Chapter 7! Enjoy :)
McGonagall looked quite scary at the moment. Sirius tried to hide behind James, but James stepped out of the way of Sirius.
"Hello boys," said McGonagall in an angry tone.
"H-hello," replied Sirius.
"Spreading rumors are we?" asked McGonagall.
"We're not spreading rumors, we're trying to protect our friends," said James.
"IF the ministry heard this rumor, they might think it's about the-"
"War?" interrupted Sirius.
"Yes!" roared McGonagall.
"Tell us about what war," said James.
"Do not try and change the subject Potter," said McGonagall.
Lily was standing there scared, but no one was more terrified than Peter. Lily looked at the clock, it was 1:45 PM.
"Professor, may I leave? I need to get to my next class," asked Lily.
"And which class is that?" asked McGonagall.
"Transfiguration," said Lily quietly.
McGonagall ran out the room, remembering that she had a class to get ready for.
"Thanks Lily," said Sirius.
"I didn't remind her for you," said Lily. She left the room, she was walking in the hall way when she met Severus.
"Oh...hey Lily," said Severus.
"Hello Severus," said Lily smiling and nodding.
"Been a while," said Severus.
"Yea," said Lily chuckling.
"Too busy with your Gryffindor friends," blurted out Severus by mistake.
"No, you're too busy with your Slytherin friends!" Exclaimed Lily; surprised that Severus would say something like that. Severus stomped off, not looking back at Lily even once. They were both quite hurt. Severus used to wait out of the Gryffindor common room so that they could get to class together, he hadn't waited to Lily for a while now. Lily sighed, and then continued walking, when she bumped into Evanna.
"Oops…sorry Lily!" Exclaimed Evanna.
"It's fine," said Lily.
"Why are you feeling sad?" asked Evanna. Evanna actually knew it had something to with Severus.
How does she know I'm upset? Thought Lily.
"No reason, just tired," lied Lily.
"Oh…I really scared Sirius yesterday," said Evanna as she laughed.
"Mmhmm," said Lily as she wondered about if Evanna knew about that dark witch thing. "I don't think you're evil, but how did you know about Sirius?" asked Lily after a few minutes of silence.
"I just know stuff," said Evanna, which was the truth.
They got to class, and decided to sit together. In front of every seat was an animal. The animals were all birds. I front of Lily's seat, there was a crow, a robin in front of Sirius's seat, and a crow was also in front James. The first year Gryffindors were all giving Evanna weird glances. The only Gryffindor, beside Lily, that was normal toward Evanna was Remus. Evanna decided she rather sit with a Slytherin than receive weird looks from everyone. She sat down next to Beth.
"Nice of you to join us," said Beth coldly.
"What do you mean?" asked Evanna.
"You're a Slytherin, then why aren't you loyal to your house?" asked Beth.
Evanna stared at Beth, speechless.
"Welcome students," said McGonagall.
A few Gryffindors nodded at McGonagall, none of the Slytherins showed any respect toward her.
"Now, today we will be transforming these birds into water goblets," said McGonagall. "You tap your wand three times, and then Fera Verto," said McGonagall as she turned a bird into a water goblet. There were some "oohs," from the class.
"Peter, try the spell," said McGonagall.
There was a look of hesitation on his face. He confronted his bird, tapped his wand three times.
"Fera Verto," said Peter.
Nothing happened to the goblet, which made Peter turn pink. McGonagall sighed.
"Sirius, you try," said McGonagall.
"Fera Verto," said Sirius, a grin on his face.
The goblet transformed perfectly. All the students in the room tried transforming their birds into water goblet, only some succeeded. Evanna had surprisingly done a pretty god job, it took a few tries, but she got it. James was particularly good at transfiguration, so it was pretty easy for him. After an hour McGonagall spoke.
"Good, your homework is to practice this spell, and read the first two chapters of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration which talks about the spell," said McGonagall. "Class dismissed,"
"Get the spell? But that's too hard," complained Peter.
"Well then, you should get practicing," said McGonagall.
Sirius snickered. "That's pretty easy," he said smiling.
"Yea, but muggle studies." Said James as he sighed.
"Just ask for help from someone," said Sirius.
"And who would that be?" asked James.
"Not sure," said Sirius.
They left the classroom, to get to the Gryffindor Common Room. When they got there, they saw Elmory sitting there, and she was muggle born. Sirius grinned at James, and James grinned back.
"You thinking' what I'm thinking mate?" asked Sirius.
James nodded in reply. They slowly walked up to Elmory-who was doing her Muggle Studies homeword.
Perfect. thought James.
"Hello Elmory," said James.
"Huh? Oh..hello," said Elmory as she blushed. James took advantage of this.
"You have really nice handwriting," said James as he leaned over to see her homework.
"Errm thanks," said Elmory.
"Hey, if you're not busy of course, would you help me with my homework?" asked James.
There was a moment of silence; Elmory couldn't believe what James had just asked her.
"James," came Remus from behind. "You must do your own homework," he said.
"But it's impossible! Have YOU done it," James replied.
"Yes, it's quite easy," replied Remus.
Feeling awkward, Elmory left and went up to the Girls' Dormitory.
"Remus, please, I need help," said James.
"Why don't you ask Lily for help?" said Sirius. Sirius knew Lily didn't like James, and James didn't like Lily. Sirius and James both started laughing at once.
"What's so funny?" asked Peter who had now emerged from the Boys Dormitory.
"Asking Lily for help," said Sirius as he laughed.
"That's actually not funny, we both did our Muggle Studies homework together," said Remus.
The laughing stopped. Peter left the room, since he had nothing to do there at the moment.
"So you can help us?" asked James.
"No, I'm a bit busy tonight," said Remus staring at the clock. "Lily. She's really easy to make friends with, she's really nice," said Remus as he left the room to go to the library. He wanted to be left alone right now. When he was almost there, he saw a plump boy cowering against the wall. There were two other boys pointing wands at him and calling him names, he also saw Severus, but Severus was just standing there keeping watch. Remus ran back to get a teacher, when he bumped into James and Sirius who were stalking him.
"Whoa there, where ya headed?" asked Sirius.
"I need to get a teacher, Peter," said Remus.
Remus didn't stay to explain anything; he got up and started running again.
"Umm what?" asked Sirius.
"Dunno," said James.
They walked some more, when they saw what Remus was talking about.
"Hey!" yelled James
The three boys, Mulciber, Avery and Severus turned around. Their faces suddenly wore a worried expression.
"Yea?" asked Mulciber, trying to sound tough.
"Leave him alone," said Sirius.
"Why? This fat kid's your friend?" asked Mulciber, as Avery snickered.
"Yea, got a problem with that?" asked Sirius.
"That's what I would expect from a couple of blood traitors like yourself," said Avery.
"FLIPENDO!" Shouted James and Sirius at the same time, Mulciber and Avery flew back, and hit the wall. They both passed out; Severus ran out of the scene. James and Sirius stared at their wands, then at the passed out bodies.
"Shoot," said James, as he threw his wand on the ground.
Evanna had just entered, and her eyes opened wide when she saw the bodies.
"Are they…are they dead?" asked Evanna/.
"Umm no, they just passed out," said Sirius.
"Oh yea, they can't be dead," said Evanna, forcing a laugh.
Right then Remus arrived with McGonagall. The first thing they saw were the bodies on the ground, and Sirius and James above them. Remus made an "o" with his mouth.
"Ooh, you're in trouble," said Evanna. Sirius and James gave Evanna a death stare.
"Boys! What have you done!" asked McGonagall.
Peter had been cowering in the corner the whole time, when he finally built up the courage to speak.
` "I-I can explain," muttered Peter.
James and Sirius stared at him in surprise, but no one was more surprised than Evanna. Peter was the biggest coward she knew, and he was standing up to McGonagall.
"Then please do so Mr. Pettigrew," said McGonagall.
"These two were calling me names, and then James jumped in and saved me," said Peter.
Sirius' mouth hung open wide, and James raised his eye-brow. He didn't jump anywhere,
"Actually, Professor, Peter was being bullied by these two disgusting Slytherins, then Sirius and I came to help, "said James.
"Helping doesn't mean knocking your opponent un-conscious, it means go get a teacher," said McGonagall.
"They would've ran away by then!" said Sirius.
"Take these two to Madam Pomfrey," said McGonagall.
The boys could tell by McGonagall's facial expression that the conversation had ended. James and Sirius plugged their noses with one hand, and then dragged them with one arm with the other hand. McGonagall sighed, trying to hide the smile that was forming. The three boys went back to the Gryffindor common room to relax for a while.
"How many minutes?" asked James.
"Till what?" asked Sirius.
"Flying class," said James with a wide grin on his face.
"Fifteen!" exclaimed Sirius.
They were looking really forward to flying class. They decided to play a game of exploding Snap to pass the time. Even while playing exploding snap, ten minutes seemed like an hour.
"Five minutes left!" yelled Sirius,
James smiled widely.
"Let's go mate!" he said.
The two ran out to where flying classes were supposed to be held, they had class with-the Slytherins. James sighed; he had to put up with Slytherins for the whole year. The Slytherins would probably somehow mess this up too.
"Welcome young Gryffindors and Slytherins," said the teacher. She had purple hair and red eyes. She looked younger than Madam Hooch did when she was teaching here, must be her mother. Before Madam Hooch became flying teacher. "Today we will be learning the basics, everyone stand on the left side of your broom,"
The students did as they were told, some were rolling their eyes just for fun.
"Now, put your right hand out, and say up," said the professor.
"Up!" Everyone shouted.
James' broom went up the second time he tried, and Sirius only took five attempts.
"Up," said Evanna; nothing happened. "Up," she said a little more fiercely. "Up!" she said, half shouting. "UP!" she yelled. "I ORDER YOU! UP!" she screamed.
Everyone was staring at Evanna, and some people were trying to hold back laughs. The teacher cleared her throat.
"You are meant to call the broomstick, not shout at it. Like so; up," said the professor. The broomstick went straight up into the professor's hand.
"Like so," Evanna muttered under her breath.
"Anything you would like to say?" asked the Professor.
"No," said Evanna, throwing the professor a glare.
The professor smiled at Evanna, which made Evanna hate her even more. The professor looked at her watch, and there were only five minutes left of class.
"Just a reminder, the Quidditch teams are looking for more players, it's very unlikely a first year will make it in, but anything can happen at Hogwarts," said the Professor. "Class dismissed,"
She was right, anything could happen at Hogwarts.
"Quidditch?" asked Severus to himself.
Sirius and James started laughing hard.
"You thinking of joining? Your hair will probably be all over the place," said James.
"You can't even ride a broom!" exclaimed Sirius.
Lily started getting really angry. She was going to shout, but she decided to save it for the common room.
"Professor, when are Quidditch auditions?" asked James, once the place had cleared out a little. The professor smiled.
"Come back in an hour," she said, slightly chuckling.
"Thanks," said James. Sirius and James walked to their dormitory.
"SHOOT!" yelled Sirius; they were right outside of the Gryffindor common room.
"What?" asked James.
"Homework, if we go to Quidditch try outs, then we eat dinner, we won't really have time for homework. We usually do fun stuff at night," said Sirius with a grin.
"What fun stuff?" came Evanna's voice from behind. Evanna's face wore a wide grin.
"Shut up you!" yelled Sirius, trying to hold back his laugh.
"A little young for that sort of stuff?" asked Scott, who had just emerged out of nowhere. Evanna rolled her eyes, and then laughed.
"Aren't you a little old to be eavesdropping?" asked Evanna. She knew the answer; you can never be too old to eavesdrop.
"No, and shouldn't you be in another common room?" asked Scott, he had her there. Evanna muttered something, and left.
"Evanna wait!" yelled Sirius.
Evanna stopped talking and turned around.
"What are you doing?" whispered James.
"Watch and learn," said Sirius.
"What?" asked Evanna.
"Have you done your Muggle studies homework yet?" asked Sirius,
"Oh! So now you want help from the dark witch?" asked Evanna, who was very offended.
"Evanna…we're friends, I wasn't really serious about that," said Sirius.
"But you ARE Sirius," said Evanna, with a devilish grin.
Sirius gasped, his mouth opened wide.
"Evanna! You used MY joke against me, we are no longer friends," said Sirius, who was making things way more dramatic than they had to be. Evanna rolled her eyes.
"Sirius, we were never friends," said Evanna.
"Evanna. Don't do this to me, how can you say that?" asked Sirius.
Evanna walked away, leaving Sirius just sitting there.
"Nice," said James laughing. "Now, watch a professional," he said with a grin. Sirius followed James to the library, since that's where Evanna would usually go. They saw her there, sitting in the corner reading a book.
"The library?" asked Sirius, with a dramatic tone.
"It's the only way," said James, looking to his side.
Sirius nodded, shutting his eyes tight. They both walked up to the table where Evanna was sitting, and awkwardly stood there.
"You're blocking my light, what do you want?" asked Evanna with a firm tone.
"Evanna, please, we need your help," said James.
"No," said Evanna.
James looked at Evanna sadly.
Damn, they're hot thought Evanna. Stay strong Ev, stay strong.
"No…I said no," said Evanna.
"Why not?" asked Sirius.
"Because, you two are jerks," said Evanna.
"How are we jerks?" asked James.
"Yea, we're the sweetest people you'll ever meet," said Sirius with a sarcastic tone.
"Oh yea," said Evanna, even more sarcastically.
Remus came from behind, holding a small little book.
"Here's the book you wanted-oh," said Remus, stopping when he saw Sirius and James.
"I thought you were busy," said Sirus.
"I was busy, still am," said Remus.
"Then what are you doing here in the library?" asked Sirius.
"Waiting," said Remus.
"For?" asked James.
A look of hesitation passed Remus's face.
"He's waiting! Now leave him alone!" exclaimed Evanna.
People in the library glared at Evanna, and the librarian told her to quiet down.
"Sorry," Evanna whispered.
"Fine then," said James as he stormed out of the library. Sirius followed James, till they got to the end of the hallway.
"Okay, what now?" asked Sirius.
"Oh, she'll help us al right," said James with a grin,
"Got a plan mate?" asled Sirius,
"Yup," said James.
"Well…are you gonna tell me?" said Sirius laughing.
"Just watch mate, just watch," said James. James walked away, leaving Sirius confused.
"MATE!" yelled Sirius.
"What," asked James.
"Quidditch," he said in quiet voice.
The two boys ran as fast as they could outside to where the Quidditch try-outs were being held. They pushed people in the hallways, and received many glares. To their surprise, they were still going on. There were only a few people left now, Sirius and James ran to get in line. The Professor smiled when she saw them, she actually wasn't expecting them to show up.
"Sirius, what are you trying out for?" asked the Professor. "Oh wait, aren't you first years? I am so sorry, first years can't try out," said the Professor. Siriuss and James walked to the Great Hall in a very cross mood.
"Wonder where he is," whispered James.
"Dunno," said Sirius.
Evanna walked into the Great Hall and sat at the Slytherin table. The person closest to her was Beth, and Beth was sitting three feet away from Evanna.
"Beth," said Evanna with a sigh.
"Yea?" asked Beth.
"What' wrong with everyone?" asked Evanna.
Bet moved closer to Evanna, so that she could whisper in her ear.
"What's wrong is that-"began Beth.
"-is that I'm muggle-born?" asked Evanna.
"No, I honestly don't care about that stuff," whispered Beth talking so quiet that only Evanna could hear her.
"Really?" asked Evanna surprised.
"Yea, but what's wrong is that you're not loyal to your house," said Beth.
"Ugh, sorry, I will be now, friends?" asked Evanna.
"Yes," answered Beth with a smile.
"Thanks," said Evanna, returning a smile. Evanna was desperate for a friend at the moment, she had Lily and Remus, but they were Gryffindors. She needed a Slytherin friend. Severus entered the Great Hall and sat down in front of Evanna.
"Hello," said Evanna.
Severus nodded back at Evanna. Evanna ate feeling much better than she was just ten minutes ago.