A/N: Uh...it was boring writing this…it isn't even water tight.
Hope to make it a series…if I can even get it on this page!!
Sorry it's so long but hey!
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Peace-ya-Jade!
Lily took a tentative step towards the barrier. She just saw someone walk
through it. Had her eyes been playing her for a fool,
or was it really the way to get onto the Hogwarts Express? She went back
about 10 feet or so, then walked briskly, straight toward the barrier of solid
glass, plastic and metal. Lily held her breath tightly, waiting for a crash
to hit her side wards directed face, it did not come. She kept walking
until she did collide with something. She opened her eyes and looked up.
A doe-eyed boy, tallish with unruly, messy black hair looked at her.
Lily blushed and turned the colour of her hair, which was long and thick and
the colour of auburn, crisp leaves when they started to die off in the coming
of Winter.
She mumbled 'Sorry,' sincerely, still blushing red.
'First time through the barrier?' the boy asked back, inquisitively studying
her, looking as though he was taking in every single detail of her.
'Yes,' she said, appreciating his anticipation, 'Is it yours too, or are you
not new to Hogwarts?' Lily said, all embarrassment forgotten.
'Yes and no' he replied. 'I'm new to Hogwarts, but I continually travelled
through this barrier when I was a boy to travel on the train to get to
Hogsmeade with my parents.' He pointed to two people, aging, clearly in
their late thirties, with flecks of grey hair reflecting the sun.
'Did your parents not come?' he said, maybe even a little pity shone through
his eyes, soft brown eyes that were honest, Lily couldn't help noticing
despite her anxiety. She smiled, nervously and held out a shaking hand.
'Lily,' she said firmly shaking his hand, 'my parents were so proud of me,
ecstatic about having a witch in the family, I don't have wizard and witch
parents so I'm probably miles behind everyone else. My parents dropped me off
at the station, they couldn't come, they-er-had an appointment with the
headmaster at Petunias, my sister, old school. They are trying to get back
in again until the next term, so they can find a school that will accept her.'
She started giggling at what Petunias so-called friends did to her at her old
school.
'James, James Potter, very nice to meet you Lily. What does your sister do,
to ah, leave the school?' he enquired, fascination written on his face,
looking as though if he waited a moment longer, he would burst.
'Oh, she has a little trouble fitting in. She gets teased constantly,
but she is very over sensitive. She was driven away-' Lily stopped abruptly.
She was pouring out her family business with a person she just met, and a
person who just joined him. Lily glared at the newcomer, disapproving of
his un-announcement.
'Ah, yes, er-sorry Lily, this is Sirius Black.' James looked apologetic,
but amused at the same time. Sirius was berating him, in a very fake,
motherly tone.
'James, James, James.' Sirius sighed melodramatically. 'You didn't meet at
the usual place, here I am wondering around, up and down the platform,
and where do I find you? Chatting up some girl, some girl. Dripping with
charm, for an twelve year old anyway and not one thought about the
consequences.' Lily smothered giggles and James looked amused, with comebacks
racing through his mind and a snigger on his face.
'Yes mother, ah look! There's Remus. Remus!! Over here!' James called.
'REMUS!! OVER HERE!' hollered Sirius and James together.
Remus looked up from where he was standing, about forty feet from where Lily,
James and Sirius were standing, nose (as usual) buried in a fictional Muggle
book. Remus grinned as he looked up to see three figures, two familiar one
not. He sat up of his trunk and started heaving it over towards them.
Sirius ran over to help. He slapped Remus on the back, excited and Remus
almost fell over with the force of his friends slap.
He chuckled at a few of Sirius's jokes, and then went on to James.
'James, old friend!! No see for a while, where were you? I wrote to you
several times, but they didn't get to you obviously. CP returned with the
letters about a week afterwards. CP is my owl you see.' He said pointedly
at Lily.
'CP? An er interesting choice' Lily said, obviously confused.
'Carrier Pigeon, CP!' Remus cried enthusiastically.
'Oh, okay,' Lily replied, looking slightly wierded out at the sight of Remuses
enthusiastic, laughing face.
Steam billowed out of the Scarlet steam train, and they knew it was time to
get on. 'My first year at Hogwarts, I'm going to try at the very least, to do
my best. I hope I remain friends with James, Sirius and Remus, even though
Remus is a little, eccentric.' Lily thought.
'Let's get on shall we?' said James, dragging his trunk, placing his owl on
top, and offered to assist Lily.
'Oooooooh, is this love, oh great James Potter in looooove? Haha!' Sirius
cackled wickedly.
'Sirius, honestly!!!' James said, blushing slightly, looking at Lily, then
quickly glaring at his owl, Hooter, which was tawny on the neck and white
everywhere else. 'You should know me better than that! My heart belongs to
no one!' he said, with great dignity, glaring at Sirius waiting for the
whispered comeback to arrive at Lily and Remus' ears.
'His heart belongs to no one, okay James.' Sirius said aloud. 'Except Lily!' he hissed at the general direction of Remus. Remus sniggered.
'Allow me to properly introduce myself to you Lily.' Remus said, in a deep
and melodramatic tone. 'I am Remus Lupin, Sirius, James and I have been
friends for about, oh what is it now Sirius two years?' Lupin questioned.
'About that,' Sirius agreed, 'but James and I have been friends ever since we
were little, we went to the same pre-school.'
'Yes' James mumbled in agreement.
They only shared the train compartment with another, Peter Pettigrew. He was
a short boy, with pinkish skin tones and pale, blonde hair, Lily mentally
noted. She thought, though her eyes could be deceiving her, that he looked
rather like a pink skinned, blonde haired rat, with a slightly pointed chin
and a short, pointed nose. If he had whiskers, the resemblance would have
been rather astounding.
'Come and join us!' James said cheerfully, with his mouth full of some sort of sweet Lupin had offered us all.
'Yes, please do' Lupin mumbled, his mouth so full of lolly, that he could
hardly open it. His jaws have been cemented together with his sweet, and
James looked at him, then quickly decided to suck on his, as Sirius had been
doing from the start.
'Can I?' the boy said, looking pleased, but nervous. 'Oh, that would be
good,I am always a bit of a loner.'
'Sure, sure! Come over here!' said Sirius as he waved him over. 'Have you got
enough room?' he said, just as Lupin offered him a cement sweet.
'Yes, I'm fine, and thank you for the sweet. I'm Peter Pettigrew,' he said,
cheerfully, yet still nervous.
'Sirius Black'
'James Potter'
'Remus Lupin'
All at once, the boys said their names. Peter looked befuddled. He screwed
up his face and looked at Sirius. 'James?' he said, tentatively, with much
hesitation.
'Here!' James said, as though Peter was a teacher and he was the student in
roll-call. All five burst out in laughter.
'So then you must be,' Peter swaggered between Remus and Sirius, then looked
at Sirius, 'Sirius?'
'That's my name, so don't wear it out.' Sirius laughed at the blank looks
from Lily, Remus and Peter, and James had slid off the seat from laughter
conjured up from their blank looks as well.
'The lunch lady should be coming soon.' moaned a now sobered Sirius looking
mournfully at his wristwatch.
'Oh, calm down Sirius, your hunger ails you far too often for you to possibly
hungry again.' James almost snapped at Sirius. Lily looked up at James,
expecting to see irritation on James' face, but didn't find the slightest drop
of it. She saw a wide grin spread from James' face to Sirius' face, then
started laughing again, in some private joke. Peter suddenly realised that
Lily was there, he looked at Remus, bewildered.
'Wh whoo who's that?' Peter quavered.
'Oh, sorry Peter, that's Lily, James was talking to her at the station, and
she kind of got on with us. Sorry, I didn't know you hadn't been introduced
before.' Remus explained.
'Oh, sorry, I'm Lily' she said, as Peter opened his mouth.
'Lily soon-to-be-Potter that is…' Sirius cracked without hesitation.
A cheeky, mischievous grin spread onto his face, lighting up his dark eyes.
'Sirius,' James groaned, 'What are you on about?'
'Oh nothing, nothing. Ah-lunch!' he said happily, pulling out some money
from his robes and then negotiating with himself weather to buy something or
not. In the end he bought a packet of Bertie Blotts Every Flavour beans,
5 bars of pure chocolate, pumpkin pasties to suffice at least 10 people for a
week and a pint of Pumpkin juice.
'You eat that much?' said Peter in awe, which had just bought some pasties,
and a small chocolate.
'Yeah!' Sirius said, mouth wide open, spraying all of them with pastry crumbs.
'You are going to be sick if you eat that much.' said Lily sternly, looking at
him carefully under her brow, with a scowl forming on her face.
'So? As long as I'm not hungry until supper…' he said, with a dismissive
shrug.
'And we all know how impossible that will be.' Said James after swallowing a
bit of pasty. 'What did you buy Lily and Remus, you appear to have nothing?'
'Ooh, Lily, your so fantastic, by the way, I'm the voice in James' mind,
please fell fre-' Sirius said in a squeaky, teasing voice, before James
clamped his hand over Sirius' mouth. Peter and Remus fell out laughing.
Lily had a slight smile on her face, but looked outraged at the prospect of
James liking her.
'Though I suppose it wouldn't be so bad, I mean he isn't like Peter who is
sort of dumpy looking. He seems pretty intelligent too' Lily thought to
herself. She studied James secretly, taking in everything and imagined them
several years later together. This bought a smile to her face.
'I bought some chocolate, but put it away,' pointing at the bulging pocket in
his robes, 'and a pumpkin patty'
'Ah' said James. 'Lily?'
'Will you marry me?' came an impersonated James, from next to him.
'No I will not marry YOU SIRIUS BLACK!' she roared, slapping him on the arm,
making everybody but him fall out laughing. 'Sorry James, I bought some
sweets and like Remus, a pumpkin Patty.'
The train finally slowed to a halt, all the first years got off. They were
to be sailing to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry across the lake
by boat.
'All yeh firs' years 'ere thanks!' a big voice boomed. Everyone looked around
to see where it came from, but no one found the source until one girl who was
looking up, past the fog gasped, pointing upwards;
'Look!'
Obediently, everybody did so, and there was a mutter of whispers going across.
He was maybe 8 feet tall, twice as tall as the girl who spotted him.
And his shoulders were above the late fog. That was the one thing besides his
actual height that made him look taller.
'Four or five of yeh to a boat!' he boomed at everyone. 'Duck yeh 'eads for
the first minute, or until this ruddy fog clears up.'
Peter, Remus, Sirius, James and Lily all entered a boat. Sirius had whispered
orders to everyone except James and Lily before they entered, but both James
and Lily guessed what they were, and wanting nothing more than to spoil Sirius'
plan to get them together, they both sat in different sides of the seats.
Lily behind James, Sirius pulled a face and scowled, Sirius took the seat next
to James and Peter and Remus squashed in with Lily. Remus split open a
chocolate bar, offering it to everyone, and they all appreciably took a
square, except for Sirius who attempted to take the remainder of the block
until Remus stopped him.
'What sort of wand did you get James?' asked Lily from the back.
'Mahogany, eleven inches, suited to transfiguration mostly.' James answered,
'Yourself?'
'Ten and a quarter inches' she said, pulling it out, 'Charm work, a bit
swishy perhaps, made of willow.'
'Nice,' said James, lifting it from her hands and studying it. 'What core
does it have?'
'I don't know, I wasn't listening.' Said Lily evasively.
'Oh, okay' said James.
'Would you like me to whip up a little loooove potion perhaps James?' said
Sirius from the back as they got out or the boat.
'No thank you Sirius' James said firmly.
'SIR-I-US!' shrieked Lily, moving to slap his arm again.
'Oh no you don't!' Sirius teased as he quickly whipped his arm out of view,
behind his back.
'Youse there! Get on with it, the sorting!' boomed that voice.
'Where?' said Lupin, Pettigrew and Black, all looking confused.
'O'er there!' said the figure pointing towards the entrance.
'Oh. So what's your name?' James said, speaking for all.
'Rebeus, Rebeus Hagrid, I'm gameskeeper, Dumblebore, great men he is, more
than man he is. But if youse don't get to the Sorting soon, I'll loose me
job!'
'Okay,' said James meekly. They scuttled off towards the line of first years, where
Professor McGonagall was introducing herself.
'I'm Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor house and Deputy Headmistress. I'll lead you into the great Hall for the sorting ceremony. Follow my lead please.'
Serevus Snape was poking Peter in the back sharply making him jump a foot in
the air each time. He laughed maliciously.
'That Snape!' said a passing Black. 'I met him once…Real sleaze…I hope he is
in Slytherin.'
The doors opened to the Great Hall. Gasps from every part of the line formed by the first years. The ceiling was velvety blue black, with wisps of luminous cloud. The moon was a golden, pale crescent somewhere to the west and there were stars were in constellations across the roof. There were stars that shone with a red, blue even black glow, presumably the planets and there was a comet streaking across the ceiling, very fast. There were more gasps as another comet raced across the room, leaving a trail behind it and chasing the other one, fast closing in. Lily, behind James was in absolute awe, she looked up at the ceiling several times and gasped. There in front of us was a stool with a hat sitting on it. The hat was ragged and dirty, but not yet in need of a patch. Dirty so sever but not dirty enough to be cleaned. Worn and ragged, but again, not in need for a patch.
'I heard that you needed to be sorted into a house, and this must be how you
do it, like you have to pull something out of the hat or something…' the
person in front of James and Lily said. Then to the person at the start of
the line shock, it started singing:
I am the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
That could lead you into greatness,
I can hear your every thought
But please do have you patience,
Four houses are there,
With histories noble and great,
Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor and Slytherin,
And I shall decide your fate.
You could be put in Hufflepuff;
Were all are kind and fair,
Or I could put you in Ravenclaw;
Intelligent and just, are put in there,
The house of great Godric Gryffindor;
Where bravery is on cue;
Or Salazar Slytherin's;
Where ambition is true.
So come on down and take a stool
So I can have you sorted,
Placed in the house that suits you best,
And you will be rewarded.
Everyone burst into applause. After the applause had died down, the Great
Hall was silent except for the voices of Professor McGonagall, the Sorting hat
and the bursts of applause as each person was giuded to his or hers
appropriate table. Lily felt nervous; Sirius, Remus, Peter and just then
James were all in Gryffindor. She had no other friends here except for them,
because of that entertaining train ride, where James had accepted Peter under
his wing. Lily heard her name called by Professor McGonagall, and she sat
down tentatively on the seat and lifted the hat to her head.
'Hm…Lily, nice name. Mr Potter is quite fond of you, I read it in his mind,
now I see that you too are fond of him…ah love. But on anycase, should I put
you in Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. You are not suited to Slytherin,
even though I said it was for people with ambition, it really is the worst
house to be in. I see you as a great witch Lily (Potter-OOPS! hahah) so I
shall put you in -er-ah-um…GRYFFINDOR!'
There were cheers from the far table to the left. She took a seat next to
Sirius, and he immediately stood James up and threw him in his old seat, and
took James'.
'This way we share him' Sirius said, winking mischievously.
'Oh, you infuriate me Sirius!' Lily said, by this time, Sirius almost went
flying back in his chair. James had hit him from under the table. Remus,
Lily, Peter and James burst out laughing while Sirius was putting on a mock
hurt look and pretending to weep melodramatically.
'You -sniff- hurt m-m-mee-sniff-c-c-rhy-y.!' Sirius acted. Everybody in the
area laughed. There were 2 more boys in the Gryffindor house at first Year
level; Charlie Donelan (and his twin sister, Monika who is also in Gryffindor)
and Andrew Killop.
After the feast had finished the boys went to the common room, after exploring
the dormitory, to play some chess. Lily was down there, reading something,
or wrestling with her own Chess Set. They all wondered over there, Peter,
Remus, Sirius and James. They offered to play her, round robin, who won the
most games won the competition. They all agreed, except Peter, who said he
didn't have a chess Set. The all looked at him dubiously, but then seeing
the ashamed look on his face, turned away, saying he could borrow theirs if
he wanted to play, or he could referee if he didn't. Peter agreed to
refereeing so the competition began. It started out with Remus against Lily
and Sirius against James. James won, but marginally. Remus won against Lily
by a big margin.
'Oh, don't worry Lily, James will let you win,' teased Sirius.
'Sirius, I don't have a like Lily in that way, she is my new friend-nothing
more.' James said coolly.
'James, I have known you long enough to tell when you like a gir-ah' Sirius
suddenly stopped in mid-speech. Lily was rubbing her elbow, James was looking
perplexed and Remus and Peter were practically rolling on the floor with
laughter. Sirius was glaring at Lily, but still had a grin on his face.
She looked at James sheepishly, blushing again, brilliant red.
'Ooooh,' Sirius said, fully recovered from whatever broken ribs he had, 'she's
even sticking up for you now! Lily and James Potter - what a handsome couple.'
'You,' said James, pointing at Sirius who was dancing around Lily and James in
a circle, as if by magic there was going to be an invisible minister and
marry them, 'are an idiot.'
'Lily and Ja-ames, Lily and J-ames, Lily and Ja-ames, oh what a beautiful
choice!' Sang Sirius now halfway down the common room.
*
'Have you got the potion?' demanded a low, rumbling and scary voice.
'Y-y-yes-s my Lord, I have the potion here, ready for you,' a small man
quavered.
'Good. Bring it here, once I have gathered enough power, the world shall be
in the palm of my hand, and if I die you shall continue the race for dark
force around the globe.' Said the voice. A green illuminating mist came of
the chair where the voice came from.
'H-h-he-here you are L-lord,' the tiny voice cracked and he swallowed
profusely.
'Steven, you will find someone to translate the Old Latin potion formula will
you not?'
'Y-yes my-y Lord' trembled Steven.
'Good. Can you get my snake for me? I need to feel it's power,' the voice
said. 'I shall get rid of this stupid Muggle name forever soon. People will
be learning to fear this voice, even this name. The world can be a chaotic
place. Tom Marvolo Riddle. Search for an anagram-if it's the one I want, I
shall reward you. If you don't I shall punish you, one word is lord. Now
search,' the voice demanded. Steven waved his wand in the air, Tom Marvolo
Riddle appeared. He waved it once more and the word Lord came out of the
letter. Steven found something, a fold. Could this be a clue, fold, fold,
of course, an accent! That was it! Fold became Vold. Now to figure out the
rest. He waved his wand once more, the solution became clear. Steven waved
his wand for the last time, working on this puzzle. In green metallic letters
came the words in front of his lord's eyes: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT. A slow long
cackle came out of Voldemorts mouth. WELL DONE STEVEN appeared in front of
him.
'Averda Kedavra' Voldemort hissed.
'No' Steven whispered.
Hope to make it a series…if I can even get it on this page!!
Sorry it's so long but hey!
Review it, I like to know what people think of me.
Peace-ya-Jade!
Lily took a tentative step towards the barrier. She just saw someone walk
through it. Had her eyes been playing her for a fool,
or was it really the way to get onto the Hogwarts Express? She went back
about 10 feet or so, then walked briskly, straight toward the barrier of solid
glass, plastic and metal. Lily held her breath tightly, waiting for a crash
to hit her side wards directed face, it did not come. She kept walking
until she did collide with something. She opened her eyes and looked up.
A doe-eyed boy, tallish with unruly, messy black hair looked at her.
Lily blushed and turned the colour of her hair, which was long and thick and
the colour of auburn, crisp leaves when they started to die off in the coming
of Winter.
She mumbled 'Sorry,' sincerely, still blushing red.
'First time through the barrier?' the boy asked back, inquisitively studying
her, looking as though he was taking in every single detail of her.
'Yes,' she said, appreciating his anticipation, 'Is it yours too, or are you
not new to Hogwarts?' Lily said, all embarrassment forgotten.
'Yes and no' he replied. 'I'm new to Hogwarts, but I continually travelled
through this barrier when I was a boy to travel on the train to get to
Hogsmeade with my parents.' He pointed to two people, aging, clearly in
their late thirties, with flecks of grey hair reflecting the sun.
'Did your parents not come?' he said, maybe even a little pity shone through
his eyes, soft brown eyes that were honest, Lily couldn't help noticing
despite her anxiety. She smiled, nervously and held out a shaking hand.
'Lily,' she said firmly shaking his hand, 'my parents were so proud of me,
ecstatic about having a witch in the family, I don't have wizard and witch
parents so I'm probably miles behind everyone else. My parents dropped me off
at the station, they couldn't come, they-er-had an appointment with the
headmaster at Petunias, my sister, old school. They are trying to get back
in again until the next term, so they can find a school that will accept her.'
She started giggling at what Petunias so-called friends did to her at her old
school.
'James, James Potter, very nice to meet you Lily. What does your sister do,
to ah, leave the school?' he enquired, fascination written on his face,
looking as though if he waited a moment longer, he would burst.
'Oh, she has a little trouble fitting in. She gets teased constantly,
but she is very over sensitive. She was driven away-' Lily stopped abruptly.
She was pouring out her family business with a person she just met, and a
person who just joined him. Lily glared at the newcomer, disapproving of
his un-announcement.
'Ah, yes, er-sorry Lily, this is Sirius Black.' James looked apologetic,
but amused at the same time. Sirius was berating him, in a very fake,
motherly tone.
'James, James, James.' Sirius sighed melodramatically. 'You didn't meet at
the usual place, here I am wondering around, up and down the platform,
and where do I find you? Chatting up some girl, some girl. Dripping with
charm, for an twelve year old anyway and not one thought about the
consequences.' Lily smothered giggles and James looked amused, with comebacks
racing through his mind and a snigger on his face.
'Yes mother, ah look! There's Remus. Remus!! Over here!' James called.
'REMUS!! OVER HERE!' hollered Sirius and James together.
Remus looked up from where he was standing, about forty feet from where Lily,
James and Sirius were standing, nose (as usual) buried in a fictional Muggle
book. Remus grinned as he looked up to see three figures, two familiar one
not. He sat up of his trunk and started heaving it over towards them.
Sirius ran over to help. He slapped Remus on the back, excited and Remus
almost fell over with the force of his friends slap.
He chuckled at a few of Sirius's jokes, and then went on to James.
'James, old friend!! No see for a while, where were you? I wrote to you
several times, but they didn't get to you obviously. CP returned with the
letters about a week afterwards. CP is my owl you see.' He said pointedly
at Lily.
'CP? An er interesting choice' Lily said, obviously confused.
'Carrier Pigeon, CP!' Remus cried enthusiastically.
'Oh, okay,' Lily replied, looking slightly wierded out at the sight of Remuses
enthusiastic, laughing face.
Steam billowed out of the Scarlet steam train, and they knew it was time to
get on. 'My first year at Hogwarts, I'm going to try at the very least, to do
my best. I hope I remain friends with James, Sirius and Remus, even though
Remus is a little, eccentric.' Lily thought.
'Let's get on shall we?' said James, dragging his trunk, placing his owl on
top, and offered to assist Lily.
'Oooooooh, is this love, oh great James Potter in looooove? Haha!' Sirius
cackled wickedly.
'Sirius, honestly!!!' James said, blushing slightly, looking at Lily, then
quickly glaring at his owl, Hooter, which was tawny on the neck and white
everywhere else. 'You should know me better than that! My heart belongs to
no one!' he said, with great dignity, glaring at Sirius waiting for the
whispered comeback to arrive at Lily and Remus' ears.
'His heart belongs to no one, okay James.' Sirius said aloud. 'Except Lily!' he hissed at the general direction of Remus. Remus sniggered.
'Allow me to properly introduce myself to you Lily.' Remus said, in a deep
and melodramatic tone. 'I am Remus Lupin, Sirius, James and I have been
friends for about, oh what is it now Sirius two years?' Lupin questioned.
'About that,' Sirius agreed, 'but James and I have been friends ever since we
were little, we went to the same pre-school.'
'Yes' James mumbled in agreement.
They only shared the train compartment with another, Peter Pettigrew. He was
a short boy, with pinkish skin tones and pale, blonde hair, Lily mentally
noted. She thought, though her eyes could be deceiving her, that he looked
rather like a pink skinned, blonde haired rat, with a slightly pointed chin
and a short, pointed nose. If he had whiskers, the resemblance would have
been rather astounding.
'Come and join us!' James said cheerfully, with his mouth full of some sort of sweet Lupin had offered us all.
'Yes, please do' Lupin mumbled, his mouth so full of lolly, that he could
hardly open it. His jaws have been cemented together with his sweet, and
James looked at him, then quickly decided to suck on his, as Sirius had been
doing from the start.
'Can I?' the boy said, looking pleased, but nervous. 'Oh, that would be
good,I am always a bit of a loner.'
'Sure, sure! Come over here!' said Sirius as he waved him over. 'Have you got
enough room?' he said, just as Lupin offered him a cement sweet.
'Yes, I'm fine, and thank you for the sweet. I'm Peter Pettigrew,' he said,
cheerfully, yet still nervous.
'Sirius Black'
'James Potter'
'Remus Lupin'
All at once, the boys said their names. Peter looked befuddled. He screwed
up his face and looked at Sirius. 'James?' he said, tentatively, with much
hesitation.
'Here!' James said, as though Peter was a teacher and he was the student in
roll-call. All five burst out in laughter.
'So then you must be,' Peter swaggered between Remus and Sirius, then looked
at Sirius, 'Sirius?'
'That's my name, so don't wear it out.' Sirius laughed at the blank looks
from Lily, Remus and Peter, and James had slid off the seat from laughter
conjured up from their blank looks as well.
'The lunch lady should be coming soon.' moaned a now sobered Sirius looking
mournfully at his wristwatch.
'Oh, calm down Sirius, your hunger ails you far too often for you to possibly
hungry again.' James almost snapped at Sirius. Lily looked up at James,
expecting to see irritation on James' face, but didn't find the slightest drop
of it. She saw a wide grin spread from James' face to Sirius' face, then
started laughing again, in some private joke. Peter suddenly realised that
Lily was there, he looked at Remus, bewildered.
'Wh whoo who's that?' Peter quavered.
'Oh, sorry Peter, that's Lily, James was talking to her at the station, and
she kind of got on with us. Sorry, I didn't know you hadn't been introduced
before.' Remus explained.
'Oh, sorry, I'm Lily' she said, as Peter opened his mouth.
'Lily soon-to-be-Potter that is…' Sirius cracked without hesitation.
A cheeky, mischievous grin spread onto his face, lighting up his dark eyes.
'Sirius,' James groaned, 'What are you on about?'
'Oh nothing, nothing. Ah-lunch!' he said happily, pulling out some money
from his robes and then negotiating with himself weather to buy something or
not. In the end he bought a packet of Bertie Blotts Every Flavour beans,
5 bars of pure chocolate, pumpkin pasties to suffice at least 10 people for a
week and a pint of Pumpkin juice.
'You eat that much?' said Peter in awe, which had just bought some pasties,
and a small chocolate.
'Yeah!' Sirius said, mouth wide open, spraying all of them with pastry crumbs.
'You are going to be sick if you eat that much.' said Lily sternly, looking at
him carefully under her brow, with a scowl forming on her face.
'So? As long as I'm not hungry until supper…' he said, with a dismissive
shrug.
'And we all know how impossible that will be.' Said James after swallowing a
bit of pasty. 'What did you buy Lily and Remus, you appear to have nothing?'
'Ooh, Lily, your so fantastic, by the way, I'm the voice in James' mind,
please fell fre-' Sirius said in a squeaky, teasing voice, before James
clamped his hand over Sirius' mouth. Peter and Remus fell out laughing.
Lily had a slight smile on her face, but looked outraged at the prospect of
James liking her.
'Though I suppose it wouldn't be so bad, I mean he isn't like Peter who is
sort of dumpy looking. He seems pretty intelligent too' Lily thought to
herself. She studied James secretly, taking in everything and imagined them
several years later together. This bought a smile to her face.
'I bought some chocolate, but put it away,' pointing at the bulging pocket in
his robes, 'and a pumpkin patty'
'Ah' said James. 'Lily?'
'Will you marry me?' came an impersonated James, from next to him.
'No I will not marry YOU SIRIUS BLACK!' she roared, slapping him on the arm,
making everybody but him fall out laughing. 'Sorry James, I bought some
sweets and like Remus, a pumpkin Patty.'
The train finally slowed to a halt, all the first years got off. They were
to be sailing to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry across the lake
by boat.
'All yeh firs' years 'ere thanks!' a big voice boomed. Everyone looked around
to see where it came from, but no one found the source until one girl who was
looking up, past the fog gasped, pointing upwards;
'Look!'
Obediently, everybody did so, and there was a mutter of whispers going across.
He was maybe 8 feet tall, twice as tall as the girl who spotted him.
And his shoulders were above the late fog. That was the one thing besides his
actual height that made him look taller.
'Four or five of yeh to a boat!' he boomed at everyone. 'Duck yeh 'eads for
the first minute, or until this ruddy fog clears up.'
Peter, Remus, Sirius, James and Lily all entered a boat. Sirius had whispered
orders to everyone except James and Lily before they entered, but both James
and Lily guessed what they were, and wanting nothing more than to spoil Sirius'
plan to get them together, they both sat in different sides of the seats.
Lily behind James, Sirius pulled a face and scowled, Sirius took the seat next
to James and Peter and Remus squashed in with Lily. Remus split open a
chocolate bar, offering it to everyone, and they all appreciably took a
square, except for Sirius who attempted to take the remainder of the block
until Remus stopped him.
'What sort of wand did you get James?' asked Lily from the back.
'Mahogany, eleven inches, suited to transfiguration mostly.' James answered,
'Yourself?'
'Ten and a quarter inches' she said, pulling it out, 'Charm work, a bit
swishy perhaps, made of willow.'
'Nice,' said James, lifting it from her hands and studying it. 'What core
does it have?'
'I don't know, I wasn't listening.' Said Lily evasively.
'Oh, okay' said James.
'Would you like me to whip up a little loooove potion perhaps James?' said
Sirius from the back as they got out or the boat.
'No thank you Sirius' James said firmly.
'SIR-I-US!' shrieked Lily, moving to slap his arm again.
'Oh no you don't!' Sirius teased as he quickly whipped his arm out of view,
behind his back.
'Youse there! Get on with it, the sorting!' boomed that voice.
'Where?' said Lupin, Pettigrew and Black, all looking confused.
'O'er there!' said the figure pointing towards the entrance.
'Oh. So what's your name?' James said, speaking for all.
'Rebeus, Rebeus Hagrid, I'm gameskeeper, Dumblebore, great men he is, more
than man he is. But if youse don't get to the Sorting soon, I'll loose me
job!'
'Okay,' said James meekly. They scuttled off towards the line of first years, where
Professor McGonagall was introducing herself.
'I'm Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor house and Deputy Headmistress. I'll lead you into the great Hall for the sorting ceremony. Follow my lead please.'
Serevus Snape was poking Peter in the back sharply making him jump a foot in
the air each time. He laughed maliciously.
'That Snape!' said a passing Black. 'I met him once…Real sleaze…I hope he is
in Slytherin.'
The doors opened to the Great Hall. Gasps from every part of the line formed by the first years. The ceiling was velvety blue black, with wisps of luminous cloud. The moon was a golden, pale crescent somewhere to the west and there were stars were in constellations across the roof. There were stars that shone with a red, blue even black glow, presumably the planets and there was a comet streaking across the ceiling, very fast. There were more gasps as another comet raced across the room, leaving a trail behind it and chasing the other one, fast closing in. Lily, behind James was in absolute awe, she looked up at the ceiling several times and gasped. There in front of us was a stool with a hat sitting on it. The hat was ragged and dirty, but not yet in need of a patch. Dirty so sever but not dirty enough to be cleaned. Worn and ragged, but again, not in need for a patch.
'I heard that you needed to be sorted into a house, and this must be how you
do it, like you have to pull something out of the hat or something…' the
person in front of James and Lily said. Then to the person at the start of
the line shock, it started singing:
I am the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
That could lead you into greatness,
I can hear your every thought
But please do have you patience,
Four houses are there,
With histories noble and great,
Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor and Slytherin,
And I shall decide your fate.
You could be put in Hufflepuff;
Were all are kind and fair,
Or I could put you in Ravenclaw;
Intelligent and just, are put in there,
The house of great Godric Gryffindor;
Where bravery is on cue;
Or Salazar Slytherin's;
Where ambition is true.
So come on down and take a stool
So I can have you sorted,
Placed in the house that suits you best,
And you will be rewarded.
Everyone burst into applause. After the applause had died down, the Great
Hall was silent except for the voices of Professor McGonagall, the Sorting hat
and the bursts of applause as each person was giuded to his or hers
appropriate table. Lily felt nervous; Sirius, Remus, Peter and just then
James were all in Gryffindor. She had no other friends here except for them,
because of that entertaining train ride, where James had accepted Peter under
his wing. Lily heard her name called by Professor McGonagall, and she sat
down tentatively on the seat and lifted the hat to her head.
'Hm…Lily, nice name. Mr Potter is quite fond of you, I read it in his mind,
now I see that you too are fond of him…ah love. But on anycase, should I put
you in Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. You are not suited to Slytherin,
even though I said it was for people with ambition, it really is the worst
house to be in. I see you as a great witch Lily (Potter-OOPS! hahah) so I
shall put you in -er-ah-um…GRYFFINDOR!'
There were cheers from the far table to the left. She took a seat next to
Sirius, and he immediately stood James up and threw him in his old seat, and
took James'.
'This way we share him' Sirius said, winking mischievously.
'Oh, you infuriate me Sirius!' Lily said, by this time, Sirius almost went
flying back in his chair. James had hit him from under the table. Remus,
Lily, Peter and James burst out laughing while Sirius was putting on a mock
hurt look and pretending to weep melodramatically.
'You -sniff- hurt m-m-mee-sniff-c-c-rhy-y.!' Sirius acted. Everybody in the
area laughed. There were 2 more boys in the Gryffindor house at first Year
level; Charlie Donelan (and his twin sister, Monika who is also in Gryffindor)
and Andrew Killop.
After the feast had finished the boys went to the common room, after exploring
the dormitory, to play some chess. Lily was down there, reading something,
or wrestling with her own Chess Set. They all wondered over there, Peter,
Remus, Sirius and James. They offered to play her, round robin, who won the
most games won the competition. They all agreed, except Peter, who said he
didn't have a chess Set. The all looked at him dubiously, but then seeing
the ashamed look on his face, turned away, saying he could borrow theirs if
he wanted to play, or he could referee if he didn't. Peter agreed to
refereeing so the competition began. It started out with Remus against Lily
and Sirius against James. James won, but marginally. Remus won against Lily
by a big margin.
'Oh, don't worry Lily, James will let you win,' teased Sirius.
'Sirius, I don't have a like Lily in that way, she is my new friend-nothing
more.' James said coolly.
'James, I have known you long enough to tell when you like a gir-ah' Sirius
suddenly stopped in mid-speech. Lily was rubbing her elbow, James was looking
perplexed and Remus and Peter were practically rolling on the floor with
laughter. Sirius was glaring at Lily, but still had a grin on his face.
She looked at James sheepishly, blushing again, brilliant red.
'Ooooh,' Sirius said, fully recovered from whatever broken ribs he had, 'she's
even sticking up for you now! Lily and James Potter - what a handsome couple.'
'You,' said James, pointing at Sirius who was dancing around Lily and James in
a circle, as if by magic there was going to be an invisible minister and
marry them, 'are an idiot.'
'Lily and Ja-ames, Lily and J-ames, Lily and Ja-ames, oh what a beautiful
choice!' Sang Sirius now halfway down the common room.
*
'Have you got the potion?' demanded a low, rumbling and scary voice.
'Y-y-yes-s my Lord, I have the potion here, ready for you,' a small man
quavered.
'Good. Bring it here, once I have gathered enough power, the world shall be
in the palm of my hand, and if I die you shall continue the race for dark
force around the globe.' Said the voice. A green illuminating mist came of
the chair where the voice came from.
'H-h-he-here you are L-lord,' the tiny voice cracked and he swallowed
profusely.
'Steven, you will find someone to translate the Old Latin potion formula will
you not?'
'Y-yes my-y Lord' trembled Steven.
'Good. Can you get my snake for me? I need to feel it's power,' the voice
said. 'I shall get rid of this stupid Muggle name forever soon. People will
be learning to fear this voice, even this name. The world can be a chaotic
place. Tom Marvolo Riddle. Search for an anagram-if it's the one I want, I
shall reward you. If you don't I shall punish you, one word is lord. Now
search,' the voice demanded. Steven waved his wand in the air, Tom Marvolo
Riddle appeared. He waved it once more and the word Lord came out of the
letter. Steven found something, a fold. Could this be a clue, fold, fold,
of course, an accent! That was it! Fold became Vold. Now to figure out the
rest. He waved his wand once more, the solution became clear. Steven waved
his wand for the last time, working on this puzzle. In green metallic letters
came the words in front of his lord's eyes: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT. A slow long
cackle came out of Voldemorts mouth. WELL DONE STEVEN appeared in front of
him.
'Averda Kedavra' Voldemort hissed.
'No' Steven whispered.