Spinning (Marauders Era) -ON HOLD-

Chapter Three: Potion-y Problems

When I woke up, Lily was bouncing on my bed again, giggling madly. 

I scowled at Lily, still upset about a few hours ago. She just laughed at me, told me I was a lazy butt, and walked away. Sigh. Lily knew that I was terrible at holding grudges.

A few minutes later, I heard a polite knock on the door. Severus had glided/walked (he only floated a few inches off the ground so he could walk up the girl's dormitory steps) (plus I have to grant him previous acceptance before he's even allowed on the stairs). He grinned at me. Oh, lovely. Today's a happy day.

"Gone stargazing, have you?" I looked down to see I was still transparent and floating over the floor.

"Ummm, no?" I gave myself a mental pep talk. "Guurl, this is my new look, m'kay?" Severus looked at me as if I was a weirdo.Surprisingly, I am a weirdo.

I floated out of the Ravenclaw common room after I washed off yesterday's makeup and reapplied a fresh layer. I flipped my hair a little and decided to chop it all off. I could always grow it back with magic. 

I cut it down to about "Season two Sam Winchester" length, and dyed it brown.

Gliding into the great hall, I was met Sir Nicholas. "Good day." He said, nodding to me. "I haven't seen you here before. Are you a newly deceased student?" When I explained I was just using a few combined charms to look dead he sighed, as if he would have loved to see me actually dead. I shivered and floated past him silently.

Casting the spell that made me invisible when I felt like it, I went and found Peeves. Luckily, he was just at the Gryffindor table causing mischief. I whispered to him. It's Kyara, Peeves, noting the Marauders were very close. Peeves cackled.

"Oooh, Missus Hunter is ready to have fun?" I matched his with an equally evil cackle.

"Of course, Peevesey, why else would I be here?" Then I had a good idea.

"Hey Peeves, how 'bout we show the Marauders who are the real pranksters?" We both grinned evil grins, even if Peeves couldn't see mine. I flew to my small stash of permanent extra-strength muggle hair dye. Seriously, muggles make the best stuff. With a few well-worded enchantments, I made it so the dye would flash navy blue and the words potty wee potter in a fluorescent neon pink. With another charm, each of the mauraders had their own embarrassing phrase.

I gave a large vial to Peeves. He cackled and as quietly as a poltergeist could, and poured some on Peter and Sirius's hair. Feeling sad for Remus, as he hadn't bullied me when he couldn't get a date (well, he never asked), I changed his to just a dark blue with nice navy highlights. It almost looked on purpose. James would be so jealous of Remus's gorgeous hair while his flashed potty wee potter every three seconds.

I glided behind Remus and poured the dye on his hair. He didn't even look up from his book until some dripped down his forehead.

He was pretty angry until he saw James's fluorescent blue and pink hair. Peeves was giggling madly at Sirius's hair, which flashed can't you tell I'm sirius? And Pete's which flashed wormy, squirmy, Peter Petti-can't-grow-any-taller-than-four-foot-four. Remus was laughing his ass off. So was the rest of the great hall. Then, after we got all our timetables, we headed back to class.

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My first class was Charms with the Slytherins. Snagging a seat next to Sev's, I nudged him. He smiled when he noticed me, then returned to his work. Ugh, Sev cared about his schoolwork too much. Whatever.

I sat in my chair, waiting for the professor. When she finally arrived, I got down to business. Darn my Ravenclaw self. After successfully causing my textbook to sprout wings and fly around the classroom a few times before returning to my desk and shedding it's wings (three minutes into class), I sat there, doing nothing.

Glancing over and seeing Severus needed help, I said to him, "You have to flick your wand like this-" I flicked my hand as if shooting away a fly. "Then say the incantation." Sev looked at me quizically. "What?! I am a Ravenclaw, after all."

He flicked his wand and mumbled something under his breath. Probably the incantation. His textbook sprouted black wings and began making it's way through the room before landing back on the desk with a soft thump.

As we finished class and headed to Potions, I caught Sev staring at Lily as she walked by. "Still crushing on her, huh? Yeah, love's a rough time." He looked at me bitterly. "I didn't think you would have a problem with it. Everybody would love to date you."

I stared, dumbstruck. "Well, excuse me, Mr. Drama Llama, but I'll have you know I have only dated one guy. And, like, two girls." Severus sighed.

"Sorry." He mumbled.

"Awww, it's okay. I still wuv you, Sevvey-kins." I could tell he was uncomfortable as I kissed his cheek and hugged him tightly. Yay! I'm so good at annoying Sev. But we're still friends. I think.

Together we made our way to potions. Partnering up, we began to make Essence of Dittany. We finished the task in record time, due to Severus's talent in potions and my talent in being Ravenclaw.

Slughorn being Slughorn, smiled happily and collected our potion. "Mmmm, wonderful, wonderful. You two make a fantastic team." Just as he finished his sentence, a explosion shook the room and he turned to see an exasperated Xenophilius Lovegood telling a Slytherin girl that you were supposed to add the unicorn horn shavings after the crocodile heart. But all in all, it was a pretty good day.