A/N: I'm baaaaaaack!!!!! Hoooooray! I know your all just sooo excited. Well, I know one person out there who is (Hi Laura) hehe. I'm excited. Well, after about 4, 5, or 6 months (:(), the fourth part is finally here! Words of Wisdom: Laziness is not rewarding. I should know. Hehe
Part 4: First Day Blues
"Ooh! Looky looky! Food!" Sirius exclaimed at breakfast.
"Looky looky? Never mind, I won't ask," Lily said sleepily.
"Good," Sirius said through a mouth full of eggs and some other things Lily didn't want to think about.
"Hey, James looks like his face fall is about to fall into his food," Julia said, matter of factly.
"JAMES!" Lily screamed.
"What?!" James said, startled.
"Nothin'. It's just that, your face was getting awfully close to that porridge," She answered, giggling. "Eew. How can you eat porridge?"
No one heard her, because the owls decided to fly in exactly at that moment.
"Awww, look, Jamsie got a present from his mommy! How sweet," Sirius said.
"Shut up," 'Jamsie' said, showing his extreme grouchiness.
"Oh yeah, warning for you everybody, NEVER get on James' nerves in the morning, he'll always get you back later. Speaking from experience," Lily said, not without a small smile.
"Schedules! First year schedules!" called the fifth year girl who had led the girls to their room the night before. "Here are your schedules. If you have any trouble finding your class, just tell me, my name is Emiline Smith. I am a prefect." She said this last part as if she were the queen of the world.
"What's a per-fect?" Kristina asked, with a confused look. She seemed to look like that a lot.
"It's PREfect. It is the highest honor bestowed on a Hogwarts student, next to Head Boy or Head Girl," Emiline answered pompously.
When Emiline had walked away, Sirius said, "Yeah, and you obviously have to be a huge snobbish twit to become one." Everyone laughed.
"I HEARD THAT!" Emiline screeched. Lily was almost crying, and her ribs hurt, she was laughing so hard.
- - -
James looked down at his schedule, trying to ignore the wolfish-gobbling sounds coming from Sirius' direction. "Looks like we have Herbology first, and then Defense Against the Dark Arts after Lunch. Oh, and History of Magic," James said.
"Oh, by the way, I've heard Herbology's a boring class, but you have to keep your wits about you. Some man-eating plants, you know. Tom, that's my oldest brother, he says that History of Magic is the class everyone takes their naps in. He says this really old guy, Professor Binns, teaches that class. Defense Against the Dark Arts is supposed to be ok, but I've heard that Professor Jennings can be a real pill. Oh, and-"
"Well, I'm full, let's head to Herbology," Julia said, cutting Kristina off. "Come on, everyone."
All the first year Gryffindors headed off to the greenhouses, but before they could enter one, their professor cut them off.
- - -
Lily had never seen a stranger woman. Professor Stout (A/N: Yeah I know, it rhymes with sprout, live with it) had short, grey, frizzy hair, and was very tall and rather round around the middle. Lily thought her name fit her rather well.
Professor Stout started in on the class without delay, "Hello class, I am Professor Stout. You all have not seen me yet, as I was not at the feast last night. One of the larger Man-Eating Petunias was in a grumpy mood, and I had to take care of it. Oh, don't worry," she said, seeing the worried looks on their faces. "It didn't get me.
Now, if you will all follow me to Greenhouse 1, we can get started. Come, this way."
She led them all to the Greenhouse closest to the castle. It also seemed to be the smallest. They went inside, where they met a strange mix of odors. Lily was sure she smelled water, dirt, and flowers, but the identities of quite a few other scents eluded her.
"Now, children, we will begin our lessons with some rules.
1) No one is to enter these greenhouses without my instruction.
2) No one is to leave these greenhouses without my instruction.
3) No one is to touch anything unless I say so or unless they are quite sure of what it is. You never can tell, something that looks like a rose could be a carnivorous plant in disguise.
4) If I hear of any of you causing any trouble, it will be an automatic detention, and trouble includes being off task.
5) If you break a rule, and you know it, you are on the honor system. Write the date down on your notecard with you name on it. You will be given these shortly. Part of your grade will be based on your honesty.
Now, let us begin."
(A/N I know I know, HONOR SYSTEM????? I got the idea from my music teacher. She actually does this notecard stuff. Can we say, odd? Well, back to the story.)
- - -
Needless to say, Herbology was a weird experience for James. They spent the entire class pruning Fly-Swatting Ferns. Fly-Swatting Ferns had to be the most pruning-needing plants ever.
Yuck. James thought to himself.
"Hey James, it's LUNCH TIME!" yelled Sirius. Sirius LOVED food. He always ate however much he could, and yet he stayed thin. He also ate like a dog. (A/N Hint-hint?)
"Yeah, I agree," Lily said.
"Wh..What?" James said, startled.
"Oh, come on James, I've only known you for like forever. Whenever you get that look, your either thinking 'Sirius is a pig' or 'Gee, my feet smell.' I decided to go with the first one," Lily answered, her eyes smiling at him.
"Hey, not funny. My feet don't smell," James said defensively.
"Yeah, whatever James, you're just in denial," Lily said, preparing to run.
"You make it sound like I have a medical problem or something," he answered, but Lily was gone. "Hey come back!"
James chased Lily to the Great Hall, where she was already sitting, and where Sirius looked like he was on his 5th or 6th helping. Yuck.
- - -
After lunch, Lily and her friends headed off to Defense Against the Dark Arts. Professor Jennings certainly was strict, and DADA was definitely not going to be Lily's favorite class. History of Magic was easily a S. and C. (A/N Snooze and cruise for all of you who have never seen Passport to Paris.) Much later, back in the common room, Lily was looking over her first day's homework.
"Oh come on, Lil', our homework isn't due tomorrow or nothin'," Sirius whined. He had been begging her for a game of chess for over an hour.
"Tomorrow or anything," Julia and Remus said together, automatically. Sirius just sort-of looked at them, and then went back to bugging Lily.
"PLEEEEEASE!" He begged.
"Ugh, fine," Lily gave in.
"Yay!" Sirius exclaimed, jumping up and down like a little child.
"Don't do that again," Lily said, extremely seriously, while giving Sirius an extremely frightened look.
Just at that moment, James came bursting into the common room.
"Sirius, hey Sirius!" he yelled, attracting the attention of the whole common room. James ran over to them. "Guess what?" he asked.
"What?"
"I found Jennings' office."
"No way."
"Yes way."
"No w-.."
"Ok, we're going to stop that before it starts. And what do you mean you found her office?" Lily asked.
"Well, me and Sirius-"
"Sirius and I," Julia and Remus said.
"Well, Sirius and I wanted to see just how evil Jennings could be, and decided to pull a tiny little 'we're here' type prank."
"Oh, James, again?" Lily asked, but she was smiling with her eyes.
"Oh, Lily, but off course!"
"See you guys in a little while," Lily said, settling back down to her homework.
The guys didn't turn up for a while, and eventually Remus, Julia, Lily, and Kristina were heading up to bed, when the guys came sprinting into the common room. Well, Lily assumed they sprinted to the portrait hole, but they ended up sort-of falling through it.
"That was awesome!" James exclaimed.
"Yeah, totally cool," Sirius agreed.
"What did you do this time?" Lily said, fake exasperatingly.
"Well, we gave Professor Jennings a nasty surprise," Sirius said proudly.
"And he gave us a detention," James added.
Lily smiled, she had been right.
"So, Lily how about that chess game?" Sirius said.
"NO!!" Lily yelled, which made Sirius get a really surprised look on face and jump back about three feet.
"Wow, the dragon does breathe fire, check out the breath."
A/N: Well, is it ok? I haven't writing in a while, I hope it was good. It was a little longer than my previous ones. PLEASE..........R/R???? :)
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Part 4: First Day Blues
"Ooh! Looky looky! Food!" Sirius exclaimed at breakfast.
"Looky looky? Never mind, I won't ask," Lily said sleepily.
"Good," Sirius said through a mouth full of eggs and some other things Lily didn't want to think about.
"Hey, James looks like his face fall is about to fall into his food," Julia said, matter of factly.
"JAMES!" Lily screamed.
"What?!" James said, startled.
"Nothin'. It's just that, your face was getting awfully close to that porridge," She answered, giggling. "Eew. How can you eat porridge?"
No one heard her, because the owls decided to fly in exactly at that moment.
"Awww, look, Jamsie got a present from his mommy! How sweet," Sirius said.
"Shut up," 'Jamsie' said, showing his extreme grouchiness.
"Oh yeah, warning for you everybody, NEVER get on James' nerves in the morning, he'll always get you back later. Speaking from experience," Lily said, not without a small smile.
"Schedules! First year schedules!" called the fifth year girl who had led the girls to their room the night before. "Here are your schedules. If you have any trouble finding your class, just tell me, my name is Emiline Smith. I am a prefect." She said this last part as if she were the queen of the world.
"What's a per-fect?" Kristina asked, with a confused look. She seemed to look like that a lot.
"It's PREfect. It is the highest honor bestowed on a Hogwarts student, next to Head Boy or Head Girl," Emiline answered pompously.
When Emiline had walked away, Sirius said, "Yeah, and you obviously have to be a huge snobbish twit to become one." Everyone laughed.
"I HEARD THAT!" Emiline screeched. Lily was almost crying, and her ribs hurt, she was laughing so hard.
- - -
James looked down at his schedule, trying to ignore the wolfish-gobbling sounds coming from Sirius' direction. "Looks like we have Herbology first, and then Defense Against the Dark Arts after Lunch. Oh, and History of Magic," James said.
"Oh, by the way, I've heard Herbology's a boring class, but you have to keep your wits about you. Some man-eating plants, you know. Tom, that's my oldest brother, he says that History of Magic is the class everyone takes their naps in. He says this really old guy, Professor Binns, teaches that class. Defense Against the Dark Arts is supposed to be ok, but I've heard that Professor Jennings can be a real pill. Oh, and-"
"Well, I'm full, let's head to Herbology," Julia said, cutting Kristina off. "Come on, everyone."
All the first year Gryffindors headed off to the greenhouses, but before they could enter one, their professor cut them off.
- - -
Lily had never seen a stranger woman. Professor Stout (A/N: Yeah I know, it rhymes with sprout, live with it) had short, grey, frizzy hair, and was very tall and rather round around the middle. Lily thought her name fit her rather well.
Professor Stout started in on the class without delay, "Hello class, I am Professor Stout. You all have not seen me yet, as I was not at the feast last night. One of the larger Man-Eating Petunias was in a grumpy mood, and I had to take care of it. Oh, don't worry," she said, seeing the worried looks on their faces. "It didn't get me.
Now, if you will all follow me to Greenhouse 1, we can get started. Come, this way."
She led them all to the Greenhouse closest to the castle. It also seemed to be the smallest. They went inside, where they met a strange mix of odors. Lily was sure she smelled water, dirt, and flowers, but the identities of quite a few other scents eluded her.
"Now, children, we will begin our lessons with some rules.
1) No one is to enter these greenhouses without my instruction.
2) No one is to leave these greenhouses without my instruction.
3) No one is to touch anything unless I say so or unless they are quite sure of what it is. You never can tell, something that looks like a rose could be a carnivorous plant in disguise.
4) If I hear of any of you causing any trouble, it will be an automatic detention, and trouble includes being off task.
5) If you break a rule, and you know it, you are on the honor system. Write the date down on your notecard with you name on it. You will be given these shortly. Part of your grade will be based on your honesty.
Now, let us begin."
(A/N I know I know, HONOR SYSTEM????? I got the idea from my music teacher. She actually does this notecard stuff. Can we say, odd? Well, back to the story.)
- - -
Needless to say, Herbology was a weird experience for James. They spent the entire class pruning Fly-Swatting Ferns. Fly-Swatting Ferns had to be the most pruning-needing plants ever.
Yuck. James thought to himself.
"Hey James, it's LUNCH TIME!" yelled Sirius. Sirius LOVED food. He always ate however much he could, and yet he stayed thin. He also ate like a dog. (A/N Hint-hint?)
"Yeah, I agree," Lily said.
"Wh..What?" James said, startled.
"Oh, come on James, I've only known you for like forever. Whenever you get that look, your either thinking 'Sirius is a pig' or 'Gee, my feet smell.' I decided to go with the first one," Lily answered, her eyes smiling at him.
"Hey, not funny. My feet don't smell," James said defensively.
"Yeah, whatever James, you're just in denial," Lily said, preparing to run.
"You make it sound like I have a medical problem or something," he answered, but Lily was gone. "Hey come back!"
James chased Lily to the Great Hall, where she was already sitting, and where Sirius looked like he was on his 5th or 6th helping. Yuck.
- - -
After lunch, Lily and her friends headed off to Defense Against the Dark Arts. Professor Jennings certainly was strict, and DADA was definitely not going to be Lily's favorite class. History of Magic was easily a S. and C. (A/N Snooze and cruise for all of you who have never seen Passport to Paris.) Much later, back in the common room, Lily was looking over her first day's homework.
"Oh come on, Lil', our homework isn't due tomorrow or nothin'," Sirius whined. He had been begging her for a game of chess for over an hour.
"Tomorrow or anything," Julia and Remus said together, automatically. Sirius just sort-of looked at them, and then went back to bugging Lily.
"PLEEEEEASE!" He begged.
"Ugh, fine," Lily gave in.
"Yay!" Sirius exclaimed, jumping up and down like a little child.
"Don't do that again," Lily said, extremely seriously, while giving Sirius an extremely frightened look.
Just at that moment, James came bursting into the common room.
"Sirius, hey Sirius!" he yelled, attracting the attention of the whole common room. James ran over to them. "Guess what?" he asked.
"What?"
"I found Jennings' office."
"No way."
"Yes way."
"No w-.."
"Ok, we're going to stop that before it starts. And what do you mean you found her office?" Lily asked.
"Well, me and Sirius-"
"Sirius and I," Julia and Remus said.
"Well, Sirius and I wanted to see just how evil Jennings could be, and decided to pull a tiny little 'we're here' type prank."
"Oh, James, again?" Lily asked, but she was smiling with her eyes.
"Oh, Lily, but off course!"
"See you guys in a little while," Lily said, settling back down to her homework.
The guys didn't turn up for a while, and eventually Remus, Julia, Lily, and Kristina were heading up to bed, when the guys came sprinting into the common room. Well, Lily assumed they sprinted to the portrait hole, but they ended up sort-of falling through it.
"That was awesome!" James exclaimed.
"Yeah, totally cool," Sirius agreed.
"What did you do this time?" Lily said, fake exasperatingly.
"Well, we gave Professor Jennings a nasty surprise," Sirius said proudly.
"And he gave us a detention," James added.
Lily smiled, she had been right.
"So, Lily how about that chess game?" Sirius said.
"NO!!" Lily yelled, which made Sirius get a really surprised look on face and jump back about three feet.
"Wow, the dragon does breathe fire, check out the breath."
A/N: Well, is it ok? I haven't writing in a while, I hope it was good. It was a little longer than my previous ones. PLEASE..........R/R???? :)
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