The Immeasurable Marauder

Introductions

The next morning I woke up suddenly. 

It was the same dream I had been having for weeks and each time I woke up more exhausted than I had before going to bed. This morning was no different. I peeled myself from my sweat damp bed sheets and opened the drapes around my bed.

Everyone was still asleep. I could see a purple sky beginning to peek through on the horizon and decided that there would be enough time to shower, dress and get out of the common room to breakfast before I had to speak to anyone. That way I would have some time to compose myself before the inevitable barrage of questions. After my scalding hot shower, I put on a simple pair of tight, black jeans and a V-neck T-Shirt. I decided that my hair would just have to hang the way it was but my face, good lord. I looked like I hadn't slept in months. I had deep purple rings around my blue eyes, my skin looked even paler with my dark wet hair framing my face. I had lost a lot of weight and was looking a little gaunt. I decided to put on some foundation, a little mascara and some bronzer on my cheekbones so I didn't look like a corpse. As for my serious weight loss, I put on a cardigan to cover my arms. Maybe I'd be able to put on some weight once I got settled here.

I stepped out the bathroom to see Lily milling around, tidying the floor around her bed.

"Good morning!" she said brightly. "Did you sleep well?"

"Very well thank you." I said in my best impersonation of a real girl.

"I'm so glad. I can't wait to introduce you to the girls," she said before increasing her volume, "who should be waking up soon!" she ended to a chorus of groans.

"God Lily!" said a blond haired, vivacious looking girl who viciously pulled her drapes apart, "Can't you wake us up decently. Always with the bright and cheery crap. Once, just once, couldn't you be all doom and gloom? It's not too much to ask." She continued in this vein for a while muttering more to herself than anyone else but she did succeed in waking up the other girls.

"Shut up!" said another girl with dirty blond hair and sharp, pretty features.

"Ok, ok," said Lily diplomatically, "Now that were all up... Yves, this is Mary," she said gesturing to the grumpy girl still moaning to herself.

"And that is Alice." She said inclining her head towards the girl with the sharp features. "This is Emmeline and Marlene." She said gesturing to the last two girls. "Everyone, this is Yves but you can call her Vee. She has transferred from Beauxbatons."

The girls looked at me severely.

"Beauxbatons?" Mary said loudly looking confused, "Are you French?"

"Um, not exactly. I am English but my family moved to France when I was a child so I am kind of both."

"It must be so scary for you," said Alice in a small voice, "I would hate to have to go to a new school in Fifth Year. I mean O.W.L.s are around the corner and..." she stopped suddenly, Lily gesturing for her to stop speaking, "sorry, sometimes I don't know when to shut up."

"No worries." I said walking over to my bed to pick up my book bag.

"Where are you going?" Emmeline asked. 

"To breakfast." I said uncomfortably.

"Oh no girl, you're not going anywhere. We got to know all about you. Besides, you'll just get lost and run into Peeves and that isn't gonna help no one." Said Marlene. 

The girls spent the next hour and a half getting ready for the first day of school and excitedly asking me anything they could think of.

"What are the boys like?" Mary asked with a cheeky glint in her eye after the more probing questions about my family, which I successfully lied about.