Chapter3
By Reb/Cutiwriter
A Smart Witch, An Intelligent Witch, A Witty Witch
Lily followed quietly, and the Marauders, as if dogs, pursued them too.
Lily walked, staring at the group of students, and although she could still talk, she was very stunned.
Where had they come from?
She stared at them, her green eyes wide, until she met the sight of a boy, towards the middle of the group of students—with her eyes. Except...he looked exactly like James Potter.
Where could these people—these students have come from? Lily was shaken up, and although she didn't want him to notice, she wanted to let someone know her discovery.
The stopped, as Rana halted in front of a large stone gargoyle—one that all the Marauders, and Harry knew well.
"Here, let me go get a professor," she said, and left the students with Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
Lily stared at the group of students, again. She shook her head, closed her eyes, and counted to ten. When her eyes reopened, they were still there.
"So…" she said…quietly, still quite aghast from the boys eyes—and how he looked exactly like James. "How did you guys get here…?"
She wanted to know the answer, she needed to know it.
Meanwhile, Hermione, who had been just a pair of eyes noticed the redheaded girls reaction when spying Lily— and how a look of astonishment and horror flitted across the girls face. It meant only one thing, and that was that this was Lily Evan's, Harry's mother.
Hermione needed to think of an answer to Lily's question- and quickly. She knew that they couldn't say the future. Who would believe them? And anyways, she didn't want to change the past.
"We…uh…are transfers from…," Hermione stuttered, sounding like an idiot. She could see James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter gawking at her…or right next to her-
Harry. Damn.
Leya had noticed this to, and she knew immediately that Hermione, in her intention to do good, had screwed up.
Ignoring Malfoy, who had started to laugh at the utter chaos of it all, she said, "We're transfers from a new school up in …," she had read about new schools started around now…, "Up in Prague. We're here for a transfer program, as Sarah had been saying."
Sarah? Hermione was stunned at the name, but knew that they all had to become a new identity—noting could be the same. A simply mind link, or the liking of another's name could change every thing.
Harry, who had been quiet for quite a while said, "I'm…Pe-Peter."
Hermione stepped on his left foot, quite annoyed with his stupidity. He had drawn attention to himself, and used a name of a Marauder.
He winced, and quickly disappeared back into the crowd of students.
Within the next six minutes, all new names had been in order—although all except Harry, or Peter, and Hermione or Sarah had kept their first names. And Rana had still not returned.
Lily looked around for her, wondering how long it could possibly take to find a teacher that knew Dumbledore's password.
Rana's head could be seen, bobbing up and down, and by her face, you could tell she had been told the password, as she was such a trustworthy student.
Rana's walk changed into a run, and she slowly stopped, next to James Potter.
Her grinned, and pulled her into a playful hug, as would only best friends do.
Sirius groaned, and whined, "Honestly, can't you two get together all ready?"
She blushed, and James did too, his eyes fixated on Lily.
"Oh, and do what you and Alexandra are doing?" he asked, teasing Sirius about his momentary fling with on of his good friends.
"Yes. To at least get your eyes of her," he said, and rolled his eyes towards Lily. "And, honestly, there's no other way to find out how good a kisser your friend is.
Remus rolled his eyes, and Lily huffed, annoyed with Sirius talking about her friend like that.
Harry stood, a bit amused, but annoyed with James' cockiness, and Lily's hatred for him.
"Anyways," Rana said, a deep blush still clearly visible her cheeks, "let's get you guys," she gestured towards the twenty students, "to Dumbledore."
James turned towards Rana, a pathetic pouting look on his face, "Can we come too?"
She rolled her eyes, but nodded, and the Marauder's grinned, as Lily inched herself towards them. After all, it wasn't everyday that a mysterious group of students appeared at Hogwarts.
Rana inched towards the stone gargoyle, and whispered so that no one else could here. "Chocolate Turtles." The gargoyle stepped aside, and a large stone escalator was now visible. She allowed everyone to pass into the hidden structure before entering herself. She paused for a moment, a hurt filling her from Sirius joke about her and James going out.
Because that was what she wanted.
She slowly climbed the steps, her empty footsteps echoing loudly, and lonely.
She noticed a figure above, who had waited for her.
"Rana?" asked James.
She smiled, and hurried up to her best friend.
"Are you okay," he asked, concerned.
"Yes," she lied.
Further up the stairs, Lily was fuming. How dare James Potter put up such an…such an act! One minute he was all over her, declaring his undying love, and the next…he was with Rana, a friend hiding his feelings! Couldn't he just make up his mind.
Because she almost had!
But now, again, she couldn't stand the ungrateful little prat. How…disgraceful! She huffed and puffed, and accidentily jammed her fist into the person in front of her. She apologized to Sarah, and continued walking, hurrying to get away from James and Rana.
Hermione winced, but excepted Lily's apology. She saw the redhead stalk angrily up the stairs, and she could hear her talking to herself, phrases such as "Can't believe he's such a prat," or "with her!" or "what about me?"
Hermione grimaced, knowing that what they had just done had probably thrown off the entired world as they had known it.
And all in one simple fight.
It figured
She hurried up past Lily, and towards Harry, where he was walking blankly.
"You know, it isn't your fault that they aren't together, right?"
He nodded yes, but continued to walk, quietly.
"Harry- they'll get together, don't worry. We might have…thrown them off a bit." She didn't want to add that they could have screwed everything up.
He was still silent, and was beginning to bug her.
"It's just that…the way he was with that Rana, although she might be nice…," he choked back tears, "it's always hard seeing your parents with someone else, lovingly. I know this may sound stupid," he whispered, "but I've hardly seen them before…and well…for my first time in seeing them for real for them to be fighting, for them to hate each other…It's just sorta of hard, you know?" his green eyes sparkled even in the dimly lit staircase.
Hermione nodded, taking her friend hand.
"I know…Do I know." But before he could ask, she changed the subject. "Don't you think it's a little strange how they haven't noticed our badges?" she asked, looking down to inspect her own.
But it was gone.
Further up the stair case, Leya and Draco were still fighting.
"It was honestly all your fault, and I'll have no problem denying it." Leya spat at him, looking for someone to defend her. There was no one near the two of them, except for Terrence, who was hovering close by, ready to catch either one in a fight.
"Why will you automatically blame it on me, you ungrateful little snot!" he snarled, his cold gray eyes glaring at her.
"Because-," she cut herself off, as she tripped, and tumbled down the stairs, right into Terrence's arms, because he had been ready to catch her. She looked from Terrence to Malfoy- and, oh no. This couldn't be good. Malfoy's eyes had turned into slits. This could not be good.
Suddenly, she felt a falling sensation as Terrence's arms let go. "Get off of me, half breed!" he spat.
Her eyes felt wet- how she hated him. How could he do this to her…she loved him.
"James?" Rena asked, slowly, stopping. They had been slowly making there way up the staircase, a good couple yards behind everyone else.
"Mmmhmm," he grinned, his playful hazel eyes still twinkling, even in the dark.
'Do you think we could try what Alexandra and Sirius are doing,' she thought. Instead she said, "thanks for being such a great friend."
Parvati, Padma, and Lavender stopped- they had reached the top. Lavender waited, as everyone slowly made there way to the top. Glaring at a couple of heads, she patiently waited.
Most people thought her hopeless—but it's the others who are.
Always thinking that the only thing she thought about is clothes, hair, and boys. Only airheads keep there minds on those subjects.
Lavender Brown was far from being an airhead.
She just tended to talk about shallow subjects.
What most of them didn't know was that Lavender had once had a younger twin—Leya-Amber Brown. But Leya had gotten into a terrible accident when the two of them were six.
At Hogwarts, in meeting Parvati- she had been captivated with her—nothing like her at all, which made her all the more attractive. And then, there was also the fact she had Padma…
Also, at Hogwarts, she had met Leya. Her enemy, Leya. Leya had a brother, and lost him too. So why not friends?
Because Leya was almost exactly like her Leya-Amber. And she felt as though Leya had taken her Leya-Amber from her…and also, there common interest in Harry Potter didn't help.
There, at the top of Dumbledore's staircase stood 25 students—Unknown on what was to come of them. There stood Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Leya Lupin, Hermione Granger, Terence Higgs, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Georgia Higgs, Theodore Nott, Ginny Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Justin Finch-Fletchey, Hannah Abbott, Pansy Parkinson ,Laura Madley, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, Lily Evans, and Rana Rai.
Oh what a year was in store.