Three weeks into classes and I already have decided I never want to leave the wizarding world. Other than two girls in my dorm and the obvious Potter-Black-Petegrew trio I loved everything here.
I currently was laying on my stomach in Gryffindor Tower with Gidean and his twin (whose name is Fabian) and Melchior working on transfiguration.
"Why must lovely Minerva do this to us." Fabian cried out annoyed.
"If you had transfigured that needle you wouldn't have a four foot essay." I said smirking.
"And if you had done this essay last week when it was assigned all you would have to worry about the six foot essay on the proper use of class time, that you dragged me and V into." Melchior said smirking.
"Hey you were just as curious as I was about her ability to see when her back is turned." Gideon jumped in.
"But not in her cat form! She has abnormal senses when she's an animagus." I joke hitting them over the head.
"Explain to me James how our little prodigies came to be in company of the gruesome twosome." Sirius cried out melodramatically.
"Probably the same way you weaseled your way into friendship with me." Remus joked.
"Dear lord Little Lily is that true. Have you been selling yourself to these studs of first years." Sirius said grabbing my arm.
"Oy Black back off my little Slytherin." Mary yelled at the larger boy.
"Um you do realize V is..." Melchior started.
"Mel it's a joke sweetie." I said jokingly.
"Sweetie huh." Fabian said grinning.
"Next it'll be baby," His twin replied.
"Then Honey." Sirius yelled deciding to make himself known again.
"And then it's Love" James said grinning.
"Then you might as well get engaged." Peter burst in.
"Then comes a little baby." Gideon yelled again.
"Ooh better get out now Melly before your little lady starts ordering you around for sardine pasties." Fabian said laughing.
"How in Merlin's names did we become friends with this two imbeciles." I ask.
"Well...I have absolutely no idea actually. I think it had something to do with that obnoxious girl Goyle or whatever her name is calling you a you-know-what." he said.
"Probably...and you can say mudblood...it doesn't bother me." I say rolling my eyes.
"Oh look at the little geniuses flirting." Mary said unable to help herself throwing the other Gryffindors into gales of laughter except Remus for some reason or another.
"You know I wish we were down in the Slytherin dorms being hexed..." I said rolling my eyes.
"Come now love. You don't mean that. Especially not with that prat Malfoy down there." Mel said.
"Ooh Lily, your sister's getting engaged." James yelled up into the girls dormitory.
"Which one." she simply yelled back.
"Little Lily." Sirius yelled.
"Congrats sis." she joked.
"It's a wonder I'm sane...And why in Merlin's trousers did you have to encourage them." I yell hitting Melchior on the arm.
"Watch out for those hormones." Fabian said grinning.
"Lover's Spat." yelled Gideon at the same time.
"Why am I surrounded by males...and immature ones at that." I growl getting up.
"Because you love us V." Gideon said grinning.
"And because you don't have the patience for all the crap girls put you through." Fabian replied.
"Hey I'm a girl." Mary yelled.
"In body maybe but up here you're pretty much male." Sirius said poking her forehead.
"Just get used to it. I don't think you can fit in with normal females." Melchior said standing as well.
"Yeah I guess you're right." I said softly.
"Hey V, did you shrink or something." Melchior said jokingly.
"Oy no cracks about my height...just because I'm not a giant doesn't mean I'm that short." I growled pouting.
He grabbed me around the waist making me shriek and lifted me onto his shoulders like I was a kid. I grabbed on scared one hand on his face. I felt it dip into his contemplative frown and he turned to look at me.
"Am I going to need to monitor your food intake...your at least a quarter stone lighter." He said not looking amused.
"I'm studying." I say half heartedly.
"Aww you two are soooo cute." Mary screeched out.
"Not only that but your hands..." he whispered trailing off.
"Melly I'm fine don't worry about it."
"They're ice cold though."
"We;re having an abnormally cold September is all. Drop it please we need to go."
"It's getting late guys. We need to get back to our common room before that moron Chang decides we're off in some alcove snogging and tells the statue not to let us in." Melchior said grabbing his bag that had both our books in it.
"Alright see you in the devil's class tomorrow." Gideon said.
"It's not good to call your head of house the devil. Especially not after annoying two of her favourite students." I said playfully. "Nighty Night Lils." I yelled.
"Nighty Night Little Lily." Sirius James and Peter chorused.
"Night Vi." Remus said.
I looked at him properly he hadn't said anything since coming in and it worried me. He was abnormally pale with bags under his eyes and he had a new scar on his cheek that worried me.
"Night Remmy. Feel better. I don't like seeing you so sick." I said softly.
He just smiled and nodded. I grinned back and laid my chin on the top of Melchior's head knowing he would be carrying me the whole way and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
"I'm serious about monitoring your meals V." He said softly.
"I just want to learn everything I can and I forget about eating." I say softly.
"I know. I don't know how you thought you were going to be a Slytherin. You're the very definition of Ravenclaw. As the muggles say, if you were to look up the definition of Ravenclaw you would see your picture." He joked.
"I know I know. Jeeze what's so wrong with learning all I can. At least I'm not like other girls and starving myself to make myself skinnier." I joke.
"That's cause you're the scrawniest girl I know." he replied.
"Well at least I have a knight in blue satin looking out for me." I said kissing the top of his head.
"Just promise me you'll watch what you eat...or to be more accurate what you don't eat." he said.
"Aww looky here at the pair of lovebirds." came the sing-songy voice of Bellatrix Lestrange.
"It looks like your brother has turned blood traitor. Is this something we need to worry about." Lucius asked looking at Andrew.
"Now Lucius if it were genetic then you'd have to worry about your dear Narcissa." Andrew said smirking.
"Then prove to us you're not like them. Bloodtraitors and mudbloods are all the same." The goyle girl said.
"I'm just as pure as any of you. My parents were both pure muggles so I am also a pure muggle I just have the talent for magic...something that none of you really have." I snapped out trying to jump.
Melchior's hands were tight around my thighs holding me into place and my wand was down in my bag with his. I gave him a look prodding him wondering why he wasn't letting me do anything.
"Fight back and they make it worse. There are more than four times are amount and most are much older. I'm not letting you enrage them." He explained.
"At least put me down. That's a long fall." I whispered out.
He nodded and took me from his shoulders setting me on the ground as the mini deatheaters decided on which was to be tortured first.
"Attacking them before they get the chance to would be stupid wouldn't it." I said softly.
He nodded. I grabbed his arm scared reaching into his bag to at least grab my wand. I thought through the few spells I knew transfiguration no help, defence...the professor was incompetent, potions useless, charms no help, astronomy useless. The only thing remotely helpful were Sev's lessons and he hadn't taught me anything about this.
"Fine we'll start with the mudblood." Andrew finally yelled taking out his wand.
"Remember hatred. She is useless and you want to hurt her." Bellatrix said.
"Right...CRUCIO!" he yelled pointing his wand at me.
I closed my eyes but didn't feel the pain instead I felt a light embrace and opened one eye seeing Melchior had moved in front of me and was now on his knees gripping me to keep up.
"Stop please stop you're hurting him." I yelled out crying.
"But it's so much fun seeing you in pain." Bellatrix said grinning.
I growled and moved away running at Andrew pushing him down and hitting him. I was so small that I'm sure he didn't expect me to push him over or even physically attack him. I hit him three times tears in my eyes as the others stood stunned before he threw me off into one of the suits of armor.
"Ooh ickle kiddies fighting in the corridors. Not good not good at all." peeves cried out coming out of the armour.
"Peeves." gasped Melchior. "Get Mcgonagle...Slughorn...anyone."
He didn't need to tell peeves though because our fighting was loud and caught the attention of a few prefects and the useless defence teacher. He rushed over to Melchior as Chang ran up to me and pulled me up seeing blood.
"We need the medi-nurse." She yelled yanking me up.
"Be careful with her." Melchior snapped at the older girl.
I woke up in the hospital wing with a major headache. I looked around the sterile white room rubbing my eyes and trying to sit up.
"No no you lay down. You were hurt and had a concussion." The medi-nurse in training Poppy said coming to me.
"Melchior." I whispered out through parched lips.
"Here V. Just peachy." He said trying to sound macho.
"When can we leave." I asked softly.
"When I say." She replied making me pout.
"I'm fine see." I say jumping off the bed feeling dizzy.
"You weren't fine before the attack. You only weigh two and a half stones. You are underweight." She snapped.
"I'll eat more. I already promised that." I said pouting.
"You lass won't be out of here for at least a fortnight." she said making me glare.
She picked me up setting me in the large bed and I looked down at my hand and saw the bones protruding sickeningly. I reached to my stomach and then up to my ribs and I could feel each individual one reaching back I felt each little bump of my spine and I looked at the medi-witch worriedly. I hadn't even realized how small I had gotten. I wasn't trying to but when had this happened. I can't pinpoint it.
"Love I need to put some weight on you before I can let you out. After you're out your friends are going to be talking to me on a daily basis so I know your not starving yourself again. I know being skinny is what every girl wants but ending up this skinny is dangerous." she told me.
"I don't...I haven't...how?' I whisper out bending over as sobs came from me.
"She really hasn't been trying Poppy. I think this is just the first time she noticed." I heard Melchior say. "She doesn't care about being skinny or anything like that...she'd prefer being overly large than so scrawny."
"That may be but it still happened and if it happens once it normally happens more times. She's severely anorexic at the moment. How could none of you bring her to me before this." She said and I heard anger in her voice.
"We didn't think. Her robes are big on her and any muggle clothes she has on...well we thought that that was how it was made to look much bigger. When I picked her up today I decided I was going to force feed her for the next month...if I had realized...you have to realize...she's my best friend. I would have brought her up here." He whispered and I heard his voice breaking.
"I know Mr. Crabbe. Watch out for her from now on once she's out. If she even misses one meal bring her up to me." She told him.
"V I'm sorry." Melchior said and I felt him hug me tightly.
"How?" I whispered again crying into his chest.
"I don't know." He said kissing the top of my head softly.
"It was a good thing you took that curse...her body might not have held up against it." Poppy said her voice soft and sad.
"He could have killed you. Andrew could have killed you and he wouldn't have cared!" Melchior growled pulling me to him tighter.
"But he didn't. You saved me. You're a hero. My knight in blue satin." I tried joking looking up at him with tear stained eyes.
He leaned down and gave me a soft kiss. A scared but reassuring kiss that I didn't expect. My eyes widened and I sat still for a second before closing my eyes and chastely kissing back. He was the one who broke it and I saw the scared tears in his eyes.
"When you get out of here you better take good care of yourself. I don't want another scare." He said softly.
"Right." I said my voice shaking.
"Alright, alright kids get back to your bed and let the little lady sleep." Poppy said a small smile on her lips.
I lay down turning to face his bed and smile softly at him before closing my eyes and falling into a heavy sleep.
An: Okay so first off if you are offended by the anorexia I apologize...I did not mean for it to happen it kind of just did. Anorexia is a serious problem and those facing it really don't know how they got that way...normally it happens because of dieting and the need to look thinner but I was sure it was possible that this is capable. Also if I messed up on how skinny she should be I'm sorry she is supposed to be about 3'5 and 35 pounds for those of you in America...I hope you like this chapter (it wasn't going to have the fight...that sort of just happened)
Update!: I have been informed by a woman known as K that the weight and height i had would not be annorexic...i checked a body mass index and it is underweight but I do not believe it is sever enough so I have changed her height and weight. Also I made her so small because this story is set nearly forty years in the past and average heights change...but now I have adjusted it to our time more where the average height of an 11 year old girl is 4'4 Violet is 4' (I wanted her to be shorter but didn't feel comfortable taking the weight down even more...so now she is 4' and 28 lbs...thank you K for pointing that out and for complementing my story I am very grateful)