The Trick is to Keep Breathing *3* - purely phsychosomatic
disclaimer- no i don't own harry potter, they belong to JK Rowling, blah blah, i dont
make a penny, please dont sue.
LEss Than Jake own the rights to All my best friends are metalheads, but for this, i'm dragging them back a few decades into my timeframe here.
a/n yes i know i spelt professor mcgonagall's name wrong throughout the entirity of chapter 2, i apologise.
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"So you see, we started this in our second year, and we've just about finished it. We enchanted it and everything, so all the people are shown up, regardless of cloaks or invisibility devices."
Sirius proudly described their new invention the 'Maurauder's map'.
"IS thre a but coming up in this?"
"Indeed." Sirius shot her a grin. "So... BUT! what's an enchanted piece of paper, thats all fine and peachy, but wouldn't it be fun to leave a sort of pesonality imprint of ourselves in it, so even when we're gone and out in that big bad world, people in hogwarts will have a great deal of fun getting insulted if they try to use it and dont know how!"
"And you're having trouble giving it a personality?"
"Exactly." Sirius nodded, as he drained his mug. "We got Peter on the subject, but now, in hindsight that wasn't such a good idea. I mean, he's useless in a library, let alone looking for
some obscure charm in the restricted section."
It struck Jade as odd, when they were alone, Sirius ropped the idiot-act and was actually okay when he wasn't being egotistical.
Suddenly James burst in, and promptly dived under their table.
"Really Prongs! I din't know you felt that way about me." Sirius wiggled his eyebrows as a hoarse whisper of "SHUT UP" came out from under the table.
Neither Sirius nor Jade needed to question any further as a very irate Snape slammed the door and started looking around, his hand clenching his wand.
"You know, i think you should be referred to anger management classes." Sirius smiled up innocently as Snape loomed over them
"WHere. IS. POTTER!" SNape bellowed.
"Now now." Sirius kept smiling, "Rudeness never got anyone anywhere,"
"I like the new look." Jade fingered Snape's still colour flashing robes. "Last season though."
"Yes." Sirius fell straight into banter-mode "The flowers really bring out the grease in your lanky hair."
"And the cuffs..." Jade followed on seamlessly. "You simply look pretty..."
"DAMN HILARIOUS!" they said in chorus. Snape, seeing that he was not going to get anywhere gave them one last glare and stormed out.
James poked his head up out from under the table.. "Nice work."
"It was." Sirius agreed. "He looked criminally insane when he stormed in here."
"Purely phsychosomatically." Jade agreed.
"I have to go find Lily. She NEEDS to know about this, it'll cheer her up." James grabbed Sirius' butterbeer and drained it, handing him back the empty mug. "Thanks, padfoot."
Sirius snarled playfully. "Do that again and you'll be drinking it off your robes."
James waved the comment away, as he spotted Lily and hurried over to see her.
"So," Sirius turned back to Jade, "What's Jadey doing for the summer?"
"Staying at home, hanging out, you know the routine." Jade shrugged, "Don't call me Jadey."
Sirius had on a rare thoughtful expression, "you know, if you're not too busy being a lazy ass, we're going round to the Forest of Light for a camping trip. I'm sure you could come, everyone else is."
Jade didn't reply, the clock's large hand was on "return to school" and the rest of the gang had come in to catch them up, whilst retelling the whole let's pick-on-snape-and-malfoy stunt James had pulled off earlier.
***
"And because venus is in the fifth house, i'm going to suddenly fall off the roof of an inbcredibly tall building and fall into the arms of an incredibly gorgeous knight riding a unicorn." Lily wrote down on her parchment.
"Oh the joys of divination." Arianwen drawled, "Why am i doing this, when i could be finishing my DADA homework?"
"Because you're weird?" Sirius joined in, "Okay guys, check this out... Monday shall be a mysterious day for me because of the full moon, i shall find myself transported into the heart
of a large monster most probably that of the grim..."
"Very accurate don't you think?" Remus smiled "Big black dog- grim."
"They just wont know how close..." Sirius signed is name at the top of the page with a flourish.
"You think i should get trampled upon by the grim in question?" James asked whilst writing down more predictions on his parchment.
"Oh, definitely." Sirius grinned, "Nothing like a good body crunching for divination."
"Yes but the body crunching concerned is usually what is planned for the professor..."
"And sadly is yet to happen."
"Maybe if we get a growth potion and pour it on one of those crystal balls, then we could sort of levitate it over her head and then... BOOM!" Sirius started laughing maniacally.
Everybody grinned, they knew that if Sirius ever got the chance to do it, he would, no questions asked.
"Do you think she'd predict that, though?" Peter squeaked
"HA!" James laughed, throwing down his quill. "How many times was i supposed to die this year? Have i managed to fulfil any of those?"
"Well, you got pretty close." Sirius said thoughtfully "I mean, McGonagall looked ready to throttle you..."
"Yeah, but she loves me too much." James grinned, "How could she kill her favourite student."
"How could she kill her favourite student with a major ego overload." Arianwen muttered.
"I happen to agree with that." Sirius nodded. "I mean, i've got an ego problem, i can admit that..."
"Well i'm glad for you, well done." Remus applauded. "That must have been a great step forward for you to admit such a thing."
"Uhm, you guys, where's Jade?" Arianwen looked up around the common room. "I havent seen her since Potions."
Sirius and James shared a long tired look. "We know where." they said together. "in the LIBRARY of course"
"Nuh-uh." Pheonix shook her head, "I've just come from there. It was deserted."
"Odd." Arianwen said, glancing up at the clock. "Perhaps I should go and look."
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Jade sat on the border of the forbidden forest. It was getting dusky and if she didn't go back up to the castle soon, she'd die of cold out here. But this was the least magical place of the entirity of Hogwarts, it was the only place where she could really think. Not wondering whether people were about to play magical pranks on her or suddenly talk to her about subjects she couldnt care less about. This was theplace where she could indulge in a habit of hers. She wrote songs. Back at her home, her father was a muggle, and he had been a wannabe rock star, teaching her the finer points of drumming and playing electric guitar.
She'd gone to a muggle school for most of her life, her mother being content with using magic in the home and her trips to meeting with her fellow wizarding friends.
Jade remembered the odd looks she'd got from her old school friends when she explained why she kept an owl ("i like strange creatures.") They used to have a band. That had stopped once Jade had left for her "boarding school". they'd got a new front-man who, in Jade's opinion was complete rubbish. He didn't know his C chord from his F chord and couldnt hammer-on to save his life. There was no point trying to get a hogwarts group of people to start a band, nobody knew much about it and the wizarding kids found it amusing to wach Jade pick out a few tunes on her guitar in the common room.
"Jadey?" A voice came out from behind her, startling her from her thoughts. She saw no-one.
"Uh?" She looked around.
"Its me."
"Of course its you, now can you tell me who 'me' is."
"You're Jadey." Came the reply.
"I'm serious." Jade threatened
"NO you're not!" The voice sounded offended "I'm Sirius."
"Very funny Sirius. Show yourself." Jade sighed putting the notebook away in her bag.
"Whatcha doing?" Sirius pulled off James' invisibility cloak.
"Nothing."
"Wow, well nothing's changed in definition since i last used it, then." Sirius sat down beside her.
"Writing a diary?" He probed, "Let me guess- 'Sirius is soooo mean'." He started out in a girly voice. "uhm... 'he never shuts up and keeps talking to me, why can't he just go away?'."
"Nope." Jade sighed.
"You're not gonna tell me are you?"
"No."
"Please?"
"Didn't i say no?"
"Maybe."
"C'mon, what am i gonna do?"
"Read it."
"Well thats' the idea." Sirius shrugged. "I'm just curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat."
"I'm not a cat, and as far as i've heard curiosity has yet to kill the dog." Sirius grinned.
"Insolent brat aren't you."
"Actually i'm an egotistical arrogant insolent brat, but two out of four, thats quite good." Sirius came closer "Lets do you. stubborn, yet cute, clever, also egotistical and prideful."
Jade raised an eyebrow. "Is that what you think?"
"Well, we don't really know much about each other, but hey thats not so bad, if we took the time to discover..."
"Hey wait." Jade pulled out her book and furiously sribbled something down.
"Oh come ON!" Sirius rolled his eyes, "You can't do that and not expect me to want to read."
"What's the phrase you use?" JAde looked thoughtful "Oh yeah. Thats the way the chocolate frogs crumble."
Sirius scowled, "You going to stay here all night, then?"
"I'll stay as long as i feel like."
"Its dangerous." Sirius said quietly
"I'll survive."
"Well." Sirius huddled down near the base of a tree. "You stay, i stay."
"Fine." Jade shrugged, curling up in her cloak.
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Sirius woke up with a start, some creature had just scuttled past him, he thought he was still dreaming for a moment then it hit him why he wasn't in the dormitory. He glanced across at the sleeping bundle of cloak that was Jade, the notebook she had been wriing in earlier was lying untouched on the grass beside her. Cautiously, Sirius picked it up and started flicking through.
TBC
thanks to all those who reviewed. it means a lot, really it does.
disclaimer- no i don't own harry potter, they belong to JK Rowling, blah blah, i dont
make a penny, please dont sue.
LEss Than Jake own the rights to All my best friends are metalheads, but for this, i'm dragging them back a few decades into my timeframe here.
a/n yes i know i spelt professor mcgonagall's name wrong throughout the entirity of chapter 2, i apologise.
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"So you see, we started this in our second year, and we've just about finished it. We enchanted it and everything, so all the people are shown up, regardless of cloaks or invisibility devices."
Sirius proudly described their new invention the 'Maurauder's map'.
"IS thre a but coming up in this?"
"Indeed." Sirius shot her a grin. "So... BUT! what's an enchanted piece of paper, thats all fine and peachy, but wouldn't it be fun to leave a sort of pesonality imprint of ourselves in it, so even when we're gone and out in that big bad world, people in hogwarts will have a great deal of fun getting insulted if they try to use it and dont know how!"
"And you're having trouble giving it a personality?"
"Exactly." Sirius nodded, as he drained his mug. "We got Peter on the subject, but now, in hindsight that wasn't such a good idea. I mean, he's useless in a library, let alone looking for
some obscure charm in the restricted section."
It struck Jade as odd, when they were alone, Sirius ropped the idiot-act and was actually okay when he wasn't being egotistical.
Suddenly James burst in, and promptly dived under their table.
"Really Prongs! I din't know you felt that way about me." Sirius wiggled his eyebrows as a hoarse whisper of "SHUT UP" came out from under the table.
Neither Sirius nor Jade needed to question any further as a very irate Snape slammed the door and started looking around, his hand clenching his wand.
"You know, i think you should be referred to anger management classes." Sirius smiled up innocently as Snape loomed over them
"WHere. IS. POTTER!" SNape bellowed.
"Now now." Sirius kept smiling, "Rudeness never got anyone anywhere,"
"I like the new look." Jade fingered Snape's still colour flashing robes. "Last season though."
"Yes." Sirius fell straight into banter-mode "The flowers really bring out the grease in your lanky hair."
"And the cuffs..." Jade followed on seamlessly. "You simply look pretty..."
"DAMN HILARIOUS!" they said in chorus. Snape, seeing that he was not going to get anywhere gave them one last glare and stormed out.
James poked his head up out from under the table.. "Nice work."
"It was." Sirius agreed. "He looked criminally insane when he stormed in here."
"Purely phsychosomatically." Jade agreed.
"I have to go find Lily. She NEEDS to know about this, it'll cheer her up." James grabbed Sirius' butterbeer and drained it, handing him back the empty mug. "Thanks, padfoot."
Sirius snarled playfully. "Do that again and you'll be drinking it off your robes."
James waved the comment away, as he spotted Lily and hurried over to see her.
"So," Sirius turned back to Jade, "What's Jadey doing for the summer?"
"Staying at home, hanging out, you know the routine." Jade shrugged, "Don't call me Jadey."
Sirius had on a rare thoughtful expression, "you know, if you're not too busy being a lazy ass, we're going round to the Forest of Light for a camping trip. I'm sure you could come, everyone else is."
Jade didn't reply, the clock's large hand was on "return to school" and the rest of the gang had come in to catch them up, whilst retelling the whole let's pick-on-snape-and-malfoy stunt James had pulled off earlier.
***
"And because venus is in the fifth house, i'm going to suddenly fall off the roof of an inbcredibly tall building and fall into the arms of an incredibly gorgeous knight riding a unicorn." Lily wrote down on her parchment.
"Oh the joys of divination." Arianwen drawled, "Why am i doing this, when i could be finishing my DADA homework?"
"Because you're weird?" Sirius joined in, "Okay guys, check this out... Monday shall be a mysterious day for me because of the full moon, i shall find myself transported into the heart
of a large monster most probably that of the grim..."
"Very accurate don't you think?" Remus smiled "Big black dog- grim."
"They just wont know how close..." Sirius signed is name at the top of the page with a flourish.
"You think i should get trampled upon by the grim in question?" James asked whilst writing down more predictions on his parchment.
"Oh, definitely." Sirius grinned, "Nothing like a good body crunching for divination."
"Yes but the body crunching concerned is usually what is planned for the professor..."
"And sadly is yet to happen."
"Maybe if we get a growth potion and pour it on one of those crystal balls, then we could sort of levitate it over her head and then... BOOM!" Sirius started laughing maniacally.
Everybody grinned, they knew that if Sirius ever got the chance to do it, he would, no questions asked.
"Do you think she'd predict that, though?" Peter squeaked
"HA!" James laughed, throwing down his quill. "How many times was i supposed to die this year? Have i managed to fulfil any of those?"
"Well, you got pretty close." Sirius said thoughtfully "I mean, McGonagall looked ready to throttle you..."
"Yeah, but she loves me too much." James grinned, "How could she kill her favourite student."
"How could she kill her favourite student with a major ego overload." Arianwen muttered.
"I happen to agree with that." Sirius nodded. "I mean, i've got an ego problem, i can admit that..."
"Well i'm glad for you, well done." Remus applauded. "That must have been a great step forward for you to admit such a thing."
"Uhm, you guys, where's Jade?" Arianwen looked up around the common room. "I havent seen her since Potions."
Sirius and James shared a long tired look. "We know where." they said together. "in the LIBRARY of course"
"Nuh-uh." Pheonix shook her head, "I've just come from there. It was deserted."
"Odd." Arianwen said, glancing up at the clock. "Perhaps I should go and look."
****
Jade sat on the border of the forbidden forest. It was getting dusky and if she didn't go back up to the castle soon, she'd die of cold out here. But this was the least magical place of the entirity of Hogwarts, it was the only place where she could really think. Not wondering whether people were about to play magical pranks on her or suddenly talk to her about subjects she couldnt care less about. This was theplace where she could indulge in a habit of hers. She wrote songs. Back at her home, her father was a muggle, and he had been a wannabe rock star, teaching her the finer points of drumming and playing electric guitar.
She'd gone to a muggle school for most of her life, her mother being content with using magic in the home and her trips to meeting with her fellow wizarding friends.
Jade remembered the odd looks she'd got from her old school friends when she explained why she kept an owl ("i like strange creatures.") They used to have a band. That had stopped once Jade had left for her "boarding school". they'd got a new front-man who, in Jade's opinion was complete rubbish. He didn't know his C chord from his F chord and couldnt hammer-on to save his life. There was no point trying to get a hogwarts group of people to start a band, nobody knew much about it and the wizarding kids found it amusing to wach Jade pick out a few tunes on her guitar in the common room.
"Jadey?" A voice came out from behind her, startling her from her thoughts. She saw no-one.
"Uh?" She looked around.
"Its me."
"Of course its you, now can you tell me who 'me' is."
"You're Jadey." Came the reply.
"I'm serious." Jade threatened
"NO you're not!" The voice sounded offended "I'm Sirius."
"Very funny Sirius. Show yourself." Jade sighed putting the notebook away in her bag.
"Whatcha doing?" Sirius pulled off James' invisibility cloak.
"Nothing."
"Wow, well nothing's changed in definition since i last used it, then." Sirius sat down beside her.
"Writing a diary?" He probed, "Let me guess- 'Sirius is soooo mean'." He started out in a girly voice. "uhm... 'he never shuts up and keeps talking to me, why can't he just go away?'."
"Nope." Jade sighed.
"You're not gonna tell me are you?"
"No."
"Please?"
"Didn't i say no?"
"Maybe."
"C'mon, what am i gonna do?"
"Read it."
"Well thats' the idea." Sirius shrugged. "I'm just curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat."
"I'm not a cat, and as far as i've heard curiosity has yet to kill the dog." Sirius grinned.
"Insolent brat aren't you."
"Actually i'm an egotistical arrogant insolent brat, but two out of four, thats quite good." Sirius came closer "Lets do you. stubborn, yet cute, clever, also egotistical and prideful."
Jade raised an eyebrow. "Is that what you think?"
"Well, we don't really know much about each other, but hey thats not so bad, if we took the time to discover..."
"Hey wait." Jade pulled out her book and furiously sribbled something down.
"Oh come ON!" Sirius rolled his eyes, "You can't do that and not expect me to want to read."
"What's the phrase you use?" JAde looked thoughtful "Oh yeah. Thats the way the chocolate frogs crumble."
Sirius scowled, "You going to stay here all night, then?"
"I'll stay as long as i feel like."
"Its dangerous." Sirius said quietly
"I'll survive."
"Well." Sirius huddled down near the base of a tree. "You stay, i stay."
"Fine." Jade shrugged, curling up in her cloak.
****
Sirius woke up with a start, some creature had just scuttled past him, he thought he was still dreaming for a moment then it hit him why he wasn't in the dormitory. He glanced across at the sleeping bundle of cloak that was Jade, the notebook she had been wriing in earlier was lying untouched on the grass beside her. Cautiously, Sirius picked it up and started flicking through.
TBC
thanks to all those who reviewed. it means a lot, really it does.