"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Oh the things I wish I knew back then, but I can not change the past; nor do I want to because what happened on this day changed my life forever. It made us all who we are today. Alone we shall fall, but together we can conquer anything.
Dessa D. Odd Ball
Arriving at detention on time was no of my concern, but to Lily it was life dependind. She had dragged me from my nap down the hall, and to hell where Satan herself waited for us. She was perched pin straight at her desk watching us from behind thin wired glasses.
"Glad you could join me this evening girls." She smirked and motioned for us to take a seat at the front of the class. These seats were reserved for anyone who arrived late to class because no student dared to sit close to the dreaded teacher. "Now we are just waiting for…."
"Sorry we're late." We turned around as the Marauders entered. Of course Potter was in the lead. What else is new?
"Don't waste my time with nonsense sit down!" Professor Coyer snapped as the boys hurried to their seats. "Now because of you act of violence you are to sit here until I say otherwise." That is the best detention ever! Useless you have to clean or some other useless task without magic. "You are to report here for as long as I say, but don't think you're just going to here." Oh Lord I spoke to soon. "You will detention will not be done until the seven of you are friends." What the hell! Are we five now?
"What!" Sirius jumped up.
"Mr. Black!"
"You're messing with the way things work around here!" Sirius yelled.
"Professor we can never get along with them." I spat from my seat.
"Well then I suggest you change your ways because if you don't you'll be here all year." The evil glint in her eye only increases my hatred as she went to her office. What I didn't miss however is her magically locking the door and putting a silencing charm on her room.
"Well now that the bitch is out of the way." I stood and went over to the fire place.
"What if she hears you?" Mary threw a book at me.
"Ow! She put a silencing charm on her room we could kill each other and she wouldn't know." Actually that wasn't a bad idea……..
"What are you doing?" Lupin asked me as I sat cross leg in from of the fire taking some floo powder from the pot.
"Shut up and watch. Ula! Oh Ula!" I shouted into the fire. Pop! In less then a second a house elf appeared by my side.
"Afternoon Miss." She sqeaked. I loved Ula she had practical raised me, and when I was five I had given her some baby doll clothes as a present. Now she was wearing one of my old shirts and shorts from when I was six with a white apron over top.
"Miss? Ulie, you're talking to me!" I said sweetly and the house elf laughed.
"What would you like….Miss Dessie." She asked me, and I turned a glance at Lily and Mary.
" Ah close enough. Hey what do you guys want?"
"Miss Dessie, are you in trouble?" The house elf sighed when she realized where she was.
"Me? Nah just temporarily confined like usual…." The house elf nodded with a sly grin on her face.
"The usual for your confinement, then?" Ok so I am in trouble a lot. I nodded eagerly like a little child.
"Yes! If it's no trouble?" I batted my eyelashes and smiled sweetly opening my arms for a hug. The house elf put her tiny arms around me.
"None at all, Dessie." With that she was gone once again. I got up and went back to my seat.
"A house elf? You just hugged a house elf!" Black mocked leaning back in his chair. I glared with fury.
"Don't you dare make fun of Ula! She is like my mother!" I yelled getting up and standing in front of his desk. Black placed his feet on the desk and put his arms behind his head grinning.
"I can see the resemblance." He and his buddies began to laugh so I took his feet and threw them towards him. Black went tumbling backwards. Now the girls were laughing. I smiled triumphantly and walked back over sitting on top of my desk.
"All hail the queen of fury!" Mary canted. Lily and she were mocking bowing as I nodded.
"Thank You. Thank You." The Marauders weren't amused. If looks could kill then surly I would be dead. Potter held a hand out to Black who took it; the whole time he glared at me.
"Bitch." I heard him mumble.
"Dessa? It's a little cold in here don't you think?" Lily smirked moving her robe a side to show me the plan paper. I looked at Mary and raised my eyebrows.
"It does seem bit nippy. Doesn't it Mary?" She smiled and nodded.
"Oh yes its bone chilling." The evil reflected in the glow of the lamps. The Marauders looked at us trying to see what we were up too. James however took this opportunity to make a move on Lily.
"Here." He said holding out his jacket. Mary and I began to laugh, and Lily smiled uneasily.
"Uh… Thank You." She took the jacket and awkwardly put it on. James smiled and walked back to his friends.
"You almost feel bad….." Mary mumbled only loud enough for us to hear.
"Almost." Lily said threw gritted teeth. I pulled out my wand and pointed it to the fire.
"Incendio" The flame became brighter. I walked back over the fire and sat right in front of it. So close in fact that the embers began to catch my pants on fire.
"Ummm….." I heard Peter squeak. I ignored him the fire had now caught my sleeve on fire.
"God damn! It's still freezing in here!" I spun around with my back to the flames; well aware I was on fire. The Marauders eyes were as wide plates.
"Psycho you're on fire!" Lupin yelled. I cocked my head to the side and stood up; the flames engulfing my whole body.
"Fire is your friend." I tilted my head to the side and stepped closer to them. Pettigrew screamed and hide behind Lupin. Lupin, Black, and Potter began to back up.
"What's the matter? Afraid?" Mary asked in an eerie voice. The boy turned; Lily and Mary were also on fire.
"Holy Shit!" Potter screamed as Lily reached a hand out to him. He flipped over on of the desks. Black paniced and pulled out his wand.
"Aguamenti!" Of course the bastard hits me! I went flying back into the fire place knocking something into the flames. At that instant the room went dark.
"What the…." Red illuminated the room; it was so bright I had to shield my eyes. "Lily? Mary?" I called standing to my feet. I was wet from the water, but other wise my clothes were fine. "Guys?" I called again frightened. No one was there. "Ok, Ha Ha." I walked around the room was deserted. I ran to the door, and tried to pry open the handle. It was locked. "LET ME OUT!" I yelled banging on the door. I was scared; the room still glowed in an immense red light.
"You've unleashed it Odessa." I spun around; a cold sweat running down my neck.
"Whos-whose there?" I questioned pointing my wand around the room with back to the door.
"I am Wrath, my dear." A figure cloaked in red stood in the middle of the room. It wasn't there before.
"Wrath?" My heart beat began to slow. This could all be a passed out dream.
"Yes, and I must say I am happy that you will succeed me." The figure moved forward and I pressed myself further against the door.
"I-I D-Don't…."
"You my dear are angry. You are angry at your sister for always toping what you do. You are angry at your father for liking your sister and brother better. You are angry at the world for over looking you. You seek revenge. You want nothing more then to beat your sister and watch the look on her face as you surpass her. You've spent countless nights planning on showing your father you're more then his disappointing mistake. Most of all you have been looking for ways to show people there is more then what they see." The voice spoke in a calm voice. I was terrified; it knew my thoughts.
"I-I There nothing, but daydreaming flukes!" I yelled trying to get the person to step back, but instead they stepped closer.
"Flukes? No. It is your destiny you can't deny your nature. Wrath boils in your veins." The hand reached out and touched my cheek. Instantly a neon red sprung beneath my veins. "When the time comes you'll understand." The hand dropped to its side as it stepped back.
"What am I suppose to do?" I relaxed as the figure retreated.
"Find the others who hold your curse." It whispered.
"Curse?!"
"Curse and gift go hand in hand, but you can not change it. Wrath always was apart of who you are." I rolled my eyes.
"That's one messed up personality flaw." I muttered under my breath.
"Anger is the key as well as the weakness." Again the lights were gone, but this time when the room lit back up the others were there too.
"Ok, I think I knocked some weed into the fire because that was one messed up trip!" Lily clutched her head at a desk. Mary was sitting on the floor leaning against a desk. Lupin was sitting in a chair in the back row of the room. Pettigrew cowered in a corner, and Potter was propped up against the wall. Black stood with his arms folded standing across the room from me.
"D-d-did you all see that?" Peter squeaked.
"See what?" Potter spat annoyed. Peter crawled forward a bit.
"The cloaked figure.."
"Dressed in red saying Wrath runs in your veins, and…..What?" Everyone stopped and stared at me as I took a seat next to Lily.
"Mine was Sloth." Mary said quietly.
"Mine was Pride." Potter scoffed running a hand threw his hair.
"Mine was Envy." Pettigrew chocked.
"Mine was Gluttony." Lupin have laughed.
"Mine was Lust." Lily whispered.
"That leaves Wrath to me and Greed to you Black." Black scoffed and sat down next to Potter.
"Well what do you know we really are in hell." He laughed.
Hey guys, Just wanted to explain some of the sins to people who may not know what each mean.
Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.
Sloth is sadness or despair being viewed as being a refusal to enjoy the goodness of God and the world he created. ( that's why it is a sin)
The others are self explanatory, but if you need me to clarify I will. Also I will explain why each character got what they got. Hope you enjoyed! Italian American