Okay, here is the repost of this chapter, with small things fixed and additions about their appearances.

Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, the whole fifth book would not portray Harry as an psycho with anger management problems.

CHAPTER TWO: Chess, Stalkers, And Stinksap

Fifteen years later

"LILY!" Half of the common room jumped, many of them first years, unaccustomed to Annie's entirely irrational temper. "GET YOUR BUTT UP HERE NOW!"

Lily tucked a runaway lock of dark red hair behind her ear and moved her knight a few squares across the chessboard. On the other side of the game, Jessy's dark eyes inspected the move in silence.

Annie came storming down the steps, her cheeks as red as her flaming hair. Her ears were hidden under the thick curls, but Lily knew that they were even redder. "LILIAN MARIE POTTER! Where is Roxy's birthday present?"

"Under my bed, exactly where you shoved it when she came in." she said, emerald eyes watching Jessy's queen pick up her stone skirts and walk a few squares. "Why are you asking me?"

An expression of comprehension dawned on the redhead's face. "Oh, yeah. Sorry, Lils. I forgot."

"Just go wrap it before she finds it. She's bound to have heard you."

"All of Britain heard her," Jessy said, absently braiding a bit of her dark hair as she watched a particularly cowardly pawn slink across the board. Annie made a face at her before going back up to the dorm, taking the stairs two at a time.

Jessy moved her bishop. "One of these days, she's going to give someone a heart attack."

"Nah, everyone but the first years is used to it, and they're too young for heart attacks. They'll get used to it soon enough."

As their game progressed, Annie wrapped her sister's birthday present upstairs. Eventually, she wandered back downstairs and sat next to the table, watching.

Very quickly, she decided that she was very bored." Why do you two always have to play chess?"

"Because we like to. But we promise that we'll go find Zoe and help her with her latest harebrained scheme, after our game is over. Okay?"

"All-riiight," Annie said, drawing out the word.

A boy sauntered over. "Hello, Lily, my beautiful flower on the water."

"Go away, Derek."

"I just want to ask you something." The attention of the common room was slowly being caught. It was always fun to watch Lily and Derek.

"You have until the count of five." She moved a pawn with one hand and pulled out her wand with the other.

"Will you—"

"One—"

"Go to—"

"Two—"

"Hogsmead with—"

"Five! Felie!"

He flew across the room, and landed hard on his tailbone. Beat red, he turned to her. "You said five!"

"So I did. But I said nothing about skipping numbers."

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They found Zoe in the sixth year girls' dorm, pouring over a piece of parchment and several strange-looking objects on the floor in front of her. She looked up when they entered.

"Annie! Help me! I can't figure out my dad's instructions!"

"Look, they're simple…" Annie sat down next to her sixth-year cousin and pulled the parchment toward her. "Okay, so they're not. Why don't you try something less elaborate?"

Lily and Jessy sat down as well, and Lily pulled the instructions toward her. After a moment, she looked back up at the two red-haired girls. "Zoe, why?"

"Because it's funny!" Zoe and Annie said simultaneously.

"I'll tell you what all of this means if you swear to do it to Derek."

"Deal."

"It involves Stinksap, doesn't it?" Jessy knew her friends too well.