First of all I would just like to thank everyone who
reviewed 'cause you did tonnes for my self esteem =o) except of course for
Atalana Zora who just mean as *sticks out tongue* but who also, unfortunately,
writes very good L/J fics, so are you satisfied Zora? (no she did not pay me to
say that)
Also, I did get the title of the fic from Sharon Creech. I
thought it was a really good title 'cause I always imagined the Marauders life to
be absolutely normal chaos. I guess I should of put that in the disclaimer.
Anywayz, enjoy chapter 2!
~*tSuNaMi*~
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K Rowling, so don't
sue me, and the title belongs to Sharon Creech.
***
"Shut up Evans, do you want wake up the
whole castle?" James snapped as he walked up behind her.
"What do you see? A mirror? Sorry Evans, but
that IS your reflection…" Sirius faltered as he saw what was inside the room.
Professor Kaydi was lying with her eyes wide
open, in a pool of her own blood. Her face was twisted in an expression of
intense pain and fear, and there were cuts and bruises all over her body. A
steady trickle of blood came from her mouth.
"Oh my God…" Sirius whispered, turning away
from the scene with a sick expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" Remus said concerned. When
he saw the Professor he turned away and sat down on the floor, covering his
face. Lily and James continued to look at the Professor however, Lily in
horror, and James with concern and anger.
"Who ever did this must be extremely
powerful," he whispered angrily, "they must have tortured her then killed her
with Avarda Kadavra."
"What's that?" Lily managed to choke.
"The killing curse. Only someone extremely
powerful could've done it,"
Lily shuddered, remembering her dream. The
deadly red eyes stuck in her head…
"How do you know?" Lily asked.
"My father's an auror," he said shortly,
"Come on, we've got to get Dumbledore now,"
"But we don't know where he is…"
But their problem was answered a moment
later. Dumbledore came sweeping down the hall way with a worried expression on
his face.
"Mr Potter? Mr Black? Miss Evans? Mr Lupin?
What are you doing here?"
Lily jumped and realised that there was no
logical explanation for why they where there. James came to her rescue a moment
later and said;
"Professor, umm…someone has …has killed
Professor Kaydi,"
Dumbledore turned green and looked in the
room. He stood in the doorway and looked at Kaydi, but Lily couldn't read the
expression on his face. He turned and beckoned on them to follow him. The three
boys and Lily looked at each other for a moment then rushed after him in
silence.
Dumbledore lead them up several staircases
and to a gargoyle. He whispered a password that Lily couldn't hear, and stepped
onto a revolving staircase, with the first years following closely behind. He
opened the door to his office and sat on his desk and began to write something.
Lily, James, Sirius and Remus stood tentatively, and looked around the office.
Lily's eyes rested on an ancient bird siting on a perch, sound asleep.
"Firstly, I would like to know what you four
were doing up at this hour."
Dumbledore's concerned voice brought Lily
back to reality. The three boys turned around and looked at her, waiting for
her to explain.
"Umm.. well.. its kind of personal…" Lily
stuttered nervously.
Dumbledore looked at her thoughtfully and
nodded.
"That's ok, I will talk to you later Miss
Evans. But I would like to say to all of you that I would appreciate it very
much if you don't wander around after dark, unless it is in groups. I imagine
that some people would be eager to explore the castle." Dumbledore said,
looking at the three boys with a twinkle in his eyes. Sirius grinned at this,
but James still looked angry and Remus looked like he was about to be sick.
"Anyhow, there are dark times approaching as
some of you are well aware," Dumbledore looked at James' grave face," and we will
need all the co-operation we can get from students." Dumbledore looked blank
for a moment then shook out of his reverie.
"You boys may go now. I imagine I would be
seeing you later."
The three boys looked at Lily for a moment
then walked out of the office. Dumbledore turned at his desk and looked at
Lily.
"Now, Miss Evans. Would you care to explain
why you were up?"
Lily took a deep breath and told Dumbledore
about her dream. She stopped and shook for a moment when she came to the part
about the man with the red eyes, but Dumbledore just gave her a concerned look
and waited for her to continue. When she finished, she looked up at Dumbledore,
waiting for his reaction. He sat back in his chair and gave her a searching
look, but when he spoke, it was not about her dream.
"Miss Evans, do you happen to know who your
great-great aunt is?"
Lily looked surprised.
"No actually. I never heard of her, I didn't
know I had one."
"Well, then it's not my place to tell you.
You are muggle-born aren't you?"
"Yes I am."
"Then I imagine you will be very interested
to know how I new about her. Thankyou Miss Evans, your information was very
helpful. You may go know," Dumbledore stood up and gave her a kind smile. Still
dazed, Lily headed for the door.
"Your Aunt was an amazing woman."
Lily spun around quickly, but Dumbledore was
pouring over a letter. Lily walked down the stairs without thinking and bumped
right into James.
"Hey, watch it Evans. What did Dumbledore
want?"
Lily was about to answer when she realised
who she was talking to.
"None of you bloody business Potter, so hack
off."
"Oh, touchy aren't we? Not a morning person
I imagine."
Lily tossed her head angrily and walked
away. She walked to the Gryffindor Common room, ignoring the crashes and
whispering of the group behind her, and walked tiredly up to her dorm without
saying anything to the three boys.
"Night fire-fly"
Lily gave a dark look to Sirius and flopped
onto her bed, unaware of the fact that her hair was glowing bright, as if a
light bulb had been turned on in her head. Giggling, the boys walked up to
their dorm and climbed into their beds for a few hours of sleep.
"Well," James said yawning, "You can't say
in wasn't an interesting first day,"
***
Lily came down to the great hall with Aura
the next day yawning. When she had gotten into her dorm last night, Aura and
the other girls in her dorm (Tessa McKinnon, Danielle Redding and Michelle
Finnegan) were dying to now where she went. She told them everything except the
part about her dream, which she told Aura. So Lily didn't get to sleep until
the early hours of the morning.
"Morning Evans!"
Sirius Black stood in front of Lily grinning
like a Cheshire cat.
"And how are we this fine morning?"
Lily buried her face in her hands.
"Get lost Black, I'm annoyed enough as it
is,"
"Come on Lily," Aura said leading her away
and giving Sirius a dirty look. Lily and Aura sat with Tessa, Danny and Michelle.
After everyone had eaten, Dumbledore stood up, his face grave. The Great Hall
slowly quietened to hear what the headmaster had to say.
"Students, I have a very important
announcement to make," Taking a deep breath, he continued. "Last night, Professor
Kaydi, our deputy Headmistress, was killed,"
The Great Hall suddenly broke out in loud
whispers and many students looked at Dumbledore in disbelief. The Headmaster
waited till there was silence and continued.
"Indeed this is true, and I cannot lie to as
to the cause of her death. Professor Kaydi was killed with a powerful curse
known as Avarda Kadavra, the killing curse," Dumbledore paused again as more
whispers filtered through the hall, "We do not know now who has killed our
Professor, but we do have a very good idea," Was it Lily's imagination or did
Dumbledore's eyes flicker to the Slytherin table?
"And we would like to stress that now more
than ever, there is to be absolutely NO after dark wanderings, and nobody is to
enter the Forbidden forest unsupervised. I would like you all to remember that
we must stick together now more then ever as dark times approach us. Professor
Kaydi was a valuable asset to our school, and will be greatly missed. I would
like anyone with any information whatsoever to approach me, and all
transfiguration lessons will be cancelled until the replacement arrives next
week. I would also like to ask the Head Boy and Girl and all the Prefects to
see me in order to attend Professor Kaydi's funeral. That will be all,"
Dumbledore sat down and began to talk to the
Professor beside him gravely. Everybody in the hall gave fearful glances toward
Dumbledore, and many of the first years came close to crying, except, Lily
noticed, most people on the Slytherin table, who looked quite smug.
"Lily? Earth to Lily,"
"Hmmm?" Lily replied watching Narcissa
batter her eyelashes at Severus Snape.
"Our timetables are here."
"Oh…" Lily looked at her timetable for the
first time. First, she had potions with the Slytherins. Lily looked up and
watched Remus, James and Sirius faint in mock horror and send 'if looks could
kill' glances in the direction of the Slytherins.
Aura noticed it too and caught her eye.
"Well, this should be interesting."
***
Potions with the Slytherins proved to be a
horrifying experience, but not for Lily, for the Slytherins. The teacher,
Professor Geroton, was nice enough, but James, Remus and Sirius were feeling
particularly lethal that lesson and played prank after prank on the Slytherins,
esp. Lucius Malfoy, Severus Snape and Devin Avery. Lily wasn't too fond off
them either (they had a certain air of superioty around her and called her a
'mudblood') and didn't feel too sorry for them. James, Sirius and Remus
thankfully ignored her that lesson, and continued to slip slugs down the girls
robes (Narcissa proclaimed that she would never wear her robes again) and
slipping strange ingredients in Slytherin potions, causing them to blow up and
have strange effects on their owners (Severus Snape grew an extra head which
bickered with him for an hour, and Lucius Malfoy, Jaden's twin brother, turned
into a funny reincarnation of the Easter bunny). Slimy, and covered in their
own mess, the three troublemakers got detention for a month, but, Lily heard
them proclaim later, they thought it was all worth it.
"The look on Severus Snape's face," Remus
grinned, suppressing laughter, "When he saw another copy of his ugly face on
his shoulder, was absolutely priceless!"
***
The memorial for Professor Kaydi nearly brought
Lily to tears. She stood between James and Sirius (she and Aura had to be
separated because they hexed Malfoy for calling her a mudblood for the fifteen
time that lesson) listening to Dumbledore talk about the value of life and
feeling slightly faint. When she started to sway, James held her steady and
gave her hand a squeeze, while giving her a reassuring smile, sadness and anger
in his eyes. He left his hand with hers without realising it until Sirius
raised his eyebrows at them at the end of the ceremony.
"Well, well. What have we got here?"
Lily and James looked at their hands and
jumped away from each other blushing. Lily looked away and went to find Aura,
who was sitting beside Remus.
"Come on Auri, I'm ready to sleep till
Christmas," Lily was too preoccupied to notice that Aura and Remus's cheeks
were very red.
"Kay. Just a minute," Aura got up, said an
embarrassed goodbye to Remus and walked with Lily to the Common room in
silence.
Aura and Lily were engrossed in their own
thoughts. Aura was thinking of her dead parents (she hadn't told Lily yet) and
Remus and certain issues she had discussed with him (A.N. No, what you're
probably thinking now is NOT what they discussed *rolls eyes* you people have
dirty minds)
Lily, meanwhile, was not engrossed in
thoughts about a boy, however innocent. Lily thought about her awkward family
situation at home and her position with her eccentric older sister. Petunia
absolutely refused to even look at Lily when she was accepted in her school. Although
their friendship was never strong (Petunia used to bully her at school and Lily
retaliated by putting frogs in her bags and mentioning she slept with a
nite-lite on when she was chatting up a boy). But Dumbledore's touching speech
made her realise how short life was and how anybody could be taken from her at
any time. Lily thought about setting the record straight with her sister, but
then she remembered what she said when Lily left for school.
"I don't care how
desperate you are, or I am for that matter. I don't know you anymore and you
don't know me, so don't even talk to me or refer to me as a sister you…you…freak.
I am normal and do not associate with stupid witches like yourself. So I
don't know you from now on ok? Do not even look at me 'cause I wont be
looking at you. If I could disown you as a sister for good, I'd do it without a
moments hesitation. Now go away ok? Just get out of my face!"
Although Lily acted indifferent to the
hateful speech, she was really quite hurt. Being told by sister that she wanted
to disown you wasn't really nice after all.
No, Lily thought, I definitely
won't make peace. Not now anyway.
Lily regretted that decision for the rest of
her life.
***
"Lily Evans is a stupid, red headed slug
with no brain or life…she's a stupid…stupid…witch!!"
James Potter looked at his best friend with
an amused expression on his face as he sat on his bed reading A History of
Magic.
"So are all the other girls here. Oh dear
Sirius. Have you angered the fiery devil again? You should really learn that
she actually listens in Defence Against the Dark Arts unlike us, and
therefore knows more hexes. What did you do to her anyway?"
Sirius tried to look menacing, but failed
horribly, mainly due to the fact that he had two extra arms and was hot pink.
Remus was out visiting his sick mum and the other boy they shared the dorm
with, Peter Pettigrew, was in the hospital wing because he broke his leg due to
a trick step, so they were alone.
"Well, I was walking in the common room
minding my own business,"
James rolled his eyes.
"Ok, ok. Maybe I was practising a Burning
Charm on a couple of girls' hair. Well anyway, I saw Evans sitting all
by herself reading a boring book, so I decided to keep her company and
amuse her,"
"Oh no! Your idea of amusement involves
turning the giant squid fluro orange,"
"Don't interrupt. Well all I said was
hello…and maybe I did an itsy bitsy little Water Charm on her…and then
tried to help her and dry it with a tiny little fire charm…"
"Oh don't tell me, you set her hair on
fire,"
"Er, no actually, I set her robe on fire,
but it was an accident and I did put it
out and she wasn't grateful at all,"
"Oh well done Sirius!" James said sarcastically,
"All we need now is for her to tell and get another detention. We're all ready
booked out for the next four months and my dad is ready to kill!"
"Sorry! It was an accident, really!" Sirius
looked sheepish. James got up and side stepped all their junk to the door.
"Well, I better go and try convince her not
to tell. We'll probably end up slaves for a month but it's better than another
detention,"
"Are you sure that's all you want to
do?" Sirius said with an evil grin. "I've seen you stare at her and you were
holding her hand…"
James blushed and threw a pillow at his
friend.
"Shut up you idiot. I do not stare at her,
she's too…fiery,"
"Do too,"
"Do not,"
"Do too,"
"I'm not even gonna try," James said
throwing up his hands.
"Oh and James,"
"WHAT!'
"That idea about dying the
giant squid fluro orange was good," Sirius grinned.
Sirius ducked just in time as
an alarm clock came his way.
***
James walked to the girl's dorm and
tentively knocked on the door. He waited, leaning against the doorframe, which
was a big mistake. Even though he had good reflexes, he was unable to stop the
door from hitting his nose.
"OUCH!"
Lily blinked, not recognising the klutz she
hit, so she was nice.
"Oh! Sorry are you okay?" she said, leaning
down to look at his face.
"Er, its ok, my nose stopped the door from
hitting my face," the figure said, his voice muffled from his hand.
"Oh, its you," Lily said, dropping
the concerned attitude and standing up with a disgusted look on her face.
"Well, thanks for help. Your so
nice," James said dryly, which was hard because his nose was bleeding.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Fine, I'll take you to Madam Pomphrey,"
Madam Pomphrey was the school matron.
"Could you just preform a charm on me? It's
easy, I've seen my mum do it a million times on Sirius when he fell of his
broom or ate Poison Ivy. Don't ask how, he just did cause Remus dared him to,
even though it was five times. He said it tasted nice, and he never remembered
which plant was which, even though we told him a million times. I've even
preformed it once, only I accidentally turned Sirius' hives purple. Don't ask
how I did that either,"
Lily rolled her eyes, annoyed.
"Why don't you get Sirius or Remus to do
it,"
"Remus is gone and would you trust
Sirius with a broken nose?"
"Good point,"
Lily looked up and down the corridor
cautiously and the beckoned him inside. Lily pushed James on the floor and
looked for her wand.
"Ouch! Watch it, injured person here,"
"Shut up Potter."
James looked around and wished the boys'
dorm was as clean as the girls. Well Potter, he thought, That's cause
you have Sirius as a roommate.
"Hey, where's that girl, you hang 'round
with. Wasser name, Auren," Lily looked up and scowled at him then continued
searching.
"It's Aura, and she's gone to visit
her mum," James vaguely remembered that that was Remus excuse but promptly
forgot when he saw Lily's backside.
That is one nice butt.
"There! I've found it!" Lily said
brandishing her wand. She turned around and saw James gazing at her backside.
She scowled.
"Calm your hormones for a minute Potter, and
tell me the spell so you can get lost,"
James grinned at her, and after a couple of
minutes of arguing, mistakes and green hair, James' nose was fixed.
"OK, Potter is that all? Cause now you can
go."
"Yep, oh by the way, umm…we would appreciate
it if you could umm…forget Sirius' little mishap, please?"
"Not likely. But I won't tell if you owe me
one,"
James groaned. At the mercy of Lily Evans?
But James thought of his dad and how angry he would be at another detention and
hastily agreed.
"Fine, I owe you one. Oh and one more
thing,"
"Yeah, get on with it,"
"My mum usually gives me a kiss after she
fixes me up," James said grinning in a very Sirius-like way. He regretted a
moment later as Lily slapped him, hard.
He's nose started
bleeding again.
***
For the first years, the first week of
school passed far too quickly. Other than a few mishaps and detentions for certain
people, the first years thoroughly enjoyed their time in Hogwarts. Lily for one
had a better time at Hogwarts than she ever had at home. She did pretty well in
all lessons so far, except for transfiguration, which she hadn't had yet, and
flying lessons, which she was going to have the next day. The new
transfiguration teacher was scheduled to arrive the evening during dinner.
Lily came into dinner tired and grumpy. She
had Potions with the Slytherins last lesson and was sick and tired of Malfoy's
constant taunting. Aura was back, but she must have caught something at her
mother's place because she was tired and looked sick, and they had fought. They
had made up grumpily of cause, but both were ready to kill the person who
talked to them. Even Sirius, James, Remus and they're new friend, Peter
Pettigrew, knew to leave them alone if they valued they life.
Dinner that night consisted of steak, mashed
potato, corn, peas, and a variety of other delicious dishes, which were being
flicked over to the Slytherin table. Lily and Aura ate silently, listening to
the raging storm outside, their eyelids drooping. Near the end of dinner, a
loud crash bought them back to reality.
At first everybody looked at the four
marauders, expecting a large mess. But in seeing their bewildered expressions,
their attention was diverted to the door.
The large wooden doors to the Great Hall had
crashed open to revel three hooded figures, who were soaking wet. The taller of
the two was in the middle with one person on each side. They paused for a
moment and then began to slowly walk up to the teachers' table.
"Well, they know how to make an entrance,"
Aura muttered under her breath.
They walked up until they reached the
teachers' table and then stopped and removed their hoods.
The tallest one, the one in the middle,
could only be the new transfiguration teacher. She was quite stern looking, and
her dark hair pulled back tightly into a bun. Although Lily could see that she
was quite young, she had a certain air of intimidation and was the type that
could silence even Sirius Black.
The second tallest figure removed his hood
to reveal dirty blonde hair and a sharp complexion. Lily heard the girls in the
hall sigh slightly and rolled her eyes. Here was someone else Narcissa
Draconic could batter her eyelashes at. Though even she had to admit, he
was quite handsome.
The third and shortest figure was definitely
his sister. She had the same dirty blonde hair, although it was slightly
lighter. She had a sharp, beautiful complexion that every boy in the hall
noticed. But her eyes were an astonishing blue unlike her brother's, which was
a rather dull brown. Just then she smiled, and her whole, pretty face lit up in
a cheeky grin. Her blue eyes twinkled and Lily was vaguely reminded of someone
she knew. She had no time to speculate however as Dumbledore spoke just then.
"Welcome! Students, I would like you to
welcome our new Transfiguration Professor, Professor M. McGonagall," The Hall
filled with astonished applause, and Dumbledore continued, "And it seems she
has brought our two new students with her. Could everybody please welcome Nick
and Natalie Kaydi," There was a surprised pause, and then the Great Hall filled
with an enthusiastic applause. Whispers filtered around the Hall, and people
glanced at the new students apprehensively.
"I didn't know old Kaydi had any relatives,"
Lily heard a surprised 7Th year whisper.
"Mr and Miss Kaydi have already been
sorted," Dumbledore continued, silencing the Hall. "Nick Kaydi will be in
Slytherin," There was a joyful applause from the Slytherin table, esp. from the
girls, "And Natalie Kaydi has been sorted into Gryffindor," There was louder
applause and wolf whistles from Sirius, James and Remus. Natalie looked at them
coldly for a moment –Lily marvelled at how lethal she looked like that- and
then grinned again and turned them into toads.
The Great Hall filled with laughter as they
popped back to normal then laughed with everybody else after a dazed moment.
But even though everybody laughed, they were all thinking the same thing, its
not often that two relatives are put in houses that are so different from each
other.
"Both Nick and Natalie will be in First
Year, and I trust you will make them welcome. That is all,"
Nick walked over to the Slytherin table and
sat with Malfoy and Snape, to Lily's disgust, and McGonagall took her place
beside Dumbledore and started to talk to him. Natalie walked down the table and
sat beside Lily. She turned around and gave Lily and Aura a cheeky grin.
"Hi,"
Few! *wipes brow* I spent two whole days doing that (that
sounded sad). Anywayz, sorry if I took long, I've got a French and P.E
Assignment due soon as well as a Maths test coming up and it's only the first
back week at school! Well anywayz, the third chapter will be up in a week or
two. Hope u enjoyed this!
tSuNaMi
P.S Vee, I know who you
are *nods wisely and looks around* I have 'special contacts' *wink, wink*
everywhere. And the reason Bigfoot isn't posting anything is cause she's dying
of an ear infection in hospital (*sigh* I wish. Ok, so I exaggerated a little)
=)
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