The Importance of Being. . . Normal?
SUMMARY: Lily and her two best friends, Alex and Ellen are in their fifth year at Hogwarts. What will happen when Lily beings to get to know the Marauders better? Will the Slytherins manage to beat the Griffindors in the House Cup? Will the Marauders be able to win a bet with Alex? Or will they fail miserably?
CHAPTER 2
Being Late and Stomach tingles
"So, who says we go and find out what the guys are doing?" Ellen said eagerly.
"Elle, it's not really that hard to figure out what they're doing you know," Alex said, stretching her long legs out over a bench seat. "all they ever do on the train on the first day back is try and get some good pranks out of the way before McGonagal knows about it."
A loud bang came from the compartment in front of them.
"See-they've already started." Alex yawned, shutting her eyes.
"I know that's what they always do Alex, but the annoying this is they started with out us," Ellen said, grabbing her wand
"Where's Lily?" Alex said as she re-opened her eyes
"See how you like a beak for a nose you pathetic Slytherin, calling me a mudblood I ought to"- Lily's voice came from the next compartment.
"She's already in there," Ellen said with a mischievous grin "and teaching that guy a lesson I bet you."
Lily came back through the divider door with all four Marauders, grinning like mad and winning hard claps on the back from the boys.
"Sorry we left you out of that one guys," Lily said to her friends as she sat down next to Alex, forcing her to move her legs "but I just went next door to see what they were up to and Snape started picking on me as soon as I walked in the door! I mean, come on! So he's got a beak that'll take ages to go away."
Alex snorted "You mean it looks worse than his nose does normally?"
"I reckon it looks better," Sirius said, plonking himself down beside Ellen "although it is bright red now."
"Anyway," Lily said, stretching her arms "that's sorted out now. He's not going to bother us for a while now."
"Well definitely not you anyway Lily," James said poking her.
"Yeah Lily, I had no idea you'd actually do that," Remus said from the other side of Ellen "you've never helped us out with a prank or doing what you call 'evil' stuff to the Slytherins."
"That's right," Alex said, sitting up properly "you usually leave that for us to do," she motioned to herself and Ellen "and then you lecture me and Elle,"
"Elle and I," Remus interrupted
"about getting detention."
"I don't know," Lily said, suddenly uncomfortable "it just seemed like he pushed it too far that time."
"Don't sweat it," James said, putting an arm around her shoulder to give her a one sided hug "it's not like McGonagal'll believe it was you anyway."
Lily suddenly felt all nice and warm, protected. That wasn't supposed to happen, James was always hugging her friends like that, why should she go all tingly? Her only response was a half-hearted smile up at him.
"Anything from the cart dears?" The woman with the food cart was doing her rounds again.
Lily's stomach growled in response.
"Well I'd say 'yes' in that case!" the old lady said,
"I haven't eaten all day," Lily said slightly embarrassed "I'll have three chocolate frogs thanks." She handed over the money and was swapped for the frogs and a piece of cake.
"You'd best eat that too," the woman said, "it's not good for young girls to go around not eating, you're skinny enough as it is."
The woman gave out the other's orders and then moved on, the cart considerably more empty.
"We're never going to be able to play quidditch if we keep eating like this," Alex said, after finishing off her 'lunch'.
"We won't even be able to get off the ground," Elle agreed
"We'll snap our brooms!" Sirius said
James shrugged "Doesn't really matter, I'll just give us training every single night. That should work it off."
All seven of them were on the Griffindor quidditch team, which everyone else thought was quite biased as James was the captain and all his friends were picked. They shrugged it off mainly, except from when taunting came from the Slytherins of course. James was of course the Seeker, Sirius and Ellen were Beaters, Lily, Alex and Remus were Chasers and Peter was the Keeper. For such a small boy he could sure move when he was on a broom stick.
"Hey, look, we're almost at the station," Peter said some time later that afternoon.
The train slowed down and with a loud exhale of steam, stopped.
"Well actually, we're here." Ellen said elbowing him.
They quickly got into the horse-less carriages, and were off. Sirius, Alex, Lily and Remus were in one and Peter, James and Ellen were in the other, with a Ravenclaw who was quite friendly to them most of the time.
"I got the window seat!" Sirius cheered as he got in
"So did I," Alex said, sitting down infront of him "we all did. There's four windows dummy."
"I'm not stupid," Sirius retorted happily, exchanging mindless banter with Alex was one of his favourite things to do as he knew it drove her mad.
"I never said that, I said you were a dummy," Alex shot back
"Not one of those either,"
"No, no you're not, you're a blockhead,"
"Speak for yourself dunce,"
"Speak for YOURself imbecile,"
"Brainless, doltish, witless," Sirius teased
"Inane, obtuse, prosaic!" Alex said, kicking his shin.
"Hey, no violence," Lily butted in and then went back to ignoring them and resumed talking to Remus.
"Prosaic isn't a word," Sirius protested "and don't kick me."
"It sure is, it means STUIPD, oops did I say that? I meant Sirius," she said "and you did too deserve to be kicked."
"You're so dumb sometimes Alex,"
"You're the dumb one,"
"Ditzy blonde,"
"I'm not even blonde! Look at this," she said, pulling her messy black plait over her shoulder "it's BLACK you smarmy git!"
"So? You can be an inner blonde,"
"Look, if anyone's an inner blonde it's YOU,"
"Ha. At least I'm not a meek little Chaser!"
"At least I'm not a boneheaded Beater!"
And their banter continued the whole way up to the castle, Lily and Remus being just about ready to strangle them.
"You hold up a good fight O' Flannery," Sirius said, holding out his hand after they got out of the carriages.
"You too Black," she shook his hand "but I think I won this time."
"Did not,"
"Did too,"
"SHUT UP!" Lily yelled "Just STOP IT. Neither of you won. You both acted as stupid as the other."
Sirius and Alex took a step backwards from where they were standing, mocking Lily and then walked off up to the castle pushing and shoving each other.
Remus shook his head "It's such a pity." He said under his breath
"What is? What's a pity?" Lily said "They haven't worked it out yet." Remus grinned at her, and Lily instantly figured that she was never going to understand what he was on about.
"Oh well, we'd best be off then," Lily replied, looking around for James and the others "hey Elle!" she yelled out "Drag James away would you-I want to eat!"
Ellen looked up and began to pull James away from Christine, the Ravenclaw who happened to be her house's quidditch captain.
"He's talking quidditch!" she said dramatically "I don't know if I can do it!" In the end she literally did drag him away, with Peter's help.
"It's ok James," Lily said grinning up into his face when they came over "you'll have plenty of time to talk tactics later."
"Uh huh," James said, suddenly at a loss for words. His stomach was doing turns as he looked down at Lily's smile. Shrugging he dismissed this as a result of the bumpy ride to the castle.
"Come on 6th years!" Proffessor Mc Gonagal called out "Move it! The sorting ceremony has already taken place!"
The group rushed inside the castle, and to the Great Hall, not wishing to get detention before classes had even started for the year. Lily was bushing as they entered the hall, everyone else was seated and looking at them expectantly. Quickly they found their places in the middle of the table, where they always sat.
The banquet was already laid out and they instantly dug in.
"Bet I can eat more than you Alex," Sirius said, not sick of teasing yet
"Ha. Sure thing. You know what happened last time you bet me that." Alex said, eating some peas.
"That's not important, I've perfected my eating skills now, lets go," he held out a hand.
Alex shook it, also shaking her head "You're on loser."
"This my friends," James said grandly to the others "is a recipe for disaster."
In the end, after the main course, Dumbledore's speech and dessert, Alex and Sirius were still going, even though the rest of the hall was empty. Well except for their group of friends who stayed so it wouldn't end in a killing.
"Can't," Alex said, biting into her fifth caramel tart "eat. Must. Eat."
Sirius wasn't much better shape, and in the end when they were even James and Lily dragged their respective best friend out of the hall.
"How stupid can they get?" Ellen said, watching their staggering progress up to the dorms.
"The eternal question." Peter replied sleepily
"We'll hopefully never know," James said as they got to the Fat Lady's painting.
"Lumos," Remus said to the painting and she swung open to admit them.
"See you tomorrow morning girls," James said yawning "hopefully those two will have quit competing by then."
"Uh huh," Lily said, fighting back a yawn of her own "I don't think so. Goodnight guys."
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A/N: Well there's the second chapter, please review people. I'm not going to continue for much longer if I don't get any reviews. Thanks to my first reviewer though, who is very much appreciated:D
And remember, you review, I write more. The more reviews, the faster I write. Lets say.6 more reviews? It took me 6 pages of typing for this chapter so that seems about right!
From Katherine
SUMMARY: Lily and her two best friends, Alex and Ellen are in their fifth year at Hogwarts. What will happen when Lily beings to get to know the Marauders better? Will the Slytherins manage to beat the Griffindors in the House Cup? Will the Marauders be able to win a bet with Alex? Or will they fail miserably?
CHAPTER 2
Being Late and Stomach tingles
"So, who says we go and find out what the guys are doing?" Ellen said eagerly.
"Elle, it's not really that hard to figure out what they're doing you know," Alex said, stretching her long legs out over a bench seat. "all they ever do on the train on the first day back is try and get some good pranks out of the way before McGonagal knows about it."
A loud bang came from the compartment in front of them.
"See-they've already started." Alex yawned, shutting her eyes.
"I know that's what they always do Alex, but the annoying this is they started with out us," Ellen said, grabbing her wand
"Where's Lily?" Alex said as she re-opened her eyes
"See how you like a beak for a nose you pathetic Slytherin, calling me a mudblood I ought to"- Lily's voice came from the next compartment.
"She's already in there," Ellen said with a mischievous grin "and teaching that guy a lesson I bet you."
Lily came back through the divider door with all four Marauders, grinning like mad and winning hard claps on the back from the boys.
"Sorry we left you out of that one guys," Lily said to her friends as she sat down next to Alex, forcing her to move her legs "but I just went next door to see what they were up to and Snape started picking on me as soon as I walked in the door! I mean, come on! So he's got a beak that'll take ages to go away."
Alex snorted "You mean it looks worse than his nose does normally?"
"I reckon it looks better," Sirius said, plonking himself down beside Ellen "although it is bright red now."
"Anyway," Lily said, stretching her arms "that's sorted out now. He's not going to bother us for a while now."
"Well definitely not you anyway Lily," James said poking her.
"Yeah Lily, I had no idea you'd actually do that," Remus said from the other side of Ellen "you've never helped us out with a prank or doing what you call 'evil' stuff to the Slytherins."
"That's right," Alex said, sitting up properly "you usually leave that for us to do," she motioned to herself and Ellen "and then you lecture me and Elle,"
"Elle and I," Remus interrupted
"about getting detention."
"I don't know," Lily said, suddenly uncomfortable "it just seemed like he pushed it too far that time."
"Don't sweat it," James said, putting an arm around her shoulder to give her a one sided hug "it's not like McGonagal'll believe it was you anyway."
Lily suddenly felt all nice and warm, protected. That wasn't supposed to happen, James was always hugging her friends like that, why should she go all tingly? Her only response was a half-hearted smile up at him.
"Anything from the cart dears?" The woman with the food cart was doing her rounds again.
Lily's stomach growled in response.
"Well I'd say 'yes' in that case!" the old lady said,
"I haven't eaten all day," Lily said slightly embarrassed "I'll have three chocolate frogs thanks." She handed over the money and was swapped for the frogs and a piece of cake.
"You'd best eat that too," the woman said, "it's not good for young girls to go around not eating, you're skinny enough as it is."
The woman gave out the other's orders and then moved on, the cart considerably more empty.
"We're never going to be able to play quidditch if we keep eating like this," Alex said, after finishing off her 'lunch'.
"We won't even be able to get off the ground," Elle agreed
"We'll snap our brooms!" Sirius said
James shrugged "Doesn't really matter, I'll just give us training every single night. That should work it off."
All seven of them were on the Griffindor quidditch team, which everyone else thought was quite biased as James was the captain and all his friends were picked. They shrugged it off mainly, except from when taunting came from the Slytherins of course. James was of course the Seeker, Sirius and Ellen were Beaters, Lily, Alex and Remus were Chasers and Peter was the Keeper. For such a small boy he could sure move when he was on a broom stick.
"Hey, look, we're almost at the station," Peter said some time later that afternoon.
The train slowed down and with a loud exhale of steam, stopped.
"Well actually, we're here." Ellen said elbowing him.
They quickly got into the horse-less carriages, and were off. Sirius, Alex, Lily and Remus were in one and Peter, James and Ellen were in the other, with a Ravenclaw who was quite friendly to them most of the time.
"I got the window seat!" Sirius cheered as he got in
"So did I," Alex said, sitting down infront of him "we all did. There's four windows dummy."
"I'm not stupid," Sirius retorted happily, exchanging mindless banter with Alex was one of his favourite things to do as he knew it drove her mad.
"I never said that, I said you were a dummy," Alex shot back
"Not one of those either,"
"No, no you're not, you're a blockhead,"
"Speak for yourself dunce,"
"Speak for YOURself imbecile,"
"Brainless, doltish, witless," Sirius teased
"Inane, obtuse, prosaic!" Alex said, kicking his shin.
"Hey, no violence," Lily butted in and then went back to ignoring them and resumed talking to Remus.
"Prosaic isn't a word," Sirius protested "and don't kick me."
"It sure is, it means STUIPD, oops did I say that? I meant Sirius," she said "and you did too deserve to be kicked."
"You're so dumb sometimes Alex,"
"You're the dumb one,"
"Ditzy blonde,"
"I'm not even blonde! Look at this," she said, pulling her messy black plait over her shoulder "it's BLACK you smarmy git!"
"So? You can be an inner blonde,"
"Look, if anyone's an inner blonde it's YOU,"
"Ha. At least I'm not a meek little Chaser!"
"At least I'm not a boneheaded Beater!"
And their banter continued the whole way up to the castle, Lily and Remus being just about ready to strangle them.
"You hold up a good fight O' Flannery," Sirius said, holding out his hand after they got out of the carriages.
"You too Black," she shook his hand "but I think I won this time."
"Did not,"
"Did too,"
"SHUT UP!" Lily yelled "Just STOP IT. Neither of you won. You both acted as stupid as the other."
Sirius and Alex took a step backwards from where they were standing, mocking Lily and then walked off up to the castle pushing and shoving each other.
Remus shook his head "It's such a pity." He said under his breath
"What is? What's a pity?" Lily said "They haven't worked it out yet." Remus grinned at her, and Lily instantly figured that she was never going to understand what he was on about.
"Oh well, we'd best be off then," Lily replied, looking around for James and the others "hey Elle!" she yelled out "Drag James away would you-I want to eat!"
Ellen looked up and began to pull James away from Christine, the Ravenclaw who happened to be her house's quidditch captain.
"He's talking quidditch!" she said dramatically "I don't know if I can do it!" In the end she literally did drag him away, with Peter's help.
"It's ok James," Lily said grinning up into his face when they came over "you'll have plenty of time to talk tactics later."
"Uh huh," James said, suddenly at a loss for words. His stomach was doing turns as he looked down at Lily's smile. Shrugging he dismissed this as a result of the bumpy ride to the castle.
"Come on 6th years!" Proffessor Mc Gonagal called out "Move it! The sorting ceremony has already taken place!"
The group rushed inside the castle, and to the Great Hall, not wishing to get detention before classes had even started for the year. Lily was bushing as they entered the hall, everyone else was seated and looking at them expectantly. Quickly they found their places in the middle of the table, where they always sat.
The banquet was already laid out and they instantly dug in.
"Bet I can eat more than you Alex," Sirius said, not sick of teasing yet
"Ha. Sure thing. You know what happened last time you bet me that." Alex said, eating some peas.
"That's not important, I've perfected my eating skills now, lets go," he held out a hand.
Alex shook it, also shaking her head "You're on loser."
"This my friends," James said grandly to the others "is a recipe for disaster."
In the end, after the main course, Dumbledore's speech and dessert, Alex and Sirius were still going, even though the rest of the hall was empty. Well except for their group of friends who stayed so it wouldn't end in a killing.
"Can't," Alex said, biting into her fifth caramel tart "eat. Must. Eat."
Sirius wasn't much better shape, and in the end when they were even James and Lily dragged their respective best friend out of the hall.
"How stupid can they get?" Ellen said, watching their staggering progress up to the dorms.
"The eternal question." Peter replied sleepily
"We'll hopefully never know," James said as they got to the Fat Lady's painting.
"Lumos," Remus said to the painting and she swung open to admit them.
"See you tomorrow morning girls," James said yawning "hopefully those two will have quit competing by then."
"Uh huh," Lily said, fighting back a yawn of her own "I don't think so. Goodnight guys."
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A/N: Well there's the second chapter, please review people. I'm not going to continue for much longer if I don't get any reviews. Thanks to my first reviewer though, who is very much appreciated:D
And remember, you review, I write more. The more reviews, the faster I write. Lets say.6 more reviews? It took me 6 pages of typing for this chapter so that seems about right!
From Katherine