Friends Forever (Part 1)
Before I start I must say that this story will not be perfect, there will be mistakes,
as you will see later on, but I ask that you be considerate
enough to read it. Thank you! Oh, and don't forget to review
"Petunia!" Shouted Lily. "Give that back, that's my wand! I'll… I'll…I'll...
Set Marbles on you (Marbles was Lily's new owl) Petunia screamed and dropped Lily's
wand.
"Mum! Mum! Lily's threatening me! Muuuuum!" Lily sighed. 'Big sisters are supposed to
be mature', she thought, 'not to act like little babies'.
A week ago Lily had received a letter telling her that in September she would be attending
Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Lily was the only witch in her family so she
was very excited. Yesterday she had been with her parents (her sister refused to come) to
Diagon Alley (a magic street full of shops for witches and wizards). It was the most amazing
street that she had ever seen. The shops made Lily's jaw drop and their names were
extremely peculiar. There were names like:
Quality Quidditch Supplies, Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions, Flourish and Blotts
(for school books), The Leaky Cauldron (a small pub) and Gringotts (a huge bank run by
goblins).
***
Two weeks later Lily was all packed and ready to go. To get to the Hogwarts Express she
had to go to the Kings Cross train station in central London, walk through a solid barrier
between two platforms and so arrive at platform 9¾. Once she had got all her luggage onto
the train it was all pretty easy. She kissed her Mum and Dad goodbye (and merely patted
her sister's cheek with her own). On the train she found an empty compartment, sat down
and waved her family goodbye as the train sped round the corner. Then the compartment
door slid open revealing two boys who both had black hair, one of which who had
extremely scruffy hair and glasses, she took an instant liking to him.
"Hi!" said the one with scruffy hair
"I'm James Potter and this is Sirius Black what's your name?"
"Lily Chestnut," said Lily. Sirius snorted.
"Sirius! Don't be so rude!" said James, even though he himself was fighting to keep back his
laughter.
"Don't worry, I get a lot of that," laughed Lily
"Sorry," wheezed Sirius
"'S'okay," said Lily
"I like your owl," said Sirius, pointing to Marbles, who was flying around the compartment.
"Thanks, she's called Marbles"
"Nice name," said Sirius
"Thanks, what's yours called?"
"Beaky," said Sirius
"Very original," laughed Lily
"Mine's called Colm after my cousin"
"Cool!"
Just then the compartment door opened (again) to reveal a girl and two boys (all around
their age).
"Hi!" Said the girl
" I'm Nancy Fisher, this is Peter Pettigrew and this is Frank Longbottom"
"Hello," they both said at the same time.
" What are your names?" asked Frank.
"James Potter"
"Lily Chestnut." Everyone (including Lily) giggled.
"Sirius Black."
"Well, now we all know each other," said Peter "Who wants a game of exploding snap?"
***
When they had got off the train, there was a massive man that you could see above all the
other heads (including the teachers) and he was shouting
"Firs'- years, Firs'- years over here!"
" 'Lo," he said to the small group
"Hi" they all said nervously
" Firs'- years, follow me," he said. They came to a small lake with at least 20 boats in it.
" No more'n four to a boat," he yelled above the crowd. Lily got in a boat with Sirius,
James and Nancy. Peter and Frank went to find another boat. When they got to the castle
everyone was dry, except for James, because Sirius had pushed him in (and he had got
himself a detention before he had even set foot inside the castle, he was very proud of
himself). The man opened the massive doors to reveal a hall twice the size of Lily's house
and a very stern looking witch, Lily guessed she was a teacher or some thing.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, I am Professor McGonagall, would you please follow me into the
great hall," she said. "Silently," she added. The great hall was bigger than the other hall, and
it had five huge tables. One table had a snake on a flag hanging above it another a lion the
other an Eagle and the next one a badger, there wasn't a flag of an animal above the last
one.
"Please quietly stand here in a line," she said. She walked up to the front of the hall and
placed a worn out old hat on a three-legged stool. All the first years started whispering
furiously,
"My brother Nick told me that you have to turn the hat into a mouse!" Said one girl
worriedly
"Oh dear!" Said another. Just then a very old man stood up and said
"Welcome back to Hogwarts, now your brains are empty it is time to start working again
and fill them up, and to our new first years, Welcome to Hogwarts. I am your new
headmaster Professor Dumbledore. In a moment Professor McGonagall will call your name
out and you will come up and put the hat on."
"I'll kill Nick!" said the girl again.
"Allen, Samantha!" Shouted Professor McGonagall. The girl who had a brother called Nick
walked nervously up to front of the hall and put the hat on.
" GRYFFINDOR!" Shouted the hat. Sam went to join the Gryffindors who were happy to
welcome a new Gryffindor to the table.
"Black, Sirius!" Sirius walked up to stand and put the hat on,
"GRYFFINDOR!" Yelled the hat, and Sirius went to join the rowdy Gryffindor table.
"Bonston, Ian!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Chestnut, Lily!" Lily walked forwards nervously.
"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the Hat. A very relieved Lily went to sit down next to Sirius at
the Gryffindor table. As she was taking in all the surroundings, the Sorting was continuing:
"Diggory, Amos!"
HUFFLEPUFF!" And the Sorting continued in this vein, with each new student taking his or
her place at his or her new house table.
"Potter, James!' James stood up and walked over to the hat. After about a minute, it
screamed…
"GRYFFINDOR!" Lily clapped hard along with all the other Gryffindors, as James walked
over and sat down on Sirius' left side.
"Nice one, James," she whispered. He grinned. So, for some peculiar reason, did Sirius, it
being peculiar, as he probably hadn't heard what she had said. There were now only a few
people left.
"Snape, Severus," a boy who had a face like a horse walked up to the hat and put it on
"SLYTHERIN!" Eventually everyone had been sorted; Peter, Frank and Nancy were all
put in Gryffindor as well (luckily) along with a boy called Remus Lupin and two girls called
Kelly Johnson and Siobhan Wolf. Then Dumbledore started talking again
"Now we have had the sorting, just before we have the feast, I have a few notices to give
out, number one is that you must not go near the forbidden forest unless you have a teacher
with you, and that also applies to the trips to Hogsmeade for the first and second years, and
the people who forgot their slips," he looked over to a girl in the fourth year.
"That's Bertha Jorkins," whispered Sirius. "She's a Gryffindor fourth year, she's in my
cousin's class," he added. Dumbledore continued:
"But the thing I really want to draw your attention to is a new tree that we have just planted
called the Whomping Willow, it is extremely dangerous and anyone who goes near it will be
instantly suspended or in extreme cases expelled, but now let us start the feast!" And then
food appeared in front of them Lily was so hungry she just grabbed anything she could reach
and she had the best meal she had ever had in her whole life! When they were all fed and
watered they were sent to bed, Lily, Sirius, James, Nancy, Peter and Frank all walked up
together
"Cat's eyes," said Sirius (it was the password) and the painting of a fat lady swung open.
"I'm not tired," said Nancy "Is anyone?"
"I am a bit," said Lily "You've got to admit it's been a long day." they all nodded.
***
The next day they started their lessons. It was a pretty good day all in all, the flying lessons
were really good and Lily found she was quite good at flying (even when she was on an
ancient Supershocker) and so were the others. The other lessons were just as good as their
flying lesson, except for the lesson potions that they had with the Slytherins and the head of
Slytherin house, Professor Callaway, taught potions, and he hated the Gryffindors, but he
seemed to really loath James and Sirius and something that was even more strange is that he
seemed to quite like Lily and she was a Gryffindor.
"Potter! Black! " He barked, "You've got that all wrong! You put the frog's legs in last,
why don't you take a leaf out of Chestnut's book?" Lily was a bit confused, because she
had made mistakes but hadn't got told off. She had put the frog's legs in first, but he hadn't
even batted an eyelid.
"It's not fair," complained James "Why does he favour you so much when you're a
Gryffindor? And you made mistakes!" He added coldly.
"It's not my fault," said Lily "I can't help it if he chooses to favour me!"
"Yeah, leave her alone," said a voice behind them, they turned around and became face to
face with Remus Lupin the other boy in Gryffindor first year.
"Who asked you?" Snapped James.
"He's right you know James, you need to lay off Lily," said Sirius
"Shut up!" Shouted James, and stormed off.
"Sorry," said Remus "Did I make things worse?"
"Na," said Sirius "He's always like that"
"Yeah, don't worry," reassured Lily, and they all went up to the great hall for some lunch.
***
The first week went pretty quickly, the Gryffindor first years had now all made friends (after
a really boring lesson of History of Magic). But now it was the weekend and the first years
hadn't got any homework, so they had two whole days to explore the castle and make new
friends. (James had made up with them). It was a sunny Saturday morning and the group
was outside watching James and Kelly have an exciting game of chess, because they were
the two best players in the group.
"Betcha two galleons Kelly wins," said Siobhan
"Bet you three galleons James wins!" Said Sirius
"Great! I could do with three galleons!"
"You wish!" Said Sirius quietly, not quietly enough; he got a slap round the face.
"Shut up! I'm trying to win a game here!" Snapped Kelly
"Ditto," said James
"Soz," they both said
"Hey!" said Peter, suddenly "Why don't we go and find the kitchens? I've heard that there
are house elves there and that they can get you a roast in, like, two minuets!"
"Yeah, but where are the kitchens? And how did you find out about the house elves?"
Asked Sam
"Well the kitchens are opposite Callaway's office, I'll show you when we get there.
And Bertha Jorkins told me about the house elves and where the kitchens are," explained
Peter.
"Bertha told you!" said Sirius "Why on earth did she tell you?!"
"No idea," said Peter "She just did"
"Just did!" Yelled Sirius "What kind of an answer is that?!" And he stormed off.
"What's his problem?" asked Kelly
"Probably just angry that he didn't work it out himself," said Lily
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that he can have a go at Peter," said Remus "Plus he's
probably the most laid back guy I know!"
"Me and Lily know him best so we'll talk to him," said James "Won't we Lily?"
"Sure we will James!" So after they had had lunch they pulled Sirius over into the corner…
"Why did you have a go at Peter like that?" asked James
"Just - er - just because!"
"Sirius, it's us! You can tell us anything!" said Lily
"Okay, it's just that I've met Bertha, she came with my cousin round to our house, and she
wouldn't just tell anyone, and I was annoyed that she didn't tell me, that's all"
"That doesn't mean that you can have a go at Peter!" said Lily
"I know, I'm sorry," said Sirius
"Don't apologise to us! Apologise to Peter!" barked James
"Okay! Okay!" Sirius walked up to Peter,
"Peter?"
"Yeah"
"Soz about earlier"
"'S'okay"
"Good!"
"Well now were all friends again," said Sam "Who wants to go up to the common room and
play exploding snap?"
"I will," said Siobhan "Oh by the way Sirius, Kelly won earlier so you owe me thee
galleons"
"Damn!"
***
The rest of the weekend was really good they made some friends from the other houses
(apart from Slytherin) and some enemies (only from Slytherin). It was Sunday evening and
they were all thinking of ways they could make Snape (an enemy) look like an idiot.
"How about - er – giving him a pepper-imp and make fire come out his mouth?" Suggested
Siobhan.
"Nah, he'd probably set fire to us," said Sirius
"Why don't we just turn him into a toad?" Asked Lily
"'Cause he'd probably just end up with frogs legs coming out of his ears and start
croaking," said Remus
"Exactly!" laughed Lily "He'd look like a real idiot then!"
"Lil, can I talk to you for a minute?" asked Nancy
"Sure!" answered Lily, and Nancy pulled her into a corner "What is it?"
"Well, the other day I was outside the boys dormitory eavesdropping on them and... Yeah,
OK, I know I shouldn't have," she said, looking at the expression on Lily's face.
"Anyway, I was outside and I heard them talking about who'd they'd go out with and they
all said girls in the 3rd or 4th year, but one of them said they'd go out with you!"
"Who? Who?" Lily almost shouted
"James!" and before Lily could say anything Nancy had ran off to join the others. Lily just
stood there gob-smacked until,
"Oi, Lil! Are you coming or not?" shouted Frank
"Er – yeah, yeah!" I could have some fun with this information, thought Lily. She decided to
share the information with the others first, and they could help her have some fun. It was
Monday evening and they had all done their homework, so the boys had all gone for a walk.
"They're coming back!" warned Nancy "Everyone into positions!" Lily ran up to the dorm
and hid, the others all sat down and started just before the boys came in, but so they could
still hear.
"I know!" started Sam "Lily's - like – obsessed with James!"
"Yeah!" continued Kelly "Last night I heard her talk about him in her sleep! Talk about
corny!"
"I think," said Siobhan, trying not to laugh, "That they make a perfect couple!" And the four
of them continued like this for about half an hour, until they decided they had said enough,
and went to bed. The boys tiptoed in.
"James," said Sirius
"Yeah?"
"I think you've scored!"
***
The next day James acted extremely warmly towards Lily, he didn't tease her as usual or
rob her wand, which annoyed her greatly. In fact he insisted on sitting next to her and
instead of saving Sirius a seat at lunch he saved Lily one! All the girls found this extremely
hilarious, so did Lily really, but it was really embarrassing for her, all the Slytherins had
noticed this and were laughing there heads off at them, James didn't really notice but Lily
sure did! It was Tuesday evening and the girls were in their dorm laughing their heads off a
James.
"Did you see him in potions?!" shrieked Sam "He literally cut up your roots for you!"
"No he didn't, he just helped me," said Lily trying to convince them, though she didn't really
believe it herself.
"Yeah right!" laughed Sam "You're just embarrassed"
"You bought this on yourself Lily, y'know," Nancy reminded her
"I know, I know," sighed Lily "I just didn't think this would happen!"
"Don't worry Lil, I'm sure everyone will stop teasing you soon," reassured Siobhan
"Not Snape and his stupid little friend Lenny Malfoy!"
"It's Lucius not Lenny," added Siobhan
"Whatever! In fact I don't think any of the Slytherins will let me forget this!"
"Of course they will, you know what there like, they'll make a joke of it for a few days and
then they'll forget about it!" said Nancy
"I just hope your right," sighed Lily
"Of course I'm right! Now lets go to bed, eh?" So all the girls got changed and went to bed,
and then the boys walked into the common room,
"You were hilarious at lunch, mate!" laughed Sirius
"Yeah and in potions, did you see Lil's red face?" asked Peter
"Yeah I did, you could've cooked bacon on it!" yelled Frank
"Shh Frank! You'll wake everyone up!" whispered James "In fact I'm going to bed!" And
he trailed off to bed. The others all stayed up and chatted for a while, but eventually they
went to bed as well. The next day after potions James took Lily aside because he wanted to
talk to her.
"Listen Lil, I wanted to ask you if maybe – er – if you would, if you want to?"
"What?"
"Would you be my girlfriend?"
"What?!"
"So will you?"
"No!" she said it too quickly "I mean; I need to think about it!"
"Oh, okay!" he said and he walked off to Defence Against The Dark Arts.
"HE ASKED YOU TO BE HIS GIRLFRIEND!" shrieked Sam, that evening in the
common room.
"Sam! Not so loud! Or everyone will know!" said Lily nervously
"Yeah Sam, keep it down," said Nancy
"Sorry, but this is so exciting!" she said, jumping up and down.
"Hey Lil, are you gonna be his girlfriend?" asked Siobhan
"Dunno really, I doubt it," she answered
"Go on Lil! It'll be a laugh!" said Sam
"For you maybe, but not for me!"
"Yeah Sam, leave the poor girl alone!" said Kelly
"Okay! Okay!" she said, still jumping up and down.
"What am I going to do? If I tell him about the joke and say that I don't want to go out with
him, he'll be really upset, but I don't want to go out with him!" moaned Lily
"It is a sticky situation, um – why don't you just let him down gently? He is your friend so
I'm sure he'll forgive you," reassured Siobhan.
"Yeah, you know what James is like, he'll just make a joke out of it," said Kelly
"No way! That's what everyone else is doing not James!" snapped Lily
"Yeah, that's what everyone's doing now but…"
"And they'll still do it afterwards, don't you get it?!" Everyone stayed silent "Oh, forget it!
I'm going to bed!" And she stormed off to the dormitory.
"Ohh! Touchy!" said Sam
"Shut up Sam!" they others all said at the same time, and went off to bed.
***
The next day Lily told James about the joke, he was really angry with her and almost died of
embarrassment, but by next week the Slytherins had forgotten about it (apart from Snape
and Malfoy) and James had forgiven Lily.
"I still can't believe you did that, it was sooo embarrassing!" said James
"Well it was embarrassing for me when you acted all lovey – dovey, and now everyone
knows that you fancy me!" snapped Lily
"I've told you a hundred times I was joking as well!" shouted James, going slightly red.
"What a whopping great lie! See, You're going red! And if you were joking then why did
you ask me to be you're girlfriend?"
"Because I wanted to have the pleasure of chucking you!"
"Ha! Yeah right! That's the worst excuse I've ever heard!" The others all walked in.
"Oi! I thought you two had forgiven each other!" said Remus
"Yeah! We could hear you from outside!" said Frank
"Can't you just laugh it off? Even Snape and Malfoy have stopped teasing you now! Well –
almost," said Siobhan
"But it is still pretty funny!" giggled Sam
"Shut up Sam!" they all shouted at the same time
"Okay, okay! I'm sorry!" she said
"Your right," sighed Lily "We shouldn't be bickering, sorry James"
"'S'okay, and I'm sorry as well," said James
"Great! Now that you two are finally friends again can we please go to bed? Because I'm
shattered!" said Sirius
"So am I," said Nancy, so they all went to bed looking forward to tomorrow because it was
a Saturday. But the next day four of the girls were woken by a loud yell, and to find Siobhan
sitting up in bed, holding some parchment and crying her eyes out.
"Siobhan, what's wrong?" asked Lily, getting out of bed and walking over to her.
"It's You-Know-Who! He's k-killed my p-parents and baby s-sister!"
"Voldermort?"
"Shh! Lily, don't say that name!" said Sam sharply, putting her arm round Siobhan.
"Sorry, but how did he do it? There are powerful wizarards all over the place looking for
him!"
"He's an A-Animagi, he turned into a snake and s-slithered in when no-one was looking!"
sobbed Siobhan
"Oh my God!" gasped Kelly "You poor thing! I hope they catch him soon because he's
ruining so many lives!"
"And e-ending them!" said Siobhan, still sobbing.
"It least you still have us Siobhan, and your brother!" reassured Lily
"Yeah Siobhan, I know it must be devastating, but you still have you're friends and your
brother, and if you're both being looked after by Dumbledore, your both safe from You-
Know-Who!" said Nancy
"I know," said Siobhan still crying. It was a sad day that day, everyone felt sorry for
Siobhan and her brother, Tom, even the Slytherins, and even Malfoy and Snape. The group
spent most of the day outside trying to enjoy the lovely weather, but it wasn't working,
because everyone was so sad, especially Siobhan. All day people came up to her and said
how sorry they were, but nothing made her feel better, not even the chocolates that Bertha
Jorkins bought her back from Hogsmede.
"Thanks Bertha," she said
"I'm really sorry that you're parents died Siobhan, if there's anything I can do just tell me,
okay?"
"Sure, thanks," she said. "Oh! I wish people would just leave me alone!" she shouted when
Bertha had left. "I know they're just being friendly, but I need time alone to think about
this!" she looked around at the others.
"Hey Siobhan, do you want us to leave you for a bit?" asked Peter
"Okay," she said sniffing. They all got up and left her on the grass to think about everything.
"Poor Siobhan," sighed James "She was so happy as well and then that had to go and
happen!"
"I HATE VOLDEMORT!" yelled Lily, the people around them turned and gasped.
"Lily! It's You-Know-Who!" said Sam sharply, Lily ignored her.
"He kills and tortures people just for fun! When he sees anything to do with death, or
cruelty, or poverty. Do you know what he does?! HE JUST LAUGHS!!!" she screamed.
"Lily, calm down!" said Sirius, getting embarrassed.
"HOW CAN I CALM DOWN, WHEN I KNOW HE'S STILL OUT THERE KILLING
AND TORTURING?!" she screamed, and she ran off, crying her eyes out.
"Oh great! That's all we need!" snapped James
"I'll talk to her," said Kelly, and ran after her
"Me and Sam will go with her," said Nancy, so they went after Kelly, which just left the five
boys.
"Well, today's been a 'happy' day!" snapped James
"Don't worry J, it'll be okay, you'll see!" reassured Sirius
"Should we go and see how Siobhan's doing?" asked Remus
"OK" said Frank "Are you lot coming?"
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