I'm just going to say right now that time has skipped. Like a lot. Like to the beginning of their 7th year. I could have written more, but the fact that the story would have ended up being like 60 chapters if I had… well I didn't want that many haha. Anyways nothing has changed much the only thing you need to know is their 7th years but Reed is the only one who hasn't turned 17 yet. Okay and on to the chapter
Chapter 21
"God, that is so disgusting." Ruby said cringing as she, Reed, Remus, and Sirius were all sitting on the cream colored couch in her living room.
School had been out for almost a month. Lily and James had been officially "making out" for four, since Lily still refused to call it an actual relationship. Now, at the present, they were snogging, at the top of Ruby's staircase, not knowing that there were four pairs of eyes watching them.
"I can't believe them. They hated each other like two years ago, now they can't stay away from each other. It just doesn't make sense to me." Ruby said watching them.
"I always knew they would get together." Reed said looking down at her book, even though a part of her wanted to watch and see how long they could suck face without coming up for air, they had been going for about a minute now.
"You always knew? Yeah, sure." Sirius laughed.
"No really, I knew since they made out at my house after my parent's funeral." Reed said, still reading her book.
"Wait, they made out at your parents funeral?" Sirius asked, his voice raised an octave.
"No! They made out after the funeral." Reed said slightly disgusted by the idea that someone would make out at their parent's funeral.
There was a loud pop as group of people appeared out of no where in the middle of Ruby's living room. They were all older wizards and witches, six or eight of them, Ruby couldn't tell since their black robes all blended in with the other.
"And so it begins." Ruby said sighing as she and Sirius got off of the couch.
"Aren't you going?" Reed asked Remus, who was sitting next to her on the couch.
"Well… if you want me to stay here…"
"It's not my fault you all are seventeen, and I'm still a lowly 16 year-old. Have fun." Reed said kissing him on the cheek as he got up off the couch and followed the others into the sitting room where the order was meeting for the second time that week.
Lily came skipping down the stairs then, James following her closely behind. She looked at Reed sitting on the couch alone, her arms crossed over her chest. Lily smiled apologetically at her, and continued on, going to the sitting room.
"Sorry Reedy." James said sadly as he followed Lily through the hallway and into the sitting room, leaving Reed alone in the living room.
It wasn't too much longer until Andromeda Tonks had apparated into the room, in front of the couch where Reed was sitting, she had Nymphadora in her arms. She smiled when she saw Reed sitting alone on the couch.
"Oh good! You wouldn't mind terribly much if I had you watch Dora would you?" Andromeda didn't even wait for Reed's reply, she handed her Nymphadora, and then disappeared into the sitting room with the others.
"Reed!" Nymphadora said happily, now six years old, she could talk better then she had a year and a half ago. Her hair was purple, but when she laid eyes on Reed, her hair grew out into the blond curls she had copied the first time they had met each other.
"I guess we're not alone anymore huh?" Reed asked holding Nymphadora on her lap, "Come on, we'll play pretend again."
It was about an hour later, and four or five games of pretend when the order was finally done with their meeting. Reed and Nymphadora were busy playing Muggle zoo when Remus, Ruby, Lily, Sirius, and James met her back in the living room.
"Why doesn't she like me as much as she likes you?" Sirius asked as they watched them finish up their game of Zoo.
"Because I'm nice to her." Reed said sticking her tongue out at him, she picked Nymphadora up and placed her on her shoulders, "Maybe if you'll play with her more, then she would actually like you."
"You are going to make one great mother." Lily said happily, "If I ever have children…"
"When we do have children." James said, correcting her.
"Anyways, when I have children, you can baby-sit every single day if you want!" Lily said giggling.
"She'd be too busy with her own litter of puppies." Sirius laughed.
There was an awkward silence after he had said it. Reed and Remus's faces grew red, "I'm not going to have a hoard of children," Reed said, "Maybe a few…"
"Not like Molly." Ruby said.
"How many does she have now?" Sirius asked out of curiosity.
"Three, Bill, Charlie, and Percy." Lily said, she had sent cards for every one of them.
"How sad…" Sirius said lamely.
"Come on, we need to get ready to leave for the train." Reed said finally, they had about four hours until they had to be there, and none of them had packed yet.
"I can't wait!" Ruby said suddenly, "Did you hear they're doing something this year?"
"Doing what?" James asked.
"I don't know, but it's supposed to be awesome!" Ruby said excitedly running up the stairs to pack her stuff.
"By now I am sure you all have heard something about things at Hogwarts changing this year," Dumbledore said, a happy but mysterious smile on his face, "Well I am here to tell you that they are true, things are going to change…our school is going to be host to another Wizarding school over in the United States of America."
"The United States… that's what's going on? We're getting exchange students? I am so disappointed." Ruby said sighing putting her head down on the table.
"We are receiving a whole class of seventh years from the Flamel Academy. They will be sorted like you were when you first years, so please treat each and everyone of them with respect."
It was then when the doors to the Great Hall opened and older teenagers started filing in. There were two lines of them, maybe thirty kids in each line. All of them had on black robes. Under the robes the boys were wearing black pants, black sweater-vest with gold detailing on the collar, they wore white shirts underneath the vest with black ties that had gold stripes on them.
The girls were wearing vary similar uniforms, but instead of pants they were wearing skirts and instead of ties they had black silk ribbons with gold stripes tied around their collars. All in all they were a very impressive sight, sort of intimidating to be honest.
"I like these American boys." Ruby said whistling at some of them as they passed by.
"The girls aren't bad looking either," Sirius said teasing Ruby, "What do you think Moony?"
Remus looked up at them, he had been paying attention to the crowd that was gathering in the Great Hall and hadn't been paying attention to the conversation going on around him, "What?"
"What do you think about the American girls?" James repeated.
"I don't know yet. I haven't met any of them." Remus said.
"Dear god, it's not even fun with you anymore, you are so whipped." Sirius said staring at him wide-eyed.
"What's not fun anymore?" Remus asked thoroughly confused.
"Never mind." James said sighing as the first of the Flamel Academy students was getting sorted.
It was a girl, she had bouncy brown curls that went way past her shoulders, green eyes that shinned brightly, and freckles that spread over the bridge of her nose. She had a wide smile on her face, clearly excited to be there. The Sorting hat was placed on her head and in two seconds it had shouted out, "Gryffindor!" you could hear her gasp of relief as she jumped down from the podium and nearly skipped to the Gryffindor's table, she plopped down next to Reed and smiled at her.
"Elizabeth Avery, nice to meet you!" She smiled brightly, "But you can call me Tizzy."
"Tizzy…?" Reed asked slowly.
"Oh, cause I'm always in a tizzy. Haha, isn't that funny?" She smiled at Reed again, and giggled.
"Oh yeah, so funny." Reed said laughing sarcastically.
"Oh my goodness, your accent is so cute!" Tizzy said.
"If you think hers is cute," Sirius said in a low tone, "You should hear mine."
"I'd rather not." Tizzy said turning back to Reed, "So is school here fun? I bet it is!"
"Sorry mate, guess you're not her type." James said laughing loudly.
They turned back around, Tizzy shutting up long enough for them to hear the next person getting sorted. He was a tall boy, probably around 6' 2" or so. He had shaggy blond hair and bright blue eyes.
"God I hope he's in Gryffindor." Ruby said smiling widely.
"Accio hot guy!" Lily said waving her wand around jokingly.
"You don't have to summon one, I'm already here." Sirius said.
"Don't kid yourself." Ruby scoffed.
"Slytherin!" The hat yelled as the boy got up from the podium and walked over to the Slytherin table.
"Damn, what a waste." Ruby sighed, "What a cute butt," she added as he walked past their table.
"What? I don't have a cute fanny?" Sirius asked, a mock look of hurt on his face.
"Oh it's cute, I just see it all the time, I'm used to it by now." Ruby said leaning over and pinching his butt.
"God, that is so disgusting." Lily said shaking her head.
"Hey, Tizzy? What was that guys name?" Reed asked pointing to the guy whom had just been sorted into Slytherin.
"Better look out Remus, your girlfriend here is in the market for another boyfriend." James said nudging him in the side, Remus just scoffed.
"That guy's name is Alex Emerson he's really popular with the girls at our school, a total cutie. Even though he won't date any of the girls at our school." Tizzy huffed, Reed had a feeling she was one of those girls he had turned down.
Again they had quieted down for another sorting. It was a girl, a blond bombshell in the purest of sense. She was tall with long legs that seemed to go on and on forever. Her eyes were crystal clear and blue, her lips full and bow shaped.
"Now here is someone who should be sorted into Gryffindor." James said jokingly.
"Oh yes, because she is definantly filled with courage." Lily said folding her arms across her chest.
Instead of Gryffindor though, she was sorted into Ravenclaw. Tizzy had information on her as well it seemed, "That's Marion Osgood, she has the highest grades our school."
"Who is that boy Tizzy?" she asked as another boy walked up onto the podium.
"Huh? Oh that's Oliver Young. He's a real quiet kid, keeps to himself mostly. He's tied with Marion for highest marks and all, but it comes to him naturally, she has to study like its nobodies business."
Oliver Ashford was sorted into Hufflepuff, which was surprising given Tizzy's information on him. He passed the Gryffindor table and eyed Tizzy and Reed for a moment before moving on.
"And with that, I would like to welcome the Flamel Academy for witchcraft and Wizardry to our humble school. And now, dig in!" Dumbledore said the plates on the tables turned over with piles of food on them.
"Oh wow!" Tizzy said obviously delighted, "This looks wonderful!"
"Guess what? It's artificial and it's made from the nasty parts of the animals." Lily said narrowing her eyes at Tizzy, Tizzy seemed to find that a good time to act normal instead of happy.
Reed couldn't help but laugh at Lily's straightforwardness. It was rather amusing. Reed looked over to her other side at Remus then. He was sitting quietly, poking at his food rather slowly. The look on his face was a mixture of bored and tired.
"Are you okay?" Reed asked touching his shoulder lightly.
Remus jerked his head up, like he had been surprised at her touch and nodded, "Yeah I'm fine, why?"
Reed shook her head, "Nothing just asking." She went back to her own plate of food then.
"And then we get to dance this weekend!" Ruby said shimmying in her seat.
"Dance?" Tizzy asked perking up again after Lily's snide remark.
"Oh yeah! It's going to be great!" Ruby said bumping hips with Sirius.
"This is a disaster." Ruby muttered as the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw students sat in the Great Hall watching Professor McGonagall stare at them, picking out her victim.
"Potter!" She yelled looking at James.
"M-me?" James asked looking a little nervous, "I'm flattered Professor, but I have a girlfriend already. You would so be my second choice though!" He said smiling at her.
"Get down here now before your house doesn't have any points left." McGonagall steamed, getting a loud laugh out of Francesca who was sitting on the end of the Hall.
"Ms. Corleone, why don't you come up here as well."
Francesca's face froze in a look of disbelief, "But Professor, I…"
She was interrupted by McGonagall who was in no mood to take any students shit today, "Get up here now, before Slytherin doesn't have any points left either, and Hufflepuff will win the house cup."
"That would be a shame." Sirius muttered as Francesca stomped over to where the other two were standing.
"Is it just me, or does she like to put us in emotional pain?" Reed asked watching McGonagall force James to put his hand on Francesca's waist.
"She enjoys it way to much." Ruby said agreeing.
"I find it hilarious actually." Lily said laughing at the sight of her boyfriend and Francesca hand in hand, and waist to waist.
"A teacher really wouldn't terrorize students for fun would she?" Tizzy asked, her expression was that of pure horror.
"You should try detention," Remus said taking his turn to mess with Tizzy that day, "They make us hunt animals in the Dark forest."
Tizzy's green eyes widened even further then they normally were. She turned back in her seat and watched the rest of the dance lesson in silence. Lily high-fived Remus under the table.
"This is ridiculous." Francesca muttered as McGonagall forced the two of them to waltz around the room.
"Your face is ridiculous." James said, finding his joke quite funny, he laughed.
Francesca let him spin her, but when he pulled her back in, she raised her knee a little, and hit him right in the groin, "Bet that felt ridiculous too, huh?" she asked her eyes narrowed.
"At least I'm not sleeping with an eighty year old man." James said looking her straight in the eye as he pulled her a little more tightly then he should have.
"How dare you speak of him like that! I could kill you right here on the spot you know!" Francesca snarled quietly, stepping on James's foot with her high heel.
"Is it just me," Ruby asked, "Or does it look like they're discreetly trying to hurt each other?"
"No, they're trying to hurt each other." Sirius said yawning, "I think Francesca is winning at the moment too."
"Okay that's enough!" McGonagall yelled as Francesca elbowed James in the side when he was turning her around, "Dance lessons are over. I expect all of you got something out of this today. I don't want to see any of you acting or dancing obscenely when I just taught you a perfectly respectable dance!" And with that she stormed out of the Hall, realizing that no one had taken her seriously at all.
These chapters are going to kind of go by fast. I would like to explain the dance lessons. Obviously they're going to have a dance as a sort of welcome to the new students from America
Anways, the students from America don't play a large role, but they do cause some tension and some fun times. The ones you'll end up hearing the most about are Alex Emerson, Tizzy, and Oliver just to let you know. So there you are chapter 21 is done!