'Lily, don't get embarrassed, nobody likes Snape. My girl, you are on your path to popularity, and I will be right up there with you.' said Alicia.

'The Marauders too.' added Sirius. 'After all, what's more important than popularity?'

Lily grinned. 'Sirius, you're just a big egotistical maniac.'

'Ooh, big words for little people.' teased James. Unfortunately he had hit a delicate spot. Lily had always been short for her age and hated being teased about it.

'What?' she said in a dangerous whisper.

James looked really nervous. She looked really scary right now. Her emerald green eyes looked like they could kill him on the spot, and her long red hair looked like in was on fire. Overall, it was a very scary effect.

'Umm…' he said. 'I..I..umm'

'You don't know what you said? That's pretty stupid James Harold Potter. I know what I'm saying. If you ever, ever so much as refer to my height again, you will face hell. Understand?'

James just nodded. Lily grabbed her stuff and walked out. There was an awkward silence, till Sirius forced a laugh. 'Guess it's her time of the month'

Alicia looked at him. 'She's right. If either of you ever dare to insult us again, what you face will be worse than hell. You'll want to die, but you won't be able to. You'll be begging for us to stop, but we'll just laugh. Like Lily said, understand?'

Sirius and James nodded timidly. Alicia grabbed her stuff and left to find Lily.

Remus said, 'You guys have done some really stupid things, but I swear Sirius, that was the stupidest thing you've ever done.'

'I know.'

The rest of the train ride the Marauders just made small talk, and didn't have nearly as much fun as they did when they were together.

Alicia and lily, however, had loads of fun. When Alicia had picked up her stuff, she had 'borrowed' James' invisibility cloak, and they kept hexing Snape, and his friends. They kept blaming each other, because they couldn't see Alicia and Lily. After they had been sufficiently tortured, Lily and Alicia went to get changed.

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After they got off, they followed a huge man called Hagrid who led them to some boats. It was four to a boat. Alicia and Lily climbed in one. To their disappointment, Sirius and James climbed in next to them. They groaned, loudly and obviously.

'Lily, Ali, look we're sorry ok? We didn't mean to upset you, really.  So can you guys start talking to us again? Please?' James and Sirius both smiled the smiles that would make girls go mad for years to come.

Lily and Ali looked at each other.

'I don't know…' said Lily.

Sirius begged 'Per-lease Lily, we had an absolutely horrible time on the train coz we felt guilty.'

Ali and Lily laughed. 'Well that sure makes me feel better.' said Ali. 'We had the best time. Oh, by the way James, here's your cloak.' She took it out of her bag and handed it to him.

'You took my cloak?' he said.

'Borrowed.' said Lily. 'I think you owed us.'

'True.' said James. 'Will you talk to us again? We don't have to be friends, just on speaking terms.'

'Fine' said Ali. 'On speaking terms.'

Lily and Ali started a conversation, which was about all the hot guys they could see on the lake. James and Sirius pretended to be having a conversation, but they were really listening to the girls. This was pretty much all that happened on the boat trip. After they had seen Professor McGonagall, they were finally let into the great Hall, and sorted. Ali and Lily both got into Gryffindor, as did James, Sirius, Remus and Peter. They were all talked together, until they were too tired and full, so they went to bed. When Ali and Lily opened then door to their room, which consisted of five beds, they saw another girl sitting there.

'Hey.' she said.

'Hi.' said Lily and Alicia.

'Umm listen this is going to sound pretty stupid but I know you were talking to Remus Lupin and do you think maybe you could introduce us?' she said while blushing furiously.

'Sure.' said Lily. 'I'm Lily Evans, and this is Alicia Potter.'

'I'm Arabella Figg.'

'Cool. Anyway, I'm dead. Night people.' said Ali.

'Yeah night.' they were fast asleep when the other two girls came in.