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The Late Night Mentally Unstable Mouseketeers
PROLOGUE
It was another start of the year at Hogwarts. Most of the students had been settled in their compartments in the Hogwarts Express. The Marauders had occupied one for themselves and they were plotting again. It was their final year at Hogwarts and they were going to make it unforgettable. Not only for themselves, but for the teachers and other students as well.
On the other part of the train, there was another group of friends who occupied a couple of compartments. They were the only group in the whole school that was a mix of all the houses. There were Hufflepuffs: Gwen, Cyndi and Lena. Gryffindors: Cory, Siri and Nim. A Ravenclaw: Rianna. And Slytherins: Slim, Pike, Dense and JJ.
Dense, JJ, Cory, Rianna and Siri were in their sixth year, while the others were in their seventh. Oddly enough, they were all good students. Sometimes mischievous, but they never let their grades drop. Gwen had made sure of that. Sometimes they even wondered why she hadn't been sorted into Ravenclaw.
"Because I'm too cool to be a Ravenclaw. No offence, Rianna, dear." She had explained once. "None taken." Rianna had replied.
Gwendolyn James (Gwen) was known as the genius. Her plots were always aimed at the boys. She loved reading and she kept her nose in books most of the time. Some of her other classmates thought of her as a nerdy type, but they didn't know that Gwen was much worse than Sirius Black when it came to mischief. Being a girl had its advantages. She would put on an innocence mask and no one would suspect she had anything to do with the leak in the boys' bathroom.
JJ Bonecrusher was obsessed with magical creatures. She'd spend most of her day roaming around Hagrid's Hut, asking him to let her help him take care of his pets. Sometimes Hagrid allowed her to help him, and when he was dealing with dangerous animals, he only let her watch him from afar.
Cyndi Hagrid was the seeker of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. She was Hagrid's cousin, but she wasn't a half-giant like him. She was a muggle-born witch. Cyndi's favorite subject at school was Herbology. When she had free time on her hands, she'd go and help Professor Sprout at the greenhouses.
Pike Bonecrusher was the serious of them all. He was 'the perfect gentleman', as Siri once called him. He was JJ's elder brother. He liked Transfiguration, and he never hesitated to turn owls into canaries whenever they went to the bathroom on his shoulder. Pike had long silver hair which he always pulled in a pony tail. Dense was obsessed with Pike's hair and she had always wanted to braid it, but Pike wouldn't let her.
By the end of their fifth year, Cyndi and Pike were known to be a couple. At the beginning of their relationship, no one would've guessed something was going on between them. They were so secretive about it, because they feared it would ruin their friendship with the others. But one time, JJ had seen them at the Quidditch pitch, snogging, so she went and told everyone about it. Since then, Pike and Cyndi were cautious about their actions when JJ was around. Because JJ never liked to keep secrets, unless she was kindly ask to keep it to herself. But neither Pike nor Cyndi had asked her not to tell anyone that she'd seen them.
Denise Maglorius (Dense) was another story. She was the hyper type. If there was a celebration, Dense would be the one to organize it. As soon as she found out about Pike and Cyndi, she had decided they needed to go out on a picnic. And the couple was not going to have any private time for themselves. Nim was to make sure of that.
Caprice Nimmer (Nim) was the brain of the group. She was the one to plot and to organize. Her last idea of setting a hundred of hungry pigmy puffs free in the school kitchen gained her and her friends a month's worth of detention (which they never attended). They were supposed to help the house-elves with the kitchen work everyday, but having Slim on their side made the house-elves freak out. Nim had a secret that only her friends knew about. She never bathed in the school bathrooms. She always went to swim in the lake, and she never swam there when other students were around, because Nim was a half-mermaid. Whenever water touched her legs, they would turn into a fishtail.
Vaelen Draigh (Slim) used to be a loner in the beginning of his life at Hogwarts. Everyone kept away from him. He had the reputation of being another Malfoy, although his last name wasn't Malfoy at all. In their second year at Hogwarts, Lena and Nim had decided that Slim needed to socialize with people other than himself. So they sent him an anonymous note asking him to come to the owlery. When he went there, he only found another note, which told him to come to the Astronomy Tower. Not thinking that the notes were probably a prank, he went to the Astronomy Tower and was greeted yet again with another note. This one was written on a pink parchment. And he was being invited to the seventh floor. Where he found yet another note, which led him to another spot, and so on until he had spent a few hours going after notes, and finally he got frustrated and was about to head to the Slytherin Common Room when a little owl flew by and dropped another note on his head. He picked up the note and read it: "Wanna join us this weekend for a picnic at the lake?" the note was signed by several people. Lena, Nim, Gwen, Cyndi and Pike. He recognized them, as they were all in his year. But he wondered why would Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors want him to join their picnic? And what was another Slytherin doing by signing this note?
To keep things short, that picnic was the beginning of their friendship.
In their third year at Hogwarts, they met Erika Sirigorn, who was in her second year and she was a Gryffindor. She was on the Quidditch team and had a crush on Sirius Black, who always seemed to be grinning while surrounded by girls. She had a friend, Rianna, who also happened to be her neighbor back at home. They were at the same age, but Rianna was a Ravenclaw. When they were first sorted, both of them were sad to be in different houses, but soon that proved to be effective, as they could share gossips and secrets from each other's house. For some reason, Erika didn't like her name at all. So all of her friends called her Siri, which was short for Sirigorn.
Rianna Potter was the shy one. It took them a while to make her even talk when they were gathered at their favorite spot around the school. The lake was their favorite place to be. Whenever they were free, they would go there. Either as a group, or individually. Rianna liked to spend her time in the Charms classroom. Charms was her favorite class, and she always asked Professor Flitwick for extra homework. Everyone thought that Rianna was mental for asking for extra homework. Even Gwen thought so. Rianna wasn't related to James Potter, although they shared the same last name.
Cory Diggory was on the Gryffindor team, and he was a chaser. He liked being on the team and kept teasing Siri about her crush on Sirius. She always stole the beater club from one of the beaters and chased after Cory. Only once she managed to hit him, and that landed him into the Hospital Wing, where he stayed for more than a week because of a slight loss of memory. And she made sure to remind him of it whenever he attempted teasing her about her crush.
Lena Wolf was the rule breaker. Whenever there was a rule to break, she was the one to be sent to do it. She was also on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. She was one of the beaters. Dense always wondered how Lena managed to hit a bludger at a human when she couldn't hit a fly. Unlike Siri, Lena hated Sirius. She thought that he was an arrogant prat who didn't think of anyone but himself.
This group of friends had a name. They were called the LNMUM (Late Night Mentally Unstable Mouseketeers). Rianna was the one to come up with the name, being a Ravenclaw and all. What inspired the name was one of their late night strollings last year. They were all out at midnight and they managed to sneak out of school and went to the lake. They spent the whole night at the shore, talking and playing games. Slim had suggested that they go skinny dipping into the lake, but got smacked on the head by Gwen, followed by Nim. By dawn, they were all back to their dormitories and no one (except for James Potter) knew that they were out. Cyndi threatened him to tell Lily Evans about how he felt about her if he ever told anyone that he saw the group sneaking in at dawn. Lily Evans was the only name that would make James Potter forget his name.