Chapter Nine: So we were thinking...
Brooke's P.O.V
After the feast I split ways with the Marauders and headed to where i'd been told Dumbledore's office was, obviously by the Marauders, it was like their second home sometimes. I saw a large golden Griffin (Author's note: At least i think that's what it is O.o) statue and said the current password I had been told by a prefect that had luckily being wondering past the statue when I arrived.
"Chocolate frogs" I told the statue clearly. The statue stating turning around and stairs appeared so I quickly jumped on the top stair so that I didn't have to climb the all of the stairs.
Once at the top of the stairs I went to knock but a voice from inside stopped me "Come in Ms. Lovegood".
How did he know I was there? I thought to myself, oh well...
I padded lightly into the head teachers office and Dumbledore kindly beckoned me over to sit down. "So, as this came as a bit of a shock to all of us, I have made up some house arrangements that you should follow, if you agree with them of course"
He slid a piece of parchment over to me and I had a look at the arrangements and rules. This is what they were :
Whenever house points are given they are to be split and shared between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. The teachers know so they will always give out an even amount of points.
For sleeping arrangements there is a you have a bed in both a Ravenclaw and Gryffindor dorm, which you share with some other girls, just like any other student. However is there happens to be anything like a quarrel or some competitiveness between the two houses, you always have another room, it's in a place only you or I shall know. It is just like the room of requirement, which i'm sure the marauders have already told you about (Just for the record they had indeed told me). Only you will know the password to this room.
As for house colours, I have decided to let you off on this one. As long as you wear the main school uniform you can accessorize in whatever colour you chose.
"I agree with all of those" I told Dumbledore. "That's good then, but there is just one more thing I would like to discuss with you before you leave. I wan't to give you every chance to play for your team in quiddich, but I am unsure of how to go about it". He told me apologetically.
"That's fine Professor, I had no intention on joining the quiddich team anyway. I have nothing against it, but I'm not the most competitive person you'll ever meet. I don't know how to play anyway" I smiled warmly at him.
"That's good then, you may leave now, I'm sorry if I've made you late for dinner" He said to me. "That's fine, I wasn't going to go anyway" I told him simply before I left the room and started to make my way towards the Gryffindor common room.
"James Pottor stop harrasing Lily Evans" I said to the Fat Lady, laughing to myself at the password Minnie set.
I walk straight up the stairs that I had been told led to the girls dorm and searched for the dorm with my name on it. It didn't take me long and i'm so tired that I don't bother to look at who my dorm mates are, I just flopped straight into bed and fell asleep.
-Tomorrow morning, still Brooke's P.O.V-
I awoke to the sound of giggling above me and opened my eyes to see two girls sitting on either side of me, looking straight down at me.
One was a girl I recognised very well, by the name of Lily Evans and the other I recognise, a girl with lovely light, shoulder length caramel/brown hair and eyes to match, But I didn't recognise her as well as I did Lily. I remember the other girl from lunch yesterday, the one who was sitting next to Lily.
"Good morning!" Lily chirped brightly to me and I do the same back, my morning person attitude coming back. "Hello! I'm Alice Prewitt!" She greets me. "Hello, I'm Brooke Lovegood!" I reply cheerfully and we all grin at each other.
I sit up and quickly rub the sleep out of my eyes. "Should we go down to breakfast?" Alice asks. "I think that It would probably be a good idea getting getting dressed first, don't you?" Lily asked tilting her head to the side, while giving Alice a 'duh' look. "Oh. Yeah" Alice replies sheepishly. We all burst out laughing at Alice's forget fullness.
A confused expression came over Lily's face and she looked at me. "Were you at dinner last night?, we couldn't see you anywhere and you weren't sitting with the Marauders!" She asked me confused. "No, I wasn't at dinner. I had just been going over the arrangements for being in Ravendor with Dumbledore. There was no point of going to the feast and I was tired anyway so I just came here and went to bed. Did anything important happen?" I question her.
Alice answered for her. "The only import thing was the announcement that we have the rest of the week free of school, because of the train incident!" She squealed. Then we all just talked happily about any random while picking out our outfits. After a while we had all picked our outfits and we all just got changed in the dorm room, being girls.
When we got down to the common room it was exactly seven AM. There wasn't many people in there, only three seventh years and two first years who were clearly too excited about being at Hogwarts to have slept any longer. The moment we stepped out of the portrait we just burst out laughing at the obscenity of it all. Gryffindor, the supposed party house of Hogwarts and the common room couldn't have been more silent!
We joked around and talked all the way to the Great hall, in no hurry to arrive. Once we did get to the Great hall we took our time eating, chatting to no end throughout all of breakfast, where once again there was hardly any people. By the time we had left roughly a quarter of the hall was full. On the walk up to the Gryffindor common room we saw about ten people, only one person Lily and Alice gave attention too (I say Lily and Alice because I didn't know him at the time), a boy who I was introduced to as Frank Longbottom. As we walked away Alice blushed a bit, which caused me and Lily too tease her loads the rest of the way.
When we got to the portrait Alice said the password "James Pottor stop harassing Lily Evans". Me and Alice were practically dying of laughter as we collapsed into the common room, which was totally empty due to everyone that was up having gone to breakfast. Lily scowled and glared at us but it didn't last long before she cracked a grin and starting laughing with us.
We all jumped onto sofas, me on a separate one than Lily and Alice, as they were on the sofa opposite mine and there was a coffee. We talked for ages, until I heard someone come up behind me. Lily and Alice scowled at the person behind me and whoever it was lent down and whispered in my ear "We were worried about you when you didn't come to dinner, come with me". I recognised Sirius's voice. "I'm sure it can wait, i'm talking to the girls right now" I whispered back, not turning around to look at him.
Sirius sighed and for a moment I thought he had actually listened to me and left. But then he hopped over the back of the sofa, landed next to me, took his shoes of and sat his very BARE, SMELLY FEET on the coffee table between the two sofas. Eww!
Lily and Alice had disgusted looks on their faces and I din't blame them! "Don't mind me Ladies, just wanted a bit of a rest!" Sirius exclaimed to Lily and Alice. I swear i'm going to kill Sirius when I get the chance!
We carried on our conversation and believe me, awkward was an understatement! It only took about two minutes before Lily and Alice excused themselves. "We should probably go now" Lily started, "Yeah busy busy! Coming Brooke?" Alice asked me. before I could even answer Sirius did for me. "Sorry girls, Brooke has plans with us Marauders today!" He told them excitedly. They said their hurried goodbyes and rushed off, leaving only me and Sirius in the common room.
When they were out of sight Sirius turned to me "Look!, You're not busy any more, let's go!" He beamed at me. "You did that on purpose" I exclaimed, scowling at him. He tried to give me puppy dog eyes, key word being tried. He failed miserably. "Please forgive me" He begged me. I burst out laughing at him failed attempt and said "As long as you never try doing puppy dog eyes to me again!". He grinned big and instantly shouted "DEAL!".
"Come on then" He said, grabbing my wrist and pulling me to where I could only guess the rest of the Marauders were. I was right, we were walking down one of the hallways when Sirius suddenly threw open the door of an abandoned class room where James and Remus were each sitting on a desk. Sirius let go of my wrist and sat on a desk, which I did too, so we sat in a square.
James Remus
Sirius Me
" So what did you drag me here for?" I asked with an eyebrow raised. "Well, we wanted to know if you could help us with a prank" Sirius said. I grinned "Of course!". James spoke. "So we were thinking... Dying ?"
A/N ; When I started writing this a thought cat into my head. If Filch's cat is called MRS.Norris does that mean his cat's married?