The Flower's Story ch.2
"The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
-John V. Cheney."
Lily was still a little mad at James for laughing at her, but that didn't spoil her mood. The second she saw Hogwarts she knew that this was her true home. The lights of the window glittered in the sky and the very top of the castle top sat over a cloud that seemed to be smiling. And no matter how many people laugh at her or make fun of her, she would be happy.
"AAHHHH" Lily looked over to a little round headed boy swimming the lake. Wait..........who stupid enough would take a swim in the-. Her thoughts were cut short when she saw a pair of huge tentacles grab on to the boy and hoist him back into the boat.
"IT'S GOING TO EAT ME HELP!!!!!HELP!!!!!" Unfortunately the boy carried on like this for the rest of the ride(even though he was safely in the boat).
"Peter dahling, you'll be fine even if the giant squid DOES eat you , you will have died honorably." Sirius was trying to act as if he were a Nobel man-it wasn't working. Lily giggled to herself .
"Oof, " James had fallen out of the boat when it hit the shore.
Lily laughed in his face.
"That's for laughing at me on the train" she was very smug with herself right about now. Lily and Remus walked into the castle. together with the large man named Hagrid. She was unaware of the conversation going on between Sirius and James.
"What is her problem?"
"I don't know Jamesy, but I think she likes you! My mum said to me (or rather warned) that when girls laugh at you and are mean to you they like you! Well I guess I'm in good with the ladies!" Sirius said with that doggy grin of his.
"Why's that?" James was intrigued.
"Because every girl I've ever spoken to has slapped me or hexed me!" He seemed extremely proud of himself.
"No Sirius, in your case it's the other way around. When girls smack you or hex you......sorry to say but they truly mean it!"
"But I never did anything to them!" He said a little to inocently.
"HA! What a knee slapper! Sirius you dolt, every girl you have ever talked to or met, now has purple hair or did!"
"Hey! Can I help it if I like that color?" James and Sirius finished their conversation and looked up to a fairly young woman, with black hair, glasses and a tight stern look.
"Excuse me! In one moment you will pass through these doors and join your classmates so I highly suggest that you listen to what I have to say! Number one, when you enter the Great Hall, please no funnying around." She looked to James and Sirius. "Number two, There are some very highly respected proffesors in this room so do tidy up a bit" she looked to Peter, the boy who fell in the lake, and cast a spell to let him dry up.
"And last but not least................Welcome, to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"
At that final note she opened the doors and led them inside to what looked like a castle on its own. The Candles that kept the room alight were floating about and the ceiling seemed enchanted to look like the sky outside. Perfect and clear. Lily was quite content with her surroundings.
The students that were led inside were placed before the whole school and were petrified.
Well, not all were petrified.
"I can't wait to see what we have to do to get sorted!" Sirius was bouncing up and down. Lily didn't understand the term "sorted" yet but was about to find out.
A little pedistale and a raggedy old Wizard's hat was brought into the front of the Hall. The new students were wondering if something terrible was going to happen. But the other's were watching with grins.
Some student's shreiked as the hat sarted moving and.....to Lily's amazement singing! It sung about the four houses there were. She decided soon after that Ravenclaw sounded nice.....But Gryffindor sounded like fun.
The woman with the stern look stood up with a roll of parchment and started to call out names, alphabetically.
"Andrews, Lea" Lea Andrews walked up to the sorting and pratically sat on it. It would've been quite funny if Lily hadn't been thinking that was going to happen to her. So the girl put the hat on the right end and sat down. It only took about a second for the sorting thing to scream:
"Hufflepuff!" the Sorting thing screamed. The Hufflepuff table started to scream and cheer for the girl who wobbled over to the table.
"Black, Sirius" Sirius leaped over to the Hat, sat down and no sooner than he had put it on it screamed:
"Gryffindor" this time the Gryffindor table screamed and cheered for him. He leaped out of the chair and threw the hat down. Lily could swear she heard a grunt coming from it.
A few more people went by:
"Slytherin"
"Ravenclaw"
"Hufflepuff"
Then finnaly she heard something dreadful.
"Evans, Lily" Lily pushed her way to the front of the hall and took up the hat and sat it down over eyes and waited.
"Yes..........hhmm.......you are special, it seems you've gat a bit of everything in you! Some Gryffindor here some Slythein there. But because of your wings and courage you'll be in:
"Gryffindor" the table cheered extremely loud and she breathed a sigh of relief. Lily sat down across from Sirius who gave her a huge smile and a high five.
"You go girl!" he said happily.
She laughed at that. Then she looked towards the sorting hat to look at everyone and boy did the time flew. There were only a few people left after awhile.
Remus had thankfully been put in Gryffindor and so had James, Peter and a couple of girls. Soon after the sorting was over the Headmaster, Albus Dumbldore stood up.
"Welcome to what I know will surely be our best year yet. I am proud that you can be here. And with that I think we should start filling our bellies hhmm?"
Sirius gave a hoot to that.
The plates instantly filled with deliciouse looking food. There was tripe and chicken and apples and boar and even some hamburgers and hotdogs. How American Lily thought.
"Hi! My name is Molly turnipe" A girl with aubern hair said.
"I'm Lily Evan's." They shook hands and turned to the other girl who was stuffing her face. She was remarkably skinny, had black hair and was apparently very hungry.
"Tasha Harris" she said as she accidently spit some turkey pieces onto Sirius' face.
"Obviously you havn't been taught how to chew with you mouth closed yet." Tasha shot daggers at him.
James joined in on this catty fight.
" Would you like some lessons?"
"At least SHE knows how to brush her hair!" lily said looking over at James.
Molly soon piped in.
"Would you like some lessons?"
The boys looked at each other, then back at the girls and in about one minute, the girls had mashed potatoes all down their fronts. Lily couldn't stop laughing at the look on Remus' face when he saw her with potato in her fiery red hair. But she soon took care of that.
"Really girls that look suits-" James didn't get to finish his insult but instead had pumkin pie on his face. Tasha had smashed tart into Sirius' hair and Remus (who didn't even do anything) had chicken soup thrown onto his chest by Molly.
"I didn't do anything!" He said very crossly
"I know but I didn't have anyone to pie!"
When Dinner was finished Dumbledore warned them of few things like no magic in the corridors and no entering the Forbidden Forest. And of course:
"Have fun, Magic shouldn't be all work and no play" he glanced to his colleague's. "Work hard but have fun in the process and please actually learn something! That might be helpful!" he gave them a warm smile and dismissed them.
"Alrigh firs yea's follaw me!" A girl with a heavy Irish accent stood up over all the first years and led them out of the Great Hall. "My name's Kayla! I'm one o' your Ouse prefects.. the password, to gettn inta the Ouse is...Krickey!"
The students murmerd about how strange the password was but then they saw what she was staring at.
Lily, Molly, Tasha, Remus, James, and Sirius were still covered in food.
"What? Don't like our new sense of fashion?" Sirius bowed after this comment however Kayla didn't find it funny.
"You seven listen ear!" Seven? I thought there are only six of us. Lily glanced over to the boys and saw that James had wiped some pumkin pie on poor little Peter. He was whimpering.
"I don want ta see anymore o' this ear nonsense righ?"
They all nodded reluctantly. Kayla told them that the real password for Gryffindor was "frog spawn".
"How appropriate." Lily heard James say as she walked through the portrait whole. She ignored him. As she walked in she saw Remus and pulled him aside.
"So.........nice outfit." She said with a giggle. "Are you gonna be all right? Because I'm just a couple staircases away!"
Lily always watched out for him.
"Lil, I should be saying the same thing to you! But I'm to tired. Hey don't go to hard on James, he's actually very funny and yes I'll be fine. Goodnight Lil" He looked at her and smiled.
"Those boys are going to be a bad influence on him. Especially the crazy one." She muttered to herself. And with that, she went upstairs to her nice fluffy dorm and went to sleep dreaming of faires and Werewolves expecting the best and worst.
"The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
-John V. Cheney."
Lily was still a little mad at James for laughing at her, but that didn't spoil her mood. The second she saw Hogwarts she knew that this was her true home. The lights of the window glittered in the sky and the very top of the castle top sat over a cloud that seemed to be smiling. And no matter how many people laugh at her or make fun of her, she would be happy.
"AAHHHH" Lily looked over to a little round headed boy swimming the lake. Wait..........who stupid enough would take a swim in the-. Her thoughts were cut short when she saw a pair of huge tentacles grab on to the boy and hoist him back into the boat.
"IT'S GOING TO EAT ME HELP!!!!!HELP!!!!!" Unfortunately the boy carried on like this for the rest of the ride(even though he was safely in the boat).
"Peter dahling, you'll be fine even if the giant squid DOES eat you , you will have died honorably." Sirius was trying to act as if he were a Nobel man-it wasn't working. Lily giggled to herself .
"Oof, " James had fallen out of the boat when it hit the shore.
Lily laughed in his face.
"That's for laughing at me on the train" she was very smug with herself right about now. Lily and Remus walked into the castle. together with the large man named Hagrid. She was unaware of the conversation going on between Sirius and James.
"What is her problem?"
"I don't know Jamesy, but I think she likes you! My mum said to me (or rather warned) that when girls laugh at you and are mean to you they like you! Well I guess I'm in good with the ladies!" Sirius said with that doggy grin of his.
"Why's that?" James was intrigued.
"Because every girl I've ever spoken to has slapped me or hexed me!" He seemed extremely proud of himself.
"No Sirius, in your case it's the other way around. When girls smack you or hex you......sorry to say but they truly mean it!"
"But I never did anything to them!" He said a little to inocently.
"HA! What a knee slapper! Sirius you dolt, every girl you have ever talked to or met, now has purple hair or did!"
"Hey! Can I help it if I like that color?" James and Sirius finished their conversation and looked up to a fairly young woman, with black hair, glasses and a tight stern look.
"Excuse me! In one moment you will pass through these doors and join your classmates so I highly suggest that you listen to what I have to say! Number one, when you enter the Great Hall, please no funnying around." She looked to James and Sirius. "Number two, There are some very highly respected proffesors in this room so do tidy up a bit" she looked to Peter, the boy who fell in the lake, and cast a spell to let him dry up.
"And last but not least................Welcome, to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"
At that final note she opened the doors and led them inside to what looked like a castle on its own. The Candles that kept the room alight were floating about and the ceiling seemed enchanted to look like the sky outside. Perfect and clear. Lily was quite content with her surroundings.
The students that were led inside were placed before the whole school and were petrified.
Well, not all were petrified.
"I can't wait to see what we have to do to get sorted!" Sirius was bouncing up and down. Lily didn't understand the term "sorted" yet but was about to find out.
A little pedistale and a raggedy old Wizard's hat was brought into the front of the Hall. The new students were wondering if something terrible was going to happen. But the other's were watching with grins.
Some student's shreiked as the hat sarted moving and.....to Lily's amazement singing! It sung about the four houses there were. She decided soon after that Ravenclaw sounded nice.....But Gryffindor sounded like fun.
The woman with the stern look stood up with a roll of parchment and started to call out names, alphabetically.
"Andrews, Lea" Lea Andrews walked up to the sorting and pratically sat on it. It would've been quite funny if Lily hadn't been thinking that was going to happen to her. So the girl put the hat on the right end and sat down. It only took about a second for the sorting thing to scream:
"Hufflepuff!" the Sorting thing screamed. The Hufflepuff table started to scream and cheer for the girl who wobbled over to the table.
"Black, Sirius" Sirius leaped over to the Hat, sat down and no sooner than he had put it on it screamed:
"Gryffindor" this time the Gryffindor table screamed and cheered for him. He leaped out of the chair and threw the hat down. Lily could swear she heard a grunt coming from it.
A few more people went by:
"Slytherin"
"Ravenclaw"
"Hufflepuff"
Then finnaly she heard something dreadful.
"Evans, Lily" Lily pushed her way to the front of the hall and took up the hat and sat it down over eyes and waited.
"Yes..........hhmm.......you are special, it seems you've gat a bit of everything in you! Some Gryffindor here some Slythein there. But because of your wings and courage you'll be in:
"Gryffindor" the table cheered extremely loud and she breathed a sigh of relief. Lily sat down across from Sirius who gave her a huge smile and a high five.
"You go girl!" he said happily.
She laughed at that. Then she looked towards the sorting hat to look at everyone and boy did the time flew. There were only a few people left after awhile.
Remus had thankfully been put in Gryffindor and so had James, Peter and a couple of girls. Soon after the sorting was over the Headmaster, Albus Dumbldore stood up.
"Welcome to what I know will surely be our best year yet. I am proud that you can be here. And with that I think we should start filling our bellies hhmm?"
Sirius gave a hoot to that.
The plates instantly filled with deliciouse looking food. There was tripe and chicken and apples and boar and even some hamburgers and hotdogs. How American Lily thought.
"Hi! My name is Molly turnipe" A girl with aubern hair said.
"I'm Lily Evan's." They shook hands and turned to the other girl who was stuffing her face. She was remarkably skinny, had black hair and was apparently very hungry.
"Tasha Harris" she said as she accidently spit some turkey pieces onto Sirius' face.
"Obviously you havn't been taught how to chew with you mouth closed yet." Tasha shot daggers at him.
James joined in on this catty fight.
" Would you like some lessons?"
"At least SHE knows how to brush her hair!" lily said looking over at James.
Molly soon piped in.
"Would you like some lessons?"
The boys looked at each other, then back at the girls and in about one minute, the girls had mashed potatoes all down their fronts. Lily couldn't stop laughing at the look on Remus' face when he saw her with potato in her fiery red hair. But she soon took care of that.
"Really girls that look suits-" James didn't get to finish his insult but instead had pumkin pie on his face. Tasha had smashed tart into Sirius' hair and Remus (who didn't even do anything) had chicken soup thrown onto his chest by Molly.
"I didn't do anything!" He said very crossly
"I know but I didn't have anyone to pie!"
When Dinner was finished Dumbledore warned them of few things like no magic in the corridors and no entering the Forbidden Forest. And of course:
"Have fun, Magic shouldn't be all work and no play" he glanced to his colleague's. "Work hard but have fun in the process and please actually learn something! That might be helpful!" he gave them a warm smile and dismissed them.
"Alrigh firs yea's follaw me!" A girl with a heavy Irish accent stood up over all the first years and led them out of the Great Hall. "My name's Kayla! I'm one o' your Ouse prefects.. the password, to gettn inta the Ouse is...Krickey!"
The students murmerd about how strange the password was but then they saw what she was staring at.
Lily, Molly, Tasha, Remus, James, and Sirius were still covered in food.
"What? Don't like our new sense of fashion?" Sirius bowed after this comment however Kayla didn't find it funny.
"You seven listen ear!" Seven? I thought there are only six of us. Lily glanced over to the boys and saw that James had wiped some pumkin pie on poor little Peter. He was whimpering.
"I don want ta see anymore o' this ear nonsense righ?"
They all nodded reluctantly. Kayla told them that the real password for Gryffindor was "frog spawn".
"How appropriate." Lily heard James say as she walked through the portrait whole. She ignored him. As she walked in she saw Remus and pulled him aside.
"So.........nice outfit." She said with a giggle. "Are you gonna be all right? Because I'm just a couple staircases away!"
Lily always watched out for him.
"Lil, I should be saying the same thing to you! But I'm to tired. Hey don't go to hard on James, he's actually very funny and yes I'll be fine. Goodnight Lil" He looked at her and smiled.
"Those boys are going to be a bad influence on him. Especially the crazy one." She muttered to herself. And with that, she went upstairs to her nice fluffy dorm and went to sleep dreaming of faires and Werewolves expecting the best and worst.
