The next few months went by quickly and April was right around the corner, meaning it was Easter soon. Meaning kids would get presents in form of Easter eggs left and right. Aria knew that the probability of her getting something from her parents were low, so she had no hope whatsoever.
But while she sat there on Easter morning eating her breakfast had she gotten a surprise. Regulus parents had send her an egg as well, wishing her a happy Easter and a good luck with the rest of the year. Aria was naturally stunned by this and wanted to ask Regulus why they did this but soon realized that it would be inappropriate and just decided to put it in her bag for safekeeping. She and Regulus ate their Easter eggs together that evening in the common room while talking pleasantly with each other. Their other friends joined them in their conversation and the group of friends had a great time, laughing and smiling like never before. It was not until 01 am that night that the group parted ways. Aria walked up the stairs to her dorm with her friend Aquila Greengrass. The two girls had met thru a study group they both were a part of and they hit it off right away. They talked all the way up the stairs until they had to part to their own dorm rooms. Once inside, had Aria just put on her pajamas and gotten into bed.
Aria woke up the next day tired from the previous night. This day happens to be a my day so she had to get up and have classes. Something she was not in the mood for. She got up and went to the bathroom and did her business as well as he hair at the same time. She figured that it was the best option. She went back into the dorm room to see all it her dorm mates gone. Aria just shrugged it off, not really caring as they were not very nice to her. She put on her uniform, or rather tried to as her grey jumper decided that morning to get stuck to her glasses. She had to take them off, put on her jumper and then put her glasses on again. This was not her day, she could already tell and it was only morning. She took her bag and stuffed it with her books, quills, parchment and inc she would need to the day before walking down to the common room where Aquila was waiting for her. The blond haired girl smiled gently at her brunette friend who looked to be having a very bad morning.
"Good morning Aria." The girl said hesitantly to her friend. Said girl just glared at the blond.
"Today is not a good morning Aqua. My jumper decided to be a pain in the ass this morning and getting stuck in my glasses every time so I had to take off my glasses to put it on." Aria grumbled to her friend, who looked a little to amused about her friend's misery. The two girls walked down to the grate hall, where the rest of their friends already sat, eating away happily. Narcissa Black, one of Regulus cousins, who sat next to her cousin, looked up to see the two girls and smiled but it quickly disappeared when she saw the young Potters agitated expression.
"What happened Aria?" She asked gently, or as gently as she could muster in a public place such as this. This made everyone else of the small group look up, even Pandora Lestrange, who's head was currently buried in a copy of Fantastic beasts and where to find them looked up at the mention of her friend. She smiled brightly at the two and Arias day was instantly better.
Pandora had this gift to make everyone else happy, she always wore a smile on her face and was always in a good mood. In fact Aria had a theory that the girl simply didn't know how not to smile. She was never in a bad mood or woke up wrong, this might have been a facade but it was toxic, everyone who was around her simply couldn't be in a bad mood. Although Aria knew in the back of her mind that this optimism would one day be distorted once she got out in the real world but that was a problem for later.
''My morning happen.'' Aria answered while sitting down next to the blond girl with Aquilla and took a piece of toast. Narcissa looked at the girl with a thoughtfully look but dropped it. Aria noticed that something was off about the older girl but she didn't know what and she didn't want to ask her either. No, she wanted to figure it out on her own and then ask to make sure she was right and then go about her day. She looked away from Narcissa as if not to appear suspicious and instead looked forward. She saw a lot of Hogwarts students eating breakfast, others were talking to their friends, some were studying and some were reading a book and trying to ignore the people around them. One of those people could be found at the Gryffindor table. The student in question being Remus Lupin, he sat by his friends who was undoubtedly planing their next prank, but he did not engage. He was reading. Something he could be found doing a lot around the castle. He must of felt eyes on him, as he looked up from his book and his eyes meet Arias. He smiled kindly at her, a smile that was quickly returned, before returning to his book and eating his breakfast. Aria tilted her head in confusion, she wondered how a kind and calm man such as Remus could be friends with someone like her brother. Speaking of, the messy haired boy suddenly busted into loud laughter and so did everyone else at the Gryffindor table. Their laughter seemed to be at something in the hall. So she looked around and saw Pandora's hair started to turn into a pink-ish red color. She looked around and saw others hair started to turn into red and gold. Aria quickly took a strand of her own hair to look and, low in behold. Her hair had also turned a red color. Hers was worst though, it was a truly deep, rich scarlet red. The change of hair color didn't seem to go on.noticed by the other students around the table, not the members of staff. Some of the girls initial reaction seemed to be to start screaming and panic insured. Aria, unsure of what to do, looked back at the Gryffindor table to see her brother and his little friends seemed proud of their work and was smirking. She took out her wand and pointed it at the foursome and said an incantation to a spell she learned at the blacks over the Christmas brake, making sure it would not hit any other student of course. The boys started to grow hair unnaturally fast and was soon enough four piles of hair. Proud of herself, had she sat down and nudged Aquilla, who was in full panic mode and pointed towards the group, who was busy trying to figure out what happen and the two girls burst out laughing. This cough the attention of everyone else and soon the whole hall was laughing at the poor group. Professor McGonagall was in full swing trying to fix the spell but to no avail. Aria felt kind of bad for the professor and decided to help her.
''Here professor, let me help. I think I might know a spell that might help'' She said in a unnaturally sweet voice. The older woman, seemingly had no other chose but to except help from the 11 year old soon to be 12 year old girl and steeped a side. Aria pointed her wand at the four boys and the boys hair started to get shorter and stopped at its natural length. The four boys thanked her, James and Sirius doing so sheepishly. Professor Mcgonagall also thanked her before turning back to the boys.
''So, now that you four are back to normal. You need to turn everyones hair back to thier normal shade and you have detention with me for a mouth for your little prank and I will write to your parnets'' she told them. The boys sighed but did as told. Soon was everyones hair back to normal ''Um miss Potter, can I speak to you for a moment?'' the old proffesor called after her. Aria turned around and walked back to the old witch.
''Yes, ofcourse proffesor. Is something wrong?'' she asked. The older witch mouth turned up sligthly, her eyes soft and kind. A total contrast from the face she had a few moments before.
''You know, I knew it was you who did that spell on these four gentelmen. So even thoug it was impressive and really well done. I will have to give you detention as well and I will deduct 20 points from Slytherin for your stunt. That reminds me 80 points from gryffindor, 20 points each for the four of you.'' she said the last part to the marauders, who sat by the table mouths agape. One from respect of knowledge (I think we all know who), one of shook and two of terror and offence.
Aria walked back to her table and took all of her things as well as her toast on the go and she and her friends walked to class.
Her first class of the day was history of magic. The most boring class in the intier school. It was not the subject in it self that was the problem, no it was the teacher. Proffesur Binns. He was an old soul, quite litteraly, he was a goust. It was like the old man had been going thru his day and went to bed that day and feel asleep, died and his soul must of gotten up that morning and he just continued teaching like everything was normal. Some sudents even thougth that he didn't know he was dead in the first place, althoug Aria doubted this. The old proffesor had a low, drawling voice. His words had an effect on the sudents, it was not a good one either. His voice med them fall asleep. All students begin ther year by pulling out their parchment,inc and quill as if telling themselves that they would not fall asleep during this lesson that year, and it always ended the same. They would either fall asleep or giving up on listening. Not that the proffesour ever looked up from his book to notice these things. This lead to many students didn't take the class serious. Not many students actually opened their text books to learn themselves. Aria gave up trying to concentrate on his lessons a long time ago but she always read the book later. She got ready to sleep thru the lesson when professor Binns walked into the classroom. He immediately started reading from the book in his drawling voice. Aria closed her eyes to rest them a little and after about 10 minutes had Aquilla nudged her and shoved a piece of parchment to her where she had drawn tic tac toe lines and an x in the middle. Aria glared a little and took her quill and drew a circle in the right upper corner. The two continued to play thru out the whole lesson. The day went on like usual and dinner time was upon them. As it was soon end of the year were conversations about summer coming up as a lot of families made plans now. Narcissa and her family were going to France for the summer with the Malfoy's. Narcissa was apperently betrothed to Lucius Malfoy so they were going to spend some time together. Pandora and her family were apparently going to Norway a few weeks to see the magical animals there and study them.
"What will you be doing over the summer Aria?" Pandora asked, her blue eyes peering thru her soul. Aria swallows her food and thought about it. She had no idea if her parents had made any plans.
"I honestly don't know. I think I heard James mentioning something about Scotland? However I am not sure and I will probably not be allowed to come with them anyway." Aria answered, feeling a bit sad. It suddenly became very quiet around them. Regulus cleared his throat.
"Aria, mother and father wanted to know if you wanted to stay a few weeks at ours during the summer. They wanted you to have someone to be with and not be so locked away." Regulus said, a little embarrassed for his friend. Aria smiled at this. She was usually alone, excluding her friend from home that is, during school holidays. She nodded a little.
"Just let me make sure we aren't doing anything that I might actually be apart of" she added before looking towards her brother and his friends. He was talking animatedly to his friends and Sirius was laughing hard at whatever he was talking about. An owl landed before him and it had a letter. He read it and smiled broadly before placing an arm around Sirius's shoulder giving him the letter. He laughed a little and nodded to James. Aria sighed a little before standing up from her place and started walking towards her brother. As she walked had heads turned to see what was going on. She stopped right Before her brother. He didn't seem to notice her and so she cleared her throat. He turned around and looked annoyed at her.
"What do you want?" He asked, rather harshly. Aria just rolled her eyes and took the note from Sirius to read it. They were apparently going to Scottland and staying at some sort of resort.
"I am assuming that I am not welcome at this little trip" Aria told her brother, shoving the letter back in his hand
"You would be correct. Mom and Dad never mentioned you. They said me, your father, you and Sirius so no, you cannot come. '' James answered. Aria of course knew the answer to this question but it still hurt to have it so clearly on paper. It felt like someone shot a knife thru her heart.
''Well, what am I supposed to do during that week?'' James just shrugged his shoulders and scoffed a little.
''I don't know and I don't really care'' James responded. Aria rolled her eyes and walked away.
''Maybe you can stay with the Black's like you did over Christmas!'' She heard James yell after her. She just ignored him and sat back down in her seat.
''Regulus, tell your parents that I would love to spend time with you during the summer.''
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A/N: I am finally posting again!! sorry for the long wait. I just need to clear out somethings. First off all; I am not sure if the character Aquilla Greengrass went to Hogwarts during the Marauders time, but all I know is that she did at some point and she was the only one I could find that wasn't Astoria or Daphine. On a second note I am not sure if Pandoras maiden name was Lestrange but it was what I could find so that is what I am going with. So before you hate and jump on me for giving her the wrong last name, this fandom is really big and I have porsonally seen three diffrent ideas of her last name so I just went with the one I thought was the best. Well not the best but what I have heard the most and found the quickest.
Anyway, I really hope you enjoyed this chapter!!