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Chapter 8

At Platform 9 and 3/4

The tension had been high all day. No one wanted to say something that they would regret later so there was basically no talking. Kat stayed as far away from Sirius as possible. Sirius was still trying to figure out why he kissed her. The girls were on Kat's side and stayed away from the guys too. The guys wanted to know why their girlfriends were ignoring them. It had been a great morning for all of them.

"Come on, James, we have to go direct the younger students and then we have a meeting to attend." said Lily walking faster, not even looking at James.

"Ok darling." James replied following her.

"I got to go get ready for the meeting." Remus said. He kissed Rachel on the cheek and ran off to help Lily and James.

"Well, I guess we better go find a compartment." Silas said seeing how many people had gathered.

"Yea, whatever," Kat said getting aboard the train, "oh look our normal compartment, how unusual."

They all sat down most of them next to their respective others. On one side: Jim, Hannah, Jessica, Silas, Amos and Amy and on the other side: Kat, Rachel, an empty seat for Remus, Santana, Sirius, and an empty seat for Peter. (A/N: There aren't any seats for Lily and James because they are going to sit in the Head's Compartment.)

Santana looked around in awe. She had to admit the Hogwarts Express was pretty cool, though she would never tell anybody that of course.

"So Santana, how do you like it so far?" Jessica asked trying to make conversation.

She was about to answer when a first year burst into their compartment.

"Have you seen my owl? Somebody let it loose and now I can't find it." he wailed.

"No. Sorry, we haven't. Now bugger off." said Sirius as he glared at the poor kid until the compartment door was shut.

"Hey guys." Peter said walking in about two minutes later.

"Hey. Sup? How's it going Pete?" were a few of the responds.

"Fine, fine," Peter said smiling, "wait a minute, who are you?" Peter asked Santana.

"Santana Pouncy." she replied coldly.

"Oh okay, I'm Wormtail, well everyone calls me Pete, or Peter, have your pick." Peter said as he sat next to Sirius.

"Wormtail how was the family reunion? It was too bad you couldn't come with us to America." Silas said to him

"Oh that's ok. I had fun with my family. It was nice to see everyone and I got to go to Germany so it was cool." Peter said rambling on.

Remus came in just about fifteen about the train had started moving. "Oh hey Pete, sup?"

Peter waved but didn't look up from his spot where he was playing exploding snap with Sirius. Rachel was waiting for him to sit down. Amy and Jessica were cuddling with their boyfriends. Hannah and Jim had fallen asleep in each others arms and Kat was staring out the window and sighing, a lot. Remus sat down next to Rachel and put his arms around her.

"So, what's with Kat? She looks really down." asked Remus. All the girls were like family to him and he didn't like seeing them upset.

Rachel turned and looked at him. "You should know. I'm sure Sirius told you all about it."

"Ok...whatever." he said. He turned to Sirius and asked him about it.

"Well, um…you know." he said blushing.

"I know but what's the whole story? I mean Kat looks really upset. I wish you had told us last night. I mean, we were all really worried about you." Remus whispered.

"Yea, sorry about that, I was just upset with myself." Sirius said quietly, shaking his head.

"I know you like her and all but why did you suddenly decide to talk to her?" asked Remus in a hushed tone.

"Well, Santana told me that Kat liked me and so I decided to go talk to her to see if it was true. I panicked and kissed her. I really just wanted to talk but know it doesn't matter." Sirius replied sadly and with that he turned back to his game with Peter.

What they didn't notice was that Kat was listening to the whole conversation. 'What? I knew something was up last night. She's a stupid liar. Hannah, Lils and Jessica were right. She really is evil. I can't believe I was stupid enough to trust her.' She thought bitterly to herself.

Suddenly Kat got up and dragged Santana outside of the compartment.

Outside the compartment

"What's your problem? You lied to me!" screamed Kat.

"What are you talking about?" Santana asked innocently.

"You told me that you didn't tell Sirius about my secret and that he was bragging about it last night." Kat accused.

"What are you talking about? No I didn't. I would never do such a thing." Santana said pouting.

"That's a lie and you know it. Why did you do it Santana? I thought you were my friend." said Kat sadly.

"Well I guess you thought wrong." Santana said laughing, as she began to walk aimlessly down the hallway in search of a decent bathroom.

Kat scoffed and walked back into the compartment. She threw herself into the seat.

"Ummm…Kat are you ok?" Rachel asked.

"NO! DO I LOOK LIKE I'M OK!?!?! THAT BITCH OVER THERE, SHE FUCKING LIED TO ME!!" Kat screamed at the top of her lungs.

The other people in the compartments heard this and stuck their heads out of the doors. Kat noticed this and yelled, "FUCK YOU!" as she slammed their door shut.

"Uh, Kat, are you sure she lied to you? I mean it could just be a mistake." Rachel said, unsure of really what was happening.

"Yea I'm sure. I overheard Sirius and Remus' conversation earlier. Santana told Sirius my secret Rach." Kat said.

"I don't know. I was just checking that's all." said Rachel.

See if I care!" Kat said, huffing. With that, she turned to the window and refused to speak to anyone the rest of the trip.

Head's Compartment

"Are you mad at me darling?" said James worriedly, looking into his girlfriend's eyes.

"No. Not really. It's just the whole thing with Kat and Sirius just us really pissed last night." Lily said laying her head on James' shoulder.

"Oh. Ok, just checking. What happened last night? Sirius wouldn't tell us any details." asked James.

"Well, according to Kat and Santana, Sirius wanted to talk to Kat so they went away from the group, to that bench where we couldn't figure out who the people were. Sirius, I guess from nerves, kissed her. That's when Kat freaked out and ran away. When we got to the room, she told us what happened and we were all like 'what the fuck?' Then Santana came up to the room and told us Sirius was bragging about the whole thing to you guys. That's why we were all upset this morning because of what Sirius did." Lily told James.

"What did Santana mean "bragging to us"? You guys obviously knew way more than what we did." James thought out loud.

"Well I don't know. Oh James, this is getting way to confusing let's forget about it." sighed Lily.

"That's fine with me." he said smirking.

James then picked Lily up and put her in his lap so that he could see her face better. "You know what, I love you."

"Well, I love you more."

"Nah, I love you way more."

"Mr. Potter, I do believe you are mistaken. Because I know I love you more than you love me."

"Ms. Evans, that may be so but I've loved you longer than you've loved me."

"Very well Mr. Potter."

Finally about ten of more minutes of telling each other how much they loved each other they started making out.

"Ow you kissed my eye you asswipe."

"Oh crap. I'm sorry Lils. I'll be more careful next time." he said smiling at her.

"FIVE MINUTES TILL THE TRAIN REACHES THE STATION." said a voice from a speaker somewhere.

"Well I guess we have to change into our robes and head out." Lily said getting off James.

"Lils, we still have five minutes." James whined.

"But James, we're Heads now. We have to be more responsible." Lily corrected.

"Fine." James said as he pretended to pout.

'Hmm, I wonder how everything worked out in their compartment." Lily thought to herself as she was changing. 'I just hope nobody's dead yet.

On the platform

'Holy crap, there's so many people! Good God, there weren't ever half as many people in my old school.' thought Santana as she followed Rachel, Sirius, Remus, etc off the train and heading toward the horseless carriages.

"Oh what charming little carriages… OH MY GOD WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS???" Santana shrieked as they approached the carriages.

"Santana, Santana, calm down, now what in the world are you talking about?" Rachel asked concerned for her friend's sanity.

"Those- those- those awful things pulling the carriages, what are they?" Santana stuttered.

Behind them Kat was doubled over if a huge giggle fit. Rachel shot her a look then turned back to Santana.

"Dear, they are horseless carriages, there is nothing pulling them, except magic I would guess." Rachel tried reasoning with Santana.

"Now dear, when will you ever going to take my advice and read 'Hogwarts, A History'?" asked Remus, while shaking his head and smiling. "If you ever will you would realize that there is 'something' pulling the carriages, and not magic."

"I don't care just tell me what the hell those things are!" Santana said clutching Sirius' sleeve.

Kat was still behind them all basically crying because she was laughing so much and having to keep in some what contained.

"Santana, just breath okay, just calm down and I can tell you what they are." Remus said quietly.

Santana shut her mouth but keep her eyes wide in fright.

'Wow, there is a first time for everything.' thought Kat to herself. Again, Kat doubled over in another silent fit of giggles.

"Kat, are you okay? You are acting rather strange." Asked Jessica concerned for this friends sanity.

"My darling I have never felt better in my life." Kat said with a huge grin on her face.

"Here let's just get in this carriage." Amy suggested.

"Sure why not? Rachel you coming?" asked Jessica as Amy and Kat got into the carriage.

"I'll er, be there in a minute." Rachel said not even turning around.

"Okay, we'll wait." said Jessica happily.

"She's not coming." Kat said with a bitter voice.

"Oh she is, maybe you didn't hear her she said that she'd be here in just a minute." Jessica said not noticing a thing.

"No, she will not be joining us. She is going to be staying with her precious little French friend!" Kat said, anger growing in her voice.

"But she said-" Jessica started.

"Wait, are you psychic?" Amy asked suddenly, her voice in awe.

"YES THAT'S IT! I'M PSYCHIC!" Kat screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Ugh, and you never told us, how rude." Jessica said.

Kat screamed in frustration.

In the carriage ahead of them

"Thestrals?" asked Santana.

"Yes." Remus said nodding his head.

"They pull the carriages?" Santana asked, clearly not getting it.

"Yes." Remus said sighing a bit.

"And only people who have seen someone die can see them?" Santana asked again.

"Yes." Remus said for the final time.

"But-" Santana started.

"You know what, if you want to find out more, why don't you read the book?" Sirius asked tiredly.

"Well if Rachel hasn't read it, then why bother?" Santana answered boldly.

"Ahem, well I was thinking that I should probably read it this year, so Remus wouldn't be the only know-it-all around here." Rachel said smiling to herself.

"Oh well Kat… read… it." Remus finished brokenly.

Rachel's smile disappeared and she turned her head and stared out of the small window. Remus tried comforting her but placing his arm around her shoulders. All she did was shrug him away.

Remus looked hurt, but by that time they had finally reached the castle.

"Ah, Hogwarts, I missed thee." Rachel said with a smile on her face again.

Rachel looked up at the castle for a few more seconds, then walked over to her boyfriend and took both of his hands in hers.

"Listen, I'm sorry. Can we talk later?" she stood of her tip toes as she stood on the stone steps leading into Hogwarts.

"Sure we can." Remus said with a smile now on his face.

"Well," said a new voice, "I am glad to see everyone is happy, now can we please get a move one?" It was Kat.

"Hey, Rach, did you know that Kat is psychic?" Jessica said walking up to the other group with Kat and Amy, with Hannah, Silas, Amos, and Jim following close behind.

"What?" Rachel asked surprised.

Kat screamed in frustration again, and pushed past everyone as she made her way into the great hall.

"She doesn't like people to know." Jessica said, as if she knew everything.

Rachel had a weak smile on her face as she looked at Jessica.

"Yes dear, I am sure that is it." Silas said finally joining the group.

"Well we better get inside. Dinner should be starting soon." Rachel said airily, as if something else was on her mind.

Everyone made their way into the Great Hall and made their way to their tables.

"Oh Santana, by they way, do you know what house you are going to be in, or are you going to have the joy of being sorted with the first years?" James asked, coming out of no where with Lily in tow.

"Ah I see you made it away from the little buggers." Sirius smirked.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, so do you know?" James asked again.

"Yah actually I do. It said something in my letter that Dumbledore sent me." Santana said trying to remember what the letter said.

"Do you remember anything? Like the first letter or what it sounded like?" asked Sirius.

"Hmm, if I remember correctly it started with… a… er… 'G'?" Santana said uncertainly.

"Would that happen to be 'Gryffindor?" Silas asked excitedly. He had a lot of house spirit.

"Yah, that sounds right." Santana said agreeing.

"Cool, most of us are in there. Um, I am, Rach is, Sirius is, Kat is, and Silas is." Remus explained.

"Okay, so which table is ours?" Santana asked looking at the four different tables.

"The one second from the left." Sirius said making his way over toward the table.

"Then who are the other ones for?" Santana asked confused.

"To the left is Slytherin, then us, next to Gryffindor is Ravenclaw, and all the way of the right is Hufflepuff, yah that's everyone." James explained.

"How about up in front?"

"The professors and, of course the Headmaster do."

"Ohhhh okay now I see how it works."

"Hey guys! How was you summer in the U.S.?" said an unfamiliar voice from the Gryffindor table.

"Dude, Rusty, sup man? Yah we had a total blast in the ol' U.S. of A. Totally radical!" Rachel said with a surfer accent and lingo.

"So I take it went good?" Rusty asked confused.

"Yeah, it was very cool, you missed a good trip." Remus said sitting next to Rusty.

"Damn, I still wish I could-a gone! But no, I was stuck with no magic, muggles everywhere I frickin looked, and with my family the whole god damn time." Rusty told everyone venting.

"So you're name is Rusty?" Santana asked from behind him.

"Oh yeah, and you are?" Rusty asked politely.

"Santana Pouncy if you please."

"Cool, so, uh, where you from?"

"Ah, I am from a darling city in the south of France! Oh how I do miss you so!"

"South France huh, yah, I live pretty close to there."

"No way, you do?"

"Yeah, you go east aways, past that ocean thing and you're in the UK."

"Well that's not very close."

"Oh, I know."

"Well… wait, what?"

Santana was terribly confused.

Kat, a few seats further down, burst out laughing at the sight of Santana's face. 'Ha, ha, good ol' Rusty can't get that bloke to ever make a bit of sense!'

Again back down the table where Sirius was sitting opposite Rusty, he heard something. 'Hmm,' he though, 'that sounds a lot like Kat's laugh. I wonder where she got to.'

Sirius began scanning the rest of the table looking for Kat, or who ever sounded like her.

Kat quickly began talking to the person on her immediate right so Sirius couldn't get a clear look at her face.

"So, Cody, how did your summer go?" Kat said quickly.

Kat and Cody chatted for a bit until Kat was sure Sirius wasn't looking for her anymore.

"So what you are really saying is you don't like anywhere near me?" Santana asked Rusty.

"Man, who cracked her shell?" Rusty asked pointing at Santana.

"Um, she's not really used to all of this. This is her first time at a school like Hogwarts." Rachel explained.

"Oh, well sorry about that, I though you were the one who was joking so I was going along with it." Rusty told her.

"Uh, right, of course." Santana said still slightly confused.

She made her way to the other side of the table and sat next to Sirius.

"Sirius doll, what's wrong?" Santana asked as sweetly as she could manage.

"I thought you said she liked me." Sirius said looking at his gold dinner plate.

"But she does! She told me herself! She is just playing hard to get that's all, you know how some girls'll act right?"

"Actually no, I don't know, most girls would flip to go out with me!"

"See, what did I tell you? Hard to get, she's just being a tease. You know how cocky she can get sometimes. I mean geez she went right over there and started talking that that boy easy as pie!"

"Whoa, where is she?"

"Right there, you see, between that cute brunette guy there and some blonde girl a couple seats down from Rusty.

"Now I see her, man how could I have missed her?"

"It was they way she was looking at that boy anyone could have missed her. But I saw her looking at you just after you turned away."

"Ugh, she won't even look me in the face." Sirius said as he buried his head into his hands.

"Oh dear, hmm, she'll have to come around one day! I mean come on; you two were clearly made for each other!" Santana said putting on her convincing smile.

"You really think so?" Sirius said lifting his head from his hands.

'Yah, right, if anything you were made for me!' Santana thought evilly to herself.

Santana smiled her sweet little smile, and nodded her head slightly.

"And she's playing hard to get?" Sirius asked again.

"Yep, looks that way." Santana said, turning her head and rolling her eyes.

"Well, she's doing an awfully good job." Sirius said sighing.

"Ahem, well isn't there anyone else you are interested in?" Santana said looking directly at Sirius.

"Really it's her, but I have always found other girls to take my mind off of her." said Sirius thinking to him self.

"You mean you only go out with those other girls to take your mind off of Kat?" Santana asked suddenly really interested.

"Well, yeah, I mean I've always kinda liked her, but I've only recently, um, what's the word, realized that I liked her so much. Like I always thought that I was just in a friendly way, you know we'd flirt and stuff."

Sirius just kept rambling on so Santana stopped listening and just started looking around at all the other people at their tables and all of the others.

'Hmm, not to bad, but I don't see anyone who really sticks out, although you can't really tell in all of these, black robes. Gee, enough with the matching. You probably can't even tell the difference in class.'

Santana only had to wait a little while till still happened. There was a huge explosion just after the sorting had ended. Glitter rained down on everyone and up by the ceiling the words 'WELCOME BACK TO HOGWARTS AND CONGRATS TO THE HEAD BOY AND GIRL! Love the Marauders and the Madd Hatters!

Some people were screaming but most were just staring at the Marauders and the Madd Hatters. The first years and Santana were looking around trying to figure out who they even were. The glitter was made by Rusty and whenever it landed on someone or something it would go back to the ceiling and start falling again.

"Well, what a wonderful start to the new year. I suspect the Head Girl and Boy where not involved…correct?" Dumbledore asked staring at Lily and James.

Lily blushed and James yelled, "I'm not really sure if I was or not."

"Well know that you all know, the Head Boy is James Potter and Head Girl is Lily Evans." Dumbledore stated as James stood up and started bowing. The guys (Sirius, Remus, Silas, and Amos) started whistling while the girls (Kat, Rach, Jessica, and Amy) started bellowing some random song they had heard in America which sounded suspiciously like (I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT!) Lily had to pull him down though her face was bright red.

"Thank you all for the entertainment. But we must get down to business before Sirius goes ballistic." the old Headmaster said staring at him, his eyes twinkling. "Firstly, welcome all new students. We would like to welcome our guest from South France, Miss Santana Pouncy. She will be here for the remainder of the year. I expect you to treat her with respect. You all have heard of the recent attack on our world. Please do not worry; you are all safe within these walls. As usual, the Forbidden Forest is, as the name suggest, forbidden. No one," he said looking at the Marauders and the Madd Hatters, "is to enter the forest. The third floor corridor is also to be unoccupied. Mr. Filch has also provided a list of things not to be used in the corridors. Now let the feast began!" Dumbledore said enthusiastically.

"HALLUJEAH!" Sirius shouted digging into the food as it appeared.

"AMEN!" said the rest of the group.

"Santana, are you going to eat something?" Silas asked munching on a drumstick.

Santana just stared at all of them like they were crazy. "So, you guys have nicknames?" she asked confusedly.

"Yea, the girls are the Madd Hatters while we are the Marauders. We've had the nicknames since we basically met. We all also had separate nicknames. Like mine's Padfoot." Sirius said explaining.

"I'm Prongs." said James shoveling food into his mouth.

"Mine's Wormtail." Peter said with his mouth full of food.

"Moony." Remus said politely

"Red." said Jim smiling.

"I'm Tin Can." Amos stated blushing.

"And me, Maney." Silas said laughing.

"Well, those are very interesting names. I must say there not what I expected." Santana said looking at them like they were crazy. "What about you guys?"

"Well, I'm March Hare." Rachel said proudly.

"Jessica and I are Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb." Amy said pouting. "Likely I'm Tweedle Dee.

"For somewhat obvious reasons." Sirius whispered to Santana.

"Mine is Jessicae Rabbit because I'm so 'innocent'." Lily said quoting.

"I'm the Queen of Hearts or Queeny and don't you forget it." Hannah said as she sat down at the Gryffindor table. "Oh and Kats is…"

"Mine's Chessy or the Cheshire cat and Hannah, I can speak for myself." Kat said glaring at the girl.

"You don't have problem speaking you mind do you?" Santana said smirking.

"Well, obviously neither do you. You don't have a problem speaking on anyone's behalf." Kat shot back.

"Guys, do we really need to get into this now?" Silas asked upset.

"Whatever. I'm leaving. This table is filled with too many players, liars, and betrayers." Kat shouted as she stormed off.

"What the hell was that all about?" Hannah asked, drinking her pumpkin juice.

"Who cares what it was about? She's no good for us anyway." Santana said watching her leave.

Everybody except Rachel and Sirius started snapping at Santana. She did nothing and allowed them to talk about her as they pleased.

"You know she's probably right you guys. She likes to make up stories and lie. What do we need her for?" Rachel asked staring at her plate.

"What are you talking about? Kat is one of our, bestest friends. We can't just turn our backs on her." Lily said staring at Rachel.

"I have to agree with Rachel and Santana, she brings nothing but trouble." Sirius said bowing his head.

"I can't believe you people. Kat has done nothing. It's all Santana and you all know it." Hannah yelled at them and left to find Kat with Lily and Jessica who still believed Santana was a no good person.

"Um, Rach, do you want to go to the Room of Requirement with me?" Remus asked wanting to know what was going on.

Rachel glared at him a moment. Then her look softened.

"Sure." she said quietly.

Remus and Rachel quickly snuck away from the table and headed in the direction on the seventh floor.