Last hope (a marauders era story)

6.

Time skip to Halloween.

I open my eyes and stretch, I climb out of bed, and grab my robes, walking through to the bathroom, and showering, I take out my shampoo, and lather it onto my head, starting with the tips, when a funny smell reaches my nose, I look down at my hands, and see, that they are blue, I gasp, and jump out of the shower, and pull a fluffy white towel around me, I run through to the dorm, "who the bloody hell put dye in my shampoo!" I scream waking them up, the jump from

their beds and dart to the other side of the room in fright, they calm down when they see me, "god charm, who died?" Rebekah asks, "you if you dont tell me who put dye in my shampoo!" I yell furiously, they shrug their shoulders, I glare at them and storm back into the bathroom, and rinse out the dye, and scrub my hands, before putting my clothes on and my robes, I I stalk back through to the bedroom, and plug my hair dryer in, drying my hair.

once its dry I grab my brush, and look the mirror, my hair is in Its natural curly state, and I must admit it looks quite nice, I smirk slightly, whoever tried to prank me will get it back tenfold, I turn to the girl's, "I must say, whoever pranked me, really didn't think it through" I say smirking they nod, and link arms with me, we walk down to the common room, and I stand on the table, "hello, I just want to thank, whoever came up with this, old school prank, because, my new hairdo, looks fabulous" I say jumping down from the table, I quickly have a look through my bag, "crap!, guys I've gotta run back to the dorm, I forgot my pointé shoes" I say bolting back to my dorm, and grabbing my black pointé shoes, I throw them in my bag and run back down stairs, and join up with the girl's and we walk to the great hall.

I sit next to Sirius and the guys, "hello" I say grabbing a plate, and filling it with pancakes, "hi" they all say in chorus, I frown, "where's Remus?" I ask, they shrug, "he said his mums not well, so he went home" peter says, his mouth full of chocolate, I nod, " right" I say cutting a little bit of pancake and putting it in my mouth, "so have you heard about the Halloween ball?" Sirius asks, I almost spit out my pancakes, "what Halloween ball" I ask, Sirius, frowns, "there's a notice on every notice board, It's on Friday" he says, I stand up quickly, and run to the ravenclaw table, and grab amara, by the arm, "you are coming with me" I say firmly pulling her to the slytherin table, "Andromeda, Rebekah, come with me" I say running back over to Gryffindor, and tapping lily on the shoulder, "Lil's, come with us, " is say taking her arm, I pull them all to the dungeons, and to the portrait, "pureblood" I say and the portrait swings open, I lead them all to my dorm, and we all sit on the beds, "why did no one tell me about this ball" I say, Rebekah and Andromeda look confused, "we only found out this morning" lily says, I frown, and bolt down the stairs to the notice board, pulling it from the board, and running back upstairs,

"I the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, would like to make an announcement, on Halloween nigh there will be a ball, everyone is to be there, and it shall be a formal event, so please, no ludicrous costumes" I read, I jump up and down excitedly, "there's gonna be a ball" I yell, as we all walk back down the stairs to the hall.

I down in my seat next to Sirius, in transfiguration, when the car at the front of the class morphs into professor McGonagall, "nice of you to join us, miss saltford" she says, dryly, I nod and pull out my books and wand setting them in a neat pile, i place my quill on top of them and turn my attention to the teacher.

"i want everyone to take a mouse from this tub, miss salt ford, hand them out please" my eyes widen, and i gingerly take the box, holding it out for each student. When i have finished handing them out, i sit back at my table, holding a small white mouse by the tail, i set it on my desk, and professor McGonagall freezes it, i smile in thanks and stare in horrified fascination at the creature, "i want you all to point your wand at the mouse, and repeat after me" McGonagall says, i point my want at the mouse, "Vera verto" McGonagall says clearly, the class chorus' it back and all around the class there is squeaks, as the mice transform into drinking goblets, i stare back at mine, my brow furrowed, it has the shape of a goblet, but it is covered in white fur and it has a tail waving about, sirius sees, and chuckles slightly, i elbow him in the ribs, and he rubs it with a fake frown, I smirk at his reaction, and he pokes me in the side, I let out a small shriek, and clamp my hands over my mouth, professor McGonagall looks over to us and frowns, "I want a foot long essay, on the transfiguration and where and how you went wrong" she says, as the bell rings, I place my things in my bag, and sling it over my shoulder and walk out of the classroom, to divination.