She Always Gets What She Wants.
#2: Blush
Rain's first month of school was easy, and so much fun. She was glad to be going to school with her brother and she was glad to be attending Hogwarts. She had also befriended many people such as, Lily, Remus, James, Alice, Sirius, Peter, Frank, Narcissa, Avery, and plenty of others. She had become fairly popular, only a couple of people didn't like her or were scared of her. So far, Rain's classes were going great. She was very good at Potions and Transfiguration, which was no surprise to Rain. But she wasn't doing too great at Ancient Runes, however she still kept her O, barely. Rain also found herself getting closer and closer to the group of boys who called themselves The Marauders. For some reason they seemed very fond of her, and the boys were very likable themselves. But she was closest to Lily Evans, one of the girls she shared a dorm with and the first person she met at Hogwarts.
Rain and Lily walked sleepily to the common room, not so ready to begin the day. Remus was the first to greet them, "Rain! Lily! Good morning! You two sure look awake and happy!" He laughed. Rain grumbled and gave him a death stare while Lily smiled politely. Of course, the rest of the marauders came over to greet the two girls.
"Lilykins" James smiled, "You look tired. You can fall asleep on my shoulder in Transfiguration if you like." This time, Lily wasn't polite, and gave James a dirty look and mumbled something.
"Oh Lilykins, one day we'll get married and you'll be falling asleep on my shoulder all the time! So if you don't want to do it now, it's fine, you'll be doing it later." James said cheerily at the thought.
"James, when are you going to realize she's just not that in to you?" Rain yawned.
"When me and Lily get married you owe me an apology at our wedding, Rain!"
"Sure, and when you two have a kid, I'll be it's godmother." Rain said sarcastically. James frowned.
"Oh don't be such a downer, Rain. James can have hopes and dreams! You don't chastise Remus' dreams of marrying you!" Remus glared at Sirius for revealing his secret. Rain smiled, not really thinking of the statement too much.
"Well Remus doesn't go around obnoxiously telling everyone how he's going to marry me one day. Besides, I'd marry Remus. Lily has told James several times she wasn't interested in his offers." James, Sirius, and Peter looked over at Remus smugly while he blushed.
"What?" Rain asked with a bit of attitude, not knowing the boys would take her statement so seriously. James and Sirius bursted out laughing. As soon as there fits of giggles were over, Sirius put both arms around Rain and Remus smiling happily.
"Well I guess you two are now Mr. and Mrs. Lupin! Oh happy day! Can I be your best man, mate?" Remus sighed.
"Sure Sirius, whatever you want." Remus played along. Rain smiled. She did have a bit of a crush on Remus. Sirius looked at them quizzically and shrugged, quietly walking to the Dining Hall for breakfast where Peter and James followed.
"Well Mrs. Lupin, would you accompany me to breakfast? Along with your dear friend Lily Evans?" Remus asked in a mock fancy, rich, old guy voice. Rain giggled and interlocked arms with Lily and held Remus' hand. When she interlocked fingers with Remus, he blushed furiously, Rain smiled and they made their way to the Dining Hall.
Lily left when they were halfway there, to go talk to Elisa (one of the other girls in the dorm), leaving Rain and Remus to walk into the Dining Hall holding hands alone. A few gasps and whispers went around the Dining Hall, the marauders were pretty much royalty at this school.
"Look Padfoot! It's Rainmus! Haha! That's a good one, aye mate?" James laughed, but Sirius just nodded and smiled half-heartedly, while chewing on some sausage. Rain and Remus sat across from the two and Peter, staring at Sirius puzzled. He was usually messing around, being rude to people, flirting, or pulling pranks. Remus reluctantly let go of Rain's hand and they began to eat in awkward silence.
Rain's first period, she shared with all of the boys, so she sat in between Sirius and Remus. Professor Binns was discussing the Goblin Revolution, again, and all the students were supposed to be taking notes.
"Good thing I'm a good listener, I'd actually have to take notes to pass if I wasn't." Rain whispered trying to start conversation. Sirius continued to draw Professor Binns with immature and foul features. Remus scratched notes for a few minutes before replying,
"You should write notes, Rain. You would probably get an even better grade if you did."
"Is it even possible for her to get a better grade? She already has an outstanding." Sirius remarked.
"He speaks!" Remus said sarcastically.
"How did you know my grade in this class?" Rain asked with one eyebrow higher than the other. Sirius ignored her and put his drawing away.
"Detention, the three of you, my classroom at eight tonight. Stop talking so loudly, and stop drawing rude pictures of me, Sirius!" Professor Binns said angrily, and floated back over to his chalkboard.
"Great, Binns rarely gives detention." Rain whispered and read an article in a transfiguration book from the restricted section of the library.
At lunch, Rain and Lily decided to sit with Severus by the tree close to the Black Lake.
"Hey Sev!" Rain greeted cheerfully and attacked her brother with a bear hug. Severus laughed.
"So, I heard you and that Remus boy are married? There's something wrong with him you don't know about yet." Lily laughed.
"It was just a joke. An inside joke! They aren't really married!"
"Oh, ok, guess I don't have to disown you then." Severus laughed ruffling Rain's hair as she glared at him. "But really, try to keep your distance from him. He's dangerous." Rain and Lily just laughed not taking Severus serious at all. Come on, Remus? The goody two shoe, study freak, bookworm is dangerous? That's hilarious. Rain took it more of one of those protective brother things.
Eight o'clock came to soon for Rain. The three Gryffindors dragged their feet to room 4F.
"Good you're on time! Now, I want all three of you to grade my papers and put them into the grade book. The assignments are here, the answer key is there, and the grade book is there. The door will unlock in one hour." Binns said more excitedly than any of them have ever heard from him and left. Sirius and Remus split grading the assignments and Rain put the grades in the grade book.
"So this is how you know my grade." Rain concluded.
"Yes, Binns only gives detention when he needs to grade papers or clean the room or something of that sort." Sirius said, proud of himself for knowing teacher's secrets. "I noticed you reading an article on Animagi today Rain, may I ask why?"
Rain shifted uncomfortably and sighed. "I kind of want to be one." She said quietly. Remus and Sirius stopped what they were doing.
"Oh really?" Sirius smirked.
"Why?" Remus asked a little worried, Sirius rolled his eyes.
"I could go where I wanted, and people would just think I'm some stupid animal, I could hear what people would say, without them knowing I was there. I could escape every once in a while, and just be an animal, not really caring about society and what not, you know stuff like that."
"What's your patronus?" Sirius asked. Rain shrugged, giving him a weird look.
"Swish your want like this" Remus flicked his wand around, "think of your most happiest moment and say expecto patronum. Give it a try." Rain gave a few tries, got a few wisps, and got really tired, but the boys gave her some chocolate and a few tips. Luckily, she did it. A silver fox tumbled out of her wand, running energetically around the room. She hugged both of the boys rather aggressively, she was glad they taught her that. Times were getting tough and she'd need that to get by.
"You're patronus is a fox, there for your animagus will be a fox. Foxy aye?" Sirius flashed a grin and Remus rolled his eyes at Sirius this time. Rain's eyes widened in shock, and then went back to normal as she smirked.
"You two are animagi. If you've done it, I can. Help me with it, will you?"