Once all the other Gryffindors were in bed, Ashton, Teddy, Luca, Scorpius, and Blake snuck down to the Common Room and sat themselves by the roaring fireplace.
Blake leaned on his hand and drawled, "So, I bet your wondering if I'll tell everyone in the whole school that your a werewolf?"
Ashton and Teddy tensed up, "Will you?"
Blake bit out, "Of course not, besides who would believe me anyway? Certainly not any of the other first years. Though I'm pretty sure they heard the stories of , I don't think they would put his Lyncanthropy and you together."
They all gave a sigh of relief. "That's good, so wanna join our group since you know my secret?"
Blake grinned, "Thought you would never ask."
They all bid eachother good night, and went to bed.
In the morning the first years were wide awake and prepared to start their first day of magic.
The Maruauders ran down to the Great Hall and began shovelling food onto their plates. Ashton ate her strawberry creme-cheese crepes with gusto. Who wouldn't? It was bloody strawberries.
Luca, like last night, wasn't so sure about what was edible. He looked at Ashton's plate and studied her expression. He chose the same as her and gently placed it upon his plate. He gingerly picked up his fork and pressed into the crepe and placed the piece into his mouth.
His face scrunched up, it sure didn't seem as if he like it. He shoved his plate away and looked around the table. He saw a bowl of fruit and put some of that on his new plate that magically appeared and ate happily.
They continued like this for half an hour until Proffesor Malfoy walked down the isles with schedules in hand. He walked towards them, smirking as first years shrank away from him.
"A Lupin, you will be sharing your schedules with Luca. Scorpius and Blake will aslo be in that schedule as well." Then after patting his son on the head, he turned around with his robe billowing outwords, much like his godfather's once did.
They all looked at the single scrap of paper and smiled in delight of all the possibilities. They were finally learning magic!
They finished their breakfast and jumped away from the table and exited out of the hall. They walked down the halls of the school and made it to Transfigurations, taught by Lavender Brown.
They each sat two to a table, though they made sure to stay in the same row. But before that Teddy brought out some magical paper that their uncles gave to them for their birthday, along with the usual box of pranks.
He passed everyone a slip of paper and class began. Ashton tried to focus on the lesson, she really did, but when writing began to appear on her paper she couldn't help but stop paying attention to Professor Brown.
T: I'm so bored :
A: Oh shut up Sly -.-
B: This is so cool! :D
L: Hello. . .
Ashton gaped at the paper, unable to believe that the boy who saved her was actually talking, well writing, to them.
S: Oh look! Mer is actually finally talking to us.
A: Don't be mean Prowl! It's nice to finally be able to communicate with you Mer!
T: Ditto!
B: Especially after we all got soaked in the Lake xD
Luca blushed darkly, making him extremely adorable to the eye of many. They continued writing on the paper through out the day, played some pranks on unsuspecting Slytherins and got some detentions with Filch for them.
Hah they were only here for two days and they were already turning this school upside down.
A couple months had passed and the Maruaders practically knew the castle like the back of their hand. Everybody even knew not to cross them, since they had connections to the Weasley twins and everything.
Headmistress McGonagall knew she was going to have her hands full with these ones. Especially the twins. Looking at Ashton, she could deffinetly see her father on the girls face, expressions and emotions. Hopefully with the help of the Wolfsbane potion that Draco is creating, she won't get any grey hairs.
They were all determined to help Ashton through her lycanthropy, so Minerva gave the boys permission to go into the Restricted Section to sneak out a book on Anigamus Transformation.
Ashton, just like Remus, had no clue on what her brother and friends were doing but whenever she brought up the topic, they would just shove chocolate frogs in her faces.
She would every now and then try and get the information out of Luca but he would always change the topic, dragging her into a conversation about the fascinating facts of the Giant Squid in Black Lake.
She finally gave up once she noticed that she couldn't see her rib-cage anymore, but she knew that was going to change in a matter of days.
She didn't hate Lyncanphropy, she accepted it a long time ago. She felt it was another connection to her late father that she could cherish. Even if some prat invented the cure, she wouldn't take a single drop of it.
She walked down the hall of the fifth floor when she heard crying. Curious, she looked down the hall, but she noticed that nobody was there. She was just going to brush it off and go to the library when the crying was heard again.
She spun around and walked cautiously down the hall, but then she noticed a tapestry that had wind blowing from it. She gently pulled the tapestry aside and saw a girl with blonde hair and freckles on her pale face, she was wearing a ravenclaw uniform.
She instantly recognized her as Victorie Weasley, the daughter of a friend of her parents. Bill Weasley and Fleur Weasley.
Ashton kneeled down on the ground and tapped Victorie on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
Victorie rubbed her face and sniffled, "N-no, I am afraid, I am not alright." She stated rather simply, her voice laced with a slight french accent that she had inherited from her mother.
She looked down at the Ravenclaw and pulled her up, "What's wrong then? Your at a magical place! You shouldn't be sad or crying your heart out. You should be smiling and laughing to a jolly tune, or sipping tea with that Hagrid bloke."
The blonde girl snapped at her, "Well, pardon me if not everyone can have such an easy time as you Maruaders. At least you don't have any backstabbing friends Lupin."
The Gryffindor looked at her incredulously, "W-what?! Who the bloody hell would do that to you, Vicky?"
Victoire rubbed at her sore eyes, and latched onto Ashton, "A-all of my friends, they just wanted to be friends with me, because of my grades."
Ashton's nostrils flared up in anger, as flecks of amber appeared in her eyes, "Those right gits! They are going to be pranked i assure you."
Victoire brightened up at the mention of a revenge prank and they jumped into a plan, later informing the others about it.
They all agreed immediatly and they put their plan into action.
The next day the students at each table were enjoying the delicious meal that the house-elves prepared for them.
But six of these meals were tampered with. Two at Gryffindor (the horror), three at hufflepuff, and one at Ravenclaw (and they all say their genius's).
For half n' hour nothing happened, and Victoire was beginning to doubt anything would. But that stopped when her 'friends' screamed and fell out of their seats, eyes wide in fear and suprise.
They pointed their fingers at thin air, wailing, "D-D-D-DEMONS!"
Student's stopped what they were doing to stare incredulously at the first years. They were pointing at nothing for Merlin's sake.
Headmistress McGonnagal shot out of her seat, and flared her nostrils, eyes sharp and narrow as a hawk, "What on earth is going on?"
One of the Gryffindors whimpered, and they soiled themselves.
The great hall burst into manic laughter, but the Maruaders, plus Victoire looked guilty. They shared a look and silently vowed that they wouldn't do a prank that bad ever again, unless they truly deserved it.