Author's Note: I'm starting a new story. Whoopee!
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Chapter 1
"New Girl"
.Sirius.
"Information to include… Brief description… awards… blah, blah, blah. This is boring." James said as he read off the History of Magic assignment Professor Binns had assigned us.
"Oh, quit whining, Prongs. Just get it from Remus when he gets done, otherwise you won't ever pass." I said as I looked over my blank parchment.
Remus looked up from his book only to glare at me.
"It's a wonder you got any OWLS at all, the way you two work."
I pretended to look hurt, even going as far to put one hand over my heart. "I am astounded at your sarcasm, young Moony. Everyone knows I never get distracted from my dear schoolwork."
James smirked. "Hey Emily…" I snapped my head backwards to look for the girl that was currently on my list as number one. And then I realized Emily was a Hufflepuff and wouldn't be in Gryffindor common room. I glared at James for making up a fake greeting.
He laughed. "Not distracted, huh? Yeah right you aren't."
I jumped up from my chair and tackled James, even though he was in a chair himself, so the whole thing flipped backwards.
"James Potter! Sirius Black!" I heard a girls voice yell at us. I got up and helped James up and then we fixed the chair.
I turned around to see a girl with her arms crossed around her chest staring at us with a stern look. "Do you want me to report you to McGonagall?" She asked.
"Now, Evans. That is totally unnecessary. It is the first week of our sixth year! Shouldn't we be having fun…?" I grabbed Lily's hands and danced around in a circle, dragging her along.
She stopped and yanked her hands out of mine, but I could see the sides of her lips twitching.
"Sorry Lily. We were just having some fun." James said in his best innocent voice. Psht, like he was ever innocent.
"Alright. Just try not to make a bad example for the younger kids. Please." She asked us.
James nodded and I mumbled "Alright" before picking up James's parchment, which had fallen down after I had tackled him.
Remus sighed. "You two…" He said, shaking his head.
James and I looked at each other and grinned.
.Remus.
After getting embarrassed in front of the whole common room because of James and Sirius's antics, I left to head off into the library. There I saw Lily talking to a very attractive girl that I had never seen. I stood in the doorway until their conversation was over.
"Bye Lily, it was great meeting you!"
"Goodbye Presley, See you at dinner!"
The girl walked past me, waving as she noticed me. I walked over to where Lily was.
"New friend?" I asked.
"New student."
"Ah. What year?"
"She is a fifth year."
I was surprised. She looked more like a seventh year, except that she wasn't all that tall.
"Yeah, I know." Lily said in reply to my facial expression. "But she isn't as mature as a lot of the older kids are." Lily looked as if she wanted to say something else, but then stopped, so I spoke instead.
"What house is she in?"
"I don't know yet. She doesn't even know yet. She just got here because she has been at Beaubaxtons for most of her magical education. But apparently, her parents don't want her traveling all the way to France. She lives in Britain. I don't blame them, to be perfectly honest, with all the stuff about Voldemort going on."
I nodded in agreement. "How long has she been here?"
"You sure are asking a bunch of questions today, Mr. Lupin. But, if you must know, she only arrived here this morning, while lessons were going on. Her stuff is in McGonagall's room. She was just venturing around before dinner. That is when she will be sorted, by the way."
"That is really cool, but hopefully Sirius won't see her. She is quite… um, how do you say…?" I didn't want Lily to think I was a horn dog.
"Try completely gorgeous. And I thought about how Sirius was going to act towards her, but I don't think he has met her. Yet." Lily pointed out. "She told me that I was the first person she had actually held a conversation with, apparently everyone else is in their dorm rooms or something."
"Yeah. Well, what do you say we get to studying?" I said as I finally cracked open a book.
.Lily.
I studied with Remus until dinner came around, and we both packed our stuff and headed out. I had been friends with Remus since I got here, and we had been best friends since our third year, when I found out he was a werewolf. He was a dream to have as a best friend. I could talk to him about everything. Well, nearly everything. I had been dying to tell him that James, no matter how bigheaded he was, had matured greatly, in his physical traits as well as his personality. I had noticed it near the end of fifth year, and after I saw him on the train, and since we had every class together except for two- Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies- I had grown very fond of the new James Potter this year. He no longer hexed people just for the sake of hexing people, and he also had become very nice, instead of being a nuisance all the time. But, I kept these thoughts away from Remus, because he would surely end up telling James. Maybe I wanted him to though…
"I wonder if the Sorting Hat will sort her." Remus's voice invaded my thoughts.
"Wha- Oh, are you talking about Presley? I'm guessing it will, I mean, what other thing can sort her?"
Remus shrugged.
Presley Fowler had came into the library while I was trying to finish some homework for History of Magic (which I ended up finishing right before we left the library) and just started up a conversation with me. She was quite interesting, and I had a good talk with her about nothing in particular. Just informing her of everything around Hogwarts. After some time she said something about owling her mother about something she had just remembered and walked off, just as Remus came to sit by me.
Remus and I got to the Great Hall as everyone was taking a seat. We sat beside our friends, but were still in the same area, because we all hung out in a little 'gang'. James Potter and Peter Pettigrew were on one side, the side where Remus was sitting, and I was on the other with Jessica Nobles and Parker Helms, my roommates, were.
"Where's Sirius?" I asked. It wasn't too often one of us were missing. Especially not a guy at mealtime.
"He went to sit over with Emily." Peter Pettigrew answered.
"Poor girl." James said. We laughed and started talking about some new stuff going on.
"Did you hear about Katie and Roy…?" Jessica asked, but I tuned it out. Jessica was known for her constant gossiping, but we loved her anyways. Hey, at least we were kept informed on stuff.
I took a good look at the people around me. Peter was quite a big guy, with a boyish face and a mop of blond hair. He, unlike his three best friends, had an unrecognizable face, that was as chubby as the rest of him with watery eyes. James was a totally different story. Although he used to be as skinny as a stick, he was always adorably cute, every girl here knew that. But now, he had muscles. Not overly large muscles that make you want to laugh at that person, but he had an athletic body. He also wore glasses and had a mess, and I do mean mess of black hair that suck up entirely way too much in the back. He had beautiful brown eyes, that were chocolate colored and warmed me- I mean, people up inside and sent shivers down my- I mean, their spines. He was very good-looking, and you would hope so, considering he is the most popular guy in our year. Actually, I think he is the most popular guy in out school, considering last year was Amos Diggory's last year here. Amos Diggory, former pretty boy of Hogwarts. Asked me out quite a few times, and then he just stopped asking me out, or even looking at me. I had a feeling James had said something to him. Or hexed him.
Remus Lupin was the calm one of the group. He was also the brains. Well, James and Sirius had brains, no doubt, but Remus was the most logical one. He had a very grown up face, and he looked strong, because he was very strong. He has the affection of quite a lot of girls. But not as much as Sirius and James. I think they even have a fan club. Sirius was quite a looker. If a girl happened to spot him, she would automatically become his own personal slave. He is almost too good-looking. But, in my opinion, he was nothing compared to James. Well, he was still good-looking and everything, but James hadn't broken nearly every girl's heart. Sirius, on the other hand, usually got what he wanted. He played girls all the time, and I do believe he has never been dumped. He is an amazing kisser though, so I don't see why girls would want to break up with him.
Yes, I did kiss Sirius Black. Also kissed Remus. During a game of Truth or Dare right after a Quidditch match we had won at the end of last year, we were trying to get our minds off the fact that James was in the hospital wing for a very serious injury. So, (Jessica's idea) we played Truth or Dare. Peter got his first kiss from Parker that night, and I had kissed Sirius and Remus, and Jessica had kissed Sirius. But all of us (especially Jessica) were sworn to secrecy. James never found out about it. Probably never will.
I looked at the two of my roommates that I got along with. Well, I got along with all three of them, but Parker and Jessica hated Tara Kline with a passion. They hadn't gotten along since our first year, so Tara never hung around us. She was the sort of girl who nobody really could stand because she thought of herself as a princess. She didn't hang around the 'cool' kids, considering that we were the cool kids (not to toot my own horn, but toot toot) and Parker always ended up in an argument with Tara.
Parker Helms was a spunky girl with wavy blonde hair that went down her back. She's bubbly and has a very unique way of thinking about things and often believed stuff no one else did. Her boyfriend had the same outlook on life, though I can never remember his name, all I know was that he was in Ravenclaw. Parker was very blunt about things and was a very athletic girl, even though her bluntness sometimes caused people to think she was rude. But she was always nice to me, and if I didn't think I looked good in something, I would go to her and she would tell me what she thought of what I was wearing. She came in handy, and we all loved her. Peter, however, has the biggest crush on her and Sirius briefly dated her (then he dumped her because he liked someone else. She wasn't that heartbroken. She had known it for weeks, and was just waiting for it to happen), but it was actually Remus who dated her for awhile. From the end of third year to the middle of fifth year. And he was the best boyfriend she could ask for, but she broke it off because she feels people should be honest about everything when they are in a relationship, and she felt like he was hiding something. After Remus she dated Sirius for a week. She didn't date anyone up until she met her present boyfriend (which was not even a week after the little game of Truth or Dare) and the next thing we knew, they were dating. She was completely head over heels for him. It was one of the sweetest thing I had ever seen.
Jessica, on the other hand, was a gossiper, but also liked to be quiet when she was around people she didn't know very well. She only gossiped and was a chatterbox in front of us six. She had black hair that fell to her shoulders and pale skin but red lips, like she was wearing lipstick everyday. She was what we called a 'dark beauty' because, their was no doubt about it, she was beautiful.
I thought about how I winded up with such good-looking people around me, when I was so plain and ordinary. I had dark red hair that never wanted to do what I wanted it to do and a very plain face. The only thing I really liked about my features were my eyes. I had inherited my grandpa's bright green eyes.
I turned and looked at Sirius, who was at the Hufflepuff table, snogging his new girl toy. I sighed and looked up at the teacher's table just in time to see the headmaster stand up.
"Guys, Dumbledore is about to speak!" I said to them, interrupting their talk.
.James.
Dumbledore was about to say something, and hopefully it will be about us eating food, because I was starving. But as I looked up I saw Professor McGonagall carrying a very familiar hat. I wondered why she was bringing it here, the first years were already sorted.
"This year a new student will join the fifth years. She just came here from Beaubaxtons, and she also wishes me to tell you that she doesn't know any French, so don't ask her how to say any curse words in French, or she will hex you." Dumbledore stopped as half the hall laughed.
"Anyways, the Sorting Hat will place Miss," Dumbledore looked at a piece of parchment. "Fowler in the correct house, Whether it be Hufflepuff," The Hufflepuff table let out some cheers. "Ravenclaw." More cheers. "Slytherin." Ugh. Lots of boos from our table. "Or Gryffindor." I heard Sirius yelling 'WOOT!' from the Hufflepuff table as I clapped louder than everyone else. I looked up and saw a girl standing up by the teachers desk. Not just any girl though, this girl was almost the prettiest girl I had ever met. But she wasn't the prettiest girl I had ever laid eyes on, I thought as I looked over to Lily Evans, who was facing the front of the Great Hall, though I was sitting across from her so I could see her amazing green eyes. She really was beautiful. But this girl was quite a sight. I couldn't believe she is only a fifth year.
I looked over at Sirius, because he would probably be gawking at the girl when he saw her. But all he was doing was snogging Emily again. He said he thinks he will break up with her, because she isn't 'fun' enough. I just think it is because he said she wasn't that good in bed.
"Fowler, Presley!" McGonagall said, as if the new girl needed a welcome like a first year. I looked around and saw nearly every guy staring at Presley Fowler. Jeez, they are going to need to place their eyes back into their heads. The girl got on the stool and sat there for about a minute, then the hat opened it's mouth.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The Sorting Hat yelled and Presley smiled a huge smile that made her even prettier and then she got lost in the crowd as the Gryffindors (mostly the boys) looked ecstatic, while every one of the boys in the other houses looked grumpy.
"Nothing more to say except, time for the feast!" Dumbledore said, and then sat down to eat.
Presley came over by Lily.
"Is this seat taken?" She asked as Lily scooted over to make room.
"Go ahead, sit down. I want you to meet the gang." Said Lily.
End Author's Note: Oh my, that was the longest thing I have ever written that wasn't school related. But I think that is because I had it from three different POVs. The idea just came to me, and I have some more great ideas for it in store, so keep reading!
