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Chapter 3

"Gryffindors, follow me," said a prefect, leading them out of the Great Hall. "The password is 'frostgnat.'" As he said this, a portrait of a lady in pink swung open to admit them. They walked into the common room, which had a fireplace surrounded by couches and chairs, and numerous tables and chairs. The room (of course) was decorated in the house colors.

Sirius motioned to Remus, James and Illiar to follow him up to the dormitories. They entered a room with five four poster beds. Another boy, who Illiar thought he remembered from the sorting as Peter Pettigrew, was already sitting on a bed.

Immediately he jumped up, smiling nervously.

"H-hi. I'm Peter. Peter P-pettigrew." He looked up to them hopefully, almost making Illiar sick.

"I'm Illiar. This is Remus, James, and Sirius," he answered awkwardly.

Sirius only nodded curtly before choosing his own bed against the right wall. James and Remus murmured 'hi's.'

Illiar walked over to a bed closest to the window, and laid down, now feeling exhaustion overcome him. Still pushing the annoying, troubling questions from his mind, he fell into a restless sleep.

The next morning he woke to someone shaking him, almost shouting his name. His eyes popped open, at first in fright, then everything came back to him, and he focused on the face in front of him. Sirius stood there with a raised eyebrow.

"Come on, or we'll be late for our first class! Breakfast's down in the Great Hall; Remus is already down there," Sirius had a mocking tone to his voice, and he was smiling wide.

"What is it?" Illiar asked warily.

"Oh, nothing. I just really don't want to be late," he said this with such obvious sarcasm that Illiar almost laughed out loud. Then Sirius leaned closer and whispered, "James is uptight and woke me up. He doesn't want to miss that girl that he was fawning over last night. You know, the redhead? It's a little pathetic."

"I didn't notice."

"Ah, you were too busy eating, weren't you?" Sirius laughed.

"I heard what you said Sirius!" said James as he stepped out of the bathroom, mussing his hair. "Get up and out, Illiar! Or I'm leaving without you."

"Oh, he's really worried now," Sirius joked.

"Yes, I wouldn't dare want to have to go on without you, James," Illiar yawned and stood up, as Sirius laughed at the annoyed expression on James' face. "Hey, where's Peter?" asked Illiar, interrupting Sirius' hysteria.

"I think he left with Remus," James answered. After a second he answered, "We all should have been up at that time."

Illiar and Sirius let out simultaneous "ha's!" And in a minute, Illiar was robed and ready to head down. Once in the Great Hall, all three quickly found Remus, who was indeed with Peter. They sat down and James was looking around anxiously, until his eyes caught on a redhead further down the table. Illiar followed his gaze, looking at a girl with green eyes. Then he shrugged, turning back. Sirius shrugged back to him, sharing his confusement.

"Hey, James," Sirius finally spoke up. "Why don't you go talk to her, then?"

James just glared at him. "Why don't you?"

"Is that a dare?"

James paused, considering. "All right, it is."

Sirius grinned slyly, and suddenly Illiar thought this wouldn't turn out so well. Remus shook his head as Sirius headed over to the girl a short way away.

"Hi," Sirius said as he sat down casually on the bench next to her, his back to the table.

The girl looked him up and down, assessing him, then looked at him expectantly.

"Sirius Black," he held out a hand, and cautiously she shook it.

"Lily Evans," she answered.

"So, what do think of Hogwarts?" By this time, the girls sitting with Lily had their eyes locked on Sirius, gleaming. Lily seemed to have warmed up a bit to him, no longer so suspicious.

"Its amazing," she said. "Everything is."

"Are you muggle-born?"

She nodded, now eyeing Sirius cautiously again.

"Cool, now I know two. Illiar over there is one. But he's from Finland and I have no idea where that is," when Sirius said this all the girls giggled.

"It's a Scandinavian country," said Lily matter-of-factly.

"What class do you have next?" Sirius asked.

One of the girls eagerly pulled out her schedule and answered "Transfiguration," smiling widely.

"All right, we'll see you there." He got up to go then turned around, and added, "Oh yeah, and you see the boy with the black hair and glasses?" She turned her eyes over to the boys, and caught James looking at her. He smiled sheepishly and turned away. "James Potter," said Sirius. "He likes you." He smiled slyly and sat down next to James and the others again.

James was red in the face. "What'd you do that for?"

"You dared me to."

"Not to tell her I liked her!"

"Well then, you should've gone. Its not hard," Sirius answered.

"Yes it is," Remus spoke up.

"You make it look so easy," Peter said admiringly.

James snorted. "Let's just get to our first class."

"What is it?" Illiar asked.

"Transfiguration," Sirius said. "Lily's in that class too." Sirius elbowed James, getting a punch back and almost falling out of his seat. They all got up, on their way to meet their first professor.

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