Prologe:
"Evans Lily!" when Professor Mcgonagall called out my name I walked,
shaking a little, to the sorting hat. I had never known people could fly
on an enchanted broomstick or cast spells with a flick of a magic wand
until I got my acceptance letter. I was beyond estatic, I could have died
happy. When I sat on the stool and placed on the hat I heard a little
voice echo in my ear "Hmm, well I think you would only be happy in-
GRYFFINDOR!!!" the hat yelled out the last word for the entire hall to hear
and I heard clapping from the gryffindor table, people cheered as I sat
down and watched the rest of my class get sorted, that was the begininng of
my adventure. And what an adventure it was. This is my story, from year
five to year seven. It is a story of friendships, love, hatred, gathering
darkness, and hope. Experience the magic with me.
Chapter 1: The summer air was thick and hard to breath. Sweat glistened on my forehead as I made my way into the platform 9 3/4. I was ready to enter her fifth year at Hogwarts. Lo, Haven, Lark and Bernadette, my best friends, beckoned me into a compartment towards the back of the train. I smiled but shook my head. "Prefects have to go to the front for a little while, I'll join you guys back here later." I said as I reached into my jean skirt pocket to feel the smooth polished surface of my new prefects badge. "Okay, don't keep us waiting to long Lily!" Lo said as I set my trunk in their compartment and made my ay up to the front of the hogwarts express. "Hello prefects." Said the witch who usually ran the food cart. "In Ravenclaw I believe our new prefects are Ingram Bishop and Lyris Esther. In Hufflepuff we have Bowen Macmillian and Alvina Truda. For Slytherin we have Bellatrix Black and Rudphulus Lestrange. And our Gryffindor prefects are Lily Evans and Remus Lupin. I would like to welcome our old prefects back and welcome our new prefects for the first time. Your duties as a prefect are to aid yoiur teachers in disaplinning your peers, you may assign detention if your claim is approved by the offenders, head of house. You will take shifts in patrolling corriders and you will wear your new badges at all times. You may go sit elsewhere on the trian, now if you wish. Most of the older prefects stayed in their seats whereas all the new ones, like myself, walked out to find friends. "Hi Remus." I said as the two of us walked to the last carriage on the trian. "Congrats on becoming a prefect LIly." he answered politly. "You too." I said smiling. "Thanks, well see you around." he opened the compartment just infront of mine and I even before I saw James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew whistling and cheering Remus as he sat, I knew they would be there. They were the four boys in Gryffindor with me and they were trouble, mean arrogant, idiots. Well not so much Remus but the rest of them....I slid open the door to my compartment and sat next to Lark and Bernadette. "So, tell us the 411! who else in Gryffindor is a prefect?"Lark asked her light brown eyes flashing excitedly. "Lupin." I answerd and then gave an involentary shudder at thinking about the new Slytherin prefects "Bellatrix Black and that Lestrange boy are the Slytherin ones and I dont remember the ones for Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw." I said. "Bellatrix Black? She is such a git." Haven narrowed her bright blue eyes and pulled a strand of her wavy blonde hair from her face. "So is that Lestrange bloke." Lo added. My four friends were all in Gryffindor with me. Haven Hart was the prettiest and was muggle born. She was a classic beauty and had dated amost everyboy in Ravenclaw, and she was now hoping to date Sirius Black. Lo Ping was a halfblood and the most outspoken person I had ever meet. She was pretty to though, with black hair that went to her waist and long lashes that she was always blinking over her dark brown eyes. Then there was Lark Gelasia she was overly skinny with straight redish blonde hair a rather large beaky nose and wide brown eyes. She was always good at cheering people up when they are feeling down and she was, like Lo, a halfblood. Then there was Bernadette Shadow. The Shadow family was an old pureblood family and they had almost all been in Gryffindor. Bernadette was my best friend in the world. She had gray eyes and shoulder long dark brown hair she was not the prettist person in the world but wasn't ugly either. I am Lily Evans and have thick wavy dark red hair and startling green eyes. I am of muggle heritage and supposedly the smartest in our year, but I am pretty sure the Ravenclaw prefect,Lyris somthing or other, had better exams results in transfiguration and care of magical creatures. "So Lily, do you think I have a chance with Sirius this year?" Haven asked.
"You like Sirius now?" Bernadette had liked Sirius Black since first year. "We can both like him!" Haven said shurgging. "NO! we can't both like him!" Bernadette's shot at her. "Your just mad because you know he is going to chose me over you!" Haven, could be cruel sometimes. "Fine." Bernadette stood and left. I followed glaring at Haven, Lo left with me with Lark stayed. Lark and Haven were best friends, and Haven was my least favorite out of our group. "Bernadette, where are you going!" I asked pushing a first year out of my way and muttering apologizes to him as I plowed after my best friend. Lo was right behind me too, and I was grateful. Lo and Haven didn't really get along but Lo and Bernadette got along almost as well as me and Bernadette did. Bernadette slid open a compartment door and found it empty as she threw herself into it. Lo and I sat with her. "Of course he is gonna date blonde, blue eyed Haven." she said hurt etched in her voice. "Haven isnt good enough for Sirius I think she should date Pettigrew." Lo said grinning and Bernadette smiled too. We sat and played exploding snap for a while until an hour or so later we purchased pumpkin pasties form the food cart and then heard a soft knock. "That will be Haven..." Bernadette predicted miserably. The door slid olpen to reveal, not Bernadette but Potter, Pettigrew, Lupin and Black. "Hey Shadow, Evans, Ping." James said causlly. "Can we help you with something?" I asked curtly. "As a matter of fact, Evans, you can." he grinned and for the first and not last time he asked; "Wanna go out with me?" James winked, he started doing that a lot too. "No thank you." I replied. "Oh come on Evans!" He said rolling his eyes. "You know you want to!" He urged. "Go away James she said NO. Even you can't be too thick to misinterpret NO." Lo said annoyed. "Hey Ping keep out of this." James flicked his wand at her and mutterd a curse under his breath and turning Lo's long black hair white which looked quite odd on her. Sirius and Peter exploded with laughter and even Remus had to turn away to hide his Smirk. "Don't touch my friends Potter!" I yelled, standing up. Still laughing James motioned for his friends to leave and they shut the compartment door rather hard as they went. "I hate James. Don't you ever date that arrogent son of a bitch Lily! You hear me?" Lo said frustrated as she looked at her long, now white hair and blinked glared at the door. "I wouldn't date him! Never!" I said my eyes bulging and my stomache churning at the very thought. "Do you know the counter curse Lily?" Bernadette asked staring sadly at Lo's hair. "No, but I'll find it out." I stood ready to confront james. "I'm coming too." Bernadette stood. "I am too!" Lo pulled open the door and went staight to the terrible foursomes compartment and threw open the door. "Whats the counter curse?" Bernadette demanded. "I forgot." James said snidly turning away, but Remus rolled his eyes at his friend and whisperd the incantation and Lo's hair was returned to normal. "Thanks." Lo went back to where we had been sitting before and plopped herself next to the window. "This is an interesting start to our fifth year." Bernadette said and sighed.
The feast was amazing as always. The first night back in my dorm was peaceful as Haven chose the bed furthest from Bernadette. The first day of lessons, however was neither Amazing nor peacful.
"Oh Haven I don't think you need any butter on your toast...your wasitline seems to have already grown over the summer." Lo said innocently. "Oh Lo, I don't think you need to call me fat. At least I can get a boyfriend." she glared at Lo but I noticed she only ate half of her toast. "I can get a boyfriend too, you bloody hag!" Lo shot back. "You haven't had a single boyfriend in your entire life! And lets see I have dated Marley Grannchon, Brethel Boot, Jason Corner, Gideon Patil, Woo Chang, and Breck Moorelle." Haven counted the names on her fingers. "And your still and ugly, and snotty no matter how many idiots have dated you." Lo retored. "Quit it you guys, we're supposed to be friends." I said angrily "That was before little-miss-im-better-than-you over hear started liking Bernadette's bloke of choice." "He isn't Bernadette's! In about five minutes he is gonna be mine!" Haven smirked and engaged Lark in conversation about her new owl. Professor McGonagall distributed scheduals to each of us. Lo gave a long moan and pointed out our first lesson, Herbology which we took with the Slytherins. "OH Sirius!" Haven jumped out of her seat as she saw James and Co. enter the great hall. "What is it Hart?" Sirius asked her with an expression of disintrest on his face, his strikingly handsome face. "I was thinking-" he cut her off "I think sometimes too, get to the point." he said yawning. "Wanna go to hogsmeade with me? The first visit is in three weeks." she asked smiling sweetly. "I don't think so, run along now." he said yawning agian as he sat and helped himself to eggs and bacon. "Why not?" she demanded, this was not the answer she had expected. "Because I don't like you, you giggle to much." he said simply and shurgged. "Who do you like then?" she asked furioisly. "I like James." he said sarcastically and turned away from her. She sat down agian with Lark very red in the face and clearly in a bad mood, which didn't improve as the fifth year Gryffindors and Slytherins made their way down to Herbology. "Snivellus." Sirius yelled loudly enough for half the grounds to hear as he made his way across the vegtable patch. "Hey snivelly wait up!" he yelled. "Yes Snivellus how was your summer? Did you wash your hair at all?" James asked, several of Gryffindors and passing Ravenclaw sniggerd. "Not by the looks of it." Sirius said but was unable to insult Snivellus, aka Severus Snape, any farther as we had reach the greenhouse. Professor Sprout gave a long speech about OWL exams before beginning her lesson. Half way through class Haven broke down in tears. For some reason Sirius and James found her crying amusing and both stifled laughter, "What is it dear?" Professor sprout asked. "I-its, j-j-just that I like Sirius b-but he d-d-d-doesn't lik-ke m-me." she said inbetween sobs. then she continued. "B-bernadette likes h-him t-t- too! I-I think he likes horrible ugly her i-i-inst-tead of me!" she wailed and ran out of the greenhouse. Professor Sprout shook her head and turned away. I saw her smile back at Lark who was giggiling hysterically. Haven hadn't really been crying she just wanted to embarass Bernadette.
"You like me?" a dumbfounded Sirius asked Bernadette after herbology as the Gryffindors walked back up the castle for defense agianst the dark arts. "Don't you dare make fun of her okay?" Lo said sharply and grabbed Bernadette leading her away from Sirius. "I wasn't gonna make fun of her, I was just asking." he said to me earnestly. I didn't bother to answer him but quickened my step to catch up to Lo and Bernadette but we had only just walked a little farther when we heard the cold taunting voice of Bellatrix Black from behind us. "Bernadette Shadow likes my dear cousin? Oooh how sweet I could puke. But why did Haven Hart tell the entire herbology clas this? Gryffindors are supposed to be noble." Bellatrix called. "Don't worry wittle Bernadette we wont make fun of you, I mean who described you better than your own friend? Horrible and ugly is what she said isn't it?" Bellatrix's voice was full of malicious laughter. Bernadette's eyes burned with tears and I lead her into the girls bath room as I held the back of Lo's robes to prevent her from attempting to strangle Bellatrix. "That lously, future-mudering, evil-" Lo went on and on as Bernadette wiped her eyes. "Its okay your not ugly or horrible." I said running my hand through her shiney hair to try and clam her down. Lo finally got control of herself too and nodded. "Come on, we don't want to be late." I said taking Bernadette's hand to lead her to our next class.
The rest of the day passed by without incident until dinner time. Haven Hart was about to get what she deserved maybe it was even a little to harsh. "Hey Hart!" Black called at dinner. standing up so he was seen by much of the great hall. "You asked me out at breakfast, and you know what I was too tired to say then? I would never date a brainless prat who emabrasses her friends and who thinks she is so cute when she isn't. So get a life." he said and applause broke out amoung most of the Gryffindors. Bernadette beamed. Haven looked as thought she had been slapped.
"Hey Evans!" James sat next to me in the common room that night, to my displeasure. "What is it potter, can't you see I'm talking to my friends?" I asked motioning towards Lo and Bernadette. "You wanna watch me during quiddich practice? The first practice is next week." He said and he ruffeled his hair out of habbit. "No, I don't think so." I said dismissivley. "All right just though I'd ask. It was just a suggestion." He looked rather down trodden as he rejoined his friends. "He'll get over it." I said to Lo and Bernadette before they could say anything. "You know Remus is kinda cute." Lo said grinning Me and Bernadette snorted, mainly because Remus Lupin was shy and sweet and Lo was defintly neither. "Hello." Haven said tentitivley as she and Lark walked over to us. "You say one mean thing to Bernadette I'll curse your disgusting blonde hair off." Lo warned. "I just wanted to apologize. Bernadette I'm really, really sorry." she said and she looked it. "So am I. I'm sorry your so self centerd and mean." Bernadette replied. "I guess I am. Forgive me?" she asked. "Fine." Bernadette mutterd and she and Lark sat down, our group reunited. "Lets go to bed before anything else can go wrong today." Lo advised as we all made our way into our dorm and fell asleep.
"Ohhh did you see James Potter? He is such a doll!" Lark said dreamily as he passed us in the courtyard that weekened. "Oh please, he is a bigheaded idiot." I said glaring at him as he walked with his three friends. "Oh but isn't he gorgous!" Lark had a goofy smile on her face. "Hardly." I said rolling my eyes. "Remus is the best out of all of em." Lo said as the five of us set down near the lake, cooling our feet in the water. The remaining summer heat beat down upon the castle and we lay back enjoying the last bit of warmth for the year. Lark reached into her robes pocket and pulled out that mornings edition of the daily prophet, "More disapearences" she said tossing the new paper to Lo who began reading it anxiously. "The Ministry of Magic is arming itself for a war against Lord Voldemort and those who work for him. Two more disapearnces to day of Amilynn Lanturn and Thomas Kelly. Both were ministry officails and may have information which would prove valuable to our rising foe. The followers of Lord Voldemort have fashioned themselves the titles of "Death Eaters" and more join their ranks everyday. While Lord Voldemort may not be powerful enough to take over the ministry yet, that worry has crossed our minds, and as people go missing and people cross over to the dark side the name "Lord Voldemort" is beginning to frighten people all by itself. It is a powerful, terrible wizard who the very thought of can cause immesurable fear." Lo finsihed reading aloud and swallowed she looked rather pale. Haven was shaking and Lark's eyes were wider than usual and she was gripping her wand so tightly her knuckles were white. Bernadette grabbed my hand, and I squeezed hers. "What is happening to our world? Cowards and evil power hungrey wizards joining Lord Voldemort, killing tortuing....It's beyond sick." Bernadette said softly but her voice was full of passion. "It will get worse." I said mater-of-faculty. "It cant get worse, Lily, it just can't" Lark pleaded tears forming in the depths of her dark eyes. "As soon as I'm out of school I'm doing something about it! I'm fighting Lord Voldie and kicking his ass!" Lo said with a feirce edge to her voice. "As soon as your out of school the Dark Lord will have full power, silly little idiots like you could do nothing." the voice of Bellatrix Black rang in our ears. Her long sleek dark hair and heavy lidded eyes looked so sinister, she would be a death eater, it wasn't a question. She spoke to everyone with such hatred....She felt nothing beyond pleasure at other peoples pain. She was a tragic, evil beauty. She would die alone and hated one day and people would not cry, but let out a laugh of relief she was no longer around. I hated her and I knew I would laugh at her downfall. "Are you scared wittle baby Lily?" she said in a cruel imation of a babie's voice. "Will You wold my hand wittle Lily?" She asked. "Get lost Black, go torture something, it seems like the kinda thiung you would do in your spare time." Haven said harshly. "Aww you wirls dun wike me?" she smirked and walked back to her group of slytherin friends. "Think if she becomes a death eater and we fight her, we can have the authority to kill the god dammed bitch?" Lo asked. "Probabley not Lo." I said and she pouted. "And its not 'If she becomes a death eater'" said Lark shuddering "Its when." she turned a bright shade of white and continued trembeling. Haven helped her up and began half carrying her to the hospital wing. "Lark has never been this scared before, not even when she had to show her mom her failing potions grade last year." I said and squeezed Bernadette's hand again. "These are scary times. I think it is good that we are around during difficult years, so that we can help, we can be useful." Bernadette said and she appeareds no longer frightened but determined. "We are gonna be legends as the girls who fought the death eaters...we will be known as the True, Brave and sexy sisters!" Lo said her eyes gleaming with enthusiam. "I don't think we will be rememberd as sexy." I said smiling. "Why not?" Lo pretened to frown. "Because history is too boring to have the word "sexy" in it." I explianed. "Yeah Lily is right, imagine Binns saying 'sexy" Bernadette said giggiling. Just as we were getting ready to head inside the castle for lunch we heardc cheers from back near the lake. We turned around curiosly and saw James Potter grinning as Severus Snape swam gasping and cursing back to the edge of the lake, James it seems had knocked him in. "What the hell is Potter trying to do?" Lo asked walking closer towards the laughing, jeering crowd to get a better view. I was torn between disaprovel and amusment, but I rememberd Bellatrix, and her getting pleasure from mocking us and I knew something had to be done. But before I could tell James to back off, Snape lauched a curse at him and James was flung back wards his skin turing a sickening shade of green. He narrowed his eyes and summoned a bottle of shampoo. He opened it and directed it with his wand to force its way into Snapes mouth. Snape sputterd and choked and James took the oppertunity to curse him agian, this time making his too an odd sort of dance. Snape finally spit out the shampoo bottle and raised his wand at James, but Sirius had already cursed his eyebrows with began to grow so quickley they sheilded his eyes from veiw making him unable to aim a spell, and so wet, dancing and with eyebrows growing rapidly Snape stood at the edge of the lake surroned by laughing onlookers and a furious and green James Potter. It was a morning worthy of remebrence.
"He just shoved that shampoo bottle right in Snape's mouth!" Lo told Haven excitedly at dinner when Haven and Lark returned from the nurse. "And then James made him dance this jig type thing!" added Bernadette laughing at the memory. "He was about to curse an already puke green James agian when Sirius made his eyebrows grow over his eyes so he couldn't see!" Lo said taking a sip of milk. "He was like this disgusting dance monster!" Bernadette said laughing even harder and making Lo snort milk from her nose. Even I had to laugh at this, to spite my guilty feelings that I should have intervined to help Snape. "Hey ladies, whats so funny?" asked the smooth voice of Sirius Black, accompained by none other than Remus Lupin, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew. "Snape the disgusting dance monster." Bernadette said still smirking. The four boys chortled too. "Hey Lily, you look nice today." James winked at me. I cringed. He took the hint and the four of them went back to their seats. "I can't see why you don't like James!" Lark said incredlously. "He is conceited, rude, cruel....whats to like?" I asked not expecting an answer. "He is handsome, a good quiddich player, smart ooh very smart, and he is funny." Lark said as though it was the most obvious things in the world. "And he obviously likes you." Bernadette piped in. "Yeah but I DON'T like him!" I said annoyed. "Its your choice Lily,but I think he is a basterd too." Lo shot a dirty look in his direction and I would bet you a gallon she was remembering her white hair. "Well if we are all finished with dinner we have an essay we need to finish in Divination." I said stading up eager for a change of subject. "Yeah lets head on down to the library until we finish that." Lark said and we left the great hall, grabbed our bags and enterd the quiet library, several other students were writing on parchment or leaning over books in the dim lighted room as we selected a table and pulled out our half finished essays on dream interpriations. We worked continuesly until the library door opened and four male voices broke the silence of the room. "Hey ladies watchya doing?" James asked sitting across from me. "I need some help with my potions essay anyone wanna lend me hand?" Sirius asked sitting next to James and across form Bernadette. "We're working on divination." Lo said and added "Duh" as she continued to write about the meaning of falling in a dream sequence. "Oh well we could use help with that too." James leaned over and read my Parchment. "Back off Potter Im working." I snapped
"Oh well sorry didn't mean to disturb you Evans." he said sounding nervous which was odd because arrogent James Potter coudln't feel nervous around me...could he?
"We should leave them to do their homework." Remus advised. "Good day." Sirius said with a small bow and the four left the library. "James doesn't just like you, he is stalking you." Haven said pinching herself to keep from giggiling. "shut up Haven." I said returning to how the days of the week effect your dreams.
"The auror Kyro Cauldron has gone missing, it is believed that Lord Voldemort is behind his disapearnce." Lo read aloud then began reading another article. "The body of Thomas Kelly has been found yesterday night. He was killed by Avada Kedavra and judging by his wounds he was tortured for some time before his death. The dark mark (A emarld skull composed of stars with a serpant, the mark the death eaters project into the air after they kill someone) was found over him and he was suspended to a tree by his wrists." Lo skimmed the paper before reading a third article. "12 muggles have disapeard yesterday it is belived that muggles too, are faced with the terrible threat of Lord Voldemort and it is believed the muggle killings are done for the amusment of the death eaters." Lo shudderd and read more from another section of the paper "Lord Voldemort is a name we are hearing spoken by fewer people everyday as this wizard is becomingmore feared he is now being referred to as 'You-know-who' and 'He- who-must-not-be-named'" Lo stopped reading her eyes almost as wide as Lark's. Haven flung her arms around me and Bernadette. "Nothing can happened to us or our familys, I'll just simply die if it does!" she whimperd. "Oh you will die, all of you. You mudbloods, traitors, you sicken me." Bellatrix spit on Haven. "You are gonna pay for that Black." Lo said standing her wand rasied. "I wouldn't attack a prefect, you halfblood." she said a look of pure hatred on her beautiful face. "They think they can attack us?" said a slytherin named Nott with an amused edge to his hard voice. "Let them try." said Lestrange glaring at us. "I would like to see if they are brave enough." Severus Snape snarled. "Silencio!" Lo shouted aiming at Snape. I wasn't sure why she wanted to take his voice away but I supposed it might be a good idea,or it would have been if it had worked, "Protego!" he shouted and the spell rebounded. Lo jumped out of the way and it hit Lark who opened her mouth to scream but no sound came out. The slytherins sniggerd. Bellatrix mutterd something under her breath and the spell knocked an unsuspecting Haven backwards. The word 'Mudblood' cut itself into her lower arm, droplets of blood fell onto the grass and tears of fury leaked from Haven's eyes. "Now everyone will now how flithy and dirty your blood is." Bellatrix said laughing softly. Then she smiled at me, it was more of a sneer.... "Your turn Evans" she said raising her wand but from behind her amale voice yelled the disarming charm and Bellatrix's wand flew from her raised hand. "Potter." Bellatrix hissed and turning towards him. I took the oppertunity and yelled "Impendmenta!" she fell foward unable to move. she screamed and Snape yelled a curse and blue fire shot at me from his wand. "Protego!" I yelled just it time and the fire blew up knocking me into Bernadette who screamed another hex and Snape was now trying to stop a nose bleed. "You'll regret this mudbloods and losers." Lestrange threatned his wand returned to his robe as he carried Bellatrix away and Snape and Nott followed. "They're sick." Sirius said running up to us, "Are you all okay?" he looked concerned. "NOOOOOO" mouth Lark still unable to speak due to the silencing charm. "I'm not!" said Haven crying and staring at her bleeding arm. "Il take you up to the hospital wing" Lo said putting her arm around Haven and beckoning Lark to follow. "Go job on making snape get a nosebleed. Next time just curse his nose off. It would be an improvment." Sirius said to Bernadette who smiled. "And Evans managed to hex Bellatrix." Potter said with a grin. "So did you." Bernadette reminded him. "Thanks Potter for disarming Bellatrix before I got mudblood cut into my arm. I owe you one." I said grudgingly I really did not want to owe Potter any favors. "Then will you go out with me?" He asked hopfully, "No, Potter I wont." I answerd curtly. "Oh fine. Well I guess we will you girls around." James said and he and his friends walked back up to the castle. "We should go see Haven and lark, make sure they're all right." I said to Bernadette so we walked in silence up to the hospital wing. "I hate those future death eaters." Bernadette whisperd to me as we enterd the infirmary. Haven was still bleeding slightly and Lark said "Hi" in a horse voice moist unlike her own. "It will only get worse, this is just the beginning." Belltrix said from where she stood with Snape who was still trying to stop his nose bleed. "I promise it will get worse." she added.
AN: hehe I really took the time into picking out names. ex: Alivina Truda the Huffle puff prefect ALIVINA: means Nobel friend and TRUDA: means Loved one. and the Ravenclaw Prefect INGRAM: means the son of the raven. see? well tell me what u think, and Ill post chapter two.
Chapter 1: The summer air was thick and hard to breath. Sweat glistened on my forehead as I made my way into the platform 9 3/4. I was ready to enter her fifth year at Hogwarts. Lo, Haven, Lark and Bernadette, my best friends, beckoned me into a compartment towards the back of the train. I smiled but shook my head. "Prefects have to go to the front for a little while, I'll join you guys back here later." I said as I reached into my jean skirt pocket to feel the smooth polished surface of my new prefects badge. "Okay, don't keep us waiting to long Lily!" Lo said as I set my trunk in their compartment and made my ay up to the front of the hogwarts express. "Hello prefects." Said the witch who usually ran the food cart. "In Ravenclaw I believe our new prefects are Ingram Bishop and Lyris Esther. In Hufflepuff we have Bowen Macmillian and Alvina Truda. For Slytherin we have Bellatrix Black and Rudphulus Lestrange. And our Gryffindor prefects are Lily Evans and Remus Lupin. I would like to welcome our old prefects back and welcome our new prefects for the first time. Your duties as a prefect are to aid yoiur teachers in disaplinning your peers, you may assign detention if your claim is approved by the offenders, head of house. You will take shifts in patrolling corriders and you will wear your new badges at all times. You may go sit elsewhere on the trian, now if you wish. Most of the older prefects stayed in their seats whereas all the new ones, like myself, walked out to find friends. "Hi Remus." I said as the two of us walked to the last carriage on the trian. "Congrats on becoming a prefect LIly." he answered politly. "You too." I said smiling. "Thanks, well see you around." he opened the compartment just infront of mine and I even before I saw James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew whistling and cheering Remus as he sat, I knew they would be there. They were the four boys in Gryffindor with me and they were trouble, mean arrogant, idiots. Well not so much Remus but the rest of them....I slid open the door to my compartment and sat next to Lark and Bernadette. "So, tell us the 411! who else in Gryffindor is a prefect?"Lark asked her light brown eyes flashing excitedly. "Lupin." I answerd and then gave an involentary shudder at thinking about the new Slytherin prefects "Bellatrix Black and that Lestrange boy are the Slytherin ones and I dont remember the ones for Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw." I said. "Bellatrix Black? She is such a git." Haven narrowed her bright blue eyes and pulled a strand of her wavy blonde hair from her face. "So is that Lestrange bloke." Lo added. My four friends were all in Gryffindor with me. Haven Hart was the prettiest and was muggle born. She was a classic beauty and had dated amost everyboy in Ravenclaw, and she was now hoping to date Sirius Black. Lo Ping was a halfblood and the most outspoken person I had ever meet. She was pretty to though, with black hair that went to her waist and long lashes that she was always blinking over her dark brown eyes. Then there was Lark Gelasia she was overly skinny with straight redish blonde hair a rather large beaky nose and wide brown eyes. She was always good at cheering people up when they are feeling down and she was, like Lo, a halfblood. Then there was Bernadette Shadow. The Shadow family was an old pureblood family and they had almost all been in Gryffindor. Bernadette was my best friend in the world. She had gray eyes and shoulder long dark brown hair she was not the prettist person in the world but wasn't ugly either. I am Lily Evans and have thick wavy dark red hair and startling green eyes. I am of muggle heritage and supposedly the smartest in our year, but I am pretty sure the Ravenclaw prefect,Lyris somthing or other, had better exams results in transfiguration and care of magical creatures. "So Lily, do you think I have a chance with Sirius this year?" Haven asked.
"You like Sirius now?" Bernadette had liked Sirius Black since first year. "We can both like him!" Haven said shurgging. "NO! we can't both like him!" Bernadette's shot at her. "Your just mad because you know he is going to chose me over you!" Haven, could be cruel sometimes. "Fine." Bernadette stood and left. I followed glaring at Haven, Lo left with me with Lark stayed. Lark and Haven were best friends, and Haven was my least favorite out of our group. "Bernadette, where are you going!" I asked pushing a first year out of my way and muttering apologizes to him as I plowed after my best friend. Lo was right behind me too, and I was grateful. Lo and Haven didn't really get along but Lo and Bernadette got along almost as well as me and Bernadette did. Bernadette slid open a compartment door and found it empty as she threw herself into it. Lo and I sat with her. "Of course he is gonna date blonde, blue eyed Haven." she said hurt etched in her voice. "Haven isnt good enough for Sirius I think she should date Pettigrew." Lo said grinning and Bernadette smiled too. We sat and played exploding snap for a while until an hour or so later we purchased pumpkin pasties form the food cart and then heard a soft knock. "That will be Haven..." Bernadette predicted miserably. The door slid olpen to reveal, not Bernadette but Potter, Pettigrew, Lupin and Black. "Hey Shadow, Evans, Ping." James said causlly. "Can we help you with something?" I asked curtly. "As a matter of fact, Evans, you can." he grinned and for the first and not last time he asked; "Wanna go out with me?" James winked, he started doing that a lot too. "No thank you." I replied. "Oh come on Evans!" He said rolling his eyes. "You know you want to!" He urged. "Go away James she said NO. Even you can't be too thick to misinterpret NO." Lo said annoyed. "Hey Ping keep out of this." James flicked his wand at her and mutterd a curse under his breath and turning Lo's long black hair white which looked quite odd on her. Sirius and Peter exploded with laughter and even Remus had to turn away to hide his Smirk. "Don't touch my friends Potter!" I yelled, standing up. Still laughing James motioned for his friends to leave and they shut the compartment door rather hard as they went. "I hate James. Don't you ever date that arrogent son of a bitch Lily! You hear me?" Lo said frustrated as she looked at her long, now white hair and blinked glared at the door. "I wouldn't date him! Never!" I said my eyes bulging and my stomache churning at the very thought. "Do you know the counter curse Lily?" Bernadette asked staring sadly at Lo's hair. "No, but I'll find it out." I stood ready to confront james. "I'm coming too." Bernadette stood. "I am too!" Lo pulled open the door and went staight to the terrible foursomes compartment and threw open the door. "Whats the counter curse?" Bernadette demanded. "I forgot." James said snidly turning away, but Remus rolled his eyes at his friend and whisperd the incantation and Lo's hair was returned to normal. "Thanks." Lo went back to where we had been sitting before and plopped herself next to the window. "This is an interesting start to our fifth year." Bernadette said and sighed.
The feast was amazing as always. The first night back in my dorm was peaceful as Haven chose the bed furthest from Bernadette. The first day of lessons, however was neither Amazing nor peacful.
"Oh Haven I don't think you need any butter on your toast...your wasitline seems to have already grown over the summer." Lo said innocently. "Oh Lo, I don't think you need to call me fat. At least I can get a boyfriend." she glared at Lo but I noticed she only ate half of her toast. "I can get a boyfriend too, you bloody hag!" Lo shot back. "You haven't had a single boyfriend in your entire life! And lets see I have dated Marley Grannchon, Brethel Boot, Jason Corner, Gideon Patil, Woo Chang, and Breck Moorelle." Haven counted the names on her fingers. "And your still and ugly, and snotty no matter how many idiots have dated you." Lo retored. "Quit it you guys, we're supposed to be friends." I said angrily "That was before little-miss-im-better-than-you over hear started liking Bernadette's bloke of choice." "He isn't Bernadette's! In about five minutes he is gonna be mine!" Haven smirked and engaged Lark in conversation about her new owl. Professor McGonagall distributed scheduals to each of us. Lo gave a long moan and pointed out our first lesson, Herbology which we took with the Slytherins. "OH Sirius!" Haven jumped out of her seat as she saw James and Co. enter the great hall. "What is it Hart?" Sirius asked her with an expression of disintrest on his face, his strikingly handsome face. "I was thinking-" he cut her off "I think sometimes too, get to the point." he said yawning. "Wanna go to hogsmeade with me? The first visit is in three weeks." she asked smiling sweetly. "I don't think so, run along now." he said yawning agian as he sat and helped himself to eggs and bacon. "Why not?" she demanded, this was not the answer she had expected. "Because I don't like you, you giggle to much." he said simply and shurgged. "Who do you like then?" she asked furioisly. "I like James." he said sarcastically and turned away from her. She sat down agian with Lark very red in the face and clearly in a bad mood, which didn't improve as the fifth year Gryffindors and Slytherins made their way down to Herbology. "Snivellus." Sirius yelled loudly enough for half the grounds to hear as he made his way across the vegtable patch. "Hey snivelly wait up!" he yelled. "Yes Snivellus how was your summer? Did you wash your hair at all?" James asked, several of Gryffindors and passing Ravenclaw sniggerd. "Not by the looks of it." Sirius said but was unable to insult Snivellus, aka Severus Snape, any farther as we had reach the greenhouse. Professor Sprout gave a long speech about OWL exams before beginning her lesson. Half way through class Haven broke down in tears. For some reason Sirius and James found her crying amusing and both stifled laughter, "What is it dear?" Professor sprout asked. "I-its, j-j-just that I like Sirius b-but he d-d-d-doesn't lik-ke m-me." she said inbetween sobs. then she continued. "B-bernadette likes h-him t-t- too! I-I think he likes horrible ugly her i-i-inst-tead of me!" she wailed and ran out of the greenhouse. Professor Sprout shook her head and turned away. I saw her smile back at Lark who was giggiling hysterically. Haven hadn't really been crying she just wanted to embarass Bernadette.
"You like me?" a dumbfounded Sirius asked Bernadette after herbology as the Gryffindors walked back up the castle for defense agianst the dark arts. "Don't you dare make fun of her okay?" Lo said sharply and grabbed Bernadette leading her away from Sirius. "I wasn't gonna make fun of her, I was just asking." he said to me earnestly. I didn't bother to answer him but quickened my step to catch up to Lo and Bernadette but we had only just walked a little farther when we heard the cold taunting voice of Bellatrix Black from behind us. "Bernadette Shadow likes my dear cousin? Oooh how sweet I could puke. But why did Haven Hart tell the entire herbology clas this? Gryffindors are supposed to be noble." Bellatrix called. "Don't worry wittle Bernadette we wont make fun of you, I mean who described you better than your own friend? Horrible and ugly is what she said isn't it?" Bellatrix's voice was full of malicious laughter. Bernadette's eyes burned with tears and I lead her into the girls bath room as I held the back of Lo's robes to prevent her from attempting to strangle Bellatrix. "That lously, future-mudering, evil-" Lo went on and on as Bernadette wiped her eyes. "Its okay your not ugly or horrible." I said running my hand through her shiney hair to try and clam her down. Lo finally got control of herself too and nodded. "Come on, we don't want to be late." I said taking Bernadette's hand to lead her to our next class.
The rest of the day passed by without incident until dinner time. Haven Hart was about to get what she deserved maybe it was even a little to harsh. "Hey Hart!" Black called at dinner. standing up so he was seen by much of the great hall. "You asked me out at breakfast, and you know what I was too tired to say then? I would never date a brainless prat who emabrasses her friends and who thinks she is so cute when she isn't. So get a life." he said and applause broke out amoung most of the Gryffindors. Bernadette beamed. Haven looked as thought she had been slapped.
"Hey Evans!" James sat next to me in the common room that night, to my displeasure. "What is it potter, can't you see I'm talking to my friends?" I asked motioning towards Lo and Bernadette. "You wanna watch me during quiddich practice? The first practice is next week." He said and he ruffeled his hair out of habbit. "No, I don't think so." I said dismissivley. "All right just though I'd ask. It was just a suggestion." He looked rather down trodden as he rejoined his friends. "He'll get over it." I said to Lo and Bernadette before they could say anything. "You know Remus is kinda cute." Lo said grinning Me and Bernadette snorted, mainly because Remus Lupin was shy and sweet and Lo was defintly neither. "Hello." Haven said tentitivley as she and Lark walked over to us. "You say one mean thing to Bernadette I'll curse your disgusting blonde hair off." Lo warned. "I just wanted to apologize. Bernadette I'm really, really sorry." she said and she looked it. "So am I. I'm sorry your so self centerd and mean." Bernadette replied. "I guess I am. Forgive me?" she asked. "Fine." Bernadette mutterd and she and Lark sat down, our group reunited. "Lets go to bed before anything else can go wrong today." Lo advised as we all made our way into our dorm and fell asleep.
"Ohhh did you see James Potter? He is such a doll!" Lark said dreamily as he passed us in the courtyard that weekened. "Oh please, he is a bigheaded idiot." I said glaring at him as he walked with his three friends. "Oh but isn't he gorgous!" Lark had a goofy smile on her face. "Hardly." I said rolling my eyes. "Remus is the best out of all of em." Lo said as the five of us set down near the lake, cooling our feet in the water. The remaining summer heat beat down upon the castle and we lay back enjoying the last bit of warmth for the year. Lark reached into her robes pocket and pulled out that mornings edition of the daily prophet, "More disapearences" she said tossing the new paper to Lo who began reading it anxiously. "The Ministry of Magic is arming itself for a war against Lord Voldemort and those who work for him. Two more disapearnces to day of Amilynn Lanturn and Thomas Kelly. Both were ministry officails and may have information which would prove valuable to our rising foe. The followers of Lord Voldemort have fashioned themselves the titles of "Death Eaters" and more join their ranks everyday. While Lord Voldemort may not be powerful enough to take over the ministry yet, that worry has crossed our minds, and as people go missing and people cross over to the dark side the name "Lord Voldemort" is beginning to frighten people all by itself. It is a powerful, terrible wizard who the very thought of can cause immesurable fear." Lo finsihed reading aloud and swallowed she looked rather pale. Haven was shaking and Lark's eyes were wider than usual and she was gripping her wand so tightly her knuckles were white. Bernadette grabbed my hand, and I squeezed hers. "What is happening to our world? Cowards and evil power hungrey wizards joining Lord Voldemort, killing tortuing....It's beyond sick." Bernadette said softly but her voice was full of passion. "It will get worse." I said mater-of-faculty. "It cant get worse, Lily, it just can't" Lark pleaded tears forming in the depths of her dark eyes. "As soon as I'm out of school I'm doing something about it! I'm fighting Lord Voldie and kicking his ass!" Lo said with a feirce edge to her voice. "As soon as your out of school the Dark Lord will have full power, silly little idiots like you could do nothing." the voice of Bellatrix Black rang in our ears. Her long sleek dark hair and heavy lidded eyes looked so sinister, she would be a death eater, it wasn't a question. She spoke to everyone with such hatred....She felt nothing beyond pleasure at other peoples pain. She was a tragic, evil beauty. She would die alone and hated one day and people would not cry, but let out a laugh of relief she was no longer around. I hated her and I knew I would laugh at her downfall. "Are you scared wittle baby Lily?" she said in a cruel imation of a babie's voice. "Will You wold my hand wittle Lily?" She asked. "Get lost Black, go torture something, it seems like the kinda thiung you would do in your spare time." Haven said harshly. "Aww you wirls dun wike me?" she smirked and walked back to her group of slytherin friends. "Think if she becomes a death eater and we fight her, we can have the authority to kill the god dammed bitch?" Lo asked. "Probabley not Lo." I said and she pouted. "And its not 'If she becomes a death eater'" said Lark shuddering "Its when." she turned a bright shade of white and continued trembeling. Haven helped her up and began half carrying her to the hospital wing. "Lark has never been this scared before, not even when she had to show her mom her failing potions grade last year." I said and squeezed Bernadette's hand again. "These are scary times. I think it is good that we are around during difficult years, so that we can help, we can be useful." Bernadette said and she appeareds no longer frightened but determined. "We are gonna be legends as the girls who fought the death eaters...we will be known as the True, Brave and sexy sisters!" Lo said her eyes gleaming with enthusiam. "I don't think we will be rememberd as sexy." I said smiling. "Why not?" Lo pretened to frown. "Because history is too boring to have the word "sexy" in it." I explianed. "Yeah Lily is right, imagine Binns saying 'sexy" Bernadette said giggiling. Just as we were getting ready to head inside the castle for lunch we heardc cheers from back near the lake. We turned around curiosly and saw James Potter grinning as Severus Snape swam gasping and cursing back to the edge of the lake, James it seems had knocked him in. "What the hell is Potter trying to do?" Lo asked walking closer towards the laughing, jeering crowd to get a better view. I was torn between disaprovel and amusment, but I rememberd Bellatrix, and her getting pleasure from mocking us and I knew something had to be done. But before I could tell James to back off, Snape lauched a curse at him and James was flung back wards his skin turing a sickening shade of green. He narrowed his eyes and summoned a bottle of shampoo. He opened it and directed it with his wand to force its way into Snapes mouth. Snape sputterd and choked and James took the oppertunity to curse him agian, this time making his too an odd sort of dance. Snape finally spit out the shampoo bottle and raised his wand at James, but Sirius had already cursed his eyebrows with began to grow so quickley they sheilded his eyes from veiw making him unable to aim a spell, and so wet, dancing and with eyebrows growing rapidly Snape stood at the edge of the lake surroned by laughing onlookers and a furious and green James Potter. It was a morning worthy of remebrence.
"He just shoved that shampoo bottle right in Snape's mouth!" Lo told Haven excitedly at dinner when Haven and Lark returned from the nurse. "And then James made him dance this jig type thing!" added Bernadette laughing at the memory. "He was about to curse an already puke green James agian when Sirius made his eyebrows grow over his eyes so he couldn't see!" Lo said taking a sip of milk. "He was like this disgusting dance monster!" Bernadette said laughing even harder and making Lo snort milk from her nose. Even I had to laugh at this, to spite my guilty feelings that I should have intervined to help Snape. "Hey ladies, whats so funny?" asked the smooth voice of Sirius Black, accompained by none other than Remus Lupin, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew. "Snape the disgusting dance monster." Bernadette said still smirking. The four boys chortled too. "Hey Lily, you look nice today." James winked at me. I cringed. He took the hint and the four of them went back to their seats. "I can't see why you don't like James!" Lark said incredlously. "He is conceited, rude, cruel....whats to like?" I asked not expecting an answer. "He is handsome, a good quiddich player, smart ooh very smart, and he is funny." Lark said as though it was the most obvious things in the world. "And he obviously likes you." Bernadette piped in. "Yeah but I DON'T like him!" I said annoyed. "Its your choice Lily,but I think he is a basterd too." Lo shot a dirty look in his direction and I would bet you a gallon she was remembering her white hair. "Well if we are all finished with dinner we have an essay we need to finish in Divination." I said stading up eager for a change of subject. "Yeah lets head on down to the library until we finish that." Lark said and we left the great hall, grabbed our bags and enterd the quiet library, several other students were writing on parchment or leaning over books in the dim lighted room as we selected a table and pulled out our half finished essays on dream interpriations. We worked continuesly until the library door opened and four male voices broke the silence of the room. "Hey ladies watchya doing?" James asked sitting across from me. "I need some help with my potions essay anyone wanna lend me hand?" Sirius asked sitting next to James and across form Bernadette. "We're working on divination." Lo said and added "Duh" as she continued to write about the meaning of falling in a dream sequence. "Oh well we could use help with that too." James leaned over and read my Parchment. "Back off Potter Im working." I snapped
"Oh well sorry didn't mean to disturb you Evans." he said sounding nervous which was odd because arrogent James Potter coudln't feel nervous around me...could he?
"We should leave them to do their homework." Remus advised. "Good day." Sirius said with a small bow and the four left the library. "James doesn't just like you, he is stalking you." Haven said pinching herself to keep from giggiling. "shut up Haven." I said returning to how the days of the week effect your dreams.
"The auror Kyro Cauldron has gone missing, it is believed that Lord Voldemort is behind his disapearnce." Lo read aloud then began reading another article. "The body of Thomas Kelly has been found yesterday night. He was killed by Avada Kedavra and judging by his wounds he was tortured for some time before his death. The dark mark (A emarld skull composed of stars with a serpant, the mark the death eaters project into the air after they kill someone) was found over him and he was suspended to a tree by his wrists." Lo skimmed the paper before reading a third article. "12 muggles have disapeard yesterday it is belived that muggles too, are faced with the terrible threat of Lord Voldemort and it is believed the muggle killings are done for the amusment of the death eaters." Lo shudderd and read more from another section of the paper "Lord Voldemort is a name we are hearing spoken by fewer people everyday as this wizard is becomingmore feared he is now being referred to as 'You-know-who' and 'He- who-must-not-be-named'" Lo stopped reading her eyes almost as wide as Lark's. Haven flung her arms around me and Bernadette. "Nothing can happened to us or our familys, I'll just simply die if it does!" she whimperd. "Oh you will die, all of you. You mudbloods, traitors, you sicken me." Bellatrix spit on Haven. "You are gonna pay for that Black." Lo said standing her wand rasied. "I wouldn't attack a prefect, you halfblood." she said a look of pure hatred on her beautiful face. "They think they can attack us?" said a slytherin named Nott with an amused edge to his hard voice. "Let them try." said Lestrange glaring at us. "I would like to see if they are brave enough." Severus Snape snarled. "Silencio!" Lo shouted aiming at Snape. I wasn't sure why she wanted to take his voice away but I supposed it might be a good idea,or it would have been if it had worked, "Protego!" he shouted and the spell rebounded. Lo jumped out of the way and it hit Lark who opened her mouth to scream but no sound came out. The slytherins sniggerd. Bellatrix mutterd something under her breath and the spell knocked an unsuspecting Haven backwards. The word 'Mudblood' cut itself into her lower arm, droplets of blood fell onto the grass and tears of fury leaked from Haven's eyes. "Now everyone will now how flithy and dirty your blood is." Bellatrix said laughing softly. Then she smiled at me, it was more of a sneer.... "Your turn Evans" she said raising her wand but from behind her amale voice yelled the disarming charm and Bellatrix's wand flew from her raised hand. "Potter." Bellatrix hissed and turning towards him. I took the oppertunity and yelled "Impendmenta!" she fell foward unable to move. she screamed and Snape yelled a curse and blue fire shot at me from his wand. "Protego!" I yelled just it time and the fire blew up knocking me into Bernadette who screamed another hex and Snape was now trying to stop a nose bleed. "You'll regret this mudbloods and losers." Lestrange threatned his wand returned to his robe as he carried Bellatrix away and Snape and Nott followed. "They're sick." Sirius said running up to us, "Are you all okay?" he looked concerned. "NOOOOOO" mouth Lark still unable to speak due to the silencing charm. "I'm not!" said Haven crying and staring at her bleeding arm. "Il take you up to the hospital wing" Lo said putting her arm around Haven and beckoning Lark to follow. "Go job on making snape get a nosebleed. Next time just curse his nose off. It would be an improvment." Sirius said to Bernadette who smiled. "And Evans managed to hex Bellatrix." Potter said with a grin. "So did you." Bernadette reminded him. "Thanks Potter for disarming Bellatrix before I got mudblood cut into my arm. I owe you one." I said grudgingly I really did not want to owe Potter any favors. "Then will you go out with me?" He asked hopfully, "No, Potter I wont." I answerd curtly. "Oh fine. Well I guess we will you girls around." James said and he and his friends walked back up to the castle. "We should go see Haven and lark, make sure they're all right." I said to Bernadette so we walked in silence up to the hospital wing. "I hate those future death eaters." Bernadette whisperd to me as we enterd the infirmary. Haven was still bleeding slightly and Lark said "Hi" in a horse voice moist unlike her own. "It will only get worse, this is just the beginning." Belltrix said from where she stood with Snape who was still trying to stop his nose bleed. "I promise it will get worse." she added.
AN: hehe I really took the time into picking out names. ex: Alivina Truda the Huffle puff prefect ALIVINA: means Nobel friend and TRUDA: means Loved one. and the Ravenclaw Prefect INGRAM: means the son of the raven. see? well tell me what u think, and Ill post chapter two.