sure what she is talking about… then she starts pulling everyone into a group hug. I go into the hug, trying to see if I can tell anything about her through her energy. I don't see anything hostile about her energy, but the entire situation seems really strange. I hear her whispering something to MoSh about meeting alone with him… um… Asuka definitely wouldn't like this… Speaking of Asuka, where is she? I think maybe I should find Asuka. So I pull free of the group hug and head down the hall and around a corner where I open a portal while focusing on getting to Asuka.

On the other side of the portal I am in MoSh's inner world, I look around, and everything looks completely normal. I look around in the house a bit and I finally find Asuka in a garden out back tending to some beautiful flowers. She seems surprised to see me there, I ask if everything is ok. She says yes, everything is fine, why do I ask? I said I was just surprised she wasn't at Hogwarts with MoSh, she says she had been with the Teshnon masters, they had wanted her there to train. And after that she wanted to be here in the garden with her flowers, after all she was supposed to get some meditation in. I scan her energy to make sure it looks ok, to make sure it's really Asuka… it definitely is Asuka, and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong. I say ok, I was just a bit concerned since it seems she is always getting attacked by someone, so I am glad everything is ok. She smiles at me, and I think she is saying something, but I wake up.