Padfootlet: And here is this week's update! –Throws confetti around-
Remus: …you're only updating to avoid reading….
Padfootlet: -grumble- first Roy Mustang and now you…eesh will you two get off my back?
Roy: it's fun though
Padfootlet: WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE YOU'RE A FULL METAL ALCHEMIST CHARACTER NOT HP!
Roy: …so? I'm the all powerful flame alchemist I can do what ever I want… anyway…she owns nothing….
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"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure"-Luna Lovegood
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"I hate Tuesdays." Sirius whined, sitting down at the Gryffindor table for breakfast.
"Why?" Korimi asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Double Potions with the Slytherins and Lucifer himself." Sirius muttered darkly.
"Hn…" Korimi took a few eggs and spooned them onto her plate. "Sounds like fun."
"Oh loads…especially after yesterday's Quidditch practice." James said bitterly.
"Did something happen?" Peter asked, shoveling some French toast into his mouth.
Sirius and James glared over at the Slytherin table where a few of their Quidditch team members were laughing about something. "Something happened all right." James said. "The Slytherin bastards showed up at our practice."
Remus shot him a confused look. "They've been to your practices before. Why would yesterday be any different?"
"Because…" Vickie, Lily and Ani showed up on the other side of the table and sat down. "They took it a step further yesterday by trying to curse us off our brooms…" Vickie explained. She was the Seeker on the Gryffindor team.
"We had to end practice because we had to take both Anacara and Gatz to the hospital wing." Sirius said.
Remus looked at Vickie, who shrugged. "I'm fine. Nothing but a few bumps and bruises. But Gatz is still in the hospital. I only fell about 10 feet. He fell about 50."
The group finished their breakfast and grudgingly headed down to Potions (except Peter who didn't' get into N.E.W.T Potions and was taking Muggle Studies.). Remus and Korimi sat next to each other while James and Sirius sat in the very back row right behind them.
The dungeon door slammed shut as the professor, clad in black robes, glided creepily into the cold classroom. He had black hair that went past his shoulders, pale skin, and beady black eyes that had a crimson red rim around the irises. Rumors were tossed around the school that he was a vampire (some say he even had fangs). Immediately, the class fell silent. No one messed with Professor Ashford, even the Slytherins who were in his own house. He detested everyone. It was just a known fact.
"Unfortunately I have you for two periods today." He sneered, and waved his wand at the blackboard behind him. "The instructions for the potion you are brewing are on the board…I want a sample at the end of class…now move it!" He sat at his desk and began to grade papers, muttering about incompetent dunderheads as he failed yet another student.
Everyone began to light fires under their cauldrons as their partners grabbed ingredients from the storage cupboard.
"He seems nice." Korimi muttered sarcastically to Remus as he set the ingredients on the table.
"Yes isn't he?" Remus grinned at her before turning to the board. He blinked in surprise.
Korimi looked at him strangely. "What?"
He turned towards her. "We're making a truth potion…it's almost as potent as Veritaserum by the looks of the ingredients…"
"I thought you weren't good at this subject Moony." Sirius muttered.
Remus grinned. "Vickie's been helping me out a bit because I've been helping her with Charms." He muttered back. They had to be quiet because Ashford was a Nazi about people talking in his class.
"I bet that's not all you're helping her with." James muttered jokingly into Sirius ear.
"I heard that Prongs.' Remus said before turning back to Korimi who was trying hard to hide her amusement. "Shut it Korimi."
"Didn't say a thing." She said. "Anyway…why is this potion thing so b ad again?"
"We're not allowed to brew a potion this potent. Even in a N.E.W.T class.
"Valkov! Lupin! 10 points from Gryffindor." Professor Ashford said, not looking up from his papers.
Sirius sputtered angrily. Ashford looked up from his papers. His black eyes bored into Sirius's own chocolate ones, daring the teen to question him.
"Padfoot…" Remus muttered warningly. "Don't say anything if-"
"I do not recall asking you to speak Lupin. 10 more points from Gryffindor." The professor sneered, not looking away from Sirius's eyes.
"Uh sir?" A Slytherin asked tentatively.
The Professor whipped around and broke his gaze with Sirius, who was still glaring hatefully at him. "What?"
The boy shivered under the intense gaze. "I…I think…there m-might be…be a problem." He stuttered, pointing to the cauldron that was starting to boil over, it's contents spilling all over the desk.
A dangerous looked passed across the Professor's face before he turned to his desk in the front of the room. "Then clean it up McGaven…or are you too incompetent that you do not know how to do a simple cleaning spell?"
The Slytherin shrank back to his seat in embarrassment. "No sir." He mumbled.
"Get back to work! All of you!" The Professor snapped, gliding back to his desk.
Remus began to add the ground turnip leaves into the cauldron as Korimi grinded up the de-poisoned rattlesnake fangs.
Korimi felt a pair of eyes on her. Glancing out of the corner of her eye, she saw the same Slytherin girl who was staring at her on her first day staring at her again. Her acid green eyes bore into Korimi's own sapphire ones, sending unpleasant shivers down her spine like the first night their eyes met.
"Remus." Korimi muttered, pouring the snake fangs into the cauldron and stirring clockwise until the potion turned sunny yellow.
"Yeah?" He asked. "That's good enough by the way." He muttered, stopping her from stirring, "We don't want it too thick."
"Hn." Korimi placed the stirrer by the cauldron. "Anyway…who's she?" She asked, nodding her head to the side, indicating the blond Slytherin who had turned back to her potion.
"Liz Smith." He replied. "Her and Snape are best friends, why?"
"Just asking." She said, grabbing a handful of dead wood lice and mashing them into powder. 'There's something about her…her scent is different than a humans."
The rest of the period was spent working with Remus on the potion. At the end, they filled a vile of the now orange liquid and set it on the desk. The bell finally rang after the long period, signally the end of Potions and the beginning of lunch.
"I have come to the conclusion that I despise Potions." Korimi muttered as they walked up the stone steps from the dungeons.
"At least you never had to sit through History of Magic." James said. Thankfully he was able to drop that class after OWL year. "Five minutes and everyone is asleep."
"Sounds fascinating." Korimi said sarcastically. "Sirius, move to the left a bit." She said calmly.
"What?" Sirius looked perplexed at her seemingly random comment.
"Just do it."
The confused look never left his face as he shifted over to the left as she told me to do. A streak of white light flew passed right where Sirius had just been walking.
An evil chuckle came from behind them. "Able to sense when a spell is coming at you even when your back is turned…bravo…that is a unique gift."
Korimi and Marauders spun on their heels.
"That was cowardly Snivellus." James scowled. "Even for you."
Snape smirked. "Sticks and stones, Potter…"He walked up the steps with the blond girl named Liz right next to him.
"That was simply a small experiment." Liz said. "Everyone is a afraid of the new little Gryffindor I wanted to see for myself if she was all bark and no bite."
Korimi glared at her and turned around to walk in the opposite direction. "Keep pissing me off Smith and you might see how much my bite hurts."
"Oh…we'll see about that Valkov." Liz sneered dangerously as the group of Gryffindors walked off. 'I had a feeling she was the older Valkov's little sister.' Liz thought, smirking as her and Snape headed to their dungeon common room. 'Malcev will be somewhat less that pleased that she is still alive. ´
The week came and went and it was finally Saturday.
"Welcome to Hogwarts Stadium!" The commentator Jordon Baker, a sixth year Gryffindor yelled through the magical microphone. "Today's match…Slytherin versus Gryffindor!"
The cheers were so loud that it was deafening as the two teams flew out onto the field.
James and his tem landed and so did the Slytherin teams. "Captains shake hands." Madame Hooch said. James and Lucius Malfoy moved forward and clasped each other hands. They looked as if they were trying to squeeze the others hand off before they quickly let go. Sirius saw Malfoy wipe him hand on his robe as if he had touched something vile and disgusting.
"I want a nice clean game!" Madame Hooch said. "From all of you." She looked between the teams, allowing her eyes to linger on the Slytherins.
The teams mounted their brooms and Madame Hooch counted down from three as she released the snitch and bludgers. "3….2…1…' She blew the whistle, throwing up the quaffle. The two teams kicked off from the ground and sour into the air.
"The quaffle is release! And the game begins!" Jordon yelled into the mich.
James snatched the quaffle and sped off towards the Slytherin end.
"Oy! James!" Charlie Gatz yelled from above him.
James looked up quickly before tossing the quaffle about his head. Gatz caught it before hurling it directly into the middle hoop.
"10 points to Gryffindor!" Baker yelled over the cheers and boos from the crowd.
Lily, Ani, Remus and Peter cheered with the rest of the Gryffindor supporters as Charlie took a victory lap. Korimi smiled as she watched the game.
"I miss Quidditch so much." She thought aloud.
Remus heard her and looked away from the game. "You play Quidditch?"
Korimi nodded, her eyes following Sirius's as he launched a bludgers at a Slytherin chaser. "Yeah…my brother Yuriy and I were chasers on the school team."
"Learn something new about you everyday." Remus muttered, grinning to himself.
"What was that?"
"Nothin'." He looked back at the game. "Must kill you then…to sit on the sidelines."
Korimi smirked. "You have no idea."
"Slytherin Scores!" Baker yelled through the stadium as a chorus of groans sounds from the Gryffindors.
"Gryffindor leads Slytherin 60 to 20"
Gryffindor scored two more goals and Slytherin three before Vickie and the Slytherin seeker finally caught sight of the snitch.
"The snitch has been sighted!" Jordon boomed excitedly. "Anacara and Malfoy go into a straight dive as-OY! THAT'S A FOUL THAT IT MALFOY!" He yelled when Malfoy grabbed the end of Vickie's broom so he could get ahead. In response, Vickie kicked his broom sideways as he passed her, causing him to veer off course leaving Vickie a free path to the snitch.
"Just a bit closer…" Baker said.
Vickie stretched out her hand and wrapped her fingers around the snitch. The Gryffindor crowd exploded with cheers.
"GRYFFINDOR WINS!"
James and the rest of the team landed with Vickie I the middle of them in a bone-crushing hug.
"Party in the common room!" Someone yelled as they made their way back to the school.
Thirty minutes later, James, Remus and Korimi arrived back at the party with butterbeer and sweets.
"I will never know where you get all this from Potter." Lily said as James set the butterbeer on the large buffet table some had conjured up.
James grinned. "Ask no questions and I will tell you no lies."
Lily rolled her eyes amusedly and grabbed a butterbeer. She looked over to Vickie who was laughing at something that Remussaid.
"You know Ev-Lily…" James said, looking over at Sirius who was entertaining a small crowd by juggling full butterbeer bottles in the middle of the room. "I think this must be a record."
Lily gave him a strange look. "What are you on about?" She asked, trying to ignore the fact that he used her first name.
James gave a small laugh. "Us…being civil to each other for more than three seconds."
"Haha." She said sarcastically. However, there was a hint of humor in her tone. Her eyes moved over to where Korimi stood, leaning against the wall away from the party looking out the window. "Well…you've seemed to have matured a bit with Korimi here."
James grinned.
Lily turned her gaze to him. "But that just means I tolerate you…James….we are far from being friends."
James shrugged and walked off towards Sirius. "Better than you hating me I guess."
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Padfootlet: YAY! It's a bit late…but oh well! HA! I got this weeks update on time!
Roy: barely…
Padfootlet: Shut it –glare-
Sirius:…um…isn't he in that one anime show you love so much?
Padfootlet: yea…
Sirius: then why is he here?
Roy: because I can be…anyway…review so she'll leave me alone
