Lily, Penny, and Marchelle are best friends, but definitely not at the top of the food chain at Hogwarts. They prefer it this way though, hiding behind their thick over sized glasses, and mountains of books. They're the nerds of the schools, and are therefore practically nonexistent. When the most popular group of guys catches them without their glasses on one time though, they discover that nerds just might be hotter, and more fun, than the sluts they usually hang out with.
Well, let's hope I can write this better than I did the last one. I do not own Harry Potter, enjoy!
Nerds are Hotter
"Ha ha ha!" three girls quickly ducked behind a tapestry.
"Did you see their faces?" one girl with enlarged chestnut colored eyes, and hair the color of dried corn silk asked through her laughter.
"They were like what?" another black girl with silver eyes and black hair that had a purple sheen to it said.
"They have to know it was us now," the third said. She had dark red hair and dark green eyes that sparkled with a mischievous air to them. "I mean, we looked right at them and smiled."
"Yeah, they know we're the ones who've been constantly pulling pranks on them for the past two months," the first girl said cocking her hip to the side and placing a hand on it.
"Gosh, they're such idiots though, right?" the black girl asked.
"Maybe we can finally get them to leave us alone now," the dark red haired girl said inspecting her nails.
"Well, if not, we can always go with plan B," the first girl said pursing her lips as if the idea annoyed her.
"Well, let's just see how they respond to it first, and then we'll decide."
Wait, hold up, and freeze. You're probably baffled right now. What did they just do? And to whom? Who are these girls? Who are they talking about? Let's go back two months and get you caught up. Let's go back to the day it all started…
[Two months ago]
"Lily! Come on! We already missed breakfast, are you trying to make us late to class too?" a black girl asked a dark red haired one.
"I'm sorry, Penny, but those snotty girls thought it would be fun to put all of my clothes in the shower. I still want to know why my stupid fellow Head, Potter, let them into our private commons in the first place," she said running after her as she tried to dry her clothes, juggle her book bag, and comb her hair all at once.
"Give them detention?" a girl with chestnut colored eyes asked as she tried to help her dry her clothes.
"I tried, but Potter just bailed them out," she said as she gave up on her hair and just put it into a ponytail instead.
"Uh!"
"I know, right? No matter though, Ravenclaw simply lost a secret 50 points last night…each."
"No Hufflepuffs?"
"You know they're not bright enough to pull off something like that, Marchelle."
"This is true," the chestnut eyed girl said.
"So, how many points was it?" Penny asked as they filed into their first class, charms, and slipped into seats in the back.
"200." Lily whispered.
"Crime fits the punishment," she smirked.
All three did a small thumb war under the table, before settling down and listening to the teacher. All three were perfect angels in the eyes of all the Professors at their school of magic. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Lily Evans was in the middle, the dark haired girl we met before, and the brightest of the group, despite being a Muggleborn. This meant that her Mother and Father were Muggles, non-magic folk. To her left was Penny Yoru, of Japanese and English decent, and could speak both languages fluently. She was the most devious of the group, black, and people often teased her about being an inside out Oreo when smashed between her two best friends. She would send random bits of magic their way until the comments stopped. Needless to say, no one had called her such since first year. Last was Marchelle Silvoski on the other side of Lily. She was a Metamorphagus, and people tended to avoid her for that. Not her best friends though, they often encouraged her to use her gift, just to get a light laugh out of the day when they were feeling particularly down. She was the crafty one, turning what could be a usual prank into a highly unusual one. Like when Martha Fibbins told her that freaks of nature didn't belong in a school of beautiful people. She took a simple charm of eating slugs and turned it into burping butterflies. She still did sometimes too, because even the healers at St. Mungo's couldn't find a way to lift the spell entirely.
They were known throughout the school as the ugly nerds. They didn't mind though, let people believe what they wanted. They already knew that if they took off their thick wire rimmed glasses that enlarged their eyes to twice their original size, and traded out their clothes for ones that actually fit their bodies, they would be noticed for more than just their brains. They would be noticed for their beauty too. They liked to live under the radar though, so the chances of them being caught with their glasses off and clothes that fit was like trying to understand a merperson above water. Near impossible.
Everyone in the school also knew they weren't angels, they could out prank the Marauders any day. The hottest and most popular guys loathed them for this fact, but even they couldn't deny it. The three of them together were brilliant, devious, and crafty, a highly dangerous combination. One of the Marauders was currently glaring across the room at the dark red head. She could feel his eyes plowing into her forehead. Most likely one of his personal sluts told him about what she whispered in her ear as she left the common room last night.
Discreetly she took out her wand, looked down at him and flicked her wand. She put it back, and went back to taking notes. A second later Potter, and her fellow Head, jumped five feet into the air yelling in pain, startling everyone.
"Mr. Potter, is something wrong?" Professor Flitwick asked looking at him from atop his pile of books.
"No, Professor, nothing," Potter said shaking his head as he rubbed his behind looking down at the seat of his chair. Or rather what had been the seat of his chair. A Porcupine now sat there looking up at him innocently. He took out his wand and transfigured it back into his chair, and sat down. A sandy blonde leaned towards him and asked him something. Potter nodded towards Lily who smirked back at him, before going back to her note taking.
This was another thing. These girls weren't afraid to take on the Marauders. Everyone else was afraid of their brilliant pranking schemes, but they were more frightened of the nerds. As they had proven in their third year, they weren't going to be intimidated. Nor did they back down from a challenge. So when they sent little curses at the Marauders, they hardly ever retaliated, especially after blowing up an entire corridor in their determination to repay them for a prank that had them ill for days. While the girls had never been caught, the boys had nearly gotten themselves expelled for fellow student endangerment, destruction of property, and misuse of magic. It was only on the good graces of the girls that they hadn't been. They had always kept this to themselves though. It would be good for blackmail one day. Instead they had detention for the rest for the year, which was only four months, but hey, the deed needed to be repented.
"Was that you?" Marchelle whispered without taking her eyes of her parchment.
"Of course. He shouldn't stare at my ugliness too long, he might burn his eyes." Lily whispered back.
"Heh."
They did a thumb war under the table, and then continued on like nothing big had just happened.
It was only after the class, and on their way to their next one that their trouble began. Potter and the rest of his gang were waiting outside the classroom for them. He pushed off the wall and stepped up to her side.
"If I let you give them detention for a harmless prank, will you give them back their 200 hundred points?" he asked bluntly.
"Of course," she answered stowing her books in her bag.
"Fine, they'll serve it tonight."
"I was thinking Friday actually."
"No, we do strip poker on Fridays. You know that!"
"I do, and it's a rather disturbing sight."
"Well, we'd ask you to join us, but no one wants to see that," Black jumped in. He had dark brown hair that fell lazily in his eyes, with grey smoky eyes. Apparently he was a heartthrob, but most called him a heartbreaker. He'd been through more girls than he probably had condoms in his drawer.
"Black, you don't have enough money in your family inheritance to get me to strip. Oh that's right, you were disowned, so you don't have any money. Guess you'll never see me nude."
"Wouldn't want to anyway."
"Hm, that's my terms Potter, Friday or nothing."
"Nothing than! I'm not giving up my fun poker night just because you want to be a prude!"
"Suit yourself," Lily made a pouting lip at him. "It's not my slut that'll be upset that you couldn't fix the problem she created for her house."
"How about Saturday?"
"No, Friday."
"Evans."
"Potter."
"Fine! Have it your way! Friday!" Potter shouted throwing his hands in the air before stomping off.
"I always do," Lily called after him waving.
"So, 200 points to Ravenclaw?" Marchelle asked as a rather large group of them were passing them by discussing their odd house point situation.
"Sounds good to me," Penny smiled as they stopped, well more of froze, and turned towards them.
"Ha ha, Sarah Gusters is going to be so happy when she finds out her boy toy got her out of trouble," Lily smiled pulling out a small blackboard. On it were the names of all the houses. Right now Ravenclaw had a negative of 185 points. Gryffindor had 35, Hufflepuff 25, and Slytherin had 30. Potter probably would have fixed Ravenclaws problem himself, if his blackboard hadn't gone missing this morning. She added 200 points to Ravenclaw giving them a total of 15 points.
"Hm, I suppose they couldn't figure why they should try to get points when it wasn't showing in the hourglass," Penny frowned.
"It looks that way, doesn't it?"
"Are you going to return Potter's?" Marchelle asked.
"Of course, gonna hang it on his door," Lily said shoving her own blackboard back in her book bag.
"You know, he never denied the fact that she was his slut," Penny said aloud.
"Hmm, I wonder how Sarah would take that?" Lily asked her eyes glittering.
"Save it," Marchelle suggested as they headed to their next class.
"Whatever for?"
"When they're snogging in the common room tonight."
"I love the way you think. She'll probably leave without sex."
"Which means a quiet night for you."
"Mm-hm."
"I thought I was supposed to be the devious one?" Penny questioned.
"Apparently we've been hanging out too long," Marchelle said with a mock serious look.
"Perhaps we should take a break from one another."
"Sounds good."
"No!" Lily clutched both of their arms to her chest. "I can't lose my two best friends. I'll never survive this hell hole, I just know it," she proclaimed dramatically.
"She's right, she won't."
"I know she's completely lost without us."
"Alright, we'll stay."
"But only for you, Lily."
"Whoo, thank Merlin," she released their arms from a death grip to a loose one.
They were all silent for a moment, before they burst out laughing, stumbling into their potions class. They took seats in the back again, trying to contain their laughter as Professor Slughorn came into the room. They managed to rein it in, as he put directions on the board for a Felix Felicis potion. They would be working in pairs of three to complete this potion, it was going to be difficult, and would take hours out of class to complete, but if they made it correctly, they were all promised that they would be able to drink some from their own cauldrons at the end of the year. However, they were not to use it during their NEWTs, and anyone caught doing so would be expelled from school. They could choose their own partners.
Of course the three girls paired up. There were a total of twelve people in this class. The girls, the hottest of the four Marauders, Snape, Carson, Mulciber, Fibbins, Longbottom, and Crouch. Snape, Mulciber, and Fibbins became a team, and Carson, Longbottom, and Crouch. With everyone divided, they were given extra cauldrons to start the potion in. Every group had at least one excellent potions master, so everyone got halfway through the instructions before the class was over.
Everyone was chattering about what they would do with the potion when it was complete as they left the class. This was where the girls parted ways for their separate classes of the day. Lily to Muggle Studies, Marchelle to Care of Magical Creatures, and Penny to Divination. It was the only time of the day that they were separated, and they hated it.
[Time skip]
Marchelle and Penny loitered in the hallway as they waited for Lily to come up from the dungeons. When she finally approached, they found her soaked to the bone, and furious. They whipped out their wands attempting to air drying her.
"What happened?" Marchelle asked.
"Lupin," she stated bluntly.
"What for?"
"My little pet this morning in charms, stop, it's not going to dry. It's not water."
"Then what is it?" Penny asked as they lowered their wands.
"Mucus."
"Gross!"
"Yeah, I tried vanishing it off, but it took my clothes too, so I'll be using my lunch hour to change clothes," Lily stated marching off to the Heads Dorm. Marchelle and Penny huffed, making their way to the kitchens. No way were they letting their friend go hungry.
They tickled the pear, and burst into the kitchens. The House Elves took one look at them, before squealing with delight and started to ask them all at once at there was anything they needed, anything at all. They requested three hot lunches, with extra pickles on the side. They were even nice enough to give them a basket to put it in.
When they made back up to the doors to the Great Hall, it was to see Lily about to rush through the doors. They darted forward grabbing her arms and dragged her out to the grounds. They were gonna skip DADA, they just didn't feel like telling her yet. Lily may not be a goody two shoes, but she was very stingy about skipping classes. The last time was in their second year, and they had had to get her a calming potion because she was freaking out. Convinced that the entire universe was out of sorts because she had skipped Potions.
"We're eating on the grounds today?" Lily asked as she was forced to sit down.
"Yeah, we don't want to see those Marauders any more than you probably want to right now," Marchelle said as she pulled out the three lunches and handed them to the other girls.
"Good."
"Why do they have to be such jerks?"
"Yeah a porcupine on your chair is harmless, covering someone in mucus that refuses to come off is not."
"I mean, what did we ever do to them?" Marchelle asked wondering back to that first day of third year when they had been pranked by the Marauders.
"We probably existed, which in their books means to take offense against," Lily sad playing with the carrots on her plate. None of them were really hungry. "Do you guys mind if we just skip the rest of classes for today?"
Their jaws dropped, "Who are you and what have you done with our friend?" they asked at the same time.
"Please?" she asked giving them a small look of defeat.
"Okay," Penny consented.
"So what do you want to do?" Marchelle asked.
"Let's just hang out in my common room."
"Works for us."
They all got up and went back inside. They headed to the picture that was of a wizard playing quidditch, when it saw her though, it zoomed over to get the password. "Fuzzy Bobbles." The door opened and the three went inside. Lily pulled out their small boom box, it was powered by an energizer spell, and flipped it on. They all smiled as Lorde's Royal started to play, they took of their glasses and bobbed their heads to the music, as they sang along. If someone had passed by, they would have thought two angels, and a chalkboard was in the room. Lily couldn't sing, but her friends didn't care.
That's how they continued to the day, listening to songs and singing along. They didn't even notice that the Marauders had come back as they were dancing with one another to the song of Grow a pear by Ke$ha. They stared at the girls in front of them, almost not recognizing them without their glasses on. They came to a quick conclusion, they were gorgeous. Lily turned around first, and caught sight of them standing in the doorway, alone.
"You're-" James started.
"Obliviate!"
"Protego!"
Marchelle cut the music, as they stared at one another. No one moved or said a thing. Slowly, Potter lowered his wand again. He took a step forward as the girls reached down grabbing their glasses, and putting them on. Their shields, their protection.
"Why do you hide it?" Lupin asked in wonder.
"We don't like constant attention. We're happy floating through life invisible," Penny said shifting uncomfortably.
"But you're not, everyone knows who you are," Black protested.
"No they don't," Lily scoffed.
"Yeah, we're the nerds of Hogwarts, ugly, feared, and ostracized," Marchelle added.
"They know nothing about us," Penny sneered. "None of you do," she added.
"Well, we're willing to accept this as a great opportunity to get to know you," Potter said much closer to them than he had been seconds before. Lily opened her mouth to respond, but the portrait hole burst open.
"Jaaaamesssss, why do I have to serve detention Friday? We'll miss out on our special time," Sarah whined coming into the room with her two friends Missy and Misty following in her wake. They were identical twins. She wrapped her arms around him, glaring at Lily.
"Because it was the only way I could get you your points back, baby."
"Have fun with your slut, come on guys," Lily said brushing past him. Marchelle grabbed their boom box and all three went up to Lily's room. As soon as the door shut, they started to freak out.
"What are we going to do? They saw us!"
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