The Invasion of Hogwarts
Yet another horrifying fic by Kat Burnell
"Are you scared yet Lily? You should be" said Petunia matter-of-factly. "I heard they give you a vasectomy before you go into that freak school" "Shut up Petunia, Lily, ignore her" grumbled Rose, sitting in between her two sisters and being absolutely exasperated with both. Petunia was a muggle who was deeply resentful of being the middle sister, let alone an unmagical one
She was the odd-one-out of the three sisters, being tall and thin with a long neck.Her brown hair was the irritation of both sisters. Lily was the youngest, just starting her first year at Hogwarts, usually considered the cutest. She and Rose got along well and even looked a bit alike, both with freckles, although Rose had flaming red hair that clashed with Lily's darker colouring.
Rose herself was the oldest, also magical and fascinated with Spiritology and the Dark arts. She was starting third year. "No seriously, that's why Rose's so weird, They'll give you a vasectomy then they'll drug you up reeeal good" Petunia started smugly, glad to see her little sister terrified. "SHUT UP NOW PETUNIA EVANS" Rose barked "Make me" Petunia stuck out her tongue at Rose. Rose delved into the trunk and came out clutching her wand. "Lily, watch closesly, this is called.." Rose made up a name in her head "The Sistosis curse. It slowly drives your sibling insane" she pointed the tip of the wand at Petunia's forehead. Petunia squeaked and cried "Muuuum!"
Five or six purple sparks flew out of the end of Petunia's wand. Petunia's eyes rolled back in her head as she passed out. "Problem... solved" snickered Rose. Lily smiled and pushed Petunia off of Rose's lap. "What's this?" she asked fascinatedly, picking up Roses' Daily Prophet. "That's the newspaper, why?"
"Who's Setsuna Meoih?" asked Lily curiously, eyeing the front page. "Don't say the name you idiot!" gasped Rose. "Don't say Setsuna Meoih?" asked Lily, feining innocence. "Exactly" Rose shivered. "Why can't I say Setsuna Meoih?" asked Lily.
Rose smacked her sister sharply upside the back of her head. "Ow!" Lily yelped.Then she folded her arms, scowled at her sister before returning to the paper. "Who's You-know-who?" she asked. Rose rolled her eyes. "Well... at least you didn't say that name" she sighed. "I couldn't. It's printed as You-know-who. I don't know who. Who?" asked Lily.
"You're doing this on purpose" Rose grumbled.
"I am not!" Lily cried. "It's hard! I don't understand half of this stuff!"
"Who?" she repeated. "LILY!" Shrieked Rose. "I don't mean repeat the name, I mean who is he?" Lily said. "He.. killed alot of people let's just leave it at that, eh?" she shivered and turned back to the window. "Then what did Set- Ah... That other person.. do?" asked Lily, now hitting her sister's nerve.
Rose snatched the newspaper back from Lily, and replaced it with her own book, "1001 Pranks to cause chaos"
Lily's eyes widened. "You like this sort of stuff, Rosey?" she asked. "Stop asking bloody questions Lily" Rose grumbled.Lily's eyes widened. "You like this sort of stuff, Rosey?" she asked. "Stop asking bloody questions Lily" Rose grumbled.
"Guys, we're nearly there, but we're stopping off here in London. Petunia, do you want to come with me and tell me which of these" Mrs. Evans consulted a long list of perscription vitamins and drugs "You need?" Lily and Rose shot a frantic glance at each other before propping Petunia up. "Mum, she's asleep" lied Lily. Rose tried not to laugh, and propped Petunia up. "Well, wake her up, we haven't got all day!" Mrs. Evans called.
Rose looked from side to side. "PLease-don't-let-me-get-in-trouble-for- this" she murmured, pointing her wand at Petunia and mumbling "Revitius"
Petunia shrieked. "MUM! ROSE IS USING MAGIC ON ME!" she wailed. "Nonsense, it was just a dream, come on dear, which one of these do you need?" she handed the list to Petunia, who sniffled and said "Voltron, Jacitamol and Pactercil" before handing the list back to her mum.
"Now you three girls behave for your father, alright?" asked Mrs. Evans, getting out of the car.
Immediately Petunia caught Roses' collar and growled "Take this stupid curse off of me now!"
"Shut up you little pipsqueak, I didn't put a curse on you, it was a dream" Rose hissed back.
Petunia smacked Rose across the face. Rose squeaked and glared furiously at her. Lily stubbornly told them to "Stop that now! You'll get hurt!" as Rose grabbed a handful of her sister's brown hair. Lily's eyes flickered slightly, as if some kind of flame was lighting behind green and black glass. Both sisters were slammed against the side of the car.
"Girls, stop that" Mr. Evans took his head out of 'Auto Monthly' for a split second, looked at the subdued Petunia and Rose, then turned right back to his magaizine. Rose looked at Lily in amazement. "You can do Spiritology already!" she said amazedly. "What's Spiritology?" asked Lily. "Stop asking bloody questions" Rose grumbled.
*** (Look at all the pretty stars...)
"Rosey what have you got in here?" asked Mr. Evans, pulling her trunk out of the car. "Let's see... My sneakoscope, wand, prank books-" "No more pranks this year! Buckle down and study! Last year you failed everything but Potions, Spiritology and Defence against the Dark Arts!" Mrs. Evans looked down at her daughters, both of them. "And Lily, pay No heed whatsoever to Rose" she added. "Ahhh... Light trunk" Mr. Evans sighed, handing Lily's trunk to her.
"Come on Lily" Rose said impateintly, starting to drag her trunk behind her and scuffle her shoes on the pavement outside of Kings Cross. Lily sighed and followed. "G'bye mum" Rose kissed her mum on the cheek. "G'bye dad" she repeated the process. "G'bye, Tunia" she hugged her sister and whispered in her ear "I really did hex you you know"
Rose grabbed Lily and started to drag her through the gate and into Kings Cross. The bustling train station was nearly packed to the brim with people ready to go to boarding schools across the country. About one in six of them was carrying something incrimiating to them. Some had owls, others were still wearing robes, one boy was trying to calm his pet puffskein down.
Lily looked around. "Platform 9 and three quarters... Now where's that?" she asked, stopping between Nine and ten. Opposite to her, a boy was repeating the same thing. Rose instantly recognised the boy, and tapped him on the shoulder. "We meet again, Mr. Potter" she said in a deep voice
"Huh? Oh! Hi Rose!" The boy said, looking around him at the same time. "You wouldn't know how to get into the platform, would you?" he asked.
"Of course I do. This is my little sister, Lily, she's a first year too" Rose grinned and grabbed Lily's arm. "Lily, this is James" she said. "Oh I remember you!" Lily said "Rose helped you get that book down in Flourish and Blotts, am I right?" she asked. Both nodded. "James is a first year too, only he's from a wizarding family" Rose said. "A boy after my own heart, he is, We were both reaching for the same book" If it had been an anime, both James and Lily would probably have sweatdropped. "Let me guess. 1001 Pranks to cause chaos?" asked Lily. "How'd you know?" asked James.
She gripped both of their arms and turned her back on the wall between the platforms. "What're you doing Rose?" asked James, looking at her as if she was mad. "Bringing you to Nine and three quarters. Close your eyes now" she warned. She took one step forward, then started running backwards. A second later they all tumbled into the busy world of the invisible platform.
"Wow!" breathed Lily. "Ditto!" James agreed. "Aw you'll get used to it. The first time I was here Lucia had to grab my hand and haul me in since I accidently smacked against the wall of number 10" Rose said
"Speak of the devil" she caught a girl's hand. "Lucia, how's things?" she asked. "The usual, you know? My brother being a pest, oh and my brother's freind is starting this year" the girl said, fiddling with her hair and tangling it up in a knot. "I'm dreading roll- call this year" she murmured. "How come?" asked Lily. Rose kicked her. "Yow!""Because my parents thought it would be the cutest thing to name my twin brother and I nearly the same thing. Most teachers end up calling Lucia twice" Lucia rolled her eyes
"Poor thing" said Rose. "Pity on me!" Lucia said dramitcally. "Yes, pity pity, pity pity, Pity...but at least you're not the only girl in your house in your year" Rose patted Lucia on the head. "You're the only girl in your house?" asked Lily. "Stop asking questions!" Rose groaned exasperatedly. "She's the only third year Gryffindor girl. She's a pooooor baby" Lucia took her turn to pet Rose. "She's great freinds with nearly everyone though" Lucia laughed.
"Nearly everyone?" asked James. "Well.. at least Lily didn't say it" Rose smiled.
"Nearly everyone, she'll make freinds with anyone but someone who doesn't like muggle-borns. She'll never tell them until they say it" Lucia rolled her eyes. "She's weird that way. Come on Rose I hafta introduce you to my brother's freind, you'll like him. He's only a first year but still..." said Lucia. "Forget your brother's freind, give me your brother any day!" Rose giggled. "Eeeeeeew! Rosey!" shrieked Lucia.
*** (*Crosseyed* Even more purdy stars... but where're the bluebirds?)
"Sirius don't get ideas!" James and two other boys were trooping around (and dragging Lily behind them) trying to find their way about the station. A blond haired boy was trying desperately to talk Sirius (One tall boy with longish black hair which he seemed to take great pride in) out of letting off a bag of dungbombs on the train.
"Ignore him Sirius. Get ideas. Get plenty of ideas!" James urged him. Lily laughed and rolled her eyes. "Aw, what's the use in getting ideas if Peter won't allow me to use them.. You spoil all my fun, Peter" Sirius grumbled.
"I do not. You just have a warped idea of fun. Your idea of fun involves Slytherins, leg locker curses and some well placed stairs" "Don't forget the dungbombs Peter, I do believe you've hit on an idea there!" Both Peter and Lily rolled their eyes. "I imagine you'd die if you were sorted into Slytherin..." James grinned. "Slytherin? I'd kill myself! My god, don't even suggest that, James Potter!" Siriuus clutched his heart. "Imagine! Being thrown in with the likes of... with the likes of... " he trailed off. "You don't even know any Slytherins, do you Siri?" asked Lily.
"Okay so I don't. Don't call me Siri" Sirius said a bit iffily (Is that a word? Couldn't think of anything else)
"What say we try going back to the platform?" asked James.
"What say. Come on then. Let's try it backwards like James did it" Sirius said.
"We'll fall apart, I'll bet you" James said. "We won't actually. I'll wager for that" Lily said. "Ten galleons says we get through that platform without falling apart" she linked her arms firmly with James and Sirius'. "I'd say that's an unfair bet" Sirius warned James. "Eh" James shrugged. "On the count of three start running backwards. One - two - three" Lily said. They ran about four steps before all of them yelled and ran into another unfortunate first year. They toppled over and landed in a heap.
"Unfair!" grumbled Lily. "Oh I'm so sorry" she realised she was actually sitting on someone.
She quickly got up and pulled the poor boy to his feet. "That's okay" the boy stumbled two steps backwards and held his head."I'm not that heavy!" Lily exclaimed. "I'll say you are. You're standing on me now, Lily" Sirius grumbled. "Oooh, Sorry Siri!" she squeaked. "Don't call me Siri"
"Are you alright?" James asked the boy. "Yeah.. just... get my bearings..." The boy mumbled, nodding his head. "That was pretty nasty, having Lily fall on top of you. Are you sure you're ok?" asked James, as Lily jabbed him sharply in the ribs for his remark. "Ow!"
"I'm fine" the boy repeated. "Um.. let's introduce ourselves... Hi, I'm Sirius, that's James, that's Lily, and that's Peter (Who spoils all our fun)" Sirius said.
"My name's Remus. Pleased to meet you, I think" "What do you mean you think? You should be pleased to meet such a dazzling beauty" Lily said proudly.
James looked around. "Where?" he asked, before dodging a hit at him. "You'd want to watch out about here, Remus, Lily'll scalp you for not even doing anything" he said.
"Are you a first year?" asked Sirius "Mmhmm" Remus mumbled, looking sideways with a misty look. "Remus, please, wakey wakey" Lily waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Nuh? Oh! Yep, first year" he said alertly. "What house are you hoping to be in?" asked Peter. "Don't really know. I'd hope Gryffindor but I'll probably end up in Slytherin somehow" Remus said
"Don't think so gosh darn pesimistically" Rose appeared out of the crowd and immedately made herself comfortable by leaning on Remus' head. "Hello, and your name is?" asked Sirius. Rose giggled. "My reputation preceeds me! I am the great Rose Evans, the wower of such people as Micheal Wood and Sean Finnegan, and only Gryffindor third year girl able to do the Macerena!" she said dramatically. "She's the only Gryffindor third year girl full stop. She has a dorm all to herself, it's not fair!" laughed Lily.
"Uh... huh... Oh Great Rose Evans, Wower of such people as Micheal Wood and Sean Finnegan and only Gryffindor third year girl able to do the Macerena, tell us, Why have you graced us with your presence?" Sirius asked, lsightly sarcastically.
"Hush up Sirius" she said. "How'd you know my name?!" "Lucky guess? I mean... You told me already" Rose lied. "Uh huh. sure. I didn't, I'd have rememebered" "Oh live on the wild side of life Sirius!" Rose exclaimed.
"Don't even SUGGEST that to him unless you'd like his version of living on the wild side! Three Elephants let loose in the Gryffindor Tower!" yelped Peter. "Aw come on, nothing was broken in our house!" Sirius groaned. "Except your mum's will to live" James added. "Excuse me.. um... Miss Evans... could you get off of my head please?" Remus asked Rose. Rose grinned. "Anything for a pretty face" she said. "I don't have a pretty face" "You do too, you have the cutest face!" squealed Rose. "Rose, don't start" Lily warned her.
Rose switched from Remus to Lily, smiling. There was a moment of silence, before the trian whistle blew. "Yay! We can go! C'mon!" Rose grabbed Lily, Sirius, Remus and James, then told Peter to follow because she'd no more room, yelled over to Lucia and bolted for the train.
"You guys, be right back, Just gonna talk a bit to Lucy and Lou, Be right back" Rose panted, shoving them into an empty compartment.
"What say we run off on her?" asked Lily.
"No way. I like her. She's got... she's got... SHe's unique" James said.
"I like her too... even though she does seem to think my head is her arm rest" mumbled Remus.
"You only like her because she thinks you're pretty" Sirius teased.
"I'm NOT pretty"
"Are too"
"Nah ah"
"Yuh huh"
"Nah ah"
"YUH HUH"
"NAH AH"
"Stop it both of you. It's childish" said Peter loudly.
"I'll show you childish. Watch, I can make Peter giggle" Sirius grinned.
"I don't giggle for anyone"
"AUGH! This is worse than the breakfast table at my house!" Lily wailed.
"What's the breakfast table at your house like?" asked James
"Well, it's pine, we keep it in the middle of the kitchen..."
"I don't think that's what he means, Lily dear" said Rose, appearing again and dragging three people behind her. "Ohhh, right, well, every morning it's 'Oh, if it isn't the two freaks Rose and Lily' or 'Well, look who it is, Lily the witch' while Rose pretends to curse Petunia and I try to keep them from killing each other" Lily groaned. "I wouldn't kill her. Just maim her" Rose smiled.
"Who's your freinds?" asked Lily.
"Oh..u mm.. You know Lucia, this is her brother Lucius (Cruel, isn't it?) and that's Severus" she grinned. "Lily's in first year too" she added to Severus. James closed his eyes. "Alright, James?" asked Rose suddenly. "Mmm... Eye's're just tired, that's all" he said. Sirius rolled his eyes. "That's right, mine too" he said. "Bad eyesight runs in my family... Better just rest my eyes since I can't find my glasses..." lied Peter. Lily blinked and looked at the three. "Any bad eyesight run in your family there, Remus?" asked Rose edgily. "No" Remus shook his head. "Great! In that case you can sit beside Severus!" She grinned. All three other boys let their heads bang onto the table simulateously, each mumbling "That idiot"
***
"Are we nearly there yeeeet?" asked Rose. "We're in Scotland at least!" Lucia tried to stop her freind whining, as for the past half hour all they heard was "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Did I remember that dart? Are we there yet?" Whenever they asked what dart, they'd been given the reply who said anything about a dart?
After five minutes, the whole compartment was deathly silent. Lily was very uncomfortably sitting to one side, in between James and Severus who weren't all that keen on being within five mile radii of each other. Remus was on the other side, looking like if he was trapped in the compartment for five more minutes he'd kill himself.
Sirius was very carefully aiming elastic bands at Severus' head, missing and hitting Lily and James all the while. "Sirius you're an awful aim" Lily grumbled, rubbing her head and shooting the elastic back, which hit him dead on between the eyes. Sirius gasped "I'm wounded! I'm dieing! Betrayed by my own kind! What a world, what a world!" he slid off of the seat, covering his nose with his hands and looking half dead.
Remus cleared his throat. "Rose, does my head look like a giant peice of kibble?!" He asked. "Sorry" Rose snapped back, after staring at Remus non- stop for fifteen minutes. She turned herself in the chair about twnety degrees and contented herself with staring at Severus instead, a far away look in her eyes. "I often wonder what it is she's thinking about when she does that" Lily spoke up. "Probably something along the lines of throwing cream pies at an alive version of Professor Binns" Lucia said bemusedly.
"Or imagining Professor Trelawney on a surfboard in old fashioned swimming gear saying 'Cowabunga dude!'" Lucius sighed. "She really brings out the worst in you, you know that?" Lucia asked. "Ahem... Evans, will you stop?" Severus lost his pateince with Rose. Rose frowned. "You changed" she said mistily. Severus blinked. "Excuse me?" he asked. "I said, you've ... you don't remember... of course... I'm sorry" Rose said, turning yet agian to stare at Sirius. "It's my turn I guess" Sirius groaned.
"You, my freind, haven't changed a bit. A bit cuter maybe" Rose giggled. Sirius raised an eyebrow. "Am I the only person she's creeping out?" he asked. Lily put up her hand. James followed. Severus rolled his eyes, signifying he agreed in his own little way. Lucius put up his hand. Lucia grinned and did the same. "I'm used to it" she giggled. Peter put up his hand too, after James had nudged him slightly. "Remus? You against me too?" asked Rose, feining tears. "I'm unloved!" she sobbed dramatically.
"I'm not weirded out" Remus said. Rose smiled and hugged him, making him blush. "Awww" squealed Lily and Lucia. "Oh hilarious" He mumbled sarcastically. "It's cuuuuute!" they cooed. Rose looked up suddenly. "Guys, we're nearly there now! Look! THere's the castle in the distance... Home sweet home" she sighed. Lily hit her. "Home away from home" Rose quickly rephrased. Lucia and her brother dove for their trunks. "Halelujah I can get out of muggle clothes!" Lucia cried, pulling out her robes. "Well... sort of" she added, pulling them on over her clothes.
What's wrong with muggle clothes?" asked Lily, as Rose tackled her little sister and pulled her robes over her head. "Nothing, if you grew up wearing them" said James, now halfway into his trunk altogether. "Where - are - those - robes?" he mumbled. "Well, if you had a smaller trunk, James" Rose said lightly "You wouldn't have this problem"
"But then where would I put all my dungbombs?" asked James, before he fell in altogether and the lid snapped down, clicking the lock. "I do believe he's locked in" Sirius said bemusedly. "I do believe you're right" giggled Lily. The lid of the trunk started banging as James tried to get out. Not any of them moved. "To release, or not to release. That is the question" said Rose thoughtfully. "I'm suffocating in here!" came the muffled answer. "We'll leave him there"
Lily pushed her sister out of the way, and tried to open the lock. "James, don't panic, the lock is.. stuck..." she called.
There was a strangled choke and a thump.
The trunk turned over altogether.
Another thump and it turned over again.
"Trust James... he's got another opening at the back" sighed Peter, noticing a square made of different wood. Lily grabbed a hold of the square and hauled it off. "He's obviously somewhere at the bottom of this mess... James, I can see your hand at least" said Rose. Lucia peered over her shoulder. "Uh, guys? You think you could help me?!" James called. Sirius, Remus and Peter all shook their heads. "The girls seem to be doing fine there, James" Sirius said.
"I wonder whether he wears boxers of briefs" mused Rose.
"Okay, now we'll help" all three boys got up at once. "He doesn't need to be mortified any more than he is now" Sirius and Remus grabbed James hand and pulled until the rest of him followed. "Owww. I have been hit in the head with AT LEAST five books. Why does magic have to have so much history?" he pushed "A History of Magic" away from him.
***
Rose absolutely - hated - the short walk up to the school. She would never admit it but she was terrified of the dark, ashamed as she was about it. The whole time she insisted on walking in between Lucia and Lucius, shivering all the while. After a time of five minutes, Lucia groaned, grabbed Roses' arm and hauled her over to her other side. It was very cold, so cold their breath came out as smoke in front of them, and Rose and Lucia were quite content to walk close together as to keep warm.
"It's freezing out here" shivered Lily. She was as bundled up as she could get but was still cold. They'd somehow managed to squash seven of them in a boat, and she had somehow yet again ended up squashed between James and Severus, who were glaring straight ahead and looking extremely unhappy about being stuck again. "Remind me again" said Lily, as the boat bobbed so low some water sloshed into the bottom of the boat. "Who's bright idea was it not to seperate?"
Sirius and James pointed at each other, while everyone else pointed back at Lily. "Oh right. My idea. Sorry" she blushed. "Everyone makes mistakes" Remus sighed, this time he being the one to bear the brunt of Sirius and his elastic bands. He was now again trying to hit Severus, his aim improving but Remus was sitting right in front of Severus in the first place.
Lily very carefully and slowly got up and turned to sit down beside Remus instead, instantly being hit by a rubber band. "Why don't James and Severus seem to be getting along well?" she whispered. Remus shrugged. "Look at you, you're freezing!" she said suddenly. "I'm fine" he mumbled. She took her scarf from around her neck and gave it to him. "Don't want you catching cold, if we end up in the same house you'll keep us up all night sneezing" she laughed weakly and pulled her scarf around his neck.
"Are we there yet?" asked Sirius. "Knock it off, you're worse than Rose" Lily grumbled. "No-one is worse than that girl Rose. She seriously scares me!" Sirius shivered. "Don't you start shivering too" Lily warned. "She's alright, you'll get used to her. She's great fun once you do. She's one of the world's greatest pranksters" she added, her mind stretching back to that book. "She- Look - at - that, isn't it beautiful?" she gasped as the school came into view. THere was an immediate dip in the boat as all seven heads turned at once to look. "Wow!" mumbled James. "It's... nice!" said Peter. "It's amazing..." Lily nearly went all starry eyed.
"Oh my lord, that's creepy" said Sirius suddenly. "It's not that creepy" Lily said. "It is, Lily your eyes glow in the dark" Sirius shivered.
"Oh... well... you get used to that too...it's weird, but you'll get used to it" she closed her eyes immediately.
"What house do you guys want to be in?" asked James suddenly. "Well... Gryffindor, I guess" said Peter. "Gryffindor or bust" Sirius supplied. "Ravenclaw wouldn't be bad" Lily shrugged. "Gryffindor or.. Hufflepuff wouldn't be bad" Remus said. "Slytherin" said Severus automatically. Sirius and James exchanged looks and both said under their breath "Of course"
***
"Black, Sirius" Called Professor McGonagall. Rose sat forward on her seat slightly. "Let's see if he's still Gryffindor material" she whispered to herself, casting her mind back into her memories. Sirius looked very uncomfortable at being called first, but nonetheless sat down looking slightly nervous. He seemed to relax a bit and closed his eyes. "GRYFFINDOR!" THe hat shouted. Sirius fell off of the stool and yelped "I DIDN'T DO IT!"
The whole table was trying not to laugh at the poor boy, and one or two strangled cheers made their way from some seventh years. "Carlistle, Susan" called McGonagall.
"HUFFLEPUFF"
"Dawson, Mimette"
"SLYTHERIN"
"Evans, Lily" Rose edged even further on the bench. she'd fall off if she went any further. Lily walked up and smiled at Rose, waving at her and Sirius, who'd sat about a foot away from Rose when he'd gone over to the Gryffindor table.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Rose cheered and fell off of her place. "She's not only off her place, she's off her rocker" Sirius murmured. Lily sat beside Rose looking immensly pleased with herself. After a second or two Rose had to kick the girl as she was humming 'We are the champions' incessantly.
"Figg, Arabella" McGonagall said. A blue eyed black haired girl darted up, smiling broadly.
"RAVENCLAW"
"Aw.." grumbled Lily
The line dwindled for a while, as two Hufflepuffs, three Ravenclaws and two more Slytherins got sorted, until "Lupin, Remus!" was called. Rose and Lily both sat forward, both whispering "Come ooon Gryffindor" and crossing their fingers (Rose crossing her toes aswell) as they did so. "Why do you want him to be in Gryffindor?" asked Lily curiously, as Rose hadn't really gotten to know any of them. "There are things you don't know Lily. Boy deserves it" Rose said mysteriously. Lily arched an eyebrow and directed her gaze back.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Woohoo!" cheered both girls. Sirius smiled at Remus as he sat down beside him.
THey were half falling asleep by the time the line had reached the N's. There was a longer list this year than ever before. Lily had switched places with Rose, since Rose had badgered her to do so.
"Pettigrew, Peter"
This seemed to take quite a while, and Peter seemed to look more and more nervous until the hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR"
As Peter sat down Sirius clapped him on the back making him lurch forward and fall. Remus grinned and helped him up again. "Boys" sighed Rose, Lily, and a new Gryffindor girl called Melody.
"Potter, James"
This time the answer was instant, straight away the hat shouted "Gryffindor!"
Lily, Rose, Sirius, Peter and Remus all instantaneously punched the air and whispered "Yes!" Recieving five or six weird looks from the other tables. It was an odd sight and looked as if it had been planned. James sat between Remus and Rose (To which Rose looked severly put-out-by)
When the sorting was finished, Rose looked from Lily to Melody. They all said "Food" in unison and attacked their plates. "Oi, James" Rose said through a mouthful. James looked up. "Yeah?" he asked. "Catch" she tossed some kind of jelly at him, which landed on top of his hair (Which didn't even budge)
Sirius looked over, reguarded the pink mess on James' hair, scooped up some creamed rice and tossed it back at Rose. Rose shrieked in indignation, and tossed a drumstick at Sirius, missed and hit Remus on the side of the head.
Remus blinked, picked up the drumstick and tossed it back, which hit Lily, who squeaked and tossed some cheesecake at Remus and Rose attacked James again. Further down the table, someone saw this and yelled "FOOD FIGHT!" instantly each of them was hit by something mushy. "Eew! Chocolate!" grumbled Melody. "You'll pay for that, Wood!" she tossed an orange which Wood caught out of the air, and tossed towards the Slytherin table. It hit Lucius on the side of the head. Rose glared at Wood when she saw the oranges target and when another five or six oranges and apples were tossed back from the Slytherin table, each hitting Wood. Rose picked up an apple, cut it in half and dropped it down the neck of Wood's robes.
Lily was trying not to get involved, still scooping the chocolate out of her hair until a punch bowl landed on her head. She looked at it oddly for a second then looked over to see Arabella Figg waving at her and standing on the Ravenclaw table. She smiled, grabbed three muffins and hurled them at Arabella, who fell off of the table and appeared, ruffled, at the bottom of the Hufflepuff one. She started tossing carrots back.
James and Sirius had teamed up and were successfully coating the Slytherin table a nice shade of sugar-pink jelly. Remus was unsuccesfully trying to persuade them to stop while Peter just tried not to get hit. Lily and Rose decided to team up against Wood and Figg, by persuading Wood to go over and help Arabella, who looked as if she was hurt. Once they were together they started tossing muffins at them. THat was, until, Lily noticed the bowl of melted chocolate.
As both Micheal Wood and Arabella Figg started making their way over to their attackers, Rose and Lily started dipping the muffins into the chocolate before throwing them, resulting in some messy brown stains.
Micheal and Arabella ducked, and tried to crawl towards the table instead. Lily and Rose looked around frantically until Melody saw Arabella just a foot away from Rose with a glass of water, grabbed her by the neck, unbuttoned her top button and sloshed the whole bowl of chocolate down her robes.
Suddenly Arabella, Melody, Rose and Lily erupted into giggles after hearing the shriek of "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT, YOUNG MAN!" when a Hufflepuff boy tossed some pudding towards the teacher's table.
Instantly, McGonagall picked up her dinner plate, emptied the contents into her hand, and enchanted them to one- by - one hit the boy who'd managed to hit her. The youngest teacher, Sylvia Sinistra was already bickering with Professor Flitwick over which charm would make the food hit hardest. She finally grabbed her plate, and said "Let's experiment then!"Professor Trelawney was repeating mistily "I foretold this would happen" as Proffessor Darry (the Potions teacher) had lost his temper and emptied his glass over her head.
James and Sirius had stopped attacking the Slytherin table to stop and watch the teachers table. Rose on the other hand, saw opportunity. She picked up a ham hock, got all the strength she could muster, and slung it at Professor Kettle-burn. It landed right in front of him, and trapped his hand.
Lily snickered and chucked some brussels sprouts at Professor Sprout who caught them out of the air and tossed them over to the Hufflepuff table. Ravenclaw seemed to have waged all out war on Slytherin, delighting in adopting James and Sirius' idea and pelting the table with creamed rice.
Slytherin replied by each of the students enchanting the food to hit only Ravenclaws, so no matter where they threw it it would end up at the Ravenclaw table.
Remus finally seemed to have gotten the general idea when Rose emptied a punch bowl over his head. He was now trying as hard as he could to repel Melody's attempts to cream him, while at the same time persuading Peter to join in. Sean Finnegan groaned, took a bowl of custard and handed it to Peter. "I double dare you to hit Severus Snape over at the Slytherin table" he said.
"It's a double dare, Peter, you can't ignore that" Sirius said, as James accidently hit him with some mashed potato. Sirius abendoned Peter to turn on James.
"Now.. Sirius... don't take it personally... " James said nervously, as Sirius picked up some melted cheese. "Personally? Nah! This is for Gryffindor!" he emptied the cheese over James. "But I'm in Gryffindor too!" yelled James. "Oh yeah.. sorry"
It finally looked like the end of the food fight when Professor Dumbledore stood up. Half the people stopped in their tracks, while the other half continued. Some Ravenclaw first year accidently missed Professor McGonagall and succeeded in hitting Dumbeldore in the head with an ornage. "I do believe you've made a very big mistake there, Mr. Nuqam" he said, tossing it right back.
Yet another horrifying fic by Kat Burnell
"Are you scared yet Lily? You should be" said Petunia matter-of-factly. "I heard they give you a vasectomy before you go into that freak school" "Shut up Petunia, Lily, ignore her" grumbled Rose, sitting in between her two sisters and being absolutely exasperated with both. Petunia was a muggle who was deeply resentful of being the middle sister, let alone an unmagical one
She was the odd-one-out of the three sisters, being tall and thin with a long neck.Her brown hair was the irritation of both sisters. Lily was the youngest, just starting her first year at Hogwarts, usually considered the cutest. She and Rose got along well and even looked a bit alike, both with freckles, although Rose had flaming red hair that clashed with Lily's darker colouring.
Rose herself was the oldest, also magical and fascinated with Spiritology and the Dark arts. She was starting third year. "No seriously, that's why Rose's so weird, They'll give you a vasectomy then they'll drug you up reeeal good" Petunia started smugly, glad to see her little sister terrified. "SHUT UP NOW PETUNIA EVANS" Rose barked "Make me" Petunia stuck out her tongue at Rose. Rose delved into the trunk and came out clutching her wand. "Lily, watch closesly, this is called.." Rose made up a name in her head "The Sistosis curse. It slowly drives your sibling insane" she pointed the tip of the wand at Petunia's forehead. Petunia squeaked and cried "Muuuum!"
Five or six purple sparks flew out of the end of Petunia's wand. Petunia's eyes rolled back in her head as she passed out. "Problem... solved" snickered Rose. Lily smiled and pushed Petunia off of Rose's lap. "What's this?" she asked fascinatedly, picking up Roses' Daily Prophet. "That's the newspaper, why?"
"Who's Setsuna Meoih?" asked Lily curiously, eyeing the front page. "Don't say the name you idiot!" gasped Rose. "Don't say Setsuna Meoih?" asked Lily, feining innocence. "Exactly" Rose shivered. "Why can't I say Setsuna Meoih?" asked Lily.
Rose smacked her sister sharply upside the back of her head. "Ow!" Lily yelped.Then she folded her arms, scowled at her sister before returning to the paper. "Who's You-know-who?" she asked. Rose rolled her eyes. "Well... at least you didn't say that name" she sighed. "I couldn't. It's printed as You-know-who. I don't know who. Who?" asked Lily.
"You're doing this on purpose" Rose grumbled.
"I am not!" Lily cried. "It's hard! I don't understand half of this stuff!"
"Who?" she repeated. "LILY!" Shrieked Rose. "I don't mean repeat the name, I mean who is he?" Lily said. "He.. killed alot of people let's just leave it at that, eh?" she shivered and turned back to the window. "Then what did Set- Ah... That other person.. do?" asked Lily, now hitting her sister's nerve.
Rose snatched the newspaper back from Lily, and replaced it with her own book, "1001 Pranks to cause chaos"
Lily's eyes widened. "You like this sort of stuff, Rosey?" she asked. "Stop asking bloody questions Lily" Rose grumbled.Lily's eyes widened. "You like this sort of stuff, Rosey?" she asked. "Stop asking bloody questions Lily" Rose grumbled.
"Guys, we're nearly there, but we're stopping off here in London. Petunia, do you want to come with me and tell me which of these" Mrs. Evans consulted a long list of perscription vitamins and drugs "You need?" Lily and Rose shot a frantic glance at each other before propping Petunia up. "Mum, she's asleep" lied Lily. Rose tried not to laugh, and propped Petunia up. "Well, wake her up, we haven't got all day!" Mrs. Evans called.
Rose looked from side to side. "PLease-don't-let-me-get-in-trouble-for- this" she murmured, pointing her wand at Petunia and mumbling "Revitius"
Petunia shrieked. "MUM! ROSE IS USING MAGIC ON ME!" she wailed. "Nonsense, it was just a dream, come on dear, which one of these do you need?" she handed the list to Petunia, who sniffled and said "Voltron, Jacitamol and Pactercil" before handing the list back to her mum.
"Now you three girls behave for your father, alright?" asked Mrs. Evans, getting out of the car.
Immediately Petunia caught Roses' collar and growled "Take this stupid curse off of me now!"
"Shut up you little pipsqueak, I didn't put a curse on you, it was a dream" Rose hissed back.
Petunia smacked Rose across the face. Rose squeaked and glared furiously at her. Lily stubbornly told them to "Stop that now! You'll get hurt!" as Rose grabbed a handful of her sister's brown hair. Lily's eyes flickered slightly, as if some kind of flame was lighting behind green and black glass. Both sisters were slammed against the side of the car.
"Girls, stop that" Mr. Evans took his head out of 'Auto Monthly' for a split second, looked at the subdued Petunia and Rose, then turned right back to his magaizine. Rose looked at Lily in amazement. "You can do Spiritology already!" she said amazedly. "What's Spiritology?" asked Lily. "Stop asking bloody questions" Rose grumbled.
*** (Look at all the pretty stars...)
"Rosey what have you got in here?" asked Mr. Evans, pulling her trunk out of the car. "Let's see... My sneakoscope, wand, prank books-" "No more pranks this year! Buckle down and study! Last year you failed everything but Potions, Spiritology and Defence against the Dark Arts!" Mrs. Evans looked down at her daughters, both of them. "And Lily, pay No heed whatsoever to Rose" she added. "Ahhh... Light trunk" Mr. Evans sighed, handing Lily's trunk to her.
"Come on Lily" Rose said impateintly, starting to drag her trunk behind her and scuffle her shoes on the pavement outside of Kings Cross. Lily sighed and followed. "G'bye mum" Rose kissed her mum on the cheek. "G'bye dad" she repeated the process. "G'bye, Tunia" she hugged her sister and whispered in her ear "I really did hex you you know"
Rose grabbed Lily and started to drag her through the gate and into Kings Cross. The bustling train station was nearly packed to the brim with people ready to go to boarding schools across the country. About one in six of them was carrying something incrimiating to them. Some had owls, others were still wearing robes, one boy was trying to calm his pet puffskein down.
Lily looked around. "Platform 9 and three quarters... Now where's that?" she asked, stopping between Nine and ten. Opposite to her, a boy was repeating the same thing. Rose instantly recognised the boy, and tapped him on the shoulder. "We meet again, Mr. Potter" she said in a deep voice
"Huh? Oh! Hi Rose!" The boy said, looking around him at the same time. "You wouldn't know how to get into the platform, would you?" he asked.
"Of course I do. This is my little sister, Lily, she's a first year too" Rose grinned and grabbed Lily's arm. "Lily, this is James" she said. "Oh I remember you!" Lily said "Rose helped you get that book down in Flourish and Blotts, am I right?" she asked. Both nodded. "James is a first year too, only he's from a wizarding family" Rose said. "A boy after my own heart, he is, We were both reaching for the same book" If it had been an anime, both James and Lily would probably have sweatdropped. "Let me guess. 1001 Pranks to cause chaos?" asked Lily. "How'd you know?" asked James.
She gripped both of their arms and turned her back on the wall between the platforms. "What're you doing Rose?" asked James, looking at her as if she was mad. "Bringing you to Nine and three quarters. Close your eyes now" she warned. She took one step forward, then started running backwards. A second later they all tumbled into the busy world of the invisible platform.
"Wow!" breathed Lily. "Ditto!" James agreed. "Aw you'll get used to it. The first time I was here Lucia had to grab my hand and haul me in since I accidently smacked against the wall of number 10" Rose said
"Speak of the devil" she caught a girl's hand. "Lucia, how's things?" she asked. "The usual, you know? My brother being a pest, oh and my brother's freind is starting this year" the girl said, fiddling with her hair and tangling it up in a knot. "I'm dreading roll- call this year" she murmured. "How come?" asked Lily. Rose kicked her. "Yow!""Because my parents thought it would be the cutest thing to name my twin brother and I nearly the same thing. Most teachers end up calling Lucia twice" Lucia rolled her eyes
"Poor thing" said Rose. "Pity on me!" Lucia said dramitcally. "Yes, pity pity, pity pity, Pity...but at least you're not the only girl in your house in your year" Rose patted Lucia on the head. "You're the only girl in your house?" asked Lily. "Stop asking questions!" Rose groaned exasperatedly. "She's the only third year Gryffindor girl. She's a pooooor baby" Lucia took her turn to pet Rose. "She's great freinds with nearly everyone though" Lucia laughed.
"Nearly everyone?" asked James. "Well.. at least Lily didn't say it" Rose smiled.
"Nearly everyone, she'll make freinds with anyone but someone who doesn't like muggle-borns. She'll never tell them until they say it" Lucia rolled her eyes. "She's weird that way. Come on Rose I hafta introduce you to my brother's freind, you'll like him. He's only a first year but still..." said Lucia. "Forget your brother's freind, give me your brother any day!" Rose giggled. "Eeeeeeew! Rosey!" shrieked Lucia.
*** (*Crosseyed* Even more purdy stars... but where're the bluebirds?)
"Sirius don't get ideas!" James and two other boys were trooping around (and dragging Lily behind them) trying to find their way about the station. A blond haired boy was trying desperately to talk Sirius (One tall boy with longish black hair which he seemed to take great pride in) out of letting off a bag of dungbombs on the train.
"Ignore him Sirius. Get ideas. Get plenty of ideas!" James urged him. Lily laughed and rolled her eyes. "Aw, what's the use in getting ideas if Peter won't allow me to use them.. You spoil all my fun, Peter" Sirius grumbled.
"I do not. You just have a warped idea of fun. Your idea of fun involves Slytherins, leg locker curses and some well placed stairs" "Don't forget the dungbombs Peter, I do believe you've hit on an idea there!" Both Peter and Lily rolled their eyes. "I imagine you'd die if you were sorted into Slytherin..." James grinned. "Slytherin? I'd kill myself! My god, don't even suggest that, James Potter!" Siriuus clutched his heart. "Imagine! Being thrown in with the likes of... with the likes of... " he trailed off. "You don't even know any Slytherins, do you Siri?" asked Lily.
"Okay so I don't. Don't call me Siri" Sirius said a bit iffily (Is that a word? Couldn't think of anything else)
"What say we try going back to the platform?" asked James.
"What say. Come on then. Let's try it backwards like James did it" Sirius said.
"We'll fall apart, I'll bet you" James said. "We won't actually. I'll wager for that" Lily said. "Ten galleons says we get through that platform without falling apart" she linked her arms firmly with James and Sirius'. "I'd say that's an unfair bet" Sirius warned James. "Eh" James shrugged. "On the count of three start running backwards. One - two - three" Lily said. They ran about four steps before all of them yelled and ran into another unfortunate first year. They toppled over and landed in a heap.
"Unfair!" grumbled Lily. "Oh I'm so sorry" she realised she was actually sitting on someone.
She quickly got up and pulled the poor boy to his feet. "That's okay" the boy stumbled two steps backwards and held his head."I'm not that heavy!" Lily exclaimed. "I'll say you are. You're standing on me now, Lily" Sirius grumbled. "Oooh, Sorry Siri!" she squeaked. "Don't call me Siri"
"Are you alright?" James asked the boy. "Yeah.. just... get my bearings..." The boy mumbled, nodding his head. "That was pretty nasty, having Lily fall on top of you. Are you sure you're ok?" asked James, as Lily jabbed him sharply in the ribs for his remark. "Ow!"
"I'm fine" the boy repeated. "Um.. let's introduce ourselves... Hi, I'm Sirius, that's James, that's Lily, and that's Peter (Who spoils all our fun)" Sirius said.
"My name's Remus. Pleased to meet you, I think" "What do you mean you think? You should be pleased to meet such a dazzling beauty" Lily said proudly.
James looked around. "Where?" he asked, before dodging a hit at him. "You'd want to watch out about here, Remus, Lily'll scalp you for not even doing anything" he said.
"Are you a first year?" asked Sirius "Mmhmm" Remus mumbled, looking sideways with a misty look. "Remus, please, wakey wakey" Lily waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Nuh? Oh! Yep, first year" he said alertly. "What house are you hoping to be in?" asked Peter. "Don't really know. I'd hope Gryffindor but I'll probably end up in Slytherin somehow" Remus said
"Don't think so gosh darn pesimistically" Rose appeared out of the crowd and immedately made herself comfortable by leaning on Remus' head. "Hello, and your name is?" asked Sirius. Rose giggled. "My reputation preceeds me! I am the great Rose Evans, the wower of such people as Micheal Wood and Sean Finnegan, and only Gryffindor third year girl able to do the Macerena!" she said dramatically. "She's the only Gryffindor third year girl full stop. She has a dorm all to herself, it's not fair!" laughed Lily.
"Uh... huh... Oh Great Rose Evans, Wower of such people as Micheal Wood and Sean Finnegan and only Gryffindor third year girl able to do the Macerena, tell us, Why have you graced us with your presence?" Sirius asked, lsightly sarcastically.
"Hush up Sirius" she said. "How'd you know my name?!" "Lucky guess? I mean... You told me already" Rose lied. "Uh huh. sure. I didn't, I'd have rememebered" "Oh live on the wild side of life Sirius!" Rose exclaimed.
"Don't even SUGGEST that to him unless you'd like his version of living on the wild side! Three Elephants let loose in the Gryffindor Tower!" yelped Peter. "Aw come on, nothing was broken in our house!" Sirius groaned. "Except your mum's will to live" James added. "Excuse me.. um... Miss Evans... could you get off of my head please?" Remus asked Rose. Rose grinned. "Anything for a pretty face" she said. "I don't have a pretty face" "You do too, you have the cutest face!" squealed Rose. "Rose, don't start" Lily warned her.
Rose switched from Remus to Lily, smiling. There was a moment of silence, before the trian whistle blew. "Yay! We can go! C'mon!" Rose grabbed Lily, Sirius, Remus and James, then told Peter to follow because she'd no more room, yelled over to Lucia and bolted for the train.
"You guys, be right back, Just gonna talk a bit to Lucy and Lou, Be right back" Rose panted, shoving them into an empty compartment.
"What say we run off on her?" asked Lily.
"No way. I like her. She's got... she's got... SHe's unique" James said.
"I like her too... even though she does seem to think my head is her arm rest" mumbled Remus.
"You only like her because she thinks you're pretty" Sirius teased.
"I'm NOT pretty"
"Are too"
"Nah ah"
"Yuh huh"
"Nah ah"
"YUH HUH"
"NAH AH"
"Stop it both of you. It's childish" said Peter loudly.
"I'll show you childish. Watch, I can make Peter giggle" Sirius grinned.
"I don't giggle for anyone"
"AUGH! This is worse than the breakfast table at my house!" Lily wailed.
"What's the breakfast table at your house like?" asked James
"Well, it's pine, we keep it in the middle of the kitchen..."
"I don't think that's what he means, Lily dear" said Rose, appearing again and dragging three people behind her. "Ohhh, right, well, every morning it's 'Oh, if it isn't the two freaks Rose and Lily' or 'Well, look who it is, Lily the witch' while Rose pretends to curse Petunia and I try to keep them from killing each other" Lily groaned. "I wouldn't kill her. Just maim her" Rose smiled.
"Who's your freinds?" asked Lily.
"Oh..u mm.. You know Lucia, this is her brother Lucius (Cruel, isn't it?) and that's Severus" she grinned. "Lily's in first year too" she added to Severus. James closed his eyes. "Alright, James?" asked Rose suddenly. "Mmm... Eye's're just tired, that's all" he said. Sirius rolled his eyes. "That's right, mine too" he said. "Bad eyesight runs in my family... Better just rest my eyes since I can't find my glasses..." lied Peter. Lily blinked and looked at the three. "Any bad eyesight run in your family there, Remus?" asked Rose edgily. "No" Remus shook his head. "Great! In that case you can sit beside Severus!" She grinned. All three other boys let their heads bang onto the table simulateously, each mumbling "That idiot"
***
"Are we nearly there yeeeet?" asked Rose. "We're in Scotland at least!" Lucia tried to stop her freind whining, as for the past half hour all they heard was "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Did I remember that dart? Are we there yet?" Whenever they asked what dart, they'd been given the reply who said anything about a dart?
After five minutes, the whole compartment was deathly silent. Lily was very uncomfortably sitting to one side, in between James and Severus who weren't all that keen on being within five mile radii of each other. Remus was on the other side, looking like if he was trapped in the compartment for five more minutes he'd kill himself.
Sirius was very carefully aiming elastic bands at Severus' head, missing and hitting Lily and James all the while. "Sirius you're an awful aim" Lily grumbled, rubbing her head and shooting the elastic back, which hit him dead on between the eyes. Sirius gasped "I'm wounded! I'm dieing! Betrayed by my own kind! What a world, what a world!" he slid off of the seat, covering his nose with his hands and looking half dead.
Remus cleared his throat. "Rose, does my head look like a giant peice of kibble?!" He asked. "Sorry" Rose snapped back, after staring at Remus non- stop for fifteen minutes. She turned herself in the chair about twnety degrees and contented herself with staring at Severus instead, a far away look in her eyes. "I often wonder what it is she's thinking about when she does that" Lily spoke up. "Probably something along the lines of throwing cream pies at an alive version of Professor Binns" Lucia said bemusedly.
"Or imagining Professor Trelawney on a surfboard in old fashioned swimming gear saying 'Cowabunga dude!'" Lucius sighed. "She really brings out the worst in you, you know that?" Lucia asked. "Ahem... Evans, will you stop?" Severus lost his pateince with Rose. Rose frowned. "You changed" she said mistily. Severus blinked. "Excuse me?" he asked. "I said, you've ... you don't remember... of course... I'm sorry" Rose said, turning yet agian to stare at Sirius. "It's my turn I guess" Sirius groaned.
"You, my freind, haven't changed a bit. A bit cuter maybe" Rose giggled. Sirius raised an eyebrow. "Am I the only person she's creeping out?" he asked. Lily put up her hand. James followed. Severus rolled his eyes, signifying he agreed in his own little way. Lucius put up his hand. Lucia grinned and did the same. "I'm used to it" she giggled. Peter put up his hand too, after James had nudged him slightly. "Remus? You against me too?" asked Rose, feining tears. "I'm unloved!" she sobbed dramatically.
"I'm not weirded out" Remus said. Rose smiled and hugged him, making him blush. "Awww" squealed Lily and Lucia. "Oh hilarious" He mumbled sarcastically. "It's cuuuuute!" they cooed. Rose looked up suddenly. "Guys, we're nearly there now! Look! THere's the castle in the distance... Home sweet home" she sighed. Lily hit her. "Home away from home" Rose quickly rephrased. Lucia and her brother dove for their trunks. "Halelujah I can get out of muggle clothes!" Lucia cried, pulling out her robes. "Well... sort of" she added, pulling them on over her clothes.
What's wrong with muggle clothes?" asked Lily, as Rose tackled her little sister and pulled her robes over her head. "Nothing, if you grew up wearing them" said James, now halfway into his trunk altogether. "Where - are - those - robes?" he mumbled. "Well, if you had a smaller trunk, James" Rose said lightly "You wouldn't have this problem"
"But then where would I put all my dungbombs?" asked James, before he fell in altogether and the lid snapped down, clicking the lock. "I do believe he's locked in" Sirius said bemusedly. "I do believe you're right" giggled Lily. The lid of the trunk started banging as James tried to get out. Not any of them moved. "To release, or not to release. That is the question" said Rose thoughtfully. "I'm suffocating in here!" came the muffled answer. "We'll leave him there"
Lily pushed her sister out of the way, and tried to open the lock. "James, don't panic, the lock is.. stuck..." she called.
There was a strangled choke and a thump.
The trunk turned over altogether.
Another thump and it turned over again.
"Trust James... he's got another opening at the back" sighed Peter, noticing a square made of different wood. Lily grabbed a hold of the square and hauled it off. "He's obviously somewhere at the bottom of this mess... James, I can see your hand at least" said Rose. Lucia peered over her shoulder. "Uh, guys? You think you could help me?!" James called. Sirius, Remus and Peter all shook their heads. "The girls seem to be doing fine there, James" Sirius said.
"I wonder whether he wears boxers of briefs" mused Rose.
"Okay, now we'll help" all three boys got up at once. "He doesn't need to be mortified any more than he is now" Sirius and Remus grabbed James hand and pulled until the rest of him followed. "Owww. I have been hit in the head with AT LEAST five books. Why does magic have to have so much history?" he pushed "A History of Magic" away from him.
***
Rose absolutely - hated - the short walk up to the school. She would never admit it but she was terrified of the dark, ashamed as she was about it. The whole time she insisted on walking in between Lucia and Lucius, shivering all the while. After a time of five minutes, Lucia groaned, grabbed Roses' arm and hauled her over to her other side. It was very cold, so cold their breath came out as smoke in front of them, and Rose and Lucia were quite content to walk close together as to keep warm.
"It's freezing out here" shivered Lily. She was as bundled up as she could get but was still cold. They'd somehow managed to squash seven of them in a boat, and she had somehow yet again ended up squashed between James and Severus, who were glaring straight ahead and looking extremely unhappy about being stuck again. "Remind me again" said Lily, as the boat bobbed so low some water sloshed into the bottom of the boat. "Who's bright idea was it not to seperate?"
Sirius and James pointed at each other, while everyone else pointed back at Lily. "Oh right. My idea. Sorry" she blushed. "Everyone makes mistakes" Remus sighed, this time he being the one to bear the brunt of Sirius and his elastic bands. He was now again trying to hit Severus, his aim improving but Remus was sitting right in front of Severus in the first place.
Lily very carefully and slowly got up and turned to sit down beside Remus instead, instantly being hit by a rubber band. "Why don't James and Severus seem to be getting along well?" she whispered. Remus shrugged. "Look at you, you're freezing!" she said suddenly. "I'm fine" he mumbled. She took her scarf from around her neck and gave it to him. "Don't want you catching cold, if we end up in the same house you'll keep us up all night sneezing" she laughed weakly and pulled her scarf around his neck.
"Are we there yet?" asked Sirius. "Knock it off, you're worse than Rose" Lily grumbled. "No-one is worse than that girl Rose. She seriously scares me!" Sirius shivered. "Don't you start shivering too" Lily warned. "She's alright, you'll get used to her. She's great fun once you do. She's one of the world's greatest pranksters" she added, her mind stretching back to that book. "She- Look - at - that, isn't it beautiful?" she gasped as the school came into view. THere was an immediate dip in the boat as all seven heads turned at once to look. "Wow!" mumbled James. "It's... nice!" said Peter. "It's amazing..." Lily nearly went all starry eyed.
"Oh my lord, that's creepy" said Sirius suddenly. "It's not that creepy" Lily said. "It is, Lily your eyes glow in the dark" Sirius shivered.
"Oh... well... you get used to that too...it's weird, but you'll get used to it" she closed her eyes immediately.
"What house do you guys want to be in?" asked James suddenly. "Well... Gryffindor, I guess" said Peter. "Gryffindor or bust" Sirius supplied. "Ravenclaw wouldn't be bad" Lily shrugged. "Gryffindor or.. Hufflepuff wouldn't be bad" Remus said. "Slytherin" said Severus automatically. Sirius and James exchanged looks and both said under their breath "Of course"
***
"Black, Sirius" Called Professor McGonagall. Rose sat forward on her seat slightly. "Let's see if he's still Gryffindor material" she whispered to herself, casting her mind back into her memories. Sirius looked very uncomfortable at being called first, but nonetheless sat down looking slightly nervous. He seemed to relax a bit and closed his eyes. "GRYFFINDOR!" THe hat shouted. Sirius fell off of the stool and yelped "I DIDN'T DO IT!"
The whole table was trying not to laugh at the poor boy, and one or two strangled cheers made their way from some seventh years. "Carlistle, Susan" called McGonagall.
"HUFFLEPUFF"
"Dawson, Mimette"
"SLYTHERIN"
"Evans, Lily" Rose edged even further on the bench. she'd fall off if she went any further. Lily walked up and smiled at Rose, waving at her and Sirius, who'd sat about a foot away from Rose when he'd gone over to the Gryffindor table.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Rose cheered and fell off of her place. "She's not only off her place, she's off her rocker" Sirius murmured. Lily sat beside Rose looking immensly pleased with herself. After a second or two Rose had to kick the girl as she was humming 'We are the champions' incessantly.
"Figg, Arabella" McGonagall said. A blue eyed black haired girl darted up, smiling broadly.
"RAVENCLAW"
"Aw.." grumbled Lily
The line dwindled for a while, as two Hufflepuffs, three Ravenclaws and two more Slytherins got sorted, until "Lupin, Remus!" was called. Rose and Lily both sat forward, both whispering "Come ooon Gryffindor" and crossing their fingers (Rose crossing her toes aswell) as they did so. "Why do you want him to be in Gryffindor?" asked Lily curiously, as Rose hadn't really gotten to know any of them. "There are things you don't know Lily. Boy deserves it" Rose said mysteriously. Lily arched an eyebrow and directed her gaze back.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Woohoo!" cheered both girls. Sirius smiled at Remus as he sat down beside him.
THey were half falling asleep by the time the line had reached the N's. There was a longer list this year than ever before. Lily had switched places with Rose, since Rose had badgered her to do so.
"Pettigrew, Peter"
This seemed to take quite a while, and Peter seemed to look more and more nervous until the hat shouted "GRYFFINDOR"
As Peter sat down Sirius clapped him on the back making him lurch forward and fall. Remus grinned and helped him up again. "Boys" sighed Rose, Lily, and a new Gryffindor girl called Melody.
"Potter, James"
This time the answer was instant, straight away the hat shouted "Gryffindor!"
Lily, Rose, Sirius, Peter and Remus all instantaneously punched the air and whispered "Yes!" Recieving five or six weird looks from the other tables. It was an odd sight and looked as if it had been planned. James sat between Remus and Rose (To which Rose looked severly put-out-by)
When the sorting was finished, Rose looked from Lily to Melody. They all said "Food" in unison and attacked their plates. "Oi, James" Rose said through a mouthful. James looked up. "Yeah?" he asked. "Catch" she tossed some kind of jelly at him, which landed on top of his hair (Which didn't even budge)
Sirius looked over, reguarded the pink mess on James' hair, scooped up some creamed rice and tossed it back at Rose. Rose shrieked in indignation, and tossed a drumstick at Sirius, missed and hit Remus on the side of the head.
Remus blinked, picked up the drumstick and tossed it back, which hit Lily, who squeaked and tossed some cheesecake at Remus and Rose attacked James again. Further down the table, someone saw this and yelled "FOOD FIGHT!" instantly each of them was hit by something mushy. "Eew! Chocolate!" grumbled Melody. "You'll pay for that, Wood!" she tossed an orange which Wood caught out of the air, and tossed towards the Slytherin table. It hit Lucius on the side of the head. Rose glared at Wood when she saw the oranges target and when another five or six oranges and apples were tossed back from the Slytherin table, each hitting Wood. Rose picked up an apple, cut it in half and dropped it down the neck of Wood's robes.
Lily was trying not to get involved, still scooping the chocolate out of her hair until a punch bowl landed on her head. She looked at it oddly for a second then looked over to see Arabella Figg waving at her and standing on the Ravenclaw table. She smiled, grabbed three muffins and hurled them at Arabella, who fell off of the table and appeared, ruffled, at the bottom of the Hufflepuff one. She started tossing carrots back.
James and Sirius had teamed up and were successfully coating the Slytherin table a nice shade of sugar-pink jelly. Remus was unsuccesfully trying to persuade them to stop while Peter just tried not to get hit. Lily and Rose decided to team up against Wood and Figg, by persuading Wood to go over and help Arabella, who looked as if she was hurt. Once they were together they started tossing muffins at them. THat was, until, Lily noticed the bowl of melted chocolate.
As both Micheal Wood and Arabella Figg started making their way over to their attackers, Rose and Lily started dipping the muffins into the chocolate before throwing them, resulting in some messy brown stains.
Micheal and Arabella ducked, and tried to crawl towards the table instead. Lily and Rose looked around frantically until Melody saw Arabella just a foot away from Rose with a glass of water, grabbed her by the neck, unbuttoned her top button and sloshed the whole bowl of chocolate down her robes.
Suddenly Arabella, Melody, Rose and Lily erupted into giggles after hearing the shriek of "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT, YOUNG MAN!" when a Hufflepuff boy tossed some pudding towards the teacher's table.
Instantly, McGonagall picked up her dinner plate, emptied the contents into her hand, and enchanted them to one- by - one hit the boy who'd managed to hit her. The youngest teacher, Sylvia Sinistra was already bickering with Professor Flitwick over which charm would make the food hit hardest. She finally grabbed her plate, and said "Let's experiment then!"Professor Trelawney was repeating mistily "I foretold this would happen" as Proffessor Darry (the Potions teacher) had lost his temper and emptied his glass over her head.
James and Sirius had stopped attacking the Slytherin table to stop and watch the teachers table. Rose on the other hand, saw opportunity. She picked up a ham hock, got all the strength she could muster, and slung it at Professor Kettle-burn. It landed right in front of him, and trapped his hand.
Lily snickered and chucked some brussels sprouts at Professor Sprout who caught them out of the air and tossed them over to the Hufflepuff table. Ravenclaw seemed to have waged all out war on Slytherin, delighting in adopting James and Sirius' idea and pelting the table with creamed rice.
Slytherin replied by each of the students enchanting the food to hit only Ravenclaws, so no matter where they threw it it would end up at the Ravenclaw table.
Remus finally seemed to have gotten the general idea when Rose emptied a punch bowl over his head. He was now trying as hard as he could to repel Melody's attempts to cream him, while at the same time persuading Peter to join in. Sean Finnegan groaned, took a bowl of custard and handed it to Peter. "I double dare you to hit Severus Snape over at the Slytherin table" he said.
"It's a double dare, Peter, you can't ignore that" Sirius said, as James accidently hit him with some mashed potato. Sirius abendoned Peter to turn on James.
"Now.. Sirius... don't take it personally... " James said nervously, as Sirius picked up some melted cheese. "Personally? Nah! This is for Gryffindor!" he emptied the cheese over James. "But I'm in Gryffindor too!" yelled James. "Oh yeah.. sorry"
It finally looked like the end of the food fight when Professor Dumbledore stood up. Half the people stopped in their tracks, while the other half continued. Some Ravenclaw first year accidently missed Professor McGonagall and succeeded in hitting Dumbeldore in the head with an ornage. "I do believe you've made a very big mistake there, Mr. Nuqam" he said, tossing it right back.