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Chapter Three: Sorting, New Friends, Quiddtich Try Outs

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Lily and Selena went off with the first years and others from summer school. They saw Maria who glared at them, but they didn't care. Professor McGonagall came and led the group into the Great Hall as they enter it seemed so different than from when they attended there for summer school. The four tables were actually filled with students and the ceiling looked just like their room, they had stayed in during the summer.  Professor McGonagall led everyone to the front of the hall. There was an old battered hat sitting on a stool. Everyone in the Great Hall turned to the hat and began to sing:

"Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
a smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise, old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To acheive their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a thinking cap!"

Everyone began to cheer and clap, as the sorting hat ended his song. Professor McGonagall took out a list and started to call out student's names they all got sorted, Maria, Lily and Selena were left.

"Lopez, Maria!" she cried out.

She set the hat on top of her head and the sorting hat cried out "RAVENCLAW!" Maria walked over to the Ravenclaw table and waited for someone else to get sorted also.

Selena nudged Lily, "I think you next."

"Evans, Lily!" McGonagall cried out.

As she set the hat on her head it took awhile for the to decided, then the hat cried out ," GRYFFINDOR!"

Then it was Selena's turn, she was also sorted into Gryffindor.

Lily and Selena headed to the Gryffindor table and spotted James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. They went over and sat by the boys. Lily sat between Sirius and Peter, while on the other side Selena sat in between James and Remus.

"Congrats! We knew you would make it! " Sirius said sounding corny, " I'm hungry now, hopefully the sorting is over so we can eat!" he said eyeing the other guys. Lily and Selena just looked at each other in confusion then turn to the front of the Great Hall waiting for something to happen.

"Since the sorting is over, Headmaster Dumbledore………" McGonagall was cut off when the sorting hat started to turn scarlet and gold with matching colored feathers behind it. Then in front of the hat was imprinted "MARAUDERS"

The sorting hat began to yell and shout, "WHICH ONE OF YOU GRYFFINDORS DID THIS TO ME!?!?!?"

The whole school began to laugh and even Dumbledore himself was trying to hold in his laughter in. McGonagall picked up the sorting hat and changed him back and took the hat and the stool to the side of the hall. Dumbledore stood up and said a few words, like he had said during the starting of summer school, and with one swift movement from his hand a feast appeared in front of them. Sirius and Peter grabbed all the food they could get there hands on, while Lily and Selena just starred at the two hungry boys.

"Who played that trick on the poor hat?" Lily asked, "But I must admit it was funny."

All four boys looked at one another with spreading wide grins on each on of their faces.

"We're the "Marauders," James spoke up. Lily and Selena were amazed.

"You did that?!" Selena said. "How?! And where did you come up with the name, Marauders?" eyeing James.

"Well, we've been doing pranks since second year, and we just decided to callour group the Marauders." James said.

"Yeah, mostly everyone knows our group, except for the teachers and the Slytherins," Peter said peas and chicken flew out of his mouth.

"We even have nicknames for all four of us," Remus said, " I'm Moony, James is Prongs, Sirius is Padfoot, and Peter is Wormtail."

"Moony, Prongs, Padfoot, and Wormtail? Umm…ok," Lily said in confusion.

Everyone in the Great Hall finished eating; the prefects stood up and led the first years to their commons rooms. James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter showed Lily and Selena the way to the Gryffindor commom room.

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As all six of them stopped in front of a portrait on it was a fairly large lady in a pink dress. She looked at all six of them and began to speak, "PASSWORD?"

Remus said something and the portrait swung open. They all entered into the common room, everything was in scarlet and gold just like the sorting hat had turned during the end of sorting. The boys showed them the girl's dormitory and went to theirs.

Lily and Selena went inside and saw a circular room with four beds, there was one window Lily went to the one beside the window and Selena followed by going to the one left of her. All their belongings were already placed beside their beds. They weren't the only ones there; two girls were already sitting on their beds also, which were directly across from them. One of the girls looked at Lily and Selena.

" Hi! I'm Arabella Figg and this is Gwen Garcia," she spoke.

" Hey, "I'm Selena Stone and this is Lily Evans, were new," she said.

"Gwen here is too. She was in Hufflepuff since her third year then left her fourth year to Durmstrang and she came back at end of fourth. She got sorted again into Gryffindor," Arabella said.

Arabella has long dark brown curly hair, brownish, blue eyes, and was a little shorter than Lily. The other girl Gwen had blonde hair, icy blue eyes, and was the same height as Arabella. They seemed like really nice girls compared to Maria. All four girls began to talk and began friends. Arabella and Gwen knew the Marauders and said they played a lot of pranks, especially on the Slytherins.  They talked about the guys for a while. Remus was cutest out of the four, he was smart and shy, which made attracted girls to him. Sirius was the funny one, he was Gyrffindor's team beater, crazy at times, and was into pranks more then anyone in the group. As for James, hewasn't as cute as Remus, but girls found him attracted because he was the Gryffindor's Quidditch team star. His position was seeker. As for Peter, he was just a follower in the group. When it came to girls none of the guys really dated since they were all too caught up with pranks.

"So, Selena your from America?" Gwen spoke.

"Yeah I am, you are too aren't you?" Selena replied.

"Yes, but what is your nationality?" Gwen asked. All three girls were curious since Lily never asked Selena before.

"Oh… I'm Pinay… you know Filipino? The Philippines?" Selena said hoping they would get it, " And English, well on my dad's side.

"Oh, that's cool," Arabella said, "Well, we all better get to bed so we get up for our classes in the morning." 

All four girls went to sleep.

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Lily, Selena, Arabella, and Gwen became closer through the first two months of Hogwarts. They had all their classes together, even with the Marauders. The girls grew closer to them also, and were part of their group, not exactly in the Marauders, but just a group together.

As for the four girls they were very pretty. Lily was very smart, excellent in charms, fire tempered like her hair, not many people disliked her, even the Slytherins liked her and she didn't take crap from anyone. Selena was the girl you could come up for advice about anything, even was considered one of the guys; she was smart, excellent in transfiguration, and goofy. Arabella was the girl you feared the most out of the group, everyone backed away from when you tried to start something with her friends, and she had a thing for herbology. Then there was Gwen, she was the sweet one out of the group, very shy, but kind of a ditz at times, and her favorite class was Care of Magical Creatures. They were all very different, but managed to keep together.

Time went on and a few people from the group began to date. Gwen was going out with Jared Zanbini, a fifth year Ravenclaw, he was very serious, which scared the girls. James was going out with a fifth year Ravenclaw too, Patricia Patil, she was kind of stuck up. Plus, Sirius was going out with someone too, none other than the wonderful Maria Lopez, the girls couldn't see why. None of the others went out with anyone, maybe on dates to Hogsmeade, but that was about it.

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After classes there were Quidditch tryouts for the Gryffindor team at the north side of the quidditch field. James and Sirius were picking the teams. Remus and Peter didn't want to try out so they decided to watch the tryouts. As for Lily, Selena, Arabella, and Gwen they decided not to try out either, but since there were going to be outside the rest of the day they brought their brooms to fly around while they watched the tryouts with Remus and Peter. All of them headed to the quiddtich field.  Remus and Peter sat down at one of the north high benches.

"Hey Remus, were going to go teach Gwen and Lily how to fly," Arabella said.

"Yeah we'll be back. So don't miss us too much!" Selena pouted. Remus just laughed.

The girls headed to the south part of the field.

"OK. All you have to do is put your right hand over the broom and say UP!" Arabella said.

Gwen and Lily did as Arabella said. Lily had gotten her broom in her hand the first time, but Gwen's broom would move around on the ground avoiding her hand. It took about fifth teen tries to get into her hand.

"Now you get on the broom and once you have a firm grip push up a little, then float there for a while and go back down," Selena said.

Lily and Gwen both did it as she said and to everyone surprise, it only took Gwen two times to get on correctly. Lily was pretty good at it, she felt so free when she was flying. She flew around the quidditich field a couple of times, and then she came across the tryouts. From afar Lily spotted James and it seemed as if he was looking at her. James waved at her and she waved back. Soon, Selena and came flew towards her.

"Whoa! You can see the try outs from here!" Selena said. Lily just smiled.

"Yeah it's a nice view from here, where's Arabella and Gwen?" Lily asked.

"Gwen got tired of flying so they went back and sat with Remus and Peter," Selena pointed at the group. They spotted Lily and Selena and waved.

"Lets go back down with the gang," Selena said. Lily nodded and they flew down towards the group.

As they flew down, they spotted a new person sitting there. Lily and Selena never saw her before, but they saw her robe with the navy blue and bronze tie, 'she must be a Ravenclaw,' they thought. She had long dirty blonde hair with blue eyes.

"Hey! Lily and Selena this is Adriana Jordon, she's a fifth Ravenclaw," Arabella introduced her to them, "Adriana this is Lily Evans and Selena Stone."

"Hi!" both of them said together.

"Did you try out for your team?" Lily asked.

"No, I'm just waiting for my boyfriend. You know team quidditch captain, Eric Wood. I'm suppose to meet him after try outs," Adriana said.

Eric headed over to the group. He had sandy brown hair, brown eyes and was about James height. "Hey guys! " he said and softly kissed Adriana, "So you all met Adriana I see," Everyone nodded, " Well, we better get going .See you guys later."

They watched the couple leave. As they left, James and Sirius came over to the group.

"Man…that was horrible… never have I seen people at try outs that couldn't even handle the quaffle," Sirius said while looking at the field.

"Don't worry Padfoot, there were a few that were good, beside we only need three chasers," James said and turned to Lily, " You fly very well. Was that you first time," he smiled at her

Lily could fell herself go red, " Yes, that was my first time. I have excellent teachers," looking at Arabella and Selena, they just smiled.

Peter got up and spoke "Lets all go back to the common room it's freezing!" everyone agreed, so they went back to the castle. As they were walking back, they saw Maria going to the Ravenclaw common room. She hugged Sirius and kissed him, and right before she walked off she shot a glare at Lily, Selena, Gwen, and Arabella.

Gwen turned to the group," You guys go ahead I'm meeting Jared in the Library," Gwen said walking away.

"Yeah I'll see you guys later too. I'm meeting Patricia somewhere," James said.

"And where is some where Prongs?" Sirius said winking at James.

"SHOVE IT PADFOOT!" James shouted, "I'll see you guys later," then he walked off.

So, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily, Selena and Arabella, went to the common room and sat on the couches in front of the fireplace. They all talked for a while, Peter and Arabella fell asleep after awhile, then Remus. Sirius, Lily and Selena were still awake.

"You know you two I'm going to sleep now. So, don't try to pull a prank on any of us while were sleeping!" Lily said glaring at Sirius.

"Oh don't worry I won't," he said making a puppy face. Lily threw a pillow at his head. Lily and Selena just laughed. Lily fell asleep in seconds.

"You know that really hurt," Sirius said while rubbing his head.

"Stop being a baby!" Selena said laughing, "Well, what are we suppose to do? I'm not even tired yet."

"Since everyone is asleep, can we go by the stairs? I need to talk to you about something," Sirius said. He looked very nervous.

"Yeah sure," she said in confusion. She never saw Sirius in this state especially just to talk to her about something.

Selena and Sirius walked by the stairs. He turned to face her.

"Selena… uhh…I–

"This is about Maria isn't it?" Selena cut him off.

"Yeah… it is, but how did you know?" he asked her.

"I just know these things," she smiled.

"Ok… well, I don't know what to do about Maria. She's creeping me out! She is so clingy, jealous, and stuck- up. Plus she doesn't like any of my friends!"

"You can't be serious, then why did you go out with the first place?!"

" Well, she was nice and cool to be around with at first then, into the relationship she started to change," he said pouting, " Plus, I am Sirius, what a friend you are."

"Shut up… well, why don't you talk to her?"

"Hmmm…  I've already tried it," he said looking at the group sleeping.

"Ok…. I as much as I love Maria and everything, I don't want to see her or you hurt," she said sarcastically, "I really think you should break it off now, before she gets more attached to you."

"Ok… I'll do it tomorrow, thanks for talking to me," he said and gave Selena a hug.

Selena and Sirius stayed up the whole night talking by the stairs, watching Remus drool and the others sleep.

"Selena?" Sirius said.

"Yeah?"

"Lily likes James doesn't she?" he said looking Selena in the eyes.

"Is it that obvious? She hasn't told me, but I can tell she does," trying to avoid making contact with his eyes.

"Yeah… she always blushes when he talks to her, but I think old Jamsie boy feels the same way about her," he said spreading a wide grin across his face, "I think we should play matchmaker."

"No, Sirius. First off, isn't James going out with Patricia?" she asked

"Yes and no, he's breaking up with her tonight," he said grinning.

"Well, in that case. Alright lets do it!" she said.

Right after Selena had finish saying her last words. Someone walked up to them.

"Lets do what?"

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Well…. That's Chapter 3. I updated this one too. Sorry it's so long. Hopefully it makes sense to all yall! Well, please REVIEW and be NICE! THANX! : )