A/N: Oke doke I just basically wanted to thank people for reviewing my stories it totally means a lot to me. I specially wanna thank Kaybanana, Goofball (who I believe I've talked to), andicarmen, and Damiani for continuesly reviewing this story. Like all three chapters basically! Thanks a ton! So now enjoy:
~Laura
P.S. Laura is my real name and it's a lot easier to type the ***StarliteStarbrite*** so from now on I sign my author's notes like that!
*~+From the Diary of Lily Marie Evans+~*
!Year Two!
Chapter 4: January and February
January 1, 1973
Dear Diary,
Well this New Year was definitely not as fun as last year. I did set off some fireworks outside with Daddy at midnight, but that's about it. I'm glad I'm going back Thursday! I'm sick of Petunia glaring at me every time I see her. 2nd term starts on Monday! Joy, Slywarki right away! I guess I should probably start on my homework that I neglected to do last week!
-Love-
January 3, 1973
Dear Diary,
I'm back! And so glad that I am! Home sucked basically. No Petunia and no Lis to keep me sane! Ugh! The train ride back was particularly, um, boring. James and Remus blew up several card houses and Brooke, well, she in her truly lazy state slept. The only exciting part was when James and Remus blew up a house right in Brooke's snoring face. She got up and started screaming at them. Then, when they just laughed some more and refused to apologize she hexed them both. Remus' ears spent the rest of the ride twitching and James had a case of permanent hiccups. So other than that eventful 5 minutes I sat reading. My book Quidditch Through the Ages was actually a pretty good read. You see I'm determined to be on the house team eventually. Even if I'm only good enough in my 7th year! So I'm working hard. Well actually I'm just reading up on the sport it's too cold to play right now, but when it gets warmer I'll be working hard. And actually the book was pretty interesting, it turns out that quidditch was invented in the 11th century at a place called Queedetch Marsh!
Okay I got way sidetracked! So I'm really glad to be back. James has gotten himself detention already (what could I expect?). He put a sign on Snape's back that said 'I'm a greasy git! Someone smack me pleez!' Well, McGonnagall saw him and he got detention. Ha! While on the note of James I promised you a number of girlfriends at the end of each term and at the end of 1st term he's had 7! 2 gryffindors, 3 Ravenclaws, a Hufflepuff, and a Slytherin (that one was a bet with Sirius but it still counts). What am I going to do with that boy? Someday someone's gonna break his heart and it'll crush him. It's getting late and I'm tired.
-Love-
January 11, 1973
Dear Diary,
Well I survived my first week of 2nd term. I just don't get the teachers here. It seems like they give us holidays just so they can give us extra homework. I mean they pile it on the week before holidays start and they pile it on the week after they end! Both times claiming it makes up for the time off! I think they just enjoy our stress! Ahh! I've got so much work to do this weekend! But my birthday's a week from today! Yay!
-Love-
January 12, 1973
Dear Diary,
For the record I tried to work today! Okay so it snowed last night. A lot. I was in the common room just starting my History essay (bor-ring!) when Remus called to me from across the common room that they all were gonna have a snow fight and I better get my ass over there. I told them that I had 3 essays to write so I couldn't. He whispered something to Sirius and Brooke. Suddenly Brooke dashed up the stairs and Sirius came over and stood behind me. Brooke came running back downstairs carrying 2 cloaks with Meg trailing behind her. Then out of now where Sirius stood me up and then he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. He carried me all the way outside (I'm yelling and beating on his back the whole way!) when he got outside he dropped me into a huge snowdrift. I was soaked! So then I bewitched 4 snowballs to follow Sirius, Remus, Peter, and James around and bounce off their heads. So needless to say we all got wet, but it was so fun. Me, Brooke, and Meg were outnumbered so the 3 of us got very wet. After like 2 or 3 hours we trudged back up here narrowly missing Filch who would have slaughtered us for dragging in so much water and snow. James, Sirius, and Peter went to get us some hot chocolate with marshmallows. The rest of us just collapsed into chairs. So we actually spent the rest of the day roasting marshmallows in the fireplace and playing truth of dare. Remus actually agreed to play this time. I don't fell like writing out the whole game so this is basically what happened: a) Brooke admitted to liking a Ravenclaw 4th year named Joey, I think. B) James has to give Snape a bear hug the next time he sees him. C) I got suckered into (well dared to) spend all Monday flirting with Lucious Malfoy a Slytherin 3rd year. He's pretty good looking but he's an ass! D) Remus told us that he'd been bitten when he was 5 years old and that he'd almost bitten his sister once! E) Peter told us that the sorting hat almost put him in Slytherin. F) Meg had to kiss Sirius (courtesy of James' dare) Meg weaseled out of it by kissing him on the cheek. And g) Sirius told us that he liked James' most recent ex-girlfriend. James told him that he was welcome to her. Weird how guys are. I don't think I'd ever let my best friend date one of my exs. Well maybe not never but they'd have to wait a real long time. Granted I don't have any exs so it doesn't really matter.
-Love-
January 14, 1973
Dear Diary,
I just spent all day flirting with Lucious Malfoy. It was one of the worst things I've ever done. The worst part about it was that he flirted right back like he was enjoying it! Yuck! *gagging* I did finish all my essays yesterday so I'm proud to say I'm detentionless! James, Sirius, and Brooke didn't get so lucky. Ha! That sucks! They've got to scrub bedpans Friday night! Gross!
-Love-
January 18, 1973
Dear Diary,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! I'm 13! I'm finally a teenager. I can't believe it. I feel so old. I mean usually I don't feel any different on my birthdays but this year is different. I feel I dunno just older. Stuff is supposed to happen to me this year. Good stuff I mean. Like maybe I could have my first boyfriend and my first kiss! Eee! I'm so excited! Well since Sirius and James have detentions tonight they, Remus, and Peter are taking me to Hogsmeade tomorrow! Yay!
-Love-
January 19, 1973
Dear Diary,
Hogsmeade is amazing! It's like Diagon alley with all its shops! It was just so amazing. The 4 guys took me to a statue of and ugly witch and they made a hole in its back and pushed me through it. We were in the secret passageway that Brooke talked about. It came out in the cellar at Honeydukes. So we spent the day walking around and shopping. We had lunch in the 3 Broomsticks and they have this stuff there called butterbeer. It's sooooo good. It just warms you right up from the inside! Oh I'm addicted for life. So yeah needless to say I had a great day! I love the 4 of them forever for taking me there. I can't wait 'til I can go there without having to sneak around. I think 3rd years and up are allowed to go! Next year!
-Love-
January 26, 1973
Dear Diary,
Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw game today. Ravenclaw flattened Slytherin. So Slytherin is out of the running. They've already lost twice since the lost to Hufflepuff a while back and now to Ravenclaw. Our chances of winning the Cup look good this year! It'd be way cool if we won!
-Love-
February 6, 1973
Dear Diary,
Valentine's Day is next week. I love Valentine's Day. Everything is so happy! I'm making valentines for everyone again. This time I'm putting Cheering Charms on them so everyone will be happy when they open them. Plus I'm putting what I've got left of my Honeyduke's chocolate in them. I hope my friends caught on from last year and make their own valentines too! That'd be so fun!
On a totally different note full moon tonight. Still no luck finding anything on Animagi. I can't believe this is this hard to find! It drives me nuts! I might just have to ask Professor McGonnagall. Maybe. I guess I could tell her that I'd read the word and wanted to know more about them. That could work.
-Love-
- Lily
February 14, 1973
Dear Diary,
HI! *giggling madly* You know those Cheering Charms I put in my valentines? I think they were a bit strong. I gave them to everyone at breakfast and right now it is 4:50 p.m. and they haven't quite worn off yet. So basically we've all been giggling all day! It made for a really fun day and it got us all detention with McGonnagall. She didn't appreciate the fact that we were so happy and she wasn't too happy that we laughed through her class today. She said she found it "rude and disrespectful". I just thought it was funny. I wonder how Peter did. He was in his classes all alone giggling like mad. That sucks. Oh well it was fun!
-Love-
February 21, 1973
Dear Diary,
Okay detention with McGonnagall stunk. We had to clean all the tapestries in the whole castle! So onto today! We had transfiguration today and we finally figured out a way to get some information on this whole Animagi thingy. Meg went up to Professor McGonnagall after class and asked her what book to look in to find out info about Animagi. She used the excuse I made up saying she read about it somewhere and wanted to know more. So McGonnagall told her it was in a book called Super Advanced Transfiguration: A Book for Those Who Want to Become a Professor. So we went to the library and got the book. Meg checked it out and we just flipped through it. There's a whole huge section on Animagi. Everyone told me to read the section since I'd probably understand it the best. I dunno why they think that, I mean I get good marks and all but Transfiguration is James' subject. I'm good at Charms. I dunno. It's a really long section though and it'll probably take me a couple of days to get through it.
-Love-
- Lily
February 23, 1973
Dear Diary,
So I've spent basically all day reading. I finally got through that damn section. It turns out that it's gonna take them a couple of years. They have to perform all these spells on themselves (each on lets one part of your body be able to change) and you can only do one spell every 2 months to give your body time to adjust. And they were right it is totally dangerous, if you mess up even one syllable it can totally change the outcome. You also have no idea what animal you're going to become until you're totally done with the whole thing. It's insane and I'm kinda glad I don't have to go through it now. There's just one problem though. The book, it didn't give the spell that you need to actually do it. But, it did tell us what book had even more information (Animagi, A Guide to Knowing and Becoming). But it's bound to be in the restricted section if it's even here at all. Which I don't doubt that it is cuz the library here had like every book on magic ever written.
So when I finally found James, Peter, and Sirius (well and Remus too) to tell them all this (they were coming back from dinner, which I read through and missed) they were totally excited that I had figured this all out. They were so happy that they treated me to dinner. Actually they just took me to the kitchens. They're down a floor beneath the Great Hall. You walk down this long hallway to a picture of a fruit bowl. You have to tickle the pear and a handle appears. And the kitchens are huge! There's all these stoves and there's 5 long tables positioned (I think) exactly under the tables in the Great Hall. Then the bet part is the cooks! They're these funny little creatures called house-elves. They're so cute, they run around curtsying and bowing and asking if you want anything. James says he's got a couple at home and they're dead useful. They seem like it. They gave me a full meal complete with cookies and pastries for dessert. They also gave the 5 of us mugs of hot chocolate to take back upstairs with us!
-Love-