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Disclaimer: Very simple. What you do recognize is not mine. That belongs to JK Rowling. What you do not recognize is mine.
Now on with the story!!!
Chapter 1: Screams and Introductions.
Sandry Anderson was a sixth year student at one of the most well known schools of magic, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was packing a few last minute things into a small backpack. She had grabbed two of her new school textbooks, a small notebook, and another book with a blue cloth cover and something in another language written on the cover. She pulled the bag shut and put it by her door. She took a look around her room.
"Did I forget anything?" she asked her dog who was looking at her from her bed, "What are you looking at?" She stared her dog in the face. Sandry sighed and fell back on to her bed, scaring her dog off it. A few minutes went by of her just staring at her ceiling when an owl tapped at her window. She pulled herself up off of her bed mumbling something about the postal service and let the owl in. It dropped the letter on the floor and flew off again.
"Yeah, thanks for letting me reply!" she yelled to it and then she shut her window. "Okay, then, lets see..." She opened the letter. Her eyes darted over the parchment as she read. "Cool, very cool," she said when she finished. "Dad!" she ran down the stairs. When she got downstairs her father was on the phone.
"Yes of course...no problem...yes, send them over. Good-bye." He hung up and sighed.
"Dad, what's up?"
"Lily and Petunia are going to be staying with us for a while, Sandry."
"Why?"
"Your Grandfather is in the hospital," he said before walking away into the living room.
"Oh my gosh..." Sandry said, tears that refused to fall welling up in her eyes.
~*~
"Petty? Please, talk to me," Lily Evans asked her sister. "Come on please?"
"Girls, we're here." The car had stopped in front of a two story house. Both girls got out.
Lily went to the trunk and pulled out two suitcases and a trunk with L.E. carved on one end. Petunia grabbed the suitcases and walked up to the house, followed by Lily, who was dragging the trunk. By the time Lily got to the door, Petunia had already rung the bell. A young boy with dark brown hair and blue eyes answered. He looked about seventeen or
eighteen.
"Lily, Petunia, hi! Come on in," he said cheerfully. "How are you?"
"We're just fine, Seth, just fine," Petunia said, not making eye contact.
"Well, Dad and Sandry are in the living room."
"Jimmy-boy!" They heard Sandry's voice float through the hallway, "How did you learn to do that? I thought we weren't supposed to learn apparation until we graduate."
"DO NOT CALL ME 'JIMMY-BOY!' another voice said, "and I'm not apparating, this is just the effect when you only stick your head in while you use Floo Powder."
"Oh. I should have figured that, but how am I supposed to know that with out Lils here?"
"You aren't." The group entered to see quite a site. Sandry was sitting in front of the fire place having a conversation with what looked like a head.
Petunia screamed and Lily ran over and said, "Hey, James."
"Hi, Lily," he said, smiling at her. "Why don't you come with Sandry? Well, I've got to go now. See you when I see you!" And James's head disappeared.
"Go with you where?" Lily asked raising an eyebrow at Sandry.
"Come with me to James' house in a couple of days."
"But term starts on Wednesday."
"And we'd go on Tuesday."
"But that's tomorrow."
"Yeah, so? We had better make sure we're packed!" Sandry sprinted up the stairs.
~*~
"We all know you like her, James," Sirius Black said to his best friend, punching his shoulder.
"No, I don't! Not like that, anyway," said James.
"You know, James," said a new voice at the door. They all turned to see Sandry Anderson standing in the doorway. "The way you deny it, it almost makes it sound believable," she said, hiding a smirk.
"Hello to you too, Sandry," said James.
"Howdy."
"Hello, Sandry." Sirius said smiling.
"Hello, everyone." Lily said standing behind Sandry.
"Lily, hi."
Suddenly, Remus started laughing. Everyone turned except Sirius, who was sneaking up on Sandry, but, since she turned around, he hit the bottom half of her hair with the water balloon he was holding. It really wasn't filled with water.
"SIRIUS BLACK! HOW DARE YOU!" she yelled causing James's mom to come running up the stairs. "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"What's going on in here?" Mrs. Potter asked, hands on her hips, when she saw the state of Sandry and Sirius. "Did I come at a bad time?"
"N-no, Mum. Sirius just popped a water balloon on Sandry's back. Nothing big," James lied.
"Okay, I'll call you when dinner is ready." She turned and left.
"Nothing big?" Sandry asked. "Nothing big my ass, James Potter. My hair is now the color of burnt chocolate!" Sandry grabbed a pillow and chucked it at Sirius. You could barely hear his reply because the pillow muffled it.
"Pillow Fight!"
When Mrs. Potter called them down to dinner they all looked like- "I look like a duck!" Lily said, desperately trying to pull the down off of her clothes.
"Well, at least you still have red hair," Sandry said sulkily.
"Sandry, your hair wasn't truly red anyway," said Lily. She looked at Sandry pointedly.
"Kids, I- Oh my..." Mrs. Potter stood at the door and looked at the down covered kids. Taking out her wand,she said a few words and all of them were clean, including Sandry's
hair. "Now, would you all please come down to dinner."
They all walked down the stairs and took a seat at the Potter's large dinningroom table.
As soon as dinner was over, they all headed back up to James's room with a warning from his mom ("I do not want to find you all covered with down next time I come up there!"). All of them sat down on the floor, and Sirius, Sandry, and James started to laugh.
"T-that was s-so funny!" Sirius managed to get out in between giggles.
"Y-yeah!" Sandry chimed in, "Your p-parents-"
"...Are going to flip, James." A girl their age stood at the door with her hands on her hips.
"I saw what you did and I almost told them." She stood there with her glare fixed on James.
"Aw, Carolina you're no fun," he said with mock-pouting to go along with it.
"Never said I was any. Now if you do something like that again, I am going to tell them! Do you understand me?" James nodded and she left.
"Well, I guess that means no more tricks at-" Remus started, but he was cut off by a scream.
"JAMES AARON POTTER! GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!"
"Oh, I feel bad for you, Potter."
"Yeah James."
"What are you talking about, Sandry? You're coming with me!"
"I am not!" Sandry said, shaking her head. Then James grabbed one of her hands and pulled her to her feet. "Damn," she muttered as he dragged her out of the room, Sirius close behind.
"Sandry! I feel bad for you!" Lily called as she disappeared down the stairs.
"Yeah right!"
By the time they got down stairs, James' mom was a little less angry. "James! What in Merlin's name did you do?" She said getting up and pointing at the now blue kitchen, "No never mind. I don't want to know! Just go back up stairs!"
"Okay!" James ran up the stairs.
"Well, he sure doesn't want her to change her mind, huh?" Sandry asked Sirius before heading up herself with Sirius close behind her.
"Yeah."
~*~
The next morning everyone ate a rushed breakfast. Before anyone realized it, they were heading for Platform Nine and Three Quarters. When they got there, they went through the barrier by twos to save time, which was in vain because they were very early. Finding a compartment, they put their stuff in the luggage holders and then went to find their other friends. By the time everyone got back to the compartment, they all were very happy. Sandry was lost in the new Transfiguration textbook, Sirius and Remus were playing chess, Lily was reading a muggle book, and James was watching Sirius and Remus play chess.
"Very interesting life you all lead," said an unknown voice a few minutes later. It startled Sandry and Lily out of their books, Remus, James, and Sirius, however, didn't look up from their game.
"Who are you?" Sandry asked, looking at the disrupter.
"My name is Kendra Williston. Who are you?" The girl asked, smiling.
"I'm Lily Evans."
"Sandry Anderson."
"And those boys over there are Sirius Black, James Potter, and Remus Lupin," Lily added, pointing at each boy in turn.
"Are you new?" Sandry asked, putting her Transfiguration book on the seat next to her.
"Yeah, I transferred from France," Kendra said, sitting down next to Lily.
"Your English is pretty good."
"Oh, my mom and dad are English, so,we really don't speak French in my house."
"Do you know French?" Sandry asked Kendra.
"Well, yes I do wh-"
"Checkmate!" Sirius yelled, cutting Kendra off. Sirius and Remus put the chess set away, and then turned to Kendra.
"Who are you, milady?" Sirius asked bowing, "Sirius Black, at your service."
Kendra fought back a giggle as Sirius kissed her hand. "I'm Kendra Williston." Suddenly
Kendra burst out laughing along with James and Lily. Remus was trying (and failing miserably) to hold his laughter back. Sirius looked up strangely at Kendra, and then at the rest of the compartment. It seemed that everyone was laughing except Sandry who was smirking.
"Sandry, why's everyone laughing?" Sirius asked with a worried expression on his face.
"Oh, don't worry, Sirius. It'll reverse in say two point five hours," she said, laughter
replacing the smirk.
"Sandry!" Sirius whined, "What happened?"
"Here, Sirius, look at yourself," Kendra said, holding out a mirror for him to take. Sirius took one look at himself and saw that he had bright blue teeth and bright yellow hair. He turned to Sandry who took cover behind her book.
"Sirius, before you hurt me, I just want to let you know that this was payback."
"Payback?! Payback for what?" he screamed.
"Hmm...lets see, don't you remember? Last day of the year, train ride home. Little Bo Peep!" Sandry screamed the last part at him. When she regained her posture, she sat back down and tried to pick up her conversation with Kendra. "So I was wondering, Kendra,
can you teach me a little French?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Sandry, please, please, please, take it off? At least the blue teeth..."
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"NO, BLACK! IT'S NOT COMING OFF!" Sandry yelled.
"Why not?" Sirius whined, looking at her with his puppy-dog face.
"Because, the teeth are irreversible," she explained, looking him straight in the eyes. "And the puppy-dog face doesn't work on me, Sirius," she said before she opened her Transfiguration book again. Sirius sulkily walked back to his seat. When he sat down, the teeth changed back. Everyone looked up to see a smiling Sandry.
"Sorry. I'm not that good at playing pranks on my own friends," she said shrugging it off.
"I thought you said-"
"Sirius, you've known me for what, five years? And you still don't know that I like to lie?" she asked raising her eyebrows. All of a sudden, a voice was heard through the train. "We will soon be reaching Hogwarts. Please leave any luggage on the train, as it will be taken to the school separately. Thank you." The train was slowing down. The Marauders, Lily, Sandry, and Kendra were all either packing the last of their stuff away or stuffing the ride's candy into their pockets. Finally, the train stopped.
A/N: Well, there you have it! I'll have the second chapter up ASAP. I promise. Thanks Kristin for beta-reading this. Well what are you reading this for? Go review!! Thanks!!
-Mira
and Review!!!
Disclaimer: Very simple. What you do recognize is not mine. That belongs to JK Rowling. What you do not recognize is mine.
Now on with the story!!!
Chapter 1: Screams and Introductions.
Sandry Anderson was a sixth year student at one of the most well known schools of magic, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was packing a few last minute things into a small backpack. She had grabbed two of her new school textbooks, a small notebook, and another book with a blue cloth cover and something in another language written on the cover. She pulled the bag shut and put it by her door. She took a look around her room.
"Did I forget anything?" she asked her dog who was looking at her from her bed, "What are you looking at?" She stared her dog in the face. Sandry sighed and fell back on to her bed, scaring her dog off it. A few minutes went by of her just staring at her ceiling when an owl tapped at her window. She pulled herself up off of her bed mumbling something about the postal service and let the owl in. It dropped the letter on the floor and flew off again.
"Yeah, thanks for letting me reply!" she yelled to it and then she shut her window. "Okay, then, lets see..." She opened the letter. Her eyes darted over the parchment as she read. "Cool, very cool," she said when she finished. "Dad!" she ran down the stairs. When she got downstairs her father was on the phone.
"Yes of course...no problem...yes, send them over. Good-bye." He hung up and sighed.
"Dad, what's up?"
"Lily and Petunia are going to be staying with us for a while, Sandry."
"Why?"
"Your Grandfather is in the hospital," he said before walking away into the living room.
"Oh my gosh..." Sandry said, tears that refused to fall welling up in her eyes.
~*~
"Petty? Please, talk to me," Lily Evans asked her sister. "Come on please?"
"Girls, we're here." The car had stopped in front of a two story house. Both girls got out.
Lily went to the trunk and pulled out two suitcases and a trunk with L.E. carved on one end. Petunia grabbed the suitcases and walked up to the house, followed by Lily, who was dragging the trunk. By the time Lily got to the door, Petunia had already rung the bell. A young boy with dark brown hair and blue eyes answered. He looked about seventeen or
eighteen.
"Lily, Petunia, hi! Come on in," he said cheerfully. "How are you?"
"We're just fine, Seth, just fine," Petunia said, not making eye contact.
"Well, Dad and Sandry are in the living room."
"Jimmy-boy!" They heard Sandry's voice float through the hallway, "How did you learn to do that? I thought we weren't supposed to learn apparation until we graduate."
"DO NOT CALL ME 'JIMMY-BOY!' another voice said, "and I'm not apparating, this is just the effect when you only stick your head in while you use Floo Powder."
"Oh. I should have figured that, but how am I supposed to know that with out Lils here?"
"You aren't." The group entered to see quite a site. Sandry was sitting in front of the fire place having a conversation with what looked like a head.
Petunia screamed and Lily ran over and said, "Hey, James."
"Hi, Lily," he said, smiling at her. "Why don't you come with Sandry? Well, I've got to go now. See you when I see you!" And James's head disappeared.
"Go with you where?" Lily asked raising an eyebrow at Sandry.
"Come with me to James' house in a couple of days."
"But term starts on Wednesday."
"And we'd go on Tuesday."
"But that's tomorrow."
"Yeah, so? We had better make sure we're packed!" Sandry sprinted up the stairs.
~*~
"We all know you like her, James," Sirius Black said to his best friend, punching his shoulder.
"No, I don't! Not like that, anyway," said James.
"You know, James," said a new voice at the door. They all turned to see Sandry Anderson standing in the doorway. "The way you deny it, it almost makes it sound believable," she said, hiding a smirk.
"Hello to you too, Sandry," said James.
"Howdy."
"Hello, Sandry." Sirius said smiling.
"Hello, everyone." Lily said standing behind Sandry.
"Lily, hi."
Suddenly, Remus started laughing. Everyone turned except Sirius, who was sneaking up on Sandry, but, since she turned around, he hit the bottom half of her hair with the water balloon he was holding. It really wasn't filled with water.
"SIRIUS BLACK! HOW DARE YOU!" she yelled causing James's mom to come running up the stairs. "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"What's going on in here?" Mrs. Potter asked, hands on her hips, when she saw the state of Sandry and Sirius. "Did I come at a bad time?"
"N-no, Mum. Sirius just popped a water balloon on Sandry's back. Nothing big," James lied.
"Okay, I'll call you when dinner is ready." She turned and left.
"Nothing big?" Sandry asked. "Nothing big my ass, James Potter. My hair is now the color of burnt chocolate!" Sandry grabbed a pillow and chucked it at Sirius. You could barely hear his reply because the pillow muffled it.
"Pillow Fight!"
When Mrs. Potter called them down to dinner they all looked like- "I look like a duck!" Lily said, desperately trying to pull the down off of her clothes.
"Well, at least you still have red hair," Sandry said sulkily.
"Sandry, your hair wasn't truly red anyway," said Lily. She looked at Sandry pointedly.
"Kids, I- Oh my..." Mrs. Potter stood at the door and looked at the down covered kids. Taking out her wand,she said a few words and all of them were clean, including Sandry's
hair. "Now, would you all please come down to dinner."
They all walked down the stairs and took a seat at the Potter's large dinningroom table.
As soon as dinner was over, they all headed back up to James's room with a warning from his mom ("I do not want to find you all covered with down next time I come up there!"). All of them sat down on the floor, and Sirius, Sandry, and James started to laugh.
"T-that was s-so funny!" Sirius managed to get out in between giggles.
"Y-yeah!" Sandry chimed in, "Your p-parents-"
"...Are going to flip, James." A girl their age stood at the door with her hands on her hips.
"I saw what you did and I almost told them." She stood there with her glare fixed on James.
"Aw, Carolina you're no fun," he said with mock-pouting to go along with it.
"Never said I was any. Now if you do something like that again, I am going to tell them! Do you understand me?" James nodded and she left.
"Well, I guess that means no more tricks at-" Remus started, but he was cut off by a scream.
"JAMES AARON POTTER! GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!"
"Oh, I feel bad for you, Potter."
"Yeah James."
"What are you talking about, Sandry? You're coming with me!"
"I am not!" Sandry said, shaking her head. Then James grabbed one of her hands and pulled her to her feet. "Damn," she muttered as he dragged her out of the room, Sirius close behind.
"Sandry! I feel bad for you!" Lily called as she disappeared down the stairs.
"Yeah right!"
By the time they got down stairs, James' mom was a little less angry. "James! What in Merlin's name did you do?" She said getting up and pointing at the now blue kitchen, "No never mind. I don't want to know! Just go back up stairs!"
"Okay!" James ran up the stairs.
"Well, he sure doesn't want her to change her mind, huh?" Sandry asked Sirius before heading up herself with Sirius close behind her.
"Yeah."
~*~
The next morning everyone ate a rushed breakfast. Before anyone realized it, they were heading for Platform Nine and Three Quarters. When they got there, they went through the barrier by twos to save time, which was in vain because they were very early. Finding a compartment, they put their stuff in the luggage holders and then went to find their other friends. By the time everyone got back to the compartment, they all were very happy. Sandry was lost in the new Transfiguration textbook, Sirius and Remus were playing chess, Lily was reading a muggle book, and James was watching Sirius and Remus play chess.
"Very interesting life you all lead," said an unknown voice a few minutes later. It startled Sandry and Lily out of their books, Remus, James, and Sirius, however, didn't look up from their game.
"Who are you?" Sandry asked, looking at the disrupter.
"My name is Kendra Williston. Who are you?" The girl asked, smiling.
"I'm Lily Evans."
"Sandry Anderson."
"And those boys over there are Sirius Black, James Potter, and Remus Lupin," Lily added, pointing at each boy in turn.
"Are you new?" Sandry asked, putting her Transfiguration book on the seat next to her.
"Yeah, I transferred from France," Kendra said, sitting down next to Lily.
"Your English is pretty good."
"Oh, my mom and dad are English, so,we really don't speak French in my house."
"Do you know French?" Sandry asked Kendra.
"Well, yes I do wh-"
"Checkmate!" Sirius yelled, cutting Kendra off. Sirius and Remus put the chess set away, and then turned to Kendra.
"Who are you, milady?" Sirius asked bowing, "Sirius Black, at your service."
Kendra fought back a giggle as Sirius kissed her hand. "I'm Kendra Williston." Suddenly
Kendra burst out laughing along with James and Lily. Remus was trying (and failing miserably) to hold his laughter back. Sirius looked up strangely at Kendra, and then at the rest of the compartment. It seemed that everyone was laughing except Sandry who was smirking.
"Sandry, why's everyone laughing?" Sirius asked with a worried expression on his face.
"Oh, don't worry, Sirius. It'll reverse in say two point five hours," she said, laughter
replacing the smirk.
"Sandry!" Sirius whined, "What happened?"
"Here, Sirius, look at yourself," Kendra said, holding out a mirror for him to take. Sirius took one look at himself and saw that he had bright blue teeth and bright yellow hair. He turned to Sandry who took cover behind her book.
"Sirius, before you hurt me, I just want to let you know that this was payback."
"Payback?! Payback for what?" he screamed.
"Hmm...lets see, don't you remember? Last day of the year, train ride home. Little Bo Peep!" Sandry screamed the last part at him. When she regained her posture, she sat back down and tried to pick up her conversation with Kendra. "So I was wondering, Kendra,
can you teach me a little French?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Sandry, please, please, please, take it off? At least the blue teeth..."
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"No."
"Please"
"NO, BLACK! IT'S NOT COMING OFF!" Sandry yelled.
"Why not?" Sirius whined, looking at her with his puppy-dog face.
"Because, the teeth are irreversible," she explained, looking him straight in the eyes. "And the puppy-dog face doesn't work on me, Sirius," she said before she opened her Transfiguration book again. Sirius sulkily walked back to his seat. When he sat down, the teeth changed back. Everyone looked up to see a smiling Sandry.
"Sorry. I'm not that good at playing pranks on my own friends," she said shrugging it off.
"I thought you said-"
"Sirius, you've known me for what, five years? And you still don't know that I like to lie?" she asked raising her eyebrows. All of a sudden, a voice was heard through the train. "We will soon be reaching Hogwarts. Please leave any luggage on the train, as it will be taken to the school separately. Thank you." The train was slowing down. The Marauders, Lily, Sandry, and Kendra were all either packing the last of their stuff away or stuffing the ride's candy into their pockets. Finally, the train stopped.
A/N: Well, there you have it! I'll have the second chapter up ASAP. I promise. Thanks Kristin for beta-reading this. Well what are you reading this for? Go review!! Thanks!!
-Mira