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Chapter 12

Drama, Drama, Drama

Katharine weaved in and out of the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws that were piling out of the Charms classroom. She did not want to get stuck talking to James about their previous conversation through written notes. Although, she didn't know why she was running anyway since she would see him again in her next class... But it seemed logical at the moment.

He was just so up front about his feelings for her that she didn't know how to handle it. All she knew to do was run away and avoid confrontation as much as possible.

So she headed up the stairs to the fourth floor where she stopped to use the lavatory. After that, she went up the rest of the staircases to the seventh floor, where her next class Arithmancy would be in room 7A.

As she walked down the corridor, she met up with Jordan, whom was shouting at her from behind.

"Hey, you! What did you think of your first class?" She asked cheerfully, as always.

"Oh, it was alright. Kinda zoned out after the first few minutes, so I hope you or Renee got the homework assignments..." Kat half lied.

"Yeah, we did. No problem."

They walked into the room together that was set up as a more traditional classroom with dark wooden desks that sat two people to them and all facing the front of the classroom. Definitely a classroom built for boring lectures.

"We're gonna be rebels and sit in the back of class today," Jordan whispered.

Katharine laughed, "Uh, okay then... You're kinda crazy, you know that, Jordan?"

She laughed along, "Yeahp."

Students started piling in as Katharine kept her head down to not be noticed. She looked up periodically though at the ticking clock on the wall above Professor Vector's desk. Five more minutes till class started... Okay, as long as everyone sat around her and left no room for James to sit-

"Hey Jordan, I'm sorry but would you mind if I sit next to Kat today?"

Katharine looked up in horror. Shit! Really? He was going to make her MOVE?

"Jordan, really, you don't have to move. Come on, that's ridicu-"

"Oh no, nooooo!" Jordan threw up her hands in protest while Kat glared at her menacingly, "Really, I don't mind at all! I'll just grab my stuff and go sit over there by Renee and Remus." James was grinning at her mischievously.

"No, Jordan, pleeea-" Katharine reached for her but she was already gone and at the front of the classroom.

"How- You- OHHHHHH! Would you STOP following me?" Katharine was enraged.

He sat down laughing and acted completely innocent, "Kat, I can't be following you when we're in the same class together."

"Yes you can. You just made Jordan get up and move from her seat for no reason! I don't want to sit by you."

The look on Katharine's face was priceless. She glared at him with her lips pursed tightly, her eyes wide open, and her eyebrows scrunched together but with one slightly raised up. She looked slightly insane.

James busted out laughing, "You are making this too much fun for me."

"Oh am I? You- you- arrogant- piece of-" Katharine was about to literally rip out her hair.

"Oh - hey!" James grabbed her wrists. "You're freaking out waaaaaaaaay too much, Kat. Breathe. Come on, breathe."

Katharine's face was turning slightly pink as she was unaware that she had been sucking in air and not letting it out. She exhaled with a great poof.

And then she realized that almost everyone in the classroom was watching the two of them... She blushed beet red and sunk extremely low in her chair.

"You seriously have some anger issues, but you have no idea how adorable it is." He chuckled.

She glared up at him, "You seriously have no idea how much you are stressing me out."

"Katharine, I-" But he was cut off by Professor Vector striding into the room.

Once again, Katharine was unable to focus in class due to James. She tried to take notes but her parchment would constantly fill up with James' scribbling to her from his own parchment. He would write things like, "Come on, you know you want me." And he would write other things like, "I don't mean to stress you out, I just want to talk."

Finally, she wrote him back, "Fine, we can talk but we do not need to talk about this through notes in CLASS."

This finally made him stop and they both stared at the teacher, each with their chins resting in their hands. Professor Vector was waving her wand towards the board as it made words appear, while she was speaking about something completely different than what was appearing on the board. Katharine had no clue what was going on and she really hoped that someone could catch her up on the lessons she had missed before, preferably not James, no matter how good he was in the subject.

The bell rang and James and Kat threw their chairs back and were the first ones out of the classroom.

"So, when would you like to talk?" James immediately started as the two of them headed down to their next class, Transfiguration.

"Hey, shouldn't we wait for the others?" Katharine stopped and looked behind her, avoiding his question.

"No, I want to talk to you."

"Well, I don't."

Then James suddenly yanked her by the arm and pulled her down the empty sixth corridor.

"No matter how much you don't want to, you are going to." They came up to a window and James threw her on the "seat" of the windowsill.

"James, don't do this!" Kat protested.

"Do what?"

"Corner me!"

"I'm not cornering you."

"Oh really?" Kat gestured to his stance towering over her with his hands pressed against the wall. She had no escape... Then her eyes unintentionally moved to his crotch that she suddenly noticed was right in her face. She suppressed a giggle and turned it into a little coughing fit.

"Um, James? Do- would you mind- like- moving?" Another cough/laugh.

It seemed that James finally got the hint, because he glanced down and stepped back quickly. He cleared his throat awkwardly and ran his hand through his thick hair saying, "Right... Sorry." He laughed awkwardly again, "Um, lets just make this quick, okay, so we aren't late for class. I happen to have a good reputation in Transfiguration."

She regained her composure and answered with a smart-ass tone, "A good reputation? Well, THAT'S surprising because you certainly aren't starting off well with me."

"I know, I'm sorry. Kat, I just really, really want you to consider us. I know you like me, Kat. I can see it when you look at me. I can see it even through this pissed off front you're putting up. I can read you like no other person I've ever met. I know we haven't known each other for very long, but I feel like nothing else matters if I don't have you."

"How could you possibly feel that way already? You're so naive!"

"I am not! I just know what I want when I see it."

"See? Exactly my point. You only want me because I'm the new girl."

"No, no, no. That's not what I said at all. Don't try to put words into my mouth."

Katharine paused and looked down absentmindedly at James' shoes. She chose her words carefully before she spoke, "James, you don't want me. You don't want a person that can't be fully honest with you. I have possibly already shared too much with you about the future, and I can't let myself do that anymore. If I were to be with you, I would change the future drastically. You just have no idea, and you won't have any idea because I can't tell you... I'm sorry, but we would never work out." A huge knot began to form in the back of her throat, and she swallowed hard, refusing to let the threatening tears fill her eyes.

Why was she upset all of a sudden?

James then bent down and knelt in front of her. His knees crackled from the movement and she had to suppress a watery smirk at the memory of Harry's knees always cracking when he'd bend them. Weird.

James was oblivious. "Listen to me," she looked away, "Please, listen to me." He then lifted her chin up to look at him. "You have no idea how wrong you are. You know that there is something different between us. Some kind of gravity pulling us towards each other that we can't ignore. It's fate Katharine, like it or not, but you are supposed to change the future. As problematic as that sounds, I believe it's true. And I will not give up on you."

"James... I'm just... So tired of fighting with you... A relationship is not what I need right now. Can't we just stay friends?" She was finding it very difficult to keep eye contact with his perfect hazel eyes...

"We already are friends. But face it, the longer we stay friends, the more attracted we will become towards each other. You will come around. I know you will." He grinned at her.

"Why are you trying so hard with me? I'm not that unique."

"I already told you, I feel different about us. And you have no idea how amazing you are. I wish you could see yourself the way I see you..."

She frowned, "Were you like this with Evans?"

"No. I mean, yeah, I've always been pushy... But, I know you're the one for me."

Katharine's eyes widened. The one for him? She must seriously be dreaming... There's no way someone could fall this hard for someone in such a short amount of time...

"You're psychotic, James. I seriously believe that."

He laughed and grabbed her hand, "I think everybody knows that's true."

He pulled her up and kept a firm grip of her hand as they walked down the corridor. Once again, she couldn't find the strength, or maybe it was courage, to pull her hand from his.

They descended the next set of stairs all the way to the ground floor, still hand in hand.

"This isn't going to be our last conversation about this, is it?" Katharine asked after their long silence, knowing the answer before she spoke.

James chuckled, "That depends on how you cooperate."

He finally let go of her hand as he grabbed the door for her and let her enter. Class had already begun and all eyes were on them as they entered the room.

"Well, Mr. Potter and Miss Parker, how nice of you to join us tardy." McGonagall enunciated the last word. "Shall I wait for you both to find your seats or may I proceed?"

Yikes. Apparently she hated it when students showed up late.

"Sorry, ma'am. You may proceed." James said as he clearly tried to suppress a chuckle when his voice cracked.

They took the second to last desk for two in the back of the room. McGonagall proceeded with her lecture, her words immediately going through one ear and out the other for Kat.

"Why do they make us have classes so far apart? We would have nearly been late anyway even if we hadn't stopped..." Katharine whispered quietly to James.

"I really don't know... Maybe because they envy us for being young and fit unlike their wrinkled old bodies?" He chuckled quietly.

"That's just mean," she whispered back. He shrugged nonchalantly.

An oriental girl whipped her head around to glare at the two, and they shared a quick grin at one another before looking back at the board.


"I'll meet you at lunch, kay?" James said as he turned left and headed down the corridor after they were the first ones out of Transfiguration again.

"Where are you going?" She called after him. He merely just waved behind himself and proceeded down the corridor.

"Hey, everything okay?" Jordan asked as Katharine was still standing half-way in the doorway while the rest of the students squeezed behind her out of the classroom.

"Oh, yeah sorry. That boy is seriously driving me crazy..." She then noticed Remus and Sirius practically running down the corridor James had just disappeared from... She stared after them as she followed Jordan, Renee, and Laura amongst the crowd to the Great Hall.

"Yes, James Potter has done that to almost every girl he's met, I'm sure..." Laura said.

"Oh, the drama, drama, drama." Renee chuckled. Katharine frowned at her.

The four girls sat together this time and had already begun eating in the Great Hall when the Marauders finally entered the room. Katharine eyed them suspiciously as they leisurely walked over to the girls and stood behind them. They didn't walk to the empty seats on the other side that the girls had left for them. Their facial expressions clearly showed they were up to something as they hovered over the them, looking down mischievously.

"Hello ladies, I hope you all have had enough to eat." Sirius grinned.

"What does that mean?" Laura questioned through gritted teeth from behind Katharine.

"Now!" Peter suddenly shouted.

The four boys pointed their wands towards the food on the tables and each shouted, "Insectum lacio!"

Immediately all of the food in the Great Hall had all sorts of big, nasty insects scattering everywhere. And seconds afterwards, the entire room went chaotic.

Everyone in the Great Hall screamed and shrieked at the top of their lungs as bugs poured out of the bowls, plates, and goblets and landed in their laps. Katharine and several other people leaped backwards and fell onto the stone floor. People were running around and screaming like crazy, trampling over anyone that was in their way.

Somebody kicked Katharine's side as they tripped over her. She groaned as she rolled over and nearly had a heart attack at the site of a huge cockroach heading straight towards her face. She screamed and bounced right up onto her feet. She stomped and stomped her feet on as many bugs as she could, looking around the room at all of the other students and some teachers scrambling around like insects themselves, mostly everybody heading straight for the open doors into the Entrance Hall.

She spun on her heel and finally saw the culprits. She practically leaped over a poor tiny first year student and grabbed James by the collar of his robes as he was making a run for it. Apparently she wasn't the only one who had thought of grabbing the pranksters because she saw that Renee had a hold of Sirius and was wrestling with him while Jordan and Laura had each grabbed Remus and Peter, who weren't really giving much of a fight. Then-

"SIIIIIILLLLEEEENNNCE!" Came Dumbledore's booming voice over all of the screaming and hollering in the room. Everyone in the Great Hall froze automatically. It kinda reminded Katharine of the night on Halloween when the troll was let out her first year...

Dumbledore then waved his wand and all of the bugs, including the food and dishes, completely disappeared. The tables were wiped clean.

"Who is responsible for this?" He shouted.

Katharine elbowed James hard in the ribs and he raised his arm high up for everyone to see. James made no attempt to hide the smirk on his face.

"Ah yes, of course, the infamous Marauders." Katharine could have sworn she saw Dumbledore chuckle lightly. "Very well. I'm very sorry to cut your lunch short, but you all will find that some snacks and such will be in your Houses as you head back to them. The poor house elves would not be able to make a whole new lunch in time before your next lessons. Have a nice, insect free afternoon!" Then Dumbledore strode over to the Marauders and the girls with McGonagall close on his heels.

"I have NEVER in ALL of my teaching career seen such misbehavior from SEVENTH years! Much less from MY House!" McGonagall seemed hysterical.

"Now, now Minerva. You must admit that these young men are quite creative... Disruptive... But creative." Dumbledore smiled, his blue eyes twinkling.

"Sir, these boys must be punished accordingly. Twenty points from Gryffindor, each. And detention for the next three days." McGonagall huffed and held her head high as she strode from the Great Hall.

Dumbledore leaned in closer to Katharine and James, whom were in front of the group, and spoke in a low voice, "I must say I do not disagree with Minerva about taking disciplinary actions, even though her punishment could have been far worse. However, that was definitely one of the most amusing stunts I have seen from you boys yet." He stood straight up and gave one more twinkling smile, and followed McGonagall out of the Great Hall.

Now the eight of them were the last ones in the entire room.

Katharine turned around, "You boys are insane. Absolutely insane."

"Yes, but you must admit that was pretty awesome." Remus said.

"Yes, I must admit that was an awesome prank."

"Maybe you can join in next time," James wrapped his arm around Katharine as they all walked out of the Great Hall.

"Uh, no thanks. I enjoy not being in detention."

"But you could be with me the rest of the evening. We'd never be apart until I leave for my dorm." James said excitedly.

"Oh, will you please stop saying things like that out loud?" Katharine asked, barely audible for anyone else to hear.

James leaned in closer to her ear and whispered, "No."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuugh!" Katharine threw her hands up in the air. She shrugged James off of her and stomped her way ahead of the others.

"This one's sure got an attitude, my goodness," Sirius said to James.

"Well, she wouldn't have one if Potter didn't piss her off all of the time." Laura said.

"I don't do it on purpose... Not all of the time at least..." James smirked.

"You just better watch how pushy you are, Prongs, or you may never get a chance at her." Remus said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" James defended. Katharine was now out of site.

"I'm just saying that she's not into you asking her out everyday or telling her how much you like her. Just like you did with Evans." Remus said. "Plus... You know Kat has bigger issues to worry about and that's probably the main reason she keeps blowing you off..." Remus added more quietly so Renee, Laura, and Jordan wouldn't hear.

"Yeah... I know." James reluctantly agreed.


Potions with Professor Slughorn was interesting. He was another teacher that was very difficult to listen to. His voice was boring and he didn't explain things very well.

Katharine had somehow managed to sit away from James so that she could sit next to Lily. Her plan worked out rather perfectly. He came in and sat next to her, of course. So she waited until it was the last minute before class would begin and then she quickly ran over to Lily. She wanted to sit next to her in this class because she had always heard from Slughorn in her time that she was excellent in his potions class. What else could she say? She needed a good study buddy if she was to stay here for a while.

His lecture was finally over and now it was time to make a potion called the Draught of Living Dead. It was supposed to make someone fall into a deep sleep. The name sounded very similar to Katharine as she opened her Advanced Potion-Making book to page ten.

"I'll go grab the ingredients." Kat told Lily. She waited in line with the rest of the students and then finally grabbed asphodel that was in an infusion of wormwood, some valerian roots, and a few sopophorous beans.

When she returned to their desk, Lily was already preparing the basis of the potion.

"Okay, so it says we first need to cut the beans with this silver dagger right here," Lily began, "in order to get the juices out."

"Hey, wait a minute," Katharine said before Lily started cutting a bean, "I just remembered I've done this potion before. You're not supposed to do that with the beans."

"How have you done this potion before? It's not taught until seventh year," Lily questioned.

Oops. Guess they were a little more advanced in Katharine's time.

"I, uh, I did it my sixth year. I guess we were a little farther ahead than here..." She replied, which wasn't a lie at all actually. Slughorn taught them in her sixth year, and she remembered something about the beans from Harry's book that had been from the Half Blood Prince, i.e. Snape.

At the thought of him, she subconsciously looked around the room for him. She found him quickly as he was sitting almost right behind them. Suddenly, as if he felt her gaze, he snapped his head up and they made eye contact, his eyes big and black against her probably dumbstruck brown ones. She quickly looked back to Lily.

"Anyway, I remember the book is wrong. We're supposed to crush them with the flat side of the dagger and then slide all of the juices into the pot."

"If everyone is supposed to do that, why hasn't Slughorn told us then?" Lily asked, her eyes skeptical.

"I don't know. You can try cutting them if you want, but trust me, crushing will work better."

"Okay then..." Lily trailed off. She started as Kat had told her, cutting the beans first. Obviously, she was very stubborn. She attempted cutting them several times and each time, the bean would slip out and bounce around the cutting board. Kat noticed that everyone was having this problem around the room, except for Snape, whom was already on to his next ingredient. Figures.

Kat started to chuckle as Lily was getting frustrated. "Okay, okay! I will try crushing them now!"

Lily placed the bean under the flat side and her palm on top of the other flat side and pressed. The bean made a little snapping noise and it's juices started pouring out. She looked up at Kat a little wide eyed and then back down and wiped all of the juices into the potion.

"Hmm..." Was all she would say.

"Okay, so now we add the rest of the beans and the other ingredients..." Kat said.

Lily began crushing the other beans while Kat started cutting the roots into thin slices and added them and the asphodel into the mixture.

"Okay, now it says we need to stir it counter-clockwise until it starts releasing blue steam," Lily said as she read off the directions, "and at the ideal halfway stage it should be a deep purple colour. If it is stirred properly, the potion will turn to a light shade of lilac and then eventually clear as water."

"Alrighty, I'll stir it then." Kat reached for the stirrer and was about to stir it when an icy cold voice spoke from behind the two girls.

"If you already knew that you should crush the beans and not cut them, then you should know that the book is wrong about the stirring as well." Lily and Kat whipped their heads around to see Snape had been the one speaking as he was staring right back at them.

"How are we supposed to stir then?" Kat asked trying not to speak to him wrongly. After all, he hadn't done anything to her in this time... Yet.

"Save it, Snape, we don't need your help." Lily snarled.

"Fine then. If you don't want to be at the top of the class, Evans, so be it." He looked back down at his battered book that Kat immediately noticed had scribbling all over the pages, just like it had in her time.

"Severus..." Kat spoke sincerely, "Um, I know you are very talented in potions and it sounds like this isn't your first time preparing this potion... Could you please tell me how to stir it?" He looked up confusedly, probably by the way her tone had suddenly changed. She half smiled at him.

"Stir it clockwise once for every seventh counter-clockwise stir," and with that, he went back to stirring his own potion.

"Thank you." Kat said, but he never looked back up.

She turned back to Lily and smirked at her. She glared back.

"Look, I know you two used to be friends and now aren't on good terms, but that doesn't mean we can't take some advice from him. Why get a bad grade on our practical just because we can't put some feelings aside?" Kat whispered to her.

"Because he called me a Mudblood and is very interested in the Dark Arts!" Lily hissed.

Katharine didn't reply, ending the conversation right then. Lily had just stirred the potion clockwise once and then began stirring it counter-clockwise seven more times. Light blue steam started to barely erupt from it.

"So... Apparently you and Potter had quite some argument in Arithmancy today..." Lily began.

"Oh, no. Please don't bring that up," Katharine groaned.

Lily chuckled, "Yeah, it's probably all over the school by now."

"That's a lot of people to tell in just a few hours..." Kat said.

"Oh believe me, nothing is kept secret for very long here at Hogwarts."

"Lovely... You're the second person that has told me that already." It started to make Katharine wonder how long she could keep her time traveling a secret.

"So, um... May I ask you what the argument was about?" Lily tentatively asked.

Kat attempted to sound casual, "Oh just about him constantly asking me out. He's driving me nuts."

She laughed, "Yeah, don't forget that I told you that you could come to me when you need rescuing. I knew they would eventually get on your nerves."

"Well, I really enjoy hanging out with them, I just wish James would be fine with us just being friends..." Kat had to try to remember that she was talking to Harry's future mother and shouldn't say too much that would make Lily stop liking James, if there was any twinkling bit of her liking him right now. She added, "I still think you and James are meant to be together."

"Katharine, if you keep saying stuff like that, I'm not going to be friends with you anymore," Lily smirked at her but her tone was serious.

Kat grinned widely, "You mean, were friends now?"

"Of course we're friends! I mean, if you're going to keep hanging out around the Marauders, you're going to need me to give you some psychiatric treatment once in a while."

The two laughed as they watched their potion. Suddenly, it changed from lilac to completely clear. The girls high-fived each other and flagged down Professor Slughorn after he finished looking at Snape's potion.

"Ah, perfectly done ladies!" Slughorn exclaimed. "Miss Evans, you have yet to disappoint me, and Miss Parker, I'm looking forward to seeing much more from you in my class. Have a good evening!" He waved as he proceeded down the aisle to some other students that were finished, but Kat could already tell that the steam coming out of it was not the correct colour.

The two girls walked out of the Dungeons together and up to their common rooms to drop off their books before supper. They chatted the entire way. Kat was thoroughly enjoying Lily's company and was glad that she was getting to know both of Harry's parents, no matter how much of an arse James was.

When they dropped off Kat's books at Gryffindor Tower, they walked back to the Great Hall with Renee, Jordan, and Laura. Katharine made sure to sit between two people, which ended up being Lily and Laura. As they started piling their plates and discussing their homework assignments, the Marauders came bustling in and flopped down onto the bench next to the girls.

"Good evening, ladies! This grub looks absolutely delicious tonight!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Yes it does, so don't ruin it again," Renee snapped.

"Oh come on, you know it's all fun and games, love," he grinned.

"I'm sure it is because, after all, how could anyone not enjoy being in detention all of the time?" Laura exacerbated.

"We don't do it for the detention, we do it for the attention," James said from across the table next to Sirius. Remus and Peter sat on the other side of Laura.

"Clearly," she rolled her eyes.

"Plus, it's just plain fun!" Peter squeaked.

"As long as you guys stop hexing people for fun and just do the pranks..." Lily trailed off.

"We weren't asking for your opinion, Evans," James hollered across the table.

"Shut up, Potter!" Lily's emerald eyes flamed.

James' nostrils flared, "You shut up! No one asked you to sit here anyway!"

"Uh, yeah, I did." Katharine interjected.

"Whatever, doesn't mean she's wanted by all of us." He pouted.

"No one cares what you want, Potter!" Lilly screeched.

"Oh, will you both just SHUT UP?" Remus slammed his fists on the table.

Katharine stifled a snort as the two wide-eyed dumbies went back to eating their food in silence.

The rest of supper consisted of everyone talking except for Lily and James. They were acting so immature, that Katharine didn't even care about trying to include them in the conversation anymore. Shortly after finishing though, the four boys had to rush off to detention while the girls headed off to the Gryffindor common room.

The rest of the night ended well. The girls chatted for a little while in the common room until James came when it was time for Lily and him to make their nightly patrol.

All in all, Katharine felt like her first day of classes went well. It was stressful, but fun. As she finally laid in bed that night, she found unconsciousness come quickly as she had no time travel or damaging the future worries going through her mind. She fell asleep to normal student thoughts. Thoughts that only consisted of having to worry about the drama in homework, friends, and boys.


A/N: That was a VERY dramatic and long chapter. haha And don't worry, I'm not going to write every chapter of their daily school schedules. Just wanted to do one on her first day.