"Hey Quinn." I heard someone say. I looked up and saw Remus. He sat down on the couch as well. "Whatcha readin'?" He asked. I showed him the book, not wanting to talk currently. He nodded. "So did something bad actually happen when you went to look for Lily and Dashia? Dashia said she had a bad feeling about something and pulled Lily out of the common room. I attempted to follow, but James and Sirius started talking about Quidditch and I had to keep them from arguing about who was a better player." Remus explains. I laughed a bit.
"Nothing too bad. Dashia and Lily came and helped me out after Capella kicked me, nothing bad though." I said. Remus shook his head as Tweety flew towards him.
"It should be illegal for it to be only you two in the same room for three weeks. She is going to torture you." Remus said. I shrugged as commotion came from the stairs. James, Sirius, and Peter came down, jumping onto the two couches. Sirius sat on the other side of Remus while James sat on a chair by itself and Peter sat alone on the second couch.
"Put the book down, you don't need to read more." Sirius complained. I rolled my eyes a bit.
"Whatever, Sirius." I said, turning my attention back to my book. Tweety managed to fly over to Peter before collapsing on the couch.
"Ya know, maybe Loopy's right." I heard someone say loudly from across the room. I put my face on the pages of my book and sighed. "I mean, just us two in the same dorm. No friends to help you out. Such an easy target. How are you supposed to defend yourself without your friends?" Capella said. I rolled my eyes.
"I can do that myself." I said simply, not looking up from my book. She laughed.
"Well, there is tonight, then that other day with Rigel… I'd say, without friends, you are nothing." Capella said. I shrugged and opened my book once again.
"Didn't need friends when Antlers were growing out of your head." I said simply. There was a quiet laugh from somewhere in the common room.
"Can you defend your friends though? Family?" Capella asked with a smirk. I glared up at her.
"If I try hard enough." I said. She laughed.
"Didn't try hard enough with Bai-" I cut her off by slamming my book shut and standing up. I pulled out my wand.
"Everte Statum!" I said angrily. Capella stumbled back and grabbed at her side.
"Oh you're in for it now!" Capella yelled, pulling out her wand. I saw worry in her eyes as I didn't back down.
"Quinn, come on." I heard someone say behind me. I looked and saw Lily, Dashia standing not far behind her. I put my wand down and gathered my things, picking up Tweety, and followed them to the door.
"Yeah, walk away coward! Some Gryffindor you are!" Capella yelled after me.
"Says the one who was worried!" I said, turning around. She hesitated. "Exactly." I said, turning back around.
"Mudblood!" She yelled after me. I let out a sigh.
"I don't know why you use that insult anymore. With how many times you've said it to me, I'm pretty sure that I'm used to it." I told her as calmly as possible. She hesitated once again. "If you are going to try to insult someone, at least have the brains to do it." I said. I heard Dashia stifle a laugh behind me and turned my head to see Lily hit her arm lightly. We started to turn around to leave, but of course, we aren't allowed to do that since it will hurt poor Capella's feelings.
"Petri-" She started.
"Expelliarmus!" Dashia said from beside me. Capella glared at her. Dashia stepped in front of me a bit. "Can't you just leave her alone? Why do you have to make her struggle?" Dashia said. Capella looked past Dashia and right at me.
"She knows." She said. Looking me in the eye. I shook my head.
"Ya know, I don't know the exact reason. All I can think of is me being muggleborn and actually having friends that make you jealous." I said, putting my hand on my chin to act confused. Capella we so angry I was surprised she didn't have smoke coming out of her ears.
"I can list of other reasons, but you wouldn't want me to say them out loud." She said.
"You aren't saying them because there is none." I told her, rolling my eyes. "Now, I'm tired, everyone besides the four of us and five other Gryffindors have gone to their dorms, and I would like to do the same."
"I mess with you because I want to complete my job." She said. I looked at her with a questionable look. "Continue what happened four years ago." She said. For about three seconds, I couldn't move, trying not to remember everything that had happened.
"W-what do you even mean? Four years ago I didn't even know this place existed." I said, rolling my eyes. Capella laughed.
"Oh I know you didn't forget, you mumble about it in your sleep. Kind of annoying and funny, honestly. I tell myself, 'don't do anything, her own head puts her threw enough'." Capella said. I could see everyone in the room was confused. Dashia had a hard grip on my arm now, stopping me from doing anything.
"Watching me as my sleep, huh?" I said after quickly thinking of it. My thoughts were getting mixed up. Lily had taken Tweety from me, which told me she could tell I was upset.
"Changing the subject, huh?" Capella said. Lily groaned.
"Ok, that is enough! Capella, stop being a jerk! There is no reason and whatever job you had, it doesn't matter! Your house is supposed to be like your family! Families aren't supposed to be so rude to each other!" Lily said. The room had fallen completely silent. That was very unexpected. Capella stared at Lily. After five seconds, she finally spoke.
"Oh shut it mudblood. You don't know a thing." Capella said. I was going to do a hex on her, but someone beat me to it. Next thing I know, Capella's hair had a new style. A neon pink Mohawk. I smirked and looked towards James, who had his wand out now. Capella glared at everyone before storming off, pushing me as she stormed past to the dorm.
"Well won't tonight be fun…" I mumbled. Lily and Dashia nodded.
"Uh…Thanks James…" Lily said. James smiled a bit and nodded. A genuine smile. Not a smirk, a smile. I was smirking, along with Dashia and Sirius. Sirius whispered something to James and James almost tackled him. "And there goes that nice moment. Ugh, boys." Lily said, rolling her eyes lightly. Dashia and I started laughing. "What?" Lily asked.
"Quinn, I bet you 10 knuts that they will be together by the end of our fourth year." Dashia said. Lily went as red as her hair and she dragged Dashia and I back to the dorm. I shook hands with Dashia. I didn't believe it would be by fourth year. Probably a bit longer, like sixth year. Dashia didn't agree with my theory, and Lily disagreed with both of ours.
"James is disgusting!" Lily told us both while she marched back to the dorm, us trailing behind her. "An arrogant, bratty, prankster!" Lily said. Dashia and I sighed.
"You know, Potter's always go for redheads." Dashia said. I burst out laughing again as Lily glared at both of us. Surprisingly, Capella wasn't in the dorm, even though we saw her go upstairs. We didn't mind however.
"If Capella doesn't kill you two by tomorrow, I might." Lily said. I sighed.
"She's going to be forgiving us in five years when they are kissing by the black lake, just as the sun sets." I said. Lily groaned and threw her head into her pillow.
"You both suck." She said. Dashia and I laughed again. Soon, however, it had to come to an end and we all went to sleep.