February 19, 1977
Thursday that week, Remus pulled Violetta into an empty classroom right after breakfast.
"What the-" She stopped and crossed her arms over her chest as she realized who is was. "Lupin. What do I owe this pleasure? Here to tell me more lies, get some sympathy snogging?"
"We need your help." He gestured to James and company behind her. She turned and then rolled her eyes.
"Finally seeing some reason?"
"It's our only option." Mary sighed.
"How much did she ask for?"
"450 galleons." Sirius offered. Lily was pouting in the corner.
"Whoa."
"Yep. And we only have until Sunday." James ran a hand threw his hair.
"Sunday! It's Thursday! Good thing you guys came right to me." She said sarcastically.
"We've been putting this off, hoping talking to her would work-" Lily began.
"I guess it didn't, hey?" Violetta shot.
"No." James sighed, defeated.
"I see a couple options with dealing with this situation you lot have created for yourselves." Violetta began as she walked over to the chalk board.
"We got ourselves in? She probably wouldn't have asked for that much if you hadn't been such a bag to her!" Lily shot.
"Do you want my help or not?" No one said anything. "Okay, so you can A, actually pay her."
"Not an option, we don't have anywhere near enough." Sirius waved away option A.
"Option B, my personal favourite, we kill her."
"I support that one." Sirius threw his hand in the air.
Everyone else rolled their eyes.
"What's C?" Remus asked.
"We blackmail her. It's very risky and if I had a piece of this dilemma there is no way I'd even consider this. For one thing, you only have week, and she might not even care about what you find out. When you go to do it, she might just run to the nearest common room and announce the whole fiasco."
"Please tell me you have a plan D?"
"As a matter of fact I do. This is the one I support and will even help with if you pick it. Of course I would help with the whole killing one too but..." She turned and looked straight at Lily. "The Memory charm. The original plan. The best plan, and the only real plan that is going to work." Violetta shrugged. "Do you agree to it or not? It needs to be unanimous. We're all going to play a part and I'm not going to be involved in illegal activities while worrying about my allies and enemies."
"Raise your hands if you're okay with this." James said, unenthusiastically.
One by one they raised their hands. James was second last and with a finally look, Lily agreed too.
"Now this is more complicated now that Bertha has gotten out and done Merlin knows what in the time it took you all to decide you really did need my help." Violetta turned to the board and began writing.
"Phase one: We need to find out if she told anyone else about this, wrote it down somewhere or set up some sort of backup plan if we get to her with the memory charm. She isn't as stupid as she looks. For this we're going to need some Veritaserum."
"What!" Lily cried.
"Yes, we have to get her to tell us if she told anyone or did any of the aforementioned back up plans, which I'm sure she did, she's a bloody Ravenclaw."
"Its use is restricted! And we don't have a moon cycle to wait for it to mature!" Lily hissed.
"No, but you know how Slughorn loves to show off. He had a whole cauldron of that stuff at the beginning of the year. I doubt he's used it all." She grinned at Lily. "And his favourite Head Girl should be able to walk right in there and sneak some from right under his nose."
"Phase two: Once we have the Veritaserum we need to get Bertha, tie the bitch up and force her to drink it. This is where the Marauders come in."
They looked at her surprised.
"I've heard rumours about some sort of map or something. I know you have ways to figure out where anyone is in this castle. You grab her, pull her into some class room," She frowned at Remus, "which you obviously don't have a problem with doing, and we'll be there with the stolen truth serum. Force it down her throat. I'll enjoy doing that, which, Mary would like to help?"
The other girl nodded. "Perfect."
"Phase three: We destroy the evidence." She looked at the boys, "I don't know how you do it, but you can appear anywhere. Disillusion charms or something-"
James cut her off with a sigh. "Might as well tell you, we have an invisibility cloak."
Violetta actually squealed with delight. "Really! Brilliant! Okay, Mary will go with Alice to get the evidence that may be up in dormitory. Unless you boys have a way to get up there too?" They shook their heads, they could shimmy up the Gryffindor stair cases under dire circumstances, but Ravenclaw was still a mystery. Violetta looked a little disappointed. "And here I thought you boys could do anything. Meanwhile, I'll be back with Lily and Frank keeping an eye on our lovely hostage. You may have noticed I split up people who weren't exactly for this so others can keep an eye on them. Don't be offended, I trust no one."
"Phase four: After all this is done we hit her with a Memory charm, that will be done by whoever does the best. I'm sure Miss. Evans will probably fill that requirement too." She shrugged sympathetically. "Sorry Evans, but you know you're the best."
"When do we start?" Peter asked.
"As soon as possible. If we could finish this tonight, I would love to be able to sleep for once." Mary groaned.
"Well, we can't start until Lily gets the Veritaserum." They turned to her. "Whenever you're ready." Violetta gestured to the door.
*
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
"Lily?" She had reached Slughorn's office before she knew it.
"Hello Professor Slughorn."
"What do I owe this pleasant surprise, and so early?"
"I was meaning to ask you if I could get some help with an essay, I have a couple questions about the uses of Veritaserum."
"But Lily, that isn't until next month!"
She grinned cheekily at him. "I like to stay ahead."
"Well what do you want to know?" He beckoned her into his office.
Pause. Er- "I would... what exactly would happen if you were caught using Veritaserum illegally?" It came out before she could stop it, and she instantly regretted it.
Yeah. Great question Lily, I really want to know this.
"Ministry involvement, fines, possible Azkaban sentence depending on the severity of the circumstances." Lily turned green. "Oh, but Miss. Evans you have nothing to worry about! You wouldn't be involved in anything like that, would you?"
She squeaked. "No!" She coughed. "I mean of course not." She focused. "I've been meaning to ask you, since that first class this year, if I could possibly take a closer look at the potion? I want to see the components all united accurately with the expertise of a practised potions master." Puke. "That is, if you have any left?"
He grinned in a flattered way. "Of course my dear!" He wobbled over to the door and they exited, turned a corner and were in the potions room. They leaned over the cauldron together, Slughorn rambling on about entering certain ingredients at certain, precise moments. Lily nodded at all the right places as she tried to slip the vile into the cauldron.
"What is that, my dear?" Slughorn stopped in the middle of a story about some former student, turned Ministry hot shot to point to the now full vile in her hand. She froze, her face flushed. Bugger.
"Uh, just getting..." She faded.
"Are you taking Veritaserum Lily?"
"What! No!"
"Don't lie to me, my dear." He slowly took the vile from her hand.
Panic, panic, panic and then finally, "I think James is cheating on me and I need to know!"
"Oh Miss. Evans! I'm sure he isn't!" He put his hand on her shoulder in what she supposed he thought was a reassuring manner.
"I can't go a minute longer thinking that he might be getting with that wench..." She reached for a name, "Violetta Roiser!" He continued to stare at her, and she began crying (a skill she mastered as a young child to get anything she asked for from her father).
Pain crossed his face. He handed the vile back to her. "Okay."
"Re-really?" Relief flooded her face. She couldn't believe how much he liked her. It was really sickening. She thanked him and ran the whole way back to the classroom everyone was in, waiting.
Her face was flushed when she reached it, and she held up the vile in triumph. Who knew breaking the rules was so exhilarating.
"We need to get her by herself tonight, or tomorrow after classes. We can't get her during the school day. If she starts missing classes it'll only draw more unwanted attention to this situation." Violetta said after everyone had finished congratulating Lily. "And that also means no talking to me in the presence of other students. We didn't talk before, we can't start now. If I'm seen associating with you, I'll be stabbed in my sleep. If you capture-"
"Do we have to use that word?" Lily muttered.
Violetta ignored her, "her you're going to have to find a way to get a hold of me, or do it by yourselves." She shrugged, unbothered. "Good luck boys."
Violetta was pulled into a classroom again, Friday night after her detention. "We have to stop meeting like this." She whispered in Remus' ear before moving away and looking around. "Well? Where is she?"
"We can't get her by herself! I mean, it's bloody near impossible! She's never alone!" James huffed, clearly put out that the second phase was held up by the "we can achieve anything" Marauders.
"That little tramp is smarter than I thought." Violetta shook her head. "Luckily I have a backup plan."
"We aren't killing her!" James, Lily and Alice said at the same time.
Violetta ignored them and turned to Sirius. "You still have that ability to sense when girls want to shag blokes?"
"Yes, and?" He asked, confused.
"Who does Bertha want to shag?"
"Well, me, James, Remus, the Prewetts, I think she'd take Fenwick, Davis-"
"Horny bitch." Violetta muttered, cutting him off, grinning evilly. "You have to seduce her." She shrugged. "Lure her into a classroom, pretend you're into some kinky stuff, tie her up... It seems pretty straight forward to me."
"You think she'll fall for that?" James asked, sceptical. Sirius was busy gagging in the corner.
"One way to find out!" She started towards Black.
"I can't." Sirius looked green.
"You have to." Mary sighed.
"I'm not whoring myself out-" Sirius started.
"You do it anyways, this time it's for a good cause." Remus argued.
Sirius started to defend himself when he was cut off my Violetta. "We're all making sacrifices for this Black, balls up and seduce her." She shoved him out the door.
"Er- Bertha?" Sirius asked as a group of fifth year Ravenclaws walked by. "Can I have a word?" They broke out in giggles. It took all his self control not to roll his eyes. She grinned at her friends shrugging, and walked over with him. He casually started leading her away and towards the class room.
"What can I do for you, Black?"
"Er- look. We're having some trouble getting together that much money. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make this all go away. Whatever it takes."
"Like what?" She grinned evilly. She knew. She was going to make him say it.
"Anything." He led her around the corner, a couple more classrooms down and she would be ambushed.
She stopped. "I suppose I could knock a couple galleons off for a little something." She grabbed the waste of his trousers and pulled him closer.
"Wait, not here." He looked around in what he hoped was a casual way. He grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the classroom. "This classroom is pretty convenient." He said loudly as he went to enter the room. The lights were off and before he could comprehend what was happening, Bertha was kissing him. Why was it taking so long for someone to do something? Sirius heard a small chuckle from behind him after, what he considered was way too long of a time. He pushed her off of him with a little too much force. "Why don't you sit down?" He tried to recover.
"Why?" She asked, confused.
"I'll..." He suddenly remembered a particularly nasty rumour he heard about Dorcas Meadowes and the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "Give you a bit of a show."
He heard another muffled laugh. It took all his composure for his face not to contort in rage. She grinned in what she probably believed was a sexy way. If anything his wand retracted further into him, for safety. "Okay." She sat on the professor's chair.
He began unbuttoning his shirt. When, when, when, was someone going to save him?
"You're not doing a very good job, aren't you supposed to dance or something?"
He moved closer to her. "Give me your wand."
"Why?" She said, suddenly alarmed.
"I- I forgot mine," He put on his best charming grin. "I need some music."
She stared at him for a minute. He took drastic measures, and leaned down and kissed her. Her hands were raking into his hair in a very painful way when he pulled away. "Your wand?" He asked again. She handed it to him, out of breath. He waved it and in a second she was bound to the chair. The lights finally flicked on.
8 people appeared out of thin air as James tucked his invisibility cloak away.
"Someone needs to shower." Violetta sniffed as she put as much room in between her and everyone else.
"Sorry." Peter muttered.
"What the hell!" Bertha cried as she struggled against the bounds.
"Nice job Black." Mary giggled despite herself, before breaking out into a full fledge laugh attack. "I'll give you a show." She mocked. "I almost peed my trousers."
"Thank Merlin you didn't." Alice wrinkled her nose. "We were way to close together under that thing."
"You aren't going to get away with this." Bertha hissed.
"Yes we are." Violetta smirked. "And I love it."
Lily pulled out the Veritaserum and handed it to Violetta. "I believe you wanted the honours."
She grinned and moved towards the tied up girl.
"You aren't going to make me swallow that." Bertha was trashing harder, uselessly.
"You're just going to tire yourself out." Remus said calmly from behind.
"How are you going to make her drink it?" Sirius asked.
"I have my ways." Violetta smiled.
"I'll just spit it out, I swear to Merlin." Bertha cried, still struggling against her bounds.
"I'm not too worried about that, see I had this boyfriend," She turned to the others, explaining as she moved towards her victim, "okay, well, guy, I was seeing. And he was a little... well he had this thing where he liked me to.. " She stopped and started again. "It really turned him on when I swallowed when..." Comprehension was drawn on everyone else's face. "Well you get it, anyways, I had a lot of trouble with the... uh.. taste for a while." They were all staring at her, she had the grace to blush a bit. "Anyways I invented a spell." She turned back to Bertha and bent down, inches away from her face. "To help me swallow, and keep it down." Bertha had clamped her mouth shut. Violetta turned to Mary, "some help her McDonald?"
"What do you need to me to do?"
"Plug her nose." Violetta waved her wand, silently casting her spell.
Berthas mouth flew open after a few seconds and Violetta poured the potion down her throat. Mary and Violetta grinned at each other. "Perfect."
*
Bertha began singing faster than a phoenix. After she told them of the backup plans and various boogie traps she set. Muffliato was cast to prevent her from hearing their plans, a silencing charm so no one could hear her scream, and they tied a blind fold around her eyes. "Just as a precaution." Alice smiled to them.
"Okay, so we have the Library, the Prefects bathroom, the Divination room, and the Ravenclaw dormitory." Lily said, looking at the chalk board. Somehow the power roles had switched, and Lily, who was used to being in charge, doing the planning, had taken control.
"I think that, given the late hour, James and I should go to the Library. It's the furthest away and most risky, given," She shot Bertha a look, "the other obstacles to get to it. I mean the restricted section? We can say we're on patrol, saw something run into the library, easy peasy."
"Alice and Frank can go to the Prefects bathroom. I know it's risky if you get caught, but it's not like it hasn't happened before." Alice blushed and nodded. She and Frank had been caught snogging a couple of times, the only thing that prevented them from getting in more trouble was the fact they were usually caught by her fellow prefects.
"Okay, Mary, you and Black can go to the Divination room-"
"Awe do I have to?" Mary sighed.
"You for sure, you're the only one still taking the horrible class-"
"It's an easy mark when the Professor loves you." Mary defended.
"And you can make up some mumble jumble about having a vision or something if you get noticed. And I know you don't mind if you get caught and get a detention or something. As long as it's after you get and destroy whatever she did. Black will take the cloak, you can, under no circumstances get caught." They already had a memory to replace what really happened tonight in Bertha's mind, and Sirius had a star role.
"And that leaves the hardest one, the Ravenclaw dormitory." She turned to Violetta. "Now, is there any way you'd be willing to seduce a Ravenclaw and get into her dormitory?"
Violetta grimaced and rubbed her eye with her hand.
"You're the only one left who can-"
"Mary is dating a Ravenclaw-"
"She has her reasons." Lily cut her off. Being that she hadn't slept with him yet, and didn't want to ruin her relationship by having to sneak out after to commit illegal activities.
"Who are my options?" Violetta sighed.
James looked over the map with Remus. Lupin's eyes lit up and suddenly darkened. "Gideon Prewett is with Marlene."
"They had a date tonight, I totally forgot." Alice sighed, hitting her palm to her head.
"Where are they?" Violetta asked quietly.
"It looks like they're making their way back to the Gryffindor dormitory." Remus said, looking over the map.
"He's probably dropping her off. He's too much of a gentleman to try anything, especially with Marlene." Alice offered. "But they are out pretty late. Way past curfew..."
"She really likes him." Remus was staring straight at Violetta.
"You think you could get Gideon anyway?" Lily asked, doubtful. "He is pretty anti-You-Know-Who."
"And I sleep in 'I Heart Deatheaters pyjamas'?" She ran a hand threw her hair and made a show of undoing a couple buttons on her blouse. "I know I can. It's just a matter of getting back to the dormitory."
"The common room is empty." Remus said, quietly.
"There isn't anyone awake?" Mary asked, surprised.
James shook his head. "We finally caught a break."
"We can't do that to Marlene." Lily said, shaking her head. "Anyone else."
"There isn't anyone else, Lily." Remus said quietly, scanning the map.
Lily's face turned to stone. She looked murderous. Violetta recoiled, expecting the anger to come to her, instead it turned to Bertha. "It's this bitch's fault."
"Finally some reason." Mary muttered to Violetta.
"I say we kill her."
"Shut up Sirius!" James, Frank and Alice cried.
"That's call that plan B." Lily hissed menacingly. Her face turned back to composed. "So that leaves Remus and Peter to watch the hostage." Lily directed. Violetta hid a smile behind her hand. She found Lily much more likeable in crisis situations.
They left, in their assigned teams.
Lily and James slipped into the Library silently.
"This place is super creepy at night." Lily whispered to James.
"I'll protect you." James grabbed her hand. Lily rolled her eyes and led him towards the restricted section. She spent so much time in the library she could manoeuvre through it in almost complete darkness.
"This wouldn't be a bad place to revisit, if you get my drift." If she didn't the way his hands were roaming sure would help to clarify his point.
"Not now James." Lily said impatiently. He started kissing her neck as she scanned the shelves. "James..." But she had closed her eyes and was leaning her neck, giving him more access to it. "James!"She half yelled, finally remembering herself.
"What?" He asked, putting on his best innocent face.
"Help me find the book."
James reached for the first book he saw, and opened it. It released a blood curling scream before he managed to slam it shut.
"For the love of Merlin Potter!" Lily hissed again.
"We're back to Potter now?" James asked, wincing. At that moment she grabbed the book they were looking for, one about illegal love potions, (Lily really didn't want to know what Bertha was doing in her spare time), and quickly handed it to James.
He transfigured the notes into a beautiful floral arrangement, composed mostly of lilies. She rolled her eyes but smiled none the less. They began walking out of the library when a voice from behind made them freeze.
"What do we have here, lovely?" The couple turned to see Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris.
"We're just on patrol Filch." James lied easily. "You've heard about the large number of students that have been caught out past curfew? We're preventing that."
"I don't think that students will be sneaking into the library." Filch wheezed.
"We saw something suspicious so we came to check it out." Lily said, stepping forward. "but all we found were these beautiful flowers? I wonder, do you think Pince has a secret admirer?"
Filch proceeded to turn the colour similar to a tomato and grabbed the bouquet out of Lily's hands.
"Get on moving then." He ushered them out of the room.
"I always knew they had a thing!" Lily laughed as they lightly jogged back to Remus and Peter.
*
Alice and Frank entered the Prefects bathroom and instantly began searching behind the portrait of the Mermaid.
"Godric, I wish I had become a prefect." Frank whispered.
"It has its perks." Alice grinned.
"Got it!" Frank pulled the papers out from the back of the painting.
"Brilliant!"
"I'm stuck though!" He was uselessly trying to pull his hand free of the wall, in the process getting his other hand stuck as well. "Bloody hell."
Alice began pulling on his hand, only have it stuck to his.
"Stop!" He yelled, and she froze.
"What?"
"It's a perma-sticking charm, my mom used to use them to stick me to the dinner chair when I was young to make me eat my vegetables. You need to keep a hand free to use the counter charm."
Alice winced. "I'm not very good with my left hand."
"You weren't half bad the other night." He smirked at her, and she stopped herself inches away from punching his shoulder.
After several pretty good almost attempts, and a couple of pretty off ones, resulting in Franks pants being completely undone, Alice had freed them both from the sticky situation they were in. They charmed the papers so if anyone else looked at them they would only see extremely pornographic images.
Alice shook her head as Frank laughed. "Had to."
"Alice?"
A couple of Hufflepuff prefects were standing right outside the bathroom when they exited, in a fairly compromising position.
"Oh!" Alice cried.
"Longbottom." They nodded to each other.
"Done with the bathroom, eh?" The boy winked at Frank, who blushed and nodded.
"We won't tell if you don't." The Hufflepuff girl giggled. Alice tried not to roll her eyes.
"That's usually how to works." Alice smiled. The couples waved to each other and Alice and Frank made their way back to the classroom.
*
Mary and Sirius made it to the Divination classroom without a hitch. The teacher was a known boozer, and a deep sleeper. They had no problems retrieving the notebook from under the third table on the left, after they said the password (Bertha rules). They tickled the spin, and the book opened. With a lazy flick of his wand, Sirius changed the book into a bouncing bunny.
"Awe! It's so cute!" Mary laughed as she played with the rabbit.
"We have to go Mary." She pouted as they made their way down.
"I'll transfigure you another one when we get back."
"Okay!" She grinned.
"Well, well, well." Avery appeared out of the shadows behind Mary and Sirius. They both turned, wands drawn. "A little mudblood out for a walk alone?" He smiled sickly at her.
She narrowed her eyes at him. "Try me Avery."
He raised his wand, but before he could do anything Sirius hit him with a stunner. He fell to the ground, hard.
"Black!" Mary cried. "You completely stole my thunder!"
"Well sorrrrry for saving your ass."
"Thanks, I guess." She stepped over Avery to keep walking, but suddenly stopped and turned. She kicked him as hard as she possibly could in the crotch.
Sirius winced. "I think that hurt me."
"I think if it happens enough, hopefully he won't be able to reproduce."
"Fingers crossed." They kept walking. "So you and Fabian."Sirius said a couple of moments later.
"Yep."
"That was sort of random?" He asked, unsure.
"Not really." Mary looked at him out of the corner of her eye.
"Not really?"
"We've been seeing each other quite a bit lately."
"We've been seeing each other quite a bit lately." He gestured to Mary and then back to himself.
Mary shrugged. "But that was just... fun."
Sirius scoffed at her. That was exactly how he had described it a couple of days earlier to the other Marauders. Nothing serious, just something that was fun, with a girl who was fun. He didn't realize how much he would not appreciate being at the receiving end of a blow off. And from Mary, the last person he thought would be involved in a purely physical relationship.
"Fun?"
"Is there an echo in here?"
Sirius huffed.
"Sorry Sirius, I didn't realize that you were more..." She searched for the word. "More emotionally involved then I was-"
He scoffed at her, louder this time, cutting her off. "I wasn't."
She raised an eyebrow at him as they reached the room where Bertha was. "Okay." She said it sceptically as they entered the room.
*
"Hey Gid."
Gideon jumped about a foot in the air. She appeared out of a dark shadow. He squinted his eyes, "Vi?"
She leaned up against the wall and smiled sadly at him. His face still lit up when he saw her. The guilt in her chest tightened.
"How was your date?" She asked.
"You heard about that?"
Violetta shrugged in response.
"It was okay." Gideon said, moving toward her. He pushed some hair out of her face. "It would have been better with you."
She smiled at him and shrugged again.
"I've really missed you." He whispered in her ear and then moved back and stared into her eyes.
"I missed you too." And then she kissed him. He responded instantly, kissing her with a desperation that made her heart hurt. She pushed him against the wall. He began undoing her tie with one hand, hiking up her skirt with the other. She pulled away. "Not here."
"Where?" He asked in between placing kisses down her neck.
"You're dorm?" She asked, her eyes squeezed closed.
He stopped suddenly, looking at her. She finally opened them, blue stared into green. "You mean that?" She nodded. "You know if we go there, people will know. People will see."
Violetta nodded again. "If you still want to-" He kissed her, hungrily.
"Let's go."
They arrived at the Ravenclaw tower and Gideon answered the question to gain entry to the common room.
"What was that?"
"You've never been up to Ravenclaw's common room before? There isn't a password, just a question you have to get right."
Bloody hell.
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah. Is something wrong?"
Bugger.
"No, just... that isn't very widely known, is it?"
"No, I suppose not.." He looked at her, slightly confused. She forced a smile and kissed him again, he grabbed her hand and pulled her towards his room.
They fell onto the bed, Gideon paused and stared into her eyes.
"What?" She panted, confused.
"I love you." He gently whipped some hair out of her eyes, giving her the most tender, loving kiss she'd ever had.
"I-" Did she? Could she? "I-" Bloody hell. All or nothing. "I love you too."
She never knew how good it felt to make someone else so happy. Suddenly it wasn't just a shag, they were making love.
An hour later, Violetta was trapped on the inside of the bed, against the wall. She was sure that Gideon had strategically placed himself in between her and the door so she wouldn't be able to bolt. She was sure he was asleep but she had no idea how deep of a sleeper he was, they had never actually shared a bed together. She rolled over him as carefully as she could.
He stirred and looked at her. "You aren't leaving, are you?"
"Bathroom." She whispered, throwing on one of his shirts. She creeped down the stairs and back up the girls. When she got to one with the number five on it, she slowly creaked it open. Bertha had said that her bed was the third one of the left. She slowly moved when a head popped out of the blue curtains.
"Hello?" A sleep blonde yawned.
"Go back to bed, this is a dream." Violetta whispered.
"Why would I dream about you?" Bloody smart Ravenclaws, always with their common sense.
Violetta faltered. "You're a lesbian, obviously, and you've been in love with me for the past three years."
"Really?"
"Yes, why do you think I'm not wearing any underwear? Now go back to bed and get to the juicy stuff."
"Okay." The girl yawned. Not that smart, are we?
She dug through Bertha's trunk and found the bundle of papers. She set them on fire right there and without drawing anymore fake lesbian lovers, made her way back down the stairs. She had already determined a way to tell the others she had destroyed the evidence. She couldn't leave and break Gideon's heart, not again. She stopped in the common room and made several unsuccessful attempts at sending a Patronus. She finally thought of Gideon, and how his smile had made her feel after she told him that she loved him. A sea turtle burst from her wand.
"I did it." Violetta's voice told the classroom where Bertha was being held. "It's done."
"Why didn't she come back?" Remus muttered.
"She's probably still with him." Sirius answered his rhetorical question.
Lily turned to Bertha. She waved her wand and gave her a particularly graphic memory, with the help of everyone else, as to how amazing Sirius Black was in the classroom. However, she became extremely clingy after the event, requiring him to break her heart in millions of tiny pieces, and striking in her a tremendous feeling of hate and a strong desire to never ever even talk to him again.
"Well, thank Merlin that's over."
February 20, 1977
Bertha walked into the Great Hall for lunch that day bursting with news.