Disclaimer: Aly's mine, no one else is. But, you already know that.
Dedication: To my chairs. They are really nice to sit on even though I don't talk to them. You'll understand later.
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"He's sooo cute," Lily whimpered.
Aly looked up over her book. "Not really," she said judging the Ravenclaw both Lily and Melanie were looking at.
"Oh, what do you know?" Melanie said before falling deep into conversation with Lily over who was generally cuter: Ravenclaw's or Hufflepuff's.
Aly rolled her eyes and turned back to her homework. She had started falling behind since Christmas break and was trying to catch up.
She had had the best Christmas of her life and with all the excitement that had gone on, it was easy to tell why she had fallen behind.
To start with, the day everybody left to go home, all the gates around the school seemed to seal themselves, letting no one out. Basically, the whole school ended up in the snow on the front lawn to observe what happened. Eventually, Dumbledore had to come down and lift the sealant charm. As the spell lifted, a glowing message appeared. It floated high above the on-lookers. It said: Happy Holidays! From your friendly school Marauders.
Aly knew without looking at the grinning four boys behind her who had put it up. She shook her head and laughed silently; knowing that it was her doing that the name had come around.
She turned and walked back up into the school and whispered to Sirius as she passed, "Friendly Marauder, my ass."
He grinned at her as she continued to walk away.
Aly spent the holidays at Hogwarts with Sirius, Lily, and, much to his mother's disappointment, James. The four of them had the entire Gryffindor tower to themselves since everyone else had gone home.
Even though James and Lily did seem to fight a lot more with less people around, Aly enjoyed their company, especially since she was used to spending a brief Christmas morning with just her dad.
Aly had somewhat of a guilty pang when she had given James and Sirius their Christmas gifts. She had a feeling she would be causing a whole lot more chaos around the school, but the looks on their faces instantly removed the feeling.
For James, Aly had brought a very rare and very valuable Invisibility cloak. And for Sirius, a set of two-way mirrors which were able to connect whoever was holding the mirrors by simply saying their name.
The boys had started tormenting the girls as early as Boxing Day. Lily had told Aly that if she ever found out who bought the boys those gifts, she said she suspected they had bought the gifts for each other, she would kill them. After that, Aly decided it was best not to tell Lily she was responsible for the presents.
As more people started returning from break, the common room got louder, and Aly got more restless. So, there went the promise to herself to do her homework once Christmas was over.
And there she was. The middle of January and she still had holiday homework to do. Many of the teachers said they understood that the stress of the holiday's caused homework to back up sometimes, but Aly knew it was simply because she was their boss' daughter that she was cut some slack. Normally, she hated being treated different from the rest of the students, but this was one time she was glad of it.
She was interrupted from her studying when Remus came and sat down next to her.
"Are you okay?" she asked seeing that his face was very pale.
"What? Oh, uh, yeah," he mumbled looking down at his empty plate.
"Are you sure?" Aly questioned.
"Yeah, I, just" he turned to look at her. He seemed to struggle with something and then smiled weakly, "I'm just over worked."
"Alright, if you say so." Aly sighed and turned back to her work. If she was feeling over worked looking at a pile of homework as tall as Hagrid, then she didn't even want to try and imagine what Remus had on his plate.
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"Dad," Aly said peaking into his office.
He looked up at her and replied, "What can I help you with, Alyson."
She moved into the room and stopped short when she saw Sirius and James sitting in front of her father's large desk. She stood and starred at them. She had never actually seen her father disciplining anyone.
"You needed something," Dumbledore said breaking Aly's brief silence.
"Oh, yeah. I wanted to talk to you about summer break, but it can wait," she explained still looking at the two boys.
"Well, these two could take a while, so, maybe you could just talk about it now."
"Ohhhkay," she said slowly. "I wanted to go to Lily's for the summer. She invited me and I really want to go."
She turned her attention back to her father, waiting for what he had to say. He didn't look to happy about the idea.
"I'm sure the Evans family would be happy to have you, but perhaps it would be best if you just –"
She cut him off, "Just sit at home, alone, all summer and be terribly miserable until I either go insane and begin talking to the chairs or until school starts again."
"Well--"
The two stared at each other, neither wanting to cave into the other.
"Fine," Dumbledore said, breaking. Aly beamed at him.
"Thanks, daddy!" Aly exclaimed and ran over and kissed him on the cheek.
She basically skipped to the door, and just before leaving, turned and said, "By the way, I'll make this quick for you. I saw them sneak into the Slytherin common room on my way to lunch." She pointed at the two boys who's jaws both fell open, smiled again and chirped, "Bye!"
She felt herself float out of his office and back to the common room. This was going to be the best summer of her entire life. She just knew it.
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Ok, this one is short, but here it is. I'm so excited because I've got Aly's 5th, 6th, and 7th year written, so, the more I write, the closer I get to the good chapters. Get my dedication, now? Hopefully, you do.
Randomism: Only two things come from Idaho: potatoes and more potatoes!
Don't ask, I just felt like sharing. Ok, chapter 9 should be along shortly. I've got a little bit of time before school starts, because once it does, I'm going to probably slack off again.
Ok, buh-bye! And remember: live, love, and REVIEW!