Chapter thirty
a/n: don't hate me when you finish reading this chapter, i did something evil. Oh well, it had to happen for the plot.
disclaimer: i do not own or claim to own any part of Harry Potter, I only own the plot and original characters.
chapter written by: pinocchio
"So, Kat." Matt said edgily, looking at his feet "Who are you going with to the ball?"
"No one so far, what about you?" Kat asked; they were standing by the lake, near the Beech tree. Sirius had sent them down there to shoo away Kingsley Shacklebolt, who was apparently doing something very suspicious to Sirius' favourite tree.
"Same as you, I'm all alone."
"But you're a spunk, how is that possible?" Kat laughed,
"I'm a spunk? Geez, I haven't heard anyone use that expression in years."
"Oh shush!" Kat said, hitting him playfully,
"Well, do you want to go together?"
"As friends?" Kat asked,
"Yeah." Matt said,
"Yeah, definitely!" Kat said happily, "Ok, I have to go and tell Emma so she can stop stressing about finding me a date."
"Can you tell her that I'm going with you? Because she was doing the same thing for me."
Kat laughed and gave him a quick hug and then skipped off excitedly. Matt sighed and leaned against the tree. He wasn't really sure what he was going to do about this whole Ellie thing, it wasn't as if he could just stop liking her.
"Hey you!" a voice said, Matt jumped, as Ellie appeared by his side, "Why are you looking so sad?"
"No reason, I'm not sad… just a bit stressed."
"About what?"
"NEWTS results." He lied,
"Oh, right, I forgot all about them. We're getting them back in a few weeks! You should be excited!" Ellie smiled,
"That's easy for you to say. You'll probably get top marks. Me however, not too sure."
"Oh don't worry! You'll do fine I'm sure." Ellie said, "Well, I've got to go and write a letter to the orphanage, telling them that there's no way I'm going back!"
"Alright, bye then." Matt said, Ellie hugged him, "Cheer up Matty!" she said, using the nickname he hated.
People never thought of Remus Lupin as the jealous type, but he could be. He turned away from the castle window, his forehead creased. He couldn't help but wonder if there was something going on between Ellie and Matt, he had just watched her talk to him for five minutes, the whole time smiling her head off, and then she had hugged him; and while she walked off he had stared at her intently. He'd have to talk to her eventually about this; but for the time being, he had to get a tux for the ball that was on that evening.
It had been a long time since James and Lily had had a fight. James was counting the days.
"Hey Lils," he said, "You know, it's been fifty-six days since we last had a fight. We're doing pretty well don't you reckon?"
"Yeah James, you've matured quite a bit." Lily said, she wasn't really paying attention, as she was reading a book. They were lounging in their common room talking about pretty much anything,
"I've matured? No, that's not possible. I don't want to be mature yet!" James complained,
"James it's a good thing."
"No it's not! I still have a week to be childish, and then I'll have finished school forever, and I'll have to grow up and be an adult." He whinged, "I don't want to be an adult, they're all too frumpy!"
"Well, okay." Lily laughed, "You can be a child for another week."
"Lily, what do you think we'll do when we finish though?" James asked, Lily sighed and shut her book, it didn't seem that she was going to be able to finish it now.
"I think that we are going to move into a house with all our friends."
"Well thank-you captain obvious," James said sarcastically, "But what are we going to do."
"Well, I want to be an Auror, so I want to get training in that soon."
"Yeah, me too. But what's happening with us?"
"I don't know, why don't you tell me?"
"Well, I thought, we might get a house together, and then we might get married, and maybe have kids."
"Really? James Potter, are you making plans?" Lily laughed,
"Yeah, sort of. I'm just thinking about it at this stage." He said,
"Well keep thinking, because I think it sounds pretty good." Lily said.
To Sister Marguerite,
Did you seriously think I would return to the orphanage? Ever since I was four, you people have bugged the hell out of me. You almost didn't even let me go to Hogwarts. There is no way I am returning, because for thirteen years, you made my life hell, so goodbye forever.
From Ellie Andrews
Ellie put down her quill, she knew it was a sin to be dis-respectful of a nun, but that woman had hated her since she first showed up at that orphanage. She sealed the envelope and attached it to an owl's leg and sent it off out the window.
She walked out of the owlery and towards the common room to get ready for the graduation ball.
Emma and Katherine were all ready to start getting ready, but Lily was nowhere in sight.
"She'll turn up soon, she wouldn't miss this." Emma said, "and besides she has to come, she's fixing my dress."
Roughly five minutes later, Lily rushed in with Emma's dress,
"Sorry I'm late, James wanted me to help him get dressed, or undressed, I'm not really sure, but I'm here now!" she said, panting slightly,
Emma glanced at her dress, "Was my dress present during all of this undressing? Because if it was I'm not sure I want it." she laughed,
"No, it was in my bedroom, and we were in James'."
"Ok, just give it to me!" Emma said, rushing upstairs to her room.
As Ellie and Katherine were deciding which make-up to use, they heard a blood-curdling scream. They rushed into the dorm to find Emma looking livid,
"I hate being pregnant!" she screeched,
"I'm afraid to ask, but why?" Kat said,
"BECAUSE MY FUCKING FEET WON'T FIT INTO MY FUCKING SHOES! NOW MY WHOLE FUCKING OUTFIT IS SCREWED!"
"Calm down Emma." Ellie said, Kat pulling out her wand, "We'll just charm them so they're bigger."
Kat quickly charmed the shoes, and then they went back to getting ready.
At 7:45 they were all ready and sitting in the common room, except for Ellie, who was still upstairs.
"Hurry up!" Lily shouted, " We're going to be late!"
"Hold your horses," Ellie called back, "We don't have to be there until eight! I can't choose which shoes to wear!"
"You have twenty-seven pairs, just pick any!" Kat replied, she was wearing her deep autumn-y red dress, her hair hanging loosely, straightened, and once again tinged coppery-blonde. Her shoes were the same, dark black heels.
Emma was wearing her strapless black dress, with white lace at the top and bottom. Her pregnant belly showed clearly, but the dress was slimming and still suited her well, her black businesswoman shoes were fitting perfectly to her swollen feet. Her light red hair was in a bun, tied back with white and black lace.
Ellie finally appeared at the top of the stairs in her flowy, pale blue dress. She remembered the ugly purple thing it formerly was, and was very thankful for magic. Ellie walked down the stairs and revealed her strappy black 3 inch heels that added to her height, her hair was let loose in natural brown waves.
Lily wore her beautiful white Cinderella dress. The one that was pouffy down from the waist with snow-white halter straps and sparkled in the light. She had gorgeous white heels to match her dress and her hair was hanging in loose curls.
"I can't believe you wore heels Ellie." Kat said,
"Yeah, you're lucky Remus is six foot three or something like it." Emma laughed,
"Oh well, I like being tall." She said,
"How tall are you?" Lily asked,
"Five foot eleven without the heels, and six two with them."
"Oh my god." Kat said, "Well, Emma and I like being short, don't we Em?"
"Yep!" Emma nodded happily, "There's a clear difference in height between me and my man!"
"Let's go." Lily laughed, they left the common room and walked down to the hall to meet their men.
They entered the Great Hall, which was decorated spectacularly,
"Good job Lily and James!" Emma commented, for it was their job as Head girl and boy to decorate the hall for social events.
"Thanks, it took forever." Lily said,
"And my favourite shirt is covered in paint now!" James complained,
"Only because you threw the bucket on yourself." Lily laughed,
"Hey, that was an accident!"
"How could that have been an accident?" Matt asked,
"Oh shush!" James said.
The five boys were all wearing tuxes, except there was something strange about Peter's. His hair was slicked back with gel and he was wearing his black suit pants halfway down his bottom, revealing bright pink boxers; though he insisted it was trendy and 'hip'.
"No, it just looks strange Peter." Kat said,
"Yeah, like you fell out of bed and decided to go to a ball." Ellie added,
"Nah, it'll help with the ladies." Peter said sleazily, "And they'll love my hair!"
"It won't help." Emma said,
"Yeah, I've got my eye on Jesse Lestrange, she'll love it!"
"A Slytherin?" Ellie questioned, "I've always thought you were strange Peter."
James and Lily went off to dance, as well as Emma and Sirius and Ellie and Remus. Peter decided that he would go and spike the punch with his apple and raspberry juice. Matt and Katherine just stood awkwardly next to each other, not really sure what to do.
"So, do you want to dance?" Kat asked,
"No, not really. I can't dance." Matt said bluntly.
"I'm sure you can." Kat said,
"No, I'm really no good at all."
Kat started laughing loudly,
"Are you- are you laughing at me?" Matt asked,
"No." Kat laughed, "I'm going to go and dance now."
"Are you rejecting me then?"
Kat nodded her head and apologized, "Sorry but I must dance!"
She walked over to this good-looking guy who had been beckoning to her, and started to dance with him.
Sirius wasn't really sure how to dance with Emma, because her belly kept getting in the way; but he tried his best.
"I'm sorry Em, we must look awful, it's just your belly keeps getting in my way!" he said,
"It's alright, let's just go and get some punch." Emma said,
"No, it's pretty gross." Sirius said, "It's meant to be watermelon but it tastes like apple and raspberry."
"Okay, then can we get some food, I'm starving." Emma asked; and Sirius obliged.
Remus and Ellie were silent as they danced; he was still worried about the whole issue with Matt. The music switched to a tango, Ellie glanced at Matt, who was standing nervously alone at the side of the hall.
"Look at Matt, he's so nervous, its funny." She laughed,
"Ellie," Remus sighed, as he dipped her, "Is there something going on between you and Matt?"
"Excuse me?"
"Is there something between you two?"
"I can't believe you would even think there was a possibility of it Remus." She said, "Shows how much trust you have in me."
"It's just that I've seen you two together, and I've seen how he looks at you."
"Seen how he looks at me? We're just friends! Just like James and I are friends."
"But he has a thing for you!"
"Yeah, but if I had a thing for him, I would be dating him instead, but I'm not! I'm with you!" he dipped her one more time,
"Can you blame me for being a bit jealous?"
"Yes!" she said loudly, as they danced, "You're supposed to trust me! That's what a real boyfriend does!" she pushed him away from her and stormed out of the hall, leaving Remus standing alone on the floor.
A lonesome tear rolled down Ellie's cheek as Matt followed her outside into the snow. It was freezing cold, but she didn't really care.
"Ellie!" he called, "Have you lost your mind? You'll freeze out here!"
"I don't care." She shouted, crying softly, Matt put his jacket around her shoulders and sat down in the snow next to her.
"Ellie, it is so cold out here, please, let's go inside."
"No, I don't want to." She cried, "He thought I cheated, he didn't trust me."
"And this is my fault?"
"No, Matt it's not." She said,
"Yes, it is." He said, "Ellie, I like you but I didn't want to come between Remus and you."
"Well, you have now. I'm going to bed." She threw off his jacket and trudged through the snow back towards her dorm.
Meanwhile in the ball, Remus was drinking some firewhiskey he had bought off some random Ravenclaw, Kat was dancing with the captain of the Hufflepuff quidditch team; his name was Chad or Mike, she wasn't really sure what he had told her, but she was pretty sure it was one of the two.
He had light brown hair and green eyes and Kat had decided that she really liked him, and she also thought he was much hotter than any of her previous boyfriends from that year. There was something about guys who played quidditch that made them really attractive to her, because she out of four boyfriends from that year, she had dated three quidditch players.
Emma was sitting down with Sirius; she was a bit tired from all the dancing. Being pregnant wasn't a walk in the park, though she loved it all the same. She didn't like the backaches, the morning sickness, the mood-swings, and the strange cravings. She had asked Sirius for a fruit salad topped with condensed milk and peanuts. However, she knew it would be worth it in the end, because she would have a beautiful baby boy or girl! She was so excited about it too, she would only have to wait two months!
Peter was dancing with a mop he had found in the corner, although he wasn't aware that it was a mop, he also thought he was drunk from the non-alcoholic punch he spiked with juice. Emma glanced his way with a raised eyebrow, he nodded at her, "I told you I would have luck with the ladies tonight!"
Emma didn't reply, she had decided it was too funny watching him canoodling with janitor's equipment.
James and Lily however, danced the whole night through, laughing and talking and avoiding any dilemmas or problems that could have arose.
By the end of the night, everyone's feet were aching awfully, and they all practically fell into bed by two in the morning, all except Ellie who had already been in bed for four hours.
The next morning, Ellie, Matt, James and Lily decided to go and have a look at the new house Emma's father had bought for them, just to tale Ellie's mind off things.
Emma gave them the keys and off they went. The house was gorgeous. It was a huge two-story house, painted white, with a beautiful navy blue front door. It had a large front garden and enough bedrooms for them all to have one for themselves. Ellie put her dibs on one and Matt on another, and Lily and James decided on their ones too. It already had quite a bit of furniture in it. They sat down in the kitchen and talked about it, Lily sat on James' lap with her arm around him,
"Wow! I love this house so much already!" Ellie said happily,
"Me too, it's pretty awesome." Matt agreed,
"I can't wait till we finish school, this is like my dream house." Lily said,
"And the background is huge so we can play quidditch!" James added,
"That's just another bonus!" Ellie said, "Sirius and Kat will love it for that reason alone!"
"So what's happening with you two?" Matt asked,
"Who? James and me?" Lily asked,
"No, James and Ellie." Matt said sarcastically, "Yes James and you."
"Oh, we're talking about the future, not really making any plans yet, have we James?"
"Nope, we're discussing it."
"What about you and Remus?" Lily asked,
"Don't worry." Ellie said, dismissing it as usual, Lily sensed this was not a subject to press on.
"Let's have some coffee." James said, eyeing the kettle that sat on the stove,
"I'll make it." Matt offered, getting up from his seat at the table. Finding some mugs and coffee powder, he proceeded to boil the kettle.
"I saw a cake shop down the road, let's go and get brownies James!" Lily said happily,
"You have the appetite of a pregnant lady Lils, and I mean that in the nicest possible way!" he said, getting up and walking out the door with Lily.
"How much fun will it be to live here? All nine of us!" Ellie said excitedly, clapping her hands together, "And with the new baby too!"
Matt laughed, "That will be fun. Emma's dad must be rich to own a house like this."
"Yeah, he is. He's way too generous as well."
"Definitely." Matt said, "Hey look, he left us a note!"
Matt walked towards the note and tripped over a cord that was lying on the ground, it was connected to the kettle. It fell to the ground. Lighting the wooden floor on fire. It spread quickly separating them and trapping Matt in one end of the kitchen.
"Oh my god, Matt!" Ellie screamed,
"Quickly! Go get help!" he shouted,
"Do you have your wand?"
"No, just go get help!"
"But, what about you?"
"I'll be fine just get out of here and get some help!"
"I'm not leaving without you Matt!"
"You have to, otherwise we'll both die!"
"Alright, I won't be long."
Ellie ran as fast as she could out of the house and to the next-door house, she rammed on the door. A little old man with a baldhead answered the door,
"Yes dear?" he asked,
"Your neighbours house is on fire, call the fire brigade." She said, remembering it was a muggle neighbourhood; the little old man poked his head out the doorway and peered at the house,
"Yes, it seems to be on fire!" he said slowly reaching for the phone, "I'll call the firemen!"
"Thank-you!" Ellie said quickly, she pulled out a mirror from her pocket and shouted into it, "Remus! Remus please be there! Pick up the mirror! Pick it up!"
"Remus' face appeared in the mirror, "Ellie? Are you okay?" he asked worriedly,
"I'm fine, Matt's in the house, and it's on fire! I don't know what to do!"
"I'm on my way Ellie, just stay calm."
Ellie shoved the mirror back into her pocket and heard screams coming from inside the house.
"Matt!" she yelled, running in the front door. She coughed as she inhaled the smoke, she heard another scream, and the fire getting in the way blocked Ellie from getting anywhere near him. A door fell down right in front of her as someone pulled her back and out the door.
Ellie fell onto the grass along with the other person; it was Remus. She coughed quite a bit before falling on to him, crying.
James and Lily stood on the lawn holding their brownies and watched her cry, as Kat, Sirius and Emma arrived, as the house fell to pieces in front of them, with Matt inside, burning to his death.
a/n: don't hate me! i warned you that i had done something evil! haha, the first chapter of the sequel will be written by pretty.little.happy.princess and it will hopefully be posted soon.
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