A/N: Thank you so much to GoddessMoonLady, Vaness, and Emily Vanchi and the other person (sorry I don't know who you are) for reviewing my story. I hope my next chapter is as good as my last. I had a lot of fun with this chapter. Please R/R and give me any suggestions/ comments/ words of wisdom that you may have. ~North*Star
Disclaimer: Everyone you recognize belongs to JK Rowling. Holly, Nichole, Will, and anyone else I forgot belong to me. I wish JK Rowling would write a book on Harrys' parents while they were alive...
And now chapter two! Oh I almost forgot *tosses out random beans to reviewers* Hope no one has any allergies!
Lily was still peacefully sound asleep on the windowsill in the Gryffindor common room. After much tossing and turning, she fell off and landed on the cold stone floor of the common room. She suddenly became wide awake and very aware of where she was. She stood up, brushed herself off, and started back to the dormitories. Lily had managed to get three fourths of the way up the stairs when she heard a voice call "Morning Lily."
She leaned over the banister. Remus was sitting on a red upholstered chair folding up a piece of parchment. "Thank goodness it's only you!" She called, skipping the rest of the way up.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Remus eyed her questioningly. "And most normal people sleep in beds, not on windowsills."
"I might have fallen asleep in the common room, but I'm just not normal." Remus just shook his head. Personally she was just glad that Remus was up rather than James. She didn't need any more comments from James. Lily opened the door and slipped into her dormitory. The other girls were in their uniforms already and packing up their parchment and quills for class.
"Where were you?" Nichole shouted. "You left your room and didn't come back all night."
Lily rushed around the room grabbing her uniform and her school supplies. "Just don't ask." She ran across the room for her tie and tripped over an open trunk, papers and books soaring to all corners of the room.
"We won't" Holly said warily, helping Lily to pick up the fallen books. The girls rushed out of the room and down the staircase. They nearly knocked Remus over the staircase banister on his way back from the Owlery. The now five Gryffindor girls and Remus entered the Great Hall for breakfast. The buzzing voices of the students rang loudly in their ears as they sat down at their respective table. Lily, Holly, and Nichole soon found out that their two roommates were not highly gifted in the intelligence department.
"Well, we have Charms first period with the Ravenclaws." Chiara said, studying her new schedule. "Honestly, I think we should skip because I don't need a lesson in charm; I have plenty." She was rather pretty but not much in the way of brains. Fortunately for her, most people didn't know that, yet.
"Charms are spells. You can't just skip them." Lily explained. The other girl, Gwen, couldn't stop giggling. And this was not your average laugh either. It reminded Lily of a hyena - a sneezing hyena.
After about ten minutes of torture, the other Gryffindor first years sauntered into the Great Hall; thankfully, this silenced the two girls for a little while.
"Course schedules eh?" Sirius reached over, grabbed the parchment out of Holly's fingers, and quickly scanned over its contents. Holly promptly smacked him.
"Yeah, the only classes we have with the Slytherins are Flying and Potions." Peter added after grabbing the parchment from Sirius.
"Hey guys, let me see the schedule!" James called. They passed it over Holly's head to him.
"You stupid boys! Give my schedule back!" Holly called standing on tiptoe as James held the schedule high above her head. Nichole casually walked behind James and snatched away the schedule. Being tall always has its advantages. Holly thanked her profusely. Meanwhile, Lily gawked at the owls that had entered the room, carrying packages of all shapes and sizes.
"Owls deliver mail Evans. What did you expect, lions?" James remarked.
"That would be keeping in Gryffindor spirit. If they were lions, we'd have sent Sirius back to the circus with them." Lily exclaimed.
"Very funny Evans." Sirius's voice exuded sarcasm. "You could be a comedian." Just then, an envelope was dropped into Sirius' hands.
"That could be your acceptance letter now" James continued absently. Sirius smirked and tucked the letter into his robe pocket.
"What is it?" Remus wondered.
"Important business", He said with a smile. The other eight exchanged puzzled looks. The number of other students in the hall was beginning to diminish as class time approached. Soon Will, another first year and one of the boy's roommates, informed them that it was time for class. The now ten Gryffindor first years made their way up to the Charms classroom on the fourth floor.
The hallways were full of people bustling about to get to their first morning class. Lily could hear the complaints of disappointed students going to Defense Against the Dark Arts. Apparently that classroom had decided to relocate itself over the summer holiday. Luckily, they found their classroom without too much trouble. The room they entered was very old and elegant, with spacious, high vaulted ceilings. The musky smell of old books wafted through the air. They took their seats and stared at the sights around them. Beautiful mahogany desks lined the outskirts of the room and in the center of the room was a tall platform. After their teacher entered the room, they understood why the platform had to be so tall.
An older-looking dwarf entered the room. His slowly graying hair peeked out of his tall, pointed wizards' hat as he waddled over to the center of the room.
"Class, today we will be learning the levitation spell known as Wingardium Leviosa." He went over the proper wrist movements for casting a spell and instructed them to levitate their quills. Lily said the spell, concentrated as hard as she could, and watched her feather hover just barely a foot above her head.
"Excellent job Miss Evans, and on the first try too. Ten points for Gryffindor."
"Show off!" James scoffed, trying in vain to levitate his feather. "You stupid thing!" he seethed, tossing the feather aside.
"Yelling at it won't help." Lily offered. Yet again, why did I bother?
"Who asked you anyways?" He swiveled around in his seat. "Nichole is there some kind of trick to this."
"Concentrating, not getting irritated at your feather,-"
"Never mind." He said coolly. Remus was having a little too much fun levitating quills in order to jab people in the back. "Ow, watch it Rems-"
"Call me 'Rems' and I'll poke you again." He said sardonically.
"Rems!" Sirius yelled mockingly. He asked for what he got.
"I wonder, would be easier to levitate a tissue?" Peter asked aloud.
"An excellent idea Peter!" James said with a false superiority. "They're nice and light." He pointed his wand to the desk where the tissues lay. "Wingardium Leviosa!" A flash of light came out of his wand tip and set quills and ink hurling off the desk, aiming straight at the innocent students.
"Mr. Potter, you may want to brush up on that spell a little bit more before next class. Five points from Gryffindor." Professor Flitwick walked over to watch two of the Ravenclaw girls. Just then, a shrill bell-like sound emerged from somewhere under the papers on the professor's desk. Class had ended.
"Thanks Potter." Will exclaimed, a note of sarcasm tainting his voice. James pretended that nothing had happened. Sirius came over and clapped him on the back.
"That was superb James. Simply superb!" Sirius exclaimed. The two boys just kept laughing as if it were al some kind of joke.
"You're not sorry about what you did?" Nichole questioned.
"Nope, me and Sirius have an ongoing bet. We're going to see who can find the most creative prank."
"Except the imbecile forgot that their bet had to do with how many detentions each of them got. James just uselessly lost points for our house." Remus added.
"So do you actually know how to levitate a feather? Was nearly putting people's eyes out part of your plan?" Lily interrogated.
"Just a few kinks that I have to work out." James said aside to Sirius.
"So you think this is a big joke." Lily fumed.
"Oh for Merlin's sake Evans! What class do we have next Holly?" James asked dejectedly.
"Didn't you pick up your own schedule?" she asked. Some mumbled words told them that the answer was no. "We have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs." She said rather annoyed. They walked outdoors to the greenhouse. Lily, James, Sirius, Nichole, Holly, Remus, and Peter stayed behind when they saw a rather odd sight.
The game warden, Hagrid was down by the forest's edge, digging in the dirt. It was rather a hard sight to miss considering Hagrid's size. As they approached, they noticed that he seemed to be planting something.
"What are you up to Hagrid?" Sirius asked innocently.
"What d'yeh think yeh nosy firs' years are doin' here?" They all smiled angelically. He went back to working as he talked. "This here's a little willow; a whomping willow."
"And what do we need a whomping willow for?" James questioned.
"To protect the school o'course." Hagrid continued to pack soil around the seedling. Its branches flailed and smacked his arms.
"from?-"
"Magical stuff." That was his short and concise answer. "Yeh better be off to yer next class now." He went back to busily tying stakes around the tree for support. They went to Herbology though it proved to be a rather uninteresting class, and then they returned to the common room.
James had taken the large armchair, and the others sat down on the various pieces of furniture in the room. "So our last class is-"
"Potions." Holly said looking up from the game of Exploding Snap, Remus and Sirius were trying to teach Holly and Lily how to play. Lily was muggleborn and Holly was half blood so they had never really learned.
"Oh great." Nichole said, falling back onto the couch.
"Potions isn't that bad." said an older boy with dark hair and a dark complexion. He looked strangely familiar-
"What are you playing at Andrew, it is the worst class ever invented." Nichole continued. "Oh everyone, this is my brother Andrew." He nodded curtly.
"Just don't listen to her. I happen to like Potions." He said, messing up Nichole's hair and walking up to the boys dormitories. "And you'd better get going."
"Don't touch my hair you idiot!" They realized what time it was and began to make their way down to the dungeons.
"Dungeon number two. I imagine this will be pleasant." Sirius said dryly.
"No more stupid ideas you two." Remus warned eyeing James and Sirius.
"Seeing as James will most likely blow things up and/or send potions ingredients flying at the students." Lily added.
"And perfect Lily will be there to rat on me." James said.
"What is that supposed to mean?" she exclaimed.
"You're nothing but a teacher's pet and conformist!" James shouted.
"You don't even know the meaning of the word 'conformist'!" Lily yelled.
"Neither do you!"
"What does that matter?"
"Does the fact that I have a large vocabulary bother you Evans?"
"I hope you make yourself explode! Then maybe the teachers will award us points out of sympathy." Lily yelled and walked quicker to catch up with Remus.
"How many points do you think we could get?" Sirius wondered aloud. James elbowed him.
They pushed open the creaking door and entered to foul smelling dungeon. It was incredibly dark, an eerie glow emitted from the torches placed along the stone walls of the room. The Slytherins were already there waiting and whispering sly remarks to one another. They fit in perfectly with the creepy scenery. Then there was the potions master. He loomed over the students, dressed in dreary black robes. His old, sallow face was twisted into a loathing grimace.
"Five points from Gryffindor for tardiness. Take a seat so that we can begin class."
"But Professor, it's only-"
"I didn't need your comments Mr. Pettigrew, three more points from Gryffindor. I suggest that you quickly take your seats before you lose any more points for your house." They quickly pulled up chairs in front of the empty cauldrons. "Now Potter we can not have you sitting with Mr. Black. You won't get anything accomplished. Go sit with Mr. Snape."
Lily saw James' worried face as he walked across the room and took the chair next to Snape. It served him right anyway, Lily thought. Lily tried to pay attention to the Potions professor who introduced himself as Professor Dougal. Their first assignment was to make an invisibility draught. Lily tried to copy the notes down as carefully as she could, but she quickly grew tired of the unpleasant monotone voice. After he explained everything, he went into his office, leaving the students to work on their potions.
They quickly got to work on their concoctions. Lily was sitting next to Remus who was very helpful as he was an excellent note-taker. James tried to strike up some conversation between himself and Snape.
"You must really like Potions, I mean you seem so interested in it. I don't think it is really my kind of class. What would you need potions for anyways? I can always use an invisibility cloak." James said quickly.
"Potions can be quite useful to those who know how to use it. Obviously you don't have the talent." Snape said haughtily.
"Talent for what, mixing ingredients? Maybe I would be more interested if the teacher wasn't so terrible. Is he always like that?"
"Always like what?" Snape had that same loathing face. It must be a trait passed on to all Slytherins. James decided to drop it. Lily continued to add the liquid silver to the mixture. Remus was growing a little nervous. Maybe she was doing to potion wrong.
She glanced over and noticed Sirius snickering hilariously about something. Looking back across the room, she noticed James wasn't there. He was up to something, and it couldn't be a good thing. Dougal was still in his office grading summer essays. All of a sudden there was a huge explosion that sent Lily flying out of her chair and landing face flat onto the hard stone floor. The rest of the students burst into laughter as she picked herself up off the ground.
"What happened here?" The professor stormed out of his office. "Who caused that explosion?" Remus had an absolutely shocked look spread across his face. Sirius ceased his snickering.
"Mr. Black, do you know what happened?"
"No, not at all sir."
"I know what happened Professor." Snape's hand was raised straight into the air. "Potter used his invisibility potion to place a Filibuster Firework under Evan's chair." He continued. "He shouldn't have tested his potion without having it examined."
"Right you are Mr. Snape. If Potter had let me look at it, maybe it would have worked better and he could have made his glasses invisible too." The whole classroom turned around and saw just as the professor had said; a pair of thick rimmed glasses was floating in midair. The students burst into laughter again. "That will be five points and a detention for Potter and a point from Mr. Black for lying."
"We're in negative points." Nichole muttered.
"I am well aware Miss Sanders. Class is dismissed." The students quickly packed up their equipment. Still whispering to one another about what had happened. Lily emptied out the cauldron and put away her quills and parchment. As she was on her way out, she saw something lying alone on her table.
It was a dark purple bean.
A/N: I hope you liked the chapter! This story has a major plot coming up soon. I decided to leave them alone in first year. Please R/R, I'll be waiting. That little box at the bottom is calling your name...