THE RAIN ALWAYS FALLS
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, but I bet you know who does!
Dedication: Thank you soooooooooooo much Angel Food Cake! You are AWSOME!!!!! This one's for you!
Sorry to those of you who read this chapter before. I decided to add a few things. I really hope you guys like this chapter. It took a long time to write this one. Many changes! Oh, last night I was up until one and decided exactly what is going to happen to each of the characters. I'm so excited! Please, if you're reading this, review! I would love to know what you think!
Chapter 5: A Time for Studies
Lily entered the Great Hall for breakfast the next morning at seven o'clock. She walked over to the Gryffindor table where her friends were already sitting and plopped down next to Morgan.
"Hey, Lily," she said, buttering her toast.
"You look really tiered," James told her from across the table. He also noted that she wasn't nearly as composed as she usually was. Her hair seemed limp, and it was as if she was fighting to keep her eyes open.
"Yeah, well, I didn't get much sleep last nigh," she told them after a huge yawn. However, she didn't tell them what was really bothering her. She was sitting up in bed most of the night, thinking about her dream. She had seemed to be older in it; she had a family, a baby, and - James. In her dream, they had been married, with a child, no less, and - they had said that they loved each other. What did all this mean? Did she actually have feeling for James??? 'No,' she told herself. She couldn't possibly like him. Not James, the popular, clever quiditch player that all of the girls were crazy for. She couldn't like him. Could she?
She looked up at James and met his eyes. He smiled, and she returned it before hastily putting her head back down.
And who was that figure in the window? Just his face seemed so ominous and terrifying. Then there were his eyes, evil and blood red. She got the chills just thinking about it. She surly didn't know who it was, but what did it all mean? Perhaps it was all just a bad dream? 'That was it,' she decided. 'What else could it be?'
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James looked at her and smiled. She grinned weakly and looked at her plate. His stomach felt rather unpleasant, so he pushed his plate away. "I'm going for a walk," he said as he stood up.
"Okay. Meet me back in the common room later, and I'll give you your course schedule. Lessons start at eight thirty," Sirius called to him as James went out of the hall.
"God, what is wrong with me!" he yelled when he got outside.
"Gee, I don't know," answered a voice from behind him. He turned around. It was Natalie. He smiled.
"Sorry, I didn't know anyone else was here." He suddenly felt better now that she was here. "So how are you?"
"I'm fine. What class do you have first?" she asked.
"I donna know."
"Well, I have Care of Magical Creatures. You take that, right?"
"Yeah. Are all houses in that class?"
"Yup. They decided to group them together due to a lack of interest. Apparently, a lot of people dropped the class after last years fire- breathing toads," she said with a flick of her hair. "Listen, James, I wanted to ask you - " before she could finish, a gust of wind blew against them. It caused her to lean a little into him.
'Did she do that because of the wind, or on purpose?' he asked himself. Then, out loud, he said, "Sorry, what were you saying?"
"Yes, I was just wondering. Are you going on the trip to Hogsmeade?"
'Hogsmeade,' he thought. Of course he would be going, but he hadn't been planning on actually going with anyone. Then, he looked at her. Her brown hair flew wildly about her face. She was very pretty. "Of course I am. That reminds me. Would you like to go with me?"
"I'd like that." She smiled showing white, even teeth. She looked down at her tiny, silver watch and exclaimed, "Oh my! It's already eight! Classes will start in half an hour. I need to go get my books. See you in a minute?"
"Yeah. Hold on, I'll walk you up." They made their way back to the castle.
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A barn owl swooped into the hall and dropped a newspaper onto Carmen's plate. She opened it and revealed the Daily Prophet with a headline that stated, "Auror killed by You-Know-Who." Carmen frowned.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked, taking a bite of toast.
"Well, I've heard of You-Know-Who. He's a dark wizard who tried to gather followers about three years ago. He started off with muggle killings, and now, I guess, he's up to killing Aurors that might try and stop him from getting too much power." Everyone looked at her in awe.
"Where did you learn that? We never learned anything about that in Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Well, my mum is an ex-Auror. She retired last year after sending some of his supporters to Azkaban. I heard her talking to my dad about it," she finished.
"How come you never told us this before?" Remus asked.
"Well, it never came up," she told them simply.
"So, what classes have we got today?" Lily asked Morgan, changing the subject. Professor McGonagall was passing out the schedules along the Gryffindor table.
"Well, I have Muggle Studies. Then we have Divination together," she told her, reading her timetable and making a face.
"Great, just what I need today." Lily and Morgan both hated Divination for a simple reason - Professor Opaelle made it a habit to predict Lily's death. They knew that it was nothing, however, because half of the predictions that she makes never came true. She had once said that someone very close to Lily and Morgan would suffer a very tragic end. That was in their third year, and nothing out of the sort ever happened. "Well, that should be interesting."
"I wonder what's going to kill you this year," she said with a smile. "Maybe - you'll chock on tea leaves!" Everyone laughed.
"Well, let's get going," Remus said, looking at his watch.
"Yeah, another first day of school for us to put up with," Sirius said getting up.
"As soon as you know it, we'll be eighty wishing it was the first day of school," Carmen told him with a grin. Everyone got up and exited the hall.
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Remus was at his desk in the Muggle Studies classroom, waiting for class to begin. He was rather ambitious and liked doing well in school. He did so well the year before, he was offered to be a prefect. However, he turned it down. 'What would James and Sirius think?' was his reply.
The room slowly filled with gathering Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs. Ten seconds before class started, Morgan ran into the room, looking around for a seat. She saw Remus and sat down in the empty seat next to him. "Hi," she said to him, putting her long, golden hair behind her ears.
"Hi. Glad you could - " he began, but Professor Kerk cut him off.
"Grace us with your presence, Miss Fay," he continued for Remus. "Be sure to be on time. Class, this year, we will be learning about the Muggle Space Program. This is a corporation designed to explore other planets besides our own. Wizards, of course, have mapped the entire universe, but muggles are still working on it. Take notes."
Everyone instantly reached into their bag for quills and parchment. The very boring lecture of the Russian Space Program and NASA was soon underway. After about forty-five minutes of listening and scribbling, they were assigned a three-role essay on space shuttles.
"Homework on the first day back," Morgan groaned.
'It's not so bad,' he thought, looking at her. Her hair seemed more radiant than ever in dim lighting of the room. She stuck out her tongue a little as she wrote down the assignment. Her pale hazel eyes traveled through her notes. Some would have said that she wasn't perfect, but he didn't mind one bit.
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"H - Hi," James panted after running into the common room. He had seen Sirius sitting in an armchair and walked straight to him. "Just realized what time it was. We have Care of Magical Creatures, don't we?" He asked, putting his hands on his knees.
"Yeah. Well, what are you waiting for? Go get your books. We need to be back down there in ten minutes."
"Okay. Give me a sec."
Soon afterwards, they were sprinting across the lawn to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where the classes were always held. James saw Natalie and hastily tried to flatten his hair. She grinned. Just as he was strolling over to her, Professor Adamson announced, "Today, class, we will begin to learn about cazerbies. Be careful; they are highly dangerous. They can shoot flames at a distance of seven feet." James suddenly had the impression that Professor Adamson had a very serious obsession with fire.
Due to the fact that all of them were desperately trying not to get burned by the disgruntled cazerbies (which, by the way, had been locked up in crates for they past three days), none of them got the chance to talk. At the end of class, however, all of the students made their way up the slope to get ready for their next class. Natalie approached James and took his arm. They didn't talk, but simply enjoyed the moment.
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A half an hour after the first lessons ended, Lily and Morgan were sitting in squishy armchairs in the back during Divination. They hated sitting in the front because they were more likely to be targeted by Professor Opaelle and her 'fortune telling' being so close to her.
"Welcome, class," said a misty and raspy voice from a corner of the room. "This semester, we will be learning about the extraordinary power of dream premonitions." At these words, Lily looked up. Dream premonitions? Is that what her dream was? "These are very complex and very rare. I doubt that any of you have or ever will get the privilege of possessing one. However, I feel it necessary that you should have an understanding of this topic. We will touch on it briefly before we move on to tarot cards."
They spent the rest of the period reading a chapter in Unfogging the Future while Lily wondered whether her dream was actually real, or not. Lily looked at her with an odd expression. Should she ask Professor Opaelle about her dream? She probably wouldn't know much about it, but who knows? It was worth a shot. Then again, if she told her about the horrible figure in the window, she would most likely have a field day of Lily's death. She'll probably say that she's seeing the moments before her death. There would be no point to that. Professor Opaelle would tell the entire class. She doesn't want a rumor of her and James floating around the school. 'Perhaps I'll just find out on my own,' she decided.
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Sirius, Remus, and Carmen were in the Arithmancy classroom. Carmen was in front row, center while the two boys had chosen seats in the back. Professor Gwen, a very strict witch, entered the room. "All right class. Welcome back. We have a lot to catch up on in order to understand the next few lessons, so who can fill out this chart?" she asked, pointing at a large diagram on the chalkboard.
Instantly, Carmen's hand shot up into the air. Sirius looked at her and smiled. He quickly took it off his face, though. He didn't want Remus to see him smiling at Carmen like that. He had been doing a lot of thinking about something his friend said to him on the train. 'You know, I think that Carmen might like you,' Remus had told him. He instantly dismissed it, but what if he did like her? It seemed almost impossible. They were completely different. She was a prefect and he was a troublemaker who held the record for number of rules broken (87). But - she was pretty, and very smart, and witty, and - he suddenly looked over at Remus. He had a strange feeling that someone was watching him. It wasn't so strange because Remus was looking at him. Perhaps he had seen him staring at Carmen because he hurriedly looked down at his notes.
Sirius was about to tell Remus off about not looking at him like that, but Professor Gwen just assigned them a huge homework assignment. "But why do we need so much homework. It's our first day back?" Sirius called to her, apparently outraged. Several others nodded their heads.
"Because, Mr. Black, you will take your O.W.L.s at the end of the year. You need to be prepared. Frankly, I see only one person in this entire room who would get a decent grade on them if we were taking them right now. Now, sit and get to work."
Sirius knew that she was talking about Carmen, and he gave a small smile, that no one else could see, at the thought.
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~Well, I hope you guys like it. Thanks for all of the fantastic reviews! Keep 'em up! Stay tuned! Next chapter will be up soon!
Carmen Willows
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, but I bet you know who does!
Dedication: Thank you soooooooooooo much Angel Food Cake! You are AWSOME!!!!! This one's for you!
Sorry to those of you who read this chapter before. I decided to add a few things. I really hope you guys like this chapter. It took a long time to write this one. Many changes! Oh, last night I was up until one and decided exactly what is going to happen to each of the characters. I'm so excited! Please, if you're reading this, review! I would love to know what you think!
Chapter 5: A Time for Studies
Lily entered the Great Hall for breakfast the next morning at seven o'clock. She walked over to the Gryffindor table where her friends were already sitting and plopped down next to Morgan.
"Hey, Lily," she said, buttering her toast.
"You look really tiered," James told her from across the table. He also noted that she wasn't nearly as composed as she usually was. Her hair seemed limp, and it was as if she was fighting to keep her eyes open.
"Yeah, well, I didn't get much sleep last nigh," she told them after a huge yawn. However, she didn't tell them what was really bothering her. She was sitting up in bed most of the night, thinking about her dream. She had seemed to be older in it; she had a family, a baby, and - James. In her dream, they had been married, with a child, no less, and - they had said that they loved each other. What did all this mean? Did she actually have feeling for James??? 'No,' she told herself. She couldn't possibly like him. Not James, the popular, clever quiditch player that all of the girls were crazy for. She couldn't like him. Could she?
She looked up at James and met his eyes. He smiled, and she returned it before hastily putting her head back down.
And who was that figure in the window? Just his face seemed so ominous and terrifying. Then there were his eyes, evil and blood red. She got the chills just thinking about it. She surly didn't know who it was, but what did it all mean? Perhaps it was all just a bad dream? 'That was it,' she decided. 'What else could it be?'
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James looked at her and smiled. She grinned weakly and looked at her plate. His stomach felt rather unpleasant, so he pushed his plate away. "I'm going for a walk," he said as he stood up.
"Okay. Meet me back in the common room later, and I'll give you your course schedule. Lessons start at eight thirty," Sirius called to him as James went out of the hall.
"God, what is wrong with me!" he yelled when he got outside.
"Gee, I don't know," answered a voice from behind him. He turned around. It was Natalie. He smiled.
"Sorry, I didn't know anyone else was here." He suddenly felt better now that she was here. "So how are you?"
"I'm fine. What class do you have first?" she asked.
"I donna know."
"Well, I have Care of Magical Creatures. You take that, right?"
"Yeah. Are all houses in that class?"
"Yup. They decided to group them together due to a lack of interest. Apparently, a lot of people dropped the class after last years fire- breathing toads," she said with a flick of her hair. "Listen, James, I wanted to ask you - " before she could finish, a gust of wind blew against them. It caused her to lean a little into him.
'Did she do that because of the wind, or on purpose?' he asked himself. Then, out loud, he said, "Sorry, what were you saying?"
"Yes, I was just wondering. Are you going on the trip to Hogsmeade?"
'Hogsmeade,' he thought. Of course he would be going, but he hadn't been planning on actually going with anyone. Then, he looked at her. Her brown hair flew wildly about her face. She was very pretty. "Of course I am. That reminds me. Would you like to go with me?"
"I'd like that." She smiled showing white, even teeth. She looked down at her tiny, silver watch and exclaimed, "Oh my! It's already eight! Classes will start in half an hour. I need to go get my books. See you in a minute?"
"Yeah. Hold on, I'll walk you up." They made their way back to the castle.
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A barn owl swooped into the hall and dropped a newspaper onto Carmen's plate. She opened it and revealed the Daily Prophet with a headline that stated, "Auror killed by You-Know-Who." Carmen frowned.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked, taking a bite of toast.
"Well, I've heard of You-Know-Who. He's a dark wizard who tried to gather followers about three years ago. He started off with muggle killings, and now, I guess, he's up to killing Aurors that might try and stop him from getting too much power." Everyone looked at her in awe.
"Where did you learn that? We never learned anything about that in Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Well, my mum is an ex-Auror. She retired last year after sending some of his supporters to Azkaban. I heard her talking to my dad about it," she finished.
"How come you never told us this before?" Remus asked.
"Well, it never came up," she told them simply.
"So, what classes have we got today?" Lily asked Morgan, changing the subject. Professor McGonagall was passing out the schedules along the Gryffindor table.
"Well, I have Muggle Studies. Then we have Divination together," she told her, reading her timetable and making a face.
"Great, just what I need today." Lily and Morgan both hated Divination for a simple reason - Professor Opaelle made it a habit to predict Lily's death. They knew that it was nothing, however, because half of the predictions that she makes never came true. She had once said that someone very close to Lily and Morgan would suffer a very tragic end. That was in their third year, and nothing out of the sort ever happened. "Well, that should be interesting."
"I wonder what's going to kill you this year," she said with a smile. "Maybe - you'll chock on tea leaves!" Everyone laughed.
"Well, let's get going," Remus said, looking at his watch.
"Yeah, another first day of school for us to put up with," Sirius said getting up.
"As soon as you know it, we'll be eighty wishing it was the first day of school," Carmen told him with a grin. Everyone got up and exited the hall.
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Remus was at his desk in the Muggle Studies classroom, waiting for class to begin. He was rather ambitious and liked doing well in school. He did so well the year before, he was offered to be a prefect. However, he turned it down. 'What would James and Sirius think?' was his reply.
The room slowly filled with gathering Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs. Ten seconds before class started, Morgan ran into the room, looking around for a seat. She saw Remus and sat down in the empty seat next to him. "Hi," she said to him, putting her long, golden hair behind her ears.
"Hi. Glad you could - " he began, but Professor Kerk cut him off.
"Grace us with your presence, Miss Fay," he continued for Remus. "Be sure to be on time. Class, this year, we will be learning about the Muggle Space Program. This is a corporation designed to explore other planets besides our own. Wizards, of course, have mapped the entire universe, but muggles are still working on it. Take notes."
Everyone instantly reached into their bag for quills and parchment. The very boring lecture of the Russian Space Program and NASA was soon underway. After about forty-five minutes of listening and scribbling, they were assigned a three-role essay on space shuttles.
"Homework on the first day back," Morgan groaned.
'It's not so bad,' he thought, looking at her. Her hair seemed more radiant than ever in dim lighting of the room. She stuck out her tongue a little as she wrote down the assignment. Her pale hazel eyes traveled through her notes. Some would have said that she wasn't perfect, but he didn't mind one bit.
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"H - Hi," James panted after running into the common room. He had seen Sirius sitting in an armchair and walked straight to him. "Just realized what time it was. We have Care of Magical Creatures, don't we?" He asked, putting his hands on his knees.
"Yeah. Well, what are you waiting for? Go get your books. We need to be back down there in ten minutes."
"Okay. Give me a sec."
Soon afterwards, they were sprinting across the lawn to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where the classes were always held. James saw Natalie and hastily tried to flatten his hair. She grinned. Just as he was strolling over to her, Professor Adamson announced, "Today, class, we will begin to learn about cazerbies. Be careful; they are highly dangerous. They can shoot flames at a distance of seven feet." James suddenly had the impression that Professor Adamson had a very serious obsession with fire.
Due to the fact that all of them were desperately trying not to get burned by the disgruntled cazerbies (which, by the way, had been locked up in crates for they past three days), none of them got the chance to talk. At the end of class, however, all of the students made their way up the slope to get ready for their next class. Natalie approached James and took his arm. They didn't talk, but simply enjoyed the moment.
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A half an hour after the first lessons ended, Lily and Morgan were sitting in squishy armchairs in the back during Divination. They hated sitting in the front because they were more likely to be targeted by Professor Opaelle and her 'fortune telling' being so close to her.
"Welcome, class," said a misty and raspy voice from a corner of the room. "This semester, we will be learning about the extraordinary power of dream premonitions." At these words, Lily looked up. Dream premonitions? Is that what her dream was? "These are very complex and very rare. I doubt that any of you have or ever will get the privilege of possessing one. However, I feel it necessary that you should have an understanding of this topic. We will touch on it briefly before we move on to tarot cards."
They spent the rest of the period reading a chapter in Unfogging the Future while Lily wondered whether her dream was actually real, or not. Lily looked at her with an odd expression. Should she ask Professor Opaelle about her dream? She probably wouldn't know much about it, but who knows? It was worth a shot. Then again, if she told her about the horrible figure in the window, she would most likely have a field day of Lily's death. She'll probably say that she's seeing the moments before her death. There would be no point to that. Professor Opaelle would tell the entire class. She doesn't want a rumor of her and James floating around the school. 'Perhaps I'll just find out on my own,' she decided.
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Sirius, Remus, and Carmen were in the Arithmancy classroom. Carmen was in front row, center while the two boys had chosen seats in the back. Professor Gwen, a very strict witch, entered the room. "All right class. Welcome back. We have a lot to catch up on in order to understand the next few lessons, so who can fill out this chart?" she asked, pointing at a large diagram on the chalkboard.
Instantly, Carmen's hand shot up into the air. Sirius looked at her and smiled. He quickly took it off his face, though. He didn't want Remus to see him smiling at Carmen like that. He had been doing a lot of thinking about something his friend said to him on the train. 'You know, I think that Carmen might like you,' Remus had told him. He instantly dismissed it, but what if he did like her? It seemed almost impossible. They were completely different. She was a prefect and he was a troublemaker who held the record for number of rules broken (87). But - she was pretty, and very smart, and witty, and - he suddenly looked over at Remus. He had a strange feeling that someone was watching him. It wasn't so strange because Remus was looking at him. Perhaps he had seen him staring at Carmen because he hurriedly looked down at his notes.
Sirius was about to tell Remus off about not looking at him like that, but Professor Gwen just assigned them a huge homework assignment. "But why do we need so much homework. It's our first day back?" Sirius called to her, apparently outraged. Several others nodded their heads.
"Because, Mr. Black, you will take your O.W.L.s at the end of the year. You need to be prepared. Frankly, I see only one person in this entire room who would get a decent grade on them if we were taking them right now. Now, sit and get to work."
Sirius knew that she was talking about Carmen, and he gave a small smile, that no one else could see, at the thought.
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~Well, I hope you guys like it. Thanks for all of the fantastic reviews! Keep 'em up! Stay tuned! Next chapter will be up soon!
Carmen Willows