So here is another chapter. I want to say a big thank you to everyone who follows my story, and has added me to their following list; it really means a lot to me to know that people are reading my stories.

Chapter 20

"I can't believe that we are finally finished." James said with a smile on his face. Sirius gave him a high five.

"Lucky you, I've still got another year left, and this time I'll be all alone." Tonks said with a sad tone.

"Hey." Remus said placing an arm around his girlfriend's shoulders, "you'll still see us."

"Yeah." Maddie added. "Let us know every Hogsmead weekend and we will come to see you."

"And I'm sure Albus would let us visit sometimes if we asked nicely." Alice said with her friendly tone of voice. The others agreed.

The group had just finished their last NEWT exams and had plans to spend the rest of the day out by the Black Lake taking in the summer sun and planning for their graduations.

"So what are we all going to wear to the graduation ball?" Lily asked.

Dumbledore had surprised the seventh year students with the news that on the day before they graduated and headed home for the last time, there would be a ball to celebrate their time at Hogwarts. All the seventh years were invited and as head boy and girl, James and Lily would be leading the graduating students in the first dance of the night.

"Lils you know that I couldn't care less about what to wear to a ball."

"True Rach, but this will be the last time we will be all together at Hogwarts so why not go all out and wear a dress?" Sirius said with the familiar twinkle in his eyes. Maddie punched him.

"Are you going to wear a dress Rachel?" Alice asked.

"I don't know. I'm still deciding what to wear, I might just recycle that suit I wore to Hunter and Isabelle's wedding, I'm sure that it still fits." The group laughed. It was true Rachel hadn't grown much since the wedding.

"Come on Rach, just once it would be fun to see you in a dress." Frank said. The others agreed. Rachel just sighed.

"We'll see guys but I'm not promising anything." The group laughed.

Just as the group were letting their laughter die down, they heard a voice coming from behind them.

"I'm sure that I will be able to get into the ministry with the grades I'm going to get." The group instantly recognised the voice as that of belonging to Lucius Malfoy.

"Then once I'm part of the ministry I can make sure that the magical world is no longer polluted with that of mudbloods." His group agreed with him.

"And then once the world is cleaned of those unworthy of magic, we can finally have a pure world." Bellatrix said with her familiar cackle in her laugh.

"I've had enough of this." Frank said as he rose, Alice quickly following him.

"Frank don't, you'll just be making things worse if we start a fight again."

"I'm not going to start a fight." Said Frank with a grin. He pulled his wand from its holster and muttered a silent spell his wand pointed in Lucius's direction.

Suddenly there came a shout as Malfoy's school uniform suddenly changed colour to become red and gold. All those around who heard his shouts turned their heads. Suddenly laugher filled the air as everyone including a number of Slytherin's began laughing at Lucius's sudden change of house. The Marauder's found themselves rolling around on the floor laughing their heads off. Sirius gave Frank a high five.

"Nice one buddy didn't think you had it in you."

At that Lucius turned his head; a murderous gaze fell over his face.

"I should have known that you would have had something to do with this." He said storming over to the group. At once the Marauder's were on their feet, and surrounded Frank, each with their wands in their hands. Lucius twisted his hand, and instantly Alice's clothes had turned to a horrific shade of green. He had also managed to change her hair colour too. She was horrified when the Slytherin's began laughing and pointing at her hair. Lily quickly turned Alice's clothes and hair back to normal, as Tonks fired off another silent spell which hit Narcissa and turned her hair the same shade of pink as her own. Narcissa screamed.

"You Bitch!" She said firing a bogey hex at Tonks, which Sirius deflected and it ended up rebounding and hitting another Slytherin.

"Hey!" He cried and fired off a spell of his own.

Soon spells were bouncing back and forwards between all those who stood by the Lake. Hex's were fired off, spells caused colour changes between everyone, but still Lucius couldn't manage to change his uniform back to normal, which enraged him even more. He began yelling at the group demanding that they take the spell off him.

"You should be bowing to our superior blood lines." He shrieked.

"Oh for god sake, no body has a truly pureblood linage. We are somehow related Malfoy and I'm a half blood." Tonks yelled back. Malfoy muttered something under his breath and fired off another spell which hit Lily this time. She cried out as she fell to the ground and hit her head on the floor, causing her to get a nosebleed.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" Came a screaming shout from the castle. Professor McGonagall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Flitwick, Hagrid and Madam Pomfrey came rushing out of the castle.

"It was their fault!" Bellatrix shrieked as she tried desperately to change her bright pink and green hair and Gryffindor inspired robes back to her normal attire.
"She hexed us." Bellatrix pointed to Rachel.

"What did I do?" Rachel yelled back.

"You were born you pathetic mudblood!" Bellatrix screamed back as she lunged at Rachel only to be held back by Hagrid who picked her up and threw her over his shoulder.

"Put me down you worthless piece of space!" She shrieked and hit her fists against his back in an attempt to escape. Hagrid just held her tighter.

"Miss Black that is enough of that!" Professor Flitwick tried to calm the situation but Narcissa fired another spell which hit the small teacher and caused him to fall over.

"THAT IS ENOUGH!" McGonagall's voice boomed over the landscape. She waved her wand and the chaos was returned to normal. Hair and clothing was turned back to its original colours, hexes were neutralised and other spells were removed from their victims.

"Now will you behave?" Hagrid asked Bellatrix who was still thrown over his shoulder.

"Go to Hell!" Bellatrix yelled back.

"Miss Black please be quiet." Dumbledore said rubbing his hand over his face.

"They started it and they're not getting punished for it." Narcissa screamed. Frank stepped forward.

"Professor I admit I did change the colour of Lucius's clothing, but only after he said and I quote "once I'm part of the ministry I can make sure that the magical world is no longer polluted with that of mudbloods."" Frank admitted.

"Thank you for your honesty Mr Longbottom, 10 points will be taken from Gryffindor for your prank." Dumbledore said.

"A prank! That's what you call it?" Lucius yelled. "He assaulted me!"

"Oh please, after all the pranks and attacks you've pulled on us over the last 7 years, this is a small fraction of what we should do to you." Severus said calmly.

"Is that a threat Snivellus?" Rodolphus said with an evil tone to his voice, and a glint in his eyes.

"Mr LeStrange." McGonagall said her teacher tone taking over her voice.

"No Rodolphus is a fact."

"Mr Snape."

"Sorry Professor."

Madam Pomfrey was by this point helping Lily and trying to stop her nose from bleeding.

"She has a broken nose; I'm going to need to take her to the hospital wing. I'm I ok to take her?" Poppy asked directing her question at Minerva and Albus. He nodded.

"I'm coming too." Rachel said helping Lily to her feet.

"I would expect nothing less Miss Evans." Poppy said with a smile.

"Now do you all think we can put this behind us all?" Albus said. "You are graduating in a few days, and I would rather not hand out detentions." He said with a chuckle. Bellatrix growled.

"I can change that Miss Black." Minerva said.

"Fine." Bellatrix said. "Can you put me down now?" She snarled. Hagrid looked at Albus who nodded and he put Bellatrix back on the ground.

"Thank you." She said sarcastically. She snatched her wand from the ground where she had dropped it.

Just as the group had started to leave to walk with Lily and Madam Pomfrey when Rachel and Severus heard a sound from behind them. The both turned their head's at the same time and was able to just make out Bellatrix casting a spell which was heading in Rachel's direction. Severus was able to move just in time to take the full force of the spell before it hit Rachel. He was knocked to the ground and hit his head hard on the floor. Alice screamed. Dumbledore quickly grabbed Bellatrix's wand from her hand and Hagrid picked her up again and the pair carried her off to take her away from the group, Bellatrix cackled all the way. Rodolphus followed her smiling, whilst Lucius and Narcissa followed looking a bit wary, maybe Bellatrix had taken it a step too far.

Rachel had managed to recover from Severus's pushing her out of harms way and had rushed over to him.

"Sev, Sev wake up." She cried shaking his shoulders and rolling him onto his back.

"Miss Evans, don't move him. He could have a head trauma." Poppy said as Remus and James held Rachel back from Severus's body. She struggle to escape their grasps but they both held tight as Maddy, Alice, Tonks, Frank and Lily rushed to help both Severus and Rachel. Minerva had rushed to help Poppy, as the Medi-witch began running a spell over Severus's body. She looked at Minerva.

"Nothing seems to be damaged but I want to get him to my department first so I can run a proper spell over that head injury of his. Minerva looked down and saw that Severus had a rather large cut on the top of his head, just covered by the beginning of his hairline. She nodded, and Poppy quickly pulled something from her pocket which she enlarged to become a stretcher. The two witches lifted Severus onto the stretcher and floated it to the hospital wing quickly, with the rest of the group rushing behind them.

Dun, dun, dun! Ok so maybe that was a little dramatic, but I am trying to add tension here. So this chapter is slightly shorter than I would normally write, but I have big plans for the next couple of chapters so hopefully that will make up for the length of this one. So as always please read and review my chapter, it is really nice to know that people are actually reading my story, and yes I know how tacky that sounds! :)

Anyhow, enjoy and let me know whether you like it or not.

Beth (and Happy Christmas in case I don't post again before the big day)