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Chapter 9: The list.

Classes began the next day. There was the usual hustle and bustle from the Great Hall to the classrooms. In charms Professor Flitwick spilt us up again and assigned us our partners like he did before, all that I hoped was that I wouldn't be with Peter.

"Miss Ride you'll be paired with Mr Black." Professor Flitwick wheezed as I let out a breath of relief when I went to join Sirius.

I liked Sirius the most out of the other guys. He was nice, didn't show of like James, fun to be around, wasn't secretive like Remus (who had disappeared again) and didn't try like Peter who tried to be like everyone around him.

Sirius, James, Remus, Nick and Dylan were the guys in the year that made the girls swoon over them. Sirius had long shaggy black hair, shimmering grey eyes and a muscular figure. James had messy black hair, hazel eyes behind his round glasses, and a figure like Sirius'. Nick had dark hair that hung over his dark brown eyes, toned skin and the right body figure. Dylan had blonde hair, bright blue eyes and the girls watched him wherever he went. Remus was the last in the group, he always wore shaggy, tattered robes, uneven light brown hair and sparkling blue eyes. All 5 boys were tall, Nick and Dylan the tallest followed by Remus, James then Sirius. Peter however was short, chubby and wasn't attractive at all. His blonde hair was cut in a bald cut, his eyes were a mix of green and grey and he always forgot something.

"Oii Ride." Sirius waved his hand in front of my face making me turn my focus back on him and the charms we were supposed to be doing. "Do you want me practise first?"

"Umm you can," I said since I wasn't listening to Flitwick and had no idea of what we were doing.

"Well we might as well sit down," he said.

While Sirius was practicing a few simple spells that didn't need another person for I looked around the room seeing who my friends were partnered with. Kerry was with Perri, since she was asleep last night when Perri came in she didn't know what happened and we didn't have enough time to tell her at breakfast this morning. Out of the girls in my year Kerry, Lily, Freda and I were top in the overall scores followed by Alice who missed out on one of the tests since she was in the hospital wing with dragon pox. Kerry, Lily, Alice and I made our own group and we were known by the rest of the school. We were in the same league as the boys but were under them in popularity. Lily's red hair matched her fiery temper and her green eyes stood out against her pale skin. Lily was one of the prettier girls and someone in Ravenclaw made a list of all the top people from the most beautiful, to the smartest one of boys and one for girls. I found it ridiculous but at the moment Lily was 3rd in the most beautiful and 1st in the smartest. Kerry was also pretty, her brown hair went with her tanned complection and her hazel eyes. Kerry looked like the girl who was always outside when she could be. Kerry and I were the leaders of our little group and planned everything, making sure that Lily and Alice liked it. Kerry was short but not as short as the Cummins but everyone knew her and saw her in the corridors. Alice was different; she was tall like Lily and me but wasn't noticed as much. Alice was the silent one of the group when she was in classes and around people she didn't know, it was only around us that she talked then she could be the loudest. Alice also hung behind Kerry and I when ever Lily was with Snape and got on with Lily a bit better than me and Kerry. Then there was me, the one who could fly. I had messy blonde hair that always got in the way, my eyes were hazel. I was the tallest girl in the year and taller than most of the 2nd years as well.

"Max your doing it again." Sirius moaned.

I pulled out of the trance and stared at him. "Doing what?"

"Staring off into space, watching someone else, not listening to me." He said to the desk.

"Sorry," I mumbled trying to meet his eyes, "I was just thinking about something."

"About what?" He asked, looking up interestedly.

"Just about the list and where my friends and I stand," I said.

"Oo," he said followed by an awkward silence.

I broke the silence by changing his hair to a sickly green colour.

"You're in for it now Ride," He grinned and changed by hair to bubblegum pink.

I laughed and changed his robes, to a light shade of purple. Sirius raised his wand and pointed it at me but I made his school book float into the air in front of him, distracting him then running to the other side of the room behind, Lily and James who were arguing. (What's new?)

"Miss Ride and Mr Black, I appreciate you practising your colour changing charms but please don't disrupt the rest of the class." Flitwick warned as Sirius sent his charm to where I was hiding behind Lily.

Instead of hitting me the charm hit Lily right in the face.

"Whoops," Sirius gasped as James cracked up laughing.

I hid my laugh and tried to comfort Lily but she had already sent a spell to James making his head expand.

"Nice one Lily," we exchanged high fives and watched James' head grow. It was now the size of a pumpkin and still growing.

"well Evan's if that's how you want to play it we can play it that way." James said but sent a hex towards her.

I pushed Lily out of the way in time but the hex hit Kerry and she was covered in goo. Thinking it was Perri Kerry disarmed her and hexed Perri who stumbled back into Peter and knocked his wand out of his hand. We all watched it soar through the air and hit Professor Flitwick in the eye. Flitwick was assisting Melissa whose arm was in a sling so she was having trouble waving her wand, had his back to the commotion happening in his classroom.

"Mr Pettigrew, I ask that you keep better control of your wand when practising. He then saw the rest of us or half the class in a different state to when they entered. Sirius and I were an assortment of colours, Lily's face was the Slytherin colours, James' head was so big it looked like he couldn't hold it, Kerry was covered in glue and Peter was underneath Perri who was covered in bat shaped boggers.

"Class dismissed." Flitwick announced 10 minutes early. "James, Kerry and Perri come here and I will sort you out, the rest of you may go and those covered in a colour I hope you know how to change your robes and yourself back to the original colour."

I picked up my bag and followed Sirius out of the classroom laughing about the lesson and James, "Lucky that was a single lesson or we would be writing for the rest." I mumbled to him.

Just outside the door while we were waiting for Kerry Lily and I changed ourselves back to our original colours. Lily was lucky all she had to do was her face but I had to fix my, robes, hair and skirt. "Grr, why did Sirius have to be so good at Charms?" I questioned once Kerry came out and we headed to History of Magic.

By the time we got Professor Binns' classroom I had gotten most of the colour out except I could see that my hair was still slightly pink since it always hung over my eyes.

"Oii Ride why's your hair pink?" An obnoxious Slytherin prefect asked as he passed me in the corridors. I turned around to see who spoke but saw him walk away.

"He's one to talk, look at his pale blond hair combed to one side." I pointed out as I took my seat at the back of the classroom next to Kerry and Sirius. Lily was sitting at the front of the classroom next to Snape and one of the many Slytherins I didn't know, but I knew that they all had something odd and dark about them.

Kerry had started a conversation with Alice who was sitting on her other side and James was looking at the window fixing his hair and double checking that his head was the right size so I started a conversation with Sirius not noticing that Professor Binns had started ranting about some kind of ancient war.

"So no hard feelings about the colour changing right?" he asked me.

"No, I found it fun." I replied not paying any attention to Binns or the front of the classroom but was looking at Sirius.

"Good because we're good friends and all, I didn't want to ruin that over some charms lesson." He said uneasy.

"Right," I said looking away and hiding my gaze hoping he wouldn't see me blush.

"You know your hair looks pretty with pink in it." Sirius randomly said. "You know just putting it out there for you to make a note of."

I looked at Sirius, I could see the laughter in his eyes about that last bit he added but he was serious about the hair bit.

"I might get it cut when we go back for Easter holidays." I said playing with my hair which hung messily down my back.

"No don't I like it like that." He said quietly.

I felt awkward by this conversation so I changed it completly. "So what do you think of the new girls?"

"They're alright, they're also pretty."

Kerry's head shot up, she had already dozed off and I didn't see how she could since she got the best sleep last night. "They're trouble makers." She blurted out catching our conversation.

"Kerry's right I've got a week's detention with McGonagall because of them." I miserably said.

"Aww detentions not that bad, and if you get them a lot you, people see you as a rebel and your known." He admitted. "I mean look how many detentions James and I have had and practically the whole school knows us."

"Yeah as a bunch of misfits," I joked.

Sirius pretended to look appalled.

"Oii would you to stop flirting it's making me sick." Nick turned around and said.

I saw a flash of anger in his eyes but ignored it. Sirius and I weren't flirting we were just talking. I don't know what got him so worried.

Someone was shaking me. I opened my eyes and lifted my head off the desk. I must have dozed off during Binns' ranting and not realised.

"Oii Max it's time for lunch." Someone said in my ear. To a normal person that wouldn't have affected them, but to me being a mutant and all the words echoed 10 times louder.

"Okay let's go get some chow." I grinned getting up and taking my stuff forgetting my wand which had fallen out of my pocket and under my desk.

Lily, Alice and Kerry were waiting for me and walked ahead so none of us noticed the person that stayed behind and picked up my wand. In the Great Hall everyone was standing around the new list that was pinned on the board just outside the doorway so it was a challenge getting past the crowd to the Gryffindor table.

"Look at them it's the first day of lessons after the Christmas Holidays and they are already fussing around the list. I wonder who the person was that started it." Kerry exclaimed staring at the group sending half of them daggers, although everyone had her back to her.

On our way to double Transfiguration we stopped of to have a look at the list since everyone else was gone or eating.

"1st year smartest girls," I read. "1st Melissa Cummins. How could she be first when she hasn't even been here for a day?" I asked angrily.

"I don't know." Alice muttered as I continued.

"Freda Aniston 2nd, Lily Evans 3rd, Kerry Scott 4th. Then Alice is 5th followed by Perri Cummins. How on earth do they know the Cummins score when they haven't been here?" I asked again.

"I don't know." Alice replied again then read out the 1st year prettiest girls. "1st is Perri Cummins, then Melissa Cummins. They'ld have to be after each other since they're twins." She added.

"Just read the next names." I said annoyed and impatiently.

"Right, 3rd is Max Ride."

"What!" I blurted out.

"followed by Kerry Scott then Lily Evans and then I'm 7th." Alice said.

"Okay then what other list is there?" Kerry asked scanning the 11 1st year lists. There was 5 lists for the girls and 5 for the boys and one was called the would be cutest 1st year couples.

"Hey read the couples one." Lily asked. "I reckon that would be the funniest and the most incorrect one."

Kerry read it out. "1st cutest couple is Melissa Cummins and Nick Martinez."

I almost gagged, "are you serious."

"wait 2nd cutest couple is Perri Cummins and Dylan Fressen."I could feel vomit in my throat but Kerry had already read out the next couple "Lily Evans and Severus Snape."

We all looked at Lily with horror us she looked down and embarrassed.

"Where are you, Max and I ranked?" Alice asked. It seemed that Alice was taking this list thing seriously when we weren't.

"Um, Max is 7th cutest with Sirius Black, no surprises there though."Kerry added. "Your 8th with Remus Lupin and I don't believe it I'm 20th with Pettigrew."

Peter was the only Gryffindor 1st year boy that Kerry called by his last name. She even called some of the 2nd and 3rd years by their first name but Peter seemed to be her only exception.

"Come on let's get to class," Kerry mumbled and started walking out into the courtyard not wanting to look at the other lists.

I stayed back and saw the 1st year girls with the most detentions list, and of course I was top. Sirius was right I was going to be know with that reputation but I didn't mind as long as nobody knew about the wings.

Of course I was wrong someone other than my friends knew about the wings I just didn't know who and I didn't know how they knew.

Hope you liked this chapter.
Okay just to let you know Max doesn't know who has her wand or that it is missing but you needed to know. And she also doesn't know that anyone else has seen the wings but you needed to know as well, if you can remember someone saw the wings in one of the earlier chapters. This chapter was just to let you know where the girls stood in the year and what type of reputation they have but I won't make them have a big reputation yet. Also if you noticed, Nick/Fang was angry when Max and Sirius were flirting, I wonder why? Find out in the next chapters and I may tell you.

Remember by the end of September 10 reviews and I keep writing. Fewer than 10 reviews and I stop for the rest of the year. Please tell me what you think and what you liked, I liked the charms fight and the flirting but what did you like.

SpringBabe.