Author's note: Yay!!!! Sixth year has actually begun!!!! This'll be good, I
promise! Read and review please!
A Lily and James Story Part I: Sixth Year
Chapter 1: Why witches should never get re-associated with old muggle friends.
Lily woke up early on September 1, the day she would be returning to Hogwarts. She was going to the station with Alaina, Jonathan and Jillian today; her parents had to be in work by the time the train left at 11 am. Petunia was most certainly able to drive her, but made the excuse that she had something really important to do and thus couldn't do it. Lily lugged down her bags, thank and Lizzie downstairs to the living room and then went back upstairs to get ready for the long trip to Hogwarts. She came back downstairs at 9 am.
"I'm running late!!!!"
All three of them would be there in half an hour's time and she hadn't even eaten her breakfast. The doorbell rang a few minutes later. Lily anxiously checked who was outside the door from the window. Eilis was standing on her doorstep wearing casual clothes and her backpack.
'Please say this will go well,' she thought.
Lily opened the door.
"Well, this is a surprise....... hi........ um, what are you doing here?"
Eilis made a questioning face.
"Have you forgotten already? Didn't you get a letter from school a few days ago?"
"Yeah. but I don't go there anymore so I ripped it up and put it in into the recycling bag."
"YOU DID WHAT?????"
"Listen to me Eilis, I'm going back to boarding school!"
Eilis took a step inside the house.
"No you're not. I did research to find out what school you go to... there is no record of a school anywhere up there... you lied to me! You've been getting homeschooled, haven't you? So, I personally made sure that you were enrolled here. No transcript, but heck, you're in, so come on!"
Then she took a glance at Lily's supplies.
"Cruelty to animals! Who do you think you are keeping a beautiful owl from where it belongs?"
Before Lily could protest, Eilis grabbed Lizzie's cage and opened it. Lizzie flew out of sight.
"Eilis, she's my pet!"
"Well. too bad."
She moved to Lily's trunk. Eilis tried to open it, but couldn't. Lily was grateful that she had put a charm in which Lily was the only one who could open the trunk. Eilis stood up.
"Whatever, come on."
She yanked Lily out of the door and to her mother's car. Without saying a word, Eilis' mother drove them to school. Eilis took grab of Lily and led her over to their classroom. Lily thought of something: the last time she was with James. The mood swing then was natural, but now, she would have to make her mood swings purposely. Lily took a seat that had her individual schedule and sat down. She laid her head down on it and appeared to be taking a nap. Everyone kept away from Lily. It was against school rules to sleep there. Lily soon heard a person walk into the classroom, so she raised her head.
"Good morning, welcome back to school. My name is Mr. Richet," he said.
He had a baritone voice, just like one of the teachers at Hogwarts. He continued on saying,
"Same old process of orientation today, so is there anyone here who's new and need a fill-in?"
Lily raised her hand and Mr. Richet look towards her.
"Ah, a new student! And your name is.........."
"Lily Evans."
Some of her old classmates recognized the name and turned towards her.
"Hey Lily!" "Where've you been?" "Been a while!" "Good to see you again!"
She grinned at them. Lily planned to throw her mood swings soon enough. Orientation was quite simple, in Mr. Richet's lecture. There was going to be an assembly, distribution of locker numbers and then half an hour in each of their classes so their teachers could tell them what further supplies they needed for classes, distribution of textbooks, so on and so forth. In one of her classes, Lily looked at the clock. 10:50 am........ how dearly she wanted to be at the Hogwarts Express.... then she felt another real mood swing come on....... feeling a surge of anger, she yelled in anguish rather loudly, getting the attention of everybody else in the classroom.
"Miss Evans, please explain why you did that," her math teacher demanded.
"Explain? Okay.I'm not even supposed to be here, I was falsely enrolled in here by somebody else, no idea, but I need to get to my school!"
Her math teacher shook his head.
"You poor girl......Lauren, please show Lily to the nurse's office where she can calm down."
"Please don't tell me you don't believe me!" Lily protested helplessly. Then Lauren pulled her out of the classroom towards the nurse's office.
At Platform 9 3/4, Alaina, Jillian and Jonathan had just entered the barrier. It was Lily's fault they had gotten there late; Alaina had been waiting outside Lily's doorstep for a bit more than 15 minutes. With her parents' car gone, they then assumed that Lily's parents had just driven her over there at the last second. After having cleared their luggage away, they started looking for Lily in the train compartments. None of the Gryffindor sixth year girls had seen Lily at all that morning and she was most certainly not in the prefects' compartment. Lily said she'd much rather be with her friends than with other prefects.
Five minutes to departure, Jonathan spotted the Marauders in their compartment. He knocked on the glass. James looked up and answered the door.
"Hey, you're Jonathan, right?" James said cheerfully.
"Yeah. hey, have any of you seen Lily this morning? She wasn't home when we were supposed to pick her up to come here."
James' morale plummeted. "You mean she's not here? I haven't seen her at all so far."
Then he turned to the rest of the Marauders and asked them also. None of the three boys had seen her either. Alaina spotted Jonathan and went over to him.
"Lily's definitely not on the train, what should we do?"
"Send out an owl of course!" "Can't be done, all owls are kept away until we arrive in Hogsmeade."
Then the train pulled out of the station.
"Too late to go back to her house now," James helplessly noted.
Lily was lying down on the nurse's patient bed staring at the clock most of the time. The nurse observed her closely. When the clock struck 11, she started softly singing:
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something we please, whether we be old or bald or young with scabby knees, our heads could do with filling with some interesting stuff, for now they're bare and full of air, dead files and bits of fluff. So teach us things worth knowing, bring back what we've forgot, just do your best, we'll do the rest, and learn until our brains all rot."
The nurse gave Lily an odd glance then looked away.
'I've had some students do strange stuff, but that was the most ridiculous song I've ever heard,' the nurse thought to herself.
The rest of the day went quietly. At noontime, Eilis went to the nurse's office to pick up Lily. They both went to Eilis' house, a rather foolish move, Lily thought. Her Hogwarts stuff was still at home and she knew that when her parents saw her stuff still there, they would fear the worst.
"Mrs. Pepnin, I can't believe you're actually doing this to me." she complained as they entered the Pepnin residence.
Eilis cautiously went up to her room, hoping not to be noticed. Mrs. Pepnin turned to Lily.
"Whatever are you talking about? Eilis told me that you transferred back and that you two agreed to carpool."
"That was all against my will and knowledge, Mrs. Pepnin," Lily said quietly.
Mrs. Pepnin let out a small gasp and covered her mouth with her hand. Lily continued on,
"My school started today. We get there by a train that only brings us to school and then back home at the end of term. I have no way of contacting my school as I lost the one thing for contact by Eilis."
It was starting to get a bit unbearable for Lily to keep on going. Mrs. Pepnin understood how Lily felt at the moment and went up to Eilis' room. Lily went to the living room and laid down on the couch. Lily wondered how she would be able to go back to school. Then she cringed as she heard Eilis' mom yell at Eilis upstairs. Lily really hadn't wanted Eilis to get in big trouble. Some time later, the phone rang. Mrs. Pepnin abruptly stopped yelling and went to answer the phone.
"Hello, Lauren Pepnin speaking. oh, yes, hello Mrs. Evans."
Lily's head jerked up at the last word she had just heard. Her parents must be worried sick about her; Petunia probably didn't care. Lily put her head back down on the couch again. She soon fell asleep. Some time later, Lily was reawaken by her parents gently shaking her to get off the couch.
"Come now Lily, it's time to go home."
Lily felt awkward when she left the Pepnin residence. It was wonderful to be with her parents, but the place she most wanted to be in most was Hogwarts.
'They must be having the feast now,' Lily thought.
A Lily and James Story Part I: Sixth Year
Chapter 1: Why witches should never get re-associated with old muggle friends.
Lily woke up early on September 1, the day she would be returning to Hogwarts. She was going to the station with Alaina, Jonathan and Jillian today; her parents had to be in work by the time the train left at 11 am. Petunia was most certainly able to drive her, but made the excuse that she had something really important to do and thus couldn't do it. Lily lugged down her bags, thank and Lizzie downstairs to the living room and then went back upstairs to get ready for the long trip to Hogwarts. She came back downstairs at 9 am.
"I'm running late!!!!"
All three of them would be there in half an hour's time and she hadn't even eaten her breakfast. The doorbell rang a few minutes later. Lily anxiously checked who was outside the door from the window. Eilis was standing on her doorstep wearing casual clothes and her backpack.
'Please say this will go well,' she thought.
Lily opened the door.
"Well, this is a surprise....... hi........ um, what are you doing here?"
Eilis made a questioning face.
"Have you forgotten already? Didn't you get a letter from school a few days ago?"
"Yeah. but I don't go there anymore so I ripped it up and put it in into the recycling bag."
"YOU DID WHAT?????"
"Listen to me Eilis, I'm going back to boarding school!"
Eilis took a step inside the house.
"No you're not. I did research to find out what school you go to... there is no record of a school anywhere up there... you lied to me! You've been getting homeschooled, haven't you? So, I personally made sure that you were enrolled here. No transcript, but heck, you're in, so come on!"
Then she took a glance at Lily's supplies.
"Cruelty to animals! Who do you think you are keeping a beautiful owl from where it belongs?"
Before Lily could protest, Eilis grabbed Lizzie's cage and opened it. Lizzie flew out of sight.
"Eilis, she's my pet!"
"Well. too bad."
She moved to Lily's trunk. Eilis tried to open it, but couldn't. Lily was grateful that she had put a charm in which Lily was the only one who could open the trunk. Eilis stood up.
"Whatever, come on."
She yanked Lily out of the door and to her mother's car. Without saying a word, Eilis' mother drove them to school. Eilis took grab of Lily and led her over to their classroom. Lily thought of something: the last time she was with James. The mood swing then was natural, but now, she would have to make her mood swings purposely. Lily took a seat that had her individual schedule and sat down. She laid her head down on it and appeared to be taking a nap. Everyone kept away from Lily. It was against school rules to sleep there. Lily soon heard a person walk into the classroom, so she raised her head.
"Good morning, welcome back to school. My name is Mr. Richet," he said.
He had a baritone voice, just like one of the teachers at Hogwarts. He continued on saying,
"Same old process of orientation today, so is there anyone here who's new and need a fill-in?"
Lily raised her hand and Mr. Richet look towards her.
"Ah, a new student! And your name is.........."
"Lily Evans."
Some of her old classmates recognized the name and turned towards her.
"Hey Lily!" "Where've you been?" "Been a while!" "Good to see you again!"
She grinned at them. Lily planned to throw her mood swings soon enough. Orientation was quite simple, in Mr. Richet's lecture. There was going to be an assembly, distribution of locker numbers and then half an hour in each of their classes so their teachers could tell them what further supplies they needed for classes, distribution of textbooks, so on and so forth. In one of her classes, Lily looked at the clock. 10:50 am........ how dearly she wanted to be at the Hogwarts Express.... then she felt another real mood swing come on....... feeling a surge of anger, she yelled in anguish rather loudly, getting the attention of everybody else in the classroom.
"Miss Evans, please explain why you did that," her math teacher demanded.
"Explain? Okay.I'm not even supposed to be here, I was falsely enrolled in here by somebody else, no idea, but I need to get to my school!"
Her math teacher shook his head.
"You poor girl......Lauren, please show Lily to the nurse's office where she can calm down."
"Please don't tell me you don't believe me!" Lily protested helplessly. Then Lauren pulled her out of the classroom towards the nurse's office.
At Platform 9 3/4, Alaina, Jillian and Jonathan had just entered the barrier. It was Lily's fault they had gotten there late; Alaina had been waiting outside Lily's doorstep for a bit more than 15 minutes. With her parents' car gone, they then assumed that Lily's parents had just driven her over there at the last second. After having cleared their luggage away, they started looking for Lily in the train compartments. None of the Gryffindor sixth year girls had seen Lily at all that morning and she was most certainly not in the prefects' compartment. Lily said she'd much rather be with her friends than with other prefects.
Five minutes to departure, Jonathan spotted the Marauders in their compartment. He knocked on the glass. James looked up and answered the door.
"Hey, you're Jonathan, right?" James said cheerfully.
"Yeah. hey, have any of you seen Lily this morning? She wasn't home when we were supposed to pick her up to come here."
James' morale plummeted. "You mean she's not here? I haven't seen her at all so far."
Then he turned to the rest of the Marauders and asked them also. None of the three boys had seen her either. Alaina spotted Jonathan and went over to him.
"Lily's definitely not on the train, what should we do?"
"Send out an owl of course!" "Can't be done, all owls are kept away until we arrive in Hogsmeade."
Then the train pulled out of the station.
"Too late to go back to her house now," James helplessly noted.
Lily was lying down on the nurse's patient bed staring at the clock most of the time. The nurse observed her closely. When the clock struck 11, she started softly singing:
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something we please, whether we be old or bald or young with scabby knees, our heads could do with filling with some interesting stuff, for now they're bare and full of air, dead files and bits of fluff. So teach us things worth knowing, bring back what we've forgot, just do your best, we'll do the rest, and learn until our brains all rot."
The nurse gave Lily an odd glance then looked away.
'I've had some students do strange stuff, but that was the most ridiculous song I've ever heard,' the nurse thought to herself.
The rest of the day went quietly. At noontime, Eilis went to the nurse's office to pick up Lily. They both went to Eilis' house, a rather foolish move, Lily thought. Her Hogwarts stuff was still at home and she knew that when her parents saw her stuff still there, they would fear the worst.
"Mrs. Pepnin, I can't believe you're actually doing this to me." she complained as they entered the Pepnin residence.
Eilis cautiously went up to her room, hoping not to be noticed. Mrs. Pepnin turned to Lily.
"Whatever are you talking about? Eilis told me that you transferred back and that you two agreed to carpool."
"That was all against my will and knowledge, Mrs. Pepnin," Lily said quietly.
Mrs. Pepnin let out a small gasp and covered her mouth with her hand. Lily continued on,
"My school started today. We get there by a train that only brings us to school and then back home at the end of term. I have no way of contacting my school as I lost the one thing for contact by Eilis."
It was starting to get a bit unbearable for Lily to keep on going. Mrs. Pepnin understood how Lily felt at the moment and went up to Eilis' room. Lily went to the living room and laid down on the couch. Lily wondered how she would be able to go back to school. Then she cringed as she heard Eilis' mom yell at Eilis upstairs. Lily really hadn't wanted Eilis to get in big trouble. Some time later, the phone rang. Mrs. Pepnin abruptly stopped yelling and went to answer the phone.
"Hello, Lauren Pepnin speaking. oh, yes, hello Mrs. Evans."
Lily's head jerked up at the last word she had just heard. Her parents must be worried sick about her; Petunia probably didn't care. Lily put her head back down on the couch again. She soon fell asleep. Some time later, Lily was reawaken by her parents gently shaking her to get off the couch.
"Come now Lily, it's time to go home."
Lily felt awkward when she left the Pepnin residence. It was wonderful to be with her parents, but the place she most wanted to be in most was Hogwarts.
'They must be having the feast now,' Lily thought.