Declaimer
Yah right, like I could own ANY of this…..If I did I would be a rich 15-year-old living in Hawaii, but I do own Maggie and Jackie (that's it for now...more characters will come later) oh, and I do own Natalie. Toodles, happy reading!The Story Of Us
" Freak….. freak," Lily Evans was sitting in compartment number 7, flipping through her pocket dictionary. "Here it is; freak- any abnormal animal, person, or plant." Lily sighed inwardly and thought to herself, 'I guess Petunia is right, I am a freak. An abnormal person…it says so right here. Surely being a witch classifies as begin abnormal!'
Lily's thoughts were broken when the door of the compartment swung open, and a girl waltzed in, her blond curls bouncing behind her, her violet eyes twinkling with mischief. "Hi," she said to Lily. Lily looked up, "Hello." The girl skipped over and sat down beside Lily.
"I'm Margaret Atwood, but nobody ever calls me that. It's Maggie."
"I'm Lily. Evans. Lily Evans" Lily replied. "Are you a first year?" Oh please say yes, she thought to herself, it's always easier to start off the year with a friend.
"Of course" Maggie answered, "aren't you?"
"Oh, yes I am."
"So," Maggie turned to Lily, "what house are you hoping to be in?"
"House? Aren't we all in the same building?"
"Oh, you're a muggle, aren't you?" Maggie looked at Lily quizzically. (a/n I'm not sure if that's a word, but shh)
"Uh, I guess so" Lily replied uneasily.
"Yah, I thought so. You see there are four houses, Gryffindor, (those are the brave and loyal), Hufflepuff, (the meek and shy), Ravenclaw, (all the smarties) and Slytherin (uah, those are where all the bad witches and wizards come from.) My sister told me that no one likes the Slytherins.
"Who decides what house you're put in?" Lily wanted to know.
"My sister (her name's Chantal) said that we're gonna have to take a test, but I'm thinking that she was just trying to scare me. I want to be in Gryffindor, but Chantal's in Ravenclaw, so it must not be that bad either. She's in her fourth year here at Hogwarts, so she knows pretty much everything there is to know. Now I'm not trying to brag or anything….."
Lily let Maggie go on talking about her sister, but barely listened. She could feel the mother of all big butterflies flapping around in her belly. She didn't know anything about the magic world! What if they really did have to perform a spell? She hadn't even opened a book yet, which was very unlike Lily. She had thought that everyone started off at the same level, but it seemed that those from magical families had a huge privilege over the others.
"Um, Maggie, really sorry to interrupt you, but do you by any chance know any spells or charms or anything? Because I'm getting a bit worried, being from a what's-it-called? muddle family and all, and I don't know…"
"Chill out girl!" Maggie grabbed Lily's arm. "No one knows anything when they start off. That's why we're called 1st years!"
"Oh, Right"
"And anyways, I don't know that much…just the houses, that's pretty much it!" she grinned at Lily, and Lily found herself grinning back.
'It's impossible to not like this girl' she thought to herself.
The rest of the ride was spent giggling over the flavor of jellybeans a plumb witch had brought them. Lily was just spitting out a soap flavored bean when a voice came on and told then that they would be arriving at Hogwarts in 10 minutes, and would they please all put on their robes?
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"Stick with me" Lily said to Maggie, as the walked off the train, and into a sea of people. "Firs' years over here!" A voice was calling. Lily looked up
"Who's that?" she asked Maggie a look of concern on her face.
"Oh that's just Hagrid, he's probably the nicest guy around, well except for Dumbledore. At least that's what Chantal says.
"Dumbledore? What a funny name! Who's he?" Lily asked
"He's the headmaster"
"Oh I see, oh Maggie, I think that we're supposed to get into those boats over there…see there's some young kids like us getting in."
"Yah, I think you're right. Well, come on, what are we waiting for?"
They ran over to a boat together, and were about to get in when three boys shoved past them and climbed in.
"Hey!" shouted Lily, "that was our boat, get you own!"
A boy with messy black hair, and glasses turned around. "Maybe next time be a bit faster!!"
"Ugh, rude!" Lily shouted after them.
"Lily, come on" Maggie was tugging at Lily's sleeve. "There's only one boat left, let's get in it before it leaves!"
Once in the boat, Lily's anger returned. "Jeez, those were some rude boys! Especially the one with the glasses who told us to be faster. We were faster then them, that's how we got there first!"
"Aww, it's alright, they're just boys. Besides, I though that one of them was really cute!"
"Not the one who yelled I hope!"
"No Lily, he can be yours!"
" Oh you!" Lily playfully slapped her friend's arm, doing so, she looked up. "Oh wow, Maggie look, look there's the castle …oh gosh it's beautiful!"
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There were a ton of first years, so as soon as they got out of the boat, the two girls were separated into the wave of kids. 'No matter' thought Lilly, 'I'll see her inside.' But it wasn't until Maggie's name was called for the sorting did she see her friend. Maggie walked over to the stool. And grinned at her sister, who returned it with a thumbs up sign. Maggie then put the hat on her head, and it wasn't a moment until the hat shouted:
"Gryffindor!"
Maggie looked at her sister, who just shrugged, and walked over to the Gryffindor table. Lily stopped paying attention until her name was called. There was just so much to look at! What a wonderful school, Lily had her head in full tilt, and was checking out the ceiling when her name was called. She walked over to the stool and stared at the hat for a good minute before putting it on.
"Now," a voice said into her ear, "you must be Lily Evans."
"Yes, I am, and I was wondering Mr. …….um Hat, if I could be put into Gryffindor. Please?"
"Well, I can see that you would do well in all houses, but if Gryffindor is what you prefer then…… Gryffindor "
The hat shouted that final word to the whole hall. Lily got up, placed the hat back on the stool and walked over to the table Maggie was sitting at.
"Good job," Maggie whispered into her ear, " I was getting nervous that the silly hat would put you into Ravenclaw!"
"No matter, I'm here, shush now, I want to see who else will be in our class."
"Oh Lily, I almost forgot, the cute buy, from the boat (remember him?) he's in Gryyfindor. Look right there" Maggie pointed to a boy with his back to them.
"As long as his rude friend isn't put into Gryffindor, I'm fine."
They watched the rest of the sorting, with a few comments here and there.
"Remus Lupin…. Gryffindor" - '(hey that's the other guy from the boat)
"Jackie Morris….. Gryffindor"- (oh, she looks nice, let's be friends with her)
And finally, "James Potter.." -(that's him! That's that rude little prat from the boat!)……Gryffindor!
"Oh no, please say that this isn't happening! Please!" Lily moaned as she put her head on the table in front of her.
Then Dumbledore said a few words, and loads of food appeared on the table, so it wasn't until a prefect was escorting them to the Gryffindor common room that Lily remembered James.
"I still can't believe that that stupid James Potter was put in our class!"
"You said something?" James, overhearing his name being spoken turned around.
"Uh, nothing, I was just saying isn't that James Potter?" Lily turned to Maggie. "Isn't that right Mags? That's what I said? Right? Maggie?" But Maggie wasn't listening; she was deep in conversation with Jackie Morris. Lily turned back to James.
"That IS what I said you know. I'm not rude, unlike some others around here!" She gave James the look.
"Woah, we've got quite the sparkly one here, haven't we Sirius?" The boy who Maggie had been drooling over turned around.
"What's that you said James?"
"Nothing, never mind"
"Righty-O" Sirius turned back to Remus and was once more engaged in a heavy conversation about Quidditch.
"You better watch it Evans." James hissed at Lily. "Don't mess with the Marauder's". With that he turned back around to join Remus and Sirius.
"What was that all about?" Maggie was at Lily's elbow, a look of shock on her face. "Why was he so rude to you?"
"He's a boy Maggie." And the conversation was left at that.
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Once in the common room, and upstairs in their bedroom Maggie formally introduced Jackie to Lily. The three of them sat on Lily's bed and were talking about how different this school year was going to be when there was a knock on the door, and a very pretty girl entered.
"I'm Natalie. Sorry I wasn't here before, my boyfriend is in Ravencalw, so I went upstairs with him." The three girls looked at each other trying hard not to laugh.
"Well, seeing although I don't want to be a part of your Brady Bunch conversation, I'm going to bed." Maggie started to talk once more about the classes she was looking forward to, but was interrupted by Natalie.
"Oh, and by the way, I'm being switched into Slytherin in the morning, so it'll just be the three of you here." She climbed into her bed and switched off her light. "Now if you don't mind I would like my beauty sleep (I think you all need some beauty sleep too) so don't bother me." And with that she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
"Well, "Jackie said quietly, "At lest we don't have to worry about having her here all year!" The three of them giggled and decided that it was time to go to sleep.
'This,' thought Lily, once warm and snuggly in her covers, 'is going to be the best year ever.'
Please review, I would really appreciate that…. Give me idea's, things that I did wrong, ANYTHING. Just review, so that I know if I should continue. Thanks a ton! ~ Madeline