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Chapter 9-Waking Up
It was a weekend at Hogwarts and most of the school population was trying to sleep in. But two sixth years in particular were having the worst of luck doing so…
Evelyn Variati, one of the smartest witches in her year, sat bolt upright in bed. She was drenched in sweat and her hair was sticking to her face, her pajamas sticking to her body.
"This is not happening," she said to herself. 'I so did not just dream that!' she screamed in her mind.
She looked at the clock on her bedside table warily. 'Only four a.m. ……'she thought.
"Rotten luck," she said to herself.
She got out of bed and started walking towards the common room. Glad she was wearing socks because the stairs were cold.
Remus Lupin sat up in bed breathing heavily.
"Holy shit," he said out loud.
"Who're ya talkin' too, Moony," asked Sirius in his sleep.
"No one, Padfoot. Go back to sleep," he replied shaking his head at his friend.
"Mmkay,"answered Sirius sluring his words falling asleep almost instantly.
'Lucky bastard,' Remus thought wishing he was still asleep too.
He looked at his clock shaking his head. 'Only four a.m. ….I must be going crazy….'
Remus headed down to the common room after getting a glass of water. It was quite a cold morning…
When he was coming down the stairs he saw a girl coming down from the girls dorms. She was nearly at the bottom of the stairs. Her silver hair messy and…
'Wait….silver hair….cripes!' Remus' mind screamed at him.
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"Hey Remus," Evelyn said spotting her friend on the staircase to the boys' dorms. He smiled and said hi back.
"What are you doing down here this early she," she said blushing slightly as she remembered her dream.
"Couldn't sleep," he replied.
"And you ,"Remus asked noticing how her hair shined like Unicorn hair in the moon light. It might've been morning already, but the moon was still out.
"Same," she answered.
"How'd your hair turn silver?" Remus asked. Evelyn just stared at him for a few seconds. No one had ever asked her that. They would all just asume she was part veela or something.
"Well…my dad was brewing a potion one day. I was five at the time…I was watching him and I accidentally spilled some frog guts into it and it sort of blew up in my face. I wasn't burned or anything….but when I looked up my dad gasped and smiled. My hair had turned from pitch black to silver in an instant," she said as Remus listened intently.
"Have you ever wanted to turn your hair back to black?" Remus asked her.
"Well…I've thought about….I tried a couple of time too…but I could never get the spell right…my dad wouldn't do it for me and niether would my mom…they liked it better this way…" she said answering Remus' unasked question at the same time.
"Oh…I know the spell…I could do it for you if you want me to…" Remus said.
"I would love that!" Evelyn replied excitedly.
"I could do it now…I just need to get my wand." Remus added.
"That would be great," Evelyn said smiling.
A couple minutes and a spell later Evelyn was admiring her black hair in a mirror. Remus noticed how much prettier she looked with dark hair. He liked her silver hair, she looked really beautiful with black hair.
"Thank you, Remus," Evelyn said hugging him. Remus smiled and hugged her back not really wanting to let go of her. She must have felt the same way because she didn't make any move to let go of Remus.
There were footsteps on the boys staircase and only then did they release each other from the hug.
"Evie my dear! Remus old chap! What ever are you doing down here this early in the morning?" Sirius smiled pretending to be overly happy to see them as if he hadn't seen them for months.
"We couldn't sleep,"Evelyn answered smiling at her goofball friend.
Sirius had just swept a bow at Evelyn, grabbed her hand and kissed it, his eyebrows wiggling. Just then did he notice her hair.
"Whoa! What happened to your hair?!" he asked incredulously.
"Remus changed it back to it's original colour for me,"she replied laughing a little at the look on Sirius's face.
James had heard her because he had been walking up to them followed by Peter.
"So your hair's really black?" James asked her.
"Yup," she replied.
"But how is it black? I thought it was silver!" James said looking really confused.
"Remus can explain it to you while you're getting ready for breakfast," Evelyn said.
With that she headed back up the girls staircase. As soon as she was out of earshot and they heard her door close Sirius let out a low whistle.
"Damn…is it just me or is she like ten times hotter with black hair?" Sirius asked.
"Shut up Sirius. She's one of your best friends. You think every girl's hot," James laughed, "but you're right. If I wasn't crazy for Lily I would ask her out.
"I would, but I am burdened with the most annoying girlfriend ever…" Sirius said.
"Why don't you just break up with her?"said James, sick of hearing about how annoying Sirius's girlfriend, one of Lilly's best friends, is.
"Because I am head-over-heals for her," Sirius said smiling." The rest of the guys shook their heads and went to get ready for breakfast still laughing and joking and eventually poking fun at James for still having a crush on Lily Evans. The girl that hated him beyond his wildest dreams from what he knew.
The Marauders were the first ones at the Great Hall for breakfast. It was a Saturday morning after all so there probably wouldn't be anymore students for quite a while. It was only 6:30 in the morning.
"So what are the plans for today?" asked Peter stuffing his face with some bacon.
"Well, today's supposed to be a Hogsmeade day so we can stock up on "supplies and candy," said James.
"But that's not for another 3 and a half hours!" whined Sirius.
"So until then we can go to the library and finish those essays for Potions, and maybe learn some new tricks to use on Snape," said James smiling at the last bit.
They all nodded in agreement and headed back to the Gryffindor tower to get their book bags.
Once they had there things they headed to the library…the prospect of writing a Potions essay hanging over their head…but it had to be done sometime. -
Author's Note: OMFG!!! I'M ALIVE!!! I'm SO SORRY it took me so long to update!!I was gonna last Saturday(my birthday!!) but I got sick. I'm still sick, but now I have medicine. I've been sick for 8 days now…bleh! .' but I'm 14 now!!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!1!1!!
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