Edit: Hey Guys, Its Kit, I went back and did some editing, nothing major, just spelling etc. And we changed the ages from 16 to 14.
Isabella Holloway sighed as she walked down the long corridor from the Great Hall, in Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She a was a fourth year Gryffindor, and was on her way back from lunch early. She was headed towards her dorm to lay down before her next class, charms. Bella shivered slightly as a draft went throughout the corridor, it was the middle of October, and Halloween was in two weeks. Suddenly Bella felt herself flying through the air, she barley managed to put her arms in front of her face before she hit the floor.
She bit her lip to hold back a yelp of pain. She laid there stiffly for a minute, before she slowly stood up only, to almost fall back down again. 'Great.' She thought, and slowly moved herself to the wall and slid down against it, and pulled her knees against her chest. Her left knee was already bruised. She grumpily blew a strand of her brown hair away from her eyes. She felt through her pocket for her wand. 'Yes!' She thought happily as she pulled out the eleven inch maple and owl feather.
"Expecto Patronum!" She yelled waving wand in a sharp flick. A silver panther burst from the wand and trotted over to Bella. "Go get Melinda and lead her back here." The panther seemingly nodded and trotted off. Bella nodded herself and pocketed her wand before looking at what tripped her. There on the floor where she just walked the stone floor had lifted. 'But that's impossible. The castle is magic.' She thought, She pulled out her wand again
"Evanesco." She flicked her wand again and 'pop' was heard, and a banner floated up from the stone. 'This prank was brought to you by The Marauders, Mooney, Prongs Wormtail and Padfoot.' Bella's green-brown eyes narrowed in anger.
Melinda Garrett looked up from her 4th year transfiguration textbook to find her best friend, Bella's, patronus coming towards her and put all of her stuff in her bag, and grabbed her wand immediately, because Bella never used a patronus unless something was wrong, and then went off running after Bella's patronus. When Melinda got to Bella she could see Bella curled up and crouched down next to her and asked her what happened. When Bella ground out 'marauders' that was all Mel needed to make her see red.
Once Mel had Bella safely in the hospital wing and Bella was being checked over, Mel went looking for the marauders, and Merlin, they better be ready because they were gonna have hell to pay.
Bella looked up to see her best friend running toward her with a half worried half murderous expression her face. Once Melinda had got her to the hospital wing, and Madame Pomfrey had fretted over her knee and made her take nasty tasting potions, she slumped against the pillows and waited. When Mel found the marauders they were in the library (a shock, and probably the first time there for all except Remus) with Lily, and Mel walked over and half hugged Lily quickly before turning the marauders and looked at them in extreme anger
"Lucy, you got some splainin' to do!" Lily laughed at the quote, knowing what it meant, but then questioned Mel's anger.
"Wait, what did they do, this time?" Mel glared and the boys and turned to Lily,
"Lil, Bella's in the hospital wing because of their pranks!" she screeched as she pointed to them.
Sirius Black wasn't in the best mood, first Remus( his fellow Marauder, Moony) and Lily, James's(Prongs) girlfriend drug him and the other Marauder's to the library of all places to study. Sirius almost gagged at the word, He didn't need to study, he was one of the top ten students after all.
"I bet you ten gallons that Remus becomes the only Marauder Professor, Padfoot." James joked, Sirius gave him a smirk,
"I'll take that bet Prongs." He snickered, he and James did a low high five to seal the deal.
"Uh oh Pads. Here comes Garrett and she looks mad." Sirius turned and James was right, Melinda was storming towards them. She half hugged Evans before turning to the four of them. "Lucy, you got some splainin' to do!" She yelled, well more like shrieked. Lily laughed at the quote but quieted seeing the look on Garrett's face. Sirius looked at her confused,
"What did they do now?" He heard Lily ask.
"Lil, Bella's in the Hospital Wing because of their pranks!" Melinda exploded. Sirius, James and Remus felt themselves pale, they never met for Bella to get that prank. That was met for Malfoy and the snakes. Lily turned and glared at them, her face turning as red as her hair. "Boys!" She snarled. Sirius gulped, "W-we never met for Bella to get that prank!" He stuttered. "You better have a really good apology for her, because you WILL apologize!" Mel screamed at the boys.
"I don't care if it wasn't MEANT for her, but it got her. I don't want to hear excuses; I just want you to apologize. She'll probably forgive before I will, and that's saying something." Mel was on a role. Lily was so angry you could see her actually turn red.
"I can't believe you boys pulled a stunt like that. See, you got someone innocent hurt, and it was one of MY friends, too." Lily pointed at them,
"You will go and apologize right now, even if Mel and I have to hog-tie you and levitate you to her to get you to do it." On the way to the hospital wing the Marauders were trying to get Mel to talk to them, but she remained silent, and only spoke to Lily. Lily on the other hand made the boys feel really guilty the whole way there. Bella had her charms book floating in front of her and a piece of parchment and quill out and was taking notes. She was back in her uniform but still in bed. She looked up as the door opened. She stared at the group for a second before looking at her watch,
"That was quicker then usual." Bella said to Mel and Lily, but smiled at them. The boys just stood there quietly feeling guilty and uncomfortable.
"It was, we figured it would've taken at least 20 minutes longer to get them to feel this guilty." Lily and Bella giggled.
"Seriously though, you guys really need to be more careful, or come up with a way for it only to go off for Mr. High and Mighty. We don't need anybody else getting hurt." The boys shared a glance that showed that they hadn't thought of that at all. Bella laughed, but then quieted and stared at the boys, waiting. The boys glanced at each other and sighed as one.
"Look Bella." James began,
"We're really sorry." Sirius continued,
"We didn't mean for it to hurt you." Remus finished off. Bella looked at them all thoughtfully for a second. "Your forgiven on one condition." The boys gulped, Bella was known to make them do embarrassing things. Bella grinned evilly, and stood up, and gathered her books.
"You have to carry all of our" she motioned to Mel, Lily and herself. "for two months." She finished piling her books on Sirius's arms, ignoring the shock she felt when their hands touched. "That's it?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow. "For now." Bella smirked and turned to the girls, and she limped a little on her left knee but ignored it. Mel, Bella and Lily walked away from the boys laughing evilly at Bella's evil way to punish them. It was time to head down to the Great Hall for dinner, but they were stopped by Mr. High and Mighty himself.
"Hey mudblood, mudblood's friends, I was just talking to my friends," he pointed to the three Slytherins behind him "That I think it's really quite disgusting the way you *cough* girls run around this school together like you are in some sort of freak show relationship." Bella having heard this, and was already slightly testy because of her sore knee lost her patience and punch it in the face. Malfoy glared at the girls, but ran off grasping his profusely bleeding nose. Bella smirked after him shaking her hand out slightly "That felt good." She nodded to herself before turning around, Lily looked horrified, Mel looked half amused and half proud, and the boys were slack jawed.
"That…." James muttered,
"Was awesome!" Sirius cut him beaming, he ran over to Bella and picked her up and spun her around twice.
"Okay okay, getting dizzy here!" Bella exclaimed half laughing. Sirius still grinning, put her down, Bella gave him a small dizzy smile. "Okay. I need food." She announced before she started down the hall as if nothing just happened. Mel and Lily followed Bella down to dinner,
"You know, you probably shouldn't have done that. You're gonna get a detention if he tattles, which we know he will." Lily told Bella. "I know," Bella whined "but he deserved it!" Mel walked over to Bella and looped arms with her
"He did deserve it. Big time, if you wouldn't have punched him, I would have." Lily looked flabbergasted. Sirius and Remus followed Bella and Mel closely, chatting about the fight and how you could hear Malfoy's nose actually crunch from the impact.
"And besides Lily. Malfoy wont tell he got punched by a Gryffindor girl." Bella said as they all walked in and sat at their house table. Bella and Sirius started piling food on their plates as did the other boys. "Yeah Evans. Malfoy is too proud." He smirked, motioning to the Snake table where Malfoy and his cronies were glaring at them. Mel snorted into her food and then smirked at Lily, they were going to have fun picking on Bella when they got back to the dorms. Lily grinned behind her book, slapping James when he took a fourth helping of pudding. "Seriously James, if you eat anymore you're going to explode, and I'm not sticking around to clean up the mess."
When dinner was finished she, Lily, and Bella all went up to the dorms, and as soon as they were out of earshot of the boys they mercilessly teased Bella to no end. "Guuuys! Stop." Bella whined, "What about you Lil? You just say no to James so he'll keep trying, and I know Mel blushed when Remus looks at her, when he thinks she doesn't notice." Bella teased them back as they entered their dorm. Bella waved to Marlene Warren before entering the bathroom and changing out of her uniform. She waved her wand over her bad, casting a warming charm before getting into it.
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