Author's Note: Hey, this is the second chapter so I hope you like it. Nothing
much has happened yet but I'm not a great suspense writer so sorry about that.
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It had been one week since Hogwarts School or Witchcraft and Wizardry had started, and Lily was still walking around in a haze. Never before had she seen so many wonderful things. She hardly remembered the feast they had on the first day of school; she had been so mesmerised by her surroundings. Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster, was the most interesting professor she'd ever met. His eyes twinkled with interest and she knew he must be a highly respected wizard. The stern teacher who had read off the names at the sorting ceremony turned out to be Professor McGonagall, the headmistress, transfiguration teacher, and also the head of the Gryffindor House. Lily loved being a Gryffindor. For once she did not have to deal with her rude older sister Petunia, who had always hated Lily for reasons unknown to the younger sister. Although Lily thought her fellow first-year girls were nice, she spent most of her time alone exploring the huge castle. She got lost several times but saw wondrous rooms and corridors. She found one painting of a knight called Sir Cadogan, whom she found very entertaining. She made faces at him as the knight yelled, "Draw, you scury braggart! Draw!"
As she was heading to charms for the first time she received a slight
surprise. The large statue that was standing in the corridor she was walking
through all of a sudden stood up and moved aside. Lily would have screamed if
she weren't frozen in shock. Then she heard laughter and saw the four boys,
Peter, Sirius, Remus, and James, climbing out of the whole behind where the
statue previously stood. As she saw them she finally regained her
voice.
"Ahhhhh!!!!" she yelled loudly. All the boys looked at her and James
ran over and covered her mouth. "Momoffmm!"
"What?" questioned James as Lily
struggled under his grasp. "Ow! Why'd you do that?!" he yelled as Lily bit down
on his hand.
She looked at him angrily, "because I couldn't BREATHE!"
"Oh, that's always a good reason," and he shrugged. "We don't want to get in trouble so do you mind not screaming next time?"
"What were you doing? How'd you know about that statue?"
"Well err…..yea- "
Sirius cut him off, "top secret. Very hush-hush,"
Lily pouted and tried to put a look of pleading on her face, "So you're not going to tell me?"
"Nope, sorry!" Remus said cheerfully.
Lily looked over at James, who looked sad but then blushed, and then at Peter, who just glared at her.
"Okay well, er…I'll go then," and she walked off to Charms.
At Charms she surprised the teacher, Professor Flitwick, by being the only
student to perform the charm he had asked them to. When he questioned if her
parents had taught her that, he was more surprised when she answered.
"No, my
parents don't know any magic, they are er…what do you call them? Muggles?" she
replied. The teacher's eyes brightened and he toppled off his chair. Professor
Flitwick was so short he needed to stand on a chair to look over his desk. The
boys just stared at her, amazed that she was so good at Charms. Some people in
the class looked at her suspiciously, muttering under their breaths about
know-it-alls.
The boys, impressed with her abilities at Charms, ran up to Lily. They all had dazzling smiles on their faces. They asked her about the muggle world and whether it was different from the magical world. Lily was talking so much that she was surprised to realize they had walked all the way to Transfiguration class without noticing it.
Lily didn't do half as well as she did in Charms, but most of the four boys, excluding Peter, seemed do be doing pretty well. James especially was good at Transfiguration; he managed to transfigure a toothpick into a needle, a spoon into a fork, and as a special assignment to challenge him, a rat into a small rabbit. James said it just came to him and he didn't know why it was so easy for him. Peter Pettigrew seemed very sour after Transfiguration because the professor commented on his complete incapability to even make the toothpick look shiny.
Throughout the first week she enjoyed all the new shocks and surprises waiting within each classroom, except History of Magic, which she discovered was just a class to catch up on some lost sleep. Professor Binns, the teacher, droned on and on about how they were to learn many things this year, and then went off talking about goblins. Lily received her worst shock though, when she walked into Potions.
The first-year Gryffindors were taking the class with the Slytherins. Lily thought the Slytherins looked like a nasty bunch. Rude and surly, they looked like they all had a secret mission to make the Gryffindors suffer. The professor, a tall and skinny man, was the head of the Slytherin house. He was known to favor his House over all the other ones, and gave severe punishments to the three other Houses. While Lily was talking to another Gryffindor girl who was also muggle-born, she heard a Slytherin grunt something that sounded distinctly like 'mud-blood'. Lily, having never heard of this word, was confused as she watched the girl she had been talking to yelling at the Slytherin. Afterwards the girl, Samantha Ravenbell, explained the mud-blood meant mixed-blood or muggle-born, only in a very rude way. Lily was surprised that the Slytherin had felt it necessary to call her that, and asked why.
Remus, who had been sitting at a table near by, leaned over and explained loudly for all to hear, "Slytherins are all like that, rude and uncivilized. No manners what so ever. They all think only pureblood witches and wizards should be allowed in Hogwarts. Pay no attention to them, they'll probably be begging for your help in years to come."
Sirius and James smirked at the Slytherins that were staring at Remus with hatred in their eyes. The Potions professor told them all to quiet down and took five points of Gryffindor for Remus's "disrespectful speech", while not punishing the Slytherin the least for calling Lily a mud-blood.
As the year dragged on Lily learned more and more about magic and the magical community. Sometimes she wished her family members were wizards and witches too so that she had known all this. She decided, though, that it would have taken most of the amazement out of her Hogwarts experience, and plus it would probably mean having to go to the same school as her annoying older sister, Petunia. She realized that she was lucky to be part of both worlds, for many witches and wizards did not understand the muggle world at all. She entertained her four friends by telling them all about it. Remus was still asking Lily questions about how the television worked when James and Sirius burst through the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Remus! We have to show you something! Where's Peter?" Sirius asked while he was grinning like a maniac with a little too much caffeine in his blood.
Remus stared at him, and then grinned, "You found a pas-"
"Shhh!" James cut him off, pointing at the other people in the common room. "Yes, we did, now where's Peter?"
Lily looked at the three boys, each with large smiles plastered on their faces and an impish look in their eyes. "You aren't by chance going to tell me about this, are you?"
"No, sorry. Very hush-hush."
"Yeah, that's what you said last time," and she stood up and walked away. Feeling anger boiling in her veins from being excluded, she didn't pay attention to where she was going and walked smack into Peter Pettigrew. He glared at her and then turned to his friends.
"You called for me?"
"Yeah, lets go, we have to show you something!" answered Sirius, winking at
Peter.
Peter looked confused for a few seconds, and then a smile started to
crawl on his face. "Ohhh……you found….oh okay, lets go!" he said, now grinning
almost as much as the others.
Now that all four of them were together they ran off through the portrait. Lily sighed, trying to think of what it might be, and walked off to the girls dormitory. 'Maybe they'll tell me someday,' she thought as she put on her pajamas. 'Maybe they'll get in trouble, and get detentions.' She smiled at that and looked at her alarm clock. 12:00 midnight, most likely they'd get in trouble. She pulled her hair out of her ponytail and jumped in bed. 'Night Lily,' she thought to herself and fell fast asleep.
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