When the Tuesday morning post arrived, all of Lily's friends received letters from their parents (though Sirius, Adrian and Adaline's were all in one), James, Peter, Remus, Gemma, and Alice all got ones saying how proud their parents were that they were in Gryffindor and that they knew that they would do well there. Sirius, Adaline and Adrian on the other hand were a completely different story. They received a red letter, and all eight of them, minus her, stared at the letter like it was about to explode at any second, which confused Lily, I mean really can a piece of paper really explode, well, maybe in the Wizarding Word, she thought, well she found out about a minute later.
"Sirius, Adaline, Adriana! We cannot believe that you three could ever disgrace your families as much as you have by being in Gryffindor! We are ashamed of you! And if we feel it necessary we will pull the three of you out and you will be your way to Durmstrang before you can say disgrace! We will talk to you three about your punishments when you are home for break! You will be coming home,"it screeched then burst into flames, casing everyone in the Hall to look at them, and Lily realized why they were all looking at it like it was about to explode, though Sirius, Adaline, and Adrian seemed to find it funny because the three of them where on the ground practically crying of laughter.
"W-What was that?" asked Lily, in complete shock, and appalled by what it had said.
"It was a Howler," said James, and nothing more was said.
Shortly after that they got ready and left the Great Hall to get to class.
It was Friday the first year Gryffindors were sitting happily by the Black Lake, Gemma and Adrian sitting in the tree dangling their feet, James, Lily and Sirius sitting against the tree, Lily squished in the middle, and Peter, Alice and Remus were sitting hanging their feet off of the small wooden dock. All were talking and laughing, just enjoying each others company as well as the bright sun. They had become great friends over the course of the week, though they did argue over the stupidest things sometimes, though they would always get over it. Lily was happy it was Friday, and she knew all of her friends were to, especially considering that they got the entire afternoon off.
"We should go and explore the castle! The only places we've been are the ways to get to the Great Hall and all of our classes," offered Peter.
"We could," said Sirius, but with a mischievous smirk he added, "Or we could pull a prank…I mean we've been here a week and haven't done anything…"
"I like the way you think," said James with a smirk very similar to Sirius'.
"What would we do though?" asked Gemma.
"We could set off fireworks in the Great Hall, it might be original, but it'll work, it could be like a warm up prank, and we could do something bigger next week," said Adrian.
"That could work," said Remus, though he was hoping that he wouldn't get caught, he knew his parents wouldn't be happy about that, especially when he was so lucky to be able to attend the school in general, but his new friends didn't know that.
"I think it's a good idea, but we don't have any fireworks…" said Lily, thinking logically.
"Yeah we do," said Adaline, "Sirius and Adrian stocked up while we were in Diagon Alley. They left me alone with our stupid 'friends' for five minutes, which is bad believe me, Severus isn't bad until he's around Lucius, the pair of them together is torture…"
"Hold a grudge much?" asked Sirius jokingly.
"Alright, looks like we have a plan, but if anyone asks, I wasn't here," said Alice and with a confused look from her friends she added, "What I promised James' mom that I wouldn't let him get into to much trouble, she'll ground me, yes, sadly our families are that close, sometimes I practically live there."
Everyone just gave her an understanding nod when she said this and Remus even gave her a sympathetic pat on the back when she said that she practically lived at the Potters sometimes. Which caused all nine of them to burst into hysterical laughter, and then they got up and ran to the Gryffindor common room, which was currently empty, and got the fireworks.
After they picked out which ones they wanted to use Lily asked, "So, when do we want to do this?"
"How about at dinner?" offered Adrian, "They come with a self timer, and can be invisible until they go off, so if we go and position them now alls we'll need to do at dinner is press a button."
"Okay, sounds like a plan to me!" said Sirius, and before anyone could stop him he started running towards the Great Hall, everyone getting up and following him.
They positioned the fireworks in random places in the Hall where they would be seen the best, and they were all excited when dinner came, and they never thought that 6:30 would come, then Sirius could hit the big red button.
When 6:30 finally came Sirius hit the red button and all of the fireworks went off, lighting up the whole Hall in multi colors, even the teachers (minus McGonagall) were watching them. They made many shapes, most were loins, they had to show their house spirit, others were snitches, and brooms, along with many other objects from the Wizarding World. The fireworks went off for about five minutes and when it was done everyone clapped, minus all of the teachers other than Professor Dumbledore. And they clapped along with the crowd, as to look innocent, but they knew that they would not get into trouble for setting them off.
They were sitting in the first year boys' dormitories talking after dinner, complementing their own work, and they stayed up late into the night, talking about their week and what some future pranks could be, and eventually they all fell asleep, the girls still in the boys' room.
Saturday came, and Lily was sitting out by the lake with Severus, Adaline was going to join them later, she was going with Adrian and Sirius to send Howlers back to their mothers.
"Hey Sev!" said Lily happily.
"Hi Lils," he said.
"How was your first week?"
"It went well enough. Yours?"
"It was great! I love all of the people in my House, their all so nice and very funny!"
"I'm not sure about the boys in your house; they seem kind of mean…"
"Their not Sev, their just having fun."
"Hey Lily! And Lily's friend," said a voice from behind them.
"Hi James!" said Lily happily, "This is my best friend Severus Snape. Sev this is one of my new friends James Potter!"
"Hi Severus," said James politely.
"Hi," said Severus, a little less polite, who was a little angry that James had disrupted his time with Lily, who had had a long crush on.
"Do you mind if I join you? Oh, and Adaline told me she would be out soon."
"Not at all, and okay," said Lily.
"Severus, what are you doing hanging around with a Mudblood and a Blood Traitor?" came the voice of none other than Lucius Malfoy.
The second he called Lily a Mudblood, James had jumped up and was ready to defend his friend, and he would have gone up and punched him if Lily wasn't holding onto his arm and telling him not to.
"Umm…" was all that Severus could reply.
"You should come over and hang out with your fellow respectable Purebloods."
And with that Severus got up and went over to hang out with the other Slytherins, leaving Lily slightly hurt, but really angry. Just when we were finally going to hang out he leaves, he told me that I would be no different than everyone else just because I was Muggle born, and here he is going against his words, and only in the first week of school,she thought bitterly.
And with that Lily walked into school with James and when she entered the common room she found that Sirius was skipping around the common room, earning him many weird looks from anyone else.
"Why is he so happy?" asked Lily to Gemma.
"WE GET TO START FLYING LESSONS THURSDAY!" she screeched, clearly very excited, and with this news Lily's mood raised, and the rest of the first years joined in Sirius' skipping, well, that is until one of the older students yelled at them for disturbing his homework time.
Hey! I'm not really sure what I think about this chapter...I like pieces of it...anyways...please tell me what you think I would really like to know! Constructive Criticism is welcome, but please no flaming! Thanks! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! = )
