Chapter 3: The First Day.
The autumn sun rose over Hogwarts, and it's warmth spread all over the ground. It shone into the windows of the first year girl's dorm. Lily groaned as it started to come to her face. She covered her face with her pillow but it was no use. 'Bugger that, I'm too awake now.' Lily thought and got up. She got her first full site of her corm. It was deep ruby red in colour, and warm. She had been sleeping in a very posh looking four-poster bed with deep red drapes, which was right beside the window. Lily got up and had a look at the view. She had to admit, it looked really nice. In the distance you could see purple mountains, and there was lot of forestry. But what caught Lily's attention was the violent looking tree. It had knurling roots and, it was moving? Yes, its branches didn't sway with the wind. Lily turned and walked to the other end of the room, and saw that it led to a very comfortable pearly bathroom. They had their own vanity desk, with a huge mirror in front of them. The door had a fancy looking silver plated lock. Lily smirked, 'Petty always wanted a bathroom like this, how ironic that I would get some thing she wants so badly,' Lily thought as she had a look. The vanity desk had several drawers, devoted to one of the girl's. Each drawer had a girl's name on it; she opened the one marked with her name and saw her bare necessities.
Lily looked at herself in the mirror, and saw that she had slept in her clothes. She didn't care. Lily showered and when she got out, Gladys was awake and exploring the dorm herself.
"I never expected you to be a morning person!" she commented as she brushed her long auburn hair.
"I'm not, I just happen to have the bed which faces the window, and that window is so strategically placed to the east where I will get the first sight of the sun," Lily commented as she dried her hair with a towel. She had decided to dress all in black today. Black flared baggy trousers, a black turtleneck. Lily threw the towel onto the railing and sat on her desk. Her fiery red curls were even curlier since they were wet, but she didn't care. She thought it looked all right, but Gladys looked a little sceptical with her leaving it like that.
"I can't wait to start the classes, they sound so interesting!" Gladys exclaimed, excitement blooming on her face. Lily gave a small smile. She never really looked forward to classes, but this was new and interesting, so she was a little bit curious.
"What class are you looking forward to?" Gladys asked the fiery girl.
"Dunno, what classes are there?" Lily asked leaning back lazily on her chair.
"Lily! You know perfectly well what classes there are!" Gladys reprimanded but with a smirk on her face, but it changed once she saw the look that crossed Lily's face.
"We'll find out at breakfast, we should be getting a timetable then," Gladys answered.
"Fun…" Lily muttered under her breath, " So, since I'm ready, I'll just be off," Lily said and headed out. Just as she was about to exit the girl's dorm Gladys called her.
"Don't forget your school robes Lily!" she reminded her while sticking her head out from the bathroom. Lily grumbled and headed for her trunk, pulling out some robes, she hated wearing them. 'Stupid robes, how come school uniforms always suck?' she thought grumpily and slipped it on leaving it unbuttoned. She headed down the stairs toward the common room. It was mainly empty, there were a few people just entering, all of whom were older than her. Lily scanned the room. It was large and circular, lined with many comfy chairs and couches. Some desks were also available and a roaring fireplace was located to one side of the room. Lily stuffed her hands into her pockets and walked towards the portrait hole, where some people were exiting. 'Ok, where am I going?' Lily wondered, she didn't know her way around the castle. 'Right…let's go downstairs, it looks like I'm in a tower right now,' Lily thought and headed down the steps. She wandered around different corridors and turned different corners, asked the paintings for directions - which she thought was weird – and walked through doors. She finally recognised the Entrance Hall, and retraced her steps to the Great Hall. There she sat down on the table where she saw Gladys; she raised her eyebrow in slight confusion. 'Strange, I know I left waaaayyy before her!'
"Where have you been?" Gladys asked exasperatedly as Lily slumped into the seat.
"Trying to find my way to this place," Lily replied and started to pile her plate with some breakfast.
"Didn't you go down with some other people?" Gladys asked.
"Nope." Lily stated and started to shove a spoonful of cereal into her mouth.
As soon as Lily finished her cereal, she heard the thunderous flutter of many wings flying into the Great Hall. She looked up to see dozens of owls streaming in and swooping down to the students at all the tables. Lily easily spotted her black owl amongst the brown, grey and white owls. Lily heard some students mutter.
"Who bought that thing!"
"Someone actually had the guts to buy that crazy bird!"
"That bird nearly ripped my hand apart in the Magical Menagerie!" Lily frowned, how could they say that about such a majestic creature? Lily held out her arm and Ravis landed on it, her talons lightly digging into her robes. Ravis dropped some letters on to Lily's lap and gave a cold stare to everyone looking at their direction. Some people gasped; usually that owl would hooting loudly and would throw a fit on anyone it sent a letter to. Lily glared at the people staring. They quickly turned away from the glaring girl, realising how rude they must've been.
"Thanks Ravis," Lily whispered to her owl. She clicked her beak and flew off to the owlery. Lily tore open the two letters. One was from her parents, asking about her journey and what she thought and telling her to behave. Lily rolled her eyes slightly. She then opened the other letter and saw that it was her timetable.
"This looks kinda boring, I'm quite disappointed." Lily muttered to herself as she looked at it.
"Lily! We've got Transfiguration first! That's supposed to be really good!" Gladys pointed out.
"You hear everything, don't you?" Lily sighed as she folded it and put it in her pocket.
"I listen, that's all," Gladys replied smiling at her.
Later on in the morning, Lily silently scolded herself. 'Oh, yeah…lost, again. I just had to tell Gladys to go on without me!' Lily thought slightly angrily. 'Stupid castle, doesn't help when the staircases move!' Lily thought as she saw one above her move to a doorway to the left. She climbed up the staircase and went on down the corridor. She didn't have a clue where to go, but carried on wherever her feet carried her. Finally, after ten minutes of winding corridors, five staircases, and two portraits, Lily found the door labelled 'Transfiguration.' She didn't bother to knock and just walked in, her cloaks billowing behind her. She gazed into the room and stood in front of the class.
"Nice of you to join us Miss Evans," said a stern looking witch at the end of the room, Professor McGonagall, or something like that. Lily recognised her as the witch at the Sorting Ceremony.
"Yeah, nice to be here," Lily replied with hints of sarcasm.
"In future, I would like you to come to class in time. Points will not be deducted since it's your day here," Professor McGonagall informed.
"Sure, whatever you say," Lily muttered and took a seat next to a kid with ginger hair. The professor frowned but let it pass. The witch droned on about something, Lily wasn't really paying attention. She just started to pay attention when everyone brought out their wands.
"Now, Lily, I would like you to demonstrate the spell to turn this pin into a needle," McGonagall stated.
"Question…why? Pins, needles, they're basically the same thing." Lily asked, showing complete disinterest. McGonagall pursed her lips.
"All things start small Lily. Now try the spell," McGonagall said, with a tone of annoyance.
"Ok, what do I say?" Lily said with boredom. She had pushed McGonagall too far.
"If you had been listening, you would know what to do! 10 points from Gryffindor! Now, kindly pay attention Miss Evans!" McGonagall scolded.
"There's no need for such formalities Professor M. All this 'Miss Evans' just isn't me, call me Lily," she said with sickly sweet smile on her face.
"5 more points from Gryffindor for cheek, Miss Evans." Professor McGonagall reprimanded and continued with the lesson. Some snickers were heard from behind the class, but Lily didn't listen to them. By the end of the class, she had managed to do the task of transfiguring a pin into a needle. Although Lily didn't see much in difference, but she had to admit that she was happy to have achieved some sort of magic. They had Herbology in the greenhouses, with Slytherin's. 'Crap, wasn't that Snape guy in Slytherin?' she thought as she stepped out onto the grounds. Her question was soon answered.
"Well if it isn't the little rebel," a sneering voice said behind her. Lily clenched her fists and tried to remain calm. His voice alone was enough to piss her off. She turned around to face him. Hands crossed and glare present on her face.
"I'm surprised you even have the guts to talk to me right now," Lily said coolly.
"What? Me? Scared to talk to a girl, after one lousy punch? Not on your life." he smirked.
"You're head must be too far up your arse if you thought that punch was lousy Snape!" said a male voice behind them. From behind him, laughter could be heard. Sirius, Remus and Peter were nearly red from laughter. James was smirking but still held a cold stare at Snape.
"Bet your punch is worse that this little girl's punch, Potter," Snape spat.
"Why don't we test that theory? Ladies first…" James grinned at Lily. A small smirk played its way onto her face.
"Gladly," Lily said and started to confront Snape, cracking her knuckles menacingly. A slight look of horror spread over his features.
"Later," he said quickly and bolted off.
The group of first years didn't hesitate to burst out laughing – or carry on laughing in Sirius', Remus' and Peter's case – as Snape ran away. The group walked on towards the greenhouses, some clutching at their stitches from so much laughter. Herbology, was kind of interesting. But Lily had shown the same cheek to the professor as she had in a transfiguration. Somehow, she had got through the lesson without having points deducted from the house. During the lesson, Lily had great pleasure of throwing bits of parchment at the back of Snape's head. But it was Sirius' prank, which had won over. He had handed her a piece of black parchment.
"Aim for his head," he whispered, grinning mischievously. Lily nodded.
She took aim, while James distracted the professor. 'Perfect' she thought before she was about to throw. She threw it hard, while trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. As soon as the black parchment had hit Snape's neck, a large explosion took place. The greenhouse filled with smoke, and a vile smell filled it. Cries of 'dungbomb!' filled the room. Lily was laughing so hard, but tried not to as the smell was quite horrid. That had been the highlight of her day so far. After that incident, the Herbology teacher had taken points of the Slytherin's as the dungbomb remains were located right beside Snape.
Lunch time soon came, and Lily and Gladys headed back towards the Great Hall. It was already filled with a lot of students, and breakfast had seemed to be so long ago for Lily. She sat at the edge of the table and helped herself to a ham sandwich and yoghurt.
"Those were some smooth moves you pulled on Snape today Lily," Rafaela said and sat opposite her. Avril joined her and sat by her side. Lily grinned as she remembered them.
"This is so cool. He's like from one of the wealthiest aristocratic wizarding families and always has the best things. And here we have a normal muggle-born girl, who can just stick up to him." Avril smiled at her.
"She's muggle born is she?" said a voice from behind her. Lily turned around in her seat and saw a boy with blonde hair and steely blue grey eyes. Laughter could soon be heard from behind.
"No, you've go to be joking…her…a…a… mudblood?" he started to laugh even more. Lily frowned as she heard the girl's around her gasp.
"You take that back Malfoy!" Gladys spat. He just laughed more
"Just wait until everyone hears that the rebel is a mudblood."
'Well, I take it that I'm supposed to be offended by this.' Lily thought as she gave him an icy glare.
"I would have thought that ice queen here would have surely been from pureblood family. Seeing as she prances around this school like she owns it, but this is just too funny," he laughed and turned to go to the Slytherin table. Lily saw as he gathered all his friends - including Snape - together and talk to them in a hushed tone. Laughter could soon be heard from the Sytherin table.
"Are you ok Lily?" Rafaela asked.
"Just a little confused, what's a 'mudblood?'" she asked with a curious expression. Gladys sighed.
"Lily, a 'mudblood' is the most offensive word used to describe muggle born witches and wizards. He's a pureblood, meaning that his parents are magical folk. Half-blood is one muggle parent and one magical parent. But calling you a 'mudblood' is simply, low," she explained.
"I'll kill him!" Lily growled and stood got out of her seat, nearly knocking it over in the process.
"Wait! Lily!" Gladys called but Lily ignored her. She paced towards their table and knocked down a fair few people in her way.
"Woah there Lily! Where're you going?" Sirius said grinning at her. She glared at him. His grin faded a little. James appeared beside him laughing at the look on Sirius' face, but then stopped when he noticed an icy pair of green eyes on him.
"Out of my way, I'm pissed and I don't want to take it out on you!" she nearly shouted.
"I don't think it's a good idea to go there just right now." James murmured. A small smirk made it's way to Sirius' face. Lily caught on.
"Alright, just this once. But I have a bone to pick with Malfoy," she confirmed and turned out of the Great Hall. Just as she exited, an explosion was heard from the Slytherin table, followed by roars of laughter.
After lunch, Lily saw that she had Charms. She had been looking forward to having Charms, but she wasn't in the mood since lunch. She walked up through the corridors had headed towards the door with Charms written outside it. She opened the door and took a seat at the back of the class. She sat by a window and the breeze swept in, cooling her down, and blowing her fiery red curls past towards her face. She smiled, this seat was perfect. Soon afterwards, she saw Gladys enter with Avril and Rafaela. Gladys sat beside her, while Avril and Rafaela sat in front of her. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter entered just before the Professor came in. Lily snapped out of her daze as she heard a voice come from no where.
"Good afternoon class," said the voice. Lily looked up and saw a head popping up from behind the desk. 'We have a dwarf for a teacher?' she thought.
"I am Professor Flitwick. I will be your Charms Teacher here at your time at Hogwarts. Now, Charms is a very basic form of magic, but once you pass the basics, you can advance it to great forms." He said, with much enthusiasm.
"Now, Let's just take the register. When you hear you name just spark your wand. Right…Samuel Applebaum."
Blue sparks shot up from a boy at the front with brown hair. Professor Flitwick acknowledged him. He looked back at his register.
"Sirius Black." He said. Reds sparks shot out of Sirius' wand and formed an arrow that pointed at him. The Professor clapped at his sparks and continued with the register. After a few more names, he came to Lily's names.
"Lily Evans." Lily raised her wand and to her shock, the sparks just flew out and the word 'Lily' formed just above her.
"Ah I see we have another student with a natural ability for Charms!" he said and smiled at her. Lily didn't return the smile, but just sat their, looking bored. The professor continued with the register and it soon ended.
"Right, during this week, we will learn how to levitate objects around us. It's usually harder to levitate heavy objects, so we will start with a fairly light object." He said. The Professor opened a bow at his desk. He grabbed a handful of feathers and threw them in the air. With his wand, he placed a banished charm on them and they flew towards the new students. The feather slowly floated down onto each desk.
"The incantation we use to levitate objects is Wingardium Leviosa." The tiny professor announced. A murmur went around the class as people tried to pronounce the word.
"If you all just pick up your wands, we'll get started on the movement needed. It's quite simple really. You just swish and flick. Like this." He demonstrated with his wand as his pupils watched.
"Now all of you just try that." He said cheerfully. He observed as many pupils started to swish and flick their wands as he had demonstrated. Lily felt incredibly stupid as she did this, but didn't feel so bad as everyone was doing it.
"Now, lets all try the spell. Say Wingardium during the flick and Leviosa during the flick." He instructed.
"You go first Gladys." Lily said. She was already bored and seriously not in the mood to work.
Gladys swished and flicked her wand, while saying the incantation. The feather didn't rise very high. Just a few centimetres off the desk. Gladys frowned and tried again, it rose just a few centimetres again. As she tried and tried, she was getting more frustrated as the feather wouldn't rise very high. Lily watched her in slight amusement at first, but it was starting when Gladys just didn't get it. It was simple! She lifted up her wand and took a deep breath.
"Wingardium Leviosa." Lily said clearly and concisely. To her surprise, her feather shot right up, hovering a good five feet from her desk.
"Woah." She said out loud.
"Ah! Well Done Lily! This is quite an accomplishment! Why, when I was a boy, it took me a good month to be able to levitate that high!" he said cheerfully.
"Uh. Cool." She muttered. When she put her wand down, the feather floated down to its place on her desk. 'Awesome.' She thought and grinned to herself. To Lily's disappointment, Charms soon ended, although she had a few laughs at the others attempts, not failing to subside her laughter at others attempts.
"You didn't need to keep pointing out the flaws in my…no…everyone's levitating!" Gladys pointed out as they made their way to their next class.
"It's fun though. To know I'm the better than everyone else in that class," Lily grinned cheerfully.
"Your modesty amazes me." Gladys muttered. Lily glared but laughed all the same.
"So, what do we have next?" Lily asked, calming down. The groan that escaped from Gladys gave Lily the impression that the next class wouldn't be too good for her.
"Potions."
"What's so bad about Potions?" Lily asked.
"We have it with…" Gladys started.
"Eeeeewww…it's the mudblood, go away! I don't want your foul self anywhere near me! Severus, protect me!" squealed a girl behind them. Lily turned around and saw the group of first year Slytherin's behind them. A girl was cackling while holding onto Snape's arm as the other's laughed and pointed at Lily. Lily smirked a little.
"Sorry toots. Dear Snapey here couldn't save your huge ass if I was bound up and half dead." Lily retorted in a sickly sweet voice and turned away from them, walking with Gladys towards the dungeon
"At least I'm a pureblood." He snapped.
"You know what Snape? I really wouldn't give a rat's ass if you were or not. I could kick your ass any old day, whether it be physically of magically." Lily said with slight annoyance in her voice as she headed towards Potions.
"Damn straight!" Gladys commented.
"Listen here mudblood! Us Slytherin's could…" Malfoy started, but stopped when Lily started to approach him with a sweet smile on her face. The male half of the Slytherin group would have thought she looked attractive like that. They all gulped slightly when she approached Malfoy.
"You know what Malfoy? Did anyone ever tell you that you're so…-gasp- fine." She said while playing with a loose piece of material on his robes, which was oh so appropriately placed at his chest. He gulped a little more. They were starting to attract an audience.
"Uhm…uh…" he stuttered, at a loss for words. The rebel, actually, complimenting him? Or maybe even…seducing him? 'God! We're only 11!' he thought. Then to his shock, she put her arms around his neck.
"Ack!" he yelped. Everyone was staring at him. Lily was getting just a bit too close.
"Honestly, I think we could grow quite close." She smiled seductively. Gasps were heard through the crowd. Lily slowly crept closer. More gasps.
And even closer.
Wide eyes stared at them.
And closer.
Some people were loosening the top buttons of their robes.
And closer.
Did someone crank up the heat?
And closer.
She was really going to do it! She just fluttered her eyelashes at him!
Everyone was full of tension as they watched the two. Their faces just inches apart. Malfoy looking too shocked to do anything. Lily's sweet smile soon turned into an mischievous smirk. Just as everybody thought they were about to kiss, she kicked her knee up high and hard. It just so happened to be aimed at his groin area. Malfoy gasped and his eyes were bulging. His face was red, and a look of sheer shock -and extreme pain- ran across his features. The male population of the crowd gasped and looked away with a pained look on their faces. All the girls just looked on in shock, clutching at their bags as they saw the sight. There was a good few moments of silence. During that time, Malfoy had been standing up, only because of Lily's support as she stood there, with her knee firmly placed there. Her mischievous smirk had turned into an evil one. She grabbed handful of his golden hair in her hands and made him face her.
"That's for calling me a mudblood." She said and broke the long silence. She stepped away and Malfoy collapsed onto the floor. She turned and faced the crowd.
"Ladies, from what I felt, his balls are pretty small." She announced. She then caught up with Gladys who was staring at her with complete shock. Lily just smirked and made her way to class.
The Potions master had granted Malfoy leave of the class, seeing the state he was in when he came in. She didn't ask any questions, but eyed the class suspiciously. During class, Lily had receive glares from the Slytherin's and many pained yet amused looks from the Gryffindor's. A note was passed towards Lily from behind. While the professor was turned away, Lily read it.
- Lily you rebel!
That was pure harsh! Do you know how painful that looked? How GREAT that looked?!?! Us guys are impressed in a weird twisted kind of way. We wouldn't have missed looking at that sight, but believe me, that was harsh and painful, but very impressive! I think you've scared half the guys here, word spreads fast here. You'll probably e the most feared girl here. But don't worry, we still love ya!
Sirius, James, Remus and Peter. -
Lily smirked and turned to look at them. They were all grinning from ear to ear, except from Peter, who looked slightly fearful at her.
"Miss Evans! Pay attention! 10 points off Gryffindor!" the professor scolded. Lily glared at her, but continued to take notes from her book and off the board. 'Stupid teacher!' Lily thought as she carried on with her work. The lesson went on by quickly. As soon as the lesson was over, the Slytherin's rushed out of the classroom, each glaring at her. If looks could kill, she'd be dead 5 times over. Lily just smiled a sickly sweet smile at them, leaving them royally pissed. Lily and Gladys headed towards the Gryffindor Common room and were soon joined by James, Sirius, Remus and Peter. They talked a lot about the whole day and their pranks, and Lily's incidents.
"I'll remember this day fondly," Sirius sighed making them laugh.
"Who could forget this day?" Remus laughed.
"Andromeda." Gladys said and the portrait of the Fat Lady opened and they entered the common room.
"Yeah, the first day was rather amusing." Lily commented, grinning.
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A/N: I'm so sorry! I seriously meant to update sooner, but I had a little thing called writer's block and also, I had a week without the laptop cause my dad went overseas taking it with him leaving me nothing to write my story on! Those are my excuses and I'm sticking to them! It's the truth as well! Honest! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I think it's kinda long, and I hope you're not put off by it! I did try to make it funny, but humour can be hard to write if you're not a funny person! I'm going to try and make the future chapters more interesting, so please keep reading! And reviewing would be nice too! ::hint hint::