AN: I apologise for the mixed up years. I made a timeline the other day and realised that Lory and Mazie would have to be fifth years, not third years. Same with Jesse actually being a fourth not second year. Sorry for the mistake!
Harrie: A cracker is a cardboard tube with coloured paper on that you'd pull at Christmas and then get small gifts from. Voxenking: I don't understand how someone could butcher the movie like that though. Personally, my fav book is the Order of the Pheonix, there's so much hurt and emotion in that story, I actually cried when Sirius died!
Chapter 17 – Memories, birthdays and proposals
Paisley was in an extremely good mood today, she had gotten up like usual (which would've been half asleep as she dragged herself to the showers), sung a song in the showers with the girls like usual and had gone down to meet the boys like usual then gone to breakfast, like usual.
But today, she was extremely perky, halfway between her shower and meeting the guys in the common room, she had remembered something so important t her, that she didn't even notice the chair she fell over on her way out of the common room with the gang.
"What's with her?" Jared asked with his strange accent.
"Well maybe if you had paid attention this past week you'd know it was her birthday." Kaci retorted.
"Well I'm so sorry for forgetting that small little detail." Jared replied sarcastically. "Happy birthday Paisley." He said to the other red headed girl, who laughed along with the others.
"Yeah, happy birthday." Joss said.
"Thanks guys." Paisley said to them all as they continued their way to the Hall.
They sat down in their usual seats. Paisley's friends handed her small presents or cards and then they ate.
"Well, we found her." Lory said, coming up to the group during breakfast.
"That we did." Mazie agreed with a scary looking grin.
"Your reminding me of your Dad, Mazie, what's going on?" Kaci asked the two fifth years suspiciously.
"Hey Paisley, happy birthday." Amiry White, the fifth year Gryffindor prefect said happily, approaching them.
"Thanks Amiry." Paisley replied with a grin.
"Oh yeah. That's it. Her birthday." Jesse said evilly, approaching them.
"Oh no." Amiry muttered, "What are you three up too?" She questioned.
"Oh, nothing much." Lory said nonchalantly, "Watch the Slytherin's." She instructed, they all turned to Slytherin table, which was on the other side of the hall.
"In five, four, three, two, one." Jesse counted down, his hand up and his fingers going down.
Big explosions went off from the Slytherin tables, the bowls of fruit blew up and fire crackers in red and gold zoomed around the Hall, they were in the shapes of dragons breathing fire and little flying pigs with wings. When the fireworks over at the table died down, a big banner saying 'Happy Birthday Paisley' started floating over the tables, it's text flashing different colours.
Paisley blushed bright red and tried to hide under the table, but to no avail. Mazie pinned a pink badge to her chest that said 'I'm twelve! Kiss me!' and the others all started singing happy birthday to her whilst she went brighter than her hair.
After they had stopped singing, a snowy white owl swooped down and landed bumpily on the Gryffindor table in front of Paisley, it held two packages and an envelope. Paisley reached out and took the envelope off first, inside was a small card with a cute house elf on the front of it, Paisley had seen pictures of them in books but had yet to meet one.
'Happy birthday Angel, Have a great day, Love Mum and Dad' the card said, Paisley went to open the first package, but noticed a tag first.
'Open this in your dorm, Love Dad.' Paisley frowned and passed it to Kaci, who read it also.
Paisley reached for the other present, the tag just said 'Enlarge them.', Paisley frowned and opened the package. Muttering an enlargement spell on the things. She gasped.
On top of the pile of clothes was a beautiful robe, it was a bottle green colour and had golden trimmings. Paisley knew that her Mum had made it for formal occasions.
"Wow, that's beautiful Paisley." Shira complimented.
"I'm jealous." Kaci stated.
"That must be a one of a kind robe P, I've never seen that design in a shop before." Chenyce stated, Paisley nodded.
"I think my Mum made it." She stated. They looked through the other clothes, some which were muggle and some wizarding, Virginia had obviously made quite a few of them.
"Let's go take this all up to our dorm now." Kaci suggested, each of the girls took a few of the clothes and Paisley took her other package. The four girls went back up to their dorm and once in, they clambered onto Paisley's bed, nearly squishing Sakura, Jester and Lio in the process.
"Open it already! Find out why Uncle Harry didn't want you to open it in the Hall." Kaci instructed, Paisley put the package in her lap and slowly teared off the red paper. A note fell out and Paisley took it, ignoring the gasps Kaci and Chenyce gave off.
'Paisley, your Mum isn't to know I've sent you these, she'd kill me. The cloak, it's an invisibility cloak. Try it out sometime. The plain parchment however isn't so plain, place the tip of your wand to it and say 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good', it will produce a map of Hogwarts and the people in it. Remus, Sirius, my father and another guy made it whilst they were in school, I got give it, and now you can have it. When your finished with it, say 'Mischief managed' and it will look like ordinary parchment again, though make sure you don't get caught with it, it likes to insult people who don't know how o work it, trust me, I'd know. See you soon, love Dad.'
"Long note." Paisley commented, she put it to the side where Kaci took it and stood up, invisibility cloak in hand. She swung it around her shoulders and the girls gasped again. "What?" Paisley asked, a little irritated.
"Look!" Kaci exclaimed, pointing to the mirror behind her friend. Paisley turned and gasped.
"I'm gone!" She explained, "So that's why it's called an invisibility cloak." She muttered.
"Think of all the things we could do with it!" Chenyce exclaimed, Kaci put down the note and picked up the plain piece of parchment.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Kaci stated, pointing her wand at the parchment. Little lines began to form, creating what looked like a map. The four girls stared in shock when they saw little labels of themselves appear, actually in their dorm room. "Wicked." Kaci muttered. Little words in magnificent green writing appeared at the top.
Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs
Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers
are proud to present
THE MARAUDER'S MAP
"Wait, isn't that the boys dorms?" Chenyce asked, pointing to two labels, one was labelled Martin Wood and the other was labelled… Lorraine Weasley.
"Eww! No no NO!" Kaci exclaimed, it appeared that the two were in Martin's dorm, alone, and VERY close. "Wrong! Mental images!" The girls all laughed.
"Well it seems that Mazie and an 'Andy Parson' are a little busy too." Shira stated, pointing out a room in the Astronomy Tower which they hadn't known was there.
"Oh man, that's disgusting." Kaci grumbled.
"Well I have an idea." Paisley said, "How about we put all this away as we're gonna be late for potions!" The other three screeched and they hurriedly got ready for their day of classes, it was a shame that one couldn't have free periods until sixth year.
Virginia sat on the recently hovered, warm wooden floor. The attic was a wonder to her as the previous people who had lived here had left so much up here, they had died unexpectedly and they were an old couple, their house ran through the generations of their family and with no children of their own, the house had not been left to anybody in their will, and neither had anything in it. So spring cleaning had become an issue recently now that both Harry and Virginia had time off work.
Anyways, Virginia sat in one corner of the attic, light pooling in through the large window covering one wall. When they had come to put their things up here, they found a corner in which to leave it all, though there was otherwise no space. She sat with her old Hogwarts trunk sitting in front of her, it had lain forgotten for many years, but it had recently popped into her mind and she was now willing to embrace her past.
Virginia took a deep breath and reached out, she slowly unclasped the locks and then lifted the lid. She coughed a bit as magic and dust flew into her face and the area around her. She waved it away and nervously looked into her trunk. The thing she saw first was her photo album. She picked up the photo album. The first pictures were of her first year, they then progressed to the day before she had gone. She flicked through the book for a while, stopping on pictures of her and Harry, normally cuddling or just talking. Colin had loved his camera that much that her photo album had many pictures of random times in it.
She smiled as she traced the pictures with her fingers. She then took out her sketch book, she could remember the nights in the Gryffindor common room with that. Her and Harry would be cuddling on 'their' seatee, and he'd be looking over her shoulder, content in staying silent and just watching her sketch. She smiled and carried on flipping through her old sketch book, which had remained hidden all of these years.
Virginia was looking through her things and gave a start as she felt warm and muscular arms slip around her waist, before melting into them.
"What're you doing?" Harry asked her softly.
"Looking at things." She replied, Harry buried his head into her shoulder and breathed in her cinnamon scent. He started trailing soft butterfly kisses down her neck. "Har-ry" She whined, Harry chuckled and carried on. "Oh c'mon, I'm trying to do something here." She complained with a pout, she groaned as he kissed her sensitive spot on her neck.
"So am I." He replied, Virginia got out of his grasp and stood up, Harry stood also with a lost-puppy-dog look on his face.
"Don't you use that look on me." Virginia admonished, Harry pouted and she giggled, stepping the small space between them and bringing her arms up around his neck. They kissed passionately, softly, but still with a lot of passion.
"I love you." Harry whispered as he stared into her eyes.
"I love you too." Virginia replied, Harry stepped a little away from her and put his hand into his pocket, a thoughtful look on his face. "What's wrong?" Virginia asked, worried she had done something. Harry shook his head with a smile and knelt down on one knee, the took a purple velvet covered jewellery box from his pocket and opened it to her.
"Virginia Summers… Ginny Weasley, whatever you want me to call you, will you do me the honours of being my wife?" Harry asked, Virginia stood there, too shocked for words.
The four girls raced to their class in the dungeons.
"This is your fault P!" Chenyce accused as they ran.
"My fault?!" Paisley exclaimed, "How?"
"Your birthday!" Kaci stated with a quick grin in Paisley's direction, which was somewhere to the left of her, next to Shira.
"I agree with the red head for once!" Shira added.
"Hey!" Paisley and Kaci exclaimed, Shira grinned mischievously at them.
They ran all the way down to the dungeons and slammed the door open. Jacob Gordrin, a Slytherin first year who the gang despised, dropped his vial of some dark red substance that looked suspiciously like blood.
"Sorry we're late." The four girls chorused.
"Get to your seats." Snape snapped, "And five points from Gryffindor, each." He added with a sneer, Chenyce looked ready to protest but thought better of it when Paisley jabbed her in the ribs.
I hate him. Paisley muttered to Naiad, who was sitting on her wrist.
Then do something about it. Naiad replied.
Yeah, then be kicked out of school for it. Paisley muttered. She got to work with Jared, who had saved her a seat. She blushed at how close they were working. Wow, and she really thought she would be over that crush by now.
Snape was stalking around the classroom, breathing down peoples necks as they worked, scaring the hell out of them all. Paisley wished she was with Doyle in this lesson, his father was a famous potions master, and that made Doyle quite the potions maker himself having grown up around it.
The room was silent and Paisley was trying really hard not to make a fool of herself in front of Jared, though she was already blushing to the tips of her ears.
He likes you too y'know. Naiad stated, Paisley looked down and glared at her snake.
Shut it. She retorted.
It's true! I can read his emotions.
So you're an empath now? Paisley asked sarcastically, she could've swore that Naiad rolled her eyes.
Every animal has at least some empathic ability. The now red snake stated, Paisley now rolled her eyes.
"Is this lesson boring you Summers?" Snape asked with a sneer, causing Paisley to knock over a jar in fright.
"Sorry." She apologised. "Naiad was just helping me, she likes to add commentaries to my lessons sir, it's very handy too." Paisley said in mock sincereness, Snape glared at her.
"Naiad?" He inquired, Paisley pulled back her sleeve to show the blood red snake, who hissed threateningly at the professor, the Slytherin's shouted and screamed. "What the hell?!" Snape shouted.
"She's very friendly sir." Paisley stated.
He's actually afraid. Naiad stated, she looked up at Paisley, who laughed.
"She's is a bit of an empath too." Paisley stated non-chalantly, her friends were sniggering behind her. "Wanna hold her?"
"Headmistresses… Office… NOW!" Snape roared, Paisley frowned and grabbed her bag, making sure to slam the door on the way out. "Class dismissed!" He shouted, before following Paisley, who was waiting outside the door for him. "What are you waiting here for girl? GO!"
"But sir, you wanted me to go to the headmistresses office, and I don't know where that is, so I was waiting for you to take me." Paisley said in mock innocence. Snape scowled and stormed off, Paisley following with a grin on her face which she couldn't hide.
"Sneakers." Snape roared as he approached a statue, it jumped to the side quickly and let him and Paisley past and onto an escalator which took them up. Paisley stared in awe at the huge doors before them. Snape knocked and when they heard a faint 'Come in', they entered, Snape nearly banging the doors down.
"Severus, what's wrong?" McGonnagal asked, Snape motioned to Paisley.
"The brat threatened me with a SNAKE! A snake Minerva! It shouldn't even be in this school!" Snape exclaimed.
"She has a name!" Paisley shouted at him, "She's called Naiad and she's one of my familiars."
"Familiars are cats Summers." Snape sneered at her.
"May I see this snake please?" McGonnagal asked, Paisley lifted her sleeve again and the now, innocent looking blueish-green snake was resting on her wrist.
"B-But t-that was red earlier!" Snape exclaimed, Paisley shrugged.
"Oh well." She stated nonchalantly.
"Miss Summers, could you please go to your next lesson now? I'll have to inform your parents of this and they shall be invited to talk about this, until then, no punishment has been inflicted upon you."
Virginia stood there, tears were forming it her eyes. She nodded numbly and Harry smiled, softly placing the emerald and diamond ring onto her finger. He then stood and cupped her face in his hand.
"This time will be so much better." Harry stated, Virginia nodded and leant up to kiss him.
"I love you with everything." She said softly.
"And I you." He replied, before kissing her again. He picked her up in his arms and carried her downstairs to their room, where he softly laid her down on the bed and kissed her fervently.
"I'm toast." Paisley muttered to her friends.
"Your not. Your parents don't sound that bad. Anyway, Snape started it." Doyle stated, Paisley nodded but didn't believe it.
The day had gone by quite slowly after that and Paisley dreaded her parents coming to the school. Threatening a teacher was a serious deal, even if she didn't do it.
McGonnagal entered the Hall sometime later, and with two guests.
They approached her and Paisley gulped and looked down.
"Miss Summers, I expect you in my office at eight o clock sharp." McGonnagal stated before walking up to the table, Harry glanced down at his daughter with a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry P, we've only just found out about your 'incident'." He stated.
"No lectures or anything?" Paisley asked hesitantly, glancing at her mother.
"Oh, don't worry, that's coming later." Virginia stated, "Our visit is more social, we wanted to see Remus."
"I didn't exactly expect you here." Said man stated, coming up behind them, Harry smirked and gave Remus a 'manly' hug and Virginia hugged him also.
"We have some good news we wanted to share with you." Virginia stated, "C'mon P, you should hear this too." She added, Paisley stood up confusedly and followed her parents out of the room, she turned and gave her friends a shrug before leaving.
"Sit down then." Remus told them as they entered his office, Paisley looked around in awe, it was much more comfortable than what she expected, it had nice leather sofas and a very plain but elegant wooden desk in the centre at the back. They settled down on the sofa.
"What'd you have to tell me then?" Paisley asked curiously, Harry and Virginia grinned a each other.
"Me and Ginny have decided to get married." Harry said simply, Paisley jumped up and hugged her parents.
"This is great! We can be a real family now!" She exclaimed, "And-And I get to be a bridesmaid!" She added excitedly, Virginia laughed.
"Yeah, and maybe you should go and get your homework done now, as we will most probably be in McGonnagal's office for a while." She told her daughter, who nodded and skipped around the room.
"See you later!" She exclaimed with a hug to each of the three adults before leaving.
"She's too hyper." Harry stated, Remus laughed.
"You should've tried teaching her yesterday then." He stated with a laugh.
Paisley skipped back down to the Great Hall, her friends looked at her confusedly as she stood behind them.
"I have to go get work done, wanna help?" She asked them.
"I thought you were going to get told off?" Kaci asked confusedly, Paisley grinned and shook her head.
"Mum and Dad are getting married!" She exclaimed happily, Kaci looked shocked.
"Really?" She asked, Paisley nodded and Kaci jumped up happily. They held each others arms and jumped around in circles together.
"This is so cool!" Paisley exclaimed, "I get to be a bridesmaid!"
"I will be too!" Kaci added, Paisley stopped jumping and looked confused.
"Why?" She asked, Kaci looked offended.
"Because," She said in her matter-of-fact voice, which she had inherited from Hermione, "Harry is my God-Father." She stated, Paisley looked shocked.
"Really?" She asked, Kaci nodded, "Cool! You really are my sister!" She added, Kaci giggled and nodded.
"Yep." She agreed. "Now you have to get your work done before that meeting." Paisley rolled her eyes with a smile and the two girls headed up to the Gryffindor Tower with Chenyce and Shira.