The Tigers
By sumdea
Summary: the Tigers, Lily, Isabelle and Dea, are invisible in Hogwarts, what happens if the Mauraders find out that there is more to these girls than they thought…
Disclaimer: I do not own any of JK Rowling's characters.
Rating: K+
Story: Harry Potter
Pairing: L/J SB/OC RL/OC
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Name pronouncing
Issy (pronounced izzy)
Dea (pronounced dee-ah)
CHAPTER 5:
The three girls headed to TACHOR after their last class. They did everything there. They also recently transfigured beds in the room so they hardly ever went into the Gryffindor common room anymore. It was curfew time now and the girls were all sitting on the couches chatting when a creak came from the entrance. All three heads turned at the noise and they saw the door open. It was as if it was magic for it seemed that there was no one there. Soon after the door was ajar three heads popped out from thin air and three bodies soon followed as the invisibility cloak fell to the floor. It was not the strange entrance that spooked the girls but it was the three shocked expressions that were on the bodies that appeared out of nowhere. The Marauders had officially found TACHOR.
"Umm… H-hi!" Dea stuttered, being very unlike herself at that moment. The boys just stood there not even acknowledging the fact that Dea spoke, so she continued, "wh-what are you doing… ummm… here?"
"We were walking… sneaking out to find more secret passages… you know… w-we didn't - I mean… sorry?" Remus said blabbing on in a shocked voice, it seemed that his brain hadn't kicked in yet, letting him talk pointless talk. It seemed that it was Lily who would end the awkwardness for the moment.
"Well, since you are here you might as well come in" she groaned when she said it but she knew that if they stood there any longer Filtch might come and catch them all. So they all walked into the little common room the girls had. A claustrophobic silence enveloped the room. Everyone sat there twiddling their thumbs. Issy wanted to scream just to break the silence that the room contained.
"Girls! She said through clenched teeth "we need to talk." Lily and Dea were then dragged to their quarters. "if any of you think that it is 'Fun' to be sitting in a room twiddling you thumbs raise your hand" seeing no ones hands raised she continued "we want to be put into history books but we are not even brave enough to talk to three measly little boys!" her eyes were set with a newfound determination as she said this making it sound like a speech before a battle which in some ways it was. She then swiveled around, her brown hair fanning out, and marched though the door leading back to where the boys were sitting. Dea and Lily looked at each other quickly before hurrying after their friend surprised at her new confidence.
"Okay guys. I am through with all this shit! What in hells name are you doing here? I mean you never noticed or caret to notice us before so what changed? We are all still the same girls we always were. I just don't understand! What makes us so great now?" Issy exclaimed as she walked into the room. Five heads stared at her in shock, James and Sirius that she was the quiet one and didn't expect to see this side of her, Remus was kind of impressed by her confidence, Lily and Dea were by far the most shocked out of the group being the ones who knew her the longest and never seen her act like this in public.
"Issy" Dea yelled in surprise and ran to give said girl a hug "That was awesome!"
"Yah!" Lily agreed joining in on the hug "We are so proud of you!" a sparkle of mischief enter Lily's emerald eyes "You know what this means" and she paused for dramatic effect "PARTY!" no word creates such a reaction like the word 'party' that's for sure. The girls were so excited that for the moment they forgot all about the Marauders being in the e room.
"Yah! Let's go to the kitchens!" Dea hollered heading off in said direction.
"Kitchens? You guys know about the kitchens?" Sirius asked bewildered. The reality of the boys being in the room came back to the girls and a new wave of shock came.
"Kitchens- we meant… No! Why would you think- we meant muggle style… like in the room! Kitchens! What other… umm… kind is there?" Lily stuttered. The Marauders threw Lily a look as if to say 'what are you doing?'
"Girls, tell us the truth. We want to know who you are." Remus said, the other Marauders nodding in consent.
"You wanna know? After all these years? What changed you fucking mind? I really wanna know!" Dea yelled
"We just care, is that so hard to believe?" Remus asked
"Yes!" the girls answered in unison
"Please tell us about yourselves or we'll... report you to Filch!" Sirius said thinking fast.
"Fine!" Issy said looking at the girls as if to say 'sorry we have no other choice'. "I guess I'll go first. My two best friends are currently sitting in this room, Dea and Lily. My parents are high-profile healers. I have one younger brother, John, he's 12 now. Well… I guess I will tell you how the tigers met. It way at the train station first year…"
FLASH
The Hogwarts train whistles as the students were loading their belongings, in the middle of all the confusion was a young brunette first year, clutching her things close to her. She was all alone, her parents nowhere in sight. She silently boarded the train picking a secluded compartment. A couple minutes later a young girls opened the compartment door.
"Hello, I am Lily Evans. Is a seat free by any chance? I am first year and I don't know anyone yet." Lily said.
"Yah that's fine, I'm first year too. Issy McCormick." Issy answered in a quiet voice.
Soon after the girls met the compartment door was slammed open with a bang. A short girl with blond hair entered, she was breathing heavily as if she just ran a triathlon. "Can I gasp stay here? pant My parents are so gasp annoying. I am worried that they will run on the train and find me to yell even more rules in my face." Issy and Lily nodded and introduced themselves
"… and we bonded for the whole day. We've been best friends ever since." Issy finished then looked at Remus shyly before blushing and looking away (a/n I wonder why?).
Lily started next, figuring that it was her turn. "Well… I suppose I'll go. My parents are both muggles along with my sister, Petunia. My parents are lawyers. My sister is marrying a whale of a man, Vernon Dursley, who works at a drill company. I think that TACHORS history should be told next. We found this room in first year…"
FLASH
"Lily, Iz, lets sneak out!" an eleven year old Dea suggested with a sparkle in her eyes.
"Dea! We can't! It is after curfew, it's against the rules! We'll get caught!" Lily protested
"Lils, you have'ta live more… freely. Okay that sounded better in my head but whatever, moving on. We formed something great, sacred today. We have to use our 'powers' for the greater… umm… good!"
"Good? How is this for the 'greater good' as you so loverly put it?" Lily replied
"God Lils! Does it matter; this will be the best thing EVER!" Dea replied
"Ok! Fine! But I cannot promise to do this a lot. I abide by the rules, not disobey them. Got it?"
"Yes sir… I mean mam!" Dea and Issy said in unison while saluting.
That night the three girls left the common room all dressed in black (they were trying to be discreet). At quarter after twelve the girls happened on a staircase that appeared out of nowhere. Being the curious girls that they are, they decided to go up them and find out where they lead. Making notes on where the stairs were found and the incidents leading up to the discovery the girls headed up the passageway. It seemed as if it went on forever, but the three persistent girls kept climbing up, knowing that they would discover something priceless and very useful in their future.
Finally a door appeared at the end of the staircase. Light emitted through the cracks creating hope of discovery for the girls. They pushed and shoved the door and with a loud creak the door finally gave way into a hallway that looked as if it hadn't been entered for years. Cobwebs as thick as a duvet covered the walls and dirt covered the floor. Issy with her sharp eyes noticed a corner of a picture frame under the cobwebs. With a scurry of feet the girls were attempting to clear way to see the picture.
There was a painting of a unicorn and the girls stared at it, assuming it was a muggle painting from the lack of movement. When suddenly the unicorn gave a mighty lurch, causing the girls to jump and screech.
"Who are you?" it said in an angry voice, obviously mad after being awoken rudely.
"h-hi… we weren't… I mean- we just came here to-"Issy started
"I'm Dea" Dea interrupted "and this is Issy and Lily, we just came strolling by and saw that there was a picture hidden by all the cobwebs we thought that we were helping you. I am sorry if we hurt your feelings."
"Yo-you woke me? You are practically my saviors. It is dangerous for a painting to sleep to long, can turn into a muggle painting you know. Wait! I have an idea. Maybe you could visit me sometimes and maybe get Dumbledore to clean the halls and add some paintings and I will let you stay in the room that I guard. You would have to tell Dumbledore though, because I can't have you girls be here unknown to the headmaster. How does that sound?" the unicorn asked with a glint in her eye.
"How does it sound?" Lily sputtered "it sounds BLOODY awesome" the other girls nodded in agreement. They stayed for a bit cleaning a bit and talking to Natalya (the unicorn) then headed off to bed. They snuck back into the common rooms with a couple of near misses with Filch. They collapsed onto the couched in the common room and decided to wait for breakfast to talk to Dumbledore because it was 3 in the morning.
"Girls, I think we should have a name for our new room and for ourselves, like a code name for our group." Lily suggested.
"Yah that will be awesome" Issy said as Dea nodded.
"Let's write some lists of possible names. Okay hut!" lily ordered.
ISSYS LIST
Butterflies
Daisies
doggies
sunshine
DEAS LIST
awesomely cool girls
awesomely cool girls with braids
braids
teapots
dung-heads
LILYS LIST
bean bags
jumping beans
tigers
pencils (cause we are so sharp)
good-lookers
They collectively laughed ludicrously over some of the names that they thought of. Knowing that half of those names were just for laughs anyways,
Issy was the first one to speak up, "I think the tigers is kind of cool."
"Yah it is one of my top picks along with pencils." Dea agreed
"Ladies and Gentlemen! The moment you have been waiting for has FINALLY arrived! We now introduce the three coolest girls in Hogwarts… the Tigers!" Lily said in an announcer voice, her voice quivering at the end before dissolving into giggles the two other girls quickly following.
"Oooh-kay!" Dea said, the laughter dying down, "We need to find a name for our new room and I got the PERFECT one… dum dum dum… drum roll please… 'the-tigers-awesomely-cool-hang-out-room' aka TACHOR" Dea finished with a bow causing the girls to fall on the ground clutching their stomachs at the sheer hilariosity of it all.
"That is the most RETARDED thing that I have ever heard!" Lily spat out between laughs. Issy didn't say a thing because she was laughing so much, making her face and unnatural red. Finally, after calming down the girls decided that it was a crazy name and that it would be perfect for their room. Realizing that it was 6 o'clock now, they headed down for breakfast and to talk to Dumbledore about their new room.
"… and so we got the room and here we are today!" Lily finished. "I don't know why you guys are here and I don't know why you guys care. Now that you know about us can you please just let us be?" her voice changing into pleading.
"Yah, why do you care?" Issy added.
"You can't hide forever, why do you try?" James asked
"We don't hide away we just don't flaunt. It has forked forever we have been in Hogwarts for six years and in your same house where there are only six sixth year girls, how did you not know who we are?" The boys just sat there. "We do well in school and we make noise but we get overlooked. Our lives are more difficult and things don't come to us easily like they do to you. Just let us be and don't mention us" Dea said.
"Why should we not? You guys are just like us, normal people, you should be seen! Why do you want this?" Sirius asked.
"You don't understand! Everyone likes you! Maybe not the Slytherins but for us its different there are so many problems in our lives. Don't make me! Please!" Lily begged tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Lily? What's wrong? What happened?" James asked his heart quenching at the thought of her upset.
"Lils come here." Issy said pulling her into a hug and Dea walking over to joining them. The boys went silent as they realized some people have more trouble and trials in life then them. Sirius has problems with his family and Remus with his werewolf problems but then have many supporting people whereas the girls only had each other.
A/N: HALLELUJAH I am don't this stupid chappie. It is not like it wasn't fun or anything just that I wrote it while I was in Disneyland for my school band trip and retyping it is rather tedious. Bleh. Yay anyhow this is six pages and I won't do any of the next story till i get reviews. I will change the spelling of issys name to izzy if you guys want so tell me and yah. What do you think about the story?
