The Marauding Five : Year Five

I STRIKE BACK!!!!! J

ally : Oh, I have an imagination that is really really pictional, too :P it was so violently real that I half thought what I imagine was standing right in front of me! My parents just told me I was getting a lil' too weird already… and don't think highly of me. You'll regret it very much, I'm sure! And yes, I do have the copies of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages but I like making up things to build my own world!!! Maybe the creatures extinct before Newt Scamander found them, or maybe he hasn't found them yet. There's a million possibilities so I'm keeping my creatures the way they are!!! And nope, you're not my teacher. My teacher's Voldemort in disguise of some tigress lady. If you don't believe me, you can come to my school to see and it's in Malaysia.

Noelle : thanks for the congratulation!!! No one said that to me *sob* lolz, I feel like I'm getting really really close to the end of this series! Fourth year was half, and Fifth year is something like ¾ already! Considering there's two more years, I think it's getting shorter before I can buzz off J hmm… animagi forms… I dunno ^^ I'll leave that for everyone to guess at the end of this chapter! and the next chapter would be the most awaited one [like anyone would want to *rolls eyes*]. Too bad for you. I won't be seeing my Science teacher [aka Voldemort-in-Disguise] pretty soon after my holidays [now!!! hurray!!!] because I'm off for a school trip! Anyone has any idea what happened to the number? They ought to just stick to one, y'know… maybe we can lodge our complains to Harry Potter Extraordinare! Hehe, that'll save time! I'll be killing Voldemort in Seventh Year, alright *nods enthusiastically* and we'll all see his death!!!!!! Hurray! Long live me!!! :P I don't kill him… alright, long live whoever who kills him and my Science teacher!!!!!!!!!!

Lori : Not long???? NOT LONG?????? Is that an insult??? Alright, then. I'll take a very very very very very very very long one to annoy you!!!!! Actually, no. I had troubles And what twist there is? I don't recall twisting anything… as if my memory isn't bad enough when you wanted me to answer something to it! Oh, bravo! You guessed it! No L/J YET! Nope. I am deciding a very good part for it, which will only come out in Year Six!!!! :Þ lol, I hadn't even finished half of this and I'm already planning the next one J and in my place, galleons is referred to water amount [gallons or something similar, I recall] and dreams? Well… there's this really funny one, but I'm not giving it out because I plan to use it as one of the subject for my later chapters J next chapter, perhaps, or maybe the one after. Or I might just put the complete idea into a brand new story! I've got tons of dreams but they gave me inspirations to my stories, so I won't share it with you :P sorry. You won't mind, would you?

Sovia : *blink blink* turn Voldemort into Rottie? Oh my, I've never even thought of that before! Voldemort seems more sophisticated than being some silly, low-down professor, right? But he MIGHT disguise as one to avoid suspicions J and no, James is NOT Lily's brother [James Evans? *falls over with laughter*] but they were really close. And the boys think that they're Lily's elder siblings, since they were: 1) Boys. I get that many a time. 2) Older. This, I get many a time, too. 3) They think they're smarter. No, I invent this one. 4) Their experience in life is more than hers [Talk about egos!] and 5) they thought it'll be fun to have a pretence-sister like Lily and Adele and them brothers.

Lily's friend*Jess : nope, sorry to disappoint you but I'm not the best writer on ff.net ^_^; I'd dearly love to be one, but I can't because my only source of living [namely my life] is eating me out by being really terrible in every manner possible. My sub-conciousness really bothers me!

Lightning Starz : speaking of sugar, I just remembered that I shouldn't eat sugar just now J I was about to get myself a few bars of chocolates when I read you review and remembered that I'm not allowed on sugar, since it put me off my hyperness ^^ thanks!!! I go on Pointless High [never heard of it? Aww…] but it goes down when I eat sugar. So I can't eat any sugar if I want my Pointless High high. A very important fact if you want to write loads of pointless things.

Disclaimer: Is this something to eat or am I just plain stupid today?

The Marauding Five : Year Five

Chapter 2: Am I A Marauder?

When the Marauders went on the Hogwarts Express, gossips were all around. James was busy polishing his new prefect badge ('Dumbledore is nuts!!!! I should be the prefect! And how could Lily turn to one, too???' Sirius groaned, but in a good nature) when the Ravenclaw Gossip Gang burst into their compartment.

'Have you heard it?' Rollent Ballastic asked eagerly.

'Huh?' Adele said.

'Ooh! They hadn't!' Genevieve Fowler said, practically jumping in her socks.

'Heard what? You died?' Lily said.

'No! The dark lord!' Pastira Thore said, dramatically rolling her eyes.

'Voldemort? What now?' Remus asked boringly.

'The giants have joined them!' Ballastic cried.

'That? It came out in new a month ago, for goodness's sake!' Sirius said. He was expecting something better. Like Voldemort had finally decided to turn good and donate to the charities.

'But – ah! He is now recruiting new Death Eaters!' Thore said intelligently. The five snorted in reply.

'He's been recruiting ever since he'd started!' James said, rolling his eyes. 'Where were you the past four years?'

'No, no! He's recruiting!!!! Er… who's he recruiting again? Pastilla?' Fowler called for Thore's sister. A young girl, aged about 11, nervously put her head into the compartment.

'We're not eating anyone,' Lily said, seeing the frightened look in the girl's face.

'Get in, Pastilla!' Thore called. The girl shook her head and pointed a shaky finger at the Marauders. She gulped.

'What? You want our signatures?' James said.

'That can be fixed,' Sirius grinned, pulling out a quill. 'Here, where'd you like it? On your hand? On your face? Or maybe you prefer it all over your ears?'

'N- no!!! It's zem! Ze Zark Lort iz recluting zem!!!' Pastilla Thore said nervously. The three Ravenclaws backed off instantly.

'No we aren't Death Eaters! And yes, we know he's after our heads, so chill it!' Adele said in annoyance.

'W-When?' Fowler stammered.

'Oh, last term. Goodness knows why,' Remus said uncaringly.

'Er… maybe we'd better leave now,' Ballastic said slowly.

'Hey, c'mon! It's not like you don't know us!' James chided.

'Yeah! We'd known each other since our first year!' Lily said.

'Er… we'd better get going. Um… bye?' Pastira Thore suggested. Without another word, the trio rushed out of the compartment.

'Why do people believe that?' Lily asked in dismay.

'Yeah. It's not like we did anything bad to them,' Sirius said dully. He gave the matter a thought. 'No, we played a couple of harmless pranks, so that's still nothing!'

'Nothing? We bombed Slytherin Common Room, and you call that NOTHING?' Adele nearly screeched.

'Er… yeah, why not?'

'If THAT is nothing, you tell me what's SOMETHING!!!'

'Something is when we finally turn the castle upside down where its towers will be our ground and when we paint the whole castle with Voldemort's picture saying "Peace!"' Remus said. Adele groaned.

'Hey, we still have company!' James said, indicating the girl outside the door. 'Why didn't you run off?'

'She wants your signature,' Sirius said bluntly.

'N-no. I dun tink you ar' zat bad,' Pastilla said, slowly allowing herself to come in.

'We aren't, really, and the jokes we pull are very harmless,' Lily said, shooting Adele a warning look.

'Unless you're from Slytherin,' James grinned. 'You don't look a day over eleven, though.'

'No. I am in ze first year,' Pastilla said. 'My name is Pastilla Thore.'

'Understandable,' Sirius nodded, staring at her. Pastilla moved nervously to Lily and Adele. This Sirius boy looked dangerous.

'What house are you going to be put in to?' Lily asked. 'Or which house d'you want to be in?'

'I dunno. I 'ave been tinking about ze Gryffinzor or ze Hufflefuff,' Pastilla said eagerly.

'Gryffindor or Hufflepuff,' Sirius corrected.

'Wish you'd get those, then,' Remus grinned.

'Yes. Vot 'ouse are you?'

'Gryffindor. It's already in out blood,' Sirius said smugly.

'It muzt be fun, iz it not, in 'Ogwartz?' Pastilla asked eagerly.

'Fun? It's screaming! You won't believe how insane I was when I came here last year,' Adele grinned.

'Vot iz your name? I never knew,' Pastilla said.

'You could tell we're the ones Voldemort wants,' James said.

'Zat iz becauz you ar' in ze papers in France. Zey never say your names,' the young girl said.

'Am Lily Evans,' Lily said.

'James Potter.'

'Sirius Black.'

'Remus Lupin.'

'Adele Varens.'

Pastilla looked at Adele eagerly. 'Ar' you French?'

'Nope. Just the name. You don't sound French to me,' Adele said, annoyed again at getting this mix-up with her French-sounding name.

'I've bin living in France wif my cousins until tis year,' Pastilla replied.

'Oh.'

'Want some butterbeer? Gram packed us some!' Lily said, cheerfully producing six bottles of Butterbeer from her huge trunk.

'No wonder it was so heavy!!!' James exclaimed. His mother had forced him to carry Lily's trunk as "manners for ladies" because Lily is supposed to be his future fiancee, whether he like it or not. His parents thought he should learn how to get started first.

'Ve ar' not allowed to,' Pastilla said.

'C'mon! This is better than waiting for that tea-witch,' Remus said.

'She'll never trespass our compartments,' James grinned.

'Why not?' Pastilla asked, draining some of the butterbeer.

'Because we sorta bomb her, the ast time she came,' Sirius said. 'We pack our own food now. Pancakes, anyone?'

'I'll go!' Adele said, grabbing a pancake from Sirius. 'Yech!!! Every Flavour Beans in disguise!!!'

'What flavour did you get?' Lily asked curiously.

'Bogey! Yuck, yuck, yuck!'

'Here's something, Pastilla. Never ever take anything from Sirius, however saintly his smile is,' James said.

**

'The sorting will now begin!' McGonagall called.

She shot a warning look at the Marauders, especially Lily, who smiled sweetly in return. Ever since they wrecked the Sorting Ceremony in their second year with their terrible song, McGonagall had always taken extra care and caution. Especially when all the Marauders were present. You just wouldn't know what will happen, because whatever they will do is very unpredictable.

'I hate it when she keeps glaring at us!' Sirius winced, jumping nervously in his seat.

'Well, we'd done a lot already, so it's her subconciousness that tells her that we must be watched at all times,' Lily said logically. James stared at her in surprise. Was this really the Lily he had grown up with? The others seemed to have the same lines running in her head, because Remus said:

'Lily, are you okay?'

'Yeah, why? I'm not coming down with a fever, am I?'

'Er, no, but you seem a little, uh, how should I put this? Odd…' Sirius said slowly.

'Nah! You're worrying too much!' Lily said breezily.

'Maybe, cause I don't see any difference in her,' Adele said, rolling her eyes at the boys. 'You're all just imagining too much!'

'Maybe,' James said, shrugging.

'Thore, Pastilla!' McGonagall called.

'Gryffindor! Gryffindor! You will goto Gryffindor!' Remus chanted. James turned to Remus, and caught a faint red light around Remus. He let out a gasped and grabbed Lily, who is nearest to him.

'What?' Lily asked in irritance, paying full concentration to the sorting of Pastilla Thore. James mouthed blankly at her at first.

'Look at Remus!' he said, once he found his voice again.

Lily turned to look, as James had instructed. She dropped the goblet she was holding. It fell with a tinkle clang, just as the hat yelled out 'Gryffindor!' Pastilla hurried over eagerly towards the waving Marauders and sandwiched herself between Lily and James, who were still gasping in shock.

'Vot ar' you two staring at?' Pastilla asked quizzically, following her gaze to Remus. He looked pretty normal to her. Lily and James snapped back.

'Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. Congratulations!!!' James said, shaking the girl's small hand.

'Thore, Pattempt!' McGonagall called.

'Zat iz my twin brother,' Pastilla beamed proudly, feeling smug because she was probably the only one in her form who has a twin.

'Gryffindor!' yelled the old hat.

'Pattempt!!!! I am 'ere!' Pastilla called, jumping onto the table to catch her brother's attention. Her table wasn't really a table, though. Sirius had bent over to pick up a lost galleon and Pastilla, in her excitement, never noticed the boy.

However, Sirius's backbones felt the weight it had to support above it and sent the message to the brain. Sirius got up immediately, yelling at the same time, as Pastilla toppled over, caught by the alert Remus. Pattempt ran over hurriedly.

'Hullo!' Pattempt grinned. 'Vot ar' you doing, Pastilla?'

'I fall over. I vos talking to zem in ze train juz now. Zis iz Lily, Adele, James, Lemuz and Zirius,' Pastilla said. The Marauders gave the cheeky-faced brother a little wave and Pattempt grinned even broadly.

'It's See-rius!' Sirius said in annoyance.

'Hello Sivioz,' Pattempt said, nodding to Sirius. 'An' Lily and Jamez and Lemuz and Adele.'

Sirius glared with fire in the eyes.

'I'm DEFINITELY giving them pronounciation lesson!' Sirius vowed. 'Sivioz… indeed! Hah!!! I'll tell you who's Sivioz!!!!'

And if possible, smoke flew out of his ears and flares under his nostrils. The group watched in amusement and McGonagall, who was done with the Sorting, seriously considered throwing her cold glass of pumpkin juice over the positively burning boy.

'It's not their fault,' Lily said.

'Ve vere zis way for very long,' Pattempt said. 'I mean, after ve start ze English talking tozay.'

'You just started? Today? No wonder!' Adele said, digging greedily into a huge pudding.

'Aren't you eating?' Remus asked, wolfing down some caramel rice. The twins stared before them in amazement, at the filled golden plates. When had food come?

**

'OWLs…' Tally moaned mournfuly, studying her pile of thick books in front of her. She looked at the pile as thick as a tree trunk and groaned when she saw her Astronomy chart.

'Hey, don't get too worked up! Relax!' Lily said soothingly, reading a comic.

'You, girl, are too relaxed,' Adele muttered.

'Well this is what I call life!' Lily exclaimed.

'No…' Tally groaned. 'Venus is the evening star. True or false?'

'False,' Adele replied at once.

'Are you sure?'

'Er… no. remus is best at these.'

'Forget it. I'm not asking any boys anything,' Tally said bitterly.

'Why? Oh, let me guess. You and Dan. Again,' Adele said intelligently. Just before last year's ball, Tally and Dan had a "Lover's Spat" – as Remus called it – because Dan isn't bringing Tally to the ball and got her jealous over a Hufflepuff bimbo.

'Yes!' Tally snapped, making the all the girls jump. 'He had gone practically ga-ga for that idiot Hufflepuff now, I daresay!'

'… Okay. Lily, why don't you make a love potion so that Tally could use it on— Lily? Where is she?' Adele said, looking at Lily's empty bed.

'She's rubbish at Potions, she says,' Tally muttered.

'No, where's Lily?' Adele said.

'In the name of all my four years of knowing her, I implore that she wouldn't be back until tomorrow morning,' Sita said, punctuating this by biting her chocolate biscuit.

'Why? You mean, she sneaks off just like that?' Adele asked in amazement. 'Everytime?'

'Always. I wonder where she went, though,' Nina said thoughtfully.

'I wouldn't blame her, if it's to get away from you. With you two's too-girlish-ways, it's enough to scare anyone to death,' Pertsy said reasonably, indicating Nina and Tally.

'W-what? Too girlish ways?' Tally echoed, frowning deeply at this insulting comment.

'Yep! You wouldn't believe that, huh Pertsy?' Sita nodded. Adele nodded in amusement.

'They go for shoppings,' Pertsy said.

'Spend loads,' Sita muttered.

'They admired in mirrors…'

'Yelped when they lost a single strand of hair…'

'Went ignorant because their nail broke…'

'And blablabla…'

'That's almost like me!' Adele cried.

'Well we don't know you that well,' Sita said slowly.

'You were always with those pranksters,' Nina said.

'They're not pranksters!' Adele snapped. 'Not as much as you're some idiot-flirter anyway!'

'Well…'

'How do you know them in the first place? And why did you stuck with them as soon as you come? You're missing loads of friends,' Pertsy said.

'I have nice friends,' Adele said hotly. These girls aren't really fun to talk to, without Lily to add a couple of sarcastic comments, or Sirius to taunt them, or Remus to reason them, or James to turn them beetle. But they gave her something to think about.

Why was she in the Marauders?

Because of the past. That's reason number one. This, of course, don't exactly apply to Lily, James, Remus and Sirius. They knew each other ever since they were toddlers. Because they're nice friends to have, too, besides these persuading girls. That's reason two. Because they were all wanted by Voldemort. As was the saying, United we stand, Divided we fall. And that's reason three.

But those reasons weren't strong enough though. The Marauders were known as a tight group of very good friends.

'Hah!!! Can't answer us, eh?' Nina taunted.

'No!' Adele said in annoyance. She then added in a tone that Lily usually used to freak people out, 'The boys are coming.'

'What?'

'The boys are coming,' she said mysteriously, blanking her face. It was great fun, doing that.

'How would you know?' Tally challenged.

'Uh, my ears?' Adele said. The loud footsteps stomped into the room and three lanky figures cast their long shadows menacingly at the girls. The middle one held out a long, thin sword at the girls evilly.

'Argh! This costume's too hot!' Remus yelled in exasperation, running behind the center figure. The sword holder lowered his sword, turned to Remus, and pulled off his mask.

'Remus! I thought you were-' James glanced at his right. Sirius pulled off his capes and masks, revealing who he was.

'I'm here,' he said. James turned to his left, where the mystery person stood. James looked around the girls's dorm. Upon seeing the four trembling girls and Adele, he rolled his eyes upwards and slumped his shoulders.

'It's just Lily. Lily, off with the diguise,' James sighed. The figure too off his mask to reveal…

'Dan Trevor! What in the name of Merlin are you doing here?' Tally blurted, when she saw her ex-boyfriend.

'Well, I thought I'd come here to see you…' Da said slowly.

'Then- Then where's Lily?' Sirius asked in surprise, looking around the rom.

'She was here and when we turned to her she was gone,' Adele said in one breath.

'Huh?'

'She was here, but after a couple of minutes, she went off,' Adele said, slowly.

'Where did she go?' Remus asked.

'Dunno. No note.'

'You're suppose to take care of her! Goodness knows, she might be somewhere getting a detention without us!' Sirius scolded. Adele shrinked a little.

'Adele, check out the Hideout,' James ordered.

'Er… check out the what?'

'Our Hideout. You know,' Sirius said impatiently. He turned to James. 'Kitchens for me, kay Jimmy?'

'What do you mean our hideout? What hideout?' Adele asked blankly.

'Lily gave you the new password, right?' Remus asked. James was busy telling off Sirius about food in the background.

'What?' Adele said. James stopped lecturing Sirius and stared at Adele oddly.

'Adele, do you consider yourself a Marauder? Now?' he asked. Quietly and seriously. Adele gulped a little before giving it some thoughts.

'Er… I guess not, after some um, detouring?' Adele said timidly. 'Why?'

'Why? WHY??? Because, young lady, you have violated law number 146 of the Hogwarts Marauders!!!!' Sirius yelled suddenly, frightening everyone in the room.

'They have rules?' Tally whispered. 'I didn't know that.'

'SHUT UP!' the boys snapped at her.

'W- what have I done?' Adele trembled shakily.

'Look, Lily placed a spell on us. No, sorry. Trenna did so last time,' James said, his voice narrowing dangerously as did his eyes at Adele. 'Should any of us violate the law, we'll be punished. The law-breaker will be punished.'

'Trenna?' Adele said weakly.

'Yes. And for pity's sake, get dressed! We can't talk with these nosey spectators here, can we?' Remus sighed in exasperation.

Adele fumbled for her wand and dressed herself hurriedly: the Evans's way, where just a flick of wand with have you fully-clothed, along with your hat, too.

Without another word uttered, the three boys grabbed Adele and dragged her out of the room. Sirius pulled Lily's Invisibility Cloak from her drawer and they marched Adele out of the dorm, arm-in-arm. Adele gave them a little wave before surrendering to the fate James the Head had for her.

'What?' Dan said blankly, Tally in his arms.

'No idea,' Tally shrugged, reaching to kiss Dan.

'Gross! Get a room, would you?' Sita complained.

**

'Where're you taking me to?' asked the horrified Adele. The four were stalking in the shadows under Lily's silver Invisibility Cloak.

'The Hideout. Wherelse, idiot?' Remus hissed just as they stopped in front of the mirror.

'Brad, Chore, Green, Pepper, Trenna,' James whispered, tapping the mirror with his wand. The square mirror swung invitingly to the cosy round room the Marauders had been hiding in ever since their very first year, when they found it. Sirius sat Adele on the chair grimly.

'Look Adele, what makes you think you aren't with us? And the truth, please,' James said, standing before her so that she would be too scared to get up and run off. The look of terror on her face which clearly suggested that she's afraid of James made the other boys grin teasingly, whispering to themselves 'Scaredy cat, catch your rat, call your ownself a pussy cat!'

'W- well, the girls asked me why I was an instant Marauder and…'

'Lily could bear them for the past few years. Why not you?' Sirius asked inquisitely.

'A- and I thought it's just because of our past, you took me in, so…'

'You worked your way in, idiot! Who said you were an instant?' Remus said in annoyance.

'So – huh? I did?' Adele said blankly, looking up at him. 'But I didn't so a single thing!'

'You did, idiot. All of us did, in fact. What do you expect? Instant membership?' Sirius said sarcastically.

'Well it seemed like that to me…'

'Boy, we'll have the whole school at our feet if that's the case!!' Remus laughed.

'We all did, Adele. And yes, part of it is also to our past, but that only strengthen our bonds, not start them,' James said patiently. He decided using the words like Sirius and Remus – for example, idiot – would be quite harsh on this delicate soul.

Quite true to his thoughts. Adele let out a little sob.

'Thanks. For a wild moment, I thought I was only a cast away,' Adele sniffed. They snorted.

'When are you not in our activities?' Remus asked.

'Uh… that's a point.'

Suddenly, the mirror swung open. The four teenagers jumped up in surprise and turned towards the mirror to stare at its retreating back. A red head with green eyes suddenly peeked into the little room. The face broke into a broad grin and the young girl jumped into the room.

'Warkh!' James yelped, when Lily landed on him. She had taken quite a leap and hadn't bothered to calculate her distance of flight.

'Oops!' Lily apologized in dismay, getting up. 'Say Adele, where were you? And where's my cloak? I swear, if any of you lost it, you'll be paying a great deal…'

'Where were you?' Adele asked, wiping off the stray tears that had dried up.

'Oh, Lotus brought me something interesting from home,' Lily grinned, waving a piece of white paper in her hand.

'What?' Remus asked.

'Petunia's letter, which is of course, her first one to me besides those sarcasticly ridiculous notes,' Lily said in amusement.

'Don't keep up in suspense! Read it!' Sirius said. Lily glanced sourly at him and toss the letter in his direction, telling him plainly that she's no servant or slave of his. The Marauders crowded over the unusual letter Petunia Evans decided to send. It read:

Dear Lily,

How's school, sister dear? I do hope you are fine, as with James, Sirius, Remus and Adele. Mom and Dad sends their regards, as did darling Vernon.

Vernon didn't seem to remember even a slight thing about your encounter with him, the day you made him fly off your window. It was as if someone had put a – what was it again? – a charm of some sort, I think. It's hard, trying to learn magic terms. Is learning magic even harder than that?

You seem to have left your pet hamster at home with those flower patches on her fur. What's her name? Mom says it's Castria. Is it true? What does she eat anyway? And, as a fact, do hamsters have flower patches on their fur?

Just the day you left, mom offered to make me into something called a Psychic. I sure hope that's a joke, sister dear, because I don't know if my brain will be altered. You know how careless mom can be.

I hope this reaches you beautifully. Please write back.

Your loving elder sister,

Petunia

P.S. Something happened to me last night. I felt a little warmth just after I sleep. What do you reckon?- P.E. (no, NOT Physical Education!)

'That is… interesting,' James said slowly, when he finished reading the letter.

'She actually called you her sister? That is first,' Remus mused in amusement.

'Well, no Howlers for her this term, then,' Lily shrugged. 'What really possessed her to write such a- such a- such a weird letter???'

'Oh! I think I know,' Adele giggled softly. 'On Lily's birthday, I told her that she isn't fit to be your sister – or ANYONE's sister! – especially Lily's. I mean, Adeline isn't that bad!'

'Maybe we should've met you earlier. We were tortured by her in all means before we discover that we're wizards,' Sirius said. Just then, Adele remembered something.

'Wait. I am not in one of your activity. I'm not becoming an Animagus.'

AN: trust me, I KNOW this is awfully short, but I guess you're better off this way than those really long chapters which requires you more than an hour long for reading J I seem to have obsession with twins here, don't I? Adele has a twin, the Thore kids are twins, my other story [Harry Potter and the Golden Unicorn] has another set of twins. I'm going crazy with them!!!! I'd like a twin, but I'd lived for fifteen years without one… too bad. Anywayz, I might be doing animagi next chapter ^^ just thought I'd have something in this part to start it. And since I couldn't find a decent line, I thought I'd just have everything mixed and chopped :P

And don't blame me for having this out late. My modem got strucked by lightning, I got nagged at for not pulling off the stupid plug and bla and bla and bla. You can well imagine the nightmare I've been through [hmm… not like I hadn't been on a number, but this is a LIVING nightmare!!!] but the best part is when I open my emails and found that a whole load of nice people reviewed for me!!!!! *beams happily* thank you sooo much!!!!!

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