AN: Yay! Year two's up! Sequel to the first year, whether you like it or not you'd to bear with it ^_^ I might add some romance in year two cuz as far as I know, 12 is enough for understanding feelings that we had and take things more seriously (if you don't understand, forget me). So far, just feelings first. Please r/r!
bunny chan
Disclaimer: I own all I own, including this plot J
The Marauding Five : Year Two
Chapter 1: Summer Holidays
James Potter sat up in bed and grinned happily. This is the first day of summer holidays and the Marauders – him, Lily Evans, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin – will be enjoying their holidays like how they had enjoyed their previous year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. James jumped over to his daily planner and consulted it. On it, clearly stated on first of June, was two words: Petunia Party.
Grinning again, he rushed to open his window. 'HEY LILY!!! WAKE UP NOW! IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF HOLIDAYS! WE'LL BE ON AS PLANNED! SECTION A: COMPLETED,' James called loudly. He waited patiently for a reply. A loud sound of something dropping and an 'Ouch!' was heard before a redhead girl with shining emerald green eyes looked out of her window. 'ORDER RECEIVED!' Lily Evans called back in reply. Rubbing her head, she turned to her neighbor. 'SIRIUS BLACK!!! SECTION B ALL SET UP LAST NIGHT! SECTION C'S TURN!'
They waited for a while before a very loud thud and a yowl was heard. Both Lily and James stared hard at the window. 'Yeow… SECTION C, RECEIVED ORDER. TOOLS ALL READY. SECTION DEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!' Sirius' call echoed right to two houses after, just as a tired face popped from the window in James' row. 'HEY, SLOW IT!! I'M NOT DEAF Y'KNOW! SECTION D, COMING OVER!' Remus Lupin called as all four houses were heard preparing things before rushing over to the Potters'.
Lily arrived first, through the connected ladder, carrying two boxes full of things. Sirius jumped over, banged onto the wall and landed in Lily's backyard, face flat. Lily was heard screaming at the boy about destroying her herbs and flowers. Remus came after, using the Floo Powder.
They tipped all their boxes over. All but one – the one of them that Lily carried over – onto James' room. Sirius had brought hammers, nails, a couple of planks and a pair of garden shears. Lily's box had a load of Dungbombs in them and Screeching Spiders, wherelse Remus' one contains little papers, written neatly. James dumped four unused Howlers onto the pile, and all four grinned evilly.
Soon, hammerings were heard from Mischief Portal (James' house). One would've thought the kids were doing garden work or carpentry by the sound of it. Finally, after a full two hours' of work, their plan is ready to set on action. With Remus directing everything, they started their so-call plan.
Sirius went to the Evans' backyard and climbed up the ladder to Lily's room ('Watch my plants, Sirius!' Lily shrieked), James went after Sirius. Lily called Lotus over, giving her the four Howlers. The owl stared frighteningly at them and flew off straightaway. From her known experience of taking Howlers from her mistress, she'd to make it real fast to avoid being blown up. Remus pulled out his wand and pocketed the piece of paper as the two ran over to Bluebells Cup (Lily's house) through the backyard ladder.
They paced in Lily's room, waiting for the other two to return.
James and Sirius appeared, a satisfied grin on their face.
'So, how'd it gone?'
'Perfect, Lily! Now, how about breakfast? I'm starving!'
'Forget that first! Let's go over to Petunia's room!'
They tiptoed to the room farthest from Lily's. Petunia, upon receiving the news that she was a squib and her whole family's a wizarding family instead of the 'normal' one, had requested for the farthest room and refused to speak to her sister unless she can't help it. She wasn't upset with the fact that she wasn't a witch. In fact, she was delighted at it. She'd referred to her sister as a freak, but never in front of her parents. But Lily was happy with her sister's attitude. Not only had she hated Petunia for her bossy ways, both had loathed each other from the minute Lily was born.
Lily giggled happily behind her hands as she muster the courage for her most casual voice. She called out loudly to the door, 'BREAKFAST TIME!!!'
Within seconds, they heard the blankets shuffled as Petunia stepped down from her bed. Soon after, a loud scream echoed through the quiet village as the Marauders high-fived each other in delightment. Petunia Evans burst out soon, white faced and her blonde hair stood out in anger. Her horse-like face and her bony figure was bonier than ever. She caught sight of the four of them in the guest room next to hers and pointed furiously at them.
'You- you- put me and everything back to normal!!'
Not only was Petunia white in face, she had a tremendous amount of make-up on it and her hair was in little pigtail ribbons on her left leg, was a box Sirius had made just before. She looked almost like McGonagall two weeks ago with her horrible muggle make-up, Lily mused happily before taking another look at her sister. Then again, Petunia looked worse.
'Sorry sis. Maybe no would do?'
'Who put that box by my bed! I demand an answer! Answer me, freak!'
'PETUNIA TELLY EVANS! Why did you scream?'
The Marauders turned around, only to face Mr and Mrs Evans.
'Morning mum!' Lily greeted them cheerfully before gesturing her hand at Petunia. 'Petunia seemed to have gotten a huge amount of make-up on her face this morning and she's blaming me for it. We came over to see what was that commotion.'
The remaining three nodded in agreement.
'Petunia, I don't see why must you put such an amount of make-up! Even if it's to impress Vernon. And why is your back black? Ugh! Petunia! Get rid of those s- s- sp- spiders!' Mrs Evans said, shakily pointing at the Screeching Spiders that are crawling on the girl's back, just below screeching loudly.
'AAAHHH!!!!! SPIDERS! GET THEM OFF! GET THEM OFF! GET THEM OFFFFF!!!!!!' Petunia screamed frantically, trying to brush the fake spiders away. Mr Evans eyed at Lily, suspecting her to do that. Lily looked on, bemused, but she soon felt her father's glare that suspect her. She gulped nervously as she pulled her wand and remove the spiders from her sister. That way, dad can't suspect me, Lily said fearfully.
Mrs Evans was clinging at the corner of the room, and Petunia looked simply horrified.
'Mom, Lily did this to me! Honestly, she did! Look! My back's black, thanks to the bomb she had planted under my bed! That horrible box must've contained a- a- spell!' Petunia said as she waved her hands.
'Now, I don't think Lily brought back any Dungbombs or Screeching Spiders,' Mrs Evans said, eyeing her other daughter who smiled innocently. 'But I'll check her room, if that will please you.'
Petunia nodded fearfully as her mother went to Lily's room to ransack it for any magical tricks. Remus and Sirius grinned happily at this. All the tricks were kept in their house, so Lily would be found innocent. The four marched down for breakfast, which Gram is cooking merrily in the kitchens.
'Good morning Marauders! How had you enjoyed Hogwarts?' Gram chirped happily at them as she served them breakfast.
'Simply wonderful, Gram! Thanks for those jokes! They pulled Snape beautifully!' Lily said, grabbing a toast.
'Snape?'
'Yep! Severus Snape. He's an ugly git, feather-brained, slimy slimeball, greasy-haired idiot who insults people,' Sirius cut in, happily biting into the toast.
'Good. I bet he was angry,' Mrs Evans voice floated down as she walked into the dining room.
'Your mother rivaled Snape too. Bet that was his son,' Mr Evans whispered to Lily.
'Well, he was my enemy too,' Gram put in helpfully.
'Carrying the traits. I rivaled him for intelligence. I won easily, of course,' Mrs Evans put in as she sat herself down and helped herself onto a toast. 'Yeowch! Hot!' the red haired woman cried as the toast fell onto the floor.
'Well, I rivaled Snape for the most played pranks. I won by five hundred and ninety nine detentions,' Gram said as she grinned at that thought.
'Mom, Gram?' Lily asked solemnly. The two turned to her, expecting her to say something serious.
'Well, I beat the both of you. I rival Severus Snape for pranks and intelligence and house cup,' Lily said again in her solemn voice.
'Not you. WE rivaled him for all of those. 'course, we won easily. Hey, Gryffindor won the house cup!' James said as he did a little jig dance.
The Evans brightened at that.
'You did? That's cool! I heard Gryffindor was at a losing stake ten years in a row,' Gram said chirpily.
'Good for you! Slytherin won at my first year. I can't even look at Snape!' Mrs Evans said, shaking her pretty head, sending her red locks flying.
'Yep! Thanks to saving some idiot from a squid,' Sirius added as he helped himself to his fourteenth toast.
'WHAT? What did you just say Sirius?' Mr Evans asked, wide-eyed at the boy. Sirius gulped his toast forcefully.
'We saved a Slytherin from the Giant Squid. He was about to make a roast out of him,' Remus put in, seeing his friend choking helplessly as he went purple.
Expecting Lily's parents and grandmother to congratulate them on that, they expect another.
'Why didn't you just let it make a roast dinner with that Slytherin?' Mr Evans put in, shaking James uncontrollably until his glasses fell off.
'We wanna throw him back in, but sadly, Remus doesn't agree with the idea,' Lily said as she eyed at the werewolf, who yawned loudly.
'Oh, why didn't you let him be the Squid's dinner! It'll be a favor to Gryffindor!' Gram whined sadly.
'If the Squid found someone else to eat, you should have at least drowned that Slytherin,' Mrs Evans put in.
'Well, we suggested all those, but Remus stopped us from doing it,' James said when Mr Evans stopped shaking him.
'Remus!!'
The boy just gulped as the three disappointed voice called his name.
'Well, at least we earned fifty points each for doing that.'
The other three just nodded sadly before proceeding to gobble up the breakfast.
'JAMES POTTER!! Just why are you at Bluebells Cup without telling us? You want me to ban your tricks?' Mrs Potter's scream called from the front door. James swallowed his toast quickly.
'SIRIUS BLACK!!! Do you still want me to starve you?' Mrs Black's angry voice cut in. Sirius choked again.
'REMUS LUPIN!! You seriously don't want me to owl Dumbledore to expel you, do you?' Mrs Lupin's voice called through. Remus paled.
The three boys gulped in their remaining toast as Lily comfort them.
'Now, James, you know your mom loves tricks too much to ban them! Sirius, you had your breakfast already! She can't possibly starve you then. Remus? I don't think Dumbledore'll expel you. I mean, we're the top of our form, aren't we? Surely he wouldn't want a star pupil to leave!' Lily said as she drink her pumpkin juice, comforting her three friends at the same time. Mr and Mrs Evans answered the door and Mrs Potter, Black and Lupin stormed in angrily, their husbands in tow, grinning from ear to ear.
'Hello! The kids-'
'MARAUDERS!' Lily cut.
'-were talking to us about their time at Hogwarts. Care to join us for breakfast?' Mrs Evans said pleasantly as they were led into the dining room, where the boys stared at their mothers.
'Well, it'll be fine, Rose. We need to know what happened anyway,' Mrs Black said as she settled down for a toast. The four women chatted happily about their kids' achievement and mischief.
'Say, did you hear when the kids-' Mr Evans started, cut off by a shrill 'MARAUDERS!', but decided to ignore them, '-saving a Stinking Slytherin? Maybe you should teach Remus more sense, Romulus. He asked them not to leave it to the Squid for dinner!' 'I say, Remus, you did that? It'll save the Gryffindors from more trouble, but what's done's done,' Romulus Lupin said with a shrug. Edward Potter frowned at James, who cowered slightly. 'I thought you would've at least drowned that Slytherin!' Edward said to James, who seem to hide away. Orion Black just grinned. 'Hey Sirius! Did you remember to put a curse on that Slytherin?' Orion started at his son. Sirius just grinned. 'Well, I sorta forgot, but we put a rolling hex on him in Charms' exam.' 'He failed?' 'Scraped through though. Snape helped him,' Lily said with a shrug.
Edward, Orion and Romulus stared hard at her.
'What? What did I say?' Lily asked, puzzled.
'You said Snape?'
'That's right. Our rival. A big-headed boy with greasy hair and oily skin and…'
'And the Howler we sent him on his first day! Gosh, you should've listened to that song Lily cooked up for him!'
'Goody! Solomon Snape, his father, was our rival!' Orion said, as if he's still in Sirius' age. But then again, the Marauders' father all had a sense of humor in them.
Rose, Melissa Black, Yvonne Potter and Anne Lupin walked over to the small group with Gram.
'So, what's up?' Yvonne started.
'Yvonne, can you believe our kids saved a Slytherin? Should we sentence James to five years of pranks?'
'They saved a WHAT?'
'You got it right, Anne!'
'How could they?'
'Mom, we don't know until Remus check his pulse!' Sirius said to Melissa.
'Amazing how much a pulse can tell,' Remus said in an amused tone.
'Well, what did it tell?' That was Gram.
'He's stupid-'
'a coward-'
'Slytherin-'
'And a really annoying person,' Lily finished as she grumbled, 'and they're all true.'
'From then on-'
'He kept on annoying-'
'Us. Seriously-'
'He won't leave us alone!'
'Worst than Tally, Nina, Pertsy and Sita.'
'Worst than Dan and Thomas, too!'
'And you wouldn't want to know how annoying they already are.'
Their parents and Gram sighed.
Then Lily remembered something.
'Hey, I'm a psychic and a Seer, mom!' Lily said happily. Rose clapped her hands happily at this as she did a little dance around with Gram. 'Hurray! Lily's a seer! Did you hear that? Lily's a Seer!!' Rose exclaimed happily as she pulled everyone up and dance everywhere. James could see the very same resemblance both Lily and Rose shared. Both had long red hair and emerald green eyes. And really pretty, too, James noted mentally to himself before shaking himself back. Lily had pulled him into a dance with her mother. The others watched on, amused, until William (Lily's dad) pulled everyone to dance on the floor.
Petunia came down after washing herself up (took her a long time) only to be greeted by a sight where everyone from her sister to Gram dancing a sort of barn dance on the floor. The thirteen year old blonde stared at them in disbelief. 'Just what in the world do you think you are all doing?' Petunia said, eyes wide.
'Hello, Petunia!' Orion greeted her as he rushed to help the girl down, only to be smacked on the head by Melissa. 'It's about time you stop flirting!' James, Remus and Lily turned to Sirius, who grinned sheepishly.
'Mom, dad, I'm going to the Dursleys,' Petunia said and, without waiting for a reply, yanked open the front door and walked out, muttering about freaks, witches, wizards, magics and spells. Everyone stared after her in silence.
'Seriously, Rose, I don't understand how you can put up with that child! She's rude,' Yvonne said in a shocked voice. 'She deserves a few Dungbombs,' Melissa put in helpfully. Anne did some thinking before replying, 'I think she needs more than a few Dungbombs.'
'No, wait!' Lily shouted as she pulled out her wand. She did a few complicated gestures and Petunia was back on the front door. Lotus happily swooped down at her and dropped all four Howlers. James, Sirius and Remus grinned. Petunia, knowing what'd happen if she left it there, opened them.
'PETUNIA WHATEVER-YOUR-MIDDLE-NAME-IS EVANS! WATCH OUT FOR MORE OF THESE IN THE HOLIDAYS! YOU'LL ENJOY THEM, I'M SURE YOU WILL!! WATCH OUT!'
A short one. Remus shrugged it off. Who cares? The next one was opened…
'HALO PETUNIA! I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS LITTLE PRESENT I HAVE FOR YA! COURTESY FROM PEEVES!'
It burst into flames as Petunia sneezed uncontrollably at the hexed howler. The third one…
'Oh, you horse faced CREEP DESERVES NO TIPS
ON BEING A COOL LOOKING WITCH!
WHO CARES WHAT YOU AND YOUR BONY LOOKS
AND YOUR STUPID AND DUMB ATTITUDE?
I BET VERNON WAS PAID TO BRING YOU OUT
WASN'T HE STUPID TO GET TRICKED BY BRUT?
HE ISN'T BRIGHT AND HE MIGHT END UP TIED
BY BRUT AND GANG ALRIGHT.
YOU THINK YOU'RE COOL AND GOOD LOOKING TOO
BUT I THINK THE OTHERWISE, PETUNIA
WITCHES AND WIZARDS ARE THE COOLEST THINGS
SO DON'T GO INSULTING THESE NICE TRICKS!'
Lily stared. That wasn't how she'd expected it to be. Sure, she made the howler compose it's own poem, but one this insulting? She must really use it on Snape! The Howler burst before their eyes and showered Petunia with three curses. The curse of bogies, the frog-leaping curse and the beautifying curse, which turned her into McGonagall in heavy make-up. Sirius took a quick photo with the camera. Petunia didn't open the next Howler. It had burst and Sirius looked down.
'Oh well, I'll send her five tomorrow…'
Petunia, angry by now, turned out and leaped towards the Dursleys, unknown of her condition and looks.
'Lily, did you compose that poem? I know you enjoy writing stories and poems, but I didn't expect you to write one for your own sister,' Rose said as she stared at where Petunia had last stood. Despite her words, she had a smile on her face.
'Lily writes stories?' James asked.
'Oh yes! And they're pretty good too. Didn't you know?'
'No.'
'Well, she did. There!'
'Hey Lil, show it to us next time, kay?'
'Sorry Sirius. No,' Lily said, sticking her tongue at the boys.
'Hey, what about that party? We all got top in our forms and our tricks are all pulled successfully! When's the party?' Remus asked, bouncing up and down.
'Well, you can send the invitation cards and we can have it tomorrow if you like,' Romulus said thoughtfully. 'We'll just magic everything. We can do it today and they'll send the cards,' Anne said dismissively.
**
That night, the Evans, Potters, Blacks and Lupins threw a party to celebrate. Everyone in the village was invited and everyone enjoyed the night. Everyone but Petunia. She hated it. She hid in her room all the night and forced herself to sleep whilst listening to the happy chatterings outside.
The Marauders, however, were having a time of their lives, eating everything that was served. Gram cooked special delicacies, yummy puddings, and extraodinary dishes. It was only then did Lily found out that half her village were from the Wizarding World.
Somehow, though Lily know not how, the Chapmans were in their village. Tally came over, sulking in face because she just managed to scrap through, even with Lily providing the exam tips for her, and her parents had given her a row for it. But she brightened up, when she knew who had organized the feast.
'Lily, James, Sirius, Remus! I didn't know you were living in this village!' Tally exclaimed happily as she ran forwards towards them.
'Well, in case you're wondering, we just moved in. Hello?? Of course we're in this village! Only we lived far from your place,' Remus mused as he stared at the direction the girl had came from. Right at the other end of the village.
'Hehe, guess so. Didn't you guys come for trick or treat during halloween? I'd never seen any of you guys here before,' Tally continued, blushing a little.
'No. We were always grounded during Halloweens. James and Sirius usually had most of their pranks at Halloweens anyway, so we were grounded from going trick-treating every Halloweens to stay in our rooms. 'Course, I always sneak to James' house to set up more tricks with the other Marauders for the next day,' Lily said in one breath as she grabbed a drumstick and took a bite in it.
'Too bad.'
'But, hey! Didn't you see us come along in the morning, the day before we went to Hogwarts? Sirius, did you forget to terrorize the outskirts of Loopy Village?' James asked, eyeing at Sirius who was in charge of painting invisible paints on each door.
'No. I slept in.'
'How about those garden havoc? Remus?'
'I did everything!'
'Sorry, I was reading in my room in the evenings.'
'Lily, did you seem to forget those biting teacups?'
'Hey, I got that! Lily, you placed them?' Tally watched at Lily in amazement.
The red head simply took a bow.
'Where're you parents anyway?' Tally asked, eyeing for her hosts.
'Oh, mum's there, Gram's at the kitchens, dad's in the garden. Sirius, did you hide that Shrinking Shovel?' Lily asked as she looked worriedly at Sirius. He shook his head, his long hair flying all over. No sooner had he done that, a loud voice boomed.
'LILY ROSE EVANS! COME HERE THIS INSTANCE!'
'Great. Thanks a lot Si. I'll remember you for this,' Lily muttered as she hurried towards the garden shed.
Sirius bowed her away as Lily placed a punch on his face, sending him backwards with James to catch him.
'Not a merry company with your parents, is it?'
'No. And with the luck I'm having, mum'll be coming, telling me that I'm not allowed for dinner because-' Sirius never had a chance to finish, because very soon, Melissa's shrill voice called him. Sulking, Sirius ran over and the rest heard her cries.
'-planting roaching roses in the Thompsons' gardens, Sirius, you're not allowed to eat anything for dinner!'
James nudged Remus. Everyone knows that Sirius' worst fear is being starved. Tally left them as she hurried over to her calling parents. The night passed peacefully, save the time when James and Sirius planted croakroach clusters in some guests' food.
**
The holidays passed peacefully and eventful for the four Marauders. Petunia, however, had been their main target for each prank, especially Sirius and James'. Lily seemed to have taken to sending her sister uncountable Howlers each morning and doodling on her sister's diary. Petunia scoffed her sister when she explained her lessons and detentions to her parents, saying it was only stupid tricks. She earned four arms from Lily for that comment. Remus was so far the only one of the four who had not done anything that is 'too mean' to Petunia yet. All he did was just hexing all her letters to Dursley.
One day, when Lily was writing a potion essay, an owl swept into her window, just before dropping on her bed for a nap. Recognising the owl to be the irresponsible one that had sent her last year's first letter from Hogwarts, Lily tore the letter from it, changed it into a rainbow shine and sent it off the window, knocking down James, who just received his owl. Lily opened the letter and a parchment and the Hogwarts Express ticket fell on her lap. Lily picked the parchment, surveying what book she'll be having this year before calling her mother.
'Mum! When are we going to Diagon Alley? I just received my booklist, ingredient list, needed-things list -' Lily called loudly from her room. Walking down to talk is just too tiring. 'I get what you mean, Li, no need to rant on. The Potters are taking you this year,' Rose's voice floated from the kitchens.
Lily jumped at that. Would she be taking Floo Powder again? She hated the way the flames had swallowed her into that dark fireplace and she wouldn't like to use it. It gives her the creeps, in case she'd fall into the wrong fireplace. She gulped before turning to call James. Opening her window wide, she saw James almost ready to shout. His breath was hold in and his face is quite purple with the amount of air in him. His cheeks were puffed up and his mouth was very small, because of his cheeks swelling. Lily stared for a moment before bursting into a whole string of laughter. James turned to a nearby mirror, only to fall laughing onto the floor.
'Hey James! I hear you're taking me to Diagon Alley!' Lily called afer recovering from her laugh. James, however, was still struggling on the ground. Pulling himself straight, he called back.
'Yea. Sirius and Remus won't be coming though. Seems like they will be going only on 31st August.'
'Worst luck. I'm in to bet Sirius was grounded and Remus, well, his time's about now,' Lily said as she pulled a huge calender to her, filled with little full moons on certain places. The lunar calender sure is a help to know when Remus'll be sick.
'Come over. We're leaving soon,' James' voice called as his face disappeared from the window.
Sighing, Lily grabbed her Gringotts spare key, her purse full of wizarding money and her needed-items list that had just arrived. Climbing down carefully from the placed ladder, she placed it over James' window and climbed up again, only to be greeted by James with earwigs.
'AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! EARWIGS!' Lily screamed loudly.
'Geesh Lily, you'd just woken the dead!' James said, covering his ear as he removed them from Lily.
Still shaking, Lily managed to stutter, 'I hate earwigs…'
'Tell me earlier, kay? I didn't know you hate them.'
'Well, I know what you hate. For goodness' sake, I've been living with you ever since we were borne! How can you not know what I hate? Fine, you knew what I fear, what do I hate? Earwigs and caterpillars and carrots!' Lily screamed at James.
'Whoa! Calm it, Li! Gosh, you're sooo right! What do I hate, may I know?'
'You hate garden worms and cabbages. Good. Maybe I should go down to my garden and dig for a worm and throw it on you,' Lily replied hatefully.
'Right. How come you knew what I hate and I don't know yours?'
'I'm smart, idiot. Now are we going Diagon Alley?'
'No, not today.'
Just then, Yvonne's voice had floated up…
'Are you ready James? Lily, are you there? Rose asked me to bring you along.'
'Hm… Rose happens to be my middle name too. Does that mean I called her to bring me there? How weird,' Lily said, rolling her eyes at James as the two rushed down the stairs.
'Uh, are we going by Floo Powder again?' Lily asked fidgeting nervously as she stared hard at the fireplace. Yvonne shook her head. 'Naah! I hate those fireplaces. Ends me up in soots anyway, so we'll be taking the Knight Bus.'
'Knight Bus?' Lily and James echoed.
'Right.'
She pulled out her wand and stick her arm outside her front door as a purple bus arrived with a big bang.
'Diagon Alley please,' Yvonne said as she handed the money to the conductor, a funny man with a very strange accent and voice. The bus left with a bang again as they were greeted with a muggle London. Lily stared, shocked.
'Tis' where we ar' 'efore you 'ome,' Ernie said as he pulled a stop in front of the Leaky Cauldron.
Yvonne got down as they went to a brick wall. Lily stared on. What are they supposed to do? Even her psychic powers can't help much now, as she didn't know what to think. To her surprise, Yvonne started counting the bricks from a dustbin, muttering to herself, before tapping on a brick. Still puzzled, Lily stared at the brick wall again. Only one thing. It wasn't there anymore. She gasped as James looked at her amazed and puzzled face with amusement. Before her was Diagon Alley.
Without much words, Yvonne pulled them straight to Flourish and Blotts to purchase their books. Having being in there for the first time (the previous year, Gram had left them with Ollivander whilst she shop for their books). Tons of books were stacked right up to the ceiling. Lily stared happily at all of them as a craving look appeared on her face. Just like a kid looking at a sweet shop, James chuckled to himself. Lily proceeded to look around, taking in every book with interest as Yvonne went up to the counter to request for their books.
They left; but not before Lily buying a big book of Charms.
'Seriously, don't you ever stop reading? Anyway, whatever you want to read this year, don't pull me along. I don't feel like reading that book. I mean, the textbooks are fine, but that big? Are you out of your mind?' James said pointedly at his friend.
'Hey! I can't help it! Besides, they said Charms are important if you want to pass your OWLs and NEWTs!' Lily protested in defense.
'Enough already! We'll be at Madam Malkin's now. You'd both grown, and from what I'd seen, Lily, yours are already almost at your ankles,' Yvonne said as she led them to Malkin's robes shop to get them measured.
After Madam Malkin's, they were brought to refill their potions ingredients and buy quills and inks and parchments. They stop at Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour for a rest. Once done, Lily and James pulled the tired woman to Quidditch supply. After much persuading (and whines and puppy eyes), she'd finally bought them a broom each of the latest model, Butterfly.
Lily insisted that their visit at Diagon Alley hadn't ended if they hadn't visited Zonko's or any joke shop, so Yvonne brought them to Gambol & Japes Wizarding Joke Shop and bought them a new loadful of wizarding pranks to use before pulling them home, determined never to let them pull her anywhere else. Yvonne was too tired to catch a Knight Bus, so she handed them some Floo Powder. Lily groaned at this, but reluctantly took the green powder and threw it into the fireplace, calling Bluebell's Cup.
Once back in her room, Lily sighed as she fell on her bed, books and all. Grinning to herself happily, she pulled out a textbook to start on their first chapter for Defense Against Darks Arts. That was, of course, not before her calling James over to study with her. Studying alone is always a bore.
AN: I'm finished!!! This took me some time, but as you can see, it's pretty simple (it always is, isn't it?). you must've suffered a lot, to read all the way to Year 2, didn't you? I'm so sorry! But please review! Please please please!!!