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Chapter 3: Feasts and midnight snacks.

There was a lot of chatter in the Great Hall as the marauders, Bella, Emma, Mandy and Lily stepped inside. Suddenly it all became quiet. Everyone was staring at Sirius and Bella. Neither of them had noticed that no one was talking or moving. They were off in their own world.

Suddenly…

"WHAT IS EVERYONE STARING AT? WELL? GET BACK TO YOUR TALKING. NOW!" at James' 'most encouraging words' chatter erupted throughout the hall.

"Well thankyou for your encouraging words Potter." Lily exclaimed with hints of sarcasm.

"Your welcome" he replied ignoring the sarcasm.

"Uh James? I think she was joking." Remus pointed out

"I know that." James answered back through gritted teeth so only Remus could hear.

James hadn't realised Professor Dumbledore had stood up and was waiting for total silence.

"Welcome back Hogwarts students, I usually don't say anything before the sorting but I have some terrible news our caretaker Mr. Huddleby (A/N: i'm not very good with names) passed away during the summer. But I have found a replacement, so please welcome Mr. Filch."

The hall erupted with applause, due to the fact that no one like or enjoyed Mr. Huddleby.

"Now start the sorting." And with that Dumbledore sat back down.

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~  After the sorting   ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~

"So, when do you think the first Hogsmead trip is going to be?" asked an excited Sirius

"It could be tonight if you want?" James replied

"No, can't. I'm going to the Astronomy tower with Bella tonight. How about tomorrow?"

"Can't. The Snape prank has to be pulled before morning and if we're out all night we wont have time to perform it." James answered though much more upset for the fact they have to wait almost 3 whole days before a Hogsmead trip.

"True right you are mate. So you found a girlfriend yet?" Sirius asked trying to make conversation

"Not yet, but the night is still young." James replied with a certain glint in his eyes that could make any girl (except Lily and Amanda) fall head over heels in love with him.

 ~ * ~ * ~ * ~  Lily's gang of girls   ~ * ~ * ~ * ~

"So what are we going to do tonight?" Em asked

"Oh I don't know maybe sleep." Lily replied. She looked very tired and hadn't eaten much or said anything till now.

"How about we raid the kitchens so we only have to eat desserts?" Mandy asked. She loved walking around the castle at night. It reminded her of muggle movies.

"I can't." Bella announced

"WHAT?" Lily, Em and Mandy yelled gaining the attention of the whole school

" MISS EVANS, MISS KURT, MISS HEART WOULD YOU BE SO KIND AS TO KEEP YOUR VOICES TO A QUIETER LEVEL." Screamed an angry Professor McGonagall.

"Yes professor, sorry professor." They mumbled so as not to be to overheard by anyone.

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~  Later at night    ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~

"I wish you guys just left me to sleep, you didn't make Bella cancel her date with that bimbo but you make me come to the kitchens and eat. I'm going to have the biggest headache tomorrow morning. Your lucky tomorrow is a Saturday coz if it wasn't you guys would be in BIG trouble and would be running for your lives. I better not wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning because of you and your early morning runs EMMA! Your just lucky I didn't kill you before when you woke me up to come hear." Lily whispered so as not to be heard but with enough tone in her voice to be satisfied.

"Are you done now?" Mandy asked. Clearly she didn't worry about that long speech of Lily's because Lily had recited it since the first time they woke her up to come to the kitchens. Lily nodded her head.

"Good coz you really don't want to no who just walked into the kitchens." Emma replied a worried tone in her voice.

"Who?" both Mandy and Lily said together

"You'll find out, come on. Maybe we can sneak around the tables and head towards the back, ask the house-elves not to speak loudly and then ran from the back to the entrance without having to stop once." Emma whispered satisfied with her plan. Ignoring the complaints form Lily about being to tired to run, and Mandy's complaints about her nightgown being to tight to run, Em walked right up to the portrait and tickled the pear.

Considering she hadn't been at Hogwarts for a whole summer, she forgot that the door squeaked when you opened it. Mandy and Lily started laughing. They tried to hide their laughter by coughing but that didn't work. It just made more noise and caused the people who were inside to come and see what was going on. It was the Marauders, minus Sirius as he was out on a date. This also caused both Mandy and Lily to run as fast as they could back to Gryffindor tower without bumping into anyone or anything.

The rest of the night was left for sleeping, talking, complaining and eating the food Emma had managed to bring up from the kitchens.