Diminished Rhapsody
Off to Hogwarts.
Ok! Here's the next part for y'all!
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The next morning James awoke to his mother screaming at him.
"James! For gods sake what the hell are you still in bed for! Didn't you tell your clock when to wake up!?" She screamed angrily at him. He quickly got up and mumbled 'I forgot' under his breath, for if he said it aloud he'd be in real trouble. James began down the stairs before his mom could get mad at him for anything else, but before he reached the bottem step, he felt his mothers cold hand grab his shoulder and half-drag him back to his room.
"Look at this mess! Your lucky I'm even letting you go to Hogwarts you ungrateful brat! I told you to clean this yesterday!" She snatched up a book lying wide open in the middle of the floor and hurled it at him, a crazed, maddened, look in her eyes. James tried to dodge it, but too late. He felt a horrible pain spreading over the side of his head, as he fell to the floor with a loud bang. He felt his mother come forward and start screeching at him, kicking him uncontrollably. After a few minutes he heard his dads voice yelling and felt himself being pulled away, but he couldn't handle any more, and fainted.
When James awoke he immidiatly knew where he was. Hogwarts. He turned his head painfully (It still hurt where the book wacked him) to see Madame Pomfrey, the new school nurse, moving towards him.
"How are you feeling?"
"Horrible… How'd I get here?"
"Well, Dumbledore told your father to bring you here."
"oh…" James said. He looked down at the foot of the bed and stared as he heard familiar voices of his friends outside the door, begging Madame Pomfrey to let them in.
"Fine. I guess he's had enough rest." And with that she led Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily, Aly, and Ashlee into the room, and walked away.
Sirius looked at James' head and fought to hold back a shudder.
"That looks pretty nasty…" Sirius said. Remus wacked him "Sirius…" he hissed. Sirius bit his lip to shut himself up.
"How are you feeling James?" Aly asked receiveing a small glare from Ashlee, who thought she was trying to win him by nice.
"Fine." He grunted in a small voice.
He looked up at the ceiling, at the pencils him and Sirius had thrown up and gotten stuck in their first year. Nobody bothered to try and take them down, thinking they were put up there magically. James and Sirius were laughing about that for weeks. He looked back at the people staring at him…
"What?" He asked a little angry.
"Well… What did happen… We've been hearing rumours but I know they aren't true…"
James looked at Sirius "What kind of rumours?"
Sirius shrugged and grinned "Stuff like, your mom got pissed and flipped out on you and stuff… hahaha…" Sirius stopped laughing at the look on James' face. James looked back to the foot of his bed.
"I-Its true?!" Remus said in disbeleif.
James struggled a nod.
Sirius turned to Lily. "Your right again. I owe you and James an appology now…"
Lily, who had remained silent, feeling a little nervous about how cranky everyone has been, nodded and looked at Sirius firmly. "Yes you do."
Sirius, who decided to get off the subject leaned towards James, eyes still on Lily, and whispered into his ear. "She's got the Madame Pince "Get out of here or Dumbledore'll hear' stare… that's bad…"
James rolled his eyes and pulled the covers over his head. I cant believe this… My mom… it cant be true… I was seeing things… yeah… I was seeing things… He tried to convince himself. But he couldn't. He knew it was true. His own mother… she hates me. My dad hates me too. Dumbledore had to order him to bring me here.
He listened as Sirius and Remus spoke silently to one another. Ashlee and Aly began to walk away, but Lily refused. "I feel so bad for him…" She said to them. Ashlee shrugged and dragged Aly out, saying "I cant bear to see him here any longer." And walked out.
Madame Pomfrey walked in right then, shutting Remus and Sirius up.
"Off you go. Shoo. This is your first full day at Hogwarts this year, why don't you enjoy it."
"But James is the one who comes up with the plans on how to enjoy it!"
"For gods sake! Sirius shut up!" Remus said as he dragged Sirius out.
Lily sat there and looked up at Madame Pomfrey.
"You too. He doesn't seem to want the company."
"ok." Lily said as she got up and walked out. I feel so bad for James! I feel like I caused this somehow… but I didn't! Ugh I must be sick or something.
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"So, Remus, after James you're the 'plan-maker'! So what should we do?"
"I don't really feel up to it Sirius. I feel kind of bad. I could have prevented Mrs. Potter from hurting James… I knew when I saw that bruise that something like that was going on… and Mrs. Potter always had that meanness to her."
"I know, but just forget about it! James is fine and…"
"Actually, James isnt fine! He never thought his mom would do something like that! Sirius, I can sense what people are feeling. James has a whole bunch of feelings that need sorting. This is going to be rough for him, and it makes me feel bad. I could have stopped it! We could have stopped it!"
"But you didn't, so just calm down." Came a voice from behind. Remus turned around to see Lily walking up to them.
"But I could have…"
"Remus, drop it. Sirius, do you feel anything!?"
"Yes!" Sirius said dignifiedly.
"Well, even I feel bad about what happened to James, and you, his so called "friend" doesn't feel bad. But Remus, your going a little to far."
Sirius looked hurt and walked away, not knowing what to say.
Remus looked better than before and grinned at Lily.
"You know what? Your right. I think I'll go do something… Be sure you steer clear of Sirius, Lil, he gets rather nasty when he's mad."
Lily grinned and walked to the Gryffindor girls dorms, to take a nap.
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Sorry peeps that its so boring but I'm having a writers block before I even get to the good part of the story! I have later on ideas but I was stumped for this one… this is like the cement on the brick wall, its all there to hold the story together! So just bear with me!
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