Chapter 47: 7th Year
Faith climbed onto the Hogwarts train and made her way to the back of the train. She picked an empty compartment and took a short nap.
Backround on Faith's Summer: Having spent a lot of her summer at the Weasleys and with the Weasleys had not given her much of an option to sleep. Faith also spent a lot of her time organizing her 6th year photo album and went out and bought a new camera.
Faith was awakened by the compartment door sliding open. Sarah gave her a weak smile and sat down and closed her eyes.
Backround on Sarah's Summer:Sarah had a decent summer except for the fact that her parents were telling her that she could never see or speak to Remus ever again. She had also passed out on several occasions. And she had heard whispers of how her eyes would turn red. Other than that she had a nice summer and wrote a lot of poetry.
Faith leaned her head back against the cool glass and slept.
Lily entered the compartment silently and sat down and put her Head Girl badge on the front of her robes.
Backround on Lily's summer: Lily had a good summer so spent a lot of time writing James and got into quite a lot of fights with her sister. She also spent a lot of time trying to convince herself she did not like James. (Denial isn't just a rive in Egypt anymore is it Lily?)
Lily sat silently and was surprised when she saw James's face looking at her through the small window on the door. He waved and slowly opened the door. Lily put a finger to her lips and pointed at Faith and Sarah who were fast asleep. James nodded and sat next to Lily. Lily for some odd reason could feel her heart hammering in her chest uncontrollably.
Backround on James's summer: James had an excellent summer. He spent almost all of his time writing letters to Lily and trying to think of ways to ask her out. The only bad thing that happened was his father was resubmitted to Saint Mungo's but James was used to that happening a lot.
Sirius and Peter were the next to come into the compartment. Peter sat down on the far side of Faith. Sirius layed down with the back of his head resting on Faith's thighs and his feet in Peter's lap.
Backround on Sirius's Summer: Sirius had a good summer since he spent most of it with James. He did write to Faith a lot and slept in everyday and ate like a horse.
Backround on Peter's Summer: Normally I could care less about Peter but he is becoming rather important now so I might as well. Peter had a run in with Lord Voldemort and is thinking about becoming a death eater.
"Comfotable?" Remus whispered coming in and taking a seat next to Sarah. Sirius smiled and nodded and closed his eyes.
Backround on Remus's Summer: Remus had...a not good summer. He was getting threatening letters from Sarah's parents and he was forbidden to see her. Not that that stopped him.
Sarah was the first to wake up and saw Remus sitting next to her. She smiled at him and rested her head on his shoulder. He put a hand on hers and rested his head on hers. Sarah smiled and watched the others around the compartment. She caught Serverus walk by their compartment and was glad he didn't come in.
Backround on Serverus's summer: Serverus killed his father as we already know. He also was busy being corrupted by Lucius all summer long. Lucius put idea in his head and made promises to him. Like infinite power if he joined Voldemort. Making people he didn't like pay. Getting Faith to love him. Serverus is quickly falling into Lucius's trap and is becoming colder and meaner as the days pass.
Faith woke as the sun was just beginning to set. She noticed the sleeping Sirius in her lap and began to comb his hair with her fingernails (people love it when I do that....I'm not sure why). Sirius woke up and smiled at her.
"Another year." She said yawning.
"Yeah...and this year we take out N.E.W.T.S." James said.
"Ugh...Don't remind us" Sarah muttered. Sarah was taking her N.E.W.T.S. to ensure that she could work at the Ministry doing something with Astrology. Remus, James, Sirius and Peter were all hoping to be Aurors. Faith wanted to be a Healer or an Auror and Lily wanted to be an Auror.
After another 2 hours of a train ride they all arrived at Hogwarts. Due to their sleeping legs they stumbled to their carriages and walked slowly to the Gryffindor table.
"How does it feel to be a 7th year?" A cold steely voice said behind them as they all sat down. One by one they turned around to face the owner of the voice, Lucius Malfoy.
"Not sure. How does it feel to be a slimy git?" Sirius growled. Everyone laughed and Lucius shot them cold glares. His eyes rested on Lily putting a hand to her mouth to try and stop from laughing.
"It's such a pity we have to be in the same graduating class as mudbloods." Lucius spat calmly. Their laughter died and James's eyes clouded over with anger.
"Why don't you keep your big mouth shut." James growled. Lucius just shot daggers at James and then left. Faith was the first to turn around.
"Ok so he's on the deatheater suspicion list." She said.