Disclaimer: I don't own any of the character I write about, this belongs to J.K. Rowling
"I don't want your help, you filthy little mudblood!"
"Filthy little mudblood"
"Mudblood"
"Mudblood"
"Lily! Wake up!"
Lily Evans awoke with a start. She stared up at a pair of bright blue eyes she recognised to be Alice Prewett's, her fellow 5th year, and one of her best friends.
"Lily, are you alright? You were muttering in your sleep!" Alice said with a worried expression on her pretty face.
"I'm fine, just had a bad dream. Where are the others?" Lily asked, noticing that they were the only two in their dorm room.
"They just left for breakfast," Alice replied, as she ran a comb through her blonde hair.
"What time is it?" Lily inquired, as she sat up under her blankets.
"Almost 10, you have plenty of time until breakfast ends, so don't worry." Alice assured her drowsy friend.
Lily yawned, and convinced herself to leave the comfort of her bed, and walked into the bathroom for a shower.
30 minutes later, Lily was dressed in a muggle sweater and jeans, sweeping her long red hair into a ponytail, and walking down to breakfast, Alice alongside her.
The pair entered the great hall, and spotted their other three friends, Marlene McKinnon, Emma Vance and Madison Clarke, and rushed over to them. Lily and Alice sat down either side of Marlene, and started taking food from the table.
"So as I was saying, I saw Marcus Jenson snooping-" Emma cut off
"Snape, did you say Snape?" Lily cut in distractedly, staring off at the Slytherin table.
"Lily," Madison said soothingly, "You have to forget about Severus, you're better off without him, you heard what he said the other day, after the DADA exam. He's not worth it."
"I know, I know. What were you saying Em?" Lily asked, but in a distant way.
But before Emma could get a word in, a group of boys had sat themselves down next to Lily and her friends.
Lily looked to her right, and saw Sirius Black, and on her left, James Potter was squeezing himself between her and Marlene. Across the table she recognised Peter Pettigrew, and Remus Lupin.
"Potter, there's no room for you here." Lily said quietly. On a regular day, Lily would have gotten angry that James had tried to get between her and her friend, but this was no ordinary day, Lily was glassy eyed, thinking about her best, well, former best friend on the other side of the hall.
"Sorry Evans! But it's my last day in the 5th year, and I must sit next to my favourite redhead!" James responded cheerily, evidently not noticing Lily's distant expression.
Remus, who had noticed the withdrawn look in her emerald eyes, spoke up.
"How are you, Lily?" He asked tentatively.
"As good as I can be I guess, Remus," Lily spoke.
"Come on Lily, forget about Snivellus. He doesn't deserve your thoughts," said Sirius.
Alice, Madison, Marlene and Emma looked daggers at Sirius, who realised he had said the wrong thing, and grimaced. But it was exactly what Lily needed. She knew Sirius would be brutally honest with her, and she needed to snap out of this state.
"You're right, Sirius. Thanks." She said, and took a bit of egg.
"So, what extraordinary pranks are you boys planning for the last day of term?" Marlene asked, with a knowing look in her dark brown eyes.
"You'll see McKinnon, just you wait," James replied, winking.
The group chatted for a bit, talking about their Summer plans, when Professor Dumbledore stood up at the staff table.
"Good morning students!" He bellowed. "Another year has passed at Hogwarts, and I am sad to say that today, you will be leaving for the Summer. Due to a small dilemma with the scheduling of the Hogwarts Express, the train will be leaving at 1 o'clock this afternoon, instead of 5 o'clock. So please finish packing your trunks, and-"
But before Dumbledore could finish, there was a flash of white light, and all of a sudden, all four house tables had disappeared. As the students realised what had happened, another flash of light occurred, and slowly, all of the benches in the hall had started floating, with the students still sitting on them. The seats lifted about two feet into the air, and moved to the side of the hall, then landing with a small thud. Students looked around, wondering what the cause of this sudden rearranging was, and Lily noticed James, Sirius, Remus and Peter smirking, before sound burst around the room. Music was playing from out of nowhere. Then, there was another loud bang, but this time, it was a firework. As another firework went off, the music got louder, and Lily realised, that the firework hadn't disappeared, but taken the form of a lion, and it was
"Dancing? Potter, a dancing lion?" Emma laughed.
"Just you wait Vance, it gets better," James replied.
Another firework went off, this time blue, and a raven burst in to life, joining in with the lion.
"We thought that even though Ravenclaw's mascot was an eagle, it didn't make any sense. So, we made the adjustments ourselves" Remus chuckled.
Then, two more fireworks went off, and a green snake and yellow badger appeared, also joining in with the other two dancing animals. There was a round of applause from everyone in the hall, including some teachers. Dumbledore was wolf whistling, as the four mascots exploded into red, green, blue and yellow sparks. The marauders stood up and took a bow, to more applause, and they sat down just in time for the benched to start levitating again, and moving back to their original positions. With another flash, the tables reappeared, and everyone got back to their breakfasts.
"I think we outdid ourselves lads, don't you agree?" Sirius grinned.
"Hear, hear," Peter replied, taking a sip of pumpkin juice.
"Oh crap!" Dumbledore's words had just dawned over Lily. "I need to pack!"
A.N: Hey guys! I hope you've enjoyed the first chapter of my story, please review! This is my first fanfiction, and I really hope you guys like it as much as I've liked writing it! xoxo