Authors note-ness: Woocha! Ice-Crushers!
Anywho… yeah, I don't own this. If I did, I would be really rich and famous. Of course, I will eventually be really rich and famous… just not for writing HP xP
And on a side note… I find it extremely hilarious that, on my family calendar, it has written down "Harry- Borders, 10 PM" on HBP partay day… I asked her if Harry was a close friend xD But that's just my humorous side speaking.
Anyway, on with the story! And REVIEW, por favor!
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Chapter 7: Confrontations with Dumble-bumble and Swashbuckling Pirates
(The title was too long to fit xD Enjoy the chapter!)
A certain red head ambled around the street corner and came upon her family home. She sighed, and thought to herself, 'Now, apologizing… how does one go about apologizing for something that was their fault?' Lily just shook her head to clear her mind, deciding to improv, and walked slowly up the front path, crouching at the foot of the stairs and absentmindedly tracing her and Tuna-face's initials where they were carved into the cement. A scream from inside ran through her thoughts, and she quickly stood and shoved open the door. What she saw inside made her blood run cold.
A tall man looked at her, his dark cold eyes brimming with glee. "Ah, Miss Evans," He said graciously, "It's so charming to have you join us. If you had been here earlier, we wouldn't have had to do this." With a wave of his hand, Lily's parents appeared in the room, bound by ropes that looked vaguely like snakes, but not gagged.
"Lily," Her father said strongly, and with that Lily started to sniffle.
"I'm so sorry, Dad," She said tearfully. "It's all my fault. I'm-"
"Flower," Her mother broke in, "Don't say that. It's not-" The thoughts that it mind not be her own fault left Lily's mind as her mother started screaming in pain. She turned on the man, to see him looking at her with a manic gleam in his eyes.
"Ah, that illustrious Cruciatus Curse," He said almost kindly. "I can cast it again, if you want, Lily. But perhaps this time on someone else?" He left off with a question as her father suddenly yelled, but tried to shoulder the pain.
"Mum! Dad!" Lily shouted, but he paid her no heed. Her parents both screamed this time, and it was all Lily could do to not tackle the man and start punching him. However, this would have been all to moot she had realized, for he could have easily disarmed her.
"Let them go!" She told him instead, but he just grinned as her parents screamed louder.
"Not yet, Miss Evans," He told her, "I have a small proposition to make. Just join me-"
"NO!" She screamed, and he just smiled.
"Well, I'll just tell you the advantages of this alignment. Join me, and your parents will never be harmed. You could be an asset to either side, Lily Evans… I would prefer it if you were an asset to mine." Lily just shook her head again, trying to stand her ground. The man just smiled slightly, and shrugged, causing Lily to look at him oddly. After all his persistence, he was going to give up?
"If not, Miss Evans, I suppose I can understand. You already have your loyalties to the light, do you not?" Lily nodded, surprised at the turn of events this talk was taking. The man smiled sympathetically, and then said quietly, "Then I'm very sorry to have to do this… or wait, no I'm not," He added with glee. "Avada Kedavra." He directed towards her father. Lily started screaming, and at that point she felt someone standing next to her.
"Lily, wake up," She heard, and not from the dream. She recognized the voice as James', and tried to focus on it, but the man in front of her was taking all of her attention. He was now laughing as he killed her mother, and with another scream Lily tried to launch herself at the man. Someone's arms caught her around the waist and held her, and she started kicking out.
"Flower, it's just a dream. Wake up," James said, and Lily lifted her head and saw that the person who had caught her was none other than James Potter. The other man seemed slightly surprised at this, but contained his shock.
"Well, I guess the reports were not satisfactory," He said with mock disappointment. "You and Mr. Potter seem… closer than I thought. I must bid you adieu, Miss Evans," He said with a wave. "Tell Albus that Tom says hello." He disappeared, and Lily buried her head in James shoulder before crying.
"Lily, are you all right? It was just a dream," Came the question. She opened her eyes, and looked up into the worried hazel eyes of a certain James Potter. He took one look at her scared face and tear-filled eyes, and just wrapped his arms around her again. He held her for a few moments, during which Lily felt oddly safe and protected from everything wrong in her life. But as soon as she realized this, and who exactly was providing the protection, she tried to pull away from James. Noticing her struggle, he let go quickly, but clasped her hand in one of his, using his free hand to wipe away her tears.
"Lily, you were screaming. What happened?" He asked. She started to tell him, but then stopped. He noticed her hesitation, and just sighed. "It's all right, Lils. You don't have to tell me." Giving her one last hug, he rose and made as if to leave.
"James…" Lily said softly. He turned and looked at her questioningly. She shakily smiled before murmuring, "Thanks." James smiled in response, and nodded before murmuring,
"You're welcome," and leaving the room. Lily sighed before wrapping herself back up in her blankets and lying back down. Caught up in her own thoughts, such as wondering why she was having this dream, she almost missed the door opening slowly about fifteen minutes later. Almost, but not quite, for she could now hear footsteps ambling over to where her bed was.
As Lily let out a fake snore, albeit a smidge too late to realize she never snored, she felt a hand smooth her hair away from her face. The hand jerked away as a loud snore mixed with a barking laugh echoed throughout the dormitories, and she heard James mutter,
"I should probably go and find him and kick him out of the common room… Rem and Peter will have to live with his snoring." This caused her to snigger softly, for Remus had told her once of how they dealt with Sirius' snores: not at all. Once they had apparently dragged him out of the castle and he had slept on a rowboat in the middle of the lake. James' hand went back to her forehead, and she realized that people who were asleep did not break out into laughter (exempting Sirius and Cai, who laughed at anything.) and calmed her features, rolling over so she was facing James. Lily lost track of how long he stood there, with his hand on her forehead, running it through her hair every so often, and started to drift off to sleep.
What she almost missed was James brining his lips down on her forehead in a feathery kiss, and him murmuring, "Don't worry, Flower. I'll keep you safe." Almost missed, but didn't. She felt James settle himself next to her, and almost instinctively curled into his welcoming arm. He smiled, although she couldn't see it, and proceeded to fall asleep.
Lily sighed, and made a mental note to avoid James from now on, to get rid of any situations where it might involve her and James alone. And I don't care if I can't hug him or get kissed by him… well, maybe I do, she thought, and promptly hit her forehead with her hand. Turning back and forth, for it was very hard to fall asleep how she was sitting, propped up with James almost behind her, she finally drifted off into an uneasy sleep.
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Lily woke up with a start as a very large object seemingly threw itself on her bed. She would have paid it no attention, dismissing it as a dream, if bright lights hadn't started flashing in her eyes and if the object hadn't been saying very loudly,
"Oh, how cute! How adorable! I'll make note of this in her diary!"
Sirius, Lily groaned inwardly, and opened her eyes slowly. Her vision slightly blurry due to the fact that she had just woken up, she rubbed her eyes and reached out to smack the boy, who was currently jumping on the bed.
"Sirius Black!" She managed to croak, and he looked at her closely.
"Top o' the mornin', Fairest Lily!" He said exuberantly, and kissed her cheek before ruffling her hair and pointing to James' arms, which were wrapped around her.
I was wondering why I could barely move, Lily thought, before bringing her mind back to the situation at hand. Mainly, how to get the camera away from Sirius and threaten him enough so he didn't say anything. Sirius, however, was just ruffling James' hair now and grinning.
"Aw, the Potter charm finally worked on dearest Lily!" This time Lily succeeded in hitting him, due to the fact that James had released her and promptly fallen off of the bed.
"Out of my room!" She shrieked, and then tried to remember exactly why James was in her room, or to be more specific, in her bed.
"Aw, Flower not having a good morning? Had a bad dreamy-weamy?" Sirius asked sympathetically, and Lily was prepared to reply with a sharp retort when she remembered that she did, in fact, have a bad dream.
More like a bloody nightmare, She thought, but couldn't remember the particular details of the dream. All that would come to her mind was a cold voice asking her to join him, and the same voice saying,
"Tell Albus Tom says hello." Lily shook her head to clear her thoughts, and reached for her wand to hex Sirius. However, her hand came in contact with James' face before she could reach her wand, and the action resulted in Lily knocking James' glasses off.
Sirius was watching the two try to find James' glasses, which had somehow managed to find themselves in his grasp. Twirling the specs around, he was whistling not so innocently when Lily finally realized he was still there.
"Out!" She shrieked again, and Sirius put on a shocked face.
"Why fairest Lily," He said dramatically, "You force me out of your beauteous gaze, but yon bumbling oaf can stay in your glorious presence? I think not, Madam." Lily just looked at him oddly, before finally managing to get her wand in her grasp. After catching her glance, Sirius started to backtrack into the common room. "Ah," He said loudly, stumbling over her shoes, "I see I'm not welcome. Jim-bob, come. We have much to talk about." Without further ado, he grabbed James by the collar, shoved his glasses on his face, and waltzed into the other room.
Lily sat on her bed, a bit shell-shocked, until…
"Sirius Black! Get that camera back here!"
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A much more triumphant Lily was found in the Great Hall, calmly munching on a piece of toast with a camera in front of her. She was quite unaware of the stares she was receiving from a few people in the room: James, wondering what her dream was about; Sirius, quite upset due to the fact that Lily had charmed his voice a few octaves higher; Cai, wondering what Sirius had done this time; Ash, a bit peeved that Lily had charmed Sirius' voice; Stephanie, wondering what Sirius was going to do in retaliation; Remus, because he needed to ask Lily to excuse him from Prefect Duties for the upcoming full moon, which was in three days; Peter, just because he was zoning out and was half-asleep in a plate of bacon; and Albus Dumbledore, for he needed to have a conversation with the distraught Miss Evans.
Of course, while no one else's problems were remedied quickly, Dumbledore was able to send a quick message to a one Lily Evans by way of a first year tapping her nervously on the shoulder.
"Ex-excuse me, Miss H-head Girl," He stuttered, "Prof-professor Dumbledore w-w-wanted me to give y-you this." Lily smiled kindly, and took the simple sheet of parchment from him. Skimming it quickly, she read,
'Miss Evans,
If you would, please come to my office after your Charms class, during your free period today. Also, if you would thank the young man who delivered this letter, for he was most nervous in accomplishing this feat.
-Professor Dumbledore'
Lily turned to thank the boy, but he had already turned away and was running to the Hufflepuff table. She sighed and made note of what he looked like, in order to thank him later, before turning towards her friends, who were all still looking at her.
"What?" She asked, and that prompted them to return to semi-normal conversation. Of course, any conversation involving Ash, Sirius, Cai, and Stephanie could hardly be considered normal.
"All right," Sirius said quite seriously, no pun intended. "I have a joke that even Cai will like. It's a blonde joke. So-"
"Sirius," Cai interrupted. "I'm blonde!" He shrugged.
"Anyway, before I was so rudely interrupted… There were three construction guys."
"Hey Sirius," Stephanie asked, "What's a construction guy?" He shrugged again.
"What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?" Not waiting for Cai to say 'yes', he continued with his joke. "So there were three construction guys. One was French, one was Italian, and one was blonde-"
"Wait, blonde is a nationality?" Cai asked. Lily just shook her head, and tuned out the conversation as she thought about what Dumbledore needed to talk to her about.
Probably the holidays, she thought somewhat bitterly, but was jolted out of her memories by James, who was reading over her shoulder.
"A knut for your thoughts?" He asked, and she just rolled her eyes before folding the note and placing it in her pocket.
"I was just thinking about what color I should make Sirius' hair." He laughed, and directed her thoughts in a more hilarious direction by suggesting pranks to play on the oblivious Sirius.
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"Brilliant, Miss Evans," Professor Flitwick announced as Lily correctly performed the Wingardium Leviosa charm. Lily rolled her eyes; it wasn't like they had been performing this charm since first year, oh no. But Professor Flitwick decided that they needed to review every charm they had learned over their six and a half years at Hogwarts, and they were currently a few spells into first year. She looked around the room, and saw that most people were completing the charm successfully. However, one exception to the general public was James Potter. He was performing the charm correctly every time that the Professor's back was turned, but once the attention was on him he messed up.
"Miss Evans, a word," The Professor said loudly, and Lily sighed before standing up and walking over to him.
"Yes, sir?" She asked.
"Well, dear," Flitwick said softly, "We all know that Mr. Potter has a certain weak spot with charms. It would be ever so helpful if you could make sure he is more than competent in all the charms we have learned so far in our time at Hogwarts. You see, with quidditch taking up much of his time, and well… no one wants Slytherin to win the cup." Lily sighed. Yet another time James Potter was going to get out of work due to his athletic talent.
However, as James sent a wicked grin in her direction, she realized that he was just doing it to work with her. Well, more like drool over her, considering past partnerships during Charms and Transfiguration. Lily smiled, remembering one particular instance…
"Well, Miss Evans, what say you?" Flitwick's voice broke into her thoughts, and Lily glanced at his face.
"Er…"
"Professor! I set my desk on fire!" Came James' familiar call, and Sirius broke out into laughter. The professor just sighed before looking at Lily beseechingly.
Lily sighed in response, but nodded. Professor Flitwick immediately escorted her over to James' desk, put out the small fire (which was oddly contained in one corner of the desk) and pushed her into an empty seat before checking up on the rest of the class.
"Why hullo, Lillers," James said energetically. "What brings you here?" She made a face at him.
"Besides your terrible charms work? And you should pick a harder charm than Wingardium Leviosa to fudge up. You've been able to do that charm since you needed it to make Severus' books fly away end of first year." James smiled.
"Ah, you do remember some of my achievements. Well, dearest Lily, one main reason to call you over to my beauteous self was the fact that I am extremely bored with this review. I noticed that you were even more bored than I am, and I felt that you needed to jolly up a bit. Therefore, I was going to propose that I pretend to mess up the charm, cut my hand, and am therefore forced to go to the Hospital wing, with you by my side. Then we could sneak to the kitchens." Lily raised an eyebrow. It seemed like James had spent the entire lesson planning this out.
"Or," He added, "It could be because of the fact that some of the Slytherins were thinking along the lines of having you tutor them as well. Now," He said cheekily, "You can use the excuse of tutoring me whenever they insist they need help!" Lily chuckled softly, and James grinned before procuring a deck of cards. "Muggle cards," He explained, and proceeded to set up a game of go fish.
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Lily was halfway to Gryffindor Tower when she remembered about the meeting with Dumbledore. She waved everyone on to the tower, but pulled Cai aside.
"Yeah, Lils?" She asked.
"I just need to go to a meeting with Dumbledore. And I'm sure that he wants to talk about my parents, and- Well, I'm really sorry for everything I said to you. I didn't mean it. It's just… I don't-" She broke off as Cai shushed her.
"Lils, maybe you can let everyone else decide what you deserve. It seems like you're punishing yourself for someone else's twisted opinions, and that's hardly right. Just- don't do anything foolish, all right? Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Lily smiled. "Don't do anything you wouldn't do? Cai, that's a very short list." Cai grinned back.
"Well, don't do anything Ash wouldn't do." As Lily raised an eyebrow, she amended the thought. "Don't do anything Stephie wouldn't do?" At Lily's still questioning glance, she thought for a few moments and finally came up with an acceptable answer. "Don't do anything Peter wouldn't do! There we go, Petey does nothing bad." Lily rolled her eyes. Leave it to Cai to turn a semi-serious situation into something somewhat funny.
Although that is what she does, Lily thought, remembering more of the fifth year OWL's incident. When Cai had received her grades, and her mother had basically yelled at her, kept her under 'house arrest', and ordered her to take them over, Cai had run away and hid in Remus' closet for 2 days. She had ended up coming out when she ran out of Sugar Quills, and because she was afraid that something else was alive in the closet.
Remus had patiently explained to her that it was just his pet dog, and after shrugging off the situation Cai proceeded to turn everything her mum had said into a comedy bit. Hilarious, but a bit sad, considering it was things her mother had actually said.
Cai prodded Lily out of her reverie, and asked, "What were you thinking about?"
Lily smiled before murmuring, "When you hid in Remus' closet. I was remembering when we were all playing Exploding Snap in his room, minus you because your mum wasn't letting you out of the house, and as James walked through the bedroom door you burst out of the closet holding a giant empty box of Sugar Quills, screaming that something was trying to eat you." Cai laughed, but Lily could sense she was a bit sad. Giving her friend a big hug, Lily sighed. "I have to go meet with Dumbledore now. Just do me a favor, and keep the boys from sneaking into the girls' dormitories, please."
Cai grinned. "Of course, fairest Lily. Tell Professor Dumble I say hullo." Lily just shook her head before smiling and taking off in the direction of the Headmaster's Office.
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As Lily stepped in front of the gargoyle that was guarding Professor Dumbledore's office, she racked her memory for anything that could be the password.
"Er… you wouldn't just open up for me, would you?" She asked pleadingly, but sighed, as the gargoyle seemed to glare at her. "All right, all right. Um what would he choose… a candy- that's it. Er… Acid Pop… no… Ice mice!" The gargoyle just stared at her, and Lily started to name every candy she could remember. "Cockroach Clusters, Peppermint Toads, Chocoballs, Fizzing Wizzbees, Bertie Botts-" She broke off as someone came up behind her. Whirling around, she came face to face with a certain Professor.
"Why hullo, Miss Evans. I'm sorry I was running a bit late for our meeting. Mars Bars," He said passively to the gargoyle, and it grudgingly stepped aside to let them pass. Lily looked at her Professor in a state of surprise; the candy that he had just named was a muggle one, and most ordinary wizards didn't know what electricity was, much less the names of muggle candies. Of course, Lily amended, Dumbledore was no ordinary wizard.
As they ascended the moving staircase, Lily's thoughts moved on to what Dumbledore had in store. Of course he would talk about her parents, she thought with a pang, but would anything else be brought to her attention? Her musings were interrupted as they reached his office door.
"After you, Miss Evans," Dumbledore said with a slight smile as he pushed open the door. Lily thanked him before walking through and standing in front of the desk. He walked around, settling himself in his chair before gesturing for Lily to sit in the one opposite him. As she sat, he offered her a sherbet lemon, which she declined. He sighed, before clasping his hands together on the desk.
"I assume you know why I have brought you here, Miss Evans," He said slowly, the twinkle in his eyes diminishing. Lily sighed.
"Not exactly, Sir. I have an inkling, but…"
Dumbledore looked her in the eye. "Miss Evans, it has come to my attention that you have not informed your friends of your current, well… shall we call it, situation."
"Well, then yes, I knew what we were going to talk about. Professor, if I may say, it is my own choice as to whether or not I tell everyone."
He sighed. "Yes, Miss Evans, I do understand that. However, as your Headmaster-"
"Yes, my headmaster. Not my father. Who, by the way, is dead because of me. So, I'm sorry if I don't take your advice." Lily sighed inwardly. She had never spoken to anyone rashly, and yet that was just what she had done. She tried another approach. "Sir, I didn't really mean that. Its just-" She broke off as Dumbledore nodded calmly.
"Of course, Miss Evans. I understand." He took a moment to stare at a spot above her head, the twinkle in his eyes not as bright as it was previously. He continued speaking after he procured another sherbet lemon. "Well, there were just a free things that I would like to say to you about the subject. If I may…" He trailed off, and Lily realized he wanted a confirmation from her. When she nodded slowly, he spoke again.
"Firstly, Miss Evans, keeping your emotions bottled up inside is never the best plan. But besides that, why do you insist that this terrible tragedy is your own fault?"
In her mind, Lily was hitting her head on the wall, but outwardly she kept a cool, calm appearance. "Well, sir, I'm muggleborn."
"And?" Dumbledore probed. Lily's eyes narrowed.
"And that's that. If I hadn't been a witch, this would never have happened to them. We would have lived peacefully in Kent, and they would still be alive, and we wouldn't worry about this war, and Petunia would still speak to me, and-"
"It seems to me, Miss Evans, that you are using this one particular instance to create a reason for all problems in your life. Am I wrong?"
"But Professor-" Lily insisted, but he waved her off.
"Please let me continue, Miss Evans. Yes, while being a muggleborn may have some semblance of a reason as to why Voldemort attacked and killed your parents, it is not your own fault. Rather, it is the delusional thoughts of Voldemort that have caused this terrible occurrence. Now, Lily, I can sense that you do not want to speak of this any further. I will, however, offer you this advice:
"Trust your friends, Miss Evans. They are loyal to you, and love you very much, even those whose new-found friendship you have yet to start to enjoy." He let Lily ponder this for a second, and then continued speaking. "Now, has anything else caused you to think that this matter is entirely your fault?"
Lily bit her lip, but didn't say anything. Dumbledore frowned.
"Miss Evans, I must inform you that this is of the utmost importance. You-"
"I had a dream," She said, softly and slowly. "My… my parents were killed in front of me. By a man… cold and dark. He- he asked me to join him, and I said no. So it is my fault, really. If I had just-"
Dumbledore shook his head. "No, it is not your fault. Dreams are a manifestation of your current thoughts, Miss Evans. I presume you were blaming yourself before you had this dream?" Lily nodded, and he continued. "Therefore, we can deduct that it was just your current thoughts forming this dream world. Was there anything else in the dream, dear?"
A single sentence ran through Lily's mind at that point. 'Tell Albus that Tom says hello.'
"Tell Albus that Tom says hello," She repeated softly, but Dumbledore caught it.
Eyes widening slightly, he asked quietly, "Was this Tom the person who 'killed' your parents?" Lily nodded, and Dumbledore sighed.
"I am sorry, Miss Evans, that you had to go through this. If you could please explain in its entirety, your dream?"
Lily complied, but she left out the part about James appearing.
"And then, after he killed them, I screamed and woke up."
"Is that everything, Miss Evans?" He asked. She nodded, and Dumbledore sat back in his chair, reviewing the information.
After a few minutes of silence, Lily hesitantly asked, "Sir?" Dumbledore sat upright with a start; apparently he had forgotten Lily was in the room. She hid a smile, and asked, "May I leave now? I have Potions in a few minutes, and I need to check to make sure my friends have completed their homework." He smiled, but his eyes held a troubled look.
"Of course, Miss Evans. However, if this dream plagues you anymore, inform me immediately." Lily nodded, and quickly left the headmaster's office, heading for the Gryffindor Common Room. If anyone needed a laugh right now, it was her.
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Lily sighed as she slowly stirred the potion in front of her. A voice at her elbow made her jump in shock, and the professors voice rang out from behind her.
"Ah, Miss Evans, a bit preoccupied, I see. No matter, the potion will still turn out spectacularly, as always."
Lily turned to face her teacher.
"Oh, Professor Slughorn, I'm so sorry. I almost spilled the potion, and-" She broke off as Slughorn chuckled.
"No matter, Miss Evans. No matter. You'll be getting top marks anyway, I reckon. You could probably take the job from me at this moment!"
Lily chuckled as she caught Ash's eye; she was rolling her eyes and mimicking Slughorn's well recited speech. Slughorn took this as a sign to continue, and kept praising her.
"Of course, if one is part of the Slug Club, one must be adept in Potions, and ready for life beyond! I've always know, Miss Evans, that you would do great things. Personally-"
"Thank you very much, Sir." Lily interrupted. "But I would like to try and finish the potion." Leaning closer, she whispered, "I would not want the rest of the class to become jealous." Slughorn nodded enthusiastically, and said loudly,
"Carry on, Miss Evans!"
This time it was Lily who rolled her eyes, but she was interrupted when a loud BANG! echoed throughout the classroom. When the dust cleared, she caught sight of a bewildered Cai standing in front of a blackened cauldron; soot covered both her face and Remus'. When Slughorn turned to her, she just shrugged and offered,
"Well, we all know that Potions isn't my best subject," as an explanation. Remus just buried his face in his hands, and Lily performed a quick scourgify charm to clean them up.
"Five points from Miss Brown for her… well, less than satisfactory Potions' work. Sorry dear. But ten points to Miss Evans for excellent charms work!"
An eye-rolling epidemic seemed to go through the class: First Cai, followed by Remus, followed by James. This happened most often. Cai would blow something up, Lily would fix it. However, at this point Remus was forcing Cai to stay far away from their cauldron as he valiantly tried to start anew with their project.
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The end of yet another day of classes found Stephanie and arguing as they entered the Gryffindor Common Room with the rest of the gang.
"Really, Sirius, did you have to play a prank on Snape? Again?" Stephanie asked. Sirius nodded enthusiastically.
"I think today's prank went off rather well, don't you all think so?" He asked everyone else. They nodded dutifully, and Stephanie sighed.
"But really, Sirius, the whole blowing up the cauldron thing is a bit overdone."
"Ah, yes," He stated, "But… his hair turned Gryffindor red and gold, and now his voice has a swashbuckling roar to it!"
"A swashbuckling roar?" Remus asked hesitantly.
Sirius nodded again. "I've always wanted to be a pirate!" He said with a flourish, as he drew an imaginary sword.
Cai bounced up and down. "Really? I've always wanted to be a pirate too!" They proceeded to have a sword fight around the common room, before Ash glared at Cai and Cai 'discovered' that she had homework to do.
Sirius sighed as he settled into the squashy armchair that he had recently claimed as his own, complete with a sign that said, 'This seat is Sirius', paws off. Trespassers will be castrated.'
Of course, the first and second years had no clue what this meant, besides the 'This seat is Sirius' ', but that didn't matter.
"Didn't you guys just ever want to leave this life of wizardry behind? Just, fulfill all of your other dreams?" Sirius asked everyone. "I know that I for one have always wanted to be a pirate. A childhood dream of mine." Cai nodded enthusiastically, while Ash nodded only because it was Sirius who was talking.
Sirius, however, took this to mean that everyone in the room wanted to be a pirate.
"Remy!" He said cheerfully. "I didn't know you dreams of being a swashbuckling captain as well! It's just a small world, isn't it?" Remus groaned, but didn't comment, until Sirius transfigured a piece of parchment into a frilly shirt.
"Here you go, Remy!" Sirius announced, holding out the shirt. "Go put this on. You'll be the first pirate out of all of us!"
"But I don't wanna be a pirate!" Remus said, backing away from Sirius and tripping over a table. Sirius turned to Cai.
"Wouldn't Remy here make an adorable pirate?" He asked her. She rolled her eyes before telling Remus,
"Yes, you would make an adorable pirate." Remus blushed slightly, but Stephanie interrupted their conversation to berate Sirius.
"Really, Sirius, if we could get back to my point. Which was…" She trailed off for a few minutes, during which Sirius was humming, 'Yo ho yo ho a Pirate's Life for Me!' However, once she managed to get her mind back on track, she was back to talking.
"So really, the point of my argument was, Sirius, do you ever do any good deeds for anyone? I mean, I know you consider pranking Snape to be for the good of the wizarding world, but really, any good deeds?"
"Of course Sirius does good deeds," Ash said somewhat defensively. Besides liking Sirius; as shown in her diary entries, third year to present; she was his best friend besides James. "He helped that first year find the Great Hall in third year, and he let me copy his Divination homework last week, and he-"
"First of all," Stephanie broke in, "That first year was the Head Girl. And I remember she took as many points as she could because besides being a Slytherin, she was very defensive of being short." Sirius shrugged.
"What can I say? First year… seventh year… they all look alike!" Stephanie rolled her eyes.
"All right, so she did sort of look like a first year. But the divination homework… James made that up, and Sirius copied it, before letting you copy what he wrote."
This time Ash shrugged in response. "Hey, I still got the homework done." They all laughed, and Sirius sagely clasped his hands together.
"You see, young grasshoppers," He said wisely, "Every good deed I do drains just a little bit of my soul. If I kept doing good deeds, I'd just waste away, like dust in the wind." Everyone stared at him, and he took this as a sign to continue with his speech.
"Just dust in the wind…" He whispered. Then he said loudly, "All that would be left of me would be my dashing rugged good looks and this oh so charming shirt."
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-shrugs- So… I dunno if anyone will like this chapter… It's been taking me forever to finish it because I've had my play. It was totally awesome, by the way. I had two big solos (one in Sing! from A Chorus Line, and one in Chim Chimeny from Mary Poppins xD) and it was a lot of fun xD
I'd also just like to say that the oddest bits were written at like, 1 AM… or right now, at 12:30 AM. So yeah… I'm a bit sleepy, yet hyper, so… well, just… review, please!
Trillian225: Heh, good. Tell me if I went overboard with the he saids in this chapter tho… I think I did. I have a habit of overusing certains words or phrases.Like, if you have a conversation with me, I swear that I will overuse the following words: Like, Sweet, and hence…
Heh xD Oh, and heh. Heh xD See?
And yes, poor Ashey. It is her own fault, tho. I mean, really, keeping a diary when you're best friends with a Marauder? xD
Ashey: Lol, Gilderpoleon… one of the better moments xD That part'll be in one of the future chapters.
"But… I spent my summer hunting wolverines in Alaska!" xD
And my friends decided that I'm the new ND… Clala the Koala. I swear, I'm being serious. sirius. Serious. Heh xD They had me quote the lines in my ND voice… it was funny xD Of course, the mic guy had turned on my microphone then, so at dress rehersal everyone suddenly heard me says "Frickin' sweet!"
xD
And if by who you think Alicia is, you mean loofah… then yes. Heh xD
Always-blond/ I heart pink: Heh, you're blonde too? xD
Anyway… lol, Gred and Forge are the best. And so is Sirius.
And Ash is the one who likes Sirius… she's also his best friend. I'm going to do a whole explaining each character thingummy in like, the next chapter. I'll actually make myself write it, this time xD Mebe it'll be… well, no, I won't say, cause that would ruin it xD
And the cartoons were just my way of expressing my frustration at the fact that I can't draw for my life, and I'm signed up for AP Studio Art.
And yeah, I read HBP. I loved it, but I felt it was more of a prequel then a definite story. I dunno. I did love it, though.
FanFictionFantom: Yeah, we did learn so much more. And I do agree about the R.A.B. thing. And yeah, the quote was hilarious. I think I'm going to give it a part in this fanfic… well, besides the whole obvious "Remus does transform every full moon" thing, that quote needs a place xD
blue mariposa: Yeah, I've taken Spanish for 4 years now xD At rehearsal we had been speaking in Spanish, and I meant to say ojos, but I said osos instead for some odd reason so I put it in the fic xD
x-woman1: Lol, hope you like the new chapter!
Mr. Moony: Lol, your character will get weirder xD I'm still figuring out plot lines, but once I do… heh xD
And.. that's all the reviewer responses for this chapter. Hope you enjoyed, and please REVIEW!
PERDY PERDY PERDY PERDY PLEASE!
And on a side note, a producer from Broadway was at my show so I'm happy xD
SO REVIEW AND MAKE ME HAPPIER!
And I'll tap dance! Even though I can't tap dance. But it doesn't matter!
Oh.
I'll shut up now xD
Oh yeah. The whole "But I don't wanna be a pirate!" Line is from Seinfeld. Great show xD
So is some other stuff.. but I can't remember what, exactly. Or it might be from Family Guy. Heh xD