"Nothing like her, why?"
"Could anyone tell you were sisters?" Sirius asked her.
"Doubt it. Sirius what are you thinking of?"
"You remember that potion Professor Rew mentioned..." Sirius began hesitantly, obviously putting the finishing touches onto his plan. Everyone looked back blankly.
"You actually listened to a teacher?" Ellis asked in disbelief. Sirius scowled at her and continued.
"The one that turns you into someone else. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for a certain person we all know and love, to fall for someone who wasn't real?" he smirked.
"Huh?"
"This is hard to explain, so just shut up and listen...."
"I think I get it," said James. "You want to make this potion to turn one of us into Lily's sister? You get Snape hooked and then turn back to normal?"
"And there will be no proof that this girl ever existed," Sirius finished with an evil grin.
"You're a bastard, you know that Black?" James asked, but the same evil smile was beginning to creep onto his face.
"What do you think?" Sirius asked.
"I think you've lost your mind," James replied still grinning.
"Lily?"
"You don't want to know what I think," she snorted.
"Anyone?" Sirius looked around for support.
"Sounds like laugh," agreed Ellis. Ciara shrugged.
"If you like," said Isabelle.
"I think it's brilliant!" said Peter. Remus lowered his eyes and stayed silent.
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They were sitting back in the Common Room after dinner, when students who had left for the holidays started drifting in.
"LILY! HAS ANYONE SEEN LILY?" Mia burst in, causing the whole room to go silent.
"Yeah, I'm here," Lily replied peering around the armchair she was sitting in.
"I AM GOING TO BLOODY KILL YOU! YOU WERE ON THE TRAIN AND THEN YOU..............I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" she screamed.
"I know, I'm sorry! I missed the train and I had to apparate and then walk in the rain. If it helps I had a shit time and got soaked to the skin,"
"You did?" asked Mia looking slightly mollified.
Lily nodded, "Hair went flat,"
"Oh! Well, you deserved it,"
"I know," Lily answered quickly.
"Mia! Mia! Oy, Morgan!" Sirius yelled out, "You haven't heard the brilliant plan!"
"Sirius give her a break, she's just arrived,"
"But she needs to hear this," Sirius explained the plan, then asked, "You in?"
She grinned at him, "I'm in,"
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Getting the book for the potion was not too hard. Lily Evans, the perfect Head Girl with a perfect record had been able to get the book without too many questions. Nobody doubted that the book wasn't for her final potions project. Now it was bubbling away in the boy's dormitory and should be ready in a couple of days. Only they still didn't have anyone to drink it.
"So this turns someone into my sister?" asked Lily watching Sirius stir the cauldron.
"Once you add a bit of her. You still have the hairbrush right?" If she didn't a months worth of work would be useless.
"You know she's ugly don't you?"
"She is?" Sirius's face fell.
"Well.......not ugly so much as.........horsey,"
"Horsey?"
"You'll understand when you see her,"
"It doesn't matter. A few charms will fix it. Anyway we don't want her to be a complete knockout or Snivellus'll never fall for it. Who's drinking it?"
"Don't know. Not me!"
"Course not, James wouldn't let you,"
"I'm guessing that you wouldn't let Belle either,"
"She is not going anywhere near that creep. Anyway it would be too obvious if it was you or Belle,"
"So it's either Ellis, Ciara or Mia. I'll go and find them," Lily sighed.
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"No,"
"Please Ciara?"
"No. You know what I think of this plan,"
"Please?" Lily begged.
"No,"
"Why not?" Lily demanded.
"Because I just think that it's spiteful and that he doesn't deserve it,"
"DOESN'T DESERVE IT? Ciara, he almost killed James!"
"I'm sure he didn't mean to,"
"Doesn't change that he did. Anyway Remus is helping us,"
"Just because he doesn't have the guts to stand up to his friends,"
"At least he helps his friends," Lily shot back.
"How would you feel if James suddenly disappeared, after all you've been through together? If one day he'd just vanished? That's what you're doing to Snape," Ciara reasoned.
"Well, thanks to your precious Snape, I almost found out," Lily replied coolly as she turned to walk off.
"Where are you going now?" Ciara called out after her.
"To see Sirius,"
"You know you and Sirius would make a good pair?" she asked.
"Meaning?" Lily scowled back.
"That you're just as heartless as each other,"
"Heartless? I'm so sorry that I don't have any pity for the scumbag who tried to kill my boyfriend! Sirius is not heartless for trying to stand up for his friend," Lily countered furiously.
"Really? What is he then?" Ciara asked raising an eyebrow.
"Loyal," Lily glared
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"No!"
"Please Ellis?"
"No. I learned my lesson about dating Slytherins a long time ago," she smiled, causing Lily to smile with her. "Besides I have most of my classes with Snape. He's bound to notice if I disappeared and another girl turned up at the same time. He's not that stupid,"
"Fair enough," Lily shrugged, and told Ellis about the conversation she had just had with Ciara.
"Wow! That was harsh! At least you gave as good as you got,"
"Thanks," said Lily, "I was hoping you'd say that,"
"Why don't you go ask Mia," Ellis suggested.
"Go ask Mia what?" Mia asked having just entered the girls' room.
"Go ask Mia if you want to drink the potion and flirt with Snape," Lily told her.
"You could have put that better!" Elle said laughing.
"Do you?"
"NO! There's no way that you could possibly make me do that!" Mia said flopping down onto her bed. But Lily had an idea.
"Oh I think there is!"
"Go on then......" Mia said grimly intrigued.
"Just imagine the bollocking you'd get if people found out where you actually were this Easter," Lily said recalling the conversation they had on their way back to school.
"That's blackmail!" said Mia looking shocked.
"I know,"
"You said you wouldn't tell anyone!"
"Oh, I'm not going to tell anyone. Because you're going to drink Sirius's potion and go and charm Snape," she said smiling pleasantly.
"Since when did you turn into such a bitch?" Ellis asked approvingly. "First yelling at Ciara, ("She yelled at me first!") then blackmailing Mia,"
"Can't you go back to old nice Lily?" Mia asked glowering.
"I will when this bloody potions out the way," Lily promised.
"I'll hold you to that."
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"Relax, you'll be fine! Compared to your track record, Snape's got to be easy," Lily told Mia a few days after. "Getting a bloke as rich as Ollie O'Neill has got to be a challenge,"
"You should know, you're the girl sleeping with James Potter," Mia grinned. Lily blushed and turned her attention back to the potion.
"Lily's right, Snape'll fall for you easy," Ellis reassured her.
"Thanks but it's not having to talk to Snape that I'm worried about, it's the thought of having to drink a potion made by Sirius,"
"HEY!" scowling at Mia, Sirius handed her a glass as Lily added a few hairs from the brush. It bubbled and turned a murky brown colour, Mia gulped.
"Cheers!" she said as she started to drink it. Lily, Sirius and Ellis watched, all holding their breath. Mia groaned, doubled over and dropped the glass, which splintered loudly on the floor. Her insides felt alive like they were moving and wriggling inside her. Covering her mouth with her hand she pushed past everyone and ran into the boys' bathroom, slamming the door behind her.
"What the hell was that?" James and Isabelle appeared in the doorway.
"Mia's drinking the potion," Lily explained.
"Oh, is she all right?"
"I'm fine," Mia answered half a second later.
("How does she do that?" Lily whispered to Ellis, "She always comes in exactly at the right time,")
The whole room seemed to sigh with relief. Sirius rapidly returned to his usual colour and Lily released James's hand, without realising that she had been holding it. He glanced down at the nail marks she had left behind but didn't comment.
"Bloody hell Mia!" James and Sirius exclaimed. She could not have looked more different. Usually small and dark haired, she was now much taller with long blondish hair.
"There's only one problem," she pointed out, gesturing to her feet. The robes that had fit her perfectly as herself were several inches too short.
"You can borrow some of mine," Ellis volunteered, and started to walk out with Mia.
"Couple of things though" Mia called out. "What's my name?"
"Huh?"
"Well I can't exactly go up to him and say 'Hi, I'm Mia Morgan' can I? And I can't say Petunia Evans either, so what's my name?"
"Make it like Mia, so she'll remember it,"
"Tia? Ria? Neria? Maria?"
"I like Neria," Mia said, "Neria........Turner,"
"That's kinda weird,"
"Exactly. He's bound to remember it. Anyway, the next thing is, what happens if he notices that I've disappeared?"
This stumped the Gryffindors for a while.
"Erm..........."
"Ah...well............"
"KARA!" Ellis cried out.
"Who?"
"Kara's still going to be walking around school, they look practically the same. We'll just have to hope that no one looks to closely, that's all,"
"Well, good luck, Neria Turner," Lily said.
"The effects only last an hour, so remember to keep drinking it," Sirius reminded her.
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She only let him get glimpses of her at first. Just simple things like a look as they passed in the corridor. Then Mia decided to speed things up, by ramming into him as she turned a corner.
"For gods sake, watch where you're going!" she scowled. "Are you going to pick them up?" she demanded, watching him struggle to get up and looking at her books that were now covering the floor.
"She's lost it!" James whispered to Lily as they watched from a few feet away, but Lily had seen Mia do the same thing hundreds of times before. First she would be a bitch to the guy then go and apologize by being very sweet and nice afterwards.
"Just watch," Lily told him.
Snape was in a rush to get back to the Common Room, the last thing he needed was to be hexed by some Gryffindor, so he kept his eyes down, picked up the books and hurried off as soon as he could. Mia shot a look at Lily and raised an eyebrow.
This could be fun.
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Thank you for reading! Please review it, tell me what you think of it! Is getting to 130 reviews a lot to ask for? I guess it just depends on how much you want the next chapter. Now you know what the plan is, happy? Sorry this chapter took so long, but it was about 18 pages long by the time i finsihed it, so i had to change stuff and move it around a bit. next chapter should be out soon, once ive finished playing around with it.
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