A new life
By Emerald Bubbles
Chapter 4
AN: Thankies to all who reviewed, and I hope no one got the wrong idea
about me not liking Harry. I have nothing against Harry, but this is a what
if fic, and well, Harry is a tiny bit spoiled, live with it!
Stay Happy
^_^
During the next few years, Harry distanced himself away from the twins, and he developed a hatred for the pair. Next summer was their acceptance into fey society, and Harry planned to as far away from the farm as humanly possible during the summer. He would remain away at the Weasley's for the entire summer, even if it meant being away during his birthday. The twins however were looking foreword to the acceptance, seeing as they had discovered their animal forms. Tam had turned into a dog, while her brother became a ferret. Their parents supposed it was because Jonathan was a timid person, and timid people generally became ferrets (AN: don't ask). The twins had gained recognition at school as being tricksters, and most tricks were aimed at Harry and his groupies. Ron and Hermione had become Harry's sort of inner circle, and they to got the full effect of any pranks pulled on Harry. Harry was studying quietly in his room (AN: yes he has his own room now) when Sirius came home from a trip to Diagon Alley. Harry raced out of his room, before either of the twins registered the fact he had returned. Sirius was showing Minerva a set of dress robes he had gotten. "These ones will bring out the colour in his eyes for sure" Sirius told his wife. The robes were silver, and Harry was wondering why Sirius was saying they would bring out the colour in his eyes, his eyes were green. Then it hit him (Harry), they were for Jonathan, not him. The twins appeared at the door to the bedroom corridor, Tam with soot on her face, and Jonathan with his normal why did you bug me in the middle of a good part look. "I got you guys your dress robes. Green for Harry, Silver for Jonathan, and black for Tam" said Sirius. "What's with the dress?" asked Tam eying the black robe with well-disguised distaste. "It's not a dress, it is your new dress robes, for formal occasions" said Sirius. "Are you hiding something from us?" asked Jonathan suspiciously. "If I could tell I would, but what's happening this year is strictly confidential between the Ministry and Hogwarts" replied Minerva. The twins tried to weasel an explanation out of their mother. Soon September 1st came and it was time again to go to Hogwarts. Harry met up with his followers and the twins met up with another set of twins they knew and Romunus Lupin. The Lucas twins were identical girls and had the same sense of humour as Tam and Jonathan. Ann-Marie and Mary-Ann had long strait red hair and black eyes, and when they sat next to each other you couldn't tell them apart. The Lucas' were Hagrid's nieces and had an advantage over any students in their year. Hagrid often told his two nieces about a new project before he revealed it to the class, so the two girls could warn friends about the next batch of creatures. "He has just hatched some funny creatures called Blast-Ended Skrewts, he plans to use then this year in COMC" said Ann-Marie. "Hagrid means well, but those things are vicious!" exclaimed Mary-Ann. "Great, just what we need, a batch of vicious newly hatched whatchamacall'ems and a secret that has to do with the entire school" cried Tam throwing up her hands in frustration. "Mum wouldn't even budge, she wouldn't even give us a little hint!" Jonathan told the company. "Bummer" said Romunus, who was almost a carbon copy of his dad. "We got a vague grasp of a big tournament that Hagrid was blathering on about" admitted Mary-Ann. During the trip to Hogwarts they were visited by Harry and his followers, and as soon as he left, Draco Malfoy. He had a large smirk on his lips, as he looked down on the two sets of twins and the mountain-bred boy. "Well, well, well, Potters little hate group, what's up? Do you know about the little secret going on in the castle?" he asked smugly. "No" all present besides Draco said instantly. "But the two Blacks are related to a teacher, dunno which teacher though, and they should know what is going on" said Draco angrily, but also happily. "No we don't" snapped Tam. Draco grinned, and he immediately put on his famous I'm-better-than-you-and-you-know-it façade. "Well, I thought a child of a teacher would know this" said Draco silkily. "If you aren't going to tell us about it, leave!" snapped Romunus. Draco skulked a little, then left. Jonathan pulled out a book, and began to read it. Tam and Romunus were discussing things that the Lucas twins didn't care to think about, and they talked to each other. The group were considered outcasts, and all knew that they weren't exactly human as well. The Black twins were fey and had to begin training for the acceptance next summer both mentally and physically, the Lucas twins were quarter giants on their mothers side, and Romunus was a werewolf mountain prince! But the friends never paid attention to what each race the others were. The only time when they paid attention to each race the others were, was when things happened to them that involved their races. Romunus was the only marauder who had been revealed to the students as a werewolf mountain prince. Romunus' father was the mountain king in the south, and he was the captain of the long patrol. The Blacks and the Lucas' hadn't known about their friend's royal heritage. The Black twins were only half famous because they lived in the same house as Harry all their lives. The Lucas' had nothing special about them, and weren't known well around the school. When they arrived at the train station, they got off, and got into the carriages and were taken to the front steps of the castle. They got out, and it was bucketing down with rain, and the five marauders were soaked to the bone by the time they got to the doors. They walked into the Entrance Hall, and were met by the Black twins mother yelling at Peeves with Harry, Ron and Hermione next to her, though they weren't as wet as the marauders. Tam glared at Harry's back, and ducked to avoid a water balloon Peeves had thrown at her. She aloud herself to be dragged into the Great Hall by her friends, and tore her eyes away from Harry and his friends. But of course she forgot her anger with Harry, and sat down at Griffindor table, and watched the sorting. Her wet black hair fell into her eyes, and she was noticeably pale under the fringe of her hair. She knew if she got sick, she would have to train more often than she already did. The first years were all slightly frightened if her, because of the way she looked. Jonathan didn't look as scary, and Romunus was by far scarier looking than his friends. So the first years avoided them like the plague. The twins were in fouler moods than before the sorting, because being avoided by little kids was alright, as long as they didn't make it obvious they were doing so. After the sorting Dumbledore, finally, told the school what was going on. The Triwizard Cup was coming to Hogwarts. "No wonder mum wouldn't tell us about it!" exclaimed Jonathan. "Harry would've been worse than average, because he would've been trying to get us to tell him what mum had said" "After all, we both know mum only tells us important stuff coz' she knows we'll only tell three people, and they're not stupid enough to blab" replied Tam grinning.
A month later the marauders were reading a notice in the Entrance Hall. "Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students are arriving on the 30th of October, and we get out of potions early, this is great!" said Romunus. "What do we have Ann-Marie?" asked Mary-Ann. "History of Magic" replied Ann-Marie. "Half an hour less of Binns, bliss" They all laughed, and headed to class. October 30th dawned, and everyone anticipated the arrival of the foreign students. Potions was, for once, bearable, and the Blacks managed to survive it without a detention (though they had tried to get one). At the end of the lesson, Tam, Jonathan and Romunus sprinted up to Griffindor tower, grabbed their cloaks, and raced back down. They joined the Lucas' in line and waited. "Wonder what the foreign students are like?" said Mary-Ann getting a dreamy look on her face. "Probably a bunch of self centred rich kids" shrugged Tam. "They're most likely to be seductive and mysterious, that's what the French girls are like in all books" said Jonathan. "You read to much Jonathan!" exclaimed Romunus. "Remember the time when we had a French couple come in to buy a horse off dad? He nearly keeled over when dad refused to sell him Duke, that's just 'coz he was his horse" said Tam grinning broadly. "But that French guy was awfully rich Tam, and he never expected dad to be so attached to Duke" Jonathan reminded her. Suddenly they noticed a large something hurtling across the sky towards the school. The thing was a large blue horse drawn carriage. The first three rows of students drew back as the carriage landed with a bump. Tam and Jonathan clapped their hands to their heads as soon as the flying horses landed. Tam and Jonathan had looks of agony on their faces. The carriage door opened, and a large woman emerged, almost larger Hagrid. This woman was clad all in black, and had opals on her throat and on her fingers. Dumbledore broke into applause and the rest of the students followed, except the Black twins who still had their hands over their ears. Then woman smiled and held out a hand to Dumbledore who kissed it. "Madame Maxime, a pleasure to see you again" said Dumbledore. "Dumbly-dorr, I 'ope you are well" replied Madame Maxime. "Never better" Dumbledore told her warmly. "My pupils" said Madame Maxime waving a hand behind distractedly. All her students were behind her and shivering. The other Marauders zoned out of the conversation the adults and were having to check on the Blacks. Tam's face was covered in sweat and she was panting, and she was nearly going to faint, while Jonathan was too panting, but sipping from his potion to stop the illness. The Beauxbatons students had walked into the school now, and they were waiting for the Durmstrang students to arrive. Just before the other marauders saw a mast protruding from the lake, Tam and Jonathan had fainted. Romunus swore quietly for the few minutes it took for the Durmstrang students to walk up to the school. "Hurry up" muttered Romunus. They filed back up the steps and recrossed entrance hall with the other Hogwarts students. Also they had a little trouble because they had to drag Tam and Jonathan to the Griffindor table. "I never knew Tam was so heavy" gasped Ann-Marie. "God, she's all weight, you wouldn't expect it from such a slender girl" commented Romunus. "Jonathans just as bad, and you'd never expect him to be all weight like Tam" replied Mary-Ann. "No you wouldn't expect Jonathan, of all people to be like his sister" said Romunus grinning. They propped the twins up in their seats, and proceeded to try and get them to re-gain consciousness. Romunus didn't pay attention to the speech Dumbledore made, but was trying un-successfully to get the twins to wake up. Tam was the first to gain consciousness, and she still seemed to have a headache. "I hate winged horses" she murmured. "They have major attitude problems, they get easily annoyed, and they seem to dislike anyone who handles them" "The joys of being a fey, eh Tam" grinned Romunus. "Shut it, what's happened since I blacked out?" asked Tam. "Durmstrang arrived, and that's about it" replied Romunus. "And you do know you and your brother are practically dead weight" "That's called muscle, we've been training for the acceptance since our last birthday" snapped Tam, her headache still present. Now both tried to get Jonathan to wake up, and missed Dumbledore's little warning. But they weren't planning to enter any way, a werewolf wouldn't have been aloud to compete, and a fey would be accused of cheating at every last chance. Jonathan managed to gain consciousness five minutes later. "Remind me to learn how to block out animals" Jonathan gasped. "Because I never want to listen to another winged horse again" "I agree, you don't realise why all fey avoid them like the plague until you hear them yourself" said Tam shrugging. "I hope Hagrid won't keep them near his cabin, we need about a week to learn how to block animals out of our minds" said Jonathan looking over to the Ravenclaw table. "Jonathan, you are not asking that French chick out!" snapped Tam, noticing where he was looking. "No, that veela girl is all flirt and blonde hair, not the qualities I'd expect from a high bred fey girl" replied Jonathan. "I was just seeing if there were any of our kind among the foreign students" "There wouldn't be any of our kind among the French, they have winged horses for crying out loud, the Durmstrang students don't seem to have our kind among them either, their professor has a bad vibe about him" said Tam. "And also our kind wouldn't be aloud to compete, we aren't yet trusted by the entire wizarding community" "Yeah, they seem to have problems with us" grinned Jonathan.
AN: Chapter 5 will be coming as soon as I can be bothered to write it, nah, I'm just fooling with you! I will begin work on it ASAP! Read, review, and no flames! Cause is flames, effect is dead, kay? Stay Happy ^_^
During the next few years, Harry distanced himself away from the twins, and he developed a hatred for the pair. Next summer was their acceptance into fey society, and Harry planned to as far away from the farm as humanly possible during the summer. He would remain away at the Weasley's for the entire summer, even if it meant being away during his birthday. The twins however were looking foreword to the acceptance, seeing as they had discovered their animal forms. Tam had turned into a dog, while her brother became a ferret. Their parents supposed it was because Jonathan was a timid person, and timid people generally became ferrets (AN: don't ask). The twins had gained recognition at school as being tricksters, and most tricks were aimed at Harry and his groupies. Ron and Hermione had become Harry's sort of inner circle, and they to got the full effect of any pranks pulled on Harry. Harry was studying quietly in his room (AN: yes he has his own room now) when Sirius came home from a trip to Diagon Alley. Harry raced out of his room, before either of the twins registered the fact he had returned. Sirius was showing Minerva a set of dress robes he had gotten. "These ones will bring out the colour in his eyes for sure" Sirius told his wife. The robes were silver, and Harry was wondering why Sirius was saying they would bring out the colour in his eyes, his eyes were green. Then it hit him (Harry), they were for Jonathan, not him. The twins appeared at the door to the bedroom corridor, Tam with soot on her face, and Jonathan with his normal why did you bug me in the middle of a good part look. "I got you guys your dress robes. Green for Harry, Silver for Jonathan, and black for Tam" said Sirius. "What's with the dress?" asked Tam eying the black robe with well-disguised distaste. "It's not a dress, it is your new dress robes, for formal occasions" said Sirius. "Are you hiding something from us?" asked Jonathan suspiciously. "If I could tell I would, but what's happening this year is strictly confidential between the Ministry and Hogwarts" replied Minerva. The twins tried to weasel an explanation out of their mother. Soon September 1st came and it was time again to go to Hogwarts. Harry met up with his followers and the twins met up with another set of twins they knew and Romunus Lupin. The Lucas twins were identical girls and had the same sense of humour as Tam and Jonathan. Ann-Marie and Mary-Ann had long strait red hair and black eyes, and when they sat next to each other you couldn't tell them apart. The Lucas' were Hagrid's nieces and had an advantage over any students in their year. Hagrid often told his two nieces about a new project before he revealed it to the class, so the two girls could warn friends about the next batch of creatures. "He has just hatched some funny creatures called Blast-Ended Skrewts, he plans to use then this year in COMC" said Ann-Marie. "Hagrid means well, but those things are vicious!" exclaimed Mary-Ann. "Great, just what we need, a batch of vicious newly hatched whatchamacall'ems and a secret that has to do with the entire school" cried Tam throwing up her hands in frustration. "Mum wouldn't even budge, she wouldn't even give us a little hint!" Jonathan told the company. "Bummer" said Romunus, who was almost a carbon copy of his dad. "We got a vague grasp of a big tournament that Hagrid was blathering on about" admitted Mary-Ann. During the trip to Hogwarts they were visited by Harry and his followers, and as soon as he left, Draco Malfoy. He had a large smirk on his lips, as he looked down on the two sets of twins and the mountain-bred boy. "Well, well, well, Potters little hate group, what's up? Do you know about the little secret going on in the castle?" he asked smugly. "No" all present besides Draco said instantly. "But the two Blacks are related to a teacher, dunno which teacher though, and they should know what is going on" said Draco angrily, but also happily. "No we don't" snapped Tam. Draco grinned, and he immediately put on his famous I'm-better-than-you-and-you-know-it façade. "Well, I thought a child of a teacher would know this" said Draco silkily. "If you aren't going to tell us about it, leave!" snapped Romunus. Draco skulked a little, then left. Jonathan pulled out a book, and began to read it. Tam and Romunus were discussing things that the Lucas twins didn't care to think about, and they talked to each other. The group were considered outcasts, and all knew that they weren't exactly human as well. The Black twins were fey and had to begin training for the acceptance next summer both mentally and physically, the Lucas twins were quarter giants on their mothers side, and Romunus was a werewolf mountain prince! But the friends never paid attention to what each race the others were. The only time when they paid attention to each race the others were, was when things happened to them that involved their races. Romunus was the only marauder who had been revealed to the students as a werewolf mountain prince. Romunus' father was the mountain king in the south, and he was the captain of the long patrol. The Blacks and the Lucas' hadn't known about their friend's royal heritage. The Black twins were only half famous because they lived in the same house as Harry all their lives. The Lucas' had nothing special about them, and weren't known well around the school. When they arrived at the train station, they got off, and got into the carriages and were taken to the front steps of the castle. They got out, and it was bucketing down with rain, and the five marauders were soaked to the bone by the time they got to the doors. They walked into the Entrance Hall, and were met by the Black twins mother yelling at Peeves with Harry, Ron and Hermione next to her, though they weren't as wet as the marauders. Tam glared at Harry's back, and ducked to avoid a water balloon Peeves had thrown at her. She aloud herself to be dragged into the Great Hall by her friends, and tore her eyes away from Harry and his friends. But of course she forgot her anger with Harry, and sat down at Griffindor table, and watched the sorting. Her wet black hair fell into her eyes, and she was noticeably pale under the fringe of her hair. She knew if she got sick, she would have to train more often than she already did. The first years were all slightly frightened if her, because of the way she looked. Jonathan didn't look as scary, and Romunus was by far scarier looking than his friends. So the first years avoided them like the plague. The twins were in fouler moods than before the sorting, because being avoided by little kids was alright, as long as they didn't make it obvious they were doing so. After the sorting Dumbledore, finally, told the school what was going on. The Triwizard Cup was coming to Hogwarts. "No wonder mum wouldn't tell us about it!" exclaimed Jonathan. "Harry would've been worse than average, because he would've been trying to get us to tell him what mum had said" "After all, we both know mum only tells us important stuff coz' she knows we'll only tell three people, and they're not stupid enough to blab" replied Tam grinning.
A month later the marauders were reading a notice in the Entrance Hall. "Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students are arriving on the 30th of October, and we get out of potions early, this is great!" said Romunus. "What do we have Ann-Marie?" asked Mary-Ann. "History of Magic" replied Ann-Marie. "Half an hour less of Binns, bliss" They all laughed, and headed to class. October 30th dawned, and everyone anticipated the arrival of the foreign students. Potions was, for once, bearable, and the Blacks managed to survive it without a detention (though they had tried to get one). At the end of the lesson, Tam, Jonathan and Romunus sprinted up to Griffindor tower, grabbed their cloaks, and raced back down. They joined the Lucas' in line and waited. "Wonder what the foreign students are like?" said Mary-Ann getting a dreamy look on her face. "Probably a bunch of self centred rich kids" shrugged Tam. "They're most likely to be seductive and mysterious, that's what the French girls are like in all books" said Jonathan. "You read to much Jonathan!" exclaimed Romunus. "Remember the time when we had a French couple come in to buy a horse off dad? He nearly keeled over when dad refused to sell him Duke, that's just 'coz he was his horse" said Tam grinning broadly. "But that French guy was awfully rich Tam, and he never expected dad to be so attached to Duke" Jonathan reminded her. Suddenly they noticed a large something hurtling across the sky towards the school. The thing was a large blue horse drawn carriage. The first three rows of students drew back as the carriage landed with a bump. Tam and Jonathan clapped their hands to their heads as soon as the flying horses landed. Tam and Jonathan had looks of agony on their faces. The carriage door opened, and a large woman emerged, almost larger Hagrid. This woman was clad all in black, and had opals on her throat and on her fingers. Dumbledore broke into applause and the rest of the students followed, except the Black twins who still had their hands over their ears. Then woman smiled and held out a hand to Dumbledore who kissed it. "Madame Maxime, a pleasure to see you again" said Dumbledore. "Dumbly-dorr, I 'ope you are well" replied Madame Maxime. "Never better" Dumbledore told her warmly. "My pupils" said Madame Maxime waving a hand behind distractedly. All her students were behind her and shivering. The other Marauders zoned out of the conversation the adults and were having to check on the Blacks. Tam's face was covered in sweat and she was panting, and she was nearly going to faint, while Jonathan was too panting, but sipping from his potion to stop the illness. The Beauxbatons students had walked into the school now, and they were waiting for the Durmstrang students to arrive. Just before the other marauders saw a mast protruding from the lake, Tam and Jonathan had fainted. Romunus swore quietly for the few minutes it took for the Durmstrang students to walk up to the school. "Hurry up" muttered Romunus. They filed back up the steps and recrossed entrance hall with the other Hogwarts students. Also they had a little trouble because they had to drag Tam and Jonathan to the Griffindor table. "I never knew Tam was so heavy" gasped Ann-Marie. "God, she's all weight, you wouldn't expect it from such a slender girl" commented Romunus. "Jonathans just as bad, and you'd never expect him to be all weight like Tam" replied Mary-Ann. "No you wouldn't expect Jonathan, of all people to be like his sister" said Romunus grinning. They propped the twins up in their seats, and proceeded to try and get them to re-gain consciousness. Romunus didn't pay attention to the speech Dumbledore made, but was trying un-successfully to get the twins to wake up. Tam was the first to gain consciousness, and she still seemed to have a headache. "I hate winged horses" she murmured. "They have major attitude problems, they get easily annoyed, and they seem to dislike anyone who handles them" "The joys of being a fey, eh Tam" grinned Romunus. "Shut it, what's happened since I blacked out?" asked Tam. "Durmstrang arrived, and that's about it" replied Romunus. "And you do know you and your brother are practically dead weight" "That's called muscle, we've been training for the acceptance since our last birthday" snapped Tam, her headache still present. Now both tried to get Jonathan to wake up, and missed Dumbledore's little warning. But they weren't planning to enter any way, a werewolf wouldn't have been aloud to compete, and a fey would be accused of cheating at every last chance. Jonathan managed to gain consciousness five minutes later. "Remind me to learn how to block out animals" Jonathan gasped. "Because I never want to listen to another winged horse again" "I agree, you don't realise why all fey avoid them like the plague until you hear them yourself" said Tam shrugging. "I hope Hagrid won't keep them near his cabin, we need about a week to learn how to block animals out of our minds" said Jonathan looking over to the Ravenclaw table. "Jonathan, you are not asking that French chick out!" snapped Tam, noticing where he was looking. "No, that veela girl is all flirt and blonde hair, not the qualities I'd expect from a high bred fey girl" replied Jonathan. "I was just seeing if there were any of our kind among the foreign students" "There wouldn't be any of our kind among the French, they have winged horses for crying out loud, the Durmstrang students don't seem to have our kind among them either, their professor has a bad vibe about him" said Tam. "And also our kind wouldn't be aloud to compete, we aren't yet trusted by the entire wizarding community" "Yeah, they seem to have problems with us" grinned Jonathan.
AN: Chapter 5 will be coming as soon as I can be bothered to write it, nah, I'm just fooling with you! I will begin work on it ASAP! Read, review, and no flames! Cause is flames, effect is dead, kay? Stay Happy ^_^