A/N: YAY! The second chapter is here!

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Chapter 2: The Train Ride

Chapter 1: The Train Ride

Cori sat in a compartment with her friends, minus Lily and Remus who had left for the prefect's compartment about half an hour ago. She was currently playing chess with her best friend, Sirius.

"So, are you staying with James this Christmas?" She asked him casually.

"Yeah. I told my parents I was staying at the castle though. Can you imagine the howler I would get if they found out that I was staying at the 'blood-traitor Potter's' house?" He said the last part with a grimace.

"Don't forget to plan the pranks! It might be a vacation from school, but that does not mean that you can slack off on your duties." She said in a mockingly stern voice.

Cori and her friends were known school wide as the "Marauders", a name that they had come up with in their first year. The Marauders pranked the whole school (mainly the other houses) and were currently holding second place for most detentions in the history of Hogwarts, first place belonged to none other than Edgar Pendragon himself, Cori's father. Her goal while at school was to beat his record, but not only beat it, she wanted to demolish it. During his seven years at Hogwarts, he had racked up 7,689 detentions. Cori, in her five years at Hogwarts so far, had gotten 5,713. She was well on her way to beating before she even got to her seventh year. She would beat him.

"What about you Jessica?"

"My family is going to France. Apparently we have some family there that we have never met." Replied Jess with a frown. "Every year we seem to go to a different person's house. Why is my family so big?"

"Be grateful that you don't all live under the same roof! It is a nightmare! Some midget is constantly stealing my stuff and it is SO annoying!" Cori said with a grimace. Her whole family, all 9 adults and all 15 children, lived in the same house. Well, "house" was a bit modest. The Pendragon mansion was roughly the size of Hogwarts itself. Complete with secret rooms, towers and large living rooms similar to the dormitories. Because the castle was so big, Each section of the family had their own floor and with it, their own living quarters. Let's just say that if you really needed to find someone, it was a pain in the ass.

Sirius smirked at Jess. "If you see any hot French girls, give them my information and tell them to write." Jess scoffed.

"Aren't you still dating that blonde chick from Hufflepuff?"

"Nah, broke up with her before we got on the train. She wanted me to meet her parents over break, told her that I wasn't looking for anything serious and that we were over."

"Why would you have to look for Sirius? You are right here… and you ARE him." Commented Cori. Sirius glared at her. It was a couple minutes before Cori spoke again. "I want a penguin."

Her companions stared at her.

"WHAT? They are cute and cuddly and I just want to hold it, and squeeze it and call it…" She looked at the ground in thought. "I don't know what I would call it… but it would have to be the cutest name for the cutest penguin!"

"Corana." Sirius said. "I am going to ask you a question, and I need you to answer honestly. Are you, on drugs?"

With a completely straight face Cori looked him straight in the eyes before saying, "yes", before flapping her arms like a crazed pigeon and running out of the compartment cawing.

"I have to say, I always suspected something." Piped up James for the first time the whole train ride.

"What are you working on?" asked Sirius referring to the paper in James' lap.

"My next plan to get my beautiful Lily-flower to go on a date with me. I was thinking of showering her with lily petals and asking her out in the great hall"

The boys heard a small snicker from the corner of the compartment. They looked over at Jessica. "What is so funny?"

"Lily hates lilies. She prefers tulips." She said as if it was obvious. " If you really want to woo her, this is what you need to do." And the three huddled up planning the most elaborate, yet simple scheme that anyone had ever tried.

In the Prefect's Compartment

Lily and Remus were working on the schedules for after break. One of the prefects was transferring to Beauxbatons and it forced them to switch up the whole thing.

"We could put Annabelle on Tuesdays with Joshua and then she wouldn't have a conflict with her charms club" Said Remus. Lily was about to reply when there was a commotion out in the corridor. The two friends rushed out with their wands raised. There before them was Cori and Bellatrix firing spells at each other. The speed that they were casting was unlike anything that the two prefects had ever seen before. They knew that Cori was being trained by her parents (for what they did not know), and Bellatrix was from a dark family, but they never knew exactly how good they both were.

Lily was the first to react, throwing a shield spell up in between the two girls but it did not hold. Their spells seemed to just keep flying like there was nothing between them.

"Crucio!" The only spell that Cori could not block, hit her in the chest and she fell to the ground convulsing and obviously trying not to scream.

"NO!" Screamed Lily. That was her best friend on the ground. "Expelliarmus!" she yelled. The second that the wand left Bellatrix's hand, Cori fell limp. Remus stunned Bellatrix and locked her in the detention compartment specifically meant for students that were in a fight and required punishment. When he came out he saw Lily crying over Cori's body. He bent down and lifted her head.

"We should take her back to the compartment so that the boys can help us help her." He picked her up and they quickly carried her to the compartment.

When they walked in, they laid her small, limp body on the seat. Lily shook James and Sirius awake.

"Wha'? Wha's goin' on?" mumbled Sirius, still half asleep. His sleep laden eyes fell on Cori's limp body and he eyes flew open. "What the fucking hell?!" He leaned over her body, eyes full of concern and regret. As Remus explained what had happened, Lily was working feverishly, trying to wake Cori. She had her head in a book, and was flipping the pages with vigor.

"Here it is!" She exclaimed. "Enervate." She said. Cori's eyes flew open before keeling over in pain. Sirius pulled her into a hug.

"I thought you had died. I thought I lost you." He said brushing her hair away from her face.

"Please. It takes more than a stupid curse like that to finish me off." She smiled, giving him a light kiss on the cheek. A pink tinge spread across his cheek, but she didn't notice for she had turned to Lily and James. "You guys are here too? Are we having a party?" She asked with a grin. "Come on! Give us a smile! Do it for the penguins!"

Sirius rolled his eyes, but smiled nonetheless. "What is with you and your obsession with penguins? Didn't you use to want a koala?"

"Yes, but then I saw a picture of one wet." She shivered, "It was scarier than looking Bitchatrix in the face."

"Bitchatrix?" asked James, a smile playing across his chiseled features.

"I thought it seemed only fit for a person like her."

"What happened out there anyways?" Asked Remus, "We heard something and then and came out, and saw her curse you."

"Nothing to concern your 'furry' little head about Remmy-poo. Speaking of furry, where is Peter."

"He said something about finding and empty compartment to take a nap in." Answered one of the boys.

"A nap sounds like a good idea." Declared Cori, ten minutes later, her breathing evened out and she fell asleep, her head in Sirius' lap.

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