The Marauders Era [PT]

[Desolation]

Sirius Black

Seventeen • Gryffindor • Padfoot

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I took my trunk, grinned smugly at Vance and pretended to take an invisible hat of for Lily, whilst making a bow. "Lily, always a pleasure." I was pretty sure the red mark where her hand hit my cheek would stay visible for the next couple of days and I made a mental note to myself to remember I have to pull one of the famous Sirius Black Pranks on her some time soon. "See y'at school, Violet," James said with a smile. "See you later, Evans."
We turned around to look for a train door, but got interrupted by Vance who finally decided to say something. "Hey Black!" He shouted. I rolled my eyes at James. "I don't have time for this," I told him annoyed. I crossed my arms and waited impatiently for Vance to shut up. "..light your hair if you don't extinguish me. I've been told it's very flameable. And remember I don't forget easy!"
I sighed and shouted back: "Strong words for a guy who can't even defend himself! Your lady friend over there has more balls than you do! You know what they say, huh, the bigger the mouth, the smaller the..." I laughed and a few people around us, who had overheard the conversation laughed as well. I turned around for real now and walked away, with James right behind me. Vance had no idea what he had got himself in to. This was only the beginning of a year full of mockery and humiliating pranks.
James whistled. "Well, Black, you just got punched in the face by a girl."
"You know, Prongs, for such a small girl, she's got a lot of strength," I answered and rubbed my free hand over my burning cheek. "I swear, I would've hexed him if I wasn't supposed to be mature and independent oh and let's not forget, responsible as Head Boy." James continued. I laughed, "Well, you have to be all those things, but I don't! The life of a careless man, how wonderful!" I raised my voice and spread my arms, whilst grinning at James. A few students looked disturbed at me but I ignored them.
"Where's the others?" James bumped me on the shoulder and looked around. "I don't know. I lost Moony in the ocean of people this morning and Wormtail is probably late as always. Wouldn't surprise me if he-" James had stopped walking and I turned around to see why. "Prongs, what are you-" And there was Mrs. Potter, staring angrily at James and motioning he had to put his glasses on. I began to laugh. Mrs. Potter was a lovely and understanding woman, but even though she knew James hated his glasses, she made him wear them. I loved it. James hastily got out his glasses and put them on. She stopped shouting as soon as he had his glasses on and a big smile appeared on her face when she saw me. I smiled back and winked.
"You have to help me, Padfoot," James said. I sighed loudly: "Listen Prongs, I've told you a million times: I do not want to help you clean up your room. Your mum even forbade me to help you and besides there are probably dying creatures living in there, I don't feel like digging a mass grave in your garden."
James ignored me and stopped walking: "I've lost my charm." For a moment I was too surprised to say anything but then I burst into a roaring laughter. I threw my arm over his shoulder, whilst trying to hold my laughter. "Prongs, buddy, you came to the right guy. Tell uncle Sirius what the problem is."

[Lizor]

Lily Evans

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Gryffindor • Muggleborn • Head Girl

Both James and Sirius tell me goodbye, but I ignore them wisely and wait for Vance to come with me to go find us a place to sit.
'Give me a second, just one little thing,' Vance says, 'Hey Black! I'll gladly light your hair if you don't extinguish me, I've been told it's very flameable. And remember I don't forget easy!'
I look at Vance and bite on my lip, Sirius is not going to like that. I know I just said Sirius and James were just a bunch of losers, but I know what they can do. They have bullied Severus since the first day and that has not been pretty. I hope Sirius listens to me and leaves Vance alone, but I don't count on it.
'Strong words for a guy who can't even defend himself! Your lady friend over there has more balls than you do! You know what they say, huh, the bigger the mouth, the smaller the...,' Sirius responds. I look at Vance.
'You need to ignore them, they are not worth it. Please, just leave those bullies.'
'Sorry, had to do that. So what was the thing with the place? What do you think of 'as far away as possible from spoiled brats'? I'd like that place,' Vance says and I chuckle.
'Good plan,' I smile. I tuck my hair behind my ear and together we walk towards an empty seat. I sit down on the soft fabric and sight deeply, staring outside the window.
'So, how was your holiday?' I ask Vance curious.

[Hagane your post looks great, don't worry about it being not good enough!]

[Tolkien]

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James Potter
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Head Boy • Quidditch Captain • Gryffindor • Seventeen • Prongs

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Sirius' cheek was less scarlet than it had been minutes before. James could almost see Lily's hand in it. She must've hit him quite harshly. Apparently, though, Vance wasn't quite don' talking yet.
"Hey Black!" he shouted and Sirius rolled his eyes at his best friend, muttering how he did not have time for this nonsense. James was curious what words would come out of Violet's mouth this time. He had already lost their little stupid game, anything that would now follow, would only play in his disadvantage. It wasn't something that would keep James up all night, though.
"I'll gladly light your hair if you don't extinguish me." James raised an eyebrow and held a hand in front of his mouth, quickly turning around to seem more or less civilised as he made an exit. "I've been told it's very flameable. And remember, I don't forget easy!" James tried to hold his laughter, he really did, but his shoulders were already obviously shaking and they did even more so when Sirius started talking again.
"Strong words for a guy who can't even defend himself. Your  lady friend over there has more balls than you do! You know what they say, huh, the bigger the mouth, the smaller the..." Sirius chuckled and a few others joined him. James looked how they received kisses of their parents against their will and how they took their trunks to the Hogwarts Express. The conductor was already shooing people to get on the train. It would leave in a minute or three and after James had expressed his need of hexing Vance and Sirius had received yet another harsh fist against his shoulder for flirting with James' mum, he tried to get through the crowd to reach one of the trains doors. But then he stopped walking. "You have to help me, Padfoot," he said. Sirius sighed loudly.
"Listen, Prongs, I've told you a million times: I do not want to help you clean up your room. Your mum even forbade me to help you out and besides, there are probably dying creatures living in there. I don't feel like digging a mass grave in your garden."
James ignored him and continued: "I've lost my charm." Sirius seemed startled and then laughed. He threw an arm over James' shoulder and his weak attempt to hold any further laughter, didn't succeed very well. The latter shook off Sirius' arm, as he had to get on the train with his trunk and his owl, since the contuctor was getting suite impatient - and basically asking for a blow on the nose.
"Prongs, buddy, you came to the right guy. Tell uncle Sirius what the problem is." James turned back to his friend. It was odd that the others had still not turned up. Ah well, they would find them sooner or later. It wasn't exactly like they couldn't handle themselves. James shoo-ed a couple of first years that were just about to enter an empty compartment, opened its door and tried to shove his trunk up the there fore used shelve above the seats. When he had finally gotten it up there, he remembered he could've just used magic. Then he opened the window and released Mercury, since he obviously didn't approve of being in his cage for so long. He would find his way to Hogwarts, besides, it was really annoying to handle an owl in a cage for the whole trip. When he had put the cage itself in the trunk, he finally sat down, thinking about the fact that minimalising his trunk would be very useful. But the thing was already bewitched so often, he had a constant fear of it exploding. (James had a secret compartment for a whole lot of food in there. His broom was also in there. And he had way too many clothes for a boy his age, but hey, try fitting ánd Quidditch robes ánd a couple of school uniforms and some spare time clothing ánd all your books in an ordinary trunk. It's bloody impossible.)
James then finally answered Sirius' question with a slight, annoyed scowl on his face. "You just witnessed what the problem is. I can't believe she likes that bloody blighter of a duffer, Violet Poohead rath-" He swallowed the 'rather than me' part, because he knew Sirius would already mock him with the words he'd already said. James took off his glasses and lay them in front of him on the small table. "I mean, he's a complete muppet."

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[Desolation]

Sirius Black
Seventeen • Gryffindor • Beater • Padfoot

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James shook my arm of his shoulder and we jumped aboard the train. I used my wand to get my trunk aboard, because I don't really feel like doing much today, and followed James into an empty compartment. While James did a rather unhandy work, trying to get his trunk on the shelves, I only flicked my wand. I took a seat and looked out of the window, whilst I was waiting for James to tell me what the problem was. I've lost my charm, he said. I chuckled. He's was an absolute nutter. I would never get so upset because a girl didn't like me. He hasn't lost his charm, he's lost his cool. Or maybe both. I put my wand in my pocket and got out a bag of Flavour Beans Remus' mother gave me before we left for Kings Cross. It's like I was loved by everyone's parents except my own. I looked in my bag of Beans and chose a blueish-grey one. That should be coconut, I thought. I put it into my mouth, chewed on it and spit it out again. Soap. "Bloody hell," I said whilst pulling a face. "I was so sure that was coconut."
James ignored me again and it kind of started to get annoying. "You just witnessed what the problem is." At last, I got an answer. "I can't believe she likes that bloody blighter of a duffer, Violet Poohead rath-" James stopped abruptly and I grinned. I knew what he was going to say: rather than me. James put his glasses on the table. "I mean, he's a complete muppet."
"Maybe she has a thing for tossers. You should try that," I answered and looked intensively at another bean, trying to figure out which flavour it's going to be.  It had a red colour, so that couldn't be that bad. I tossed it in my mouth and carefully bit on it. Strawberry, thank Merlin. "Or maybe," I said. "She doesn't like him, but acts like she does because she knows you don't like him and she wants to annoy you."
The door of the compartment swung open and a sweaty and heavy packed Peter fell inside. "Wormtail!" I shouted gleesome. "There you are! We were afraid you had missed the train." I stood up, walked over to him and pulled him onto his feet.
"I," He panted. "Almost. Did." He breathed deep in and out between every word and I smiled. "Well, luckily you made it. You did miss a lot, though. I got punched in the face by Lily and Prongs thinks Lily likes Violet Poohead more than him."

[Hagane]

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Vance Bryan Keith Cavilles ° 17 ° Ravenclaw 

"I'd rather die than be a pretender."

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She giggles when I make the comment about the spoiled brats and I smile a little. 
"Good plan,"she says and gives me one of those 'Lilly-smiles' as I call them. You can almost feel the care and friendlyness in her smiles, it's what makes them special. She deals with her hair and I follow her to an empty seat and sit down. Tranquillity
, at last. She sighs, a bit dreamy I think, and starts staring outside. "So, how was your holiday?" she asks curiously, she always asks that, breaks the ice.
"Noisy and busy. those boys never shut up. I try to be their big brother but... I realise I'll have to leave next year, and all I can think about is 'who will do that when I'm gone?' I mean living in an orphanage is not easy, not to mention you don't have much. I had enough of it many times, I wanted to run away. But I couldn't. I better start searching for a house and a job. And I only have a real talent for 'Defense Against the Dark Arts', but I'm not a great teacher so something at Howarts no chance, the rest I just... Remember," I say a bit worried. I think a lot of my future, and sometimes the future of others. But I think I'll always be a drift, not sure what I want and when I want it. Not sure about my steps. I don't really know. "Anyway how was yours, Lilly?" I ask.

[Lizor]

Lily Evans

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Gryffindor • Muggleborn • Head Girl

'Noisy and busy. Those boys never shut up. I try to be their big brother but... I realise I'll have to leave next year, and all I can think about is 'who will do that when I'm gone?' I mean living in an orphanage is not easy, not to mention you don't have much. I had enough of it many times, I wanted to run away. But I couldn't. I better start searching for a house and a job. And I only have a real talent for 'Defense Against the Dark Arts', but I'm not a great teacher so something at Howarts no chance, the rest I just... Remember,' I listen closely to Vance's rambles.
'Maybe you can still visit them often?' I tell him, I look at him. I love it how he cares for those boys, even though he has had such a hard time in the orphanage. I lay my hand down on his upper arm, 'but even if you don't, I'm sure the boys will be fine. They have had you to teach hem how to life. You are a great teacher Vance,' I smile, 'don't worry so much about your future.'
'Anyway how was yours, Lily?' he asks after my words of encouragement. I shrug my shoulders and look at my hands.
'It was okay, but well you know how my sister is,' I mumble, 'she wasn't the nicest.'
I sight, 'but I'm glad I could get away for some days to my friends,' I say and I give him a smile, 'I'm glad to be back home.'

[Astoria]

Astoria Black - Ravenclaw - Year 6

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The moment we reached the station, I took my own luggage and headed of to find my friends. Mum and dad didn't quite know about how Bella and Cissy ignored me. They weren't very happy with me being in Ravenclaw but they always tell me to remember where my loyalties lie. Sometimes I wonder how it would have been if my family wasn't this biased. I really don't see how any off their points on muggles make any sense. I mean look at Lily, she's muggleborn and she's the top in the year, Kath's muggleborn too and she's the best at Quidditch. Sometimes I wish I was born to someone else. Bella and Cissy insult me and never treat me like a sister anymore. My parents are never around. Sometimes my friends are the only ones I have. It's good to finally see them.

I walk towards the usual compartment where me, Marley, Kath, Lily, Vance and Ted sit together. We were sort of a clique. I was hoping Ted would be in the compartment. I kinda like him. He's a year older than me and in Hufflepuff. I climb into the compartment and put my luggage in. No one was her yet. I climb out and look around, spotting a few people I know here and there. I see Marley and am about to call her when I notice her looking at Sirius. Shaking my head, I let her be. She had a huge crush on him, the whole school knew, except for him of course. They would be cute, but the thing is Sirius never noticed her. I turn to see Lily and Vance walking towards the compartment. 

"Hey guys", I call out to them, "how was your holidays?"

[Desolation]

Lucius Malfoy

Seventeen • Slytherin • Chaser • Prefect

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I arrived on the platform a few minutes before the trains was going to leave, just like every year. I didn't like to be early, because then I would have to hang out with people I didn't like, and I didn't like to arrive to late either, because then I would have to hurry and that wasn't my thing. I didn't really understand why we, Pureblood wizards, had to take a train anyway. There were so many other ways to travel without the use of a train, that was something for Mudbloods and Muggles. I put my hands in the pockets of my black Armani suit and sighed loudly. Here's to another year of annoying students, NEWTs and worst of all, Mudbloods.
Nora, my halfblood maid and the only one who actually cared for me at home, appeared behind me and after her one the family's house-elves Pokey, who was dragging my luggage behind him. "Careful with that," I snarled annoyed at the house-elf, when Nox screeched loud and alarmed. Pokey dropped the trunk startled and after I rolled my eyes, he picked it up again and followed me while I made my way through the mass of people. When we got to one of the doors of the train, I made a movement with my head, to tell Pokey that he had to shelve my luggage and quickly, he jumped on the bottom step and dragged the trunk inside.
"Well," I said to Nora. "Tell dad I said hi." The hint of annoyance was clearly audible in my voice. Nora smiled and took a book out of her purse. "Your father wanted me to give you this," she said and gave it to me.
I turned the small book around in my hand. "What is it?" I asked her unimpressed, yet curious that my father had asked Nora to give me this. She shrugged, "He didn't say." I nodded understanding. Of course not. Abraxas wasn't a guy who just tells people what he expects from them, they have to figure it out them self.
"Thanks, Nora," I mumbled and got on the train. "Have a nice school year, Lucius!" Nora shouted. I didn't answer. I passed Pokey in the hall and he cringed. "Master Lucius?" he squeaked.
"What?"
"Pokey has put master's luggage and owl in the first compartment on the left, because the second one was already taken," he turned to face the wall behind him and started hitting his head against the wall, whilst repeatedly saying, "Stupid Pokey, stupid Pokey, stupid Pokey." I rolled my eyes again at the house-elf. "Go fetch my luggage," I told him and entered the second compartment on the left, the one me and my friends always sat in. There were a three first years in there and I leaned nonchalant against the door. "Get out."
Although they first looked rather startled, they quickly took their trunks and left. Pokey placed my trunk above the seats and I sat down next to the window. "You're dismissed," I said to Pokey and he vanished.
After that I started browsing the book really nonchalant. It wasn't printed, but handwritten like a journal. A few words caught my attention: Knights of Walpurgis, Dark Arts and Unforgivable Curses. I wondered what this book was and why my father had given it to me.
The compartment door slid open and Rudolphus appeared in the door opening. He took a seat next to me and I lay my book on the table. "Hello Lucius, had a nice holiday?" he asked, but before I could answer Narcissa and Bellatrix appeared, both already in their Slytherin uniforms.
"Hello ladies," Rod smirked, "and how have you been?" Narcissa replied that she has been good and sat down opposite Rod and I. "Is that a good book?" Narcissa asked me and pointed at the diary like book on the table. I shrugged and flashed her a crooked smile. "I don't know. You tell me." I threw the book over to her and waited for her to response.

[Winchester]

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Emma Esmé Vanity

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Emma and early mornings were two things that most definitely did not get along with eachother. She had still been stretching out her body when her mother barged in announced that it was time to leave, followed by a shocked shriek when she found out the girl still wasn't dressed. Mrs. Vanity had decided to comb Emma's wild morning mane of hair herself, to spare some time, and after a few tut-tut's about her outfit choice, they were ready to leave for King's Cross station. She nearly noticed her mother navigating through the horrible muggle traffic, because Emma was sound asleep yet again. When the car, which her mother still didn't know how to drive properly, came to a screeching halt, she shook awake again.
"We're here." Her mother announced, and Emma just gave her a firm nod in return, determined not to let her grumpiness get the best of her and have a blow out with her mother.. again. She'd save that for the first years that she'd have to shove out of her path on platform 9 ³/₄.
Her mother popped the trunk open and Emma got out of the car, only to have a near heartattack when she saw one of their house elves standing there.
"Lady Vanity." Was the only thing he said before dragging her trunk, which was literally twice the size of him, out of the back from the car.
"I'll just take it from here." She said, afraid that it would not only crush the little elf but also break all the vinyl records she'd managed to buy behind her mothers' back in some of those special, small muggle shops.
Emma waved a quick goodbye to the both of them and hurried her way towards the platform, seeing that she had about five minutes to make it there. The strange sensation of running through the wall left shivers down her spine, but she barely had time to think about that when she was wading through the crowds of children hugging their parents goodbye. She even pushed someone in to a wall because they didn't hurry one bit. Lifting up her heavy luggage, she got in to the train, finally. Following the familiar route for the seventh time now, she easily found her way to the compartment where some of her fellow Slytherin's were located and crashed down on one of the couches. She gave the group one of her typical, mischievous smirks.
"Is it just me, or is there an incredibly big lot of screeching first years? I thought I was going deaf out there." She said as a sort of greeting. "They ruined the little happy moment I had about going back to school."
Emma made a pouty face and took off her leather coat, settling in to the comfortable booth.

[Tolkien]

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James Potter
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Head Boy • Quidditch Captain • Chaser • Gryffindor • Seventeen • Prongs

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Sirius was obviously more interested in eating Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans than listening to James, but he kept talking anyway, whereafter he grasped a bean out of the box Sirius was holding and threw it in his mouth, not even looking at the colour. Chocolate. His luck.
"Maybe she has a thing for tossers. You should try that," said Sirius. He stared at another bean. "Or maybe, she doesn't like him but acts like she does because she knows you don't like him and she wants to annoy you." James huffed and crossed his arms.
"Seriously, Padfoot, it's not like I have a crush on her or anything," he mumbled lowly. He got out his Daily Prophet and ripped one of the pages which held a very serious Minister of Magic on its front page. The title said, without much ado; "IS THERE A WAR COMING? MINISTER MINCHUM SAYS NOT TO WORRY." Of course they had everything under control. They seemingly always did, but James could feel the tension. It was out in the streets, it was at his home - his mother would barely let him go out this summer, it was a miracle he got to stay with Remus last week - it crept up in every dark corner. Diagon Alley had seemed very grim, two weeks ago. James ripped off the page and crumpled it. One incendio later and a pleasing, comforting fire was burning in midair, since he had nothing better to do and Vance had kind of been a mood ruiner. There was probably something else that ruined his mood - Lily Evans - but he didn't even admit that to himself. Finally, it was eleven o'clock. The train began to move. Now where were Moony and Wormtail?
James was wondering this, when all of a sudden, the door was opened a bit harshly. Peter almost stumbled over his own two feet as he entered the compartment.
"Wormtail!" Sirius cried out happily. "There you are! We were afraid you had missed the train!" He stood up, walked over to him and helped him up. James was very concentrated on his burning fire and only took a glance at Peter. What was the matter with him? James barely behaved in such a way, but he felt extremely uncomfortable. Like something was about to happen.
"I," Peter panted, "almost... did!" It took a while for him to catch his breath. Sirius smiled. "Well, luckily you made it. You did miss a lot, though. I got punched in the face by Lily and Prongs things Lily likes Violet Poohead more than him." James didn't even hear him. Something passed by in the corner of his eye and he jumped to his feet.
"Something's wrong," he hissed silently. The burning paper fell onto the table and James quickly stopped it before he set fire to the train. Initially nothing seemed to happen, and he just stood confused. Sirius was likely to start laughing at him again, but then there it was. A loud crashing sound filled their ears and something made the train shake violently. James almost fell face forward into the floor, but he grabbed the curtain at the window and almost ripped it off its rod. He walked over to the door of the compartment and then there was a high pitched scream.

(I hope it's okay. I was kind of all out of inspiration. :'))

[Lizor]

Katherina Esyllt Dechtere Zaqar

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Hufflepuff • Muggleborn • Beater

A smile appears on my face directly when I open my eyes and realize what day it is. I finally get to go back to Hogwarts! I check my calendar that I have been keeping track of, counting all the days until this one, I couldn't wait to go back. It's not that I don't like it with my parents, they are great, but they don't really... understand. Me being a witch has always been hard to accept and I know they are trying, but I feel more at home at Hogwarts then when I'm with my parents.
I get up and take my new dress from the chair where I put it the evening before. My suitcase is already packed and standing downstairs, I only need to get breakfast and get myself ready for another year of school.
I eat almost nothing since I'm so excited to go back that I don't feel hungry at all, but my mom gets me to eat at least one bowl of cornflakes.
'Can we go now?' I beg my parents, my brown hair dances around my head when I jumping up and down. I'm so hyperactive at the moment, only the thought of Hogwarts makes me go crazy. It takes me fifteen minutes - too long - to get my parents ready and in the car.
The landscapes flash by and I close my eyes, dreaming of the year that is coming. I can't wait to see all my friends again. We have exchanged letters, but we didn't really got a change to see each other.
Eventually I say goodbye to my parents - I do my best not to be too excited, I don't want to hurt them - and I get on the train searching for some familiar faces, but I end up in a part of the train that is completely empty, probably because I'm quite early.
Just as I want to go back I hear something behind me, I turn around and in front of me appear two masked figures. I swallow and shrink. I have never liked masked, they make me anxious and especially in this situation.
'Er, hi, did you guys have a nice summer?' I stutter trying to look less afraid which I - of course - totally fail at. A cold laughter leaves the mouth of the right figure and I swallow.
'The mudblood thinks she is cute.' He almost spits out the word mudblood. I don't hesitate for even a second and turn around to run away. This is not good.
'Crucio!' I hear before I can even make it through the door, a loud scream leaves my mouth and I collapse on the ground.
'Stop it!' I scream, my whole body suddenly hurts and I try to fight it, but the pain doesn't stop. It looks like my body is on fire or like someone is poking in me with a knife, 'stop it! Please!' I scream, tears are streaming down my face while I try to resist the pain.
'Did you say something?' the other figure says, I can hear the grin in this voice. Suddenly the pain stops, but the memories are still there. I lay on the ground, not moving, trying to fight the tears that are streaming down my face that has grown pale. I gasp for breath and after some seconds I try to move, but again I hear the word come out of the figures' mouth and I know what will follow...

[Astoria]

Narcissa Black 
Fifteen • Slytherin • Pureblood

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I caught the book Lucius threw at me. It didn't look like the kind of books he would usually read. I flipped through the pages, some words catching my eye. There were mentions of dark spells, places and names of wizards. It didn't seem like the book was new either. I wonder what he was doing with it? I slide it back to him across the table. "Seems interesting, not my kind of book though.", I say to him. "I'd prefer something a little more informative or entertaining." He takes the book from my hand and flips through it. I liked Lucius, even though he was two years older than me. He's quite the gentleman. 
I reached into my bag and pulled out my black notebook and a quill. Usually I spent my time sketching up things I would love to wear. Not the heavy dull coloured ones Mum forced me to wear. More like emeralds and silver. I did have a thing for fashion.
Just then Emma walks in and sits down beside me. "Is it just me, or is there an incredibly big lot of screeching first years? I thought I was going deaf out there." She said as a sort of greeting. "They ruined the little happy moment I had about going back to school." I smirked. She didn't like it much back home, and neither did I. That's how we became friends actually. "Hopefully they won't be put in Slytherin. I think we all prefer a more quiet common room. " Emma looked at me knowingly. I hated loud first years, the ones that keep commenting on every single new thing they see at Hogwarts, they need to calm down. "So, how was your holidays?"

((sorry it's so lame, i couldn't think of anything else))
((i changed it Desolation is it ok?? ))

[Desolation]

Sirius Black

Seventeen • Gryffindor • Beater • Padfoot

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James stole a bean out of my box and threw it in his mouth without even looking at the colour. I so hoped he had a nasty one. "Seriously, Padfoot, it's not like I have a crush on her or anything," Prongs told me. I smirked, "Yeah right, and I am Merlin's nephew. By the snakes of Medusa, Prongs, I may be stupid, but I'm not blind." James took out his copy of the Daily Prophet and I took out my wand. I started messing around with de beans, changing their colours and just putting random ones in my mouth.
After a while, James ripped a paper out of the Daily Prophet and put it on fire. "I wanted to read that, you know."
James was acting very strange when Peter came in the compartment. He jumped up and his eyes flashed around. I looked at him confused and was just about to speak up, when a loud noise reached my ears. The train shook and not much later, stopped completely. I nearly fell over, but braced myself just on time. Peter fell of course, but he was caught by the softness of the seats, so he was fine.
"Merlin's beard, what was-" I started but got interrupted by a high pitched scream. I had no idea who it was, but I didn't wait for another scream either. I pushed the doors open and stormed into the corridor. A lot of curious and anxious heads peeked out of the other compartments, but nobody seemed to do anything. That made it easier for me to go into the next section of the train. As I got closer, the voices grew louder and louder. I could now clearly hear a girls voice and also the laugh of what appeared to be an older man. I threw the section door open, only needed a second to take the whole situation in (seeing Kath on the floor, her face contorted in pain, was enough to make me blow up) and shouted angrily: "Expelliarmus!" James took his place next to me and disarmed the second man by shouting: "Expelliarmus, bitch!" I hit the man and his wand flew over his head to the other side of the corridor. He quickly Disapparated, leaving his friend behind, whom James was able to disarm as well. Only this guy was faster than his friend, and he wasn't a coward either. He retrieved his wand and started casting spells at us. Before we knew it, two other hooded man Apparated into the corridor. The man who was fighting James, Disapparated with multiple scars.
"You take the first one, I'll deal with the other one!" I shouted at James. "Stupefy!" I missed the hooded man only by a few centimeters and used a Shield Charm to obstruct his attempt to Stun me. "Expelliarmus!"

[Winchester]

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Emma Esmé Vanity

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"Honestly, if they did end up in Slytherin somehow, I'll make sure they'll shut their tiny little mouths, no worries about that." She answered Narcissa with a wink, still wearing her smirk. "This is my final year, and I won't let anyone ruin that."
The pretty blonde asked how her vacations had gone, and Emma tried her best not to pull a face. To most, it might be an incredible privilege to spend a couple of weeks on the coast of France with their mother and some relatives, but to Emma, it had been horror. Her cousins had kept talking about which man they had wrapped around their fingers and how Emma still playing Quidditch at this age was 'adorable'. Even though going out meant being in the Muggle world, she had still spent as much time as she could outside. She gave Narcissa a look, knowing she'd understand how she felt, they were quite alike in that.
"Well, there's not much positive to say about it, apart from the fact that I now know how to pour tea properly. What a useful skill." She told with a sarcastic undertone. Emma had barely had time to fly around, and when she did, she had to rip off the horrible corset she'd been forced to wear - because her waist wasn't small enough, apparently - which took about half an hour, and everything that wasn't Quidditch was usually considered quite boring to her.
"How about you, do you have any interesting vacation stories to tell?" She asked, while she rested her hands on to her lap, fiddling with the loose threads on her dark denim skirt.

(sorry, this is quite crappy.)

[Tolkien]

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James Potter
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Head Boy • Quidditch Captain • Chaser • Gryffindor • Seventeen • Prongs

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James helped up Peter and followed Sirius out of the compartment. A lot of students were sticking out their heads to see what was going on. James told them to get back inside and close the door. Those who didn't listen to him right away, received a door in their face caused by a flick of James' wand.
The train had stopped completely, which made it dreadfully quiet, apart from the muffled voices of the students inside their compartments.
As he followed Sirius through the train, James could hear a horrible laughter and a squeal, a high voice that was pleading for them not to harm her. Sirius threw open the door of the corridor, and the two friends acted immediately.
"Expelliarmus!" shouted Sirius to the first. James disarmed the other one at the exact same time.
"Expelliarmus, bitch!" he called out angrilly. James saw Peter walk over to Kath, helping her up to get her out of here. The first man Disapparated, but  the second one wasn't such a coward. He didn't hold back on his curses either. He picked up his wand.
"Crucio!" James lifted his wand to defend himself from the curse, but saw he was too late and simply jumed out of the way. "Lacarnum Inflamarae!" A ball of fire shot from the Death Eater's wand.
"Protego!" yelled James and the ball of fire crashed into his bright blue shield with a loud bang. It reflected back on the hooded man, who stumbled back because of the power James had called out the spell with. Two other men Apparated into the corridor and James gritted his teeth. The man he had knocked over, Disapparated too. Peter had just helped Kath up.
"You take the first one, I'll deal with the other one!" Sirius shouted at James, but the second man didn't turn to James as the first had just done to Sirius with an evil grin on his face. He pointed his wand at Peter and Kath. James and the Death Eater formed their words at the same time. The latter shot a green flash out of his wands, the words of the curse pounded in James ears and filled him with a horrible rage. "Impedimenta!" he yelled loudly. Kath and Peter got knocked over and the green light hit the wall of the train, creating an explosion that made a hole in the wall and made James stumble back. Green fire lit up from the edges of the hole and James could see they weren't even halfway there.
"Petrificus Totalus!" James got up from the floor as he said it and rubbed his ellbow as he looked at the effect of the spell, then he turned to Sirius' attacker, who had just lost his wand. He seemed as though he was still doubting between fleeing and getting his wand back to curse someone, but before he had made up his mind, James' wand was already pointing at him.
"Duro Hominem," he said coldly. De Death Eater gasped for breath as he became paler and paler, falling over with a loud thud, now being a statue. James only hoped there wouldn't be any more Death Eaters turning up. He also wondered why exactly they had been here. To kill a Muggle-born girl and warn them? Just for fun? To get information out of someone? Maybe they were still on the train and now seeking another target. The urge to go and see if Lily was okay surged through James' body. Instead of leaping out of the corridor like a madman and sticking his head in each compartment to see if Lily was in one of them and safe and sound - she probably would be, she was an amazing witch - he looked at Sirius in confusion.

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