But somehow through it all, I didlive to see my eighteenth birthday.By returning to Hogwarts, it allowed me to hide from a lot of theadulation. Sure t...ere was some even there, but it was mostly from theyounger years. The older ones were there and knew how high the price ofvictory was. So when Hogwarts was repaired and reopened the followingyear, I returned. It was strange not having Voldemort hanging over myhead anymore. I wanted more than anything to just move on with my life.But being Harry. “Is that what I think it is?” Jamahl eventually asked.The others all looked across the busy concourse to the far wall too see what it was that Jamahl was looking at. They all saw the same poster which made Shona respond with, “Hey ... that looks like a poster for the Teen Beauty Pageant. Are they going ahead with it after all?”Without anyone saying anything all seven teenagers, and all still naked, walked in unison across the mall to the community notice board. Shona was right. There was a. It defaulted to an array of minor variations on Amanda'snatural body and the outfit she was wearing -- reddish-brown hair,smallerboobs, taller, lighter skin, lower hemline -- with smaller images ofmore significant variations out on the fringes of the cluster. I said,"A woman's disembodied head, with compact vital organs in a sac andlong,narrow, prehensile tendrils in place of hair." As usual, for some sillyreason, I enunciated more clearly than normal even though I knew theVenn machine could. Alex assured me nothing excessively cruel, just a bunch of tricks on their minds to confuse the hell out of them. Before Suzi and I left, Rusty was already dressed in a tutu trying to do a sexy dance for a few couples staying with Wally and Alex that night.On the drive home, Suzi shocked the hell out of me by stripping out of her clothes and ordering me to check us into a hotel for the night. I did as she said with beads of sweat forming on my forehead from worry, but she explained that she.