A Very Merry Hogwarts
A/N: This is your Insane leader here to say that this isn't a cliché. Don't cry, I haven't written anything but clichés for awhile and I really wanted to try something different. MWPP, k? And I have Christmas on the brain, as you'll see…
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Lily Adams raced down the stairs, a letter in her hand. Oh gosh. She thought I'm a witch! Like I always wanted to be!
" Mum! Dad! Look at this!! I'm a witch! A real one!" she exclaimed, barely keeping her happiness on the sanity level.
Her mum put down the pan she was scrubbing and smiled. " I knew it would be you! I am so proud!"
"What do you mean, witch? She's evil? Mum, is she some sort of freak???" Petunia went white. "Vernon! What will he think?" She got up and knocked over her chair in the process of going into hiding.
"Well, we have to get your things then, eh Rosy?" Her dad said, using his nickname for her from the color of her hair.
"Daad! Don't call me that! And yes, please can we go to-" She quickly rechecked the place listed on her parchment. "Diagon Alley? Pretty please?"
"Fine. Eat breakfast, then we'll go to this Diagon Alley."
"Oh, thanks dad!" Lily took a bite of her toast. "There, I'm done! Let's go!" She went to the door and opened it, about to go outside.
"Lily, my dear, wouldn't it be smart to get dressed? I think that you'd look more appropriate for the day."
"Oops…I'll go change! Then we can go!!" She practically flew up the stairs.
Lily appeared 15minutes later, pulling on her shoes and brushing her hair at the same time.
"Ok, I'm ready, can we go now? Plea-agh!" Lily tripped over a pair of Petunia's shoes (silver 'popular' shoes that she had to have) and plopped down. Still giddy from the thought of going to some magical place, she dazedly (A/N: Is that a word??) sat down and proceeded to put her jacket on backwards, and inside out.
Her mother came over with a worried look on her face and put her hand to Lily's forehead.
"Are you sure you're okay? That whole Hogwarts thing is going straight to your head. I think we should put it off a-" She didn't finish her sentence once she was the look of utter astonishment at even the thought of having to put it off another day. "Fine, fine go ahead. You'll probably burst if you don't leave soon."
"Mooom! get her outa here! Vernon and Marge are coming over and I don't want them exposed to any diseases she might have!!"
"I love you too, Petty!" Lily yelled up the stairs, using the name that Petunia hated the most.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!
"Tell Verny I'll be right down, Mummy!! I haveta put my hair up! And don't let that thing answer the door either! Marge doesn't like her at all!"
Lily answered the door ignoring the pleas from her sister. "Hi, um can I help you?"
She looked puzzledly at the rather odd boy standing on the Adam's front stoop.
" Is this James Potter's house?"
"Who? I'm sorry, no" She smiled at him. He had black hair that was slightly out of control and brown eyes that held mischief in them.
" Does a James Potter live anywhere around here?" The boy tried again hopefully.
"No, there are no-" She was cut off by a whistle from next door.
"Sirius! Over here!"
"James, my boy! There you are! I went to almost every house in the neighborhood looking for you!" The boy, now proclaimed Sirius bounded over to the other boy with a grin that was almost devilish.
"Lily! Let's go! " Her dad came to the front door. "Hmm…that Potter boy trampled your mother's flower bed again. Third time this month. Those fireworks are too much for him to handle." He shook his head.
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September 1st at the station…
"Bye mummy! Bye daddy! I'll write you! Love you lots!" Lily waved and then picked up her trunk and lugged it down the sidewalk. " Platform 7, platform 8, platform 9, platform 10-where is 9 3/4 ?" She asked herself. Someone's slightly familiar laughing caught her attention. It was James, Sirius, and 2 boys she didn't know.
"Sirius, dear, you have your toothbrush?"
"Yes, mother."
"And vitamins?"
"Yes mum."
"And 15 pairs of clean underpants?"
"MOM!"
"Dear boy, do you? I don't want to have to send you more underpants. Goodness knows, that would be embarrassing."
"Can I talk to you for a second, mother dearest?"
"You did! I have to send you underpants, son? Or did you not pack any at all?!" His mother stared at him in shock.
"Let's go over here and talk for a minute, shall we?" Sirius pulled his mother away from the boys.
Lily walked cautiously over to the boys, who were jabbering away, about their summers.
"Hey, don't I now live next door to you?" James stopped the conversation, which had gone to how many days they were each grounded, and looked at the newcomer.
Lily looked up in shock. "What? Oh, yeah."
"Ah, yes. I remember the little 'incident' with Sirius at your house." James laughed. "I just moved and he didn't know what house I lived in."
Sirius rejoined the group at that moment with a red face.
"Sooo, Padf- I mean Sirius, what did your mother want?'' Remus smirked and looked imploringly at Sirius.
"Um, it's none of your business." Sirius changed the subject. "Hey, don't you live next door to Jamesy?"
Lily grinned, " Yes and you're the one who came looking for him at my house. And ran over my mother's flower bed in the process. I'm Lily Adams." She smiled.
"Let's all get onto the train and we can introduce ourselves.''
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"Firs' years over here! firs' years!"
Lily goggled at the huge…guy standing before her. "Geez, that is one big man.''
James came up beside her, lugging his trunk behind him. "That's Hagrid. He's the ga-"
THUNK!
"OWWIE! THAT'S MY FOOT! OUCHIE!"
A boy with very oily hair was hoping up and down clutching his foot in pain. Another girl was standing in front of him, apologizing.
"Shampoo could work wonders on that boy." Lily shook her head and smiled.
"Firs' years! Las' call fer all firs' years!"
Sirius came up to them, with Remus, Peter, a girl, and the girl who had dropped the trunk in tow. "This is Felicity and Christine. Girls, this is James and Lily."
"Hi, I'm Severus's sister." Christine smiled. (A/N: I'm bored and I wanted to add in some ppl)
"Severus?" Lily asked. "Who's he?"
"The kid who's foot I accidentally dropped my trunk on." Felicity smirked. "I had that planned down to the time and place."
"You and him obviously differ in the ways you care for your hair. I can tell." James grinned. "We're all gonna get along great."
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"Adams, Lily!"
Lily slowly walked up to the sorting hat and placed it on her head. The hat seemed to be thinking her over.
Got brains, like a Hufflepuff, the hat thought. Definitely not a Slytherin, that's for sure. Ravenclaw is possible, but I believe you'd be best in-
"GRYFFINDOR!"
She pulled off the hat and walked over to the table marked 'Gryffindor'.
And the list went on. She could tell by the people's faces if they were gonna be in Slytherin. Most of them wore tough, cold looks and carried themselves with an air of complete power.
"Black, Sirius!" Brought her attention back to Earth.
Almost immediately it screamed, "GRYFFINDOR!''
"Candledame, Felicity!" Was put into Gryffindor, much to Sirius's happiness.
Lupin, Remus, Pettigrew, Peter, Potter, James, and Snape, Christine were all placed into Gryffindor also. Severus was placed into Slytherin, to no one's surprise. Finally, "Zucker, Charles!" was placed into Ravenclaw and Dumbledore got up to speak.
"I have a word to say, and here it is: snooze! Enjoy this year of Hogwarts!" He sat down and the food appeared.
"Oooo! That looks good!" Sirius proclaimed and with that, they dug in.
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Lily dragged herself up the stairs to the Fat Lady. Professor McGonnagal had given them an essay on Animagus, Professor Binns had given them a report on The Salem Witch Trials that had to be 7 rolls of parchment, and the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Laurence, wanted them to memorize the counter-spell to the Body Binder curse.
"Password?" The Fat Lady yawned.
"Circa de Lunar." Lily grumbled, and shook her head.
"Very well." The portrait hole opened up and lazily, she crawled through it.
BOOM!
"Exploding Snap. I shoulda known."
"Hey, Lil! Wanna play?"
"Um, no, that's ok James. I have a ton of homework to do." She dropped her bag and flopped into a squishy armchair.
"Oh, yeah! We have that essay from McGonnagal!" Remus looked up and groaned.
"And from Binns, and the DATDA teacher." She pulled out her book from the library titled, "The Witch Trials and the Surroundings" By Lauri Fizzlefast and began reading.
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5 hours later….
"Ex-unio clava-binio! Ex-unio clava-binio" I got it! Done with homework!" Lily slammed her book and looked at the others. Peter was asleep. James was drawing little smiley faces on Peter's hands, Remus was half dead on the floor, flinching every now and then, and Sirius was in complete Limbo. Sleep for a minute, then jerk awake and fall asleep only to repeat the process. "Wake up!"
"Heh?" Peter sat up and rubbed his eyes, Remus flinched himself off the couch, James accidentally made a line all the way up Peter's arm, and Sirius knocked all the books onto the floor.
"What are you guys doing??" Felicity walked down the stairs and stood at the bottom with her hands on her hips staring and her blonde curls bunched on one side. "Peter…you have a smile on your…forehead. And a line up your arm. Whatever did you do?"
"Hey! How did that happen?"
"I have no clue. It couldn't have been James, now could it?"
"Why, Lily, how can you think I'd do something like that to such a kind *coughnotcough* person as Peter?"
"Prongs, it's so obvious that you did it! The pen is a tell-tale sign!"
"I'm gonna get you!"
"No! James! Don't tickle me!"
"Are you guys ever gonna date?" Remus cut in.
Everyone immediately say down to hear their answer.
"WHAT!?! We're in first year! That's dumb!" They tried to make it sound like it would never happen, but began to fail miserably.
"Well, it's not like it'll ever happen. I know you two will be together sometime while we're here. And you can't deny it!" Sirius smirked.
"Excuse me for interrupting this debate, but it's late and we do have classes tomorrow!" Felicity stood up and walked towards the girls staircase.
"Aww!" Remus and Sirius stopped laughing and looked at her with pitiful faces. "Pleeease? Can't we get them together?? You know you wanna…"
"No, I wanna go to sleep. That's what know."
Sirius made a face.
"Party-pooper." He grumbled.
Everyone trooped up to their common rooms, but Sirius sat on the couch and grumbled nonsense to himself.
"Gooood night, Sirius!" Felicity flicked of the lights.
"Hey-OW! Wait you're gonna leave me here? Come baaack!"
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Third year Christmas Eve…
"Jingle bells, Severus smells, he could use shampoo! Push him down the stairs, pluck out his hair, 34542!" Sirius sang out merrily.
"Rissie, why doesn't your brother take baths?"
"I really don't know. He's got bath-o-phobia or something."
"That's sad."
"I know, Remus." Christine shook her head. "I think I'll get him a pack of bath items for Christmas."
Lily gaped at her," All you'll do is waste your money. He'll then give it to someone who doesn't need it and it'll start a chain.
"Why don't you offer him a one-way plane ticket to Pago Pago or something useful?" Felicity looked up from her place at the desks where she was doing extra credit.
"That's a waste of money, Liss." Sirius stopped in the middle of his rendition of "Deck the Halls, Slytherin Style".
"He'd be gone. Isn't that good?" James walked in, covered with snow flakes.
"And where were you, Mister Potter?"
"None of your business."
"See if you get presents from us, then Prongs.''
"Moony, what about you?"
"Everyone will give me presents, of course. That's cuz I am Sirius Black, and everyone loves ME!"
"Oh, really?" Lily rolled her eyes. "I know some Syltherins that most certainly wouldn't agree with that statement. Want me to call them over here?" She shot him an amused grin.
"Please don't!"
"Alright then."
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Christmas Day…
Everyone but Peter (he didn't wanna get up early and give presents cuz *or so they thought* he forgot to get things for anyone) came down and exchanged gifts with each other. Felicity and Sirius went off somewhere (James thought to make-out, but Lily punched him when he said it) and Remus and Christine went to the Great Hall for early breakfast. That left Lily and James alone. James almost began to talk when an owl flew in and dropped a letter and a package in Lily's lap. She opened it.
Lily,
This is your sister, Petunia. I'm not writing this to be friendly. In fact, I hate you more than ever. One of your kind killed our whole family-including mum and dad. Do you understand me? The whole family is dead. Not here. I was out shopping for my wedding dress. Oh, yes, me and Vernon are getting married. You're not invited, but since I am your legal guardian, you will walk to our house this summer. The address is enclosed.
The funeral was last weekend but since I couldn't figure out how to send this, you missed it. By the way, enclosed are the presents that mummy and the family bought for you. And here is a 25 cent piece from Verny and me. Have an un- Merry Christmas.
Petunia
Lily burst into tears and ran out of the room.
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A/N: I know, it's been done a trillion times before. What's one more??? I have exams all this week so don't expect the next part till next Saturday or Sunday. Uh, have a great day. And make mine a little brighter by reviewing. Or you can email me at
chixypixy@yahoo.com K? Thanks!Disclaimer: Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Snape, McGonnagal, Dumbledore, Marge, Vernon, and Petunia or anyone else you recognize belongs to my idol, J.K. Rowling. Lily's last name, Christine Snape (that sounds odd-I was bored and wasn't thinking straight), Felicity Candledame, the password (I'm not exactly sure, but I think it means 'circle the moon' or I was dumb and It means 'moon the circle' *lol! let's moon the circle!* .) and the no-name DATDA professor belong to me, but you can use them.
I haveta go study for my lovely exams. Everyone's telling me they take theirs in 8th grade or at Christmas. WHY IS MY SCHOOL DIFFERENT???? We have exams every godforsaken nine week section! Oh, I know why. Because I go there! Doesn't my life sound SO fun? I'll trade you!
