The Marauder Princess

“RAVEN TOWSLEY! YOU’RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!” Sirius bellowed as he appeared.

“Shut up!” Raven hissed at him from where she stood just outside the Great Hall.

I turned to look at him; I had been watching the Slytherin table just as Raven was. My eyes widened and I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw Sirius.

Sirius glared at me, “It’s not funny Moony.”

His hair was a bright orange and had sparkles in it! It was the most hilarious thing I’d ever seen in my life. I continued laughing which gained me a punch in the arm.

“Would you two stop it?” Raven said.

“No. Not until you take this off!” Sirius growled.

“Fine, just shut up.”

She turned and undid the spell that had changed his hair, which made Sirius look at her weirdly. Normally it took him forever to get her to undo the spells. He stared at her for a few minutes.

“Okay, well thank you.”

“Yeah now go sit and enjoy the show.” She grinned.

As he walked away she whispered to me. “He thought the hair was bad just wait till he gets to the table.”

I smiled, “What did you do!”

“I put a picture of him like that and in his pajamas on every single tablecloth!” she giggled.

I laughed and gave her a quick kiss before we heard Sirius’s voice once more.

“RAVEN! YOU’RE DEAD WHEN I GET AHOLD OF YOU!”

We turned our attention back to the Slytherin table after Sirius sat down obviously very angry. We smiled as we pulled out our wands getting ready to pull off our little prank. We raised our wands and together we said…

“Wingardium Leviosa!"

I watched as all the cups on the Slytherin table raised up and over the heads of the Slytherins. I watched the horrified looks come over their faces for they knew what was going to happen in just a few moments. We looked at each other and smiled and then swished our wands again making the cups smash on top of the Slytherins heads. The Hall burst out laughing all but the Slytherins who were crying in outrage. I was about to turn and run but stopped when I heard Raven muttering something and her eyes and wand still pointed toward the Slytherin table. My eyes went back to the table as well and I watched as Malfoy dumped tea all over Narcissa. There was something wrong though, Malfoy’s eyes had such a weird look to them, as if they weren’t really seeing what he was doing. Narcissa gave an outraged cry as the tea was dumped on her, and it was then that Raven turned shoved her wand into her pocket,

“Let’s get out of here!”

The two of us raced up the stairs all the way to Gryffindor Tower, once there we started laughing at the looks on the Slytherins faces. I sat down in one of the chairs and she sat on my lap smiling down at me. We talked for about five minutes before the rest of the guys came back up. James and Peter were laughing but Sirius wasn’t.

“Raven were you the one that made Malfoy dump the tea on Narcissa?”

Raven stopped laughing. “Yeah, why?”

Sirius’s eyes narrowed. “Did you think I wouldn’t recognize that spell? My brother is a blood Death Eater!”

I felt Raven stiffen. “Sirius it was just a bit of fun, I didn’t hurt anyone.”

“That spell is nothing to play around with. How do you know how to do it anyway?”

“I….”

All of us were looking between the two confused as to what was going on.

"You just couldn't resist using the Imperious Curse could you, sis?" a voice said from the far corner.

All our heads snapped around to look toward the corner, where a tall black haired boy stood. His hair only came to the collar of the black robe he was wearing. His eyes were a bright violet just like Raven’s only they were cold and full of hatred, where Raven’s were full of warmth and life. His face split into a wicked grin as he saw the shocked look on our faces.

“Alan!” Raven gasped.

“That’s my name don’t ware it out.” He chuckled.

I reached for my wand as well as the others did, but I was stopped by Raven’s hand over mine.

“No.” she said and then got up off my lap.

She crossed the room to where the boy she called Alan stood, and looked up at him.

“How did you get in here?” she asked.

“Now is that anyway to greet your big brother?”

“Brother!” The rest of us exclaimed.

“Yes now hush!” she hissed

I was shocked at her behavior, never before had she snapped at us like that. A grin spread across the boy’s face.

“How did you get in here?” Raven asked again.

“You know I have my ways.”

“You have to get out of here. If you’re caught you’ll end up in Azkaban for sure.”

Alan threw his head back and laughed. “Like any of these fools are going to catch me!”

“Alan please.” Raven pleaded with him.

He looked down at her and smiled. “Oh alright if you insist little sister.”

He kissed her cheek and then disappeared out the window, and then Raven turned slowly back to us. I could see the look on her face that told us that too much had just been reveled about her in just those few minutes. Next thing any of us knew Sirius was in front of Raven and had her left arm in an iron grip. She started struggling with him trying to free her arm but it wasn’t working, then Sirius gave a growl and she stopped and looked away from us. He took hold of her sleeve and pulled it up. Kelly and Emily looked at each other, mine and James’s eyes widened and Lily gasped at what we saw.

(Raven’s P.O.V.)
My eyes filled with tears as Sirius continued to hold my arm in his tight grip. Now they know the truth Sirius’s grip tightened and I had to bite back the urge to yell at him because it hurt. I didn’t blame him for being mad at me. I had hidden something so important from them all, one thing I never should have. I had hoped they would never find out about it, and up till now none of them had ever suspected or seen it. The Dark Mark, my dark secret, stood out on my forearm quite well. The skull and snake.

“I figured this is what I’d find only few types of people know how to do the Three Unforgivable Curses.” I heard his voice say.

Tears stung my eyes at the coldness I heard in his voice and at the silence of the others. I was finally able to wrench my arm from Sirius’s grip and with tears running down my face I raced from the common room. Where I was running to I didn’t know but I couldn’t stay there were my secret had just been reviled. I could hear my shoes hitting the hard floor and didn’t even care that I would be caught out after hours. I kept running and running, until I had no more strength it seemed, and then I collapsed. I must have somehow made my way outside because I felt the cold snow beneath me quickly making my clothes wet and making me shiver.

I didn’t care though. What did it matter that I was cold, my friends would never trust me again because of what they’d found out tonight! I felt my body shacking horribly and couldn’t tell if it was because of the cold or from my sobs. How could I have been as stupid as to use the Imperious Curse in front of my friends? I asked myself. Hate suddenly filled me, hate for my family for making me a Death Eater and also hate from myself. I hated myself for having let them do it to me, why wasn’t I braver and told them no! The world would be so much better without me. I thought to myself, letting misery take over now. I suddenly heard footsteps coming up behind me in the snow.

I could still feel the cold wet tears running down my cheeks as I listened to whoever it was that walked up behind me. A cloak was suddenly around my shoulders and I turned to see who had come out here with me. When I looked up I was looking into a set of smiling brown eyes and a pair of grey-green. I blinked up at Emily and Kelly a couple times before Emily broke the silence.

“You’re going to catch your death out here.”

The two of them were wrapped up warmly in their sweatshirts and cloaks, where I did have a sweatshirt on but it was now soaked from the snow. All I could do is stare at the two of them. Why had they come? Why did they care if I got sick?

“Why are you here?” I finally managed to get out.

Kelly smiled. “You’re our friend.”

“But I’m a Death Eater.”

“That hasn’t stopped us from being friends with you for the last two months has it?”

My eyes widened, they had known! But how could they have, I’d been careful not to let anyone see it. They must have seen the look on my face and decided to explain.

“We live in the same dorm remember. It’s kind of hard to miss a bloody skull tattooed to your forearm.” Emily said the last part sarcastically.

“Then why didn’t you say anything? And Lily didn’t know.”

“It doesn’t matter to us what you are, and if you haven’t noticed Lily is a bit dense.” Kelly chuckled

Emily nodded and then held out her hand to me. I looked at it for a moment and then renewed tears came to my eyes. This time though it was because I was happy, I at least still had two of my friends. I took hold of Emily’s hand and she pulled me to my feet. I hugged first her and then Kelly.

“Now look what you did. Our clothes are all wet.” Emily joked.

We all laughed.

“Come on now, let’s get back inside. I hear they’re serving hot chocolate in the Great Hall.”

“Alright! Hot Chocolate makes everything better!” said Emily enthusiastically

I nodded and the three of us headed back to the castle looking forward to the hot chocolate. But as we went neither Kelly nor I noticed how Emily looked uneasily around us, scanning the grounds. Her piercing grey-green eyes hardly missing a thing, not seeing anything she turned around and started talking to us again. Little did Emily know that her normally keen eyes had missed something tonight. For a pair of green eyes watched the three of us walk up and on into the castle.

(Blathy’s P.O.V.)
That was close. I thought as I watched the girls enter the castle. Hittlet must have sensed I was there. My eyes narrowed angrily, that girl was too smart and had ruined everything. Everything had been going as Alan and I had planned it up until those two girls showed up! When I had found out that that Little Miss Perfect Raven was a Death Eater my shock knew now bounds, but then I realized I could turn it to my advantage. I could get back at her for humiliating me in front of the Team and rejecting me so many times.

((Flashback at Hogsmeade))

“How could she choose him over me?” I muttered to myself as I walked down the street.
I was angry, so angry that words couldn’t describe it. How could she turn me down for that pathetic loser Lupin? And also humiliate me like that in front of the entire Team! I kicked a rock that was in my path angrily. I now come upon a group of Slytherins who were talking. I knew most of them because of them being on the Slytherin Quidditch Team. I stopped to listen when I heard Raven’s name mentioned in their conversation.

“She sure doesn’t act like one. Protecting that Lupin like she does.”

“She’s a Death Eater though. Just look on her arm and you’ll see the mark.” Malfoy grinned with satisfaction. “Just wait till her parents find out how she’s been acting.”

I couldn’t believe what I had just heard! Raven a Death Eater!

“How do you know this Malfoy?” Fogle asked.

Malfoy smirked, turned his left arm over, and pulled up his sleeve to reveal a skull and snake tattooed on his forearm. I couldn’t believe this, there was Death Eaters at Hogwarts! And Raven was one of them at that! That was when a plan formed in my mind. I smiled and then walked up to Malfoy who quickly pulled his sleeve down hiding his Dark Mark. I asked to talk to him and he agreed to talk with me. We went to the Three Broomsticks and I told him what I wanted. His eyes sparkled with an evil light as I told him. He agreed to help me because he wanted to get back at the Marauders for what they had done to him.

((End Flashback))

It hadn’t been long after that Hogsmeade trip I had met Raven’s brother Alan. He was nothing like Raven; he was much more cold hearted then her. Which was a nice change, we had become fast friends. When Alan had gone to see Raven I had watched the whole time knowing that Black would put all the pieces together and figure out she was a Death Eater. With that knowledge he would turn all the others against her and she would be alone, all but me! I would be the one for her to cry too, I would be the one there for her when there was no one else. But that had been foiled because of the two meddlesome girls. A growl escaped my throat.

I would have to get rid of those two girls for my plan to work, especially that Hittlet. She was way too smart and would make things too difficult for me. But the question was how to get rid of them? The knowledge of Raven being a Death Eater didn’t make them turn their backs on her, so what would? My mind began working as I finally moved from my hiding spot and moved back toward the castle. I smiled, I would talk to Alan and Malfoy one of them would surly have a plan that would work. I would win over Raven if it was the last thing I did.

(Raven’s P.O.V.)
Emily sat a cup of hot chocolate in front of me. I could see the steam rolling off the top of it. I just looked at it though not making a move to take it up and drink it.

“Come on, dink up.” Kelly said from my left.

I just continued to stare at the cup of warm liquid. “I just don’t understand how…”

“You either you shut up and drink that or I’m going to poor it down your throat.” Emily threatened.

I looked up at her wide eyed knowing very well Emily would do what she was threatening. So I quickly too up the cup and began sipping at it, glad for the warmth it brought I hadn’t realized how cold I had actually become till now. Emily and Kelly had also started drinking theirs as well seeming quite happy. Out of the blue a younger boy come up to Emily and held out a large sack to her.

“Here are the Galleons for the next Quidditch match Boss.”

Emily quickly snatched the bag from the boy almost ripping the poor boys arm off.

“How many times must I tell you we don’t do business in the Great Hall!” she hissed at him.

The boy looked scared as she got up from her seat and quickly ran past him and to the doorway. She turned to look at everyone whose eyes were now on her.

“You all saw nothing!” And then she disappeared.

Kelly and I chuckled. I told the boy that I would take care of things when Emily came back and that he could go. He left and not much longer Emily returned. Her face red from frustration or anger I wasn’t sure which.

“That boy is in so much trouble!” she said a sitting back down.

“Come on Emily give the kid a brake. He’s new after all.”

“You’re way to forgiving Raven.”

I smiled, but it didn’t stay to long.

“Looks like we better get back to the common room.”

My heart dropped, I didn’t want to go back. I didn’t want to deal with seeing the looks on the others faces. Especially Remus’. The others must have seen the look on my face and sensed what I was feeling. They put their hands on my shoulders.

“You have to do it sometime Raven.” Kelly said quietly.

I nodded knowing it was the truth but I still didn’t want to do it. A few minutes later we were up in the Common Room sitting next to the fire and I was fast becoming tired. My eyes drooped as I stared into the fire, wondering where the guys had gone. I let my eyes close and drifted off into the darkness of sleep.

(Kelly’s P.O.V.)
I looked over to see Raven slumped down in her chair and fast asleep. I smiled. Emily seemed to notice at the same time.

“Should we wake her to go upstairs?” I asked.

Emily looked down at her then answered, “No, let her sleep while she can. Who knows if she’ll sleep much from now on.”

“True. And what are we going to do about the guys?”

A sigh escaped Emily’s lips, “I don’t have a clue to be honest Kelly.”

I stared at Emily for a moment; for that was the first time I had ever heard those words come from her mouth. Emily was always the one to know what to do when the rest of us didn’t, so this wasn’t good at all. Emily pulled out her wand and gave it a wave making three blankets appear, she then walked over and covered Raven up. After that she handed me one and then went and snuggled into her chair.