A/N: Well it appears there's quite a variety in Disney movie tastes. The most popular, however, seemed to be Sleeping Beauty, Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty in the Beast. So good choices everyone. I prefer the older ones because of the illustration type, but Finding Nemo and Mulan are excellent as well. Next poll. Favorite Harry Potter movie. Mine would be the third, although I hated it the first time I saw it. I mean, the Firebolt was supposed to be given at Christmas! But after watching it over Christmas, I warmed up too it. Anyways, here's the next chapter.
Chapter Thirty-Four: Sirius's Revenge and Ellie's Plight
"Ms. Evans, I would like you to try and attempt the Obliteration Charm." Professor Flitwick asked as he laid out a white sheet and poured black ink all over it. "It may be quite below your skill level, but it's a useful charm, covering up your tracks and whatnot." He grinned at Lily. "And it can even be quite a useful household charm."
Lily laughed. "Yes, I've really got to get cracking on those; I'm not going to know how to live among Magical folk!"
Professor Flitwick gave a cheerful laugh. "I'm sure you'll have no trouble, Ms. Evans."
And with that, Lily closed her eyes and began to concentrate.
On her second attempt, she was able to obliterate all of the ink from the sheet, and Professor Flitwick was applauding excitedly.
"Excellent, Ms. Evans. You may perform it a few more times, but then I've got to get to a faculty meeting."
Lily nodded and after Professor Flitwick spilled more ink, she performed the charm again.
"You'll be ready to work with McGonagall in no time, Ms. Evans." commented the tiny professor.
Lily made a face. That was the one thing about these lessons Lily wasn't looking forward to.
"Mr. Potter that was brilliant." commented Professor McGonagall, in her typical stern manner, but James could tell she was struggling to suppress a grin from forming on her face.
"Thank you, Professor." replied James as he looked at the table in front of him. Just minutes before it had been a small piece of tree bark.
"Next lesson we'll be reviewing a bit." she stated before turning the table back into a piece of bark. "And then, after an examination of course, I believe I will hand you over to Professor Latham."
James nodded; learning to do Defense Against the Dark Arts was one of the things he had been looking forward to.
"Mr. Potter, we also need to discuss your career." she continued.
James looked up at her. He knew exactly where this was going.
"It's the first of March, and applications to the Auror Academy are due at the end of the month, now I know you aren't particularly keen on this career path, but Professor Dumbledore and I wish that you would at least apply."
James nodded. "I'm going to, Professor. Lily talked to me about it and she convinced me, or rather reassured me that I should do it."
Professor McGonagall didn't try to retain a smile from James this time, her face was practically glowing.
"That's excellent. I always knew Ms. Evans was sensible. I'll get you an application then."
James nodded and started to pack his things.
"Mr. Black, you need to clear your head!" snapped Professor Jareb as he watched Sirius struggle to get up of the floor, sweat dripping down his face.
Sirius stood up, looked at the Professor defiantly, and then glared at Snape.
"I am, but it's a little difficult when you keep seeing images of ripping off every one of Mr. Snape's limbs!" Sirius shouted, holding up his wand.
"In the field, if you ever get there, you are going to have to have a clear head to fight!" Professor Jareb replied, his voice growing louder as he swished his wand again.
Professor Jareb tore into Sirius's head once again. He was no longer strong enough to try to block the spell easily, they had been at this for two hours now, and so far, Professor Jareb had only bothered working with him, tormenting him with memories from his childhood.
Old images of his youth flooded through his mind yet again, so far Sirius had been able to keep it only of his pre-Hogwarts days, or at least, before he and the Marauders had started getting into so much trouble, and he could tell Professor Jareb was getting irritated with his stubbornness.
However, Sirius was weak now, and slowly but surely, Professor Jareb broke the imaginary wall that had been preventing him from seeing Sirius's recent memories.
His first snog, third year. James and him in detention with Filch. When they first found the kitchens second year. The images started to speed up, his parents were kicking him out of the house, he was living with James's family, and he was being rejected by Grace Melbourne, and then…a howling.
Sirius snapped back into alert consciousness. Professor Jareb couldn't see that. Sirius stood up straight, quickly pulled out his wand, and threw the first curse he could think of towards Professor Jareb.
He didn't quite know what curse he had sent to the Professor, he had been too caught up in the moment to remember, too anxious. Alls he knew now was that Snape was looking at him in stunned silence and Professor Jareb was crouched on the floor, bleeding through his nose, mouth, and ears.
"Holy fuck." Sirius muttered, quite loudly. He quickly conjured a stretcher and attempted to lift the heavy Professor onto the stretcher. He frantically looked at Snape, who was standing, frozen in the middle of the classroom.
"Well don't just fucking stand there!" Sirius yelled. "Help ME!"
Snape shifted and looked at SIirus with pure loathing before walking over and helping him lift the Professor.
"Now take him to the Hospital Wing." Sirius demanded.
"Why don't you?" Snape shrewdly asked.
"Because I'm going to clean up this bloody mess!" Sirius shouted dangerously. "Just take him to the bloody Hospital Wing before he fucking bleeds to death!"
Snape glared at Sirius before doing as he asked and guiding the Professor to the Hospital Wing.
Sirius let out a breath and cleaned the mess up with a swish of his wand before storming out of the classroom, swearing to himself that he was never going back to these lessons.
"Tell me why you want us to go to the Ravenclaw/ Hufflepuff match again?" Remus asked tiredly on Saturday morning.
"Just because." Sirius replied as he bit into his toast.
"I still can't believe you sent Professor Jareb to the Hospital Wing." Remus muttered in reply.
Sirius shrugged. "I can't go back to those lessons."
"Why not?" James asked as he broke away from his conversation with Lily.
"Because he'll find out about us and where we go during the full moon." grumbled Sirius quietly so only the Marauders could hear.
They all nodded in understanding.
"Plus I don't want to face him again, there's no telling what I'll do to him…or Snape." he added, taking a sip of pumpkin juice.
James nodded. "Why are you so eager about the match today, anyways?" asked James, changing the subject back to the original topic.
"Because it's sure to be good Quidditch." Sirius replied. "Make sure you bring Lily."
James nodded, looking at Sirius with curiosity. James knew Sirius was up to something, he just couldn't put a finger on what exactly.
"At least it's not too cold out today." Lily commented as she took a seat on the bleachers next to James. This was the first Quidditch match she would actually watch with him.
"It's still not exactly summer weather." James commented as he put an arm around Lily when he noticed her begin to shiver.
She smiled at him and then pointed to somewhere in the Ravenclaw stand. "Isn't that Remus?"
James peered over to where Lily was pointing and nodded in surprise. "Yeah, he's sitting with Grace Melbourne, I think."
"Are they dating?" Lily asked, aware that Ellie was listening and trying to get answers for one of her best friends.
"They've gone out on a few dates, I'm not really sure. He hasn't really said much about it." James replied. "Is Allison sitting with Jacob?"
"Yes, since his team is playing and all." Lily stated before looking around. Peter was sitting directly behind her, Ellie on the opposite side of her, James on the other, where was Sirius?
"Is Sirius coming to the match?" she asked, looking at James.
"I believe so, I mean, he sure was looking forward to it." James replied, focusing on the pitch as the whistle was blown.
Sirius appeared after about five minutes, looking completely innocent and yet still completely guilty before taking a seat beside Peter.
The match was a slow one, as each team was matched in skill. Many minutes went by where the quaffle was simply passed, intercepted, passed, and intercepted again.
James's eyes were beginning to get tired of the constant passing, when he noticed something exceptionally strange.
Emerson Burton was flying around completely naked.
"Holy shit!" James muttered, causing Lily to look at him. He grinned and pointed to the sky.
Lily looked up to the sky where James was pointing, and began to giggle. Lily's giggles were soon accompanied by hysterical laughter from the entire stadium.
James turned and looked at Sirius, who was looking very pleased with himself.
"What did you do, Padfoot?" James asked with amazement.
Sirius shrugged. "It's a simple prank, really." he started. "He doesn't know he's completely naked right now. He still feels warm, although his body doesn't necessarily agree."
James raised an eyebrow as Sirius began to laugh.
"Think shrinkage factor." Sirius commented as Lily turned around at him as well. "It's absolutely freezing out here."
Lily laughed again as she peered to where Emerson was flying around, looking around at the stands as they were filled with laughter, he looked right confused, and even more so as the Professors and Madam Hooch began trying to get him to land, trying to stop the game. But the game of Quidditch couldn't be stopped until the Snitch was caught. Emerson was so busy looking at the stands that he didn't see the bludger that knocked him completely off his broom.
He fell slowly as Dumbledore shouted "Impedimenta" through the stadium. He landed on the Pitch with a soft thud before Madam Hooch blew the whistle to pause the game and came rushing in with a blanket. Emerson was still looking at her with complete confusion.
"Never in the history of Quidditch has Hogwarts ever seen anything quite like this. "came the booming announcer's voice, laced with laughter. "Captain Burton will be asked to leave the pitch and a substitute will be asked to take his place."
The switch occurred, and Emerson was having to be forced off the Pitch, as he still didn't know what the problem was.
James turned to Sirius.
"That was bloody hilarious, Padfoot." James commented.
Sirius grinned, highly pleased with himself. "He had it coming."
After the match had ended, Sirius had goaded Remus, James, and Peter to go with him to have a drink for a celebration of such a brilliant prank. Lily had been skeptical, but when Allison and Ellie had convinced her that they could do something on their own, she gave in and let James go.
"Can't be too controlling." Allison commented as the two headed up to the girls' seventh year dorm, which was sure to be empty on a Saturday afternoon.
Lily rolled her eyes. "I wasn't being controlling, I just know what Sirius means by a celebration drink, and I don't fancy taking care of a spewing James or Sirius."
"James knows his limits." Allison responded as she pulled out a make up bag and plopped down on her bed.
Lily nodded, yet somewhat uncertainly. "But Sirius doesn't."
Ellie and Allison laughed before pulling out some magazine's as well.
"Who first?" Allison asked.
Lily shrugged. "I don't really feel like being made-over."
"I need a make over." Ellie stated, frowning. "I've got to show Remus what he's missing." she continued nastily.
Allison and Lily shared a quick look before turning their attention to Ellie.
"Honey, I thought you were over him." Allison stated.
Ellie's lip trembled. "I am…it's just…it hasn't been that long…only a little over a month…and he's gone and gotten himself a girlfriend! We dated for almost five months! Doesn't that count for something?"
She burst into frantic sobs as she lay down on one of the vacant beds, and Lily and Allison rushed to comfort her.
"James said that Remus hasn't officially called her his girlfriend yet." Lily tried; rubbing Ellie's back, easing her sobs. "And you have to remember, you broke it off with him."
Ellie rolled over and looked up at the ceiling of the four-poster of the bed.
"I know. I just didn't think I was that easy to get over." she mumbled.
Allison frowned. "Do you want him back?"
Ellie shook her head defiantly. "No, he broke my trust, he lied to me. He doesn't deserve me." she sighed. "I just wish I could find somebody else…so I wasn't so jealous. I don't want to look like I'm longing him…like I regretted my decision. Because I don't. I don't." she continued.
Lily looked at her sympathetically. "Alright, we'll find you a new guy."
Allison grinned. "Let's start naming!"
Ellie looked up excitedly. "Alright, but it can't be anyone in a year younger than me, that just weirds me out."
The girls laughed as they began to list names of eligible bachelors.
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