Hello, here's the third chapter of my
story, I hope you like it.
Special thanks to Angelbabe who was so
kind to read beta!!!
And thank you: Goofball, Ginger, And
Anoor and others who read this.
After a few days Miranda was fully recovered and back from the infirmary. She was her old self, now she was back with her friends. Only couldn't she
remember she had fallen down the stairs and how it happened, but Madam Pomfrey had assured her that it wasn't unusual and that a lot of people
had that after an accident.
Remus, James, Sirius and Peter weren't as happy.
'I can't believe it, of all the punishments, she gives us this,' complained James when he and his friends sat in a corner of the common room. Sirius and James were playing chess and Remus was doing his homework with Peter.
'Yes, I expected a lot from her, but this!' agreed Sirius, while he watched James make his move with suspicion.
'Oh c'mon stop complaining, you have to accept it,' said Remus without looking up of his parchment.
'Accept it! Accept It! Never! I'll go. I don't care how, but I'll go!' said Sirius stubbornly.
'Yeah, I think about it the same way, but how,' murmured James.
'I don't know and I don't want to know,' muttered Peter and he peeked what Remus had written down.
'Why not?' asked James.
'Because every time, you think of something, it ends with trouble and we have detention and I hate that, so this time I think I pass.'
'Most of the times we get in trouble because of you,' said Sirius.
'That is not true, this time was your fault.'
'My fault! It wasn't only my fault! The only thing I did was trying to be nice to you! But do you appreciate that? No you asked me to let you go!'
'Yeah, you weren't being nice to me! You tried to kill me. I couldn't breathe!'
'Hmpff, You just can't……Hey, that's not fair!' said Sirius when he saw that his best friend had tried to cheat.
'What isn't fair? Asked James with an innocent face while he held Sirius' queen in the air.
'You picked my queen, but it was still my turn.'
'It wasn't.'
'It was.'
*
'Why can't they never play a game of chess, without yelling so loud,' sighed Lily.
She and Miranda were sitting at the other end of the common room, but they could hear the two boy's bickering.
'Because they have nothing better to do with their life, than annoy others, that's why,' said Miranda without looking to the boys.
Lily glanced to the corner where the four boys were sitting.
'Potter and Black are the worst ones, they are always yelling and they walk away with their own ego,' growled Lily.
'Yeh and Pettigrew is such a coward, I still wonder why he's friends with them.'
The two boys began to yell louder and a lot of people found this very
disturbing.
'Hey can't you shut up, we are trying to work,' yelled a seventh year.
But the boy's weren't paying attention to him and only yelled harder.
'I can't stand this any longer,' said Miranda irritably.
'What are you going to do about it?' asked Lily.
'I think there's only one solution,' said Miranda and she walked to the table where the four boys were sitting. They were so busy with themselves that they didn't see her coming.
'That's enough,' yelled Miranda and she grabbed the chessboard from the table.
Chess pieces flew everywhere. One knocked Peter against his head.
Another flew into the fireplace and one came in Sirius' robe and stuck there.
The four boys were too bewildered to say anything, but Sirius recovered quickly.
'Hey Shawcross, if you want me undressed you could have asked it,' he grinned trying to get the chess piece away from under his robes.
'Oh shut up, you idiot,' she snapped.
'Why can't you ever do something in silence, you two are always yelling and shouting and annoying everyone!' she continued.
The three other boys were watching the discussion with amusement.
'We weren't yelling! We were just discussing something,' said Sirius while he raised his robe to get the chess-piece.
'Can't you get that down,' asked Miranda and she pulled a face.
'Nope, it's your own fault, without you this piece wouldn't be under my robe now,' and he raised his robe now so high that she could see his boxer shorts.
'What's wrong Shawcross? Don't you like Sirius undies?' asked James.
'I think she wants that I put them out, but that's out of question,' said Sirius with a grin.
'I don't want you to… oh why am I defending myself? Please put you're robes down or I'll throw up.' And after these words she stomped back to Lily, who was watching the whole scene with raised eyebrows.
'Great Miranda, you stopped the yelling, but instead of that you caused a strip scene from Sirius Black, I can't think of something more disgusting!'
'Oh shut up, at least I tried, you can't say that.'.
'You aren't going to tell me you really thought that they would stop yelling, when you did this?' asked Lily with a voice full of disbelief.
Miranda shrugged.
'What are you doing if I may ask you?' she said.
'Oh nothing, I'm writing a letter to my parents, they were asking if I'm coming home for Christmas, but I don't know. I like to see my parents, but I'm not looking forward to see Petunia .What are you doing this Christmas?'
'Um, I'm staying here. My father said that it would be better if I stayed here, he thinks that it's too dangerous for me to come home. You know with his work.'
'Maybe you can come home with me, that's more fun for me and for you.'
'Yeah that's a great idea, than can I finally meet the infamous Petunia,' grinned Miranda.
'I'll write it immediately in my letter, you ask your dad if he thinks it's a good idea,' said Lily.
'Yeah, I'll do that tonight and in the meantime I'll think of a good joke to play on Patina… Petunia,' said Miranda with an evil grin.
*
Days flew by and Saturday came, the day of their Hogsmeade trip. The students in the Gryffindor common room who were permitted to go to Hogsmeade were extremely noisy.
Not all of them were permitted. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter weren't allowed to go. McGonagall thought that not allowing them to go was the best punishment she could gave them, but she was wrong. The four boys had found another way to go. Naturally Peter was against the plan, but after some persuading from the other three he gave in.
They sat in the common room, while the rest of the students prepared themselves to go.
'Hey Potter, aren't you going to Hogsmeade?' asked a brown haired sixth year prefect.
'No, I'm afraid not,' lied James.
'Oh, that's too bad for you,' said the boy. 'What have you done?'
'Oh nothing terrible this time, McGonagall just loves to punish innocent children,' he said with a grin.
'Oh I see. She does, does she?' asked a stern voice.
James spun around with a shocked face, his friends had trouble stifling their laughs.
'Oh, you know that I don't mean that don't you Minnie?' he said.
'Minnie?'
'Um I mean Professor.'
James saw that she wasn't mad and there was a hint of a smile on her lips.
'You and your friends are to stay in the castle, understand?'
'Yes Professor.'
'All right,' she said and she walked to the portrait hole and took care that only the people who were allowed left the common room.
*
'Where are we going first?' Miranda asked her friends. When they walked in Hogsmeade
'I want to go to Zonko's joke shop first, I wonder what new jokes they have this time ,' said Lily with a grin.
'That's a good idea, what do you want to do?' asked Miranda her three other friends.
'I don't care where we're going to,' said Frank.
'Joke shop is fine with me, but after that I want to go to the three broomsticks,' said Steven. 'What do you want,' he asked Gwen.
She shrugged and said nothing.
Lily glanced at her and she wondered what she was thinking, Gwen was different than Miranda and her. Gwen was a real girl, always busy with make
up and other stuff. Lily and Miranda were different, they didn't like make up and weren't trying to impress the boys.
'Hey Lil,' said Miranda and she gave Lily a punch in her stomach.
'What's wrong?' she asked.
'Frank and I had a discussion and now was I wondering if you know the answer because we definitely aren't coming to it.'
'Do you know the answer?' asked Frank curious.
'Um, maybe when I know what the question is?'
Frank and Miranda glanced to each other.
'Well, what's the question?'
'Um, never mind forget it,' said Miranda.
'But..'
'Forget it.'
'But I..'
'Forget it Lil, it doesn't matter any more.'
Lily raised her eyebrows and sighted, sometimes she couldn't follow Miranda, she was so confusing. It started raining.
'Oh No, I hate rain,' sighted Gwen. 'Let's go to the three broomsticks please, because it ruins my hair.' And she walked straight to the three broomsticks.
'But we were going to Zonko's,' protested Miranda.
'I know, but you know how she's, 'said Steven and he went after Gwen.
'Oh No, I hate rain,' Miranda imitated Gwen's voice. 'Sometimes I wonder why I'm friends with her.'
'Shut up, Miranda and c'mon, I don't like a wet suit,' said Frank and he grabbed Miranda by her arm and dragged her into the three broomsticks.
*
'Auhh,' yelled Peter when he knocked his head in the little tunnel to Honeydukes.
'Shh,' said Sirius and Remus at the same time.
'But it hurts.'
'Lumos,' muttered James and walked over to Peter who was rubbing his head.
'What happened?' he asked.
'I knocked my head on the something here, I don't know what, is it bleeding?
James brought his wand by Peter's head, but saw nothing except that it was a bit red, but that wasn't weird after how Peter had rubbed it. He shook his
head and they walked further into the tunnel.
'I think it's time that you and Peter transform,' said James after a while to Sirius. 'Remus and I'll hide ourselves under the cloak.'
'All right, Peter and I will go first, and we'll see you two in a few minutes,' said Sirius and he transformed in a black dog, while Peter transformed into a rat.
They leaped away into the cellar of Honeydukes.
James and Remus followed them under James invisibility cloak.
James smiled when he saw his best friend walk away in his dog form. Sirius had been his best friend since their first day at school. He trusted him more
than anyone. Remus and Peter were good friends too, but Sirius was different. James knew that he would do anything for his friend, sometimes this scared
him, because he knew Sirius felt the same way. With Sirius he could laugh and play jokes on others, Remus was different. He could talk with Remus, especially when he had something that worried him. James glanced to Remus who walked beside him. Remus was a very sensitive guy, he had respect for everyone and was nice to everyone, that was something what Sirius hadn't. Sirius didn't treat everyone with respect and being nice to another was sometimes very difficult for him.
Sirius was that sort of guy, who goes out with a girl and the next day he had a different one, but when Remus went out with a girl, most of the time he
stayed with her for a while.
Sometimes James felt pity for Remus. He was always afraid that someone would discover that he was a werewolf. He must always make something up, why he
was away once in the month, not that everyone asked, but when they did he always became nervous, worried if someone wouldn't believe him. When he had
find Miranda's essay about werewolves, he was frightened for days that she had found out about him.
But after a while his friends had convinced him that she couldn't know it and he realised that it wasn't very obvious, because his closest friends had found out after 3 years. So was it possible that she had found out? James doubted it, although he couldn't say with certainty that she hadn't, there was always a possibility.
James was so sunken in thoughts that he hadn't seen that they had entered Honeydukes.
Every time that he entered this store, he was always amazed about how much candy they had, they had things you never thought existed.
Remus and he made their way through Honeydukes very carefully, it was so busy that he must search to see where Sirius and Peter were. And suddenly he
saw them, Sirius couldn't resist the candy and he had his big dog head in a tray with candy while Peter sat on his back.
'I hope that isn't giving any trouble,' whispered Remus to James.
'I think this could be very funny, look.' And he pointed to the shopkeeper who saw Sirius. James saw that the man first was to bewildered to do
something, but after a while he decided that he didn't like dogs in his store and he grabbed the black dog in his neck and threw him out of the store.
'Always the same with those strays,' the man muttered and walked back inside.
When James and Remus came outside they saw a big black dog lying on the pavement on a tiny rat, both were whimpering with pain.
James and Remus had trouble not to laugh, because it was very funny to see.
The only thing he could see of Peter was his nose, he was squeaking, but Sirius wasn't making a hurry to stand up. He just lay there in the rain.
'C'mon Sirius stand up,' Remus whispered to the dog. 'James and I are soaking wet and we'd like to go to the three broomsticks for shelter and maybe something to drink.'
The dog looked insulted, as if he wanted to say, Hey I almost broke my neck but the only thing you two can think of is about something to drink?
'Sirius it was your own fault, you should have know that that man would react that way, what did you expect?' said James and he patted the big dog on his back.
Sirius grunted and trudged after his two friends who were heading to the three broomsticks.
*
'Who're you going to the ball with?' asked Gwen her friends when they sat at a table near the fireplace, all with a goblet of butterbeer.
'I don't know, and when I'm honest, I'm not looking forward to it,' said Lily heavily.
'And you Frank?' asked Miranda with a mischievous grin.
'Um, well,…I am..going..um,' and he went red.
'What're you saying? I can't hear you,' said Steven.
'I am going with Isabelle,' he said in a whisper.
'WITH WHO,' yelled Miranda. 'Oh, No this is too funny!'
'You're going with Isabelle? I'm sorry don't get me wrong, but she's your SISTER!' said Lily bewildered.
'So what's your point?' said Frank exasperatedly.
'What is my Point, C'mon Frank don't be stupid, you can't go with your sister to the ball!'
'I know, but I felt sorry for her, she was extremely upset that she couldn'tfind someone to the ball with and than she asked me, and I couldn't say no, I just couldn't,' said Frank.
'Oh, you're so sweet,' said Miranda and she gave him a pat on his back. 'But we'll find someone for her and than can you go with Nora!'
'I don't wanna go with Nora!' said Frank indignantly.
'Oh Liar, last time you said that you would die to go with her,' said Steven.
'No I said that I would rather die than go with her.'
'What's wrong with Nora?' asked Gwen.
'What's wrong, you can better ask what isn't wrong with Nora!' said Frank.
'WOOF.'
'What was that?' asked Gwen.
'I don't know, probably Steven, he always barks,' said Miranda.
'I don't….'
'Woof.'
'Oh look, it's a dog,' said Lily and she pointed to the black dog who sat near Miranda's chair drying in front of the fireplace.
'Oh poor thing, he's soaking wet,' said Gwen with a melt voice.
'Who's could he be, I mean it isn't a stray, look how fat he's,' said Miranda and at this words the dog looked insulted.
'He isn't fat he's just big boned,' Gwen defended the dog.
'If he's fat then am I Dumbledore,' grinned Steven.
'All right he isn't fat,' said Miranda with a broad grin.
Steven pulled a face.
'Oh he's sweet,' said Gwen when she saw how the dog had laid his head in Miranda's lap.
'Sweet? I think heavy is a better name for him,' sighted Miranda and she tried to push the dog away, but he wouldn't let her he stayed where he was.
'AAARGHHH!!! HELP ME!!!,' screamed Gwen suddenly, climbing on a chair and staring horrified at something on the ground. Every one bolted up in
their chairs and even the dog looked startled.
'What's wrong,' asked Lily.
'The… The…There,' gasped Gwen and pointed to the ground.
'I see nothing,' said Frank who looked where she pointed to.
'It was a rat,' shrieked Gwen loudly, when the other people in the pub
heard that there was a rat they started screaming or yelling that rats were filthy and that when there was one there were more. Madam Rosetta assured
them that she had never seen a rat before in her pub and that it was probably a joke from a kid.
'I see him,' growled a beefy man, he ducked under the table and tried to grab the rat, but the rat was too fast and shot under the bar.
'Damn,' swore the man and than turned to Madam Rosmerta and asked her questions if she had seen a rat earlier, and that maybe it's best that they smoke the little rat out from the under the bar, before he propagated.
'C'mon time to go,' decided Miranda when she heard all this and saw that the dog had drunk from her butterbeer. The dog was already standing next to the man and was growling.
She walked to the beefy man and told him that catching a little rat wasn't the way to show your manhood. The man was to bewildered to say something,
Madam Rosmerta began to giggle and the dog stopped growling and looked surprised.
And after that she stalked out of the store her blond her flying behind her, and her friends on her heels.
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