Daisy | The Marauders Era

Year One: Sunny Day

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    Watching Lily smile and laugh amongst her friends made Daisy feel distant. She was only a couple seats away from her older sister, but felt a hundred miles away, as if Lily was fading.

    Daisy never saw Lily look like this at home. It was almost like she was never there. Though physically present, her older sister Lily was still in Hogwarts far away, in her own world.

    Thanks Petunia.

    Though maybe today, since it was supposedly to be sunny, Daisy thought of inviting Lily to play on the castle grounds. Her sister could show her magic games, or they could play old fashioned hide and seek, climb a tree, or skip some stones.

    When Daisy felt the warm sun melting through the glass panes of her dormitory onto her face she snuggled into the all so cosy heat under her duvet.

    It was finally coming into Spring.

    A fresh little daisy in the warming spring at last, she felt lighter already without the weight of the castle walls bringing her down all the time. She was free to run around as she pleased just like a puppy would after being let off it's leash. As now it wasn't too cold for Daisy to enjoy the castle grounds that would either frost over or be covered in a foot of snow.

    Better yet, it was Saturday.

    When she arrived outside she was smitten with how the sunshine warmed her face instead of the icy wind chapping her lips. There were actually more birds out than she'd seen at Hogwarts so far, their four black wings flapping in the air, and golden beams pecking at the ground.

    What first...

    While Daisy searched the grounds with her brightly blue eyes that were squinting at the sun, she could hear other students and observe a few of their own activities.

    "Scatter! Ready? Ok now one, two, THREE!"A boy had shot something into the air, after the other boys had ran to find a spot and stick themselves to it. She watched as three of the boys were hit on the end with something that looked like a balloon filled with flour, and the other four howled with laughs and snorts. Then it repeated with a different leader, and two more boys were coated.

    "Left, right, back, spin!" A group of older girls were spending their hot free time creating a dance. Daisy remembered the girls in her primary school making up songs, though she was never included.

    "You hot headed greasy shit! I'll throw you into the lake-!"

    "Sirius! My office now, you too Severus." Professor McGonagall's high pitched telling off voice aimed at the two second year students who's wands were drawn at one another threateningly. Sirius was just about to close in on Severus when Professor McGonagall interrupted, while Severus only smirked, enjoying the rouse.

    Far away, there was another student who was on their own, but was occupied unlike Daisy who's face was redding from the sun she stood still in.

    Regulus Black was in the shade under a large white oak tree, his back resting cooly against the trunk, his knees acting as an easel for his leather notepad in which he scribbled on.

    His hair was a little longer, so she noticed, the tips of his curls were edging closer to the back of his neck, and she wondered if he was hot under that tree seeing how his white skin was flushed.

    Not that she was paying that much attention.

    Well, maybe more attention than she'd admit.

    The lake. Sirius had put that idea in her head and she'd love to feel the cold waves brush against her legs, it would be just like the beach! Besides the giant squid and whatever else is in there.