The Yellow Room of Insanity

Chanhassen: Lily Vance
Jess: Jessica Lee
Nix: Phoenix Destiny
Katz: Moi


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The Yellow Room of Insanity

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It was the beginning of 7th year, and Sirius, Lily, Remus, James, and Peter were listening to Dumbledore give his usual speech about forbidden objects and the forest.

"On a lighter note," Dumbledore was saying, "we have a group of students from the Salem Witches' Academy in the U.S. coming to us tonight. We'll give them a nice English welcome. Am I correct?" He surveyed the hall.

Sirius grinned and yelled, "Ooh! We'll give them gift baskets!"

The entire Great Hall burst into laughter. "That's not exactly what I was thinking of, Mr. Black. Rather, I was thinking of a nice round of applause," Dumbledore said with a chuckle. "And, now, here are the members of Flaming Rose!"

There was a great round of applause as four girls walked onto a platform that Dumbledore had conjured up. Upon the platform were microphones, a keyboard, and a set of drums. The girls all wore black, hip hugging, leather pants, white platform shoes, and black tube tops with a pictures of flaming roses on them. Two of the girls had cases slung over their backs.

James recognized the girl in front. She had hip length auburn hair that was pulled back into a loose braid. Her eyes were an eerie purple, though that couldn't be told from this far off. She held a guitar in her hands.

"Dear God!" he yelled, loud enough for the whole hall to hear him. "Oops," he muttered.

"James, what is it?" Lily asked.

"That girl.... The one with the auburn hair. She's my cousin."

"What the hell?" Sirius asked.

"She is. She's my dad's brother's daughter. Therefore, she is my cousin."

"So her last name'll be Potter, right?"

"Yeah."

The girl, now grinning, had stepped up to the mike. "Hello all you British folk," she said cheerfully.

She was glared at from all around.

"Well, excuse me. How was I to know you didn't like your heritage?"

More glares. James sighed and put his head in his hands.

"Well, anyways, I'm Katz Potter, the lead singer of Flaming Rose."

Gasps.

"She's Katz Potter?"

"Wow, I didn't know James had a sister."

"You'd think you'd know from his outburst when he saw her."

Katz rolled her eyes. James hid under the table.

"Anyways, my fellow members would like to introduce themselves."

The girl with the other guitar stepped up to her mike. She had short raven black hair. "I'm Phoenix Destiny, on the guitar."

The girl on the keyboard, who had shoulder length strawberry blonde hair, said, "I'm Chanhassen Delashmitt, on the keyboard."

"I'm Jessica Lee," said the girl on the drums, who had blonde hair pulled up in a high ponytail.

"Today, for your entertainment, we'll be playing a piece by Bon Jovi. It's called, 'It's My Life'," said Katz. They began to play the music, and Katz began to sing.

When the song had ended, there was a great round of applause from all who liked rock. All those who didn't just glared.

"All y'all who want to sing a song, come on up. We play anything. Believe me, kareoke is fun!"

Lily walked up to the stage. "Can I sing a song?"

"Yeah, sure!"

"Okay." Lily stepped up to the mike and said, "This is a song by Leo Sayer, and it's called 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.' It's dedicated to James Potter." At this, James went red. Lily began to sing.

Halfway through, Sirius stood up and began to dance. Many in the Great Hall stared at him.

When Lily finished, she marched over to Sirius, grabbed him by his ear, and marched him out of the hall. Seconds later, they heard her yelling, "SIRIUS, YOU RUINED A SPECIAL MOMENT! I WAS TRYING TO TELL JAMES HOW I BLEEDING FELT ABOUT HIM!"

Nobody knew what he said about this, but some could guess as Lily yelled, "ARE YOU THAT DENSE? OF COURSE I LOVE HIM! GOD!" Then she stomped back into the hall, her face as red as her hair.

James was staring at her, mouth agape. When she sat down next to him, his mouth was still hanging open. She glared at him. "What are you looking at?"

"Lily, I... I love you too."

"You do?" Her eyes were shining with hope.

"I do. I've liked you ever since fourth year."

"Oh my God.... James, I-I...."

James put a finger to her lips. "Shh. No talking."

Katz smiled. She knew James liked Lily. Trust Sirius (whom she had met before) to get them together.

Dumbledore stood up and told them all to go to bed. So they did.

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Katz woke up in the YELLOW dorm she shared with Lily, Chanhassen (Chan), Jessica (Jess), and Phoenix (Nix). After getting up and splashing cold water all over her face, she came back into the dorm and rummaged around in her trunk for some breakfast. She was rewarded with a bag of popcorn and a 24 oz. bottle of Pepsi. She waved her wand at the popcorn, and it began to pop. Unfortunately, this woke Lily and Chan up.

"Ooh!" cried Chan, springing to life almost immediately. "Is that popcorn?'

"And Pepsi, don't forget the Pepsi," Katz replied.

"Katz, what in the name of Merlin are you doing?"

"Having breakfast."

"You do not have popcorn and Pepsi for breakfast."

"Yes I do."

"It's insane."

"Yes, well, I am a bit insane, aren't I?" Katz replied with a sweet smile.

There was a knock on the door, and Lily got up to open it. There stood James, Sirius, and Remus.

"Hey, girls. Can we come in?" James asked.

"I don't know," replied Lily, "I think the other girls are still asleep."

"No I'm not," Jess and Nix said at the same time, opening their hangings.

"Oh, good, we're all awake!" Katz said. "Anyone up for kareoke?" This comment was greeted by a chorus of sure, why not?'is and I'd love to's.

Three hours later, after waking up the entire castle with their loud music and getting yelled at, they trooped down to the Great Hall, where they were all greeted by glares.

"Gee, you'd think they didn't like rock," Katz said.

"No, they just don't like being woken up at five-thirty in the morning," Remus replied knowledgeably.

They quickly ate breakfast, and then headed to Transfiguration, where they had a substitute.

"Today, class, we will be transfiguring these yellow stuffed ducks into purple stuffed bunnies." It seemed that their sub liked stuffed animals. However, though they had a strong temptation to make mischief, they got straight to work. Perhaps it was because of the Looks Lily and Katz were giving them.

They had all finished rather quickly, and the sub had declared the rest of the period a free day. So now people were doing random things. James and Lily were giving each other goo-goo eyes, and Sirius and Remus were passing notes, most likely about pranks. Nix was humming 'How You Remind Me' by Nickleback, one of her and Katz's favorite bands. Chan was writing in a journal, and Jess was eating Trix, of all things. Peter was writing something and mumbling incoherently to himself. And Katz, well, Katz was obsessively carving the same thing over and over again into her desk with a knife. The thing she was carving was James + Lily = Love, Marriage, and Harry. She had carved this into her desk a few times before she was a furry foot out of the corner of her eye. She looked up, and was amazed at what she saw.

All of the bunnies had come alive, and they were freely moving about the room. None of her classmates had noticed this strange new occurrence, especially not Lily and James, who had moved from goo-goo eyes to snogging. She examined the bunny closest to her carefully. It had a distinctly evil look about it, with an evil gleam in its eye. She jumped as someone shrieked.

Looking around, she saw that five or six of the bunnies had ganged up on Delilah Hawkins, a Hufflepuff. They were attempting to tie her up. A shriek came from her right. She swiveled in that direction. Jess was standing on top her chair, holding her box of Trix high above her head, trying to keep it away from a bunny.

"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!" she said, standing on her tiptoes so that the rabbit wouldn't get them.

"Hello, Katz," said a voice beside Katz. She looked down. All she saw was an evil purple stuffed bunny. And then, the bunny spoke. "Nice looking knife you got there."

"What do you want?"

"Oh, I haven't introduced myself. Captain Lint, leader of the purple stuffed bunnies. Pleased to make your acquaintance."

"Can't say the pleasure is mine, and you mean evil purple stuffed bunnies. And where'd you come up with the name Captain Lint?"

"Biz the Insane gave it to me. Don't ask. Anyways, I was wondering if you would like to join my ranks, since you've got such a nice battle weapon there," replied Captain Lint, looking appreciatively at her knife.

"Thanks, but no thanks," Katz said, climbing onto her desk. "Jen. Jess, Chan! C'mere, and give me all the quills you've got." They handed them to her, and Katz began to transfigure the quills into knives behind her back.

"Ahem. Can I have your attention please?" All of the students and the bunnies stopped and looked at her. "Students! As you can see, we have a great many evil purple stuffed bunnies in our midst. They are, apparently, after us and our knowledge of magic. They are attempting to capture us and take us back to their headquarters. The solution: The evil purple stuffed bunnies must die!" And with that, she threw the quills she transfigured into knives to the students. Then she leaped of the desk into the chaos that followed, ripping the bunnies to shreds.

Only two people were completely oblivious to the chaos and bunny fluff around them. And those two people were Lily Evans and James Potter (who were still snogging).

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Since they had successfully rid the castle of the evil purple stuffed bunnies, Katz was happy as she ate her chili. All of the students except for the Americans had stared at the large crock pots and bowls of shredded cheese and crackers resting on the House tables when they came in.

Katz had taken one look at the tables and declared (with much glee), "It's chili." Everyone at the table had stared at her until Dumbledore stood up.

"Tonight, to make out transfer students feel more at home, we are having an American dish called 'chili.' It contains tomato sauce, chili and kidney beans, ground hamburger, and onions, along with several spices. Feel free to add cheese and cracker to your chili. Enjoy!" With that, he had sat down and helped himself to some chili.

"Wow," Sirius said after taking a few bites. "Gotta hand it to you Americans. Didn't think you could come up with something that tasted better that cheeseburgers."

Katz turned and glared at him. All in one movement, she picked up her bowl and turned it over onto Sirius' head, yelling, "Sirius, you poopyhead!"

Everything and everyone stopped dead and stared at them. Then, his head dripping with tomato sauce, Sirius picked took his bowl and dumped the contents onto Katz's head. She stared at him in shock. After regaining her composure, she picked up a handful of cheese and threw it at him. He ducked, and it hit a Ravenclaw. The Ravenclaw threw some cheese back. And James, always wishing to cause trouble, picked up some mashed potatoes and lobbed them in the general direction of the Slytherin table.

Pandemonium ensued.

~Fin~