Next Chapter, shall we go? Yes, yes we should.
Yes, I am quite aware that James and Sirius are in the same year, however that is part of the story, and you'll find out how they met before school later. Be patient, eh?
Kinda late to change Lily's last name...but I happen to prefer Evans, so that will be her last name. I'll change it in the first chapter.
Once in A Blue Moon
"Leave your stuff on the train." An older student, a boy with short brown hair and green eyes said, as he walked through their compartment. He burst through to a new compartment, before any of them could ask any questions.
"I guess...we get off?" Remus asked, looking as nervous as Lily felt. No one said a word as they walked through compartments, stepping over trunks, cages, and one very fat red toad, until they finally reached an open door.
Lily stepped off the train, unto yet another crowded platform, this one however was surrounded by trees, more trees, and a muddy, stone walk way. James stepped off after her, looking equally amazed as she did.
"Firs' years, over here! Firs' years!" the booming shout came from a man who was easily twice as tall as anyone Lily had ever seen, and at least five times as wide. Lily looked up at him fearfully. Sirius prodded at her back, making her stumble forward. As the rather large group of first years followed this rather large man down the path, there was not a sound. Lily tried to take everything in; the bitter coldness, the over bright stars that twinkled overhead, the strangle blueness of the moon. The path was steep and rocky, with great towering trees on both sides, and they turned a sharp corner, and saw it.
Hogwarts.
It was a vast castle and it sparked and gleamed and had countless towers. It was a dream castle, it was surreal, it was home. 'Home,' Lily thought.
They came to a stop near a lake, with water that shined purple under the moon. "No more 'han four to a boat," Hagrid called, helping a plump auburn haired boy into a small boat.
James and Sirius clambered into a boat, while Remus helped Lily climb in, before hopping in himself.
"Ev'ryone settled? Right. FORWARD!" Hagrid hollered. The boats slid across the lake, not making so much as a ripple. Lily felt rather squished; James's knees kept bumping into hers, as he was so tall. The ride was silent, except for a skinny blonde girl in the next boat who sneezed once.
When at last they had reached the oak doors, that were large enough even for this man, Lily thought she might just throw up the couple of Chocolate frogs she had eaten at lunch. The doors had opened, and there stood an older woman, with jet black hair and purple eyes.
"First years, Hagird?" the tall woman asked, still looking at the nervous bunch of first years in front of her. The man nodded his head.
"I will take them from here Hagrid. Thank you," the woman said, and lead them into a small room off of a large corridor. She began talking, but Lily was so scared and sick that she couldn't take in much of what the woman was saying. Lily only noticed she had left when Sirius elbowed James, causing him to almost collapse on her.
"Do you think that we'll have to...fight a monster or something?" Sirius hissed, pulling out his wand. James shook his head, and said,
"They're sorting us Sirius, not trying to kill us," he said.
"What were you going to do with your wand anyway? Scare it away with sparks?" Remus snorted.
The woman returned, and lead the scared students into the Great Hall. Words couldn't describe the wooden tables, the house flags, the sense of home the room held.
The woman (Lily still did not know her name) explained that they were to try on the old hat in front of them, and the hat would shout which house you were best suited for. Lily almost fell over in relief, glad that she wouldn't have to perform some ridiculously advanced spell in front of all these other students.
"Adams, Jessica!"
An average sized girl walked forward, and with trembling fingers, placed the hat over her short brown hair, and after 30 seconds of anxious silence, the hat shouted, "RAVENCLAW!"
"Aiztenk, Danika!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
The table on the far left exploded in screams and poundings on the table, as the small girl made her way over to the Gryfinddor table. Several more name were called, and then,
"Black, Sirius!"
The hat had barely touched Sirius's head, when the hat roared, "GRYFFINDOR!" Again, the table to the left, let out catcalls that could deafen the dead.
"Castroz, Nariah!"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Danes, Nathaniel!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Lily tried desperately to ignore the odd ringing in her ears, and watch as her fellow classmates got sorted. Before she knew it, the woman was shouting out,
"Eins, Anna!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
Lily's hands started to sweat, and heard the dreaded words.
"Evans, Lily!"
She walked, on shaky legs to place the hat on her head.
'Hullo, Miss Evans. Lovely to met you, now let's see...you're quite bright, aren't you, and although you don't show it often, far braver than most that I have seen...and though you may regret my placing you here in later years, you have the true signs of a GRYFFINDOR!" Lily placed the hat back on the chair, and practically skipped to the Gryffindor table, were she sat down amongst more cheers, pulling a chair up beside Sirius.
"Lupin, Remus!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Odenik, Kalista!", became a Gryffindor, and then:
"Potter, James!"
James must have sat with the hat on his head for a whole ten seconds, before he was declared a Gryffindor, and Sirius did a cartwheel around the table.
Lily smiled at him as he joined the Gryffindor table, noting that the Sorting must be nearly over. Indeed, after "Shrup, Liora" became a Gryffindor, and "Snape, Severus" was welcomed to the Slytherin table, Lily watched the last couple of kids be Sorted.
Once the hat was placed back where ever it had come from, food appeared on the plates in front of them. "Welcome Home," the older boy who had instructed Lily and her three new friends off the train earlier that night said.
* * *
"Ask him."
"No."
"Ask him."
"What are you, deaf? I said no. No as in never, nope, not in this lifetime."
"I got it the first time."
"You could have fooled me."
"So, will you ask him?"
Lily threw her hands up exasperatedly as Liora Shrup, one of her new best friends, pleaded her to ask Sirius if she, Lily, and Kalista could join the recent trouble making Sirius had told them that he and his friends would be doing later tonight.
"If you want to go join those retards in getting detention for the next month, be my guest. Why you must include me, is beyond me," Lily declared melodramatically, and sank unto her bed, reaching for one of her course books.
"Come on Lily, it'll be fun. You used to like those guys an awful lot when school started." Liora said.
"That was before I got detention for the first two weeks of school, all thanks to James Potter. That's before Sirius learned how to conjure fire from his wand, and burnt my stuffed unicorn I've had since I was four years old. That's before Remus-" Lily would have gone on listing all the trouble she had gotten in her four months at Hogwarts, but Liora interrupted.
"Okay, Lily, your welcome to stop complaining at any time now. I'm open for....right now? Besides, we have absolutely, positively -"
"Nothing better to do tonight," Kalista finished for Liora, bouncing on her own bed.
"I know! We could....study!" Lily laughed dryly. Liora and Kalista looked at each other and nodded.
"It's time," Kalista said, in mock seriousness, marching side by side with Liora to Lily's bed.
"We didn't want to do this to you, Lily," Loria said.
"Guys, come on..." Lily complained, brainshing a pillow to guard herself with, as if it could stop two eleven year old girls from pouncing on her.
"Stop...I'll.......talk-to......them........pro-m.....ise!" Lily gasped between shrieks of laughter. The three girls stood on Lily's bed, flinging pillows at each other, with such a force, that when Kalista's bounced off Liora's head, it knocked Lily's lamp over. Lily groaned, her sides still aching from laughing so hard. These girls were truly her sisters, in less than four months they had been through more with Lily than Petunia could ever have done.
The three hopped off Lily's bed, telling each other that they would get around to the mess sooner or later (later sounded more plausible), so they headed towards the Gryffindor common room, finding Sirius, James, and Remus huddled in a corner, animatedly discussing something. However, when the three girls approached, they found the three boys silent, glaring at them.
"So what are we doing tonight?" Lily asked, a little unnerved at the way they were glaring at them so.
"We?" James scoffed.
"Did I stutter?"
"Don't you always?"
Luckily, (for James, Sirius noted later) Loria managed to grab on to Lily's robes before she could jump on - or kill- James.
"We wondered if we could help you guys...do whatever it is your doing tonight," Kalista said smoothly, ignoring James and Lily who were shooting dagers at each other.
"We're just doing what we do every night," Remus shrugged.
"Terrorizing the Slytherins again? Doesn't it get a little old?" Lily asked.
"How dare you degrade our nightly activites!" Sirius said in mock outrage, covering his head with his hand, and pretending to faint.
James cut in, "All you do is study anyway, Evans, so how would you know if it got a little old?"
"If looks could kill, James would be six feet under," Remus told Sirius, as the two watched on, as James and Lily argued.
"Potter, I've done more entertaining things in an hour, than you've done in your entire lifetime." Lily said angrily.
"I know dreaming of me is quite entertaining, as Sirius has informed me..."
It was Remus, Kalista, and Loria who held Lily and Sirius back this time.
"I'll make a deal with you Evans. You come with us tonight, and we'll show you just how much fun we have." James said, sticking out his hand. "Deal?"
"Deal," Lily said. "But I wouldn't touch your hand with a ten foot pole." And with that she swept away from the three boys, two who were besides themselves with laughter, and one who was staring at her back madly.
"See you at midnight!" Kalista called.
A/N: I wanted the entire first year to fit into this chapter, but alas, it didn't work. This chapter is big enough as it is. I love you guys who gave comments, it made me cry....er-not really, but I was rather giddy.
Yes, I am quite aware that James and Sirius are in the same year, however that is part of the story, and you'll find out how they met before school later. Be patient, eh?
Kinda late to change Lily's last name...but I happen to prefer Evans, so that will be her last name. I'll change it in the first chapter.
Once in A Blue Moon
"Leave your stuff on the train." An older student, a boy with short brown hair and green eyes said, as he walked through their compartment. He burst through to a new compartment, before any of them could ask any questions.
"I guess...we get off?" Remus asked, looking as nervous as Lily felt. No one said a word as they walked through compartments, stepping over trunks, cages, and one very fat red toad, until they finally reached an open door.
Lily stepped off the train, unto yet another crowded platform, this one however was surrounded by trees, more trees, and a muddy, stone walk way. James stepped off after her, looking equally amazed as she did.
"Firs' years, over here! Firs' years!" the booming shout came from a man who was easily twice as tall as anyone Lily had ever seen, and at least five times as wide. Lily looked up at him fearfully. Sirius prodded at her back, making her stumble forward. As the rather large group of first years followed this rather large man down the path, there was not a sound. Lily tried to take everything in; the bitter coldness, the over bright stars that twinkled overhead, the strangle blueness of the moon. The path was steep and rocky, with great towering trees on both sides, and they turned a sharp corner, and saw it.
Hogwarts.
It was a vast castle and it sparked and gleamed and had countless towers. It was a dream castle, it was surreal, it was home. 'Home,' Lily thought.
They came to a stop near a lake, with water that shined purple under the moon. "No more 'han four to a boat," Hagrid called, helping a plump auburn haired boy into a small boat.
James and Sirius clambered into a boat, while Remus helped Lily climb in, before hopping in himself.
"Ev'ryone settled? Right. FORWARD!" Hagrid hollered. The boats slid across the lake, not making so much as a ripple. Lily felt rather squished; James's knees kept bumping into hers, as he was so tall. The ride was silent, except for a skinny blonde girl in the next boat who sneezed once.
When at last they had reached the oak doors, that were large enough even for this man, Lily thought she might just throw up the couple of Chocolate frogs she had eaten at lunch. The doors had opened, and there stood an older woman, with jet black hair and purple eyes.
"First years, Hagird?" the tall woman asked, still looking at the nervous bunch of first years in front of her. The man nodded his head.
"I will take them from here Hagrid. Thank you," the woman said, and lead them into a small room off of a large corridor. She began talking, but Lily was so scared and sick that she couldn't take in much of what the woman was saying. Lily only noticed she had left when Sirius elbowed James, causing him to almost collapse on her.
"Do you think that we'll have to...fight a monster or something?" Sirius hissed, pulling out his wand. James shook his head, and said,
"They're sorting us Sirius, not trying to kill us," he said.
"What were you going to do with your wand anyway? Scare it away with sparks?" Remus snorted.
The woman returned, and lead the scared students into the Great Hall. Words couldn't describe the wooden tables, the house flags, the sense of home the room held.
The woman (Lily still did not know her name) explained that they were to try on the old hat in front of them, and the hat would shout which house you were best suited for. Lily almost fell over in relief, glad that she wouldn't have to perform some ridiculously advanced spell in front of all these other students.
"Adams, Jessica!"
An average sized girl walked forward, and with trembling fingers, placed the hat over her short brown hair, and after 30 seconds of anxious silence, the hat shouted, "RAVENCLAW!"
"Aiztenk, Danika!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
The table on the far left exploded in screams and poundings on the table, as the small girl made her way over to the Gryfinddor table. Several more name were called, and then,
"Black, Sirius!"
The hat had barely touched Sirius's head, when the hat roared, "GRYFFINDOR!" Again, the table to the left, let out catcalls that could deafen the dead.
"Castroz, Nariah!"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Danes, Nathaniel!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Lily tried desperately to ignore the odd ringing in her ears, and watch as her fellow classmates got sorted. Before she knew it, the woman was shouting out,
"Eins, Anna!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
Lily's hands started to sweat, and heard the dreaded words.
"Evans, Lily!"
She walked, on shaky legs to place the hat on her head.
'Hullo, Miss Evans. Lovely to met you, now let's see...you're quite bright, aren't you, and although you don't show it often, far braver than most that I have seen...and though you may regret my placing you here in later years, you have the true signs of a GRYFFINDOR!" Lily placed the hat back on the chair, and practically skipped to the Gryffindor table, were she sat down amongst more cheers, pulling a chair up beside Sirius.
"Lupin, Remus!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Odenik, Kalista!", became a Gryffindor, and then:
"Potter, James!"
James must have sat with the hat on his head for a whole ten seconds, before he was declared a Gryffindor, and Sirius did a cartwheel around the table.
Lily smiled at him as he joined the Gryffindor table, noting that the Sorting must be nearly over. Indeed, after "Shrup, Liora" became a Gryffindor, and "Snape, Severus" was welcomed to the Slytherin table, Lily watched the last couple of kids be Sorted.
Once the hat was placed back where ever it had come from, food appeared on the plates in front of them. "Welcome Home," the older boy who had instructed Lily and her three new friends off the train earlier that night said.
* * *
"Ask him."
"No."
"Ask him."
"What are you, deaf? I said no. No as in never, nope, not in this lifetime."
"I got it the first time."
"You could have fooled me."
"So, will you ask him?"
Lily threw her hands up exasperatedly as Liora Shrup, one of her new best friends, pleaded her to ask Sirius if she, Lily, and Kalista could join the recent trouble making Sirius had told them that he and his friends would be doing later tonight.
"If you want to go join those retards in getting detention for the next month, be my guest. Why you must include me, is beyond me," Lily declared melodramatically, and sank unto her bed, reaching for one of her course books.
"Come on Lily, it'll be fun. You used to like those guys an awful lot when school started." Liora said.
"That was before I got detention for the first two weeks of school, all thanks to James Potter. That's before Sirius learned how to conjure fire from his wand, and burnt my stuffed unicorn I've had since I was four years old. That's before Remus-" Lily would have gone on listing all the trouble she had gotten in her four months at Hogwarts, but Liora interrupted.
"Okay, Lily, your welcome to stop complaining at any time now. I'm open for....right now? Besides, we have absolutely, positively -"
"Nothing better to do tonight," Kalista finished for Liora, bouncing on her own bed.
"I know! We could....study!" Lily laughed dryly. Liora and Kalista looked at each other and nodded.
"It's time," Kalista said, in mock seriousness, marching side by side with Liora to Lily's bed.
"We didn't want to do this to you, Lily," Loria said.
"Guys, come on..." Lily complained, brainshing a pillow to guard herself with, as if it could stop two eleven year old girls from pouncing on her.
"Stop...I'll.......talk-to......them........pro-m.....ise!" Lily gasped between shrieks of laughter. The three girls stood on Lily's bed, flinging pillows at each other, with such a force, that when Kalista's bounced off Liora's head, it knocked Lily's lamp over. Lily groaned, her sides still aching from laughing so hard. These girls were truly her sisters, in less than four months they had been through more with Lily than Petunia could ever have done.
The three hopped off Lily's bed, telling each other that they would get around to the mess sooner or later (later sounded more plausible), so they headed towards the Gryffindor common room, finding Sirius, James, and Remus huddled in a corner, animatedly discussing something. However, when the three girls approached, they found the three boys silent, glaring at them.
"So what are we doing tonight?" Lily asked, a little unnerved at the way they were glaring at them so.
"We?" James scoffed.
"Did I stutter?"
"Don't you always?"
Luckily, (for James, Sirius noted later) Loria managed to grab on to Lily's robes before she could jump on - or kill- James.
"We wondered if we could help you guys...do whatever it is your doing tonight," Kalista said smoothly, ignoring James and Lily who were shooting dagers at each other.
"We're just doing what we do every night," Remus shrugged.
"Terrorizing the Slytherins again? Doesn't it get a little old?" Lily asked.
"How dare you degrade our nightly activites!" Sirius said in mock outrage, covering his head with his hand, and pretending to faint.
James cut in, "All you do is study anyway, Evans, so how would you know if it got a little old?"
"If looks could kill, James would be six feet under," Remus told Sirius, as the two watched on, as James and Lily argued.
"Potter, I've done more entertaining things in an hour, than you've done in your entire lifetime." Lily said angrily.
"I know dreaming of me is quite entertaining, as Sirius has informed me..."
It was Remus, Kalista, and Loria who held Lily and Sirius back this time.
"I'll make a deal with you Evans. You come with us tonight, and we'll show you just how much fun we have." James said, sticking out his hand. "Deal?"
"Deal," Lily said. "But I wouldn't touch your hand with a ten foot pole." And with that she swept away from the three boys, two who were besides themselves with laughter, and one who was staring at her back madly.
"See you at midnight!" Kalista called.
A/N: I wanted the entire first year to fit into this chapter, but alas, it didn't work. This chapter is big enough as it is. I love you guys who gave comments, it made me cry....er-not really, but I was rather giddy.