Chapter 36 - Graduation
From May 26 to June 8, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was eerily quiet. No pranks were pulled, the Marauders, nor the girls made no noises, and if you dared to even whisper a word in the Ravenclaw common room while Lily was studying you got a glare that could freeze your bones.
June 9, the testing began. After two weeks of studying, Lily felt confident that she would pass all of her classes. From the looks on her friend's faces, they didn't feel as confident as she did.
Lily sat next to James in Transfiguration and waited for the test to be passed out.
As soon as the teacher said that they may go ahead and start, Lily opened her booklet and started on question one.
Question 1: what is the required words to make a pin turn into a cushion?
The required words needed to make a pin transfigure into a cushion are 'transformus cushiono.'
The questions got harder the further you got into the hundred paged book. The last question got Lily by surprise though.
Question 1,000: Do you feel satisfied with the work that you have learned in your seven years here? Not only in Transfiguration class, but in all of your classes?
Lily stopped and thought about this one. 'Am I satisfied with what I have learned here in school?' she asked herself. Lily picked up her quill, dipped it in ink, and answered:
I find that I feel as if I could learn more about the art of Potions, but rather than that particular subject, I feel as if I have learned all that is necessary. But that does not mean that I think that I could not learn more than what I already do. Everyone can learn more.
Lily re-read her answer and sighed with satisfaction. When she reviewed her test to make sure that she was happy with all of her answers, she raised her hand and Professor McGonagall came and took away her test.
It was pretty much exactly like that except in Defense Against the Dark Arts, seeing as the six friends were doing something totally different from the rest of the school. So, Professor Dumbledore just told them to take the rest of the day off, seeing as that was the last test that anyone took for the rest of the school year, or for some, the rest of their lives.
~*~*~*~
Three days before Graduation, Professor Dumbledore stood up at dinner and announced to the seventh years that there would be a Hogwarts trip for them tomorrow so that they could buy last minute items for the ceremony.
The next day, Lily, James, Kayla, Sirius, Aria and Remus were all walking down the streets of Hogwarts, the boys somewhat reluctantly, wrapped in their loved ones embrace, trying to figure out where to go first.
"You know what?" Lily asked irritably, stopping and dislodging James' arm from her waist as she turned around so that she could see everyone's faces'. "Why don't we - the girls - go one way, and you guys go another, and we'll meet you in the Three Broom Sticks in three hours okay?" she huffed. Lily looked at the girls to see if they agreed.
Kayla and Aria were looking at Lily with relief sketched all over their faces. It was always . . . nerve wreaking to shop with the Marauders. They just had to touch everything!
Sirius looked excited. "Do you mean it? Do you really mean that we don't have to go with you girls?" he questioned.
Lily sighed and rolled her eyes. "You three are free for three hours. Now go! Before we change our minds!"
Sirius let go of Kayla's hand and rushed over to Lily, almost knocking her over with the force of the hug that he gave her. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" he chanted happily until James smacked him upside the head.
"Go smoother your own girlfriend Padfoot." James instructed good-naturedly.
Lily laughed and tried to unsuccessfully untangle her body from Sirius'. "Sirius, if you don't let me go this instant I am going to make sure that you go to every freakin' store with us, got it?" Lily practically yelled.
Sirius gulped and backed away. "Right-o! Sorry!"
"Now go!" Kayla demanded.
Sirius grinned at his fiancée. "Have fun, love." He told her and kissed her on the cheek. It was still hard to imagine that if he was to do that two years ago that he would have ended up injured. Now the only time he ever ended up injured with Kayla was when they were in bed, but those were injuries that he took pride in.
"Yeah, yeah. Now scat." Kayla said lovingly.
Remus turned towards the girl on his arm and gave her a hug. "I'll see you in a few hours, love." He whispered as he let go. "Okay." Aria replied with a smile on her face.
James shifted the few inches that were in between him and his girlfriend and stroked her hair. "I'll see you in three hours beautiful." He whispered as he brushed his lips across hers. Lily smiled. "Count on it." She told him as she backed away.
"Bye!" they all yelled out over their shoulders as they went their own way.
"Now, lets get those dresses that you two just had to pull me out of bed for." Kayla said trying to act gloomy, but her eyes showed her excitement.
Lily smiled, and being the shop-a-holic that she was, dragged Kayla into the robes shop by her arm and went straight to the dresses and begun to pile dress after dress into Kayla's arms. "Now, go try those on." Lily instructed as soon as she was satisfied that she had picked out enough selections.
Kayla did as she was told, albeit grumbling her way to the changing stalls.
Lily then started looking for herself. She went through the reds but decided that they would clash with her hair. She then went through the blacks, but thought that they'd look too . . . .morbid. Then she moved to the emerald and sea greens, and begun picking out dresses. Coming out of the greens with only three dresses, she went over to the light blues, but they were all either too short, too old looking, or just plain ugly. Then she began looking through the whites. They were all so . . . beautiful, she didn't know which ones to get. She carefully selected four white dresses and then went over to where Aria was searching.
"You know Aria, you would look fabulous in a light blue dress, or maybe even a silver one." Lily told her as she was looking through purple shades. Aria looked into Lily's eyes, startled. "You really think so?" she asked. Lily smiled and nodded. "You always look fab-" she started, but soon stopped, finding it hard to talk.
Kayla had just come out in one of her dresses. It was something like she had never worn before. If Kayla had to wear a dress, it was always long. But this dress, it was short, different from the original Kayla style. It was a white dress with a sheer gray fabric over it that also had glitter running around on the bottom hem. The dress's hem brushed her knee tops, and was held up by thin straps of glittered fabric. The dress showed her legs off to perfection, although you could see two of her tattoos, her body looked magnificent in that dress.
"Kay, you have got to get that dress!" Lily whispered in awe. "Sirius will flip!" she said a little louder.
"What about the tattoos?" Kayla asked.
Lily smiled. "There is a spell that people can use to hide them."
"So," Kayla muttered, "I get the dress? Do you really think that Sirius will like it?" she wondered as she circled.
"Kayla. Sirius will love it!" Aria stuttered in wonder, finally getting her voice back from the shock.
Kayla smiled and returned to the dressing room to change.
"As I was saying, you always look fabulous in light colors." Lily said, directing her words towards Aria. "Now, follow me so that I can pick something out for you."
Aria rolled her eyes at her friend's back, but nothing less followed.
"You're a size three, aren't you?" Lily asked Aria.
"Yeah, I am."
"Good, now go try this dress on." Lily told her, handing her a dress like Kayla's except it was white on light blue.
Lily walked with Aria towards the changing room and got into a stall herself. She tried on the green dresses, but they all looked terrible on her. She then went to one of the white dresses. It the bottom layer of the dress was white silk with a white knitted material over it, and tied around Lily's neck, and stopped an inch above her knee caps. Lily turned around to face the mirror and gasped. She found her dress.
Lily stepped out of the stall to see Kayla and Aria waiting for her. Aria was in her dress, and it complimented every curve in her body. It looked as if it was made for her.
"What do you think?" Lily asked the gaping girls self-consciously.
"James is going to die of a heart-attack when he sees you in that!" Kayla complimented her.
Lily smiled and walked back into the stall. That was just what she wanted to hear.
After the robes shop, they had to go and get shoes, and then make up. By the time they were done, they were already five minutes late for meeting the boys.
The girls ran down the streets towards the Three Broom Sticks and ran into three impatient boys.
"Oops." Lily mumbled as she stopped in front of James.
James chuckled. "What took you so long?" he asked as he threw an arm around her shoulders and led her inside the pub.
"We forgot the time." Lily replied. Lily looked at his bag, then back up to his face.
"Is that the end of the year prank stuff?" she asked, pointing to the Zonko's bag. James shook his head. "No. This is a little gift for a Mr. Snape and Malfoy."
Lily's ears perked up and the mention of Snape's name. "Ohhh! What is it?" she demanded, only to have James shake his head and tell her with that all so patient tone, "You'll see tomorrow, won't you?" Lily glared at him, and sat down with a thump at a table and crossed her arms across her breasts. "Don't pout Lilsie . . . Please?" James asked with a puppy face. Lily laughed and lowered her arms. "Don't do that face James, it makes you look disoriented." She chuckled.
The rest of the day, the Marauders, and the Marauders' girls' enjoyed the last time they'd ever be students in the pub.
~*~*~*~
The morning of Graduation was so hectic that Lily couldn't even remember what happened until she took her seat in the front row of Ravenclaws.
All of the graduates wear wearing the robes that were issued by the school. The Ravenclaws had black and baby blue ones, the Hufflepuff's had yellow and black ones, the Slytherins had Green and Silver ones, and the Gryffindors had Gold and Scarlet ones.
The Heads made their speeches, and then the house heads, and then, finally Dumbledore made his.
The Slytherin house was called up first, then the Hufflepuffs, and then the Gryffindors, and then, finally, the Ravenclaws.
"I now give you lady's and gentlemen, the class of '82!" Dumbledore yelled, and cheers erupted. (A/N: Okay, I didn't know which year they graduated or anything, so I'm sorry if that is wrong.)
Suddenly, a huge pile of dung-bombs, fireworks, and many other small prank gadgets landed on Snape and Malfoy, along with pictures of their most embarrassing moments that they had had since coming to Hogwarts. Everyone but the Slytherins and their parents were doubled over in laughter. "Good one, Boys!" Mr. Potter yelled over the laughter. James, Sirius, and Remus bowed in recognition and drew their girls off the stage.
A/N: Okay, the next chapter is my last one, and I'm almost done with that one, so don't worry about waiting long for it. And I'm sending all the rest of my chapters to my beta as soon as I finish with the last chapter.
Happy Reading,
Mistress del Mare
From May 26 to June 8, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was eerily quiet. No pranks were pulled, the Marauders, nor the girls made no noises, and if you dared to even whisper a word in the Ravenclaw common room while Lily was studying you got a glare that could freeze your bones.
June 9, the testing began. After two weeks of studying, Lily felt confident that she would pass all of her classes. From the looks on her friend's faces, they didn't feel as confident as she did.
Lily sat next to James in Transfiguration and waited for the test to be passed out.
As soon as the teacher said that they may go ahead and start, Lily opened her booklet and started on question one.
Question 1: what is the required words to make a pin turn into a cushion?
The required words needed to make a pin transfigure into a cushion are 'transformus cushiono.'
The questions got harder the further you got into the hundred paged book. The last question got Lily by surprise though.
Question 1,000: Do you feel satisfied with the work that you have learned in your seven years here? Not only in Transfiguration class, but in all of your classes?
Lily stopped and thought about this one. 'Am I satisfied with what I have learned here in school?' she asked herself. Lily picked up her quill, dipped it in ink, and answered:
I find that I feel as if I could learn more about the art of Potions, but rather than that particular subject, I feel as if I have learned all that is necessary. But that does not mean that I think that I could not learn more than what I already do. Everyone can learn more.
Lily re-read her answer and sighed with satisfaction. When she reviewed her test to make sure that she was happy with all of her answers, she raised her hand and Professor McGonagall came and took away her test.
It was pretty much exactly like that except in Defense Against the Dark Arts, seeing as the six friends were doing something totally different from the rest of the school. So, Professor Dumbledore just told them to take the rest of the day off, seeing as that was the last test that anyone took for the rest of the school year, or for some, the rest of their lives.
~*~*~*~
Three days before Graduation, Professor Dumbledore stood up at dinner and announced to the seventh years that there would be a Hogwarts trip for them tomorrow so that they could buy last minute items for the ceremony.
The next day, Lily, James, Kayla, Sirius, Aria and Remus were all walking down the streets of Hogwarts, the boys somewhat reluctantly, wrapped in their loved ones embrace, trying to figure out where to go first.
"You know what?" Lily asked irritably, stopping and dislodging James' arm from her waist as she turned around so that she could see everyone's faces'. "Why don't we - the girls - go one way, and you guys go another, and we'll meet you in the Three Broom Sticks in three hours okay?" she huffed. Lily looked at the girls to see if they agreed.
Kayla and Aria were looking at Lily with relief sketched all over their faces. It was always . . . nerve wreaking to shop with the Marauders. They just had to touch everything!
Sirius looked excited. "Do you mean it? Do you really mean that we don't have to go with you girls?" he questioned.
Lily sighed and rolled her eyes. "You three are free for three hours. Now go! Before we change our minds!"
Sirius let go of Kayla's hand and rushed over to Lily, almost knocking her over with the force of the hug that he gave her. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" he chanted happily until James smacked him upside the head.
"Go smoother your own girlfriend Padfoot." James instructed good-naturedly.
Lily laughed and tried to unsuccessfully untangle her body from Sirius'. "Sirius, if you don't let me go this instant I am going to make sure that you go to every freakin' store with us, got it?" Lily practically yelled.
Sirius gulped and backed away. "Right-o! Sorry!"
"Now go!" Kayla demanded.
Sirius grinned at his fiancée. "Have fun, love." He told her and kissed her on the cheek. It was still hard to imagine that if he was to do that two years ago that he would have ended up injured. Now the only time he ever ended up injured with Kayla was when they were in bed, but those were injuries that he took pride in.
"Yeah, yeah. Now scat." Kayla said lovingly.
Remus turned towards the girl on his arm and gave her a hug. "I'll see you in a few hours, love." He whispered as he let go. "Okay." Aria replied with a smile on her face.
James shifted the few inches that were in between him and his girlfriend and stroked her hair. "I'll see you in three hours beautiful." He whispered as he brushed his lips across hers. Lily smiled. "Count on it." She told him as she backed away.
"Bye!" they all yelled out over their shoulders as they went their own way.
"Now, lets get those dresses that you two just had to pull me out of bed for." Kayla said trying to act gloomy, but her eyes showed her excitement.
Lily smiled, and being the shop-a-holic that she was, dragged Kayla into the robes shop by her arm and went straight to the dresses and begun to pile dress after dress into Kayla's arms. "Now, go try those on." Lily instructed as soon as she was satisfied that she had picked out enough selections.
Kayla did as she was told, albeit grumbling her way to the changing stalls.
Lily then started looking for herself. She went through the reds but decided that they would clash with her hair. She then went through the blacks, but thought that they'd look too . . . .morbid. Then she moved to the emerald and sea greens, and begun picking out dresses. Coming out of the greens with only three dresses, she went over to the light blues, but they were all either too short, too old looking, or just plain ugly. Then she began looking through the whites. They were all so . . . beautiful, she didn't know which ones to get. She carefully selected four white dresses and then went over to where Aria was searching.
"You know Aria, you would look fabulous in a light blue dress, or maybe even a silver one." Lily told her as she was looking through purple shades. Aria looked into Lily's eyes, startled. "You really think so?" she asked. Lily smiled and nodded. "You always look fab-" she started, but soon stopped, finding it hard to talk.
Kayla had just come out in one of her dresses. It was something like she had never worn before. If Kayla had to wear a dress, it was always long. But this dress, it was short, different from the original Kayla style. It was a white dress with a sheer gray fabric over it that also had glitter running around on the bottom hem. The dress's hem brushed her knee tops, and was held up by thin straps of glittered fabric. The dress showed her legs off to perfection, although you could see two of her tattoos, her body looked magnificent in that dress.
"Kay, you have got to get that dress!" Lily whispered in awe. "Sirius will flip!" she said a little louder.
"What about the tattoos?" Kayla asked.
Lily smiled. "There is a spell that people can use to hide them."
"So," Kayla muttered, "I get the dress? Do you really think that Sirius will like it?" she wondered as she circled.
"Kayla. Sirius will love it!" Aria stuttered in wonder, finally getting her voice back from the shock.
Kayla smiled and returned to the dressing room to change.
"As I was saying, you always look fabulous in light colors." Lily said, directing her words towards Aria. "Now, follow me so that I can pick something out for you."
Aria rolled her eyes at her friend's back, but nothing less followed.
"You're a size three, aren't you?" Lily asked Aria.
"Yeah, I am."
"Good, now go try this dress on." Lily told her, handing her a dress like Kayla's except it was white on light blue.
Lily walked with Aria towards the changing room and got into a stall herself. She tried on the green dresses, but they all looked terrible on her. She then went to one of the white dresses. It the bottom layer of the dress was white silk with a white knitted material over it, and tied around Lily's neck, and stopped an inch above her knee caps. Lily turned around to face the mirror and gasped. She found her dress.
Lily stepped out of the stall to see Kayla and Aria waiting for her. Aria was in her dress, and it complimented every curve in her body. It looked as if it was made for her.
"What do you think?" Lily asked the gaping girls self-consciously.
"James is going to die of a heart-attack when he sees you in that!" Kayla complimented her.
Lily smiled and walked back into the stall. That was just what she wanted to hear.
After the robes shop, they had to go and get shoes, and then make up. By the time they were done, they were already five minutes late for meeting the boys.
The girls ran down the streets towards the Three Broom Sticks and ran into three impatient boys.
"Oops." Lily mumbled as she stopped in front of James.
James chuckled. "What took you so long?" he asked as he threw an arm around her shoulders and led her inside the pub.
"We forgot the time." Lily replied. Lily looked at his bag, then back up to his face.
"Is that the end of the year prank stuff?" she asked, pointing to the Zonko's bag. James shook his head. "No. This is a little gift for a Mr. Snape and Malfoy."
Lily's ears perked up and the mention of Snape's name. "Ohhh! What is it?" she demanded, only to have James shake his head and tell her with that all so patient tone, "You'll see tomorrow, won't you?" Lily glared at him, and sat down with a thump at a table and crossed her arms across her breasts. "Don't pout Lilsie . . . Please?" James asked with a puppy face. Lily laughed and lowered her arms. "Don't do that face James, it makes you look disoriented." She chuckled.
The rest of the day, the Marauders, and the Marauders' girls' enjoyed the last time they'd ever be students in the pub.
~*~*~*~
The morning of Graduation was so hectic that Lily couldn't even remember what happened until she took her seat in the front row of Ravenclaws.
All of the graduates wear wearing the robes that were issued by the school. The Ravenclaws had black and baby blue ones, the Hufflepuff's had yellow and black ones, the Slytherins had Green and Silver ones, and the Gryffindors had Gold and Scarlet ones.
The Heads made their speeches, and then the house heads, and then, finally Dumbledore made his.
The Slytherin house was called up first, then the Hufflepuffs, and then the Gryffindors, and then, finally, the Ravenclaws.
"I now give you lady's and gentlemen, the class of '82!" Dumbledore yelled, and cheers erupted. (A/N: Okay, I didn't know which year they graduated or anything, so I'm sorry if that is wrong.)
Suddenly, a huge pile of dung-bombs, fireworks, and many other small prank gadgets landed on Snape and Malfoy, along with pictures of their most embarrassing moments that they had had since coming to Hogwarts. Everyone but the Slytherins and their parents were doubled over in laughter. "Good one, Boys!" Mr. Potter yelled over the laughter. James, Sirius, and Remus bowed in recognition and drew their girls off the stage.
A/N: Okay, the next chapter is my last one, and I'm almost done with that one, so don't worry about waiting long for it. And I'm sending all the rest of my chapters to my beta as soon as I finish with the last chapter.
Happy Reading,
Mistress del Mare