Disclaimer: Hannah, I'm sorry – but I had to use your quote thingy!
Give 5 different ways to determine whether this author owns the Harry Potter books:
1) She's not rich
2) She actually has to go to school
3) She had to buy the Harry Potter books
4) She's writing this fic
5) Her pen name's BrokenSkye
Deduce for yourself whether I am J. K. Rowling or not from these points.
BUT… The incantation is really Latin. I found this wicked site on the Internet that translates them! I owe it a lot!
AN: British / American Dictionary –Loch Ness Monster – surely you've heard of the Loch Ness Monster? It's a monster in Loch Ness in Scotland and tourists go there every year to try and find or catch sight of it.
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End of Last Chapter:
I dashed out the door.
"And get the particulars on the charm! You'll want to cast it again!" Ella called after me as I ran down the corridor and knocked on Jay's dorm room.
"What?" she hollered from within and I boldly pushed the door open.
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Unforgettable, In Every Way Part XIII – In Which There FlowersJay was standing in the middle of the room surrounded by her friends. They appeared to be trying to remove the hex that had been cast on her by James Potter. But evidently, they were having next to no luck judging by the fact that Jay's appearance hadn't altered at all except for the colours of the feathers. They had once been orange, to contrast with her pink hair and green skin, but now they were blue.
"Oh yes, pink, green and blue go much better than pink, green and orange." Lily offered as she walked into the room.
"Oh hush Lily. Lets try it again," Jay shushed her.
"One… two… three… Finite Incantatem!" They chorused. Unsurprisingly, nothing happened.
"It's Finite Incantatum with a U – and it won't work anyway."
"Well are you going to just stand there and tell me what I can't do, or help me?" Jay looked ready to throw a fit. That might be why she had become such a ferocious beater on the Gryffindor Quittich team.
"Oh, for Merlin's sake!" I stomped across the room, elbowing my way through Jay's crowd of friends, most of whom, who were at least a head taller than me. "Just dye your skin and hair back to its original colour and then wait until the original charm disintegrates from prolonged use."
"And I suppose that you could dye it back, could you?" Jay raised one of her plucked eyebrows at me, and looked down her nose at me. Not that that was hard considering I was only about five feet and a bit.
At that moment, Jay reminded me of my… interesting - for lack of a complimentary descriptive word - sister Petunia. As I said before and say again, what a horrid name! Imagine being called Petunia! Shows that our parents were hippies - Lily and Petunia! Flowers!
"Yes, I can." I declared with some satisfaction. Gleefully wiping the smirk off her face. I was extremely glad that I had put all that time into studying charms – it had certainly paid off! "But only if you tell me what you used as a hex against James the second time."
"Why would you want to know?"
"Because you hit me and I rather like my hair this colour." Jay looked amused at me, a smile spreading across her face.
"Right, it's a deal." She stuck her hand out at me, her other clutching her towel. I hesitantly shook her hand. "Ouch!" I don't quite think that Jay knew that she had that much muscle in her hand – the bones in my right hand were almost all crushed!
"Sorry… well, what are you waiting for? Work your magic and get this off me!"
I dyed her hair and skin back to the way it was and used another hex on her to reverse the feathers on her arms. I was slightly peeved at the way that she was acting towards me. It was like she thought that she was a clear cut above me and was perpetually looking down at me.
If I hadn't wanted to get the charm from her, I wouldn't have willingly come within a ten-mile radius of her and her 'Klingons'.
"The charm, as you promised?"
"Fine, fine, whatever. But you had better get out of my room right after."
"I will, I will. You wouldn't catch me dead in here under other circumstances."
"I wouldn't want you in here anyway. But…" she seemed to be wrestling within herself, her face taking on horrendous expressions before she finally came to a conclusion, "Thanks… a lot. The incantation is 'Fucus Caesaries'. Now get out of my room!"
I gleefully turned and almost skipped out of Jay's dormitory and down the stairs.
Life just couldn't get better!
Except it could get a whole lot more confusing. As I found out when I finally got to the bottom of the stairs.
"Have they been arguing for the whole time that I was upstairs?" I asked Remus and Peter. They were in the same position that I had left them in. Peter scoffing sweets and Remus reading his book, every once and a while looking up from his reading to glance amusedly at the arguing trio.
"Who died and made you King of the Known Universe?"
"Well, obviously I –"
Remus looked up at me "Surprisingly. I'm in shock that Kerr could hold his own against James and Sirius for so long."
"They've been yelling solidly for more than half an hour. I'm waiting for one to keel over from lack of oxygen." Peter added his two sickles.
"Well just ask Lily for yourself!"
"He doesn't need to ask her – there's no way that she would –"
"Just SHUT UP!" Simon Wood from Sixth Year, yelled from across the common room, removing his fluffy pink Herbology earmuffs from around his head.
Sirius glanced over to where the other two Marauders were and noticed me.
"Wow." He elbowed James.
"Wow," James echoed, staring at me. What was I, an animal in a zoo? The creature from the 'Black Lagoon'? The bloody Loch Ness Monster?
"Ah, Lily!" Kerr didn't appear affected by my new appearance. He briskly grabbed my arm and started dragging me out of the common room before James or Sirius could pick up their jaws from the floor, the Fat Lady closing behind us.
"Where are we going?" I asked. It seemed like we were headed for the Astronomy Tower, but I couldn't imagine Kerr taking me there for the first night that we were going out.
"The Astronomy Tower," It seemed like I was right.
By the time we had climbed the steps, I was panting rather unflatteringly. Kerr wasn't even out of breath. He drew me into the only unoccupied corner, the others filled with bodies. I prayed that we wouldn't happen upon Karen and Carley. I didn't think that I could stand it seeing that and my imagination was working over time, filling my mind with rather unpleasant thoughts.
"Did I ever tell you that I thought that you look stunning?" He murmured in my ear, his warm breath sending shivers down my spine.
"I don't think you did…" Uncertain as what to do, I put my arms around his neck.
"Well, you're beautiful," He whispered, softly kissing my neck.
I heard a giggle from the other side of the room. That wasn't Karen, couldn't be. Could it?
"Carley…" a girl whispered. It was them. Karen and Carley doing who-knows-what in the same room as us! Not good, so not good.
"What's wrong?" Kerr asked, bringing his head up and looking me in the eye when he noticed that I had stiffened.
"Um, I just don't feel comfortable. I feel like we're going too fast, and could we… um, go somewhere else?" I didn't wait for an answer and started dragging Kerr out of the Astronomy Tower and down the stairs.
"How about the lake?"
"No."
"One of the dungeons?"
"Pardon?!"
"Or not. On one of the hills overlooking Hogwarts?"
"No."
"In the Owlery?"
"What?"
"Right, bad idea. Under a weeping willow?"
"The wamping willow?" I exclaimed, so shocked that I completely missed a turn and crashed into a wall. "Ouch!" I complained, my voice sounding throaty since I was covering my nose with my hand, "I think that the top layer of skin was scratched off."
"Do you think that I have completely lost my marbles?" Kerr looked at me, shocked. "The weeping willow. The one on the other side of Hogwarts."
"You know what? I just don't feel like doing anything tonight." I said to him after I had dragged him along every possible corridor in Hogwarts and every nook and cranny outside of the building. A splitting headache had decided for that moment to pound around inside of my head, feeling like someone taking a sledgehammer to my scull.
"Is it something I said?" Kerr asked me, dazed. I think that he was in shock that I was acting so different than I normally do. Well how would he act if he recently that your best friends kept their secret of being lesbians from you for FOUR years and it's just sinking in now?! How would he?!
"No, it's not anything that you said," I sighed, "I just have a headache that even Merlin would be proud of and am not in the best of moods."
We started making our way back to Gryffindor Tower.
I was about ready to fall asleep right there and could not wait to get back to my dorm to retrieve my charms book and cast a pain-relief spell to take care of the headache. I really should have brought some muggle Aspirin from home.
We finally got into the deserted common room and I sprinted up the stairs, not even bothering to say goodnight to Kerr. He yelled something to my retreating form – I think that it sounded like, "Quiddich… Izerin with me?"
I paid no attention.
I creped into the dorm; aware that no one else was awake, the curtains were drawn tightly around every bed. I tossed my Charms book onto my bed and quickly drew my own curtains. After that, I cast the silencing charm around my bed just so that I wouldn't accidentally wake anyone. Although most had become heavy sleepers out of self-preservation in the first week of sharing a room with Laura.
It never ceases to amaze me how one so tall and willowy, looking for all that a strong wind would snap her; would be able to produce that much noise.
I sighed in relief after I had cast the charm – the pain had instantly gone away. I sank back onto my pillows and closed my eyes, revelling in the pain-free silence.
You have to get up and get ready for bed, my mind told me.
Just another few minutes… I pleaded.
No… now. Get up now!
But I don't want to. I'm warm now…
Now! One… two… three… up!
No… What? I'm having an argument with myself! I really have lost my marbles…
And with that, I fell asleep.
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"Come on Lily, wake up you sack of potatoes!" No… not again.
"I just got to sleep," I muttered, curling up in my duvet and hoping that they would just go away.
"But you'll be late!" it was Katriona this time who commandeered my duvet, leaving my curled up in a shivering ball with my robe wrapped around me, trying to keep warm and go back to sleep. I gave up.
"Time?" I asked weakly.
My Snitch alarm clock rose from beside my bed and fluttered into view, darting this way and that like a real Snitch would.
"Oh for Merlin's sake! Hold still so I can read you!" I shrieked; I am obviously not a morning person. How anyone can get up at this time and be wide-awake is beyond me.
The clock read, "Too early to be up."
"Oh, that's useful. How about the time?"
"Sorry," it read.
"I bet you are." I muttered.
"6:30am."
"Thank- WHAT?! KATRIONA!" I sat bolt upright and was immediately accosted.
"You have fifteen minutes for a shower – we know how you like those long ones." Laura firmly grabbed the robe that was still wrapped around my head. I think that I was trying to keep the light out, but it wasn't working.
"Ah! Cold!" I hopped around on the tile floor in the washroom after Laura shoved me in.
"Fifteen minutes!" she reminded me from behind the door, accompanied by giggles from the others.
For much of that time I loudly complained, but I was out of the shower in under fifteen minutes; I knew how the were just itching to make the water freezing cold to 'help' me be quicker. Cruel people.
I emerged from the washroom, in a fog of evaporated water, my nice fluffy towel wrapped around. I carried in one hand the clothes from yesterday; it appeared that I hadn't changed last night.
"Finally!" Anya exclaimed, "We were about to – Merlin! What have you done to your hair?!"
"Oh my God!" the others chorused, staring wide-eyed at me.
I dashed across to the mirror, Ella and peered into it. My mane of hair was still a deep red.
"You still look lovely," she informed me.
"Oh, I forgot all about my hair…" I said, feigning that it was nothing unusual, but secretly pleased at their reaction.
"Well, now that you're in front of the mirror, you may as well sit down and we'll get started." Hands roughly shoved me down into the waiting chair.
"Get started?" I asked, puzzled, looking down at what was on the table, "What are you – ahhhhhhh!"
The three's reflections grinned evilly back at me from the mirror.
"It's not like we're going to torture you, Lily…" One face said.
"Well, not on purpose." Another said, a grin threatening to split her face.
"We can't help if it's slightly… painful." The last purred, looking me up and down like it would a delicious hamburger.
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Response to reviews:
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Girl number 1 – Displayed everything? Pardon? I hope that you did well on your test – I HATE them myself!
Padfoot Hoshi – A whole paper on EARTHWORMS!?!? It's unbelievable the boring topics and subjects that Biology teachers can come up with! I'm sure that in the Staff Room, they have a jar in which they have class's names and pupils who they're going to terrorize for the week until the next draw. I'm convinced that teachers have their own gossip in the Staff Room – and have those spy cameras and microphones everywhere and laughing recall the blunder of some student at break an lunch. And when they have those 'IMPORTANT meetings'! It's a conspiracy!
MilesFromNormal – I agree, it's so cute that James defends her… but Lily as like Sirius' sister? Did I say that? I can't remember saying that… Did I really say that? I like that idea though – I might emhasise that a bit in the next few chapters… THANKS!
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Have you figured out whether I'm J.K. Rowling from the list at the beginning yet?
Right, I have a small notice. It is that I'll have to calm down writing and posting. I have exam Prelims and LOTS of essays and NAB's so I'll review about every week. Please don't be put off!
R & R!