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This chapter is slightly shorter than the others but I didn't want to add in unnecessary stuff into it.
As I said last chapter I will be going away over the new years weekend so this will be the last update of 2016, all i can say is bring on 2017 and all the things it brings with it, I have so many exciting plans for this story! So I wish all my readers a very happy new year!
"It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
-Audre Lorde
"Kill me now." Mary groaned as she fell back onto her bed, Beverley wrinkled her nose as she caught a whiff of the stench Mary bought in,
"If you don't have a shower I might just do that." She retorted before turning back to the mirror,
"Please do!" Mary rolled onto her side, burrowing herself in her soft mattress.
"Please don't because I'll have to clean up the mess!" Elizabeth joked as she looked up from her notebook, causing Lily to snigger, "Don't move Lil's I'm not finished yet!" she exclaimed as she moved into her original position, causing Lily to groan. Honestly, when she became the girls best friend she didn't expect to be her human statue as well.
"Merlin how long is that drawing going to take you?" Mary complained as she rolled over onto her side, her voice was muffled by her pillow.
"Merlin how often are you going to go to Quidditch practice this week?" Elizabeth retorted, raising an eyebrow as she quickly looked away from her drawing.
"True, true." She nodded in agreement. In the corner Beverley had blocked her nose and was dramatically waving her arms around to force the smell away.
"CAN YOU JUST HAVE A SHOWER?"
"MY SWEAT DOESNT EVEN SMELL!" Mary exclaimed as she rolled off the bed, all her life she had exercised and moved around, and never once in her life had she had a problem with body odour. In fact everybody always told her how lucky she was. Perhaps it was a pureblood thing, their noses were superior to everyone else's, they could smell things that them peasants couldn't.
"Yeah? Says who?" Beverley gave her a glare that would've frightened the bravest of souls; Mary faltered and got up stumbling into the bathroom.
"I HATE YOU!" she shouted as she turned on the steaming water. letting out a groan as she was splashed by the water.
"I LOVE YOU TOO!" Beverley shouted back causing Lily to jump and Elizabeth to glare as she once again had to place Lily into the correct position.
"chin up, back straight sweetie."
Lily sighed before moving into the prescribed position.
Why did she put herself through this?
"MacDonald! Training today, don't forget, 4:30!" James yelled across the hall causing Mary to smash her head on the table in front of her with a groan. The girls looked at James's retreating form in amazement, that boy was a whole new level of insane.
"How many this week?" Lily exclaimed, her eyes wide in astonishment.
"Every day! And on Saturday he gave us a training session in the morning and at night!" she groaned, Elizabeth looked at her with pity in her eyes and Lily with amazement, Beverley snorted and picked up a chocolate covered strawberry up from in front of her.
"How in merlins name does he get everything done?" she questioned in awe, shaking her head.
"Maybe James has already discovered how to time travel?" Elizabeth added in with a shrug. Beverley nodded along as she devoured two more chocolate covered strawberries.
"If he put his mind to it, he could probably do it." she said after she swallowed the strawberries.
"Maybe his met your future kids Lily." Mary sniggered causing Elizabeth to let out a laugh. Oh, she was sure that one day somebody would find a way to travel years in time. Maybe even in her lifetime.
But then again with the war you'd never know. It would be awful to travel years in time only to find out you don't exist in the future. She felt Goosebumps appear up her arm.
She shook her head, this was all a joke, she shouldn't stress herself out.
"Green eyed mini James Potters I'd say." Elizabeth added in with a wink causing Lily to hit her over the head with her daily Prophet, she had pulled her bottom lip in between her teeth and her cheeks were flushed crimson.
"That's never going to happen." she enunciated.
"We are beginning to explore the complex study of human transfiguration, very dangerous branch of music, therefore I expect ALL of you, to listen and follow all instructions given to you." McGonagall looked at the Marauders when she said this, her lips thin and her brows furrowed, Sirius gave her a charming smile and a wink, James ran his hand through his hair and grinned at her, Remus gave her a smile and peter fiddled with his wand as he everted his eyes from her glare.
"No! Not human transfiguration!" Lily groaned under her breath causing Elizabeth to snigger behind her hand, Lily' s worse subject was transfiguration, she understood the theory perfectly but when it came to applying the theory it just…failed…miserably. It was similar to how she failed at everything Herbology, well...not the theory, she understood that perfectly, but put her in front of venomous tentacular and she would end up in the hospital wing.
As she continued her lecture James and Sirius begun to lose attention and snigger behind their hands as they passed notes between one another, getting nudges from Remus whenever they got too loud, however the rest of the class noticed and eventually McGonagall realised that the rest of the class was paying more attention to the back of the class as opposed to the front.
"Prongs, Padfoot." Remus muttered shoving Sirius causing him to slip in his seat, only to look up and realise the whole class was staring at himself and James. If they were looking then McGonagall was looking, and if McGonagall was looking that meant that he definitely had detention tomorrow night with Filch in the trophy room...again. Maybe he'd pull James along with him.
"I'm assuming that you know all this if you find it appropriate to play around in my classroom?" she questioned, her right eyebrow raised and her lips so thin one would wonder if she had any at all.
"Yes Professor, we do." Sirius replied cockily leaning back in his chair,
"Then you wouldn't mind giving us a demonstration." she motioned for the pair to move to the front of the class.
"Oh this should be good!" Elizabeth straightened up in her seat. She could never deny that the pair was extremely talented at transfiguration, dare she say it, one day they could be better than McGonagall.
James and Sirius walked to the front of the class, they had a silent conversation between them before nodding. James pointed his wand at Sirius with a mischievous gleam in his eyes and a playful smirk on his face. The class held their breaths in anticipation as they awaited to see the results of the transfiguration.
He was dressed as a rock star.
Leather jacket and all.
The class burst into applause, the girls swooning at Sirius's figure in the tight leather jacket as it defined all his muscles spectacularly, and even Lily was looking at him admirably. Sirius's look wasn't much different to his usual ensemble, except the tattoos that were inked onto his hands and the piercing on his brow, now that; she wasn't too fond of. As much as she loved the whole rebellious look, she liked the clean cut as well. She could deal with the leather jacket and long hair...but that was it.
Not that it mattered, it was none of her business anyway. Once the applause died down James once again waved his wand, this time his smirk was positively devious and many inched away from him. In the place where Sirius was standing, now had a well...
Blonde haired, leggy, big busted pole dancer…
You guessed it, DDcup breasts spilling out of the top of the red bodycon dress that looked more like a tight top that was abit too long, long legs tanned and toned, blonde wavy waist long hair in large curls, red lipstick and too add to it a pole next to him.
McGonagall was gaping along with the rest of the class, how on earth?
Then the laughter began, it begun as a snigger then slowly turned into all out laughs.
"YOU TURNED ME INTO A GIRL!" Sirius exclaimed as she jumped on James who was shell-shocked as he felt his head pressed into the large breasts which were adorning his best mate's body,
"PADFOOT YOU HAVE TITS!" James shrieked, his voice cracked from the strain. He let out a laugh as he was being straddled by Sirius. "ITS YOUR DREAM COME TRUE!"
They were so preoccupied that they didn't notice a camera going off and the roaring laughter coming from the classroom. They stumbled over McGonagall's desk and fell back causing the papers on her desk to fly everywhere. All the class heard were yells and shrieks, blonde hair flying everywhere as they were all standing up trying to catch a glimpse of the 2 best friends fighting on the floor of the classroom.
Suddenly a loud bang echoed through the classroom causing everyone to jump, and a few people to fall off tables and chairs. McGonagall was looking at those whom stumbled with a raised eyebrow. she ought to give them all detentions.
"I think that's enough." She spoke trying to maintain decorum in her class; she turned around and changed Sirius back to his original state. He was muttering things under his breath and his hair stood static at the back. As they sat down a slight smile graced her aging features.
"For fighting in class that'll be 10 points from Gryffindor." The Gryffindors let out a sigh of relief, it could've been worse. "Oh and I think that'll be 20 points to Gryffindor for excellent transfiguration skills." The Gryffindor's let out a cheer of joy to thank their head of house. She shook her head and continued.
"By the end of this topic I expect you, all to be able to transfigure to Mr Potters level." She looked around the classroom who shifted in their seats and looked down.
Lily leant over to Elizabeth.
"Well she's going to be disappointed then isn't she?" Lily whispered to Elizabeth who let out a breathy laugh, Nobody was going to manage the transfiguration like the boys did.
Both girls missed the exasperated look McGonagall sent them.
"I'm hungry." Peter groaned, sinking back into his pillow.
"Go eat some cheese." Sirius replied in a bored tone as he lay on his bed looking at an astronomy chart plastered to the roof with a quill placed in his mouth. he did not understand why he decided to take Astronomy to NEWT level, he wanted to shame his family, not make them proud of him. Well, that'd never happen no matter what he did. To them he was always going to be a colossal failure, no matter what he did.
"Why don't you treat your fleas you mutt!" James muttered watching a snitch fly around the room, Remus chewed on some chocolate as he read his study notes, Sirius groaned looking at the three of them, they were too quiet. He hated that.
"I'm bored."
"Go get some dog treats from the kitchen with Wormtail."
Sirius rolled his eyes at James's half witted comment. He was so ashamed, his best friend was losing his sense of humour...his poor best friend. Being head boy was purging him of his humour. He'd have to talk to Lily Evans about this.
"Lets play a prank." Sirius suggested, it'd been far too long since they played a prank. James scrunched his face up as if tempted but holding himself back, Sirius interjected, his voice laced with annoyance as he caught James's expression, he wasn't taking any more shit. "No don't give me that! It's our last year, why not make the most of it?"
"Padfoot…"
Sirius exhaled heavily, He honestly didn't understand where his best friends sudden seriousness came from. "No Prongs! Its our last year at Hogwarts, we need to make the most of it." James looked at him whilst biting his lip. Sirius could tell he was genuinely considering joinng but forcibly holding himself back.
"I kno-"
"Then are you in? or not?" Sirius asked with a lopsided grin, James looked at his bestfriend and sighed, with a roll of his eyes he looked up at Remus who had a grin plastered across his scarred face and then at Peter who was nodding in the background. After seeing their stamps of approval he summoned the snitch and moved forward.
"So, what are we going to do?"
As the Gryffindor seventh year girls wandered into their Potions class they couldn't help but stop in the doorway and stare. It was not unusual for the Slytherins to sit on one half of the Classroom. But the aura in the classroom just felt so different, so cold. To inhaled and continued to walk to her usual seat next to Mary.
As she sat she took a deep breath, she could feel eyes on her, burning into her skull, none more so then Avery's. A shudder went down her spine, after that night she had been plagued with nightmares of his body against hers, of his lips on her neck, of his rancid breath. Every night she was taken back into that night and forced to reminisce. A haunted look expressed itself in her blue eyes.
Mary looked at her in concern, "Hey, You okay?"
Elizabeth nodded and opened her mouth to reply in affirmative when she had an epiphany. A dawning look of realisation fell over her face; Mary turned and looked at her, wondering what was wrong. In her mind she replayed his words...
"Hello Mudblood."
"We're coming for your kind, The Dark Lord will dispose of all those unworthy of magic!"
"We'll break you all, piece by piece… And you'll be first."
Mary looked at her once again, concern etched onto her face, "Are you sure you're okay?"
Elizabeth shook her head in denial and gripped the table whilst taking deep breaths, she turned and looked at Avery whom had noticed her pale visage and gave her an air kiss with a wink. She let out a shaky breath and looked down at the table. She leant towards Mary.
"They're planning something, I don't know what, but they're after me, after us." She gasped out. Mary paled in front of her.
James looked around the class as he noticed the unusual silence emitting from the Slytherins. From his peripheral vision he could see that they kept glaring at the girls and sending them smirks. He didn't miss the exchange between Avery and Elizabeth at the start of class either. He set his jaw. Those slimy snakes were up to something and the girls were somehow involved. He turned to the boys whom nodded back at him. The words remained unsaid between the boys.
Protect the girls, no harm is to come to them.
They would be injured over his dead body, he knew every single one of them could take care of themselves, but he couldn't stand the thought of them getting injured whilst he could've done something.
The atmosphere in the class was so frigid, that even Professor Slughorn had noticed.
Minutes before the class was set to end, James noticed that the Slytherins kept glancing over at each other, He subtly waved a shield over the girls cauldrons. Moments after he did so suddenly a large bang echoed through the started pouring out of Alecto Carrows cauldron.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" Slughorn questioned over the racket the class was making, He waddled over to the cauldron, his stomach out infront of him.
"Sir it was Potter, Black, Pettigrew and Lupin." Mulciber answered with his hand raised, an innocent expression on his face, making James think he did it.
"We did not!" Sirius answered his tone laced with disgust and indignation. Lily glared at Mulciber murderously across the classroom.
"Yes you did! Sir we saw them!" Alecto Carrow argued her ugly face twisted maliciously.
"I'm getting too old for this." Slughorn was heard to mutter as he shook his head in disapproval at the three boys who were in shock, "Go see Professor McGonagall, she can deal with you three." He raised his hand as pointed to the door.
"Sir we didn't do it!"
"ENOUGH! Just go!"
As the boys dragged themselves out of the classroom, making as much noise as they could, they gave the girls sympathetic looks. Elizabeth gave them a brave smile, we'll be fine she mouthed to James.
Elizabeth turned to Mary as the boys walked out, fear showing in her eyes; Mary shook her head and gave her a shrug. "Theres nothing we can do." Mary muttered as she stirred their potion clockwise five times. "We'll just have to be on alert."
Within the next five minutes Beverleys potion was spilled all over her front and had splashed onto Mary's back. They had begun to itch immediately on contact and swelling occurred in their limbs. The girls were sent to the hospital wing in pain leaving only Elizabeth and Beverley in the snakes pit.
Lily and Elizabeth shared a glance when they noticed the bloodthirsty looks of the Slytherin's within the last five minutes left of class. As the bell went the girl called out for Slughorn, to walk out with him so they would have somebody with them but it seemed that Slughorn was getting abit death in his old age.
They drawed their wands in front of them and slowly walked to the door, jarring it open and peering out, only to see the area empty, eerily so. There was nobody, no footsteps, no voices anything.
"Nobody here, corridors empty." Elizabeth commented, her voice shook slightly.
"Yeah I noticed that by myself funnily enough." Lily snapped looking at her, fear glimmering in her eyes.
Standing next to one another they snuck down the corridor in silence, their wands out and spells running through their heads. Their wands shook as their hands trembled. Elizabeth's hands had got clammy. She'd never been in this situation before.
A door in front of them suddenly opened and out walked out Alecto Carrow, a squashed face psychotic Slytherin in their year, her face was twisted into something of maniacal joy. She let out a cackle as she saw the two, pale faced girls.
"Hello there Mudbloods, having a stroll?" She laughed, her voice in a high pitched screech. Lily and Elizabeth swiftly turned around to walk away from the girl and ignore her when they were frozen in their steps. Lily let out a shaky breath as she saw the amazingly scary sight infront of her.
All the Slytherins above fourth year had gathered in the hall and were circling them, staring at them as if they were prey.
"Why so scared?" she laughed, the sound sent chills down the two girls spines, the hair on the nape of their necks stood static. "We just wanted to have a friendly chat."
Lily let out a soft, breathy laugh, fear etched onto her features. "Well we don't want to have a... 'friendly chat'" she grabbed Elizabeth's wrist and pulled on it. She moved forward only for the Slytherins to all move forward with their wands drawn and pointed at them.
The shock of over fifty wands simultaneously being drawn on them caused the girls to not be prepared to block their disarming spell.
Elizabeth inhaled a shaky breath and squeezed Lily's hand.
They were wand less, alone and surrounded, with no way to defend themselves.
They needed help...urgently.
I cant wait for the response to this chapter, I have prewritten the first part of the story and am currently working on part two, so editing these chapters that are about a year old is painful and takes so much time! But knowing what is coming up, its so exciting!
Anyhow here is your new years gift, a sneak peek to next chapter!
A piercing scream echoed in the corridor.
Is it Lily? Is it Elizabeth? Is it someone else? You'll find out next year! (Most likely the 3rd hehe)
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I wish you all a happy new year!
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