(AN: Give me a break. This is my first fan fic.)
Disclaimer: Yes, I finally figured this thing out. This is for all my other chapters too, I don't own what you recognize, and I own what you don't recognize. All that you do, J.K. Rowling, one of the most incredible authors ever, owns all that.
Second year came with even more problems, since 'The Mauraders', self named certain group of egotistical Gryffindors, we can all guess who, decided to send a prank Karina's way.
"Shit! That's the third time I've messed up on the same charm! Lily, what am I doing wrong?" Karina whined, almost throwing down her wand in disgust.
"Your not flicking right. It's more of a nonchalant flick, not a jab-in-the-eye flick." Lily said soothingly, looking over her potions essay with a frown. "How am I supposed to get this damn essay done, when all that stupid professor does is ramble about how awful Gryffindors are!" Lily finished her voice starting to roar.
"I personally believe her wand is shoved so far up her ass that it affects her attitude." Karina smirked, "The more I think about it, the more it makes sense."
"OY! Karr!" a voice yelled from across the room.
Karina rolled her eyes.
"What do you want, Black?" she yelled back.
"Were you speaking out against my favorite teacher?"
She snorted. "Favorite my ass, Black, favorite my ass!"
Karina got back to trying to make the charm work.
The next day dawned gray and dreary.
"Oh goody. Not only does it look like it's going to rain, but we have Herbology today." Lily complained, coming out of the bathroom drying her hair.
"What's the matter? Don't you like the rain?" Karina was brushing her damp hair.
"I prefer snow."
"It's only October, don't expect snow till at least late November."
Lily sighed. "I know."
After getting dressed, the girls went down to breakfast.
"It's Friday! Woohoo!" Karina smiled, "Quidditch match tomorrow. We'll have the common room to ourselves! By the way, did you hear who the new Beater and Chaser are?"
Lily looked up from her cereal, "No…who?"
Karina looked up with a face that mocked shock, "Well our dear Mr. Potter is chaser, and Mr. Black as the new beater."
"Oh my! No wonder I hadn't heard, such modest people." Lily giggled.
Then, the first of the post owls showed up. A tawny one headed straight for Karina and Lily with a scarlet envelope in its beak.
"Oh no! Didn't Pettigrew get one of these last year? It's a Howler right?" Karina prodded it timidly. It started smoking. Down the table, the Mauraders started laughing.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Karina stated, as she opened the smoking Howler.
"I PERSONALLY BELIEVE HER WAND IS SHOVED SO FAR UP HER ASS THAT IT AFFECTS HER ATTITUDE!" Karina's voice echoed around the hall, everyone staring at her. She showed no emotion, " THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE MORE IT MAKES SENSE!" Then, in a voice exactly like Karina's, some words she never spoke started bouncing off the walls. "THAT PROFESSOR HASTA NEEDS TO LEARN HER PLACE! I WOULD LOVE TO BLAST HER TO NEXT TUESDAY THEN SEE IF SHE EVER BOTHERS ME AGAIN!"
Suddenly, the Howler burst into flames, and Karina saw Professors McGonagall and Hasta hurrying over to Karina.
"What was that Ms. Karr?" Hasta spat.
"What did it sound like, Professor?" Karina said the last word menacingly.
"Ms. Karr, detention, one week, meet me in my classroom Monday night at seven." McGonagall stated, her nostrils flaring, and her lips going thinner than Karina had ever seen them go.
"Yes'm" Karina muttered, looking at the floor.
The professors walked away, and Karina grabbed her bag, followed by Lily who was trying to calm her friend down.
"I'm going to KILL those Mauraders! I'll curse them all the way to July!" Karina muttered venomously.
"Karina, don't so anything rash! You could get kicked out!" Lily pleaded.
"Rash, RASH!" Karina voice rose at least two octaves. "I'll show you rash!"
"Karina, please, you'll get more detention, and you could get points taken away." Lily's voice was desperate now.
"Fine! Fine! FINE! Oh but they'll pay, when they least expect it."
Karina spent the weekend in a sulky mood; she was too busy plotting her revenge to do anything else.
Karina's detentions consisted of her dusting and polishing all of the trophies in the trophy room, muggle style. Karina didn't mind this too much, as she always had to do things of the sort at her house.
"So, have you decided what you're going to do for revenge?" Lily asked on the Saturday of the quidditch match.
"Yup, we'll have to go up to their dorms though…" Karina led into a stream of cuss words.
"Alright, tell me." Lily said grinning evilly.
"Well, I seem to remember Potter saying something about 'embarrassing baby pictures' his mom sent for him to look at…" Karina left off smirking.
"I like the potential that sentence holds…" Lily said standing up and heading towards the boys dorm they had gone in so many times to pull pranks.
As soon as the Gryffindors entered the common room, Karina and Lily could tell they had won. There was so much commotion it was impossible for anyone to think. But soon, the commotion of winning was full of sniggers and whispers of "Look at that!" and "Are those pictures of Potter?"
They quietly crept to the edge of the girl's dorm stairs and looked over. All over the walls were blown up pictures of a baby James Potter doing all sorts of embarrassing things, ie: taking a bath, eating dirt…
"Oh, this is so worth the detentions I had to put up with." Karina smiled.
"Look at his face." Lily giggled pointing.
He was a bright red, and he finally came out of a stupor and began pulling them down, cursing all the way. He finally got them down and everyone forgot about it and started creating a party.
"FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLLLLOOOOOWWWW! WHICH NOBADY CAN DENY!" all the Gryffindors sang to James Potter, all except two second years that were sitting on the landing of the girls dormitories rolling their eyes.
"Wanna go down? They are playing good music, and I'm hungry." Lily said suddenly.
"Sure."
They went down, and sat on a couch singing along to the songs they knew and talking about how stupid quidditch was when Karina went up to get more food. That's when Sirius walked over to Lily.
"Why the long face Evans? We were excellent in the pitch."
"You arrogant prat. You got Karina in trouble for your own amusement!" Lily's green eyes flashed dangerously.
"Not just for ours, the whole school enjoyed it!" James said, sinking down next to her. "She needed to loosen up anyways."
"YOU ARE SUCH AN ASS, POTTER!" Lily screamed, then ran up the stairs to her dorm.
Karina walked back over to the couch, saw Black and Potter, and then realized what happened. She walked up to the dorm just in time to hear a muffled scream.
"That makes it feel better doesn't it?"
"Yup, screaming into a pillow always works."
The next few weeks were rather dull, by Hogwarts standards at least, then, about a week before Christmas break, Lily and Karina got letters from home.
Karina's made her tear up the parchment.
Karina Love,
Sorry to worry you dear, but your father is in one of his moods, and absolutely refuses to have you home for the holidays, so you are going to have to stay at school. I'm awfully sorry love, but Sam has run off with her new boyfriend, and your father is drinking more and more. I send my love and so does Sam. Don't let this bother you, he'll come around.
Love,
Mummy
Karina looked up a little scared, and a little sad. She muttered something inaudible.
"Didn't quite catch that Kari." Lily said cheerily, but stop smiling when she saw her friend's face. "What happened?" Karina told her about the letter.
"I'm so….oh." she still remembered the last time she had said sorry to Karina about her father.
"What's your say?" Karina asked, her voice shaking.
Little Lily,
We have wonderful news! Petunia is going on an exchange trip with her class to Ireland, and we have been invited as chaperones. Unfortunately, though, it's over the break. We hate to do this, but would you be willing to stay at Hogwarts this Christmas? We heard Karina would be staying to, so it won't be so bad. Write us back darling.
Fields of Love,
Mum and Daddy.
Lily looked up smiling.
"Mum and Daddy are going with Petunia on a trip, so I'm staying too!"
"Really?" Karina managed a small smile.
"Yeah!"
"Maybe it won't be so bad then."
"Just maybe? I'm hurt." Lily looked away with a face that mocked hurt.
Karina just laughed.
Christmas came and went without incident, and classes started back up again.
Potions
"I'm never going to get this potion is she doesn't stop breathing down my neck." Karina hissed in Lily's ear.
"Shut up Mudbloods!" whispered a group a Slytherins, which included Snape.
Karina winced, but not at Snape. Her head was starting to hurt and people started flashing through her brain. She grabbed her head and closed her eyes.
"Karina…" Lily said.
There was James again, only it wasn't James, it couldn't be, something wasn't right. There was also a red headed gangly boy, and a girl with bushy brown hair. "Mudblood…" was ringing through the air, and the girl clenched her fist as the tears welled up in her eyes.
"Mudbloods and Muggle lovers…" there was a flash of green light, people lying dead everywhere, then Karina snapped to.
She was lying on the floor of the potions dungeon, with her hands covering her ears. Her head was hurting her, and Professor Hasta was just about to take off points, when she ran out of the room, Lily following close behind.
"Karina, what happened?" Lily asked, a weird look on her face.
"I had another Sight. I have to talk to Professor Dumbledore. It was awful. Have to see Dumbledore."
"We don't know where his office is, Kari." Lily whispered soothingly.
"Well we have to find it!" Kari snapped.
"Don't bite my head off I'm trying to help."
"Sorry…"
They wandered around, trying to think of where his office might be, when they heard a soft voice behind them, "What are you looking for?"
Lily gasped, it was Dumbledore.
"We were looking for you Professor. Karina…" Karina cut her off.
"Not here. Professor, can we talk in private?"
"Why certainly. Follow me Ms. Evans, Ms. Karr."
They followed him down a passageway, and to a stone gargoyle.
Dumbledore said the password ("licorice wands") and the gargoyle moved aside to reveal a moving staircase.
Lily and Karina followed Dumbledore up the stairs, and found themselves in a lovely office, much more interesting than all the other teacher's offices.
"Have a seat, please." he motioned towards the chair, while he sat behind his desk.
Karina looked around and realized, she had had a vision of this place many times. This was where the young boy was. He had been sitting in this exact seat.
"So, now that you have found me, what is it you would like to tell me?" Dumbledore said, lacing his fingers together on his desk.
"Well, it's my Sight. I had a particularly awful vision in the dungeon." Karina whispered to her hand. "I saw a boy, who looked almost exactly like James Potter, only it couldn't have been him because I didn't recognize any of the other students with him. Then, I heard someone say… 'Mudbloods and muggle lovers…' and I saw dead people…they were everywhere, and then a green light, and I woke up on the floor in the potions dungeon." she finished a little louder than when she started, but was still talking to the floor.
He looked at her for a moment, and then said, "I believe you are having visions of he countless victims Lord Voldemort will kill."
Lily looked up sharply. A shiver passed over her. That name didn't give her a good feeling.
Karina, on the other hand took in a deep breath. The room around her started to get hazy. And suddenly, she was seeing graveyard. There were people dressed in robes with hoods that covered their faces. A man stood in the middle, laughing and leering at someone off to his side. That boy, he was tied to a tombstone. The man in the middle turned around, and his red eyes pierced Karina's and she screamed.
Lily and Dumbledore watched Karina as she scrunched up her eyes and suddenly started screaming.
"KARINA! WAKE UP! STOP SCREAMING!" Lily screamed, shaking Karina.
Karina stopped screaming, opened her eyes, and then fell back unconscious.
"KARINA!" Lily yelled.
"Calm down Lily." Professor Dumbledore said softly, "She'll be just fine. She's just overwhelmed. We'll take her down to the hospital wing, where you'll be able to stay with her." He conjured a stretcher and put Karina on it. Lily followed mutely all the way to the hospital wing. As they passed students, they stared after them, wondering what happened.
They passed by the Mauraders and they just gaped open mouthed at Lily, Karina, and Dumbledore as they passed by. Lily purposefully avoided their looks.
"Evans, what…"
Lily just quickened her pace.
They made it to the hospital wing without much fuss, but as soon as Madame Pomfrey saw Karina, she started mumbling about her 'delicate condition'.
"What happened Albus?" she asked.
"She was overwhelmed by a premonition she had. She is a Seer as you know, and she saw Voldemort." Dumbledore answered simply.
"Oh dear. A Seer. No wonder she isn't in the best shape. We haven't had a true Seer in years. They are such fragile people." Madame Pomfrey sighed.
"I know Poppy, I know. But Ms. Evans here is to stay with her. No one else should be permitted unless Ms. Karr agrees to it."
"Yes Albus, of course." Madame Pomfrey started bustling around, making a bad and getting Karina situated in it.
"Will she be okay?" Lily asked a little timidly.
"Yes dear, she'll be fine. She'll most definitely have to stay in here till she calms down, but she'll be fine."
It was Sunday afternoon by the time Karina was ready to leave, but she still broke down into hysterical sobbing if left alone for too long, so Lily was given an order to try and be with her all the time. Especially at night, that's when Karina really got upset.
Over the past few weeks, things changed. Lily and Karina became insomniacs, only sleeping during the day on weekends. The first few weeks of their new nightly habits, they were constantly tired, but they grew used to it, and became more solemn. They stayed up nights in the common room reading, or listening to music. When it rained, they would sit on the window seat in their dorm and just watch it rain, thinking. They grew even farther away from the rest of the student body than before, and only talked amongst themselves. Then, on the last day before heading back for the summer, a Hufflepuff and a Ravenclaw girl walked up and sat next to them underneath the tree they were under.
"Hey." the Hufflepuff said smiling.
"Hello." Lily said.
"I'm Sarah Finch, I remember sitting with you two first year on those dreadful boats."
"I remember. I'm Lily Evans."
"I'm Elizabeth Hwin. I was the other girl."
"Pleased to meetcha!" Karina smiled, holding out her hand.
They all shook and just sat there looking around, when Sarah started up a conversation.
"So, how have you been? I mean, during Herbology, you two have become so…secluded."
"I don't really want to talk about it." Karina said shortly, but she smiled anyways.
"Well that's alright. We just met anyways." Elizabeth said.
"Yeah. So what about the Potions exam? Did that bitch treat the Gryffindors the same way she treated the Hufflepuffs?" Sarah asked, frowning.
"And the Ravenclaws." Elizabeth added, her face sour.
"You have no idea. And we have the Slytherins in our class so it's about three times as worse." Lily groaned.
They went on about Professor Hasta for a while, and then moved onto other subjects. Soon, it was time for the leaving feast and they all headed in, promising to sit with each other on the train.
All too soon it seemed, the feast was over. Karina and Lily stayed up in the common room all night talking about the events of the year and wondering what would be in store for the summer.
The train ride back was a blur of many games of Exploding Snap, and chess, laughter, and singed eyebrows.
"You will write to us won't you?" Liz (Elizabeth) said tearfully getting off the train and gathering her belongings.
"Don't mind her, she is really emotional." Sarah laughed and grabbed her things.
"We'll write. Promise." Karina and Lily held out their pinkies.
"See ya!" Lily and Karina called, heading back through the barrier.
"LILY! KARINA!" a warm motherly vice called.
"MOMMY!" Lily cried and ran as fast as she could to her mother's embrace.
"Hey flower. How was school?" Mr. Evans asked.
"DADDY! Your home!" she pried away from her mother and grabbed onto her father.
"Hello Mrs. Evans, Mr. Evans." Karina said, a little shyly.
"Well Karina Karr, you have never been so formal with us in all your life!"
"Sorry Mr. Jim, I haven't been feeling myself lately."
"Come here love." Mrs. Evans pulled her into a hug.
"Mrs. Daisy." Karina hugged her back.
"KARINA!"
"MOMMY!" Karina dashed over to her mom, and ran into about fifty people along the way.
"Damn girl. She did the same thing last year." Sirius Black exclaimed, watching Karina being smothered in her mother's embrace.
"Calm down Mr. Black." James said, helping his friend up.
"Stop being so damn polite Mr. Potter." Sirius said, his playful smile beginning to form.
"Yes Mr. Black."
"Shut up Potter."
Grinning stupidly, both boys went to meet their mothers, who were glaring daggers at each other.
"Oh boy. See ya mate." James waved to Sirius.
"Bye James." Sirius headed towards his mother, his grin slowly turning to a frown with each step he took.
Back to Karina and Lily
"How have you been."? Mrs. Karr said smiling.
"Just peachy Mummy dear."
"You lie."
"You read me like a book. I'm an insomniac."
"Your father is going to love that."
"Don't I know it."
(AN: okay, this is my longest chapter so far I believe, and I don't think anyone is reading this, my first few chapters were awful. Oh well. If you are reading this, I appreciate you!)