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Chapter 17: Hogsmeade
Of course, to the dismay of Kelsey-Alice, Lily, Cecily and I beat the information out of her and finally cracked her into telling us. I was so incredibly happy for Kelsey; I was the loudest out of them all from the yelp of excitement. Ever since I can remember, the one character that Kelsey was so obsessed with was Remus. This was definitely a milestone in our little journey in the wizarding world. We teased Kelsey mercilessly which surprisingly didn't seem to bother her at all. This was not at all like Kelsey but I was too excited to care.
"Kelsey, you have to tell us EXACTLY what happened! Hopefully this date to Hogsmeade won't be has hellish as your last one." Lily said winking. The others grimaced at some sort of thought. Kelsey raised her eyebrows.
"Last one?" she asked. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Well, good for you, honey. At least you're trying to forget." She said. Kelsey shrugged.
"What happened? Who was he?" she asked.
"This Hufflepuff guy. God, I don't even remember his name. Anyway, you went to Hogsmeade with him and it went awful!" Cecily exclaimed, "He was such an impolite eater. He must have splattered you with food like, ten times! What a sod!" Kelsey grimaced along with the rest of us.
"I don't remember what happened after that actually." Alice said, thinking hard. She then smiled and patted Kelsey's shoulder.
"Don't worry. We ALWAYS knew Lupin had the hots for you. It drove us crazy that he wouldn't say anything! Nothing's going to happen this date. He's the epitome of polite." She said. I nodded in agreement.
Finally, at about 1:00 am, we went to bed, very excited about the tomorrow's trip.
Shockingly, we were all up on the dot and went down to breakfast together along with the rest of the student body. We were to leave for Hogsmeade after breakfast. Today was louder than usual since this was the last trip until the end of the school year. School ended in five days! When the majority of Hogwarts had finished their breakfast, Kelsey rushed out to go brush her teeth for the eleventh time (maybe another coat of lip-stick as well. Kelsey and I learned well off that lip GLOSS was not a popular essential in the seventies). Kelsey met the four of us in the front hall with the other students. When Professor McGonagall had checked us off the list, we hurried into the first carriage together. Cecily burst out laughing as she pointed out a sulking Gilderoy Lockhart walking with his own posse. He had definitely not been turned down before.
It wasn't long before we had already arrived into the village, the horses trotting uncomfortably too fast. The snow had melted and some of the flowers from the spring were drying up. The sun was beating down but there was a nice breeze as well. As usual, the village was bustling with people looking for little goodies or whatever. I personally thought that Hogsmeade was the coolest place on Earth besides Hogwarts and Diagon Alley. The five of us pushed our way through the massive amount of students rushing into the village.
"Hey, Caroline, will you come with me to Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop? I'm all out of quills and we have that essay due tomorrow..." Lily asked. She glanced at Kelsey and smiled.
"Where are you meeting Remus?" she asked. Kelsey nodded toward the Three Broomsticks.
"Go on then! We don't want to embarrass you! We'll meet up with you later," Lily exclaimed. Kelsey smiled nervously.
"Wish me luck!" she said before running off. When she was out of ear shot, Alice sighed.
"Man, remind me over the summer to get a boyfriend," she said delusional. Cecily burst out into giggles.
"Me too..." she said in an even more dreamy voice.
"God, me three!" Lily said seriously. I lifted an eyebrow.
"What about Jam—"
"Don't push it, Caroline."
"Sorry."
While Cecily and Alice decided to go to Dervish and Banges, Lily and I went into the quill shop. It was quite an interesting store. From the floor to the ceiling, the store was full of all kinds of quills. I decided to buy a very cool, hot pink quill with a little C emblem on the tip. Lily grabbed a few normal white ones for next year and a very special quill she had seen last time, but had already spent all her money. It was blue and purple with a tint of gold and what Lily told me, she was "drawn to it."
We were walking along the cobblestone streets, not really looking where we were going when WHAM!!!!!!
It was a huge impact, but fortunately, saving our embarrassment, neither I nor Lily tripped or fell.
"Whoa, sorry Lily, didn't see you there," Lily whirled around.
"Well, don't we have a tendency to RUN into you Potter?!" Lily exclaimed, irritated. I sighed. Of course, it HAD to be Sirius, James and Peter who ran right into US (specifically Lily).
"It's good to see you too," Sirius said sarcastically. Lily rolled her eyes.
"C'mon Caroline," she said grumpily. We started to walk away when I stopped and turned around.
"What are you guys doing anyways?"
The three of them looked at each other and scoffed. James seemed to be hiding in a grin.
"We were going to see Remus," he said.
"Remus is on a date with—"then I gasped.
"OHHHH no! Don't you dare!" I said coldly.
"Dare?! Dare what?!" Lily said. Sirius gave a little lopsided grin and waved. The three of them sprinted off down the street, fat little Peter trying to catch up.
"You better not pull ANYTHING!" I yelled. I cursed and ran after them.
"DO they ALWAYS pull pranks on their best friends?!" I yelled behind me toward Lily.
"Is that what they're doing?!! This is Kelsey's date!" Lily yelled and ran to catch up with me.
"I know," I breathed. Lily opened the door to The Three Broomsticks only to find that none of them were in there. Lily went up to the counter.
"Madame Rosmerta?" she asked to a curvy, attractive woman. 'So this was Madame Rosmerta....' I thought. Madame Rosmerta turned around and smiled revealing very white, straight teeth.
"Lily dear! I was hoping you would come in soon! And you too, Miss Lefave! What can I do for you?" she exclaimed. Lily smiled.
"Yeah, did James Potter and Sirius Black happen to come in here a few minutes ago?"
Madame Rosmerta laughed and nodded.
"Yes dear! They left no less then a minute ago, I swear! Merlin, do those boys make me laugh!" she said fondly. Lily grinned.
"Yeah..." she faltered, "You didn't happen to see which way they went did you?" Madame Rosmerta nodded and pointed out the door and to the left. Lily thanked her and we hurried out the door.
"What do you think they plan on doing?" I asked. I had never seen "the Marauders" at work, so to speak, and did not know what to expect.
"No clue. They always come up with something different," Lily said as we walked briskly in the direction Madame Rosmerta pointed out. We started to walk along the lake looking for any sign of a certain "trio".
"Caroline? Lily?" a voice came from behind us. I narrowed my eyes in confusion as I turned around to see...Kelsey and Remus. 'God, they were soooo cute together...' I thought but then jumped back to reality.
"Hey!" I exclaimed glancing at Lily.
"What are you doing here?" Kelsey said suspiciously. We had told her earlier we wouldn't spy on them but she wouldn't believe us.
"Oh, we were just looking for... You haven't 'met up' with Sirius, James or Peter in the last minute, have you?" Lily asked. We were both a tad bit confused. None of them had found Kelsey and Remus yet? That was highly unlikely. Sirius and James had eyes like an eagle. We looked around nervously. Remus shrugged.
"I haven't seen them since I got out of the carriage. Why?" he asked. Lily rubbed the back of her neck.
"Nothing, we just ran into-"
"Moony!" came yet another voice from behind us. We turned to see, of course, James and Sirius.
"Hey..." Remus said cautiously as if they might blow up if he touched them (A/N: That was NOT a naughty thought FYI). The two of them both took a slight step back from us, but no one really noticed except me.
"We were looking for you! See how it was going," James said, winking at them. Now, Kelsey was confused (which was definitely NOT unusual).
"Okay..." Remus hesitated again giving them a cold yet confused look. Lily was about to say something when suddenly and VERY abruptly the ground shifted from under us, jerking us off our feet! Since James and Sirius had stepped back, they were not standing on that certain space of ground. (You wonder why...) Out of reflex, I grabbed Sirius's robe and apparently, Lily grabbed James's to try to stay from falling. We both slipped, bumping into Kelsey and Remus. The four of us tumbled backwards into the lake! Sirius and James were jerked forward when we grabbed them and fell in literally on top of us. Lily let out a yell of surprise when she hit the water and James falling on top of her added to it. I was still holding on to Sirius's shirt, but when I hit the water I let go. Sirius cursed quite loudly before hitting the water. The water was horrendously cold and I swam to the surface as quickly as possible. I let out a gasp of air as Kelsey bobbed up beside me.
"Oh my god..." Lily gasped, most likely from the temperature.
The six of us were treading water silently, not really sure what to do.
"Well, this is refreshing for a hot June afternoon," Sirius said brightly.
"Oh, shut up. This is all you and James's fault!" Lily said, glaring at him.
"It was not our fault. If you hadn't grabbed our robes, we could have kept you from falling!" James exclaimed.
"Oh yeah, you're a real lifesaver," Lily growled angrily, obviously not believing him. Sirius swam toward the edge and held onto a rock. It wasn't that much of a distance from where they fell.
"I think I have an idea," he announced.
"What a relief," Remus said sarcastically. He wasn't too happy about any of this either. Sirius took out his wand. Unfortunately, all our wands were soaked, but since, - hey, hey, hey- we're in magic land, it wasn't a problem. He pointed it, toward where he thought was Hogwarts. "Accio broom!" he yelled. A blue shock came out of him wand. He had never summoned his broom from this far, and he hoped it worked. We waited silently, unsure what was happening.
"Why did you summon your-?" Remus was about to ask, but paused when an increasingly louder whistling noise seemed to be getting closer and closer. We all looked up to see a broomstick hovering above us. It lowered until Sirius was able to reach it. He held onto the rock to keep his broom from falling in the water.
"Okay, here's what I was thinking. We'll have each of you fly yourself up to the edge, then you'll drop the broom back to me and the next person will fly up. James and I will go last." He explained. Kelsey and I exchanged nervous glances. Neither of us had ever ridden a broom before. Sirius seemed to note the nervousness in our faces.
"Don't worry. Just push up and lean foreword a bit, then when you get up there, push down and you'll land. It's not hard, I promise." Kelsey and I nodded. Lily nodded too.
"Okay, Caroline, you go first." He said. I exhaled and swam over to him.
"You won't be able to kick off with the broom floating in the water. Here." He swiveled to the other side of the broom.
"There's a rock underneath. You can mount and push off on that." He said. I nodded and stepped onto the rock. I twisted my leg over so I sat comfortably on the broom.
"Okay, hold on to it and push off when you're ready." Sirius explained. I looked behind me at Kelsey, who gave me one of those excited, but you-could-die looks. I looked up and closing my eyes, I pushed up hard. My stomach lurched as the broom soared upward into the breeze. It was even colder outside the water, but I was too distracted to care. Flying on a broomstick was one of the most liberating things I had ever experienced. I leaned foreword a little, like Sirius told me, and I flew foreword until I could tell I was going to land on the ground. In the mist of my excitement, I did a double flip before landing on the ground. I walked over to the edge. I was smiling from the ride and Sirius laughed when he saw my face.
"Fun, wasn't it?" he said, grinning. I nodded.
"You're a really good flyer! That was the coolest flip you just did!" he said. I shrugged.
"I didn't even know I could do it!" I said, smiling.
"Okay, just drop the broom down and I'd prefer if you'd try not to drop it directly on top of me," he said. I dropped it carefully towards his hand and his reflexes caught it mid-air. I waited up there as Lily flew up, then Kelsey (who looked quite white afterwards), then Remus went and James after him. Sirius flew up last. We were all drenched and our black robes didn't exactly help. We had our uniforms underneath, but great for us girls, we had white shirts on, so we thought it was best we kept our robes on. The guys took there robes off, and their uniforms were as drenched as their robes. (To my hormonal giddiness, they had white shirts on too wink). Soon after that, it was announced that Hogwarts students report back to the carriages. James, Sirius and Remus went off to find Peter who had wimped out of their prank (which they confessed) and left the three of us trudging toward the carriages. Alice and Cecily caught up with us only to be shocked at we were soaked from head to toe.
"What happened? Kelsey too? What about your date?" they asked.
"It's a long story, we'll explain later." Kelsey said as we got into the carriage.
Classes ended and the last day of school came so fast it made my head spin. We were saying our goodbyes, when Kelsey pulled me aside.
"What about us?" she asked. I narrowed my eyes.
"What ABOUT us?"
"Where are we going for the summer?" she asked. I hadn't thought about it.
"Oh, gosh...we'd better see Dumbledore." I said. We turned to Cecily, Alice and Lily.
"We'll catch up with you guys later. We need to talk to Dumbledore for a second." Kelsey said and we hurried toward his office. We knew where it was, but we didn't realize we didn't know the password until we got there.
"Crap." Kelsey said.
"Ah! Caroline, Kelsey. I expected I find you looking for me," came the old voice behind us. We were about to explain to Dumbledore, but he said it for us.
"Yes, I'm sure you're wondering where you're going to go. Well, my green mistifiers will work well in this situation. I'll send you to September where you'll find yourself at the Hogwarts Express. It will feel like say...2 seconds to you, but you've really past through two months. He waved to us and swirled his wand until we were circled in the same green mist we experienced a year ago. I closed my eyes and reached our Kelsey's arm, but couldn't find it. With an impact, we landed on stone ground and the mist disappeared. We were in kind of a enclosed space but a wide opening showed us the bright red sign of the HOGWARTS EXPRESS. There were two carts with our trunks and owls etc. We weren't in uniforms but regular clothes (seventies clothes in fact). We pushed our carts out into the crowd to board the train to the long awaited last year of Hogwarts. We weren't really sure what to do, but a nice man who worked on the Express took our bags to be put on the train.
"CAROLINE! KELSEY!" came a yell from somewhere to our right. It was Cecily and she was dragging Alice along with her.
"It's so good to see you two! A lot has happened over the summer and I can't wait to tell you!" she exclaimed. I smiled.
"Me too! I have to tell you guys!" Alice said. Kelsey looked around.
"Where's...where's Lily?" she asked. Cecily grinned.
"You cannot believe. Well, actually you can. Its pretty obvious, but Lily's Head Girl!" she said.
"She's in the Head Department right now." Alice said.
"That's great!" I exclaimed as I took the mint Alice offered me.
"I wonder who Head Boy is." Cecily asked. I choked on my mint. Kelsey hit me.
"No idea. Probably Remus Lupin." I said. Alice nodded.
"C'mon! Let's get on the train! We can get the best compartment!"
"Aren't they all the same?" Kelsey asked.
"Not really. Some of them are all gross." She answered as we hurried on to the train. Finding a compartment, we sat down and talked about our summers. Kelsey and I both made up our own summers since we didn't really have one, but were eager to hear about Alice and Cecily's.
"Guys, this is really good news for me, so...be happy for me." Alice said. Kelsey and I laughed.
"Okay, you know the seventh year Gryffindor from last year? Frank Longbottom?" She asked. We all nodded.
"Well...guess who is in a considerably serious relationship with him?!" she exclaimed, subtly pointing to herself.
"AHH! Seriously?!" Cecily squealed. Alice nodded proudly.
"It's not just a summer fling?" I asked coyly. Alice shook her head.
"No way! I promise, he is my future husband!" she teased. I glanced at Kelsey, who was grinning.
"Imagine that," Kelsey said.
"Yeah! He's in Auror training right now and he promised to write me and we'll get together on school breaks when he's not working." She said. I was ecstatically for her and was about to add to it when our compartment door swung open. Lily came storming in, fuming and slumped down next to Kelsey.
"Hey Lily...did you have a good summer?" Kelsey asked. She nodded.
"What's wrong?" Cecily asked. Lily rubbed her forehead.
"You cannot believe." She said.
"What?
Lily looked at us.
"Guess whose Head Boy?" Neither I nor Kelsey answered but tried to hide in grins.
"Remus Lupin?" Alice guessed. Lily threw her hands up.
"That's who I thought too! But noo... it's not him!" she said. There was a pause.
"Then who is it?" I implied, trying to get it out.
Lily groaned inwardly.
"James Potter," Cecily and Alice's jaws dropped. Kelsey and I gasped, trying not to laugh.
"I know. It's horrible. Absolutely horrible! How could he be Head Boy?! Do you realize how much time I have to spend with him this year because of this?!" Lily exclaimed. She buried her face in her hands.
"This is going to be the worst year of my life." She said. Kelsey and I looked at each other.
OH HOW LITTLE SHE KNEW
Chapter 17: Hogsmeade
Of course, to the dismay of Kelsey-Alice, Lily, Cecily and I beat the information out of her and finally cracked her into telling us. I was so incredibly happy for Kelsey; I was the loudest out of them all from the yelp of excitement. Ever since I can remember, the one character that Kelsey was so obsessed with was Remus. This was definitely a milestone in our little journey in the wizarding world. We teased Kelsey mercilessly which surprisingly didn't seem to bother her at all. This was not at all like Kelsey but I was too excited to care.
"Kelsey, you have to tell us EXACTLY what happened! Hopefully this date to Hogsmeade won't be has hellish as your last one." Lily said winking. The others grimaced at some sort of thought. Kelsey raised her eyebrows.
"Last one?" she asked. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Well, good for you, honey. At least you're trying to forget." She said. Kelsey shrugged.
"What happened? Who was he?" she asked.
"This Hufflepuff guy. God, I don't even remember his name. Anyway, you went to Hogsmeade with him and it went awful!" Cecily exclaimed, "He was such an impolite eater. He must have splattered you with food like, ten times! What a sod!" Kelsey grimaced along with the rest of us.
"I don't remember what happened after that actually." Alice said, thinking hard. She then smiled and patted Kelsey's shoulder.
"Don't worry. We ALWAYS knew Lupin had the hots for you. It drove us crazy that he wouldn't say anything! Nothing's going to happen this date. He's the epitome of polite." She said. I nodded in agreement.
Finally, at about 1:00 am, we went to bed, very excited about the tomorrow's trip.
Shockingly, we were all up on the dot and went down to breakfast together along with the rest of the student body. We were to leave for Hogsmeade after breakfast. Today was louder than usual since this was the last trip until the end of the school year. School ended in five days! When the majority of Hogwarts had finished their breakfast, Kelsey rushed out to go brush her teeth for the eleventh time (maybe another coat of lip-stick as well. Kelsey and I learned well off that lip GLOSS was not a popular essential in the seventies). Kelsey met the four of us in the front hall with the other students. When Professor McGonagall had checked us off the list, we hurried into the first carriage together. Cecily burst out laughing as she pointed out a sulking Gilderoy Lockhart walking with his own posse. He had definitely not been turned down before.
It wasn't long before we had already arrived into the village, the horses trotting uncomfortably too fast. The snow had melted and some of the flowers from the spring were drying up. The sun was beating down but there was a nice breeze as well. As usual, the village was bustling with people looking for little goodies or whatever. I personally thought that Hogsmeade was the coolest place on Earth besides Hogwarts and Diagon Alley. The five of us pushed our way through the massive amount of students rushing into the village.
"Hey, Caroline, will you come with me to Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop? I'm all out of quills and we have that essay due tomorrow..." Lily asked. She glanced at Kelsey and smiled.
"Where are you meeting Remus?" she asked. Kelsey nodded toward the Three Broomsticks.
"Go on then! We don't want to embarrass you! We'll meet up with you later," Lily exclaimed. Kelsey smiled nervously.
"Wish me luck!" she said before running off. When she was out of ear shot, Alice sighed.
"Man, remind me over the summer to get a boyfriend," she said delusional. Cecily burst out into giggles.
"Me too..." she said in an even more dreamy voice.
"God, me three!" Lily said seriously. I lifted an eyebrow.
"What about Jam—"
"Don't push it, Caroline."
"Sorry."
While Cecily and Alice decided to go to Dervish and Banges, Lily and I went into the quill shop. It was quite an interesting store. From the floor to the ceiling, the store was full of all kinds of quills. I decided to buy a very cool, hot pink quill with a little C emblem on the tip. Lily grabbed a few normal white ones for next year and a very special quill she had seen last time, but had already spent all her money. It was blue and purple with a tint of gold and what Lily told me, she was "drawn to it."
We were walking along the cobblestone streets, not really looking where we were going when WHAM!!!!!!
It was a huge impact, but fortunately, saving our embarrassment, neither I nor Lily tripped or fell.
"Whoa, sorry Lily, didn't see you there," Lily whirled around.
"Well, don't we have a tendency to RUN into you Potter?!" Lily exclaimed, irritated. I sighed. Of course, it HAD to be Sirius, James and Peter who ran right into US (specifically Lily).
"It's good to see you too," Sirius said sarcastically. Lily rolled her eyes.
"C'mon Caroline," she said grumpily. We started to walk away when I stopped and turned around.
"What are you guys doing anyways?"
The three of them looked at each other and scoffed. James seemed to be hiding in a grin.
"We were going to see Remus," he said.
"Remus is on a date with—"then I gasped.
"OHHHH no! Don't you dare!" I said coldly.
"Dare?! Dare what?!" Lily said. Sirius gave a little lopsided grin and waved. The three of them sprinted off down the street, fat little Peter trying to catch up.
"You better not pull ANYTHING!" I yelled. I cursed and ran after them.
"DO they ALWAYS pull pranks on their best friends?!" I yelled behind me toward Lily.
"Is that what they're doing?!! This is Kelsey's date!" Lily yelled and ran to catch up with me.
"I know," I breathed. Lily opened the door to The Three Broomsticks only to find that none of them were in there. Lily went up to the counter.
"Madame Rosmerta?" she asked to a curvy, attractive woman. 'So this was Madame Rosmerta....' I thought. Madame Rosmerta turned around and smiled revealing very white, straight teeth.
"Lily dear! I was hoping you would come in soon! And you too, Miss Lefave! What can I do for you?" she exclaimed. Lily smiled.
"Yeah, did James Potter and Sirius Black happen to come in here a few minutes ago?"
Madame Rosmerta laughed and nodded.
"Yes dear! They left no less then a minute ago, I swear! Merlin, do those boys make me laugh!" she said fondly. Lily grinned.
"Yeah..." she faltered, "You didn't happen to see which way they went did you?" Madame Rosmerta nodded and pointed out the door and to the left. Lily thanked her and we hurried out the door.
"What do you think they plan on doing?" I asked. I had never seen "the Marauders" at work, so to speak, and did not know what to expect.
"No clue. They always come up with something different," Lily said as we walked briskly in the direction Madame Rosmerta pointed out. We started to walk along the lake looking for any sign of a certain "trio".
"Caroline? Lily?" a voice came from behind us. I narrowed my eyes in confusion as I turned around to see...Kelsey and Remus. 'God, they were soooo cute together...' I thought but then jumped back to reality.
"Hey!" I exclaimed glancing at Lily.
"What are you doing here?" Kelsey said suspiciously. We had told her earlier we wouldn't spy on them but she wouldn't believe us.
"Oh, we were just looking for... You haven't 'met up' with Sirius, James or Peter in the last minute, have you?" Lily asked. We were both a tad bit confused. None of them had found Kelsey and Remus yet? That was highly unlikely. Sirius and James had eyes like an eagle. We looked around nervously. Remus shrugged.
"I haven't seen them since I got out of the carriage. Why?" he asked. Lily rubbed the back of her neck.
"Nothing, we just ran into-"
"Moony!" came yet another voice from behind us. We turned to see, of course, James and Sirius.
"Hey..." Remus said cautiously as if they might blow up if he touched them (A/N: That was NOT a naughty thought FYI). The two of them both took a slight step back from us, but no one really noticed except me.
"We were looking for you! See how it was going," James said, winking at them. Now, Kelsey was confused (which was definitely NOT unusual).
"Okay..." Remus hesitated again giving them a cold yet confused look. Lily was about to say something when suddenly and VERY abruptly the ground shifted from under us, jerking us off our feet! Since James and Sirius had stepped back, they were not standing on that certain space of ground. (You wonder why...) Out of reflex, I grabbed Sirius's robe and apparently, Lily grabbed James's to try to stay from falling. We both slipped, bumping into Kelsey and Remus. The four of us tumbled backwards into the lake! Sirius and James were jerked forward when we grabbed them and fell in literally on top of us. Lily let out a yell of surprise when she hit the water and James falling on top of her added to it. I was still holding on to Sirius's shirt, but when I hit the water I let go. Sirius cursed quite loudly before hitting the water. The water was horrendously cold and I swam to the surface as quickly as possible. I let out a gasp of air as Kelsey bobbed up beside me.
"Oh my god..." Lily gasped, most likely from the temperature.
The six of us were treading water silently, not really sure what to do.
"Well, this is refreshing for a hot June afternoon," Sirius said brightly.
"Oh, shut up. This is all you and James's fault!" Lily said, glaring at him.
"It was not our fault. If you hadn't grabbed our robes, we could have kept you from falling!" James exclaimed.
"Oh yeah, you're a real lifesaver," Lily growled angrily, obviously not believing him. Sirius swam toward the edge and held onto a rock. It wasn't that much of a distance from where they fell.
"I think I have an idea," he announced.
"What a relief," Remus said sarcastically. He wasn't too happy about any of this either. Sirius took out his wand. Unfortunately, all our wands were soaked, but since, - hey, hey, hey- we're in magic land, it wasn't a problem. He pointed it, toward where he thought was Hogwarts. "Accio broom!" he yelled. A blue shock came out of him wand. He had never summoned his broom from this far, and he hoped it worked. We waited silently, unsure what was happening.
"Why did you summon your-?" Remus was about to ask, but paused when an increasingly louder whistling noise seemed to be getting closer and closer. We all looked up to see a broomstick hovering above us. It lowered until Sirius was able to reach it. He held onto the rock to keep his broom from falling in the water.
"Okay, here's what I was thinking. We'll have each of you fly yourself up to the edge, then you'll drop the broom back to me and the next person will fly up. James and I will go last." He explained. Kelsey and I exchanged nervous glances. Neither of us had ever ridden a broom before. Sirius seemed to note the nervousness in our faces.
"Don't worry. Just push up and lean foreword a bit, then when you get up there, push down and you'll land. It's not hard, I promise." Kelsey and I nodded. Lily nodded too.
"Okay, Caroline, you go first." He said. I exhaled and swam over to him.
"You won't be able to kick off with the broom floating in the water. Here." He swiveled to the other side of the broom.
"There's a rock underneath. You can mount and push off on that." He said. I nodded and stepped onto the rock. I twisted my leg over so I sat comfortably on the broom.
"Okay, hold on to it and push off when you're ready." Sirius explained. I looked behind me at Kelsey, who gave me one of those excited, but you-could-die looks. I looked up and closing my eyes, I pushed up hard. My stomach lurched as the broom soared upward into the breeze. It was even colder outside the water, but I was too distracted to care. Flying on a broomstick was one of the most liberating things I had ever experienced. I leaned foreword a little, like Sirius told me, and I flew foreword until I could tell I was going to land on the ground. In the mist of my excitement, I did a double flip before landing on the ground. I walked over to the edge. I was smiling from the ride and Sirius laughed when he saw my face.
"Fun, wasn't it?" he said, grinning. I nodded.
"You're a really good flyer! That was the coolest flip you just did!" he said. I shrugged.
"I didn't even know I could do it!" I said, smiling.
"Okay, just drop the broom down and I'd prefer if you'd try not to drop it directly on top of me," he said. I dropped it carefully towards his hand and his reflexes caught it mid-air. I waited up there as Lily flew up, then Kelsey (who looked quite white afterwards), then Remus went and James after him. Sirius flew up last. We were all drenched and our black robes didn't exactly help. We had our uniforms underneath, but great for us girls, we had white shirts on, so we thought it was best we kept our robes on. The guys took there robes off, and their uniforms were as drenched as their robes. (To my hormonal giddiness, they had white shirts on too wink). Soon after that, it was announced that Hogwarts students report back to the carriages. James, Sirius and Remus went off to find Peter who had wimped out of their prank (which they confessed) and left the three of us trudging toward the carriages. Alice and Cecily caught up with us only to be shocked at we were soaked from head to toe.
"What happened? Kelsey too? What about your date?" they asked.
"It's a long story, we'll explain later." Kelsey said as we got into the carriage.
Classes ended and the last day of school came so fast it made my head spin. We were saying our goodbyes, when Kelsey pulled me aside.
"What about us?" she asked. I narrowed my eyes.
"What ABOUT us?"
"Where are we going for the summer?" she asked. I hadn't thought about it.
"Oh, gosh...we'd better see Dumbledore." I said. We turned to Cecily, Alice and Lily.
"We'll catch up with you guys later. We need to talk to Dumbledore for a second." Kelsey said and we hurried toward his office. We knew where it was, but we didn't realize we didn't know the password until we got there.
"Crap." Kelsey said.
"Ah! Caroline, Kelsey. I expected I find you looking for me," came the old voice behind us. We were about to explain to Dumbledore, but he said it for us.
"Yes, I'm sure you're wondering where you're going to go. Well, my green mistifiers will work well in this situation. I'll send you to September where you'll find yourself at the Hogwarts Express. It will feel like say...2 seconds to you, but you've really past through two months. He waved to us and swirled his wand until we were circled in the same green mist we experienced a year ago. I closed my eyes and reached our Kelsey's arm, but couldn't find it. With an impact, we landed on stone ground and the mist disappeared. We were in kind of a enclosed space but a wide opening showed us the bright red sign of the HOGWARTS EXPRESS. There were two carts with our trunks and owls etc. We weren't in uniforms but regular clothes (seventies clothes in fact). We pushed our carts out into the crowd to board the train to the long awaited last year of Hogwarts. We weren't really sure what to do, but a nice man who worked on the Express took our bags to be put on the train.
"CAROLINE! KELSEY!" came a yell from somewhere to our right. It was Cecily and she was dragging Alice along with her.
"It's so good to see you two! A lot has happened over the summer and I can't wait to tell you!" she exclaimed. I smiled.
"Me too! I have to tell you guys!" Alice said. Kelsey looked around.
"Where's...where's Lily?" she asked. Cecily grinned.
"You cannot believe. Well, actually you can. Its pretty obvious, but Lily's Head Girl!" she said.
"She's in the Head Department right now." Alice said.
"That's great!" I exclaimed as I took the mint Alice offered me.
"I wonder who Head Boy is." Cecily asked. I choked on my mint. Kelsey hit me.
"No idea. Probably Remus Lupin." I said. Alice nodded.
"C'mon! Let's get on the train! We can get the best compartment!"
"Aren't they all the same?" Kelsey asked.
"Not really. Some of them are all gross." She answered as we hurried on to the train. Finding a compartment, we sat down and talked about our summers. Kelsey and I both made up our own summers since we didn't really have one, but were eager to hear about Alice and Cecily's.
"Guys, this is really good news for me, so...be happy for me." Alice said. Kelsey and I laughed.
"Okay, you know the seventh year Gryffindor from last year? Frank Longbottom?" She asked. We all nodded.
"Well...guess who is in a considerably serious relationship with him?!" she exclaimed, subtly pointing to herself.
"AHH! Seriously?!" Cecily squealed. Alice nodded proudly.
"It's not just a summer fling?" I asked coyly. Alice shook her head.
"No way! I promise, he is my future husband!" she teased. I glanced at Kelsey, who was grinning.
"Imagine that," Kelsey said.
"Yeah! He's in Auror training right now and he promised to write me and we'll get together on school breaks when he's not working." She said. I was ecstatically for her and was about to add to it when our compartment door swung open. Lily came storming in, fuming and slumped down next to Kelsey.
"Hey Lily...did you have a good summer?" Kelsey asked. She nodded.
"What's wrong?" Cecily asked. Lily rubbed her forehead.
"You cannot believe." She said.
"What?
Lily looked at us.
"Guess whose Head Boy?" Neither I nor Kelsey answered but tried to hide in grins.
"Remus Lupin?" Alice guessed. Lily threw her hands up.
"That's who I thought too! But noo... it's not him!" she said. There was a pause.
"Then who is it?" I implied, trying to get it out.
Lily groaned inwardly.
"James Potter," Cecily and Alice's jaws dropped. Kelsey and I gasped, trying not to laugh.
"I know. It's horrible. Absolutely horrible! How could he be Head Boy?! Do you realize how much time I have to spend with him this year because of this?!" Lily exclaimed. She buried her face in her hands.
"This is going to be the worst year of my life." She said. Kelsey and I looked at each other.
OH HOW LITTLE SHE KNEW