Chapter 3
"Evans, Lily!" A stern woman calling out her name jerked Lily out of her fantasies about the Hogwarts castle. She vaguely remembered seeing this woman a few minutes earlier explaining something or other. Ever since she had first seen that huge man calling out to the first years, Lily had been in sort of a daze. All of this magic stuff had not seemed real until that point. Since then, she had been in a state of denial. Just a few hours ago, she had been living among the muggles in the only way of life she knew of. Now she had found herself in a place where the rules were different, where gravity could be overcome with a simple flick of the wand. It was unreal to say the least.
Realizing after a few short seconds that the calling of her name had some significance to what was going on at the moment, Lily racked her brain for any indication of what she had to do now. "Go up and sit on the stool," Bella whispered and gently nudged Lily forward. If it hadn't been for Bella, Lily would never have even gotten on the boats that took them across the lake. She owed Bella so much already.
Lily carefully walked up and sat on the stool, where, to her complete surprise, a hat was placed on her head.
Someone's jumpy today. There was a voice in her head, a sure sign that she was going crazy. Lily looked back on what had happened that day and decided craziness was justified. You know, some people would totally freak out if they thought they were going crazy. 'Yeah, but I'm obviously not one of them,' Lily replied to the voice in her head. If she was going crazy, she might as well have fun with it. Ah, I always like those with a sense of humor. Don't worry you're not going crazy. I'm the hat that is on your head. 'Talking hats,' Lily thought, 'why am I not surprised?' Welcome to the magical world dear. Now, which house should I put you in? 'You're the one that puts me in a house? I'm so glad it wasn't a troll.' Yes, I do admit that I would look quite ugly as a troll. I'd prefer to keep my patched up look, thanks. Hmm… You have bravery, which you're going to need, and intelligence. It's between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Hmm… Since that bravery would get you nowhere in Ravenclaw, and the intelligence wouldn't be shunned in Gryffindor, I'll put you in GRYFFINDOR though I dare say you're sister will be displeased! 'Thank you hat,' Lily thought as the hat was taken away. She noticed that one of the tables were cheering awfully loudly and gathered that that was the house in which she had just been placed. She walked over to the table and sat down in one of the empty seats near the end. She looked for her sister for a minute and quickly glanced away when she found her. She shuddered involuntarily. Her sister was definitely not pleased with the house that she was placed in.
Suddenly, the seats around her were filled. She looked up to see the four boys that she had met at the station.
"Hello, I don't believe we have been properly introduced. I'm Peter Pettigrew; this is Sirius Black, James Potter and Remus Lupin. We're the infamous Marauders."
"Hello, I'm…." Lily replied but was quickly interrupted.
"Lily Evans, we know," Sirius said with an air of one who knew more than he let on.
"Sirius quit the act. You just have to deal with the fact that you are not a Ravenclaw and are not very smart," James said. Sirius appeared to be pondering these words for a few minutes.
"Siri, what James meant but didn't put in very simple words was that you are stupid, deal with it," Peter said. Sirius immediately brightened as he realized the intent of James' rather confusing statement. Two minutes later, his happy expression dropped. "I am not stupid!"
"Ah, you have finally understood the insult."
Lily couldn't help but let out a small giggle at the display that was going on in front of her.
"Ah, the little Evans child finds us funny! A much needed relief, don't you think James?" Sirius commented.
"Much needed Sirius, your ego was beginning to deflate," James replied.
"I know," Sirius said.
"Speaking of Evans'," Peter butt in with a large grin on his face. "Look over at the elder sister." All four boys immediately stared at Petunia. She was looking mightily pissed off and wasn't concentrating of where she was pouring her pumpkin juice, which was right into Snape's lap (the sorting has ended and the food is out). Snape was frantically trying to get out of the way since trying to get Petunia's attention had already been proven to be hopeless. Unfortunately, Snape found himself glued to the seat, thanks to Peter's quick thinking.
The Marauders doubled over in laughter after seeing this sight. Lily couldn't help but let out a small giggle as well at Snape's predicament. Other students, attracted by the sound of the Marauders laughter, soon joined in. Finally, Petunia caught on to why many Gryffindors were staring in her direction and laughing and she immediately stopped pouring the juice into Snape's lap. With a final glare at Lily, she got up and let the Great Hall.
Snape also got up to leave with Petunia. Peter, in the mood for a good laugh, quickly removed the glue spell. As soon as he stood up, the entire hall, even some Slytherins, burst into laughter. The pumpkin juice that had been poured into his lap had made a significant wet spot in a spot that was most embarrassing. Snape, alerted by the laughter, glanced down at himself, turned bright red, and immediately ran out of the hall. Everyone was still laughing when Dumbledore called for the prefects to lead the first years to their new dorms.
"New Gryffs, follow me!" a voice yelled over the noise of the crowd of students. Lily glanced toward the voice and noticed red hair. This hair wasn't just any red hair; it was the brightest red hair that Lily had ever seen. I mean it was BRIGHT! It was like a beacon, calling all the first years to it. In a trance, Lily followed the other first years and ended up in front of the red hair. She was still staring at the red hair when the group started moving out of the Great Hall. "Hello first years, welcome to Hogwarts. My name is Billy Weasley. I am going to show you to the Gryffindor Common Room. Follow me," the red hair said. No, wait, it wasn't the red hair, it was the person the red hair belonged to that spoke. There was a person underneath that mess of red hair, a very freckled person. Lily, finally distracted, realized that she had been thinking about the red hair for the last ten minutes. I'm tired. That must be it, tiredness. There is no other explanation to why I was staring at that guy's hair for the past ten minutes, Lily thought to herself.
Soon enough, the new first years found themselves in front of a picture of a fat lady wearing a pink dress. "First years," Billy called out, "this is the entrance to the Gryffindor Common Room. You must tell the Pink Lady the password in order to get in. The password this year is 'pigsfly.'" The first years walked into the common rooms to find pink and purple furniture with neon green walls. "Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew! Show yourselves!" yelled Billy.
"We didn't do it."
"It was all Sirius."
"I quite agree."
"Yep I did it…. Wait a minute…. HEY NOW!"
"Since we have established that Black did it, why don't we let him clean up," Peter said quickly before disappearing up the stairs, followed closely by James and Remus.
"Come back here! I didn't do all of it! COME BACK!" Sirius followed them up the stairs to find the door locked. Sulkily, he came back down the stairs, waved his wand around while saying seemingly random words and suddenly the Common Room was decorated in the colors of red and gold. Sirius walked back up the stairs and started pounding on his dorm door. "IT'S BACK TO NORMAL, YOU CAN LET ME IN NOW!" he yelled. There was a creak of a door opening and suddenly, strange noises were heard from the 2nd year boys' dorm.
"I guess I better check on them in about half an hour. Hopefully they won't hex each other to pieces by then. I daresay Madam Chanders is going to be displeased. Okay, first years, up those steps in the entrance to the dormitories. Boys are on the left, girls on the right. The door that is marked with your year is your dorm. Don't stay up too late, " Billy said before sending them on their way.
Lily climbed the stairs slowly. Her thoughts were all jumbled. What if she wasn't any good at magic? What if the kids from magical families had already started learning the magic and she was way far behind. What if nobody liked her?
These lovely thoughts carried Lily to her dorm room. She glanced around the room, barely noticing the door to a bathroom, dressers and vanity stands before her eyes settled on the four-post beds. Suddenly she felt overwhelmingly tired. She dragged herself across the floor, pulled on her pajamas from her trunk, which had appeared at the end of her chose bed, and collapsed onto the bed. She soon found herself in a deep slumber.
Lily awoke the next day to the sound of something exploding near by. She jumped out of bed, startled at the sudden noise and looked around. Two beds over sat a sheepish young girl with messy blonde hair and brown eyes. "Err… sorry about that," the girl said. "I got angry at my alarm clock for going off and suddenly, it exploded."
"Oh," Lily replied sleepily. Lily's lack of reaction to this normally astonishing statement helped convince Lily that although she technically had only been around magic for a day, she was starting to get used to the strangeness of it; this realization brought a smile to Lily's face.
The other girl, encouraged by the smile on Lily's face, spoke up again. "Hi, my name's Jessica."
"My name's Lily," Lily replied.
"Hey Lily, what do you say we wake the others up?"
"Sure!" Lily replied and quickly walked into the bathroom. She soon came back out with a bucket of water. "Who first?" she asked.
Jessica giggled. "How about the other blonde?"
"You mean Bella?"
"Yeah I guess so."
"Okay, her first."
Splash! "AAAIIEEEEEE!!!"
Jessica and Lily burst out laughing at the look on Bella's face. The laughter brought Bella's attention to her tormentors and Bella's glare immediately shut Jessica and Lily up. Lily and Jessica glanced at each other and with one mind, turned, ran to the bathroom and locked the door.
Bella's hesitation and her struggle to get out of her bed caused Bella to merely bang on the door in frustration, as she was too late to do anything else, before calmly waking the other two Gryffindor first year girls up. The other two girls, called Catherine and Margaret, were not too happy to be woken up to a soaking wet blonde girl jumping up on top of their comforters. Margaret went as far as to mutter something about Bella's matureness, or lack thereof, before neatly folding up her comforter to be washed and plainly ignoring everyone else in the room.
Bella stared at Margaret for a moment, before coming to the conclusion that she wasn't very nice. "Right then," Bella muttered. "And so the first day of school begins…
A/N: Hello readers and computers that have visited this story! Lol…. I want to wish y'all a Happy Easter. I hope the Easter Bunny is kind to all of you. I do hope that you enjoyed this chappie! Terribly sorry it took so long to get up! Any suggestions for the first day of school are welcome. I know that general plot for this story, but not the individual details so I NEED help! Thx much! Review if ya wanna!
So I realized that I took out the prologue to this story (it wasn't really important, just an intro to a future community of wizard orphans who are hearing this story from a storytelling elf named Dragon…. Some people didn't like it….) Anyways, I realized that since the prologues out, I do not have a disclaimer anymore! So here it is….
Disclaimer: It's all very simple folks… You see that story above this… yeah, well I'm writing it, so I own the story, but you see the characters in the story and the overall plot that includes Hogwarts and magic, yeah well I didn't come up with them, they are not of my creation, so therefore they are not mine! See, that wasn't all that hard!