Chapter 4- Talks, the hall/dance/party and…bullying?
A few mornings later would bring our group to October 17, exactly two weeks from Halloween. There was going to be a ball/dance/party thing as the boys liked to refer to is as. Dates were mandatory in other words you needed one to get in and it was a Sadie Hawkins type thing too, so this was really bad for both groups. The Shadow's were the most sought after female group and it was vice versa for the mauraders. Despite it being a Sadie Hawkins thing, every morning Lil, Laura and Lindsay had been swamped with letters. The first morning had been the worst; the three of them had been buried under a great big pile of letters that pretty much said the same thing: (Given name of recipient.): please will you invite me to the dance.
From: (why even bother to sign a name they had gotten one from nearly every one under the age of 19 of the male gender at Hogwarts)
It was even worse for the Mauraders; they were all stopped before and after breakfast, class, lunch, dinner and in the common room by girls all extending invites to the dance.
"So far I've been asked by Roxy Landerman, Shona Commers, Amy Salders, Lauren Salders, Katie Salders, Alyx Kikolorn, Jazmine Katlorien, Stephie Malkern, Alie Shwinders, and Bella Domarsk over 3 times-" James was interrupted by Laura.
"That's no so bad,"
"-today," James finished looking pointedly at her with a smirk.
"Oh," Laura looked surprise, "why would they ask you to the dance so many times?"
"You can't talk! Who's gotten over 300 letters from Liam Marx and more than 175 from Samuel Davies?" Remus started dodging, another girl in the hallway.
"Uh, me?" Laura looked meek, "I swear I didn't encourage them, I only talk to them because they know what soccer is!"
"What's soccer?" James and Remus looked mystified after Laura explained that it was a game that muggles played that involved a checkered black and white ball and 6 players kicking it trying to get into a net.
"Wow that's great… I want to play it!!" They both shouted.
"Okay we'll play it after the dance! Score one for Laura!"
"If you two don't stop comparing how many people have asked you to the dance I will shove these quills up your-"
"Lily, watch your language!"
"-noses! What?" Lily was mad everyone was looking at her funny.
"Alrighty then, I'm going to C.O.M.C, if you guys don't mind?" Lindsay stood up followed by Sirius.
Lily and Laura watched them leaving. "God, Sirius is like a little puppy for pete's sake!"
James and Remus chuckled and her word choice…
(A/N: Oh the Irony!!)
Later in potions everyone was told to find the partner that professor Slughorn listed…
"Sam Alderman, Emmi Valanski,
Mathew Conxt, Lauren Salders,
Sarah Brocklyn, David Tylor
Ian Weimer, Sora Kim,
Alex Laurent, Danielle Emmirson
Shannon Kilbarsme, Logan Wilson,
Alice Kentlira, Frank Longbotton
Rachel Sambon, Nelson Crimpt,
James Potter, Lily Evans-"
Laura gasped and looked around; she and lily were all receiving glares from the rest of the girls
"Severus Snape, Clara Parkinson
Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black
Bellatrix Black, Norman Lestrange,
Sirius Black, Lindsay Devall. That's all if you have any problems with your partners, come see me…after class!" He yelled the last part when almost everyone stood up to complain. "I want you to move next to your partners and start on this potion. This memory potion will need two weeks of classes to finish and may I warn you, it will show your worst memory. NOT your best." Slughorn put this warning in the clear so anyone who didn't want to drink it could come talk to him before hand. "You may begin."
Everyone could hear a bunch of shuffling as people stood up to move. Seating their behinds in their seats for at least the next two weeks, they started pulling out the ingredients for the potion.
"Lily do you have a newts tail? James was looking through this cauldron in search of the said object.
"It's already in the potion James," Lily looked exasperated.
"What about the unicorn tail hair?"
"Yep."
"The… niffler hair?"
"Yep"
"The bark from a Cyprus tree?"
"Yep."
"Is the fire lit in the cauldron yet?"
"Yup, uh, no"
"Car I light it please?"
"Yep!"
"You are quite the one word conservationist, you know." James said while lighting the fire under the cauldron.
"Yep," Lily seemed distracted as she threw in chopped dragon scales, and a hippogriff talon.
"Okay I can see you want silence so I'll shut up now, is that alright?"
"Yep," Lily seemed to be somehow relieved when they confined their potion in silence.
"The silence is scaring me! How can you stand it?" James shouted his eyes wide at the thought of impending doom.
"I just work better when I can think. So shut up."
"Okay!"
Meanwhile Laura and Remus were having a very good time, they were done putting all the ingredients into the cauldron they were sharing and just sat talking.
"So, how are you going to beat me when we play soccer?"
"I don't know, give me some time to research and learn how to play the game first. I do have a question for you though; what are you going to do if I win?"
"I don't know, let me think about it."
After lunch the Gryffindors and Slytherins had an empty slot of their schedules so the Mauraders and the shadows went down by the lake and sat by some of the mapleand willow trees that lined the lake.
"What's the plan? What are we going to do? I know! Let's prank the Slytherins! Oh yeah, you should all bow before my skills. You're not bowing. Boo hoo. Can't you see me crying? Hello anybody there?" Sirius sat in a huff on the other side of the tree. They could hear him muttering to himself as he curled up into a little Sirius ball.
"I've got to go fine Charlie. I'll be right back." Lily stood up and started walking away.
Charlie? James whispered to Laura, "who's her?"
"He's her bet friend," Laura whispered back.
"Her best friend! Why haven't I ever seen them together?"
"He doesn't get out of our dorm much, only when he needs to go out to the bathroom."
"You have a boy living in your dorm?" James burst out leaping up, "I need to talk to Lily."
Meanwhile Lily had been cornered by some of the Slytherins on her way back outside with Charlie.
She had been bound and silenced before being pulled into one of the not very commonly used hallways. They had ten proceeded to throw jeers and insults at her, before the girls came forward and started slapping, punching, smacking, pulling her hair and just all around beating her. Charlie tried to come to her rescue but he was hit with a stunning curse. He fell over knocked out with James and Frank walked around the corner. Seeing the scene unfolding before him, he lunged into the fight. Hurling spells and hexes around him, he started fending off the Slytherins, before Frank remembered that he was head boy.
"25 points off Slytherin! Go to your dorms now and anyone that argues will lose an additional 15 points!" He shouted into the hall.
The Slytherins scattered, Lily was released and fell to her kneed beside Charlie.
-James p.o.v-
Lily sat down next to some sort of animal. It was yellow and very large head with very floopy ears.
"Enervate," muttered Lily giving her wand a wave.
The dog jumped up and snarled at me, he pounced and snapped his jaws together where I would had been if I hadn't moved.
"Charlie, down," Lily said sharply.
"Charlie? That's Charlie? I thought Charlie was a guy! You're telling me that Charlie is a dog!" to say that I was surprised would be the understatement of the century.
"A guy? Well Charlie is a boy but he is just a dog."
"Oh my god, are you kidding me?"
"Nope!" Lily said happily
"Are you sure?" I was skeptical.
"well I do think that I know my own dog,"
"what kind of dog is he?" I put a tentative hand on Charlie's fur, and when he didn't growl at me I started to run my fingers down the dogs back.
"A yellow lag," Lily poked her cheek and winced at the pain.
"Let's get you to Madam pomfrey for your bruises."
"Okay, Charlie up!" Lily commanded. She smiled when Charlie stood up and wlalked to her side patiently.
"Hey Lil, did you see Belle when you were up in the dorm?" Lindsay asked quietly at dinner later that night.
"No, but the window was open, so I guess she went for a bit of "air-time" if you know what I mean." Lily muttered back just as quiet.
"She hasn't touched her food and she didn't come back last night, I'll send Speckle out after dinner in search of her."
The boys exchanged a look when Laura pulled Arnold out of her pocket the feed him some pineapple.
"Laura, do you have to feed that thing at the table?" Remus looked at Arnold as he snuffled around the table, his spikes in a disarray.
"He's not "that thing"! He's Arnold!" Laura shot back defending her pet vehemently, " and yes I do."
"Okay, geez, sorry!"
A great horned owl flew through one of the windows near the roof of the great hall.
"Tide, what do you have for me?" Landing in front of Lily. It stuck out it's leg and allowed her to untie the letter. He nabbed a piece of beef off of her plate and spread his wings, smacking Sirius in the head as he did so, once the letter was off his leg and flew back out the window.
The letter got shoved in the pocket of her robes so she could read it later.
"Remus! Will you please stop flirting with Laura and start reviewing for the hearbology test tomorrow." Lily noticed the fact that Remus and Laura were muttering in each others ears.
"Okay, be ready at 5:30 on the 31st though okay?"
"kay," Laura chirped.
Remus left to go to the library unknowing that he had just left Laura in a very uncomfortable position.
"Oh, my, god, you're going to the dance with Remus Lupin! Where did you pluck the courage from? We need to go shopping to find you a costume, or would you prefer a dress?" Lindsay said this all in one breath.
"I think we should go look for a costume first, and if we see a really cute dress, I'll try it on, alright?" Laura got up to go see the Gryffindor commen room, leaving 2 pairs of people dumbstruck.
"I didn't see that coming, did you?" James turned to Lily.
"Yep, I just didn't know when she would ask him," Lindsay spoke up. Not noticing James glare until she go a elbow jammed into her ribs.
"Oww! What was that for?" Lindsay look up to meet James heating glare, "oops, you weren't talking to me, were you?"
"Nope."
"Oh, oops."
"Sirius, lets' leave the lovebirds "on their own""
"Alright."
Sirius left followed closely by Lindsay and quickly disappeared out of sight.
"What did she call us?"
"Love birds, it's a muggleborn thing." Lily responded with a smile.
"Alrighty, then," Realizing that they were alone, Lily and James stood and marched out of the great hall.
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"NO!"
"YES! Hey no fair!"
"HAHA! I am the wiener! You have to ask Sirius to the dance!"
When she stopped in the hall, Laura heard these words, and gasped. Her eyes searched the corridor and landed on Faya Avalon and Jamie Emmerson thoughts ran through Laura's head as she walked towards them.
"Faya I'm sorry but you can't do that. My friend Lindsay is in love with Sirius and he loves her back. If you ask him it might ruin it, please!" Laura was almost begging.
"No. A deal is a deal, she has to do it!" Jamie, a tall brown haired guy, with green eyes snapped back at Laura.
"But, Lindsay," it was too late, they had already walked away.
"Should I tell Lindsay to ask Sirius to the dance or just let things go their own way?" Laura asked herself, effectively scaring a third year out of her mind.
"Umm, excuse me, miss. I don't know you. Are you crazy or were you born that way?" the girls little voice came up when Laura stopped in the middle of the hall. Laura ignored her in a moment of indecision.
"No, it's alright. Just go to your common room." Laura said distractedly/
"Okay!" The little girl skipped off.
"Lindsay you have to ask Sirius to the dance now!" Laura burst into the almost deserted common room, yelling.
Everybody looked up amused as Laura hung her head.
"Oppsie," looking around and not seeing her friend Laura ran up to their dorm.
"Lindsay you have to ask Sirius to the dance now or it may be too late!"
Without asking questions Lindsay stood up and tore out of the room.
After searching the halls for about 10 minutes Lindsay heard his voice. She ran towards it but came to a screeching halt when she heard another voice, a female voice talking along with his. Peeking her head around the corner she paled when she saw Faya Avalon, a petit brunette with striking brown eyes standing with him, if possible her face went even more white when she heard what they were talking about.
"So, Sirius, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the dance with me?" Faya looked up at him hopefully.
Lindsay waited for his answer with bated breath. Silence stretched, until his answer was heard to all.
A/N: I know I'm mean! Review with what you think Sirius's answer should be! Thanx! This is one of the longest chapters in the story…I hope. Sorry it was so long!!
Over and out!!