Sweet Misery
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Lily, Gwynn, and Lauren all ended up in Gryffindor along with Sirius, James, and Remus. They were starting classes today and the Gryffindors' first class that day was Potions with the Slytherins. Lily and her small group of friends got a late start that morning and were rushing to get ready and down to class on time.
"C'mon!" Lauren shouted running out of their dorm followed by Lily and Gwynn. Lauren led them down corridor after corridor.
"Lauren, do you have any idea where you're going?" Lily asked.
"Sure, it can't be that hard to find the dungeons," replied Lauren. Lauren began jumping down the stairs two at a time.
"Ten sickles she has no idea where we're going," muttered Gwynn to Lily.
"I know she has no idea where we're going, so I'm not taking you up on that bet," replied Lily.
"Lauren, maybe I should lead the way," Gwynn said.
"No, no, no, no! I know where I'm-" said Lauren as they turned down a corridor which apparently was a dead end, "...going..."
"Come on," Lily said turning the other way and pushing Gwynn to the front of the group. The girls sprinted down the corridors. They were already a minute late when they reached the Potions classroom. They rushed into the classroom and Lauren and Gwynn took a seat at one table while Lily took a seat at the table behind them with Remus. Just as Lily sat down, the professor entered the room.
"Morning students," said the professor.
"Good morning Professor Turco," mumbled the students.
"In this class, I expect you all to pay close attention. Any mistake in this class could be fatal. One small screw up could kill you or your partner. Now, I will be assigning you all seats." The students groaned at this. Professor Turco gave them all a quick glare but for continuing on. "The person who you will be sitting next to will be your partner for the rest of the year. I expect you all to try to get along with them. First row: Black, Gwyneth and Zambini, Michael; McMillan, Trisha and Goyle, Andrew; and Lupin, Remus and Chang, Emma. Second row: Black, Narcissa and Fonseca, Lauren; Sommers, Lindsey and Finnigan, Brian; and Malfoy, Lucius and Black, Sirius. Third row: Pettigrew, Peter and Crabbe, David; Potter, James and Snape, Severus; and Evans, Lillian and Daniels, Aivlei." Professor Turco continued to list off names as every one moved around the room grumbling.
After Professor Turco had assigned them all into their groups (each group consisted of a Gryffindor and a Slytherin in what seemed like an attempt to get the houses to get along), she began writing the ingredients on the board for a simple potion to get rid of boils. No sooner had the class began working, James and his partner began arguing.
"No, you're not supposed to add that yet, Potter!"
"Am too! It says so right on the board, Snape!"
"You're reading it wrong!"
"I am not! I can read the board perfectly fine!"
"Then you need glasses you prat!"
"Greasy slimeball git!"
The boys whipped out their wands and were about to start cursing each other when Professor Turco, who had been in her office, came out to see what all the shouting was about.
"Potter! Snape! Drop those wands!" she shouted. James and Severus dropped their wands but were still glaring daggers at each other. "Detention for both of you, and five points from both your houses! Now get back to work!"
At the end of the class, each group completed their potions. Every group, with the exception of James and Severus, who's potion blew up for some reason during the middle of the class, created the draft correctly. Severus ended up in the Hospital Wing because he was covered in the potion, which gave him scaly skin and a nose that wouldn't stop growing, while James, who luckily dropped his quill before the potion blew up, avoided the attack but ended up losing another five points for Gryffindor because Professor Turco believed he meant for the potion to blow up.
"Stupid git," grumbled James, as the class filed out of the classroom.
"We'll get him," said Sirius. "And that Malfoy git too."
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Later that night, Lily, Lauren, and Gwynn were all sitting in a corner of the common room working on their homework.
"I can't believe they gave us homework on the first day!" Lauren said setting her finished Potions essay aside.
"I still can't believe Professor Turco gave us assigned seats," said Gwynn.
"I hate my partner, he's so... ergh!" Lauren said.
"He can't be worse than that Zambini kid," Gwynn stated then looked at her parchment in disgust. She crumpled it up and whipped it across the room at Sirius.
"What does he do?" Lauren inquired.
"He wouldn't shut up about how I was doing things!" Gwynn replied. "'You're not cutting those right!' 'No, no, no! Like THIS!'"
"Well, my partner, Aivlei, didn't do anything," said Lily. "Just sat back in his chair and slept—snoring quite loudly by the way—the whole time and he still got credit for making the potion."
"Well, he's ju-" Gwynn was cut off by a wade of parchment hitting her forehead. She shot a glare at Sirius, who shouted, "Read it!"
Lauren picked up the parchment from the floor and opened it.
"Your brother wants you to help him, James, and Remus with a prank," Lauren said handing Gwynn the parchment.
"I don't want to!" Gwynn said picking up her quill to scribble back a reply.
"I'll help!" Lauren said.
"You know you're going to get in trouble, don't you?" Lily asked.
"You're only in trouble if you get caught," said Lauren, matter-of-factly.
"I'm surprised you're not one of them..." Gwynn muttered writing 'No, I won't, but Lauren would love to.' Gwynn crumpled the parchment back up and tossed it back over at the boys. But Sirius ducked at the last second, avoiding being hit. The end result was the parchment hitting James. He opened the parchment.
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"Sirius, I can't read your sister's handwriting," he said, handing the paper to Sirius.
"Get glasses," replied Sirius with a smirk.
"Shut up," snapped James. "I don't need glasses."
"I'd say you do," said Remus, who was looking over Sirius's shoulder. James shot a glare at Remus. "Well, you do! Gwynn's handwriting is perfectly legible."
"Is not," said James looking over Sirius's shoulder.
"Does this help?" Sirius asked, shoving the parchment about an inch from James' face.
"Somewhat..." James mumbled, pushing the parchment back.
"Told you," said Sirius, grabbing his quill and writing back to Gwynn. He flung it back, hitting Lily this time.
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"'Which one of you is Lauren?'" Lily read. "Figures."
"Sirius has a bad memory when it comes to meeting people," said Gwynn.
Lily quickly wrote an answer and threw it back, hitting Remus. This was quickly becoming a game between the two groups.
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"Lauren's the brunette," said Remus.
"Oh, so that's Lauren," Sirius said.
"I guess it'll be fine for her to come with us," James shrugged.
James took the parchment and wrote back a reply and tossed it at Lauren's head.
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"Yes!" Lauren said reading the reply.
"You're in?" Lily asked.
"Yeah," replied Lauren.
Lauren wrote something to the guys and flung it back. The parchment bounced off Remus's shoulder and hit Sirius.
"Double hit!" Lauren shouted.
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This continued for quite a while. After they had finished telling about the prank, it soon became a written argument over whether or not the girls should give the guys their homework for them to copy. The guys gave up on writing notes and just started to fling balls of parchment, which the girl fired back quicker than you could say 'Hogwarts'. Things finally quieted down when one of the prefects was hit by a ball that Sirius threw.
Around ten, they all went up to their dorms for the night.
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A/n: Well, there you go, chapter five! I would've had it up sooner, but I was dragged off to Oklahoma for a family reunion. Blah I know. Humidity sucks. I felt like I was going to die. Luckily I didn't.
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