The Marauders of Hogwarts: Year Two
A/N: Hi! I'm glad to say that my muses didn't kill me! *cheers from small children* …But they came pretty damn close. *gasps from the small children* Lol.
I'm feeling happy, 'cause life is going good for me right now, so this chapter will probably be so cheerful it sickens you! :D
But you know, 'cause of that depressing ending for the last chapter, it might have its serious points and spoil my fun. Blah.
And thanks for putting me on your favorites lists, people! *sobs with joy* Lol. Not really. But I'm REALLY HAPPY…^_^
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 2
The Hogwarts Express
The Marauders and Co. got through the rest of their summer without much happening, except a short trip to Diagon Alley to get their new books. Some of them (James for example) also got brooms, since they were going to try out for the house team.
Then, on September 1st, the day of their journey on the Hogwarts Express finally came.
One of the first Gryffindor second-years to get to the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10 was Fiona Shetland. The barrier was in fact the gateway to Platform 9 3/4, as Fiona had learned last year. However, the idea of going straight through the barrier still scared her. Resolutely, she took a deep breath, shook back her short red hair, and walked forward, keeping tight control of her trolley, which had her trunk and her cat Snowball's cage on it. Getting nervous, she broke into a light run, and just before a crowd passed the barrier--she was through.
Fiona looked around. There was the scarlet steam engine, labeled "Hogwarts Express" on its side. She grinned and looked around for her friends.
Suddenly, she saw Arabella Figg (Bella for short) chatting with Mira Gonzalez and the two Ravenclaw girls Mira hung around with sometimes. The four of them were putting their trunks on the train.
Fiona hurried up and said, "Hi, everybody! Could anybody help me get my trunk on?" Mira, who was surprisingly strong, helped her lift the trunk in no time. "Thanks," Fiona said.
Mira suddenly waved her hand toward the two Ravenclaw girls and said quickly, "Oh, Fiona, you know Raven, right? And Ella?"
Fiona remembered Raven as the girl with short black hair who laughed too much to be a Ravenclaw. Ella, on the other hand, she hadn't been introduced to yet. Ella was a small girl with glasses and long brownish-red hair.
"Yeah, I've met them," Fiona said, and smiled politely. Personally, she thought Ella had some of the LONGEST, UNHEALTHIEST hair EVER. But nobody else seemed to mind.
"Oh, okay," Mira said, and everyone kept talking while they got on the train.
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A few minutes later, James got through the barrier; he waited too long, and Sirius crashed into him, knocking him down, same as last year.
"I wonder how many years in a row this is going to happen," James said in a muffled voice.
"I dunno," Sirius said, shrugging and sitting down on top of James.
"Well…I DON'T LIKE IT SO GET OFF!!!!!" James yelled. Sirius got off in a hurry. James stood up, dusting himself off, and said in a sweet voice, "Thank you."
Sirius glared.
"Oh look, it's Remus!" James said brightly just as Remus Lupin ran through the barrier and knocked into both of them. And there they were, in a pile again.
"Get off!" James said, in a muffled voice, from the bottom.
Just then, somebody else ran through the barrier and crashed into Sirius and Remus, who were on top of James, knocking them over again.
Sirius blinked and sat up. The fourth person was Peter Pettigrew, another Marauder.
Without even stopping to see who it was, Peter started backing up, stammering. "S-sorry, w-wasn't l-looking--" Then he saw who they actually were. "Oh, never mind."
"Hi, Peter," Remus said.
"Hi," Peter said, looking down at them all. "Having fun?"
"Yep, loads," Sirius said, grinning broadly as he trampled James.
"Gerroff," James mumbled. "Incendio," he said, pointing his wand vaguely up in the air, since he was face-down on the ground and couldn't see.
Sirius dodged the shot of fire, and it made a nice burn-mark on the barrier.
"Missed," he said, sticking out his tongue.
"Incendio!!!!!" James bellowed, aiming at Sirius again.
Just then, Lily Evans ran through the barrier, Sirius dodged the fire, and the fire hit Lily's hair instead, and started burning.
"MY HAIR!!!!!!!" Lily screamed, making everyone on the platform look up. "MY HAIR!!!!! JAMES POTTER, YOU IDIOT!!!! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!" she screamed.
"Hey, I resent that!" James protested, getting up right after Sirius got off him.
Lily wasn't paying attention, however. She was too busy making water shoot out of her wand to put out the fire on her literally flaming red hair.
She managed to stop the fire before it got very far, but her hair got about 3 inches burnt off. She glared, and dusted the ashes off her remaining hair.
"I'm not speaking to any of you," she said furiously, marching off to the train. No one even noticed that the ticket in her hand had clearly been torn up and put back together.
"Touchy," James sniffed.
"James, you realize we've earned the wrath of Lily now, right?" Sirius said slowly.
James went pale.
"Exactly."
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Lily threw her trunk on the train (she used a Lightening Charm to make it lighter), and then stomped through the train, looking for an empty compartment.
She didn't find an empty one, but she found two compartments that had Bella, Fiona, Thea, Mira, Raven and another girl in them.
Lily threw herself onto a seat in the compartment with Bella, Fiona and Thea in it, still fuming.
"Hi…Do you know what that idiot James Potter did?" she said, clenching her teeth.
"Is something burning?" Fiona said, oblivious.
Lily nearly screamed. "Something was burning! Potter burnt about three inches off my hair, that git! See?!? There's still some ashes on it!!!" She pointed to the blackened stripe on the bottom edge of her hair.
Bella looked puzzled. "Did he just do it for no reason?! That's so rude!"
"I'm not sure…I think he was aiming at Sirius…but still! He shouldn't do that near the barrier, where anyone could get burnt! He's such a mindless idiot!"
Thea suddenly grinned mischeviously.
"What?" Lily demanded.
"I think someone likes Potter…"
"WHAT?!?!?!?" Lily screamed, and proceeded to shoot every single curse at Thea that she could think of, and a couple small ones on Bella and Fiona, just for the fun of it.
The problem was, Thea was very good at dodging.
"Haha! You missed!" Thea yelled, dancing around in the passage outside the compartment while the curse ricocheted around, eventually hitting Raven in the next compartment, who suddenly developed a large green boil in the middle of her forehead.
The girl Lily didn't know shrieked, "Aaaaaah! Look at your forehead!" and handed Raven a mirror.
Raven looked in it, screamed, and dived at Thea, shouting, "Serpensortia!" A big snake flew out of Raven's wand, hit the floor with a bang, and started to slither toward Thea.
Thea was happened to be afraid of snakes, and started running up and down the compartment in little circles, screaming, "Get it away! Get it away! Get it away!"
Bella, on the other hand, looked calmly at it and said, "Boa constrictor. Can't hurt you unless it wraps around your neck and squeezes."
Thea mind naturally jumped to the way it could kill her, ignoring everything else, so she just kept screaming.
Then, a prefect burst out of another compartment. Strangely, this happened to be the exact same prefect who had taken points off them both times last year.
The first time was on the morning of the first day, when Lily had an out-of-body experience in which Voldemort threatened her and then began to hit her with a whip. She was screaming, which caused the prefect to come running. However, Lily was out of danger by then, because Mira had saved her from the dream with her Spirit Healing powers, so the prefect took points off because she thought they were just screaming for the fun of it.
The second time had been on Christmas morning, when Voldemort sent Mira a snake that could only hurt Spirit Healers like her, so Mira was screaming. Then, Sirius threw it out the window, and the prefect had once again rushed in to find nothing wrong, and took points off.
So, quite naturally, this prefect was biased against them by now, since they had woken her up twice in the early morning, and took any excuse to punish them.
"Detention!" the prefect yelled, staring at the chaos. "And Finite Incantantem!" The snake and the large green boil on Raven's forehead disappeared, and the prefect stomped out.
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After the while that they spent thinking of pranks to play on James (with a lot of success), shooting curses at one another (with a lot of yelling from the prefect), and trying to cut Lily's hair even (with no success at all), the Hogwarts Express slowed down and stopped. They got out of the train, and stepped into the dark. Through the blackness they could see a line of carriages that everyone was heading for, and they made a beeline for them. As the group of girls got into two of the carriages, they waved at Hagrid, who was holding up a lantern to guide the first-years to the lake for their customary journey across it.
The four Marauders got out of the train just after them. Lily glared at James as she got into the carriage, but he didn't see her, since he was talking with Sirius about Quidditch. The boys clambered into a third carriage a minute later.
The carriages started and bumped along a path toward Hogwarts. In a minute, they passed the gates, but once again, the Marauders were too busy talking about Quidditch to notice.
In a little while, the carriages stopped and everyone climbed out, looking up at Hogwarts in front of them. The students walked up the steps and swarmed through the front door, going toward the Great Hall. The edges of Lily's hair looked somewhat like this : ^\/^\/^\/^\/^
Except worse.
Just then, Peeves, Hogwarts' (un)beloved poltergeist, started shooting rubber bands at random students. The rubber bands hit them hard on their heads and bounced off; in return, Lily, who was thoroughly angry about any damage done to her head by now, yelled, "PEEVES IS A THESPIAN!!!!!!"
A few whispers went through the corridor.
"A thespian?"
"What's a thespian?"
"No idea, but it sounds bad, so let's pretend we know exactly what it is and gasp."
Everyone gasped, and Peeves glared at Lily while she went into the Great Hall grinning.
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The Gryffindors went over to their table, and Mira's friends went over to the Ravenclaw table.
The Marauders glared at Lucius Malfoy, over at the Slytherin table.
"That git," Sirius muttered, glaring hard. "I was hoping he flunked out last year."
Lily glared at James.
"My hair…"
Bella glared at her brother Richard, who was at the other end of the table, yelling, "Getting homesick yet, Bella?"
"I've never gotten homesick in my life," Bella muttered furiously.
A typical start of the year for the Marauders. But maybe the year wouldn't be so normal later on.
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A/N: My sister thinks I'm a stupid…um…*beep*…I want to keep my PG rating, lol. ^_^ …I think it's PG, anyway…oh well…My sister will probably kill me for getting on AIM…and there wasn't even anybody on…how GRATIFYING. Lol. Anyway…I finished! Wasn't the best ending, but blah…I had to finish sometime, and I don't like writing long chapters.
Lily: I don't like it when you write long chapters either! Why do you like to torture me???
Me: I'm in a bad mood. If you know what's good for you, shut up…
Lily: No.
Me: *kicks Lily across the room* Fun.
Lily: Ow…
Bye!
~Hermione2