Third Chapter! Again I do not own Harry Potter!
Sorry that it took so long to write.

Just like she promised herself, Hermione asked Emily why she cried that first night. Emily looked at the younger girl before shaking her head with a smile,
"There is a lot that people don't know about me, like why I have nightmares, one day I might find the courage to tell people about them but I wouldn't put any money on it. I know that you just want to understand us but Mia, I am very complicated and difficult to understand." Hermione nodded understandingly at the older witch before they headed off to the Great Hall for breakfast. Hermione wasn't going to stop trying to understand the older girl but she wouldn't push it. Hermione herself knew how difficult things could be.

The first week back passed painfully for Hermione but she never left the group except for lessons, after the first night Hermione got bullied by the girls in her class, they would call her all sorts of names and throw her books in the mud. She was escorted by the boys to lessons and brought to meals by Emily and Angelina, a chaser along with Emily on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, not once had she told anyone what she saw the first night at Hogwarts much to Emily's gratitude. This had become the routine of the group and it worked nicely, they all knew Hermione's timetable off by heart so they could get to her easily, every teacher had noticed this but hadn't questioned it. There was only one time when they couldn't protect their new friend, that was at night when she had to go to the first year girls dorm.

Emily stayed behind at the end of her potions lesson to talk to professor Snape, she was close to him as he had been to one who found when Death Eaters were torturing her, he got her home. She walked over to the desk at the front and waited for him to finish what he was doing,
"Emily, what can I do for you?"
"Protect Hermione." This statement finally made Severus look up.
"What do you mean?"
"The girls in her year, they have begun being really mean to her and well we have tried to keep her safe, we can't be with her all the time, Minnie has promised to keep an eye on it in Transfiguration but we need you to keep an eye on her here." Severus agreed, he was doing his first potions lesson with the first year Gryffindor and Slytherin students next so as Emily walked out she saw Hermione stood alone, the twins were waiting just around the corner to see if anything happened, Emily turned around and looked as Severus put back on his Professor Snape front and was no longer the sweet and caring Severus that he was when Emily was in the room. Emily turned back to Hermione and wrapped her arms around her young friend and then repeated this action with Draco and Neville. She turned around and headed off to her lesson leaving Hermione with Draco and Neville.

Hermione smiled sadly as her friends left her, Professor Snape lead the students into the classroom before telling them,
"You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame brew glory and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts with abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention.

Mr Potter. Our new celebrity."
Professor Snape continued to look at Harry when he heard some of the girls making comments about Hermione. Snape's eyes focused on the young girl who looked like she was about to cry,

"However in this classroom there will be no comments made about another student. So long as you do your best it will be enough. If I see or hear about anyone picking on a fellow student you will very quickly regret it."

Snape paired up the class putting Hermione with Draco and Neville with Seamus while Sophia was paired up with a Slytherin. The lesson was going well until Hermione needed to get porcupine quills from the ingredients cabin, just as she was walking passed a Gryffindor called Lavender Brown, Lavender stuck her leg out, Hermione tripped over it and landed face first on the stone floor of the dungeon. The Slytherin students began laughing as well as the Gryffindor girls, Draco, Harry, Sophia, Neville and Professor Snape were all looking in shock at Hermione. After five minutes of Snape trying to wake the girl he looked at Draco,
"Emily Lupin, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Lee Jordan and Angelina Johnson are all in Transfiguration get them and Professor McGonagall quickly." Draco ran out of the classroom the rest of the students had been made to form a single line on either side of the room and were to remain in silence.

Arriving at the Transfiguration classroom, Draco knocked on the door hurriedly. He heard Professor McGonagall call for him to enter and when he did he was terrified, he saw over 30 people all staring at him,
"Um, Professor Snape has sent me Professor. There was an accident, Hermione, Hermione has been hurt and he has sent me to get Lee Jordan, Fred and George Weasley, Angelina Johnson and Emily Lupin and you Professor." Professor McGonagall nodded, it was almost the end of the lesson so she dismissed the class early and hurried down the stairs to the dungeon but was quickly overtaken by Lee, Fred, George, Emily and Draco, Angelina wasn't as quick as them and she knew that she would not want to be in the room when whoever hurt Hermione would experience the wrath of Emily Tonks Lupin.

The group arrived at the dungeons and Emily ripped open the door, the others all went straight to Hermione while Emily looked around these kids, her usually turquoise eyes were nearly bleach white, Her neon magenta hair was now poison green.
"Who?" one simple word was hissed from her thin lips, there was no response.
"Who?" The same one word was demanded this time and yet there was no response.
"Who!?" Emily yelled her question this time and one girl stepped forward, Emily snarled at the girl in an almost wolf-like manner that had a lot of the kids shaking,
"Emi, rather than trying to slaughter the cow why don't you come sit with Hermione," Emily nodded at George, her eyes went back to blue and her hair back to magenta just as Professor McGonagall entered the room with Angelina.

After that attack on Hermione, the teachers were all observant of the young girl in lessons but this didn't stop the older members of The Prowl worrying about Hermione and Sophia, even though the other girls got on with Sophia, the girls liked to spend a lot of their time together which had left Hermione getting picked on by the rest of the girls on a near regular basis. There were times when no-one would touch Hermione, times when she was stood with Emily, they assumed that Emily had terrified them enough to keep them in check there but not at all times.

Harry, Ron and Sophia had all grown quite close and were beginning to be good friends but they kept sneaking off at night for some unknown reason.

The days quickly passed and before anyone realized it, it was the evening of October 31st, today was a difficult day for the Marauders and their kids because they all knew that if things had gone just slightly differently that both Emily and Harry would be dead, the group went down to the great hall without Hermione as she was apparently ill, this had been happening a lot but they all assumed it was the bullying so Emily had agreed to talk to her that evening.

They all arrived down at Halloween feast which passed easily until it was announced a troll was in the dungeons, prefects led houses back to the common rooms. Hermione had not been at dinner after being insulted by Ron and was in the girl's toilets, the group heard Ron and Harry discussing how Hermione didn't know, much to their misfortune they were overheard by the older group and Draco and Neville,
"Where is Mia?" Asked Emily glaring at Ron coldly.
Ron gulped, he had always been afraid of Emily, and spoke fast, "Itoldherthatshewasanuglyknowitallandhertricwithyouguyswouldsoonwearoff."
"Repeat. Slowly." Fred said menacingly,
"I told her that she was an ugly know it all and that her trick with you guys would soon wear off and you would see that she was a loner,"
Fred and George stepped closer to their little brother and Emily grabbed Harry as the twins lunged at Ron, pretty soon they saw the troll entering the girl's toilets where Hermione was.

The group ran in and began to fight the troll, as soon as it was unconscious the teacher took that moment to arrive. Professor McGonagall gasped at the sight of the 7 Gryffindors and spoke quickly
"Explain yourselves, all of you!" As soon as she was finished all of them but Ron began talking over each other but then Ron spoke up and the others fell silent,
"It's my fault, Professor, I insulted Hermione and she came here to cry, I was jealous of her relationship with the twins and Emily but I shouldn't have been mean to her for it. If it wasn't for the twins, Emily, Draco and Harry she would've probably died and it would've been my fault." Professor McGonagall looked shocked and took 5 points from Ron and awarded 10 to each of the others. She then told them all to go up to their dorms but she soon realised that Emily had a large injury on her shoulder and that the others had several cuts and bruises along visible parts of their bodies. After sending the group of Gryffindor's to the hospital wing, they were sent back to their common room and were buzzing with excitement for some reason.

When they arrived back at the common room everyone gathered around Emily and the two sets of twins knowing what was coming up,
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. I welcome all Gryffindors to witness the opening of the Twin Prankathalon. The rules are simple the two teams will have until midnight on the 7th of November to prank the opposition, the pranks cannot be assisted by anyone else, but there may be other 'victims', no-one can have severe injuries and NO TEACHER MAY BE INVOLVED! Now let me introduce the teams, to my left are the Grangers, Hermione, and Sophia, and to my right, the undefeated pranksters, the Weasley twins, George and Fred!"

There was loud clapping that Emily had to wait to end before she carried on, she looked around with a smile until she laid eyes on a smiling Percy, when she saw this she finally felt accepted by him once again, there had been an argument between the two a few years prior but they had never resolved it,
"From midnight tonight, striking the start of November, the pranks may begin, let the challenge commence!"

As the crowd died down and everyone was keeping their guard up to avoid being caught in any prank. Midnight quickly arrived, Neville had joined them in the third year boys dorm, this meant that there were now six of them in a room comfortably made for 12 king sized beds. Hermione and Sophia were just pulling pranks during the day, considering that they didn't share a dorm to plan anything. On the night of the second of November, the Weasley twins were leading in the Prankathalon having pulled off 8 successful pranks and the Granger twins pulling off only 7.

As the Gryffindor house slept two shrill cries erupted from the first year girl's dorm and the third year boy's dorm. Everyone ran into the common room where they saw Hermione and Sophia with neon green hair, on the magic whiteboard that had been set up, another tally went under the Weasley twins side of the board, the whole house burst out laughing including the two girls, their hair was set back to normal by George, this led to the two girls laughing as well.

The next morning, the Gryffindor house went down to breakfast and everything about the prank last night was left forgotten. As Fred and George ate breakfast their friends slowly began to try to hide a chuckle, before long the whole table was roaring with laughter, the rest of the hall was quickly joining in as they looked at Fred and George who were completely bright purple with pink hair. The teachers also found it funny but as breakfast ended the Gryffindors were asked to remain and Fred and George were put back to right
"Now, I have been speaking to a few teachers," spoke Professor Dumbledore, he knew that Emily and the Weasley twins would have something to do with what was going on,
"And many of them have noticed odd behaviour from many of you these past few days, now this doesn't concern all of you, but may I ask Fred, George, Emily, Sophia and Hermione to remain here while the rest of you go back to lessons."
Everyone else quickly got up and left, leaving the five sat anxiously in their seats facing Professor Dumbledore,
"What has been going on?" Dumbledore asked the five, Emily quickly spoke before any of the others could.
"Well every year we do prank wars teams. However, this year, there were two sets of twins, so we did a Twin Prankathalon, two sets of twins fighting for the rights to call themselves the Best Gryffindor Prankers Of The Year, for two years now that has been Fred and George. This year, however, the two sets of twins can prank anywhere but in lessons, the pranks are a harmless bit of fun that just gives us a little bit of life. I am the invigilator and if there is any unlawful pranking the games stop."
Professor Dumbledore just looked at the five and smiled at them before telling them to not let there be any serious injuries if there are injuries the games are not allowed for 2 years.

They all headed off to their lessons which were nearly finished, as Emily and the Weasley twins arrived at their Potions lesson, Snape looked at them and motioned for them to sit and get their books out, there was no point in them starting the potion now. Lee looked at them, so did Angelina, as they left the lesson the three were asked what Dumbledore had said, the three explained all that had happened on their way to transfigurations while taking Hermione to Potions, this often made them late for lessons but no teachers batted an eyelid at them. The group sat at the back in Transfigurations as to not be asked questions as to why they turned up late. The day quickly finished and at dinner, Hermione fell asleep in Fred's arms, she ended up in Emily's bed again that night. No pranks were pulled as when Fred woke up at midnight he saw Emily shaking as she cried into his brother's chest as he held her close, Emily was holding onto his pyjama shirt like it was a lifeline.

She ran through the forest, the middle of winter and snow was thick on the ground, her bare feet numb from the cold snow, she didn't want to look over her shoulder as she ran, she heard the Marauders casting spells, Lily, and her mum were running to catch up to the 10-year-old as she ran from the man who was trying to kill her. She slipped and hit her head on a rock, she couldn't see, her vision was blurred, all she knew was that she was being picked up, her mother was yelling and other aurors were arriving but the man appirated her away. Next thing she knew was sheer immense pain and laughter. She screamed, she didn't stop screaming until over a week later. She didn't know how long she was being tortured but one night a man in a dark cloak lifted her into his strong arms she cried but cuddled into him, he was kind to her. He wrapped his cloak around her and appirated to Marauder Manor.

Emily snapped awake and hugged into George stronger, she had never forgotten that night when she was ten. Pettigrew had tried to betray the Potters but it didn't work, the other's were out and Pettigrew was babysitting the two kids, Lily was pregnant with Willow at the time, he had brought Voldemort into the house, Harry had been cursed but he lived, Emily had been three. Seven years later Pettigrew had attacked them, Emily had run, he had chased her and caught her, he took her to a building where she was tortured for nearly a month. Fred came over to Emily and teased her arms off of George's sleeping form. "You can talk about it, you know. You are not alone." Fred had assured her with this many times but she never spoke about that night so no one truly knows what happened to Emily when she was 10.

To bat an eyelid is an English saying which means to look the other way, in case anyone didn't know.
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