High King of Quidditch and Flower of the....Grass
Chapter 1
"So....You're a first year too, aren't you?"
Lily Evans nodded. "Yes. I'm really nervous, I've been worried I'll be really far behind, you know."
Her companion shook her head. "You won't be. We all start from the beginning, as corny as that sounds."
Lily smiled. "Are you from a wizard family?"
The girl nodded. "Yeah, I'm a pureblood. You?"
Lily shrugged. "I don't know."
"How not?"
"I was adopted."
"Oh.... I'm Heidi Addington, by the way."
"Lily Evans."
"Pleasure." Heidi flipped back her long brown hair and nibbled on a green jellybean. "Want some?" she asked, offering the bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans toward her.
"No thanks. D'you know lot's of wizards?"
Heidi nodded. "My dad works at the Ministry of Magic- the government thingy for us wizard people- and he hosts lots of dinner parties. They're really dull until James and Sirius and me pull pranks and get in trouble. That's always fun. Speaking of Sirius and James, I wonder where they are..."
As if on cue, two boys walked in, both with very messy black hair.
"Oy, good timing."
"Superb." the first said.
"Grand."
"Splendid."
"Terrific."
"I see you've discovered the joys of adjectives." Heidi interrupted.
The second boy nodded and sat down next to Heidi, pushing up his glasses that were sliding down his nose.
"Did I say you could sit there?" Heidi asked.
"Aw, Heidi, you're just showing off for your friend."
Heidi rolled her eyes. "Right."
"Are you going to introduce us?" said the boy, who had taken a seat next to Lily.
"No."
"Thanks, Heid."
"Anytime. Lily, these two nutcases are Sirius Black, so called 'Master of Pranks' and James Potter, 'High King of Quidditch.' Dorks, this is Lily Evans."
Sirius grinned at her.
Lily ignored his grin. "What's quidditch?"
James and Sirius stared at her for a moment, eyes wide and mouths gracing the floor. With a quick glance at each other, they both erupted into an explosion of talk.
"Quidditch is only the best-"
"-bestest bestest sport-"
"-in the world! It has-"
"-seven players on each team-"
"-there's four balls, the Quaffle-"
"Shush! You'll scare the poor girl!"
"And your face won't?"
Heidi smacked James.
"OW! Heidi!"
"You deserved it. You were being childish."
"I'm eleven!"
"Point?"
Lily grinned at her new (bickering) friends. Hogwarts wouldn't be as bad as she'd thought it'd be.
*
"Firs' years! O'er 'ere! Firs' years!"
Lily, Heidi, James and Sirius stepped off the train and walked toward the big man.
"Hi!" Sirius said, jumping up and down. "I'm Sirius Black! Where's the school, when do we eat, can I try out for Quidditch, what's the square root of 343?"
James slapped Sirius' back. "Stop."
"Follor me." the man said. "Yeh all can call me Hagrid."
They followed Hagrid to a lake where some small boats were docked.
"Four's ther limit."
The first years looked up at him. Yes, they were very nice boats. So?
"Fer the boats. Yeh gotta get in."
They climbed into the boats, and before they knew it, they were on the other side of the lake and were walking up to the monstrous castle (but not before Lily and Heidi had to hold James and Sirius' arms behind their backs so they wouldn't try to tip the boat over).
"Wow..." Heidi muttered, gazing at the castle.
"We're gonna need a map." James said.
The doors opened and a strict looking witch studied them. "Thank you." she said to Hagrid, who nodded. "Follow me, children."
"How come we're always being told to follow people?" Sirius asked.
"The Sorting shall begin in a few minutes." she said. "I am Professor McGonagall."
"Where's she gone?" Sirius whispered to Lily.
"What?"
"McGONagall."
Lily thunked his head.
McGonagall left them with a stern glare at Sirius, who grinned innocently.
"What a witch!" he siad when she'd disappeared.
A boy nearby with brown hair and brown eyes grinned. "Indeed." he agreed. "I'm Remus Lupin."
"Sirius Black, master of pranks."
"Are you humble as well?" Remus teased.
"I'm the most humble person on the planet!" Sirius said.
McGonagall returned and let them to the stage in the Great Hall. A rickety old stool stood in the center of the stage with an old-looking hat on it (though it was rather clean).
"You're goin' to Hufflepuff, Slytherin,
Ravenclaw or Gryffindor,
So let's get it done and over
Sit down, try me on
And I'll send ya to where you belong." the Hat sang monotonously.
McGonagall stared at the Hat as the whole Hall laughed.
"Must have been the bath we gave it." Dumbledore muttered. "That's the last time we clean it."
McGonagall turned to her scroll. "When I call your name, you are to sit on the stool and you shall be sorted. Addington, Heidi."
Heidi turned a bit green and sat down. A few moments later, the hat shouted out "GRYFFINDOR!" Heidi walked to the Gryffindor table, grinning.
The Sorting commenced and soon it was Lily's turn. Lily sat on the stool, hoping it wouldn't break.
'I know where to put you. 'Course I do, I'm the filthy, stinkin' Sorting Hat! But noooo, they had to go clean me...'
Cheer up, Mr Hat, Lily thought.
'Bah! Let's send you off now! GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily joined Heidi and Sirius at the table and applauded as Remus and Audrey Lupin (twins), Isaac Myers, Casey Neviner, Alexa Ostin, Peter Pettigrew and James were all sorted into Gryffindor.
Dumbledore stood when the last student had ran off to his table. "Welcome to another year! A few announcements before we eat; first is that our dear caretaker, Mr Cadery, has retired. Mr. Argus Filch will be taking his place and has added to the list of forbidden objects. Second, the Forbidden Forest is off limits to all. Thirdly, if you come across anything unusual in your food, pay it no mind, Peeves terrorized the house elves a bit today. That is all."
Lily looked down at her plate curiously.
Audrey Lupin, who was sitting next to Lily, laughed suddenly.
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Troubles?"
Audrey grinned and held up something. "There was chalk in my mashed potatoes."
Sirius looked up. "Let me see it!" he took the chalk from Audrey, sniffed it, and ate it. Audrey's grin faded, Casey paled, Alexa's chicken missed her mouth, Heidi rolled her eyes and Lily stared at Sirius in disgust. Heidi slapped him upside the head.
"You realize you just ate chalk, right?" Audrey asked. Sirius nodded.
"Tasty." he said.
"What was your last name, Heidi?" Casey asked, changing the subject.
"Addington."
"I think I've heard of your dad. He's really important in the ministry, isn't he?"
Heidi shrugged. "I s'pose."
When they were finished, Dumbledore dismissed them and the Gryffindor first years followed a prefect girl named Katie.
"Password is 'hinkeypink.' Boys'dorms are to the left, girls' to the right. Up the stairs for each and you'll see the sign on the door marked 'First Years.' Your things have all ready been brought up." Katie said and went to her dormitory.
Lily, Heidi, Audrey, Casey and Alexa climbed the stairs to their dormitory. Heidi jumped onto her be and fell asleep without changing. Lily grinned and Audrey rolled her eyes, smiling.
"Hogwarts is going to be fun." Lily commented.
Audrey nodded her agreement.
*
Lily awoke the next morning to find all the other girls (except Heidi) up and about.
"Time to get up!" Casey announced loudly to wake Heidi.
"But I don't wanna get up." Heidi muttered sleepily.
"You've fifteen minuted to get ready." Alexa told her.
Heidi glared at her and rolled over...and fell off the bed. The girls laughed. Heidi untangled herself from the blankets, stood up and walked off toward the bathroom, tryinng to maintain a little bit of dignity. Three minutes later, Heidi walked back out of the bathroom, fully dressed and pulling her hair back into a messy ponytail. "Done." she said and fell back onto her bed.
"We'd better go." Casey said.
Audrey pulled Heidi off the bed and the five girls set off for the Great Hall. They then got themselves lost ("Heidi! I told you we shouldn't turn by that portrait!") and walked around the castle in circles for about thirty minutes. Finally, Audrey remembered how to get back.
"Good thin we left early. We've still twenty minutes." Casey said as they walked into the Great Hall.
"You're such a morning person." Alexa said.
Heidi sat down, ignored her breakfast and fell asleep.
"Miss Addington, breakfast is for you to eat, not to sleep on." McGonagall sai, handing out the schedules.
Heidi lifted her head. "I wasn't sleeping on my breakfast!" she protested. McGonagall ignored her and walked away.
"Have a flatcake." Lily said, putting one on her plate. Heidi reached for the syrup and accidently knocked over her pumpkin juice. The juice ran off the side of the table, right onto Heidi's robes. Heidi groaned.
"I HATE mornings." she said, laying her head onto the pumpkin-juice covered table.
*
"I hate transfiguration." Lily said that evening in the Common Room.
Heidi was reading over her Potions book. "I hate Potions." she said.
"We haven't had it yet." Audrey reminded her.
"The book is dumb. I'm starting a petition against dumb books."
"You do that." Lily said.
James and Sirius ran into the Common Room, grinning.
"Oh dear."
"I'm a penguin!" Sirius shouted.
"No, you're an idiot." Heidi said.
"I'm a giraffe." James said.
"That wasn't very nice!"
"What's mean about 'I'm a giraffe?'" James asked.
"Not you!" Sirius said. "Heidi!"
"You're my cousin, I'm obligated to call you names!" Heidi said.
"You two are cousins?" Audrey asked.
"Yes." Heidi said.
"Do penguins have cousins?"
"I don't know."
"Neither do I."
"Good. Anyway, Heidi, you're an ostrich, Lily's a kangaroo and Audrey's a bumblebee." James said.
"Very good James! Now what are some other animals?" Remus asked as he, Isaac and Peter joined the group at the couches.
"Oh, goody!" Sirius said. "Remey is a parakeet, Isaac, you're a puppy, and Peter is a hippopotamus."
"Why does Isaac get the good one?" Petere complained.
"'Cause he's got brown puppy-like eyes!" Isaac blushed.
"Why are we all animals?" Lily asked.
"So we can scare the first years!"
"We ARE the first years."
"Oh..."
"Anybody want to go plant dungbombs at the Slytherin table?" James asked.
All the boys agreed and ran down to the Great Hall. Half an hour later, when Lily, Audrey and Heidi joined them for dinner, the Slytherins were complaining loudly to their Head of House because SOMEONE had planted dungbombs under their table.
The five boys exchanged grins.
*
"We should start a food fight." Sirius said.
"Food fights are boring."
"We could go to the kitchens and put dungbombs in the Slytherins' food." Sirius suggested.
"D'you have some strange obsession with dungbombs?" Isaac asked. Sirius nodded.
*
Lily, Heidi, and Audrey walked into the dormitory that ngith to see Alexa and Casey looking at something. As soon as the three girls entered, however, they hid it.
"What were you looking at?" Audrey asked.
"Nothing that concerns you." Alexa said.
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Right. We just came up to talk."
"We're a little busy right now." Casey said.
"Oh. Continue on. We're just going to finish unpacking." Heidi said.
"I just remembered I forgot something down in the Common Room." Alexa said and she and Casey left.
"That was fun." Audrey commented.
"Loads."
"Weeks passed and the Marauders (as the boys had started calling themselves) pulled many pranks (all of which involved dungbombs and the Slytherins) and they all had received fifteen detentions.
"WHERE'S REMEY?!!!!!" Sirius shouted one day.
"Hospital Wing." Audrey responded.
"We should go visit him." Isaac said.
"NO! I mean-er- well, he doesn't like talking to people much when he's sick. He's always afraid he'll be contagious. So don't visit him."
"Let's go to Hogsmeade, then." Sirius said.
"How?"
"Through secret passage ways." James said, as if it were the easiest thing in the world.
Peter raised his eyebrows. "We won't get in trouble again, will we?"
James laughed. "Who said anything about doing anything?"
"You were going to suggest..."
James laughed again, shaking his head. "Nope, wrong Peter! I wasn't going to suggest! I was going to demand!"
"Right, James." Isaac said.
"There's got to be passages that Filch doesn't know about." James continued.
Sirius, who had been unusually quiet, spoke up. "We can follow him. I'msure there's one on the third floor in that one corridor..."
"You give such helpful information." Audrey said sarcasticly.
"Well, let's go marauding, then." Sirius said.
*
The holidays passed quickly, all of them returning home for Christmas, and before anybody knew it, it was time for the exams.
"I don't wanna go home!" Sirius moaned.
Lily nodded. Her older sister, Petunia, (although it wasn't her real sister, thankfully, Lily thought, blessing the fact that she was adopted) was horrible. Petunia despised Lily and anything that had to do with magic.
James and Sirius, on the other hand, couldn't wait to get home. James, because he really didn't want any more school for a while ("NO MORE HOMEWORK!"), and Sirius, because he wanted to tease his ten-year-old sister and five-year-old brother.
Remus and Audrey wanted to relax and Peter wanted to see his great-grandfather to show him he wasn't a squib, afterall.
And so they boarded the train for the ride home.
Disclaimer: I own nobody you recognize.
A/N: For anybody who doesn't know (or if you've forgotten), this is the first chapter of my rewriting. I've deleted the old KoQ story and I'm working on chapter 2. I'm a busy girl so it might take a while for the next chapter (sorry!). Anyway, please review, and if you're going to flame, be constructive, at least. Thanks.
Chapter 1
"So....You're a first year too, aren't you?"
Lily Evans nodded. "Yes. I'm really nervous, I've been worried I'll be really far behind, you know."
Her companion shook her head. "You won't be. We all start from the beginning, as corny as that sounds."
Lily smiled. "Are you from a wizard family?"
The girl nodded. "Yeah, I'm a pureblood. You?"
Lily shrugged. "I don't know."
"How not?"
"I was adopted."
"Oh.... I'm Heidi Addington, by the way."
"Lily Evans."
"Pleasure." Heidi flipped back her long brown hair and nibbled on a green jellybean. "Want some?" she asked, offering the bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans toward her.
"No thanks. D'you know lot's of wizards?"
Heidi nodded. "My dad works at the Ministry of Magic- the government thingy for us wizard people- and he hosts lots of dinner parties. They're really dull until James and Sirius and me pull pranks and get in trouble. That's always fun. Speaking of Sirius and James, I wonder where they are..."
As if on cue, two boys walked in, both with very messy black hair.
"Oy, good timing."
"Superb." the first said.
"Grand."
"Splendid."
"Terrific."
"I see you've discovered the joys of adjectives." Heidi interrupted.
The second boy nodded and sat down next to Heidi, pushing up his glasses that were sliding down his nose.
"Did I say you could sit there?" Heidi asked.
"Aw, Heidi, you're just showing off for your friend."
Heidi rolled her eyes. "Right."
"Are you going to introduce us?" said the boy, who had taken a seat next to Lily.
"No."
"Thanks, Heid."
"Anytime. Lily, these two nutcases are Sirius Black, so called 'Master of Pranks' and James Potter, 'High King of Quidditch.' Dorks, this is Lily Evans."
Sirius grinned at her.
Lily ignored his grin. "What's quidditch?"
James and Sirius stared at her for a moment, eyes wide and mouths gracing the floor. With a quick glance at each other, they both erupted into an explosion of talk.
"Quidditch is only the best-"
"-bestest bestest sport-"
"-in the world! It has-"
"-seven players on each team-"
"-there's four balls, the Quaffle-"
"Shush! You'll scare the poor girl!"
"And your face won't?"
Heidi smacked James.
"OW! Heidi!"
"You deserved it. You were being childish."
"I'm eleven!"
"Point?"
Lily grinned at her new (bickering) friends. Hogwarts wouldn't be as bad as she'd thought it'd be.
*
"Firs' years! O'er 'ere! Firs' years!"
Lily, Heidi, James and Sirius stepped off the train and walked toward the big man.
"Hi!" Sirius said, jumping up and down. "I'm Sirius Black! Where's the school, when do we eat, can I try out for Quidditch, what's the square root of 343?"
James slapped Sirius' back. "Stop."
"Follor me." the man said. "Yeh all can call me Hagrid."
They followed Hagrid to a lake where some small boats were docked.
"Four's ther limit."
The first years looked up at him. Yes, they were very nice boats. So?
"Fer the boats. Yeh gotta get in."
They climbed into the boats, and before they knew it, they were on the other side of the lake and were walking up to the monstrous castle (but not before Lily and Heidi had to hold James and Sirius' arms behind their backs so they wouldn't try to tip the boat over).
"Wow..." Heidi muttered, gazing at the castle.
"We're gonna need a map." James said.
The doors opened and a strict looking witch studied them. "Thank you." she said to Hagrid, who nodded. "Follow me, children."
"How come we're always being told to follow people?" Sirius asked.
"The Sorting shall begin in a few minutes." she said. "I am Professor McGonagall."
"Where's she gone?" Sirius whispered to Lily.
"What?"
"McGONagall."
Lily thunked his head.
McGonagall left them with a stern glare at Sirius, who grinned innocently.
"What a witch!" he siad when she'd disappeared.
A boy nearby with brown hair and brown eyes grinned. "Indeed." he agreed. "I'm Remus Lupin."
"Sirius Black, master of pranks."
"Are you humble as well?" Remus teased.
"I'm the most humble person on the planet!" Sirius said.
McGonagall returned and let them to the stage in the Great Hall. A rickety old stool stood in the center of the stage with an old-looking hat on it (though it was rather clean).
"You're goin' to Hufflepuff, Slytherin,
Ravenclaw or Gryffindor,
So let's get it done and over
Sit down, try me on
And I'll send ya to where you belong." the Hat sang monotonously.
McGonagall stared at the Hat as the whole Hall laughed.
"Must have been the bath we gave it." Dumbledore muttered. "That's the last time we clean it."
McGonagall turned to her scroll. "When I call your name, you are to sit on the stool and you shall be sorted. Addington, Heidi."
Heidi turned a bit green and sat down. A few moments later, the hat shouted out "GRYFFINDOR!" Heidi walked to the Gryffindor table, grinning.
The Sorting commenced and soon it was Lily's turn. Lily sat on the stool, hoping it wouldn't break.
'I know where to put you. 'Course I do, I'm the filthy, stinkin' Sorting Hat! But noooo, they had to go clean me...'
Cheer up, Mr Hat, Lily thought.
'Bah! Let's send you off now! GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily joined Heidi and Sirius at the table and applauded as Remus and Audrey Lupin (twins), Isaac Myers, Casey Neviner, Alexa Ostin, Peter Pettigrew and James were all sorted into Gryffindor.
Dumbledore stood when the last student had ran off to his table. "Welcome to another year! A few announcements before we eat; first is that our dear caretaker, Mr Cadery, has retired. Mr. Argus Filch will be taking his place and has added to the list of forbidden objects. Second, the Forbidden Forest is off limits to all. Thirdly, if you come across anything unusual in your food, pay it no mind, Peeves terrorized the house elves a bit today. That is all."
Lily looked down at her plate curiously.
Audrey Lupin, who was sitting next to Lily, laughed suddenly.
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Troubles?"
Audrey grinned and held up something. "There was chalk in my mashed potatoes."
Sirius looked up. "Let me see it!" he took the chalk from Audrey, sniffed it, and ate it. Audrey's grin faded, Casey paled, Alexa's chicken missed her mouth, Heidi rolled her eyes and Lily stared at Sirius in disgust. Heidi slapped him upside the head.
"You realize you just ate chalk, right?" Audrey asked. Sirius nodded.
"Tasty." he said.
"What was your last name, Heidi?" Casey asked, changing the subject.
"Addington."
"I think I've heard of your dad. He's really important in the ministry, isn't he?"
Heidi shrugged. "I s'pose."
When they were finished, Dumbledore dismissed them and the Gryffindor first years followed a prefect girl named Katie.
"Password is 'hinkeypink.' Boys'dorms are to the left, girls' to the right. Up the stairs for each and you'll see the sign on the door marked 'First Years.' Your things have all ready been brought up." Katie said and went to her dormitory.
Lily, Heidi, Audrey, Casey and Alexa climbed the stairs to their dormitory. Heidi jumped onto her be and fell asleep without changing. Lily grinned and Audrey rolled her eyes, smiling.
"Hogwarts is going to be fun." Lily commented.
Audrey nodded her agreement.
*
Lily awoke the next morning to find all the other girls (except Heidi) up and about.
"Time to get up!" Casey announced loudly to wake Heidi.
"But I don't wanna get up." Heidi muttered sleepily.
"You've fifteen minuted to get ready." Alexa told her.
Heidi glared at her and rolled over...and fell off the bed. The girls laughed. Heidi untangled herself from the blankets, stood up and walked off toward the bathroom, tryinng to maintain a little bit of dignity. Three minutes later, Heidi walked back out of the bathroom, fully dressed and pulling her hair back into a messy ponytail. "Done." she said and fell back onto her bed.
"We'd better go." Casey said.
Audrey pulled Heidi off the bed and the five girls set off for the Great Hall. They then got themselves lost ("Heidi! I told you we shouldn't turn by that portrait!") and walked around the castle in circles for about thirty minutes. Finally, Audrey remembered how to get back.
"Good thin we left early. We've still twenty minutes." Casey said as they walked into the Great Hall.
"You're such a morning person." Alexa said.
Heidi sat down, ignored her breakfast and fell asleep.
"Miss Addington, breakfast is for you to eat, not to sleep on." McGonagall sai, handing out the schedules.
Heidi lifted her head. "I wasn't sleeping on my breakfast!" she protested. McGonagall ignored her and walked away.
"Have a flatcake." Lily said, putting one on her plate. Heidi reached for the syrup and accidently knocked over her pumpkin juice. The juice ran off the side of the table, right onto Heidi's robes. Heidi groaned.
"I HATE mornings." she said, laying her head onto the pumpkin-juice covered table.
*
"I hate transfiguration." Lily said that evening in the Common Room.
Heidi was reading over her Potions book. "I hate Potions." she said.
"We haven't had it yet." Audrey reminded her.
"The book is dumb. I'm starting a petition against dumb books."
"You do that." Lily said.
James and Sirius ran into the Common Room, grinning.
"Oh dear."
"I'm a penguin!" Sirius shouted.
"No, you're an idiot." Heidi said.
"I'm a giraffe." James said.
"That wasn't very nice!"
"What's mean about 'I'm a giraffe?'" James asked.
"Not you!" Sirius said. "Heidi!"
"You're my cousin, I'm obligated to call you names!" Heidi said.
"You two are cousins?" Audrey asked.
"Yes." Heidi said.
"Do penguins have cousins?"
"I don't know."
"Neither do I."
"Good. Anyway, Heidi, you're an ostrich, Lily's a kangaroo and Audrey's a bumblebee." James said.
"Very good James! Now what are some other animals?" Remus asked as he, Isaac and Peter joined the group at the couches.
"Oh, goody!" Sirius said. "Remey is a parakeet, Isaac, you're a puppy, and Peter is a hippopotamus."
"Why does Isaac get the good one?" Petere complained.
"'Cause he's got brown puppy-like eyes!" Isaac blushed.
"Why are we all animals?" Lily asked.
"So we can scare the first years!"
"We ARE the first years."
"Oh..."
"Anybody want to go plant dungbombs at the Slytherin table?" James asked.
All the boys agreed and ran down to the Great Hall. Half an hour later, when Lily, Audrey and Heidi joined them for dinner, the Slytherins were complaining loudly to their Head of House because SOMEONE had planted dungbombs under their table.
The five boys exchanged grins.
*
"We should start a food fight." Sirius said.
"Food fights are boring."
"We could go to the kitchens and put dungbombs in the Slytherins' food." Sirius suggested.
"D'you have some strange obsession with dungbombs?" Isaac asked. Sirius nodded.
*
Lily, Heidi, and Audrey walked into the dormitory that ngith to see Alexa and Casey looking at something. As soon as the three girls entered, however, they hid it.
"What were you looking at?" Audrey asked.
"Nothing that concerns you." Alexa said.
Lily raised an eyebrow. "Right. We just came up to talk."
"We're a little busy right now." Casey said.
"Oh. Continue on. We're just going to finish unpacking." Heidi said.
"I just remembered I forgot something down in the Common Room." Alexa said and she and Casey left.
"That was fun." Audrey commented.
"Loads."
"Weeks passed and the Marauders (as the boys had started calling themselves) pulled many pranks (all of which involved dungbombs and the Slytherins) and they all had received fifteen detentions.
"WHERE'S REMEY?!!!!!" Sirius shouted one day.
"Hospital Wing." Audrey responded.
"We should go visit him." Isaac said.
"NO! I mean-er- well, he doesn't like talking to people much when he's sick. He's always afraid he'll be contagious. So don't visit him."
"Let's go to Hogsmeade, then." Sirius said.
"How?"
"Through secret passage ways." James said, as if it were the easiest thing in the world.
Peter raised his eyebrows. "We won't get in trouble again, will we?"
James laughed. "Who said anything about doing anything?"
"You were going to suggest..."
James laughed again, shaking his head. "Nope, wrong Peter! I wasn't going to suggest! I was going to demand!"
"Right, James." Isaac said.
"There's got to be passages that Filch doesn't know about." James continued.
Sirius, who had been unusually quiet, spoke up. "We can follow him. I'msure there's one on the third floor in that one corridor..."
"You give such helpful information." Audrey said sarcasticly.
"Well, let's go marauding, then." Sirius said.
*
The holidays passed quickly, all of them returning home for Christmas, and before anybody knew it, it was time for the exams.
"I don't wanna go home!" Sirius moaned.
Lily nodded. Her older sister, Petunia, (although it wasn't her real sister, thankfully, Lily thought, blessing the fact that she was adopted) was horrible. Petunia despised Lily and anything that had to do with magic.
James and Sirius, on the other hand, couldn't wait to get home. James, because he really didn't want any more school for a while ("NO MORE HOMEWORK!"), and Sirius, because he wanted to tease his ten-year-old sister and five-year-old brother.
Remus and Audrey wanted to relax and Peter wanted to see his great-grandfather to show him he wasn't a squib, afterall.
And so they boarded the train for the ride home.
Disclaimer: I own nobody you recognize.
A/N: For anybody who doesn't know (or if you've forgotten), this is the first chapter of my rewriting. I've deleted the old KoQ story and I'm working on chapter 2. I'm a busy girl so it might take a while for the next chapter (sorry!). Anyway, please review, and if you're going to flame, be constructive, at least. Thanks.