The Importance of Being .Normal?
Chapter 1
Meeting up and learning about sneaking out.sort of.
"Oh come on Mum!"
"No! And I'm not discussing it again, the answer will always be NO!"
"You're soooo infuriating! Can't you just think about it and be rational?!"
"NO!"
Doors slammed as they normally did after an argument in the Evans household. Lily flopped onto her bed, hands balled in fists. More than anything, Lily wanted to finish her schooling at Hogwarts.
Despite the fact that Alanna Evans knew that her daughter had been enrolled at Hogwarts for five years didn't seem to matter to her. Lily was going to go to a wonderful school, get brilliant grades, ace her finals and get a job with the English government, and live a happy NORMAL life like she and her husband had done for years.
"Please?" Lily yelled again, not quite ready to give up.
"No!" Came the firm answer.
"For god sakes, would you two SHUT UP?" Lily's sister Petunia yelled from her room. Which was of course locked, just in case Lily decided for some odd reason to go and 'infect' her room with her weirdness.
"Get bent Petunia!" Lily yelled, glad her father was at work or she'd be in deep trouble for sure.
"Shove it FREAK!"
"GIRLS!"
If anyone had ever said that the Evan's household was normal, they were dead wrong. If anyone ever said that Lily's life was perfect, they were so off the mark they were crossing the finish line in the wrong direction.
Instead of a quiet, happy family that usually got along, over the summer holidays the Evans's had turned into furious fighting freaks (as Petunia would say of course) always arguing over Lily's enrolment to Hogwarts.
Sure Lily had been going to school there for five years, and it'd always been alright with her parents but something happened over the holidays that'd made it all go down the toilet.
Petunia had been up to her regular antics again, trying to annoy her sister as much as possible when something happened to her and she instantly had a broken arm. As much as Lily explained that she couldn't have done it, and that it was probably just Petunia's idiotic behaviour that caused it, Alanna and Brent refused to listen.
"You'll be out of that school, we can see now what it's teaching you!"
"Back to a normal school it is for you now!"
Were their instant responses. And now it seemed Lily was stuck. Despair and sadness began to replace her anger and Lily began to sob, lying on her bed. Reaching over to her bedside table she picked up her cordless phone and started to punch her best friends phone number in.
"Hullo? Alex?" she said, trying to stop crying so she could speak coherently.
"Lily? What's up dudette?" Alexandria's cheerful voice answered.
Lily kind of laughed, which is always hard to do when you're crying, "They aren't going to let me go back to school,"
"Are you dead sure? Did you try the stuff I suggested?"
"Yeah, they aren't buying it though, it's so not fair Lex," Lily said, her voice getting higher "they just HAVE to let me go."
"Well Lily, I'd hate to break it to you but there is another way of you getting to school," Alex said as if a teacher to a young student
"Sure thing," Lily mumbled
"No, really there is, you can come with me. Just sneak out of your house on Monday when we're s'posed to go back to school, and I'll get Mum to pick you up from the corner and we'll drive you to the station with us."
"Why didn't I think of that?" Lily said brightening.
"Because you haven't been hanging around with James and Sirius all summer! Honestly, I think I'll go insane if I don't get back around some normal people." Alex said, and Lily could tell from the tone in her voice that she was rolling her eyes.
"You have my pity, I'd have killed them by now if I'd had to spend all summer with James-not to mention Sirius. Sorry, I know James is your cousin, but god he's annoying!"
"No offence taken-don't you think I KNOW he's a pain?" Alex replied cheerfully "Oh, I've got to go Lily, we just got back from James's today and we're STILL unpacking."
"It's ok, I'll see you at the corner of Ebony and Charles Street tomorrow at 7am,"
"Righty-o then, see you then Lily."
"Cheerio." Lily said, hanging up.
'Thank god,' she thought happily 'now I have to pack.' Pulling out her trunk from under her bed, she began to fill it with all her school stuff, robes, and some of her Muggle clothing. She had a feeling she wouldn't be coming back to her room.
That night she slept lightly, tossing and turning all night. Constant nightmares of her being caught sneaking out played over and over in her mind. Even as Alex's best friend, who was very much in the inner circle of the Marauders, a bunch of prank playing boys in their year led by James Potter and Sirius Black, Lily still hadn't gotten used to breaking rules.
Or breaking them in the first place.
In fact, in her whole first two years of school at Hogwarts, Lily had only had one detention and that was when the whole of her Potions class received one when her teacher had what she assumed to have been a severe case of PMS.
At last the morning came, and Lily saw her alarm clock on her bedside table click over to display 6:55am. For someone who'd had such a bad night of sleep, she sure could over sleep. Her green eyes widened as she realised what she was going to do that day in just five minutes time.
"Damn It!" she screeched, forgetting to be quiet to aid her escape. Immediately she clamped a hand over her mouth, praying that her family would stay asleep. Lily stayed perfectly still for a moment, convinced any movement would wake up her family until she gave up and dashed around the room trying to get dressed quickly.
She literally put on the first thing she pulled out of her wardrobe, which happened to be a yellow wool jumper, which she hated and a pair of black jeans. Running a brush through her long wavy red hair, she hastily braided it and threw the brush into her trunk. A glance back at the alarm clock, which was fast becoming her favourite thing to swear at. 6:58am.
Lily hurtled out of her house, now not too concerned about the noise she was making, and dashed down the street.
"You come back here missy!" her father yelled as he chased her down the street.
"Sorry Dad! I love ya, but I'm going to school!" she hollered over her shoulder, jumping into Mrs O' Flannery's black sedan, throwing in her trunk before her. At that moment she was very, very glad that her best friend didn't live in the wizarding world.
"God Lily!" Alex's little brother William exclaimed, "I know you're in a rush but you didn't have to flatten me with your trunk."
"Sorry Will, I didn't realise you'd be coming with Alex to the station." Lily said, panting "Thanks for getting me Mrs O' Flannery," she said to the black haired woman who was driving.
"That's ok dear," Mrs O' Flannery replied "Alexandria ("Mum! It's Alex!") told me all about your parents little.fit."
"Yeah, they're being a bit unreasonable," Lily said, watching the streets race by as they got closer to Kings Cross Station.
"A BIT?" Alex exploded "try totally!"
"Doesn't really matter I'm going now anyway,"
"Well there you go girls, I'm sure you can find your station, have fun at school," Mrs O' Flannery said as she pulled over at the curb.
"Bye Mrs O' Flannery," Lily said as she got out, pulling her trunk out of the backseat "Bye Will."
Alex said goodbye to her mother and good riddance to her brother and then the pair went into the station.
They walked down to platform 9 and ¾ chatting away as you always do with your best friend when you haven't seen them all summer.
"Hey Lex! Slow down!" a boys voice called out.
"God," Alex said to Lily "that's James," she began to walk faster
"Alexandria! Stop. Walking!"
"And Sirius," she said to Lily "The names' ALEX!" she yelled over her shoulder.
"Look Lex!" Lily said pointing to her other best friend "Ellen's over there!"
They stopped walking in front of the Hogwarts Express.
"ELLEN!" Alex yelled out "OI!"
The short brunette looked up from the magazine she was reading "LEX! LILY!" she screeched and rushed over to them, practically knocking over a couple of people on the way. "How are you guys?"
Unfortunately none other than James and Sirius interrupted their responses.
"Hi girls," James said as he rustled up Ellen's shoulder length hair.
"Hey James. Long time no see, not," Alex said, whacking his hand away to stop him mussing up Ellen's hair any more. "so why've you decided to pick on us? Aren't your annoying skills meant to be reserved for unsuspecting Slytherins?"
"Nope," Sirius answered for his friend "it comes free everyday."
"More like you just get used to being pains and you can't stop behaving like you do," Lily said laughing.
"Hey Lily-kins, you aren't best person to be around either you know," Sirius said, winning himself a punch on the arm.
"Well, we'd best be leaving you girls now," James said, glancing at his pocket watch "we're supposed to be meeting Remus and Peter on the train in the third compartment, right now."
"Bye!" the three girls chorused.
Despite their playful fighting, they all normally did get along quite well. Just not when the girls would rather be talking about their holidays. Or when James was being bossy about quidditch. Or when Alex was getting a little too worked up about quidditch. Or when Lily was being lazy about quidditch. Or when Ellen was quizzing everyone who went near her with her tedious magazine quizzes.
Or when,.well just MOST of the time anyway.
Quidditch seemed to bring out the best and worst in all of them as they were all on the team. Of all the girls Alex was definitely the one who had the best chance of making a team after Hogwarts and James was the same out of the guys. Perhaps it was a family gene.
The girls got their luggage onto the train and found a compartment that was empty to take over.
"So, who says we go and find out what the guys are doing?" Ellen said eagerly.
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A/N: Hi there! This is my first MWPP fic, and I hope you like it! I can write as much and as fast as you review, so REVIEW!! Long chapters are promised.as long as you review-I don't care how short it is!
From the Magical Mischief Maker no5 otherwise known as Katherine!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Harry Potter, that's JK Rowling turf! I only own Alexandria (Alex or Lex) O' Flannery, and Ellen Rockswell.
SUMMARY: Lily and her two best friends, Alex and Ellen are in their fifth year at Hogwarts. What will happen when Lily beings to get to know the Marauders better? Will the Slytherins manage to beat the Griffindors in the House Cup? Will the Marauders be able to win a bet with Alex? Or will they fail miserably?
Chapter 1
Meeting up and learning about sneaking out.sort of.
"Oh come on Mum!"
"No! And I'm not discussing it again, the answer will always be NO!"
"You're soooo infuriating! Can't you just think about it and be rational?!"
"NO!"
Doors slammed as they normally did after an argument in the Evans household. Lily flopped onto her bed, hands balled in fists. More than anything, Lily wanted to finish her schooling at Hogwarts.
Despite the fact that Alanna Evans knew that her daughter had been enrolled at Hogwarts for five years didn't seem to matter to her. Lily was going to go to a wonderful school, get brilliant grades, ace her finals and get a job with the English government, and live a happy NORMAL life like she and her husband had done for years.
"Please?" Lily yelled again, not quite ready to give up.
"No!" Came the firm answer.
"For god sakes, would you two SHUT UP?" Lily's sister Petunia yelled from her room. Which was of course locked, just in case Lily decided for some odd reason to go and 'infect' her room with her weirdness.
"Get bent Petunia!" Lily yelled, glad her father was at work or she'd be in deep trouble for sure.
"Shove it FREAK!"
"GIRLS!"
If anyone had ever said that the Evan's household was normal, they were dead wrong. If anyone ever said that Lily's life was perfect, they were so off the mark they were crossing the finish line in the wrong direction.
Instead of a quiet, happy family that usually got along, over the summer holidays the Evans's had turned into furious fighting freaks (as Petunia would say of course) always arguing over Lily's enrolment to Hogwarts.
Sure Lily had been going to school there for five years, and it'd always been alright with her parents but something happened over the holidays that'd made it all go down the toilet.
Petunia had been up to her regular antics again, trying to annoy her sister as much as possible when something happened to her and she instantly had a broken arm. As much as Lily explained that she couldn't have done it, and that it was probably just Petunia's idiotic behaviour that caused it, Alanna and Brent refused to listen.
"You'll be out of that school, we can see now what it's teaching you!"
"Back to a normal school it is for you now!"
Were their instant responses. And now it seemed Lily was stuck. Despair and sadness began to replace her anger and Lily began to sob, lying on her bed. Reaching over to her bedside table she picked up her cordless phone and started to punch her best friends phone number in.
"Hullo? Alex?" she said, trying to stop crying so she could speak coherently.
"Lily? What's up dudette?" Alexandria's cheerful voice answered.
Lily kind of laughed, which is always hard to do when you're crying, "They aren't going to let me go back to school,"
"Are you dead sure? Did you try the stuff I suggested?"
"Yeah, they aren't buying it though, it's so not fair Lex," Lily said, her voice getting higher "they just HAVE to let me go."
"Well Lily, I'd hate to break it to you but there is another way of you getting to school," Alex said as if a teacher to a young student
"Sure thing," Lily mumbled
"No, really there is, you can come with me. Just sneak out of your house on Monday when we're s'posed to go back to school, and I'll get Mum to pick you up from the corner and we'll drive you to the station with us."
"Why didn't I think of that?" Lily said brightening.
"Because you haven't been hanging around with James and Sirius all summer! Honestly, I think I'll go insane if I don't get back around some normal people." Alex said, and Lily could tell from the tone in her voice that she was rolling her eyes.
"You have my pity, I'd have killed them by now if I'd had to spend all summer with James-not to mention Sirius. Sorry, I know James is your cousin, but god he's annoying!"
"No offence taken-don't you think I KNOW he's a pain?" Alex replied cheerfully "Oh, I've got to go Lily, we just got back from James's today and we're STILL unpacking."
"It's ok, I'll see you at the corner of Ebony and Charles Street tomorrow at 7am,"
"Righty-o then, see you then Lily."
"Cheerio." Lily said, hanging up.
'Thank god,' she thought happily 'now I have to pack.' Pulling out her trunk from under her bed, she began to fill it with all her school stuff, robes, and some of her Muggle clothing. She had a feeling she wouldn't be coming back to her room.
That night she slept lightly, tossing and turning all night. Constant nightmares of her being caught sneaking out played over and over in her mind. Even as Alex's best friend, who was very much in the inner circle of the Marauders, a bunch of prank playing boys in their year led by James Potter and Sirius Black, Lily still hadn't gotten used to breaking rules.
Or breaking them in the first place.
In fact, in her whole first two years of school at Hogwarts, Lily had only had one detention and that was when the whole of her Potions class received one when her teacher had what she assumed to have been a severe case of PMS.
At last the morning came, and Lily saw her alarm clock on her bedside table click over to display 6:55am. For someone who'd had such a bad night of sleep, she sure could over sleep. Her green eyes widened as she realised what she was going to do that day in just five minutes time.
"Damn It!" she screeched, forgetting to be quiet to aid her escape. Immediately she clamped a hand over her mouth, praying that her family would stay asleep. Lily stayed perfectly still for a moment, convinced any movement would wake up her family until she gave up and dashed around the room trying to get dressed quickly.
She literally put on the first thing she pulled out of her wardrobe, which happened to be a yellow wool jumper, which she hated and a pair of black jeans. Running a brush through her long wavy red hair, she hastily braided it and threw the brush into her trunk. A glance back at the alarm clock, which was fast becoming her favourite thing to swear at. 6:58am.
Lily hurtled out of her house, now not too concerned about the noise she was making, and dashed down the street.
"You come back here missy!" her father yelled as he chased her down the street.
"Sorry Dad! I love ya, but I'm going to school!" she hollered over her shoulder, jumping into Mrs O' Flannery's black sedan, throwing in her trunk before her. At that moment she was very, very glad that her best friend didn't live in the wizarding world.
"God Lily!" Alex's little brother William exclaimed, "I know you're in a rush but you didn't have to flatten me with your trunk."
"Sorry Will, I didn't realise you'd be coming with Alex to the station." Lily said, panting "Thanks for getting me Mrs O' Flannery," she said to the black haired woman who was driving.
"That's ok dear," Mrs O' Flannery replied "Alexandria ("Mum! It's Alex!") told me all about your parents little.fit."
"Yeah, they're being a bit unreasonable," Lily said, watching the streets race by as they got closer to Kings Cross Station.
"A BIT?" Alex exploded "try totally!"
"Doesn't really matter I'm going now anyway,"
"Well there you go girls, I'm sure you can find your station, have fun at school," Mrs O' Flannery said as she pulled over at the curb.
"Bye Mrs O' Flannery," Lily said as she got out, pulling her trunk out of the backseat "Bye Will."
Alex said goodbye to her mother and good riddance to her brother and then the pair went into the station.
They walked down to platform 9 and ¾ chatting away as you always do with your best friend when you haven't seen them all summer.
"Hey Lex! Slow down!" a boys voice called out.
"God," Alex said to Lily "that's James," she began to walk faster
"Alexandria! Stop. Walking!"
"And Sirius," she said to Lily "The names' ALEX!" she yelled over her shoulder.
"Look Lex!" Lily said pointing to her other best friend "Ellen's over there!"
They stopped walking in front of the Hogwarts Express.
"ELLEN!" Alex yelled out "OI!"
The short brunette looked up from the magazine she was reading "LEX! LILY!" she screeched and rushed over to them, practically knocking over a couple of people on the way. "How are you guys?"
Unfortunately none other than James and Sirius interrupted their responses.
"Hi girls," James said as he rustled up Ellen's shoulder length hair.
"Hey James. Long time no see, not," Alex said, whacking his hand away to stop him mussing up Ellen's hair any more. "so why've you decided to pick on us? Aren't your annoying skills meant to be reserved for unsuspecting Slytherins?"
"Nope," Sirius answered for his friend "it comes free everyday."
"More like you just get used to being pains and you can't stop behaving like you do," Lily said laughing.
"Hey Lily-kins, you aren't best person to be around either you know," Sirius said, winning himself a punch on the arm.
"Well, we'd best be leaving you girls now," James said, glancing at his pocket watch "we're supposed to be meeting Remus and Peter on the train in the third compartment, right now."
"Bye!" the three girls chorused.
Despite their playful fighting, they all normally did get along quite well. Just not when the girls would rather be talking about their holidays. Or when James was being bossy about quidditch. Or when Alex was getting a little too worked up about quidditch. Or when Lily was being lazy about quidditch. Or when Ellen was quizzing everyone who went near her with her tedious magazine quizzes.
Or when,.well just MOST of the time anyway.
Quidditch seemed to bring out the best and worst in all of them as they were all on the team. Of all the girls Alex was definitely the one who had the best chance of making a team after Hogwarts and James was the same out of the guys. Perhaps it was a family gene.
The girls got their luggage onto the train and found a compartment that was empty to take over.
"So, who says we go and find out what the guys are doing?" Ellen said eagerly.
!!~~~!!~~~!!~~~!!~~~!!
A/N: Hi there! This is my first MWPP fic, and I hope you like it! I can write as much and as fast as you review, so REVIEW!! Long chapters are promised.as long as you review-I don't care how short it is!
From the Magical Mischief Maker no5 otherwise known as Katherine!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Harry Potter, that's JK Rowling turf! I only own Alexandria (Alex or Lex) O' Flannery, and Ellen Rockswell.
SUMMARY: Lily and her two best friends, Alex and Ellen are in their fifth year at Hogwarts. What will happen when Lily beings to get to know the Marauders better? Will the Slytherins manage to beat the Griffindors in the House Cup? Will the Marauders be able to win a bet with Alex? Or will they fail miserably?