Uncommon Curses

Curses in the Corridors

Lily Evans walked down the hall with her best friend, Therese Smythe (Teri). They were headed to Charms, Lily's best subject.

"Teri, hurry up. We're going to be late." Lily was in a bad mood, and wanted to get to class so that they wouldn't have to deal with the infamous Marauders in the corridors.

Lily was one of the top students in her class and was brilliant at charms, curses, transfiguration, and everything else. That wasn't all, since she was a Muggle-born; her parents insisted that she keep up with her Muggle schooling. Lily was sixteen and just beginning her sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She had long red hair, bright green eyes, a slender figure, and was 5'6".

Her best friend Teri was also sixteen; Teri had striking blue eyes, long black hair, a slender figure like Lily, but unlike Lily, Teri was tall, almost 5'9". Teri was brilliant, not as smart as Lily, but close.

The two of them were the most popular girls in school, and were called the Emerald and Sapphire by their admirers who claimed that they got lost in their eyes every time they were around. Neither of them had ever been on a date, and hated being followed around by what they called a "gaggle of guys".

The Marauders were like male replicas of them, with the exception that there were four of them. (A/N: I don't like Peter, so he will only be making cameo appearances in this fic, also I can't stand to have any of the Marauders ugly so Peter will not be an ugly cow.) James was the unofficial leader; he had dark messy hair, was 6', and according to his admirers, melted chocolate, brown eyes; alias: Prongs. Sirius was the player, he had black hair, and black eyes, was 6'2", and an athletic build; alias: Padfoot. Remus was, unbeknownst to him, the heartbreaker; he had never dated, but was seen as the sweetie of the pack. He had sandy, blonde hair, was precisely 6' tall, he had faded blue eyes, and the one that kept the pranks from getting them all expelled; alias: Moony. And lastly, there was Peter (alias: Wormtail). Peter was only 5'10", he had cropped, blonde hair, soft brown eyes, which oddly enough girls thought were sweet, Peter was the look-out, he also collected information while, James and Sirius were planning pranks, and Remus was doing his best to make sure that the prank would not go awry and get them in trouble.

Lily and Teri were both Animagi, Lily was a vixen, alias: Foxy. And Teri was an owl, alias: Wings. Lily and Teri had explored the forest to their hearts' content and were in the process of investigating the mountains just outside of Hogsmeade.

"I'm going Foxy, just hold up, I got a rock in my shoe," said Teri.

"I'm waiting. I don't want to get caught with the Marauders again. The last time that happened I was turned into a monster with tentacles, extra ears, eyes and noses, my arms were bent at crooked angles, and I was missing a leg."

"But it was funny, and you didn't see what you did to James. And you didn't see all the hate mail that he got from your male admirers, several of them I think had undiluted Pus in them."

"Wings, you were too busy laughing at him to notice all the hate mail I got. Several of the envelops contained Howlers, although they were all very petty. And I noticed that their senders got detention because their voices were recognized."

Just then, the Marauders came up. James having recovered from getting his hair turned pink that morning by Lily.

"Why if it isn't the Gems of Hogwarts," said James, his pride a little sore from the arriving at breakfast with a head of pink hair.

"Potter if you don't leave now I'm going to make sure that it takes longer than three days for Madame Pomfrey to undo all the curses. I have several new ones that I would like to try out," replied Lily.

By now everyone new that if Lily and James even passed in the corridors to get out of the way. Lily and James each had very explosive tempers, and even thought they each had very good aim, they couldn't be counted on to not hit any bystanders.

"We have Charms and since we're all here I suggest that we go inside," said Remus trying to get everyone to calm down, preferably before anyone started to curse anyone else, namely Lily and James.

Everyone besides the Marauders, and Lily and Teri had either ducked into the classroom by now, or were hiding around a corner waiting for the all clear.

No one was listening to Remus and Lily and James had already drawn their wands.

"Uh-oh," squeaked Peter. He and Remus ducked into the classroom, and were watching like everyone else from the safe confines of the room.

Teri and Sirius were both behind their friend, lending their un-needed moral support.

"Krishindom," hollered Lily. James started to sprout yellow daisies all over his body.

"Jershingdar," yelled James, Lily suddenly had another eye.

Now, Teri and Sirius both new that you could just yell Finite Incantantem and ordinarily everything would go back to normal, but these were no ordinary curses. These were ones that had been specially created to resist Finite Incantantem.

"Tenticartis," cried James, Lily suddenly had about thirty tentacles growing out of her waist, making her look like some kind of mutant octopus.

"Petinmahry," bellowed Lily, James started to turn into a petunia.

This exchanging of curses, transfigurations, and charms went on for several more minutes until, Teri and Sirius decided to end it by yelling "Expelliarmus," both Lily's and James' wands flew out of their hands.

Professor Flitwick came out of the classroom, now that it was all clear, and said, "Lily, James, both of you will go to the Hospital Wing, and Madame Pomfrey will figure the two of you out, today we are going to be doing review lucky for you, I will send your homework to you via Ms. Smythe and Mr. Black."

Just then, someone looked around the corner, and seeing that the unofficial duel was over called, "All clear." Students came rushing down the corridors, talking about the latest duel.

"Oh, and Ms Evans, Mr. Potter by the looks of it both of you are going to be in the Hospital Wing for a while, so you won't have to worry about detentions, and I am going to deduct five points each for magic in the corridors. Nice work of the spells though. I do believe that some of those are rather tricky, not many sixteen year olds could have pulled them off. And please let Madame Pomfrey know the counter curses to the spells that you two made up," turning back to the rest of the class, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you would please be seated I believe that we have review session to begin."