FINALS!!! End of The Year Chaos
The five were sitting in the common room, not really doing anything. The school was almost completely empty; everyone seemed to have gone home for the holiday.
Remus suddenly sat straight up, "Hey guys," he said, "I just realized, that out of all of us, Wormtail is the only one who wasn't mentioned in the prophecy."
"Yeah," said Sirius in response, "I feel kinda bad, I mean, we've kinda forgotten about him."
James said, "I wonder where he keeps disappearing to. I mean, he's in all of our classes, but he seems to be everywhere else too. He's always gone at night, but he reappears in the morning."
Lily and Teri just sat there. They had no idea what was going on, and well, neither Lily nor Teri was very fond of Peter. They didn't want to seem rude, so they just didn't say anything.
"Do you think he went home for the holidays?" asked Remus.
"He probably did," said James. "Leastwise his name wasn't on the list for the students staying at Hogwarts for the holiday."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The rest of the week was fairly uneventful, nothing of great import happened, except the full-moon. It was the first time Lily and Teri were with Remus when he transformed. It scared them to see him going through so much pain, but he quieted down after a few minutes and seemed fine after that.
They had agreed to explore the mountains for those nights, and in doing so they found several caves that had passages that connected them. And the nice thing about those passages is that there were holes in the ceiling allowing light from the moon to shine in and light the way.
Te first night after the full moon, two days before the holidays were over, the five traveled to the caves and set up a house-hold of sorts. They brought non-perishable food from the kitchens, blankets, water, and numerous other miscellaneous objects. Then, they set about making this a great hang-out spot.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When classes started again they went about their busy schedules; Lily improved on her wandless magic, healing, and seeing, while the rest of the gang got back to learning all they would need for next year, and the end of the year exams.
"I wish there was some way we could find out for sure who the betrayer is," Lily said to Teri one night in their room.
"There might be," said Teri.
"Wings, I don't like that look you've got in your eye. But you seem sure, so spill," said Lily.
"I have a hunch that Peter is the one we're after, but I can't be sure. For all we know he's meeting some girlfriend somewhere for a private snogging session." Teri pause for effect, "So, we're going to make a list of suspects, like they do in muggle movies, and we're going to track them."
"That's a great idea Wings, but there's a fault in your logic. How do we do it?" asked Lily.
"That's the beauty of my plan. Now, I've been researching this idea for a while, and we can create a map of the castle and the forest. It will show who is where, by way of little dots, and we charm pieces of parchment to be like video screens. We enchant something in a corridor to be the camera, and we just label the parchment. Bah-dah-bing bah-dah-boom we have instant security cameras."
"That's a great idea," said Lily, "too bad we didn't think of it sooner. Well, let's get started. We've got parchment, and ink, you seem to know the spells we need. And we can 'Accio' anything we need."
Teri smiled, "Yes, let's."
They busied themselves with preparations. First they drew the map; they drew from memory since they had already memorized the castle. Then, they enchanted it to make the people appear, and show where the moving rooms were; and as an added touch they charmed it to give the passwords to all the rooms. It took them three hours to get it right.
When they were finished Lily yawned, "Well, it seems to work. We'll do the security cameras tomorrow after we figure out what the cameras are going to be."
"This is a work of art Foxy," said Teri. "We should suggest it too the guys, and see if they can figure out how to make one. It would be like a race."
Lily was already half asleep. Teri smiled, and lay down on her own bed, they were asleep in seconds.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Hey guys," said Teri that morning. She and Lily had brought their map with them to breakfast.
"Look what we made," said Lily she showed them the map. "We wanted to challenge you to a contest. You make one of these, then, when you get it right, you make something original, and we'll make one just like whatever you do."
The Marauders all smiled, Remus stood up, "You've got yourself a deal."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
By the end of the week Lily and Teri had finished setting up their security system. They watched everything, and everyone. The only thing they noticed was amiss was that every night, at the same time, the portrait for the Slytherin Common Room, and the Fat Lady opened. The problem was that the people who opened the portraits were invisible, and nameless. Their dots were just that, dots.
Lily and Teri puzzled over this, but soon it was crunch time for the final exams. There was one week before the end of the term. Lily and Teri spent more time studying than monitoring the security. Even the Marauders could be found somewhere in the castle studying in one way, shape, or form.
The finals were only two days away; Lily and Teri spent the day quizzing each other on Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, Arithmancy, and all the other subjects. Lily helped Teri with DADA, and Teri in turn helped Lily with her seeing.
Finally the week of the finals arrived.
Potions was fairly chaos-less, with the exception of the end when Peter's aging potion turned his partner, Snape (they were the only people who no one wanted to work with), into a baby, and Snape started to cry causing the Professor to go into hysterics.
Charms was a relative disaster when Sirius over did his coloring charm, due to nerves, and turned Remus an odd shade of green, the charm wouldn't come off, and the worst part was that along with Remus *looking* like he was going to spew, he did, every five minutes. It took Lily, James, and Flitwick nearly an hour to set him straight.
They were all exhausted when they got to Transfiguration. Luckily nothing happened during this exam. It was wonderful. The only thing worth mentioning was that someone turned the quill, which was supposed to turn into a red gown, into a red cockatoo.
That was the end of the first day. They barely got to their beds before they collapsed.
Little did they know that the next day would be a complete disaster. They would look back on that day and laugh, but as it happened, it was complete chaos.
(A/N: Should I stop? Or would you like to know what happens?
I think we all know the answer to that . . . so ON WITH THE FINALS!)
They woke up the next morning, most of the students groaning the entire time, and most of them managed to drag themselves out of their beds early enough to catch breakfast.
The first exam the sixth year Gryffindors had was Defense Against the Dark Arts. Lily went to the Hospital Wing where she would be tested on wandless magic, seeing, and healing. The rest of the gang went to the DADA classroom for the written portion of their test.
Lily completed the wandless magic without fault, she had some trouble with the seeing, because some of the objects were transformed to something resembling their original form, making it more difficult to see through the spell, but she aced the healing, hands down.
The rest of the gang didn't have as much luck with their DADA exam. They had to complete an obstacle course going through things they had covered that year, and when they went though it Teri, Sirius, James, and Remus all got caught at the end by the boggart, and Peter, well, lets just say that Peter didn't really get further than six feet into the course before he got stuck.
Then, they had History of Magic. This is where the day got interesting.
Most of the students fell asleep during the exam, and half an hour before the exam was over only Lily and Teri were still awake.
Lily was just checking over her essay when she heard Peter mumbling in his sleep. He was clutching his wand in his hand, and everything he mumbled one of the spells he had heard Lily of James utter at one point during their fights. The order he spoke them was the odd thing, they were in alphabetical order, and his wand was pointing at Professor Binn's desk.
The desk was turning into rather strange and odd shapes, it started to move, and break apart. It broke into hundreds of pieces of wood, and these pieces of wood started running around. Teri yelped, then, she started to scream when two of the chips bit her. This effectively woke up everyone but Peter, who slept like the dead.
It was utter bedlam. People ran around, screaming, ran into the corridors, screaming, back into the classroom, screaming, and into other classrooms, yup, you guessed it, screaming.
The professors all came to the History of Magic room, and did their best to quell the manic wood chips. Unfortunately, Peter was still sleeping, still muttering spells. Someone finally knocked him over and waking him up and making him drop his wand.
Several hours later the wood chips had been trapped and burned. Everyone had been informed that their exams would be continued an extra day in order to make up for the lost time.
They dragged themselves, once again, up to their dorms and, once again, readied themselves for another day of exams.
Finally two days later the exams were over and the castle finally set to some semblance of order.
Just one week until the end of the year, when they would get their scores back, and leave for the last summer they would spend looking forward to another year at Hogwarts.
The five were sitting in the common room, not really doing anything. The school was almost completely empty; everyone seemed to have gone home for the holiday.
Remus suddenly sat straight up, "Hey guys," he said, "I just realized, that out of all of us, Wormtail is the only one who wasn't mentioned in the prophecy."
"Yeah," said Sirius in response, "I feel kinda bad, I mean, we've kinda forgotten about him."
James said, "I wonder where he keeps disappearing to. I mean, he's in all of our classes, but he seems to be everywhere else too. He's always gone at night, but he reappears in the morning."
Lily and Teri just sat there. They had no idea what was going on, and well, neither Lily nor Teri was very fond of Peter. They didn't want to seem rude, so they just didn't say anything.
"Do you think he went home for the holidays?" asked Remus.
"He probably did," said James. "Leastwise his name wasn't on the list for the students staying at Hogwarts for the holiday."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The rest of the week was fairly uneventful, nothing of great import happened, except the full-moon. It was the first time Lily and Teri were with Remus when he transformed. It scared them to see him going through so much pain, but he quieted down after a few minutes and seemed fine after that.
They had agreed to explore the mountains for those nights, and in doing so they found several caves that had passages that connected them. And the nice thing about those passages is that there were holes in the ceiling allowing light from the moon to shine in and light the way.
Te first night after the full moon, two days before the holidays were over, the five traveled to the caves and set up a house-hold of sorts. They brought non-perishable food from the kitchens, blankets, water, and numerous other miscellaneous objects. Then, they set about making this a great hang-out spot.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When classes started again they went about their busy schedules; Lily improved on her wandless magic, healing, and seeing, while the rest of the gang got back to learning all they would need for next year, and the end of the year exams.
"I wish there was some way we could find out for sure who the betrayer is," Lily said to Teri one night in their room.
"There might be," said Teri.
"Wings, I don't like that look you've got in your eye. But you seem sure, so spill," said Lily.
"I have a hunch that Peter is the one we're after, but I can't be sure. For all we know he's meeting some girlfriend somewhere for a private snogging session." Teri pause for effect, "So, we're going to make a list of suspects, like they do in muggle movies, and we're going to track them."
"That's a great idea Wings, but there's a fault in your logic. How do we do it?" asked Lily.
"That's the beauty of my plan. Now, I've been researching this idea for a while, and we can create a map of the castle and the forest. It will show who is where, by way of little dots, and we charm pieces of parchment to be like video screens. We enchant something in a corridor to be the camera, and we just label the parchment. Bah-dah-bing bah-dah-boom we have instant security cameras."
"That's a great idea," said Lily, "too bad we didn't think of it sooner. Well, let's get started. We've got parchment, and ink, you seem to know the spells we need. And we can 'Accio' anything we need."
Teri smiled, "Yes, let's."
They busied themselves with preparations. First they drew the map; they drew from memory since they had already memorized the castle. Then, they enchanted it to make the people appear, and show where the moving rooms were; and as an added touch they charmed it to give the passwords to all the rooms. It took them three hours to get it right.
When they were finished Lily yawned, "Well, it seems to work. We'll do the security cameras tomorrow after we figure out what the cameras are going to be."
"This is a work of art Foxy," said Teri. "We should suggest it too the guys, and see if they can figure out how to make one. It would be like a race."
Lily was already half asleep. Teri smiled, and lay down on her own bed, they were asleep in seconds.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Hey guys," said Teri that morning. She and Lily had brought their map with them to breakfast.
"Look what we made," said Lily she showed them the map. "We wanted to challenge you to a contest. You make one of these, then, when you get it right, you make something original, and we'll make one just like whatever you do."
The Marauders all smiled, Remus stood up, "You've got yourself a deal."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
By the end of the week Lily and Teri had finished setting up their security system. They watched everything, and everyone. The only thing they noticed was amiss was that every night, at the same time, the portrait for the Slytherin Common Room, and the Fat Lady opened. The problem was that the people who opened the portraits were invisible, and nameless. Their dots were just that, dots.
Lily and Teri puzzled over this, but soon it was crunch time for the final exams. There was one week before the end of the term. Lily and Teri spent more time studying than monitoring the security. Even the Marauders could be found somewhere in the castle studying in one way, shape, or form.
The finals were only two days away; Lily and Teri spent the day quizzing each other on Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, Arithmancy, and all the other subjects. Lily helped Teri with DADA, and Teri in turn helped Lily with her seeing.
Finally the week of the finals arrived.
Potions was fairly chaos-less, with the exception of the end when Peter's aging potion turned his partner, Snape (they were the only people who no one wanted to work with), into a baby, and Snape started to cry causing the Professor to go into hysterics.
Charms was a relative disaster when Sirius over did his coloring charm, due to nerves, and turned Remus an odd shade of green, the charm wouldn't come off, and the worst part was that along with Remus *looking* like he was going to spew, he did, every five minutes. It took Lily, James, and Flitwick nearly an hour to set him straight.
They were all exhausted when they got to Transfiguration. Luckily nothing happened during this exam. It was wonderful. The only thing worth mentioning was that someone turned the quill, which was supposed to turn into a red gown, into a red cockatoo.
That was the end of the first day. They barely got to their beds before they collapsed.
Little did they know that the next day would be a complete disaster. They would look back on that day and laugh, but as it happened, it was complete chaos.
(A/N: Should I stop? Or would you like to know what happens?
I think we all know the answer to that . . . so ON WITH THE FINALS!)
They woke up the next morning, most of the students groaning the entire time, and most of them managed to drag themselves out of their beds early enough to catch breakfast.
The first exam the sixth year Gryffindors had was Defense Against the Dark Arts. Lily went to the Hospital Wing where she would be tested on wandless magic, seeing, and healing. The rest of the gang went to the DADA classroom for the written portion of their test.
Lily completed the wandless magic without fault, she had some trouble with the seeing, because some of the objects were transformed to something resembling their original form, making it more difficult to see through the spell, but she aced the healing, hands down.
The rest of the gang didn't have as much luck with their DADA exam. They had to complete an obstacle course going through things they had covered that year, and when they went though it Teri, Sirius, James, and Remus all got caught at the end by the boggart, and Peter, well, lets just say that Peter didn't really get further than six feet into the course before he got stuck.
Then, they had History of Magic. This is where the day got interesting.
Most of the students fell asleep during the exam, and half an hour before the exam was over only Lily and Teri were still awake.
Lily was just checking over her essay when she heard Peter mumbling in his sleep. He was clutching his wand in his hand, and everything he mumbled one of the spells he had heard Lily of James utter at one point during their fights. The order he spoke them was the odd thing, they were in alphabetical order, and his wand was pointing at Professor Binn's desk.
The desk was turning into rather strange and odd shapes, it started to move, and break apart. It broke into hundreds of pieces of wood, and these pieces of wood started running around. Teri yelped, then, she started to scream when two of the chips bit her. This effectively woke up everyone but Peter, who slept like the dead.
It was utter bedlam. People ran around, screaming, ran into the corridors, screaming, back into the classroom, screaming, and into other classrooms, yup, you guessed it, screaming.
The professors all came to the History of Magic room, and did their best to quell the manic wood chips. Unfortunately, Peter was still sleeping, still muttering spells. Someone finally knocked him over and waking him up and making him drop his wand.
Several hours later the wood chips had been trapped and burned. Everyone had been informed that their exams would be continued an extra day in order to make up for the lost time.
They dragged themselves, once again, up to their dorms and, once again, readied themselves for another day of exams.
Finally two days later the exams were over and the castle finally set to some semblance of order.
Just one week until the end of the year, when they would get their scores back, and leave for the last summer they would spend looking forward to another year at Hogwarts.
