Double Double Toil and Trouble
By Zeta - otherwise known as Amanda Halliwell
Chapter 2
Prue bored, decided that the regular uniform dress-code was decisively boring. Mundane even. She sighed then sorted through her clothes. The only non-uniform things she had bought to school with her seemed to be an assortment of Dragon Hide materials, ranging from a Dragon Hide jacket to Dragon Hide pants and even a tee-shirt in full Dragon Hide. Her grandfather didn't approve of this, but there you had it. So Prue put on the clothes then headed out into the common room full of students who just stared. Prue ignored them then made her way up to the Great Hall, as the Slytherin dormitories were down in the dungeons and gained very little sunlight because of it.
Prue entered the Entrance Hall and was greeted by the Marauders, all of whom were standing there gawping. None more so than Sirius, whose mouth looked as though it had fallen open. Remus however, was the one who recovered first.
"Prue, mate, don't you think that's a little uh, um… Overdoing it?" Remus asked raising his eyebrows.
"Knock it off Remus," Prue said indifferently, "I'll only get a detention. Besides, we can talk through those mirrors of yours."
"Yeah, uh, don't want anyone seeing… I mean, Dragon Hide?" James stuttered, only just remembering his crush on Lily.
Prue shook her head, hardly noticing the boy's lack of concentration. The group entered the hall together, and then Prue went to sit with the Slytherin's and plonked herself next to Kyra. Kyra gasped loudly when she saw what her friend was wearing and looked nervously over at the staff table. Prue herself ignored Kyra's frightened look over at the High Table and happily began eating her breakfast. What Prue failed to notice was that over at the Gryffindor Table, Sirius was constantly failing to get food anywhere near his mouth and few guys were actually eating for fear they'd slop their food down their fronts. James however, was looking over at Sirius with a stunned expression on his face then looking over at the Slytherin table and back again. He shook his head in disbelief and continued with his eating.
When breakfast finished Prue walked down the corridors with Kyra on their way to Potions. Prue herself was thinking how sad it was that the Slytherin's and Gryffindors didn't have Potions together, and thought she'd have to make-do with Kyra. Of course Potions was usually taken with the Hufflepuff's, and Prue had quite a few friends in that particular house too. She was soon joined by Rory, a Goth, who saw nothing but darkness in life. Prue herself didn't quite understand why the girl hadn't ended up in Slytherin, but there you have it. The Sorting Hat was strange sometimes.
Soon after the girls entered, the Potions Master, Professor Slughorn, entered and surveyed his class. His eyes immediately fell on Prue's lack of following the uniform dress code and laughed.
"Always going for the originality aren't you Dumbledore?" Slughorn said gaily, "right! Open your books; we're going to be learning the Draught of Peace."
Kyra gave Prue a startled look, Prue just shrugged and opened her book to the correct page. She scanned the Potion book and groaned then went to get the ingredients. She spread them out over the desk then snuck a peek at what Snape was doing. He was the best in the class at Potions and was highly favored by Slughorn. She frowned, gave another huge sigh, and then began cutting up some of the ingredients.
Slughorn then began surveying how well the class was doing. Kyra's cauldron had caught fire somehow. Narcissa's had turned the shade it was supposed to be, but didn't look nearly as good as Snapes did over in the corner of the classroom. Another cauldron had exploded everywhere and they'd found out it had belonged to Bellatrix, who's Potion Making skill's weren't that great. Slughorn had ended up evacuating the class and taking them all outside. Prue noticed Snape pocketing some of his Potion as Prue noticed, did Narcissa.
Prue decided then to keep an eye on Snape as he was prone to sneaking attacks on the Marauders and all they did was retaliate back, and Snape nearly always ended up worse off. To her surprise, Prue saw Narcissa whispering to Snape, then Snape handing her something with a smirk clearly playing across his face.
"Hey Prue what we gonna do now?" Kyra asked as they made their way down the corridor and off to their next class, which was DADA with the Gryffindors.
"Go to class obviously," Prue said finally, "see if Professor Williams will actually give us work that isn't easy to accomplish."
The Slytherin's soon arrived at DADA to find the Gryffindors were already present. James was imitating Sirius over something he had done either the previous lesson or at breakfast, and Sirius was laughing loudly. Sirius quickly punched James in the arm and they stopped what they were doing immediately on Prue's arrival on the scene. Prue noticed Remus shake his head with a smirk playing across his face, and Peter just standing there looking between the three confused.
Prue immediately went and joined the Marauders with Kyra trotting along behind her.
"Hey guys!" Prue said happily giving each of them a hug, a normal greeting between girls and occasionally girls/guys.
Sirius however, went beetroot and covered up by laughing loudly at James joke about Hippogriffs. Prue looked at Sirius for a second, shrugged then went with the boys into DADA. Prue naturally sat with them, Kyra too, who was busily trying her utmost not to stare at Remus. Snape on the other hand, sat at a table with Narcissa, Bellatrix, Darrel and another couple of guys. He looked uncomfortable, but he was still sitting with them, occasionally looking over where Prue and the Gryffindors were sitting talking and laughing loudly.
Soon afterwards, the DADA Professor entered the classroom and introduced them to some new curses and jinxes and set them to practicing Stunning. Prue and Sirius were paired up, James was paired with Peter, Kyra with Remus, Snape with Bellatrix, and Narcissa with Darrel. The other members of the class were paired up with other people, such as Lily being paired with one of her best friends, Serenity. Stunners began flying everywhere, some of them got books and past the person they were supposed to be Stunning. One Stunner actually hit Prue, but it wasn't sent by Sirius, but by Narcissa who had been aiming at Darrel. Sirius rushed forwards then made the decision to Stun Narcissa, which caused more havoc, then necessary. Now everyone was Stunning everybody else, and there was no clear order in the class.
"OKAY, OKAY ENOUGH!" Roared Professor Williams angrily.
It wasn't long before all the students stopped Stunning each other and got up.
"Right! Five points from Gryffindor and Slytherin," Professor Williams said disgustedly, "for that sort of disgusting behavior. I'm putting both Gryffindors and Slytherin's on class detention together. Class dismissed."
The first week of school went rather quickly. Prue who had broken far too many rules by now, was as a result getting ignored by all the teachers. This she found extraordinarily annoying in itself and was resigned to actually calming down a bit in class. The time soon came however, when it was time for a party for Slughorn's favorites.