Hey! I wanted to thank those people who reviewed a million times over! I'm kinda tired because I just spent 2 days in a cave, but it was really cool. Moving on, I noticed that I had 2 questions and I am willing to answer them. The first answer is to Scarlett*Eye's question about why Lily, Narcissa, and Minerva regard each other with names like foster-daughter and sister. Well, usually when they do that they're in Avalon. There, every priestess is a sister to one another and so that is why Lily and Narcissa call each other that. Minerva calls them foster-daughters in Avalon because they really are. The other, from Krum-luver, was is Minerva the one we all know, and yes it is. Well, this isn't going to be too exciting but a lot of things will be revealed in here that will make sense in the future…and we also jump about 6 years. Read, Review, and Be Merry!
Useless Information: It's time for a quote! Yay! Well, Krum-luver actually gave me this idea… "Bloody hell, I'm Quidditch captain and…man I look good." -Rupert Grint a.k.a. Ron Weasly
Disclaimer: I'm very sorry to say that I don't own one bit of this other than the 25+ Mary Sues that I made up for this chapter alone. All the actual good parts belong to J.K. Rowling and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
If Time is All We've Lost
Chapter 3 - Aged Orange
'Woke up on the wrong side of the bed,
the wrong side of the room,
the wrong side of the world.'
- A really good singer who gets all the credit
Minerva left England with a lot on her mind. In one week she'd be back teaching at Hogwarts. But then there was that ever haunting idea of what Voldemort was plotting in his mind. The imprisoning of two of her most beloved priestesses and the hope that they alone would continue the line and make sure that whatever happened with Voldemort, Avalon would stay.
As soon as they arrived in Avalon, Minerva called Lily and Narcissa to her. They would be taking the train to Hogwarts so that they wouldn't be under suspicion with their fellow classmates. Maline would be taking them. Minerva knew now that she, and she alone, would decide when to let Lily and Narcissa reveal their true selves. Avalon priestesses were usually persecuted, but since Lily and Narcissa were also muggle-born, they would be under even more if they were found out too quickly.
She told the girls how to get on the train, and then, after hugs and kisses, Minerva left. Lily and Narcissa were both bright and far ahead of the usual priestess, so Minerva had really no fear that they were not going to succeed.
Lily and Narcissa left a week later, their trunks burdened with the weight of their books and robes, with Maline. Maline saw them safely to the station, then left.
Lily and Narcissa were about halfway to the platform when they met someone about their age. He had fair, light brown hair, and blue sparkling eyes like Narcissa's. But, unlike Narcissa, his eyes had dark circles under them and he seemed to have a lot of scratches on his face and what looked like bite marks on his lower left arm. Lily and Narcissa assumed that he was also going to Hogwarts because of his heavy trunk. By the way he was looking at them, he had the same idea. He was apparently alone, there was no sign of any parents or anything like that. He smiled at them and Lily, being talkative and super-friendly, took this chance to make a new friend.
"Hi!" she said to him. "My name's Lily Evans, and this is my twin sister, Narcissa."
"Hello," he said, looking directly in her excited eyes. "My name is Remus Lupin. I'm going to Hogwarts too. Unfortunately, my dad didn't tell me how to get to the platform."
"That's okay, we do," said Narcissa a little shyishly. "You just walk straight between the barriers between platforms 9 and 10."
"I'll go first!" said Lily, and she wheeled her trunk around and she took a deep breath. "Here I go."
Remus and Narcissa stared as she took off at a run towards the wall. They closed their eyes shut tight just as Lily's cart reached the brick. Remus wrenched his eyes open first and looked around.
"She did it!" he said wildly. "Well, that leaves us. You can go ahead."
Narcissa took off like Lily did and at the exact moment where she was to hit a wall, she found herself on the platform, the steam billowing from the train. A few moments later, Remus appeared, gaping at the scene as she had done.
"Narcissa! Remus!" Lily was hanging out of a train window. "Come on the train! I've found a compartment full of first years!" And she disappeared back inside the compartment.
The other two looked at each other for a split second, and then both crammed into the train. Inside what looked like the smallest part of the train, they found Lily. She was in a room with about 10 people in it. Everyone was crammed into a seat and most were talking to another. They all looked up when two more joined their number. A boy next to Lily took this chance to speak. "Well, since we can't cram anyone else in here, we need to get aquatinted with one another. So, we'll go around in a circle and when it gets to you say your full name, your parentage, and just to mix it up, what you're allergic to, magical or non-magical. I'll start. My name is Ethan Corput, I'm a Muggle-born, and I am allergic to nothing."
While everyone else listened intently, Lily took notice that Narcissa was going to be last and that Ethan had fairer hair than even Remus with bright silver eyes. Ethan also had a thick Irish accent.
Next was a girl that only Lily noticed. It was Arabella Figg, Minue's daughter. She looked a lot like Minue herself, with her brown hair and almost royal purple eyes. "Alloa everyone! My name is Arabella Figg, I'm half and half, and I'm allergic to fresh pickled toad livers. Not exactly a bad thing is it?" And she sat down smiling broadly, amid the 'bluaahhh's and laughs from everyone else. Lily and Narcissa both knew right then that there was no question; she was going to be one of their new friends.
After that, a black girl with amazing ebony eyes stood up and started to introduce herself. "My name is Tanwen Morten, both my parents are magical, and I'm allergic to Floo Powder." She sat down and waited for the person beside her to stand up.
"Irene Wilson, witch and wizard, and I'm deadly allergic to nothing." The girl with brown hair and blue eyes sat down to warm laughs. The next kid was already standing up.
"My name is Raquel Linen, I'm half and half, I'm allergic to all poisons, and I CAN'T WAIT 'TILL WE GET TO HOGWARTS!!!" her echo traveled through the whole train and everyone in their compartment either clapped or cheered for the almost Narcissa look alike. Raquel took a bow and sat down. Everyone was looking at the next person apprehensively.
"I'm called Ana Zymmer, I'm Muggle-born, and I break out in hives if I come in contact with knotgrass."
She had light brown hair and lively, cinnamon eyes. The next was Remus.
"My name is Remus Lupin, I'm a halfie, and I'm allergic to wolf bane." He said it so seriously that people actually awed quietly. Another girl stood up, this time with deep brown, almost midnight hair and these hazel eyes that seemed to change color in every light.
"My name is Soroya Ames, my mother is a witch from Iran and my father is a wizard from Amsterdam, and I'm allergic to nothing on the face of the planet we call Earth!" Next was the last boy, a black boy with light green eyes.
"My name is Quincy Roberts, I'm muggle-born, and I'm allergic to fluxweed." He said quickly and the next person was forced upward. She had strawberry blond hair and peridot-looking eyes.
"Ruth Mascen's the name, half is the parentage, witch mother, and hot salamander hearts is the allergy." A couple of grossed out looks followed that and then Lily stood up and cleared her throat.
"My name is Lily Evans, I'm a muggle-born, and I'm allergic to nothing, well except maybe annoying, egotistical brats."
"Well, you might not like James Potter then. Grew up in one of the richest wizarding families there is. That boy is so caught up in Quidditch, it's sick." Said Tanwen warningly. Lily remembered the name, sat down, and let Narcissa go.
"My name is Narcissa Evans, I'm a mu…g…g……l…" and with that Narcissa dropped into a deep trance-like state.
~Narcissa's Sight~
I'm in a large room with four long tables. I'm sitting at the one in the far left corner, talking to Lily, when a person comes up and the hat thing goes as if it's being forced to say something, I can't hear…it said Gryf…Gryffin…dor, I can't see, there's some dark shape shooting something at another…it's all fading…oh, no…
~Back in the Compartment~
"Narcissa!" Lily was saying fearfully. "Narcissa, please, leave it alone." Hardly anyone new what she was really talking about. Lily knew at once it was the sight, but so did Remus, Arabella, and Ana. Remus's father had seen plenty of Sight cases because he worked at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies. Arabella's mother is a full priestess of Avalon and Ana spent a year on Avalon with her uncle.
"Wha…What happened?" Narcissa finally said, opening and closing her eyes. Then she suddenly noticed Lily. "Lily," she whispered, "Lily, there's going to be some kind of sabotage done to the sorting hat. Someone's going to be put in Gryffindor with out the hat's true approval."
Lily gaped at her sister, who was know being swept back into the conversation. Lily decided right then and there than she was going to talk to Minerva as soon as they got to school.
The train finally slowed at the Hogsmeade station. They all finally stretched their legs and got off the locomotive. They followed Hagrid to the boats and the fleet took off with really nothing exciting happening.
In the entrance hall they were introduced to the school by Minerva. Lily and Narcissa never found out how they ever got used to calling her Professor McGonagall when they had called her Minerva or foster-mother for almost a decade. They walked into the Great Hall to stares and a couple of excited whispers.
Professor McGonagall brought out the hat on the stool, it opened it's brimmed mouth, and began to sing.
As a young hat
I was proud to
be seen around
intelligent youth.
But soon I was turned
into something much more
and filled to the brim
with gifts galore.
I was chosen to
select the house for each
of those who came to learn
their dreams within their reach
By looking deep into
the young and energetic mind
I could tell where they
could locate their kind.
Slytherin made me notice
those who were bound to succeed
those with ambition to find their way
breaking rules if they need
Hufflepuff sent me to find
the once loyal to their very ends
Hard-working and fearless
happiest with friends
Ravenclaw challenged me to uncover
those with quick minds and wit
with cleverness and a willingness to learn
always anxious to put in their bit.
And Gryffindor wanted me to remember
those bold and brave
those who are always ready to go
and those most unafraid.
And as they parted
away from this world
I was put in their place
to pick the boys and girls
And so it has been for
more than a thousand years
for I have correctly placed every time
and calmed many fears
I know where you'll do best
it's all inside your brain
So put me in and then I'll see
where you ought to remain.
Everyone burst into applause as the hat finished it's song and bowed deeply to each of the four house tables and then Professor McGonagall started to call names.
"Ames, Soroya."
Soroya hurried to the stool and place the hat on her head. After a minute…
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Soroya ran off to the farthest table on the left among the cheering and polite clapping.
"Avery, Glorois"
"SLYTHERIN!"
The table farthest on the right applauded this time as the boy staggered forward.
"Badon, George"
"RAVENCLAW!"
The table second on the left cheered and welcomed their newest classmate to the table.
"Black, Sirius"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Brice, Marion"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Boyen, Penny"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Finally, the table second on the right had something to cheer about as Penny Boyen joined the table.
"Chulice, Sergio"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Corput, Ethan"
"RAVENCLAW!"
And finally, "Evans, Lily"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Then, "Evans, Narcissa"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Figg, Arabella"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
When Arabella joined the table, it became evident that some of the other tables thought something had jinxed the sorting hat.
"Flaggins, Daniel"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Fletcher, Mundungus"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Gudgeon, David"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Jacks, Kaysen"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Linen, Raquel"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
No doubt by now almost everyone thought something was up.
"Ludlow, Thomas"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Lupin, Remus"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Lestranges, Lankin"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Malfoy, Lucius"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Mascen, Ruth"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Miles, Charles"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Mondin, Howard"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Morten, Tanwen"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Olarius, Daphne"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Otes, Marvin"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Pettigrew, Peter"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
When the Peter boy was sorted, Narcissa felt a tingling on the back of her neck as though her mind was trying to tell her something, but she put it in the back of her mind.
"Potter, James"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily had been waiting to see who Tanwen had been talking about. James Potter had blazing blue eyes with glasses. He also had back hair and was quite tall, but Lily didn't really care.
"Roberts, Quincy"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Rosier, Alice"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Snape, Severus"
"SLYTHERIN!"
Both Lily and Narcissa saw many of the people in Gryffindor snicker at the boy's name.
"Ussen, Julie"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Veniro, Fira"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Verdon, Brian"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Wilkes, Luke"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Wilson, Irene"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Witten, Olivia"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Zymmer, Ana"
"RAVENCLAW!"
Professor McGonagall picked up the stool and the hat and took them to a tiny room off the teachers' table. She returned in a few minutes and then Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome, to yet another year of learning and guidance, with, as always, a few mysteries on the end. We have a new caretaker, Argus Filch, and on that note of happiness for some," Dumbledore seemed to smile at James and Sirius after that statement. "And meaning nothing to the rest. So now, without further adieu, FOOD!"
The delicious heaps of food appeared on every sing table. People were scrambling to get steaks and corn and pretty much everything else. Lily and Narcissa had made fast friends with the other 1st year girls. Raquel was a very fast thinker and couldn't believe that she wasn't put in Ravenclaw, but was happy all the same with Gryffindor.
For Soroya, it was more surprising to get presents on her birthday than get into Gryffindor. It turned out pretty much all of her family that had attended Hogwarts had ended up in Gryffindor.
Arabella, as it turned out, didn't now she or her mother were witches but was so excited when she found out. Everything about being a witch was totally and fully new to her.
Lily and Narcissa knew they couldn't give much information about their real lives right then. Minerva, or Professor McGonagall, would give them the appropriate time. They said they had grown up in rural England and had no idea whatsoever of witches or wizards until they got their letters.
Remus had made fast friends with James Potter and Sirius Black. They all seemed to have one thing in common; the love of Quidditch. James was telling a very fictional story about how he had accidentally caught the Snitch in the last Quidditch final, Uganda vs. Puddlemore United, when Raquel leaned across the table to talk to the girls.
"I've heard he can't keep his mouth shut for one minute," Raquel threw a despising glance at James. "I don't think his head could get any bigger."
The girls giggled to themselves and then Soroya spoke up. "And that Sirius Black, there's no way you could separate the two. They both hate that greasy-haired kid, Snape I think it was, anyways they're either fighting or their planning their next attack on the Slytherins."
Lily took this time to glance at the Slytherin table. From what she saw, they needed to have more pranks pulled on them, they were all surly and glum, certainly not the people that looked like they wanted to go here.
After all the food was cleared away, Dumbledore dismissed the tables and all the first years followed a sixth year prefect. As they approached the Fat Lady he said.
"Now, I don't want to be hearing that anyone has forgotten the password. It's Zinger. Everyone got that?"
Everyone either nodded or said "Yeah".
"Good," he said. "Now the girls will go with Elizabeth to find their dormitories and the boys will go with me."
After their small tour of the Gryffindor tower, all the first years settled back into the common room. Since it was a Saturday, all of them chose to stay up late, just for it being the first day at Hogwarts. The boys were yet again listening to another of James' fableistic tales of flying and the girls really weren't doing anything. Lily decided to break the sphere of silence.
"Anyone up for a good story?" Lily asked the others jovially.
'Oh no,' thought Narcissa. 'Here she goes with The Mists of Avalon. Oh well, it's been worse.'
"Sure" and "Why not?" came from the other girls' voices and Lily ran up to their room. She hurried back down, carrying a huge volume in her hands.
"We won't be reading all of this," she added hastily as she noticed the glazed looks on their faces. Lily was flipping through pages, hundreds at a time. "We're just going to read one of my favorite parts, when Morgaine has Mordred."
"Who's Mordred?" came Raquel's excited voice.
"And Morgaine?" chirped up Soroya.
Even as Lily explained who the people were, Narcissa never even wavered from her sister's explanation. Lily was a very good and dramatic speaker.
~Same scene, only six years later~
Lily had just started on the part where Morgause fought with Lot. Ever since first year, the girls in Lily had begged her to read it on their first night at the castle. The story was ageless and it sounded different every time Lily told it. Since first year, nothing had really happened. Lily and Narcissa went to Avalon for the summer, well this summer had been a bit exciting. Both Lily and Narcissa had gotten their blue crescent scars at their hair-lines last summer, but Minerva had not told to reveal themselves yet, so they hid them with their bangs.
Narcissa was really pretty and had tons admirers, including the one of the most popular boys in school, Sergio Chulice. Lily, on the other hand, was equally beautiful, but she also had this razor sharp wit that made everyone, including teachers, just be awed by her. Well, almost everyone. James Potter didn't exactly agree.
When Lily and Narcissa had been initiated as priestesses, Minerva had given them gifts. Narcissa had received Kevin the Bard's harp because she has never lost her love for the instrument. And Lily had gotten Igraine's moonstone necklace, which cast something like a charm on men. For some unknown reason, the only person that the necklace hadn't really worked on was James Potter. It even had Gus (Mundungus), Remus, and Sirius stare. But, as Lily always did, she found a way to insult him; she took this as a sign that he was less than a real man. Although, this wasn't true; Lily and James just hated each other to death. James was very well built and he was one of the best seekers Hogwarts had seen in about two decades. But, the girls always swooned over Sirius because he was tall and dark; the perfect man to many. The number of his admirers were only beaten by the number of Sergio's. Sergio was an excellent chaser, but didn't have a good mind. He always tried to hit on Lily in the library, but she always insulted him with big words that he had to use a dictionary to figure out. Just the basic dumb jock.
Lily, Narcissa, Arabella, Raquel, and Soroya were known best for their pranks. They knew how to form them and execute them almost as well as the Marauder's did. But, everyone needed to watch out when the two groups collaborated. Last time that happened, Snape had almost been killed by Remus, who, everyone in 7th year knew, was a werewolf. They didn't really care.
Minerva informed Lily at the end of her stay at Avalon for the summer that Lily needed to take fencing lessons from someone because it was written, by Morgaine, that the Dark One would challenge the Light with swords. Lily was lucky enough to find out that Remus was a superb fencer and that he was more than willing to give her lessons. So every Tuesday and Thursday night, Lily and Remus practiced, unless there was a full moon. Lily only allowed her closest friends to know that she was a priestess of Avalon. That meant everyone in her year except James. They all did fairly well in keeping the secret away from James and the rest. Unfortunately, with the fencing lessons also came the news that she couldn't visit Hogsmeade for another year. This really wasn't bad, Lily had never been to Hogsmeade, she was told be Minerva in third year that she had to stay in the castle for her own safety. Lily had even shook of Sirius's offer to sneak her out.
Lily took a breath as she halted about half way through a sentence. That was when she noticed that not only the girls were listening, but almost everyone in the common room.
She started the next line when someone yanked the book out of her hands. He turned the book over to look at the cover.
"Don't do that," Lily protested. "You'll lose my place!"
"Who would be dumb enough to read a book where women rule the land?" James snickered, even though everyone looked up at him in anger.
A/N: Okay, I'm stopping there. Like I said, this wasn't a real eventful chapter. Sorry for the delay but I hope the length will make up for it. Let's see…ice cream scoopers in the shape of stars and Little River Band's 'Reminiscing' to all my reviewers. I just love y'all. And if you too would like to fell like you get odd, crazy items just review! Thanks, Epequa ;)
Useless Information: It's time for a quote! Yay! Well, Krum-luver actually gave me this idea… "Bloody hell, I'm Quidditch captain and…man I look good." -Rupert Grint a.k.a. Ron Weasly
Disclaimer: I'm very sorry to say that I don't own one bit of this other than the 25+ Mary Sues that I made up for this chapter alone. All the actual good parts belong to J.K. Rowling and Marion Zimmer Bradley.
If Time is All We've Lost
Chapter 3 - Aged Orange
'Woke up on the wrong side of the bed,
the wrong side of the room,
the wrong side of the world.'
- A really good singer who gets all the credit
Minerva left England with a lot on her mind. In one week she'd be back teaching at Hogwarts. But then there was that ever haunting idea of what Voldemort was plotting in his mind. The imprisoning of two of her most beloved priestesses and the hope that they alone would continue the line and make sure that whatever happened with Voldemort, Avalon would stay.
As soon as they arrived in Avalon, Minerva called Lily and Narcissa to her. They would be taking the train to Hogwarts so that they wouldn't be under suspicion with their fellow classmates. Maline would be taking them. Minerva knew now that she, and she alone, would decide when to let Lily and Narcissa reveal their true selves. Avalon priestesses were usually persecuted, but since Lily and Narcissa were also muggle-born, they would be under even more if they were found out too quickly.
She told the girls how to get on the train, and then, after hugs and kisses, Minerva left. Lily and Narcissa were both bright and far ahead of the usual priestess, so Minerva had really no fear that they were not going to succeed.
Lily and Narcissa left a week later, their trunks burdened with the weight of their books and robes, with Maline. Maline saw them safely to the station, then left.
Lily and Narcissa were about halfway to the platform when they met someone about their age. He had fair, light brown hair, and blue sparkling eyes like Narcissa's. But, unlike Narcissa, his eyes had dark circles under them and he seemed to have a lot of scratches on his face and what looked like bite marks on his lower left arm. Lily and Narcissa assumed that he was also going to Hogwarts because of his heavy trunk. By the way he was looking at them, he had the same idea. He was apparently alone, there was no sign of any parents or anything like that. He smiled at them and Lily, being talkative and super-friendly, took this chance to make a new friend.
"Hi!" she said to him. "My name's Lily Evans, and this is my twin sister, Narcissa."
"Hello," he said, looking directly in her excited eyes. "My name is Remus Lupin. I'm going to Hogwarts too. Unfortunately, my dad didn't tell me how to get to the platform."
"That's okay, we do," said Narcissa a little shyishly. "You just walk straight between the barriers between platforms 9 and 10."
"I'll go first!" said Lily, and she wheeled her trunk around and she took a deep breath. "Here I go."
Remus and Narcissa stared as she took off at a run towards the wall. They closed their eyes shut tight just as Lily's cart reached the brick. Remus wrenched his eyes open first and looked around.
"She did it!" he said wildly. "Well, that leaves us. You can go ahead."
Narcissa took off like Lily did and at the exact moment where she was to hit a wall, she found herself on the platform, the steam billowing from the train. A few moments later, Remus appeared, gaping at the scene as she had done.
"Narcissa! Remus!" Lily was hanging out of a train window. "Come on the train! I've found a compartment full of first years!" And she disappeared back inside the compartment.
The other two looked at each other for a split second, and then both crammed into the train. Inside what looked like the smallest part of the train, they found Lily. She was in a room with about 10 people in it. Everyone was crammed into a seat and most were talking to another. They all looked up when two more joined their number. A boy next to Lily took this chance to speak. "Well, since we can't cram anyone else in here, we need to get aquatinted with one another. So, we'll go around in a circle and when it gets to you say your full name, your parentage, and just to mix it up, what you're allergic to, magical or non-magical. I'll start. My name is Ethan Corput, I'm a Muggle-born, and I am allergic to nothing."
While everyone else listened intently, Lily took notice that Narcissa was going to be last and that Ethan had fairer hair than even Remus with bright silver eyes. Ethan also had a thick Irish accent.
Next was a girl that only Lily noticed. It was Arabella Figg, Minue's daughter. She looked a lot like Minue herself, with her brown hair and almost royal purple eyes. "Alloa everyone! My name is Arabella Figg, I'm half and half, and I'm allergic to fresh pickled toad livers. Not exactly a bad thing is it?" And she sat down smiling broadly, amid the 'bluaahhh's and laughs from everyone else. Lily and Narcissa both knew right then that there was no question; she was going to be one of their new friends.
After that, a black girl with amazing ebony eyes stood up and started to introduce herself. "My name is Tanwen Morten, both my parents are magical, and I'm allergic to Floo Powder." She sat down and waited for the person beside her to stand up.
"Irene Wilson, witch and wizard, and I'm deadly allergic to nothing." The girl with brown hair and blue eyes sat down to warm laughs. The next kid was already standing up.
"My name is Raquel Linen, I'm half and half, I'm allergic to all poisons, and I CAN'T WAIT 'TILL WE GET TO HOGWARTS!!!" her echo traveled through the whole train and everyone in their compartment either clapped or cheered for the almost Narcissa look alike. Raquel took a bow and sat down. Everyone was looking at the next person apprehensively.
"I'm called Ana Zymmer, I'm Muggle-born, and I break out in hives if I come in contact with knotgrass."
She had light brown hair and lively, cinnamon eyes. The next was Remus.
"My name is Remus Lupin, I'm a halfie, and I'm allergic to wolf bane." He said it so seriously that people actually awed quietly. Another girl stood up, this time with deep brown, almost midnight hair and these hazel eyes that seemed to change color in every light.
"My name is Soroya Ames, my mother is a witch from Iran and my father is a wizard from Amsterdam, and I'm allergic to nothing on the face of the planet we call Earth!" Next was the last boy, a black boy with light green eyes.
"My name is Quincy Roberts, I'm muggle-born, and I'm allergic to fluxweed." He said quickly and the next person was forced upward. She had strawberry blond hair and peridot-looking eyes.
"Ruth Mascen's the name, half is the parentage, witch mother, and hot salamander hearts is the allergy." A couple of grossed out looks followed that and then Lily stood up and cleared her throat.
"My name is Lily Evans, I'm a muggle-born, and I'm allergic to nothing, well except maybe annoying, egotistical brats."
"Well, you might not like James Potter then. Grew up in one of the richest wizarding families there is. That boy is so caught up in Quidditch, it's sick." Said Tanwen warningly. Lily remembered the name, sat down, and let Narcissa go.
"My name is Narcissa Evans, I'm a mu…g…g……l…" and with that Narcissa dropped into a deep trance-like state.
~Narcissa's Sight~
I'm in a large room with four long tables. I'm sitting at the one in the far left corner, talking to Lily, when a person comes up and the hat thing goes as if it's being forced to say something, I can't hear…it said Gryf…Gryffin…dor, I can't see, there's some dark shape shooting something at another…it's all fading…oh, no…
~Back in the Compartment~
"Narcissa!" Lily was saying fearfully. "Narcissa, please, leave it alone." Hardly anyone new what she was really talking about. Lily knew at once it was the sight, but so did Remus, Arabella, and Ana. Remus's father had seen plenty of Sight cases because he worked at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies. Arabella's mother is a full priestess of Avalon and Ana spent a year on Avalon with her uncle.
"Wha…What happened?" Narcissa finally said, opening and closing her eyes. Then she suddenly noticed Lily. "Lily," she whispered, "Lily, there's going to be some kind of sabotage done to the sorting hat. Someone's going to be put in Gryffindor with out the hat's true approval."
Lily gaped at her sister, who was know being swept back into the conversation. Lily decided right then and there than she was going to talk to Minerva as soon as they got to school.
The train finally slowed at the Hogsmeade station. They all finally stretched their legs and got off the locomotive. They followed Hagrid to the boats and the fleet took off with really nothing exciting happening.
In the entrance hall they were introduced to the school by Minerva. Lily and Narcissa never found out how they ever got used to calling her Professor McGonagall when they had called her Minerva or foster-mother for almost a decade. They walked into the Great Hall to stares and a couple of excited whispers.
Professor McGonagall brought out the hat on the stool, it opened it's brimmed mouth, and began to sing.
As a young hat
I was proud to
be seen around
intelligent youth.
But soon I was turned
into something much more
and filled to the brim
with gifts galore.
I was chosen to
select the house for each
of those who came to learn
their dreams within their reach
By looking deep into
the young and energetic mind
I could tell where they
could locate their kind.
Slytherin made me notice
those who were bound to succeed
those with ambition to find their way
breaking rules if they need
Hufflepuff sent me to find
the once loyal to their very ends
Hard-working and fearless
happiest with friends
Ravenclaw challenged me to uncover
those with quick minds and wit
with cleverness and a willingness to learn
always anxious to put in their bit.
And Gryffindor wanted me to remember
those bold and brave
those who are always ready to go
and those most unafraid.
And as they parted
away from this world
I was put in their place
to pick the boys and girls
And so it has been for
more than a thousand years
for I have correctly placed every time
and calmed many fears
I know where you'll do best
it's all inside your brain
So put me in and then I'll see
where you ought to remain.
Everyone burst into applause as the hat finished it's song and bowed deeply to each of the four house tables and then Professor McGonagall started to call names.
"Ames, Soroya."
Soroya hurried to the stool and place the hat on her head. After a minute…
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Soroya ran off to the farthest table on the left among the cheering and polite clapping.
"Avery, Glorois"
"SLYTHERIN!"
The table farthest on the right applauded this time as the boy staggered forward.
"Badon, George"
"RAVENCLAW!"
The table second on the left cheered and welcomed their newest classmate to the table.
"Black, Sirius"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Brice, Marion"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Boyen, Penny"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Finally, the table second on the right had something to cheer about as Penny Boyen joined the table.
"Chulice, Sergio"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Corput, Ethan"
"RAVENCLAW!"
And finally, "Evans, Lily"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Then, "Evans, Narcissa"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Figg, Arabella"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
When Arabella joined the table, it became evident that some of the other tables thought something had jinxed the sorting hat.
"Flaggins, Daniel"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Fletcher, Mundungus"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Gudgeon, David"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Jacks, Kaysen"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Linen, Raquel"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
No doubt by now almost everyone thought something was up.
"Ludlow, Thomas"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Lupin, Remus"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Lestranges, Lankin"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Malfoy, Lucius"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Mascen, Ruth"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Miles, Charles"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Mondin, Howard"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Morten, Tanwen"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Olarius, Daphne"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Otes, Marvin"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Pettigrew, Peter"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
When the Peter boy was sorted, Narcissa felt a tingling on the back of her neck as though her mind was trying to tell her something, but she put it in the back of her mind.
"Potter, James"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily had been waiting to see who Tanwen had been talking about. James Potter had blazing blue eyes with glasses. He also had back hair and was quite tall, but Lily didn't really care.
"Roberts, Quincy"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Rosier, Alice"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Snape, Severus"
"SLYTHERIN!"
Both Lily and Narcissa saw many of the people in Gryffindor snicker at the boy's name.
"Ussen, Julie"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Veniro, Fira"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Verdon, Brian"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Wilkes, Luke"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Wilson, Irene"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Witten, Olivia"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Zymmer, Ana"
"RAVENCLAW!"
Professor McGonagall picked up the stool and the hat and took them to a tiny room off the teachers' table. She returned in a few minutes and then Dumbledore stood up.
"Welcome, to yet another year of learning and guidance, with, as always, a few mysteries on the end. We have a new caretaker, Argus Filch, and on that note of happiness for some," Dumbledore seemed to smile at James and Sirius after that statement. "And meaning nothing to the rest. So now, without further adieu, FOOD!"
The delicious heaps of food appeared on every sing table. People were scrambling to get steaks and corn and pretty much everything else. Lily and Narcissa had made fast friends with the other 1st year girls. Raquel was a very fast thinker and couldn't believe that she wasn't put in Ravenclaw, but was happy all the same with Gryffindor.
For Soroya, it was more surprising to get presents on her birthday than get into Gryffindor. It turned out pretty much all of her family that had attended Hogwarts had ended up in Gryffindor.
Arabella, as it turned out, didn't now she or her mother were witches but was so excited when she found out. Everything about being a witch was totally and fully new to her.
Lily and Narcissa knew they couldn't give much information about their real lives right then. Minerva, or Professor McGonagall, would give them the appropriate time. They said they had grown up in rural England and had no idea whatsoever of witches or wizards until they got their letters.
Remus had made fast friends with James Potter and Sirius Black. They all seemed to have one thing in common; the love of Quidditch. James was telling a very fictional story about how he had accidentally caught the Snitch in the last Quidditch final, Uganda vs. Puddlemore United, when Raquel leaned across the table to talk to the girls.
"I've heard he can't keep his mouth shut for one minute," Raquel threw a despising glance at James. "I don't think his head could get any bigger."
The girls giggled to themselves and then Soroya spoke up. "And that Sirius Black, there's no way you could separate the two. They both hate that greasy-haired kid, Snape I think it was, anyways they're either fighting or their planning their next attack on the Slytherins."
Lily took this time to glance at the Slytherin table. From what she saw, they needed to have more pranks pulled on them, they were all surly and glum, certainly not the people that looked like they wanted to go here.
After all the food was cleared away, Dumbledore dismissed the tables and all the first years followed a sixth year prefect. As they approached the Fat Lady he said.
"Now, I don't want to be hearing that anyone has forgotten the password. It's Zinger. Everyone got that?"
Everyone either nodded or said "Yeah".
"Good," he said. "Now the girls will go with Elizabeth to find their dormitories and the boys will go with me."
After their small tour of the Gryffindor tower, all the first years settled back into the common room. Since it was a Saturday, all of them chose to stay up late, just for it being the first day at Hogwarts. The boys were yet again listening to another of James' fableistic tales of flying and the girls really weren't doing anything. Lily decided to break the sphere of silence.
"Anyone up for a good story?" Lily asked the others jovially.
'Oh no,' thought Narcissa. 'Here she goes with The Mists of Avalon. Oh well, it's been worse.'
"Sure" and "Why not?" came from the other girls' voices and Lily ran up to their room. She hurried back down, carrying a huge volume in her hands.
"We won't be reading all of this," she added hastily as she noticed the glazed looks on their faces. Lily was flipping through pages, hundreds at a time. "We're just going to read one of my favorite parts, when Morgaine has Mordred."
"Who's Mordred?" came Raquel's excited voice.
"And Morgaine?" chirped up Soroya.
Even as Lily explained who the people were, Narcissa never even wavered from her sister's explanation. Lily was a very good and dramatic speaker.
~Same scene, only six years later~
Lily had just started on the part where Morgause fought with Lot. Ever since first year, the girls in Lily had begged her to read it on their first night at the castle. The story was ageless and it sounded different every time Lily told it. Since first year, nothing had really happened. Lily and Narcissa went to Avalon for the summer, well this summer had been a bit exciting. Both Lily and Narcissa had gotten their blue crescent scars at their hair-lines last summer, but Minerva had not told to reveal themselves yet, so they hid them with their bangs.
Narcissa was really pretty and had tons admirers, including the one of the most popular boys in school, Sergio Chulice. Lily, on the other hand, was equally beautiful, but she also had this razor sharp wit that made everyone, including teachers, just be awed by her. Well, almost everyone. James Potter didn't exactly agree.
When Lily and Narcissa had been initiated as priestesses, Minerva had given them gifts. Narcissa had received Kevin the Bard's harp because she has never lost her love for the instrument. And Lily had gotten Igraine's moonstone necklace, which cast something like a charm on men. For some unknown reason, the only person that the necklace hadn't really worked on was James Potter. It even had Gus (Mundungus), Remus, and Sirius stare. But, as Lily always did, she found a way to insult him; she took this as a sign that he was less than a real man. Although, this wasn't true; Lily and James just hated each other to death. James was very well built and he was one of the best seekers Hogwarts had seen in about two decades. But, the girls always swooned over Sirius because he was tall and dark; the perfect man to many. The number of his admirers were only beaten by the number of Sergio's. Sergio was an excellent chaser, but didn't have a good mind. He always tried to hit on Lily in the library, but she always insulted him with big words that he had to use a dictionary to figure out. Just the basic dumb jock.
Lily, Narcissa, Arabella, Raquel, and Soroya were known best for their pranks. They knew how to form them and execute them almost as well as the Marauder's did. But, everyone needed to watch out when the two groups collaborated. Last time that happened, Snape had almost been killed by Remus, who, everyone in 7th year knew, was a werewolf. They didn't really care.
Minerva informed Lily at the end of her stay at Avalon for the summer that Lily needed to take fencing lessons from someone because it was written, by Morgaine, that the Dark One would challenge the Light with swords. Lily was lucky enough to find out that Remus was a superb fencer and that he was more than willing to give her lessons. So every Tuesday and Thursday night, Lily and Remus practiced, unless there was a full moon. Lily only allowed her closest friends to know that she was a priestess of Avalon. That meant everyone in her year except James. They all did fairly well in keeping the secret away from James and the rest. Unfortunately, with the fencing lessons also came the news that she couldn't visit Hogsmeade for another year. This really wasn't bad, Lily had never been to Hogsmeade, she was told be Minerva in third year that she had to stay in the castle for her own safety. Lily had even shook of Sirius's offer to sneak her out.
Lily took a breath as she halted about half way through a sentence. That was when she noticed that not only the girls were listening, but almost everyone in the common room.
She started the next line when someone yanked the book out of her hands. He turned the book over to look at the cover.
"Don't do that," Lily protested. "You'll lose my place!"
"Who would be dumb enough to read a book where women rule the land?" James snickered, even though everyone looked up at him in anger.
A/N: Okay, I'm stopping there. Like I said, this wasn't a real eventful chapter. Sorry for the delay but I hope the length will make up for it. Let's see…ice cream scoopers in the shape of stars and Little River Band's 'Reminiscing' to all my reviewers. I just love y'all. And if you too would like to fell like you get odd, crazy items just review! Thanks, Epequa ;)