Author's notes: Hello! I've finally finished the goddamn chapter. I apologise if this is getting really long. I just can't fit one day into one chapter. It always seems that the one day will be written so long I've to split it into two or three chapters. Damn me for being so descriptive. I write too long… I've managed to put this up because of one main factor… my stupid year-end exam IS FINALLY OVER!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!! Wahoo! Well anyway, the main point is that the chapter is finished and is posted up. ENJOY!!!!!!! On with the next chapter. Chapter five! ~Lady Lanya Artemisan~
The Problem with Teenagers
~Chapter Five~ Other Inhabitants of the Dormitories'First of September. Time to go back to school isn't it, Aglaia?' yawned Calliope to her peregrine falcon.
Aglaia chirped.
'Onto the train with you now,' said Calliope as she hoisted the falcon's cage onto the train. She struggled with her trunk.
'Come on sis. I'll help you,' said Falcon.
The Silvers had insisted their children return the day after the meeting was held, as did Lily. Phoenix just went back because she didn't want to be stuck in Hogwarts alone since the boys were going home too.
'Thanks Falcon,' said Calliope as her brother carried the trunk into an empty compartment and shoved it on the overhead shelf for trunks as Calliope set Aglaia's cage down next to her.
'How did you convince Professor Dumbledore to allow you to bring that bird anyway?' asked Falcon.
'Her name is Aglaia and she's a peregrine falcon. She's smart and listens. I promised she wouldn't cause trouble,' said Calliope.
'Right. Aglaia. What kind of name is that supposed to be?' enquired Falcon.
'If you're so smart, you figure it out. You're the so-called intelligent Ravenclaw,' said Calliope.
'Whatever,' said Falcon as he exited the compartment.
'Brothers,' Calliope muttered.
Calliope pulled out a storybook from her trunk and started reading it.
'Hey Calli!' said a loud voice as the compartment door slid open.
'Down Charmaine! Down! All your shouting is going to wake up the dead,' said Calliope disapprovingly.
'Howdy Calli!' said a medium-sized girl as she came in after Charmaine, levitating three trunks behind her onto the empty shelf opposite Calliope's trunk.
'Hello Cals!' said a tall girl as she strode in, closed the compartment door and sat next to Charmaine in front of Calliope.
'Hello Adrienne. Hi Rachel,' said Calliope as she went back to reading.
'What are you reading?' asked Charmaine Durst.
'A book,' Calliope replied plainly.
'I know it's a book Calli. What's the title?' said Charmaine.
Calliope lifted the book.
'Diana Wynne Jones. The Power of Three,' Adrienne Tyler read.
'Isn't that a Muggle storybook?' said Rachel Byrne.
'Yeah. Got a problem with that?' asked Calliope.
'No. But you don't seem like the type of person to read these kind of books,' replied Rachel.
'Well, I am,' said Calliope simply.
The compartment door slid open again and a girl with her nose in Transfiguration book sat down next to Calliope, magically levitating her own trunk next to Calliope's.
'Hello Sunny!' exclaimed Charmaine and Adrienne.
Sunnilia Malfoy put her book on her lap and glared at Charmaine and Adrienne.
'Don't call me Sunny. It sounds stupid,' she said. ' Call me that again, Charmaine and I'll charm you to the moon. You too, Adrienne.'
'We were only joking Sunnilia. Geez. Can't you take a joke?' said Charmaine put out.
'No. Not likely,' said Sunnilia as she went back to reading.
'Bookworms those two are,' whispered Rachel to the other one.
'Yeah. They're made for each other,' whispered back Charmaine.
'We heard you,' said Sunnilia and Calliope.
'Sorry,' said Charmaine.
Then in came another girl. Lily, who levitated her trunk on the shelf, magically fitting in between the three trunks opposite Calliope's.
'Howdy girlfriends!' said Lily as Rachel, Adrienne and Charmaine scooted over to give Lily some space to sit.
'Hello Lily,' said Calliope.
'Hi Lily. If you'll all excused me, I think it's getting a little crowded here. I'll go to another compartment,' said Sunnilia as she got up and went out with her trunk levitating behind her.
'That girl confuses me sometimes,' said Charmaine.
'Doesn't she always?' said Rachel.
Phoenix entered reading a book, automatically whisking her trunk next to Calliope's trunk. She sat next to Calliope and the two continued reading.
'Hiya Fi!' said Charmaine cheerily.
'Hi,' Phoenix said plainly.
Then another girl came in reading a book as well, magically put away the trunk onto the shelf next to Phoenix's.
'Hey Deb!' said Rachel and Charmaine.
'Hi Deborah,' said Lily, brightly.
'Hello Debbie,' said Adrienne.
'Hi guys,' was Deborah Augustin's reply.
'What are you and Deborah reading?' Lily asked Phoenix.
The two lifted their books for the others to see.
'Diana Wynne Jones. The Time of the Ghost,' Rachel read Deborah's book.
'Diana Wynne Jones. Fire and Hemlock,' Adrienne read Phoenix's book.
'All three reading books by the same author,' said Charmaine.
'Oh geez. These three are just going to read all day, aren't they?' said Rachel.
'Yup,' said Lily.
'Let's go and leave bookworms be,' said Adrienne.
'We're going to infiltrate other compartments,' said Charmaine.
'The three of you stay here, okay?' said Rachel.
The three reading girls nodded still reading.
'Some things never change,' muttered Lily as Charmaine, Adrienne, Rachel and herself left the three girls to read.
'They're gone,' Calliope said as she looked over her book.
The three put down their books and pulled out bags from their trunks.
'You got what we need, Deb?' said Calliope.
'Got it, Calli,' said Deborah as she pulled out various items for her bag.
'Stock check,' said Calliope.
'Papers.'
'Check,' said Deborah as she took out a stack of papers from her backpack.
'Potion.'
'Check,' said Phoenix as she extracted a phial of fluorescent yellow liquid from her pocket.
'Did you mix that right?' asked Calliope uncertainly scrutinizing the liquid in the phial.
'You are talking to the daughter of the Potions Mistress whom taught me how to make potions as soon as I could understand what she's talking about,' said Phoenix.
'I know but is it supposed to be fluorescent yellow?' enquired Deborah.
'Yeah,' said Phoenix.
'All right. If you say so. You're the potion whiz,' said Calliope.
'Aren't you right, bucko,' said Phoenix smugly.
Calliope rolled her eyes.
'Don't you roll your eyes at me, Calli. After all you are the Charms geek,' said Phoenix.
'Actually, that's me,' Deborah said. 'Calli's the overall freak.'
'Whose side are you on, Debbie?' asked Calliope.
'No one but my own,' said Deborah.
'Whatever, Deb,' said Phoenix.
'Let's continue. Book.'
'It's in your bag, Cals,' said Phoenix.
'Got it.' Deborah pulled out a musty old book from Calliope's bag.
'Charm.'
'Got it right here,' said Deborah as she tapped her temple.
'Right then. We're all set,' said Calliope. 'We'll check the loose ingredients in the dorm later. Agreed?'
'Agreed,' the other two said.
'Pack up then, girls. Don't want anyone to suspect anything,' said Calliope.
'Like anyone will suspect us,' said Phoenix, as she put the phial back into her pocket.
'The goody-two-shoe geniuses of Gryffindor,' said Deborah putting the stack of papers into her backpack.
'And the point of doing this is to prove them wrong,' said Calliope as she put the book back into her bag. 'In your robes so they won't suspect anything.'
The three girls pulled on their school robes and sat back with smiles settled on their faces. Just in time, for Charmaine came in with Rachel at that exact moment, both grinning excitedly.
'Charmaine! Rachel! What in blue blazes…' Calliope said before she was interrupted by their mutterings.
'Two, one,' Charmaine and Rachel muttered and a loud bang erupted two compartments down from theirs.
'What in God's name happened?' Phoenix exclaimed as Deborah peeked outside.
A few other curious heads poked out from their compartment doors as well. She saw a compartment with smoke trailing out from the bottom of the compartment door that curiously looked blue. Calliope came up next to Deborah and they both shared a look. Deborah carefully walked out of the compartment with Calliope following her and the two gently tugged the compartment door open. Blue smoke gushed out of the compartment, causing the two girls to cough. In the compartment they saw the silhouette of six people coughing.
'Lily? Adrienne?' Calliope said squinting.
'Calliope? You did this?' said a boy.
'What do you think?' said Phoenix as she came up behind the two.
The smoke cleared slightly and the three Gryffindor girls could see Lily and Adrienne as well as all four of the fifth-year Gryffindor boys, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew all unmistakably blue in colour from head to toe.
Phoenix snorted and Deborah bit back a laugh but was still smiling.
'Where are they? I'm going to murder them, blend them and make them into chicken soup,' said Lily angrily.
Calliope, Deborah and Phoenix pointed back to their compartment with an "oh well" look and Lily ran down the corridor and threw open the door and stormed in. Calliope could hear the two of them laughing.
"This is going to be a long day."
'What's going on?' asked Adrienne as Rachel and Charmaine kept on laughing while asking for mercy. 'Shouldn't we go help them? I mean it's not permanent, is it?'
'Nothing's wrong Eddie. Lily's just getting stress out,' said Phoenix.
'Huh?' Adrienne said puzzled.
'Lily's hair is blue,' Calliope said with a knowing smile.
'Oh,' said Adrienne. 'We'll leave her to it then.'
'Not me. I'm going to get my share of fun,' said Sirius
'Whatever, Sirius,' said Deborah as Sirius went out of the compartment.
'I suggest the rest of you go and freshen up,' said Calliope.
'Right,' said James rolling his eyes.
'Come on then, James. The train isn't leaving for a while,' said Remus as he and Peter went out of the compartment.
'Let's get out of here,' said Calliope.
All eleven Gryffindor fifth-years spent the whole train ride in one compartment talking, laughing and playing Exploding Snap when all of a sudden…
SCREEEEEEECCCCCCCCHHH!!!!!!
'What happened?' screamed Lily.
'The train stopped,' said Phoenix as the light went off.
'I don't like the dark,' squeaked Peter.
'What exactly happened?' asked Deborah.
'There's something on the train track. It cut the train's power circuit,' said Calliope suddenly.
'You know what, Calliope? You scare me sometimes,' said Sirius.
They heard the compartment door open and a few shouts and screams came from the Gryffindors.
'Who's there?' asked Remus.
'I-I'm s-s-so-sorry,' stuttered a small boy.
'Are you a first-year or something?' asked Rachel.
'Y-y-yes,' stuttered the boy again.
'What's your name?' asked James.
'B-Bill. Bill Weasley,' said the boy again.
'Well, Bill, can you get off of me?' said Charmaine impatiently.
'I-I'm s-s-sorry,' said Bill.
There were some scuffling sounds and whoever who fell down earlier were standing again.
'Can we have some light here?' asked Adrienne.
Then a bright light made them all blink. Calliope and Remus had conjured up fire and held it in their hands.
'You can do this too?' asked Remus.
Calliope didn't say anything but seemed to be in deep thought.
'Couldn't have done it from the start, could you?' said Charmaine sulkily.
Again Calliope didn't reply but looked towards to door.
'Calli?' said Deborah cautiously.
Stay in the compartment,' Calliope said and went out of the compartment, closing the compartment door behind her.
The compartment was quiet besides the quiet cackling of the fire Remus held.
'I'm going after her,' said Sirius suddenly as he made to get up but Adrienne held him back.
'What?' snapped Sirius.
'She said to stay in the compartment, Black. Can't you understand simple instructions?' Adrienne said tonelessly.
'You're not the boss of me and neither is she. I want to know what's going on here so let me go, Tyler,' snapped Sirius.
'No,' said Adrienne sternly.
'It's for our own good you know,' Phoenix said offhandedly.
'What do you mean, Phoenix?' asked James.
'We've known Calliope all our lives and she knows us. We just understand what she does is for our own good,' said Lily. 'Even if she gets hurt, she doesn't care. She doesn't want us to get hurt.'
'So you just let her be like that? She could get killed. How can you leave her like that?' said Sirius angrily. 'What kind of a friend are you?'
'If you know a person that long, you understand their intentions,' said Deborah.
'It's always been like this. You may not understand but we do,' said Phoenix, her violet eyes darkening. 'Go ahead then. Go on out there and get yourself killed if you can even open the door.'
'Or even touch it actually. Wouldn't suggest it though. You'll just hurt her,' said Lily leaning back into the back.
'Even if we don't know Calliope as long as Lily and Phoenix do, me and Deb do share the same dormitory as them for four years already,' said Adrienne.
'If you share a room with others for a long time, you get to know and understand at least a little bit about each other,' said Deborah.
'You guys freak me out, you know that?' said Sirius as he sat back down.
'Just shows how much you guys bond with each other,' said Phoenix plainly.
'It's awfully quiet outside,' squeaked Bill, shaking like a leaf.
'I wonder what Calliope's up to,' said Remus.
'God knows what caused her to go off like that so quickly,' murmured Phoenix.
'I hope she's okay,' said Lily.
'We can only hope, Lil,' said Deborah as she sat down next to Lily, patting her shoulder.
Comments for previous chapter reviewers:
Karma50: Thanks but I think that was my mid-term marks. Not all Malfoys are slimy gitfaces. Only Lucius and the generations before him. Draco's okay in my future stories. And one last thing…… DON'T THROW ME BACK OVER THAT FREEZING COLD CLIFF!!!!!!!!!! I've still got frostbites. *gingerly rubs arm*
Tsukii-chan: Sorry if they start turning scaring…… I'll go read your Arabella/Sirius story later, kay?
WhetherRose: I'm glad you like the "no time at all" part. I have no idea how that came around. But since Phoenix is a smart person, it fit right in. I just felt like is was meant for them to be good friends. Besides, I'm like that with my friends too! Thank you for the compliment! I love to write funny or mysterious or extremely upsetting stories. It just happens. =)
Bessyboo: I'm glad you like my story so much. Well, I've finally updated so don't kill me yet. I have to get back my test papers from my teachers first. Then you can kill me. (Thanks for referring LadyKassandra. I love reviewers!)
LadyKassandra: Thanks! It means a lot to me.
FairyTale: I'm glad you like it. I randomly put anyone into my stories. I like Remus so he's more focused. There will be some Marauder's action if I can actually get them to Hogwarts in the first place. I will tend to focus on certain characters a lot. Francis? Well, I might mention him somewhere in the middle or end of the story but it's not confirmed. Rest assured. If I don't write it in the story I might write to you and anyone else who might want to know about what happened to him.
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Author's Note: Haha! Left you hanging there a bit. Hmmm… I wonder what happened to Calliope? I wonder? Hah! I know! But I ain't gonna tell ya! You'll just have to wait until I write my sixth chapter. If I ever write it………… KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!!! *continues to cackle like a horrid hag* Until then, leave a precious review for me to see. Okay? Thank you!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: Calliope Silver, Aglaia the peregrine falcon, Falcon Silver, Sunnilia Malfoy, and Phoenix Nightingale belong to me. Charmaine Durst, Adrienne Tyler, Rachel Byrne, and Deborah Augustin are names I picked out from my friends (not the last names with the exception of Deb, That is her name. =) ) and they belong to themselves or their parents or whatever. Everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury, Scholastic Books and what so not. They don't belong to me (unless I forgot to mention them).