The Marauding Five : Year Five

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!!!