Double Double Toil and Trouble
By Zeta - otherwise known as Amanda Halliwell
Chapter 3
Prue needless to say, was definitely once again bored. She and the Marauders were sitting out on the lawns under one of their favourite trees. It tended to give one a lot of shade under the direct sunlight. Remus was relaxed against the tree-trunk reading a book, James was staring up at the clouds and Sirius was busily freezing and unfreezing insects and birds bored out of his skull. Nearby a group of Slytherin's were teasing the random first years and making them do unspeakable things, whilst others students were off walking around the lake having an excellent time together.
"You know, Gryffindor should be holding practice soon," James said calmly, "the upcoming match is against Slytherin isn't it Sirius?"
"Yeah," Sirius agreed, "You'll be playing Prue's team."
"Yeah, remind me to knock you out Potter," Prue said grinning, "I love being Beater. I'm still shocked they've kept me on the team."
"Probably because you're not afraid to knock another player out with the Bludger, and you're actually good at it," Remus commented looking up from Hogwarts, a History.
"I'll say! Who did she do in last year?" James asked, "Henry Nott wasn't it? Got in him the stomach got sent to the hospital wing for two weeks. One of her own teammates too!"
"That was an accident," Prue lied, "actually no it wasn't. The jerk was irritating me."
"Hey Prue, there's your friend," Sirius said pointing out Kyra.
Prue waved Kyra over who soon joined them. When Kyra got there the girl was short for breath having run all the way. The girl sat down and surveyed the scene.
"How are we going to get any amusement out of this lot?" Kyra demanded, "I'm bored stiff, the other girls aren't any fun at all. All they want to do is try on make up."
"Try on make up?" Prue asked dismally, "anyhow we've got what, twenty minutes before we're supposed to be at Slughorn's party?"
"Yeah," Sirius said grinning, "Me, you, James… I'm surprised Remus isn't invited though. He's real good in lessons. Perhaps Slughorn doesn't know how intelligent we all are."
Remus however, just grunted and went back to reading. Kyra looked over at him and gave a wee smile.
"I'm not going to the party either," Kyra told him, "I haven't got an invite."
"Good for you," Remus snapped angrily, shut his book and then stormed off.
"What's got into him?" Sirius asked confused as they decided to pack up and head back into the castle.
Prue was following James and Sirius and the three of them only just got to the party on time. There were quite a few people there and to James's disgust, Snape.
"He can invite that little bastard but not Remus?" James snarled, "What's the point in that? Where's the logic Sirius?"
"Isn't any as far as I can tell," Sirius said seriously.
Sirius looked over at Prue who was already making her way over to the drinks table. He saw that she had headed directly for the alcohol section of the table and looked really amused. Sirius followed her and grabbed an assortment of drinks as well and saw that Prue was already tucked into the alcohol, as was Snivellus. Sirius took some drinks back to James and they both quite happily skulled the drinks. Soon Prue was called away from the drinks table and forced to meet one of Slughorn's contacts at the Ministry, Rufus Scrimgeour, Head of the Auror's Office.
"Ah, Rufus, this is one of my favorites, Produxi Dumbledore, quite the charmer really," Professor Slughorn said introducing them.
"Pleasure to meet you Produxi," Scrimgeour said with a smile, "You're Dumbledore's granddaughter are you not?"
"Course I am, who did you think I was? Your great Aunt who lives across the street?" Prue demanded then looked coldly up at the Auror.
"Quite the tongue on you, young lady," Scrimgeour said disapprovingly, "nevertheless, I hear you want to be an Auror. That can be arranged… there are of course several tests you have to pass first you know."
"Where you getting your info from?" Prue asked swaying a little and quickly grasping a chair to prevent herself from falling over, "I'm more interested in becoming an Unspeakable. They're supposed to know heaps…"
"Ah, an Unspeakable," Scrimgeour said then looked over at Slughorn, "well if you're interested in becoming an Auror, you know where to contact me."
Prue watched Scrimgeour leave then looked around for James and the others. She spotted them not far off but was cut off by Snape. Prue looked at him warily. She didn't like the guy but still he didn't always have to follow her constantly. It quite frankly got annoying and quite often ended up with him on the opposite end of the spell, jinx or curse. At the moment, Prue was in no fit state to curse him so just stepped around him, and once again he was in front of her.
"I want to talk with you," Snape said slurrily, "come this way."
Prue let herself be dragged away by Snape as she looked over at Sirius and James who were talking and laughing loudly about some joke. Snape stopped and looked at her, but Prue snatched her arm away and tried to move away from him.
"I want to talk with you," Snape said slurrily, "come this way."
Prue let herself be dragged away by Snape as she looked over at Sirius and James who were talking and laughing loudly about some joke. Snape stopped and looked at her, but Prue snatched her arm away and tried to move away from him.
"Let go of me Snivellus…. I don't have to go anywhere with you" said Prue trying to move back toward James and Sirius when she felt the gothic wannabe put his hand under her chin and stroked her bottom lip.
"Oh yes you do Prue….yes you do." Said Snape with a drunken smirk before pulling her lips to his.
Prue tried to push him away as his teeth lightly chewed her bottom lip, a voice in her yelled for her to do something to stop him by any means possible. But her body wouldn't obey her minds orders. She felt disgusted with herself that she could let this happen. In front of a room full of people with the male she actually wanted to kiss on the other side of the room seeming oblivious to what was happening. She looked urgently over at Sirius who was still talking and laughing loudly with James. As much as she tried to shove him away…. And there was Sirius, on his way to rescue her. Relief at last.
Sirius didn't take long to come and rescue her from Snape's grasp, immediately cursing him with his wand and dangling him up in the air. By this time Sirius had got the whole parties attention. Prue was watching as Snape dangled there unable to help in any way, when Slughorn immediately intervened to what was happening, took ten points off of the Gryffindor House, then took a near collapsed Prue down to the dungeons to recover. Prue sincerely hoped that she wouldn't remember this in the morning. Memory naturally wasn't a good thing when this sort of action was happening.
Prue gradually woke up at noon on Sunday. Her head was thumping and her vision blurred. As she tried to recall last night at Slughorn's party, no memories came knocking. Unfortunately this meant that with no memories obviously she had drunk to much alcohol or whatever beverage had been present at the time. She frowned then stumbled out of bed and made her way groggily to the showers. Once finished she did feel clean—she still hadn't any idea of what had happened the previous night. Oh well, can't have been anything that bad could it? Prue searched around the girls dormitories for odd things—such as her books and pens and felt really frustrated that she couldn't find them. After giving up she went down into the common room, ignored the usual stares from the inhabitants, and made her way up into the corridors to look for the Marauders, or any of her friends.
Eventually Prue found James sitting with Sirius and the others. Sirius spotted her and immediately got up and left, James soon followed. Prue went and sat down next to Remus who was looking extremely uncomfortable with her being there.
"What's going on?" Prue asked, head still spinning from the previous evening.
"Apparently they're not speaking to you," Remus replied calmly, "although I do say I can totally understand why they aren't."
"Unfortunately you're going to have to refresh my memory," Prue said ignoring the constant thumping resounding in her head, "ooh, I don't remember—,"
"You're telling me you have no clue as to what you did last night?" Remus asked astonished and even blinking a few times.
"No, I have absolutely no clue," Prue confirmed, "so I'd really like to know what it was I did to annoy them."
"Well uh—you know Snape?" Remus asked timidly, wondering if he should tell her.
"Course I know Snivellus," Prue said airily, "pain in the—,"
"The point is you kissed him last night and Sirius he well, didn't take to it well," Remus said calmly and then went back to his book.
"I DID WHAT?" Prue screeched loudly, making a few birds in the vicinity fly off in fright.
"Yes, you did," Remus said indifferently, "to uncommon belief, Sirius and James do actually have feelings."
Prue rather alarmingly started smacking her head against the Gryffindor table where she happened to be sitting at that particular time. Remus looked at her in alarm and immediately pulled her back and prevent her from causing herself any more self-harm on the matter. Dumbledore was looking over at Prue looking rather shocked; he obviously hadn't been expecting this kind of behaviour from his granddaughter.
"Thanks," Prue said gratefully then looked over at the Headmaster, "ooh grandfather's going to kill me."
"Yeah," Remus agreed reasonably, "Although I don't think kill's the right word for it Prue. Oh, there goes Sirius and James—you could try apologising, but I doubt you'll get very far with it."
Prue decisively decided to take Remus's advice and attempt to apologise for what it was she had done. Apparently, kissing Snape was definitely not a good idea. Prue frowned as she ran, and thought well for god's sake I was drunk! She finally caught up with them and Sirius in turn ignored her to the fullest.
"I am really, really sorry for what I did," Prue said in a rushed voice, "I didn't mean to—I mean, I don't know if I meant to or not, because I don't remember it, but I am really, really, really, sorry for what I did."
"Bit late now Dumbledore," James hissed angrily, "You already did it, didn't you?"
"I didn't mean to!" Prue said urgently, "I was drunk! I didn't know what I was doing."
"Oh you looked all nice and cosy with Snivellus, you two will make a great couple, hope you enjoy yourself—,"
"You know I wouldn't kiss him willingly!" Prue shouted, "It was an accident! I was drunk! I wasn't thinking straight! James! Sirius!"
"I did tell you they wouldn't listen," Remus said from behind her, "although the insanity bit worked really well."
"What do you know?" Prue asked peevishly then stormed off.
Prue in the end ended up going to see Kyra who was with Narcissa and Bellatrix. It looked like she was under an interrogation of some sort. The girls spotted Prue and then left Kyra standing there looking rather alarmed when she saw Prue.
"Uh, hi Prue, um, what's up?" Kyra asked looking really innocent all of the sudden, "so uh, you and Snape, well, I guess you two together's obviously a bit of a shock, but—,"
"WE ARE NOT TOGETHER!" Prue shouted angrily, "I DIDN'T EVEN FIND OUT TILL THIS MORNING WHEN REMUS TOLD ME!"
"You mean you didn't know?" Kyra asked shocked, "Snape's been going around saying—,"
"I AM GOING TO KILL SNIVELLUS!" Prue roared making nearby first years jump in fright, "I WILL, SEE HOW HE LIKES IT! RUINING MY FRIENDSHIPS AND MY FUTURE RELATIONSHIPS WITH AH—,"
Prue stopped when she realised with what she was about to say then resorted to looking slightly uncomfortable with the present situation.
"With who, Prue," Kyra asked raising her eyebrows, "I mean, I know you liked Sirius, but I think that might be a bit hard now that you're going out with Severus."
"I AM NOT GOING OUT WITH SNIVELLUS!" Prue roared for a final time, "I AM NOT!"
"Okay, okay so you're not going out with Snape, fine," Kyra said finally agreeing, "although Narcissa says you two looked pretty cosy together at the party before Sirius ripped you two away from each other. Then she said something about you and Sirius having a fight."
"We did what?" Prue asked astonished, "I mean, I did what? I mean, I wouldn't do that!"
"Here comes lover boy now," Kyra said simply spotting Snape.
"Aaah! Um, I'm not here okay," Prue said deciding the answer to all her problems was avoidance.
"Seen Prue?" Snape asked looking at Kyra.
"Prue no," Kyra said nervously, "she's uh—I don't actually know. I think she's avoiding—I mean, well Prue is—,"
"Right, so let her know I'm looking for her will you?" Snape asked looking around, "I want to talk to her."
Kyra watched Snape walk off looking rather elated. So Prue who had no memory of the event itself would be doing a lot of hiding in the few weeks to come. Kyra quickly called out to Prue.
"Prue! It's safe now, he's gone," Kyra admonished, "although I don't see why you don't try and talk it out with him. Maybe let him down gently."
"Let him down gently?" Prue repeated, "The guy kissed me in public! In front of everyone! And now he's ruined any chance of a relationship with the particular guy I like—,"
"Sirius to be plain," Kyra said finishing the sentence for her, "and don't look shocked, Prue, because the whole school knows you like him, or rather, the whole Slytherin House knows you like him so why try and hide it?"
Prue sighed and leant against the wall. She had never been in such a horrid predicament before. How was she going to persuade Sirius that she loved him and not Snape? How was she going to find a reasonable explanation for her actions, actions that she had no memory of, nor full mind to protest against? Snape had obviously forced her to kiss him. There was no other way that she would have done it. But if it was true that Sirius had stopped them—then he obviously still liked her enough to protect her from the bastard. Prue shook her head then noticed a gang of third years talking, then one of them running up to her with a note.
Produxi
Meet me in my office now.
You're Grandfather
Prue looked aghast at the letter. Had the gossip reached him? Ooh, she could just see the look on his face. Don't do anything to Snape indeed. Oh this was going to be horrible! Prue groaned loudly, crumpled up the letter and made her way to Dumbledore's office. Oh this was not going to be a good meeting; all she had to hope was that her acting skills somehow prevailed and that her grandfather wouldn't put too much into local gossip.
Prue arrived at the gargoyle and ended up trying a series of possible passwords that her grandfather would be likely to have used. Finally it opened to 'Fizzing Wizzbees' and Prue entered and made her way up to his office and politely knocked on the door.
"Come in," A voice called from inside his office, "Ahh, Produxi, please take a seat."
Prue reluctantly did what she was told and felt a twinge of annoyance at him using her full name. Prue had never actually liked being called Produxi; what she preferred was to be called by the shorthand version of her one of her middle names, Prudence.
"What is it I'm supposed to have done now?" Prue demanded folding her arms.
"Well taking into account what happened the previous evening, Saturday night at Professor Slughorn's party," Dumbledore began gently.
"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Prue shouted standing up suddenly, "I DIDN'T!"
"Now I know I told you to leave Snape alone this year but that didn't mean start to-,"
"I DIDN'T HE MADE ME!" Prue roared as she suddenly started thinking about what a great punching bag her grandfather would make.
"Right Produxi please tell me the honest truth," Dumbledore said calmly, "because I know you've got it in you, and I swear I will help you in any way I can if this is indeed the case."
"I can't remember what happened," Prue said truthfully, "but I hate him! I would never ever do that!"
"Very well, we'll see in the end," Dumbledore said smiling, "just remember be very careful about who you trust."
With that, Prue left the office angrily. Be very careful about who you trust! She'd give him a lesson about who to trust indeed! Her grandfather was the most trusting man in the history of Hogwarts and England alike! He'd help anyone if they asked for it. Ahh, well now it was time to attempt to make up with the Marauders. They were more important to her than Snape would ever be, and she'd have to get rid of him somehow.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: A lot had to happen in this chapter, I gave Prue no memory because I thought it would be more amusing… hehe!