"How
did you know Professor?" Asked Professor Dougle when Lily had
fetched him.
"I have spies around the school." Said
Dumbledore with a grin "I am sorry to dampen your evenings
but... we have a lot of things to discuss."
"Erm like
what Professor?" Professor Dougle asked. Dumbledore passed a
hand over his eyes. "Sir?"
"A Gryffindor girl was
sexually harassed and nearly sexually assaulted by a slytherin."
Dumbledore said.
"Let me guess Lucius Malfoy." Dougle
spat.
"Correct." Dumbledore said.
Professor Dougle
moaned, "He just couldn't keep his hands off her."
"Who
couldn't keep his hands off who?" Magonagol asked, walking in.
"Lucius Malfoy sexually harassed Rachel Lupin."
Dumbledore sighed, with a look of disgust and anger on his face.
"He
nearly sexually assaulted her as well." Professor Dougle added
"Where are they now?" McGonagol asked
"Miss
Lupin went to the hospital wing with Mr Black." Dumbledore
answered, "And Mr Malfoy is over there."
He pointed to
Lucius tied up with James and Remus making sure he didn't move.
"I
bet you wished they had killed you there and then." Snorted
Professor Magonagol. "And what do you mean Professor Dougle,
about he couldn't keep his hands off her?" Professor Magonagol
asked.
"Malfoy is obsessed with Lupin." Professor
Dougle said.
Magonagol shook her head and turned to Lucius.
"Would you care to explain everything?"
"No."
He spat "I'm not saying anything."
"Fine,
Professor Dumbledore, you know the memory extracting spell don't
you?" Magonagol asked
Dumbledore nodded and muttered the
spell. What the three professors, Hannah, Remus, Lily, James and
Natalie saw shocked them.
"That
was sick!" Remus growled glaring at Malfoy.
"Very true
Mr Lupin but it didn't show us what happened." Magonagol said.
"Are you suggesting we do that again?" James asked
incredulously.
"If Professor Dougle agrees," Said
Magonagol with a nod.
"Is it your plan to give Malfoy a
death wish?" Lily asked Professor Magonagol.
"Maybe Mr
Lupin shouldn't see this but go and visit his sister." Magonagol
suggested.
"I agree Minerva and Mr Lupin-" Dumbledore
called to Remus' retreating back.
"Yes, sir?"
"Dont
mention any of this to Mr Black or your sister I dont think either
will be ready for this after that - especially your sister."
Dumbledore warned him.
"I understand, sir." Said Remus
then he left.
Dumbledore
muttered an incantation and once again they all saw images of Rachel
but then they saw the attempt of rape. It knocked them sick to their
stomach.
They watched as Rachel ran around that dungeon in floods
of tears trying to escape Lucius. They watched her throw chairs and
desks in his path to save time. They watch as he caught her and tied
her hands together and tie her to the wall and tie her legs to the
wall they watched her sob.
"I have seen enough!" Dougle and
Magonagol spat at the same time.
If looks could kill then both
Hannah and Lily would have killed Lucius with the looks on their
faces. They both lunged at him. James grabbed hold of Lily partly to
stop her from killing Malfoy.
"Get off of me." She
shrieked
"Lily killing him ain't gonna solve anything."
"It may not solve anything." She screamed "But it
will make me feel a whole lot better knowing that he's dead!"
Hannah was being held back by Natalie, kicking and screaming, her
heel catching the side of Malfoy's face.
Lily turned round to
confront James, in an attempt for him to let her kill Lucius. As she
turned round, her lips met his.
Dumbledore
coughed.
"Sorry." Lily and James said quickly breaking
apart.
"Its understanding emotions are running high right
now. Minerva and Diamond we need to decide what to do about Mr.
Malfoy here."
There was along pause of silence.
"Send
him to Azkaban." Rachel's said voice making them all jump. "I
mean if he can commit a man's crime then he should be able to handle
a man's punishment in this world anyway."
"You think
that's justified, do you?" Professor Dumbledore asked.
"With
all do respect, sir I didn't say a life's sentence." Rachel said
switching her attention from Malfoy's unusually pale face to
Dumbledore's alert one.
"She right about the way he should
be punished..." Dumbledore said trailing off at his words Malfoy
became alert.
"I agree with Miss Lupin." Said Dougle
and McGonagol in unison.
"I
don't think there is any suitable way for punishing him." Sirius
snapped walking in "Anything that he gets will just seem like
he's getting away with it."
"Like I said though."
Rachel whispered, "If he is willing to commit a man's crime,
then he can take a man's punishment."
Rachel felt like her
legs were about to give way again, Sirius put his arm around her and
stroked her hair. Rachel buried her head in his shoulder, she
couldn't look at him anymore (Malfoy) without re-living what had
happened.
Remus was standing in the doorway, feeling helpless. He
couldn't bear to see his sister like that, and he felt like he
couldn't help her. He noticed Lucius.
"What happened to
you?" He asked sneering, not really caring, just interested in
who did it to him.
"Ask your girlfriend." Malfoy
drawled, "If you can call her that, I don't know what she sees
in you."
Hannah flew at him again and hit him over and over
again. This time Remus grabbed hold of her.
"He's not worth
it." He whispered to her "Just leave him. You're doing
exactly what he wants you to do."
Hannah fell into his arms
"I know." She whispered back "But knowing what he
did, and what he was going to do..."
"Shush
it's alright." Remus whispered.
"Miss Lupin"
Rachel removed her face from Sirius' shoulder and looked at
Dumbledore. "How long do you think?"
"I dont know
but definitely not for life." Said Rachel.
"A year
perhaps?" Asked McGonagol.
"I think that'll do just
find." Said Dumbledore.
"Except I'm not eighteen."
Said Lucius triumphantly.
Rachel felt her stomach drop. He was
going to get a way with it.
"You celebrated your eighteen
birthday all last month." Snapped Dougle.
Lily
walked over to him and snarled
"Even if you weren't
eighteen, you would still be going."
"Oh and how would
a mudblood, like you know?" Lucius sneered, he whispered those
last words so only Lily could hear, but unfortuately for him James
heard them as well.
Lily gasped, her eyes welled with tears and
James drew her close and stroked her hair.
"What did he just
say to her?" Magonagol asked.
"I don't want to repeat
what he just said." James muttered.
"Please don't tell
me he said what I think he did?" Natalie gasped.
"What?"
Lily replied, tears falling. "That he called me a..." She
cut off.
"Awww did I upset your girlfriend?" Malfoy
sneered .
"Shut up!" James snapped, He walked over to
him and kicked him in the stomach
"Not that you deserve
her." Malfoy added wheezing "Neither of you three deserve
your 'girls'."
The girls gasped.
"That's what you
three were planning." Hannah said "It all make sense, sort
of."
"It does." Rachel said "Perry wants you,
HE wants me..."
"And that means Snape wants ME!"
Lily looked confused "But he hates me."
"Wouldn't
count on that." Malfoy muttered, but no-one heard
"You'll
never get us though." Lily smirked "I'm going out with
James."
"I'm going out with Sirius." Rachel smiled
"And Perry knows why he won't ever get me." Hannah
laughed, catching Remus' eye. Everyone looked at her, she raised her
eyebrows. "Not that he believes it's gonna happen anyway."
"Oh." Everyone said laughing
"Care to explain
what you're going on about?" Magonagol asked sternly
"It's
personal, Professor." Hannah and Remus answered
Dumbledore
muttered something to her that sounded something like 'young love'
"So
it's decided, Mr Malfoy is going to Azkaban for- Miss Lupin that's up
to you." Dumbledore said.
"Two months." She said.
"Agreed?" Dumbledore asked Dougle and Magonagol.
"Agreed." they both said.
"What! No!"
Cried Lucius.
"You do
a man's crime, you take the consequences with it." Magonagol
snapped
"I don't want to go to Azkaban for two months."
Lucius whined
"I don't CARE if you don't want to." Dougle
spat "You're going regardless."
Lucius looked traumatised
at the thought.
"Why you looking like that?" Hannah asked
snarling.
"I think it's the very thought of Azkaban." Remus
whispered to her.
Hannah nodded.
"He deserves it more than
anyone else." Hannah spat. "Even more than my dad."
"Oi
Black." Malfoy drawled, "Does your brother know about you?"
"What you talking about?" Hannah asked
"About you are
going to get mar—" He cut off when Hannah dived at him.
"How
do you know?" Hannah hissed in his ear.
"So it's true?"
Malfoy smirked. "How do you think?"
"I could kill that
little bastard." Hannah muttered.
"I don't know how you
could fall in love with a werewolf." Malfoy sneered whispering to
her.
"Very easily. Hannah answered coolly.
"I thought a
girl like you would at least have standards." Malfoy added
Hannah
slapped him.
"I do have standards." Hannah smirked "That's
why am not with any of you, and with Remus."
Malfoy rolled his
eyes.
"All of us have standards." Lily said hotly. "It's
the reason we're with the people we're going out with."
There
was a knock at the door, Dumbledore opened it and Severus and Perry
were standing there.
"We were just wondering were Lucius had
gotten to." Perry said
Hannah and Lily walked up to them and in
turn slapped them both.
"You
were in on this weren't you?" Snarled Hannah. "I mean you
came over to me, and Snape went over to Lily."
"Oh my
god! You weren't were you?" Lily asked going pale.
"What?"
Asked Perry confused.
"I think what she means is you weren't
about to rape them as well were you?" Rachel said standing up.
"You raped her?" Perry asked.
"You sound
shocked." Rachel spat.
"That wasn't the plan the plan
was to break you couples up!" Snape said.
"And get you
to go with us." Added Perry.
"As
if!" Lily, Hannah, Rachel, James, Remus and Sirius snarled.
"I
hate your guts!" The three girls exclaimed.
"What they
said." The three boys said at the same time.
"And
in answer to your question before, No he didn't." Rachel snarled
"But he nearly did!"
Before either of them could say
anything, Dumbledore said "I think everyone should go back to
their dormitories. Mr Malfoy will be staying here."
As
everyone left the room, Hannah caught Lily's eye and jerked her head
towards James and Remus, Lily smiled as she realised what Hannah
wanted them to do. They tapped James and Remus and whispered
something. James and Remus put their arms around them, and the two
girls leaned their heads on the boys shoulder. They walked to the end
of the corridor and just as Snape and Perry were just about to head
towards the Slytherin common room, James and Remus leaned and kissed
Lily and Hannah. Both Perry and Severus had a loathing look on their
face, purely out of jealousy.
"I'd watch who you kiss
hotlips." Perry sneered as they broke apart (all four of them)
Perry and Severus turned and stalked off to their common room. When
they were out of sight. The marauders and the girls burst into
hysterical laughter.
"Hotlips?" Everyone asked.
"Shut up!" Hannah snapped cringing. "Don't DARE
call me that!"
"Where on earth did he get that from?"
Sirius asked at the same time Remus said
"So he can call you
it but I can't."
"You can call me a lot of things."
Hannah answered. "Just not that."
They sat in some
armchairs by the fire, which were unoccupied as it was past midnight.
Rachel sat on the edge of Sirius' seat and leant her head on his
shoulder, Sirius stroked her hair soothingly
"I'm going to
bed." Lily and Natalie said
"Night!"
James
gave Lily a goodnight kiss.
"Rachel,
tell me something." Rachel looked up at Sirius.
"What
would you like me to tell you?" Rachel asked.
"Do you
want us just to be friends?" Rachel removed her head from her
shoulder.
"Sirius is... Is there another girl?" Rachel
asked.
"No. I just thought after that-" Started Sirius.
"Sirius if maybe he had succeeded that might have been the
case but he didn't. All ask is for us to take it slow." Rachel
asked softly.
"You got it." Sirius said.
"You
wanna go to bed, Rach?" Remus asked concerned.
"No.
I'll have nightmares." Rachel said.
"Ok." Remus
said.
There was
a moment of Silence after Remus' last wordsd
"So, James, how
serious are you about Lily?" Asked Rachel. James looked blank
and didn't react. "James?"
"Yo, James." Hannah
yelled in a whisper, waving her hand in front of his faced
"I
heard." James muttered. "I'm almost falling asleep."
"Well, you can go to bed when you answer my question."
Rachel said to him "How serious are you about Lily?"
"Are
you serious?" James asked.
"No. He's Sirius. I'm
Rachel. I am concerned at how serious you are about Lily."
Rachel said without any humour .
"You stole my line!"
Teased Sirius
"No, I didn't. The situation didn't call for
any humorous interruptions." Rachel said
"The what
didn't call for any what?" Sirius and James asked. "Quit
using long words after midnight."
Rachel and Hannah rolled
their eyes.
"Sometimes I'm glad I'm not related to him."
Hannah whispered putting emphasise on the word glad.
"Hey!"
Sirius whined. "What's wrong with me?"
"Where do I
start?" Hannah asked "Well for one YOU READ MY DIARY!"
"I did not!" Sirius moaned "I couldn't even if I
wanted to."
Hannah raised her eyebrows.
"Actually."
Remus muttered. "He didn't."
"What on earth are
you going on about?" Hannah and Rachel asked.
"Sirius
didn't read your diary." Remus and James answered "He
couldn't, when he picked it up the pages went blank."
"If
Sirius didn't read my diary, but three people did." Hannah said.
"That means that..."
Rachel and Hannah looked at
Remus.
"That
Remus did." Said Rachel "And here was me saying that you
took girlfriend privacy above family when that wasn't true. I should
of said to Sirius that I am proud that you had the guts not to read
your cousin's diary."
"But he read yours!" Remus
protested so did you! Your own sister! Twin sister might I add! And
you read Hannah's and had the gall to say you didn't!" Rachel
was furious. "Oh and for the record humorus means funny and
situation means problem or something along those lines."
"I
am so angry!" Hannah said.
"Too angry to go to bed
anyway!" Rachel snapped.
"Yeah!" Hannah agreed.
"Remus, get out of my sight!" Spat Rachel. "No
apology will make up for that lie and the trouble you gave your
friend when he didn't even do it."
"Rachel's right. No
apology could make up for that." Hannah said. The marauders
left.
Half an hour later Hannah went to bed but Rachel stayed on
the coach on stared into the fire and fell asleep watching the
flames.
Rachel
was in a hallway. With patients walking up and down the corridor so
Rachel understood she was in St Mungo's. She knocked in to a women
and said
"I am sorry."
The women replied
"Do
not be sorry for the boy who will save us has been born. But for him
to save it Mother and Father must die. The mother with flaming hair
and emerald green eyes dies out of love for the boy. The father with
messy black her and brown eyes dies out of love for his wife and
son."
"I'm sorry?" Rachel heard her self saying.
"Lily and James Potter must die for Harry Potter to deliver
us from evil." The old woman started to cackle.
Rachel ran
threw hall ways and doors and made it to the birthing ward.
"Mr
and Mrs Potter it's a boy."
"No!" Rachel screamed waking up.
Hannah was
lying in bed eyes wide open as she couldn't sleep. she could hear
footsteps, it was as if someone was walking in the room. She assumed
it was Rachel. Hannah drew back the curtain just to check, but it
wasn't Rachel, but Remus.
"What are you doing in here?"
Hannah hissed.
"To explain." Remus whispered.
"Get
out!" Hannah whispered. "I mean it, if you don't I'll
scream."
"Just hear me out." Remus pleaded.
"Why
should I?" Hannah demanded. "You did the one thing, I
thought no-one would."
"I'm sort of glad I did."
Remus said.
Hannah shot him a dirty look.
"How did you
work that out?"
"'Cause I know how you feel."
Remus answered.
"How can you possibly know?" Hannah
asked.
"I know you feel scared about all that stuff with
Peter." Remus whispered
Hannah looked at him, tears filling
her eyes.
"And I know in your heart that you love me."
Hannah bit her lip.
"I feel scared because of what I
saw." Hannah whispered. "What we both saw."
"You
and Rachel you mean?" Remus said.
"Yeah." Said
Hannah "We did see-"
"Hey, no need to get defensive
on me. I was just making sure and I believe you both after Rachel's
vision about her and Sirius." Remus said with a grin.
"It
was kind of horrible for me." Hannah said with a grin.
"Imagine
what it was like for Rachel. And with Sirius there." They
chuckled. "When does it happen?"
"Dont know she
didn't go into detail." Hannah grinned. Remus returned it.
"No
I am sure she never. She probably-" Remus was cut off by a
scream.
They
looked at each other
"Rachel!"
