Chapter 5
Jennifer was having problems. Big problems. Two, to be exact. We can start with the lesser of the two. The first one is Remus. Yes, Remus Lupin. They had somehow become friends in the beginning of the school year, and now she had her problem. Not that Lilly and Tania were mad at her, they thought that Remus was the best of the lot, if they had to choose, but the fact that she now was developing a massive crush on him. The other girls knew about it and at first they were mildly shocked at the fact that one of them would have a crush on the boys, but they got over it. I mean, it could have been Potter... *shudder*
That was only the first of her two problems. Her second was much worse.
She was having dreams.
*gasp*
She have always had dreams, vivid ones that she loved to be in. She loved her dreams. but now her dreams were so realistic that she felt like it was real life. Okay, up till then every thing was cool, until her dreams started coming true.
Onetime, she dreamed that Lilly was sitting in the window doing her needlepoint, singing to herself, when her voice turned into croaks and she shot a charm outside the window at what must have been people on the ground. Then she fixed her voice and continued with her needlepoint, singing again.
The next week, the same thing happened.
Then she had another dream that she couldn't sleep so she sat on the window sill and then saw a stag, dog and rat come out of no where and met up with a wolf.
The next week again, it happened.
Jennifer was getting weird ideas that she was able to see the future. If some one had told her that a year ago, she wouldn't believe it and maybe laugh. Now it wasn't such a far off idea.
Lately, she was been getting little visions that would flash thought the back of her mind. then the next minute later, it would happen. They didn't happen all the time, only once or twice a day. The last time, Potter and the lot of them were going to magically write things all over their robes. Jennifer got a vision of it and turned around and saw them with their wands out. She told them off about if they wrote on their robes they would get it worse than at the Quidditch tryouts in their first/second year. The guys made excuses and then non-chalantly walked away.
That had happened right before breakfast and she was on the way to see Dumbledore about it. Lilly and Tania already knew about it and told her that she needed to go see Dumbledore. She had told him that she needed to talk to him after breakfast, and she now followed him to his office. They entered, (licorice shoe laces) and she sat in the chair in front of his desk.
"I believe that you are experiencing the beginning of your Seer's ability, have you not?" he began.
Jennifer stared at him.
"True dreams, visions, the like, all begin to happen after the person has turned 13. We have known about your gift from your birth, the quill that writes down the names for Hogwarts students wrote your name in silver instead of black."
She stared even more.
"I assume that's what you wanted to talk about, if it's not, please, go right ahead." he grinned.
Jennifer somehow found her voice. "That's all, Professor, thank you very much. I'll go now." She stood to leave.
"I think I will let you know that the Seer gift is often awakened for the first time by strong emotion when a person is thirteen." he grinned again, making Jennifer think that he knew more about his students then they all thought. Her cheeks grew a little warm. That was all the response that Dumbledore needed.
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James was confused. Lopess had found out about their plan again, just before it happened. He didn't know how she did it, but she did. Remus swore that he didn't tell her anything. ("Even though she's my friend, I still like playing pranks on the rest of them.")
He lay on his bed, trying to figure everything out when Sirius entered the dorm, laughing his head off. "Remus is in LOOOVEEE!" He heralded. He sniggered again.
James raised a quizzical eyebrow. This was a first. Only one other time, did Remus tell James about a crush, and that was in their first year. He never let any emotion show about his crush, he didn't want Sirius to know. That was very smart, considering that he would be tormented for the next month and a half, but Remus never showed much emotion anyway. It was always hard to tell what he was thinking through his facial expressions.
"And how do you know this?" James asked, doubtful.
"It's so obvious! He's sitting in the common room, an open book in his lap and he's staring across the room at the huddle of girls with a rapt expression on his face! And guess who the huddle of girls is? Evans, Coela and Jennifer!" Sirius had liked Jennifer enough to call her by her first name, something that James couldn't do yet. "I'll bet you ten galleons that the person he's staring at is Jennifer! This is going to be interesting to watch!!" He ran out of the dorm to 'observe' Remus. James followed him out.
They saw Remus in the same position as Sirius had described but snapped out of it as soon as they got there and went back to reading his book. And his expression was blank again. Sirius went over to Remus and jumped into his lap with a squeal. "When's the wedding?" he asked. Remus, annoyed that his book was being squashed by a friend sitting on his lap asking about weddings, looked from a glare at Sirius, to glance at the girls who were looking at the pair with laughing eyes, and then an odd (guilty?) look at James.
"What wedding?" Back to the blank innocent look that he gave teachers when he happened to get in trouble, which was often. He was the kind of person who would be able to sweet talk his way out of something, if he wanted to.
Sirius rolled his eyes and flashed a huge grin at Loppes. "You know, the wedding with…" his voice was silenced.
'Remus had his ways.' James thought, as Sirius clawed at his throat. Remus had mastered the Silencing charm with out a wand, just for this purpose, to shut Sirius up. Remus shoved Sirius from his lap to the floor and continued with his book. Sirius looked to James for help and James just shook his head. "You got yourself into this, it's not fair for me to help."
Just at that moment, Evans decided to say, loudly, "Is it just me, or is it suddenly more peaceful in here? Like something really annoying stopped, and has left us alone?" She looked meaningful at Sirius and James. Then she turned back and the girls began whispering again. James sat down next to Remus and noticed that Jennifer sent quiet a few glances in Remus's direction.
Sirius just sat on the floor looking pleadingly at Remus who didn't even notice.
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Lilly had made a mental note to talk to Lupin. Privately. It was amazing, the annoying Black had helped the situation immensely. If he hadn't done the show with Lupin, she would still have her doubts. Now they had mostly disappeared. She was doing this only to help Jennifer, who was acting oddly. She also wanted to find out what Jennifer saw in him. This would prove to be interesting.
The only other person she talked with about this subject was Tania. She agreed and wanted to help. The two of them agreed on tomorrow.
The next day came quickly. Right after breakfast, the two girls made their excuses to Jennifer and ran after Lupin, who had just left by himself. They caught up with him and dragged him into an empty class room.
"We need to talk." Tania started. Remus stood startled, masking his confusion as best he could.
"We want to find out what you think about Jennifer. She's been acting oddly, and we think it has to do with you." Lilly and Tania were fairly certain that it had to do with Jennifer's crush on Remus. She had told them about her Seer gift and that was why she had been nearly skittish before, but this was different.
"Well, she's a good friend of mine-" he was cut off by Tania.
"We know that. That's not why. What about yesterday with Sirius? There must have been something to back up what he said."
Remus's cheeks turned from pink to red.
"Your cheeks are red."
"You don't need to state the obvious." he replied.
"I take it you like her." Lilly stated.
"You could say that." He got two set of rolled eyes in return.
"Come on. You can do better than that."
"All right. I like her. You happy?" The girls nodded and smiled.
"Are you going to hex me now?"
"We weren't..." Lilly started.
"But thanks for the idea." Tania finished.
Remus left before they could try.
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A Dark wizard, named Voldemort (pronounced without the 't' on the end,) was accenting on the ladder of power over the wizards and witches that have been practicing the Dark Arts. Because of this, Dumbledore had made the wise decision to make the choice of Defense against the Dark Arts mandatory. Most people had already been taking that course, excluding Snape who was more interested in learning Dark Arts than learning defenses, and the rest of Slytherin.
James had been told about the 'talk' between Remus and Evans and Coela about Loppess. This was definatly interesting, and he could predict what was going to happen next. It didn't take a Seer to figure that out.
James found Sirius and they began their next prank to be pulled on the girls.
If they only knew what it would lead too.
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What they did, landed Lilly in the hospital wing for serious cuts and burns. Multiple scars were left on her hands. She had to stay for a week. Tania had only burns and wasn't in the hospital wing as long. Jennifer had cuts and burns, one cut so deep on her upper lip, that it left a thick white line.
James and Sirius had set up fireworks in the girls room. One under each of the girls in question beds. What they were supposed to do was shoot off when they entered the room and write nasty things in smoke in the air around them. It would also leave a putrid smell.
What it failed to do was go off properly. Jennifer and Lilly were next to a glass vase that Tania had made for Lilly when the fireworks went off. They shot into the air, one flew into the vase and it burst into hot shards of glass that burned and cut both girls severely. Lilly had been picking up her watch from the table next to the vase when the fire works hit it. One flew right passed Tania and shot her with sparks. They left burns every where they touched. What caused it to go wrong, no one knew.
When some of the girls in the common room heard the screams coming from the 3rd year girls dorm, they ran up to find them covered with blood and burns. The fireworks had gone out the window (the window was closed), leaving behind lots of glass and scorch marks on the wall, beds and carpet.
Jennifer had not foreseen the actual event, though she knew that something bad was going to happen, and that the prank had been tampered with. She had seen in a dream, that a short, fat person in a black hood had snuck into the room and had found the fire works and messed with them. (*hint hint* *cough Pettigrew cough* *nudge nudge*)
There was one person that visited the trio (namely Jennifer) every day. No prizes for guessing who. Even though he had no part in the prank, he still felt really bad. They had assured him that the prank would have been a good one, had it not been altered.
Potter and Black had been hauled into Dumbledore's office and then they left to have their discussion with the three girls. The boys had actually apologized and left so Dumbledore could talk to the girls about what he had assumed Jennifer dreamed about. He was surprised to learn that she hadn't seen the actual the attack, as it could be called, but it being set up. He grew concerned that this was happening, for he assumed that Voldemort had found out about her. He had already killed the Seers that would not join him in the Dark Side and now was after her. Voldemort was after a thirteen year old. That itself was funny that the most powerful dark wizard would care about a thirteen year old female and also terrifying to have the person who would kill you without a second thought, and do it horribly and painfully, was after you.
She had only a few years until she met Voldemort personally. And there was nothing you could do to prepare for it.
Hey, people, it's your lovely [(*ahem*) be quite, Minerva!] author and I would like to thank every one who made comment, both nice and constructively, errrrrrrrr…. The things that help you write better. I forgot the word. And I would just like to say that I am very scared of big buildings on fire and crashing to the ground after planes were flown into them. VERY SCARED. I would just like to say to the people who were badly affected by the terrorist, not bombing, but, crashing? That you all have my prayers.
Just to make things clear, the girls are one year younger than the guys. There were some questions on that.
I need help, I read a really cool l/j story about Remus teaching Lilly how to dance so he would win a bet with Sirius. And yellow canary suits, and blue hair and new dance teachers *ahem James ahem* and the ball and it's really good. If you know what I'm talking about would you please tell me on the comments what it is. Your help is greatly appreciated.
I love you all!!!!