Free {Marauder's Era}

Chapter Three

Adeline walks beside Remus, listening to him retell this morning's events. She instantly felt guilty for causing Lily and Remus to freak out, as well as making Professor McGonagall late to her class for no reason. Adeline and Remus reach the portrait hole and she tells the Fat Lady the password. The portrait swings open and the two students step over the threshold. Adeline heads up to her dorm and exchanges her textbooks. She grabs her wand and her Transfiguration book and heads back downstairs. She sits on the floor near the door and waits as Remus walks back downstairs.

Adeline stands up and pushes the portrait open with Remus behind her. The two talk with each other as they go down the hall towards their next class, talking about what they will be learning about in class. The day before they were asked to write down a bunch of complicated notes about a spell on how to transfigure a match into a needle, so that was what the students guessed they were going to be doing that day. Adeline was rather excited because this would be the first transfiguring spell she would ever have cast since coming to Hogwarts.

    They push through the classroom door and see a few other students sitting and talking. Professor McGonagall sits at her desk wearing red and gold robes, matching the Gryffindor house colours. Adeline sets her materials on a desk near the front of the class before walking over to her professor's desk.

    "Um, Professor?" Adeline says in attempts to catch her professor's attention. The woman looks at the young girl standing across from her, who's face bares a guilty expression.

    "Yes, Ms Warner?" Professor McGonagall asks her, waiting for her to speak.

    "I just wanted to apologize for this morning, for causing you to have to leave your classroom unattended because Lily thought I had been hurt or something. I am perfectly fine, by the way, I just lost a tooth." Adeline tells her as she begins to ramble on. The woman nods her head and Adeline goes back to her seat. Remus notices her shaking and shoots her a curious glance.

   "I just really hate talking to teachers for those kind of reasons. I get really nervous." Adeline explains to him as she forces herself to calm down. More students enter the classroom and soon all the seats are full. Professor McGonagall stands up and uses her wand to deliver each student a match.

    "Students, yesterday you were told to write notes on how to transfigure a match into a needle. I trust you all completed that, because today you all will be performing the spell. Many of you will probably not be able to get it today, but perhaps some of you will. Please get started." The woman says in a stern tone as the students reach for their wands. Adeline wraps her fingers around the handle of her wand and points it at the match sitting on the desk in front of her. She says the spell and the match jumps up once, but otherwise, it does nothing. She repositions the match back to where it was on her desk before and tries it again. She says the spell and flicks her wrist with her wand aimed at the match once more, but nothing happens again.

After class, Adeline left feeling slightly discouraged as she was not able to accomplish the task after many attempts. Remus had gotten as far as making the match turn silver, but that was all.

    The next class that they had is charms, so far one of her favourite classes. They left the classroom and walked down the hall, soon met with more sets of footsteps. Sirius, James and Peter walk beside them, talking about something. Adeline focuses on her wand, gazing at the intricate details on the handle.  Her mind suddenly bursts into a million thoughts, and she finds herself lost in her mind. Her legs move on auto-pilot as she pictures the latest letter Wendy wrote to her. Her mother had gone to Alberta for business, as well as to see her friend Alice.

    She remembers going to Prince Edward Island as a little girl to visit her grandfather, who was very sick. She remembered sitting in a wooden chair beside his bed when he had a heart attack, than running for the doctor who had been talking to her mother. The doctor helped him as much as he could, but there was not much he could do at that point. That was the day he died. Her mother cried for a few days, before shutting herself out completely. Wendy was the one who had to take Adeline to her grandfather's funeral. 

     A sudden surge of resentment washed over her, distracting her from noticing the wall in front of her. She walks right into the stone corner that was slightly sticking out, hitting her nose and her knee. The boys turn towards her, clearly startled, as they find her sitting on the floor, clutching her nose. She takes her hand away from her nose when she feels something slippery on her fingers. Blood settles under her nails as it trickles out of her nose, the salty liquid dripping onto her uniform. She groans and stands up shakily, her knee wobbling. She checks the state of her knee to see a large bump starting to form, as well as a bruise.

    She turns around and begins walking to the hospital wing with a slight limp. She pinches the bridge of her nose to try and stop the bleeding as much as she could and she pulls out a sheet of gauze and mobs up the blood. She feels the blood pumping into her injuries, causing a fake sort of heartbeat in her nose and leg.

    Adeline limps away from the group of boys, towards the hospital wing presumably. They all exchange looks, as if having a silent conversation, before Remus and Sirius nod and both boys run forwards, towards the wounded girl. The boys both wrap an arm under her arms for support and together, they help her get help.

A/N: Short chapter, I know, but this was more of a filler chapter. Honestly, I didn't plan on writing that, but now that I did, I am not taking it out. The next chapter will basically be a few days later, because I really don't want to write about her sitting in the hospital wing.