Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Sometimes I like to pretend that I do and my friends try to check me into the lunatic assylum...

-Lily-

The feast that year seemed better than last. Until the prank. I guess that I really should have been expecting it. Really. There hadn't been much of a stretch going from last years end of year school feast to this, but I don't think that anyone was expecting it.

After Dumbledore had finished speaking, as the feast appeared, the food started to dance. Chicken drum sticks were between Citrus, Scarlett and I and they all stood up and joined together and danced the nut bush. It would have been really funny if it hadn't been so disgusting and I knew who had done it.

"Didn't they ever learn not to play with their food?' I asked Citrus.

"Apparently not." She answered.

The food took a bow a moment later and fell neatly back on the platters. Everyone started to clap and the Marauders stood up, Potter and Black first, and they dragged up Remus and Peach.

Once they had taken their bows and sat down Dumbledore stood up again.

"Thank you boys and girl." He said with a nod to them, "that was very entertaining. That is the sort of think we will need to remember as the darkness of the future comes closer. Now let us enjoy the feast. The food has not been tainted, it just wanted some final words." With that he sat down and started to eat, with most of the school following his lead. However I turned away from the food. Not having grown up with magic, I saw that as quite revolting. I was only just starting to like pumpkins again after seeing them fly around the school last year, chasing everyone. Another of the Marauders pranks.

Scarlett seemed not to mind and Citrus was eating too, but only after making sure that everything was properly massacred and torn into shreds.

I ate a bread roll that I hadn't seen dancing and a piece of Citrus' chicken. Thankfully the dessert didn't do any tricks so that was safe to eat.

Feeling better we climbed the stairs after the first years to our dormitory. We followed everyone else in and waited around to find out what the password was.

Then Citrus and I went up stairs to get ready for school in the morning and Scarlett stayed down stairs to talk to someone.

As last year our trunks were in our rooms.

The two of us just stood in the door looking around. It was a relief to be back. All summer I had been thinking that it had all been a dream. Only Petunia's glares, the owl messages and seeing Severus made me think that it wasn't a dream. Being back here made me sure of that.

I jumped onto my bed and wrapped myself up in the red blankets without changing.

Citrus just laughed at me as she changed then went to put her things in the bathroom.

I changed after the excitement wore off and joined her in the bathroom.

We brushed our teeth in silence.

"Are you two really going to bed now?" Scarlett asked coming in.

"Yes." We both tried to say. That it not easy with tooth paste in your mouth.

"Why?" Scarlett asked. Citrus spat out her tooth paste and answered.

"Because tomorrow is a Tuesday and classes start tomorrow."

"That's stupid." Scarlett said.

I spat my mouthful into the sink.

"That's just how things worked."

"Still." She said, coming into the bathroom too. It seemed a really small room with all of us in there. Citrus left and I organised my things before going back to bed. I brushed my hair and grabbed my book.

Citrus and I read while we waited for Scarlett to finish and fill us in on any gossip that she had heard down stairs.

We pulled our heads out of our books and listened. Not that either of us really cared about gossip, but we listened to keep Scarlett happy. In return she let us read before bed while she flipped through Which Weekly reading bits out to us as she went.

There was a nervous excitement in the room that night after the lights went out. We were eager for classes tomorrow, just not ready for the year of school.