Snap, Crackle, Bang!
Chapter 21
"We have History of Magic now," Mary groaned, holding her face in her hands. "Don't bother to wake me up if I fall asleep."
Kagome looked at the overdramatic brunette questioningly, her head tilted to the side.
"Professor Binns is the most boring teacher ever," Dorci whispered. The petite blonde girl seemed to have cheered up since the previous night, which made Kagome glad that she went after her.
"That's a bit of an exaggeration," Lily rolled her green eyes at Dorci.
"Is not!" Mary protested, "Even you have to admit his class is more than enough to send you to sleep."
"Oh Evans!
Kagome turned around, staring amusedly at James Potter, who was striding towards Lily, along with Sirius and Peter. She raised her eyebrows as she realised Remus was gone, though Lily seemed to be too preoccupied with James to notice.
"How did he find us?" Lily huffed. They had taken the longer way to their History of Magic class, so that they would be less likely to run into the Marauders.
"He always finds you," Mary stated, checking her nails, "It's like he can tell where you are at all times."
"He probably has her microchipped and she just doesn't know it," Dorci mock-whispered to Kagome.
"He better not have," Lily snorted.
"'Lo, Evans," James grinned, "Got a date to Hogsmeade?"
"Don't need one," She shrugged him off.
"Are you suuuuuure?"
"Positive," She sighed, "We need to get to class."
"Let me walk you there?"
"No."
They bickered throughout the whole journey to class, people in the hallways stopping to stare at them.
"Are they always like this?" Kagome asked Sirius, who was laughing at James.
"Oh, yes," He grinned at her, "Evans just doesn't realise she loves him, but she will."
History of Magic truly had been the most boring experience of Kagome's life. The Professor droned on and on. He just read from his never-ending collection of notes, his translucent form remaining stationary at the front of the room.
Kagome wasn't really surprised to find that Hogwarts had ghosts, let alone one as a teacher. In the Feudal Era, there had been malicious and kind spirits that she had encountered on her journey. But none of them had been like her History of Magic professor. He seemed to be neither malicious nor kind, just awfully boring. People were nodding off in the middle of class- James seemed to be fighting off sleep to keep talking to Lily.
"C'mon, Evans. I know you love me really," James yawned, leaning on the desk.
"I don't think I could ever love you," The redhead pulled a face at him.
"We've lost Peter already," Sirius sniffed in mock sadness, prodding Peter, who had, like a few others, fallen asleep.
"Rest in peace," James nodded, stopping in his attempts to woo Lily to take a look at Peter, who was resting his head on the desk, in a deep slumber.
"So, Kagome," Sirius turned his attention away from his sleeping friend and to the new girl, "How're you finding Hogwarts?"
"It's alright, it's so different from Japan. It's a lot colder here, I guess I'm just not used to it," She shrugged.
"Have you got a date to Hogsmeade?" Sirius asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No," Kagome laughed, "I just want to explore with my friends."
"Maybe you'll reconsider?" He flashed her a dazzling grin, though she didn't appear to be fazed by it.
"Maybe not," She shook her head. Kagome knew boys like him, they were the ones that broke hearts for fun, because they could. Boys like that would keep breaking hearts until they changed, in the rare case that they did change. Boys like that knew how to use their looks to their advantage, to get what they wanted and then leave, without caring how many broken hearts they left behind. Kagome could see right through it. It was going to take more than a few flirtatious looks on Sirius' part to get her.
"That's a shame, love," Sirius sighed, "But I can see you're playing hard to get, and I'm up for the chase!" He grinned wolfishly at her.
Kagome groaned, having a womaniser chase after her until he got bored of her was so not something she wanted.
"Professor!" Lily waved her hand in the air, "The class is over."
"He won't notice if we leave," Sirius shrugged, shaking Peter awake.
"Hey!" The smaller boy exclaimed, objecting to the sudden wakeup call.
James rolled his eyes, "You slept through the entire lesson mate!"
"Colovaria!" Kagome kept her wand pointed at the white candle, which seemed to be staring at her judgementally. She looked over at Lily's, which was, as expected, a bubble-gum pink.
"It's not that bad, Kagome," Dorci shrugged, glancing at her own candle, "Mine's green."
"Colovaria!" Kagome sounded more commanding this time, as if she was ordering the candle to turn pink. Slowly, from the base of the candle, a hot pink crept its way up the candle, earning a thrilled shriek from Kagome, "I did it Lily!"
"It's even better than it was yesterday," Lily smiled at her.
"Mine definitely isn't," Dorci snorted, looking forlornly at her mint green candle, before looking around the classroom dejectedly, namely at the Ravenclaw boy she fancied, Kyle Stevenson.
"You're great at transfiguration, though," Lily reminded the blonde, in an attempt to distract her from her Kyle-gazing.
"Hm, I guess," Dorci mumbled, still staring at Kyle.
"She likes Kyle more than she'll ever like charms," The redhead whispered to Kagome, "I heard Sirius is after you?" Lily frowned remembering Sirius' words in the previous lesson, looking worriedly at her new friend.
Kagome waved away her concerns, "He'll lose interest in a few days, Lils."
"Has everybody managed to get their candle to turn some shade of pink?" Professor Flitwick addressed his class, standing on a desk so that they could see his short form.
"No," Dorci groaned, "It's not going well for me, professor."
"Yes, Miss Meadows, I can see that," The professor sighed, looking disappointedly at the now mint green candle, "At least it changed colour."
Dorci nodded solemnly, "Pink's overrated anyway."
"I was this close! This close!" Bellatrix huffed, walking down the corridor with several of her fellow Slytherins at her side.
"Sure you did," Severus drawled, recalling the concerned look on the Higurashi girls' face when Bellatrix simply smiled at her- though even he could admit it was a strangely disturbing sight to see a smile on her usually stony face.
"You," She hissed at him, her eyes narrowed, "Were of no use. You just begged that filthy mudblood for forgiveness- since that traitorous cousin of mine is now involved I've probably made a bad first impression on her. I'm going to get that jewel one way or another."
"Bella, we still have time," Her younger sister, Narcissa, soothed.
"He asked me to do this, 'Cissy. I'm not going to fail him- I am going to get that jewel! I just need to make her like me, that's all. You and Severus are in her potions class- since he's already failing our lord, how about you become friends with her? I'll find a way to get closer to her and that necklace of hers."
Narcissa nodded, though her face looked uneasy, she could never let the oldest Black daughter know her hesitations about working for the Dark Lord.
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