A/N Thank you all for your patience, and I will update Pensieve. All of you want that, I know you do. I love that story…anyway. Enjoy this chapter. It won't compensate for the short chapter, it's much shorter. I don't have all the time in the world. Writing takes awhile, you have to make it perfect. Well, there is something in this chapter that you all have wanted to know from the last one. Sit back and relax.
If there was ever a time where Lily actually liked Potter, it was that afternoon when they were playing Quidditch. He was kind, smooth, and handsome. The hard part was that he was ALSO arrogant and Lily couldn't stand it. She liked him, a lot, but why did he have to have bad qualities? Lily wrote in her muggle diary. Poured out her feelings and fell asleep. Lily was awoken when her comrades entered screaming. "THE MARAUDERS!"
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The marauders returned, soaking wet, from playing Quidditch in the rain. The girls had left when the rain started, except for Jade. She was challenging Sirius. They laughed heartily and drank the butterbeer they had sneaked from the quiddith captain's personal stash.
"Mm…I wish Lily could taste this. It's heavenly," said James as he liked the froth off his lips.
"JAY,(he had found out about the whole incident on the first day and liked the name)looks like you were Shakespeare this day," remarked Sirius as he threw off his wet clothes and put on new ones. Everyone did the same and Remus put a drying charm on the heap of soggy cloth.
They all parted to their next class. James got detention for insulting Professor Binns. Sirius, surprisingly, was on good behavior to earn points for the competition. James, on the other hand, had already earned 50 that day.
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"Where ar't thou, Lily?" called Jade as she walked into the dorms. She saw Lily lying in her bed, sleeping. But Lily didn't look so good. She was sick. Jade saw that Lily had a big, weird symbol on her forehead that was purple and she also has sticky eyes.
Jade measured her temperature and found that she had a fever. She immediately rushed her to Madame Pomfrey because she didn't know what else to do.
The hospital wing was full with people. They had all the same symptoms as Lily.
"Madame, what's going on? Is this some kind of plague?" asked Jade as one of the healers rushed Lily into a makeshift bed. All the others were full.
"I don' know, m' dear. I've `ever se'en one erv these kind erv sicknesses before," said the Healer. Madame Pomfrey came out to meet Jade.
"Jade! How's your morphing going? No problems, right?" asked the kind nurse.
"Yeah, but what is this? Have to come up with a way to treat them?" asked Jade, ignoring the comment. The head nurse's face went pale and she shook her head.
The rest of the day, Jade had helped the nurses, they needed it. She even helped them to invent a cure. Of course, it wasn't legal to test the cure without the Department of Unusual Illnesses and Diseases' approval. Not to mention the Department of Magical Cures and Potions' approval. It was all a very long process, and they didn't have time.
All that they knew about the disease was that the victims are completely healthy, but when they take a nap and wake up, they have this.
"Do you think this could be some, dare I say, spirit of some sort? Hogwarts is ancient," commented Jade.
Madame Pomfrey forbade that kind of talk and said that Jade had to get to her dorm. She awarded Jade 50 points for her kindness.
GRYFFINDOR:100 - RAVENCLAW:130 - SLYTHERIN: 85 - HUFFLEPUFF: 65
Time went by, everybody was talking about the competition. They all feasted on points. Red rubies were flying by, but Sapphires were already there. Hufflepuff had no chance of winning, poor them. Slytherin was slowly rising.
But, on judgement day, December 10, they had come to a conclusion.
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"QUICKLY! HURRY! You know Madame Pomfrey practically gives away points to people who help her!!" huffed Jade. Her and Marian were talking a little boy, in their year, to the hospital wing.
"Ehm, why are you doing this? My friends could've taken me," asked the boy. They were levitating him and he didn't enjoy it too much. But, he was really polite about it.
"Because, you are in our house and we get points because she thinks we took out of our time to help a stranger," said Marian.
They were awarded 10 points.
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"Students! Gather `round! Settle down! This is the moment you all have been waiting for, here next to me stand the four containers of all house points. I know some of you are disheartened to see that you have not won, but some of you are delighted to see you have a chance. Remember, all the stones are not the same size, don't get your hopes up," shouted Dumbledore. Then, the Heads of Houses walked to the containers and magically counted their points. They wrote down numbers on slips of paper and handed it to the Headmaster.
"Ah, yes, it was inevitable," murmured Dumbledore. All students looked at him, anticipating the outcome, except for the Hufflepuffs. They were sitting gloomily.
"Alright, before I announce the winner, I will give instructions because I know you will be too busy cheering to listen," announced Dumbledore. An "aww" came from the crowd of excited kids. The fifth and seventh years were in classes and there weren't too many people.
"Prefects will report to the staff table to take instructions on what to do on our date of departure to Illustris and all students will exit to your dorms. Classes will be over. If you can go, notify your Heads of Houses immediately. Let me remind you, you have to tell them before or on December 15th, or your won't be going. Pack you bags, we'll leave on December 21 and return on January 4. I hope you all have a lovely time, where ever you are going," said Dumbledore calmly. He could feel all of them getting annoyed.
"And the winner is…let me correct that, the winners are. (loud cheer) RAVENCLAW AND GRYFFINDOR!" shouted Dumbledore. The band played music and the Ravenclaw and Gryffindors screamed in happiness and cheered and danced. The Gryffindors left immediately, there would be a party in the common room. They had pre-planned it.
A/N I KNOW that it is uber short, but the next event is something I want to happen all at once, not broken into two chapters. I hate cliffies now, a good author killed me with one and hasn't updated for MONTHS since that cliffie. (sounds like the old me) Have Happy Holidays…Kwanzaa, Christmas, Hanukkah, whatever you celebrate around this time. JUST HAVE A GOOD WINTER!
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