Oddities
Summary: An overdone story of how two best friends meet the Marauders, and unexpectedly warm welcomes turn into declarations of war! Follow the two oddities on the adventure that is Hogwarts School!
Hi! I'm Sam! Well, actually Samuel; but if you tell anyone you're dead! My parents kinda messed up. Ok, they really messed up. As you can see I was supposed to be a boy. However I'm so glad I'm not! Anyway, me and my best friend Mel both got accepted to Hogwarts! I'm so excited! That's where the story really starts!
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We were walking toward the station when we realized that we didn't know where the platform was. I can't believe it took us so long! Anyway, there were four boys nearby and three of them had owls! We figured we might as well ask them since they obviously went to Hogwarts. However Mel wasn't in a good mood.
"Oh crap! We are so crappy lost! What kind of crappy people would put a crappy platform on crappy 9 ¾! I mean crap!"
"Oh shut it Mel! I think those boys can help us! I mean, they have an owl!" Mel marched up to them and started insulting.
"You spend too much time in front of a mirror!" this was directed to the really extremely cute guy with longish black hair but not really long and the next was to this hazel eyed kid with glasses and the next was to a sandy haired guy who was kinda cute but really boney and the last was kinda cherub cute, in that order.
"You have to brush your hair! You are skin and bones! And you have to lose some weight!" she started poking the skinny kid and the fat kid. She did that for 5 minutes before she got bored. I was staring at her then I sat down on my trunk head in my hands and chanted, 'she did not just do that!' The hazel eyed guy tapped my shoulder and said, "She just did that!"
"Noooooo!" My arms waved frantically as I stood up.
"Let's leave!" Mel said and then tripped over my trunk. She hit her head and stood up. She stared at the boys for a couple seconds then leaned over to me and asked with a secretive yet loud tone, "Hey Sam! Who are these weirdoes?"
I did a face vault as the boys stared at her in amazement. Finally one of them spoke up.
"You just insulted us!" the really cute one pointed out. No duh Sherlock.
"I did?"
"Yeah!"
"Oh... Well, let's start over!" She stuck her hand out. "My name's Mel! This here is Sam!"
Each boy came over and shook our hands.
"I'm Sirius Black!" The cute one said.
"I'm James Potter!" said hazel eyes.
"Remus Lupin!" said the thin one.
"Peter Pettigrew!" said the cherub.
"Well, I'm really sorry that I insulted you! I was just mad that we couldn't find the crappy platform." Mel explained. They stared at her again.
"What's wrong?" she wanted to know.
"You're the first girl we've ever heard curse!" Sirius said.
"Well get used to it! She curses all the time and crap is her favorite word today. She doesn't usually curse around teachers but she will around you." I told them.
"Well, are we standing around chatting all day or are we getting on the train? It's going to leave in five minutes!" Remus announced.
"CRAP!" Mel yelled making even more people stare. Fortunately they looked away fairly quickly.
We had to walk through solid rock to get to the platform. But we found an apartment ok. We got to sit together and get to know each other better. They were all really nice! They're all pretty smart. Apparently Sirius and James are Purebloods which means that both of their parents are witches or wizards. Remus is half and half so he knows what internet and TV are. Peter is muggle born like us.
"So what's Hogwarts like? What do you guys know of it?" I inquired.
"Not too much. My family won't give too much away. They say I wouldn't really understand it until I go so now I'm going I'll know. However, I do know that each house has its own ghost and that Nearly Headless Nick is the Gryffindor ghost and the Bloody Baron is the Slytherin ghost." James said.
"We also know that we want to be in Gryffindor. My next choice would probably be Ravenclaw though because Hufflepuff doesn't seem like my style. We defiantly don't want to be Slytherins though. However my whole family's in Slytherin and I don't like any of them." Sirius continued.
"What does it take to be in a house? Is it painful?" Mel asked.
"Dunno. All I know is what each house is."
"What then, what are each of the houses?"
"Well, Gryffindor is for bravery. Ravenclaw is for smart people. Hufflepuff is loyalty and Slytherin's evil!" Remus explained.
"Sounds like Sam's in danger of being in Ravenclaw then! She is so smart! Sometimes know-it-all smart." Mel teased.
"Hey! For your info, I'm know-it-all smart all the time because I really know it all!" I hit Mel lightly, playing along. The guys left then to see the sights. (A/N Yeah right. Off to bully Slythes more like.)
Then this lady with a trolley went by and Mel being Mel got a whole bunch then started squealing.
"Ooo!" that was Mel.
"What, may I ask, compelled you to buy all this candy?" I asked sardonically.
"It was cheap!"
"And that's your reason?"
"Yes!"
"Well, it's a good one! Girl, let's dig in!"
Suddenly the door burst open and guess who entered? Without a by your leave the 4 boys from before came in and sat down with us again and started eating our candy! Boy, I got mad!
"So! What do you think you're doing? You crappy boys think you can just come in here and start stealing our candy huh?"
The boys' mouths dropped open. I guess I seemed like a quieter type to them. Well that's only sometimes. I pulled out my wand and then Sirius and James started laughing.
"You don't know how to use that yet! Even we don't!"
"Oh thanks for that info! Now I know you can't attack me back!"
"You thought she didn't know how to use her wand! She's already memorized the book and was looking for someone to test her hexes on! You lucky boys get to be her guinea pigs! I might warn you, she's a whiz at most everything in Muggle school!" Monica rightly warned them.
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Curses and such that I don't want to write down.
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"Hah! Now you don't have anymore taste till you kiss a girl that doesn't like you, on the lips! And with your looks that will be difficult! All four of you are pretty cute! Oh and we don't count!" I smirked as they glared at me.
"Don't worry! We can still be friends as long as you aren't mean to us, our friends, or our food!" Monica managed between giggles.
"Aw... Sam!" James protested. My smirk just widened.
"Oh no! That means I won't be able to taste the food at the beginning of the year feast!" Sirius had just figured out what not having taste meant.
"Hey! They ate all of the chocolate frogs!" Mel, on the other hand, had realized she hadn't paid enough attention to her candy.
This speakerphone thing went on just then telling us to start changing into our dress robes. We made the boys stand in the hall while we changed and did the same for them.
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We got to go across the lake! It was so cool! Some dude fell in. Didn't catch his name but he deserved it! Plus he really needed to wash his hair anyway!
Our first glimpse of the castle was spectacular! All the towers and stuff! One was above the lake! Dang that'd be fun to jump from it! (hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink) We had walked into this huge hall! The ceiling was amazing! Just like the sky we had been under just minutes before!
This wizard hat sang a song which was really boring and all 6 of us were in Gryffindor even though the hat wanted to put me in Ravenclaw. I figured that since Mel and the boys were in Gryffindor it'd be the most fun!
As soon as we were all sorted this elderly man stood up. He's our principal I think. Well here it's called headmaster but the same thing. Then food appeared. The guys dug in and started talking with their mouths full. It was gross! Mel, unfortunately, joined them. She does that so often I can understand them even with food in their mouths.
"Oi! No! I can't taste any of it!" Sirius managed around some meat.
"Hah hah hah!" I laughed at him and the rest of the boys.
"Haven't found and kissed a girl that didn't like you?"
"No way! We're not into girls!" James sounded disgusted.
"Yeah! That's gross Sam!" Remus added.
"Well, best of luck to you!" and with that Mel and I dug in emphasizing how good it tasted.
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"Here are your dorms. Girls on the right, boys on the left." Arthur Weasley instructed. We all clamored upstairs. There were 5 beautiful 4 poster beds! Each had one of our names on it. We each threw ourselves at the one with our name on it. Boy, they were comfy!
Here's our first chapter. The next will be in Mel's POV. Mel is Meheeners just so you know. We're trying another like My Best Friend: Lily Evans just this time we start at the beginning of the year!