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"CARLY!" A young girl rolled out of bed and onto the floor with a thump. She groaned and rubbed her head, "CAROLINE MULLET! GET UP RIGHT NOW!" Her mother yelled walking into the girl's room,
"I'm up! I'm up!" Carly said shielding her eyes as her mother opened the drapes,
"What time is it?" Her mother looked at her watch and looked back at her daughter. Caroline Mullet was a tall girl, around 5'9", for the age of sixteen. She had shoulder length brown hair and dark blue eyes. She had freckles splattered over her body and face plus she had really long legs,
"Around ten." Carly's eyes became wide,
"What time do I have to be on the train?"
"I don't know around eleven." Carly bolted into the bathroom,
'Its times like these I wish I was seventeen,' she thought while brushing her teeth and hopping into the shower. Her mother was talking to her, but she didn't pick it up. Carly turned off the water and checked the time,
"Crap!"
"What?"
"It's 10:30!" She sprinted out of her bathroom and into her room. Her mother tossed her, her uniform and waved her wand to pack Carly's things.
"Do you have everything?" Her mother said straitening Carly's hair and cloak,
"I think- My broom!" She ran back up the stairs and got her broom, "Bye mum." As she kissed her mother on the cheek she gasped, "Wait. How am I supposed to get there?" Her mother grinned,
"Take this." It was a portkey and she was quickly transported to the train station. When she landed on her feet she looked around and up at the clock on the wall, 'Good it's only 10:45, now I can find a compartment.' Once Carly found an empty compartment and loaded all her belongings on the rack she sat down pulling out the Quidditch Weekly magazine and began to read. When she got to an article about the Ireland team having trouble with all its chasers four boys walked into her compartment. One seemed to be younger than her, another one seemed her age and the other two seemed to be older than her, "Hello," she said brightly, which made the two older boys scowl,
"Hello," said a blonde one with slicked back hair, "I'm Lucius Malfoy, this is Regulas Black," he pointed to the youngest looking boy there and by far in Carly's opinion the best looking, "Goyle," he pointed to a fat one that was older than her. He looked like he was sewn into his uniform resembling a stuffed sausage, "and Severus Snape." Severus seemed to be looking at Carly, she looked at him and sniffed, he looked like he hadn't taken a shower in years. Not to be rude Carly nodded to each,
"I'm-"
"I know who you are." Regulas said causing Carly to raise an eyebrow,
"You do?"
"Yes, you're Caroline Mullet, youngest chaser for the American national team." He said grinning at her shyly, "My brother used to have you plastered all over his walls," she laughed,
"Yeah," Lucius gave a look that Carly supposed it was meant to be a friendly look, but ended up looking very ugly,
"What might I help you four boys with?" She asked averting her eyes from Lucius and looking at Regulas who blushed, and quickly looked at his feet,
"We wanted to know what year you where in." Malfoy said, he seemed to be the leader of this slimy group minus Regulas,
"Oh, well I guess 7th." They gave her a look that made it seem as though they were asking her if she was dumb, "It's a long story. What year are you all in?"
"I'm in 6th," when he talked about him self he seemed to seem very proud about it, "Regulas is in 5th," she sighed he was too young for her, "Goyle and Severus are in 7th."
"Oh-" She was cut off by a new voice,
"Can we help you?"
"And may we ask-" Another voice said this one slightly deeper than the other,
"-what you are doing in our compartment?" Yet another new voice spoke; Carly looked around and saw four new boys standing in the doorway. These ones looked a lot less sleazy and slimy than the ones sitting with her now. The slimy ones jumped out of their seats with their wands out,
"Black," Severus said squaring up to the taller boy,
"Snape," The boy called Black growled sounding like a dog,
"Potter," Lucius snarled doing the same thing Snape did to Black but only to another boy. Potter yawned and looked lazily down at Lucius,
"Malfoy," There were two other boys behind Potter and Black. The one with sandy colored hair stepped between Black and Potter,
"Boys! Now before our new head boy here," he said pointing at Potter's shiny badge. This caused the slimy groups jaws to hit the floor and Potter to puff out his chest, "issues you all a detention, I highly suggest you leave." Malfoy snarled again and left with his gang close on his heals.
The boys sat down and just realized they were not alone. The one called Black was taller than her with raven colored hair that fell softly into his hazel eyes. By the looks of it he had a great body, but that was just what Carly could see over his uniform. Carly gathered that him and Regulas must be brothers, but that Sirius was older and slightly better looking. Black seemed to be studying her which caused her to blush. She turned to look at Potter. He looked just like Black, but his hair was the exact opposite. It looked like he had just gotten off his broom and liked it that way by the way he kept messing it up. She looked at the one that told the sleazy group to go away. He had sandy colored hair that was just a little longer than his ears. He was around Carly's height and had light blue eyes. He looked extremely thin, but Carly couldn't tell if he was really thin or he just looked like it standing next to a tub of lard. No it wasn't a cow it was a boy, more like a mix of a pig and a rat with brown stringy hair. He was not good looking compared to the other three,
"Who are you?" It spoke! The sea cow spoke. The sandy haired one rolled his eyes,
"I'm Remus Lupin." Carly shook his extended hand and grinned at him. The train began moving, but she didn't realize it.
"I'm James Potter," he said shaking Carly's hand and giving her a grin which she grinned back. She defiantly liked this group better.
"I'm Peter Pettigrew." She politely smiled and shook his hand,
"I'm Sirius Black," He said taking her hand and giving it a kiss. She smiled and he winked at her causing her to blush yet again, "and it looks like you just met my brother and his annoying friends." She laughed and sat back,
"I'm Carly Mullet." Remus chuckled and shook his head pulling out a book. James' jaw dropped,
"NO WAY!" Carly gave him a questioning look, "You mean The Carly Mullet? The youngest chaser to be on a national team?" She grinned,
"I guess." Sirius sat up straighter,
"You guess? How could you guess? I thought you looked familiar," Carly gave him a questioning look; "I have you pinned up in my room." She giggled and Remus shook his head behind his book. James laughed,
"I think he meant, that he has your team posters everywhere, and you just happen to be his favorite on the team." Sirius shrugged, "Wait a tick, why don't you sound American?"
"I'm really a mix of Irish and British so my accent comes out to be… I don't really know." Sirius grinned,
"A Brit playing on a team of yanks? How unfair is that?"
"I saw you play. You were bloody brilliant!" Peter said.
"Prongs here," Sirius said nodding towards James, "is captain and chaser of the Gryffindor team and I'm the beater." She smiled, and James nodded,
"Can I have an autograph later?" She grinned wider; usually people didn't care much, because the national team wasn't as publicized as the regular teams. It might be that the American team smashed the British team but still… "Guys I'll see you around I've got to go do that head boy stuff."
"With Evans!" Sirius said while James made his way to the door. Before James shut the door he turned around and winked at Sirius and left. Remus put away his book,
"So I'm guessing you're a seventh year, right?"
"…err..."
"How old are you?"
"She's sixteen." Sirius answered for her.
"I think she can speak." Remus said, "So you'd be in 6th year than?"
"Not exactly." Carly answered and Remus motioned for her to continue, "Well I took the O.W.L.s this summer and they thought I should be moved up to 7th year."
"Awesome." Sirius said.
"I'm guessing you all are in 7th then?" They nodded.
"What house do you want to be in?" Peter asked,
"I- Wait what?" Sirius got up and sat next to her.
"Slytherin," he said ticking it off on his finger, "the house which all those gits are in, including my brother," a dark looked crossed his eyes but quickly left, "No one in there has come out without being part of the dark side." She nodded for him to continue, "Hufflepuff, which is more of the left overs the house which takes all the rest, Ravenclaw, which are all the teachers pets and the smart prats, and than Gryffindor, the house in which we all are in," He said indicating to the other two. "Need I say more?" Carly rolled her eyes as did Remus.
"Here let me explain," Remus said leaning forward, "Slytherin is for the so called 'cunning' but it's really what Padfoot said," he nodded at Sirius, "Hufflepuff is for the loyal, but really the left overs, and than Ravenclaw is for the smart. Gryffindor is for all of the above plus braveness and nobility." She nodded in understanding and jumped when the compartment door slammed open,
"Caroline?" She stood up and whirled around,
"Yes Lucius?" She asked in a bored voice,
"I wanted to save you from these prats," Carly became red in the face,
"If I wanted to be saved it would have been when you where in here with me and not them. Thank you very much," She said picking him up behind the collar and carrying him through the door and dropping him on the ground. She shut the door and sat back down,
"That was bloody-"
"Save it Black." A girl said who had just walked in the compartment. She had long red hair, bright green eyes, and a petite fitting body she was very pretty in Carly's opinion. Carly saw a head girl pin pinned to her chest, "What did you do to Potter?" Sirius gasped in mock hurt,
"Why Evans, What ever do you mean? How dare you think I would ever do something to our beloved Prongs?" Evans rolled her eyes,
"What do you mean by, 'what did we do to him', Lily?" Remus asked.
"I mean," she said putting her hands on her hips, "Why is he acting so…so…"
"…normal?" James said coming up behind her and finishing her sentence. She glared at him and stomped away, but not before looking at Carly and glaring at her too.
"Great." Carly said Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Now she probably hates me too. That's a total of five people today, not my usual standard of fifteen."
"If you want us to hate you too, we'll be glad too." She scowled at Peter and crossed her arms and legs and looked at them expectantly. She raised her eyebrows,
"Well?"
"What?" Sirius said puzzled,
"What just happened? Why does this Lily girl not like James? Or the rest of you?" Remus laughed and James just sat back, "It all began in first year when Padfoot and Prongs decided to become major mischief makers dragging me and Wormtail along-"
"Hey! I was willing!" Peter interjected,
"Bloody useful you where…" Sirius muttered earning a glare from Peter,
"Anyway," Remus said ignoring them, "their first prank was altered towards your dear friend Snape-"
"- or as we like to call him Snivallus." Sirius interjected,
"After going through with our plan. A certain red head named Lily Evans stood up for him, calling us four childish and immature. After about a couple years Lily began to… how can I say this?"
"Mature in a feminine way?" James said grinning.
"She gets better looking every year." Sirius said,
"Right and Prongs started to develop a crush. He was tactless and stupid at the age of fourteen-"
"-Hey I wa-"
"-And began asking Lily out every chance he got. Lily already hated him so naturally she came up with new things to call him every time he asked her."
"Such as," Sirius said bringing out his fingers to tick off the names again, "prat, bully, bullying toe rag, arrogant, self centered, big headed-"
"You know you're talking as if I'm not here." James said,
"Well you didn't object." Sirius replied James rolled his eyes and looked at his watch,
"I've got to go patrol, see you guys later. Carly." He said tipping his head to her and left.
"So," Remus said thinking about starting a conversation, "Why haven't-" Sirius cut him off,
"-we seen your pretty face around here before?" Carly blushed and took a deep breath,
"Well it's a long story." Peter looked at his watch,
"We've got time." Carly glared she really didn't want to tell,
"We'll let me just say I was born in Ireland, lived in Britain for five years. Then when I turned eleven I got my Hogwarts letter, but my father wanted me to go to a different school. My mum wanted me to go to Hogwarts, my dad won that battle and I attended the American School of Magic till about two years ago."
"That explains what a Brit was doing on the American National team," Sirius whispered and Carly nodded,
"Than during my Christmas break my 4th year my father died." The boys looked shocked, "I don't know why. Anyway last year my mum home schooled me because I had practice a lot and she didn't really want to be alone. Than I reached an agreement with my coach and my mother and they aloud me to attended Hogwarts as long as Dumbledore let me come to practice once a week or I made the house team." She grinned sheepishly at them and Sirius regained himself,
"Really?"
"Yeah,"
"Well than I have some good news for you."
"What?"
"Gryffindor needs a new chaser."
"How do you know I'll be in Gryffindor?" Sirius winked at her,
"You've got the look. So are still going to go to your games with your team?"
"Yeah, you want to come to one?"
"Are you serious?" She laughed,
"Yeah, hell you can come to all of them. No one really comes."
"Anything off the trolley, dears?" A little old lady said opening the compartment door. Carly's eyes widened they had her favorite candy,
"Can I have all the Bertie Bott's you have please?" The lady smiled and nodded taking Carly's money. Once the boys started eating Sirius began to throw cauldron cakes at Peter and Peter tried to catch them in his mouth. Carly was laughing at Sirius' bad aim,
"What so you think you could do better?" Sirius asked her,
"Why yes. Yes I do." She picked up a cake and aimed at Sirius mouth and threw it. He spit it out onto Remus. Who grabbed his chocolate frog cards and flung them back at Sirius. Carly was laughing so hard she didn't realize the guys turn on her. Once she opened her eyes she saw that all three of them had some sort of candy in their hands. "Hey! What did I do?" They shook their heads and pelted the candy at her.
Half and hour later found the group sitting on the floor, candy surrounding them, laughing at something stupid someone said. James entered the compartment with a funny look on his face,
"Prongs?"
"Wha…?" Sirius shook his head,
"Did you just get knocked up or something?" Remus smacked Sirius upside the head, "Ow! What was that for?"
"For being a dumbass, Carly's here if you hadn't noticed."
"So?"
"We don't want to corrupt a sixteen year olds mind."
"Sorry, Carly." She just laughed and waved it off. Lily came into the compartment with a slight smile on her face. She looked at James and than at Carly on the floor laughing.
"I'm Lily Evans." She said sticking out her hand,
"I'm Carly Mullet." Carly shook her hand and stood up.
"I heard about a new person coming this year from McGonagall. She left us a note that said you had to ride on the boats with the first years." Sirius sighed,
"Well that stinks." He looked at his watch and then out the window, "Ladies, Marauders?"
"What?"
"Welcome home."
Some time later Carly found herself on a small boat with a little first year. She looked around and hated being tall during times like these. The castle had come into view, but it was nothing new, because she saw it just this past summer. Suddenly the boat gave a great lurch causing the boy in her boat to fly forward. She quickly grabbed the back of his cloak and pulled him up,
"Thanks." He said grinning and brushing his long red hair out of his face (AN: Guess who?),
"Your welcome." She said stepping out and giving him a hand out of the boat.
"I'm Bill. Bill Weasley."
"I'm Carly Mullet." He gasped as she shook his hand, "So Bill what house do you want to belong too?"
"I'm hoping Gryffindor; my entire family was in there. What about you?" They talked as they walked up the steps and were stopped by a stern lady.
"I am Professor McGonagall and in a few minutes you will be walking threw these doors and into the great hall. There, you will be sorted into you house. The houses are Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor." She waited for about a minute and opened the doors she ushered all of the first years threw the door and caught Carly as she walked by, "Ms. Mullet, I will sort you last."
"Thank you M'am." She nodded and closed the doors behind Carly. As Carly looked around she saw the same room she sat in for her testing. This time there were far more people than just her and a teacher. She walked up the middle isle and saw Bill waiting for her at the end. She grinned at him. She took another look around and saw everyone look boredly at the first years but their eyes seemed to rest on her. She turned red and bent her knees to make herself seem shorter.
"I'll be one of the last to go." Bill whispered,
"Same here." Bill grinned again. (AN: We all know the sorting hat. Plainly I don't feel like making up a song so I'm going to skip it. Sorry.)
"Ackers, Brian" A scrawny little boy walked up and sat on the stool. Once the hat was placed on his head, he looked around to see who was talking to him and realized it was the hat. She smiled, 'muggle born.' A rip in the hat opened and yelled,
"Hufflepuff!" The table to her left clapped widely as the little boy went to join them.
After what seemed like forever to Carly's stomach which began to growl, Bill was called. As he gave her one last smile he walked up to the stool. She looked around and saw Sirius and the rest at the table to her left. She caught Sirius' eye and motioned to her stomach, he nodded in agreement and winked at her. She smiled,
"Gryffindor!" She clapped as Bill let out a breath of relief and went to join the other Gryffindor first years.
"Zimker, Ashley" The second to last girl walked up to the stool and sat down.
"Ravenclaw!" The table at Carly's far right started clapping.
"Zimker, Natalie" They must be twins because they looked exactly alike.
"Slytherin!" Natalie gave a grave look at her sister and joined the clapping table to Carly's far left.
"Mullet, Caroline." The whole hall went silent as she walked up to the stool. She caught one look at everyone's shocked faces as the hat fell over her eyes.
"Ahh…Ms. Mullet I knew your father and your mother. She had a brilliant mind just like you, but you seem to have a clash of houses your parents where in. You have all the makings for a Slytherin, but yet you seem to put your friends before yourself. Plus you are extremely smart. Where will you go? It'll have to be…" Carly crossed her fingers, "Gryffindor!" She let out a breath and handed the hat back to McGonagall who had a tint of a smile on her face. The Gryffindor table went hysterical. James and Sirius and a few other students where jumping up and down, while everyone whistled and cheered. She blushed and went to sit next to Remus. Lily moved over so she could sit between them.
"I told you." Sirius said grinning,
"Why are you all so happy?" She asked.
"Why wouldn't we? We need a chaser, you happen to be the best one there is," she blushed,
"And," James added, "You're very how can I say this Padfoot…"
"…very good looking." She blushed,
"Hello," Professor Dumbledore said. Carly had met him during the summer to discuss her schooling, "And welcome to another year at Hogwarts." People clapped and Carly grinned. She grabbed her stomach as it let out a huge growl. Everyone looked at her and she blushed, "With that ending note, dig in." The food appeared and people began to shovel food into their mouths. After awhile when everyone began to get full Sirius and Carly where still eating. James laughed,
"I bet Padfoot can eat more."
"I don't know Carly's a professional quidditch player." Remus said,
"My moneys on Carly." Lily said. Carly snorted while taking a gulp of pumpkin juice, "At least she knows how to eat politely." She said while Sirius ripped off the meat from a chicken leg. Dumbledore stood up and the food disappeared. Carly groaned, and Sirius let out a,
"Hey!"
Dumbledore smiled at Sirius and than looked at Carly, "I want you all to meet our new student, Caroline Mullet. She will be in 7th year. So will you all be nice to her and show her around." People turned to look at her and she waved, "Next I would like to point out our new Head Boy and Head Girl James Potter and Lily Evans." James and Lily stood up and James bowed causing the students minus the Slytherins to laugh. "I would also like to say that the forbidden forest is of course forbidden to all students unless you are serving a detention." His eyes glittered towards the marauders. Sirius gave an appalled look and pointed at himself as if saying 'Who? Me?', "There is to be no magic in the hallways and a list of things banned form the school are listed on the door of Mr. Filch's office." He looked at the marauders yet again and the four boys grinned. "Now I wish you all good night." The prefects began to usher all the first years out the doors and into the hallway. Bill grinned at her as he walked past and she waved,
"Flirting with first years?" Sirius said raising an eyebrow,
"He's my friend." Carly replied,
"You're just jealous Black." Lily said. Remus and Peter laughed and James nudged Sirius,
"Let's get out of here." They stood up and Sirius bowed as Carly walked past him, he took her cloak from her, as she had already taken it off, and carried it for her. She thanked him and walked into the hallway. She began to talk to Lily about school and other things. As the girls walked up the steps the boys hung back,
"Damn…" Sirius said looking at Carly's hips sway back and forth,
"Damn is right." James said watching Lily's hips. Remus shook his head and turned to Peter,
"They haven't grown up at all have they, Wormtail?"
"Nope." He replied secretly wishing he was as good as Sirius or James even Remus who had a few girls that liked him.
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