Hey everyone!! Well, didn't get as much feedback as I expected but thats alright. Oh and from now on it's going to be in Fauna's POV. I just needed to describe her in the first chapter.
DISCLAIMER-I wish I owned Harry Potter, but alas, it is all from the genius and beautiful mind of JK Rowling. Only Fauna and Cassie are mine.
I could see my salvation coming ahead. My home. My smile was perhaps the largest from the group. I couldn't help it. Hogwarts was so wonderful; nothing could tarnish it for me. Yet.
I smiled as I approached the thestrals while Lily and Cassie were talking so energetically. I walked a little away from them, and took a piece of an apple out of my pocket. It was a bit brown, but the creature took it from my hand happily. I smiled and pet it. They calmed me somewhat. After I had seen my brother killed, I began to notice that the carriages weren't pulling themselves. I had asked one of my fellow fourth years, whom I knew had experienced loss, what they were. After all had been explained, I had found the creatures enchanting. If not, a bit sad.
"Fauna, what the hell are you doing over there?" I turned toward Cassie and smiled.
"Must you always use such foul language?" I asked doing my best impression of Lily, who was being pestered by Potter at this moment.
"NO! Now leave me alone!" She yelled at him getting into the carriage. James sighed and jumped onto the carriage. "Fine then, if you won't go out with me, I'm riding in the same carriage with you." Lily huffed and crossed her arms. Cassie and I rolled our eyes and got up onto the carriage.
"Just leave her alone Potter." I said. He looked at me strangely.
"Listen Douglas, I liked your brother which is why I'm not going to curse you into oblivion about now. But you're really starting to get on my nerves." I was about to get up and curse him myself, when the remaining marauders decided to join us. I smiled at the smallest one. "Hi Peter." He blushed and didn't look at me again. I always felt bad for him. He was like the marauders lackey. Only Remus seemed to treat him like a human. Which reminded me that he was now sitting right next to me.
"Hey Fauna. You excited about the new year? I heard they have a whole new section of old charms in the library." I smiled at him. One thing Remus and I shared in common was our desire for reading.
"Actually I want to really brush up my…" I was interrupted by Black and Crescent.
"Moony you can talk to your girlfriend later. We're almost to the castle."
"Yeah. And hey, if she's holding you back, I wouldn't mind cursing her." This was from Crescent. I glared at her. "Shut it Crescent. You couldn't curse anything with that ugly face of yours. People would already think they were cursed." Everyone in the carriage started laughing their heads off. Angelica looked angry. She stood up (which surprised everyone, considering she didn't fall from the moving carriage) and pointed her wand straight at my chest.
"Why you little…" Sirius stood up and grabbed her struggling form.
"Come on Shadow, she's not worth it. We still have to do the you know what." He said trying to convince her. I had taken out my own wand, and was being held back by Cassie.
Angelica seemed to calm down and glared one final time at me, whose wand was currently shooting sparks on it's own. James turned towards Lily and smiled a charming smile. "Well, my Lily flower, I must take my leave." And he proceeded to try and kiss her hand. Lily, looking disgusted, pulled her hand away and rolled her eyes. "You idiot, we're not at the school yet." Then, still smiling at her, James jumped off the carriage; followed by Sirius, Angelica, Remus, and finally a scared Peter. They disappeared within seconds.
"Stupid sods." Lily huffed. "And you know what? Remus should know better! He's a prefect for goodness sakes!"
I turned away from them, still angry out of my mind. Why if I had only been quicker, I would have broken Angelica in two! I crossed my arms and turned toward the school, wondering when I would get there."
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After the sorting of the first years, the speech from the headmaster (who directed all his rules towards the smiling and grinning marauders), and the famous glare of McGonagall (once again towards the marauders) the feast was to begin. However, just as food began to appear on the table, a screeching Filch ran in. Laughter soon began to fill the Great Hall, at the sight of what Filch was wearing. He was in a very short and very tight pink fluffy dress. The type of thing one would see the Weird Sisters wearing. Even Dumbledore seemed to be smiling a little. He ran towards the headmaster and pointed at the marauders.
"Filthy, rule-breaking, dishonorable children! Headmaster, headmaster, it was them I tell you! All them!" Just as Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak, there were sparks of pink from the Slytherins. In seconds they were all wearing the same outfit Filch was donned in. The whole Hall seemed to be shaking at all the laughing everyone was doing. I grabbed my stomach from the pain of laughing so hard. I turned towards the marauders and saw them all laughing the hardest. Even the usually quiet Remus was having a laugh at the Slytherins expense. Dumbledore chuckled a bit, before waving his wand and restoring order to Hogwarts. The Slytherins were all glaring at the marauders, who just waved in response.
"Well Mr. Filch, as no one was hurt, I don't see any reason not to continue our feast. Dig in."
Lily began throwing food into her plate angrily. "They have no regard for rules! Horrible boys! That's what they are. Little boys!" Cassie rolled her eyes at Lily's anger. She turned toward me.
"Here we go again." I laughed as Cassie mouthed everything Lily mumbled, word for word. While Lily started berating Cassie for making fun of her, I couldn't help but look up and down the tables. Realizing I was staring at Sirius again, I blushed and turned away.
"Don't think I didn't see that." Came Cassie's scolding voice. She had always disapproved the little crush I had on Sirius. "Black's no good Faune." She always told me. She was also the only person, apart from my sister, to call me Faune.
"What? I wasn't doing anything." I said quietly, gathering food into my plate. Cassie rolled her eyes as she saw what I put on my plate.
"You were staring again. And for goodness sake Faune, it won't kill you to eat a bit more. How many times do I have to tell you? You have a perfectly normal figure."
"See! Normal. I don't want a normal figure. You can talk considering you and Lily have the bodies of goddesses." Lily and Cassie just shook their heads and continued eating. After the first feast of the school year, Lily and Remus stood up to lead the Gryffindor house to their common rooms. Cassie began being pestered by a couple of school boys trying to ask her out. I sighed wondering how Cassie did it. Good looking boys just throwing themselves at her feet, and she didn't want them. We got to the Common Room and I couldn't help but smile.
Gryffindor common room was full of laughing and smiling students, tired from the long journey here. The walls were decorated with banners of roaring lions and house cups. There was a large fireplace in front of a very comfy looking couch. Scattered around the room were many different chairs. Basically, home to me.
Lily walked over to Cassie and I after she instructed the younger students about where they were going to sleep. "I think….I'm going to go to bed. Classes begin tomorrow." Lily yawned. Cassie and I nodded in agreement. As we climbed the stairs, I turned around to glance the room, when I noticed Sirius Black staring at me very peculiarly. I raised my eyebrow but he didn't turn away. I turned around before I started jumping up and down like a little girl. I moved to the fourth year's dormitories and fell asleep with a smile on my face.
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"Transfiguration is not a game. It is a very important subject that must be taken seriously. This year I will…MR. BLACK! Would you stop that nonsense this instant! Unless of course you want to teach my class yourself." McGonagall snapped. Regulas Black stopped charming papers at Georgina Skye, a fourth year Ravenclaw. I rolled my eyes at his antics. He was nothing like his older brother. Of course he was handsome, though not as handsome as his brother, and he was charming. For a Slytherin. Yet there was something so evil about him. Sirius, I noticed, made people look up to him with respect. Regulas made people want to grab a hold of their wands and never let go.
I had woken up that day still smiling from the first look I had gotten from Sirius. Of course he could have been just thinking, but he still looked! I hadn't told Lily or Cassie, because they would have scolded me. Told me not to bring her hopes up. We had had a wonderful morning, well except for the constant disruptions from James Potter. Remus had sat next to me and begun a conversation with me about the new books the library had acquired. I hadn't looked at Sirius for the entire morning out of sheer embarrassment. Then the moment I dreaded had come. I wasn't completely terrible in my classes, but I didn't want to leave Lily and Cassie.
"Miss Douglas, would you mind repeating what I have just said?" McGonagall harped. I jumped a little and stopped my daydreaming.
"Uh… that Transfiguration is not a game?" Some of the students laughed, while McGonagall pursed her lips. "Perhaps you should start listening before you're awarded a detention." I nodded and sank a little lower in my seat. I heard someone sniggering two seats behind me.
"Mudblood lover," I heard Regulas Black whisper. I turned around and glared at him. "Disgusting, slimy snake," The smile was wiped off Regulas's face as I turned around grinning. The rest of the class period passed quite slowly; at least for me I was so busy doodling in my book (SB+IM), that I didn't notice class was over. Nor did I notice Regulas come over and stand over my shoulder.
"What's this? You're in love with my brother too?" He cackled. My heart almost stopped. I quickly closed my book and shoved it into my book bag. I angrily faced Regulas and glared. "First of all, that's none of your business. Second of all, hasn't your mother ever taught you not to look at stuff that isn't yours?" I smirked. "Oh wait; that old hag was probably too busy cursing muggleborns." Regulas grabbed my arm. When I tried to jerk away, he only pulled harder.
"Filthy bloodtraitor. You're as bad as mudblood!"
"And you're as bad as You-Know-Who!" I shot back. I pulled my arm free and walked quickly away. He had scared my with the look in his eyes. I was sure he was probably planning some attack on me soon. I found Cassie and Lily waiting outside of my classroom door.
"About time. We thought you were…Fauna what's wrong?" Cassie asked. I just shook my head. "Nothing. Please, let's just go to lunch." Cassie looked at Lily worriedly, but didn't press the matter. That's what I loved so much about her. She knew when to stop badgering.
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"Oh come on Evans, just one date!"
"Get away from me Potter."
"Not until you agree to go out with me. Hogsmeade trip is coming up. Just come with me."
"Shove off Potter! I won't go out with you!" And with that, Lily stood up from the Common Room and went upstairs. James looked at her retreating form sadly. I didn't feel the least bit sorry for him. He was always bothering Lily, and frankly I was sick of it. I wasn't exactly tired, so I decided to stay downstairs for a bit. Black, Potter, Remus, Peter, Crescent, and a few third year students were the remaining occupants of the Common Room. I turned my eyes back to the book I was reading, when suddenly it flew out of my hands. I glared angrily at Potter as he put his wand away.
"Alright Douglas, I'm going to make this quick and easy." James said "threateningly". I rolled my eyes. "Accio book," My book flew back into my hands easily. I smirked at James his eyes widened. Silly Potter. Should have thought of that ahead of time.
"Petrificus Totalus!" I felt my book fall out of my hands, and my body freeze up. I looked with wide eyes at Angelica, who was busy smirking at me. "There James, now you can make her listen."
"YOU STUPID, DIRTY BIT…"
"Silencio!" I felt my mouth moving, but no words coming out. Sirius walked toward me smirking. "Now I can't have you cursing my friends can I?" I glared daggers at him and mouthed two words. Let me give you a hint. One has four letters, the other ends with you. Sirius shook his head at me disapprovingly. "Listen Douglas, it's not nice for you to be cursing us. Just hear us out, and you'll be on your way." I looked at Remus for help. He was conveniently looking away. Potter took my distraction as a sign to continue.
"Now that that's all settled, I'll explain why I kept you here. I need you to convince Evans to go out with me." At my incredulous look, he looked offended. He was offended? "What? It's not that impossible. Plus we couldn't go to O'Connor considering she'll kill me if I get near her." He looked hopefully at me. "You'll do it won't you?" I was still glaring when Sirius took off the Silencio charm.
"I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU POTTER! I'M GONNA CUT OFF YOUR DI…" I felt my voice leave me again. I looked around and noticed every other student beside the marauders had left. Wonderful.
"Calm down Douglas and I promise this will end faster. Now will you do it?" Sirius asked me obviously amused. He came and held me down for some reason. What? Did he expect me to somehow brake free of this damn spell? Merlins beard….
Suddenly I felt my fingers begin to move again. Oh, they took the spell off. Black smells really good….AHH, now is not the time for my little crush to act up. I looked at Potter and nodded. It's not like I was going to do it. Angelica saw right through me.
"She's lying. We need something to bind her to the agreement. Any ideas Moony?" I saw Remus look at me briefly, before turning back to Angelica. Remus looked at me briefly, before turning back to her. "We could do it so if she lies, boils break out on her face." My mouth opened in shock. He was supposed to be my friend!
Angelica turned to me smiling. She left for a minute. Sirius was standing in front of me, looking at me strangely again. I started cursing him silently. He just laughed. "Shouldn't use words like Douglas," Angelica returned with a piece of paper in her hand. "Here, she has to sign this. It's charmed." I shook my head since it was the only thing I could move. Angelica rolled her eyes and grabbed my hand. I glared and cursed the whole time she forcefully signed my name. "Alright, that's it. Sirius, if you please." I felt Sirius hold my arms down again, and suddenly my voice and movement came back to me. "Fuck you Black! If any of you ever come near me again, I'll fucking kill you!" And with that I pushed Sirius away from me and bounded upstairs. So far, the new school year sucked.