Noelle :
Severely injure me??? Nooooo!!!!!!!!! I don't want to go to the hospital just
yet! I mean, honest!!!! I don't wanna face any nurses or doctors! No, no, no!
*clings to a pillar* I just had two spiteful injections [*sob*] and I don't
wanna get anymore!!! You really have a big panda, which you call Mrs. Teddy?
Really? Wow, I didn't realize that. I must be psychic myself!!! [*Snickers to
self* the only time I'll turn Psychic is when I'm in my own world] anywayz,
*copies the phone number* I'll call those Dursleys when I have time. I'm packed
these days. I'm very eager to finish my other story [that Unogua board thing
*shudders*] and I plan to get it done as soon as possible; the faster the
better. And the balcony thing is fun when you're jealous of those below you ^_^
the girls were really freaked out! I guess I can only pray that none are
reading this [not that I know them] and save myself some face [*covers face*]
and no, Marauder's Map isn't finished yet.
Lori : I
haven't explained why Tally and Dan were fighting? And I thought no one even
bothered those parts! I planned to put them as my "humour" section, but I guess
no one shared my sense of humour, huh? I have everyone's sense of humour but
rarely people have mine :) I guess that's another reason of odd for me. And the
hotline's really really long this time! I'm fined for phone bills and am really
short of money now ^_^;;; and I don't hide away from my AOL list these days.
I'm just too lazy to double click the icon, wait for it and bla-bla-bla, get
it? Anywayz, one sentence: Talented never but idiotic yes. I like the
description I give myself. It's nicer ^_^
Milkyweed
: No, I didn't have Peter Pettigrew [d'you mind if I call him Pettigrew? I have
a sort of grudge against people who betray their friends] in this story, so he
just couldn't take the potion! And that means I've got to get a new line for
the Marauder's Map. Hmm… will the Super Duper Marauders sound okay?
lily girl : Nice quote! I like it!!
*claps hands* but I must say, if it were meant for me, it doesn't suit at all.
There's one thing I don't understand in that saying: why does the gift of
writing that one possess brings out curiousity? Imagination is very
understandable [I imagine during nearly half of my living days!] but why
curiousity? Hmm…
AVK : thank you sooo much for
reviewing! And trying the balcony
trick? That's worth loads of galleons [I think] and I'll sell that idea for…
five cents. Anyone up? :P nah! Who'd want it? Besides, anyone could think it
up!
JustMe : Yep! Newt Scamander
[now, I have a feeling that I'm beginning to like that name…] shouldn't know
everything! I don't know the Universe, either, or why do we study Science and
not Magic. That's something *nods*
Rachelle~Lily : *gasp* you EXPLODED????
I'm so sorry!!!!! Am so, so sorry!
New Name : Aaah! Thank you for
reminding me that! Yep, after the scene with vulture hat [*hides a grin*]
that'll come up soon enough!
George and Fred [or was it Fred and
George? Pardon me, please] : l/j? I think that will come up sometime soon…
probably on my birthday *grins* that's approximately two chapters or so later,
I think.
Oh! And thanks everyone,
for not killing me to bring the dragani in! Thousands of apologies ^_^;
Disclaimer: Q:If I eat the Baker's Cherry Cake and
McDonald's sundae cone, what will I get? A:Nothing. The food ain't yours and it never will be, 'cause ye never
paid for it. – Quote, me and one of my other self [can't place her yet. New
character, perhaps?]
The Marauding Five : Year Five
Chapter 4: Janet Morton
'So have they gotten back yet?' Adele asked,
sipping her Jell-O' Pumpkins.
'Well, by the way of things, I
say no,' Thomas replied. 'Tally and Dan are keeping by the line, nowadays. They
got together, break up, then back again, then break up. Not exactly anyone's
type of lover's spat, huh?'
'Since when have you turned into God of Love
Life?' Remus said sarcastically.
'Since your friends started calling you
Moony. What on earth is Moony?' Thomas asked. The boy had never been bright
before. Never even in his past life, is he have one. But surely one so
outrageously stupid could only have taken a form of a dead flobberworm as a
past life, right? Sirius voiced this out.
'Well, if I'm a flobberworm before, I
must've upgraded, then. Flobberworms can't talk and I can!' the boy replied.
'Say, can someone help me with this over
here?' Tally called from the other side of the room.
'What?' James asked.
'Er, Ancient Runes. Emily is having a sort
of honeymoon with Billy these few months,' Tally said.
'Nope, no can do. Say, speaking of
schoolwork, what happened to our DADA post? We hadn't had a teacher for weeks already!'
Remus said.
'I told you Moony should've signed up for
that job! Doncha think so, Tinker?' James said, leaning to Lily for her
opinion.
'Tinker?' Lily echoed.
'Tinkerbell's too long, missy.'
'Oh, okay,' Lily said decidedly. 'But he
wouldn't be able to study, then.'
'We can tutor him,' Sirius said.
'Seriously? You? Padfoot, you're pulling my
leg, aren't you?' Remus laughed. 'I mean, you could barely even help yourself!'
'Paddy-Puddy-Piddy-Poddy-Padfoot probably
needs to tuition himself first!' Adele howled.
'Shut up, Teddy! You watch out that I don't
curse you!' Sirius snapped.
'Class! ATTENTION!!!!!!!' a new voice yelled
sharply.
The Hogwarts fifth year students all jumped
in their seats in surprise. They dropped their decibels at once to mutter: 1)
Who yelled? 2) Is that person insane? 3) DADA classes are free lessons at the
moment… 4) Could it be one of the prefects? 5) Teachers or prefects don't yell
that way, unless it's Professor McGonagall. 6) This could not be any
teacher! 7) Where is that person who had just yelled?
'A very good morning I may wish to you,
children. Kindly be seated in your seats, please,' a small figure said from the
door.
A very small child walked in primly, at
least eight years old, with short shoulder-length chestnut brown hair and
grey-green eyes behind her large, round glasses which insisted on slipping down
her nose. Her robes were too big for her, too, the class noticed.
'Who're you?' Pastira Thore asked curiously.
'I'm so sorry I hadn't introduced myself to
you,' the girl said in her kiddy-voice. 'My name is Professor Janet Morton and
I'll be your DADA teacher from this term on.' Morton punctuated this with a
charming smile.
'Aren't you a little, um, too young?' Dan
asked.
'As a matter of fact, I'm twenty five,'
Morton said. 'And no drinking in class.' She took Adele's finished Jell-O'
Pumpkins and threw it into the wastepaper basket.
'You're… tiny,' Sirius said skeptically. The
class had a shock when Morton suddenly shot up to Sirius's height. Her large
glasses which made her look like an owl a while ago fitted her perfectly well
now, as did her over-sized robes. From the small eight-year-old figure, Morton
had suddenly grown into a mature-looking lady of twenty-five.
'You may notice, child, that I do NOT
tolerate any nonsense! And you may kindly eat your words again, for I am NOT
tiny,' Morton said in her thick British accent. She shrunk back to the kid-size
she was five minutes ago.
Sirius made a move to eat a little of the
air. He munched nothing for a few seconds and turned blankly to Morton. 'So
sorry, Madam, but I'm not full yet. Care if I spit more words and eat them all
up? Besides, I don't think you'll ever forget what I said, since you'll have
that "tiny" word engraved on your tombstone on the day you die.'
'We shall have a short get-to-know session
now,' Morton said curtly, trying her best to ignore Sirius.
'Hah!' Adele said.
'This young lady here can start first. State
your name, hobby, and favourite creature,' Morton said, beckoning Adele to
stand up.
'Um… My name is Ted- No!!! Adele Varens. Um,
I like, er – what do I like again, Tinker? – Oh dear! Learning about magical
creatures. Yep. And I like the, er, panda- no!!!!! I like werewolves! Argh!'
Adele said in frustration, sitting back down heavily. Somehow, she hated
talking to kids. Or children from age ten to below. They always give her the
hated phobia.
'Thank you. Your friend here, please? Yes,
the red headed girl.'
Lily stood up confidently, unlike Adele. She
had done this ton of times, so no big deal here. Only a slight change here and
there.
'Hi! My name is Adele Varens, and I love
getting detentions. Favourite creature? I guess everything but dogs will pass
for that,' Lily said easily. She sat down, and before Morton could even react
to this, James sprang up like a Jack-In-The-Box.
'My name is Remus Lupin and I like getting
detentions. Favourite creature crown goes to… dum dum dumm!!!!! Dragons!!!
Yepper!' James popped down and Sirius popped up.
'The name's James Potter. Love those little
slips – detentions, Madam – and I like dogs. Not. Hang on. I like this robot
cat in the muggle world called Doraemon, which will most probably come out in
the future in your newsprint. Never heard of it? Too bad. You ought to read
those muggle news more.' Down he go and up Remus went.
'Sirius Black, although I'm not seriously
all black. Skip that. Those detention slips might go a-okay and I like
Blast-Ended Skrewts because I can sneak them into one's robes and it'll blast
in there,' Remus said. As if to prove this, something loud went off in Morton's
robes and she pulled out a blasted Skrewt. As if not finished with its job, the
Skrewt blasted right in her face. The professor gaped blankly at the creature,
looking ready to murder it anytime then.
The next student, Dan Trevor and Thomas
MacMillan were laughing too hard at Morton's gaping (and black) face to
continue the line. Tally, however, stood up automatically and, sensing the
joke, played her part in it, too.
'I'm Lily Evans, like murdering some
flobberworms – Dan, for example. He's a flobberworm – and I like baby
unicorns.'
'I'm Tally Chapman,' Sita said. 'I enjoy
sleeping and my favourite creature is a pixie.'
And so it goes, on and on, leaving the new
professor gaping from one student to another. They gave her no chance of speech
in this little session. Even the Slytherins enjoyed themselves in this game, as
they all had fun giving their friend – or enemy's – names to the bewildered
looking teacher. When the round was completed, Morton grinned at them before
bursting into complete gales of laughter.
'I bet all of you are all lying about your
names!!!' Morton giggled. 'I expected that I should come to my very first class
with hardworking students that had no fun in them!!! Anyway, our first friend
here didn't lie, did you, Miss Varens?'
'Well, really! Why shouldn't we have some
fun? I mean, look! Even those sour Slytherins are grinning at this moment!'
Tally said happily. Sure enough, the Slytherins were grinning at this little
joke.
'Thanks to whom? Me!!! Us!!!' Lily said
grandly.
'You're all pretty smart, I guess,' Morton
said, just as the bell rang. 'Alright! Chop, chop! Write an essay on yourself
and hand it to me by Monday! You, Adele Varens number two, please see me in my
office, along with your group, thank you.'
'This had to be the best class ever!' Sita
exclaimed.
'Yeah! But she was rather cold at first,'
Nina said.
'She was great!' Pertsy argued.
'And write an essay on ourselves for
homework? Easiest one ever!' Tally said.
'Well, I'm planning to write all lies. Why
tell her about myself? It'll be better send her that biography of Endo the Ear
I did for History of Magic,' Lily said boringly. 'I'll just change a couple of
things and I'll send that in.'
The girls stared at Lily as if she'd gone
nuts.
'What??? Don't stare! It's rude!' Adele cut,
noticing her admired Lily feeling annoyed.
'Come to think of it, we might do that,'
James said. 'What do you say Moony? Padfoot? Teddy?'
'We're in!' they chorused.
'Tal!!!' Dan called, running towards them.
'What? I hate you, so stay away from me!'
Tally said in irritance.
'Here's something,' Adele said, handing Tally
a wet sponge. She threw it in Dan's direction, causing another day with Miss
Wailing Maiden.
**
'Hello?' Lily said, peeking into the DADA
office. Professor Morton was sitting at the table – no, let's rephrase that.
She's sitting on the table – and she smiled when she saw the Marauders
at the door.
'Come in, come in! Now, Adele Varens number
two, is your name Lily?' Morton asked sweetly.
'No, I'm Adele Varens number two,' Lily
replied sarcastically.
'Really, is it Lily Evans?' Morton said.
'Yeah. Big deal. What's with it?'
'Question two: Are you a pure Psychic?'
'How did you know?' Lily asked slowly, quite
taken aback at this.
'Are you?' Morton demanded.
'Y…es.' Was it Lily's imagination when she
heard the girl murmuring 'Perfect'?
'What is your sister's name?'
'Petunia,' Lily said cautiously. She don't
feel like revealing to this lady the fact that Petunia has been adopted.
Morton's eyes widen.
'Why? Unless you are her sister, I
doubt you call us here,' James said flatly, clearly bored.
'Why, I am Lily's elder sister! I just met
mother a week ago, and she told me I had a younger sister ten years younger
than me in Hogwarts!' Morton said. 'I was Janet Garnet Evans once, but I'm now
married.'
'But- But how?' Lily asked. A sister
ten years older! That is impossible!!!
'I ran away from home a year or two before
you were born. I was about nine, at that time.
'That young?!' Sirius gaped. He was still
playing without care with his friends when he was nine.
'Yep. I lived with our aunt Kasty. I
received a letter at Hogwarts and blablabla and blablabla and end of story.
It's just too boring,' Morton sighed.
'So… it means we're your some sorta
step-siblings?' Remus asked, indicating the rest of the group. 'I mean, we're
Lily's sort-of brothers and sister, she's ours…'
'Guess so. I'm here on an important mission,
though,' Morton shrugged.
'What?' Adele asked curiously. Being the
pure black mage she is, she had to be really careful when it comes to new
friends. Especially those who can turn small and big whenever they want to.
'Something about training two of your
company their dormant skills.'
'Two? Do we HAVE any other skills????'
'Yes, why not?'
'Okay, I'm out. I'd mastered Psychic, Black
Magic and White Magic. If there's any other – though I think not, because that
is way too much for me – it'll be sure to be done in a hurry cause I'm awful
fast,' Lily said.
'Me done,' Adele said.
'Ditto,' James said.
'Same,' Remus echoed.
'Ditto again,' Sirius agreed.
'Well, it's the boys, I expect. I was told
that Lord Voldemort wants you. His intentions on having Lily and Adele were
clear enough, as they are, respectively, pure Psychic and Black Mage,' Morton
said. 'Now to sort you boys…'
'James understands animal language and
Sirius can talk to them. Remus is a werewolf,' Adele provided. 'Oh, and Sirius
is Potions Master, too.'
'Let's see…' Morton said, circling the three
boys, inspecting them carefully. 'I propose Remus as my first choice and James
as my second. It is very clear that Potions is one of the most important
knowledge in Dark Arts, as is animal talk. Sirius is ruled out.'
'So… what do we do?' James asked.
'See me in my room – here – every second
Saturday. I'm a Red and Blue Mage myself, so I'm bound to dig something out of
you,' Morton said. Remus shivered. He don't quite like the sound of it.
'You are? So my family consists of Magicians
and Psychics?? Wow!!' Lily gaped in awe.
'If I have to burst your bubble, Tinker, I
have to,' Adele said.
'Fine, Teddy. But Janet, how'd you turn so…
tiny?' Lily asked, surveying her newfound sister curiously.
'Oh, it's just one of the Arts of Blue
Magic. You can ask James here to do it for you. Once he'd completed his
trainings,' Morton said. 'And don't call me tiny.'
'Prongs, we're counting on you!' Sirius
said.
'I'm already work loaded when work hasn't
even been loaded? How very insensible,' James mused.
'Then what am I?' Remus asked curiously.
'You're a Red Mage, Remus. That's your name,
right?' Morton said.
'Yeah, what does a Red and Blue Mage do?
Anything cool?'
'I don't think so. Both have basically the
same meaning. It's more to defensive than offensive, I think. Black Magic is
offensive. White is defensive. It's usually those holy type, those White, so I
can't understand how Lily got it – uh! Why she got it – since he has that
devilish look in her at some times,' Morton said. 'Psychic is both offense and
defense and everything else it could possibly be. Looks like Lily got the most
of it out of all of us.'
'Yep. The world is so very unfair,' Adele
sighed.
'She certainly inherited everything from
mother. Talk about genes!' Morton said.
'It's not my fault!' Lily retorted in
defense.
'I advise you to not bring yourself to the
Ministry. They'll drink your blood, eat your flesh and all.'
'That's what we told her,' the remaining
four chorused, beaming.
'You guys are no fun!' Lily pouted. 'I'm
planning to be an Unspeakable!'
'You told me last time that you want to be
in the Magical Creature Department,' Adele said in amusement.
'Well I changed my mind!!! I found out that
the Cerberus is some sort of a dog and I do NOT want to mix with any dogs any
more!' Lily yelled. 'Except Padfoot,' she added after a thought.
**
'Did you hear that Professor Kettleburn took
a leave until Christmas? He went to the states to get his arm fixed!'
'Yeah, that Hippogriff sure was hard on
him.'
'Heard who his replacement was?'
'Who hasn't? Professor Morton, of course!'
Such were the rumours that had gone round
the school like wild fire. And with Morton being really successful with her
students, her replacement on Kettleburn's absence was greatly received. Lily,
in finding her biological sister, took it on herself to visit her every evening
and insisted that Morton teach her everything she knew about all the subjects.
But Morton isn't one of those child geniuses
like James or Lily, so she had problems narrating her studies. However, the
interesting stories Morton told was a perfect liking.
'So, Cecilia got detention?' Lily asked
attentively.
'Yep! Boy, you should've seen Aunt Anne's
face!' Morton laughed.
'Anne? Remus's mother?'
'Yeah Cecilia's Remus's sister.'
'Gee, we don't know…'
'She died some time before Remus was born.
About a few months before. It was a pure shock!'
'How did you know? I mean, you were away!'
'I hear news, y'know. Aunt Kasty isn't that
bad,' Morton said.
'She seems to dislike me. Or so mother
said,' Lily said. 'Are you Psychic, Janet?'
'Nope. Wish I am,' her sister sighed.
'I tell you what! I'll make you one!' Lily
said happily.
'What use is that? I want to be pure
Psychic.'
'Dad's one, Petunia's one, I'm one, the
Potters are, the Lupins, the Blacks… don't you wanna at least read minds?' Lily
implored.
'Thanks, but no thanks. Here, it's getting
late now. Why not you run along?' Morton said.
'I am NOT a kid! And say, who's your
husband? My brother-in-law? Did mom know? Did dad know?'
'Lily, get back to your house this instance!
I'll take points from you if you don't!' Morton cried, shooting up to her full
height.
'Aye, sis! Roger, sis! At once, sis!' Lily
yelped, scampering off. There was something about Janet Morton which seems
dangerous when provoked. And Lily don't feel like knowing what it is.
Lily sighed. And the fact that Morton
tolerate no nonsense from anyone means that she couldn't play much pranks on
her sister, which is something bad. It's always fun to see someone jump in
fright at the unexpected outbursts and pranks the Marauders pull.
The girl grinned to herself as the truth
struck her. What is she afraid of? She isn't any common Marauder for
nothing! She have Magic and Psychic and every power possibly imagined to back
her up! And some animals, too, though James and Sirius might have to lend her
their abilities. And Lily could guarantee that this will most definitely work,
being a highly skilled Seer she is. Divination was and always will be a piece
of cake to her. You cut a piece and swallow it in a bite. Just like that.
**
'Alright, now pour in the scorpion stings
into your cauldron!' Halley called, once the time span of ten minutes have gone
by. The fifth-years gingerly do so, careful to not miss even a single of the
tiny pin.
'You still hadn't told us what this is,
professor,' Rollent of Ravenclaw said.
'Oh, I hadn't? Well, this is called the
Unknown Potion. Never brew this on your own, as you might not be sure of
what its results will be. No one knows its cause, because rarely people get the
last few parts right. If you do, I daresay, you may sign yourself for the new
teacher here,' Halley said, chuckling a little. 'Has the colour turned
lavender? Good. Now—'
'Um, mine went blue,' Lily said timidly,
staring at her cauldron, which is filled of blue liquid.
'How on earth that happened?' James
whispered in amazement. 'I was supervising you all the time!'
'Well I think it's the opposite. It's blue!'
Lily exclaimed.
'Ssh! Snape is here!' James hissed.
'It's not my fault! Let him! I can't brew this
anymore, with my ingredients all finished,' Lily said irritably. 'Have you any
extra?'
'No. Send home for refills, then!'
'Easy for you to say. Petunia hasn't even
got a blue where Diagon Alley is, and she's the only one at home now,' Lily
said bitterly.
'Talk about inconvenience of time,' James
said understandingly.
'Evans! What happened?' Halley exclaimed in
surprise, seeing Lily's blue potion.
'It sorta busted at the last minute, when I
pour in those stings.'
'I did recall saying thirty stings. Did you
overdose it?'
'Er… oops?' Lily suggested.
'Detention, Evans. And please redo your
potion and hand it over to me by next Saturday,' Halley sighed. 'You're getting
hopeless these days.'
From her seat at the front, Lily could see
Snape's self-righteous smirk. She bit her lip to refrain herself from saying a
spell and clenched her fingers to stop herself from sending daggers in the
middle of the class. Besides, Snape could probably do with a couple of rusting
kitchen knives or more when she really loses her temper.
'Yes,' Lily said to Halley, still biting her
lip.
'Whoa, cool it! Cool it!' James said, when
she sat back down.
'Maybe you can do me a nice favour, Prongs.
Use your blue magic,' Lily implored.
'Nah!! Besides, someone took revenge for you
already!'
'Who's the wonderful wonderful person?'
'Adele. Snape's fire must be really boiling
by now. I estimate at least 100, 000°c on that burner. The cauldron should turn
into ash any minute now. It couldn't stand being too hot.'
AN: aaah!!
Finally, I finished this! It seems like forever, don't you think? Yeppers.
Sorry this took so long, but I just couldn't make up my mind how Janet Morton
should turn into. It was torture for me to decide on her appearance [yes, my
lame brain FINALLY got the hold of the fact that there's still no DADA teacher]
and I chose her to look like Miss Hideka [or Hidaka, whatever – can't bother
remembering…] from Ranma ½ since I ran out of good descriptions. Besides, I'm
pretty sure this gives everyone new ideas, right…? Or maybe not. As I was
saying, the other remaining time [or days or weeks] was used up with my
projects, piano examinations, injections [ow!!!!! Two!!!! *wails*] and loads
others. Like deciding Professor Morton's role in this fifth year [which reasons
will come in some time later]. Aren't I very very lame??? *sob* I'm so sorry
for taking so long!
If anyone can guess why else I'm posting and
working s…l…o…w…l…y… [besides school work and projects], you're really really
smart and can read my mind very well, and probably even my feelings when I
wrote this! [*clears throat* it's REAL!!! I know someone who can!!!!]. Ja! ^_^
Review, please!!! Please please please!!!
