Lily woke up to someone shaking her, and when she opened her eyes they were met with a pair of huge blue orbs. Shaking her was what looked like some cross between a human and some other animal that she did not know, it had a huge eyes and bat like ears and was about 2 ½ feet tall and was wearing a smock with the Hogwarts crest on it. Lily screamed.

"Star is sorry to have scared you Miss, but Star needed to wake you Miss, otherwise you would be late to breakfast and Miss' first class. Star will bring Miss and Miss' roommates an alarm clock tonight," Star explained.

"It's okay, and thank you," said Lily uncertainly, still not quite sure what Star was.

As if to read her mind Star said, "Star is one of the Hogwarts house elves."

"Oh," was all Lily said.

"Now Miss should get ready and wake her friends so that they can get breakfast," said Star.

"Thank you Star, and please call me Lily," she said.

"You are welcome Miss Lily, Star was just doing her job," and with that Star was gone, leaving Lily to stare in awe in the place that Star had been.

"Lily, what's wrong?" asked Alice.

"A house elf, Star, just came and woke me, we need to get ready," said Lily, and with that the two girls woke up their roommates and then Lily went and took a quick shower, then Alice went, then Adaline, Gemma and last Adrian.

They quickly got dressed in their school skirts and blouses, and then they put their cloaks on over them, but did not button them up yet. They then started to race down to the Great Hall deciding that they would get their bags when they knew what classes they had that day so that they did not need to drag all of their books around.

"Um, does anyone know where we are going?" asked Lily.

They all shook their heads nervously, no one knowing which way to go.

***

Remus woke with a start; he saw a pair of blue orbs looking at him, "Hello," he said to the house elf.

"Hello," the house elf said, "Star is sorry if she scared Mr. but Mr. needs to get up because if Mr. doesn't he will be late for breakfast. Star will bring Mr. and Mr.'s roommates an alarm clock for tomorrow."

"Thank you star please call me Remus."

"You are welcome Mr. Remus," said Star and with that she disappeared.

"Up!" called Remus to his roommates, this was met by grumbling so he added, "Time for breakfast!"

This worked, the other three were up very quickly after that, and after they were all showered they started to walk down to the Great Hall. They were only a short distance until they ran into the girls.

"Hey do you guys know the way to the Great Hall?" asked Alice.

"Um…no…" the boys said, shaking their heads, in truth they were hoping that the girls would know.

"The Great Hall is this way," called the kind second year who had helped Lily with her trunk on the Platform, "We could show you the way if you would like," he added and his friends nodded.

He was with a boy who was taller with black hair and green eyes, as well as a girl who was also taller and had black wavy hair and purple eyes.

"Thank you!" said Alice as the older students led them into the Great Hall.

"I'm Frank Longbottom," said the boy who had offered to show them the way, "This is Tyler Jones and this is Candice Meadows."

"I'm Alice Prewett, this is Lily Evans, Gemma Ryan, Adaline and Adrian Prince, and these are James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew."

"Nice to meet you all," said Candice.

"You as well," said Sirius.

Then they went in their separate directions to sit down. James, Peter, Sirius, Adrian and Gemma started piling everything onto their plates like they hadn't eaten a huge feast the night before, in fact it looked as though they had not eaten in days, by the time everyone was done with their first helpings of things they were starting their thirds.

"How much can you guys eat?" asked Lily, grabbing another piece of toast and putting strawberry jam on it.

"A ton!" replied Sirius, "Besides breakfast is my favorite meal."

Then Professor McGonagall came around with their timetables, which they all took excitedly, Peter, James, Sirius, Gemma, and Adrian even stopped eating their breakfast. She also gave them a sheet that said where each class was.

"We will all have the same schedules until third year, though it will change yearly," explained Alice, "Today we have Transfiguration with the Ravenclaws, then Potions with the Slytherins, next we will have lunch, and lastly we will have a double Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"Wow, I am so excited!" said Lily, with a huge grin.

"How can you be so excited about school?" asked Sirius.

"Don't you want to know how to use magic?" asked Lily.

"Well yeah…"

"Well school is how we will learn, now let's go and get our bags; we will need a head start to our class, even with the directions."

Everyone else nodded and they made their way to the Gryffindor Common room, and shockingly they did not get lost on the way there. Once in the common room the boys and the girls went their separate dormitories to grab their bags, and then made their way down to the Transfiguration class room, only getting lost twice, so they got to class just a the bell rang, which was good because Professor McGonagall walked in a second after the bell rang.

"I will not tolerate any misbehavior in my class, this is one of the most dangerous things you will learn at Hogwarts and if you misbehave you will be kicked out of my class," said the strict looking Professor.

She then turned so that she was facing the desk that belonged to the four boys and transfigured it into a cat, getting many oohs, and ahs. Everyone was excited, but Lily was extremely nervous, would she ever be able to do that? She doubted it.

"Now, get out some parchment and a quill, you will be taking notes before you start anything."

Lily got out her stuff from her bag and when she looked back up at the chalk board and saw that it was covered in notes, which she immediately started to write down. When all of the notes were done they were given a match and were told to transfigure it into a pin.

By the end of class James, Sirius, Remus, and Adaline were the only ones who were actually able to do it. And Lily could tell that she was not going to like this class. After the bell rang they all ran off and tried to find the dungeons, they managed to find it very easily and did not get lost once. They made it to the classroom with about a minute and a half to spare. In the Potions room there could only be three people per table so James, Sirius and Peter sat at one table, while Lily, Adaline and Adrian sat at another, and in the table in front of them were Remus, Alice and Gemma.

About a minute after the bell rang Lily saw the pot bellied potions master walk through the doors. He was much less intimidating then Professor McGonagall, and had a smile on his lips.

"Hello class, I am Professor Slughorn, and I will be your Potions teacher. Today I figured we would have a little contest and see what table could brew a simple sleeping potion; the table that brews their potion the most accurately will win their house twenty points. You can find this potion and how to brew it on page 27 of your books, any supplies you need you will be able to find in the back cupboard. Begin!"

For Lily's table Adrian went and grabbed the ingredients that were needed to brew the potion, Lily took out her book and opened it to page 27 like she was supposed to, while Adaline started the fire under the caldron and filled it with water. Then they all took turns in cutting, chopping, adding and stirring. After all of that was complete all that was left was to sit and wait for twenty while the potion simmered, just like the directions stated. They were the first ones done, and therefore had time to talk, it was silent when they were working unless they were asking to pass something or what the directions asked. The other groups weren't as successful.

***

Remus, Alice and Gemma soon figured out it was not as easy as it looked to brew a potion. Alice went to grab the ingredients, Remus took out his book and flipped to page 27 while Gemma lit the fire bellow the caldron and get the water, but on the way back she spilt the water all over herself and a very angry, and surprised Narcissa Black, causing Sirius to have a fit of laughter at his cousin, whom as he mentioned numerous times to the boys last night, hated. After Gemma's many apologies, which Remus could tell were completely fake. When she came back to the table she was biting her lip to control her laughter. After that their potion making was uneventful, other then the fact that they found out that Alice was terrible at potions. But eventually they were done and able to let it simmer for the time need.

***

At James, Sirius and Peter's table they were having a little bit more trouble. James got out his book and opened it to page 27. They then sent Peter to go and get the ingredients, and after three runs he finally had them all, and they were finally right. Then they realized that they hadn't gotten any water or started the fire so James went to get the water and Sirius lit the fire. Then they started to chop and dice all of the ingredients and add them when necessary, all was going smoothly until Sirius watched Gemma spill water all over his cousin Narcissa, and Sirius could not stop laughing for a good ten minutes, which meant that the stirring that he was supposed to be doing was not getting down, let's just say that they would be happy if their potion came out semi decent.

***

At the end of class Professor Slughorn walked around and checked every ones' potions, some were excellent, like Lily and Severus' groups, others weren't bad for a first try, such as Remus' group, then all of the other groups including Narcissa's and James' groups 'needed a lot of improvement'.

"I can see that I will need to pick where you sit, the next time we are in class you will be given assigned seats. You are dismissed," said Professor Slughorn as the bell rang, "And 20 points to both Gryffindor and Slytherin, both houses produced perfect potions."

With a smile the nine Gryffindors made their way to the Great Hall for lunch, or as Sirius said, "My favorite meal of the day!"

"Um, Sirius, I thought breakfast was your favorite meal…" pointed out Adaline with a smile.

"You should Adaline that he loves all food, no matter what time of day it's at, he just loves food, period," said Adrian with a smile.

"Exactly!" said Sirius, then taking off running at full speed towards the doors to enter the Great Hall, leaving his friends laughing behind him.

When the others entered the Great Hall they found Sirius already had a mountain of food on his plate. They all just shook their heads and started piling food onto their own plates.

"Hey there Sirius, Adrian, Adaline, it's nice to see the three of you joined me in Gryffindor!" said a voice from behind.

"Andy!" cried Sirius turning around to face the one cousin of his that he could stand talking to.

"Hello," she replied, "How do you like it here so far?"

"Love it! No annoying family, okay, that's a lie, this place is crawling with my siblings, but still, no annoying parents telling me what I can and can't do," said Adrian.

"I know exactly what you mean, I felt the same way," said Andy, "Okay, well I need to go I told Ted I would eat outside by the Lake with him today!"

And with a final wave Andy left. Leaving them to continue to dig into their food until the bell rang telling them to head off to their final class if the day, Defense Against the Dark Arts. They made their way quickly to their class room and when they got there they found a petite witch with dark brown hair sitting behind her desk.

When the bell rang their Professor stood up and said, "Hello class, I am Professor Patil. In this class you will learn how to defend yourself from the Dark Arts, and how to battle with an opponent, you will learn to jinx people as well as disarm them, along with learning how to block spells that are sent at you. But for today we will be taking notes, so please get out some parchment and a quill."

And for the rest of the class period they took notes, as well as the one after it, which the boys, excluding Remus, found excessively boring (Remus only found it boring). And they were all relieved when class ended. All of them making their way to the common room where they would relax and talk until dinner time.

Hey guys! I updated! Sorry it took a little longer again. I hope you enjoyed the chapter (sorry it's not edited, I wanted to get it up for you guys!) I hope you enjoyed it, please review!

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