Hello! I'm back after like forever... Opps. Um, I deleted my other stories because they kind of really sucked... And I was really disappointed in my writing (I made this decision way back in January as a New Years Resolution) so I figured it was time to start fresh and from then on I started on a new story. I've been taking my time and I would have to say that the prologue you are about to read is completely OOC but the majority of the story (so far) I think is pretty decent. I have no clue what so ever when I will update, I have the first 4 and a half chapters written but I don't want to fall behind so it will be time inbetween updates, but I completely actually plan on finishing this one as I already have the ending planned in my head I just have to get to it :)
Disclaimer: we all know it by now...
Chapter Dedication: my best fanfiction friend the-booky-bookworm I totally recommend reading her stuff if you are big into AU Jily :) it's awesome!
Now onto the Prologue!
Originally you should not be in touch with such valuable information as to how to get to Hogwarts and such (this could potentially expose magic to Muggles) but since you have somehow obtained it you will be virtually exposed to everything magic from the point of views of to peculiar young students. One who is in fact a pureblood witch the other who is a simple muggleborn wizard. You have already encountered said students and (of course in the future) have given permission for you to indulge in their rather interesting lives. But given the circumstances, an Unbreakable Vow was cast upon this document so if you dare go to some stupid Muggle and expose magic, you will die. So if you wish to carry on let the magic take you on an adventure that's not quite right!
The little girl with red hair jumped up and hugged her parents who wore strange clothes that dragged slightly along the ground and pointed hats. If you listened closely you probably wouldn't understand what they were saying. With all that talk about Hogwarts, Bertie's Beans, Quidditch, Gryffindor and magic you would think they were fools. You would shake your head and turn away from the family and probably forget about them in a few days time but for one shy boy who carried multiple books, wore glasses and was totally lost to where Platform 9 and 3/4 was, he gobbled up the information and watched as that same little girl snuck through the magically concealed barrier to the Hogwarts train. Shocked as she seemed to disappear into thin air he gathered up his courage after the parents had left the station and silently followed her through the barrier.
My name is Evans, Lily Evans. I'm a pureblood first year (and soon to hopefully be Gryffindor) and I am the youngest of Auror Evans. (That's my dad) my older sister, Petunia is the unfortunate one being a Squib. She hates me, it hurts but it's something that I can't control and she needs to learn that. What else do you want to know? Oh! I love my Nimbus 1000 (I convinced my dad to shrink it so it would fit in my bag so don't tell my mom) and I plan to try out for the (Gryffindor) Quidditch team next year! My family is well known to support Muggles and muggleborns and we are pretty well set. (if you know what I mean) I have red hair and green eyes and I love pulling pranks! Dad would always visit Zonko's when he was in Hogsmeade and find me cool prank pulling materials. One of my favourites being simple Dungbombs I have a stash in my suitcase just in case! Along with my Dungbombs Dad also gave me his Invisibility cloak. He said to make sure I have fun at Hogwarts. (Merlin, I don't think you can't have fun at Hogwarts!) Lily climbed onto the Hogwarts Express and found a compartment and sat down.
She didn't know anyone yet so she sat alone. She tapped her foot excitedly and kept looking out the window to see if the train had started to move yet. Her mom and dad had told her all about the adventures they had during their time at Hogwarts and she couldn't wait. She triple checked to make sure that she had all her textbooks and supplies she needed and that her broom was still nicely shrunk in her bag.
She grinned, she was determined to get into Gryffindor, "Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve and chivalry, set Gryffindor apart!" She whispered grinning. Her dad had told her that was part of the song the sorting hat sung when both him and Lily's mom was sorted into Gryffindor.
There was a light tap on the sliding glass door to the compartment that Lily sat in. She looked up to see a couple of girls standing there looking a little bit helpless.
Lily jumped up and opened the door, "Do you mind if we share this compartment?" A short girl with a round face and short hair asked.
"Oi! Come on in! There is plenty of room!" Lily exclaimed happy to have some company. Behind short haired girl was two more one with longer blonde hair and the last girl had medium length dark brown (not quite black) hair.
They introduced themselves as: Alice Prewett, Marlene Mckinnion, and Mary MacDonald. Lily knew that they would be the best of friends. When the trolley came along they all bought treats making sure to get a variety of everything since they found out that Mary was a muggleborn and had never tried any of the sweets.
"So, Marlene what House do you want to be in?" Lily asked while chewing on a peach flavoured bean.
"I don't care as long as it's not Slytherin!" She declared. "I believe in equality for all status's!" Both Lily and Alice nodded in agreement.
I am James Potter. Before my eleventh birthday I didn't know I had magic. But here I am sitting on a magic train going to a magic school called Hogwarts sitting next to two other wizards. I didn't think it was possible to walk through walls before getting onto a train. Can people that aren't like me do it too?
I'm an only child of Charlus and Dorea Potter who both don't have magic. Let's just say it was a bit of a surprise (Dad thought it was a joke at first) when I got my letter.
"Who are you?" James looked up to see that another boy with long black hair had walked into the compartment that he was sharing with the two other boys. He had sat down next to James.
"James Potter."
"Blimey! I'm Sirius Black!" He grinned and turned to the other boys sitting across from him. "How about you mates?"
The boy with blonde hair looked up from reading his textbook and James saw the faint long scar that ran down the side of his face. "I'm Remus and that's Peter." Remus nodded to the other short boy with brown hair.
"Great! You will make brilliant friends!" Sirius grinned and kicked his feet up.
Remus narrowed his eyes. "Who said I wanted to be your friend?" James smirked agreeing with Remus. Sirius seemed like trouble. He didn't want to get expelled from Hogwarts. "
Oi! Who doesn't want to be my friend? I'm fabulous!"
"What's your status?" Peter asked. James frowned, what is that supposed to mean?
"How do you not know his status? He's a Black!" Remus exclaimed in disbelief.
Sirius winced, "So? Who cares if I'm a Black?"
"I care! My family doesn't want to be associated with you people!" James was really confused now. Sirius was one of the whitest people here... Why was Remus being racist?
"What's a Black?" He asked.
"My last name. Are you a muggleborn?" Sirius grumbled.
"What's that?"
"Someone who has muggle parents." Remus said showing him a wizard dictionary.
"Oh. I guess so." James said, "but what's a muggle?"
"Non-magic folk." Sirius rolled his eyes as Remus flipped the pages in his dictionary.
"Don't worry I didn't know any of this either!" Peter laughed, "your just as smart as I am."
"Great." James said sarcastically. He didn't want to be just as smart as Peter. He wanted to know everything! He wanted to be the best! And he was going to show everyone that he could do it, despite being a muggleborn.
Lily and Marlene practically dragged Alice and Mary with them off the train they were so excited. They were following the giant man with the long beard who was yelling, "Firs ears! Firs ears! Follow me!"
Lily ran ahead to the tall man who was helping first years into the boats, "Hello my name is Lily Evans!"
The tall man turned around and then looked down and smiled, "Course yer are! Look like yer mom and yer dad!" He said, "The name's Hagrid! And who are yer friends?"
Lily turned back to see that Marlene, Alice and Mary had caught up and there were four boys standing behind them. Lily introduced her friends.
"And what bout those young lads?" Hagrid asked and she shrugged.
"They aren't my mates."
"Not yet at least! My name is Sirius! That is James, Remus and Peter." The boy with longer hair grinned and jabbed his finger at each of the others.
"Well it looks like ye got a fine group of young students! All hoping for Gryffindor, eh?" Hagrid winked as he started putting them into the boats.
"Of course! Only the best for me!" Lily grinned back. She failed to notice that James seemed to be grimacing at her. Lily, Sirius, James and Marlene were put into the first boat and Alice, Peter, Remus and Mary in the second. And they were pushed (magically of course) towards Hogwarts.
"I'm so excited! Aren't you Marlene?" Marlene nodded at the over-excited witch.
"What's to be excited for? It's school and learning." Sirius yawned.
Lily's smile dropped, "That's not even half of it! There's Quidditch and Hogsmeade and Quidditch and magical pranks and good food and Quidditch!"
"Bit of a fan are you?" Sirius smirked.
"What's Quidditch? And what's Hogsmeade?" James asked.
"Your a muggleborn right?" Marlene replied.
"Oi! We've already been through this!" Sirius waved her question away but James nodded anyway.
"Quidditch is the best sport in the world! And Hogsmeade is the best place on earth!" Lily cried happily.
"Too bad we can't try out till next year and we have to wait till third year before we can go to Hogsmeade." Sirius said sighing.
"Blimey! You totally understand me!" Lily said.
"Soul mates." Marlene rolled her eyes at James.
"No. Sirius Black doesn't believe in soul mates." He huffed and closed his eyes Lily's jaw dropped.
"You're a Black?" Sirius' eyes shot open.
"Er, maybe." "
Merlin! And I thought you were a good one too!" Lily stated.
"Wait one second!" James snapped. "What is wrong with Sirius being a Black? All I've heard is 'Sirius Black this, Sirius Black that!' what is wrong with his last name? Why are you judging him before he has a chance to prove himself? He may seem kind of weird and stupid so far ("Hey I resent that" Sirius tried to interrupt) but he's not that bad!" Silence.
"And this is why we are destined to be mates!" Sirius swung his arm around James.
He shrugged, "Cool. But please do tell me what is wrong with your last name."
"Well there are different classes of wizards: pure-blood, halfblood (which actually can refer to anyone that is half of anything really) and then muggleborn (which is you not that, that is bad). Within the pure-bloods there are two categories: purists and blood-traitors -"
"Let me take it from here, Sirius." Lily interrupted. "Pure-blood purists are generally families that believe that the wizarding community shouldn't include halfblood and muggleborn wizards. They take steps to ensure that their family is kept 'pure' and not tainted by 'bad' blood. Some are so extreme that they actually go around and kill halfbloods and muggleborns like the Black Family." She looked at Sirius. "Sirius here could potentially get blasted off the family tree of the all powerful Blacks and disowned for simply associating with me. ("With you?" Sirius looked at her incredulously.) I'm what you would consider to be a blood-traitor. I'm part of the Evans Family ("Really? You don't seem like it!" Sirius rolled his eyes) although we are pure-bloods we don't think that any other status of blood is less than or bad. We fully support any friendships, marriages, interactions with any type of wizard. We don't consider ourselves to be Wizard Royalty."
"Merlin! I wouldn't be alive if it weren't for my mom marrying my dad, whose a muggleborn! I'm a half-blood and proud! You should be too James!" Marlene announced with her head held high.
Lily nodded, "Exactly! Status' don't matter!" "
Then why did you seem surprised about Sirius?" James asked eyes narrowing.
"No offence, Black but I was sort of taught that most of you were evil. Er, sorry?" Lily flushed. She hadn't expected a Black to ever be nice to her. She had fully intended on pulling lots of pranks on Slytherins. She assumed that all Black, Malfoy and Lestrange family members were rotten bad luck.
"Blimey! It's good! But seriously, your really a Evans?" "Yes!" "That's cool! My parents told me to stay away from you!" Sirius grinned,"Too late!"
"Good." Lily grinned.
James gasped when he saw how big and marvellous Hogwarts was. It was truly a giant castle! It seemed to shine bright against the moonless night sky and towered over all the students approaching. This was it. This was the building where he would spend the better part of seven years at and Merlin was he excited!
He entered the Great Hall along with the first years. It was magnificent, floating candles, a night sky ceiling, and four tables separating the houses.
He listened as the Sorting Hat sang its song about the houses. Hufflepuff, for the loyal, patient and hardworking. Ravenclaw, for those who like to learn, have wit and wish for wisdom. Slytherin for those who are cunning, resourcing and have ambition. And last be not least Gryffindor for the courageous, determined and are chivalrous.
He listened as slowly his first were called (by last name): Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Mary MacDonald, Marlene Mckinnion, Peter Pettigrew. And finally it was his turn. He took a deep breath, walked forward and sat down as the Sorting Hat was placed on his head. (Keep in mind that Alice Prewett would go after him)
This is the beginning of a peculiar journey. On that results in twists and turns and unexpected consequences. One that probably doesn't make any sense. But I assure you that it will be great fun and there will be loads of magic, learning, friendships, pranks, defeat of evil, and of course Quidditch. But to keep this story interesting it has been fast forwarded to the summer before seventh year. This is where the real fun begins in a story that might not be quite right.
R&R please and thank you and I hope you stay tuned for what is to come I promise from now on each chapter will stay in one POV that's a promise
Till the sun stops rising,
the oblivious nerd