DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER, I ONLY OWN MY CHARACTERS AND THE STORYLINE.

From a young age, Evelyn had been told that equality mattered. Not just in the wizarding world, but the muggle world as well. As most lessons that were given by her parents, she had taken it to heart.

It had taken a few years for Evelyn to understand that they lived in a world where they didn't have much of it. She had learned that some people liked to think of themselves superior than others. She guessed it was human nature to feel that way for certain people, but that wasn't an excuse, especially when it was also human nature to change, to become a better person.

When Diana had told her about International Women's Day, Evelyn had been intrigued by it. Hearing the story of it had moved Evelyn and she had decided to celebrate it alongside her friend. In this day, she was going to celebrate all the women in the world.

"If there is a Women's Day, why isn't there a Men's Day?" Carter wondered as they were sitting and eating breakfast in their house table.

Diana rolled her eyes. "Don't you think every day is Men's day?" She answered making the other girls giggled at her words.

"Ouch, that hurt." Edrick commented as he put down his fork.

"People do say that the truth hurts." Evelyn teased before biting on his toast.

Edrick shrugged while Henrik hummed. "I don't dink women and men can be equals in all aspects."

"Why not?" Christina asked tilting her head.

"There are certain things that men are better than women," Edrick spoke instead of Henrik. "And there are things that women are better than men."

"Let me guess, taking care of their kids?" Christina deadpanned and Edrick nodded. "That's nonsense. Some men are better parents than women and some women are better Quidditch players than men."

"You took it a bit personally there." Carter stated as he put butter on his toast.

Christina nodded. "Yes, I'm speaking from experience." Evelyn frowned at her words. Was her best friend speaking about her experience on both examples? She knew that Christina's mother was a bit aloof, but Evelyn would have never guessed that she was a bad mother.

"I don't think that way," Edrick admitted. "I think men should have a few more privileges than women."

"What?" Both she and Diana asked in sync. She couldn't believe the words that left her friend and she shared a look with Diana.

"My grandfather told me that women were meant to have kids, care for them, take care of her household and be there for her husband." Edrick explained to them.

Evelyn stared at him with her mouth wide open, Christina scoffed, Gabriela shook her head, Henrik and Carter minded their business while Diana spoke. "Isn't this the same grandfather who preaches Voldemort and what he's doing?" There was silence between them as they awaited Edrick's answer. It took a minute for him to give a small nod. "I guess that does say something about him."

Edrick scratched his head and turned red all around his face. Even though Evelyn had felt offended by his comment, she knew his family was as old fashioned and outdated as her mother's. "We can always teach you about it. Let you see the world from our point of view." He looked up to her with his eyebrows raised. "If you're willing to listen."

"Because if you're not, we're wasting our time." Christina pointed out.

"People say I'm a good listener." Edrick said with a shrug making Evelyn smile while Carter frowned.

"Who the bloody hell is been telling you lies?" Carter wondered.

Edrick gasped. "How dare you? My mum told me that!"

The two of them continued to bicker whether Edrick was a good listener while Evelyn turned her attention to her food. As she was eating, Henrik opened the newspaper and his eyes flashed.

"Rowena's diadem, dis is 'orrible." He muttered under his breath and they all turned their attention to him. "Five muggle families were killed in Bristol dis week."

Evelyn held her hand over her mouth at the news. Her whole body shivered while her hands began to shake. They didn't even need to ask who was behind this, she knew it was Voldemort and his followers. When she came to her senses, she noticed that Diana's whole body was trembling.

"Is it him?" Her voice trembled as she spoke as well and Evelyn bit her lip. All Henrik did was give her a nod. "How do they know it's him?"

"He has been leaving some sort of mark on his victims," Evelyn explained to her. She couldn't how many times she had seen it in the newspaper these past few months. "It's a green skull with a snake coming from her mouth."

"What a way to show what house he was in." Diana spat as she glanced at the Slytherin table on the other side of the halls.

Evelyn didn't dare to do that because she knew who she would look at and she didn't want to. After all, she was ignoring him.

"Not all of them are bad." Edrick reminded them and Evelyn nodded in agreement. Her mind slipped to her mother who she would never consider a bad person or Voldemort's follower.

"But most of his followers are Death Eater, aren't they not?" Diana questioned making silence fall around the group. She was right once again and Evelyn decided not to dwell in it. She needed to focus on other things because she didn't want to think of Voldemort, especially when she ended up thinking of Rabastan in the end.

"Shite!" Christina cursed. "In five minutes, we have a class with McGonagall." Her words made them all stop talking, hurry up eating and rush towards the classroom.

They all arrived in time for class and Evelyn took a seat with Christina. Carter took one with Diana while Henrik and Edrick sat together. Gabriela, on the other hand, moved to sit next to Mona.

"Isn't it lovely?" Carter spoked to them. "Seeing our little Gabby become friends with others. She's always so shy."

Christina smiled. "I would never have thought she would." She spoke the truth and sighed. "Mona makes her smile a lot."

"Maybe Mona is her Marlene." Carter suggested.

Evelyn hummed. "I hope so, Marlene always knows how to make people laugh."

"You haven't been hanging around for a while." Diana suggested, her lips were still trembling and Evelyn knew she was still thinking about the attack on muggles.

"She has been busy," Evelyn told her. "But she's happy therefore I'm happy."

Carter snorted. "Sad that they aren't going to last."

Evelyn was about to snap at him when McGonagall began to talk. She narrowed her eyes at him before turning her attention to their professor missing Carter's smirk.

"Hey!" Evelyn called from her spot when she caught sight of Marlene and Lily. The two of them stopped and she made her way to them. "Hey, stranger." She greeted Marlene making Lily chuckle.

"I'm not a stranger." She defended herself before pushing strand of her hair behind her ears. "Fine, I'm a little bit."

Evelyn shook her head. "No worries, Marls. I was just teasing you." She assured her friends. "How's it going though? Your relationship?"

"She has been complaining about it all day." Lily informed her making Evelyn crease her eyebrows.

"Why?" Evelyn questioned trying not to think about what Carter said.

Marlene ran a hand through her hair. "How to say this in the most delicate way that you are disappointed by it?"

Evelyn waved her hand. "You don't have to with us." She admitted and Lily nodded. "What's going? Is he acting like a git?"

"I expected passion, energy and charm from him." She began to explain to them as they began to walk. "But I'm only getting the charm and to be honest, he always talks about what his friends. He rarely listens to me."

"Dump him." Lily remarked.

"No!" Evelyn exclaimed. "You shouldn't do that without talking to him."

Marlene scowled. "Sirius isn't much of a talker. He doesn't like talking about himself that much, only his friends."

Evelyn raised an eyebrow while Lily snorted. "You would have thought someone like him will only talk about himself, his hair and his clothes." Evelyn found herself laughing at Lily's comment and Marlene smiled as well. "If he doesn't want to talk, leave him and move to someone better."

"To that point, I do think you should consider breaking up," Evelyn added. "Because sometimes you need to do the best thing for both of us."

Marlene looked down. "I'll think about it." Evelyn bit her lip. She understood Marlene's frustration, she liked Sirius a lot and wanted to be him, but it seemed like there was something off about the whole thing. She guessed it was the timing. "I don't want to discuss it anymore because I'm heading to Divination and I don't want to let that old bat read into my emotions, and tell the whole class that I'm having trouble in my relationships."

Lily snorted. "It will make most of those girls thrilled." She teased Marlene who huffed.

"Well, I hope you have a good class, Marls, and happy Women's day." Marlene frowned while Lily smiled. "It's a day when muggles celebrate women and I'm celebrating you among many others."

Marlene shook her head. "Muggles are so weird." She mumbled before she walked away while Lily gasped.

Evelyn turned to the redhead next to her. "Since it's Women's day, I wish you a happy one as well."

"Well, thank you," Lily told her. "How do you know about it?"

"Diana told me," Evelyn answered to her. "And I feel like it's the best time for us to celebrate it with recent upsetting events." Lily flinched at her words and Evelyn knew she needed to change the subject. "So, we'll support each other."

"Rich coming from you." Lily retorted.

A frown appeared on her forehead and Evelyn tilted her head. She wondered if there had been a moment when Evelyn had shown that she didn't support other girls. She didn't think she had, but maybe Lily had another opinion about it.

"You seem confused, but I'm going to clear it up for you." Evelyn crossed her arms and tapped the floor with her shoes. "You got into a nasty fight with Elena and in many peoples' books, that is called quite unsupporting."

Evelyn scoffed. "I don't think that works in what happened between me and Elena last year. She was a bitch and she insulted my mother." She explained to Lily. "I acted poorly for attacking her, yes, but my hostility with her is deserved."

"You really think that?" She hummed. "That's sad that you can't see beyond that."

She fidgeted with her robes and pressed her lips together. She had to remind herself that Lily didn't know the whole story and didn't know the full details about what happened with Elena. "It's not sad from my point of view, it's reasonable." She stated. "Why should I bother to see beyond that when she sees me as her family's shame?"

Lily shrugged. "Some people need a few chances."

Evelyn was about to say something, but she stopped herself. As she looked at Lily, she was reminded of one of her friends, Severus Snape, an unpleasant boy who got taunted and laughed at by the Marauders, but who could be just as cruel as them. "Are we talking about Elena or someone else?"

"Elena, of course," Lily responded, blinking too many times to be considered normal. "You have to remember that she was raised in a very old fashioned and outdated family."

She thought about Edrick and how he had been raised in that family too, he was willing to change. Even Rabastan who was deeper in than both Elena and Edrick was willing to change. What made her cousin different from them? It didn't take long for her to remember that day in the owlery when she had seen Elena look pale, skinny and tired.

"I guess." Evelyn shrugged. "But is she willing to listen and learn?"

Evelyn was hungry. She had gotten that message from the many times that her stomach had rumbled during Arithmancy. Lily had to hold her laugh many times as the class progressed and Evelyn had glared at her a few times during the class. Relief swept through her when the bell rang and she hurried out of the classroom with Lily trailing behind her.

"I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow." Evelyn told her friend who threw her head back and laughed. She joined in the laughter as the two of them headed to the Great Hall.

"Juliet! Juliet!" At first, Evelyn didn't stop walking. It took another time for her to understand that it was Carter calling for her and he was calling her by her nickname. She turned around and saw that he was a few steps behind her. He stopped in front of her and Lily and took a few deep breaths. "You-you won't believe what happened-happened."

"What?" Evelyn questioned pulling her bag closer to her.

"Someone hexed Marlene." She almost dropped her bag and her knees shook. "With a hex that made bogeys turn to bats and fly out of her nose. Her nose started to bleed as well."

Suddenly, Evelyn lost her appetite. She didn't know if it was all because of her friend's injury or did her fear of bats or utter disgust by the whole hex play a role into this. "Where is she?"

"The hospital wing." She answered. "Hestia took her there."

Lily grabbed her wrist. "We need to go." She told her and Evelyn nodded her head. "Thank you for telling us, Carter." He nodded and the two of them stalked off towards the hospital wing.

They didn't speak, they rushed themselves to the place and when they landed on the corridor, they saw that they weren't the only ones concerned about Marlene. In the corridor, stood the Marauders.

"Where is she?" Evelyn demanded as soon as she stepped closer to them.

Sirius sighed. "She's in there. Madam Pomfrey is taking care of her and she allowed only one person who is Hestia." He explained to her as if he was speaking about an uninterested subject.

She decided to push it away and ask questions. "Romeo- I mean, Carter explained it to us." She informed them. "Who did it?"

Peter Pettigrew grinned. "Sirius' fan club."

Evelyn's mouth fell open and she stared at Sirius. He looked away which caused his hair to hide his face. "What?" Lily asked for her.

"There are a few girls in our year-" Remus began to explain.

"Below and under too." James added as he was gazing at Lily. Evelyn was sure that he would start a fan club about Lily too soon.

"Who tend to like Sirius a lot which means they send him Valentine's Day letters, gifts, secret admiring letters, giggle every time they see him, follow him a bit and apparently, hex his girlfriend as well." Remus continued making her and Lily's jaws fall even more open.

She was astounded. She got crushes and she knew that they could take your mind away, but it seemed like what these girls are doing was excessive and a bit too much. "That's mad."

"We like to think that they are." James commented making Lily scoff. He curled his lips and Evelyn was sure that he wasn't going to talk anymore.

"I can't believe that a few girls attacked a girl just because they are dating a bloke that they fancy." Evelyn ran a hand through her hair. "That's despicable." She bit her lip. "Not even all those things are right to do."

"Well, they fancy him and they are allowed to show that." Lily pointed out.

"Not when it sounds like they are his stalkers," Evelyn argued. "Remus mentioned that they follow him."

Lily shrugged. "Maybe they think they have a chance with him, you might have led them on."

"I have told them many times that I'm not interested in them." Sirius spat and she turned to look at the boys. "Don't put this on me, they are the ones who attacked Marlene just because I'm dating her."

"You're right," Evelyn announced as she raised her chin. Sirius' grey eyes widened as if he had expected her to disagree. "This behaviour is horrible, it makes everyone around feel uncomfortable and it's even worse that they attacked a girl only to embarrass her." She shook her head. "How are expecting to be supported and respected by men when we don't respect or support one another?" Lily eyed her as she was speaking to her. "Instead of lifting each other today, those girls put another girl down out of jealousy and childishness. Instead of trying to move on, they decide to ruin it and make things worse for people." She turned her attention to Sirius. "Have they ever done anything like this before?"

Sirius shrugged his shoulders. "I try not to pay attention to them." He admitted.

"It's time you do because you need to report them to the faculty." Sirius's eyebrows rose to his hairline and Evelyn saw that everyone around her wore the same expression as him. "What? It's bad behaviour."

"Is that taking it too far?" Remus suggested.

"No one would say that if Sirius was a girl and the fan club was made of men." She stated and everyone still didn't seem to believe her. "The best thing to do is to report them because not only it stops, but it can teach them a lesson. A valuable one that stays in their head, hopefully."

"You're overreacting," Lily muttered. "They are just girls making some silly mistakes."

"Better regret it now than regret it later." She remarked. "They need pay for those mistakes, it's how it works." She turned to Sirius. "What are you waiting for?"

"Now?" He questioned her.

"Reports are better to be made sooner than later." She informed him. "Tell McGonagall and she will take precautions to this whole thing. The hex definitely would get the person who did it detention and that could teach them something."

"I've been in detentions many times and I haven't learned anything." Sirius stated as he winked at James who laughed.

Evelyn frowned. "So? We're not all the same. We all learn differently and whoever did it-"

"Stacey Cox." Sirius answered her. Stacey was a Gryffindor girl in their year who Evelyn had never spoken to. to be honest, she had no idea she harboured a crush on Sirius.

"Stacey Cox can learn things from it." She motioned to the corridor. "Go now." She urged him. "You can come and check on Marlene later."

Sirius looked at her before he glanced at his friends. They all gave him a shrug in response and she tilted her head. "You're demanding, Lynn."

She rolled her eyes. "Just go." He licked his lips and walked past her and Lily.

His friends followed her and as they were walking by, James opened his mouth. Before he could speak, Lily did. "Leave me alone, Potter." James shut his mouth closed, shook his head and followed his friend.

After they left, she supported herself in the wall and rubbed the bridge of her nose. "It's sad that these girls did this to Marlene," Evelyn mumbled. "I know she's going to be okay, but they hurt her because of a boy, a boy who has made it obvious he isn't interested in them."

"Kind of ruins the whole day, doesn't it?" Lily moved by her side. "We talked about celebrating every woman in the world and supporting each other, and a girl in our year does this." She scowled. "It makes your fight with Elena seem so much better because at least, you had a good reason."

"I think girls should be taught that we all matter, no matter our background, blood status, race, sexual orientation or even gender identity." Lily drifted her green eyes at her. "We rise by lifting each other down and these girls are doing the opposite. Sure, this isn't the worst thing they could and it's considered to be one of the smallest ones. It only makes you think what they're capable of. What is their line? Are they willing to tear each other down? To discriminate other girls? What about what's happening lately? Are they willing to support this man? Or are they planning to kill other girls just because they are muggleborns, have muggle blood or are against these senseless, devoid of logic and stupid ideology?"

Lily bit her lip and crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't know what to say. It's hard to pinpoint what people are capable of." She gulped down. "How can we expect men to respect and support us when we don't do that with each other?"

Evelyn hummed. She wondered if there was a way, a way to change these girls' opinions and try to help each other. She wanted them to all lift each other, so they could rise and be better. It seemed like they needed it more than anything right now and Evelyn needed to something fast. She was afraid that one day she would hear a girl preach about Voldemort and what he was doing.

What could she do? What could help a few teenage girls learn? She knew that detentions and punishments weren't enough, she knew that she needed another source to help. What was it? What could help?

Her train of thought was interrupted by a door opening and both her and Lily jumped. It was Hestia and she waved at when she caught sight of them. "You can come now." She told them. "Madam Pomfrey took care of her."

When Evelyn entered the hospital wing, a sigh of relief escaped her when she saw that Marlene was in a good state. "Marls, are you okay?"

"Yeah." She responded. "Just coming out of the shock." She touched her nose and looked behind them. "Where is Sirius?"

"His absence is my fault," Evelyn admitted to her and she frowned. "I told him to go and report his fan club and their actions to McGonagall."

Marlene stayed silent at first. Her eyes flashed, her lips pouted and she shook her head. "I can't believe him. I've told him many times to do it and he told me to drop it."

Evelyn froze at her words before she cast a look towards Lily. She seemed to be just as lost as Evelyn. "I was very demanding about it. He told me that he didn't mind it, but I told him that they needed to get punishments."

"Thank you." Her friend responded. "Hopefully, I don't have to deal with it anymore."

"When McGonagall had a word with them, they wouldn't dare to look at you until we graduate." Hestia's comment made them all laugh, including Marlene. "Let's hope that bitch, Stacey Cox gets what she deserves."

"The hag was bothering me all lesson," Marlene explained to her. "Telling me that Sirius didn't fancy him and was only dating me because he thought I was easy."

Evelyn groaned. She should have expected the girl to say that. She put her hand on Marlene's shoulder and she turned her gaze to her. "I hope you know that she was speaking bullshit." She let her American accent slip making her friend smile.

"Of course, I know." She lifted her head. "I'm not going to let a jealous idiot to tell me what I am and what I am not, especially when she doesn't know me."

Lily nudged her as Evelyn removed her hand. "That's the spirit!"

Marlene nodded. "Plus, I'm not letting her get away with this." She got up from her seat. "I'm going to report her to McGonagall as well."

Supper had been the best time of the day. She had missed lunch as she had been with Marlene at the time and she had almost fainted out of hunger. She wasn't going to let herself this long without food anymore. Marlene getting hurt was a good reason for her to miss it. She finished it and found her whole body relax at filling her appetite.

When she was done, she looked around and saw that none of her friends had finished their food. "Is anyone planning to go to the tower soon?"

"No." Most of them responded to her while Edrick who had his eyes mouth full shook his head. "Well, I'm going there. Good night." She got her bag and got up from her seat. As she was about to walk away, she decided to grab a green apple to eat while reading.

As she was about to go to leave the hall, she realized that her hands were shaking. She looked down and frowned. It didn't last long for her to feel some sort of heat spread around her body. She wondered if she might have caught something in the hospital wing.

She sighed and headed to the nearest bathroom to cool off. As she opened the door, the first thing she heard was a person in a stall. It seemed like the girl was vomiting her guts out. She flinched and made her way to the sink. She placed the apple next to the sink and turned on the tap. As soon as she did that, the girl stopped vomiting. She frowned and turned her attention to the sink.

Evelyn put some water on her face, but it didn't seem to be doing a lot of work. She didn't feel the heat leave, it was only getting stronger and Evelyn had to blink a few times. She hoped that this fever wasn't going to ruin her weekend.

When she turned her tap, she heard the stall door open and she glanced from the reflection mirror. Her heart skipped when she saw that it had been Elena in the bathroom. She stared at the girl who seemed to be as pale as snow. Her green eyes met Evelyn's blue ones, and she looked away from her.

Elena walked to the sink to wash her hair and from the corner of her eyes, Evelyn saw that two of her fingers had a bit of vomit on them. She turned her attention to the mirror and wondered if her cousin had made herself vomit. She knew that it was quite common for people to do it and most of them did it to become skinny. Was that possible that Elena was doing as well or had her imagination gone too far?

She bit her lip and glanced at her apple. She had never paid attention to her cousin in the Great Hall. Her eyes always were drawn to one person and that person was Azkaban. She didn't know if Elena had eaten and made herself vomit. she also didn't know if she had found the food unpleasant and vomited it to get rid of it. All she knew was that Elena didn't seem alright, she seemed as she had never tasted food and she needed help.

"Here." Evelyn picked up her apple and extended to the girl next to her. Elena gazed at the apple before narrowing her eyes at her. "You can have it."

"I don't want it." Her cousin spat. "I don't want anything offered from you."

"You don't want anything offered from me or you don't want something to eat?" Evelyn questioned her as she took a step forward. "It's just an apple."

"I can't-" Elena shook her head. "I don't want it." She licked her lips and her eyes twinkled as she looked at the apple.

"Is everything alright, Elena?" Evelyn questioned her.

"Why would I tell you of all people?" Elena snapped at her making Evelyn wince. But Elena had a point. Why should she tell Evelyn of all people? They weren't close and they held a lot of hatred for one another.

"So, something is going on with you." She stated and her cousin curled her lips. "You can tell me."

Elena snatched the apple out of Evelyn's hand and huffed. "I'm only taking it because you are annoying." With that, her cousin left the bathroom with only four strides.

Evelyn watched her go and asked herself why she had done it. It was clear that she needed help, but she didn't want it. She had taken the apple to get Evelyn out of the way, but there was a part of her that doubted that. Maybe Elena had wanted the apple and had pretended to take it out of annoyance. She remembered her own words about supporting and helping each other and she didn't think it would be the end of the world to support and help her cousin, especially if she was doing that to herself.

She left the bathroom soon and headed to the tower. When she entered the room, Sabrina jumped on her feet making her laugh. Evelyn picked her up and kissed the top of her head. "You missed me?" Sabrina meowed in response. "I missed you too."

As she walked over to her bed, Evelyn wondered about what could help girls in this school. What could make them stand together and help each other during this hard times? As she sat on her bed and put Sabrina down, her eyes landed on a letter. At first, she had no idea what it was about, but when she opened it, she remembered.

It was an invite to a Slughorn's party this weekend. She had promised Gabriela that she would go as her friend didn't want to do it alone. She bit her lips as she read the invitation.

A smile crossed her features as an idea popped in her mind. A squeal followed after the smile and she jumped from her bed. Without hesitation, she got a notebook and a quill. She opened her suitcase and went down the stairs.

If she wanted this idea to work out, she needed focus and silence. She also needed an all-nighter.

This is one of my favourite chapters of Evelyn's third year because it starts to tell an important part of this story and makes Evelyn create a few relationships and dynamics with women around her. I hope you all enjoy it. By the way, Evelyn is a firm believer that human rights are trans rights. Just so you know, JK Rowling.

Thank you all for enjoying and reading this story, and please, don't mind dropping a review to tell me what you think of it. I always appreciate your opinion.

Next chapter, Evelyn's Idea