DISCLAIMER: I have seen many a funny disclaimer, but I do not have one to use so I do not own Harry Potter, if I did I would be rich and I would be putting this story in a book as opposed to this website. I own Amanda Marciano. You cannot have her to use, nor can you use the Demangels, I do not own the idea of the Demangels, I have gotten permission from the owner to use them now... On with the story!

CHAPTER 3

MARAUDERS AND DEMANGELS ( Amy and Kandie)

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I was seven watching me hero, my daddy, drive away from her house for the last time, shattering my heart as the tears rolled from my eyesx

I pretended to sleep as Daddy snuck in and raped me for the first time as I wept silently. I was only eight years old.

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I was 10 and trying to get Kate and Sam to forgive me for my mothers outburst. They just ignored me and started to make fun of my tears.

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I was 11 and running away so that I could go to a magic school during the summer, for kids who had failed classes or hadn't been able to go.

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"Mommy! Mommy no! I'm Sorry! Please! No Mommy, don't! It hurts! Mommy, Mommy stop!" I was 12 again and begging my mother to stop beating me with her silver candlestick

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I was 14, in court, testifying against my father.

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I was at young age 16 and looking at my mother, dying on the bathroom floor from alcohol poisoning. I lifted her head onto my lap and stroked her hair as tears fell from my eyes onto her face and she stopped breathing.

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I was 17 and meeting my aunt Mary for the first time.

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Sirius shook me awake. "Mandie? Mandie wake up."

"I am NOT Mandie. That is what Kate and Sam used to call me. Seven years ago I was Mandie. Now I am Amanda."

"Who are Kate and Sam?" asked Sirius. Lily and the girls groaned.

"Katherine and Samantha, My ex-best friends." I said. He nodded

"If not Mandie, than...Amy?"

"Not if I have any say. I don't need friends any more than I need pity."

"You will have a nickname! I am you friend, we are your friends. You are now Amy and an Official marauder.

"NO!" said Lily. "We don't need another marauder, but we need a new member for the Demangels."

"Marauder? Demangels?" I asked

"The Marauders are a group of big headed bullying pranksters, four boys, Sirius is one of them. Do you really want to be in a group with Idiots like him? The demangels are a very wonderful group of pretty girls who are half demon and half angel."

"More like all demon." I muttered meaning myself.

"And all Angel for me." said Christy. "Of course that's only on the outside."

"I'm demon through and through."

"Oh. Ok, Well lily can't stand the marauders, but I cant stand Lily so..." Tara said. Christy, laughed with tara and Lily slapped them playfully. Sirius attempted to snap at them but he couldn't snap.

"Does everyone around here snap, or try to?" I said n0

"No it's a Demangels thing. We snap at each other. I snap at Tara and Christy, they snap at me. Sirius cant snap. Its pathetic. Anyways Go with him so that the James doesn't kill you for trying to get me. He is such an idiot. Just because he can't have me doesn't mean he needs to kill every guy that wants me."

"Hey, Oh no. Do you really think I would want a girl like you when any girl I want would literally fall at my feet."

"Glad to hear you don't want me." I said cheerily. I was glad too. If he wanted me...well, I mean, that most guys want to um...yeah, but I wouldn't.

"No. But I decided I'm not James so I'm not about to chase the girl of my dreams around. I'm going a different route. It's called jealousy."

"HA!" I said. My traditional fake pathetic laugh. "Girl of your dreams? Jealousy? Wit who is James?"

"The one with black messy hair.." he said.

"Oh that prongs one?"

"Yeah." he looked puzzled that I knew that.

"Im off to fetch my notebook." I said and skipped off. I had to write a poem in a genre that I had never tried before Joyous. I opened to the 59th page but turned it to page 60. I started to write

Happy, not sad

happy isn't bad

ignore all the pain of old

'cuz I have friends that shine like gold

'Well' I thought as I looked at it 'I cant be good at everything'. Sirius came in again into my compartment with the little kids. They actually looked at him this time instead of hiding because they thought I was mad. I heard one take a sharp breath and mutter something about how 'yummy' he looked.

"Hello Amy." he said.

"Don't call me Amy." said I. ("I wouldn't care if he called me Amy." said that same 11 year old)

"Ok. 'Amy M.' Than. Anyways. Come sit with me." he pulled me close to him, but I wiggled free. Too soon. Too soon to be that close with someone. Especially someone that looked like my daddy. ("Why did she wiggle away? I wouldn't have wiggled free." that little girl was about to make me laugh)

"Only if my friend uh..." I looked at her, because I didn't know her name "Kandie" she whispered. "...Kandie can come too."

"Uh.. I guess that's ok." He looked unsure. I shrugged it off. As we walked towards he seat Kandie looked at me. 'Thank you' she mouthed. 'No problem' I said back. We got there and Sirius sat down pulling me into the seat next to him. There was only one seat left near that hopeless boy. I got up and instructed Kandie to sit next to Sirius. He gave me a look that was edging on killing me. I stuck my tongue out. He and I got into a face making contest until James/Prongs tickled me. I let out a shrill shriek and poked him. This is the most fun I have had in 7 years. I grabbed the moony person. I still didn't know his name and he joined in and so did the hopeless boy. Sirius was too busy trying to keep Kandie off of him. The food trolley lady came and we bought piles of chocolate frogs. One thing I must tell you. Depressions best friend is chocolate, and even after you are no longer depressed you are officially addicted to chocolate.

Kandie went to get her money so she could buy some and stayed with her friends. Sirius got really mad.

"Amy! That girl couldn't get her hands off of me. I had to pry her from my side just to get money for some beans. bbeans Than I had to literal shove her just so that I could..." he stopped seeing as I burst out laughing and fell out of my seat. In hysterics.

"IT IS NOT FUNNY" he yelled

"Your yummy." was all I could manage. I was laughing so hard. It was strange laughing for real at something. Most of my laughter had been "HA" type things. When I had stopped I explained it all to him. How she was talking when we were. He attacked me than. With tickling.

"OH CRAP!" said Moony suddenly. We all looked at him and James said 'what'. Moony pointed outside at the sky which was now beginning to become dark. James and Sirius both swore loudly and peter whimpered.

"GO." Ordered Sirius in a scary way. I didn't know what was going on but I left and took a few steps down the hallway towards Lily and her compartment. I had only taken 3 steps when James bolted out and ran in the other direction. I figured I did something wrong so I went to ask Lily.

"Lily? What is wrong with me?" I asked. "How come I cant keep any friends for very long."

"Amy? What did the idiots do now?"

"Nothing. Moony just..."

"Remus, you mean?" she asked. I shrugged. Was moony's name Remus?

"I don't know is Remus Moony's real name?"

"Yes anyway what was he doing?"

"He suddenly said "Oh crap and looked out the window and Sirius and James swore and the other boy just whimpered. I was told to get out so came here. Couldn't go near kandie after what she tried to do to Sirius." Lily gave me a questioning look when I said this. I just shook my head no and hung my head. "What is wrong with me?"

Lily's friends looked like they were about to die form holding in laughter. "Amy? There is nothing wrong with you. It is Remus. He has a problem at this time of the month."

"Don't call me Amy...wait what? Remus isn't a uh female is he? Or she?" Lily friends could not hold in their laughter anymore and Lily suddenly laughed too.

"No..Remus...where...ha, ha, ha...wolf" I didn't understand what she was talking about.

"Huh?"

"Can you keep a secret?"

"Who the hell would I tell?"

"Good point. Ok the secret it that Remus is a werewolf. At full moons he turns into a wolf. He suddenly realized that tonight is a moon and Sirius ordered you out so you wouldn't get bitten. He cares about you." I felt stupid at this point. Really stupid. I was all freaked because I thought they hated me when really I was the one they were protecting. Little did they know I had secrets of my own. I am an animagus. I am a hawk. Werewolves cant hurt animals so I could go check on Remus, but no I'm not registered in this country they haven't sent over my records from America yet. I am going to try to stay out of trouble in this country if I can. I smiled at my own thoughts and slowly drifted to sleep.

"AMY! Get your big Butt UP!" shouted Lily and Tara were pulling at my arms and snapping and poking me to try and wake me. At first I didn't want to get up btu than I remembered that I had to be sorted into a house. "Hogwarts had 3 houses named after the four founders of the school. You are sorted by everything about personality. Godric Gryffindor's house is represented by a lion and will take those only as brave and loyal as one. Salizar Slytherin's house is represented by a serpent and takes only those of great cunning and wit..." I recalled that from a book about famous wizarding schools worldwide. I didn't care about the other two houses. I wanted to be in Gryffindor or Slytherin. It is such a pity that now that I get to go to a wizarding school during the actual school year that I wont be in America for the Marava Cup. The Marava Cup is similar to the uh tri-wizard thingy only American. And no one has ever died in it. I almost participated once. It would have been wonderful. My name was plucked off of the Tree of Life and I only had to register at a school, but my mother wouldn't let me so I had to pass the opportunity up.

I got up and Lily Tara and Christy took me over to a carriage with a scary horse things pulling them. I wonder what they are. Maybe now that I got to take some better classes other than the required things I would find out what they were and what they did. They were all black and their skin was stretched tightly over their skeletons. They looked underfed to me. If I go to a school where they don't feed their horses I'm not so sure I want to go there, here, whatever.

"Lily, Tara and Christy, what house's are you in?" I asked.

"Gryffindor." they relied in unison "The boys too" added Tara.

"Oh." I said happily as I was climbing in to the carriage. As I was about to shut the door to the carriage the strict voiced woman walked up and took me to a separate carriage. As the horses started pulling she started speaking to me

""I am professor Minerva McGonagall, deputy head mistress of Hogwarts. As a new student at Hogwarts you needed to be sorted. You cannot be sorted with the first years, as you are not going to be taking classes with them. First you shall follow me, and wait in a room. When you are summoned exit though the door." The carriage stopped than and she led me towards a tree. I assumed that it was some sort of magical entrance to the school, I was right. It sort of elevated us into a little hall, which led to a room. She told me to wait in the room for further instructions and left through a different door. In the room beyond the door were hundreds of people. I don't like people. Minutes later Professor McGonagall came back and took a small three legged stool and a hat out to the people-filled room. I stood very still, not knowing what to expect. The door swung shut behind her and as soon as it was closed song broke out. The song was not sung by all of the people out in the hall, but rather by one, slightly strange voice

When I was young,

about 7 or so

the four founders found me

all alone, OH NO!

I was alone and afraid

without an owner

I was so sad

I was a loner

they took me in to do the sorting

to choose the house in which you would be boarding

Brave Gryffindor

where brave hearts dwell

they are daring have nerve and are awful swell

their chivalry set the Gryffindors apart

the ready minds of the ravenclaws

keep the wise and old

with their wit and learning

they fit right in the mold

Or maybe your friend s are in Slytherin

most cunning of them all

and they will do anything

to see themselfs standing tall

perhaps with patient hufflepuff

is where you ought to be

they are just and just and loyal,

oh can't you see.

I sit all year and think of this song

while I sip my tea

even though I know splitting you is wrong

so sit in the house that you're told

but don't forget your friends

they may be young or old

but just because we're separated by walls

doesn't mean we're not the same

Inside the school we must stand tall

to retain our wholesome name

After the very odd song was done I heard a thunder of applause. I could not here anything else well enough to understand until Professor McGonagall stuck her head in and said

"Ms. Marciano, would you please follow me into the Great Hall." I followed her into the people filled room. My stomach dropped. I really don't like people.

I scanned the Great Hall for a familiar face, and saw Lily sitting among her friends. She was smiling encouragingly at me.

"This year we have a transfer student from America. She is not the only American that goes to school here." At this the old man, I assumed it was Dumbledore, paused and smiled toward twin girls sitting at the table closest to main door.