Chapter Seven
"Ackk!"
Lily fell off her bed and onto the chilly hardwood flooring, and for a moment she wondered why she was looking at green and not mahogany red, and Sarah Parker instead of Rose Weasley. Then it all came back to her… the sorting, the human dominos and the SOS letter home. She was in Slytherin still, and it wasn't some insane dream.
"Wake up, dung brains!" Sarah called, bouncing on Lily's bed and hitting the latter over the head with a pillow. "Breakfast is in, like, two minutes!"
"Damnit!" Lily cried, stumbling to her feet. In a rush, she struggled into her jeans and sweater, and followed Sarah downstairs.
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At breakfast, Lily noticed the Griffendors staring at her from across the hall. Her eyes met Albus' and Rose's, and saw that they looked just as miserable as she did.
All of a sudden, a ton of owls came swooping into the great hall, carrying packages and letters and some issues of the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler.
Lily looked down from the ceiling to become face to face with a snowy owl with an issue of the Prophet tied to its leg. Lily almost cried out with shock when she saw the front page, which read Potter turns to the Dark Side In huge lettering, which topped a moving picture of her and Sarah sending Scorpius fly into the other Slytherins.
Sarah yelped, and shoved the paper under the table, but it was no use. Students were already reading the article, and Lily felt their eyes' staring at Sarah's and her own back.
"C'mon." hissed Sarah, pulling Lily away from her barley-touched breakfast. "We don't want to be late for advanced Charms class."
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Lily felt incredibly out of her element, sitting in the far corner of the enormous Charms classroom and listening to Professor Fickleness drone on about the importance of proper posture when casting a spell.
"I'm bored," Sarah hissed. "does this lady even know any spells??"
"She can hear you!" cried Lily.
"How? I don't… oh." Sarah found herself face-to-lobe with one of many Extendable Ears that were hanging around the class.
"Parker, do you think that you could teach this class better then I?" Growled Professor Fickleness, who had just appeared beside Lily and Sarah.
Lily watched, mortified, as Sarah replied "Yeah, I guess so."
She saw the Professors eye twitch. "Let's just see then."
To Lily's, Professor Fickness' and the class' shock, Sarah walked down the aisle to the front of the classroom.
"Throw out those textbooks and get up here with your wands. You're going to try and disarm me!"
With a flurry of excitement, the second years plus Lily ran down and lined up.
"Expelliarmus!"
"Expelliarmus!"
"Expelliarmus!!"
The cries echoed around the vast classroom, along with the occasional clattering of Sarah's wand against the floor. "Good! Great!" she called out between deflecting the red spells and smirking at Professor Fickleness.
"Fine!" Roared Professor Fickleness, glaring at Sarah. The class was silenced instantly. "Class is dismissed. And you, Parker…" Lily saw Sarah's face pale.
They were both shocked to see Professor Fickleness smile. "I could learn a thing or two from you. 35 points to Slytherin. Now go, it's very nice outside!"
With that, Lily and Sarah looked at each other, laughed out loud, and ran after the rest of the class.