Again: I have changed in earlier chapters. Again, it's nothing big, so
again you won't have to go back to look, because I can tell you what it is.
Joseph Etter is in Gryffindor.
As you probably noticed I am not too good at English, so I need a beta- reader, please?
Thanx again to those who reviews
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Lily stood there, surprised that there went two Evans' to the same school, two Evans that didn't even know each other. She wanted to see what he looked like, but no one stepped forward.
"Leonard Evans", McGonagall said again, a little higher this time.
Again no one stepped forward, and Lily started to wonder what the boy wanted. Did he find this very funny, to have everyone waiting for him? Did he want to be remembered and this was the best thing he thought about? Maybe he was deaf? Or maybe, maybe his name wasn't really Leonard. Maybe it was her. Maybe the reason it said Mr on her letter was because they thought she was a boy.
She felt at her hair. It was short enough, and she hadn't any breasts yet. The boys on the train had believed she was a girl, and if she told everybody now that 'excuse me, I am a girl, there has been a mistake' everybody would laugh, she would be called 'Leo', 'Little boy' and a lot of other things. She could get sorted and then find a teacher when everyone wasn't looking and tell the teacher then.
The third time McGonagall yelled the name she stepped forward. Everyone glared at her. She sat down on the stool and put on the hat.
A voice in her head said: "Hmm, where shall we put you." Lily could hear on the hats voice that it said so to all students while looking where to put them.
"What? You are not the one I was supposed to have now. Actually, you are not supposed to be here at all. Not magic enough."
"What?" Lily thought. "I've longed for this. I will not accept being sent home now."
"You will not accept you say? You know, that don't really matter and if you get to unmanageable we will put a memory-charm on you. You will forget everything."
"No, please", Lily pleaded.
"Well, you are not enough magic, but you have only a little less magic than the last accepted students, so you maybe can do it. You will have to work hard and it will be harder for you than for all other students, but you are hard-working and smart, so I won't tell them."
"Thanks, thanks, thanks", Lily thought, grateful.
"But you will have to pretend be your twin-brother, otherwise they will know something is wrong."
"Excuse me, but I don't have a twin-brother."
"You have had one, and you have to pretend to be him. You heard his name out there. Put where shall we put you?"
"Not Gryffindor, not Gryffindor." She thought.
"Not Gryffindor? Well let me see, you could do well in Ravenclaw, very well indeed, but they would soon figure out your secret. The same with Slytherin, and they would not accept you since you have non magic parents. Then it's either Hufflepuff or Gryffindor. You have to excuse me, but you aren't a very Hufflepuff person, so it have to be GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily took the hat of an sighed. Just her look, not only did she get in the house she did NOT want to be in, she also had to pretend to be someone else, work harder than everyone else and if she did a mistake she would have to leave school and the magic world. Well, it was worth it if she got to be a witch. Wizard, she corrected herself with an ironic smile.
She sat down next to the boy that had been sorted before her.
"Hey", he said. "Really long time you had to try the hat on. What did it say?"
"Well, it said that in Slytherin they would not accept me because my parents aren't magic and that I wasn't really a Hufflepuff and that they were to smart for me in Ravenclaw." Lily was pleased with herself, she had told the truth, but not the whole truth.
"Oh, to me it just said I belonged here or in Ravenclaw and I wanted to be here, because my dad was in Gryffindor. What's your name?"
"Lil- Leonard Evans, but everyone calls me Leo."
"Cool, Leo. I am Joseph Etter, but my friends call me Joe."
"Your father is a wizard then. Your mother.?"
"She is a muggle. She works with a muggle-newspaper."
"What is a muggle?" Lily asked.
"A non-magic person."
"There are much things I don't know about the wizarding world." Joe told her about quidditch, qoudpot, Exploding Snap and everything else he thought of. He was good at telling about muggle-things, since he had grown up with one muggle and one witch he knew about both muggles and wizards and could explain everything to her so that she understood.
When they were almost finished eating she pointed at the boys from the train and asked Joe if he knew who they were.
"Well, not all of them. The one with glasses is James Potter. He is very rich and son of the Minister of Magic. The others are his friends, I suppose."
A boy sitting near said: "It's James Potter, the most popular boy in school. All girls find him gorgeous, and he is rich, fun and smart. He plays pranks at everyone, but no teacher has seen him do it. They know he does, but they never can prove it. He is in third year. The others is his best friends, Sirius Black, son to the seeker in Montrose Magpies, Remus Lupin, the smartest guy in school and Peter Pettigrew, son to a worldfamous auror. They are the maurauders, the most popular guys in school. James and Sirius is in the quidditch-team. Make sure you don't have them as enemies." Lily looked at him. What a speech. Did everyone here think as these guys as gods or something.
"How can they be so popular? They are only in third year?" Joe asked the other boy.
"Well, they are in the quidditch-team. James will probably be captain this year. They are prankster, they have no respect for teachers, everybody wants to be like them. Why did you ask?"
"Eh." Lily did not want to talk about the train. She really hated this guy, maybe except Peter, he seemed nice. "I saw that James-guy in the Diagon Alley and he said hello and helped me to find Flourish and Blotts." The two boys looked at her.
"I don't think so", the boy whose name she didn't know said. "He has servants to do his shopping for him, and he would certainly not help a muggleborn first-year." Lily knew they would not like that she lied, and she really wanted friends, so she told them about the train. Joe thought that they were idiots, and glared at them, but they didn't seem to notice. The other boy said that if she was in their compartment it wasn't odd that they did so, and that they acted so towards everyone.
Lily decided that she did not like them and that she would not talk to them. Then she smiled to herself. Like they would care about if a small boy in first-year wanted to be their friend.
"What's your name, by the way?" she asked the boy.
"Frank Longbottom, I'm in second year." He said. "And yours?"
"Joe", Lily pointed at Joe "And Leo."
When the feast was over a prefect led them to the Gryffindor-tower and told them the password (pig-snout) and Lily and Joe said goodbye to Frank and went up to the first-years boys dorm.
In the dorm were six other boys, who presented themselves as Thomas McGowen, Jeffery Grey, Fredric Dobbs, Martin Heylane, William Bendbow and Ian Petersen.
Lily's bed was between Joe's and Fredric's. She unpacked some of her things and thought that she would have to do something with her girly cloths and things.
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As you probably noticed I am not too good at English, so I need a beta- reader, please?
Thanx again to those who reviews
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Lily stood there, surprised that there went two Evans' to the same school, two Evans that didn't even know each other. She wanted to see what he looked like, but no one stepped forward.
"Leonard Evans", McGonagall said again, a little higher this time.
Again no one stepped forward, and Lily started to wonder what the boy wanted. Did he find this very funny, to have everyone waiting for him? Did he want to be remembered and this was the best thing he thought about? Maybe he was deaf? Or maybe, maybe his name wasn't really Leonard. Maybe it was her. Maybe the reason it said Mr on her letter was because they thought she was a boy.
She felt at her hair. It was short enough, and she hadn't any breasts yet. The boys on the train had believed she was a girl, and if she told everybody now that 'excuse me, I am a girl, there has been a mistake' everybody would laugh, she would be called 'Leo', 'Little boy' and a lot of other things. She could get sorted and then find a teacher when everyone wasn't looking and tell the teacher then.
The third time McGonagall yelled the name she stepped forward. Everyone glared at her. She sat down on the stool and put on the hat.
A voice in her head said: "Hmm, where shall we put you." Lily could hear on the hats voice that it said so to all students while looking where to put them.
"What? You are not the one I was supposed to have now. Actually, you are not supposed to be here at all. Not magic enough."
"What?" Lily thought. "I've longed for this. I will not accept being sent home now."
"You will not accept you say? You know, that don't really matter and if you get to unmanageable we will put a memory-charm on you. You will forget everything."
"No, please", Lily pleaded.
"Well, you are not enough magic, but you have only a little less magic than the last accepted students, so you maybe can do it. You will have to work hard and it will be harder for you than for all other students, but you are hard-working and smart, so I won't tell them."
"Thanks, thanks, thanks", Lily thought, grateful.
"But you will have to pretend be your twin-brother, otherwise they will know something is wrong."
"Excuse me, but I don't have a twin-brother."
"You have had one, and you have to pretend to be him. You heard his name out there. Put where shall we put you?"
"Not Gryffindor, not Gryffindor." She thought.
"Not Gryffindor? Well let me see, you could do well in Ravenclaw, very well indeed, but they would soon figure out your secret. The same with Slytherin, and they would not accept you since you have non magic parents. Then it's either Hufflepuff or Gryffindor. You have to excuse me, but you aren't a very Hufflepuff person, so it have to be GRYFFINDOR!"
Lily took the hat of an sighed. Just her look, not only did she get in the house she did NOT want to be in, she also had to pretend to be someone else, work harder than everyone else and if she did a mistake she would have to leave school and the magic world. Well, it was worth it if she got to be a witch. Wizard, she corrected herself with an ironic smile.
She sat down next to the boy that had been sorted before her.
"Hey", he said. "Really long time you had to try the hat on. What did it say?"
"Well, it said that in Slytherin they would not accept me because my parents aren't magic and that I wasn't really a Hufflepuff and that they were to smart for me in Ravenclaw." Lily was pleased with herself, she had told the truth, but not the whole truth.
"Oh, to me it just said I belonged here or in Ravenclaw and I wanted to be here, because my dad was in Gryffindor. What's your name?"
"Lil- Leonard Evans, but everyone calls me Leo."
"Cool, Leo. I am Joseph Etter, but my friends call me Joe."
"Your father is a wizard then. Your mother.?"
"She is a muggle. She works with a muggle-newspaper."
"What is a muggle?" Lily asked.
"A non-magic person."
"There are much things I don't know about the wizarding world." Joe told her about quidditch, qoudpot, Exploding Snap and everything else he thought of. He was good at telling about muggle-things, since he had grown up with one muggle and one witch he knew about both muggles and wizards and could explain everything to her so that she understood.
When they were almost finished eating she pointed at the boys from the train and asked Joe if he knew who they were.
"Well, not all of them. The one with glasses is James Potter. He is very rich and son of the Minister of Magic. The others are his friends, I suppose."
A boy sitting near said: "It's James Potter, the most popular boy in school. All girls find him gorgeous, and he is rich, fun and smart. He plays pranks at everyone, but no teacher has seen him do it. They know he does, but they never can prove it. He is in third year. The others is his best friends, Sirius Black, son to the seeker in Montrose Magpies, Remus Lupin, the smartest guy in school and Peter Pettigrew, son to a worldfamous auror. They are the maurauders, the most popular guys in school. James and Sirius is in the quidditch-team. Make sure you don't have them as enemies." Lily looked at him. What a speech. Did everyone here think as these guys as gods or something.
"How can they be so popular? They are only in third year?" Joe asked the other boy.
"Well, they are in the quidditch-team. James will probably be captain this year. They are prankster, they have no respect for teachers, everybody wants to be like them. Why did you ask?"
"Eh." Lily did not want to talk about the train. She really hated this guy, maybe except Peter, he seemed nice. "I saw that James-guy in the Diagon Alley and he said hello and helped me to find Flourish and Blotts." The two boys looked at her.
"I don't think so", the boy whose name she didn't know said. "He has servants to do his shopping for him, and he would certainly not help a muggleborn first-year." Lily knew they would not like that she lied, and she really wanted friends, so she told them about the train. Joe thought that they were idiots, and glared at them, but they didn't seem to notice. The other boy said that if she was in their compartment it wasn't odd that they did so, and that they acted so towards everyone.
Lily decided that she did not like them and that she would not talk to them. Then she smiled to herself. Like they would care about if a small boy in first-year wanted to be their friend.
"What's your name, by the way?" she asked the boy.
"Frank Longbottom, I'm in second year." He said. "And yours?"
"Joe", Lily pointed at Joe "And Leo."
When the feast was over a prefect led them to the Gryffindor-tower and told them the password (pig-snout) and Lily and Joe said goodbye to Frank and went up to the first-years boys dorm.
In the dorm were six other boys, who presented themselves as Thomas McGowen, Jeffery Grey, Fredric Dobbs, Martin Heylane, William Bendbow and Ian Petersen.
Lily's bed was between Joe's and Fredric's. She unpacked some of her things and thought that she would have to do something with her girly cloths and things.
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