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Chapter 7! Yay! Hmm now where was I? Ah yes, the prank.
And before i do anything, last time i tried doing notes, my bolding stuffed up, sorry if it happens again. Oh and I'm sorry, but i forgot Remus was meant to be a prefect, so let's pretend he always was.
Effie Pov
I was pissed. I had finally mustered the courage to go up to the Divination teacher to ask what my little 'vision' was about and Sirius wasn't even there to encourage me. I haven't seen any of the Marauders for days. They've been locked in their room day and night, only coming out for meals and class. Even in class they sat in the back of the classroom, passing notes writing what looked like plans on scrap bits of paper. They all had bags under their eyes, but refused to tell us why they were all staying up so late. It was all very odd.
I have been putting off going to the Divination teacher ever since I had the dream. But now there was only a week left of school before the holidays, one of those days a Hogsmeade trip, and thought it was best to get it over and done with before the holidays.
I sighed, deciding it was best that I just go now, while I still of the courage. I dragged myself up to the North Tower (having never taken the subject myself I had to ask Lily where it was.) I was soon at the very top and there was no classroom insight, Lily told me something about this but I couldn't remember what, curse my short term memory! I looked around, then down and up. There was a trapdoor, almost like an attic door on the ceiling.
"How the fuck do I get up there?" I said angrily. Almost as if the trapdoor was answering my question, it opened and revealed an old, steep ladder. Carefully I climbed up them, unsure whether they would be strong enough to take my weight. I finally made it up the ladder and into a circular room. Rugs and cushions covered all the walls and most of the floor. It was boiling hot in here, despite the cold air outside and it smelled strongly of perfume. (A/n that's just how I imagine it, I dunno if jk described it in the book).
"Who are you?" A voice came from behind a bookshelf. It was a soft voice and oddly calming. Lily told me her name was Professor Carrozza or something.
"My names Effie Fraiser" I said timidly "I need to talk to you about a kind of vision I had."
Professor Carrozza yelped and pushed herself out of the small space in between the bookshelf and the wall.
"Tell me about it dear!"She looked very excited. I told her in detail about the dream I had
"-and then I told Sirius about it and he said it was true." I finished. Professor Carrozza frowned.
"I have never experienced something like this, but I have heard about it. Do you have err... strong feelings for this boy?" She asked.
I figured I might as well tell the truth if I'm going to get a correct answer. "I used to, but now we're just friends."
"Are you very close friends?"
"Not very close, but pretty close yeh."
"Well, this must have been a very important moment in this boy's life, and sometimes, a person they are extremely, err, close to witness it." She finished. "And sometimes an enemy witnesses it to understand the person and maybe why they were treating eachother like this."
"Well we didn't like eachother when I had the dream, but this did bring us together. What do you mean made for eachother" I asked curiously.
"It isn't always love" thank god! I didn't want to have Sirius as my lifelong partner or whatever. "Does any of this make sense dear?" Professor Carrozza asked.
"Yeh, kinda. Thank you so much for your time." I got up and walked, or rather climbed down the trapdoor. That was weird.
I was walking to the Great Hall when somebody called for me from behind.
"Effie! EFFIE! God I've been looking for you everywhere!" Zach was running up to me. What a Sex god! His t-shirt was getting blown into his body, shaping it perfectly. It was a very nice body. He was carrying his jacket and his hair looked very messy.
"Hey! Sorry about that, I was in the North Tower." I said "Talk about a trek!"
"You don't take Divination. Do you?" He said. Shit!
"Err yeh. I have a painting up there that's my... friend." I said lamely.
"You have friends that are paintings?" Uh oh, he thinks I'm a retard. "You are full of mysteries Effie, that's what I like about you." He actually believed that? I laughed.
"So, you want to go to lunch or...?" I winked at him seductively.
"OR!" He yelled and dragged me away, both of us laughing.
James Pov
"OR!" Zachary fucking Riley dragged my innocent cousin away to do god knows what with her!
"They can't get enough of eachother can they? I'm such a match-maker!" Sirius grinned, I glared and stomped into the Great Hall.
"Cheer up Prongsie! It's a Hogsmeade weekend next weekend, why don't you ask Lily, she might say yes" Of course she won't. She thinks I'm a self centred freak. "And there's our special, end of term prank we've been working on for hours!" I smiled, the prank will be great!
"Yeh" I said smiling. "And I think I will ask Lily out, she needs a healthy dose of love and commitment." Sirius rolled his eyes. He's been so weird lately, one minute he's talking about how he wants somebody real, next minute he's bagging us out for being so caught up with just one girl. It's like he can't choose which one is better anymore.
I sat down next to my dearest Lily and smiled at her. "Lily, I don't think you know how much I care for you and I think you should give me a chance to show you by going to Hogsmeade with me this weekend" Sneaky, I thought to myself. I didn't use the phrase 'go out with me' so she might be fooled.
"That is the biggest load of bull I have ever heard Potter." Lily snapped "I'm going to the library, didn't you won't to go Alice?" Alice nodded and looked at me sympathetically. Lily walked briskly out of the Hall, Alice trying to catch up with her. I put my head on the table
"Why is my life so shit?" I moaned.
"Cheer up James!" Hazel said.
"Yeh James, Lily just doesn't know what she's missing out on!" Sirius encouraged. "So, now that that plan is a bust, who are you going to ask next?" Sirius had no tact.
"I might just go alone, I need to go Christmas shopping anyway, don't you guys?" I asked wearily.
"Nope, I order my stuff." Hazel said happily.
"Same" Sirius and Remus said. I looked shocked, how could they be so organised.
"Well I'm going with sweet Jenny!" Sirius said happily.
"Have you asked her?" Hazel asked curiously. Jenny was a sixth year Gryffindor and was pretty popular and you usually had to book a week in advance, Hogsmeade was especially hard.
"Not yet." Sirius got up and shouted across the table "Come to Hogsmeade with me Jenny?"
"Ok" She giggled, then turned to her friends who squealed. The boys surrounding her looked pretty annoyed and disappointed.
"I didn't think she was your type Padfoot" Remus said.
"I told you, I want a real girl, she's pretty interesting to. She's into the photography thing." Sirius said cheerfully. "Who are you going with Remus?"
"Nobody yet"
"Me either!" Hazel said quickly. I rolled my eyes, Remus was so blind. Sirius winked at him and mouthed "ask her" Remus shook his head.
"Why don't we go together James? You, me and Hazel?"
"I don't think so."
"But you just said you were going alone!"
"I want to go alone!" I said. Remus glared at me, he obviously wanted to go with Hazel, but thought that if I was there he could make it a friend thing if she wasn't interested. Hazel looked slightly put out.
"Come on guys lets go to Transfiguration." We all stood up and left the hall. Sirius was flirting with Hazel in front of Remus and me, trying to provoke Remus into asking her.
"Remus, just fucking ask her." I hissed.
"What if she rejects me?" He whispered back. "It will ruin our friendship."
"Then say you meant it as friends!"
"N- Hey, that's a good idea. I'll do it now." Remus beamed. He sat down next to Hazel, who blushed.
Me and Sirius sat together, I grinned at him. "He's asking her now" I mouthed.
"Finally!" Sirius practically shouted, some girls giggled, he winked at them and they screamed. Annoying much?
Lily and Alice arrived and sat at the table in front of us. Yay! Now I can stare at Lily's amazing hair. Effie ran in after them, diving into the nearest seat she could find, her hair sticking out in different directions, I glowered at her.
"She's coming!" She called to the class, everybody shut up instantly.
Professor McGonagall walked into class and began the lesson, I zoned out almost instantly. Sirius was doodling on a scrap bit of parchment. It was a picture of stick figures with pizzas as heads. There was a line drawn down the middle and a fortress on either side. Cannons were shooting pizzas and archers were shooting what looked like anchovies, he had charmed it to make it a real life pizza war. There was a title at the top saying "Pizza wars, who will win!" I rolled my eyes, he was so childish sometimes.
I decided to pass notes to Lily, it was always amusing.
Hey Lily-Flower, why won't you ever go out with me?
She glared and wrote back:
Because you're not my type.
You've never even given me a chance
And I never will.
Not even a quick session in an empty classroom.
No
A classroom in use?
No
Great Hall?
No!
Shrieking Shack?
Fuck no!
Love shack? ;)
Leave me alone!
I sighed and started to listen to Minnie. Oh god, my life really is shit!
Remus Pov
This is it Remus, you are going to ask Hazel Davies out right now! I timidly got a bit of spare parchment out and began to write:
Anyone asked you to Hogsmeade yet?
No, I told you
Oh, yeh..
...
So, do you want to go with me?
Like a date?
Damn did she have to ask that question!
Yeh, I guess
I'd love to!
What? Did she just accept?
Cool.
Oh god, did I just ask her out while passing notes?
Hazel Pov
I can't believe I'm going to Hogsmeade with Remus! As soon as classes are over I raced over to Alice, Hazel and Effie, who had somehow already got up to the common room, and told them the news.
"Are you serious? That's great!" Lily exclaimed
"You're so lucky!"
"Yeh, Remus is a great guy!"
"Zach still hasn't asked me" Effie looked slightly put out.
"Give it time" Alice said.
"It's tomorrow!"
"Greg asked me this morning, it was so cute!" Lily sighed, trying to lighten the mood and failing miserably.
"Everything about your relationship is cute, have you even hooked up yet?"
"Yes, where do you think I was last night?" Lily said, she blushed after she realised what she said.
"Effie, come to the kitchens with me?" James's voice came from behind me.
"But dinners in an hour!" She looked grumpily.
"Then you don't have to have any food" James dragged Effie out of the common room.
Effie Pov
James walked me to the kitchens in silence. Finally we got there, he tickled the pear and the portrait opened, revealing a kitchen with little house elves running around in it.
"Wow" I said softly.
"Never been here?" James said.
"Nope."
"You'll love it, watch this. Um, I'll have some roast lamb, from last night thank you."
"Of course Master James" A house elf squeaked. Next minute there was a plate of delicious looking lamb in James hands.
"And for you miss...?"
"Effie" James said.
"Miss Effie?"
"No thank you, I think I'll wait to dinner, it looks delicious." I said smiling, the house elves beamed at me.
"What do you want?" I said, turning back to James.
"I just wanted to spend time with my cousin" James smiled weakly at me.
"I repeat, what do you want?"
"Ok, ok. I just want to say, that Zach isn't right for you and you should break things off with him before it's too late." James said quickly. How dare he suggest that I break up with my boyfriend, he is my boyfriend right?
"How do you know he's my boyfriend?" I teased, he looked outraged.
"You go off to snog him every second of the day!"
"So?"
"Effie! You were like this before and with Sirius and look where that got you! You didn't date anyone for half a year! You always fall for these types of boys, Tom dumped you in forth year claiming he was bored, Sirius cheated on you in fifth year and now in sixth year your dating almost exactly the same type of guy, what do you think is going to happen?" James looked almost pleadingly at me. I knew he was right, kind of. Sirius was much more to me than any of my past boyfriends.
"That's only three of my boyfriends, and Zach is different." I said, not adding that Zach hasn't asked me to Hogsmeade yet or to be his boyfriend, I wondered if he just assumed we were.
"Ok, whatever, just don't say I didn't warn you! I also wanted to ask you something." James said the last part rather sheepishly.
"Shoot."
"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to... well, help me with... Lily" He said, becoming very interested in his lamb.
"Ok, what do you want to know?" I said cheerfully, happy to play matchmaker.
"I want her to see I'm not some arrogant berk"
"That's kind of hard seeing you are one."
"Effie!"
"Ok, ok. Well, why don't you get her some kind of personal Christmas present or something." I wish Zach would be thoughtful like that.
"Ok! I'm going Christmas shopping on Saturday, so I'll be able to find it then!" James said happily. He quickly finished off his lamb and said "Let's go to dinner, I'm starving!"
"You just finished that roast lamb!" I cried. James shrugged and pretty much dragged me to the Great Hall. He sat down and started to load food onto his plate. I stared at him gobsmacked.
"Stop staring at me!" He whined "You're ruining my appetite!" I rolled my eyes and laughed before picking a steak and putting it onto my plate. I didn't notice anything wrong at first, but as more and more Slytherins started to come into dinner, the more apparent it was. Slytherins started to yell with shock and try and get other tables food. I stood up to see what the commotion was. All their food was green and the food that was meant to be green was silver, it even shined in the light. One Slytherin first year tired to pick up Ravenclaws peas, but they catapulted at him, hitting him in the eyes and chasing after him as he ran from the Great Hall screaming.
Narcissa Black tried to grab the mashed potato, but it smothered her face, trying to suffocate her. I looked at the Marauders, who were in fits of laughter. Even Lily was trying hard not to crack a smile. I sat back down, laughing as well.
"You boys don't have anything to do with this do you?" I said
"Of course!" Sirius said cheerfully.
"How? And why?" Alice laughed.
"Well, Slytherins were always so proud of their house colours, even after they left school they stuck to the colour scheme. So we decided maybe they'd want their food to be green and silver too." Remus grinned mischievously.
"Honestly Remus, you're a prefect! And what about the attacking food?" Lily's eyes narrowed at James, who gulped.
"That was my idea, just for fun." He regained control and winked at her, she rolled her eyes and I suppressed a snort. I can't wait til she realises that if she goes out with him once he'll shut up and stop annoying her.
"I thought it was a really thoughtful prank Remus" Hazel said "I bet you made up most of the spells" I hate it when she acts like this. She sounds like one of the Marauders fan girls. Remus went red.
"Don't be thick Hazel. I made up most of them." Sirius boasted loudly. Honestly, that boy has no tact.
"You wish Sirius, you tried to get a piece of bacon to hit a first year once and when it didn't work you gave up and sulked for the rest of the day." James said, laughing. Sirius glared at him.
"Anyway, so who's going with who to the Hogs of Meade?" Sirius changed the subject hastily.
"Greg" Lily said, James grimaced.
"Frank" Alice said, Frank turned around, hearing his name and she blew him a kiss.
"Remus" Hazel beamed.
"Hazel"
"Jenny!" Sirius answered his own question. "And obviously Effie with Zach"
"Err" I went pink, this is so embarrassing!
"What? But Hogsmeade is tomorrow!" Sirius said.
"I know that! He probably wants to go with his friends, its fine I'll just go with James." I said gloomily.
"Ok, so what about Quidditch season, everybody excited?" James tried to steer the conversation away from me. I just sulked in the background, I knew it was stupid but I couldn't help it.
We all got up to go to class. I headed to potions, egh! Sirius always went all weird in this subject, I used to think it was a nice change when we didn't get along, but now it's just weird, he treats me like he used to when we were going out. Sometimes it made me regret going out with Zach or wishing he would be more like Sirius, but as soon as we were out of that classroom Sirius was back to his usual self again, being my friend instead of my crush.
Finally the bell went. Sirius walked outside and breathed in heavily, shaking his head. We walked up to the Gryffindor tower, as soon as I opened the portrait hole Zach was at my side.
"Hey Effie!" He said merrily.
"Hey Zach" I said dully.
"Listen, sorry I'm so late about this and I hope you aren't already busy, but do you want to go to Hogsmeade together?"
"Of course." I smile and he kissed me.
"Let's go for a 'walk'" I said grinning. We walked out the door, holding hands "See you later Sirius" I called over my shoulder.
I hope you liked the prank, i was feeling the pressure.. if i disappoint you im sorry
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