If you read the ridiculously long intro to the last 'chapter' you know what's going on. :)
Disclaimer: I think by now we all realize that I am not J.K. Rowling and therefore do not own Harry Potter.
"HALLEE!" Alice screamed. "GET OUT OF BED THIS INSTANT! WE ARE GOING TO MISS THE TRAIN." Hallee sleepily sat up and looked wearily at the pixie-like girl standing in her room.
"What are you doing here?" She mumbled, rubbing her eyes.
"Well Josh didn't want to let me in, but your mum talked him into it." Alice sighed, taking a seat at Hallee's desk. It had been a particularly terrible summer, even Alice, a Witch, was not allowed to see Hallee.
Alice threw a pair of light, ripped jeans at Hallee along with a zebra-print top and a purple jacket.
Hallee stumbled out of bed and pulled on the clothes slowly, then grabbed her canary yellow converse as well as one red earring and one blue one and finally looked up at Alice.
"AAHH!"
"What? I don't look that bad." Alice said, looking at her dark jeans, hot pink top, and light pink blazer.
"That's not it! You're…TALL!"
"What? No…well I grew but…" Alice said nervously, fiddling with the hem of her shirt
"Hold on a second…" Hallee nervously stood up and looked Alice in the eyes. Just as she had suspected, Alice as at least an inch taller.
"ALICE! NO! Now I'M the short one!"
"Well you grew!" Alice interjected. "Look! Your hair is to the top of your back. That's longer than it used to be!"
"You're not helping." Hallee sighed and pulled her hair into a loose bun at the nape of her neck.
"Well it's cute to be short." Alice said hopefully.
"Yea, yea." Hallee sighed and grabbed her trunk, leading the way out the door to Alice's parent's car.
"Wait a minute, Halle Amelia!" Josh's voice caught up to Hallee as she was about to exit the room.
"Yes, Josh?" Hallee asked, a little rudely, but he HAD locked her in her room all summer.
"There is no need for that attitude." He reprimanded. "I just want to say that even with your…condition…I am still very proud of you for continuing with your schooling."
"Condition? You make it sound like I have a disease." Hallee spat, raising an eyebrow.
"Well you can't really ENJOY having all this responsibility. And you can never live a normal life like that."
"Who said I was normal?" Hallee asked, eerily calm, walking out the door with Alice in tow. "Tell mom I said, 'Bye'!" She shouted over her shoulder. It hurt to believe that Josh, her supposed father figure, treated her like a disease just because she was different. It hurt even more that her mother was beginning to side with him. Her mother, who had once been so excited for her daughter to have magical powers, had been brainwashed into thinking that this was bad, that her daughter was a freak. She couldn't bear to say goodbye to her mother. To expect a hug and just get a pat goodbye. She quickly shook herself. This was getting to dramatic.
"Hallee get your ass over here!" Alice shouted, dragging Hallee's trunk into the back of her parent's car.
"Sure, Sure." Hallee said, running up to her friend.
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Hallee smirked at Alice as the two girls watched a nervous little brunette first year take the hand of a little blonde one.
"Aw….look at them." Alice sighed.
"My god it's like watching us from three years ago." Hallee muttered, as the brunette charged towards the barrier that held platform 9 ¾.
"Look at Minnie Hallee!" Alice coo-ed, pointing to the blonde who took a deep breath and ran after her friend.
"Seriously, they get smaller and smaller every year." Alice said.
"You were that short last year!" Hallee reprimanded.
"Yea, but now I'm not and so I get the right to say certain things." Alice said smugly. The two girls leaned casually against the barrier while talking, and melted right through onto the platform full of steam, laughing children, crying parents, and innumerous pets.
"HALLEE! ALICE! OVER HERE!" A flash of red hair ran forwards and in front of the girls.
"You guys! How was your holiday-woah." Lily looked at Alice, who happened to be the same height.
"yes, yes, I had a bit of a growth spurt. Will you STOP STARING, you're making me feel like a giant or something."
"Don't worry Hallee, all is not lost, Alice still doesn't have boobs, you can beat her to that yet." Lily laughed.
"Oh yes, because they will definitely come soon." Hallee said sarcastically, staring enviously at Lily's sudden appearance of curves.
"What? Everyone grows a bit over the summer." Lily blushed sheepishly, adjusting her blue tank top. "Well everyone but Hallee." Both Lily and Alice smirked while Alice patted Hallee sorrowfully on the head.
"I think we should just accept my midget-ness." Hallee said, walking onto the Hogwarts Express.
"Oy! Brace Face! Grow a little bit!" Sirius black shouted from his compartment, waving the group of girls inside.
"I am perfectly happy with my height, thank you Sirius." Hallee lied, taking a seat.
"Sure sure." Sirius just smirked before leaping on Hallee, giving her a noogie.
"I greatly dislike you." Hallee mumbled fixing her hair once she was released. There we go, lying again. Hallee thought, sneaking a glace his way.
"So Lily-kins, how was your summer? Your beautiful red hair is a glow with summer beauty." Guess who said that? If you said 'James' you would be correct.
"Back off Potter." Lily glared.
"No." James grinned cheekily at her.
"James Potter why must you always be so annoying?" Lily sighed, putting her head in her hands.
"You want to know what would make me less annoying?" He asked.
"Sure. What?" A huge mistake to ask on Lily's part.
"If you kiss me." James puckered his lips and leaned towards Lily, who swatted his face,
"Ew!"
"OW!" James shouted, grabbing his cheek.
Lily looked at James with disgust, "As if I would EVER kiss you, you perv." She hurried out of the compartment with Hallee and Alice in tow. Because the train was still being filled with students, there were a lot of empty compartments to choose from.
"I swear! If James doesn't give up on me this year, I will SHOOT him."
"Better think twice about that, Evans." A voice came from the door to the compartment. Sirius Black stared at Lily with angry eyes. "You listen here, James is my best mate, .."
"Are you threatening me?" Lily asked, glaring into his eyes.
"Maybe." Sirius answered darkly. "Stop treating James like he's your carpet you can step all over. He's much better than that. He's much better than YOU. I don't know why he's so infatuated with someone such as yourself, but consider it an honor. Go out with James, or there will be hell to pay."
"Excuse me? How old are we? Ten? I will not make these negotiations, and I will not be FORCED to date POTTER."
"Fine. Get ready for hell." Sirius glared at her as he backed out of the compartment. "See you later Bracey, Alice."
"PRAT!" Lily shouted after him.
"wow." Alice muttered at the closed compartment door. "Erm, Lily? You might want to watch your back. Remember all those horrible tricks Sirius played on Snape last year?"
Lily just glared. "Of course I do. Which is another reason why I REFUSE to go out with him."
"Er…guys? Hate to break up this little hate fest, but even IF you randomly decide to go out with James-WHICH WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!" Hallee yelled out at the sight of Lily's fist. "Where would you go?"
There was silence.
"We could go to…Hogsmeade?" Lily suggested.
Crap. Hogsmeade. Hallee sighed at the memory:
"Hey Mom, will you sign this permission slip so I can go to Hogsmeade, a wizarding village next to Hogwarts?"
"No."
Alice laughed at Hallee's telling of the story. "Why won't she let you go?"
"She says I haven't been good enough lately, and plus, even though she's totally scared of my magic, she's still my overprotective mom, and thinks I'll poke my eye out with a store sign."
"Well, remember that almost happened at the mall that one time, and-"
"We didn't need that memory to come back." Hallee glared at Alice.
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"Nom Nom!" Hallee yelled as large amounts of food appeared on golden plates. "I love this school!"
"What? Have your parents been starving you too?" Lily asked, watching as Hallee piled her plate with food.
"No, but I didn't have breakfast or lunch, JUST so I could eat all of this. "Hallee smiled dreamily at a chicken leg.
"You went all day without food?" Alice asked worriedly.
"Relax, I had a cauldron cake on the train."
"Well…okay then." Lily yawned. "I'm really not that hungry, I just want to go to bed."
"Sleep with one eye open tonight." Alice murmured to Lily, looking over to where James, Remus, Peter, and Sirius were sitting. The last of which staring menacingly at Lily.
"He is such a creeper." Lily mumbled.
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"Hallee. Get up. Now." Lily said sternly to the sleeping thirteen year-old.
"no. I refuse."
"Aguamenti." Alice muttered, causing a sputtering Hallee to sit up quickly.
"I WILL get you for that." Hallee glared and leapt on top of Alice.
"Erm, you seem to have forgotten that I am now taller than you miss King." Alice smirked and rolled over so she was sitting on Hallee's stomach.
"Yea, well I'm smarter." Hallee smirked and pulled Alice's ankle, so she slid onto the floor. The girls rolled around until Lily stepped in, scolded them, sent Hallee to the shower, got called 'mom', handed Hallee her clothes, got called 'mom' once more, and sent Hallee a stinging curse for calling her 'mom' too many times.
"Mua ha ha! Guess what you guys?" Hallee asked, jumping up and down.
Lily sighed, "What?"
"There's no school today! It's SATURDAY! EEK! TWO DAYS OF NO SCHOOL!" Hallee twirled around the room, arms spread wide.
"Let's go outside." She grinned widely.
"UGH. Fine." Lily sighed, looking at her light wash jeans and green t-shirt in the mirror.
"YUS!" Hallee shouted, winking at herself in the mirror. She thought she was looking pretty good today with her hair in it's usual low bun with black leggings, purple soffe shorts, a white tank top, and a blue jacket. She tied her yellow converse and pulled Alice out the door, who was still adjusting her denim capris and red long-sleeved shirt.
The girls walked right past the Great Hall, too full from last night's feast for breakfast.
"Look! The whomping Willow!" Hallee shouted, running towards the violent tree.
"Hallee! Don't hurt yourself!" Lily called.
"Yea, Yea, MOM!"
"HALLEE!"
"SORRY!"
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"So what do you guys want to do?" Alice asked, after having successfully saved Hallee from being squashed by the willow.
Hallee stood up and put her hands in the air, leaning to the side she began to do a cartwheel, until she was in a handstand position. Then she fell.
"ow."
"What was that for?" Lily asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Well you see, I have never been able to perform a cartwheel. Ever." Hallee explained, still sitting in the grass.
"Me neither." Lily said thoughtfully.
"What? Are you guys SERIOUS?" Alice asked, standing up and performing a perfect cartwheel.
"WOAH! ALICE! TEACH ME!" Lily yelled, standing up.
And that was how the girls spent their day, laughing and cartwheeling by the whomping willow. By the time the girls headed inside, Lily could perform a cartwheel better than Alice, Hallee could do everything in the cartwheel minus the landing, of which she would just land on her butt.
"Did we really just waste the entire day doing cartwheels?" Lily asked her friends, as they headed towards the Great Hall for dinner.
"Yes. Yes we did." Hallee took a deep breath, enjoying the crisp fall air.
Alice, Lily, and Hallee all ate their dinner quickly and headed back to the dormitory.
"Oh! Guys! I forgot to ask Flitwick something!" Lily exclaimed, as they passed the very teacher's room.
"Er…Lils? This is our first day back…" Hallee mused, looking at her friend as if she had just sprouted an extra head.
"Yea, Well, one can never start studying too early." Lily shrugged.
"Do you want us to come with you?" Hallee whined. She really just wanted to go to her toasty warm bed in the Gryffindor Tower.
"Nah. It'll only take a sec."
"You sure?" Alice asked.
"Yeah, yeah." Lily grinned and entered Flitwick's room while the other two girls walked to their dormitories.
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Lily left Professor Flitwick's classroom confident that she would do fantastic this year in charms. She began to walk to her dorm when suddenly-
"Walking around alone? Not the smartest thing to do, Evans." A menacing voice sneered. Lily turned around quickly to become face-to-face with Sirius Black. Well face-to-chest really, Sirius was really tall.
"I warned you that you would be in trouble if you didn't go out with James."
"You can't influence my decision Sirius, leave me alone."
"Oh, I will. After this." Sirius grinned at her, an evil grin that made Lily's blood run cold. He grabbed her arm and shoved her in the nearest closet and locked the door.
"Have fun Evans!" Sirius cackled, waving his wand to perform a charm he had learned from the restricted section of the library before walking to his own room.
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"I am going to KILL Sirius!" Lily screamed. She was in the girl's dormitory, wearing nothing but her bra and underwear.
"What scares me is that he knows this charm. You said he KNEW A CHARM to remove your clothes?" Alice asked, looking nervously at Lily's unclothed self.
"Yes. The little perv. And he left me on the first floor! First I had to unlock the door, then RUN up here! Do you have any idea how many people are out after hours on the first day of school? A LOT."
"Did Sirius really do this?" Hallee asked.
"Of course." Lily seethed. "I am SO getting him at least a MONTH'S worth of detentions!"
Hallee gulped. Could it be true? HER Sirius. Well not really HER Sirius, but SIRIUS did something so mean. Sure he played a lot of pranks, and sometimes they were mean, but he had never done anything to hurt Lily, Alice, or Hallee.
"Alright, well does James know about this?" Alice asked.
"I'm sure! It would be something he would do! He doesn't get what he wants so he sends one of his helper monkeys to do the dirty work!"
As the news sank in, Hallee got angrier and angrier. How DARE Sirius Black do that to her best friend? Who did he think he was? He was going to PAY. All romantic thoughts of him fled her mind in a single second, replaced with fury. Hallee suddenly stood up and walked out of the door.
"Er…Hallee?" Alice asked. She followed Hallee out the door, and stopped Lily from doing the same. "Er…go put on some clothes Lils, and take your time. I think Sirius is about to get a beat down and it may not be suitable for some viewers."
Lily pulled on sweat pants and a T-shirt. "We may need someone else to keep Hallee from beheading him."
Alice nodded and both girls ran after Hallee. They had just caught up to her when the blonde reached out her hand and knocked on the door of the third-year boy's dormitory.
The door swung open and none other than Sirius Black was standing in the doorway.
"Bracey! What a surprise! Come on in!" Sirius smiled and was about to move out of the way when Hallee's hand connected with his cheek. SLAP!
"What was that for?!" Sirius screamed, enraged and clutching his stinging cheek.
"For being a royal PRAT!" Hallee shouted. "How DARE you do that to Lily. I thought you were nice! I thought-I don't know what I was thinking." Hallee sneered.
"What's going on here?" James asked, appearing in the doorway.
"Like you don't know!" Lily shouted from behind Hallee. She stepped forward and jabbed her finger into James's chest. "You make me sick. Don't EVER talk to me EVER again. Do I make myself clear?"
"But what did I DO?" James asked, obviously confused.
"So full of yourself you can't even see anything bad with what you did." Alice glared at both boys. "Come on girls, these boys aren't worth our time."
"But YOU came HERE!" James shouted, scratching his head.
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