Double Double Toil and Trouble

By Zeta - otherwise known as Amanda Halliwell

AUTHOR: I have adhered to my friend Flaire's kind words of wisdom and have decided to acknowledge her help in my previous fics, only with the romance seeing as I'm generally the Dark Arts type, if you'll notice by reading other Harry Potter fics I have posted up. They'll keep you entertained whilst I write this one….

Chapter 4

Double Double Toil and Trouble

Extract

It was the following afternoon, Monday to be exact, and Charms had just finished. They had had a rather unpleasant period where Sirius had been working with this girl Prue didn't know. What infuriated Prue the most was that this girl was rather attractive and definitely Sirius' type. James had been working with Remus and Peter too. Remus had been ignoring her since the day he told her about what Prue had done to offend Sirius. Nothing, it seemed, could get Sirius to talk to Prue and accept her apology. No matter how much she explained she didn't remember the event, and that she wasn't going out with Snape, she just couldn't convince them that this was the situation. Much to Prue's annoyance, Snape followed her everywhere and had been trying to get Prue alone for an extended period of time. She had even shouted at Snape to 'Leave me alone' but he wouldn't ahead to the very loud hint.

Now Prue was outside by the lake sulking. Kyra was sat next to her chewing thoughtfully on one of the Honeydukes oversized lollipops. Kyra had all afternoon been making suggestions on how to get Sirius back. Most of them included sneaking a love potion into his food. Prue had flat-out refused this option, and told Kyra that Sirius was going to have to come around by himself. What made matters worse was that no matter what she did she couldn't shake off Snape, who was always looking for her and convinced they were seeing one another. Prue knew otherwise, but mind you everyone else believed the gossip that was currently circulating through the school. She had even been confronted by Rory, the Hufflepuff and a group of Lily's friends and had had a brawl with them. Told them exactly what she thought of the Gryffindor House and the people in it.

"You know Prue, you really should stop sulking and go out with Snape anyway," Kyra said calmly, "I mean, he's interested. Sirius at the moment isn't. It's a way to make him jealous."

"I am not stooping down that low," Prue informed Kyra annoyed, "no matter what you'd do to get Remus' attention—namely flirting with a whole bunch of Slytherin guys—,"

"Well most of the time it does work," Kyra mused, "oh there's Sirius and James and that. Look who Sirius has hanging off his arm."

"That—ohmigod! That's Autumn!" Prue announced, "I thought she looked familiar when I saw her working with him in class today."

"Yeah, but rumour has it they're dating," Kyra announced, "I don't know why. The girls a complete ditz,"

"Not much between the ears," Prue said recalling a particularly nasty Dark Arts lesson where she'd

'Accidentally' blown up a filing cabinet and Autumn hadn't the brains to move out of the way. The girl had ended up in the hospital wing and Prue had ended up with a week's worth of detentions to make up for it.

"No, not much between the ears," Kyra agreed at Prue's offhanded comment, but no matter what Prue said, Kyra could hear the hurt in Prue's voice. Prue would just have to get used to the idea that Sirius was dating someone else.

Prue got up alarmed to find that her eyes were beginning to water at the sight of Sirius and Parisa all over one another. She immediately decided to go somewhere else, probably back into the castle away from the scene unfolding before her.

Once inside Prue went into the girl's bathrooms. She cried silently hoping no one else would come in while she was in there. She hadn't been this miserable at Hogwarts for a long while. She had always been a part of the Marauder's group, laughing and joking. Now she was shoved aside like—like, like she was rubbish or something. It wasn't a very nice thing, Sirius parading his girlfriend around like something on show. She let the tears flow freely, no one was going to see her here. She wasn't going to let them. She'd curse the first person that walked through the door. The unconquerable Prue Dumbledore, crying! But Prue didn't hear the door open, and a person walk inside. Only when she looked up again did she notice Lily Evans staring at her in amazement.

"What do you want Evans?" Prue said roughly, looking angrily at Lily through the mirror.

"I was going to talk to you about what you did to Sirius," Lily answered green eyes flashing angrily.

"Oh! Dear Sirius, that's who you're going to believe!" Prue hissed, forcing back tears.

"Yes," Lily said simply, "so what are you doing here crying in the toilets Dumbledore? Don't tell me you've broken up with Snape."

"I was never going out with him in the first place," Prue snarled quickly recovering her old confidence.

"That's your story. We all saw you snogging him at Slughorn's party," Lily said accusingly, "you can't try to deny it."

"No, obviously I can't. However, I can defend myself by saying that at the time I was probably drunk, which is why I have no memory of the event even today. In fact, I had no idea until Remus told me," Prue replied, looking Lily directly in the eyes.

"I believe you," Lily said finally, "Sirius has been giving you a hard time."

"Yes, he's going out with that Parisa girl. She's—,"

"She's actually quite intelligent Prue. She's friendly, sweet and caring. Sirius obviously saw that in her," Lily said casually.

"I don't care," Prue answered glaring at Lily, "I don't care."

"You like Sirius still after what you did?" Lily asked astonished.

"It wasn't me! I didn't come onto him. It was all him. He made me. I wouldn't do it willingly! I hate him," Prue protested loudly.

"Okay if you say so," Lily replied firmly, "why not try speaking to him?"

"Only made it worse last time I tried," Prue said ruefully, "you've never had this problem Lily. You can't talk. Now Snape's around every corner, following me. Trying to get me alone. Horrible creep."

"I'll tell you what Sirius is doing—,"

"I don't care," Prue told her promptly, "just leave it alone okay?"

"But—,"

"You heard!" Prue shouted angrily.

With that, Lily turned on her heel and left. She muttered something about 'I was only trying to help'. Prue was fed up. She'd officially had enough of the whole world being against her. She even didn't need whores like Lily telling her that life—what Sirius was doing. Lily, who thought she was better than Prue because she was a muggleborn and had plenty of friends. Friends that Prue would never have, and that didn't make her feel too good. What made it more annoying was that she was expected to be the best in the year. Yes her best subject was Charms, after that DADA… but otherwise she was pretty useless. They all expected that just because she was Dumbledore's granddaughter that she would do really well. That she was intelligent and was everything her grandfather was. Here she was, crying like a little baby in the girls bathrooms.

She recovered after a couple of hours in the bathrooms. This wasn't like her, being reduced to tears because she saw someone she liked with a girl. She'd never used to understand those girls who would cry for hours because nobody even looked at them so much as asked them out. Now though, Prue kind of understood. However she wasn't going to admit that if she was put under torture.

Deciding that she'd done enough crying, Prue left the girls bathrooms and headed towards the Slytherin common room. On the way though, she spotted Sirius deliberately start kissing his new 'girlfriend' upon her arrival. She frowned, and then moved as fast as she could so she couldn't and wouldn't witness the horrible scene unfolding before her.

Once in the girls dormitories Prue took out a book and began reading. Maybe it would take her mind off all her problems.

AUTHORS NOTES: Okay this chapter just gives you insights into Prue's mind ways… not much happening because I couldn't think of anything.