Liby: Chapter two is here! And believe me there was a lot of drama in getting it here!
Ashlea: She's not wrong, man she was fussing and carrying on and
Liby: yes Ashlea that's enough
Ashlea: "Where's the chapter?" "Have you emailed me that scene yet?"
Liby: Ashlea OKAY!
Ashlea: "They shouldn't say that they should say this"
Liby: ASHLEA
Ashlea: Alright alright okay, lol
September First 1970
10.30pm
Well, I'm here; this is officially my first night at Hogwarts, and my first diary entry of my first diary. It's pretty dangerous for someone like me to keep a diary, but I really want to write down my feelings and thoughts through my Hogwarts life. Technically I shouldn't even be here, but oh well enough self pity talk.
I arrived at platform 9 3/4 a nervous wreck, I didn't think it was possible for me to make friends; I was totally paranoid and scared. My mother gave me a tight hug and wished me well; she told me that if I ever wanted to come home then it would perfectly alright. My dad told me to keep my secret well hidden and to use any secrets necessary.
"Remus are you sure about this?" I quote my conversation with them.
"Yes mum, I think that it'll be good for me" I replied nervously, it was like I was trying to convince myself as well as her. Mum broke into tears.
"Oh dear!" she cried clutching my fathers shirt "What if they find out, what if he is ridiculed?" she wailed. My father stroked her hair.
"Now, now dear he'll be fine. Now stop crying you'll attract unwanted attention." He said soothingly. Mum gave a sniff before wiping her tears.
"Your right" she turned to me and gave me another hug.
"Take care of yourself okay baby?" she asked me. All I could do is nod.
"Make us proud son" dad said smiling. I tried to return the smile but it wouldn't come, I was just too nervous.
I could still here my mum crying as I boarded the train. As I walked down the long corridor my mind was swimming and luring. Every time someone looked at me I expected them to point and yell out. My breathing started to slow down and I began to sweat. The corridor was becoming very blurry; I must have been having a panic attack. But then the oddest thing happened. I was suddenly knocked to the floor and my head hurt. I shut my eyes as I winced in pain and rubbed my head. When I opened my eyes I saw a girl sitting in front of me, also rubbing her head.
I couldn't believe it, even though I was panicking surely I would've seen a girl running towards me, and she seemed to make no sound. I could tell by the impact that she had been running hard and fast she must have been making thumping noises, I guess it was just my state of mind. When she opened her eyes and saw me in front of her she gasped and said:
"Oh I'm so sorry! I didn't see you, I was running so fast, here let me help you up!" she offered me her hand. How she could've stood up so easily and seemed to be in no pain at all was beyond me because my head still hurts! I took her hand and she pulled me up.
"I'm Serena by the way, Serena Moore" she said smiling "and again I'm so sorry for knocking you over." At this stage I didn't say anything; I was too bewildered and almost enchanted by the girl. She has long black hair that falls to her waist, deep blue eyes and very fair skin. She had a band that went across her forehead with a half-moon hanging for the middle and just above her eyes.
At this Ginny stoped reading, she looked up at the picture of the two girls above the fireplace; the description of Serena was exactly the same as the girl on the right. The portrait winked at her and Ginny read on.
I did the dumbest thing, I squeaked, how embarrassing! I squeaked when I said my name.
"Hi, I'm Remus Lupin" I squeaked! Luckily for me Serena just laughed happily.
"You look as nervous as me" she said.
"You don't know the half of it" I mumbled (no squeak this time), but Serena just shook her head.
"No, this is really new for me; I mean I don't think there's been anyone like me at Hogwarts before" she said nervously.
"I think I know what you mean" I said, I actually managed to crack a smile as well, which I find impressive considering my previous pig-like noise. Serena just smiled back.
"I doubt it, but I have to go now I gotta find my sister, until next we meet" and before I could say anything back, I turned around and she was gone. Very strange. As I continued to walk down the corridor feeling slightly less panicky this time, the same thing happened. I fell to the floor and my forehead really hurt. I looked up and to my shock, I saw Serena sitting there again.
"Uh, Serena?" I said nervously. The girl looked up. She looked like Serena alright, but she had a very different face expression and a gleam of mischief in her eyes that I hadn't seen before. The headband on her forehead was of a star instead of a moon.
"Not Serena, I'm Scarlette, Serena's twin sister" she said gruffly as she got to her feet. Once she was up she looked at me, still sitting on the floor.
"What's the matter with you?" she asked.
"I'm a bit nervus actually and I've just been knocked to the floor twice in five minutes.
"Oh so you've seen Serena then?" Scarlette asked suddenly more interested then she was before.
"Yeah" I said, getting to my feet. "She went that way but I'm not-" I didn't get the chance to say sure, because before I could finish I found that Scarlette was gone. Strange. I turned to keep on walking when a voice said from behind me.
"And by the way, there's only one person in that compartment right there" Scarlette's voice said. I turned around to thank her only to find that once again she was gone. Strange. For a split second I thought that I'd imagined the girls, that they were illusions created by my intense mind. I looked into the compartment the second twin had pointed to, and sure enough there was only one boy sitting in there.
He has shoulder length dark brown hair that falls elegantly onto his face. He looked up at me as I entered.
"Finally someone comes in, I was starting to think I was unpopular already" he said with a cheer. I must admit I was quite startled to be greeted like this, I was not was I was expecting.
"I saw you collide with that black haired chick, she seemed to come of nowhere didn't she?" he said in a relaxed voice. I breathed a sigh of relief; I hadn't imagined her after all.
"Yeah her name is Scarlette Moore, I collided with her sister a few minutes ago" I said. The boy seemed surprised.
"Really? I didn't see her run by…" we sat in silence for a minute before the boy finally spoke.
"Oh I'm Sirius by the way, Sirius Black" he said in an off-handed voice.
"Remus Lupin" I replied (no squeak this time)
"Nice to meet you, Remus," I couldn't believe this; he said it was nice to meet me. It's getting late now, so I'll cut this short.
About ten minutes after the train had started moving another boy our age literally fell into our compartment. His trunk and an owl in a cage were thrown in after him; luckily Sirius caught the owl's cage before it hit the window. The new boy stood up and made a face accompanied with a rude gesture towards someone outside. Then he looked at Sirius and me,
"Hullo, I'm James, mind if I stay in here?" he asked with a grin.
"Sure thing, mate. What'd you do to them though?" Sirius replied, handing him the owl, indicating the boys who had so roughly deposited him there.
"Oh, they're just peeved because I'm a first year and I tried to sit with them when they're high and mighty third years, so they got rid of me.", Sirius grinned,
"We should teach them a lesson, just because we're new doesn't mean we're stupid." They stood up, rolling up their sleeves like they were about to try and take down a few third years.
"Wait a minute! Look, we're on a train, why don't we wait until we've got to school before you get yourselves expelled!" I exclaimed.
"I suppose you're right, though, blast, we could have taken them on." James said grudgingly. I think he only accepted this because he didn't think only two first years or even three could have really have taken out our older classmates. Sirius was rather put out though, you could see all his wildest dreams of being in detention being crushed beneath my heel.
The rest of the trip was for the most part uneventful, although we did see the Moore twins once again on the train, along with Lily Evans. Lily Evans has shoulder length bright red hair and emerald green eyes, pale skin with few freckles, James took an instant fancy to her. Anyway, she turned up in our compartment in a trio led by none other than Scarlette Moore.
"Oh! Hello, I'm Scarlette. Would you mind if we sat with you in your compartment for a while, it was so awfully dull in ours!" Scarlette announced as she stuck her head in our door, "Come on!" She called to her accomplices. Sirius took one look at her and behind his cool façade, I'm sure his eyes were bulging.
"Sure thing! Here," He answered, standing up to offer her a seat, next to him of course. Scarlette grinned and sat down,
"These are my friends, my sister Serena, and this is Lily." She introduced, gesturing to them as they walked in.
Serena smiled shyly around and sat opposite me, and to be honest, I'm not quite sure of the conversation that followed because I was too busy staring at Serena. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but Serena stared right back at me for pretty much the remainder of the time the girls sat there talking with us. She's probably been telling the girls rooming with her in the dorm in the tower opposite about what a freak I am. Well, she's right, but she doesn't know how much so. But somehow I don't think she has been talking about me like that, she doesn't seem the type to say nasty things about anyone really.
Well, anyway, these are the events I do recall, after getting out of the trance I was in when the girls entered our compartment. We got off the train and all the first years were sent towards the lake where a giant of a man named Hagrid took us in little boats across to Hogwarts. It was here that I met Peter Pettigrew; I think I got along with him so well because he squeaked whenever he said anything. We didn't talk that much in the boats; we mainly admired the scenery, it was so amazing. Hogwarts stands on a mountain with the lake in front of it, instead of getting off onto the lawn like I expected, we turned and it looked like we were going to crash into the side of the mountain. Then Hagrid's boat and a few other people's seemed to disappear into the cliff, and when I got there, there was actually an entrance through the rock and vines into an underground dock. I caught a glimpse of the Moore twins in another boat as they were getting out, but they didn't see me.
When we got to the castle we were greeted by Professor McGonagall, a strict looking woman who would tolerate no nonsense. She told us that we'd be sorted into houses, and then I asked "by who?" she replied, "by the Sorting Hat", right, I was so sure. A hat, but when I entered the Great Hall there was a crooked wizard's hat sitting on a stool in front of the long table at the end of the room. Even having been told, this was seriously the last thing I expected. But I have a feeling that whatever expectations you might have about the world; they are going to be turned on their heads in this castle.
Standing in the line of first years, surrounded by a hall full of older students was scary. Everyone was staring at us, and of course it just felt like they were just staring at me. I stared to panic again like it did on the train. My breathing went heavy and everything was going fuzzy, I don't know how hard I was shaking but it felt like an earthquake or something. But I suddenly stopped when someone lightly put there hand on my arm.
"Are you feeling alright?" Serena said softly
"Yeah" I said perfectly truthful, I was okay.
"You look a bit unwell." she whispered back
"I felt a bit ill" I whispered back "but I'm okay now, I swear" I regretted saying this because the moment I did she let go of my arm. Aww.
I was sorted into the house "Griffindor" along with Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, James Potter and to my luck, the Moore twins
So after being completely stuffed of dinner, I slowly walked up to the Griffindor common room. I'm in a dorm with James, Sirius and Peter, we make quite a group, but it's only five days now until…
I'm sitting at the window staring at the Whomping willow, it's late and I have a busy day at school tomorrow, so I'll finish up here by saying: what a day.
Time: 12.30
Ginny closed the diary and looked up at the portrait again. The two girls were whispering to each other and looking curiously at her. Now she knew who the girls were, but still not much about them.
"Hey did you find anything?" a voice said from behind her. Ginny turned around to see Hermione standing in the doorway.
"Yeah, Lupin's diary" Ginny said, holding up the diary.
"Cool" Hermione said, and then she noticed the picture of the girls. "Who are they?"
"Serena and Scarlette Moore, they're twins that went to school with the Marauders and Lily" Ginny replied, also looking at the picture "but that's all I know about them, I guess I could keep reading Lupin's diary"
Hermione walked over to the bed with a Light turquoise colouring and picked up a book that was resting on the edge.
"Why read that when we could read some of this?" she said with a huge smile.
"What is it?" Ginny asked curiously. Hermione held it up.
"Possibly Sirius' diary" she said, in mockingly innocent tone. Ginny's eyes lit up,
"Ooooh!" she said, dropping Remus's diary on one of the many cardboard boxes littering the room and rushing over to Hermione.
Hermione opened the book to the first entry, Ginny sat on the bed beside her and they began to read in silence.
Liby: Long Chappy that took me AGES to write
Ashlea: I the official editor and, but I also wrote the bit about James and Lily coz old slacker here couldn't be bothered to do it
Liby: I not a slacker! I just really needed a break from that chapter that event I just wanted to move on!
Ashlea: lazy!
Liby: rolls eyes no point in arguing this, Read and Review and The next Chapter will be submitted next Saturday! We hope…
