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Chapter 3: Cleaning?
Taila rushed down to lunch and found and pumpkin pastry, a bit of chicken and one glass of pumpkin juice leftover. Sirius was not at all pleased to find all the chicken gone. Taila ate what she could scavenge and rushed off to charms. Thankful she had just missed double potions but she was annoyed about missing transfiguration because it was one of he best subjects. Soon charms were over and Taila started to walk over to the defence against the dark arts when she was going around a corner she accidentally bumped into some Slytherins. She stood up, wand out already thanks to her quick reflexes. She gasped and dropped her wand. 'Was was that Peter? Peter? It couldn't be.' Everyone knew how much the marauders hated the Slytherins and Peter was always tailing after the marauders. Lucius Malfoy smirked and said:
"Well what do we have here?"
"Hello dear cousin Lucius. Aren't you going to introduce me to your new friend?" Taila said in my polite mocking voice. Still not believing it was Peter.
"It is none of your business! Nosey idiot!" He muttered as his curse missed and stalked away.
"Yeah. Curiosity killed the cat! Said a squeaky voice as they hurried away.
Then she realised it was Peter. She had to find one of the marauders and fast. Taila had a bad feeling that they didn't know and that his wasn't something good. She ran down to defence against the dark arts. They weren't there!
"Sit down…Miss Seleno." Came the cold voice of professor Moore.
She sat down. Through the whole lesson the Marauders didn't appear. Next she hurried to Divination and in the middle of the classroom there was a table with crystal balls. Except they were black, dripping with who know what and the Divination teacher was shouting and screaming at the marauders. Sirius was laughing, James looked about to burst with the effort of holding all the laughter in and Remus looked annoyed. 'Remus looks cute when he's annoyed…uh-o I wont be able to tell the marauders!' she thought just as the marauders got a detention. 'Do something!'
"Uh Miss Seri. I uh…helped." She said.
Miss Seri looked like she was about to rip her hair out.
"You detention too!" She shouted at her.
All of the marauders looked at her with looks of confusion on their faces. Finally when they had all been sent to clean the trophy room. As soon as they were out of the room they started to talk.
"Why did you say you only helped? It's not like that's going to get us out of detention." Said Sirius.
"You idiots!" Started Remus.
"Wait. I need to tell you that I saw Peter-" Taila was cut off.
"Yeah you saw Peter so what!" Asked James annoyed.
"He was with the Slytherins! He wa-" She tried to say.
"WHAT!" All three exclaimed as they all turned to her for explanation.
"Like I said he was with the Slytherins. I was coming around the corner and I walked straight into Lucius-" Taila
"Your on first name basis with that rat!" James and Sirius spat.
"He's my cousin. Anyway I asked who there new friend was and he told me to keep my nose out of his business. Then as they walked away I heard Peter squeal: curiosity killed the cat." Taila was relieved she had managed to finish her story without been interrupted.
"Peter?" Said James in an unbelieving voice.
Taila answered their questions whilst they 'cleaned' the trophy room. Actually it was getting messier and messier by the minute. The marauders were sloshing polish everywhere but the trophies. Then the caretaker came and told them to go. Taila ran off she didn't want to know what would happen when the caretaker saw the mess of polish.
A/N: Please, please review and thanks for all my other reviewers!
