*~~~OK PEOPLE! This is chapter 2! Yes it's a lot longer, but not as long as I had planned on it being! I want to thank my reviewers! People you guys are the greatest! Now on to chapter 2!~~~*

Disclaimer- Ok in this chapter I own a bunch of things, so basically anything you don't reconize is mine (Layla Dawn, Elizabeth Windell, Nikki Venus, Joann Tucci etc!) Anything you do reconize belongs to the genius Joanna Kathleen Rowling!

Dedication!- This chapter is dedicated to Kayla. A girl who I'[ve known for almost 10 years and has ALWAYS been there for me!

*~~Chapter 2! The dream begins!~~*

When I died I was 22 years old, I died young, but had a wonderful life. My earliest years definitely were not the best compared to my Hogwarts years, but during that time I had no idea Hogwarts existed so I was still a very happy person. My life consisted of making straight A's at Middleton Elementary, and avoiding my sister! Petunia was a very sour girl. She never smiled and was very sarcastic and cruel. I spent most of those eleven years, avoiding her. Nothing really interesting happened during those years. So if its all right with you I'll skip to my first day at HogwartsâE¦

Can you imagine my surprise when I got my letter? I Lily Evans had never been anything special. I was just a normal girl. A normal muggle girl. Or so I thought. My sister laughed when I got my letter. She told me it was a big joke. And someone was just messing with my mind, but of course as usual she was wrong.
I was in a boat with my friends that I'd met on the train. They were talking about someone named Sirius Black. How they knew him, I didn't know and didn't really care. He sounded like a lot of fun, a big bowl of party mix. Elizabeth knew a lot about Hogwarts, her older sister Gabby had already gone through it, and was currently working in the Ministry. (Whatever that was) Elizabeth was loud and outspoken. Layla seemed like a shy and quiet person. Gabby had been in Ravenclaw. According to Elizabeth she was a perfectionist. She passed every class with flying colors, was Captain of the Quidditch team (What the heck was Quidditch?) , was a prefect and head girl. By the looks of it Gabby and Elizabeth were completely different, but then again so were Petunia and I.
I looked up and saw a castle. I was the most beautiful castle I had ever seen. It was perfect. We were nearing, and pulled up to a dock. The boats vanished, and A large man by the name of Ogg knock on the door three times.
A stern looking woman wearing bottle green dress robes opened the door. It looked as if she was trying very hard to smile. She spoke "Hello first years. My name is Professor McGonagall; I am deputy headmistress, Transfigureation teacher, and head of Gryfinndor house. In a moment you will be sorted into your house. The houses are Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Gryffindor, and Ravenclaw. Each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. During your seven years here you're house will be like your family, you will eat, sleep, go to class, and spend your free time with them. It is now time for the sorting ceremony to begin."
All of the first years followed Professor McGonagall into the great hall. The hall was amazing, I looked up and all I could see was sky and some really weird floating candles. A strange looking man entered the great hall and followed our line. With him he carried a stool and a very beat up and old hat. The man placed the stool in the front of the Great Hall and quietly left. The hall was suddenly very quiet. A rip in the hat opened and began to sing.
I'll look inside your mind

For things that you can't see

And in the end I'll tell you

Where you should be.

You might end up in Hufflepuff....
I didn't really listen to the rest of the song. I was nervous and began shaking. I didn't snap out of my nervous trance until the whole room started applauding. Then Layla whispered to me "O.k. I get it all I have to do is try on the hat, right Lily?" I looked at her and nodded. Even though I wasn't 100% sure. Then Professor McGonagall stood up and said "When I call your name please come sit on the stool and try the hat on."
"Abbott, Ryan"

"HUFFLEPUFF"
"Bone, Jason"

"HUFFLEPUFF"
"Black, Sirius"

"GRYFFINDOR"
"Conton William"

"RAVENCLAW"
"Dawn, Layla"

"GRYFINNDOR"
"Evans Lily"
I walked up to the stool and sat down. I pulled the hat down and it said

"Evans huh? Never had one of those. My my my you are mean little when you want to be, so perhaps Slytherin. No wait nevermind. Your sweet as well. Hard working, Loyal, brave, My God are you a brave."
"GRYFINNDOR"
I was So relieved! I sat down next to Layla and across from that Sirius Black person, who oddly was staring at me. I turned my head to watch the rest of the sorting.
"Felton, Andrew"

"HUFFLEPUFF"
"Figgy, Marrissa"

"SLYTHERIN"
"Grand, Alyssa"

"RAVENCLAW"
"Grant, Robert"

"SLYTHERIN"
"Habinaro, Lisa"

"RAVENCLAW
"Hufton, Rose"

"RAVENCLAW"
"Igg, Hannah"

"HUFFLEPUFF"
I kind of stopped paying attention for a while. Until I didn't hear applause for a long time I snapped out of my daydream, and looked at Layla "Yikes! That kid has been up there for close to 2 minutes!" she said I looked at him. He was short, and a little pudgy, but not entirely. After a few more seconds the hat shouted "GRYFINNDOR" the pudgy kid walked over and sat down next to Sirius. (Who I might add was still creepily looking at me!)
"Potter James"
I looked at him. Hey he was kind of cute! He had unruly black hair, and a to die for smile. He looked really nervous, but the hat almost instantly shouted "GRYFINNDOR" and he walked to our table sat down next to me and smiled. I smiled back, but Sirius frowned.
"Pony, Jessica"

"RAVENCLAW"
"Russ, Ron"

SLYTHERIN"
"Snape, Severus"

"SLYTHERIN"
"Sonton, Lucy"

"HUFFLEPUFF"
"Tucci, Joann"

"GRYFINNDOR"
"Venus, Nicole"

"GRYFINNDOR"
"Elizabeth, Windell"

"GRYFINNDOR"
"Winkpond Nina"

"RAVENCLAW"
Nina was the last person to be sorted and the whole hall erupted with applause. Then Professor Dumbledore stood up. "Welcome back, to hopefully another wonderful year at Hogwarts. Just a few notes to remind you of the rules, and to tell you about a new one. The Forbidden Forest is STILL forbidden. And you will also be interested to know that Hogwarts has recently acquired a new and dangerous plant for the grounds. No one is to go near it! Thank you And let the feast begin" Immediately after he said that the tables filled with lavish wizarding foods and after the foods were cleared, sweets! Delicious, wonderful, exotic wizarding sweets that muggleborns, like myself, had never experienced.
"Hello Lizzy" I turned and saw Sirius Black. "How was your summer?"

"Sirius Black I've known you fro the past 5 years and you STILL call me by that awful nick name. Would you please call me Elizabeth?" He looked at her like she was nuts and said

"But Lizzy that would take all the fun out of it!"

"You'll never grow up will you?"

"And who is this?" he turned to me.

"I'm Lily" I said

"Well hello Lily pad"

Then Elizabeth turned to me

"I should have warned you, he comes up with a nick name for everyone"

"Sirius Layoff will you?" the boy with the messy hair turned to me and smiled.

"I'm James Potter, and no matter what that nitwit says my name isn't Jamie o.k.?"

I smiled and started laughing, a look of jealously spread over Sirius's face.

"Alright." I said with a flirtatious smile. The conversation continued. I really don't remember much more of it.
After the feast we followed a fifth year prefect with red hair to portrait of a fat lady in an ugly pink dress "Password" she said. "Fuzzy pumpkin juice" the portrait swung open and we entered into a room decorated with Red and Gold. "Boy's dorms up the stairs first door on the left." said the prefect "Girls your dorms are down the hall first door on the right. Good night." Layla, Elizabeth and I walked down the hall until we found the door. We walked in. The room had a large mirror, a sink, 5 beds, 5 dressers. I noticed two other girls in the room. They introduced themselves as Joann, and Nicole. I was tired but Layla, Elizabeth and I stayed up practically the whole night talking, and wondering what the next day would be like.
The next day we woke up, got ready and headed into the common room. James, Sirius, and two others I hadn't seen before were already there. Sirius Greeted me with a "Good morning Lily Pad"

"Hello Sirius, James"

"Hello Lily" James said (slightly blushing)

"Good Morning Lizzy!" Sirius said

"Good Morning Sirius" Elizabeth growled

James was obviously sensing a sign of danger coming from Elizabeth so he grabbed Sirius by the arm and dragged he out of the Common Room.

"Lily! He likes you!" said Nicole.

"Really? No, I doubt it. Well, maybe. Which one?" I said

"James"

"No Sirius likes her" interrupted Elizabeth

"No it's James." Said Layla

"Sirius"

"James"

"Sirius"

"James"

"Sirius"

"Both" everyone looked at Joann.

Maybe she was right. I didn't say anything but they all agreed.

"How come Lily gets both of the cute ones?" Elizabeth complained.

"Hey I didn't ask for it" I replied

"Yes you did!" They all shouted.

"Come on lets go!"
During breakfast they made sure I sat between James and Sirius. I almost screamed, but I wouldn't, well not with them right there. I'd have to wait till I got back to our room. Sirius had come up with a nickname for Nicole and to his delight, she hated it.

"Oh come on "Nikki" why don't you like it?"

"Just ignore him and he'll shut-up"

"I doubt it Lily pad I never shut up!"

"He's telling the truth, he never does!" said Layla. Elizabeth nodded in agreement.
Then Professor McGonagall came over to where we were sitting. "Here are your first year schedules; I suggest you leave for class early. As you've probably noticed Hogwarts is very large and if you're not familiar with the castle you will most probably get lost." She left and I glanced at my schedule.
~Charms

~Transfigureation

~Defense Against the Dark Arts (DADA)

"She's right you know, this place is very big, our first class starts in thirty minutes we should probably leave now." I said.

"You're right Lily, coming boys?"

"No Lizzy we're perfectly capable of finding our way around this castle."

"Suit yourself Sirius" I said as Layla, Elizabeth, and I got up to leave.
Professor McGonagall was right. We did get lost. We ended up in the complete opposite side of the castle and would have been forever lost if Nearly Headless Nick, the Gryfinndor Goast, hadn't pointed us in the right direction. When we finally did get to charms, we were five minutes late. I wasn't surprised when I saw there were only three others in the room. I was however shocked to see that they were none other than James, Sirius, and a boy who looked very pale.

"Took you long enough"

"Shut-up Sirius"

"Ah Lizzy how quickly you forget, I never shut-up"

"Quiet down" said a very short wizard. "I'm professor Flitwick, and if I'm not mistaken

we're still missing four students, Mr. Pettigrew, Mr. Lotty, Mrs. Tucci, and Mrs. Venus?"

We nodded in agreement.

"O.k. well I'm tired of waiting! I'm going to put you in pairs and, um, let's do it like muggles do, alphabetically. So, Mr. Black and Ms. Dawn. (Layla grunted) Ms. Evans and Mr. Lupin, and Mr. Potter and Ms. Windell. Now do as I do, Swish and Flick, Swish and Flick, Swish and Flick. No Mr. Black NOT Swat and Flick, Swish and Flick. Swish and Flick. O.k. get into your groups."
I walked over to the pale boy. He spoke first

"Hi I'm Remus"'

"I'm Lily"

"I know, so Lily will you show me how to do this swishy flicky thing? Its kind of hard and you seem to be doing pretty well."

"O.k it's pretty easy move your wrist to the right and up."
He eventually got it! And when Professor Flitwick walked by he said "Good job Ms. Evans, Mr. Lupin"
Elizabeth wasn't having the best luck with James though. I glanced over and heard her say to him "James you idiot turn around and get your eyes back into your sockets. You can look at Lily all you want during lunch." I was about ready to go over there and slap her, but of course I wouldn't, well not with one of them there. James blushed and obediently turned. Layla was having the same problem with Sirius. Only she wasn't as outspoken as Elizabeth was so she didn't say much about it. Of course I still highly doubted that they were looking at me. I mean come on! I'm only eleven. I have frizzy red hair, and green eyes. Come to think of it they're only eleven too. My thoughts were then interrupted my four people looking highly exhausted running into the room.

"We're sorry professor.......it was Peeves....... he tricked us......." Nicole and Joann quickly rambled off excuses while the two boys looked pleadingly at Professor Flitwick. This went on for quite awhile, then Professor Flitwick dismissed, us and they had to stay behind to practice Swish and Flick, Swish and flick.
Layla, Elizabeth and I decided to head straight to Transfigureation. We arrived just on time. I walked in, and they were in there! James, Sirius, and Remus were already there.

"So you made it on time this time?"

We ignored Sirius but of course he didn't shut up. We sat down. Thanks to the wonderful works of Layla and Elizabeth; I was next to James. Elizabeth giggled and tossed her glorious perfect brown curls out of her face. Layla turned to me and whispered something. I couldn't hear anything but the word "James" so I just nodded and smiled. As it turned out Layla wasn't a very good whisperer. Everyone else heard it too. I blushed. James blushed. Sirius looked jealous, and Elizabeth, Layla, and Remus were struggling to hide giggles. Nicole, Joann, and the other two boys walked in. Then I noticed Professor McGonagall wasn't here yet. What was with that freaky cat doing on her desk. Was that Mrs. Norris, the cat that Elizabeth mentioned on the boat? I wasn't the only one who noticed, because then I heard Sirius say,

"Where the heck is McGonagall"

As soon as he said that the cat on her desk leapt off and walked to where we were sitting. Then the cat slowly turned into the woman we knew as Professor McGonagall. The room exploded applause.

"I'm right here Mr. Black, class I am an Animagus, an Animagus is witch or wizard who can turn into and animal just by thinking. We will not be studying Animagi until your 3rd year. Please take a look at the needle infront of you. By the end of class I want all of you to be able to turn that needle into a match. Now point your wand at your needle and say........."
She instructed us on what to say and do. I took me more than half the class to do it. James and Sirius got it almost instantly. I finished mid-class. Layla did it shortly after me, and Elizabeth was still having trouble, until Sirius walked over and helped her by instructing her hand. Her face turned bright red, but he had helped her and now she had the hang of it.

"O.k. that's enough for today, tomorrow we will be turning the matches back into pins. For homework....." We left.
We had 2 hours before we had to go to DADA. So we went back to the great hall for lunch. James, Sirius, Remus, and the pudgy kid who took forever on the sorting hat were whispering and laughing about something, but unlike Layla they were good wisperers and I couldn't hear anything. Joann had a copy of teen witch that showed you the latest spells on how to give you hair the perfect glimmer, and advertisements for things like magical make up that looked red in the box but the minute you put it on it turned green, and then it wouldn't come off for 24 hours. (The perfect gift for enemies) Instant curl and star dusk body power (imported from Orion's belt). This was all new to me! Growing up a muggle I had never seen any of this. At this moment, a slightly blue owl few over my head, and landed by James. James gave the owl some food off his plate, and took the package it was carrying off it's leg. Then the owl flew away. James tried to open the package without anyone seeing it. As soon as he saw what it was a huge mischievous smile spread across his face. He opened the package a tiny bit more so only Sirius could see what it was. Then almost instantly a smile identical to James's went across his face. By this time I was extremely curious, but before I could ask what it was James, Sirius, Remus and the pudgy boy jumped up and ran out of the room. I was tempted to fallow, but I didn't. Instead I turned to Elizabeth and asked,

"What do you think that was about?"

"When James and Sirius are involved it could be almost anything."

"We'll eventually find out. If it's that big of a secret, they won't be able to keep it for long"
Defense against the dark arts was boring. All we did was take notes. Professor Uppey wasn't a very good teacher. It seemed like he knew what he was talking about but he didn't know how to teach. Not only did he not know how to teach he gave us a bunch of homework. So after that class we explored the castle a little, and then headed to dinner. Sirius, James, Remus and the pudgy boy were by the sound of it were whispering about "the package" but then again who knows. After dinner Elizabeth and I went up to the common room to do our homework. Layla didn't feel well so she went up to the hospital wing, she was escorted by 3rd year, which was a good thing, because otherwise she would have gotten lost.
I began reading what McGonagall to us to read it started out interesting but got very boring. I started day dreaming. I was staring out the window and looking at the moon. It was getting dark. And I could see that the moon was full. It was beautiful and I was lost in my thoughts until Sirius came over and asked

"Hey Lily pad have you seen Remus?"

Then James came over followed by the pudgy boy. "He's missing"

"No I have seen him"

"What about you Lizzy? Have you seen him?"

"Sorry Sirius haven't seen him"

"Great this is just great!" said the pudgy boy sarcastically

"Peter we'll find him, he wouldn't ummmmmm ahhhhhh nevermind" James said the last part of that nervously.

They walked away and I heard things like "where do you think he is? He wouldn't chicken out would he?........................" That just made us even more curious.
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