The Fifth Marauder Part 9
Karen was bored. All of the other Gryffindor girls went home for the holidays.
It's only been a day since the dance, and her heart was still fluttering. She looked around the empty room.
"This is really boring. I wonder if the guys are up yet." She grabbed her bathroom and crossed the common room to the boys dorm.
"Rise and shine sleepyheads."
"Karen! It's six am. Let us sleep/" James moaned pulling the covers up over his head.
"Darn. I knew my watch must have been broken."
"Go back to sleep." Frank yawned, rolling over.
"Alright." Karen headed to the door.
"No wait. I have an idea." James whispered, grabbing a hold of Karen's elbow. He started to whisper some stuff into her ear.
She grinned as James told the others the plan.
Sirius yawned and rolled over. His hand hit something. He opened his eyes and saw Karen.
"Morning Padfoot. Are you a little exhausted from what we did last night?"
"What? Do you mean the dance?" Karen giggled.
"No I mean what we did after the dance."
"What did we do?"
"You don't remember? Well someone spiked the punch, and we got a little drunk, and afterwards we you know. And that's why I'm here
now." Sirius looked horrified.
"You mean, we..."
"Yeah, and you're pretty good too."
"We... We... We..." Karen burst out laughing.
"You are so gullible. We didn't do anything last night. I only came up her because my watch broke. And James came up with this half
brained plan to make you think we had sex." The other guys were laughing. James and Remus fell off their beds because they were laughing so hard.
"It's not funny." Sirius pouted, but starting laughing himself.
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The guys kicked Karen out of their dorm to get dressed, she was now waiting in the common room for them.
"Knowing them they are in the invisibility cloak, and about to sit on me." She said out loud.
"No. We were going to tickle you."
"Shut up Peter!" Came three other voices.
"I could see your feet. You really need to check that." Karen pulled the cloak off of them.
"Could've told us that."
"I could've, but I didn't. Bet you can't find me." Karen put on the cloak and disappeared.
"You forgot we have the Marauders Map."
"No you don't." The map was floating in midair, and disappeared.
"We're never going to find her." James said. He looked back at Sirius and started to laugh. Sirius looked like he was kissing someone,
but no one was there.
"Practicing, Padfoot?" Then the hood of the cloak fell down, revealing Karen's head.
"That's freaky. Please take the cloak off before I lose my dinner."
"Alright."
"What are we going to do?"
"Destroy the Slytherin common room?"
"Skinny dip in the Prefect bathroom?" Sirius suggested, getting 3 smacks in the back of the head, Peter couldn't reach.
"I'll have to go with James idea." Karen said pulling the map out.
"I think my idea is pretty good."
"I think Dog boy's hormones are getting the best of him."
"There are people in the Scum Common room. What are we going to do now?"
"My idea." Sirius got smacked again.
"Homework?" Remus said. Karen covered Sirius' ears.
"Don't say that in front of him, he has delicate ears."
"Hey! Are you talking about me?" Karen removed her hands.
"No. Well I'm going to go visit someone." Karen grabbed a present off of the table.
"Who's that for?"
"Myrtle." Karen left through the portrait hole.
"Dogboy, I think your girlfriend is nutters."
"My name is not Dogboy."
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"Myrtle? Are you in here?"
"Yes. It's been awhile since you've visited." She sniffed, from the last stall.
"I know, I'm sorry. My mom was killed by the Voldemort guy."
"Oh I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I got you a Christmas present."
"Me?"
"Yeah, here." Karen put the box down on the counter and un-wrapped it for her.
"What is it?"
"A magical music box. All you have to do is say play, and it plays." The music box started up. It was a golden box with two figures
dancing on top.
"It's beautiful."
"I knew you would like it. I have to go. Those boys are lost without me."
"How do I make it stop?" The music box stopped at once. "That answered my question."
"Bye Myrtle." Karen left the bathroom, and went in search of the boys. Someone grabbed her from behind, and covered her mouth so she couldn't
scream. The person picked her up and took her to an empty classroom. When they let go of her she was about to punch them, but took notice of who it was.
"Sirius why the hell did you scare me like that? I thought another Death Eater was coming after me."
"Sorry. I didn't think you'd come if I asked you to come."
"Why did you want me here anyway?"
"Does this answer your question?" Sirius pulled her close to him and kissed her. He put his hands on her back, as she put her arms around his neck.
(this next part is written by another author, by the s/n *Death**Flower* not me. She writes Gundam Wing.)
Karen ran her fingers through his hair. They passionately kissed several times. His hands explored her back.
Sirius' tongue slipped into her mouth.
They kept like this until a knock came to the door. Karen straighten her shirt as Sirius flattened down his hair.
Dumbledore walked into the room.
"I thought I heard a crash in here." His eyes fell upon the fallen chair.
"Oh, that." Karen blushed. "I told Sirius a joke and he fell off of it, and is too lazy to turn it up right."
"Alright. Oh and Ms. Darkes, you may want to wear a turtle neck this week." Dumbledore smiled and left the room.
"At least he knocked." Sirius grinned, kissing Karen again.
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"So Hawkins, Padfoot. I heard your make out session got cut short by Dumbledore."
"Where did you hear that?" Karen asked playing with the neck of her turtle shirt.
"We bumped into Dumbledore, in the hall, and asked him if he knew where you guys were. He got that twinkle in his
eyes and said you were having fun in an empty classroom." Karen and Sirius turned red and didn't face the other
Marauders who were cracking up. The few other people who were staying for Christmas sat down at the table, given queer looks at the four.
"Merry Christmas Eve." Dumbledore said, sitting down. He looked at Karen and Sirius.
"Did all of you have fun today?" He asked.
"I bet they did." James laughed pointing to the couple. He got kicked under the table. McGonagall gave the three Gryffindors,
one laughing, two giving the other death glares. Karen avoided eye contact with everyone, and kept having to smack Sirius, who kept putting
his hand on her leg, under the table.
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The Marauders were in the secret common room. James and Remus were fixing the map, adding new passages, and a new special feature. They now had it
so that their codenames say stuff when the password isn't said, and if someone tries enough times, Hawkins would come up and the writing would clear. Sirius was checking
out the detention slips taped to the wall. Karen was in the lead, then James and Sirius were tied(since they didn't do anything without the other), and Remus was in last.
Peter never kept his detention slips(what a pity). Sirius looked around, and noticed Karen looking at the mirror.
"What do you see?"
"Oh, I'm not looking in it. I'm taking in the finer details of it. Nice code. But I would think a person like you could've thought of something better than it just being backwards."
"I did that so inferior minds to ours could figure it out."
"I see you added an animal touch to it." She pointed down to the clawed feet.
"Yeah. So did you like your Christmas present?"
"You must really like mirrors." Sirius gave her a mirror that shows anything the holder wants to see.
"Do you like yours?" She gave him A Guide to Pranks for Dummies.
"Yeah, but I really don't need it."
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"You know Matt, we need to add some spirit to the Quidditch matches." Sirius said, as Quidditch practice finished,
and they were in the Gryffindor common room.
"What? Isn't all the cheering fans, dressed in red enough?"
"Nope, we need cheerleaders!"
"If you can get girls to do that, you're welcomed to it."
"Alright." Sirius pulled a piece of parchment out of his robes and pinned it on the bulletin. Everyone was back
from holidays now. "Attention, I'd like you all to appoint your eyes to the bulletin."
Wanted: Cheerleaders
Must be: Gryffindor Quidditch Fan
Sign up: With the Quidditch Team
Try-outs are this Saturday.
!Go Team!
Sirius struggled his way out of the crowd and went over to the table that the other Marauders were doing
homework on. They were in all of the same classes, except Divitation and Arithmacy. Karen and Remus took Arithmacy, when
the others took Divitation, with Professor Fibi Vartenhugen. Vartenhugen, the students called her Fibi(which is alot easier to say) was a hippie freak.
Her room was filled with burning incenses, and lots and lots of beads. She would levitate during classes, and never came down to the
Great Hall. Back to the subject, while the other Marauders wanted to be in all of the other classes, Karen did not see the point of taking Muggle
Studies, since she was already a muggle- born, so they bullied, begged, and bugged until she would agree. She never agreed, so they added it to her
list while she wasn't looking. Professor Kettleburn, a short man, who couldn't handle most of the creatures, taught Care of Magical Creatures, which was their
last extra class. In one of the lessons, the hippogriffs got out of their pen, he got mad and started calling them stupid. He lost his hand, and got a long scar
that goes down his arm.
"You know, I should've took Divitation with you guys. That Lockhart guy is so annoying." Karen said throwing
her quill down on the table.
"You mean the new Hufflepuff seeker?"
"Yeah, he thinks he's so great at everything. When we had free time in class, he told me he would give me
some private lessons on flying, and would give me a makeover too." Sirius started to laugh.
"Isn't he the one that fell off of his broom because he discovered he had a split end?"
"Yeah. I'll just tell you one thing, he no longer had a perfect smile. Oh I have another detention to put upon the wall."
She pulled the paper out of her book. "You guys are falling behind."
"We know, we are never going to catch up if you don't stop getting detentions. Poor
Remus he only has had 5 in the whole six years we've been here."
"I'm happy only to have 5 thank you very much."
"Oh I just remembered, I left my cloak down on the Quidditch hoop." Karen said looking
out the window, noticing the cloak swaying in the wind.
"Want us to come with you?"
"You don't have to."
"Here, you can borrow my cloak."
"Thanks Sirius." She went out the portrait hole and went down to the grounds.
After getting her cloak she went to the broom shed to put her broom back. She felt like
someone was following her, but no one was around. She started up the steps as someone
stunned her and tied her up.
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"I think someone doesn't like her very much."
"I know. First someone puts the Cruictus curse on her, kills her mother and best friend,
and now she gets stunned and tied up. Good thing Hagrid heard the splash and found her in the lake." Karen opened her
eyes a bit to see who was talking. It was McGonagall and Pomfrey.
"Albus is frantic, he cannot figure out who is doing this to her. He knows You- Know- Who killed
those people, but he can't get onto the grounds. He thinks it's one of the students." McGonagall informed,
looking down at the ground and shaking her head.
"I hope not, if it is everyone is in danger. But why are they coming after her and not Potter or Black?"
"There are rumors that You- Know- Who is a seer. He must of seen Darkes becoming someone powerful, and
might be the downfall of him, so he wants to get rid of her." Sirius, Remus, and James rushed into the room,
followed slowly by Peter.
"Just saw Hagrid." "Told us what happened." "Is she alright?" They all said quickly, while catching their breath,
Peter stood silently in the back.
"Yes, I think she's awake now." McGonagall left.
"You have five minutes to talk." Pomfrey went into her office.
"Did you see who did this to you?"
"No. I'm getting freaked out." Karen told them what she heard the teachers talking about.
"I think people just don't like you." Peter finally spoke, but got glared at by Karen.
"I think it's Voldemort." Peter flinched. "Who else would take the risk of being caught by Dumbledore?"
"Your time is up. You can talk to her later."
Final exams were approaching and was making everyone have nervous break downs. Lily was stressing
out so bad that she put silence charms on some of the first years. Sirius, Remus, Karen, and James were shooting
curses at anyone who bugged them, mostly girls wanting to become cheerleaders.
"You know, we should go in our common room to study. It's too noisy in here."
"Good idea Remus. Should I get Lily?" James asked, closing up his books.
"Yeah, some of those first years are getting sick of her."
"Okay. Hey Lily, come over here."
"What? I'm studying."
"Want to go somewhere peaceful?"
"James, this is not a time to make out." Sirius snorted.
"No not that." James' face was getting red. "We have a special place to go study. Come on." James grabbed her hand and pulled
her out of the common room, with the others following.
" James are you sure you aren't going to make out with Lily? Because we don't want our common room
to be disgraced by that."
"Shut up Sirius, I've seen you and Karen make out in there millions of times." Now it was Sirius'
turn to blush. Karen pressed the brick and the common room appeared.
"Welcome to the Marauder common room, compliments of Hawkins, Padfoot, Prongs,
Moony, and Wormtail.
"Who are they?"
"Us, remember we became Animagus to help Moony with his transformations."
"Oh yeah. We should get studying."
"Yeah, wouldn't want to have a little fun now would we."
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It was the Cheerleader tryouts. Sirius, James, and Remus were in the stadium at the Quidditch pitch.
There were about thirty Gryffindor girls trying out.
"How many are we keeping?" Remus asked.
"Fifteen." James said. He picked up a flat stone, and transformed it into a clipboard.
Sirius and Remus did the same.
"Where's Wormtail?"
"Um, I think he had to study or something." Karen said, jumping off her broom to where the others were.
"Why are you here?" Sirius asked.
"Making sure you three don't drown in your own drool." Karen said as she took the clipboard from Sirius.
"And to see Gina fall off the top of the pyramid." They started to laugh. Sirius called the name of the 5th year girl with long gold hair.
"Lena Maxwell." Lena obviously took gymnastics before she became a witch. She did four flips, a hand spring and landed in a split.
"Wow." Was all the Marauders could say. When the girls were making pyramids(there was two of them) Peter came flying on his broom,
and flew into them making them all fall. Gina was in fact on the top. Karen was on the ground, laughing so hard tears were streaming down her face.
Inside the Marauder common room, the 5 were trying to decide who was in.
"Lena is defiantly in." Sirius said. "She was absolutely, no doubt about it totally the best." The others nodded in agreement. Finally they finished
the list, and posted it in the Gryffindor common room. They could barely get out of the mob of girls. The list read
Lena Maxwell- Captain
Gina Centinni - Co-Captian
Kimberly Johnson
Lily Arnold
Dorthory Oz
Erica Lively
Peter Pettigrew (Karen did that as a prank)
Brittany Lopes
Maggie Tompson
Mandy Smith
Laura Moore
Sally Bones
Christina Night
Alexia Degreet
Summer April
Autumn Baeshore
"Hey my picture developed." Karen said, as she pulled it out of her pocket. It showed Gina falling off the top
of the pyramid. Karen left as the guys recovered from laughter, and went up to the girls dorm. As she passed open doors, she heard crying, and congratulating.
Karen thought to herself, "Another day at Hogwarts, that the Marauders are responsible for." She walked into the 6th years dorm, to be greeted by a screaming Gina.
"Why did you have that 5th year as captain and not me!"
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"This is the last Quidditch match of the year. The Quidditch Final. To see who will win the cup, this year, Slytherin and Gryffindor are going head to head.
Here they come, Gryffindor has won the cup for 6 years running, let's see if they can make it 7." The whistle blew and they all kicked off the ground.
The game was off to a good start. Gryffindor scored 10 goals before Slytherin scored one.
"Karen sees the snitch. Nope just letting off a little tension. The golden Snitch still hasn't been spotted. The score is 120 Gryffindor to 20 Slytherin.
Potter has the Quaffle, and scores another," The announcer yawned, "goal. Someone just get the Snitch already before we all fall asleep.
Finally, Lucius and Karen are diving now! They are heading straight for Madame Hooch. Karen pulls up and grabs the Snitch, and Malfoy crashes into the stands. The
cheerleaders for the Gryffindor team are screaming their heads off. Oh wait, Gina just broke a nail.
That's a day at Hogwarts for you."
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"The Marauders, plus Lily, were resting by the lake. They just finished the exams, and
would get the results next week.
"One more Hogsmeade day, before the year is up. What should we do?"
"Clean out Honeydukes and Zonkos."
"Buy three gallons of butterbeer."
"Everything, and anything."
"We should celebrate. No one's tried killing me lately." Karen laughed, throwing a rock
into the lake.
"Oh don't be so sure." Peter muttered.
"What did you say Wormtail?"
"I said, I'm not so sure about passing Transfiguration. I'm just thinking over the tests." Karen gave Peter a questioning look.
"Yet another year over at Hogwarts."
"Just one to go."
"I'm going to miss this place."
"Any bets on who Head Girl and Head Boy are?" Karen asked.
"Lily for Head Girl."
"Ditto."
"Snape or James as Head Boy."
"Not James, I think you need a clean record for Head Boy."
"And his is anything but clean." After many games of chess, and Exploding snap, and eating half of their candy stash,
The Hogwarts Express pulled into Platform 9 ¾.
"Have fun over the summer!" James yelled to the others. HE went off with his parents.
"Bye Karen," Sirius kissed her. "Be sure to keep your owl healthy, he'll
have alot of flying to do." He and Remus went off, too. Peter was no where to be seen.
"Hi Mr. Arnold. Have you seen my dad?"
"No, he wasn't home yet when I left."
"He probably had to work a little bit late."
"Your dad has been pretty depressed lately since your mom died."
"Oh." Karen couldn't think of anything else to say.
They waited for a while, seeing if Karen's dad would show up.
"We better get going. Karen, do you want to come with us?"
"No Thank you. I'll stay here, to see if Dad will come." Lily and her dad
left. Karen was standing in an empty train station. Only two other people
were around, the guard, and the person who sell the tickets.
"If he ever comes."
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That's it folks. I have most of Part 10 typed up, but it may take me awhile
to get it up. I'll try for next weekend. Thank you to those who reviewed,
you can review this one too! :o)
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Karen was bored. All of the other Gryffindor girls went home for the holidays.
It's only been a day since the dance, and her heart was still fluttering. She looked around the empty room.
"This is really boring. I wonder if the guys are up yet." She grabbed her bathroom and crossed the common room to the boys dorm.
"Rise and shine sleepyheads."
"Karen! It's six am. Let us sleep/" James moaned pulling the covers up over his head.
"Darn. I knew my watch must have been broken."
"Go back to sleep." Frank yawned, rolling over.
"Alright." Karen headed to the door.
"No wait. I have an idea." James whispered, grabbing a hold of Karen's elbow. He started to whisper some stuff into her ear.
She grinned as James told the others the plan.
Sirius yawned and rolled over. His hand hit something. He opened his eyes and saw Karen.
"Morning Padfoot. Are you a little exhausted from what we did last night?"
"What? Do you mean the dance?" Karen giggled.
"No I mean what we did after the dance."
"What did we do?"
"You don't remember? Well someone spiked the punch, and we got a little drunk, and afterwards we you know. And that's why I'm here
now." Sirius looked horrified.
"You mean, we..."
"Yeah, and you're pretty good too."
"We... We... We..." Karen burst out laughing.
"You are so gullible. We didn't do anything last night. I only came up her because my watch broke. And James came up with this half
brained plan to make you think we had sex." The other guys were laughing. James and Remus fell off their beds because they were laughing so hard.
"It's not funny." Sirius pouted, but starting laughing himself.
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The guys kicked Karen out of their dorm to get dressed, she was now waiting in the common room for them.
"Knowing them they are in the invisibility cloak, and about to sit on me." She said out loud.
"No. We were going to tickle you."
"Shut up Peter!" Came three other voices.
"I could see your feet. You really need to check that." Karen pulled the cloak off of them.
"Could've told us that."
"I could've, but I didn't. Bet you can't find me." Karen put on the cloak and disappeared.
"You forgot we have the Marauders Map."
"No you don't." The map was floating in midair, and disappeared.
"We're never going to find her." James said. He looked back at Sirius and started to laugh. Sirius looked like he was kissing someone,
but no one was there.
"Practicing, Padfoot?" Then the hood of the cloak fell down, revealing Karen's head.
"That's freaky. Please take the cloak off before I lose my dinner."
"Alright."
"What are we going to do?"
"Destroy the Slytherin common room?"
"Skinny dip in the Prefect bathroom?" Sirius suggested, getting 3 smacks in the back of the head, Peter couldn't reach.
"I'll have to go with James idea." Karen said pulling the map out.
"I think my idea is pretty good."
"I think Dog boy's hormones are getting the best of him."
"There are people in the Scum Common room. What are we going to do now?"
"My idea." Sirius got smacked again.
"Homework?" Remus said. Karen covered Sirius' ears.
"Don't say that in front of him, he has delicate ears."
"Hey! Are you talking about me?" Karen removed her hands.
"No. Well I'm going to go visit someone." Karen grabbed a present off of the table.
"Who's that for?"
"Myrtle." Karen left through the portrait hole.
"Dogboy, I think your girlfriend is nutters."
"My name is not Dogboy."
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"Myrtle? Are you in here?"
"Yes. It's been awhile since you've visited." She sniffed, from the last stall.
"I know, I'm sorry. My mom was killed by the Voldemort guy."
"Oh I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I got you a Christmas present."
"Me?"
"Yeah, here." Karen put the box down on the counter and un-wrapped it for her.
"What is it?"
"A magical music box. All you have to do is say play, and it plays." The music box started up. It was a golden box with two figures
dancing on top.
"It's beautiful."
"I knew you would like it. I have to go. Those boys are lost without me."
"How do I make it stop?" The music box stopped at once. "That answered my question."
"Bye Myrtle." Karen left the bathroom, and went in search of the boys. Someone grabbed her from behind, and covered her mouth so she couldn't
scream. The person picked her up and took her to an empty classroom. When they let go of her she was about to punch them, but took notice of who it was.
"Sirius why the hell did you scare me like that? I thought another Death Eater was coming after me."
"Sorry. I didn't think you'd come if I asked you to come."
"Why did you want me here anyway?"
"Does this answer your question?" Sirius pulled her close to him and kissed her. He put his hands on her back, as she put her arms around his neck.
(this next part is written by another author, by the s/n *Death**Flower* not me. She writes Gundam Wing.)
Karen ran her fingers through his hair. They passionately kissed several times. His hands explored her back.
Sirius' tongue slipped into her mouth.
They kept like this until a knock came to the door. Karen straighten her shirt as Sirius flattened down his hair.
Dumbledore walked into the room.
"I thought I heard a crash in here." His eyes fell upon the fallen chair.
"Oh, that." Karen blushed. "I told Sirius a joke and he fell off of it, and is too lazy to turn it up right."
"Alright. Oh and Ms. Darkes, you may want to wear a turtle neck this week." Dumbledore smiled and left the room.
"At least he knocked." Sirius grinned, kissing Karen again.
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"So Hawkins, Padfoot. I heard your make out session got cut short by Dumbledore."
"Where did you hear that?" Karen asked playing with the neck of her turtle shirt.
"We bumped into Dumbledore, in the hall, and asked him if he knew where you guys were. He got that twinkle in his
eyes and said you were having fun in an empty classroom." Karen and Sirius turned red and didn't face the other
Marauders who were cracking up. The few other people who were staying for Christmas sat down at the table, given queer looks at the four.
"Merry Christmas Eve." Dumbledore said, sitting down. He looked at Karen and Sirius.
"Did all of you have fun today?" He asked.
"I bet they did." James laughed pointing to the couple. He got kicked under the table. McGonagall gave the three Gryffindors,
one laughing, two giving the other death glares. Karen avoided eye contact with everyone, and kept having to smack Sirius, who kept putting
his hand on her leg, under the table.
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The Marauders were in the secret common room. James and Remus were fixing the map, adding new passages, and a new special feature. They now had it
so that their codenames say stuff when the password isn't said, and if someone tries enough times, Hawkins would come up and the writing would clear. Sirius was checking
out the detention slips taped to the wall. Karen was in the lead, then James and Sirius were tied(since they didn't do anything without the other), and Remus was in last.
Peter never kept his detention slips(what a pity). Sirius looked around, and noticed Karen looking at the mirror.
"What do you see?"
"Oh, I'm not looking in it. I'm taking in the finer details of it. Nice code. But I would think a person like you could've thought of something better than it just being backwards."
"I did that so inferior minds to ours could figure it out."
"I see you added an animal touch to it." She pointed down to the clawed feet.
"Yeah. So did you like your Christmas present?"
"You must really like mirrors." Sirius gave her a mirror that shows anything the holder wants to see.
"Do you like yours?" She gave him A Guide to Pranks for Dummies.
"Yeah, but I really don't need it."
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"You know Matt, we need to add some spirit to the Quidditch matches." Sirius said, as Quidditch practice finished,
and they were in the Gryffindor common room.
"What? Isn't all the cheering fans, dressed in red enough?"
"Nope, we need cheerleaders!"
"If you can get girls to do that, you're welcomed to it."
"Alright." Sirius pulled a piece of parchment out of his robes and pinned it on the bulletin. Everyone was back
from holidays now. "Attention, I'd like you all to appoint your eyes to the bulletin."
Wanted: Cheerleaders
Must be: Gryffindor Quidditch Fan
Sign up: With the Quidditch Team
Try-outs are this Saturday.
!Go Team!
Sirius struggled his way out of the crowd and went over to the table that the other Marauders were doing
homework on. They were in all of the same classes, except Divitation and Arithmacy. Karen and Remus took Arithmacy, when
the others took Divitation, with Professor Fibi Vartenhugen. Vartenhugen, the students called her Fibi(which is alot easier to say) was a hippie freak.
Her room was filled with burning incenses, and lots and lots of beads. She would levitate during classes, and never came down to the
Great Hall. Back to the subject, while the other Marauders wanted to be in all of the other classes, Karen did not see the point of taking Muggle
Studies, since she was already a muggle- born, so they bullied, begged, and bugged until she would agree. She never agreed, so they added it to her
list while she wasn't looking. Professor Kettleburn, a short man, who couldn't handle most of the creatures, taught Care of Magical Creatures, which was their
last extra class. In one of the lessons, the hippogriffs got out of their pen, he got mad and started calling them stupid. He lost his hand, and got a long scar
that goes down his arm.
"You know, I should've took Divitation with you guys. That Lockhart guy is so annoying." Karen said throwing
her quill down on the table.
"You mean the new Hufflepuff seeker?"
"Yeah, he thinks he's so great at everything. When we had free time in class, he told me he would give me
some private lessons on flying, and would give me a makeover too." Sirius started to laugh.
"Isn't he the one that fell off of his broom because he discovered he had a split end?"
"Yeah. I'll just tell you one thing, he no longer had a perfect smile. Oh I have another detention to put upon the wall."
She pulled the paper out of her book. "You guys are falling behind."
"We know, we are never going to catch up if you don't stop getting detentions. Poor
Remus he only has had 5 in the whole six years we've been here."
"I'm happy only to have 5 thank you very much."
"Oh I just remembered, I left my cloak down on the Quidditch hoop." Karen said looking
out the window, noticing the cloak swaying in the wind.
"Want us to come with you?"
"You don't have to."
"Here, you can borrow my cloak."
"Thanks Sirius." She went out the portrait hole and went down to the grounds.
After getting her cloak she went to the broom shed to put her broom back. She felt like
someone was following her, but no one was around. She started up the steps as someone
stunned her and tied her up.
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"I think someone doesn't like her very much."
"I know. First someone puts the Cruictus curse on her, kills her mother and best friend,
and now she gets stunned and tied up. Good thing Hagrid heard the splash and found her in the lake." Karen opened her
eyes a bit to see who was talking. It was McGonagall and Pomfrey.
"Albus is frantic, he cannot figure out who is doing this to her. He knows You- Know- Who killed
those people, but he can't get onto the grounds. He thinks it's one of the students." McGonagall informed,
looking down at the ground and shaking her head.
"I hope not, if it is everyone is in danger. But why are they coming after her and not Potter or Black?"
"There are rumors that You- Know- Who is a seer. He must of seen Darkes becoming someone powerful, and
might be the downfall of him, so he wants to get rid of her." Sirius, Remus, and James rushed into the room,
followed slowly by Peter.
"Just saw Hagrid." "Told us what happened." "Is she alright?" They all said quickly, while catching their breath,
Peter stood silently in the back.
"Yes, I think she's awake now." McGonagall left.
"You have five minutes to talk." Pomfrey went into her office.
"Did you see who did this to you?"
"No. I'm getting freaked out." Karen told them what she heard the teachers talking about.
"I think people just don't like you." Peter finally spoke, but got glared at by Karen.
"I think it's Voldemort." Peter flinched. "Who else would take the risk of being caught by Dumbledore?"
"Your time is up. You can talk to her later."
Final exams were approaching and was making everyone have nervous break downs. Lily was stressing
out so bad that she put silence charms on some of the first years. Sirius, Remus, Karen, and James were shooting
curses at anyone who bugged them, mostly girls wanting to become cheerleaders.
"You know, we should go in our common room to study. It's too noisy in here."
"Good idea Remus. Should I get Lily?" James asked, closing up his books.
"Yeah, some of those first years are getting sick of her."
"Okay. Hey Lily, come over here."
"What? I'm studying."
"Want to go somewhere peaceful?"
"James, this is not a time to make out." Sirius snorted.
"No not that." James' face was getting red. "We have a special place to go study. Come on." James grabbed her hand and pulled
her out of the common room, with the others following.
" James are you sure you aren't going to make out with Lily? Because we don't want our common room
to be disgraced by that."
"Shut up Sirius, I've seen you and Karen make out in there millions of times." Now it was Sirius'
turn to blush. Karen pressed the brick and the common room appeared.
"Welcome to the Marauder common room, compliments of Hawkins, Padfoot, Prongs,
Moony, and Wormtail.
"Who are they?"
"Us, remember we became Animagus to help Moony with his transformations."
"Oh yeah. We should get studying."
"Yeah, wouldn't want to have a little fun now would we."
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It was the Cheerleader tryouts. Sirius, James, and Remus were in the stadium at the Quidditch pitch.
There were about thirty Gryffindor girls trying out.
"How many are we keeping?" Remus asked.
"Fifteen." James said. He picked up a flat stone, and transformed it into a clipboard.
Sirius and Remus did the same.
"Where's Wormtail?"
"Um, I think he had to study or something." Karen said, jumping off her broom to where the others were.
"Why are you here?" Sirius asked.
"Making sure you three don't drown in your own drool." Karen said as she took the clipboard from Sirius.
"And to see Gina fall off the top of the pyramid." They started to laugh. Sirius called the name of the 5th year girl with long gold hair.
"Lena Maxwell." Lena obviously took gymnastics before she became a witch. She did four flips, a hand spring and landed in a split.
"Wow." Was all the Marauders could say. When the girls were making pyramids(there was two of them) Peter came flying on his broom,
and flew into them making them all fall. Gina was in fact on the top. Karen was on the ground, laughing so hard tears were streaming down her face.
Inside the Marauder common room, the 5 were trying to decide who was in.
"Lena is defiantly in." Sirius said. "She was absolutely, no doubt about it totally the best." The others nodded in agreement. Finally they finished
the list, and posted it in the Gryffindor common room. They could barely get out of the mob of girls. The list read
Lena Maxwell- Captain
Gina Centinni - Co-Captian
Kimberly Johnson
Lily Arnold
Dorthory Oz
Erica Lively
Peter Pettigrew (Karen did that as a prank)
Brittany Lopes
Maggie Tompson
Mandy Smith
Laura Moore
Sally Bones
Christina Night
Alexia Degreet
Summer April
Autumn Baeshore
"Hey my picture developed." Karen said, as she pulled it out of her pocket. It showed Gina falling off the top
of the pyramid. Karen left as the guys recovered from laughter, and went up to the girls dorm. As she passed open doors, she heard crying, and congratulating.
Karen thought to herself, "Another day at Hogwarts, that the Marauders are responsible for." She walked into the 6th years dorm, to be greeted by a screaming Gina.
"Why did you have that 5th year as captain and not me!"
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"This is the last Quidditch match of the year. The Quidditch Final. To see who will win the cup, this year, Slytherin and Gryffindor are going head to head.
Here they come, Gryffindor has won the cup for 6 years running, let's see if they can make it 7." The whistle blew and they all kicked off the ground.
The game was off to a good start. Gryffindor scored 10 goals before Slytherin scored one.
"Karen sees the snitch. Nope just letting off a little tension. The golden Snitch still hasn't been spotted. The score is 120 Gryffindor to 20 Slytherin.
Potter has the Quaffle, and scores another," The announcer yawned, "goal. Someone just get the Snitch already before we all fall asleep.
Finally, Lucius and Karen are diving now! They are heading straight for Madame Hooch. Karen pulls up and grabs the Snitch, and Malfoy crashes into the stands. The
cheerleaders for the Gryffindor team are screaming their heads off. Oh wait, Gina just broke a nail.
That's a day at Hogwarts for you."
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"The Marauders, plus Lily, were resting by the lake. They just finished the exams, and
would get the results next week.
"One more Hogsmeade day, before the year is up. What should we do?"
"Clean out Honeydukes and Zonkos."
"Buy three gallons of butterbeer."
"Everything, and anything."
"We should celebrate. No one's tried killing me lately." Karen laughed, throwing a rock
into the lake.
"Oh don't be so sure." Peter muttered.
"What did you say Wormtail?"
"I said, I'm not so sure about passing Transfiguration. I'm just thinking over the tests." Karen gave Peter a questioning look.
"Yet another year over at Hogwarts."
"Just one to go."
"I'm going to miss this place."
"Any bets on who Head Girl and Head Boy are?" Karen asked.
"Lily for Head Girl."
"Ditto."
"Snape or James as Head Boy."
"Not James, I think you need a clean record for Head Boy."
"And his is anything but clean." After many games of chess, and Exploding snap, and eating half of their candy stash,
The Hogwarts Express pulled into Platform 9 ¾.
"Have fun over the summer!" James yelled to the others. HE went off with his parents.
"Bye Karen," Sirius kissed her. "Be sure to keep your owl healthy, he'll
have alot of flying to do." He and Remus went off, too. Peter was no where to be seen.
"Hi Mr. Arnold. Have you seen my dad?"
"No, he wasn't home yet when I left."
"He probably had to work a little bit late."
"Your dad has been pretty depressed lately since your mom died."
"Oh." Karen couldn't think of anything else to say.
They waited for a while, seeing if Karen's dad would show up.
"We better get going. Karen, do you want to come with us?"
"No Thank you. I'll stay here, to see if Dad will come." Lily and her dad
left. Karen was standing in an empty train station. Only two other people
were around, the guard, and the person who sell the tickets.
"If he ever comes."
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That's it folks. I have most of Part 10 typed up, but it may take me awhile
to get it up. I'll try for next weekend. Thank you to those who reviewed,
you can review this one too! :o)
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