A/N: This was originally posted on HPFF.


The Secret Lives of Sinful Girls

Crime and Punishment

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Welcome to Hogwarts, where everyone has a secret and nothing is as it seems.

Take that pretty girl in your Charms class. She's always surrounded by a tight circle of friends, laughing and gossiping the morning away. Her impossibly shiny hair cascades down her back, and you just know the boy sitting behind her is imagining what she looks like underneath her robes. She turns around and gives him a flirtatious wink while slipping him a secret note. They'll rendezvous tonight in the Astronomy Tower while hiding from the prefects on patrol. There's only one problem – she has a boyfriend, and it isn't him.

Or what about that sexy bloke on your House Quidditch team? He saunters through the corridors of the school like he owns the place, and you've heard that his inordinately wealthy family practically does, actually. If he forgets to do his homework or shows up to class half an hour late, the professors overlook it. He probably had Quidditch practice, after all. He always seems to skive off detention, and he's usually off snogging a girl instead of scrubbing the cauldrons like he's meant to be doing. He's the golden boy, he's untouchable. Oh, and he's committed a crime so terrible that if it were discovered, he'd go to Azkaban for life.

It's not just the popular ones who lead double lives. That quiet Ravenclaw threw the wildest party of the year last night. The loser who always sits alone in the Great Hall is a major player in the school's black market. The sweet little girl reading out by the Black Lake knows something so dangerous that she's constantly afraid for her life. That easygoing boy who always says hello to you in the Owlery is really on his way to becoming a ruthless Dark wizard.

The students at Hogwarts cheat, steal, lie, and scheme. They're nothing like the innocent little witches and wizards their parents think they are. The deceit, the sins: it's all fun and games, right?

Until it goes too far, like it did for Nicola Lufkin. Nicola was the flawless über-girl of Hogwarts. To her, rules were merely suggestions. She made people do whatever she wanted them to, as if they were her pieces in a wizard chess game. Everything was a game to Nicola. Breaking hearts, spreading rumors, keeping secrets – she played, and won, like a pro. But her games made some powerful people very angry. And before she knew it, poor little Nicola was in over her head…

One night last March, Nicola Lufkin went to a party. The next morning, she was nowhere to be found. No one knows what happened to Nicola. Except one person, that is. Someone at Hogwarts knows exactly what happened that fateful night, and that person will do anything and everything to keep it a secret. Because sinister circumstances surrounded Nicola's disappearance, and for the four best friends she left behind, things are only about to get all the more sinister…

Rose, Aury, Beckett, and Dominique are about to discover the consequences of sin. They've been very wicked girls, and if they don't watch out, they'll soon be on their way to meeting Nicola's fate.

They have sinned. And now, they will be punished.


A/N: I know, I'm creepy. You don't need to tell me. This was loosely inspired by Pretty Little Liars. If you liked this, please leave a review! Let me know if you want me to post the next part or not. And please don't favorite without reviewing. Thank you!