~Hello all!
I'm trying my first multiple chapter story, my first fanfic being a one chapter long story-very long may I add. Anyway to get to the point of my little author's note I'll just introduce it a little.
My idea for this story came from the books 'The Princess Diaries' by Meg Carot (Carbot?). It isn't a cross over, so never fear if you haven't read the Princess Diaries books or even seen the movie but it does have some likeness to the books. I will put in diary entries but only a little I think at this point in time.
I also just want to let you all know that I have absolutely no knowledge of what the French government is really like as I'm Australian and haven't done my research, so I'm sorry if I get things wrong but this is fantasy so just ROLL with it.
Again, I'm Australian, so my characters do not talk the British lingo as much as I would like. But I think you can all deal with that, right?
Finally, I just want to say that I hope you enjoy. I do have other chapters ready to be posted but they might not be posted depending on the feedback I get for this fic. Please review and be honest!
Emily Paige~
James Potter was an 'A class' bastard to say the least. He had a HUGE reputation as a womaniser, jerk and bully. For some reason though, that did not stop the steady flow of girls flocking to him like sheep. Even after they had been dumped and used, they still fawned over him!
Maybe it was the fact that he was tall with dark messy hair and warm chocolate brown eyes that seduced each and almost every girl or maybe it was the fact that when he played Quidditch he took his shirt off despite his big audience. Who knows? One thing for sure was that, James Potter was the hottest, most popular boy in school.
And for those reasons… Lily despised him.
"As always, this is as good as it's going to get," Lily sighed in frustration and gave her chubby reflection a look of pure revulsion and stalked out of the bathroom with the door slamming behind her.
"Alright Lily?" Sybony Clearwater asked with raised brows. She was slumped on the bed with her dark brown hair falling in her face as she read an article in Witch Weekly. Sybony Clearwater was tall and thin, and willowy. She had long thick wavy dark brown hair and misty grey eyes.
"Yeah, fine." Lily replied shortly.
Sybony shrugged and didn't press the matter. She was too used to Lily's antics in front of the mirror to bother anymore. "Lily- GOSH! You've got to read this article!" She scrambled into a sitting position and patted the bed for Lily to join her. Lily crossed her legs underneath her as Sybony pressed the article in her face. "Read." Sybony insisted.
Lily sighed and read allowed, "Her majesty Queen Clarice of France, after many years of search, is coming to England with desperate and hopeful eyes."
"Keep going." Sybony poked Lily in the side.
"Ouch, watch the flub!" Lily 'hmphed' and rubbed her aching side and continued reading: "Queen Clarice lost her daughter, Princess Bianca and son-in-law Prince Claude to a car crash in 1990 and to further the Queen's turmoil, her granddaughter, Princess Chalize-Louise was kidnapped on the eve of her 2nd Birthday and never seen again." Lily put down the magazine and narrowed her eyes at Sybony. "It sounds like one big sob story to me."
"Are you pms-ing?" Sybony asked raising one eyebrow delicately. Lily refrained from answering. "Lily, if you read on you'd see what I'm getting at."
"Why can't you just tell me already!"
"FINE. Chill already. Queen Clarice is coming to England to search for her granddaughter."
"Your point?"
"She's visiting both wizarding and muggle schools in OUR age group." Sybony bounced slightly on the bed. "MEANING," Sybony drew out. "That she'll be coming to Hogwarts, HOGWARTS!"
"I figured," Lily said dryly.
"Li-lee," Sybony whined. "This is royalty we're talking about! Can't you at least pretend to be excited?"
"No."
Sybony sighed in frustration and threw her hands up in the air in disgust. "THIS IS BIG!" She enthused. "Princess Chalize-Louise Adiva Francis could be walking around the castle right now! All this time!"
"You know her full name?" Lily asked incredulously.
"Shut up!"
Lily giggled and rolled her eyes. "Princess Chalize-Louise is most definitely dead!"
"And how do you figure that? Huh?" Sybony asked, scowling.
"The kidnappers were probably terrorists, muggle or wizarding it doesn't matter. They just wanted to one up the French Ministry."
"Uhuh?" Sybony gave Lily a blank stare.
"Well its more probable than your theory!" Lily snapped. Sybony shook her head with a grin and grabbed Lily and dragged her off the bed.
"Come on grumpy-bum, let's go have breakfast. I'm STARVED!" Sybony linked her arm with Lily's as they left the common room and entered the Great Hall.
"FATTY!" Someone crowed as Lily and Sybony entered the hall. Lily ignored the comment and Sybony narrowed her eyes at the offender, James Potter. He winked at the pair of them and continued to banish globs of golden syrup at Severus Snape.
"Bully." Sybony muttered as she and Lily took their seats. The mood was different in the hall today, the teacher's seemed tense and had their gazes zeroed on any misbehaviour.
"Why's everyone acting so strangely, do you reckon?" Lily asked as she piled three slices of toast on her plate and spread jam thickly over them. Just as Sybony was about to reply and Lily, about to bite into her toast Professor McGonagall stood with a look on her face more severe than normal. "Jeez! This looks serious, wonder what the marauders did this time…" Lily mumbled between bites, her emerald eyes narrowing at James Potter who had actually stopped his golden syrup assault on Severus Snape. Even HE knew this situation was serious.
"Silence please." McGonagall said in a booming voice that commanded attention. "Headmaster Dumbledore would now like to address you about a matter of importance. I request that you all be completely attentive and any interruptions will not be taken lightly," her gaze narrowed at the marauders, namely Sirius Black and James Potter who both grinned and saluted on cue. McGonagall took her seat and Dumbledore stood and gave the students an intense gaze from behind his half moon glasses.
"Good morning," He said jovially. "I trust you all had early nights?" Dumbledore smiled warmly around the room. "In the case of today, an early night last night will be very beneficial. You will all be extremely excited I predict once I tell you my news, but before then I would like to address something that must be, and I mean must be improved." He paused and locked his sparkling blue eyes on the marauders. "Student behaviour up until recently has been tolerated, from hence it will not be so. Also uniform requirements will be adhered too and school rules. Professor McGonagall will go into much detail in just a moment." He stroked his beard for a moment, letting the students contemplate any possible reasons behind the strictness, "Most of you are probably wondering why school conduct is being enforced, the answer is simple: We have reason to impress. At six o'clock this evening we shall be entertaining Royalty."
He stopped just in time for murmurs of excitement and confusion to break forth and then held up his hand for silence. "Queen Clarice Francis of France is expected to visit. Some of you may well know the story of the French Royals but for those of you whom do not I will give you a brief background into the recent turmoil of Queen Clarice Francis. Her daughter and son-in-law were both killed in a car crash, a muggle contraption, and her granddaughter taken from her and never seen again." Again Dumbledore paused, letting his students take in the news. "Queen Clarice Francis is visiting Hogwarts in hope of finding her missing granddaughter, Princess Chalize-Louise Francis, who should be in her sixth year." Murmurs broke out again, forcing Dumbledore to stop and then start again, "Because the news of the Queen's arrival was only received late last night, Hogwarts is ill-prepared for her arrival. Mr Filch, though, has kindly organised cleaning groups for the castle…" Dumbledore then sat as Filch barked out orders for the different year levels.
"OH MY GOSH!" Sybony squealed immediately and jumped up out of her seat with an indignant expression on her face, "How can they make us clean, CLEAN, the castle when Royalty is coming? ROYALTY!" She screeched. "This is unbelievable, we need to pamper and prune not clean!"
"Definitely prune! Those eyebrows Clearwater, tut tut." James Potter interrupted breezily as he passed by a girl under his arm. Sybony bit her lip.
"Ignore him Sybony. He's a dick and your eyebrows are fine. You're fine!" Lily hugged her friend and Sybony smiled weakly. The two of them walked off to Professor Flitwick who has been assigned to supervise the 6th years. The short professor was levitating in the air due to his inability to see over the crowds of students and was squeaking out orders in a high-pitched voice, "Slytherin: third floor charms and transfiguration classrooms. Ravenclaw: bathrooms on the third floor." The Ravenclaws groaned and glared at their house head. "Gryffindor: Third floor Muggle Studies and History of Magic classrooms…"
"Thank Merlin we didn't get the bathrooms!" Sybony gushed as they followed their fellow Gryffindors out of the Great Hall and up the staircases.
"Tell me about it!" Lily agreed. "Especially with the burst water main in the boys bathroom!"
"Yuck!"
They entered the Muggle Studies classroom and headed over to the windows where cleaning materials lay on the ground and some instructions were left about some useful cleaning charms. Five minutes later and the charms were very unsuccessful. Sybony scowled as she cast another unsuccessful cleaning charm at a window. "Aargh!" She crossed her arms frustrated. "Cleaning so bites!"
"Yeah, and this cleaning fluid is making my head woozy…" Lily agreed as she floated a bucket of suds over towards them. Suddenly out of the corner of her eye a sponge came flying. Lily ducked, narrowly missing the flying sponge and turned to watch it fly straight at Tabitha May's head. Tabitha screamed loudly and glared in the direction from whence it came.
"HEY!" She screeched and cast a drying charm. "Who did that?"
Lily stood to her feet and looked in the direction of the Marauders, who were frowning, obviously upset by their miss.
"DAMN IT JAMES!" Sirius cursed, "How could you miss? There's so much of her to hit…" he trailed off, suddenly realising he had an audience.
"Dick head." Lily spat and glared hatefully at her tormentors. To her merit, James actually looked a bit shocked at the intensity of her glare.
"I'll second that!" Tabitha agreed, shocking people. Tabitha was renowned as a Potter and Black fan and had dated both boys numerous times. Tanned, tall and blonde, she was stereotypically good-looking. "Grow up." She hissed. "Lily is twice the person you two will ever be!"
But alas that was the wrong thing for Tabitha to say even though she was defending Lily. Everyone burst out into raucous laughter as James yelled, "I'll second that!"
END CHAPTER 1
