The Marauders of Hogwarts: Year Two
A/N: HELLO!!!!!! The awesome Hermione2 is back with Year Two!!! Actually, I'm not really that awesome, and I'm not sure why people review this…but blah.
Anyway, thanks to all the people that reviewed the first year! It means a whole lot to me!!!!! And a special thanks to Koneko, Cutegirl612, and Saphire for being the most loyal reviewers!!!!! Yay!
And just to refresh people's memories (but mostly mine :D), I'm going to just randomly list the Marauders and them: James, Sirius, Remus, Peter (that scum!), Lily, Bella, Fiona, Mira, and…what's her name…is there another one? Oh yeah, Thea! I need to give her more stuff to do in this story; I really don't remember her very well. Let's see…then there's that Ravenclaw, Raven, and one of Mira's other friends…Ella. Be glad, people; Mira's more cheerful this year!!!! ^_^ And who knows, I might put in a little L/J this year…or L/Sirius, who knows, he's fun too…Haha.
And, of course, there is a first story before this one, so if there are any random new people reading this, read the first one. It might all make more sense that way. But if you don't want to, I'll try to make it understandable.
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters, places, etc. belong to J.K. Rowling, the best author in the world! All unrecognizable characters, places, etc. belong to me. Easy enough.
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Chapter 1
Letters
Mira Gonzalez was at her home in the US, having fun with a parrot she'd gotten for her birthday, which had been about a week after she'd come back from Hogwarts.
"OK, say, 'Up your ass!' " Mira had been having fun trying to teach it random things involving words like 'ass.'
The parrot squawked, "Up your ass! Up your ass!"
"Yay!" Mira clapped her hands and sank down on the bed, laughing her head off.
"Dinner! Mira, where are you?" her mother yelled from downstairs.
"Up your ass! Up your ass!" the parrot squawked.
Mira fell off her bed and hit the floor, still in spasms of laughter.
"In--In my room, Mom!" Mira half-gasped, half-yelled down the stairs.
"Are you all right? I heard something fall."
"Oh, yeah, I just, um, dropped something," Mira said, still giggling a little.
"OK."
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After dinner, Mira went up to her room to find a brown owl perched on the windowsill with a letter tied to its leg.
"About time!" Mira said, putting her hands on her hips and glaring at the owl. The owl blinked and hooted. "Aaah, you're no fun…" Mira said.
Mira walked over to the windowsill and untied the letter from the owl's leg. The envelope was made of yellowish parchment, and there was an address written in emerald green ink:
Miss M. Gonzalez
The Blue Bedroom
8501 Abilene Drive
Austin
Texas
United States
"These people don't know how to address an envelope," Mira muttered, tearing it open. She read it and smiled, happy she was going back to Hogwarts.
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Thea Watkins was bored. Very bored. Extremely bored. Awesomely bored. So phenomenally bored that she was ready to scream from her phenomenal boredness…okay, I think you get the point.
Suddenly, while she was lying on her bed chewing gum, an owl flew through the window and knocked over a participation trophy she'd gotten once for playing soccer.
Sure, it was a cheap trophy (at least it hadn't knocked over the second-place one), but still! Thea jumped up. "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!?!?!" she yelled, completely hyper all at once.
The owl seemed to look politely puzzled.
"YOU KNOCKED OVER MY TROPHY!!!!!!"
The owl gave her a look that seemed to say, 'Oops.'
"YES, OOPS!!!!"
The owl gave her another look. This one seemed to say, 'Will you shut up and get the letter tied to my leg?'
"Oh, okay," Thea sighed, walking over and untying the letter from the owl's leg. Then, she opened it.
Then, she started dancing around, singing, "I'm going back to Hogwarts, to Hogwarts, to Hogwarts! I'm going back to Hogwarts…WICKED!!!!!"
(A/N: Wicked--favorite word of Ron Weasley's. :D)
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James Potter woke up in his home in Godric's Hollow. It was a wizarding neighborhood. He got out of bed, opened his window, and was just going to yell, 'WAKE UP!!!' to Sirius Black, who lived next door, when a small feathery thing shot in at the window and nearly hit him in the head.
"What?" he said to nobody, turning around.
The small feathery thing was an owl, which had dropped a letter in the middle of the floor and was zooming around the ceiling now.
"Ah. Hyperactive owl," he said. "Should have known."
Then, he stuck his head out his window again and yelled, "OY!!!! SIRIUS!!!!!!"
Everyone in the neighborhood was jerked awake…except Sirius.
"SHUT UP, WILL YOU!!!" one of the neighbors yelled.
James ignored the neighbor and yelled even louder, "SIIIIIIIIIIIIRIUUUUUUUUUS!!!!!"
A rotten egg hit the side of his window, barely missing James.
"THAT WAS FOR YOU, YOU…DISTURBER OF THE PEACE!!!!!" the neighbor screamed.
"ON SECOND THOUGHT…." James yelled, pretending to stop and ducking his head back into his room. Then, he grinned, stuck his head out again, and yelled, "SSSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!"
Sirius' window slammed open and Sirius yelled, "What do you want, James?", just as a tomato hit the other side of James' window.
"Did you get your letter yet? I did!" James yelled, dodging a rotten egg that hit the top of the window. He sighed. At least whoever was throwing these had fairly bad aim.
"Yep. Why are people throwing eggs and tomatoes at you?"
"Long story," James sighed, and slammed his window shut. Just then, a tomato sailed through the air and smashed onto the window, right in the place where his head would have been.
James shook his head and picked his letter up off the floor.
***
Lily Potter woke up--and screamed. An owl was perched right on her face. The scream was enough to send it out her window pretty quick.
There was a letter on her face too. It had been below the owl, and now that the owl was gone, Lily sat up. The letter slid off her face and onto the blankets. She picked it up. She read the address:
Miss L. Evans
The Small Sunlit Bedroom
6 Privet Drive
Little Whinging
Surrey
Just then, her mother opened her bedroom door and said anxiously, "Are you all right, Lily?"
"Yeah. I woke up with an owl perched on my face, but it flew away when it screamed." Lily showed her mother the letter.
"Oh. Okay," Lily's mother said, as if waking up with an owl perched on your face was perfectly normal, and left.
Just then, a much less welcome person banged her way into the room--Lily's sister Petunia.
Petunia saw the letter in her hand and sneered. "Did you get another letter from that freak school of yours?"
"Yes, what's it to you?"
"What would those freaks have to say, anyway?" Petunia laughed. "Dear Freak, Term starts on the Freak Date. Signed, The Freak School." She laughed again and snatched the letter away from Lily.
"Hey!" Lily protested, trying not to cry, because she knew Petunia was probably going to do something else now. "I haven't read that yet!"
"Oh, poor baby, let me get you a lollipop!" Petunia smirked, and tore open the letter. She scanned the first few lines, and her grin widened. "Wow, this is even stupider than I thought." She shook the letter for emphasis and began to read aloud:
Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin: 1st class)
Dear Miss Evans,
We hope that you found your first year at Hogwarts enjoyable.
Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books for the coming year. A ticket for the train journey to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express is also enclosed.
Term begins on September 1st.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
"And what are the names of these books?" Petunia said incredulously, shaking open the second paper.
SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS WILL REQUIRE:
The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2
By Miranda Goshawk
The Intermediate Book of Magical Herbs and Fungi
By Herb Green
"Rubbish, all of it!" Petunia laughed, ripping the book list in half. Lily nearly cried. She managed to stop herself, but a single tear trickled down her cheek anyway. Petunia saw the tear and laughed maliciously. "Is it getting to you, being a freak, sister dear?" She took out the ticket for the Hogwarts Express and just stared. "Platform 9 and 3/4?" she said. "Standard Book of Spells? You're all mad freaks!" She tore up the ticket and threw the pieces on the floor, stalking out before Lily could stop her.
Lily clenched her fists and looked at the crumpled shreds of her ticket on the floor, with tears silently rolling down her cheeks.
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A/N: That depressing ending hasn't made me hyper enough for an author's note…Blah.
And may I introduce my muses: Mara (serious muse) and Lara (insane muse ^_^)
Mara: That last part was MY idea!!!
Lara: But the rotten eggs were mine!
Me: Shut up, both of you! I'm the one who had to write it all!
Mara and Lara: *glaring at me*
Me: *gulps* Hey, Lara…what happened to being a big happy family?
Lara: Shut up.
Me: Right…*gulps again* I'll stop writing now so that you won't have to hear my screams while my muses kill me…
Bye-bye! *scream*
~Hermione2