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Claimer: Julie and Vilde are my characters.
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The next day, everybody knew that the gals were back. The Slytherins all looked evilly at them during the breakfast. They really didn't like those girls. Sirius was sitting beside Julie, trying to flirt with her. He had just broken up with his last girlfriend, and she was now crying in some bathroom. Vilde glared at him. She just hoped that Julie wouldn't fall for it. And knowing my girl, she wouldn't, she thought. At exactly that point Julie yelled: "No I don't want to be another girl on your list!" Vilde snickered, and Lily looked at Julie with awe. Remus didn't look surprised, but James, on the other hand, looked like he was choking.
"A girl turning down Paddy? Well, that's a first," he smiled, "You'll go down in history, Julie!" Sirius laughed sarcastically. "Very funny, Prongs," he said, "And you'll go down in history at being refused by the same girl forever!" "I wouldn't be so sure about that," Vilde mumbled under her breath, but Remus heard it. "What did you just say? Is Lily actually having a crush on James? Because it would be nice to not have him moping around when she says no…" he whispered back to Vilde. Sirius looked at them and said: "Flirting are we?" "I can actually have a conversation with a girl that has nothing to do with boobs," Remus retorted, but it didn't stop the very small blush from creeping into his face. Vilde noticed this, but nobody else did, so she played ignorant.
The classes were as boring as ever (well, except potions), but still Vilde thought it good to be back. And since they were there, she knew what she would wish for on her birthday. And she hoped it would work.
The next night (a Saturday), Remus walked out of the common room. Less than fifteen minutes later, Vilde and Julie saw shadows of a Werewolf, a dog, a stag and a rat. "Julie, we will become animaguses too, right?" Vilde asked. "Of course. Have you forgotten that you have already started and ended the potion?" Julie said. Vilde smiled. "Of course not. I just… You do think we'll make it?" she asked. Julie nodded. "If they can, so can we," she smiled evilly.
They used a good deal of time on becoming animagus, and they took every free hour a day to practice the transformation. One month later, the girls had successfully transformed. Julie was a redbrown fox, and Vilde was a giant grizzly bear. They were good at walking and keeping their minds in an animalistic way. They both loved being animals.
After another month, when the full moon was up again, the marauders were going to Hogsmeade. But on the way, they all stopped dead. Prongs and Padfoot were standing in front of Moony. They really didn't want an unexplainable accident on their hands. But what they saw was a redbrown fox, sliding out from behind some trees. Something about the fox's aura was just calming, so when she followed them, they didn't object. But then something massive was on their way against them, and what they saw was a huge, huge grizzly bear, stepping out of the shadows. The werewolf seemed to sense danger and ran, with Prongs, Wormtail and Padfoot in his heels. The bear didn't have a problem to catch up to the werewolf, and got there before the other animals. The werewolf stopped abruptly, and sniffed. It then seemed to relax. It was a she, so they only hoped there was no kid nearby. Then they would be in trouble. But then the same aura which surrounded the fox, seemed to linger at the bear too. They started the trip to Hogsmeade again.
When the night was at an end, the smooth fox and the strong bear ran into the forest. The marauders looked curiously at them, wondering if they would see them again. And they would. Sooner than they thought.
The two girls phased back in the shadow at the foot of the castle. Then they heard a howl of pain. "Remus," Vilde said without thinking, and started running on the same basic. "Vilde! He is probably just phasing!" Julie yelled after her, but Vilde had already turned into the bear. Julie sighed, then phased and ran after her, but not being able to catch up. I guess grizzly bears are as quick as they say, she thought.
Vilde had already reached the place where she just had left. But there were no animals there. No werewolf, no dog, no stag and no rat. On the other hand there were four very scared people. Most likely because the bears teeth were gritted. Not in anger, but in fear. But they most likely couldn't see it. The bear let its mouth close, and looked at Remus. Suddenly a dog and a stag were standing in front of him. Vilde laughed. Or the bear came with a howling sound, but no one could mistake it as a laugh. The two animals phased back. "Who are you?" they whispered. Vilde was good at being confused, and it worked as a bear too.
Julie then came running behind the bear, and looked from one to the other. She sneered at the lumpy boy and almost bit him, but Vilde held her back, looking sternly at her. The boys shrank to the ground. Sirius seemed to be terrified, James looked sick, Remus was sick and looked scared. "We're going to die, right?" James whispered in a very quiet voice. "We could phase into animals. Maybe it'll be better to us then?" Sirius said in a small voice. "What about Remus?" James asked. Sirius looked at Remus. "Oh, damn. We have to protect him, don't we?" he said in an obvious voice. Remus shook his head. "I'll be fine. As long as she kills me quickly," he said. The three others looked at him. "Remus, you were always a good friend," Pettigrew said. "The best," Sirius shot in. James' eyes were filled with tears. "I'll miss you Moony!" he said, the tears spilling over. Remus looked at the bear. Then his eyes went wide. He pointed at the bear. The three others looked at it.
The bear was lying in the grass looking at them with entertained eyes. When it noticed that they were watching, it rose up, walked towards them, stood in front of Remus and licked his face. Then it turned to the other two guys (Sirius and James) and licked their faces as well. Pettigrew didn't think any harm would come to him, so he stood still, smiling, and waiting for his lick. The bear raised on its feet in her full height. Pettigrew stumbled backwards as the bear raised its paw. Then the bear pushed him back so hard that he fell to the ground. There was a disgusting sound as his back hit a stone, but the bear didn't care and turned towards a fox lying on its back barking something that seemed like a laugh. The bear walked over to it as Remus, Sirius and James ran over to Pettigrew who was unconscious. When they turned, the bear and fox were gone.
Julie and Vilde were walking as quickly as possible up to the Gryffindor common room. They couldn't get caught by the marauders. They could get suspicious. But the two girls couldn't walk so fast because they were doubled over in laughter. They had memorized Pettigrew's scared face, and felt that it would last for a long time, and would be able to treat him indifferently, not hatefully (at least, for now).
When they finally got to the girls dormitory, Lily was awake. "Where the hell have you two been?" she said. The two girls smiled, then smirked, then grinned, and then they burst out in laughter. "Nowhere," Vilde managed to press out, not sounding very believable. Lily's eyes narrowed. "Did you two do something to the Slytherins?" Lily asked, keeping her voice low. "No, how can you say that?" Julie said while pretending to be hurt. Lily raised her eyebrows. "Fine, but still, don't make presumptions when you're wrong," Julie said smug. Vilde smiled evilly. "What we did was so much better!" she squeakwhispered. Lily took both their arms and dragged them down to the common room.
"Okay, now we can talk. What did you do?" Lily said. She still had a glint of justice in her eyes. That would be the only thing Vilde didn't like about Lily, her want for justice could actually drive Vilde mad. But nobody's perfect. "We didn't do nothing!" they both said in innocent tones. "Oh, tell me!" she squealed. "Okay, so we might have pranked the Slytherins," Vilde said. Lily's eyes narrowed again. The two girls were pushing their luck out of the window any second now. "Zabini has no hair, Crabbe has a small head ("No surprise there," Vilde shot in), Goyle has a very, very big nose and someone was hit by a cleaningspell," Julie said. That someone was Severus Snape, but by the looks of Lily, she had already figured that out. Her face was flushed, most likely by anger, and exactly at that point, the marauders entered.
"Lily – flower!" James yelled when he saw her. Then he smiled thinking her blush was because of him. "Well, where the hell have you four been?!" she shrieked. James seemed to shrink to the height of Pettigrew. Remus looked worried at her, and Sirius just laughed. "Aw, Julie, were you worried?" he asked. Julie shot him a deathglare. Lily said in a blown up voice: "No, they have been in the Slytherins common room hexing Severus' hair clean!" Her voice was thunderous, and soon there were people in the common room, looking at them with both amused and confused expressions. Sirius and James struggled to keep their faces straight. Then, when they were in control, they turned to Vilde and Julie. "You didn't!" Sirius said in a fake-disbelieving voice. Lily shot him a glare so hard that Sirius wondered why he didn't die. But he definitely got scared. That girl could get pretty mad.
"Lily, relax, will you?" Julie said. Lily turned her anger to her. Julie didn't really care, though. And it took more force than Lily's screaming to make her scared. "And why can't you just leave him be? He doesn't deserve all this. Have you any idea of what happened his summer just before the second year of Hogwarts?" Lily was now, not only furious. No, she was frustrated. And that was a bad combo. Vilde spoke up.
"Just because you know something in his past, doesn't mean he didn't deserve nice, clean hair," she said. Lily turned to strike at her too, but Vilde wasn't the least worried. She was actually getting enough of this girl. Yeah, she was nice. Yeah, she was funny. Yeah, she was cool. But hell, she was bloody annoying at times. This was one of the times. "You have no right to mock him like that! You wouldn't dare say it again if I told you what had happened!" Lily shrieked. "Oh, yeah? Try me," Vilde snapped.
"His father killed his mother and then his father killed himself!" she screamed at the edge of tears. The others in the room (except Julie and Vilde) gasped. Vilde stared indifferently. "Just because you know something in his past, doesn't mean he didn't deserve nice, clean hair," she said again. Lily looked shocked at her. "How DARE you?!" she screamed, tears spilling over. Vilde was reaching the same point as Lily. "You need to face reality Lily! Stop thinking everything will be fair…" "And WHY is that a bad thing?!" Lily cried. "Because you live in a world of your own! LISTEN to yourself!" Vilde bellowed hearing a tone creep into her voice that she only knew when she talked to or about Pettigrew.
The others had gone several steps back. Lily had also noticed the cruelty in her tone. When she was about to say something, Vilde interrupted. "No Lily. You keep thinking about others. About justice. You go on and on about how bitterly unfair someone's lives has been. Well, it may have escaped you notice, but life," Vilde's voice was dripping with venom, "isn't," she continued, almost creeping herself with her own voice, "fair." She then stormed out of the common room. She headed for a place where she hoped no one could find her, and thought immediately of the Room of Requirement. She ran up to the eight floor, and walked past the wall three times, thinking; I need a place where no one can find me. (A/N: Yeah I know. Quote from Snape himself. Oh, the irony!)
A/N: Now, this is more like a long chapter! :D:D:D So did you like it? It was funny to write, so I hope you did! xD
