A/N- Hey people! I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. I'm trying to make each chapter longer than the one before it. So far, I think I've done that. And yes, I know that I need to make the chapters longer. I'm going to try. Hope you enjoy this chapter! Please review! I know you can do it!!!

Also, Lauren Unluck 13- Yes, I know that 7 chapters is a lot when I haven't even got her to Hogwarts yet, I mean she hasn't even met the Marauders yet! You also said that she shouldn't care about what she wears and makeup and everything, but if you hadn't already noticed, Lily is very mature. She already knows several different languages, and if that doesn't show a bit of maturity and self-discipline, I don't know what does. And she puts on make-up because her grandma got her make-up lessons for Christmas or her birthday, and Lily figures that since she knows how to put on makeup, she might as well do it all the time.

And for those of you who have read the fifth book, me and my friend have sort of started this little club called "Bellatrix Must Die" Club. Of course, you would have to have read the whole 5th book to understand what we mean. I'm the president and Yami-Jenny (her penname here on ff.net) is the vice-president. If you would like to join email me! Later!

So She's in Gryffindor, Right?

As Lily sat in her seat, waiting for the train to lurch, signaling that it had arrived at the station, she started to wonder what it would really be like at Hogwarts. Would she have lots of friends? Would she get good grades? What house would she be in? What kind of homework would she get? What if everyone hated her? All of these thoughts were running through her head as the train suddenly lurched to a stop and she again fell from the seat. She stood quickly, said good-bye to Moony, Stormy Nights, and Midnight, and headed out the door. She followed the large group of students heading out of the train and onto the Hogsmeade Station Platform.

"Firs' Years over here," a deep, booming voice called somewhere towards Lily's left, "Firs' years come over here!"

Lily went over to the left, where she thought the voice was coming from and saw an enormously tall man, with a big, bushy, black beard, and long, bushy, unruly, black hair. When a large group of people, that looked to be about her age, gathered around the tall man, he told them to follow him, and led the way to a dock full of boats.

"Four to per boat now," he said loudly, "Me name is Hagrid by the wa'."

Lily climbed into the boat nearest to her, and hoped against hope that someone she knew would get into that boat. She decided, that just in case someone she didn't know got into the boat, that she would sit at the head of the boat, so that she wouldn't have to look at them.

"Hey Lily," A familiar voice said from behind her, "Could we share the boat with you?"

She turned around and saw Remus Lupin, standing beside three other boys that she had never met before.

"Sure Remus, that's fine with me," she answered, smiling, "Unless the boat has any objections. Do you think it does?"

"I dunno, guess we'll have to see whether it tips us out now won't we?" Remus replied, while the other boys were laughing, and sitting down on the benches, "How was your summer?"

"It could've been better. Like if it had been Petunia free," she answered, "And if I hadn't been grounded the whole summer, I might have been able to leave the house more. But other than that it was okay. I read all the school books at least twice, and when my parents weren't home, I'd sneak down stairs and watch a movie."

"Well, your summer sounds better then mine," said one of the boys. He had spiky blue-black hair, and bright blue eyes, that almost always seemed to be laughing, "The name is Sirius by the way, Sirius Black. Anyway, at least you got to leave the house. My parents wouldn't even let me leave the house since we live in a muggle neighborhood. The only fun I had was when I went over to one of their houses. And I can't believe you actually read one of the school books. I didn't even want to buy them, but my mum insisted that we get them."

"I guess my summer was better than yours, wasn't it?" she replied, a bit grim, "Anyway, nice to meet, Sirius is it?"

"Yes, but don't let the name fool you," one of the other boys said. He had dark brown hair, that stuck up in the oddest places, hazel eyes, and gold- rimmed glasses. "He practically never acts serious. But then again, if he did, he'd probably wouldn't be my best friend, because I can't stand boring, serious people. Oh. James Potter, nice to meet you."

"Hello, nice to meet you as well," she replied, "And you're probably-"

SPLASH!!!

The boat tipped over and Lily slipped out of the boat and into the cold, murky, blue-green water. Her robes were heavy and she couldn't kick her legs hard enough to break the surface. She was now sinking lower, her lungs were aching, and she couldn't think properly anymore. Then she felt a tug on the shoulder of her robes, or, at least she thought she did, but it might have just been her ex-oxygened brain playing tricks on her.

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"LILY!" Remus called to her as she slipped out of the boat, "Hurry, we need to bring her back up."

"There's no way I'm going in there," the third boy said. He had mouse-brown hair, a small, pointed noise, watery blue/grey eyes, and was a bit on the plump side. "The water is cold and dark, and what if the Giant Squid comes around."

"Oh shut it Peter," Sirius said angrily, "I'll get her."

"I'll come with you," James said hurriedly.

They both jumped into the water, head first trying to see Lily in the murky water. Sirius spotted her, or rather, he spotted her fiery red hair, which was hard to miss even in the dark water. He swam down to her as quickly as he could and grabbed the shoulders of her robes and started to swim back to the surface. James hurried over and helped as well, and soon they had Lily back up to the surface again.

"Remus," James called, "We got her, help us get her back in the boat."

Some of the people in the boats close to them helped as well, since the loud splash had caught their attention.

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'Am I moving? And why do my shoulders hurt. Where am I? Why can't I see? I'm tired, I think I'll just take a little nap' (In case you hadn't noticed, that was Lily thinking)

With combined efforts, they hauled Lily, Sirius, and James back into the boat and then tried to bring Lily back to consciousness.

Finally, after five minutes of nothing, Lily started coughing and sneezing violently.

"Are you okay Lily?" The four boys asked, all looking very concerned.

"Oh ^cough^ yeah, I'm #sneeze# just ^cough^ dandy #sneeze sneeze#," She spluttered, rather annoyed, but still thankful that they saved her. She launched herself at them, and enveloped them each in a hug, thanking them profusely. "Thank you #sneeze# Thank you ^cough^ Thank you ^cough^ Thank you #sneeze# ^cough^! You guys are #sneeze# the best friends ^cough^ I've ever #sneeze# had ^cough^!"

"Any time Lily," Sirius said, happily, "But, we'd rather not have to jump into the Great Lake again, it's rather inconvenient."

"Well," she replied, her coughing and sneezing fits over with, "I didn't exactly plan to be dumped into the lake. But I can't promise you that I'll never do it again, because that happens to me a lot."

"Alright, as long as you don't do it on purpose, we don't mind," James added, looking up he said suddenly, "Hey look, there's Hogwarts!"

They turned to look at the dinosauric castle a short distance away from them. It was extremely tall, with many brightly lit windows, and over a dozen towers and turrets. Soon, they were at the dock, and the four boys helped Lily out of the boat, because now she was shivering profusely. They followed Hagrid up the stone steps, and into the giant stone structure.

After leading them inside, Hagrid waved goodbye and went through a large wooden door, and behind many chattering students were heard. Then, a young woman, with a beautiful smile, walked up to them and waved for silence.

"First years, I am Professor McGonagall," she said loudly so that they could all hear her, "In a few moments, I will be leading you through those doors, where you will be sorted into your houses. There are four houses- Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. The people in your house will be like your family. You will be spending most of your free time in your house. Now follow me, and you will be sorted."

They obeyed, and followed her through the same doors that Hagrid had gone through earlier. On the other side of the doors, were five tables. One was where the staff was sitting, and the other four were where the students were sitting.

Professor McGonagall led them towards the staff table, where she had set down a ratty, old, black wizard's hat on a rickety stool. She picked up a long role of parchment and addressed the first years, with a smile on her face. "When I call your name, come forward and place the Sorting Hat on your head."

Before she started calling out names, the Sorting Hat burst into a long song that described the qualities each house strove for and that all the students should stand together whenever there was trouble.

After it had finished singing its song, the sorting hat fell silent. It seemed to be waiting for Professor McGonagall to start calling out the names.

"Black, Narcissa."

A girl with very short, platinum blonde hair, with deep grey eyes walked up to the stool and placed the hat gingerly on her head. It took a few seconds and then the Sorting Hat yelled "Slytherin!"

The table on the far left clapped loudly as Narcissa walked over to the Slytherin table briskly and sat down by a girl with brown hair, and heavily lidded eyes.

After that, Sirius was put into Gryffindor, Mareena Chang and Lily's friend George Davies were sent to Ravenclaw, and then Amos Diggory and Kayleigh Elton were both put into Hufflepuff.

Lily was terribly nervous. McGonagall was on the "E's" now. She would be sorted soon, and her nervousness would melt away, at least she hoped it would. What if the people in her house didn't like her? "Well," she thought, "At least I know that Sirius, Remus, James, and Peter will always be my friends."

"Figg, Arabella," McGonagall called out.

"What!" Lily thought, "McGonagall skipped me! Does that mean that I'm not supposed to be here?"

Arabella was sorted into Gryffindor, so was Remus, James and Peter, then Jackie George, Lucius, and Severus Snape to Slytherin, Alana to Ravenclaw, and Ashley Sprouts to Hufflepuff.

Lily was the last one standing there. She wasn't sure whether McGonagall would call her name, and she was debating whether she should just turn around and run right out of the hall when..

"Evans, Lily." McGonagall called out. Lily felt a wave of relief flood over her. She walked up to the stool, put the hat on and to her surprise, that hat started to her, or at least, talking at her.

"You're a tricky person aren't you," The hat said thoughtfully, ""You're brave, so how about Gryffindor? No, you're loyal, just, patient and unafraid of toil, so maybe Hufflepuff would be better. But then again, you're very wise and can learn easily, so maybe Ravenclaw then? No, no NO! You're very cunning and know how to get what you want when you want it, so maybe it better be Slytherin? Oh, I just don't... I'm not sure."

Then, the Sorting Hat shouted, "Hufflepuff! No wait, better be Ravenclaw! No, no, Slytherin! Wait, Gryffindor!"

Then Dumbledore got up, and took a very confused Lily to sit at the Gryffindor table, where he knew for a fact that she had friends.

"The Sorting Hat is undecided," he announced to the whispering crowd of students, "It cannot decide which House Lily Evans should be put in to. Because of this, she will switch houses every week. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin in that order. It might be hard for her to adjust to this strange schedule, so please be polite and nice to her. Anyway, let the feast begin."

Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter all hurried over to Lily who was looking incalculably confused.

"This is weird," Sirius said after they had all sat down around Lily, "I don't think the Sorting Hat has ever been undecided before."

"It hasn't," Lily replied automatically, "I read about the Sorting in Hogwarts a History, and nothing like this has ever happened."

"I still can't believe you read the school books," Sirius said, completely changing the subject.

"This is so strange," Remus finally said at a loss for any helpful words, "Maybe you should eat, it might help with the shock."

After everyone had finished eating, Dumbledore stood up and said, "You are all excused, all of you, that is, except Lily Evans."

As she walked up to the staff table, there were many whispered conversations going on around her. "So, she's in Gryffindor, Right?"

"Lily," Dumbledore said gently, with a slight twinkle in his sky blue eyes, "This is a new and different situation. As I'm sure you already know from reading Hogwarts A History, this sort of thing has never happened before. As I said earlier, you are going to switch from house to house every week. I know this will be hard, but maybe this will help with inter-House unity."

"Now, for the first week of school you will stay in Gryffindor Tower, the second Hufflepuff, the third Ravenclaw, the fourth Slytherin and so on. Your things will magically be transferred to the next house you will be staying in n the last day of each week."

"The password to Gryffindor Tower is "Warbeak". It is on the sixth floor. When you get to the sixth floor, go to the portrait of a lady in a pink dress and give her the password. I'd love to chat more Lily, but my brother has just sent me some socks and I need to add them to my collection. So, goodnight and good luck."

Dumbledore stood up, walked towards the doors and then gave her a little wave before walking gracefully all the way out of the hall.

Even after Dumbledore's little speech, Lily was still very confused and worried. She wasn't completely sure what to do, but then she remembered what Dumbledore had said about where Gryffindor tower was.

Then she walked out of the Great Hall and to the nearest staircase. She walked, and walked until she finally reached the sixth floor. She looked up at all the portraits on the wall, and saw that they were walking into other portraits and conversing with one another. Before tonight, she would have been completely surprised, but after a hat trying to decide where she belonged and then couldn't, nothing was going to surprise her anymore.

When she reached the portrait of the lady in the pink dress, she wasn't sure whether she should just say the password, or wait to see whether the portrait was going to do something first. The lady in the pink dress, who was rather fat as well, looked down at Lily and seemed to sense Lily's question. ""Password dear?"

Lily looked up at the Fat Lady and said in a rather bored but worried voice, "Warbeak."

Then the Fat Lady smiled, and said in a motherly voice, "Off you go dear, you'll need to be up bright and early for class tomorrow." With that, the Fat Lady swung open and let Lily in. ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* ^ Author's Note- Hey people! Did you like it!!! I worked hard on it because I wanted it to be long. And, I know it took me a while to update, but I finally moved to Washington! So, I'll hopefully be able to update more. The only reason I wouldn't update would be if I met a hott guy in my neighborhood, but I doubt that will happen. So, Ill be working on the next chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!!! I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!!!