Chapter 9: The Acid Queen

As the New Year was starting, the homework load was increasing. Figures . . . well anyways, February was fast approaching! Meaning, not only Valentine's Day in the month of February, but also Sirius' birthday.

"There's going to be a party!" said Sirius on late January.

"For what?" asked Peter.

"My birthday," said Sirius exasperated.

"What are you going to do? Have food for every year, and they don't even no what they're celebrating. It's just free food!" asked James as he was looking through a Quidditch book.

"Yeah, that sounds sort of desperate," started Sirius. "Hey, where do you suppose the kitchens are?"

James stopped, and smiled. "Let's find out!" James got up quickly.

"It's ten o'clock at night!" squealed Peter. "We'll get caught for sure!"

"No we won't," said James. He pulled out a cloak from his trunk. "An Invisibility Cloak!" he had a huge smile as he held up the cloak.

"Whoa, where'd you get it?" asked Sirius, his full attention on the cloak.

"My dad gave it to me at the beginning of the year, I thought now would be a good time to use it!" exclaimed James.

"Yeah! Wait, have any of you seen Remus? I haven't seen him all day . . ." said Sirius looking around the room.

"I saw him leave this morning, it was really early thought. He said that he was going to visit his mother, she was ill or something," said Peter thoughtfully.

"Hmm . . . I wonder if she's ok. We'll ask him when we see him next," said James. "Now," he smiled mischievously. "Let's go."

Downstairs

"I don't get it!" exclaimed Daisy looking down at her potions essay. "Can I copy yours Lily?" asked Daisy smiling innocently.

"No, you have to do it yourself, sorry."

Daisy pouted. "Hey Brit, did you do yours?" asked Daisy hopefully.

Britney was playing chess with Alice, "Er, yeah, it's in my bag over there!" She pointed to her bag beside her legs.

"Thanks!" Daisy dove for the bag and searched for the potions essay.

"When did you do the potions essay? I didn't see you do it," said Lily looking at Britney

"I got your queen!" exclaimed Alice smiling.

"Soon, as we got in from classes," muttered Britney angry with her lose of the queen.

"So you did all your homework in like fifteen minutes? I've been working on mine for an hour and a half," said Lily looking at her homework.

"Yeah," said Britney through gritted teeth, as Alice just took her bishop.

Lily grabbed Britney's bag, and looked at her completed homework.

"This is alright," said Lily moving from parchment to parchment.

"Is it? Good, now I don't have to worry about – No!" Britney bellowed.

"Ha! I won!" said Alice as she jumped around the room. Britney crossed her arms and pouted.

Lily didn't bother with her friend's intelligence at the moment due to the chess pieces floating in the air.

"Is – is that normal?" asked Lily pointing at the floating chess pieces.

Daisy looked up from her homework, her eyes widened. "Not usually . . ." she whispered.

"Er, I usually don't see floating chess pieces at my house . . ." started Britney, before the chess pieces started zooming in the directions of the people in the common room. Everyone was screaming, and was racing to their dormitories.

"Great," whispered James in Sirius' ear, and they slowly made they're way to the portrait hole.

As they exited the common room and made they're way to the Great hall, Sirius whispered, "what exactly are we looking for, that would lead us to the kitchens?"

James stopped abruptly, causing the two boys behind him to crash into him. The boys were in a heap on the ground. They didn't know that the cloak wasn't covering all of them, leaving they're legs shown to the prefects that heard the noise.

"What is this?" asked a Slytherin 6th year prefect.

"Oh no," squeaked Peter. James pulled off the cloak and the three boys stood up. The prefect grabbed James' invisibility cloak.

"Hey that's mine!" yelled James.

"Is it? It now belongs to Professor Dumbledore, follow me." The boys followed the snooty prefect up to Professor Dumbledore's office.

"Pumpkin Pastries," said the prefect. The Gargoyle sprang to life and the prefect ushered the three boys up. When they got up, the prefect knocked on the door.

"Come in," said a voice from inside. The prefect opened the door.

"Professor, these three boys were out past curfew with this cloak.. ." he handed Dumbledore the cloak.

"Alright, Evan you may leave," said Dumbledore quietly. The annoying prefect left.

"Is there any reason why you three were out at this time of night?" said Dumbledore softly with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Well, sir, we were looking for the kitchens," blurted out Sirius. James hit him.

Dumbledore chuckled softly. "Fruit loves to be tickled . . ."

James raised his eyebrows. Yes, Dumbledore was a genius, but honesty, 'fruit loves to be tickled?' Seriously . . .

"You better be off to your common rooms, classes tomorrow," a twinkle twinkling merrily in his eyes. He handed James his cloak.

James couldn't believe how easy they got off that. They got up and quickly left out the door, and back to their dormitories.

Two Days Later

James, Remus, Sirius and Peter were all sitting at the Gryffindor table for Dinner on a Friday.

"Hey Remus?" asked James, looking at his friend.

Remus turned his attention to James. "Yes?"

"Where were you two days ago? Peter said you had to go see your mum? Is she ok?"

Remus suddenly turned paler than he usually was. "Er, yeah, er, she's just a bit w-well ill. I'm sure she'll be f-fine soon," Remus said stuttering.

James nodded. He turned his head down the table, to where sat a very pretty red head. James stared, with a dreamy expression on his face. 'Do I like her?' thought James. 'I can't . . .'

Then Lily turned her head, to find James staring at her. James quickly made a piece of pork very interesting. Lily shrugged it off, it was just James.

Then Professor McGonagall came over to where the girls sat. "Ms. Turner? Professor Dumbledore would like you to visit his office after dinner." Britney nodded and went back to her food.

"What did you do?" asked Tess.

"God you're nosy. But if you must know . . . I killed someone." said Britney.

Tess' eyes widened. "No you didn't."

Britney looked at Tess. "Not yet," she said grinning at Tess. Alice broke out laughing. Tess scowled at Britney.

"Have you ever heard of manners?" asked Tess through gritted teeth.

"Have you ever heard of minding your own business?" asked Britney.

"Honestly!" screeched Tess. "What is your problem?" Lily looked at Britney. Britney always seemed short with Tess.

"You are my problem, to be honest. I don't like you," Britney sighed. Tess left the Great Hall in a huff.

"That was a little mean," said Lily. "She's not that bad."

"No, she's worse. Too nosy, too demanding, too stuck up. She needs an attitude adjustment." Lily had to agree to this, but didn't want to be a hypocrite so she kept quiet.

"We can fix that, can't we?" asked Daisy, her mouth full of food.

"Do we have to?" whined Britney.

"Look, we just have to show her how to be, normal?" thought Daisy.

Alice laughed again. "She's quite nice, but nosy. We can work on her."

"What is she a robot?" asked Britney.

That Night

Britney arrived from her visit from Dumbledore's office. Tess was working on her homework with Lily. Soon as she saw Britney she moved to get away.

Britney sighed, and said in a dry sarcastic voice, and said what she was supposed to say, what they practiced at dinner. "Please don't go. I'm sorry for being uptight. We need to talk." Britney frowned and Tess sat back down. "I think you're too needy, and that's sort of a problem, you see -."

"I'm needy? Your daddy's girl, you get everything you want. You ask your dad and he gets it in a flash. You even have Professor Dumbledore at your beck and call. I mean, you got a present from him for Christmas. You're the one that's selfish and needy."

Britney looked taken aback. She shuddered a sigh. "Look, I, er, well, er. I don't get everything I want." You could hear a few snorts in the common room. Britney turned to find Haylie, James and Sirius quickly looked away. Britney glared. "I don't!" she defended herself.

"Oh please," sighed Haylie. "Dad just bought you an owl, because you had to send one letter."

"That is really different. I didn't want that owl! Dad bought it for me because he didn't want me to use his owl." She defended herself.

"Look, many people agree with me. But I don't see how you have Dumbledore at your feet. How did you do that? Did you dad buy him for you?" asked Tess, her eyebrows rose, glaring at Britney.

Britney looked around; she looked at her sister, looking for help. Haylie just shrugged. "My dad didn't buy Professor Dumbledore."

"Oh, really?" Everyone in the common room was now watching the two first years glaring at each other. Tess was standing over a cowering Britney. Alice, Lily and Daisy were all uneasy, watching the two girls having a staring contest.

"Can we talk about this later?" whispered Britney.

"Why? I have your attention now," Tess growled.

"You know what? I don't have to listen to you! I can just pay," she rolled her eyes at this word, "my dad to pull your vocal chords out!" Britney stomped up to her room. Tess followed.

Daisy quickly got up and followed. Then Alice, while Lily sat there. "Why not?" Lily asked herself. She got up and followed suit.

When Lily entered Tess was at one end of the room, and Britney was at the other. "So, are you going to tell me how you got Dumbledore to be your little servent? Personally I don't know why he'd even do that for you."

"You need to learn when to shut your mouth!" Britney shot back. She went to her bed and started to make it.

"Stop trying to avoid the question Daddy's Girl." Tess had so much anger in her eyes, you thought she was going to breathe fire.

"Look, Tess this is getting way out of hand, can't you just drop it?" asked Lily tentivly.

"No," she said shortly. Lily went to sit on Alice's bed with Alice and Daisy.

"I'll tell you about the Dumbledore thing . . . but don't tell," whispered Britney.

"Are you going to cry?" asked Tess.

"NO! God just let it go, see you're needy yourself!" yelled Britney.

"Shut it," said Tess. "Are you going to tell us?" Tess was tapping her foot against the floor repeatedly.

'She really does think she's all that,' thought Daisy with raised eyebrows.

"I'm sort of, er, related to, Dumbledore," mumbled Britney.

"What? So, did you buy him?" sniggered Tess.

"SHUT UP!" yelled Alice and Daisy. Tess finally kept her mouth shut.

"How are you related to him?" asked Alice softly.

"He's my great grandfather. My grandmother is his daughter."

"So Dumbledore is married?" asked an astounded Daisy.

"Was," said Britney. "Don't tell! Especially Miss Big Mouth over here!" said Britney pointing at Tess. "Promise?"

"Promise," said Lily smiling.

"Promise," said Alice.

"Promise," said Daisy.

Everyone looked at Tess. She let out an exasperated sigh, "Fine, I promise!"

Britney smiled.

A/N: Two updates in one day! Yeah! hehe...all because I was on a roll yesterday:D I'll update tomorrow...probably not twice though. This is my favourite chapter in year 1 i think.

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