Marauder Mayhem
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. You all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
A/N: OKAY, FROM NOW ON I'M GOING TO BE PUTTING A RANDOM THOUGHT (OR A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS IF I CAN'T PICK JUST ONE) ON EACH OF MY CHAPTERS. I THINK I'LL PROBABLY JUST START AS OF RIGHT NOW, BUT IF I DECIDE TO GO BACK AND REDO ALL THE OTHER CHAPTERS, I'LL LET YOU KNOW IN CASE YOU WANT TO READ THEM. THEY'RE USUALLY PRETTY FUNNY. I'LL START OUT WITH A FEW THIS CHAPTER JUST TO KICK IT OFF.
Random Thought #1: "Guys are like roses; you gotta watch out for the pricks!"
Random Thought #2: "Home is behind, the world ahead. And there are many paths to tread. Through shadows, to the edge of night. Until the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow, cloud and shade. All shall fade, all shall fade." ~JRR Tolkien (Billy Boyd sings this in Return of the King and it is so incredibly beautiful. It just sucks that that cow Denethor had to eat like a freakin pig while he was trying to sing!)
Random Thought #3: "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~Albus Dumbledore (Sorcerer's Stone)
Chapter 21 - October 24th
"Morning Minx," said Sirius as he sat down next to Raven in the library and yawned. Raven kept her nose in the book she was reading. "Minx? Minxie!!!! Raven McKinnon, hello???"
Raven jumped and jerked her head up to Sirius. "What?"
"I was calling your name," Sirius said as he rose his eyebrows at her.
"You were?"
"Hey there, Minx," said James as he sat down on the other side of Raven and smiled at her.
Raven turned back to Sirius. "Is that what you were calling me?"
"Yeah, we decided last night in our dorm. Vulpix is too childish, ya know?" Sirius told her.
"Okay, but you gotta let me know, cuz I'm not used to that yet," she replied.
"Wood told me to come get you guys," said James. "We're having practice today.
"Aw shit! We just won! Why?" asked Sirius.
"He kept talking about some Wronski Feint thing he wants Raven to do, or something."
Raven crinkled up her nose. "Wrong ski what?"
"I don't know, it's like a new diving move he said." James shrugged his shoulders. "Couldn't hurt, right?"
James led Sirius and Raven out of the locker rooms and they were met in the doorway by Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Regulus. Sirius pretended not to see them and "accidentally bumped into Rudolphus.
"Oh my gosh!" said Sirius as he turned around to face them and put his hands on his cheeks. "Wow, I so didn't see you there, Rudy! How inconsiderate of me!" He glared into his brother's eyes and then turned back to Rodolphus.
Rodolphus looked about ready to strangle Sirius. He started shaking with rage as he spoke. "Call me Rudy again and I'll cut your heart out with a spoon, I swear to God!"
Bella put a hand on his shoulder and remained cool. "We'll just see who's still alive after our next Quiddich match, right McKinnon?" She stared arrogantly into Raven's eyes.
Raven had a feeling Bella knew something she didn't, but she replied nonchalantly, "Black, my friend, I appreciate the wit, but from trash like you I take no shit!"
Sirius and James both started cracking up. Sirius doubled over and had to hold his stomach, he was laughing so hard. Bella, Rodolphus, and Regulus slowly slithered away, the laughter following them down the hallway.
"God, Raven that was the best, just the best!" said James, still unable to control his laughter.
"Good goin, Minx! You're gonna earn your nickname yet!" agreed Sirius.
The three of them went down to practice with renewed high spirits.
"Okay, now why don't you guys get a game of three on three goin," said Wood to the rest of the team. "I'll join you in a minute. I want to work with Raven on this new move for a minute because Slytherin has a new seeker and I don't know how good she is."
"She?" asked Raven. Then it hit her. She looked over at Sirius with a pained expression on her face. "Is she good?"
Comprehension suddenly came to Sirius. "Bellatrix? Goddamn it! Slytherin never takes girls on the team!"
"Well, they do now," said Wood. "Does that mean she's good?"
"Well, I don't make a point of hanging out with my pure blood maniac cousin, but as far as I remember, she kicked my ass as seeker when we were kids."
Wood looked like he was expecting this. "Alright, Raven, then we gotta get to work. Don't get me wrong, you're good, but Slytherin plays dirty." The rest of the team mounted their brooms and started playing while Wood showed Raven how to do the dive. "Okay, now it's called a Wronski Defensive Feint; it's a seeker diversion. What you do, is you pretend you see the snitch to get the other seeker to follow you into a dive. You go along straight for awhile and then you go into a sudden steep dive, making the other seeker think you're just chasing after the snitch. You plummet straight down as fast as you can and you pull out at the last second. Hopefully, the other seeker is one step behind you and when you pull up, they'll be hitting the ground and you'll have lots more time to locate the snitch while they're being scraped off the field."
Raven's eyes widened at she looked at Justin concernedly. "Isn't that dangerous? I don't wanna kill anybody!"
Justin waved his hand in the air, dismissively. "I was exaggerating. The other seeker isn't gonna be mortally wounded, but they'll be off their broom, that's for sure, and while they're being tended you, you'd better be looking for the snitch in a real game."
"Okay," said Raven, uneasily.
"Now I'm not even gonna get the snitch out today. I just want you to practice diving straight down and pulling up. Start slow and make sure you can do it, and then gradually get faster. We're gonna practice a lot before we play Slytherin again so you don't hafta master it today. Just keep it slow and steady for now and gradually kick it up a notch once you think you've got it down." Raven nodded and Justin patted her back, warmly. "Thatta girl." He went to join the three on three game and left Raven to practice her diving.
She started off slow, like he said, but it was really easy. She started picking up speed and plummeting straight down at the field, chasing an imaginary snitch. "This is so easy," she thought to herself as she leaned forward on her broom making it go faster and faster. She was about twenty feet from the pitch when she started pulling back up and the quaffle zoomed only an inch away from the right side of her head. She lost her concentration and hit the ground hard, rolling off of her broom and onto the hard grass. The entire team heard the thud and raced over to her. She rolled over her own body on the grass four times before coming to a stop. She was on her side laying on one arm, the other flung out behind her at a weird angle. Her head rested on the ground and her eyes were closed.
"Oh shit," said Wood as he landed next to her and lifted her arm. He let go of it and it dropped back to the ground without delay. Sirius and James landed next and both rushed over to her.
Sirius knelt by her head and lifted it up into his lap. "Raven?" He shook her lightly but she didn't move.
James looked at his unconscious best friend and rounded on Wood. "What the fuck did you tell her to do?"
The rest of the team ran inside to get Madam Pomfrey.
Wood looked extremely worried. "I told her to start out slow, I swear to God! She got distracted by the Quaffle!"
"Yeah, the Quaffle that you threw!" yelled Sirius as he put his hand on Raven's cheek, tapping it lightly.
"I'm a goalie! My aim sucks!" justified Wood.
James knelt down and took Raven's hand. His eyes widened and he let go of it. "I think her arms broken."
"Arms we can fix. Waking her up is going to be a problem," said a stern voice from behind them. Madam Hooch raised her wand to levitate Raven up to the hospital wing.
Raven's body rose and was suspended a few feet from the ground. They all followed Hooch up to the castle.
"What on earth were you doing?" she asked them all, her mouth very thin.
"I had her practicing the Wronski Feint," said Wood uneasily.
Madam Hooch rounded on him. "That is a dangerous trick that only the most skilled flyers can accomplish!"
"She's one of the best flyers I've ever seen, Madam Hooch! I'm sorry! I told her to take it easy!" replied Wood, furious with himself.
They were met in the entrance hall by Madam Pomfrey who took over for Madam Hooch and shoed the team away. "She needs to be treated right now. You can see her later!"
James and Sirius protested loudly. "We need to know if she's going to be alright!" Sirius yelled into her face, angrily.
Pomfrey turned on him and raised her wand. "Black! If I knew, I would tell you! Go to your dormitories, all of you, immediately!"
After Pomfrey had disappeared into the hospital wing, Sirius grabbed James' arm. "The cloak."
James nodded and they both ran up to Gryffindor Tower. Remus, Lily, and Peter met them at the portrait and demanded to know what was going on.
"Wood's saying something about Raven being--"
"Unconscious," Sirius finished Remus' sentence.
"Oh my God!" yelled Lily. She made a move to get past them through the portrait but James caught her around the waist.
"Pomfrey won't let us see her. We're going to get my cloak," said James, still holding onto her.
"Ahem, ahem." Dumbledore cleared his voice behind them and they all whipped around to face him. "Please, you must stay here. I'm going down to the hospital wing to find out the situation. I will come back as soon as I know anything and tell you all. You must understand that the more you try to interfere, the less chance she will have of recovering sooner. If you terrorize Madam Pomfrey it will just take away time she should be using to treat Raven." Dumbledore turned quickly and was gone.
A/N: I DECIDED ON MINX. SORRY TO THOSE OF YOU WHO WANTED VULPIX. I THOUGHT NAMING RAVEN AFTER A POKEMON WOULD BE KIND OF CHILDISH? MINX SAYS MORE ABOUT HER CHARACTER AND VULPIX IS A HARDLY A NICKNAME, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? NICKNAMES ARE USUALLY SHORT AND EASY TO SAY. VULPIX JUST DOESN'T ROLL OFF THE TONGUE LIKE MINX DOES. "HEY THERE, MINX" AS OPPOSED TO "HEY THERE, VULPIX." FOR SOME REASON IT JUST DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT TO ME. ANYWAYS, I THINK I JUST ACHIEVED MY FIRST REAL CLIFFHANGER, EH?? HOPE YOU LIKED IT. PLEASE REVIEW!
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. You all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
A/N: OKAY, FROM NOW ON I'M GOING TO BE PUTTING A RANDOM THOUGHT (OR A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS IF I CAN'T PICK JUST ONE) ON EACH OF MY CHAPTERS. I THINK I'LL PROBABLY JUST START AS OF RIGHT NOW, BUT IF I DECIDE TO GO BACK AND REDO ALL THE OTHER CHAPTERS, I'LL LET YOU KNOW IN CASE YOU WANT TO READ THEM. THEY'RE USUALLY PRETTY FUNNY. I'LL START OUT WITH A FEW THIS CHAPTER JUST TO KICK IT OFF.
Random Thought #1: "Guys are like roses; you gotta watch out for the pricks!"
Random Thought #2: "Home is behind, the world ahead. And there are many paths to tread. Through shadows, to the edge of night. Until the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow, cloud and shade. All shall fade, all shall fade." ~JRR Tolkien (Billy Boyd sings this in Return of the King and it is so incredibly beautiful. It just sucks that that cow Denethor had to eat like a freakin pig while he was trying to sing!)
Random Thought #3: "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~Albus Dumbledore (Sorcerer's Stone)
Chapter 21 - October 24th
"Morning Minx," said Sirius as he sat down next to Raven in the library and yawned. Raven kept her nose in the book she was reading. "Minx? Minxie!!!! Raven McKinnon, hello???"
Raven jumped and jerked her head up to Sirius. "What?"
"I was calling your name," Sirius said as he rose his eyebrows at her.
"You were?"
"Hey there, Minx," said James as he sat down on the other side of Raven and smiled at her.
Raven turned back to Sirius. "Is that what you were calling me?"
"Yeah, we decided last night in our dorm. Vulpix is too childish, ya know?" Sirius told her.
"Okay, but you gotta let me know, cuz I'm not used to that yet," she replied.
"Wood told me to come get you guys," said James. "We're having practice today.
"Aw shit! We just won! Why?" asked Sirius.
"He kept talking about some Wronski Feint thing he wants Raven to do, or something."
Raven crinkled up her nose. "Wrong ski what?"
"I don't know, it's like a new diving move he said." James shrugged his shoulders. "Couldn't hurt, right?"
James led Sirius and Raven out of the locker rooms and they were met in the doorway by Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Regulus. Sirius pretended not to see them and "accidentally bumped into Rudolphus.
"Oh my gosh!" said Sirius as he turned around to face them and put his hands on his cheeks. "Wow, I so didn't see you there, Rudy! How inconsiderate of me!" He glared into his brother's eyes and then turned back to Rodolphus.
Rodolphus looked about ready to strangle Sirius. He started shaking with rage as he spoke. "Call me Rudy again and I'll cut your heart out with a spoon, I swear to God!"
Bella put a hand on his shoulder and remained cool. "We'll just see who's still alive after our next Quiddich match, right McKinnon?" She stared arrogantly into Raven's eyes.
Raven had a feeling Bella knew something she didn't, but she replied nonchalantly, "Black, my friend, I appreciate the wit, but from trash like you I take no shit!"
Sirius and James both started cracking up. Sirius doubled over and had to hold his stomach, he was laughing so hard. Bella, Rodolphus, and Regulus slowly slithered away, the laughter following them down the hallway.
"God, Raven that was the best, just the best!" said James, still unable to control his laughter.
"Good goin, Minx! You're gonna earn your nickname yet!" agreed Sirius.
The three of them went down to practice with renewed high spirits.
"Okay, now why don't you guys get a game of three on three goin," said Wood to the rest of the team. "I'll join you in a minute. I want to work with Raven on this new move for a minute because Slytherin has a new seeker and I don't know how good she is."
"She?" asked Raven. Then it hit her. She looked over at Sirius with a pained expression on her face. "Is she good?"
Comprehension suddenly came to Sirius. "Bellatrix? Goddamn it! Slytherin never takes girls on the team!"
"Well, they do now," said Wood. "Does that mean she's good?"
"Well, I don't make a point of hanging out with my pure blood maniac cousin, but as far as I remember, she kicked my ass as seeker when we were kids."
Wood looked like he was expecting this. "Alright, Raven, then we gotta get to work. Don't get me wrong, you're good, but Slytherin plays dirty." The rest of the team mounted their brooms and started playing while Wood showed Raven how to do the dive. "Okay, now it's called a Wronski Defensive Feint; it's a seeker diversion. What you do, is you pretend you see the snitch to get the other seeker to follow you into a dive. You go along straight for awhile and then you go into a sudden steep dive, making the other seeker think you're just chasing after the snitch. You plummet straight down as fast as you can and you pull out at the last second. Hopefully, the other seeker is one step behind you and when you pull up, they'll be hitting the ground and you'll have lots more time to locate the snitch while they're being scraped off the field."
Raven's eyes widened at she looked at Justin concernedly. "Isn't that dangerous? I don't wanna kill anybody!"
Justin waved his hand in the air, dismissively. "I was exaggerating. The other seeker isn't gonna be mortally wounded, but they'll be off their broom, that's for sure, and while they're being tended you, you'd better be looking for the snitch in a real game."
"Okay," said Raven, uneasily.
"Now I'm not even gonna get the snitch out today. I just want you to practice diving straight down and pulling up. Start slow and make sure you can do it, and then gradually get faster. We're gonna practice a lot before we play Slytherin again so you don't hafta master it today. Just keep it slow and steady for now and gradually kick it up a notch once you think you've got it down." Raven nodded and Justin patted her back, warmly. "Thatta girl." He went to join the three on three game and left Raven to practice her diving.
She started off slow, like he said, but it was really easy. She started picking up speed and plummeting straight down at the field, chasing an imaginary snitch. "This is so easy," she thought to herself as she leaned forward on her broom making it go faster and faster. She was about twenty feet from the pitch when she started pulling back up and the quaffle zoomed only an inch away from the right side of her head. She lost her concentration and hit the ground hard, rolling off of her broom and onto the hard grass. The entire team heard the thud and raced over to her. She rolled over her own body on the grass four times before coming to a stop. She was on her side laying on one arm, the other flung out behind her at a weird angle. Her head rested on the ground and her eyes were closed.
"Oh shit," said Wood as he landed next to her and lifted her arm. He let go of it and it dropped back to the ground without delay. Sirius and James landed next and both rushed over to her.
Sirius knelt by her head and lifted it up into his lap. "Raven?" He shook her lightly but she didn't move.
James looked at his unconscious best friend and rounded on Wood. "What the fuck did you tell her to do?"
The rest of the team ran inside to get Madam Pomfrey.
Wood looked extremely worried. "I told her to start out slow, I swear to God! She got distracted by the Quaffle!"
"Yeah, the Quaffle that you threw!" yelled Sirius as he put his hand on Raven's cheek, tapping it lightly.
"I'm a goalie! My aim sucks!" justified Wood.
James knelt down and took Raven's hand. His eyes widened and he let go of it. "I think her arms broken."
"Arms we can fix. Waking her up is going to be a problem," said a stern voice from behind them. Madam Hooch raised her wand to levitate Raven up to the hospital wing.
Raven's body rose and was suspended a few feet from the ground. They all followed Hooch up to the castle.
"What on earth were you doing?" she asked them all, her mouth very thin.
"I had her practicing the Wronski Feint," said Wood uneasily.
Madam Hooch rounded on him. "That is a dangerous trick that only the most skilled flyers can accomplish!"
"She's one of the best flyers I've ever seen, Madam Hooch! I'm sorry! I told her to take it easy!" replied Wood, furious with himself.
They were met in the entrance hall by Madam Pomfrey who took over for Madam Hooch and shoed the team away. "She needs to be treated right now. You can see her later!"
James and Sirius protested loudly. "We need to know if she's going to be alright!" Sirius yelled into her face, angrily.
Pomfrey turned on him and raised her wand. "Black! If I knew, I would tell you! Go to your dormitories, all of you, immediately!"
After Pomfrey had disappeared into the hospital wing, Sirius grabbed James' arm. "The cloak."
James nodded and they both ran up to Gryffindor Tower. Remus, Lily, and Peter met them at the portrait and demanded to know what was going on.
"Wood's saying something about Raven being--"
"Unconscious," Sirius finished Remus' sentence.
"Oh my God!" yelled Lily. She made a move to get past them through the portrait but James caught her around the waist.
"Pomfrey won't let us see her. We're going to get my cloak," said James, still holding onto her.
"Ahem, ahem." Dumbledore cleared his voice behind them and they all whipped around to face him. "Please, you must stay here. I'm going down to the hospital wing to find out the situation. I will come back as soon as I know anything and tell you all. You must understand that the more you try to interfere, the less chance she will have of recovering sooner. If you terrorize Madam Pomfrey it will just take away time she should be using to treat Raven." Dumbledore turned quickly and was gone.
A/N: I DECIDED ON MINX. SORRY TO THOSE OF YOU WHO WANTED VULPIX. I THOUGHT NAMING RAVEN AFTER A POKEMON WOULD BE KIND OF CHILDISH? MINX SAYS MORE ABOUT HER CHARACTER AND VULPIX IS A HARDLY A NICKNAME, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? NICKNAMES ARE USUALLY SHORT AND EASY TO SAY. VULPIX JUST DOESN'T ROLL OFF THE TONGUE LIKE MINX DOES. "HEY THERE, MINX" AS OPPOSED TO "HEY THERE, VULPIX." FOR SOME REASON IT JUST DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT TO ME. ANYWAYS, I THINK I JUST ACHIEVED MY FIRST REAL CLIFFHANGER, EH?? HOPE YOU LIKED IT. PLEASE REVIEW!