Three

Disclaimer: Obviously anything Harry Potter you recognize is not mine.

Sixth year was about the start, and Raina could say she was excited. The most appealing part about going to Hogwarts was the fact she could use magic again. She found it second nature to her to use magic, and she felt naked without her wand.

Although, a part of her was sad to see school start. The parties wouldn't be as fun, there were always the same boys. She hasn't snogged all of them, not nearly, but she has the best ones. Well, except for Sirius Black, but she didn't want to snog him.

Either way, as she pushed her trolley through the wall and onto the platform, there was already someone in the way on the other side.

"Arggh!" A woman wearing dark blue robes screamed, grabbing her behind, which Rainas trolley just rammed into. She looked. Sirius Black roared with laughter, standing a bit apart from his brother, Regulus Black. His father wasn't present.

Mrs. Black rounded on her.

"Who do you think you are? Watch where you are going!" She hissed, and Raina choked back laughter.

"Hum, yes Ma'am. Maybe you should move, it is a doorway." Raina could barely hide her giggles as Sirius laughed louder. His mother looked furious.

"How dare you speak to me that way! Have you no respect? What is your name!" She demanded. She woman looked like an angry bird to her.

"Raina Scott, Ma'am." She said biting her cheek. The woman's eyes narrowed.

"Hmph. I suggest the next time you watch where you're going, and speak with respect for real witches, Mudblood." The woman sneered. Sirius stopped laughing and looked cruelly at his mother.

"I am a witch, you old hag." Raina said raising her eyebrows. Promptly giving the hag a rude hand sign, she pushed away her trolley and boarded the train. She could hear Blacks barking laughter behind her. Raina quickly snagged an empty compartment and waited for Starr.

"That was brilliant!" Starr shouted, emerging into the compartment only moment after Raina sat down in it. She smiled broadly.

"You had the guts to say that to that old hag? You're way braver than I am." Starr emphasized, embracing Raina in a tight hug. The two missed each other, despite meeting only a few days ago to shop for their school things.

"Yeah, well, she was standing in a doorway! She's obviously mental to think no one would dare to run into her." Raina copied Mrs. Blacks shrill voice. "Watch where you're going, you mudblood!"

"Yeah; and did you see her robes?" Starr giggled.

"Oh I did, didn't she look great?" Raina asked. In fact, she thought the older witch looked much like the old coot that worked in the Diagon Alley wizarding antique store...

"Mhhm. Just dapper." Starr laughed, sarcasm all over her voice.

This was why Raina and Starr were best friends. The two acted absolutely silly together, they were never bored.

It was while they were gossiping and talking about boys (and their respective male body parts) did two come in. Not even bothering to knock, none other than James Potter and Sirius Black disrupted them.

"Yes?" Starr asked, giving James 'the eyes'. Even if she was convinced she was in love with Mark, she still wanted James. James is better than Mark, anyways, Raina thought.

"Hello ladies. How is your ride going so far? Enjoying it?" Black said smoothly, sitting on the seat beside Raina and lifting his feet onto her lap. Disgusted, she pushed them off. James sat normally on the other side.

"Fine. What is it that you want?" Raina asked in a scolding manner. Black rolled his eyes at her melodramatic response.

"Get your wand out of a knot, I am just here to congratulate you on your braveness, facing my mother. I knew you were in Gryffindor for some reason, though it never really showed until now." He drawled, looking around the compartment.

"She's a hag." Raina replied, nonchalantly. He laughed.

"I know that better than anyone. She acts like she has a stick up her ass. Kind of like you, Scott. You're always getting it in." He said, winking while James laughed, trying to stifle the sound by coughing suddenly when Starr glared at him.

"Why would you come here to congratulate me, then insult me? You're not very bright, maybe you should have been in Hufflepuff." Raina said promptly.

"And maybe you would have fit in better at Slytherin. You're ambitious, pouty and you sneak into peoples pants to get what you want. Gossiping and lying." He replied coldly, standing up. James watched the fight hesitantly, while Starr snorted and stood up beside Raina.

"Yeah, whatever you say, prick. If anyone is supposed to be in Slytherin, its you. Treating the students your lot think are ' below you' -" (she stuck up her hands and quoted the word) " - as if they're what your family would call mudbloods. Oddly like your own version of mudbloods, if you will." She sneered, and enraged, Sirius took out his wand and Raina did hers.

"Come on, Sirius. It's not worth it, don't want to harm a girl." James said, trying to pull him out.

"She's not a girl! She's a harpy!" he said, staring angrily at Starr.

"And you're a arrogant, stupid git. Almost the same as you're mother; get out." Raina said, pointing her wand at him. Sparks came out of Sirius wand, and Raina grinned when she noticed how angry she was making him, she even laughed in his face, enraging him more.

"Slag!" He called as his final word, finally being pushed away by James. When the door shut, they heard a bang against the wall and imagined him punching it. They collapsed into a fit of giggles.

"What a hot head he is!" Starr laughed, collapsing on the seat.

"Yeah, no kidding." Raina agreed, viciously enjoying how angry she'd made him.

"That's not the only hot thing about him, you would know, you slag. Getting it in all the time, lucky girl." Starr joked.

"Oh yeah, for sure." Raina rolled her eyes.

The first weeks of school were annoying stressful for Raina. She wasn't always the best student, and the impending N.E.W.T.s were brought up in every class by every teacher, even though exams weren't until next year.. The brunette used to be average, maybe a little above, until she became better friends with Starr in third year. When she started going out to have fun, and leaving her homework behind. In practical learning classes, like Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms and Transfiguration she did pretty god, seeing as there was hardly homework involved (besides essays) which she never started, let alone handing them in. Because of this, it was a surprise she even passed some classes.

"Bloody rubbish." Star cursed beside her, sitting in Transfiguration one day in October. The professor instructed them on their essay that must be written by nest Tuesday.

"What is?" Raina murmured, looking up from her manicured nails, bored. Se only paid attention when they were doing practical wand work.

"Stupid essay. On what, Inanimatus Conjurus spells?" Starr raised her blond head and narrowed her eyes at the board. Raina looked around the room blandly.

"Yep," Starr replied, nodding and confirming her information.

"I'm not even going to do it." Raina snorted, picking up her quill and twirling it in her hands.

"I've got to. Mum says if I don't pass the course, she won't let me go to that big concert in July. You know, The Hobgoblins? Their opening act are the Weird Sisters." Raina hardly listened, not paying attention to her friends chatter. "I don't know who they are, but even they have an opening act." She rambled on. "So, they must be good."

"I've heard of them, they're just starting out. Not too shameful." Raina said conversationally.

"Miss Scott, stop chattering!" McGonagall called from the front of the classroom. Sighing, Raina looked at the board. She could never pay proper attention and sit still in class ever since she tried powdered Doxy Eggs last March at a party.

"Anyways, it'll be brilliant." Starr continued on, neither she, nor Raina, caring about McGonagalls interruption.

After the class, the two girls traveled the halls during break. They had History of Magic next period, and neither of them felt like attending.

"Binns is such a dolt." Starr said, passing the classroom and watched her class mates go in. With a smirk, Raina grabbed her friends hand and they half-ran up the stairs, to the loo. Dragging her in, almost knocking two second years on the way in.

"Whats your problem? I might need my arm one day!" Starr hissed, rubbing her shoulder tenderly.

"I can't deal with Binns today. I just can't." Raina said, brushing her long brown hair out of her face.

"Well lets do something else." Starr said. Conspicuously looking at the two other girls in the bathroom, fourth years, she whispered.

"I have some pot left, but if we smoke it we have to smoke all of it." Starr said into Rainas ear, her breath tickling her. She smiled.

"Excellent idea. How much?" She replied, in the same whisper.

"Enough to get us high for lunch, and at least half of potions." Starr said in an excited whisper. Smiling, the two girls went back to the Gryffindor Dormitories to retrieve the substance.

"You suck at rolling! Let me do it!" Starr huffed, immediately grabbing the small paper from her already intoxicated friend. Raina collapsed into giggles.

"Shut it!I'm better than you ..." She said. The two girls were sitting in the Quidditch change rooms, hoping to be secretive about it.

"You're such a high life." Starr murmured, getting back to work.

"And I loooooooove it!" Raina replied, taking another drag of her joint in hand, as if proving her point.

"Yeah, whatever. Lets just go, we can't stay in here anymore. We've got to go outside." Starr said, lighting her own with her wand and pulling Raina up by the arm.

"I can do it myself. Have you ever noticed the tile pattern before? The yellow-y colour is so nice, so exciting..." Raina murmured, and Starr looked down to expect it. The two girls sat there laughing and enjoying themselves until they realized they were starving. So, finishing their drags up, they walked slowly to the Great Hall.

The afternoon was great in their minds. They sat through lunch, eating as much food as the could, feeling as if they haven't eaten in days. Some people thought their appetite odd, but nothing happened besides some stares. Despite their eyes being slightly red and glossy, no one knew a thing. No one asked, and professors didn't notice. It wasn't until potions that afternoon that anyone did notice.

The effects slightly wearing off, stumbling their way into the second period of potions, Raina stood over her potion, giggling and humming to herself, in her great mood. She shared the table with Sirius, Potter and, recently moved, Sheila Webber, because Starr and Raina gossiped too much in class.

"James, pour the armadillo juice in." Sirius said.

"Yeah, yeah. Hey, do you see Lily over there working with Snivellius? Why do you think she likes him?"

Raina tried to glance very secretly over to Snape and Evans, working two tables down. Both their potions were steaming green mist, exactly like it looked in the book.

"I don't know. Hey! James! You're pouring to much!" Sirius said, holding James hand over the potion, watching as the contents in the flask emptied. Their potion exploded, causing both the boys faces to turn black.

Raina burst out laughing.

"Nice faces, boys." She giggled, while they stared angrily at her.

"Stuff it, Scott!"

"Oh! I've got a good one... How many boys does it take to screw up a potion?" Raina was already giggling, barely containing herself. Everything just looked so funny, even the way the two boys moved.

"Don't even say it. Sirius help me clean this..." James said warningly. While Sirius glared.

"Only one! The other is too thick to notice!" True, the joke didn't sound as good as it sounded in her head. I'm hilarious, thought Raina. But, while the two boys just glared and she giggled away, holding herself up on the table. Starr looked at her from farther away across the room, laughing at her friend.

"You're so stoned." Black said, coming forward and looking at her eyes, trying to find out by the evidence and redness and the glassy look.

"What …? Hah, no...way," She said slowly. He rolled his eyes. "You so are."

She stared at him. "How can you tell?" She asked. Sirius chuckled darkly.

"Because you act like a complete dolt. Not to far from normal state, actually..."

"Watch your mouth!" Raina hissed, pointing her wand at him. He chuckled at her again, lowering her wand with his hand. Fuming, she glowered at him and returned to her potion.


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