The Absinthe Chronicles Book 1

I own not the Harry Potter universe or Wuthering Heights and Absinthe can not be owned by anyone for she is a living soul I only helped to give birth to.
The mention of the music Sphere came from another fan-fic I read. I don\'t remember the name or author. Email me if you know.
Ten points to your house if your can tell me where the title comes from.
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Chapter 18- Welcome to the House of Fun

An owl tapped on Absinthe\'s \"new\" bedroom window. She reluctantly got up and let it in. It flew around the ro cou couple of times dropped a letter then flew out. She picked up the letter.


Ms. Louvre,
Today is the first of our weekly staff meetings. I am excited to see
how everyone has faired in their first week. We will be meeting in the
staff room as usual. The password is \"frogbumps\". I\'ll see you at
3:00.
Albus


\"Why am I getting this, I\'m not a staff member.\" With that she threw it in the wastebasket and sat back down on her bed.


\"It\'s been thirty minutes Albus, she\'s not coming.\" Mcgonagall shifted in her seat.
\"Fine. Snape go find her.\" Snape growlndernder his breath \'Why me? Why does he keep sending me?\' Snape stalked through the school parting students with his presence. He slowed his pace slightly at the sight of a tapestry. He reached his hand out slightly being overwhelmed with memories at the touch of the fabric.


Severus was headed for arithmancy. Not his favorite class, so he was walking a little slower than usual. He felt something brush up against him. He stopped and turned, he was standing next to a tapestry. He reached out a hand and touched the tapestry feeling the velvet like smoothness, and he smelled something. Roses, there was a faint rose scent coming from behind the tapestry. He looked around, there was no one else in the hall. He slowly pulled the tapestry forward to reveal a small opening. He ducked down and crawled through smelling the roses stronger. It was pitch black and he had to follow his nose. He kept his hand and on the wall to steady himself. There were stairs in front of him. He slowly began to descend. The further down he went the stronger the smell got. He finally came to another small opening, covered by another tapestry. He looked through to see Julienne dancing quietly by herself. She looked so beautiful in this gigantic room, cut off from everyone, dancing alone to music in her head. He stepped out quietly not wanting to disturb her. He watched as she danced around the room ending in front of him with her arms open for him to join. He obliged and they began waltzing around the room staring into each others eyes. He executed a number of spins and a dip. They slowed down and Severus kissed her sweetly on the lips. She smiled and kissed him back.


Snape moved quicker before anyone got a glance of him reminiscing. He moved quicker down to the dungeons. Why did they put her in the dungeons? This was torture, poetic justice, irony or pun, it was simply torture for him.


Fred and George Weasley had a regular Friday ritual. It had started quite accidentally in their first year when they stumbled into an old forgotten passage and inadvertently found the first secret passageway. Ever since, they used every Friday to look for more. All the teachers were in a staff meeting, only the prefects, head boy and head girl were watching. They only had about an hour so they had to work fast. This Friday they had decided on the dungeons. It had been a while since they had been snooping down there. As they rounded a cornery hey heard some noises that made thorgeorget about secret tunnels.


Draco Malfoy was feeling even more smug than usual. It was one of those great days when he felt like well, Voldemort. All powerful and immortal. He decided to go looking for someone to bother. Maybe Potter was around somewhere. Crabbe and Goyle were obediently at his side. That\'s when he heard a noise that made him turn toward the dungeons.


\" You think you got me where you want you think your better but your not. I don\'t mean anything to you, why--------- don\'t make me put you in your place , You don\'t think I \'d let you make a fool of me!!\" Absinthe was singing as loud as she could along with the music that was playing in the background. It was the only magical thing she owned and she had just got it from Dumbledore, it was a sphere that played whatever song you wanted to hear. She didn\'t want to use it but she needed her music. This was the first time she\'d been able to open her door since she had moved into this room. Forced to move in, thrown in was more like it. She knew everyone was in a staff meeting, so she took the chance that they wouldn\'t be staring over her shoulder for at least a little while. She had her lucky deck spread out on the floor practicing her shuffles she learned the month they were in Vegas. The cards themselves had come from a young con-artist in New abo about a month earlier. Reggie, he had propositioned her to play Three Card Monty. She had won every time and was making him angry. Then she asked him if he would teach her. He was shocked.
\"You can keep the money, I\'m not worried about it, but I want to know how to do it.\" They spent all day in the park talking and doing card tricks. Absinthe had caught on remarkably quick. That\'s when Reggie gave her the cards.
\"Their lucky cards. They\'ll help you.\" She looked at the cards. The pattern on the backs was in blue ink and was two woman in opposite mirror images naked with their legs intertwined. The face of the cards were nudes representing the different sets and values. The thought that these might be offensive had never occurred to her. She and her mom had been all over the world and nudity was only a big deal in America and some places in Europe. She threw her arms around his neck thanking him.
\"I never gotten anything from anybut but my mom. I don\'t have any friends.\"
\"Well now you do.\" They stayed in touch over the past year via letters and the occasional phone call. \'Well that\'s over now, his letters will never find me here, and I doubt they have phones.\'
\"What kind of magic is that? And what is that awful noise? Who are you anyway?\" Absinthe looked up at what had to be the most annoying person ever flanked by what looked like the two stupidest. She stood up walked past them into the hall, looked back at the doorway, shook her head and went back to her spot on the floor. \"What was that?\"
\"I was checking to see if there was sign outside asking annoying little pricks to come in.\" Absinthe played with her cards the entire time trying to ignore the intruders.
\"Do you know who I am?...\"
\"No, and I don\'t care.\" With that Absinthe waved the cards across to flip them over with another card,ppinpping halfway to admire the form.
\"That\'s a muggle thing! And those are naked people!\" Absinthe looked up at him as if he were the stupidest person ever. \"You must be a mudblood, or just a regular muggle.\" Absinthe had enough, she would show him. She sat up suddenly startling all three for a second.
\"I\'m willing to bet you that I can do a \'muggle\' magic trick that you can not figure out.\"
\"Muggles don\'t do magic, and what is a bet?\"
\"Muggles do have magic, and a bet is when we put money down to prove that we are sure of ourselves. Whoever is wrong looses their money, who ever is right takes the money.\" Malfoy laughed and looked at his cohorts. He reached into his robes and pulled out a bag of wizard money.
\"How much?\" He had a grin on his face that clearly said \'I\'m better than \'
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\"Let\'s start small. 5 sickels.\" Absinthe pulled a table over in front of her and put the cards and her money on it. Malfoy put his money on it. \"It\'s really simple,\" Absinthe had a smile on her face. \" You have three tries. The best two out of three wins the pot. All you have to do is...\" Absinthe pulled three cards up, on the bottom was a nude blonde stretching on a bed with hearts all around her, \"follow the queen.\" She put tree three cards down tenting them slightly so they\'d be easier to pick up. She showed them the queen one more time and began picking up and moving the cards. \"Follow the queen,re ire is the Queen of Hearts? Got to find the Queen.\" She stopped. \"Which one?\"
Malfoy Laughed, \"Middle. This is a joke.\" sure enough in the middle was the blonde.
\"Well, I must have done something wrong.\" She was still smiling. \"But I do have two more chances.\" With that she began moving the cards again, quicker this time, still talking. \"Find the queen, where is the elusive queen.\" When she stopped she could see the confusion on their faces. It had been so easy the first time. \'That\'s right you little...\'
\"Middle\"
\"You sure, don\'t second guess yourself now.\"
Malfoy growled, \"Middle.\"
\"Sorry, No.\" She held up the middle card to show a nude man masturbating. \"It\'s just Jack.\" She did it a third time losing Malfoy in the cards again, winning the first pot. \"Now surely a great wizard like yourself should be able to figure out muggle magic and win your money back.\"
\"Who\'s a great wizard? Malfoy?!\" George rubbed the boy on the head messing his perfect hair.
\"Don\'t touch me Weasley! Your Poverty might rub off.\" Crabbe and Goyle snickered.
\"Oh come on Draco, red heads are suppose to be lucky.\" Fred messed up his hair again. \"Great music who is this?\"
Absinthe smiled, \"It\'s the Face to Face. They\'re a punk band, American I think.\"
\"Ooo, PUNK, I like the sound of that.\" George looked very sinister for a second. \"Well what\'s going on here?\"
\"We have a beet...\"
\"Bet.\" Malfoy sneered at Absinthe who just grinned.
\"A bet that I can figure out her \'Muggle Magic.\"
\"Let\'s see then.\" Fred pulled up a chair and sat.
\"Okay, bet\'s have to go up this time. More money on the line.\" She laid a galleon on the table followed by Malfoy\'s. She began talking and moving the cards again. Soon Malfoy was short five galleons, twenty sickles and all his knuts. \"Okay Malfoy, I\'ll give you one more chance, everything on the , th, the entire pot, all for one card, one shot. Or are you done playing, convinced that muggles are better than you thought.\"
Malfoy sneered, he took all his money out then motioned for Crabb and Goyle\'s. They hesitated slightly then quickly with drew their bags dumping the contents on the table. Malfoy dumped his out and Absinthe put all of her\'s on the table as well. She then took a bright purple bag from her back pocket and put all the money in it. \"If you find the queen, you get this, if you don\'t, I get this.\" She held up the bag letting everyone see it then laid it on the table. Everyone\'s eyes wen thn the cards as Absinthe began moving faster then before. When she stopped Malfoy had a smug look on his face.
\"I got you this time, it\'s the left one.\"
\"My left, or your left?\" The simple question threw him for a loop.
He was quiet for a minute then said \"Mine.\" Absinthe held up the card to show Jack.
\"Sorry.\" Absinthe grabbed the bag as Malfoy snatched for it. \" You bet, you lost, the money is mine.\" Malfoy turned to go out but suddenly started smiling when he got into the hall.
\"Professor Snape, that girl in there took my money and had bad things on her cards.\"
\"Oh shit.\" Absinthe looked around the room to hide the money. Her eyes fell on George who was still standing. She grabbed him, crammed the bag into his pants wrapping the string around a belt loop so that it wouldn\'t fall down his pant leg, and pushed him away jumping up on the table to look as inconspicious as possible. Fred and George were bri bright pink and completely silent.
\"Absinthe, where is Malfoy\'s money?\" She threw her legs over the front of the table and sat up to look at him.
\"I don\'t know? Why would I know?\" She did her best innocent act.
\"Malfoy say\'s you took his money while playing some muggle game.\"
\"No sir, I was listening to my music when he came in and began verbally assaulting me. These two fine young men saved me.\" She got down off the table and walked over and put her head on George\'s shoulder. \" But you can search me if you like?\" She walked over to Snape who towered over her a couple of feet, getting a little too close. He backed up and went around her.
\"What about these cards?\" Before he could reach the table she had turned, gone past him and grabbed them up into her back pocket. \"Malfoy say\'s they\'re offensive.\"
\"No their not. Unless the human body is offensive? You into animals or something dragon boy?\" Crabbe and Goyle even laughed a little.
\"So they do have naked pictures on them, give them here.\"
\"No.\" Snape stood looking stunned at her, had she just said no? No one says no to me.
\"Give them here Absinthe.\"
\"No.\" Fred and George watched with admiration and awe at what was surely going to be her death.
Snape\'s voice got quieter and more menacing using his most evil look, \"Now girl.\"
\"NO!\" with the last shout Snape took his wand and magic-ed the cards to him. He was suddenly attacked by a blur of arms and legs with a very loud voice.
He grabbed his wand \"Pertrificiles totalis.\" The spell seemed to bounce right off Absinthe and hit Goyle instead who instantly froze and toppled on to his back. Snape grabbed her around the waist muttering something about her mother and started to walk out the door. At the realization that he would have to walk up through students with a screaming girl over his shoulder he turned and went to the fire place. He used his wand to light a fire, through in some floo powder from his robe pocket turning the flames green said \"staff room\" and threw her into the fire following close behind.