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The great hall was even more beautiful than Evanna remembered. The enchanted ceiling glimmered with a thousand tiny stars that twinkled in the candlelight. James, of course, insisted on sitting next to Lily; who tolerated him for all of five seconds before sighing and moving next to Evanna. Evanna now sat in-between Lily and James, with Sirius opposite her and Remus next to him. Izzy and Alice sat opposite each other, occupying the spaces next to Sirius and Lily. Alice sat next to Frank, and blushed furiously every time he brushed against her.
The eight leant forward in anticipation as the sorting began. A dark haired girl with a haughty, bored expression and a sort of graceful elegance walked confidently up to the front. James and Sirius shared looks "Slytherin" they whispered knowingly. Sure enough the girl was soon joining the slytherin table, which erupted into applause upon her arrival. Evanna laughed, shaking her head slightly at the two boys.
Next was a slightly podgy, mousy haired boy with quite a clueless expression on his face. Evanna smirked "Hufflepuff" she whispered to James and Sirius.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The sorting hat announced before the hat had been fully placed on the boy's head. James and Sirius cracked up and grinned proudly at Evanna. "We taught you well" Sirius exclaimed.
Evanna snorted "R-ight. Of course you did." Sirius and James held their hands to their hearts and groaned in unison. Evanna sighed and shook her head at their theatrics, a smirk playing on her lips.
The three were so busy laughing that they failed to notice Dumbledore sitting down in his chair and the food appearing before them. James grinned "5…4…3…2…1" Gasps and screams erupted from the slytherin table whilst giggles sounded around the great hall. Every single person sat at the slytherin table were, um, 'rocking' their bright scarlet and gold hair.
Bellatrix Black stormed over to where her cousin was sat, looking furious. But as she opened her mouth, no doubt to curse him into oblivion, nothing came out. She tried again and, this time, managed to make a noise. "Mooo" Bellatrix said.
The entire great hall stopped whispering and stared at where she was stood. "MOO!" Bellatrix cried, even more angrily; followed by the rest of slytherin who had apparently swallowed various barnyard animals. Then, all at once, the great hall erupted into a mixture of cheers and laughter as they pointed at the slytherins.
Grinning at each other, James, Sirius, Remus and Evanna rose from their seats. They bowed in unison and James bellowed "The marauders would like to welcome you back to Hogwarts for the start of a new year. Happy pranking!" The other three saluted before quickly returning to their seats under the penetrating (Tee-hee) glare of Professor McGonagall.
Professor Dumbledore rose from his seat and cleared his throat loudly. "Whilst, I think most of us would agree this was an amazing piece of magic" – there were various noises of disagreement from the Slytherin table – "It's time for bed." With one flick of his wand, the slytherins were returned to normal.
"Erm…guys?" began Evanna "We should probably leave before good old Trixie finds us…" Hastily, everyone agreed with Evanna and all but ran up to the Gryffindor common room. Once they reached the staircase separating the boys' and girls' dormitories, Evanna turned to the boys. "Well," she said. "Today was eventful, but I'm off to bed. See you guys in the morning."
James groaned "Ugh, first day of classes, how could I forget?"
"Night, Angel" Sirius said with a smile. There's that smile again, thought Evanna. With one last wave, Evanna disappeared up the staircase to her dormitory.
An hour later, the boys were sitting on their beds and chucking around a miniature quaffle. "So, Padfoot" James began casually "What's going on with you and Angel?"
Sirius caught the quaffle with one hand and chucked it easily to Remus, who promptly dropped it. "I dunno what you're on about, Prongs" Sirius replied quickly – too quickly.
"Oh come on!" James rolled his eyes "I've seen the way you look at her. Plus you talked about her all summer"
"Of course I look at her! I know she's like a sister to you, but even you must know she's beautiful." Sirius defended.
"Well…yeah. But she's always been beautiful, Sirius. Hence the name 'Angel', that's not what this is about."
Sirius sighed in defeat. "I don't know Prongs, I've never felt this way about a girl before."
"You love her" James stated, nodding his head knowingly. Sirius nodded with a sigh. "You have to be careful though, she's not like your hook ups in a broom closet."
"I know that!" Sirius argued "It's just… what if she doesn't feel the same way? It could completely mess up our friendship!"
James could hardly believe his ears. Sirius Black had girl troubles? Maybe he should check outside for flying pigs.
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