Chapter 2, Train Ride
A/N This one also has a bit of language, so don't bug me you have been
warned! On with the story!!!
The time went quickly for Lily. She mostly spent her time locked in her room reading her books and learning spells. Finally the day came when Lily is supposed to go to Hogwarts.
"Lily! Hurry up! And get down here!" Her father called up to her from the stairs, unfortunately for Lily didn't hear the slur of drunkenness in his voice.
"Coming, Dad hang on." Lily called down, as she put her last book into her backpack. The rest of Lily's things were already by the door. She gave her room one last look before she turned off the light and shut the door behind her. Lily turned around and came face to face with her father. Lily gave a small squeak and then said. "Oh dad its you! What's up?"
Lily's dad just looked at her angrily. "You are not going to your school. You will stay here!" He said crisply, but Lily wasn't fooled, she could smell the alcohol on his breath.
"Dad go away! Your drunk so don't mess with me." Lily said calmly. Her father in response raised his hand and smacked Lily across the cheek. Lily held her cheek in surprise, then she dodged the next hit, hit her own father in the stomach and headed for her room. Her father regained his balance, but stumbled over the table that held a ugly vase, causing it to fall to the floor, which shattered on impact. Her bent down and picked up the largest, and sharpest pieces of the broken pottery. Slowly he advanced on his daughter, who was busy trying to get her jammed door open.
"You are not going to that ridiculous school." He said without slurring.
Lily turned around, scared, and whispered. "Dad just let me through."
He shook his head and grabbed Lily by the arm. Lily looked under her father's arm, to her things that were down by the stairs. Her beautiful black, hawk was staring up at her, with his large red eyes. Suddenly the cage started to shake, and her bird, Never-moe let out an ear piercing scream. The cage door, that Lily was staring so hard at, popped open. Never- moe flew out and headed straight for Lily's father, who turned to see what Lily was looking at. He ducked, just in time, and Lily saw her chance to break away. She wrenched her arm from her father's grasp and ran for the stairs. Unfortunately, her father saw this and reached out to grab her, forgetting what was in his hand.
Suddenly, Lily's arm was in major pain. She was almost to scared to look down, and regretted it when she did. Her arm was already bloody, and there was a gash about four inches on her arm. Lily looked up at her father, with terror in her eyes. Her dad looked at his daughter, then the broken vase piece, and back at Lily. Slowly he dropped the vase and staggered into his room.
Lily looked at the closed door with a mixture of terror, relief, and disgust. Then she turned around, ran down the stairs, gathered her things, and left the house. Heading for the woods and to Remus'.
Lily emerged from the woods and saw Remus loading his car. "Hey Remus! I haven't see you in forever! Um.. can I get a ride with you, my dad isn't a stable driver right now." She called when she had gotten closer.
"Sure, I'll just go tell my mom." Remus trailed off as his eyes left Lily's face and traveled to her arm. "What happened?"
"My dad got drunk and he knocked over a vase. I don't want to get into the bloody details." She said, then nervously laughed at her joke.
"My mom isn't a nurse but we have a first aid kit in the bathroom. We'll get some gauze and wrap that up. Come on." Remus said while pulling Lily into his house. Reluctantly she allowed him to pull her into the bathroom and wrap her arm up. "Remus! Are you ready?" Remus' mom yelled.
"Yea I'll be down in a second." He called back. "Come on we better no be late." And with that they ran out of the bathroom and bolted out the door. Mrs. Lupin was waiting in the car when they got there, they hopped in the back seat.
"Lily!" Remus' mother said in surprise. "What are you doing here? I thought your dad was taking you."
"Lily's dad got tied up and I said it was all right if we took her." Remus answered. As they pulled out of the driveway, and head to King's crossing.
"Mrs. Lupin? How do you get to our platform? I mean, is there such thing as platform 9 ¾?" Lily asked while looking down at her ticket.
Mrs. Lupin chuckled and said. "I guess you'll have to wait, its kind of hard to explain." Lily just shrugged and watched her town fly by.
Finally they stopped at the train station and hauled their things out. Remus and Lily followed Mrs. Lupin's brisk walk to platform nine.
"All right, now this is how you get into your platform." Mrs. Lupin said when they stopped in front of the barrier between platform nine and ten. "You must go through that barrier. Best do it at a run if your scared, but it is pretty easy." She said with a knowing smile.
"I'll go first." Lily said.
"All right now sweetie, don't be scared that you'll run into the wall, just close you eyes and run." Lily nodded and gave Mrs. Lupin a hug. Who then said. "See you at Christmas dear." Lily smiled and said goodbye, then turned towards the barrier. She started walking towards it slightly scared but as the brick wall loomed closer her fear grew. Lily broke out at a light jog and closed her eyes when she was about to hit the wall. Lily's eyes flew open and she gasped at the sight before her.
Right in front of her was a large scarlet train, all around her were people saying goodbye to families and meeting old and new friends. Lily walked forwards slightly and turned around in time to see Remus come through the wall, above it a sign said "Platform 9 ¾" Lily looked at Remus and laughed. He had lipstick kisses all over his face.
"What?" Remus asked, as Lily pointed to his face, she took out her hand- held mirror and handed it to Remus, still laughing. Remus took the mirror and looked at his reflection. He turned beat-red as he tried to wipe off the lipstick. Lily laughed and pulled him to the bathroom.
"Go wash it off." She said. Remus gave her an extremely relieved look, said his thanks, and headed into the bathroom. Lily leaned up against the wall and watched people go by. Suddenly someone was yelled and attacked Lily.
"LILY!!!!" The boy screamed, as they toppled to the ground.
"What the --"
"Don't say that word, Lily! That's bad!!" Some one else said., his voice sounded strangely familiar. James. That must mean then one on top of me is. Oh great! Lily groaned at the thought.
"Sirius get off me!!!" Lily yelled.
"Aw Lily doesn't want to get down and dirty with me?" He asked twisting around to look at her face.
"Well when you put it that way." She trailed off pretending to think about it. "No!"
James laughed and then suddenly asked. "Hey where's Remus?" Lily laughed at the suddenness of the question and pointed towards the bathroom. Sirius got a wicked smile on his face before he got off Lily and disappeared into the bathroom.
"Finally." Lily said as she got up, a minute later, after several second of running water, someone screamed. James' smile became as wicked as Sirius' but dropped like a fly when both boys came out of the bathroom.
Remus came out first, dry and smiling, then came Sirius, dripping wet and grumpy.
"Sirius! You.look.like a.wet dog!" Lily said between gasps. Sirius growled, like a dog, at her and tried to wrapped her in a big hug. (A/N Look I'm foreshadowing!! Wow!) Lily ducked and Sirius ran into James.
"Ugh! Get off me Sirius!" James yelled, Sirius backed off and smiled at James.
"Hey where's Peter?" Remus asked. Sirius looked around and said. "I don't know."
"Oh well, no big loss. Lets get on the train." Lily said as she started pulling her things towards the train. They choose the last compartment and filed in. Lily sat next to the window.
"Hey guys, want to go find Peter?" Sirius asked.
"Sure, you coming too, Lily?" Remus asked. Lily settled down in her seat before saying. "No thanks. I'll just read my book here." The two boys followed Sirius out as Lily took out her book. She wasn't even through reading the first page before the door opened again. "You boys back already?" She asked, not even bothering to look up from her book.
"You could say something like that." A slimy voice said. Lily's eyes jumped up from the book and looked into the steel gray eyes of Malfoy.
"What do you want?" Lily snapped.
Malfoy pretended to be hurt and snapped back. "Why would you think I would ever want anything from you, Mudblood. I just wanted to pay you back from that day at Diagon Alley." He slid into the seat next to her, Lily tried to scoot as far from him as possible but the wall was in the way. "Aw, is the little Mudblood scared?" He asked mockingly.
"No I just don't want your dirty filth on my clothes." Lily said. "Now go away! Its impossible for you to beat me, I won't let it." Malfoy shook his head sadly as he draped his arm over Lily's shoulders.
"Oh Lily have you met my friend Severus Snape?" Malfoy said as he gestured towards a tall boy with greasy black hair and black eyes. He looked at Lily and gave her and awkward bow. Lily choked back a laugh and said. "How about this, You get your pussy whipped, skanky, bitch ass out of here and never bother me again."
Malfoy looked at Lily in mixture surprise and anger, his once pretty features were an ugly mask. "You mudblood have no right to say that to be, I'd best beware if I were you. You little friends won't be around forever, just like they're not here now." He said angrily, with that he stood up and walked out. Lily returned to her book thinking Snap had followed Malfoy out.
Instead of quite Snape sat next to her, making her jump in surprise. "Did I scare you?" He asked smugly.
"I thought you had left, following Malfoy. How do you expect anyone to see you if you insist on standing in Malfoy's shadow." Lily said roughly, looking up at the boy. (A/N Sorry I was watching 1776, good movie.)
"You know I don't care if you insult me, I like a girl with fire in her. Why don't you and me meet up in the bathroom in five minutes?" He asked in a pathetic attempt in trying to sound sexy as he put her hand on her leg, to high for his own good.
Lily tried not to gag and in an icy voice and stare, she said. "You know playing with fire will get you burned so I suggest you remove your hand from my leg."
Snape trembled slightly but did not move his hand. "Now don't be like that baby." He said. Lily looked him right in the eyes, her green eyes flashed dangerously, as she reached down and grabbed his hand, he smiled slightly. Lily smiled and patted the side of his face. His smile got even bigger as his dirty thoughts raced through his perverted mind. "Yea, so lets just forget about the bathroom and start right here." He said and he leaned forward to kiss her.
The hand that held Snape's lashed out, forcing it to hit the seat and sprain it. With her other hand she curled it into a fist and punched Snape in the eye. Snape pulled back, as he cried out. "What did you do, you bitch!" Snape grabbed his eye with his hand. "You damn mudblood!"
Right as he said that last part the door opened once again. This time an older boy with a 'Head-boy' badge stepped in, behind him were three girls who were about Lily's age. "I heard there might be some trouble in here obviously they were right. So what happened here?" He asked.
Lily stood up and said. "Well you see this boy Severus Snape, came in here and started bothering me. Making rude comments, asking if I'd meet him in the bathroom, and placing his hand on my leg, I gave him plenty of warnings but he didn't listen to me, so I gave him a lesson I didn't need to explain."
The guy chuckled and said. "All right, Severus, come with me and we'll get you cleaned up. You two will have to see Professor Dumbledore after the feast." Lily nodded to the older boy as he lead Snape out of the compartment. The three girls behind him walked in.
The first one said. "Hi, I'm Mercy, and this is Arabella and Shasha." Lily looked at the girl slightly startled by her hair, it was purple and her eyes which were sliver, not gray like Malfoy's, and they shimmered in excitement. She had on red baggy pants and a black tank top with a red knit over shirt. The other two had on similar outfits only Arabella was in blue and she had blond hair and blue eyes, and Shasha was in a dark blue outfit and she had brown hair and hazel eyes. They were all around Lily's height.
"My name's Lily, want to sit down?" She asked. The three girls sat down Mercy sat beside Lily and the other two on the other seat.
"So Lily are you a muggle?" Shasha asked, for once Lily was glad Remus gave her a crash course in wizard's language.
"How'd you guess?" Lily asked slightly taken aback. "Am I that obvious?"
Alisa smiled and said. "No it was you book. Most wizards and witches wouldn't read that or even know who wrote it. I'm a muggle too."
"Oh have you read this book?" Lily asked.
Shasha nodded and said. "Yea I've read all of them but book six. The last one."
"I've got that one if you ever want to borrow it." Lily said. Arabella leaned closer and asked. "What's that book called?"
"The Last Vampire." Lily and Shasha said at the same time.
Mercy laughed. "Cool! Surround sound!" Arabella gave Mercy a puzzled look. "Its a muggle thing." Then to Lily she said. "Arabella is from a wizarding town, no muggles live there at all. I on the other hand am from a wizarding family from a muggle town. I got the best of both worlds."
Lily smiled and nodded before asking. "So what house do you want to be in? I've read so much about Hogwarts."
"Gryffindor!" Mercy and Arabella said.
"Ravenclaw!" Shasha said. "How about you?"
"I don't really know they all have their strong points, but I guess if it came down to it, it would have to be Gryffindor. Wouldn't it be dreadful to have to be put into Slytherin?" Lily said, all the girls agreed and the changed the subject to one of their families. At least until the door burst opened again for the third time.
"Hey look! Lily multiplied." Sirius said standing at the door.
"Shut up, Sirius! Boys this is Mercy, Shasha, and Arabella. Girls these are- "
"The Maurders, at your service." James cut in and Sirius gave the girls a deep bow. Arabella and Shasha giggled, while Mercy pretended to gag and Lily laughed in agreement. Sirius looked up in time to see the end of Mercy's skit and stuck his tongue out at her. Mercy just smiled sweetly. James and Remus sat down and Sirius stepped into the corner. Leaving the door being held open by no one other then.
The time went quickly for Lily. She mostly spent her time locked in her room reading her books and learning spells. Finally the day came when Lily is supposed to go to Hogwarts.
"Lily! Hurry up! And get down here!" Her father called up to her from the stairs, unfortunately for Lily didn't hear the slur of drunkenness in his voice.
"Coming, Dad hang on." Lily called down, as she put her last book into her backpack. The rest of Lily's things were already by the door. She gave her room one last look before she turned off the light and shut the door behind her. Lily turned around and came face to face with her father. Lily gave a small squeak and then said. "Oh dad its you! What's up?"
Lily's dad just looked at her angrily. "You are not going to your school. You will stay here!" He said crisply, but Lily wasn't fooled, she could smell the alcohol on his breath.
"Dad go away! Your drunk so don't mess with me." Lily said calmly. Her father in response raised his hand and smacked Lily across the cheek. Lily held her cheek in surprise, then she dodged the next hit, hit her own father in the stomach and headed for her room. Her father regained his balance, but stumbled over the table that held a ugly vase, causing it to fall to the floor, which shattered on impact. Her bent down and picked up the largest, and sharpest pieces of the broken pottery. Slowly he advanced on his daughter, who was busy trying to get her jammed door open.
"You are not going to that ridiculous school." He said without slurring.
Lily turned around, scared, and whispered. "Dad just let me through."
He shook his head and grabbed Lily by the arm. Lily looked under her father's arm, to her things that were down by the stairs. Her beautiful black, hawk was staring up at her, with his large red eyes. Suddenly the cage started to shake, and her bird, Never-moe let out an ear piercing scream. The cage door, that Lily was staring so hard at, popped open. Never- moe flew out and headed straight for Lily's father, who turned to see what Lily was looking at. He ducked, just in time, and Lily saw her chance to break away. She wrenched her arm from her father's grasp and ran for the stairs. Unfortunately, her father saw this and reached out to grab her, forgetting what was in his hand.
Suddenly, Lily's arm was in major pain. She was almost to scared to look down, and regretted it when she did. Her arm was already bloody, and there was a gash about four inches on her arm. Lily looked up at her father, with terror in her eyes. Her dad looked at his daughter, then the broken vase piece, and back at Lily. Slowly he dropped the vase and staggered into his room.
Lily looked at the closed door with a mixture of terror, relief, and disgust. Then she turned around, ran down the stairs, gathered her things, and left the house. Heading for the woods and to Remus'.
Lily emerged from the woods and saw Remus loading his car. "Hey Remus! I haven't see you in forever! Um.. can I get a ride with you, my dad isn't a stable driver right now." She called when she had gotten closer.
"Sure, I'll just go tell my mom." Remus trailed off as his eyes left Lily's face and traveled to her arm. "What happened?"
"My dad got drunk and he knocked over a vase. I don't want to get into the bloody details." She said, then nervously laughed at her joke.
"My mom isn't a nurse but we have a first aid kit in the bathroom. We'll get some gauze and wrap that up. Come on." Remus said while pulling Lily into his house. Reluctantly she allowed him to pull her into the bathroom and wrap her arm up. "Remus! Are you ready?" Remus' mom yelled.
"Yea I'll be down in a second." He called back. "Come on we better no be late." And with that they ran out of the bathroom and bolted out the door. Mrs. Lupin was waiting in the car when they got there, they hopped in the back seat.
"Lily!" Remus' mother said in surprise. "What are you doing here? I thought your dad was taking you."
"Lily's dad got tied up and I said it was all right if we took her." Remus answered. As they pulled out of the driveway, and head to King's crossing.
"Mrs. Lupin? How do you get to our platform? I mean, is there such thing as platform 9 ¾?" Lily asked while looking down at her ticket.
Mrs. Lupin chuckled and said. "I guess you'll have to wait, its kind of hard to explain." Lily just shrugged and watched her town fly by.
Finally they stopped at the train station and hauled their things out. Remus and Lily followed Mrs. Lupin's brisk walk to platform nine.
"All right, now this is how you get into your platform." Mrs. Lupin said when they stopped in front of the barrier between platform nine and ten. "You must go through that barrier. Best do it at a run if your scared, but it is pretty easy." She said with a knowing smile.
"I'll go first." Lily said.
"All right now sweetie, don't be scared that you'll run into the wall, just close you eyes and run." Lily nodded and gave Mrs. Lupin a hug. Who then said. "See you at Christmas dear." Lily smiled and said goodbye, then turned towards the barrier. She started walking towards it slightly scared but as the brick wall loomed closer her fear grew. Lily broke out at a light jog and closed her eyes when she was about to hit the wall. Lily's eyes flew open and she gasped at the sight before her.
Right in front of her was a large scarlet train, all around her were people saying goodbye to families and meeting old and new friends. Lily walked forwards slightly and turned around in time to see Remus come through the wall, above it a sign said "Platform 9 ¾" Lily looked at Remus and laughed. He had lipstick kisses all over his face.
"What?" Remus asked, as Lily pointed to his face, she took out her hand- held mirror and handed it to Remus, still laughing. Remus took the mirror and looked at his reflection. He turned beat-red as he tried to wipe off the lipstick. Lily laughed and pulled him to the bathroom.
"Go wash it off." She said. Remus gave her an extremely relieved look, said his thanks, and headed into the bathroom. Lily leaned up against the wall and watched people go by. Suddenly someone was yelled and attacked Lily.
"LILY!!!!" The boy screamed, as they toppled to the ground.
"What the --"
"Don't say that word, Lily! That's bad!!" Some one else said., his voice sounded strangely familiar. James. That must mean then one on top of me is. Oh great! Lily groaned at the thought.
"Sirius get off me!!!" Lily yelled.
"Aw Lily doesn't want to get down and dirty with me?" He asked twisting around to look at her face.
"Well when you put it that way." She trailed off pretending to think about it. "No!"
James laughed and then suddenly asked. "Hey where's Remus?" Lily laughed at the suddenness of the question and pointed towards the bathroom. Sirius got a wicked smile on his face before he got off Lily and disappeared into the bathroom.
"Finally." Lily said as she got up, a minute later, after several second of running water, someone screamed. James' smile became as wicked as Sirius' but dropped like a fly when both boys came out of the bathroom.
Remus came out first, dry and smiling, then came Sirius, dripping wet and grumpy.
"Sirius! You.look.like a.wet dog!" Lily said between gasps. Sirius growled, like a dog, at her and tried to wrapped her in a big hug. (A/N Look I'm foreshadowing!! Wow!) Lily ducked and Sirius ran into James.
"Ugh! Get off me Sirius!" James yelled, Sirius backed off and smiled at James.
"Hey where's Peter?" Remus asked. Sirius looked around and said. "I don't know."
"Oh well, no big loss. Lets get on the train." Lily said as she started pulling her things towards the train. They choose the last compartment and filed in. Lily sat next to the window.
"Hey guys, want to go find Peter?" Sirius asked.
"Sure, you coming too, Lily?" Remus asked. Lily settled down in her seat before saying. "No thanks. I'll just read my book here." The two boys followed Sirius out as Lily took out her book. She wasn't even through reading the first page before the door opened again. "You boys back already?" She asked, not even bothering to look up from her book.
"You could say something like that." A slimy voice said. Lily's eyes jumped up from the book and looked into the steel gray eyes of Malfoy.
"What do you want?" Lily snapped.
Malfoy pretended to be hurt and snapped back. "Why would you think I would ever want anything from you, Mudblood. I just wanted to pay you back from that day at Diagon Alley." He slid into the seat next to her, Lily tried to scoot as far from him as possible but the wall was in the way. "Aw, is the little Mudblood scared?" He asked mockingly.
"No I just don't want your dirty filth on my clothes." Lily said. "Now go away! Its impossible for you to beat me, I won't let it." Malfoy shook his head sadly as he draped his arm over Lily's shoulders.
"Oh Lily have you met my friend Severus Snape?" Malfoy said as he gestured towards a tall boy with greasy black hair and black eyes. He looked at Lily and gave her and awkward bow. Lily choked back a laugh and said. "How about this, You get your pussy whipped, skanky, bitch ass out of here and never bother me again."
Malfoy looked at Lily in mixture surprise and anger, his once pretty features were an ugly mask. "You mudblood have no right to say that to be, I'd best beware if I were you. You little friends won't be around forever, just like they're not here now." He said angrily, with that he stood up and walked out. Lily returned to her book thinking Snap had followed Malfoy out.
Instead of quite Snape sat next to her, making her jump in surprise. "Did I scare you?" He asked smugly.
"I thought you had left, following Malfoy. How do you expect anyone to see you if you insist on standing in Malfoy's shadow." Lily said roughly, looking up at the boy. (A/N Sorry I was watching 1776, good movie.)
"You know I don't care if you insult me, I like a girl with fire in her. Why don't you and me meet up in the bathroom in five minutes?" He asked in a pathetic attempt in trying to sound sexy as he put her hand on her leg, to high for his own good.
Lily tried not to gag and in an icy voice and stare, she said. "You know playing with fire will get you burned so I suggest you remove your hand from my leg."
Snape trembled slightly but did not move his hand. "Now don't be like that baby." He said. Lily looked him right in the eyes, her green eyes flashed dangerously, as she reached down and grabbed his hand, he smiled slightly. Lily smiled and patted the side of his face. His smile got even bigger as his dirty thoughts raced through his perverted mind. "Yea, so lets just forget about the bathroom and start right here." He said and he leaned forward to kiss her.
The hand that held Snape's lashed out, forcing it to hit the seat and sprain it. With her other hand she curled it into a fist and punched Snape in the eye. Snape pulled back, as he cried out. "What did you do, you bitch!" Snape grabbed his eye with his hand. "You damn mudblood!"
Right as he said that last part the door opened once again. This time an older boy with a 'Head-boy' badge stepped in, behind him were three girls who were about Lily's age. "I heard there might be some trouble in here obviously they were right. So what happened here?" He asked.
Lily stood up and said. "Well you see this boy Severus Snape, came in here and started bothering me. Making rude comments, asking if I'd meet him in the bathroom, and placing his hand on my leg, I gave him plenty of warnings but he didn't listen to me, so I gave him a lesson I didn't need to explain."
The guy chuckled and said. "All right, Severus, come with me and we'll get you cleaned up. You two will have to see Professor Dumbledore after the feast." Lily nodded to the older boy as he lead Snape out of the compartment. The three girls behind him walked in.
The first one said. "Hi, I'm Mercy, and this is Arabella and Shasha." Lily looked at the girl slightly startled by her hair, it was purple and her eyes which were sliver, not gray like Malfoy's, and they shimmered in excitement. She had on red baggy pants and a black tank top with a red knit over shirt. The other two had on similar outfits only Arabella was in blue and she had blond hair and blue eyes, and Shasha was in a dark blue outfit and she had brown hair and hazel eyes. They were all around Lily's height.
"My name's Lily, want to sit down?" She asked. The three girls sat down Mercy sat beside Lily and the other two on the other seat.
"So Lily are you a muggle?" Shasha asked, for once Lily was glad Remus gave her a crash course in wizard's language.
"How'd you guess?" Lily asked slightly taken aback. "Am I that obvious?"
Alisa smiled and said. "No it was you book. Most wizards and witches wouldn't read that or even know who wrote it. I'm a muggle too."
"Oh have you read this book?" Lily asked.
Shasha nodded and said. "Yea I've read all of them but book six. The last one."
"I've got that one if you ever want to borrow it." Lily said. Arabella leaned closer and asked. "What's that book called?"
"The Last Vampire." Lily and Shasha said at the same time.
Mercy laughed. "Cool! Surround sound!" Arabella gave Mercy a puzzled look. "Its a muggle thing." Then to Lily she said. "Arabella is from a wizarding town, no muggles live there at all. I on the other hand am from a wizarding family from a muggle town. I got the best of both worlds."
Lily smiled and nodded before asking. "So what house do you want to be in? I've read so much about Hogwarts."
"Gryffindor!" Mercy and Arabella said.
"Ravenclaw!" Shasha said. "How about you?"
"I don't really know they all have their strong points, but I guess if it came down to it, it would have to be Gryffindor. Wouldn't it be dreadful to have to be put into Slytherin?" Lily said, all the girls agreed and the changed the subject to one of their families. At least until the door burst opened again for the third time.
"Hey look! Lily multiplied." Sirius said standing at the door.
"Shut up, Sirius! Boys this is Mercy, Shasha, and Arabella. Girls these are- "
"The Maurders, at your service." James cut in and Sirius gave the girls a deep bow. Arabella and Shasha giggled, while Mercy pretended to gag and Lily laughed in agreement. Sirius looked up in time to see the end of Mercy's skit and stuck his tongue out at her. Mercy just smiled sweetly. James and Remus sat down and Sirius stepped into the corner. Leaving the door being held open by no one other then.