Disclaimer: I'M NOT J.K. ROWLING.and I don't intend to take any credit for
her wonderful books of course. so everyone you don't recognize I made up
with my own awesome imagination. I made up the new sorting hat song with
some help from a friend and of course the school song belongs to J.K.
Rowling. Oh and to:
DoubleD: Thanks! I'm glad you like it. yes Peter is a stinkin cheating rat! DOWN WITH THE RAT! Anyway.he comes in later. much to my disliking but I mean hey he was there of course. he won't have much of a part though of course because I hate him.
Horse_Obsessed 1409 - thanks to you too. um no the marauders won't have to wear girly necklaces haha. that could be kinda funny in a weird way though I guess. but you will find out in this chapter more about it.
Anyway. on with the story!
The Confederates & Marauders: Chapter 5: Fights on the train and encounters
with new people
The rest of the summer passed mostly uneventfully for the families in Godric's Hollow. The boys were the ones that were a part of the prophecy. Needless to say the girls were disgusted with the idea of loving someone like them at the moment. They were also a little jealous of the boy's tattoos on their arms of a griffin to show they were the three boys of the prophecy.
The Marauders barely kept their end of the bargain about pranking the girls for the rest of the summer but somehow they managed and soon it was September 1st, and time to head for Kings Cross Station in London. Everyone rode together in a magically expanded car and left the house a little later than planned thanks to the boy's lack of packing and waiting until the last minute.
"Sirius Orion Black! Get in this car this instance. don't make me come up there young man!" Mrs. Black yelled from outside.
"Sorry Mum," Sirius said, running down the steps, "I had to gather my hair supplies." He said with a serious face.
"His hair supplies?!?" Carly whispered to Remus.
"Yea you wouldn't believe how much time he usually takes to get ready. About 30 minutes and that's not even including how long he takes for his hair." Remus replied.
The girls rolled their eyes and Sirius said, "WHAT? WELL is there something WRONG with taking pride in my gorgeous hair? Unlike SOME people *cough JAMES cough cough* I like my hair cool looking." He started pointedly at James, who tried to flatten his hair and started off on an explanation about how his hair had been passed down through generations and he couldn't help it.
"Oh please shut up now before you bore us all to death." Lily said.
"You better watch out Evans cause as soon as we get on the Hogwarts express that prank deal is off. You girls are going to pay if you don't start being a little bit nicer to the loves of your life." James said.
"Ugh, please don't remind me!" Hayley added. "Whoever gets to marry that other dude is sooo lucky."
"Could we have a civilized conversation on the way to the train station please?" Mr. Potter asked.
The rest of the ride was spent in silence. They all knew the mothers were very emotional about letting their "precious darlings" as they so lovingly put it, leave for so long.
The car pulled into Kings cross station with 30 minutes left to spare. It was a little hard to be inconspicuous about going through the barrier to platform 9¾ because Mr. Bradshaw had to bring his bodyguards with him, so they all ran through rather quickly. People stared and whispered about the minister and his friends. The parents loaded their children's belongings onto the train and waited with them for a few minutes before they needed to leave.
"Oh do come home for the holidays dears." Mrs. Black sobbed.
Why she was going to miss Sirius so much was beyond the girls, but they all promised anyway.
"I don't want to receive any bad letters about you James Harold Potter do you understand me?" Mrs. Potter said which probably didn't help much since his father was giving him meaningful looks that clearly said for him to cause mischief.
"Harry I know what you're doing and stop it." She said to her husband and smacked him playfully on the head.
"Well we better get on the train so we can get a good compartment." Lily finally said. She was tired of all this mushy crap. So with one last goodbye they all boarded the train.
The boys ran off to who knows where while the girls settled themselves in a compartment towards the middle of the train. On the way through they ran into some particularly nasty looking boys. One had a hooked nose and really disgusting greasy hair, and then a blonde, pale looking one, and two big fat kids that reminded the girls of King Kong. (They were rather hairy considering they were just first years)
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Lucius Malfoy and this is Severus Snape, Lyle Crabbe, and George Goyle." He said while stepping forward and kissing Hayley's hand. Snape grabbed Lily, and Arabella and Carly were stuck with Crabbe and Goyle. Although it was hard to tell who was worse. "Who are you charming young ladies?"
"Lily Evans, Arabella Figg, Carly Bradshaw, and I'm Hayley Bradshaw." Hayley said, pointing to each girl as she said their names.
"Ah, the minister's daughters and their little friends. I've heard about you." Snape said.
"Well it just so happens we heard about you disgusting slimeballs." Lily spoke up.
Lucius had moved a bit closer to Hayley before she finally spoke up. "Malfoy remove your hand from my arse." She said, right as the Marauders came around the corner and caught her last sentence.
"UNHAND HER FIEND!" Sirius said. He was always trying to be medieval.
"What are you going to do about it Black? They clearly want to come to our compartment and hang out with us. Who can blame them?" Snape said.
"They do not, they want to come with us." James said.
"Do not."
"Do to."
"DO NOT!"
"DO TOO!"
"EXCUSE ME BUT WE CAN SPEAK FOR OURSELVES! AND WE DECIDED WE DON'T' WANT TO GO WITH EITHER OF YOU BLOODY IDIOTS." Carly finally spoke up. It was kind of odd since she was like the Remus of their group. Sensible and quiet.
They stopped and looked at the girls with dumb expressions on their face. They didn't want to go with any of them?
"Hey! Why not us?" Sirius said.
"Why do you think?" Lily said.
Suddenly a group of about ten second years walked around the corner. Hayley and Carly recognized the girl in the lead. It was their cousin from America on their dad's side of the family. what was she doing here? She went to the Salem Girls Academy in America, or so they thought.
"Danielle!" they both said simultaneously, while running towards her.
"Hayley! Carly!" she yelled back.
The twins knocked her over since they ran at her so hard. They hadn't seen her in a couple of years.
"Whoa, I feel like a herd of hippogriffs just hit me." Danielle said.
"Sorry bout that." Carly said.
"We missed you sooo much. I guess we got a lil over excited." Hayley said. "These are our friends Lily Evans and Arabella Figg."
"Nice to meet you I'm Danielle Bryant." She said.
"Hey, what about us?" James said.
"Oh yea. these are our annoying neighbors Jamie-pooh, Siri, and Remmy." Carly said.
"My name is not Jamie-pooh I'm James Potter and this is Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." James said.
"I dunno I kinda like my name." Sirius said. They rolled their eyes. was there anything this kid didn't like?
Danielle Bryant was a bit short for her age with mid-length blonde hair and light blue eyes. She transferred from Salem Academy during the middle of her first year and was now going into her second. The boys thought she was rather pretty.
"These are my friends Sarah Baker, Molly Taylor and her boyfriend Arthur Weasley, Paige Montgomery, Matthew Garnett, Nick Patterson, Reilly Dafkit and her fat kid brother Jeremy and my terribly hot boyfriend Quincy Jones." Danielle said with a smile on her face at the mention of her boyfriend.
~that black kid's hot~ Carly thought ~ to bad he's Danielle's ~
The boys were rather interested in Lily, Arabella, Carly, and Hayley... except for Quincy of course. (And Arthur) He and Danielle had just engaged in some mushy love talk.
"I resent that. I'm not fat." Jeremy said. "You're the only fat kid I see in this hallway. well I can't really see the hallway because your arse is covering most of it."
"Want me to pound him Danielle?" Quincy teased. He knew they were just joking with each other.
"Sure why not?" She joked.
"Neither of you are fat." Arabella said. She was growing rather attached to this Jeremy kid. He was nice and funny too.
"It's no use trying to make us feel better. We are fat and we can accept that." Danielle joked again. "Come on we can all share a compartment. Even your little neighbors can come to." She added when she saw the disappointed looks on the Marauder's faces.
Somehow they all managed to squeeze into one compartment. Hayley quickly became acquainted Matthew Garnett as did Arabella and Jeremy, and Lily and Nick Patterson. Carly was talking quietly in the corner of the compartment with Remus. They usually liked to keep to themselves. Sirius and James were busy turning on the charm for Rielly, Sarah, and Paige. The boys were kept so busy for the train ride what with the girls and all the food they bought off the trolley that they didn't even pull a prank on the girls yet.
"We better leave you girls here to change into your robes. I expect we'll be arriving in about five minutes." Matthew said.
After everyone had changed into their school robes the train came to a halt in Hogsmeade Station.
"Ok you go with with Hagrid and the rest of the first years that way. We have to ride the carriages up but you get to take the boats across the lake." Danielle informed them.
"Fir's years! Fir's years ov'r here!" A tall man who must have been Hagrid called over to them.
"Ok see you later." Hayley said.
"Al'righ no mor'en four ta a boat!" Hagrid called out again.
Somehow the four girls managed to get separated from each other and Lily and Hayley found themselves in a boat with James and Sirius. Arabella and Carly were stuck with Remus and Frank Longbottom, who were extremely nice. They rounded a corner and saw their first view of Hogwarts Castle.
"Wow, it's so beautiful." Lily exclaimed
"Who cares? I'm hungry!" Sirius said.
"What's new? You're always hungry." Hayley said.
"You know we haven't pulled a prank on you yet." James said with a smirk on his face.
"Don't get any ideas Potter." Lily said.
Sirius and James started rocking back and forth in the boat and suddenly each of them grabbed the girls and threw them in the water. Lily was the first one to pop back up and she was screaming her lungs out.
"POTTER YOU BETTER GET ME OUTTA HERE RIGHT NOW!" Lily screamed while she swam towards the boat. She and Hayley arrived to the side of the boat at the same time and tried to get up, but it was no use. They couldn't do it without help from the boys.
"Well don't just stand there! Help us out!" Hayley shouted.
"I don't think your in any position to be demanding anything Hayley dear." Sirius said.
"Don't call me dear. PLEASE get us out of here!" She pleaded.
"Ok but first you both have to say "James and Sirius are the hottest guys in all of Hogwarts." James said.
"EW no!" Lily said.
"Just say it Lil! It's freezing in here." Hayley said.
Simultaneously and very quietly they both said "James and Sirius are the hottest guys in all of Hogwarts."
"What was that? I didn't hear you. Speak up." Sirius said.
"JAMES AND SIRIUS ARE THE HOTTEST GUYS IN ALL OF HOGWARTS." They yelled
"Oh why thank you! We didn't know you felt that way." James said and wiped an invisible tear from his eye. He reached down and grabbed Lily's cold hand while Sirius helped Hayley into the boat. Once they were in the girls both turned around pushed the unsuspecting boys back in the water. This became a little muddy since they could stand up in it because they were so close to the shore.
"How rude." Sirius said.
"Well at least we can walk out. Man its freezing cold." James exclaimed.
"Ugh! What are Matthew and Nick going to say when they see us now!" Lily pouted.
"What do you care Lillian." James said.
"Well Potter aren't we a bit nosy? They are our boyfriends so I think we could be a little concerned about what they think stooge." Lily retaliated.
"YOUR BOYFRIENDS? ARE YOU BLOODY INSANE? YOU'VE ONLY JUST MET!" Sirius yelled.
"It's not really any of your business." Hayley said while ringing her hair out and using a drying spell on herself and Lily. They walked away from the boys leaving them standing, soaking wet in the middle of the crowd they had unknowingly attracted.
"What did she mean by that? It IS my business!" Sirius practically shouted. "We shouldn't have pushed them in. Now my hair is all messed up." He pouted.
"Get over your stupid hair already! Didn't you hear? Lily and Hayley have boyfriends already! They beat us to the dating game! We're losing! They are so going down." James said.
Sirius ignored everything after "get over your stupid hair already." Because he was already telling James that wasn't possible.
"What do you mean get over my "stupid" hair! My hair isn't stupid. Besides its easy for you to tell me to get over my hair. I mean yours looks the same whether you've been thrown in the lake or not." Sirius said.
"Just. shut up man." James said, and they both followed the rest of the first years into the entrance hall where a very stern looking woman stood waiting for them. Sirius privately thought if she pulled the bun on her head back any tighter than her face just might rip into two.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft of Wizardry. I'm Professor McGonagall(A/N sorry about the spelling.to lazy to get up and look in the book) your Transfiguration teacher and head of Gryffindor house." Professor Mcgonagall said. She went into a brief description about all the houses and some rules before having them all follow her into the Great Hall. Every student turned to look at the new first years coming in the door.
"Look at the ickle firsties." Sophia Lawson called out from the Slytherin table.
"AW SHUT IT SOPHIA!" someone yelled from the Gryffindor table. Everyone knew it was Danielle Bryant though and Sophia scowled in her direction.
The hall grew silent and everyone looked expectantly at the sorting hat. The first years were terribly confused but they stared at it none the less and were startled when the brim of the hat opened and formed a mouth and began singing a song.
"I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat;
do not be afraid.
I can see inside your head,
So don't try and masquerade
Slytherin was quite cunning
He always got what he desired.
Those of ambition and pureblood,
Were those who he admired.
Gryffindor was bold and audacious
And oh so very brave.
Though those who find themselves placed here,
Often misbehave.
Ravenclaw favored the studious;
They are all rather smart.
You'll find them in the library,
Where they choose not to depart.
Hufflepuff chose loyal ness,
And the just and true.
The patient Hufflepuff's
Are honest threw and threw.
So try me on and have no fear,
Don't be in a nervous state;
No need to get yourself worked up,
Your time here will be great."
The hall burst into applause when the hat finished its song and Professor McGonagall stood up to speak.
"When I call your name, you will sit on the stool and put on the hat and wait to be sorted." She said.
"Andrews, Olivia"
Within seconds, Andrews, Olivia became a Hufflepuff and before anyone knew it they were on the B's.
"Black, Sirius"
Sirius took a bit longer than those before him.
"Probably trying to convince him to go home and never return." Arabella whispered.
"I hope so." Hayley said.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"I hope I'm in Ravenclaw then." Carly whispered back, as Bones, Seth became a Hufflepuff. "Or maybe a Hufflepuff. he is rather cute."
"Bradshaw, Carly"
The hat had barely touched her head when it yelled.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Bradshaw, Hayley"
"Ooh twins. I like twins." Announced some Slytherin.
~Stinking Slytherin~ Hayley thought
~*~Apparently that's a No for Slytherin then aye?~*~ she heard the sorting hat say
~you got that one right~
~*~Oh well. better be.~*~
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Carly, Hayley and Sirius breathed a sigh of relief.
"Diggory, Amos"
Some ditzy girls started giggling at the Hufflepuff table. Apparently they thought he was handsome.
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
The girls giggled some more.
Lily Evans, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Arabella Figg, Frank Longbottom, and Peter Pettigrew all became Gryffindors. Malfoy, Snape, Crabbe, and Goyle were Slytherin's for obvious reasons. Along with a few particularly ugly girls. At least the student body thought they were girls. It wasn't for certain yet.
The Marauders sat down with the four girls next to Danielle and her friends. Dinner wasn't pleasant for the Marauders as boys kept coming up and introducing themselves to Lily, Carly, Hayley, Arabella, Danielle, Reilly, Sarah, Molly, and Paige. Arthur and Quincy had to threaten a few to leave them alone.
Dumbledore made an announcement about rules, which no one really paid any attention to. Like they were actually going to go and READ the list that Filch was handing out? Yea right.
"Well since your all so attentive let us sing the school song!" Dumbledore announced. "Strike up your favorite tune!"
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."
Soon everyone had finished singing except for Lily, Arabella, Carly, and Hayley. They had chosen a slow tune which they seemed to be making up as they went along. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines and it turned out nicely. Some people stared at them for a little while but they weren't really paying attention because they were already following a prefect to their dorm rooms. They were exhausted.
"Password?" inquired the portrait of the fat lady in a pink dress.
"Hoofa." The prefect announced. "Don't even ask why our password is that. let's just say the head boy is a little crazy in the head."
The common room was filled with lots of fluffy armchairs and couches and there was a roaring fire in the fireplace. The Prefect directed the girls through one door up the stairs and the boys to another. Everyone's head barely hit the pillows before they were dead asleep.
DoubleD: Thanks! I'm glad you like it. yes Peter is a stinkin cheating rat! DOWN WITH THE RAT! Anyway.he comes in later. much to my disliking but I mean hey he was there of course. he won't have much of a part though of course because I hate him.
Horse_Obsessed 1409 - thanks to you too. um no the marauders won't have to wear girly necklaces haha. that could be kinda funny in a weird way though I guess. but you will find out in this chapter more about it.
Anyway. on with the story!
The Confederates & Marauders: Chapter 5: Fights on the train and encounters
with new people
The rest of the summer passed mostly uneventfully for the families in Godric's Hollow. The boys were the ones that were a part of the prophecy. Needless to say the girls were disgusted with the idea of loving someone like them at the moment. They were also a little jealous of the boy's tattoos on their arms of a griffin to show they were the three boys of the prophecy.
The Marauders barely kept their end of the bargain about pranking the girls for the rest of the summer but somehow they managed and soon it was September 1st, and time to head for Kings Cross Station in London. Everyone rode together in a magically expanded car and left the house a little later than planned thanks to the boy's lack of packing and waiting until the last minute.
"Sirius Orion Black! Get in this car this instance. don't make me come up there young man!" Mrs. Black yelled from outside.
"Sorry Mum," Sirius said, running down the steps, "I had to gather my hair supplies." He said with a serious face.
"His hair supplies?!?" Carly whispered to Remus.
"Yea you wouldn't believe how much time he usually takes to get ready. About 30 minutes and that's not even including how long he takes for his hair." Remus replied.
The girls rolled their eyes and Sirius said, "WHAT? WELL is there something WRONG with taking pride in my gorgeous hair? Unlike SOME people *cough JAMES cough cough* I like my hair cool looking." He started pointedly at James, who tried to flatten his hair and started off on an explanation about how his hair had been passed down through generations and he couldn't help it.
"Oh please shut up now before you bore us all to death." Lily said.
"You better watch out Evans cause as soon as we get on the Hogwarts express that prank deal is off. You girls are going to pay if you don't start being a little bit nicer to the loves of your life." James said.
"Ugh, please don't remind me!" Hayley added. "Whoever gets to marry that other dude is sooo lucky."
"Could we have a civilized conversation on the way to the train station please?" Mr. Potter asked.
The rest of the ride was spent in silence. They all knew the mothers were very emotional about letting their "precious darlings" as they so lovingly put it, leave for so long.
The car pulled into Kings cross station with 30 minutes left to spare. It was a little hard to be inconspicuous about going through the barrier to platform 9¾ because Mr. Bradshaw had to bring his bodyguards with him, so they all ran through rather quickly. People stared and whispered about the minister and his friends. The parents loaded their children's belongings onto the train and waited with them for a few minutes before they needed to leave.
"Oh do come home for the holidays dears." Mrs. Black sobbed.
Why she was going to miss Sirius so much was beyond the girls, but they all promised anyway.
"I don't want to receive any bad letters about you James Harold Potter do you understand me?" Mrs. Potter said which probably didn't help much since his father was giving him meaningful looks that clearly said for him to cause mischief.
"Harry I know what you're doing and stop it." She said to her husband and smacked him playfully on the head.
"Well we better get on the train so we can get a good compartment." Lily finally said. She was tired of all this mushy crap. So with one last goodbye they all boarded the train.
The boys ran off to who knows where while the girls settled themselves in a compartment towards the middle of the train. On the way through they ran into some particularly nasty looking boys. One had a hooked nose and really disgusting greasy hair, and then a blonde, pale looking one, and two big fat kids that reminded the girls of King Kong. (They were rather hairy considering they were just first years)
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Lucius Malfoy and this is Severus Snape, Lyle Crabbe, and George Goyle." He said while stepping forward and kissing Hayley's hand. Snape grabbed Lily, and Arabella and Carly were stuck with Crabbe and Goyle. Although it was hard to tell who was worse. "Who are you charming young ladies?"
"Lily Evans, Arabella Figg, Carly Bradshaw, and I'm Hayley Bradshaw." Hayley said, pointing to each girl as she said their names.
"Ah, the minister's daughters and their little friends. I've heard about you." Snape said.
"Well it just so happens we heard about you disgusting slimeballs." Lily spoke up.
Lucius had moved a bit closer to Hayley before she finally spoke up. "Malfoy remove your hand from my arse." She said, right as the Marauders came around the corner and caught her last sentence.
"UNHAND HER FIEND!" Sirius said. He was always trying to be medieval.
"What are you going to do about it Black? They clearly want to come to our compartment and hang out with us. Who can blame them?" Snape said.
"They do not, they want to come with us." James said.
"Do not."
"Do to."
"DO NOT!"
"DO TOO!"
"EXCUSE ME BUT WE CAN SPEAK FOR OURSELVES! AND WE DECIDED WE DON'T' WANT TO GO WITH EITHER OF YOU BLOODY IDIOTS." Carly finally spoke up. It was kind of odd since she was like the Remus of their group. Sensible and quiet.
They stopped and looked at the girls with dumb expressions on their face. They didn't want to go with any of them?
"Hey! Why not us?" Sirius said.
"Why do you think?" Lily said.
Suddenly a group of about ten second years walked around the corner. Hayley and Carly recognized the girl in the lead. It was their cousin from America on their dad's side of the family. what was she doing here? She went to the Salem Girls Academy in America, or so they thought.
"Danielle!" they both said simultaneously, while running towards her.
"Hayley! Carly!" she yelled back.
The twins knocked her over since they ran at her so hard. They hadn't seen her in a couple of years.
"Whoa, I feel like a herd of hippogriffs just hit me." Danielle said.
"Sorry bout that." Carly said.
"We missed you sooo much. I guess we got a lil over excited." Hayley said. "These are our friends Lily Evans and Arabella Figg."
"Nice to meet you I'm Danielle Bryant." She said.
"Hey, what about us?" James said.
"Oh yea. these are our annoying neighbors Jamie-pooh, Siri, and Remmy." Carly said.
"My name is not Jamie-pooh I'm James Potter and this is Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." James said.
"I dunno I kinda like my name." Sirius said. They rolled their eyes. was there anything this kid didn't like?
Danielle Bryant was a bit short for her age with mid-length blonde hair and light blue eyes. She transferred from Salem Academy during the middle of her first year and was now going into her second. The boys thought she was rather pretty.
"These are my friends Sarah Baker, Molly Taylor and her boyfriend Arthur Weasley, Paige Montgomery, Matthew Garnett, Nick Patterson, Reilly Dafkit and her fat kid brother Jeremy and my terribly hot boyfriend Quincy Jones." Danielle said with a smile on her face at the mention of her boyfriend.
~that black kid's hot~ Carly thought ~ to bad he's Danielle's ~
The boys were rather interested in Lily, Arabella, Carly, and Hayley... except for Quincy of course. (And Arthur) He and Danielle had just engaged in some mushy love talk.
"I resent that. I'm not fat." Jeremy said. "You're the only fat kid I see in this hallway. well I can't really see the hallway because your arse is covering most of it."
"Want me to pound him Danielle?" Quincy teased. He knew they were just joking with each other.
"Sure why not?" She joked.
"Neither of you are fat." Arabella said. She was growing rather attached to this Jeremy kid. He was nice and funny too.
"It's no use trying to make us feel better. We are fat and we can accept that." Danielle joked again. "Come on we can all share a compartment. Even your little neighbors can come to." She added when she saw the disappointed looks on the Marauder's faces.
Somehow they all managed to squeeze into one compartment. Hayley quickly became acquainted Matthew Garnett as did Arabella and Jeremy, and Lily and Nick Patterson. Carly was talking quietly in the corner of the compartment with Remus. They usually liked to keep to themselves. Sirius and James were busy turning on the charm for Rielly, Sarah, and Paige. The boys were kept so busy for the train ride what with the girls and all the food they bought off the trolley that they didn't even pull a prank on the girls yet.
"We better leave you girls here to change into your robes. I expect we'll be arriving in about five minutes." Matthew said.
After everyone had changed into their school robes the train came to a halt in Hogsmeade Station.
"Ok you go with with Hagrid and the rest of the first years that way. We have to ride the carriages up but you get to take the boats across the lake." Danielle informed them.
"Fir's years! Fir's years ov'r here!" A tall man who must have been Hagrid called over to them.
"Ok see you later." Hayley said.
"Al'righ no mor'en four ta a boat!" Hagrid called out again.
Somehow the four girls managed to get separated from each other and Lily and Hayley found themselves in a boat with James and Sirius. Arabella and Carly were stuck with Remus and Frank Longbottom, who were extremely nice. They rounded a corner and saw their first view of Hogwarts Castle.
"Wow, it's so beautiful." Lily exclaimed
"Who cares? I'm hungry!" Sirius said.
"What's new? You're always hungry." Hayley said.
"You know we haven't pulled a prank on you yet." James said with a smirk on his face.
"Don't get any ideas Potter." Lily said.
Sirius and James started rocking back and forth in the boat and suddenly each of them grabbed the girls and threw them in the water. Lily was the first one to pop back up and she was screaming her lungs out.
"POTTER YOU BETTER GET ME OUTTA HERE RIGHT NOW!" Lily screamed while she swam towards the boat. She and Hayley arrived to the side of the boat at the same time and tried to get up, but it was no use. They couldn't do it without help from the boys.
"Well don't just stand there! Help us out!" Hayley shouted.
"I don't think your in any position to be demanding anything Hayley dear." Sirius said.
"Don't call me dear. PLEASE get us out of here!" She pleaded.
"Ok but first you both have to say "James and Sirius are the hottest guys in all of Hogwarts." James said.
"EW no!" Lily said.
"Just say it Lil! It's freezing in here." Hayley said.
Simultaneously and very quietly they both said "James and Sirius are the hottest guys in all of Hogwarts."
"What was that? I didn't hear you. Speak up." Sirius said.
"JAMES AND SIRIUS ARE THE HOTTEST GUYS IN ALL OF HOGWARTS." They yelled
"Oh why thank you! We didn't know you felt that way." James said and wiped an invisible tear from his eye. He reached down and grabbed Lily's cold hand while Sirius helped Hayley into the boat. Once they were in the girls both turned around pushed the unsuspecting boys back in the water. This became a little muddy since they could stand up in it because they were so close to the shore.
"How rude." Sirius said.
"Well at least we can walk out. Man its freezing cold." James exclaimed.
"Ugh! What are Matthew and Nick going to say when they see us now!" Lily pouted.
"What do you care Lillian." James said.
"Well Potter aren't we a bit nosy? They are our boyfriends so I think we could be a little concerned about what they think stooge." Lily retaliated.
"YOUR BOYFRIENDS? ARE YOU BLOODY INSANE? YOU'VE ONLY JUST MET!" Sirius yelled.
"It's not really any of your business." Hayley said while ringing her hair out and using a drying spell on herself and Lily. They walked away from the boys leaving them standing, soaking wet in the middle of the crowd they had unknowingly attracted.
"What did she mean by that? It IS my business!" Sirius practically shouted. "We shouldn't have pushed them in. Now my hair is all messed up." He pouted.
"Get over your stupid hair already! Didn't you hear? Lily and Hayley have boyfriends already! They beat us to the dating game! We're losing! They are so going down." James said.
Sirius ignored everything after "get over your stupid hair already." Because he was already telling James that wasn't possible.
"What do you mean get over my "stupid" hair! My hair isn't stupid. Besides its easy for you to tell me to get over my hair. I mean yours looks the same whether you've been thrown in the lake or not." Sirius said.
"Just. shut up man." James said, and they both followed the rest of the first years into the entrance hall where a very stern looking woman stood waiting for them. Sirius privately thought if she pulled the bun on her head back any tighter than her face just might rip into two.
"Hello and welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft of Wizardry. I'm Professor McGonagall(A/N sorry about the spelling.to lazy to get up and look in the book) your Transfiguration teacher and head of Gryffindor house." Professor Mcgonagall said. She went into a brief description about all the houses and some rules before having them all follow her into the Great Hall. Every student turned to look at the new first years coming in the door.
"Look at the ickle firsties." Sophia Lawson called out from the Slytherin table.
"AW SHUT IT SOPHIA!" someone yelled from the Gryffindor table. Everyone knew it was Danielle Bryant though and Sophia scowled in her direction.
The hall grew silent and everyone looked expectantly at the sorting hat. The first years were terribly confused but they stared at it none the less and were startled when the brim of the hat opened and formed a mouth and began singing a song.
"I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat;
do not be afraid.
I can see inside your head,
So don't try and masquerade
Slytherin was quite cunning
He always got what he desired.
Those of ambition and pureblood,
Were those who he admired.
Gryffindor was bold and audacious
And oh so very brave.
Though those who find themselves placed here,
Often misbehave.
Ravenclaw favored the studious;
They are all rather smart.
You'll find them in the library,
Where they choose not to depart.
Hufflepuff chose loyal ness,
And the just and true.
The patient Hufflepuff's
Are honest threw and threw.
So try me on and have no fear,
Don't be in a nervous state;
No need to get yourself worked up,
Your time here will be great."
The hall burst into applause when the hat finished its song and Professor McGonagall stood up to speak.
"When I call your name, you will sit on the stool and put on the hat and wait to be sorted." She said.
"Andrews, Olivia"
Within seconds, Andrews, Olivia became a Hufflepuff and before anyone knew it they were on the B's.
"Black, Sirius"
Sirius took a bit longer than those before him.
"Probably trying to convince him to go home and never return." Arabella whispered.
"I hope so." Hayley said.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"I hope I'm in Ravenclaw then." Carly whispered back, as Bones, Seth became a Hufflepuff. "Or maybe a Hufflepuff. he is rather cute."
"Bradshaw, Carly"
The hat had barely touched her head when it yelled.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Bradshaw, Hayley"
"Ooh twins. I like twins." Announced some Slytherin.
~Stinking Slytherin~ Hayley thought
~*~Apparently that's a No for Slytherin then aye?~*~ she heard the sorting hat say
~you got that one right~
~*~Oh well. better be.~*~
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Carly, Hayley and Sirius breathed a sigh of relief.
"Diggory, Amos"
Some ditzy girls started giggling at the Hufflepuff table. Apparently they thought he was handsome.
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
The girls giggled some more.
Lily Evans, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Arabella Figg, Frank Longbottom, and Peter Pettigrew all became Gryffindors. Malfoy, Snape, Crabbe, and Goyle were Slytherin's for obvious reasons. Along with a few particularly ugly girls. At least the student body thought they were girls. It wasn't for certain yet.
The Marauders sat down with the four girls next to Danielle and her friends. Dinner wasn't pleasant for the Marauders as boys kept coming up and introducing themselves to Lily, Carly, Hayley, Arabella, Danielle, Reilly, Sarah, Molly, and Paige. Arthur and Quincy had to threaten a few to leave them alone.
Dumbledore made an announcement about rules, which no one really paid any attention to. Like they were actually going to go and READ the list that Filch was handing out? Yea right.
"Well since your all so attentive let us sing the school song!" Dumbledore announced. "Strike up your favorite tune!"
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."
Soon everyone had finished singing except for Lily, Arabella, Carly, and Hayley. They had chosen a slow tune which they seemed to be making up as they went along. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines and it turned out nicely. Some people stared at them for a little while but they weren't really paying attention because they were already following a prefect to their dorm rooms. They were exhausted.
"Password?" inquired the portrait of the fat lady in a pink dress.
"Hoofa." The prefect announced. "Don't even ask why our password is that. let's just say the head boy is a little crazy in the head."
The common room was filled with lots of fluffy armchairs and couches and there was a roaring fire in the fireplace. The Prefect directed the girls through one door up the stairs and the boys to another. Everyone's head barely hit the pillows before they were dead asleep.
