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Hey everyone!!! Here's chapter 19! Hope you enjoy and please review!
Chapter 18: Double Trouble
Classes seemed to drag on and on for Lily on Monday. All she could think about was what she and Megan would be doing at dinner. As the day crawled along, she became more and more nervous. What is something went wrong? What if she was stuck looking like Sirius? What if they got caught? Would they be expelled? What would her parents say? What would she do if she wasn't allowed to learn magic anymore? How could she go back to living like a muggle after having experienced the wonders of magic? She couldn't understand how Megan could be so relaxed about the possible consequences; she acted like it was some sort of game. Then again, Megan was a very good actor so maybe she really was nervous about it. Lily noticed that Megan was even more hyper than usual during classes, as if she'd had way too much sugar. Perhaps she dealt with her stress by acting out.
As Lily took notes during Transfiguration, the last class of the day, it took all of her will power to keep her mind from wondering. She realized Megan's hyper-ness was infectious because as the day progressed, James and Sirius also became more and more excitable. However, unlike Megan they also had no self-control and as a result, they were driving Professor McGonagall crazy with their antics. The two boys chased each other around the classroom until McGonagall had had it.
"Enough!" she yelled, and the two boys stopped dead in their tracks, "Detention for both of you! Never in all my years have I seen two boys with so much disregard for the rules! Ten points from Gryffindor!"
There were several groans from the class and the two miscreants received several dirty looks from their fellow Gryffindors. Between the two of them, they had now lost a total of 35 points for Gryffindor in one day.
"You had best learn to control yourselves or you'll wind up with even more detentions!" Professor McGonagall said sternly.
The bell rang, and the class hurriedly left, glad classes were finished for the day.
James shook his head in disbelief, "Boy is she strict," he said, as the group headed down the hallway to the Gryffindor Tower.
"Well you were being immature," Brittany said.
"Yeah," agreed Dave, "She warned you like twenty times and you still didn't stop."
"It's you own fault you have detention," said Lily, "You have to know when to draw the line."
"Who are you guys?" said Sirius, "Are mothers?"
"No, we just don't want to see Gryffindor lose the house cup because of your stupidity," Karen snapped.
"We aren't that bad," said James, "So we lost a couple of points, big deal."
"I'd say 35 points is more then 'a couple of points'," Remus said.
"I know people who have lost more," said Sirius.
"Like who?" said Megan, "Even I'm not crazy enough to try and play tag in McGonagall's class."
"Well.Laroche took 25 points from Hufflepuff when Cass' potion blew up the potion's dungeon," said Sirius.
"No he didn't," said Steve, "He only took ten, Cass told me about it during herbology on Thursday."
"OK, so maybe we screwed up," said James.
"There's the understatement of the year," Megan muttered.
"Thank you little miss perfect," James said.
"I am perfect aren't I?" Megan said, and everyone but James and Sirius laughed.
"And you wonder why I pushed you off a cliff," Sirius said as he shook his head, "See that's why we pull pranks on you."
"Yeah," said James, "You say we're arrogant and you're even worse then us. You're just a big.a big."
"Hypocrite?" Megan offered as she smirked.
The two boys looked at her, utterly baffled.
"What does that mean?" asked James.
"Why don't you go look it up in the library?" Megan said.
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Sirius said.
"We have vowed that we will never, and I mean NEVER, set foot in that library again," said James.
"You got kicked out didn't you?" said Megan.
"No.yeah, we did," said Sirius.
"For how long?" asked Lily.
"Until after Christmas," said James, "Which really sucks because we won't be able to do a lot of our homework."
"Well, you should've thought of that before you set off those dungbombs," said Shawn.
"By the way, thanks to you, all the books on Quidditch now smell horrible," said Aaron.
"Oops?" Sirius said.
The others rolled their eyes.
"It's a wonder you haven't cost us even more points," Kristin said as she shook her head.
"Yeah," said Lily, "Especially with attitudes like that."
"You know," James said, "We don't have to stick around here and take this abuse."
"Yeah!" said Sirius, "That's right. Why don't we leave James?"
"Maybe we will," said James, "We know when we're not wanted."
"Oh shut up both of you," Megan said. She reached in her backpack and pulled out a bag of cookies. "Anybody want a snack? My mom sent them this morning."
All ill thoughts vanished in an instant as she handed out the cookies. As she handed James and Sirius theirs, she winked at Lily.
"These are really good!" exclaimed Carol.
"Yeah," said Julie, "Your mom is such a good cook!"
"I just can't believe you're sharing food," said Sirius.
"Yeah," said James, "You never share food."
Megan shrugged, "Well, guess I'm just feeling generous today," she said.
Lily fought back a giggle. If the sleeping potion worked the way it was supposed to, the two boys would be passed out within half an hour and would stay asleep for about another two hours after that. They would wake just in time to receive detentions.
A little while later, in the common room, the first years were busy at work on their homework. Well, some of them were. James and Sirius were playing wizard's chess and were being watched closely by Peter, Brittany was sketching a unicorn on a spare bit of parchment, and Megan was reading a book about Magical Creatures. Other than those five, everyone was doing homework.
"Hey Megan," Carol said as she looked up from her potion's essay.
Megan looked up from her book, "Yeah?"
"What's another name for wolfsbane?" asked Carol.
"Monkswood or aconite," Megan replied.
"How do you know stuff like that?" Carol asked.
Megan shrugged, "I read a lot," she replied.
Carol stared at her, "You are so weird," she said, then returned to her work.
A few minutes later, James and Sirius began yawning a lot.
"I think I'm going to.to.to." James started to say, but he was interrupted by a yawn, and then continued, "Going to take a nap."
"Me too," Sirius said.
"Sweet dreams!" Megan called after them as they headed up to their room. Megan turned and grinned at Lily before returning to her book. Lily couldn't help but smile to herself as she bent over her astronomy homework; this was definitely going to be an interesting night.
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"Boy am I starving," said Brittany.
"Well it is time for dinner," Julie said as she looked at her watch.
Everyone but Megan got up.
"You guys go ahead," Megan said, "I'll be down in a little bit-I just want to finish this chapter."
"Now I'm curious," Karen said, "Since when do you turn down a chance for food?"
"I'm not turning anything down," Megan said, "I'll be down in a few minutes, I just want to finish this chapter."
"I'll wait with you Megan," Lily offered, "That way I can finish up my homework before dinner."
"If you want to," Megan said.
"I'm going to go get Sirius and James," Remus said as he headed towards the boys' dorms, "You guys can go on ahead if you like."
"OK," said Dave, and the group turned to leave.
"I'll wait for you Remus," squeaked Peter.
The group climbed through the portrait hole, leaving Lily, Megan and Peter alone in the common room. All of the older students had also left for dinner.
A few minutes later, Remus came down the stairs looking puzzled.
"Guess they were really tired," he said.
"Well that's weird," said Megan.
"I'll say," said Remus, "Oh well, they can come down when they wake up I guess. Come on Peter. See you in a bit girls."
"Bye," Megan and Lily said as the two boys also climbed through the portrait hole.
They waited several minutes before also climbing through the portrait hole. They hurried down the hallway and ducked around the corner. Megan handed Lily a small vial which contained the Polyjuice potion.
"Wait!" said Lily, "We need a piece of Sirius' hair!"
"Don't worry!" said Megan, "I've got everything under control." She pulled out another vial which contained several long strands of black hair. She handed it to Lily. "Here," she said, "But before you change, put a piece of your hair in this potion." She produced another vial which also contained the Polyjuice potion.
Lily pulled out a piece of her hair and put in into the vial which turned a copper colour. "Creepy," she whispered.
Megan recapped the vial and placed it in her pocket.
"Add Sirius' hair," she said, and then closed her eyes to concentrate.
Lily dumped the hair into the other vial and it turned a strange blue-ish green colour. "It looks like algae," she said.
"Just drink it," Megan said. There was a small 'pop' and her hair changed from dirty blonde to black.
Lily pinched her noise and downed the potion, nearly gagging on the horrible taste. She closed her eyes as her stomach began to squirm. She could still hear small pops as Megan changed her appearance. Suddenly, it felt like a hundred million ants were crawling across her skin. She opened her eyes and looked down at her hand which seemed to be bubbling as its slender white fingers became more boyish in shape and took on a slightly darker skin tone. A few minutes later, the strange sensations ceased and she looked over at Megan, who was now the spitting image of James, complete with glasses.
"Bloody hell," Megan whispered, her voice was now also identical to James.
"Creepy," said Lily, but her voice still sounded the same, "Oh no! My voice!"
"It's OK," Megan said as she pulled out her wand. She muttered something and tiny silver sparks shot out of her wand at Lily.
"And what did that." Lily stopped speaking and stared at Megan in shock. Her voice now sounded very similar to Sirius'.
"I'll change it back after," Megan said, "But now we need some different clothes." She muttered something and multi-coloured sparks shot out of her wand and encircled her. Her cloak was now tie-dyed every colour of the rainbow and she wore a floral print dress over a pair of plaid Capri pants. She also wore bright red sparkling shoes and a pair of tighty whities on the outside of her pants.
"Oh very nice," Lily said.
"And for you." Megan said, and the same multi-coloured sparks encircled Lily.
She looked down at her new outfit which consisted of a superman cape, a tie- dyed speedo over top of her pants which were bright orange, and a shirt that was half plaid, half floral print. She wore converse high tops and her pants were tucked into a pair of zebra stripped knee socks.
"That's some imagination you've got Megan," she said.
Megan grinned and clicked her heels together, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home!" she chanted and Lily laughed. She then began singing, "I feel pretty, oh so pretty."
And Lily joined in as well.
"I feel pretty and witty and gay! And I pity, any girl who isn't me to day!"
They skipped down the hallway laughing but were careful to avoid being seen. They soon reached the Great Hall.
"OK, here goes!" Megan said, as the two pulled out their wands, "On the count of three. One.two.three!"
The two burst through the door and into the hall. Everyone turned to stare at them, then burst out laughing.
Megan and Lily grinned at each other then began shooting spells everywhere. The hall erupted into utter chaos. Lily began shouting random spells that came to mind, as did Megan. Several people ducked under the tables but some weren't fast enough, mainly the Slytherins. However, they soon turned their spells on the teachers. Before anyone could react to stop them, they ran out the doors of the hall as fast as they could (Megan ran surprisingly well in heels) and disappeared down a hallway.
Megan handed Lily the Polyjuice potion, which she quickly drank. She felt the same sensation but was comforted by the fact that she was turning back into herself. With a few small pops, Megan also changed back into herself. She quickly waved her wand and their clothes returned to normal, as did Lily's voice.
"I'm not even sure who got hit with what," Megan whispered, "Which is actually a good thing because then we can act genuinely surprised when we walk in."
"They are going to be in so much trouble," whispered Lily.
"I know," Megan whispered, "Isn't it great?"
The rounded the corner and came face with a hoard of angry teachers and students.
"Did you see Potter and Black?" demanded Professor Laroche.
Megan and Lily shook their heads.
"No," said Megan, "I think they're still asleep in their dorm. They were when we left anyway."
"Are you sure?" said Professor McGonagall, "When did you leave to come down?"
"A few minutes ago," said Lily, "Why?"
"Well," said Professor McGonagall, "Unless James and Sirius have identical twins that we don't know about they were just in the Great Hall causing chaos."
"How so?" Megan inquired.
"They just started shooting random spells all over the hall," said Professor McGonagall, "Several students and a even a few teachers our on their way up to the Hospital Wing as we speak."
"Weird," said Lily.
"Well, I wouldn't put it past them to do something that stupid," Megan said.
At that precise moment, the two boys in question rounded the corner, still looking rather sleepy.
"Hello everybody!" Sirius said cheerfully, "What's going on?"
Several people lunged at the two boys and managed to grab them.
"Hey! What's going on?" James asked, clearly confused.
"Yeah!" said Sirius, "Why are you attacking us?"
"As if you didn't know," a sixth year Slytherin said as he rolled his eyes.
"Actually, we don't know," said James.
"A likely story," Laroche said, and Lily now understood why so many people feared him, "And I suppose it wasn't you who jinxed several students and teachers a few minutes ago."
"What?" said Sirius, "We just left Gryffindor Tower to come down for dinner like five minutes ago."
"Yeah," said James, "We've been asleep since about a quarter to four."
"Sure you have," said Laroche, his lip curled into a slight sneer, "And I suppose you're being framed then aren't you?"
"Probably," Sirius said, "I wouldn't put it past some people I know to try and set us up."
"Is that right?" Laroche said, his eyebrows raised, "Would you care to name a few of these people?"
"Uh." Sirius stammered.
"Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy," said James, "And Snape, Severus Snape."
"Really?" said Laroche, "Now would you like to know something interesting?"
"What?" the two boys asked together.
"Both of those boys are now in the hospital wing receiving treatment," said Laroche.
"Oh."
"Yes, oh."
"I think," Professor McGonagall cut in, "That perhaps detentions are in order, seeing as neither of you can prove that it was not you who caused chaos in the Great Hall. We shall discuss this in the Headmaster's office, come along."
The group took James and Sirius down the hallway and disappeared around the corner, leaving Megan and Lily alone. They grinned at each other then hurried to the Great Hall as they both felt exceptionally hungry.
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OK, that wraps up chapter 19! Thanks go to my friend Jen once again for her continuing help and support. I hope all of you enjoyed and please review!!! I really appreciate your thoughts on my work as it helps me improve.
~*~MeGaN~*~
Hey everyone!!! Here's chapter 19! Hope you enjoy and please review!
Chapter 18: Double Trouble
Classes seemed to drag on and on for Lily on Monday. All she could think about was what she and Megan would be doing at dinner. As the day crawled along, she became more and more nervous. What is something went wrong? What if she was stuck looking like Sirius? What if they got caught? Would they be expelled? What would her parents say? What would she do if she wasn't allowed to learn magic anymore? How could she go back to living like a muggle after having experienced the wonders of magic? She couldn't understand how Megan could be so relaxed about the possible consequences; she acted like it was some sort of game. Then again, Megan was a very good actor so maybe she really was nervous about it. Lily noticed that Megan was even more hyper than usual during classes, as if she'd had way too much sugar. Perhaps she dealt with her stress by acting out.
As Lily took notes during Transfiguration, the last class of the day, it took all of her will power to keep her mind from wondering. She realized Megan's hyper-ness was infectious because as the day progressed, James and Sirius also became more and more excitable. However, unlike Megan they also had no self-control and as a result, they were driving Professor McGonagall crazy with their antics. The two boys chased each other around the classroom until McGonagall had had it.
"Enough!" she yelled, and the two boys stopped dead in their tracks, "Detention for both of you! Never in all my years have I seen two boys with so much disregard for the rules! Ten points from Gryffindor!"
There were several groans from the class and the two miscreants received several dirty looks from their fellow Gryffindors. Between the two of them, they had now lost a total of 35 points for Gryffindor in one day.
"You had best learn to control yourselves or you'll wind up with even more detentions!" Professor McGonagall said sternly.
The bell rang, and the class hurriedly left, glad classes were finished for the day.
James shook his head in disbelief, "Boy is she strict," he said, as the group headed down the hallway to the Gryffindor Tower.
"Well you were being immature," Brittany said.
"Yeah," agreed Dave, "She warned you like twenty times and you still didn't stop."
"It's you own fault you have detention," said Lily, "You have to know when to draw the line."
"Who are you guys?" said Sirius, "Are mothers?"
"No, we just don't want to see Gryffindor lose the house cup because of your stupidity," Karen snapped.
"We aren't that bad," said James, "So we lost a couple of points, big deal."
"I'd say 35 points is more then 'a couple of points'," Remus said.
"I know people who have lost more," said Sirius.
"Like who?" said Megan, "Even I'm not crazy enough to try and play tag in McGonagall's class."
"Well.Laroche took 25 points from Hufflepuff when Cass' potion blew up the potion's dungeon," said Sirius.
"No he didn't," said Steve, "He only took ten, Cass told me about it during herbology on Thursday."
"OK, so maybe we screwed up," said James.
"There's the understatement of the year," Megan muttered.
"Thank you little miss perfect," James said.
"I am perfect aren't I?" Megan said, and everyone but James and Sirius laughed.
"And you wonder why I pushed you off a cliff," Sirius said as he shook his head, "See that's why we pull pranks on you."
"Yeah," said James, "You say we're arrogant and you're even worse then us. You're just a big.a big."
"Hypocrite?" Megan offered as she smirked.
The two boys looked at her, utterly baffled.
"What does that mean?" asked James.
"Why don't you go look it up in the library?" Megan said.
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Sirius said.
"We have vowed that we will never, and I mean NEVER, set foot in that library again," said James.
"You got kicked out didn't you?" said Megan.
"No.yeah, we did," said Sirius.
"For how long?" asked Lily.
"Until after Christmas," said James, "Which really sucks because we won't be able to do a lot of our homework."
"Well, you should've thought of that before you set off those dungbombs," said Shawn.
"By the way, thanks to you, all the books on Quidditch now smell horrible," said Aaron.
"Oops?" Sirius said.
The others rolled their eyes.
"It's a wonder you haven't cost us even more points," Kristin said as she shook her head.
"Yeah," said Lily, "Especially with attitudes like that."
"You know," James said, "We don't have to stick around here and take this abuse."
"Yeah!" said Sirius, "That's right. Why don't we leave James?"
"Maybe we will," said James, "We know when we're not wanted."
"Oh shut up both of you," Megan said. She reached in her backpack and pulled out a bag of cookies. "Anybody want a snack? My mom sent them this morning."
All ill thoughts vanished in an instant as she handed out the cookies. As she handed James and Sirius theirs, she winked at Lily.
"These are really good!" exclaimed Carol.
"Yeah," said Julie, "Your mom is such a good cook!"
"I just can't believe you're sharing food," said Sirius.
"Yeah," said James, "You never share food."
Megan shrugged, "Well, guess I'm just feeling generous today," she said.
Lily fought back a giggle. If the sleeping potion worked the way it was supposed to, the two boys would be passed out within half an hour and would stay asleep for about another two hours after that. They would wake just in time to receive detentions.
A little while later, in the common room, the first years were busy at work on their homework. Well, some of them were. James and Sirius were playing wizard's chess and were being watched closely by Peter, Brittany was sketching a unicorn on a spare bit of parchment, and Megan was reading a book about Magical Creatures. Other than those five, everyone was doing homework.
"Hey Megan," Carol said as she looked up from her potion's essay.
Megan looked up from her book, "Yeah?"
"What's another name for wolfsbane?" asked Carol.
"Monkswood or aconite," Megan replied.
"How do you know stuff like that?" Carol asked.
Megan shrugged, "I read a lot," she replied.
Carol stared at her, "You are so weird," she said, then returned to her work.
A few minutes later, James and Sirius began yawning a lot.
"I think I'm going to.to.to." James started to say, but he was interrupted by a yawn, and then continued, "Going to take a nap."
"Me too," Sirius said.
"Sweet dreams!" Megan called after them as they headed up to their room. Megan turned and grinned at Lily before returning to her book. Lily couldn't help but smile to herself as she bent over her astronomy homework; this was definitely going to be an interesting night.
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"Boy am I starving," said Brittany.
"Well it is time for dinner," Julie said as she looked at her watch.
Everyone but Megan got up.
"You guys go ahead," Megan said, "I'll be down in a little bit-I just want to finish this chapter."
"Now I'm curious," Karen said, "Since when do you turn down a chance for food?"
"I'm not turning anything down," Megan said, "I'll be down in a few minutes, I just want to finish this chapter."
"I'll wait with you Megan," Lily offered, "That way I can finish up my homework before dinner."
"If you want to," Megan said.
"I'm going to go get Sirius and James," Remus said as he headed towards the boys' dorms, "You guys can go on ahead if you like."
"OK," said Dave, and the group turned to leave.
"I'll wait for you Remus," squeaked Peter.
The group climbed through the portrait hole, leaving Lily, Megan and Peter alone in the common room. All of the older students had also left for dinner.
A few minutes later, Remus came down the stairs looking puzzled.
"Guess they were really tired," he said.
"Well that's weird," said Megan.
"I'll say," said Remus, "Oh well, they can come down when they wake up I guess. Come on Peter. See you in a bit girls."
"Bye," Megan and Lily said as the two boys also climbed through the portrait hole.
They waited several minutes before also climbing through the portrait hole. They hurried down the hallway and ducked around the corner. Megan handed Lily a small vial which contained the Polyjuice potion.
"Wait!" said Lily, "We need a piece of Sirius' hair!"
"Don't worry!" said Megan, "I've got everything under control." She pulled out another vial which contained several long strands of black hair. She handed it to Lily. "Here," she said, "But before you change, put a piece of your hair in this potion." She produced another vial which also contained the Polyjuice potion.
Lily pulled out a piece of her hair and put in into the vial which turned a copper colour. "Creepy," she whispered.
Megan recapped the vial and placed it in her pocket.
"Add Sirius' hair," she said, and then closed her eyes to concentrate.
Lily dumped the hair into the other vial and it turned a strange blue-ish green colour. "It looks like algae," she said.
"Just drink it," Megan said. There was a small 'pop' and her hair changed from dirty blonde to black.
Lily pinched her noise and downed the potion, nearly gagging on the horrible taste. She closed her eyes as her stomach began to squirm. She could still hear small pops as Megan changed her appearance. Suddenly, it felt like a hundred million ants were crawling across her skin. She opened her eyes and looked down at her hand which seemed to be bubbling as its slender white fingers became more boyish in shape and took on a slightly darker skin tone. A few minutes later, the strange sensations ceased and she looked over at Megan, who was now the spitting image of James, complete with glasses.
"Bloody hell," Megan whispered, her voice was now also identical to James.
"Creepy," said Lily, but her voice still sounded the same, "Oh no! My voice!"
"It's OK," Megan said as she pulled out her wand. She muttered something and tiny silver sparks shot out of her wand at Lily.
"And what did that." Lily stopped speaking and stared at Megan in shock. Her voice now sounded very similar to Sirius'.
"I'll change it back after," Megan said, "But now we need some different clothes." She muttered something and multi-coloured sparks shot out of her wand and encircled her. Her cloak was now tie-dyed every colour of the rainbow and she wore a floral print dress over a pair of plaid Capri pants. She also wore bright red sparkling shoes and a pair of tighty whities on the outside of her pants.
"Oh very nice," Lily said.
"And for you." Megan said, and the same multi-coloured sparks encircled Lily.
She looked down at her new outfit which consisted of a superman cape, a tie- dyed speedo over top of her pants which were bright orange, and a shirt that was half plaid, half floral print. She wore converse high tops and her pants were tucked into a pair of zebra stripped knee socks.
"That's some imagination you've got Megan," she said.
Megan grinned and clicked her heels together, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home!" she chanted and Lily laughed. She then began singing, "I feel pretty, oh so pretty."
And Lily joined in as well.
"I feel pretty and witty and gay! And I pity, any girl who isn't me to day!"
They skipped down the hallway laughing but were careful to avoid being seen. They soon reached the Great Hall.
"OK, here goes!" Megan said, as the two pulled out their wands, "On the count of three. One.two.three!"
The two burst through the door and into the hall. Everyone turned to stare at them, then burst out laughing.
Megan and Lily grinned at each other then began shooting spells everywhere. The hall erupted into utter chaos. Lily began shouting random spells that came to mind, as did Megan. Several people ducked under the tables but some weren't fast enough, mainly the Slytherins. However, they soon turned their spells on the teachers. Before anyone could react to stop them, they ran out the doors of the hall as fast as they could (Megan ran surprisingly well in heels) and disappeared down a hallway.
Megan handed Lily the Polyjuice potion, which she quickly drank. She felt the same sensation but was comforted by the fact that she was turning back into herself. With a few small pops, Megan also changed back into herself. She quickly waved her wand and their clothes returned to normal, as did Lily's voice.
"I'm not even sure who got hit with what," Megan whispered, "Which is actually a good thing because then we can act genuinely surprised when we walk in."
"They are going to be in so much trouble," whispered Lily.
"I know," Megan whispered, "Isn't it great?"
The rounded the corner and came face with a hoard of angry teachers and students.
"Did you see Potter and Black?" demanded Professor Laroche.
Megan and Lily shook their heads.
"No," said Megan, "I think they're still asleep in their dorm. They were when we left anyway."
"Are you sure?" said Professor McGonagall, "When did you leave to come down?"
"A few minutes ago," said Lily, "Why?"
"Well," said Professor McGonagall, "Unless James and Sirius have identical twins that we don't know about they were just in the Great Hall causing chaos."
"How so?" Megan inquired.
"They just started shooting random spells all over the hall," said Professor McGonagall, "Several students and a even a few teachers our on their way up to the Hospital Wing as we speak."
"Weird," said Lily.
"Well, I wouldn't put it past them to do something that stupid," Megan said.
At that precise moment, the two boys in question rounded the corner, still looking rather sleepy.
"Hello everybody!" Sirius said cheerfully, "What's going on?"
Several people lunged at the two boys and managed to grab them.
"Hey! What's going on?" James asked, clearly confused.
"Yeah!" said Sirius, "Why are you attacking us?"
"As if you didn't know," a sixth year Slytherin said as he rolled his eyes.
"Actually, we don't know," said James.
"A likely story," Laroche said, and Lily now understood why so many people feared him, "And I suppose it wasn't you who jinxed several students and teachers a few minutes ago."
"What?" said Sirius, "We just left Gryffindor Tower to come down for dinner like five minutes ago."
"Yeah," said James, "We've been asleep since about a quarter to four."
"Sure you have," said Laroche, his lip curled into a slight sneer, "And I suppose you're being framed then aren't you?"
"Probably," Sirius said, "I wouldn't put it past some people I know to try and set us up."
"Is that right?" Laroche said, his eyebrows raised, "Would you care to name a few of these people?"
"Uh." Sirius stammered.
"Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy," said James, "And Snape, Severus Snape."
"Really?" said Laroche, "Now would you like to know something interesting?"
"What?" the two boys asked together.
"Both of those boys are now in the hospital wing receiving treatment," said Laroche.
"Oh."
"Yes, oh."
"I think," Professor McGonagall cut in, "That perhaps detentions are in order, seeing as neither of you can prove that it was not you who caused chaos in the Great Hall. We shall discuss this in the Headmaster's office, come along."
The group took James and Sirius down the hallway and disappeared around the corner, leaving Megan and Lily alone. They grinned at each other then hurried to the Great Hall as they both felt exceptionally hungry.
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OK, that wraps up chapter 19! Thanks go to my friend Jen once again for her continuing help and support. I hope all of you enjoyed and please review!!! I really appreciate your thoughts on my work as it helps me improve.
~*~MeGaN~*~