The Drama of the Potters
A/N- New chapter to continue the story that I am so excited to write about! I have so many ideas, which include development for the characters and I also can't wait for you guys to read them here! Onward, to the story!
Al was not breathing. He fell from his seat in the compartment and rolled over to Hugo and Rose who were absolutely terrified about what was happening.
"Oh Merlin! Al just fainted!" Lily cried out to her cousins, who were sitting opposite of her with their skin pushed onto their bones because of the force of the train.
"At least he does not have to deal with the hell we are going through right now! I feel like I have no skin!" Hugo yelled back. Their complaints were one of many on the train. Students in the other compartments were falling on each other, cursing the train, begging for their lives, all while Lily held onto her life to try not to follow Al's lead of fainting.
"Hugo! Get my wand! Come on, hurry!" Rose screamed as Hugo, with great difficulty, rushed through Rose's luggage throwing her wand with his great Chaser agility but also accidently knocking over his own luggage which fell on Lily. Even worse, the luggage opened when it hit Lily and all of Hugo's papers and books started flying everywhere hitting him, an unconscious Al, and Rose in the face thanks to James and his brilliant idea of a prank.
"ARRESTO MOMENTU-," Rose bellowed but before the spell could take place, she was disarmed. Disarmed by a book. The Irony was hilarious considering how much Rose loved books. A lot of wizards say she likes them as much as her mother does.
"Crap!" Rose muttered, trying to pick up the wand, which rolled under Al's useless body.
"Rose! One of Hugo's books is pushing your luggage out of the bunker! It's going to fall on you!" Lily gasped as the wind was knocked out of her stomach when Hugo's luggage fell on her.
"Get out of here Sis," Hugo said as he fiercely pushed her towards Lily's side of the compartment. Right on time, Rose's luggage fell on the spot that Rose was sitting in before Hugo pushed her away. The luggage then opened and buried Hugo in books and parchment.
"Hugo!" Lily shouted, "You just had to use The Undetectable Extension Charm on your luggage didn't you Rose? Hugo is absolutely gone! I don't even see Al's body anymore, which moved on Hugo and your side of the compartment ever since he fainted! That entire side of the compartment is gone!"
"I'm sorry!" Rose replied angrily as she threw parchment and books out of the way trying to find Al who has her wand underneath his stomach. Finding Al was hard. Moving the books and parchment was even more difficult seeing how she needed to hold onto Lily and balance herself so the train won't launch them both into the grave of papers.
"Sorry won't heal my possible concussion or paper cuts!" Lily said stubbornly.
"Oh please! The spell dealing with paper cuts is second year stuff! As for the concussion, it just takes 15 minutes to make the potion!" Rose explained in an annoyed tone.
They had a few moments of silence as Rose scuffled the parchments aside like a crazy woman only to find that the trains force just makes the parchments slide right back to where they were.
"Rose…" Lily said, clearly worried about something.
"What now? Got another boo-boo?" Rose answered sarcastically.
"The book that knocked over your luggage is not an ordinary book…" Lily said in a strained voice ignoring Rose's sarcasm which she normally never does.
"Oh, does it have any tips on healing paper cuts?" Rose continued with the mean mocking.
"No. It is the Monster Book of Monsters we got from Hagrid in our third year at Hogwarts. It moved your luggage out of the way and… my luggage being pushed by the speed of the train just released the strap." Lily mentioned casually as Rose has done the unthinkable, mock Lily Luna Potter twice.
Lily wished she mentioned it sooner because when Rose bolted up from moving the parchments to look if Lily was telling the truth, her rash movement alerted the ugly creature book thing. It jumped onto Rose's arm and started to gnaw on it causing Rose to scream and let go of Lily's hand. The book let go instantly when Rose screamed but the damage was done, she lost balance and fell into the buried half of the compartment where her screams became muffled. It reminded her of a horror movie made by muggles that Lily watched with her dad. Returning to present day, Lily remembered that now she was the only one who could save her family as Al, Hugo, and Rose, are buried in the parchment and books of Hugo and Rose's luggage. There are just two problems. The Hogwarts Express is still going at probably 6 times the speed of sound, and there is a Monster book trying to eat her face. This is one interesting beginning to her 5th year in Hogwarts.
"AGH!" Lily screamed as the book of monsters started jumping to try to bite her feet.
"Want my feet huh? I'll give them to you then!" Lily smirked as she started kicking the book away with her heavy boots, which was the real reason why she has managed to not be thrown to the other side of the compartment by the force of the train.
The book started shredding the parchment in it's own mouth to distract Lily but this just gave her an idea. She stomped furiously on the book, when it was temporarily incapacitated she turned it around and launched it at the other side of the compartment where her brother and cousins were stuck. Just as she suspected, the Monster Book of Monsters started eating the paper and books more quickly than casting a spell. When it finally ate all the parchment and books in the compartment, it tried to eat Al, Lily jumped on the book with both legs with the motion of the train in her favor before falling over Hugo's legs but putting the strap back onto the insane book. She then turned Al over, and got Rose's wand. All this happened while both Rose and Hugo gasped for air from almost being suffocated by a bunch of school materials.
"What happened?" Hugo wheezed while turning over to cradle his nose, which was hit by the huge book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
"Too much to explain," Lily said while helping Rose sit in the side of the compartment where you don't have to hold on to your life, but you have to suffer the harsh wind of the train being blown in your face, "Quickly Rose! Stop the train! You are the best at spells common!"
"Fine. ARRESTO MOMENTUM!" Rose shouted. The train suddenly slowed down so much that Rose and Lily were thrown across their side of the compartment to the opposite face first. Hugo used Al, who was still fainted and unresponsive as a human shield but still almost broke his jaw.
"OWWWW!" Almost everyone on the Hogwarts Express screamed consecutively. Yet, it was the last scream that they would have. The Hogwarts Express came to a full stop. It was almost as if the whole world was silent. Everyone just breathed steadily because that is what everyone needed after the "exciting" ride. They breathed in, and out. Hugo was the first to stand up. He unlocked their compartment door and looked at the hallways. There were school materials EVERYWHERE. Everything was mixed up, it would probably take days for people to sort out what was theirs even with magic. It was clear to Hugo that other students did not lock their compartments like his family did because they did not have attention-seeking brats trying to make friends with them. The damage was absolutely devastating. There were glass shards everywhere across the hall along with first years trying to get out of the stack of papers. Hugo was even more surprised when he saw candy hidden everywhere in the train's hallway because the trolley flipped over during the burst of speed during the train. But, Hugo did not want to pay attention to this. There was only one person he needed to see. The prat, who most likely thinks that this is all nothing more than just a prank. James Sirius Potter.
A/N- Well, what do you guys think of this chapter? It was quite exciting for me to write it, hopefully it was fun to read it. Still have A LOT more stuff coming along including sub-plots and of coarse the Rita Skeeter plot. Hopefully you stick around ;) -TOBW