DISCLAIMER: Dearies, I Seriously Can't Lie And I'll Maybe Eat Radishes. Ok, so that doesn't have anything to do with me not owning HP, but all well. As you can kinda guess, i don't.
Amber Potter and the Traitor Within.
Blurb …
Follow the antics of 11-year-old cousins, Amber-Leigh Potter and Rosemary Weasley, during their first year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, along with their new friend, Alice Longbottom.
Find out what happens when you mix an evil plot, an invisibility cloak and two girls with extraordinary powers and a world full of magic.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Pretty in Pink.
The news of Damaan spread through the school in less than a week. By the time the snow was melting to be replaced by bitter winds and cold frost, practically everybody in the school had his or her opinion on the "Damaan situation".
"I personally think that this could possibly be more than what the prophet is making out." Sean MacMillam told Amber and the others, after battling their way through the wind to the greenhouses. "The ministry has never been in favour of anything that might make life difficult for them."
"I hear that." Amber replied.
"Guys!" Alice called, and they turned to see her looking annoyed and alarmed. She had been talking to Cassie and Sandra-two Hufflepuff girls, who Amber liked, despite their habit of giggling all the time.
"What?" Rosemary asked as they pretended to work as Professor Sprout walked past.
"It was in the newspaper today apparently-Cassie just told me-" She gestured towards Cassie who gave a wave of her hand to the others. "-That your Grandad Rosie went to the Minster for magic, to tell him if he wanted him to start out security plan for Hogwarts, when he just said that there'll be no need!"
"What?" Toby Finnegan said, turning to join the conversation, Logan listening intently.
"Yeah-he said that 'Oh there's really no need, Damaan's not any of a worry. It'll only be a moment until we round him up like all the other death eaters!'."
"I don't believe this, they've gone too far." Amber said.
"What do you plan to do?" Sandra asked, "We're just first years. No one would listen to what we've got to say."
"Then we make them!" Amber said confidentially.
"We've also got the Snape-Lyra conversations to tell your dad about too." Amber added in undertone to Alice as everybody turned back to their work, discussing Damaan.
"So now you want to go to dad? We have no proof Amber!" Alice said, and Amber looked furiously to Rosemary, who looked apologetic, but said:
"She's right Amber, the only proof we have is our word-and who would believe three first years? It's like what Sandra said-we need proof before we go running off to Professor Longbottom."
"As much as I want them locked up for plotting to kill my dad, we have to stay put." Alice agreed. "At least until we have proof, ok?"
"Ok." Amber agreed, though rather half-heartedly.
But by Thursday, the Daily Prophet had made nearly everybody in the castle think that Damaan was nothing to worry about.
"Yeah right-then why is he trying to kill dad?!" Alice said, the day before Valentines day-Thrusday, as they frantically tried to complete their homework in the rapidly fading light from the sun-it was another late night.
"I don't know-actually, I've been wondering about that." Rosemary said, wrinkling her forehead as she did when she was thinking hard. "I mean-what's in it for him?"
"Pardon?" Amber asked exasperatedly, while Rose and Anna clambered through the portrait hole, chatting happily.
"Well-what's the point in killing the headmaster of Hogwarts?" Rosemary asked thoughtfully. Amber and Alice considered this for a while, and then Amber realised that-she didn't really know why he would want to in the first place.
"You know-I don't know." Alice said. She sighed and turned back to the book she was reading.
"Aren't you going to do your homework?" Amber asked and Alice turned to look at her.
"I did it last night." She said.
"What were we doing?" Rosemary asked in outrage, as she tried to finish her transfiguration essay.
"You two spent 3 hours playing chess." Alice said, turning once again back to her book.
"Oh yeah-I totally beat you!" Rosemary said triumphantly, while Amber replied with a "No fair! You're just naturally good at it! You got it off your dad-" when Tania Jenson-the Quidditch captain came over.
"Hi Amber-" she said, and without waiting for an answer, she ploughed on "Look-one of our beaters on the Quidditch team-Chloe Jordan-has resigned and Andy has said that he wants to become the new beater."
She paused for a moment, and before Amber could say something, she had continued.
"Well or course that leaves a chaser spot open, and seeing as you played brilliantly against Slytherin in that first match, I'd like to offer you a spot on the team."
Amber stared dumb-struck. No way did she think that she would get into the Gryffindor house team in her first year-Andy only joined this year. But then again-it would be another thing to cross off the L.O.T.W.N.T.D.I.M.O.O.P …
"I-I guess." Amber said
"Excellent!" Tania cried jubilantly. "We have a team practise tomorrow-7 O'clock. Down at the pitch. See you there-"
Se strolled away to her friends, while Rosemary gave a whoop of excitement.
"Yes! I always knew you would live up to Uncle Harry's standards!" She cried, while Alice grinned and rolled her eyes at Rosemary. Rosemary tutted at Alice's reaction and turned back to her half-finished transfiguration essay.
"Thanks." Amber said, turning back to her own essay and found that it was so difficult, that she hadn't even written a sentence yet.
"You know-I think Professor Chang still has a grudge against my dad." Amber said thoughtfully. "And is taking it out on me. At the rate I'm going, this won't be ready to hand in until 6th year."
"It's not that difficult you know." Alice said, not looking up from "Hogwarts: A history."
"Easy for you to say, miss smarty-pants." Rosemary grumbled.
"Eh-it's due Monday-I'll do it on the weekend." Amber said, shoving her essay into her bag and yawning-it was nearing midnight and the common room was starting to empty.
"Oh sure-than you'll say 'Oh it's Sunday tomorrow, so I'll do it then!'!" Alice said, smirking.
"Will not!" Amber said, pretending to be outraged.
"Bet you 10 galleons that you will!" Alice said, closing her book.
"You're on!" Amber said and leant over to shake Alice's hand.
"I'm going to enjoy this." Rosemary said and Alice laughed as Amber used her wand to jinx a cushion to fly at her.
The next morning, Amber woke up a little late. She woke up to find the dormitory completely deserted and hurried down the spiral staircase to see Rosemary and Alice waiting for her at the bottom.
"Geez, I thought you'd never wake up." Rosemary said, as they headed off out of the portrait hole.
"Yeah-Carley even made her wand create a loud honking noise, but you still didn't." Alice agreed.
"Sorry-must be in Weekend mode." Amber said, dodging out of the way of a flying cupid, who was zooming round by their heads, throwing hand-fulls of rose petals at disgruntled students, feeling confused.
"Yeah, well at least you didn't-what the-?"
All three of them stoped at the top of the marble staircase, over-looking the entrance hall. Amber stood transfixed at the sight, wondering whether they had taken a wrong turn.
The hall was so greatly covered in pink flowers and magical paper hearts, bewitched to float in the air, along with more cupids throwing petals at people that the hall looked as if it had been painted pink.
Rosemary looked disgusted, while Alice dodged a bunch of petals. Amber laughed as she saw a Ravenclaw boy not duck quickly enough and received a bunch of petals straight in the face.
"What in merlins name is going on here?" Rosemary asked as Alice came back after the petal attack, having just whacked the cupid with her bag, causing it to grumble at her, and launch some more flowers at some nearby Hufflepuff 4th years.
"I have no idea." Alice said.
"Let's just get to the great hall." Amber said and they hurried off down the marble staircase, avoiding the flower attacks and headed into the great hall, which was just as brightly decorated as the entrance hall.
"Can you believe her?" Geraldine said in disgust once they had taken seats opposite her and Carley, who were both wearing similar expressions to Rosemary.
"Who?" Amber asked, wiping petals off some pancakes and pulling them towards her.
In an answer, Geraldine gestured behind her, to wear Professor Lyra was sitting next to a murderous looking Snape on one side, and a strange looking Hagrid on the other, seeing as he was covered in pink rose petals. Lyra seemed to have forgotten her pale blue robes today and had donned a pair of lurid pink robes to match the decorations.
"Should have known." Rosemary said darkly and they all nodded.
"Aren't these decorations fantastic?" A voice said and Amber turned to see Rose walking towards them, arm-in-arm with Alice's sister, Anna. She was carrying a large bouquet of Roses and Smiling just like Lyra.
"Fantastic?" Geraldine repeated. "Disgusting more like it."
"Yeah Deeny." Carley agreed.
"Oh come on-look what Robby gave me!" Rose sat down, indicating the flowers. Robby was Roses boyfriend. He was greatly popular among the older Gryffindor's and apparently everyone wanted to be his friend-or in the girls' case, go out with him. Amber had only met him once, and that was last year when he came in the summer holidays. And he was an idiot then.
"I can't believe you Rose." Came Daphne's voice, ad she trudged over and sank onto a seat next to Amber, looking annoyed. "You are the girlish girl I have ever met."
"Well-you should be too!" Rose protested "You are my twin after all."
That was true-Amber thought. Rose and Daphne were practically identical, right down to their long red hair and sparkling green eyes, but no way were their personalities the same.
Rose was 100 a girl. Into the traditional stuff, make-up, guys, sleepovers, guys, truth or dare (Some silly muggle game), guys … while Daphne preferred to play Quidditch with all her friends, who all happened to be-guys.
"The only time you'll see me wearing make-up and prancing around going 'Oh my god! Robby is like-so totally hot!' is when I'm dead." Daphne replied, doing a good imitation of Roses 'excited' voice.
"Suit yourself." Rose said, turning to talk to Anna.
"Excuse me everyone!" Called Professor Lyra called, and everybody stoped talking half-heartedly to listen. "Thankyou everyone who has been a support to the Valentines Day decorations! I'd also like to thank my cupids, who have agreed to deliver Valentines to everyone! Hope you have a wonderful day!"
"Cow." Alice muttered as everyone broke out talking again.
"I hear that." Rosemary agreed.
"Oh my god-valentines!" Anna was saying "I totally forgot-come Rose-we've got to go!" and they both got up and hurried away.
"Your sister's such a ditz." Carley exclaimed, watching Rose and Anna hurry away.
"We know." Amber and Daphne said at the same time.
The cupids delivering valentines all day was annoying, but oddly amusing. Halfway through Transfiguration, a valentine turned up for Logan, which screamed out loud for everybody to hear that "Your secret admirer" loved his "Blue eyes that sparkle in the winter sunlight". By the time the valentine had finished screaming its poem; Logan had practically slid down his chair and was under the desk, only his red forehead visible, while everybody in the class laughed themselves stupid.
"Oh-you beautiful blue eyes that sparkle in the sun!" Rosemary mocked as they left for Defence against the dark arts, while Logan said "Shut up, Rosemary!" and everyone laughed.
"Oh that was so funny!" Amber exclaimed, as she and Rosemary broke into un-controllable laughter. Indeed, they were still giggling when they entered the DADA class room. It was when Professor Lyra skipped in, her pink robes waving behind her, when she realised that Alice hadn't cracked a smile, throughout the entire class. Now she seemed to be staring, glassy eyed out of the window above where Logan and Toby had taken there seats.
"What's up with you Alice?" Amber asked her, as she took her books out of her bag and Lyra asked them to copy down notes.
"Huh?" Alice jerked out of her trance. "Oh-nothing. Just thinking."
"Well turn your thinking to vampires, because that's what we're taking notes about." Rosemary said.
40 minutes later, when they were finally dismissed from the classroom and began to make their way down to lunch, they caught up with Andy and Josh.
"Hi." Rosemary said.
"Hey." Said a thoroughly annoyed-looking Andy.
"You don't look so happy." Amber pointed out, as they trudged down the marble stairs, which were now littered with rose petals.
"You wouldn't be when you've just had a highly embarrassing Valentine been read out to you in front of your entire class." Andy replied, dropping onto a seat at the Gryffindor table, Josh sitting down next to him, saying "There there. It's not that bad."
"It is that bad!" Andy burst out, while Amber tried not to laugh as they took seats opposite them. "At least you haven't had a valentine read to you in front of the entire class-and even worse-from Haley Midgen."
"Who's Haley Midgen?" Alice asked.
"Haley is the most disgusting, annoying, ugliest girl in existence." Josh answered. "She's fancied Andy ever since first year and let's say compared to a slug, the slug could make it the modelling business."
"And that's saying something." Josh concluded.
"A Slug model." Rosemary said thoughtfully, not noticing what she was doing and poured almost all of the marmalade over her pie.
"Poor Andy-Pandy." Amber said, trying not to laugh.
"Stop it!" Andy shouted. "You know I hate that stupid name!"
"What? Oh! You mean Andy-Pan-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Ok, ok …"
"You both know why she's doing this, don't you?" Amber asked Rosemary and Alice, as they made their way down to the dungeons for potions, some 15 minutes later.
"Yeah-she's a cow." Alice replied.
"Well-that." Amber agreed "But also because she's just trying to warm up to us. I mean-" Amber paused and made to check no one was listening. The only people around were a group of Slytherin 6th years. "-Even though she's going to try and kill your dad Alice, she's warming up to the students and teachers, so no one would ever think of suspecting her."
"Yeah, you're right." Rosemary agreed. They joined the line outside the classroom, and talked to Carley and Geraldine for a while, trying to ignore Malfoy and the Slytherin's taunting and laughter.
Snape came stalking out of the class room, looking irritable, and ushered them inside. Looking around, Amber noticed that all the other classrooms had some sort of Valentines Day decoration, but Snape's class didn't have one thing pink in it.
"I don't think we want to cross his path today." Rosemary whispered, pointing at Snape, who had taken a seat behind his desk, looking as if that he would murder the next person to mention Valentine's Day.
Once everybody had sat down, Snape began to explain the complications of creating a Truth Serum. But he had only been talking 5 minutes, when a cupid swooped in. Snape's face had turned ghostly white and no one dared speak.
The Valentine circled the class once, trying to find the person it was trying to find, when it spotted them. Amber hoped with all her might that it wasn't going to be her-
It wasn't-the cupid swooped down onto Malfoy and dropped the Valentine on his head then swooped out again.
Muttering whispered through the room until Snape glared at everyone and they fell silent. The look on his face was dark and stony.
Malfoy looked positively terrified and attempted to hide them letter, a difficult feat as it started screaming at Malfoy about how Mandy Baddock-leader of her gang of Slytherin girls was in love with him, and when it had finished, it spurted out a dozen or so pink streamers over Malfoy. They completely covered him, until you couldn't even see his blond hair, and were proving very difficult to remove. Mandy Baddock on the other side of the room blew a kiss at Malfoy and everyone burst into laughter, despite Snape's expression.
Rosemary was laughing so hard, it looked as though she was about to faint and Alice was looking as if she would explode from keeping in her sniggers. Amber thought that two of her ribs had cracked from laughing so hard. The look on Malfoy's face was priceless.
"You know Malfoy!" Geraldine gasped, tears pouring out of her eyes. "You do look pretty in pink!"
That just made everyone laugh even harder.
A/N: I know what you're all saying ... finally, this story hasn't been updated since forever! I'm sorry, but ... this is going to sounds pathetic, but i ... er ... forgot to update. I know i know, it's a pathetic excuse, but it's true. I only remembered today and after exclaiming "Crap!" ran to the computer.
Oh and hurrah! I think this is my favourite chapter. I was never a Valentines day fan, but Lyra just seemed like the girliest girl in the history of girly girls, so i had to make her put on some sort of Valentines day thing.
Poor Logan ... also, i hope i didn't make this sound too much like what Lockheart did in CoS. Sorry if it did. I suck at coming up with origonal stuff. And i feel like i've repeated myself in pratically all of the chapters. If that doesn't make any sense, then whatever. Uh.
Please review, even if it's constructive critizium (I can never spell that word)
-Moon. : D