Elegantly Wasted: Sirius Black

16- Power To The Woman

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24th October 1976

It was Freezing cold in Scotland by now. With a week till Halloween, Laurie and Evan were sitting on the grass beside a tree in the courtyard, planning their costumes. Although they were a bit late.

"I'll never find anything to wear in this stupid book!" Laurie huffed frustrated and threw the book away from her. She had been flicking through the costume catalogue for about twenty minutes but still, she couldn't find anything she liked.

"Maybe I'll go as Lord Voldemort," Evan thought out loud.

"Don't be daft, Evan you can't go as him" Laurie scolded.

"Then I'll go as one of those disco guys"

"I think that you forget you're a pureblood sometimes, do you know that?" she said as she gave him a light smack on the head.

"Eh, I was going to go as Merlin anyway. I just wanted to make you feel better by thinking I didn't have a costume either" he shrugged.

"Evan!" she chastised but he just laughed back at her.

Once he had called down he said "I heard you got put with Mulciber in potions, feel sorry for you"

"How did know about that?"

"He's been going around saying it to the whole of Slytherin!" he told her.

"Why? It's not like it's a big deal"

"Because like every boy in Slytherin wants to shag you," Evan said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world "And all of the other houses for that matter" he added.

"That's not true" Laurie denied.

"It is true!"

"It's not! You don't want to shag me"

"That's different. You're my friend and I love you but I don't want to do anything like that with you, it would wreck everything" the boy explained.

"Everyone already thinks we've shagged already" she stated.

"I know" Evan laughed "Are you going to get with Mulciber?"

"Not get with him only sleep with him probably" she shrugged.

"Just be careful with him Laur"

"I will be"

"Right well I've got to go, I have a meeting in a broom closet with a lovely lady that goes by the name of Sarah Burke" Evan said as he stood up and brushed himself off.

Laurie gasped and feigned offence "that could be my sister"

"Cousin!" he corrected as he walked off.

Laurie laughed to herself and continued to flick through the catalogue.

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It was lunch and the group of friends were sitting at their spot on the Gryffindor table.

Marlene and Laurie had been teasing Lily relentlessly over the fact that James had gotten her name in potions.

"This is the start of the rest of your life Lily, how do you feel?" said Marlene as she put on a fake news reporter voice and held an imaginary microphone up to the other girl.

"Piss off Marlene" Lily scoffed and pushed her hand away from her face.

The blonde put the 'mic' back to her mouth and said "There you have it, ladies and gents, words from the talk of Hogwarts herself"