Chapter 1: Gryffindor Rules Ravenclaw Drools

(James)

Being grounded was not fun. In fact I'd rather be in Potions class than here. You'd think that saving the fate of the world would be worthy of at least a medal but instead I was trapped in my house with nothing to do.

Last year my brother, Albus, and I defeated the evil Lucius Malfoy, and Ryan Code. They were trying to rule the world or something like that but thanks to me, Albus, our cousins, Rose and Fred, my friend Alice, Lucius' grandson Scorpius, and my God brother Teddy, the world was safe. Instead of a reward Al and I got grounded.

There was a knock on my door. "Leave me alone!" I shouted not in the mood to talk.

My Mum, Ginny, walked into my room despite my protest. "Honey, your cousins are here. Don't you want to come talk with them?"

"Who Jackson and Jessica?" I guessed. "No thanks."

"Fine if you want to be bitter than you can stay in your room all day." Mum left and shut the door.

I wasn't in the mood to talk. Especially with Mum. She was so annoying. She kept bothering Teddy, Al and I asking what we were doing in the forest. I made up a clever story about being dared to go into the forest by my arch rival Samuel Scone but she was still on our case.

I could hear Al and my little sister Lily playing with our cousins but I ignored them. Instead I pulled out my textbooks and did some homework.

I was interrupted half an hour later by a knock on my window. I went to open my window. I already knew it who it was. When I opened the window Alice crawled inside.

"Hey James," she greeted.

"Thank Dumbledore you're here. I was getting so bored. I resulted in doing my homework," I told Alice.

"Oh my you poor thing," Alice said in mock sympathy. "Where's Biscuit?"

Biscuit was a dog I found in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts. He was an adorable mutt with sand colored hair. "Lily's taking him for a walk," I replied. "Since I'm not allowed to leave the bloody house."

"James, it's not that big of a deal. So what you get grounded? In your heart you know you did the right thing by defeating Code."

"James," whispered someone from behind the door.

"Come in, Lily," I said.

My little sister appeared in the doorway with my dog in her arms. "Something really weird happened on the walk."

"What was it Lils?" I asked kindly. Lily was the only person in my family- besides Fred- that wasn't annoying the crap out of me.

"Well, I know it sounds weird but Biscuit started glowing green."

"What?!" Alice and I shouted in unison.

"Well you know that boy in your year… Ryan? Yeah, he walked by and Biscuit started growling and then turned green."

"I told you it wasn't safe to keep a dog from the Forbidden Forest, James," Alice nagged.

"Would you shut up! Biscuit is harmless," I said defensively. Then I added, "Lily can you go get Albus for me? Tell him it's important."

Lately I haven't been talking to my brother. He was incredibly annoying and I hadn't spoken to him this summer except for the occasional insult. Alice, who took Divination, had seen that sometime during the school year Albus would lose my Dad's Invisibility Cloak. The Invisibility Cloak was my prized possession and even though Albus had done nothing so far he was still on the top of my Most Wanted list.

"Did you want something?" Albus asked as he appeared in the doorway.

"Have you ever seen Biscuit do any weird things?" I asked my brother.

"Like what?"

"Like… oh I don't know… glowing green?" I asked accusingly. I had a feeling Albus had seen Biscuit glow green before but he just hadn't told me.

"No!" Albus shouted. "Just because something goes wrong in your life doesn't mean it's my fault, okay?"

Albus left and slammed the door. Alice looked at me. "You really should be nicer to Albus," she advised.

"Yeah and while I'm at it I should also rise Voldemort from the dead."

"Whatever, James. I have to go now see you later."

"No, Ally please don't go! I'll be bored out of my mind without you."

"Don't worry, Jamie, I'll be back in a couple hours."

I sighed as Alice climbed out the window. Alice and I lived right next to each other and the house were so close that we could literally climb through the window and get to each other's houses. My cousin Fred lived directly behind us so he often rode his broom to my house and climbed through the window. It was much funner- if Albus were here he'd point out that funner isn't a word but I don't care- than using the front door.

"James, would you please be a little nicer to your brother." My Dad was now standing in the door way. Why couldn't people just leave me alone?

I put up my hands defensively. "Hey, he was the one shouting at me."

"Why can't you two just get along?"

I snorted. "Oh yeah like you got along with Dudley."

Dad's life before Hogwarts was ruff so we didn't really mention it all that much. It was like an unofficially banned topic. I wouldn't usually go so low just to prove a point but Dad was really bugging me right now.

"Just stop fighting with your brother."

I jumped off my bed. I was furious now. "Why do you always take his side? Have you ever even considered that Albus is the one at fault."

"James, please."

"Oh, don't 'James, please' me! You like him better than me, just admit it."

"No I don't. Now please, James, I have work to do. Goodbye."

Dad left the room. I paced around angrily. I always knew Dad and Mum liked Albus better. It just confirmed my suspicions when he got grounded for two weeks and I got grounded for a month. It was July 15th and Albus was no longer grounded while I was up here in my room

"James," came a voice from behind my door. I was about to yell when I realized it was Lily.

"Come in," I said.

"James I was thinking about Hogwarts and I'm kind of nervous."

"Listen Lily, everyone is nervous at first. Even me. But to be honest there's nothing to worry about."

"I've been thinking about what house I want to be in. And of coursewant to be in Gryffindor but if I had to have a second choice I was thinking about Ravenclaw-"

"Let me stop you right there Lily. There is one very important thing I need you to remember while you're at Hogwarts and that is 'Gryffindor Rules Ravenclaw Drools'. It is known fact. Gryffindors are better than Ravenclaws. I would actually prefer Hufflepuff over Ravenclaw. But remember Gryffindors are the best."

"I thought you hated Slytherins."

"Yes, I do. But that is obvious. Slytherins suck. Ravenclaw, however, is a better house than Slytherin. Well at least that's what people think, they're wrong. Slytherin and Ravenclaw equally suck. You have to remember that Lily. They may be smart but they are absolutely horrible."

Lily nodded. "Got it. Gryffindor Rules, Ravenclaw Drools."

I smiled as Lily left. I had a smart little sister.

A/N: Sorry this chapter is one day late. I was on vacation and didn't get back until today. I also apologize that this chapter was quite short and boring. I kind of just needed it to introduce Albus's and James's fighting and I also wanted to write a little something with Lily in it since I haven't mentioned her a whole lot.

Things I'd like to mention...

1: Someone pointed out to me that it still said Spencio in Albus Severus, James Sirius and the Muggle's Trap. So I change that. It now said Debilitatus all the time. Sorry about that.

2: The title of the last book might not make sense and I'm not sure that I put the in the Q and A but that was actually not suppose to be the title. It's suppose to be The Muggle's Plot not the Muggle's Trap. I'm not sure if I should change it to Muggle's Plot or not because then some people who might search for the story might not be able top find it.

3: The same rules apply to this chapter. 0 reviews= Update in Ten days, 1 review= One week, and 3 or more reviews= Five days.

4: I don't think I mentioned this last chapter in my A/N so... I have to warn you that there are a few chapters before Hogwarts. Sorry but it has to be done that way.

-Monkeywoman14