Chapter 6 ~*~ School Begins
The next day, Lily woke up at five in the morning. At first she just lied their thinking about her new school and friends, but within ten minutes, she was up and getting ready. By half past five, Lily had dressed in her school robed, and pulled her hair back into a braided ponytail. She grabbed her bag and a German novel, and made her way down to the common room.
Once Lily had placed herself on a couch by the fire and opened her book to start reading, someone sat down next to her.
"Hey James." She said without looking up.
"How'd you know it was me?" He asked, slightly disappointed.
Lily chose to close her book before answering. "Well Remus would most likely ask, Sirius would lounge, and you don't smell like a girl. You smell worse." She put on an innocent smile and just sat there.
"Well you got me there." He just smiled back. "So what cha reading there?"
"Oh, a German novel." She pulled the book out and held it out to him.
"It's in German!"
"Yeah, so?"
"How do you read it?"
"I know German."
"Y-you know German? What else do you know?"
"I know German, Hebrew, Italian, and I'm working on Roman."
" You're only eleven, and you know three other languages!" He was dumbstruck.
"Er.yeah.so.what's the scoop on Remus and Allison?" Lily was keen on changing the subject at the time.
"He claims just to be really close friends."
"Alright. I was just wondering and you guys sounded like you would know."
"So you guys haven't talked about us? We blurt about talking about you, and you leave us hanging?" he stared at her as she just sat there and laughed. 'God she's gorgeous' he thought to himself, before adding a sarcastic, "Oh I'm just so flattered," and then joined in on the laughing.
This just caused the both of them to laugh harder, and they continued o for a good five minutes, before both of them recovered. The two of them stayed there in front of the fire talking for a good hour, before their friends began filing into the common room.
Katie was first to comedown, and she joined them in their conversation on Quidditch. Soon all seven of the members of the group had grouped around the couch, and were talking about none other then Quidditch.
"Oh, I'm gonna head to breakfast. It's half past seven, and I don't want to be late." Hannah said, checking her watch.
"Finally! Time for food!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Yeah, we're coming to." Katie said. So she and Allison stood up and exited through the portrait hole, behind Hannah and Sirius.
"Well we should probably go too, I guess." Lily stood up, and grabbed her bag.
"Just wait for us Lil!" James called, as he and Remus ran to get their bags.
Ten minutes later, the three of them had joined the others in the great hall, where a stern looking witch, with her hair in a tight bun, was passing out their schedules.
"Ugh! History of Magic first!" Katie exclaimed.
"I heard it was a real bore, but a good class to sleep through." James said.
"I know James. That's the point of saying Ugh!"
"Well sorry Katie, the queen of us all!"
"I like that title. Thank You!"
"Ha ha ha, very funny you two." Remus said, rolling his eyes.
"I know!" they both said at once, causing the table to stare at the group of laughing first years.
"So off to class now I guess." Lily said, jumping up out of her seat.
"Woah Lil, what's the rush?" James asked.
"First class!" Lily said excitedly.
"You can't seriously want to go to class Lil." Allison said.
"I do, but I don't know about little Sirius Black here." She pointed at Sirius who was staring at Allison, with his mouth hanging open.
"Sirius?" Remus said with an amused smile. "Sirius!"
"Wha-What? Oh." Sirius turned a bright red, and began to pack up his books for class, keeping his face down.
"Sirius! Stop hiding your face. We can all see its resemblance to a tomato!" Remus fell off his seat laughing when he finished talking, and soon after Allison and Hannah followed suit.
"Shut it Remus!" he snapped. "I'm going to class. Bye."
"Wait! I'm coming!" Allison yelled. So the three of them headed off to class.
History of Magic lived up to it's reputation, and the only two people who stayed awake for at least the first half of class, were Lily and a Slytherin with black greasy hair, that they soon learned to go by the name of Severus Snape. Hannah dozed off on Remus's shoulder, while Remus remained awake enough to take notes. Sirius fell asleep five minutes into class, and Allison spent the first half of class trying to keep him awake before dozing off her self. Katie got half of her notes done before she gave up and leaned back in her chair. James spent the class staring into space, or dozing off. When the bell finally rang, Remus reluctantly woke Hannah up, who was the only one the bell hadn't woken. She looked slightly embarrassed at where she woke up, not to mention who woke her.
"Er.sorry Remus."
"No big Hannah. Let's get to Transfiguration before we're late."
"Right. First day here and all." So she packed up her things and they left the class and headed for Transfiguration.
Transfiguration went by rather quickly, and James seemed to find it quite easy. They were turning matches into needles and then back again, and James just sat there, holding his wand pointed at the match, watching it change back and forth with no effort showing. Lily seemed impressed as much as she did annoyed. Everyone else, besides the tow of them, did quite well but did struggle at one point.
It was the first Friday since school started, and lunch came and went for the day. Sirius claimed it to be to soon because it was his favorite class. Everyone laughed at this, as they all walked across the grounds, to Herbology.
"Last class of the day. Finally!" Remus said.
"I've been waiting all day for this class! I can't wait for it to start." Hannah announced to the group.
Remus just stared for a bit. "You want for class to start?"
"Yep!"
"I'll never understand you Hannah Santino."
"Oh. Maybe one day Remus Lupin." She answered in a mocking voice.
"She's a vegetarian, Rem." Allison spoke up.
"Oh. So that's why you like plants, eh?"
"Sort of. I also plan on having this big garden of odd plants when I grow up." She said all of this with a huge smile.
"Sounds like fun. Hey, we're here." He pointed at a large glass building, with a group of students outside the entrance.
"Yay!" Hannah started to jump up and down.
Everyone stopped and stared at her, but she didn't acknowledge this.
By the end of class, Hannah was simply beaming. She had taken pages upon pages of notes, on all of the plants that Professor Klutch had introduced to them. Everyone had thought Hannah had lost it, but Allison and Katie also found it amusing. They hadn't been assigned homework yet that day, and they were all glad.
Lily, James, and Sirius said good-bye, and walked on ahead. They were serving an extended detention, for a prank the seven pulled. Unfortunately three of them got caught, but they never turned one another in.
"Hey Hannah." Allison nudged her and began whispering in her ear. "I say your happiness calls for a kitchen raid!"
"OOO!" Hannah squealed, and if possible, her smile grew.
"What?" Remus asked. They ignored him, and went over to Katie, which slightly annoyed him.
"Katie! We're pulling a number eight tonight on behalf of Hannah's joy." Allison said.
"You sure it's not just your hunger?" she replied.
"You caught me. That to." Allison said, and the three of them burst out laughing.
"So are you all going to ignore me, or explain what number eight means?" Remus butted in.
"Well." Hannah started, but Allison decided to butt in. "What the heck! Meet us in the common room at nine tonight. Don't bring the buys, it is sort of our secret."
"Alright. Deal." Remus held out his hand and in turn shook each girls hand.
"I'll meet you guys there if I'm not in the common room by nine, alright?" Katie said calmly, but she had a grin on her face. "I think I've got number twelve figured out by now, but I'm not sure."
"Alright! It's a plan!" Allison exclaimed.
"Well we better go. Got things to do." Katie said with the same grin as before. "See you at nine!" and with that the three of them took off running down the hall.
"What about dinner!" he called after them.
"Oh! Don't eat too much! Bye!" Hannah called back to him.
"Alright then! See you later!" he called back and made his way to Gryffindor tower. When he got there, he flopped down on the couch and fell asleep.
"Do you think he know where we're going tonight?" Hannah asked.
"No way. We haven't given any clues as to what we're doing." Katie replied.
The three girls were in a corner of the library, and Allison was tapping the wall in a rhythmical pattern. "Twelve bricks up, and three to the left." she kept mumbling to herself. "Wah La!" she exclaimed after a good three minutes of tapping.
A silver door appeared, and the three girls entered the room quietly, closing the door behind them so the wall would reappear. They had entered a round room with a fireplace at the other side. In the center of the ceiling was a round window, where a ring of moonlight would shine through into a ring of dirt on the ground directly beneath the window, if there had been any moon at all. There were two wooden tables, one on each side of the dirt ring. Each table had two different armchairs, and each was a different house color. There was also a black couch near the fireplace, and there was a bookshelf near the entrance filled with books on Animagus. The four girls had found this room that Wednesday. They called it the Animagi Study, because it held everything for Animagus study and transformation. It was a coincidence that they found the room the same day tat their transfiguration teacher, Professor McGonagall, introduced them to Animagi as the quarters first topic. The four of them knew how hard it would be to become Animagi, so they just used it as a private study room.
"So ya think Lil will be mad that we came without her?" Allison asked after she was sure the door was securely hidden.
"No. They have detention from after Herbology till dinner. Then they get to go eat, and then they have it form the end of dinner till ten." Hannah replied.
"Yeah, she won't mind. We're only here to get our Herbology done, and her trouble subject is potions," Katie added.
The three girls walked over to their own armchair and began doing their Herbology essays. They each picked their own armchair, and had done a simple charm to them (Lily's job), to kick out anyone that wasn't them self. Lily took the red Gryffindor chair, Hannah the blue Ravenclaw one, Katie had the yellow Hufflepuff chair, and Allison agreed on the green Slytherin chair, despite how disgusted she was about it. Within fifteen minutes, Hannah had finished her essay, and told the other two that she was going to get some books on hexes from the library, for them to study from. Ten minutes later, Hannah returned with three books on hexes, just as Allison and Hannah were finished.
"Hey, I'm back!" Hannah exclaimed entering.
"Yes! Hexes! Now for the fun part of the day!" Allison said, a little too enthusiastically.
"OOO! Can I go get them today?" Katie asked with wide eyes.
"Sure, have fun." Hannah said.
They both watched as Katie walked over to the bare wall to the left of the fireplace, and taped the discolored brick three times. The wall flashed white, and Katie walked through it. Only about five minutes later, she came out pushing a large cage of dogs on a cart.
"Alright. We're braking out the big animals for today!" Hannah loved cats, but also loved using the dogs for the hexes, so she had a big smile as she spoke.
"Good choice Katie. I probably would have chosen the turtles for today, but dogs work." Allison said. "Let's get started, shall we?"
For the next hour they, practiced learning various new hexes on the dogs. When the hour was up, Katie returned them, and then also returned the wall to its solid state, before packing up her things. Hannah put the hex books back on their correct shelves, while Allison sealed the door, and they all progressed to the common room.
Once they entered the common room (willow) they found Remus asleep on the couch.
"You think we should wake him?" Hannah asked. "Although he is kinda cute sleeping."
"Nope. I've got a better idea." Allison said with an evil grin. "How about we crowd around him like so." And with that, Allison hopped onto the back of the couch, and hovered over him, almost laughing her head off.
"Oh! So when he wakes up we scare the pans off him!" Katie sat on the edge of the couch by his knees, looking like she was about to jump up and down.
"Plain. I know. But think of his face!" Allison said, grinning.
Hannah was trying to keep from laughing as she placed herself on the floor in front of his face, and placed her own face inches from his, staring at him.
The three of them sat there, barely moving, for fifteen minutes, when Remus started to move. The rest of the Gryffindors had started returning from dinner. James, Lily, and Sirius were among them. Everyone started crowding around the sofa with the four friends, wondering what was going on, and Sirius tapped Allison on the shoulder.
"Don't ruin it Sirius." Allison said, turning back to Remus.
"What are you doing?" He asked her.
"Shh! Just watch and learn." she said with a visible grin.
They didn't have to wait long before.
"BLOODY HELL!" Remus shouted, and he bolted straight up at seeing eyes three inches away from his face.
The whole common room burst out laughing when this happened. Allison had rolled off the back of the couch onto Sirius who had collapsed from laughing, the minute Remus shouted. Katie leaned backwards laughing, while Hannah fell forward and laughed into the seat of the couch. James and Lily were clinging to each other for support, and the rest of Gryffindor tower was somewhat like one of them.
"What in the world gave you the idea to give me a heart attack!" Remus shouted after a good five minutes.
Hannah managed to point over at Allison in the process of laughing the answer. "A-A's I-I-I-IDE-IDEA!"
When Remus turned on Allison she just ran up the dormitory stairs and shouted, "nine-o-clock Remus!" before closing the door.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going upstairs. See you guys later." He waved to his other five friends before leaving the common room, looking and sounding irritated.
By now James and Lily had recovered, and were attempting to drag a laughing Sirius off to their second half of detention. Katie and Hannah said good-bye to them and then head up to their dormitories as well.
The next day, Lily woke up at five in the morning. At first she just lied their thinking about her new school and friends, but within ten minutes, she was up and getting ready. By half past five, Lily had dressed in her school robed, and pulled her hair back into a braided ponytail. She grabbed her bag and a German novel, and made her way down to the common room.
Once Lily had placed herself on a couch by the fire and opened her book to start reading, someone sat down next to her.
"Hey James." She said without looking up.
"How'd you know it was me?" He asked, slightly disappointed.
Lily chose to close her book before answering. "Well Remus would most likely ask, Sirius would lounge, and you don't smell like a girl. You smell worse." She put on an innocent smile and just sat there.
"Well you got me there." He just smiled back. "So what cha reading there?"
"Oh, a German novel." She pulled the book out and held it out to him.
"It's in German!"
"Yeah, so?"
"How do you read it?"
"I know German."
"Y-you know German? What else do you know?"
"I know German, Hebrew, Italian, and I'm working on Roman."
" You're only eleven, and you know three other languages!" He was dumbstruck.
"Er.yeah.so.what's the scoop on Remus and Allison?" Lily was keen on changing the subject at the time.
"He claims just to be really close friends."
"Alright. I was just wondering and you guys sounded like you would know."
"So you guys haven't talked about us? We blurt about talking about you, and you leave us hanging?" he stared at her as she just sat there and laughed. 'God she's gorgeous' he thought to himself, before adding a sarcastic, "Oh I'm just so flattered," and then joined in on the laughing.
This just caused the both of them to laugh harder, and they continued o for a good five minutes, before both of them recovered. The two of them stayed there in front of the fire talking for a good hour, before their friends began filing into the common room.
Katie was first to comedown, and she joined them in their conversation on Quidditch. Soon all seven of the members of the group had grouped around the couch, and were talking about none other then Quidditch.
"Oh, I'm gonna head to breakfast. It's half past seven, and I don't want to be late." Hannah said, checking her watch.
"Finally! Time for food!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Yeah, we're coming to." Katie said. So she and Allison stood up and exited through the portrait hole, behind Hannah and Sirius.
"Well we should probably go too, I guess." Lily stood up, and grabbed her bag.
"Just wait for us Lil!" James called, as he and Remus ran to get their bags.
Ten minutes later, the three of them had joined the others in the great hall, where a stern looking witch, with her hair in a tight bun, was passing out their schedules.
"Ugh! History of Magic first!" Katie exclaimed.
"I heard it was a real bore, but a good class to sleep through." James said.
"I know James. That's the point of saying Ugh!"
"Well sorry Katie, the queen of us all!"
"I like that title. Thank You!"
"Ha ha ha, very funny you two." Remus said, rolling his eyes.
"I know!" they both said at once, causing the table to stare at the group of laughing first years.
"So off to class now I guess." Lily said, jumping up out of her seat.
"Woah Lil, what's the rush?" James asked.
"First class!" Lily said excitedly.
"You can't seriously want to go to class Lil." Allison said.
"I do, but I don't know about little Sirius Black here." She pointed at Sirius who was staring at Allison, with his mouth hanging open.
"Sirius?" Remus said with an amused smile. "Sirius!"
"Wha-What? Oh." Sirius turned a bright red, and began to pack up his books for class, keeping his face down.
"Sirius! Stop hiding your face. We can all see its resemblance to a tomato!" Remus fell off his seat laughing when he finished talking, and soon after Allison and Hannah followed suit.
"Shut it Remus!" he snapped. "I'm going to class. Bye."
"Wait! I'm coming!" Allison yelled. So the three of them headed off to class.
History of Magic lived up to it's reputation, and the only two people who stayed awake for at least the first half of class, were Lily and a Slytherin with black greasy hair, that they soon learned to go by the name of Severus Snape. Hannah dozed off on Remus's shoulder, while Remus remained awake enough to take notes. Sirius fell asleep five minutes into class, and Allison spent the first half of class trying to keep him awake before dozing off her self. Katie got half of her notes done before she gave up and leaned back in her chair. James spent the class staring into space, or dozing off. When the bell finally rang, Remus reluctantly woke Hannah up, who was the only one the bell hadn't woken. She looked slightly embarrassed at where she woke up, not to mention who woke her.
"Er.sorry Remus."
"No big Hannah. Let's get to Transfiguration before we're late."
"Right. First day here and all." So she packed up her things and they left the class and headed for Transfiguration.
Transfiguration went by rather quickly, and James seemed to find it quite easy. They were turning matches into needles and then back again, and James just sat there, holding his wand pointed at the match, watching it change back and forth with no effort showing. Lily seemed impressed as much as she did annoyed. Everyone else, besides the tow of them, did quite well but did struggle at one point.
It was the first Friday since school started, and lunch came and went for the day. Sirius claimed it to be to soon because it was his favorite class. Everyone laughed at this, as they all walked across the grounds, to Herbology.
"Last class of the day. Finally!" Remus said.
"I've been waiting all day for this class! I can't wait for it to start." Hannah announced to the group.
Remus just stared for a bit. "You want for class to start?"
"Yep!"
"I'll never understand you Hannah Santino."
"Oh. Maybe one day Remus Lupin." She answered in a mocking voice.
"She's a vegetarian, Rem." Allison spoke up.
"Oh. So that's why you like plants, eh?"
"Sort of. I also plan on having this big garden of odd plants when I grow up." She said all of this with a huge smile.
"Sounds like fun. Hey, we're here." He pointed at a large glass building, with a group of students outside the entrance.
"Yay!" Hannah started to jump up and down.
Everyone stopped and stared at her, but she didn't acknowledge this.
By the end of class, Hannah was simply beaming. She had taken pages upon pages of notes, on all of the plants that Professor Klutch had introduced to them. Everyone had thought Hannah had lost it, but Allison and Katie also found it amusing. They hadn't been assigned homework yet that day, and they were all glad.
Lily, James, and Sirius said good-bye, and walked on ahead. They were serving an extended detention, for a prank the seven pulled. Unfortunately three of them got caught, but they never turned one another in.
"Hey Hannah." Allison nudged her and began whispering in her ear. "I say your happiness calls for a kitchen raid!"
"OOO!" Hannah squealed, and if possible, her smile grew.
"What?" Remus asked. They ignored him, and went over to Katie, which slightly annoyed him.
"Katie! We're pulling a number eight tonight on behalf of Hannah's joy." Allison said.
"You sure it's not just your hunger?" she replied.
"You caught me. That to." Allison said, and the three of them burst out laughing.
"So are you all going to ignore me, or explain what number eight means?" Remus butted in.
"Well." Hannah started, but Allison decided to butt in. "What the heck! Meet us in the common room at nine tonight. Don't bring the buys, it is sort of our secret."
"Alright. Deal." Remus held out his hand and in turn shook each girls hand.
"I'll meet you guys there if I'm not in the common room by nine, alright?" Katie said calmly, but she had a grin on her face. "I think I've got number twelve figured out by now, but I'm not sure."
"Alright! It's a plan!" Allison exclaimed.
"Well we better go. Got things to do." Katie said with the same grin as before. "See you at nine!" and with that the three of them took off running down the hall.
"What about dinner!" he called after them.
"Oh! Don't eat too much! Bye!" Hannah called back to him.
"Alright then! See you later!" he called back and made his way to Gryffindor tower. When he got there, he flopped down on the couch and fell asleep.
"Do you think he know where we're going tonight?" Hannah asked.
"No way. We haven't given any clues as to what we're doing." Katie replied.
The three girls were in a corner of the library, and Allison was tapping the wall in a rhythmical pattern. "Twelve bricks up, and three to the left." she kept mumbling to herself. "Wah La!" she exclaimed after a good three minutes of tapping.
A silver door appeared, and the three girls entered the room quietly, closing the door behind them so the wall would reappear. They had entered a round room with a fireplace at the other side. In the center of the ceiling was a round window, where a ring of moonlight would shine through into a ring of dirt on the ground directly beneath the window, if there had been any moon at all. There were two wooden tables, one on each side of the dirt ring. Each table had two different armchairs, and each was a different house color. There was also a black couch near the fireplace, and there was a bookshelf near the entrance filled with books on Animagus. The four girls had found this room that Wednesday. They called it the Animagi Study, because it held everything for Animagus study and transformation. It was a coincidence that they found the room the same day tat their transfiguration teacher, Professor McGonagall, introduced them to Animagi as the quarters first topic. The four of them knew how hard it would be to become Animagi, so they just used it as a private study room.
"So ya think Lil will be mad that we came without her?" Allison asked after she was sure the door was securely hidden.
"No. They have detention from after Herbology till dinner. Then they get to go eat, and then they have it form the end of dinner till ten." Hannah replied.
"Yeah, she won't mind. We're only here to get our Herbology done, and her trouble subject is potions," Katie added.
The three girls walked over to their own armchair and began doing their Herbology essays. They each picked their own armchair, and had done a simple charm to them (Lily's job), to kick out anyone that wasn't them self. Lily took the red Gryffindor chair, Hannah the blue Ravenclaw one, Katie had the yellow Hufflepuff chair, and Allison agreed on the green Slytherin chair, despite how disgusted she was about it. Within fifteen minutes, Hannah had finished her essay, and told the other two that she was going to get some books on hexes from the library, for them to study from. Ten minutes later, Hannah returned with three books on hexes, just as Allison and Hannah were finished.
"Hey, I'm back!" Hannah exclaimed entering.
"Yes! Hexes! Now for the fun part of the day!" Allison said, a little too enthusiastically.
"OOO! Can I go get them today?" Katie asked with wide eyes.
"Sure, have fun." Hannah said.
They both watched as Katie walked over to the bare wall to the left of the fireplace, and taped the discolored brick three times. The wall flashed white, and Katie walked through it. Only about five minutes later, she came out pushing a large cage of dogs on a cart.
"Alright. We're braking out the big animals for today!" Hannah loved cats, but also loved using the dogs for the hexes, so she had a big smile as she spoke.
"Good choice Katie. I probably would have chosen the turtles for today, but dogs work." Allison said. "Let's get started, shall we?"
For the next hour they, practiced learning various new hexes on the dogs. When the hour was up, Katie returned them, and then also returned the wall to its solid state, before packing up her things. Hannah put the hex books back on their correct shelves, while Allison sealed the door, and they all progressed to the common room.
Once they entered the common room (willow) they found Remus asleep on the couch.
"You think we should wake him?" Hannah asked. "Although he is kinda cute sleeping."
"Nope. I've got a better idea." Allison said with an evil grin. "How about we crowd around him like so." And with that, Allison hopped onto the back of the couch, and hovered over him, almost laughing her head off.
"Oh! So when he wakes up we scare the pans off him!" Katie sat on the edge of the couch by his knees, looking like she was about to jump up and down.
"Plain. I know. But think of his face!" Allison said, grinning.
Hannah was trying to keep from laughing as she placed herself on the floor in front of his face, and placed her own face inches from his, staring at him.
The three of them sat there, barely moving, for fifteen minutes, when Remus started to move. The rest of the Gryffindors had started returning from dinner. James, Lily, and Sirius were among them. Everyone started crowding around the sofa with the four friends, wondering what was going on, and Sirius tapped Allison on the shoulder.
"Don't ruin it Sirius." Allison said, turning back to Remus.
"What are you doing?" He asked her.
"Shh! Just watch and learn." she said with a visible grin.
They didn't have to wait long before.
"BLOODY HELL!" Remus shouted, and he bolted straight up at seeing eyes three inches away from his face.
The whole common room burst out laughing when this happened. Allison had rolled off the back of the couch onto Sirius who had collapsed from laughing, the minute Remus shouted. Katie leaned backwards laughing, while Hannah fell forward and laughed into the seat of the couch. James and Lily were clinging to each other for support, and the rest of Gryffindor tower was somewhat like one of them.
"What in the world gave you the idea to give me a heart attack!" Remus shouted after a good five minutes.
Hannah managed to point over at Allison in the process of laughing the answer. "A-A's I-I-I-IDE-IDEA!"
When Remus turned on Allison she just ran up the dormitory stairs and shouted, "nine-o-clock Remus!" before closing the door.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going upstairs. See you guys later." He waved to his other five friends before leaving the common room, looking and sounding irritated.
By now James and Lily had recovered, and were attempting to drag a laughing Sirius off to their second half of detention. Katie and Hannah said good-bye to them and then head up to their dormitories as well.