A/N: Hi so I'm really on a roll with this story so I actually did chapters 2 and 3 today too! And sadly I do not own Lily or Sirius or James or Remus or even Molly when she appears in the 3rd chapter cuz hmm I wonder who she grows up to be? But Meg, Brooke, Farah, and Brian are all mine! And none of them are Mary Sues cuz none of them are like me at all! So enjoy!!
From the Diary of Lily Marie Evans
Year One
Chapter 2
September 1, 1971
Dear Diary,
What a day. Right now I'm at Hogwarts. But let me start from this morning. I woke up at 6, because I couldn't sleep anymore I was way too nervous and excited. I packed all of my books and stuff into a trunk last night and I found a basket to carry Kit in. At 8:30 the rest of my family finally woke up and we had french toast and eggs for breakfast. At 10 we left for the train station cuz I wanted to be there nice and early. But once we got at King's Cross I seriously couldn't find Platform 9 ¾! I figured it would be in between Platforms 9 and 10 logical right? But it wasn't I was totally confused and my parental elements weren't much help either. Well finally heard someone say the word Hogwarts and I chased after the lady. (By this point my parentals were really confused!) Well the lady told me that all I had to do was walk straight through the solid barrier and she said since my parents were muggles (whatever that is) they couldn't get onto the platform. So I said good-bye to them there and promised I'd write, etc., and Petunia cried and said she'd miss me! Blah, Blah! Well when I got through the barrier (which was really scary, I mean walking straight into a solid wall!) there was this huge scarlet train in front of me. I somehow managed to heave my trunk into an empty compartment, then me and Kit went exploring. Well at like 2 minutes 'til I scrambled back into the compartment that my stuff was in. There were 2 guys in there. One was that boy that I ran into in Diagon Alley. His name is James Potter and his friend (the laugher) was Sirius Black. The are both starting here this year too! I was so excited, I mean, seeing that guy again was totally cool! He is really delish! Yeah so the train ride was fun, but it was so---------o long though. It was dark by the time we got here. So as we get off the train this huge (I mean GIGANTIC) man herded all of us first years over to a lake and we took boats up to the castle. (Which is amazing! I mean it's huge and gorgeous and it's got so many towers and stuff!) Well then they stuck us in this little room where we were all really squished and they told us we were gonna be sorted. I kinda freaked cuz I didn't remember if it said anything about the sorting in Hogwarts, A History I didn't memorize the entire book! Next, we got trooped into the Great Hall (the ceiling is enchanted to look like the sky outside, it's so cool!) where this hat sang a song about the people that founded Hogwarts, and we all had to try the hat on, and it told us which house to go to. Me, James, and Sirius are all in Gryffindor. At dinner I sat next to a mousy boy who said his name was Remus Lupin and he was really cool and all. After we ate we got led up about a bazillion flights of stairs to a picture of a very fat lady in a pink dress. As the prefect told her the password (Bubblegum) she swung forward and there was a hole behind her frame. Inside was a huge room with a fire and bunch of couches and chairs. Now I'm upstairs in my dorm with the 3 other girls in my year: Farah Smithson, Meg Sheilds, and Brooke Hamilton. They're all totally nice. Especially Brooke, me and her just spent like the last hour talking. Her parents are a witch and wizard so she filled me in on a bunch of stuff! Classes start day after tomorrow!
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September 8, 1971
Dear Diary,
Well my first week at Hogwarts is over. I survived (somehow)! So let's see . . . I had my first day off! No classes, well it was a Sunday but whatever. They deliver everything by owl! It's so weird. I had to go up to an owlery to mail a letter to Mum, Dad, and Petunia. There were all these owls, like every color and kind. It was amazing. So yeah they swoop down during breakfast and deliver their letter. The first day it scared the heebie-jeebies outta me! So onto my classes, they're pretty cool! I have Charms which is like simple spells like making something happen or making something (or someone) do something else. Transfiguration is pretty neat too! That's turning something into something else. At the start of class the teacher turned her desk into a pig, I think it was, and the back into a desk. Umm Herbology is out in the greenhouses outside. Basically it's just taking care of all these cool plants. Then there's Potions which is a neat class except it's down in the dungeons, which are kinda scary. And the last class of the week Defense Against the Dark Arts. Oh I forgot History of Magic, which, already, is so boring that I forgot about it!
Brooke and I are becoming pretty good friends, I think. Well I mean since I have all my classes with the other Gryffindor first years, (there's 8 of us), Brooke's in all of my classes. She's really funny always cracking jokes and stuff. So I introduced her to James, Sirius, and Remus. It looks like the 5 of us are gonna be pretty good friends, I hope! *Crossing my fingers* We already got into trouble though! In Charms, the teacher, Professor Slywarki, seems to really hate us. Well that might partially because James and Sirius interrupted class on the first day and we were all kinda involved. But really I think it's mostly just because we're in Gryffindor and he's head of Slytherin house. There seems to be some kind of rivalry between us and the Slytherins. Well they don't seem like the friendliest bunch of people if you ask me!
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September 16, 1971
Dear Diary,
My gosh I've been busy! I have so much homework its' not even funny. Whatever special treatment the teachers gave us, homework-wise, they made up for it last week. I had some nasty essays to write. But I'm glad for the break. Today after breakfast me, Brooke, James, Sirius, and Remus went exploring. This place is huge! There are so many corridors and staircases and nothing is what it seems! Just yesterday a suit of armor whistled at me as I was on my way to lunch. It kinda creeped me out! The pictures here are weird too. Brooke showed me pictures of her family there first night here and they moved. They all smiled and waved up at me. All the people in the pictures here keep going and visiting each other! It's so weird!
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September 23, 1971
Dear Diary,
Well I've done it! I have successfully turned a walnut into a bouncy ball! I am amazing. Sorry I had to get that out. Brooke and I were just practicing here in the common room, she's still working on hers. She was telling me about her family while we were practicing. It's messed up. I mean her whole family is wizards but half of them act like muggles. Take her grandpa for instance, he married some 20 year-old and moved to Taiwan! Seriously! If my grandpa did that I'd flip! So I've decided that James is crazy. We've only been at this school for 3 weeks and he already has a girlfriend. Some Ravenclaw girl. It's weird, he's always off in between classes walking her around and kissing her and stuff. It's nuts. Well yeah, him and Sirius have already had 4 detentions. Actually they just came back through the portrait hole grinning. I guess they were supposed to be organizing Filch's (he's the caretaker here and he hates students) office and they left frog spawn or something in one of his desk drawers. Hillariou! *Rolling my eyes* Okay now they've engaged in a particularly noisy game of Exploding Snap! I can't concentrate!
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September 30, 1971
Dear Diary,
Through with my first month! Had a pretty boring week. But I got a letter from Mum and Dad, and a separate one from Petunia. Mum and Dad are well. They sent me some money but I don't think I can buy anything cuz it's muggle money. Petunia says she hates school without me there and that she misses me and that Kat (her kitty) misses Kit. But aside from my letters nothing exciting has happened!
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October 6, 1971
Dear Diary,
Still boring! I have a lot of homework still and the common room is insane. Everyone is buzzing about the 1st quidditch match of the year Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw! I'm still not quite sure what quidditch is, I know it's a sport and all cuz James and Sirius "explained" it to me but I'm still not quite sure what it is cuz they talked very fast and very excitedly. I guess quidditch and wizards is like football and muggles, everybody follows it. I'm excited to see it anywho. The game is next Saturday! But right now I have to get back to this nasty Charms essay about the importance of being able to make things fly. It's not important, it's just cool!
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October 14, 1971
Dear Diary,
Quidditch is so neat! It's amazing there's seven people on each side and the fly around on broomsticks (by the way flying lessons start next Friday). Anyway the game is played 50 feet in the air! 3 people on each team pass around this big red ball, the quaffle I think Brooke said, and another person tries to block their shots and stuff. There are 2 balls that fly around, and try to knock people off their broomsticks, those are bludgers. 2 of the people on each team try and his the bludgers at the other team. Then the last person has to catch this tiny little ball to end the game. It was amazing! Even though we got creamed by Ravenclaw, they beat us 220-40 I think, yeah that sounds right. It was still an amazing game!
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P.S. James and his Ravenclaw girlfriend broke up! Already! She won't even look at him in Potions. It's kinda sad, but he doesn't seem to care.
October 21, 1971
Dear Diary,
I just saw Remus Lupin and he looks a mess. I feel really bad for him. His mother is really sick. He's going to visit here tonight and he went last month too. She must be really ill if he has to go and visit her every month. Wow, that stinks. Everybody seems to be having family problems right now. Look: Remus's mother, Brooke's dad is being all weird. Brooke thinks he's gonna move out soon, and Meg Sheilds her parents just died. Both of them, well actually they didn't just die they were killed. She got an owl at breakfast this morning with a condolence letter from the ministry. She's been up in our dorm all morning crying. I don't know what to do or say to her. She's really upset, but then again who wouldn't be if their parents had just gotten killed. The ministry didn't even tell her who did it! It's terrible.
Okay James and Sirius just got called down to Professor McGonnagall's office. Her voice just totally echoed throughout like the whole school. I wonder what they did this time. And there they go zipping out the portrait hole, laughing their heads off. So typical! What dorks!
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P.S. James has another girlfriend, still a Ravenclaw, just another one.
October 28, 1971
Dear Diary,
Halloween is in 3 days and I can't wait to see how witches and wizard spend the day. I mean it's fun and all as a muggle, but I'm smack-dab in the middle of what Halloween is about, Magic!
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P.S. James Update: His new girlfriend lasted approximately 3 days!