November 17th 1995
Still got it, although I miss being partnered with Fred for quidditch, Sirius is quite good admittedly. Plus he punched one of the chasers who thought I was okay to flirt with me, then tell me not to mess up because I was a girl. I put a potion in his drink that night. He went red, I wonder how red he went, did the potion cover the downstairs area as well? Excuse me whilst I go vomit and wash out my brain to remove that imagery. Okay, I'm back. I spent some time exploring the castle, looking for things that are different. I found a few, for instance, the big tree by the bottom of the great lake that had the initials FW + FM carved into it, isn't there. Nor is the burnt down tree by Hagrids cabin, instead there's a peach tree. Also, there isn't as many house elves. Still a lot though. There isn't a queen shaped scorch mark in the Gryffindor common room. The dungeons are also darker and colder. that's about it really that I noticed. Everything else is the exact same. Seriously. How on earth can one place stay almost identical for so long? It's like…. Dude, change with the times.
Anyway, I got to go, I promised Lily I would help her pick out a dress for the party. Love Chess
A month of training, a month of preparation, a month of avoiding homework in order to train all comes down to this. The first Quidditch match of the season kicking of with Gryffindor VS Slytherin. It was also Frankie's first match as part of this team. She had made Beater and found she works well with Sirius as a team. Right now she was eating toast, burnt on the edges with a smile on her face "Bout time we got a girl on the team, the guys get so cocky" Marlene McKinnon said, filing her nails and smiling at the girl who's hair was currently a bright green. "What's green?" she wondered
"Determination. Means I'm going to take them down and my hair knows it" She shrugged, smiling slightly. "I'll force it to turn natural again in a moment" she added and Marlene laughed
"It's funny, you say you'll make it turn natural but you mean making it go purple" she chuckled.
"Fine, normal for me. God Mar, just cuz you can't handle my fabulousness" Frankie fake pouted in a dramatic way making the girls she was sitting with laugh. "I got to go, no doubt James will steal my bat and hit me with it if I'm late" she added
"I don't doubt that" Alice commented. As she watched her new friend walk out of the great hall.
"WE WON!" the Gryffindor team shouted, Frankie jumping onto Sirius's back as they walked back up to the castle not bothering to change out of there quidditch uniform. "I think it's safe to say we were amazing "Frankie smirked and the group all agreed. She had gotten a picture of the group together. She wanted to remember her time here.
"Come on, party in the common room" James called and Frankie jumped down from Sirius's back as they all sprinted towards the castle, ignoring Filch as he yelled at them. "Lets stop at the kitchen first" James offered and they did so, going into the kitchen. "Would you like to do the honours?" James asked Frankie with a fake bowed.
"I would be honoured to" She replied before she tickled the pear. They entered the kitchen and instantly house elves ran over and curtsied them. Frankie loved the Hogwarts house elves, they were just so cute. She knew a few of them from her own time.
An hour later Frankie was dancing with Lily, her muggle camera had been passed around the common room. A click alerted the two fifth years that the camera had made it's way into James's hands the picture printed and Frankie grabbed it form his hands, it was a great picture, lily's face was looking beautiful with a wide smile on it, green eyes shining, it caught her mid twirl so her skirt was slightly lifted and her hair was like wild flames dancing around her, Frankie to though she looked quite pretty, she was leaned forward a bit, laughing, she and Lily were both holding hand, half her face was covered with her hair like a curtain but her smile and bright blue eyes were still visible. "Wow, good picture James" Frankie complimented
"You know… it's not bad" Lily admitted, even giving James a small smile which made him beam, the camera was snatched away from him by Sirius and the smile was soon frozen forever in a photograph. Sirius had grabbed Frankie's hand and was pulling her over to where the marauders were, she was squeezed in-between him and Remus, putting a arms around both boys waist whilst there's went around her shoulders, Peter was sat next to Remus, smiling widely and James was behind them, arms stretched out from Sirius to Peter, holding the group together whilst Frank Longbottom took the picture. Frankie soon snatched her camera back, taking various snapshots of friends both with her in it and not. She loved the one where Gideon Prewett had her over his shoulder so her feet was in the air, purely for the gins on both there faces. It was one of the best parties of her life.
"Never again" Frankie groaned, her head rested on her arms at the great hall. She was still dressed in her pyjama's and she was wearing no makeup, her hair was grey and her skin was paler than normal. Lily was chuckling at her new friend.
"I told you not to drink so much" Lily reminded her, giggling when glared at.
"Yeah, thanks, you're a real Samaritan. Well you'll be please to know I've joined your 'I hate James potter' group, damn idiot giving me spiked jelly. You don't give a girl jelly and expect her to say no" She groaned. As she said this the boy in question sat opposite her, oblivious to Lily Evans glares, but then he always seemed to be anyway. He looked just as dreadful as Frankie did, but at least he had some form of school uniform on, his shirt was untucked, the top three buttons weren't done up, his trousers were too big like he put the wrong ones on, his tie was hung around his neck and odd socks were visible. When Sirius sat next to him, the same story could he seen, only difference was it appeared he made time to brush his hair and put the right trousers on.
"If it's any consolation to you Frankie, I hate me right now as well." Frankie looked up then let out a small smile.
"Yeah, that does help. What doesn't is that I made a whole load of hangover cure potion yesterday morning and somebody stole it. When I found who that snot nosed kid is I am going to poison them so bad the sorting hat will have a fit, declare me a Slytherin and then burst into flames" she threatened darkly.
"Note to self, Frankie gets scary when mad" Sirius said.
"Nah, that's just a woman thing, My friend James, other James, he used to call me cranky Frankie. Course I would curse him for it, but the name stuck" she smirked "Common then, best get to potions" she sighed sadly, holding her hands up for Lily to pull her up which she did but not before making sure the girl was reminded one again she did tell her not to drink so much.
Once seated in potions it was a fight for Frankie to stay awake, her warm cosy pyjamas didn't help much and neither did Slughorn telling the class they were going to be brewing a sleeping draught. Frankie raised her hand and the potions master called on her. With a yawn she started to speak. "Sir, due to lack of sleep, I think it would be mightily dangerous of me to brew this potion. Just saying" She said. James Potter scoffed, no way that would work.
"Well my dear girl, you're right of course five points to Gryffindor for initiative. If you could just sit at the back and read up on the theory of the sleeping draught then, that way you won't be inhaling the fumes" Slughorn smiled at her, she was a good potions student and a de' Mortem, he was attempting to get her into the Slugclub. James, Lily and Sirius watched in disbelief as she winked at them and went to sit in the back.
Looking at his best friend expression Remus smirked "It won't work" He told James who scoffed.
"Course it will" He shrugged before proceeding to repeat what Frankie said to the professor who frowned deeply at him.
"Now now mister Potter, don't try and get out of doing your work" Slughorn replied, James looked at the back of the dungeon to Frankie who winked at him, causing him to sulk at the injustice of it all. Severus Snape was the quickest with his potions. He was sat with a book when a girl with a dip dye looking hair of purple with grey tips sat next to him. He looked at the girl suspiciously, especially considering she was not only a Gryffindor but friends with Potter and the rest of the marauders.
"What's up Snape" she greeted in a bored tone. "You know, other than being all potion mastery" she added with a half smirk. Severus looked at her in confusion, why on earth was she talking to him?
"Why are you talking to me?" Snape finally asked and she looked at him amused.
"Cuz you're Lily's friend, and you don't seem all that terrible, you know, other than the fact your tie is green, got to admit though, most of my issues with slytherin stem form family issues" She shrugged carelessly, she was sleepy and the scent of the draught of peace potions wafting up her nose wasn't helping.
"Yes well, I don't particularly like Gryffindor either nor your friends, other than Lily of course" Snape quickly amended and Frankie chuckled in return.
"Hey look, already got something in common" She joked and Severus felt the corners of his lips twitch. "That was a smile, I win" She chuckled. "Now I'm going to sleep and as my new friend I hope you wake me up before Sluggy over there comes and shouts at me" she said, patting Snape on the shoulder, it was seconds before she was sleeping, using her potions book as a pillow. Although still sceptical about why she was talking to him, Severus did indeed wake her up before she could get into trouble.