104 - Pride
"Just what in the world did you send that mum found a way to send me a howler?" I interrogated Lily after the howler ripped itself into pieces. I was mostly unaffected by it because I was used to mum yelling at me, but I still wanted some peace and quiet while I was here at Hogwarts.
"I heard there's a way for muggle parents to buy howlers now," Jane notified me after done chewing her plate. Today's dinner was western cuisine. Again. I would love some other country cuisine right about now.
Only a week had passed and Lily and I both already got letters from home just like anybody else. But I was the only one out of the entire student body to get a howler. This could go onto world's fastest record.
"I only told them what was happening," Lily answered my question innocently. She was a professional at acting innocent and smug at the same time.
"Which means you told them about my detentions?"
"And the fact that you alone managed to deduct 50 points from our house. I had to work so hard to get all those points back. Do you not have a sense of pride in your own house, Prim?"
I clapped my hands slowly, "terrific job at finding that out yourself, Lil! I've never been this proud of my dear sister." Lily rolled her eyes at that, and I too rolled my eyes at her rolling her eyes at me.
"But, really, Prim," Alice said from beside me, "Lily's telling the truth when she said you alone have managed to deduct 50 points this past week."
"At this rate, Gryffindor will come out at the bottom, and Slytherin would win the house cup again for the seventh time in a row!" Jane said as she let go of the piece of turkey in her hand and looking terrified of Gryffindor's future.
I sighed, irritated. "Fine," I said, "I'll get back the 50 points so that you guys can stop pestering me about the goddamn points."
"Prim!"
"Oh, right, sorry. I meant 'Merlin-damn' — though it's a lot less catchy."
Lily shook her head in disappointment. "This is what I have to live with."
105(1) - Primrose FTW
"… Prim…! Wake up…!" Lily was harshly whispering directly in my ears as I tried to shoo her away. She then nudged me and poked me consistently before I fully awoke angrily.
I wiped my drool off my chin and I said to her, "what?"
Lily then pointed to the front and I turned to look at where Lily was pointing to.
Professor McGonagall, the most strict professor in Hogwarts.
Two words came to my mind - Oh shit.
Then, I said the dumbest shit I've ever let out of my mouth, "what's up, McG?"
Give me a break, I just woke up.
"More than two decades of teaching and I have never experienced such disrespect in my class, Miss Evans! Ten points from Gryffindor for Miss Evans'… sleeping in class!"
"Great goin', Evans…!" Some background extra yelled from halfway across the class.
Lily glared at me. She whispered as McGonagall resumed the lecture, "our house already lost 50 points because of you, Prim…! Now, 60…!"
"Blame the Professors," I whispered back, "I voted for classes to start at 1 in the afternoon and end at 3 so that I could get my beauty sleep." Lily's glare continued to fixate on me. I groaned, "alright. Fine. I'm getting back the 60 points I promised you guys, and more."
"How will you do that in one go?" From behind, Alice looked awfully curious.
"… Now that Miss Evans is awake, we'll get right into today's spell. We are going to transform a match into a needle. Don't fret if you can't transform it on your first try. Transmogrify takes many practices in perfecting each spell. Now, repeat after me, Flintifors."
"""Flintifors.""" Everyone repeated the spell
"Professor," I called, raising my hand to grab McGonagall's attention. Lily made a face as to tell me not to do anything stupid. When have I ever?
"What is it, Miss Evans?" McGonagall appeared to be annoyed, frustrated and wanting desperately for me to shut up for the time I attended Hogwarts.
"If I succeed in making this match change into a needle, can I get 100 points for my house? As well as the permission to sleep in class in future lectures?"
McGonagall's face said it all — she wanted to see me try (and fail at it). "… And if you don't succeed?"
"You can expel me," I replied, not affected at all by what I said. Everyone in the room gasped and gossiped among each other.
- "The guts on Evans" -
- "I doubt she can do it" -
- "She's pretty but I don't think she can even pronounce the spell, much less wave the wand properly" -
- "oh this is going to be brilliant, just watch, she'll turn herself into a needle" -
"Whoever said that I would turn myself into a needle, that's not possible unless I'm a metamorphmagus. You'd know if you had been reading — Oh wait, that's a topic in third year textbook." Don't ask how I know.
But if I must explain, Lily had pre-bought her favourite subjects' textbooks up to third year without knowing it (Lily was a hardcore bookworm) which mum allowed and proceeded to read to me all of the topics she found interesting because I didn't have anything else to do and there were no interesting things on the old 60's television. Me, with my genius brain, absorbed every information in like a sponge even if I didn't want to.
"I'll give you those points if you succeed and I'll let you sleep in this class until the holidays," she was afraid that I might just prove everyone wrong after previous my response at that random student, "If you don't succeed, however, you'll stay after class for detention," McGonagall said.
"Does detention mean I'll have to stare at a wall for an hour?"
"More than an hour."
"Oh god, that's worse than expulsion."
Some muggle-borns - well, everybody - stared at me like I was a freak. They were the ones who were freaks, wanting to stay at school when they could just drop out of school and invest in stocks [kids, don't drop out of school]. I was only forced to attend Hogwarts by my parents and I respected their wish, so the only way to get out of school was to be forced out.
"If it's going to be like that, Professor, can I also call you McG if I succeed?"
"No."
- "It's not like she'll really succeed" -
Okay, who wants to fight.
"It was worth a try," I responded to McGonagall.
I pointed my wand at the match and I imagined a needle. When I truly focused on something, I really put all of my energy into it. I focused on the match. I repeatedly said needle in my mind and kept on imagining a needle And before I could mutter the first letter of the spell, the match shifted form and finally changed into a fine needle.
"Haha, I actually managed to do it," I chuckled as I lifted up the needle between my fingers.
Everyone, including Lily, was in shock. If they could look at their own faces, they would've laughed.
- "But we haven't even looked at the Professor's demonstration yet…" -
- "I heard even the headmaster had trouble with Transmogrify in his first year" -
"… 100 points to Gryffindor…" McGonagall voiced, baffled.
"Can I go to sleep now, Professor?"
All in that moment, Minerva McGonagall watched Primrose Evans, James Potter, and Sirius Black and predicted that Hogwarts was going to be hell until they graduated.
105(2)
Alice cackled, "did you see their faces?"
Jane and Lily chuckled along. "Did you see your face?" Jane asked rhetorically to Alice's own little rhetoric question.
"Have anyone told you that you're a genius, Prim?" Alice asked with glee, "you should help me study for classes if you're that good in every class."
"You should help me study for classes too. I'll treat you to Honeydukes once we're all allowed to go to Hogsmeade in our third year." Hmm… Jane was actually good at bribery at her age.
"Lily was the one who kept pestering me with useless information during the remainder of summer. It was hell. Study with her instead. She'll push all the information inside your brain even if you don't want her to."
"She's being sarcastic. I only read out loud to Prim since she had nothing better to do than sleep all day."
Jane and Alice both giggled.
"I can only imagine."
A/N:
Sorry I'm late... I had midterms :( I finished my midterms but now I have to prepare for a presentation and for my final exams;;; kill me now... I won't promise when I'll be able to update but it'll be a while.
Also, I saw Thor Ragnarok and I'm just confused as to why people haven't made fanfics on that movie yet! The bromance between Loki and Thor was adorable! Can someone hurry up and make a thor ragnarok fanfic already? If no one's doing it, I'll write one for the good of all humanity. Maybe a fem!Harry x Loki?
Lastly, thanks to all the reviews! I also read the french one, I had to translate it from google translate cause I don't understand French. I think French language is just so beautiful, even when someone swears in French, it's just so elegant.