I know it took a long time, and I know that there is much mistakes in
grammar and in spelling, that's why I still need a beta (Darcel Lucia; I'd
rather have a beta that I know have read my story, not that reads it so he
or she can be beta).
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Lily's fourth day at Hogwarts were probably the worst in her first year. Okay, maybe not the worst, but most certainly one of the worst. She woke up late, since she and Joe had had a fight the night before, and Joe probably was angry still, so he didn't care about waking her up. The fight had about if she cheated when playing chess.
She was sure she hadn't, but no one else thought so, since she had no idea at all about how to play chess, so they said that she couldn't know about that. Well, that didn't matter to her, she would not admit that she had been wrong.
The fight ended with Joe throwing Lily's wand out the window, and Lily having to run down to fetch it. When she came up to the dorm again, after being forced by Peeves to go another way, and having to hide for Filch in an empty class-room, for almost half an hour, all the boys in the dorm were asleep.
She was respectful enough to be very silent as she emptied a bucket of ice- water over Joe's head, but he wasn't respectful at all. He screamed out loud, making all the other boys in the dorm angry at Lily, too.
She had pointed out that she had been silent, and Joe had been the one to scream, but everyone still seemed to think it was hers fault. Almost everyone in the Gryffindor-tower had been woken up by Joe's scream, and came to their dorm. They, too, thought it was her fault.
When she had made herself ready for bed and came out to the dorm, all the boys were asleep again. She went to her bed, feeling that after a nights sleep she might be able to forgive Joe.
No one cold really suspect her not to scream, when lying down, finding a big, slimy something on her pillow. Again, all the students in Gryffindor were woken up, and again they told her that everything was her fault. That wasn't really fair. If it was her fault that she made Joe scream, it couldn't be her fault, too, that he made her scream. No one else agreed on that, even as she pointed it out. All elder students that once again came down to the dorm to see what the crazy first-years did this time, also thought it was her fault. They laughed at her, but no one had laughed at Joe.
When Lily finally managed to get to sleep, she was really pissed off. Not only had Joe said she was cheating, thrown her wand out through the window, screamed and made everyone think she was the evil one, he had also put something slimy on her pillow, making her scream and make herself look like a fool in front of whole Gryffindor.
The result of this was that Lily didn't get as much sleep as she needed, making her not waking up when she almost always did, and making no one care to wake her up.
She quickly put on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thanking the gods that she had no hair that she needed to brush. The only good thing with waking up so late was that everyone else were already down eating breakfast, so no one saw her hiding all of Joe's clean socks and underwear behind a pile of wood in the common-room, and they also didn't see when she put a water- balloon under his pillow.
She had to skip breakfast, but she still were late for her first lesson, transfiguration. McGonagall gave her detention, and she had to work with Anthony Baddock, an ugly, mean Slytherin with no brain at all.
The other lessons, she let Joe try first, and then she would do as he did, but now she had to try herself, so she had a very hard time transfiguring their match. No she did not only have to do all work by herself, she also had to explain for the Slytherin. It just didn't work. The match were a match, and kept being.
When she went to the next lesson, flying class, she felt her mood lighten up a bit. She was finally going to fly a broomstick, something she had been longing for since she got to know you could fly a broomstick.
She was smiling when she came to the lesson, she was almost ready to forgive Joe. She smiled at the teacher, and at everyone else. She was the only one to get the broom to leave the ground, and she waited for the teacher to tell them to kick off from the ground, but the command never came. Instead the teacher, Mr Rino, said: "That's good class. Now we are going to be talking about theories. We don't want any accidents, so you won't get to fly for another couple of weeks. First." Lily sighed and stopped listening. She wanted to fly, not to talk about flying.
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After a very long flying lesson, when talking about how to sit on a broom (one leg on each side if you are boy, both on the same if you are a girl), how to grip a broom and a bit about quidditch-rules, it was time for lunch. Lily sat by herself, not wanting to forgive Joe until he forgave her.
She sat, thinking about how horrible the day were, when one single black owl flew into the Great Hall. Lily sighed, again. Probably Satan hadn't been able to deliver her letter to her when she didn't come to breakfast that morning, so he had to do it now, when no other owl did. He dropped the letter on her plate, making the tomato-sauce splash her white T-shirt. She put the saucy letter from her parents in her pocket, not wanting to read it yet. She prayed that Satan would flow back to the owlery, but her prayers didn't work.
He sat down on her shoulder, biting her ear, she smacked him, and he flew off, screeching angrily.
Now, he flew up to the teachers table. He landed between Dumbledore's and McGonagall's plates, taking a bit of McGonagall's potato. Lily put her face in her hands, as McGonagall tried to shoo Satan away. Satan just bit the teacher in her hand, and went on eating. McGonagall tried to shoo him away once again. This time he made a sort of a jump, biting the teacher in her nose. He then flew up and took McGonagall's hat in his claws, before flying off, out to the owlery, screeching angrily.
McGonagall, and everyone else in the room (except Lily) were looking after the black owl, and after about three seconds all students burst out either talking or laughing.
Lily went out, head in her hands.
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She thought about going to the owlery to yell at Satan, but then she thought that McGonagall would come there soon to fetch her hat, and Lily didn't want to get yelled at yet.
Instead she went to the dorm to fetch her things for next lesson.
To her horror she wasn't the only one to leave lunch early. The dorm were already occupied by the marauders and some girls that always followed them.
"Nice owl, kiddo." She sighed. It was James Potter again. "And by the way, you sound very girly when you scream." He was not her favourite person. She did try to make her voice sound darker, but she hadn't found a spell for that yet, and it was hard to make it sound darker when she was distracted by something slimy on her pillow.
"You really shouldn't say anything." She replied. "Have you heard your laugh? It sound like a horse, about to get shot." James Potter's eyes darkened.
"What's his name." He asked. Lily thought that he sounded like a gangster from some movie. "Leonard David Evans." A girl answered. Lily was impressed. She didn't even know her dead brother's middle-name by herself, how could this girl know it?
"Well, Leonard David Evans, you should know that I am James Edward Potter, son to the minister of magic, the smartest, most popular guy in school, the best-quidditch player, and youngest captain ever, accepted to the team in second year."
"Anyone can get accepted in second year, and you are not captain yet. The team has to vote."
"No one gets accepted in second year. Not anyone can. Hardly anyone does. The older students know more about flying, and often the captain do not want a too young player in the team. And who else would be captain? We can bet if you want to." Lily shook her head. "I am rich, I am smart, I am a marauder. You don't want me as an enemy, but you just got me as an enemy. Beware, Leonard David Evans. Beware." If it hadn't been such a serious situation she would have found it funny, with all his mafia-talk.
"If your little speech is over I would like to go to my next lesson." Lily said, hoping she sounded more confident than she felt. She went up to her dorm and took her Defence Against the Dark Arts Books. When she came back to the common-room the marauders and the girls had left.
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More than half an hour later she was in a part of Hogwarts that she had never seen before. She sighed. She had quite a poor sense of direction. The lesson had started more than twenty minutes ago, and she could not for her life find her way there.
She had seen a lot of interesting parts of the castle, for example a room with walls of only mirrors. It had been impossible to see how big the room was, and she just had to stay there for a while before keep going.
Once she almost fell down, when a hole opened before her feet. She threw down one of her pencils in the hole, to hear how deep it was, but after a couple of minutes she had to keep going. She then still hadn't heard the pencil touch the ground.
Next she came to a room, filled with old shoes. There were thousands of them, big and small and in different colours. She saw a pair looking almost exactly like hers before she had to hurry away again.
She decided that she had to find her way to the Great Hall before trying to get to the lesson, but she couldn't mange that either.
When she finally came to the Great Hall it was only ten minutes left of the lessons, so she decided there was no meaning with going there. She went out, as it was a fantastic day. She thought she would enjoy it, but no matter how beautiful it was, it was no fun alone. She sat there, and after about twenty minutes Joe came down and sat down beside her.
"Er, Leo, maybe I wasn't too nice throwing out your wand." He looked like he was sorry. "And I shouldn't have poured water over you."
"No, you shouldn't," he grinned at her.
"The meaning was you should tell me about all bad things you have done. You shouldn't have put that slimy thing on my pillow." He grinned again, and she glared at him.
"It was something I bought in the apothecary's. I don't really know what it was." She looked horrified.
"And you still cheated." He said.
"Did not."
"Did too"
"Did not."
"Did too. And by the way, Satan was brilliant. Did you teach him to do that?"
"No, he is just a very mean owl. And McGonagall is going to kill me."
"Yeah, she will. And professor Neorin were not happy that you were missing that lesson. Where were you?"
"Trying to find my way to the lesson", Lily replied sulkily. Joe laughed.
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After one lesson herbology they had the rest of the day off. Lily thought this was very nice, especially since only the first years were free. Joe and Lily went out climbing trees, and soon the other boys from the dorm joined them.
Lily hadn't climbed a tree since she was six years old. Her friends before Hogwarts, and she too, had found tree-climbing very childish, or something girls shouldn't do, but now she only found it funny. She climbed higher than Joe and two other boys from the dorm, but she didn't dare to climb as high as the others.
It was almost dark when they went in and ended the day with a game of exploding snap. First at half past eleven they went to bed, very grateful that they had no weekend for the next day, and that they would soon spend their first weekend at Hogwarts.
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Sorry for all the italics. They were only to show how upset Lily was, I don't really know if that showed.
Don't worry, the marauders won't be mean too long, I think.
Review, please, please, please. I don't care if you hate me, only if you review. Well, I do care, but it's better with flames than with no reviews at all.
As you see, I really need a beta, so if anyone want to beta-read for me. please tell me.
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Lily's fourth day at Hogwarts were probably the worst in her first year. Okay, maybe not the worst, but most certainly one of the worst. She woke up late, since she and Joe had had a fight the night before, and Joe probably was angry still, so he didn't care about waking her up. The fight had about if she cheated when playing chess.
She was sure she hadn't, but no one else thought so, since she had no idea at all about how to play chess, so they said that she couldn't know about that. Well, that didn't matter to her, she would not admit that she had been wrong.
The fight ended with Joe throwing Lily's wand out the window, and Lily having to run down to fetch it. When she came up to the dorm again, after being forced by Peeves to go another way, and having to hide for Filch in an empty class-room, for almost half an hour, all the boys in the dorm were asleep.
She was respectful enough to be very silent as she emptied a bucket of ice- water over Joe's head, but he wasn't respectful at all. He screamed out loud, making all the other boys in the dorm angry at Lily, too.
She had pointed out that she had been silent, and Joe had been the one to scream, but everyone still seemed to think it was hers fault. Almost everyone in the Gryffindor-tower had been woken up by Joe's scream, and came to their dorm. They, too, thought it was her fault.
When she had made herself ready for bed and came out to the dorm, all the boys were asleep again. She went to her bed, feeling that after a nights sleep she might be able to forgive Joe.
No one cold really suspect her not to scream, when lying down, finding a big, slimy something on her pillow. Again, all the students in Gryffindor were woken up, and again they told her that everything was her fault. That wasn't really fair. If it was her fault that she made Joe scream, it couldn't be her fault, too, that he made her scream. No one else agreed on that, even as she pointed it out. All elder students that once again came down to the dorm to see what the crazy first-years did this time, also thought it was her fault. They laughed at her, but no one had laughed at Joe.
When Lily finally managed to get to sleep, she was really pissed off. Not only had Joe said she was cheating, thrown her wand out through the window, screamed and made everyone think she was the evil one, he had also put something slimy on her pillow, making her scream and make herself look like a fool in front of whole Gryffindor.
The result of this was that Lily didn't get as much sleep as she needed, making her not waking up when she almost always did, and making no one care to wake her up.
She quickly put on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thanking the gods that she had no hair that she needed to brush. The only good thing with waking up so late was that everyone else were already down eating breakfast, so no one saw her hiding all of Joe's clean socks and underwear behind a pile of wood in the common-room, and they also didn't see when she put a water- balloon under his pillow.
She had to skip breakfast, but she still were late for her first lesson, transfiguration. McGonagall gave her detention, and she had to work with Anthony Baddock, an ugly, mean Slytherin with no brain at all.
The other lessons, she let Joe try first, and then she would do as he did, but now she had to try herself, so she had a very hard time transfiguring their match. No she did not only have to do all work by herself, she also had to explain for the Slytherin. It just didn't work. The match were a match, and kept being.
When she went to the next lesson, flying class, she felt her mood lighten up a bit. She was finally going to fly a broomstick, something she had been longing for since she got to know you could fly a broomstick.
She was smiling when she came to the lesson, she was almost ready to forgive Joe. She smiled at the teacher, and at everyone else. She was the only one to get the broom to leave the ground, and she waited for the teacher to tell them to kick off from the ground, but the command never came. Instead the teacher, Mr Rino, said: "That's good class. Now we are going to be talking about theories. We don't want any accidents, so you won't get to fly for another couple of weeks. First." Lily sighed and stopped listening. She wanted to fly, not to talk about flying.
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After a very long flying lesson, when talking about how to sit on a broom (one leg on each side if you are boy, both on the same if you are a girl), how to grip a broom and a bit about quidditch-rules, it was time for lunch. Lily sat by herself, not wanting to forgive Joe until he forgave her.
She sat, thinking about how horrible the day were, when one single black owl flew into the Great Hall. Lily sighed, again. Probably Satan hadn't been able to deliver her letter to her when she didn't come to breakfast that morning, so he had to do it now, when no other owl did. He dropped the letter on her plate, making the tomato-sauce splash her white T-shirt. She put the saucy letter from her parents in her pocket, not wanting to read it yet. She prayed that Satan would flow back to the owlery, but her prayers didn't work.
He sat down on her shoulder, biting her ear, she smacked him, and he flew off, screeching angrily.
Now, he flew up to the teachers table. He landed between Dumbledore's and McGonagall's plates, taking a bit of McGonagall's potato. Lily put her face in her hands, as McGonagall tried to shoo Satan away. Satan just bit the teacher in her hand, and went on eating. McGonagall tried to shoo him away once again. This time he made a sort of a jump, biting the teacher in her nose. He then flew up and took McGonagall's hat in his claws, before flying off, out to the owlery, screeching angrily.
McGonagall, and everyone else in the room (except Lily) were looking after the black owl, and after about three seconds all students burst out either talking or laughing.
Lily went out, head in her hands.
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She thought about going to the owlery to yell at Satan, but then she thought that McGonagall would come there soon to fetch her hat, and Lily didn't want to get yelled at yet.
Instead she went to the dorm to fetch her things for next lesson.
To her horror she wasn't the only one to leave lunch early. The dorm were already occupied by the marauders and some girls that always followed them.
"Nice owl, kiddo." She sighed. It was James Potter again. "And by the way, you sound very girly when you scream." He was not her favourite person. She did try to make her voice sound darker, but she hadn't found a spell for that yet, and it was hard to make it sound darker when she was distracted by something slimy on her pillow.
"You really shouldn't say anything." She replied. "Have you heard your laugh? It sound like a horse, about to get shot." James Potter's eyes darkened.
"What's his name." He asked. Lily thought that he sounded like a gangster from some movie. "Leonard David Evans." A girl answered. Lily was impressed. She didn't even know her dead brother's middle-name by herself, how could this girl know it?
"Well, Leonard David Evans, you should know that I am James Edward Potter, son to the minister of magic, the smartest, most popular guy in school, the best-quidditch player, and youngest captain ever, accepted to the team in second year."
"Anyone can get accepted in second year, and you are not captain yet. The team has to vote."
"No one gets accepted in second year. Not anyone can. Hardly anyone does. The older students know more about flying, and often the captain do not want a too young player in the team. And who else would be captain? We can bet if you want to." Lily shook her head. "I am rich, I am smart, I am a marauder. You don't want me as an enemy, but you just got me as an enemy. Beware, Leonard David Evans. Beware." If it hadn't been such a serious situation she would have found it funny, with all his mafia-talk.
"If your little speech is over I would like to go to my next lesson." Lily said, hoping she sounded more confident than she felt. She went up to her dorm and took her Defence Against the Dark Arts Books. When she came back to the common-room the marauders and the girls had left.
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More than half an hour later she was in a part of Hogwarts that she had never seen before. She sighed. She had quite a poor sense of direction. The lesson had started more than twenty minutes ago, and she could not for her life find her way there.
She had seen a lot of interesting parts of the castle, for example a room with walls of only mirrors. It had been impossible to see how big the room was, and she just had to stay there for a while before keep going.
Once she almost fell down, when a hole opened before her feet. She threw down one of her pencils in the hole, to hear how deep it was, but after a couple of minutes she had to keep going. She then still hadn't heard the pencil touch the ground.
Next she came to a room, filled with old shoes. There were thousands of them, big and small and in different colours. She saw a pair looking almost exactly like hers before she had to hurry away again.
She decided that she had to find her way to the Great Hall before trying to get to the lesson, but she couldn't mange that either.
When she finally came to the Great Hall it was only ten minutes left of the lessons, so she decided there was no meaning with going there. She went out, as it was a fantastic day. She thought she would enjoy it, but no matter how beautiful it was, it was no fun alone. She sat there, and after about twenty minutes Joe came down and sat down beside her.
"Er, Leo, maybe I wasn't too nice throwing out your wand." He looked like he was sorry. "And I shouldn't have poured water over you."
"No, you shouldn't," he grinned at her.
"The meaning was you should tell me about all bad things you have done. You shouldn't have put that slimy thing on my pillow." He grinned again, and she glared at him.
"It was something I bought in the apothecary's. I don't really know what it was." She looked horrified.
"And you still cheated." He said.
"Did not."
"Did too"
"Did not."
"Did too. And by the way, Satan was brilliant. Did you teach him to do that?"
"No, he is just a very mean owl. And McGonagall is going to kill me."
"Yeah, she will. And professor Neorin were not happy that you were missing that lesson. Where were you?"
"Trying to find my way to the lesson", Lily replied sulkily. Joe laughed.
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After one lesson herbology they had the rest of the day off. Lily thought this was very nice, especially since only the first years were free. Joe and Lily went out climbing trees, and soon the other boys from the dorm joined them.
Lily hadn't climbed a tree since she was six years old. Her friends before Hogwarts, and she too, had found tree-climbing very childish, or something girls shouldn't do, but now she only found it funny. She climbed higher than Joe and two other boys from the dorm, but she didn't dare to climb as high as the others.
It was almost dark when they went in and ended the day with a game of exploding snap. First at half past eleven they went to bed, very grateful that they had no weekend for the next day, and that they would soon spend their first weekend at Hogwarts.
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Sorry for all the italics. They were only to show how upset Lily was, I don't really know if that showed.
Don't worry, the marauders won't be mean too long, I think.
Review, please, please, please. I don't care if you hate me, only if you review. Well, I do care, but it's better with flames than with no reviews at all.
As you see, I really need a beta, so if anyone want to beta-read for me. please tell me.