Life at Hogwarts: Books 1 - 3 part 1

Year 1 Chapters 26 - 30

Year 1 Chapter 26 - The Respecters Again

There hasn't been much trouble with being on the newspaper, but it still bothers me. I look at myself in the Daily Prophet again. Gosh I look stupid. I thought. If I knew I was on the Prophet I would have combed my hair a bit better. Actually, what was I worried about? The main thing is that Dawn, Snowy and all my friends were safe. I didn't care a slightest bit what other people thought about me. I headed down to Lunch, spotting Aby, who was with the Respecters. It's weird she wasn't with the twins but it doesn't matter. I run up to them,

"Hey, can I sit with you?" I ask.

"Oh, um, yeah sure!" Heather says, turning around.

"I'm sorry about yesterday, that was a bit awkward, can we all just introduce ourselves properly?" I tell them.

"Yeah! That's a good idea! Leah you can start!" Aby says.

"Ok!" Leah said. "My name is Leah Wings Scamander, I am an Animagus, I have three cats and an owl, and my dad is Lorcan Scamander."

"Nice! Ok, I'm next!" Maria said. "My name is Maria Ware Lupin, I am a werewolf, and my father is Remus Lupin!"

"Peachy, I'm next," Sherryl said. "My name is Sherryl Hawks Pettigrew, I am an animagus and my dad is Peter Pettigrew."

"Let's see, I'm going now," Heather said. "My name is Heather Lily Potter, I am an Animagus, my brother is Harry James Potter, and I am also colorblind,"

"Do I have to introduce myself?" Aby asks.

"Yes!" all of us say together.

"Ok...my name is Abyssinian Kitten Black, I am an Animagus, I'm a Metamorphmagus, and my father is Sirius Black!"

"Ok, now we all know each other- oh look, mail! What does Twilight have for me?" Maria asked herself. I am confused, but then see a pitch black owl, and see exactly why she called it that. Twilight was just about to drop about thirty letters on Mary before she said,

"Oh no, not this again...." Mary gets overfilled with letters, and all the students turn and start laughing at her. Maria looks at them as if it were an everyday thing and starts opening the letters, one by one. Each one has two medicine pills in it. Mary starts to tear up.

"What is that?" I ask. I knew it wasn't a good time, but I needed to know.

"It's medicine...." Maria said, crying now. "To keep me from turning into a Werewolf!" She ran out of the Great Hall and ran somewhere. Aby tried to go after her, but was stopped by Heather.

"Don't," She said. "She just needs some alone time,"

"I've just never seen her cry before...." Sherryl said.

"Warewolf! Warewolf!" Everyone started chanting in the background.

"Isn't there anything we can do to stop them?" I ask. I felt bad for Maria.

"No, but Waremoon has been really stressed about things like that these past few days."

"Waremoon?" I thought. "What is up with that? Wolfeye? Waremoon?"

"I know, do you have any ideas Hypnotail? You are the heart of the Respecters," Aby says.

Now Hypnotail? I think, but instead I say "What do you mean the heart?"

"Well," Aby starts. "We all have a place in the Respecters group. I am the memory, Sherryl is the heart, Maria is the brains, and Heather is the fighter."

"Oh, now I get it, so Aby remembers everything, Heather is the one that fights, Sherryl keeps it peaceful, and Maria makes decisions?" I start to understand.