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By the time Camila Sloan got back to her carriage, everyone had all the feathers, besides the ones that were put on purposefully, unstuck from their body. Camila sighed in relief, if they got the feathers off, she can get them off too, before she returns to Hogwarts.
"Hey Cam, finally back from the carriage of the itty bitty firsties." Mary Dewine, a girl with long curly brown hair and dark brown eyes said, and Camila realized that Mary not only had no more extra feathers in her hair, but she also had a bright pink one seemed to be stuck fashionably in her light brown curls.
Camila rolled her eyes; less than two years ago, Mary had been the 'itty bitty firsties.' In fact, she knew that she hated being called that. 'The annoying hypocrite.' Camila thought, out of all the girls in the cramped carriage, she despised Mary the most by far. In fact the only reason why they invited Mary to their 'all girls' cabin, is because most of them are friends with Dominique and they wanted her there. But Dominique and Mary are best friends, they wouldn't leave each other side.
'Still wondering how that happened.' Camila thought as responded to Mary. "Hey they are actually pretty cool first years." Mary just rolled her eyes.
"So," Camila started taking her seat nearest to the door, completely ignoring the uptight girl." how did you take the feathers off?"
"Oh," Aurora Hart, a girl with long, wavy, red hair and emerald stud in her nose that matches her eyes said with a smirk. "Brook, here, as if she knew this was going to happen, brought a gun with the potion that unsticks the charm/ product from you skin. The only cure by the way." Aurora said with a light smirk towards her best friend.
Camila turned towards her older sister, Brooklynn as she smiled a sheepish smile back.
"Why would you bring a cure for something that you didn't think was going to happen."
"Well" Brooklynn started. "When I first put our glitter feathers this." She said indicating to the square object on her lap. "I didn't realize what I was putting them into. You know how Cooper likes to play with explosives, well I kind of put the feathers into a time bomb he was working on, but it is harmless now! I am sure of it."
Camila slapped her forehead. Their 19 year old brother, loves making bombs. How could her sister not be on guard to what she puts into what?
"Well." Camila started to say keeping her temper calm. Out of the three Sloan girls, Camila was by far the one who lost her temper the most often. "It doesn't matter now, come one give me the spraying unsticking feather machine, you can give it to me now, so I can get all of these," She said, turning around. "feathers and glitter off of me, and then I'll give this to Haden." Camila said and her sister looked increasingly awkward.
"Well, Camila, you see." Hannah started for her 6th year sister, twisting her long dark brown hair. " We kind of used it all." Hannah ended quietly, as if trying to not let her younger 2nd year sister temper rise. It didn't work.
"WHAT?" Camila shouted, and the seven other girls (besides Dominique who appeared to be absorbed in her book) covered their ears. "You knew that I got hit with the most feathers. They are all across my clothes! Why did you not save any for me?"
"Well, we really didn't think." The tall fourth year Gryfindor, Miranda Lucet started, her apple green eyes wide at the sudden temper from the twelve year old.
"Well, that was plainly obvious." Camila said, rolling her eyes in exasperation. "Honestly, do you even have brains to use?" Camila Sloan isn't usually this bitter and mean, but when her temper rises, she just doesn't think. Most of the girls, spend a lot of time with Camila (her sister's best friends. The 4th and 6th year girls) and Dominique was so absorbed in "Hogwarts: A History 2," that she couldn't react. Which only let a very pissed off Mary Dewine.
"Listen, if any of us doesn't have a brain cell to share, it is little Ms. Princess over here." Mary said glaring at the 2nd year with full rage. No one, no matter how little comment, questions her intelligence. She wasn't a Ravenclaw for nothing. "Why would we make you happy, and waste all of the cure, when we can make the rest of us happy because we have so many less feathers than you do., " Mary said. " And besides, you should thank the bomb, because you look ten times better then you ever have or will! How about you just leave us alone, everyone has their best friend here, something you don't have, and we are older than you, so why don't you just leave the big girls alone!"
There was an awkward silence, and with angry tears nearly coming out of the twelve year old clear blue eyes, she stormed out of the carriage, blind with furious thoughts.
Camila didn't know what she was mad at more, the fact that Mary Dewine actually made kind of sense with her logic, or that she was the person who could get her this angry in the first place.
Tears rain down her cheeks, as she heard her sisters yell at Mary, but Mary was right. She was the youngest out of them, and she did feel out of place. But it wasn't her age or her about of placeness that really was blindingly hurt her. It was the fact that she was right about the best friend. By Christmas of their first year, both of her sister's 1st year, they had best friends, but Camila had no one, only her siblings. She felt like the loneliest kid in the world.
But it didn't make her feel any better that Mary Dewine said that. She hated that girl! She ruined everything for her!
She was too busy muttering ("I hate Mary Dewine") to notice a dirty blond haired girl race right past her.
She wanted revenge. She wanted it so bad. She was thirsty for revenge like a dried mouth horse.
But then, she heard voices from the carriage in front of her.
"Roxie, your plan is ingenious."
'I know, but you, partner in crime, I have to give cutos for suggesting where we should put the WWW double bomb."
"Yeah, but what are we going to put in it. It has to say, 'Welcome the new generation, we'll will make our mark on the castle whether you like it or not.' Can you think of anything?"
"No, uggh this is aggravating Danny."
A sudden idea shot through Camila's head as she listened to the new pranksters share their ideas. She knew a perfect plan, that would help the pranksters, and help get her revenge. She wiped her tears and knocked on the girls' door, and they opened the door.
"Camila." Danny asked her eyebrows furrowed.
"I happened to be listening to your predicament, and I have a perfect plan for all of us."
Cairo has always been the one to follow animals, know matter how bad judgment it was. Coming from a family like the Scamander clan, you learn to love animals. It might not be the best judgment in the world to follow her beloved pudgy calico cat, Mooch when he ran through the slightly agape door of her lonely room, instead of just picking it up and returning to the room with her stuff. But when did Cairo Scamander have the best judgment?
Cairo Scamander followed the pudgy cat around the entire train, past many confused looking people. She went through twists and turns, past a lady who looked like Wrackspurts entered her brain who was giving candy to two young boys who looked like boy versions of mischievous little Nargles. But she kept her eye on the movement of the fat little legs of her Mooch. She always thought that the greatest adventures and path could come from the animals, especially when little adventurous Nargles are in the little head of the animal.
She twirled around some rude snickering girl's in her year and raced right past a muttering dark haired girl. She could barely hear the muttering of "I hate Mary Dewine". Most of the time Cairo Scamander is a very, very sociable girl who would talk to anyone about anything, but now she had her eyes on the mysterious path of a particularly adventurous cat.
She only stopped when she saw her cat run past the feet of three boys, three pair's of feet she knew very well, three Slytherins in her year called Max Stowers, Cal Malocomber and Richard Delux (whenever there are characters that are not on the list, it means that I think that I needed to add these characters to make the story a little more better and understandable.)
But her eyes never let the cat's furry paws until Cal Malocomber swept it up like it weighed as much as a feather. Cairo eyes looked up from the floor and saw the scene before her.
Max Stowers was two inches taller than her and had dark, grey blue eyes. He had silkily messy black hair and a splash of freckles on his face. Most would say he was rather attractive, if it wasn't for the fact that he always had a sneer on his face whenever he said nearly anything. Cairo's grey eyes' examined his face. She wondered if there was any Wrackspurts in there. That would explain why he was always talking so confusingly.
The person to his right, and the one currently holding the slightly frightened looking cat, was Cal Malocomber. He was at least inches taller than his friend next to him, being roughly 6 foot even, taller than anyone in his entire year. He had dirty blond hair that stuck out in awkward places and mousy brown eyes. Cairo was sure about the Wrackspurts in his brain. Why else would he pick up her cat?
The last person, to Max Stower's right, was Richard Delux. He was the shortest out of all of them, being at least 3 inches shorter than Cairo, which was saying a lot, considering that Cairo is only 5'3". He had very light blond hair that lay smoothly on his rather fat head and had pale blue eyes. It wasn't the Wrackspurts that Cairo was confused about this time; she was sure some was in there. It was the fact that the 16 year old boy who almost resembled a teddy bear, was cracking his knuckles.
They were all staring at her with superior smirks, but Cairo just waved at the three Slytherins, almost happily. That got them confused, but they soon regain their smirks when Cairo asked this question.
"What are you doing with my cat, Mooch?" Cairo's owl eyes questioned them and they smirked. "Do you want to play with him, because we are always looking for a knew playmate." Cairo's voice was dreamy, and her comment startled the boys.
"So, out for a stroll, Creepy Scamander?" Max said with a slight smirk, and the other two boys gave a slight chuckle at the name. But Cairo didn't seem effected at all by the name, and shocked the three 6th year Sytherins, when their fellow year mate said merrily.
"Oh yes, it's nice to got for a stroll, and not just lay around. I was following Mooch over here, would you care to join us?" Cairo asked them dreamily and this time the three Slytherins were so startled by the comment to their rhetorical question that Cal nearly dropped the cat in surprise.
"Please be careful with Mooch, he doesn't liked to be held by his tail you know." Cairo said simply, as she watched her cat be uncomfortably held by its fluffy tail, after being thrown in the air, and caught by his tail. Max Stowers was shocked to say at least when the cat didn't hiss or scratch when he was cat like that; it only gave a unpleasant meow.
'Well,' Max thought. 'It's Creepy Scamander's cat, it would be weird after all.'
But when Max saw the slightly worried, and way less dreamy look on Cairo face, as it stared at the cat's unpleasant position, he suddenly got a bright idea.
"So it would be a bummer if lets say, your cat got levitated in the air." Max started, his blue eyes' shining with an unpleasant amusement. Cairo nodded, almost eagerly, much to his pardon.
"Yes that would be quite a bad turn of events."
"Well," Max said as he jerkily grabbed Mooch away from Cal. "it looks like then I'll never do that." Max said his voice dripped in sarcasm.
"Thank you, you are very kind." Cairo said, brightly and Max gave an agitated groan. Hasn't this girl ever heard of the word sarcasm?
"Now, may you set Mooch down, I would like to see where he was heading before." Cairo said curiously.
Max eyes flashed with unreadable anger. 'That is it!' Max thought bitterly. 'I am going break the creepy out of Creepy Scamander, if that is even possible.' Max thought as a afterthought.
"Okay, lets see how strong your cat really is." Max said and Cairo looked slightly puzzled. Did they want to see his strength in a little gym for animals? She thinks daddy has one of those.
"Levicorpus." Max said and with a flash of white light and the cat was instantly head up in the air by its ankles. Max smirk lightly when he remembered how he learned that spell all the way back in his 3rd year at Hogwarts.
As the cat Mooch was meowing a squealing like meow, Cairo frowned the smallest of frowns. "I know you meant well, wanting to see how strong my cat is, but I don't think Mooch likes it, can you please put him down." Cairo frown deepened slightly when her cat started to look nauseous.
"I will not put him down. Creepy, don't you understand!" Max said tiredly. But his tiredly annoyed eyes were turned amused when he saw a especially rare event. Cairo's eyes' flash angry. The boy had wrackspurts in his head. He didn't know when it was enough playtimes. Cairo, for one of the few times in her life, let out a pleading scream.
"MOOCH! Let him down!" She screamed at the three Slytherins, her usual dreamy grey eyes starting to plead. Her unusual rare, and rather loud pleading scream caused several reactions, and three groups of people to come racing out to the scene. And Cairo smiled the smallest of dreamy smiles, when she realized that three of her closest friends were in those groups.
Dominique Gabrielle Weasley always classified herself as the 'odd ball' of her siblings. Out of all of them, even Prefect Victoire, she was far more studious and loved to read for fun. You could most find this young thirteen-year-old Weasley in the library. In fact, the only people in the next generation Weasley family that were more or as book reading as her was Lucy and Rose.
She loved books and reading so much that the Sorting Hat made her the first (and only for as of right now) Weasley in Ravenclaw. She was one of those bookworms that got so sucked up in reading, that they forget what is happening around them.
So it didn't surprise anyone that when only when their was a large slam of the carriage door, Dominique Weasley looked up from her boo .She was shocked to see everyone either glaring at her best friend, Mary or were wearing very awkward looks.
"Hey," Mary said with a snobbish roll of her eyes. "I just said it to her strait."
Dominique was confused by the brown haired girl's comment. But then she realized that Camila was not there, and she had a pretty good idea why she wasn't. Dominique glanced at the door, where she was sure the 2nd year went out moments ago.
"Mary," Dominique started in a disapproving tone. "Exactly what did you say to Camila?"
Mary turned to face her friend, her snobbish attitude seem to vanish, as she said. "I just told her that it is about time that she started making her own friends." Mary said it so nonchalantly that it caused many reactions.
Dominique just sighed. If you knew Mary Veronica Dewine like she did, you would love her to bits. But Mary just.. didn't have a way with words.
Camila's two older sisters, Hannah and Brooklynn, looked like they had had enough with Mary spitting comments to their youngest sibling, and not even feel the slightest bit of remorse when she runs out of the compartment in the train, looking really hurt.
Their faces were red with fury.
"Look I have had enough with you Dewine." Brooklynn's sea green eyes flashed dangerously. "You keep messing with my younger sister, then I will guarantee the remains of you will not be pretty." Brooklynn let out a vicious protective growl.
"Yeah, what problem do you have with Cam, she is nicer and more polite than you could ever be." Hannah normally bright sea green eyes were darkened drastically with anger.
"It's not that I have a problem with the 2nd year. I mean sure she is annoying, but she is not all bad." Mary said rolling her brown eyes' and Dom could tell that she was thinking, 'Why don't all of these girl get that I am not being mean?'
"Oh yeah, than why did you make her feel so bad, and run out the room with tears in her eyes?" Aurora's hand was fingering for her wand. Her and Brook were best friends, which meant that her sisters were like sister's to her. Aurora never like this Mary Dewine girl, she was crude and rude and was after one of the closest people in her life.
"Because she needs to learn to grow up and make her own best friend." Mary shot back her voice sounding annoyed.
"Well, you could be more nicer." Miranda said, her apple green eyes annoyed. But behind the annoyed mask of her green eyes Miranda was debating between the two parts of her brain. One part of her brain (the annoying one) thought that Mary was right, while the other part of the brain was plotting possible prank ideas to bring Mary ego down a peg. She went with the simpler, more fun choice.
'Hmm, maybe dongbombs in her jacket.' Miranda thought as she grinned, looking at the model dongbomb on her necklace, her signature cat-like grin. This made her good friend, Maureen gulp. She knew that look too well to know that nothing but some laughs and detentions for Miranda who somehow got Maureen and their other best friend Hannah, along for the ride. Including the long hours in detention.
"I could, but do you want the sugarcoat the facts, or do you want it get it through the twelve-year-old's thick head." Mary said and then all hell broke loose in the small room.
Dominique had, from the very beginning of this conversation, shifted her seat to Camila's old seat, and as she crushed her ears and face near the window of the room she tried to focus out of the conversation that was ringing in her ears. You would wonder why Dominique, the sweet protective Dominique is not defending the poor 2nd year. Dominique knew that logically, however mean it sounds, her best friend was being very correct when she said the Camila needed her own friends, and needed to stand on her own two friends without her sister's support. Then you would ask why Dominique is hiding from the conversations, with her thoughts and also the fact it was her best friend going up against 5 other girls, that she would be defending her best friend. Well, in 1st year she would have. But she learned that Mary was very independent when it came to these type of fights, or what Mary calls them 'helpful discussions'. Her best friend would get angry at her for getting involved, not only because of her strong independence, but also because she didn't want her best friend to damage the friendship she had with the other girls, especially with the Sloan sisters. But that didn't stop Dominique from banging her head softly against the glass of the room, and crushing her ears so she couldn't hear best friend and other friends argue.
Brooklynn actually froze with anger. Her clear blue eyes flashed dangerously; even though it did not look it to most people, the most important thing in her life is both of her sisters. And she hated when anyone made rude or hurtful remarks to them/ about them. The only thing that made her not take out her wand and test the perfected Bats Bogey hex is one thought running through her furious head. 'She is only a kid. She is only a third year. You could get in trouble.' But she couldn't help but growl.
Aurora looked royally pissed off; she was making two tight fists, angrily trying to get a messy strip of curly red hair out of her face. No one made fun of her 'little pal'. She knew Camila ever since Camila was 8 and she was 12. Anyone who knew Aurora knew that she was overprotective of those she loved. Aurora made a grab for her wand; to make all of the offensive charms that she knew come alive to the 3rd year's face. To the hell that she is a 3rd year! But it wasn't there. She snapped her head to see a slightly guilty looking 4th year holding wand, while she was struggling to keep her other friends to not fire their own wands. Aurora let out a growl, and right now she hated the fact that they didn't learn to do charms without wands until this upcoming year!
The wand holder of the red head 6th year, Maureen, was struggling to keep her best friends and fellow dorm mates, Miranda Lucet and Hannah Sloan, from releasing their temper. Maureen looked like she did want to get angry at Mary for saying such bad things about her best friend's little sister, but she also knew that she needed to be the one to calm down the other girls in the room. She already successfully disarmed Aurora Hart (she was one of those girls who read far ahead in charms, and was really good at it). But she had both of her pale hands on her furious friend's shoulders. It was not a fun job.
Miranda Lucet was shaking with fury. It was not just the comments that Mary Dewine said today that made her very angry. It was EVERYTHING! Everything the 3rd year Ravenclaw said made her get a headache. The Ravenclaw was either a goody two shoes that doesn't ever take a toe out of line (not the slight goody two shoes, who is smart and witty, like Maureen) or making snappy remarks about actually cool and decent people. She didn't know how Dominique (who at least took risks in Quidditch as a beater; yeah I know surprising) could stand her. But she was shocked her when Mary said another snappy comment.
" Well at least I can take the truth, even when it hurts."
It wasn't that that shocked Miranda. It was what happened afterwards.
"Expelliarmus!" She heard the slightly melodic voice beside her should her. Mary's shock was reflected in her eye's as of the other girls. But it was even more of a shock when the usual calm minded 4th year shota green flare and the next thing you knew Mary's nose was full of bat bogeys. Mary was too shock to react.
Everyone turned shocked to Maureen Redfern who cast the spell with Auror's own wand. The first to recover was Miranda who laughed loudly and said.
"Now that is what I am talking about!"
Out of all the shocked faces, it was surprising that Dominique Weasley was the least shock out of them. These types of things do happen often, when Dom thought her best friend deserved it. But like with the arguments, she didn't do anything. She did once in 1st year, but after a long talk at the end of 1st year with Mary, she let her fight her own battles. The reasons behind this are a mystery to those beside Mary and Dominique.
Anyway, Dominique felt a pang of annoyance to the older 4th year, but she also felt a pang of awe towards her bravery. But before any fight could begin, Dominique heard a cry, a cry so loud that even through her closed ears, she could hear it plain a clear.
"MOOCH! Let him down!" Dominique blue eye's widened. Mooch, that was Cairo's cat! She was the first to leap to her feat (followed quickly by the other girls) and walk out of the room to see, a sixth year boy, already in his green and silver uniform, a friend on either side of him, levitating a pudgy calico cat high out of the reach of a blond hair girl, who was desperately trying to get it back. When Dominique blue eye's met with the familiar large owl-like uncharacteristically pleading grey eyes of the girl, Dominique heart went out for Cairo, one of her only childhood friends, despite the fact that the dirty blond hair girl is three years older than her.
Teddy Lupin was always one to protect his family. It didn't matter if they weren't related by blood, they still were family, and there were some people he would do absolutely anything for. Here are the people on the "My family; blood or not" list. Of course all the Potter/Weasley were on the list (especially his childhood best friend, Victoire Weasley). But so were a few outsiders. Like….
Kenneth Hurst. He is Teddy Lupin's absolute best friend. The brother in all but blood. They are with each other through everything, and even though he is a Ravenclaw and Teddy is a Gryfindor, they still make their best friendship work.
August, Alice and Frank Longbottum; he has known the three of them, ever since before any of them could talk.
Georgina (who prefers to be called Amy) Cook and Malcolm Reed. They are his two other closest friends. And of course if you protect the friends, you protect the siblings (Albert Reed and Elizabeth Cook) as well.
And last but certainly not least the Scamander family. It might have to do with the fact that Cairo is the closest age of a the family friend, but Teddy is particularly close to Cairo Scamander. In fact, before he went to Hogwarts, Cairo was one of his best friends (besides Vic of course). And they are still close even today.
So when you hurt anyone on the 'list', you are in for an angry Teddy Lupin. So you can imagine how angry Teddy must be when he heard the yelling, from a normally sweet, calm, though dreamy girl.
He was having a peaceful conversation when he heard the scream.
"No way, Ken! The Holyhead Harpies are going to dominate this year. They have the best team they have had ever since my godmother, Ginny left to help raise her kids."
"HA! The only reason why you are defending the Harpies is because you know most of the team personally, thanks to your godmother!" Ken said with a smug tine
"So do you! Remember in back in the summer of 2nd year, you came over to my place and you saw at least 4 professional games by the Harpies. You even got autograph snitches for cry out thought, which you still have." Teddy exclaimed, his blue hair tinting with orange annoyance.
"Yeah, but I don't play favorites, and you know Puddlemere is going to win, with Wood playing keeper."
"They didn't win the world cup that same summer you got your autographs. The Harpies won."
"I'll admit Teddy, if your godmother was on team, yeah, they would cream Puddlemere. But guess what Teddy, your godmother is not on team anymore. They haven't what since your godmother left. But Puddlemere has, just last year."
"But they got a better chaser this year!"
"Okay, Teddy, if you are so sure that they are going to win, how about a bet." Ken said, his green eyes sparkling, but it had such a playful spark to it, that you knew that the argument was just for fun.
"What kind of bet, Ken? What team will win this year?" Teddy said, his hair turning purple with amusement.
"No, I was thinking." Ken said with a slight smirk. "That we could do it more personal than that! You know how we both made team captain this year, me for Ravenclaw, you for Gryfindor, well how about we bet our own team will win the Quidditch Cup this year. Want to bet." Ken held out his strong hand and Teddy (who has been doing these bets for now 6 years) shook his hand.
"The usual." Teddy smirked and Ken nodded, running his hand through his black hair.
Yep that would be a typical conversation for the two best friends.
"So hey where is Amy and Malcolm?" Teddy asked, his now turquoise blue eyebrows furrowed. They usually sat with the group.
"Well, it looks like our little Amy-poo and Mally are all grown up. Mally came in earlier and told me he and Amy-poo are head boy and girl." Ken said with a fond grin.
"Good on them. It looks like we all got something we wanted this year, me and you got Quidditch captian, and Mally and Amy-poo got Head boy and girl." Teddy said with a smile.
But before the two best friends could start up another conversation they heard a pleading and familiar shout.
"MOOCH! Put him down!"
Teddy and Kenneth took one glance at each other. Cairo. They both knew that voice anywhere. Teddy sprinted out of the door, with Kenneth right behind him and what he saw made his hair turn dangerously angry red.
Three of the Slytherin boys in 6th year were picking on Cairo! One of them had their wands out and cursing her cat! Now Teddy's entire face was a complete red, with Ken following his lead.
He saw other doors slam and he saw two other groups. One was a group of girls, leading by shocked Dominique Weasley and the other was a much smaller group of three students in third year. He recognized them as August Longbottum, Aidon Lowe and Megan Deverill. But Teddy's now red eyes were on the scene in front of him; he didn't even notice when two of his good friends, head boy and girl themselves, came back from their meeting.
"Hey!" Teddy turned to the sound of the voice. It was August. "Leave her alone!" Teddy was rather impressed; August was usually a boy who lacked in confidence. But then again, he was faultily loyal. But Teddy could see the boy pale when the two goons in 6th year (the one that was not holding Mooch who was barfing up hairballs at the moment) went over to him with a smirk on their lips, as they faced their new prey.
"Oh yeah," The fatter one said shoving poor scared to death August. "What are you going to do about it?" Poor August opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Teddy for one couldn't blame him, seeing at the fatter one was two times as wide as he and the taller one had a foot on him.
"Your all talk." The taller one sneered, giving him a rough push.
"Hey." The usual anti social Megan Deverill said, her eyes had a spark of raw anger in them. "Leave August out of it!"
"Oh look, quiet boy has a rude girlfriend." The fatter one said and Teddy saw the girl go red. If it was from anger or from embarrassment was anyone's guess. Probably both.
But then suddenly, there was sparks coming out of the angered 3rd year's wand and blasted the fatter one on the nose, leaving a boil that made him look like he was supposed to be leading a slay in December.
Everyone went quiet for a moment, and then a forth year girl Teddy recognized as the keeper for the Gryfindor quidditch team, Miranda Lucet shouted. "Yeah, now it is a party!" And then, it was every head's nightmare. Curses flying everywhere, and it didn't stop until he nudged Amy and she knew what to do.
"HEY EVERYONE STOP WITH ALL OF THE CURSES!" Shocked everyone stopped immediately. But, the results were present, when two of the Slytherin boys (the two not levitating the cat in the air) were covered in boil, one girl (Teddy classified her as Mary Dewine, who by the looks of it didn't have a wand to start out with, ) was knocked out cold with the stunner charm, and Teddy couldn't help but notice that no one was really paying her much attention. Besides Dominique who was giving her sideways concerned glances as she was still looking at Cairo.
"Now," Malcolm started, as he was about to tell Max Stowers to put the cat down (which had not been harmed as well as it's owner, but the cat looked downright frightened. But Cairo put up a hand.
"Max." Everyone was surprised at the calmness and still dreaminess she possessed. "If I may, can I have my cat back, he looks rather sick." But it shocked everyone, especially Max Stowers when Cairo put her pale hand on his cheek forcing him to look at her. When Max looked iinto her wide eyes he suddenly looked a bit dazed. He murmured something incoherent and the cat was bat down in Cairo's arms. She smiled at him. But what shocked the rather sly teenager the most was when she gave him a peck on the cheek and started to skip off to her cabin. And everyone was left shocked.
Max was looking at her agape. His two 'friends', who refused help from the heads to get boils off their skin, looked at him in surprise. They just shared a sideways glance and pulled him all the way back to his cabin. But out of all the things Teddy saw in those few moments, nothing confused him more than when he glanced to share a confused look with Amy.
But she was smiling. One of those annoying smiles that girls always have when they know something and you don't.
Kenneth seemed to catch her smile as well because he said. "What?" With raised eyebrows.
With a long glance at Kenneth, Amy sighed and just said. "Boys." Leaving them more confused than ever.
As everyone started to part their ways, Georgina (Amy) Cooks was one of the few who were trying to find, and help the now stunned girl. She finally spotted the poor girl, she was about to say goodbye to 'her boys' (Teddy and Kenneth), when she saw her with Kenneth again.
It was not like there was anything wrong with the girl, but she just made Amy's skin crawl; ever since she had started hanging out with Kenneth so much, she had started making Amy's life hell. She wasn't even Kenneth's girlfriend (like he would settle down with one girl) for merlin's sake. But, she acted like she was. Amy's eye's twitched ever time she sees the clear blue eyes, of the beautiful sixteen year old.
She was trying to hide it, embarrassed that she had the smallest distractions make such a huge effect on her. She should be focusing on more important things, like helping the stunned girl and her head duties. But even though she tried to forget it and move on, there was one person who definitely saw the twitchiness of right hazel eye.
"Amy-poo?" Teddy said with a smirk and Amy gave him a heated scowl. She hated that nickname, almost as much as she hated the name Georgina, I mean it was pretty, but not for her.
Teddy's concern was tripled when Amy just scowled at the name. Most of the time she did much, much more. "Are you okay? Your eye.." He stopped is sentence abruptly when he realized where she was looking at. Just as Teddy was about to say something else, Amy interrupted him.
"Teddy, I am going to go check up on the stunned girl." Amy said, trying to look at anything but Kenneth and the brown haired girl. "I'll be right back." She went to walk away, but Teddy caught up with her and said. "I am going to check up on Cai, wanna come?"
"But the stunned girl." Amy started but when she returned her gave to where the stunned girl used to be, she was looking perfectly healthy again, but to the pardon of the girls around her. 'Looks like Malcolm fixed her.' Amy thought. "Alright, I'll check up on Cre- I mean Cairo." Amy said catching herself when Teddy started to glare at her.
When they both reached the Cairo's room, they both found not only the strange girl, but also four other visitors.
The first visitor Amy saw was the one petting Mooch, trying to get the poor traumatized cat to stop twitching. Amy recognized this girl as Teddy's 'cousin, Dominique Weasley. She was trying to ease the poor fat cat, while looking fairly amused at Cree; 'No!" Amy thoughts reprimanded. 'Her name is Cairo'. She looked fairly amused at Cairo, who was talking and petting a lizard.
The next person, who was closest to Cairo, was August Longbottum. His bushy honey blond hair was puffing up, almost like an Afro and his caring chocolate brown eyes were glittering with care as he looked at Cairo playing with the lizard from the wild.
The person sitting across from August was Aidan Lowe. He was also sitting next to Dominique Weasley, and was flirting with her, as she giggled slightly. Well flirt as much as a couple of thirteen year olds can. His blond hair stopped just short enough to see his amber brown eyes.
The last person was sitting right next to August was the curse war starting Megan Deverill. Out of all the kids here, she looked like she wanted to be here the least.
Amy was confused as of why to why they were al here, especially Megan, who looked like she wanted to flee to her own room. But then she remember how this summer she got letters from Teddy saying how Megan was at the Longbottum house all summer long. She concluded that she was best friend with August, along with Aidan Lowe.
"Cairo." Teddy started, and got everyone's attention.
"Oh high Teddy." Cairo started, her dreamy quality present. "Do you care for join us? BoBo is happier with the more company he has. Amy fought the logical reaction to roll her eyes. Instead she just smiled at the girl.
"No. I was just checking on Moo-" Teddy stopped and his blue eyebrows rose as he finally registered everything Cairo had said. "Wait a minute. BoBo?"
"It is the lizard's name." Megan said with a slight roll of her eyes. August nudged her slightly.
"Why?" Amy asked curious and slightly freaked out.
"Because he looks like a BoBo." Cairo answered simply, petting the lizard gently. Megan's eye roll was a lot more noticeable this time. August just sighed and nudged her harder this time. Megan shot him an annoyed look, and he just raised his eyebrows at her. It was like that for a few seconds, when Megan finally caved and brought a smile to the surface that is never seen if August is not in the room.
August gave her a pointed look towards the 'BoBo'. Megan sighed, told Amy that she knew what August wanted. Megan stretched her pale hand to pat the lizard. The lizard just stared at her for a moment, his black beady eyes staring into Megan's dark brown ones.
The only one that wasn't surprised when Megan lips stretched into a fond smile as she kept patting the lizard was August. As she kept petting the lizard, August's own fond grin grew on his face.
"Well," Teddy started, his eyes still focused on the lizard. "I guess we should be getting back." He finished, smiling at Cairo who gave him a brilliant smile in return.
"Yeah, I'll come with you." Amy said, thinking 'I hope Sloan is out of our room by now.'
As Teddy and Amy started for the door, Aidon suddenly stood up. He walked over to Teddy so fast it was almost urgent.
"Teddy," Aidon said. "about the Quidditch team this year." He started, but his team captain interrupted him.
"No, Aidon, I won't replace any of our old players. All of the old team that was not a 7th year last year will be on the team this year. I am not Zoe" He said bitterly referring to their captain two years ago. "But we will need a new chaser, a new seeker and a new beater." Aidon nodded and gave him a grateful grin as he returned to his seat.
Teddy and Amy made there way out of the room and walked back to their room. But something made Amy stopped abruptly. As Teddy walked ahead of her, Amy picked up the object that caught her eye. It was a beautiful ring; it had a golden band and had stones like emeralds and sapphires across the rim of the simple ring.
"Teddy," Amy said as she picked up the ring in curiosity, and started to walk to the door of her room. "Do you know who ring this is?" She asked her friend. Her friend didn't answer and when she looked up she was confused to see her friend guarding the door, an awkward and desperate look on his face.
"Teddy." Amy's eyebrows rose. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing, hey Amy, how about we go back to Cai's room." He said rubbing his neck, and Amy rolled her eyes, she knew something was up now.
"Okay." Amy said as she clutched her wand tightly. Teddy sighed; she believed it. But Amy wasn't done, she sent blue sparks up from out of her wand and Teddy was so shocked that she managed to push him out of the way to reveal.. the truth.
Through the window Amy felt her heart break in two when she saw Brooklynn Sloan and her, I mean her friend Kenn sucking each other faces like their was no tomorrow. Through broken heart, Amy dropped the ring, and raced down the train, ignoring Teddy's yells.
She didn't stop yelling until she reached the room that her sister said she would be in. She pulled the door open with a sharp tug and she sat. The three occupants of the room, Victoire Weasley, Merliah Paine, and her sister, Elizabeth Cook were shocked to say at least.
"Amy? Are you okay? Why are you crying?" Elizabeth's voice rang in her ears, and Amy was shocked that tears were running down her hurt face. Why was she hurt? Ken had too many girlfriends to count, unlike their everlasting friendship. Yeah, they have been friends since 1st year, but how long has the longest girlfriend last? Two months, three months. 'Yeah, it didn't matter'. The thought repeated in her head, but she knew deep inside, that the thought would never become a reality.
Teddy Lupin couldn't feel anymore awkward and honestly betrayed in his life. He was standing in his room where his best friend and his new girlfriend, Brooklynn, were making out. He had been standing in the room for a minute and a half (he had the watch to prove it) and neither Ken nor his kisser has noticed he had entered the room.
"You know." Teddy said abruptly. "The brain dies after loosing two minutes of oxygen." That got a reaction out of them. Ken was glaring at his best friend for interrupting a good snog and Brooklynn was blushing like crazy, and it wasn't just because of the embarrassment of interrupting a snog.
"You know, uh Teddy, uh I mean uh Ken, I am going to go- uh.." She looked almost longingly at Teddy for a brief seconds. "Back to my room yeah." And with one last red blush towards Teddy, she scurried out of the room.
"So, Brooklynn, ehh?" Teddy asks, not sitting down. His arms were crossed and his eyebrows was raised.
"Yeah." Ken said, his eyes full of lust. "Why the look?" His eyebrows furrowed.
Teddy just sighed. "You know she has a crush on me, right?" Ken just rolled his eyes.
"Dude, she is over you."
"Yeah, because she is so over me." Teddy said sarcastically.
"You said it man, now come on take a seat. Take a Frog." Ken said tossing him the chocolate and these were one of the few times that he was not in the mood for chocolate. He just tossed the chocolate right back shaking his head, much to the confusement of his best friend.
Teddy just sighed; he was positive that Amy has a crush on Ken, but he just had to go out with the girl who has had a huge crush ever since 3rd year. And Amy would be perfect for him, would keep him behaved.
But trying to explain that to Ken was like trying to teach James Potter to be a good boy. Horrible and way unsuccessful. But in answer to his best friend's comment he just walked out of the room, until something caught his eyes. Victoire's ring! Not just any ring, her favorite ring.
He quickly picked it up and went his way to find Victoire's room. But he just didn't find Vic; he also found something more rare than her beautiful ring, a crying Amy. Amy never cries. Curse you Ken! He was making the perfect girl for him cry! He got to get them together.
"Hey Vic." Teddy said, after he gave Amy a sympathetic backrub. "I found you something." He bent down and put her favorite ring on her ring finger, making her squeal with delight.
"Teddy!" Vic exclaimed giving him a hug. "Thank you, this ring is always falling off." She whispered in his ears, and by the end of their hug, both were glowing red, and refused to look at each other. And with one look, Merliah Paine, Elizabeth and the teary eyed Amy Cook, knew that they had to get them together by the end of this year!"
When the train finally reached Hogwarts, no one was more excited than 1st years, Albert Reed, Haden Pendragen and Andrew Mancis. Well, the excitement was large considering that Haden and Albert had not found their robes meaning that Albert had to go in with boxers showing, foot bloody and showing and Haden had to go in covered in girly feathers and sparkles.
But never less, the three friends were excited so when the train finally stopped, Albert actually let out a squeak of excitement, but Andrew couldn't bug him about it, because he wet his pants. And then, as the three raced out the train, they could here the familiar call for first years.
"First year! First year thi' way!" Hagrid called to the first years that all hurried. Andrew, Albert and Haden all tried to hurry along without attracting any attention. But that was hard to do when there was a boy with half of his pants on and crushed toes, a boy with feathers and sparkles, and a boy with wet pants in their group.
"No more then four to a boat!"
They all crammed into one boat, followed by a boy who introduced himself as Harold Arobat. They all saw as the two girls they met earlier cram into a boat along with a girl with orange hair and cloudy grey eyes and a boy with brown hair and brown eyes. But no matter what they looked like, they were all excited.
"Duck!" Hagrid shouted. It was too bad that Andrew didn't hear him! But the force of the hit wasn't strong enough to pull the boat into the water. It just made a large lump on his eleven year old head.
As they reached the front door of the castle, Hagrid looked back at the kids this year and thought. "Well looks like the will be the start on an interesting year."
A crinkly smile formed on his face as the one with feathers shouted.
"Come on already!'
Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked on the castle door three times.