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Chapter 12: James Potter, the Other He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
Dear Diary,
I know I've only been going out with Siri for about three months now, but this is the strongest I've ever felt about any guy before. I think I love him. Do I tell him? Or do I wait for him to tell me? Will he ever tell me? Now I've gone and confused myself. As if I wasn't already confused enough.
Love (!...or ?),
Adriyana
Dear Diary,
Christmas break is over, and classes have begun again. I can't say I'm too disappointed, at least I'm not James' sole focus of attention anymore, now that he's got Quidditch practices and his fan club back. Stupid twits…er, I mean…thank you, my beloved saviors. Yeah, that's what I meant to write. I must stop thinking about James...Maybe I should stop writing his name. I'll call him…He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. No, wait, that's taken. Well, how about if I just stop thinking about him?
…this really is harder than it seems.
Sincerely,
Lily
In the boys' dormitory, Sirius sat on his bed, sucking on a Sugar Quill and thinking. The piece of parchment that should be at least half of a Potions essay by now was completely blank.
The sound of Remus' quill scratching on his parchment was the only noise in the room, and it was distracting Sirius from his thoughts. They weren't about the key ingredients of a Sleeping Draught, like they should be. This essay was due tomorrow, and Sirius hadn't even started it yet. He couldn't blame Adriyana; it wasn't exactly her fault he couldn't stop thinking about her. She had been the object of his thoughts for the last hour. He couldn't stop wondering how she caused his breath to catch with every touch, how she drove him completely crazy, and…how, because of her, he finally knew what true love felt like. Wow. He, Sirius Black, was in love. There wasn't a doubt in his mind, he'd known ever since that night he and Adriyana were stargazing…
"See that?" Sirius asked Adriyana, as he pointed to the brightest star in the sky.
"Yeah…" she said, eyes sparkling.
"That's my star…Sirius. Ever since I learned that, I've been fascinated by astronomy," he said, wrapping his arm around her.
"Sirius, huh? Well…I guess it's my star now, too," she said, as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Since then, Sirius had been able to think about very little else besides her. Yeah, he was in there pretty deep…
So how was he ever going to be able to tell her about Gabriella?
Gabriella Dawson was a very pretty blonde Hufflepuff two years above them, and in Sirius' fifth year and Gabriella's seventh, a few months before Sirius had realized he had feelings for Adriyana, Gabriella had asked him to go to Hogsmeade with her. He'd agreed, and they'd ended up having way too much Firewhisky at the Hog's Head. Sirius had woken up with a splitting headache in a bed in the Room of Requirement. Next to Gabriella. With no clothes on. It didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened. After that the two of them never really spoke to each other again. He still hadn't told Adriyana about it, and shuddered to think what she might say.
Merlin's beard, his mind had never spun so fast. He needed something to distract him, because this Potions essay just wasn't doing it for him.
"Oi! Prongs!" he called across the room.
"Yeah, Padfoot?" James asked.
"I'm bored," Sirius stated. "Let's go bother Snape!"
"You read my mind, mate," James said with a grin, pulling a pale pink fluffy book out from under his bed.
"What is that, Prongs?" Remus asked, putting away his completed essay.
"Oh, this? I found it in the common room. Thought it might come in handy with a prank," James said. Sirius looked at the title. Grooming Spells for Young Witches.
Sirius snorted. "What the hell?"
James glared at him. "Shut up, Padfoot. I'm trying to find the Breast Enhancement Charm!"
Peter couldn't suppress his laughter anymore. "Prongs, I don't think there is such a thing,"
Seconds later, however, James had apparently found the charm. He pointed his wand at Peter's chest. "Enhancius!" he said.
Peter wasn't quick enough to jump out of the way of the spell, and…well, make up your own version of what happened. James was laughing so hard it took him twenty minutes to look up the countercurse.
"Prongs! What happened to not pranking a fellow Marauder?" Peter said, his chest restored to its normal size.
"So-Sorry Worm-Wormtail," James gasped before falling to the ground laughing again. "I had to test it on someone, didn't I?"
"Hey, I'm a rat, not a guinea pig!" Peter huffed, though the dramatic affect of his huffiness was somewhat diminished when he burst into laughter a second later.
"Snivellus, get ready for an extreme makeover!" Sirius called, standing up from where he had fallen off his bed from laughing.
"I have to see this," Remus said, giving Sirius a hand to help him up off the ground.
That afternoon at lunch, the Marauders (minus Peter, who had a stomachache and had gone to the Hospital Wing for a potion) walked into the Great Hall, still laughing from what they had done to Snivellus earlier. While they tracked him down, James had also discovered the Hair-Bleaching charm and the Tanning charm. When they were finished, Snape looked like a very greasy and also rather scary Muggle Malibu Barbie Doll.
Sirius sat down, sniggering.
"What's so funny, Siri?" said a voice next to him. He looked around, seeing that he had sat down next to Adriyana. She smiled at him.
"Oh, we just…gave Snivellus a makeover," he said.
Suddenly, they saw Peter running to the Gryffindor table at mach speed. He looked like he was having a hard time not collapsing into laughter as he ran up to them, and he nearly crashed into a second year in front of him halfway up the table.
Once he had reached them, they had to wait for him to catch his breath and stop laughing before he could actually speak.
"Snape…Boobs…Pomfrey…can't…countercurse…" he said.
"What was that, Wormtail?" James asked.
Peter took a deep breath. "Pomfrey can't find the countercurse to the boobs charm," he said, and everyone, even Lily, burst out laughing.
"Wait a minute," said Alice, once she had recovered. "Do you guys have my Grooming Spells book? I left it in the common room one day, and now I can't find it anywhere."
"Oh, sorry, Alice. Yeah, we have it," James said. "We'll give it to you later."
"Some of those spells are really useful," Adriyana said. "But very few people know about them. That particular book is from France, so we don't have it in school."
"Yeah, I didn't even know there was a Breast Enhancement charm," Lily said. "I guess it's a French thing."
"That would explain why all those girls from Beauxbatons all have huge--" Sirius began, but was cut off when Adriyana lobbed a roll at his head.
"So, you guys gave Snape a boob job, and now they're stuck there?" Amber asked, because she had been laughing so hard during their conversation.
"Basically, yeah," James said.
"We should send him a bra…" Adriyana mused.
At that moment, Snape walked into the Great Hall. He was carrying a gigantic box in front of his chest, which seemed to be Madam Pomfrey's temporary solution to the "issue." Snape heard their laughter and shot a glare towards them. If looks could kill, the world would be down four Marauders.
They watched in amusement as Snape tried to sit down at the Slytherin table while still holding the large box.
"Shut up, all of you! Does the word 'inconspicuous' mean anything to you?" James hissed.
"Do you even know what it means, James?" Lily said.
Snape dropped the box. Fortunately (for him), there were very few people in the Great Hall, it was very early to be having lunch.
"Whoa! Those are huge!" Adriyana said loudly, causing Snape to glare at her. Then she burst into hysterical laughter with the rest of the group.
Later that day, they were in their final class, Divination. The class had actually been okay fifth year, so all of them decided to take it again. The girls and Remus found it intriguing, Sirius loved learning about the stars, James got to take another class with Lily, and Peter followed the rest of them. Their professor fifth year had been very interesting, in a good way, and the classes were pretty good. This year, however, they had a new Professor. Professor Chauncey. Without a doubt, she was the most bizarre person they had ever met. She dressed in only burgundy, wore as many gold bangles as her body could carry, waggled her fingers at you when she spoke, and began almost every sentence with "The fates have informed me that…" or "My inner eye tells me…" or something equally ridiculous. Needless to say, Divination was suddenly one of their least favorite classes, and none of them would be taking it again next year.
"Uggh. Why are we doing this AGAIN? We learned all this years ago!" Alice said, motioning to the crystal ball sitting in front of her.
"The fates have informed me that Chauncey was too plastered last night to come up with a decent lesson plan," Adriyana said mysteriously, putting her fingers to her temples and causing Peter, Alice, and Sirius, whom were sitting at her table, to burst out laughing.
"Miss Dumbledore! Are you having a vision?" Professor Chauncey said urgently, running up to Adriyana, who was still touching her temples, eyes closed. Alice shoved her whole fist in her mouth.
"Come again?" Adriyana said, squinting up at her.
"You have a strange aura surrounding you, dear," Chauncey said, turning her gaze to Peter.
'Short attention span much?' Alice wrote on her walkie-talkie paper. Sirius and Adriyana snickered.
"My inner eye tells me that you aren't paying attention, Miss Dumbledore," Professor Chauncey whirled back towards Adriyana. "Why don't you look into The Orb and tell us what Peter here has in store."
"Okay, then. Er…" Adriyana looked into the crystal ball but couldn't see anything but fog. "Pete…I see…Oh! I see a very attractive female in here!"–Peter looked up hopefully–"yes, very attractive indeed, maybe you'll get a girlfr–oh…that's just my reflection…well, I don't see anything, then," Adriyana said looking up from the crystal ball. Alice had to bite her fist again. Sirius just smiled.
"Miss Dumbledore! If you can't take this seriously, then maybe you just don't have the inner eye!" Professor Chauncey said, then stormed away to help another table.
Adriyana shot a quizzical look at Alice, who still had her fist in her mouth, and both of them cracked up.
"Prank Chauncey? Why so sudden, Padfoot?" James asked, as the four Marauders walked down the spiraling staircase of North Tower.
"She just…is overdue, is all," Sirius said. "Plus, I've thought of the best prank ever to use on her! It's genius!"
"Well, what is it?" James asked urgently.
"Okay…what's Chauncey's biggest fear?"
"Um…dark omens?" Peter said, shrugging.
"Yeah. And what's the darkest omen there is?" Sirius asked.
"The Grim. Everyone knows–" Remus began, and then broke off, looking at Sirius, who was grinning maniacally.
That night, Adriyana was walking through the halls alone. She had left her friends behind in the common room in favor of some time alone to think, and now she had the perfect place. The statue of the One-Eyed Witch Sirius had taken her through back on their (disastrous) second date. Apparently Remus used it as a quiet place to think (among other things), so why couldn't she?
As she was walking, she realized something very important. Without Sirius, she had no idea where to go. She had just been wandering around, thinking she was going the right way, but she suddenly noticed that she was completely lost. In a way, it was Sirius' fault she was lost, because she had been too busy thinking about him to notice where she was going.
Sirius, the boy she was in love with after only three short months. Sirius, the only boy who could turn her legs to jelly with his smoldering grey stare.
"I love Sirius," she said, loving the way the words sounded together. Now if only she could say them to his face.
"RUN! EVERYONE RUN! IT'S THE GRIM!" an urgent voice screamed from down the deserted hall.
"Wha–" Adriyana began, but what the screaming was suddenly became abundantly clear.
Professor Chauncey ran past Adriyana, closely followed by a huge black dog.
They turned down a hallway, and the screaming voice got quieter and quieter. Adriyana stared down the hall in shocked silence. "Okay…that was NOT normal!" she said to herself, and began laughing, before letting her thoughts return to Sirius.
She didn't understand how everyone said love could be terrible. Terrifying, maybe. Truthfully, Adriyana had never felt more amazing ever since she realized that she was in love.
Maybe because she thought Sirius felt the same way.
At that moment, Adriyana knew she was ready to tell Sirius that she loved him. Now all she had to do was find him. Where was he? More importantly, where was she? In all of her years at Hogwarts, she was fairly sure she had never been down this corridor before, but it was in a right state. The walls were nearly collapsing, and the whole place looked rather decrepit.
She heard a crumbling noise from up above her. She looked up, and her eyes widened in fear.
Sirius was still laughing hysterically as he told Peter and Remus about the prank. James had gone out to get them some chocolate and butterbeer from the kitchens to celebrate.
"Hey, guys, have you seen Agie recently?" Amber asked, walking up to them.
"Oh, I saw her about an hour ago…but wasn't she with you?" Sirius asked her worriedly. The last time he had seen her, he was Padfoot, and he was chasing Chauncey through the halls.
"No, I haven't seen her in forever!" Amber said, then motioned to Lily and Alice, who had walked up next to her. "None of us have."
"Well, where could she be?"
"She said she went out to 'think' after dinner…that's the last time we saw her," Lily said.
James walked through the portrait hole just then, without any food. He was pale as a ghost.
"I seem to notice a distinct lack of food, Prongs," Peter said, staring sadly at James' empty hands.
James ignored him, and took a deep breath as he reached them. All of them could tell instantly that something was wrong. James looked incredibly distraught.
"Did something happen?" Remus asked. James collapsed on the couch and put his head into his hands. Then he nodded.
"What is it?" Lily asked.
James lifted his face. He looked caught between shock and sadness. "Adriyana…" he said, paling even more and looking down glumly. Sirius' heart skipped a beat.
"WHAT? WHERE IS SHE?" Sirius yelled urgently, jumping off his chair and running up to James.
"She's at…" James said quietly, but the next thing he said was too quiet for any of them to hear. They all knew something was up, though. Amber had grabbed Remus' hand tightly and Lily had her face in her hands.
James took another deep breath and opened his mouth. The next words he said made were quite possibly the most horrifying words Sirius had ever heard.
"She's at St. Mungo's."
A/N: Dun dun dun dun!!!! suspense music Siri's hiding something from dear Agie...and Agie's at St. Mungo's...this is getting annoyingly tragic...sigh
It's a cliff hanger...yeah I know...and I'm not updating until you people review...hmmmpphh.
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