Author's Note: Hello All! So sorry this took me so long to write! I went on a family trip. Okay, well, because I made you wait so long, I will just get on with it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Child of the Stars
Chapter Nine: The Boys Are Back In Town
Sadira groaned as Lily shook her awake.
"Come on Sadira, we have to go down to breakfast!"
She glared at the back of Lily's head as she walked away. "Now!" she called back, quickly dodging the pillow Sadira threw at her.
"Fine! I'm going!" she yelled as Judoc hooted from the windowsill. She tossed him an owl treat before getting up and into her uniform.
"You have got to be kidding me," Sadira stated as she looked in Mandara's full-length mirror. The skirt on her uniform went down to her knees, but there were tears in it, giving it slits up to her mid-thigh. Her shirt was also torn in some places. The rest of her uniform was normal.
"Uh, Lily? Is it supposed to be like this?" she called.
"Like what?" Lily walked into the room, her head tilted as she put on her earrings. She gasped when she saw Sadira's uniform.
"Potter," she growled.
"The Marauders did this?" Sadira asked with a raised eyebrow.
Lily nodded and stormed over to her trunk.
"Calm down Lily, I'll get them back."
"What do you mean get them back? You can't simply 'get back' at the Marauders!"
"Lily, you forget how my magic works," she said with a sly grin as Lily smiled. "Where's Mandara?"
"She's waiting in the common room."
"Okay, well, we best get down then. Are you ready?"
"Yes, just let me grab my books."
They both grabbed their bags and descended the stairs.
Mandara's jaw dropped when she saw them. "Sadira, what are you wearing?"
"My uniform. Do you like it?" she asked as she twirled around, her skirt blowing out around her.
Mandara opened and closed her mouth a few times before she got her voice back. "If Remus had any part in this, I swear, I'll hex him into next week."
Lily and Sadira laughed at the livid look on Mandara's face. They walked down the Great Hall together.
Many students turned their heads and gasped as they entered, but the girls continued to the Gryffindor table. Lily and Mandara tried to pull Sadira to the far end of the table, away from the Marauders, but Sadira purposefully strode over to them.
"Hello Boys. It's a wonderful day, isn't it?" she asked cheerily as she sat next to them, Lily and Mandara following suit.
Remus' mouth was open as he took in Sadira's appearance. "Something wrong Remus? Did you forget to dye it bright pink or something?"
He gave her a quizzical look. "What do you mean? I had no part in this."
Sadira nudged Mandara, who was sitting next to her. Mandara nudged back, a smile sliding across her face.
"Good, then we can get on to the perpetrators. Black, Potter, and Pettigrew."
Sirius, James, and Peter looked up from a conversation they were having. After a pause, they started to laugh hysterically.
"I am so glad you are enjoying yourselves," Sadira said sarcastically as they began to calm down. "Now, I can easily fix this, but I have decided to be fair. You played a prank on me, and I admit, it was well played."
They looked at her apprehensively. "What are you getting at?" James asked.
"What I'm getting at, Potter, is that I can, and I will, extract my revenge. I don't bloody care if you call yourselves the Marauders or the Wallflowers; you are going to be pranked."
Sirius started to chuckle and James went back to his food.
"Now, this has been a casual warning. Have a nice day!" she said as she walked over to the Slytherin table, plunking down next to Severus once she got there.
"Good morning," he said solemnly.
"Good morning. Severus, I wanted to talk to you about my being in Gryffindor. It's weird, not being in the same house as you, but I was hoping it wouldn't change anything."
He looked at her, the corners of his lips twitching upwards. She smiled back at him and kissed his cheek. "So glad we had this conversation," she said with a laugh. "I'll see you in class?" He nodded. "Great! Talk to you then."
She made to get up when she felt something on her leg. She looked over to see Lucius smirking at her.
Sadira narrowed her eyes and growled at him, discretely waving her hand over his back. "Lucius," she said coldly.
"Sadira."
She clenched her jaw to keep from hitting him. Instead, she waved her hand over his back again, making what she had done just a little more pronounced, and walked off.
She grabbed a piece of toast as she sat down next to Ewan.
"Hey!"
"Hello Ewan. How are you?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing. What happened to your uniform?"
"Oh, well, the Marauders needed a test subject for their new prank."
He tried to hide his grin and she shoved him playfully.
"A test subject? That seems a little odd. Usually they would just test it on your brother," Christian said from across the table.
"Yes, well, they wanted to get revenge from what I did on the train."
"That was you?" Ewan asked incredulously.
"Yes, why?"
"I heard that someone bested Sirius and James, I just didn't know who," he said as he looked at her with a new sense of respect.
Sadira smiled nervously as the owls started to fly through the hall, dropping mail and class schedules.
She opened hers and smiled.
Monday:
-Double Potions
-Lunch
-Care Of Magical Creatures
-Break
-Arithmancy
-Dinner
Tuesday:
-Transfiguration
-Herbology
-Divination
-Lunch
-History Of Magic
-Break
-Dinner
-Astrology
Wednesday:
-Arithmancy
-Herbology
-Lunch
-Double Care Of Magical Creatures
-Dinner
Thursday:
-History Of Magic
-Defense Against The Dark Arts
-Lunch
-Divination
-Dinner
-Astrology
Friday:
-Double Potions
-Lunch
-Transfiguartion
-Herbology
-Dinner
Lily and Mandara came over from the Gryffindor table.
"Looks like we have a busy schedule," Lily commented. She looked over Sadira's shoulder. "We have all of the same classes!"
"Really? What about you Mandara?"
"Same."
"Perfect," Lily said. "Do you want to leave for Potions?"
"If you guys don't mind, I'd like to walk with Severus."
"Oh, no that's okay," Mandara said as she and Lily left the hall. Sadira sadi a quick goodbye to Ewan and Christian and made her way back to the Slytherin table.
"Sadira! I was wondering if I you would accompany me to Potions," Lucius asked .
"Sorry Lucius, but I was hoping to walk with my brother. Severus?"
He stood up and they left the hall, and Lucius quickly followed them, mad that she had refused his offer.
A few students started to laugh as they walked until almost everyone in the hall was in tears.
The Slytherins and teachers could not see what Sadira had done to Lucius, but everyone else could. She smiled to herself as they entered the dungeons. Lucius looked very confused as he sat down.
Lily and Mandara ran over to Sadira.
"Did you do that?" Mandara asked. Sadira nodded and Lily started to giggle.
"I can't believe you did that!"
Sadira shrugged as she went to sit down next to Severus, who had walked to the other side of the room with the rest of the Slytherins.
There was a bang as the door flew open and the Marauders ran in just before the bell rang, all four of them suppressing laughter as they looked at Lucius, who was looking extremely miffed.
As the class wore on, the Gryffindors would occasionally laugh for no apparent reason. The professor started to become angry as he prowled through the rows of students.
Everyone flew out of the room when the bell rang, thankful to be out of the dungeons. Sadira said goodbye to Severus as she walked with Lily and Mandara to lunch.
They were about to enter the Great Hall when Sirius came out of nowhere and pulled Sadira into an empty classroom.
"Sirius, get off of me," she said, somewhat annoyed by his behavior.
"Did you do that to Malfoy's robes?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"Simple. I waved my hand and thought of what I wanted to do.In this case it was putting the phrase 'I Love Mudbloods!' on his robes in big flashy letters. Nothing big, but the jerk tried to feel my leg when I left the Slytherin table," she stated.
Sirius stared at her in awe for a few seconds before taking her face in his hands and kissing her. She was shocked at what he had done, so she simply stood there with his lips pressed against hers.The kiss, if you could call it that, only lasted for three seconds before she pulled away.
He had a pompous grin on his face, which only irritated Sadira further. She regained her senses and pushed him away from her, angry enough to slap him, which she did. He looked astounded that a girl had slapped him.
She couldn't think of anything foul enough to call him as they both stood there glaring at each other. She shook her head, completely disgusted, before storming out of the room. He quickly followed her and walked over to the Marauders. Sadira waved her hand at his back and his hair turned from shoulder-length and black to hip-length and blonde.
"What happened to you guys?" Sadira cried as she sat down with Lily and Mandara, who were starting to giggle uncontrollably.
"We– we were hoping you would do something like that!" Mandara gasped. "Plus we didn't think he would really do anything to you. You're practically invincible with your wand-less magic."
"No, I'm far from invincible. Though that hair doesn't look too bad on him," she said thoughtfully. "But please do not leave me alone with him again."
"Deal," Lily said through her giggles.
The Marauders were not handling it quite as well. James pointed out to Sirius that he had blonde hair and they immediately tried to reverse it. When they could not, all of them except Remus glared at her.
"Oh, this isn't good," Lily muttered. "If they only target you, you'll be dead before next week."
"What do you mean?"
"You've gotten their attention, and not in a good way. They'll attack you mercilessly until they think you've had enough," Mandara supplied.
"Quick, think of a name," Lily said. "Something like Marauders. We need to make a group so that their attacks will be weaker."
"You're insane Lily," Sadira said.
"No, she might have a point... what about The Jailbirds?" Mandara suggested.
"Perfect! If I'm in on it, James might not go all out! And because Mandara in involved, Remus won't take part," Lily said cheerfully.
"Oh, and that leaves me to fend for myself then?" Sadira said.
"No, we'll all get hit, but not as bad as if they were attacking us individually."
"You really think this is going to work?" Sadira asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I have no idea," Lily said as she looked past Sadira at the Marauders, who were standing up and walking towards them.
Author's Note: Woohooo! Long chapter! Hopefully I will have the next one out soon. I hope you liked it! Please review! Oh, and I would really appreciate it if you could check out my new story. Thanks!
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