On Monday, Lily, James, and the other students at Hogwarts started class. That morning, Lily got lost three times on her way to her first class, History of Magic, which was taught by an extremely boring and grumpy old professor, Professor Binns. Luckily, on their way to lunch the first day, they only got lost once. Over lunch, James, Lily, Sirius, Adara, Remus, Rainia, Peter, Colette, Holden, and Elita talked about how their morning classes had gone. Lily, James, Adara, Sirius, and Remus all thought they had gone well, but the others weren't so sure. Peter didn't get most of the stuff Professor Binns was talking about, and when he had asked the mean old man a question, he had humiliated poor Peter in front of all of the Gryffindor and the Hufflepuff first years. James, Sirius and Remus were shocked that a teacher would be so mean to a student, and immediately, History of Magic became all the first year's least favorite subject.
After lunch, the group of Gryffindors headed down the stone stairs into the cold, dimly-lit dungeons. Professor Colmetforde was a middle-aged, balding man, who was very enthusiastic about teaching. However, he sometimes got carried away with himself and ended up teaching three lessons in the time they were supposed to have one. The first thing he announced when the Gryffindors and the Slytherins sat down was that they would start brewing their first potions the next week. Then he began to explain the different types of potions and how useful good ones could be, but bad ones could be fatal or deadly. "…Everything bad has to have some sort of good purpose. If there is one thing you remember from my class, make it that. Every bad thing has to have a little amount of good in it. Nothing is completely horrible, and everything has a good purpose." He reminded the class this at least twenty times during the lesson, and by the time it was over, he had it drilled into all of the students' heads.
On Tuesday, the Gryffindor first years had a flying lesson in the morning. The flying instructor was a fairly new teacher, Madam Hooch who told them about her career as a keeper for the Falmouth Falcons. When James asked her if she had known the world-famous beaters for the Falcons, Kevin and Karl Broadmoor, she told them stories about practices when they had jokingly jinxed the reserve team's beater's brooms so they both flew upside down. Then, she had sternly warned them never to tamper with another player's broom, or the balls in Quidditch, or else she would make sure they suffered the consequences. They all agreed that they wouldn't want to find out what those consequences were, and then continued their lesson. As it turned out, Lily, who was rather nervous about flying on a broomstick, was a pretty good flyer, and even Madam Hooch complimented her. "If you keep that flying up," She told Lily and the class, " You may very well find yourself playing Quidditch for Gryffindor, or even for a League team like the Falcons." Lily was so surprised that she almost fell off her broom, which she was sitting on and hovering about three feet above the ground on. Of course, Madam Hooch also said that to James, who had been flying for several years, and to Sirius, who had been flying for most of his life. When the bell rang signaling the end of the lesson, the first years reluctantly went inside to eat lunch.
Wednesday they had a transfiguration lesson with Professor Dumbledore. He was a genius and when he taught, everyone knew what he was saying. Transfiguration was also a fun class, because after about fifteen minutes of note-taking, everyone got to try and turn a match into a needle. With the help of Professor Dumbledore, everyone had succeeded in this task by the end of the lesson.
After Transfiguration came Herbology. The professor, Professor Sprout was also a new teacher. She had brown, frizzy hair and dirt under her fingernails. Herbology was the only class besides flying the first years had outside. It was held in the greenhouses outside the school. Full of exotic and unusual plants, the greenhouses were definitely a fun place to have class. The class itself taught the students about plants and fungi and what they were used for. It actually turned out to be quite fun learning to care for unusual plants like the asphodel.
Thursday brought Charms in the morning, taught by a teeny, tiny man called Professor Flitwick. Lily decided that that was definitely her favorite class. She loved everything about it, and was amazed at the wand work she could do her first day. Professor Flitwick, who was so small he had to stand on a pile of books to be seen by the class, demonstrated wand movements and they spent the rest of the lesson practicing them until they had them perfect.
Thursday night brought Astronomy to the Gryffindors. At midnight, the first years went up to the astronomy tower and spent an hour learning about the stars and planets. By the time they got back at one o'clock, they were all extremely tired. But luckily, their schedules told them they didn't have a class until after lunch the next day, so they could all sleep in. And sleep in they did. Lily got up first among the girls in her dorm, and that was at ten-thirty. She went down to the common room ad found James there by himself, practicing wand movements.
"Swish and flick. Swish and flick," he murmured to himself, unaware that Lily was standing behind him. "Swish and flick…no, that's not right. Damn."
"Watch your language James," Lily scolded, making him jump.
He turned around and started to explain what he was doing. "I was..uh…just practicing. You know, making sure I had it down for next week." He finished lamely.
"Yeah right James," Lily confronted him. "Do you not get how to do the movements?"
"Not really," James shifted nervously from one foot to the other, running his hand through his already messy dark hair.
"That's ok," Lily replied, feeling bad for her friend. "If you want, we can meet later in the library to practice." When James smiled with relief, she added jokingly, "I won't tell anyone that you suck at it either."
He swatted at her and she left the common room to go shower and get ready for lunch and afternoon classes.
They had agreed to meet in the library that night and Lily was excited. Ever since they had arrived at Hogwarts, James hadn't paid a lot of attention to her. He spent most of his time joking around with Peter, Remus, and Sirius. That is, when Sirius wasn't with his new girlfriend, Lauren. Lauren Symone was a Ravenclaw second year with brown hair and black eyes. She was about average height and very hyper, with a bubbly personality. She was a known Quidditch addict and a chaser on the Ravenclaw team. Apart from that, she was always getting in trouble with her big mouth. More than once, James had given a professor an excuse for why Sirius was late. After the third time the first week, James warned Sirius that if he didn't start showing up to class on time, he was going to be in detention for a month, then he would never get to see his precious girlfriend. After that, he started to show up to class on time, but still spent all his free time with Lauren.
That night, James went down to the library at seven o'clock. It was pretty empty, apart from a few nerds that spent all of their time there. James groaned as he past Sirius and Lauren, making out behind a shelf of potion books. When he spotted Lily, he hurried over to her, and at the same time, Madam Pince, the vulture-like librarian spotted Sirius and Lauren. She practically ran over to the shelf of books and started yelling to them about the indecency of showing public displays of affection, and how rude it was to cause such a scene when people were trying to study. By the time she was done yelling at them, she had screamed herself hoarse, so she couldn't even tell them get out. Luckily they had gotten the hint and fled, while the few people in the library stared.
Lily and James burst out laughing, but suddenly shut up when Madam Pince shot an evil look their way. Then Lily got down to business starting to explain the movements and pronunciation they had learned. After she was finished explaining and James finally understood it, they began to talk. They told each other about their week, and reminisced about old times. They laughed and chatted for two and a half hours. It was perfect, giving them a chance to fill the other in on everything that was going on in their lives. At nine-thirty, the library closed and Madam Pince kicked everyone out, still fuming about Sirius and Lauren. Lily and James promised to meet each other again next week at the same time. They walked back up to the common room together, Lily content that something stayed the same, like her relationship with James. It was very reassuring that some things never change.
Authors note: Ok first things first. Sorry my chapters have been so short. I promise that in the new year, they will be longer. Also, I promise they will go into a little more detail. I have kinda been skipping details and that makes my story suck. Alrighty, with that being said, I can go on with my thanks yous:
Kitty: Ok, I will. Thanks.
Ti: I will, don't worry. I'm not quite sure when you come in, but it will be soon, I think. Also, Remus and the others are in the same year, so the Whomping Willow would have been planted their first year.
Musicizdbest: Thank you, I think I will.
Katrina: Thank you so much, you have been so nice and so helpful with this fic (and Daily Nightly, and the other one I'm working on).
My other Readers: REVIEW!!!!!!!! Have you noticed how I thank everyone who reviews? If you review, I'll thank you too. If you've gotten this far and haven't gotten the hint, you're crazy (Not to sound mean, but you are).
EVERYONE: Thank you for reading, and reviewing (If you have). If you have any ideas, (and I need ideas desperately) e-mail them to me PLEASE! Also I think that in the new year, each week if I don't get three new reviews after each chapter, I won't post. So remember that, you-who-doesn't-review: By not reviewing, you're making everyone suffer. Try having that on you conscience for awhile. Also, read my other fic, Daily, Nightly And Ever So Rightly and tell me what you think. (That's another hint to review, in case you couldn't tell). Another thing, if you want to be a character in this story, review and tell me about yourself. Chances are I'll put you in. One more thing: I'm writing another fic about Ron and trying to decide whether I should post it or not. Tell me if you want to read it, and we'll see if I post it or not.
Also, one more thing. Seeing how I get out of school for break on Friday, I'll only post one chapter during the holiday break. So it will either be on Christmas Eve or the week after that. Whatever Katrina chooses is what will happen. That, or she might not post it at all. Ooooooo that would suck for all you people, (especially if you are one of those crazy people who don't review.)
So until Later, Happy reading and Happy Holidays!
After lunch, the group of Gryffindors headed down the stone stairs into the cold, dimly-lit dungeons. Professor Colmetforde was a middle-aged, balding man, who was very enthusiastic about teaching. However, he sometimes got carried away with himself and ended up teaching three lessons in the time they were supposed to have one. The first thing he announced when the Gryffindors and the Slytherins sat down was that they would start brewing their first potions the next week. Then he began to explain the different types of potions and how useful good ones could be, but bad ones could be fatal or deadly. "…Everything bad has to have some sort of good purpose. If there is one thing you remember from my class, make it that. Every bad thing has to have a little amount of good in it. Nothing is completely horrible, and everything has a good purpose." He reminded the class this at least twenty times during the lesson, and by the time it was over, he had it drilled into all of the students' heads.
On Tuesday, the Gryffindor first years had a flying lesson in the morning. The flying instructor was a fairly new teacher, Madam Hooch who told them about her career as a keeper for the Falmouth Falcons. When James asked her if she had known the world-famous beaters for the Falcons, Kevin and Karl Broadmoor, she told them stories about practices when they had jokingly jinxed the reserve team's beater's brooms so they both flew upside down. Then, she had sternly warned them never to tamper with another player's broom, or the balls in Quidditch, or else she would make sure they suffered the consequences. They all agreed that they wouldn't want to find out what those consequences were, and then continued their lesson. As it turned out, Lily, who was rather nervous about flying on a broomstick, was a pretty good flyer, and even Madam Hooch complimented her. "If you keep that flying up," She told Lily and the class, " You may very well find yourself playing Quidditch for Gryffindor, or even for a League team like the Falcons." Lily was so surprised that she almost fell off her broom, which she was sitting on and hovering about three feet above the ground on. Of course, Madam Hooch also said that to James, who had been flying for several years, and to Sirius, who had been flying for most of his life. When the bell rang signaling the end of the lesson, the first years reluctantly went inside to eat lunch.
Wednesday they had a transfiguration lesson with Professor Dumbledore. He was a genius and when he taught, everyone knew what he was saying. Transfiguration was also a fun class, because after about fifteen minutes of note-taking, everyone got to try and turn a match into a needle. With the help of Professor Dumbledore, everyone had succeeded in this task by the end of the lesson.
After Transfiguration came Herbology. The professor, Professor Sprout was also a new teacher. She had brown, frizzy hair and dirt under her fingernails. Herbology was the only class besides flying the first years had outside. It was held in the greenhouses outside the school. Full of exotic and unusual plants, the greenhouses were definitely a fun place to have class. The class itself taught the students about plants and fungi and what they were used for. It actually turned out to be quite fun learning to care for unusual plants like the asphodel.
Thursday brought Charms in the morning, taught by a teeny, tiny man called Professor Flitwick. Lily decided that that was definitely her favorite class. She loved everything about it, and was amazed at the wand work she could do her first day. Professor Flitwick, who was so small he had to stand on a pile of books to be seen by the class, demonstrated wand movements and they spent the rest of the lesson practicing them until they had them perfect.
Thursday night brought Astronomy to the Gryffindors. At midnight, the first years went up to the astronomy tower and spent an hour learning about the stars and planets. By the time they got back at one o'clock, they were all extremely tired. But luckily, their schedules told them they didn't have a class until after lunch the next day, so they could all sleep in. And sleep in they did. Lily got up first among the girls in her dorm, and that was at ten-thirty. She went down to the common room ad found James there by himself, practicing wand movements.
"Swish and flick. Swish and flick," he murmured to himself, unaware that Lily was standing behind him. "Swish and flick…no, that's not right. Damn."
"Watch your language James," Lily scolded, making him jump.
He turned around and started to explain what he was doing. "I was..uh…just practicing. You know, making sure I had it down for next week." He finished lamely.
"Yeah right James," Lily confronted him. "Do you not get how to do the movements?"
"Not really," James shifted nervously from one foot to the other, running his hand through his already messy dark hair.
"That's ok," Lily replied, feeling bad for her friend. "If you want, we can meet later in the library to practice." When James smiled with relief, she added jokingly, "I won't tell anyone that you suck at it either."
He swatted at her and she left the common room to go shower and get ready for lunch and afternoon classes.
They had agreed to meet in the library that night and Lily was excited. Ever since they had arrived at Hogwarts, James hadn't paid a lot of attention to her. He spent most of his time joking around with Peter, Remus, and Sirius. That is, when Sirius wasn't with his new girlfriend, Lauren. Lauren Symone was a Ravenclaw second year with brown hair and black eyes. She was about average height and very hyper, with a bubbly personality. She was a known Quidditch addict and a chaser on the Ravenclaw team. Apart from that, she was always getting in trouble with her big mouth. More than once, James had given a professor an excuse for why Sirius was late. After the third time the first week, James warned Sirius that if he didn't start showing up to class on time, he was going to be in detention for a month, then he would never get to see his precious girlfriend. After that, he started to show up to class on time, but still spent all his free time with Lauren.
That night, James went down to the library at seven o'clock. It was pretty empty, apart from a few nerds that spent all of their time there. James groaned as he past Sirius and Lauren, making out behind a shelf of potion books. When he spotted Lily, he hurried over to her, and at the same time, Madam Pince, the vulture-like librarian spotted Sirius and Lauren. She practically ran over to the shelf of books and started yelling to them about the indecency of showing public displays of affection, and how rude it was to cause such a scene when people were trying to study. By the time she was done yelling at them, she had screamed herself hoarse, so she couldn't even tell them get out. Luckily they had gotten the hint and fled, while the few people in the library stared.
Lily and James burst out laughing, but suddenly shut up when Madam Pince shot an evil look their way. Then Lily got down to business starting to explain the movements and pronunciation they had learned. After she was finished explaining and James finally understood it, they began to talk. They told each other about their week, and reminisced about old times. They laughed and chatted for two and a half hours. It was perfect, giving them a chance to fill the other in on everything that was going on in their lives. At nine-thirty, the library closed and Madam Pince kicked everyone out, still fuming about Sirius and Lauren. Lily and James promised to meet each other again next week at the same time. They walked back up to the common room together, Lily content that something stayed the same, like her relationship with James. It was very reassuring that some things never change.
Authors note: Ok first things first. Sorry my chapters have been so short. I promise that in the new year, they will be longer. Also, I promise they will go into a little more detail. I have kinda been skipping details and that makes my story suck. Alrighty, with that being said, I can go on with my thanks yous:
Kitty: Ok, I will. Thanks.
Ti: I will, don't worry. I'm not quite sure when you come in, but it will be soon, I think. Also, Remus and the others are in the same year, so the Whomping Willow would have been planted their first year.
Musicizdbest: Thank you, I think I will.
Katrina: Thank you so much, you have been so nice and so helpful with this fic (and Daily Nightly, and the other one I'm working on).
My other Readers: REVIEW!!!!!!!! Have you noticed how I thank everyone who reviews? If you review, I'll thank you too. If you've gotten this far and haven't gotten the hint, you're crazy (Not to sound mean, but you are).
EVERYONE: Thank you for reading, and reviewing (If you have). If you have any ideas, (and I need ideas desperately) e-mail them to me PLEASE! Also I think that in the new year, each week if I don't get three new reviews after each chapter, I won't post. So remember that, you-who-doesn't-review: By not reviewing, you're making everyone suffer. Try having that on you conscience for awhile. Also, read my other fic, Daily, Nightly And Ever So Rightly and tell me what you think. (That's another hint to review, in case you couldn't tell). Another thing, if you want to be a character in this story, review and tell me about yourself. Chances are I'll put you in. One more thing: I'm writing another fic about Ron and trying to decide whether I should post it or not. Tell me if you want to read it, and we'll see if I post it or not.
Also, one more thing. Seeing how I get out of school for break on Friday, I'll only post one chapter during the holiday break. So it will either be on Christmas Eve or the week after that. Whatever Katrina chooses is what will happen. That, or she might not post it at all. Ooooooo that would suck for all you people, (especially if you are one of those crazy people who don't review.)
So until Later, Happy reading and Happy Holidays!