1 Tricks, Not Treats
The girl sat staring out the window at the rain. "I will not think about it again. I must get on with my life." Even as this thought flitted across her brain, a tear trickled down her cheek. She hastily wiped it away as she heard her mom calling. Her mom was just getting over it. She didn't want to bring it up again. She splashed some water on her face to wash away all signs of tears. "I must be strong for mom," she thought.
"Coming mom," she shouted. She ran down the stairs, her long auburn hair trailing behind her. She was tall and thin, with bright green eyes that were still sparkling with tears.
"Honey, we have to go or we'll be late," her mom said.
"Fine let me grab my trunk." She ran upstairs and started lugging her trunk out of her room. She finally got her trunk down the stairs and out to the car.
"Lily Evans," her mom called from the kitchen, "don't forget your owl. I don't want it to die after paying so much for it."
Lily sighed and ran upstairs again. "Sorry Snowy," she said to her owl as she picked up its cage.
"Bye Petunia," she called to her sister. Lily sighed, as she got no reply.
Finally they were on their way. As she was sitting in the back seat of the car Lily thought about the past weeks.
"Wow," she thought, "Three weeks ago I didn't know about Hogwarts or witches or anything."
As they neared the train station Lily grew nervous. Rose Evans could hear her daughter fidgeting in the back seat.
"Lily calm down," her mom said, "You'll be fine."
When they reached the station Lily's mom helped Lily unload her trunk. When her trunk was out of the car Rose turned to Lily and said, "I'm sorry honey. I have to leave now so I can get Petunia to school on time. Is there anything else that I can do for you?"
"No, mom, I'm okay," said Lily
"I will miss you so much! Are you sure that this isn't a joke? I don't want you to be stranded in the middle of England until Christmas. That's 3½ months!"
"Mom please stop worrying!"
"Alright honey. Have a good time. Here's your ticket. I'll see you in December."
"Bye mom."
"Bye honey. I love you." With that Rose handed her daughter her ticket, kissed her cheek, and left. Lily waved to her mom, then turned to look at the platforms. She glanced down at her ticket.
"Platform 9¾?" Lily looked around for her platform. She saw platform 9 and decided to walk over to it because platform 9 and platform 9¾ should be near eachother. Lily kept walking until she reached platform 10. There was no platform 9¾. At least, not that she could see. Lily turned her head to see if she had missed it. As she was looking over her shoulder she ran into someone.
"I'm so sorry," Lily apologized as she turned around. The girl that stood near her had curly red hair and was a little chubby.
"Molly?" Lily cried. Lily couldn't believe it. Her new next-door neighbor was here. Molly McCann's family had just moved to her neighborhood a week ago.
"Why are you here?" Molly asked Lily.
"I am trying to find my train to school," Lily replied.
"Oh, are you going to Hogwarts too?" Molly asked excitedly.
"Yup!" Lily cried. A lady standing behind Molly coughed.
"Oh, Lily, this is my mom and dad," Molly said.
"Hello Lily," Molly's parents said warmly.
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. McCann," said Lily. A whistle sounded in the distance. It was so soft that Lily thought that she was hearing things.
"Oops, There's the first whistle. The train's leaving in five minutes," said Mr. McCann.
"You'd better hurry girls," Molly's mom said, "I'll miss you honey." Mrs. McCann hugged Molly and Lily. "Have fun at Hogwarts dear," she told Lily. Molly's dad hugged Molly and shook Lily's hand.
"Goodbye girls," he said.
"Now hurry," Molly's mom told them.
"Bye," Molly and Lily shouted as Molly's parents walked away.
"So where is the platform?" Lily asked.
You just have to run through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10," Molly told Lily.
"Won't that hurt?" Lily questioned aloud.
"No, it isn't solid. Let's go," Molly said. They stood next to eachother facing the stone wall. They started to run towards it. Lily closed her eyes and waited for the crash. She didn't open her eyes until she heard Molly saying, "Lily, it's fine. Come on. We have to get on the train. It's about to leave."
Lily and Molly ran for the train. They struggled, but they finally got Molly's trunk on the train. They had even more trouble with Lily's trunk.
"What did you put in here?" Molly asked Lily while breathing heavily.
"Just school stuff…oh, and some stuff for pranks." Lily told her. Both of them were panting so loudly that they barely heard the final train whistle blow.
A pair of strong hands reached down and grabbed Lily's trunk and pulled it up.
"Thanks," the girls said as they clambered aboard.
"No problem," a boy said, "Please come sit down.
"Thanks again," Lily said as she and Molly sat on one side of the compartment. "Oh, my name's Lily Evans."
"And I'm Molly. What's your name?" Molly asked the boy.
"My name's Severus Snape." Severus was tall and thin with longish, black hair that (in Lily's opinion) looked like it hadn't been washed in a long time.
Just then the door to the compartment slid open and three boys walked in. Two of the boys were fairly tall and had brown eyes. The first boy had brown hair, and the second boy had messy black hair and glasses. The third boy stood behind them. He had light blue eyes and light brown hair. The one with brown hair spoke first.
"What would two lovely maids such as yourselves be doing in the company of this slimeball?" Severus jumped up and drew his wand, but Lily was quicker. Lily wasn't using her wand. If Molly hadn't been restraining her, Lily would have attacked the boy who spoke.
"Maybe we enjoy the company of this 'slimeball'," Lily said. Her voice was full of sarcasm when she said slimeball. The other boy said, "Gees, lay off. Remus was just trying to help."
"I don't know about you, but I don't call insulting my friends helping," Lily said. Lily muttered under her breath as she sat down next to Molly.
"Soooooooory!" Remus said as he and the other boy left.
"Who were they?" Molly asked Severus.
"Remus Lupin and James Potter," Severus spit out their names like a piece of rotten fruit, "Two of the most conceited and annoying people in the world. I don't know who the other one was."
"Severus, we need to change into our school robes. Can you please leave for a minute?" Molly asked.
"Sure," Severus said. After he left, with his robes, the girls pulled out their robes.
"So what was that all about?" Molly asked Lily.
"What do you mean?" Lily said without meeting Molly's eyes.
"You know what I mean. Why were you so touchy." Lily winced as she replied.
"Well I just had a rough morning. I was thinking about my dad. You know what happened don't you?"
"Yes," Molly said quietly. Lily sat down and looked away. Molly sat next to her and watched as tears started to stream down Lily's face.
"Well, at least we have someone to test all of our pranks on," Molly said. Lily started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Molly asked.
"Well I was just imagining James and Remus with curly, blonde hair."
"You didn't," Molly cried happily.
"I did!" Lily shouted. Both girls dissolved into uncontrollable laughter. After they calmed down, Molly asked, "How did you know how to do that spell?"
"In Diagon Ally, I bought a book called Tricks, Not Treats. It's full of new curses and charms. This one is delayed so I won't get caught! I practiced lots of them at home."
"And I know exactly who to use them on," Molly giggled. Just then someone knocked on the door of the compartment.
"Can I come in now?" Severus's voice asked.
"Sure," Lily replied. Severus came in and sat down.
The rest of the ride was spent talking, joking, and thinking up pranks to play on James and Remus. When the train started slowing down a voice rang out saying that the trunks would be taken up to the castle separately. So Molly, Lily, and Severus got off the train. They heard a man's voice calling the first years. When they got nearer to the voice, Lily saw a very tall man. He was probably, no, defiantly the tallest man she had ever seen. He directed all the first years to a lake. The lake was still and calm. The surface was unbroken and looked like a black mirror. On the lake were many little boats.
The big, tall man said that his name was Hagrid, and he told them to get in a boat. Lily, Molly, and Severus got in a boat together. They were joined by a girl with curly brown hair and brown eyes. She said her name was Arabella.
"But please call me Bella," she told them.
"Hi Bella! My name's Molly. And this is Lily and Severus," Molly said. Just then the boats started gliding across the water without anyone rowing. The four of them rode for a few minutes. They talked about the sorting, houses, and teachers. Severus said that he was probably going to be in Slytherin, because all of his family had been. Molly, Bella, and Lily thought that Gryffindor sounded the best. "But I wouldn't mind Ravenclaw," Lily told them.
Hagrid, who was in the first boat by himself, called out to the first years.
"Look, there's the castle." All the first years looked up. Everyone uttered little exclamations of amazement. The castle loomed before them. Its windows were lit by thousands of candles.
Just then a scream and a splash disturbed the beautiful scene. Someone had fallen into the water. Everyone turned to look. A small, blonde- haired girl, whom Lily recognized, from the train station, as Sarah, was in the water. She was having a hard time staying up. Suddenly everyone heard another splash. Lily turned towards the sound and saw someone swimming towards Sarah. It was Bella!
When Bella reached Sarah, she grabbed hold of the nearest boat and grabbed Sarah. The people in the boat helped Sarah in, then helped Bella in.
"Thanks," Bella said to the people in the boat.
"No problem," replied a boy with sandy blonde hair, and light blue eyes.
"Anytime," another boy agreed. "Oh, by the way, I'm Remus Lupin and this is Peter Pettigrew." When Sarah finished coughing she thanked Bella.
"I don't know how to swim," Sarah said, "I could have died."
"Well you didn't. So let's not talk about that," Bella said quickly. After a minute or two later Bella thought of something.
"If you don't know how to swim, why did you jump in to the water?" Bella asked Sarah.
"I wanted to make a big splash on the first day," she answered sarcastically, "Just kidding, I didn't jump in. I was pushed in."
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Disclaimer: I only own Sarah. (If you didn't catch on Molly-Weasley and Arabella-Figg are not mine.) Everything else you read is J.K.Rowling's- exsept for the plot.
Please review! This is my first fanfic! I would really appreciate your comments. More will be coming soon!
The girl sat staring out the window at the rain. "I will not think about it again. I must get on with my life." Even as this thought flitted across her brain, a tear trickled down her cheek. She hastily wiped it away as she heard her mom calling. Her mom was just getting over it. She didn't want to bring it up again. She splashed some water on her face to wash away all signs of tears. "I must be strong for mom," she thought.
"Coming mom," she shouted. She ran down the stairs, her long auburn hair trailing behind her. She was tall and thin, with bright green eyes that were still sparkling with tears.
"Honey, we have to go or we'll be late," her mom said.
"Fine let me grab my trunk." She ran upstairs and started lugging her trunk out of her room. She finally got her trunk down the stairs and out to the car.
"Lily Evans," her mom called from the kitchen, "don't forget your owl. I don't want it to die after paying so much for it."
Lily sighed and ran upstairs again. "Sorry Snowy," she said to her owl as she picked up its cage.
"Bye Petunia," she called to her sister. Lily sighed, as she got no reply.
Finally they were on their way. As she was sitting in the back seat of the car Lily thought about the past weeks.
"Wow," she thought, "Three weeks ago I didn't know about Hogwarts or witches or anything."
As they neared the train station Lily grew nervous. Rose Evans could hear her daughter fidgeting in the back seat.
"Lily calm down," her mom said, "You'll be fine."
When they reached the station Lily's mom helped Lily unload her trunk. When her trunk was out of the car Rose turned to Lily and said, "I'm sorry honey. I have to leave now so I can get Petunia to school on time. Is there anything else that I can do for you?"
"No, mom, I'm okay," said Lily
"I will miss you so much! Are you sure that this isn't a joke? I don't want you to be stranded in the middle of England until Christmas. That's 3½ months!"
"Mom please stop worrying!"
"Alright honey. Have a good time. Here's your ticket. I'll see you in December."
"Bye mom."
"Bye honey. I love you." With that Rose handed her daughter her ticket, kissed her cheek, and left. Lily waved to her mom, then turned to look at the platforms. She glanced down at her ticket.
"Platform 9¾?" Lily looked around for her platform. She saw platform 9 and decided to walk over to it because platform 9 and platform 9¾ should be near eachother. Lily kept walking until she reached platform 10. There was no platform 9¾. At least, not that she could see. Lily turned her head to see if she had missed it. As she was looking over her shoulder she ran into someone.
"I'm so sorry," Lily apologized as she turned around. The girl that stood near her had curly red hair and was a little chubby.
"Molly?" Lily cried. Lily couldn't believe it. Her new next-door neighbor was here. Molly McCann's family had just moved to her neighborhood a week ago.
"Why are you here?" Molly asked Lily.
"I am trying to find my train to school," Lily replied.
"Oh, are you going to Hogwarts too?" Molly asked excitedly.
"Yup!" Lily cried. A lady standing behind Molly coughed.
"Oh, Lily, this is my mom and dad," Molly said.
"Hello Lily," Molly's parents said warmly.
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. McCann," said Lily. A whistle sounded in the distance. It was so soft that Lily thought that she was hearing things.
"Oops, There's the first whistle. The train's leaving in five minutes," said Mr. McCann.
"You'd better hurry girls," Molly's mom said, "I'll miss you honey." Mrs. McCann hugged Molly and Lily. "Have fun at Hogwarts dear," she told Lily. Molly's dad hugged Molly and shook Lily's hand.
"Goodbye girls," he said.
"Now hurry," Molly's mom told them.
"Bye," Molly and Lily shouted as Molly's parents walked away.
"So where is the platform?" Lily asked.
You just have to run through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10," Molly told Lily.
"Won't that hurt?" Lily questioned aloud.
"No, it isn't solid. Let's go," Molly said. They stood next to eachother facing the stone wall. They started to run towards it. Lily closed her eyes and waited for the crash. She didn't open her eyes until she heard Molly saying, "Lily, it's fine. Come on. We have to get on the train. It's about to leave."
Lily and Molly ran for the train. They struggled, but they finally got Molly's trunk on the train. They had even more trouble with Lily's trunk.
"What did you put in here?" Molly asked Lily while breathing heavily.
"Just school stuff…oh, and some stuff for pranks." Lily told her. Both of them were panting so loudly that they barely heard the final train whistle blow.
A pair of strong hands reached down and grabbed Lily's trunk and pulled it up.
"Thanks," the girls said as they clambered aboard.
"No problem," a boy said, "Please come sit down.
"Thanks again," Lily said as she and Molly sat on one side of the compartment. "Oh, my name's Lily Evans."
"And I'm Molly. What's your name?" Molly asked the boy.
"My name's Severus Snape." Severus was tall and thin with longish, black hair that (in Lily's opinion) looked like it hadn't been washed in a long time.
Just then the door to the compartment slid open and three boys walked in. Two of the boys were fairly tall and had brown eyes. The first boy had brown hair, and the second boy had messy black hair and glasses. The third boy stood behind them. He had light blue eyes and light brown hair. The one with brown hair spoke first.
"What would two lovely maids such as yourselves be doing in the company of this slimeball?" Severus jumped up and drew his wand, but Lily was quicker. Lily wasn't using her wand. If Molly hadn't been restraining her, Lily would have attacked the boy who spoke.
"Maybe we enjoy the company of this 'slimeball'," Lily said. Her voice was full of sarcasm when she said slimeball. The other boy said, "Gees, lay off. Remus was just trying to help."
"I don't know about you, but I don't call insulting my friends helping," Lily said. Lily muttered under her breath as she sat down next to Molly.
"Soooooooory!" Remus said as he and the other boy left.
"Who were they?" Molly asked Severus.
"Remus Lupin and James Potter," Severus spit out their names like a piece of rotten fruit, "Two of the most conceited and annoying people in the world. I don't know who the other one was."
"Severus, we need to change into our school robes. Can you please leave for a minute?" Molly asked.
"Sure," Severus said. After he left, with his robes, the girls pulled out their robes.
"So what was that all about?" Molly asked Lily.
"What do you mean?" Lily said without meeting Molly's eyes.
"You know what I mean. Why were you so touchy." Lily winced as she replied.
"Well I just had a rough morning. I was thinking about my dad. You know what happened don't you?"
"Yes," Molly said quietly. Lily sat down and looked away. Molly sat next to her and watched as tears started to stream down Lily's face.
"Well, at least we have someone to test all of our pranks on," Molly said. Lily started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Molly asked.
"Well I was just imagining James and Remus with curly, blonde hair."
"You didn't," Molly cried happily.
"I did!" Lily shouted. Both girls dissolved into uncontrollable laughter. After they calmed down, Molly asked, "How did you know how to do that spell?"
"In Diagon Ally, I bought a book called Tricks, Not Treats. It's full of new curses and charms. This one is delayed so I won't get caught! I practiced lots of them at home."
"And I know exactly who to use them on," Molly giggled. Just then someone knocked on the door of the compartment.
"Can I come in now?" Severus's voice asked.
"Sure," Lily replied. Severus came in and sat down.
The rest of the ride was spent talking, joking, and thinking up pranks to play on James and Remus. When the train started slowing down a voice rang out saying that the trunks would be taken up to the castle separately. So Molly, Lily, and Severus got off the train. They heard a man's voice calling the first years. When they got nearer to the voice, Lily saw a very tall man. He was probably, no, defiantly the tallest man she had ever seen. He directed all the first years to a lake. The lake was still and calm. The surface was unbroken and looked like a black mirror. On the lake were many little boats.
The big, tall man said that his name was Hagrid, and he told them to get in a boat. Lily, Molly, and Severus got in a boat together. They were joined by a girl with curly brown hair and brown eyes. She said her name was Arabella.
"But please call me Bella," she told them.
"Hi Bella! My name's Molly. And this is Lily and Severus," Molly said. Just then the boats started gliding across the water without anyone rowing. The four of them rode for a few minutes. They talked about the sorting, houses, and teachers. Severus said that he was probably going to be in Slytherin, because all of his family had been. Molly, Bella, and Lily thought that Gryffindor sounded the best. "But I wouldn't mind Ravenclaw," Lily told them.
Hagrid, who was in the first boat by himself, called out to the first years.
"Look, there's the castle." All the first years looked up. Everyone uttered little exclamations of amazement. The castle loomed before them. Its windows were lit by thousands of candles.
Just then a scream and a splash disturbed the beautiful scene. Someone had fallen into the water. Everyone turned to look. A small, blonde- haired girl, whom Lily recognized, from the train station, as Sarah, was in the water. She was having a hard time staying up. Suddenly everyone heard another splash. Lily turned towards the sound and saw someone swimming towards Sarah. It was Bella!
When Bella reached Sarah, she grabbed hold of the nearest boat and grabbed Sarah. The people in the boat helped Sarah in, then helped Bella in.
"Thanks," Bella said to the people in the boat.
"No problem," replied a boy with sandy blonde hair, and light blue eyes.
"Anytime," another boy agreed. "Oh, by the way, I'm Remus Lupin and this is Peter Pettigrew." When Sarah finished coughing she thanked Bella.
"I don't know how to swim," Sarah said, "I could have died."
"Well you didn't. So let's not talk about that," Bella said quickly. After a minute or two later Bella thought of something.
"If you don't know how to swim, why did you jump in to the water?" Bella asked Sarah.
"I wanted to make a big splash on the first day," she answered sarcastically, "Just kidding, I didn't jump in. I was pushed in."
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Disclaimer: I only own Sarah. (If you didn't catch on Molly-Weasley and Arabella-Figg are not mine.) Everything else you read is J.K.Rowling's- exsept for the plot.
Please review! This is my first fanfic! I would really appreciate your comments. More will be coming soon!