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Chapter 3:
Home at Hogwarts
And so our eight have met. As they continue to grow closer together, they continue to fulfil their prophecy. They are of great importance to the lives of many. I choose not to comment on the violent behaviour of two of them, but prefer to give it time. Who knows? It may change…
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"Firs' years!" called the loud reassuring voice as they all filed off the train into the darkness. They saw that the man who was calling them held a lantern, which lit up his huge face. "Firs' years this way!" he called. Lily gathered up her too-big robes from the damp ground, and walked over, watching her feet so as not to trip on anything and muttering 'excuse me,' under her breath.
"Righ'. Y'all here?" The giant man asked, surveying the group of first years, and then looking around to see if any of them still didn't know where to go. A stout blonde haired girl hurried over to the group.
"Alrigh', follow me." he said, when she had arrived. They all followed the enormous man to the edge of a huge lake. There was a small group of boats with lanterns hanging in them, bobbing merrily against the dark sky.
"No more'n four to a boat," the huge man said, watching all of the first years as they all clambered into the boats.
"Oh bullocks." Eliza huffed, as she looked at the people she was sharing a boat with. "I'm bloody stuck in a boat with you." She was in a boat with none other than James, Sirius and Lily.
"I am surrounded by idiots!" Eliza moaned, hanging her head.
"Hey!" Lily protested.
"Except for you Lily." Eliza said.
"I resent that." Sirius muttered.
"Well I don't give a damn." Eliza shot back.
"Well I do. You shouldn't insult someone of my flair and finesse."
"More like your clumsiness," Eliza said, sitting up suddenly and lurching sideways. The boat rocked violently, and Sirius fell with a splash into the ice cold water.
"Aarrgghh!" Sirius screamed, trying to scramble back into the boat. "Cold, cold, COLD!" Surprised, but laughing, Eliza pushed him back down again, only to feel a strong hand grab her wrist and in a few seconds, she was drenched in the icy lake water as well.
"AAARRRGGGHHH!" the lake echoed with the screams of Eliza Silverstein. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
By this time, the giant man, Hagrid, had rowed his boat over to the cause of all the commotion.
"Wha's all this?" he asked with a frown, once he had helped them back into the boat.
"He started it!" cried Liza, teeth chattering madly.
"She started it!" Sirius screamed at the same time.
"I did not!" they yelled in unison.
"STOP BLOODY COPYING ME!" they both shouted.
A fuming Eliza scooped up some floating pondweed and shoved it down Sirius's robes with a satisfied smirk. The look of surprised disgust on his face at the sensation of slimy cold pondweed sliding down his back was quite comical.
"I'll be keeping that for later," He said, recovering quickly and fishing it out, putting it in his pocket and grinning infuriatingly, even though the effect was taken away by his constant shivering. They sat down and turned to Lily and James, who in the commotion, had grabbed onto each other so as not to be pushed out of the boat, but were still snuggled into each other, now that it was over.
"Ooooooooh! Lily and Ja-ames, sitting in a tree! K–I-S-S-I-N-G!" Sirius chanted. Lily and James jumped away from each other like they were on fire, and Eliza took her chance to push Sirius in again.
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As they all walked into the entrance hall, Jordy gasped. It was huge. Huger than huge. Her house could have fit three and a half times in it. Well, maybe not three and a half, but still, it was huge! She was standing next to Remus, the boy who had pulled Eliza away from Sirius on the train. He had been in her boat. She couldn't help but feel like a bit of a stranger around these people. She had spent all her life around adults and people that were quite a few years older than her. This was the first time in years she had found somewhere where she had the chance and the right to belong. She turned and smiled at Remus, who was also gazing around in wonder.
"Hey." She said nervously. "I don't think we met properly before. I'm is Jordy Figg."
Remus smiled.
"Remus Lupin." He said cheerfully. "How huge is this place!"
"I know." She breathed. Everything was going to be just fine. "It's so magical."
"Funny about that." Remus said with a funny half-grin on his face, raising an eyebrow. "Can you say duh?"
Jordy giggled, and was about to answer him, when a woman swept to the front of the group. She was tall, and very thin, with a small strict mouth and grey streaked hair brushed back in a tight bun at the back of her head. Her square glasses were perched upon the end of a long pointed nose. At first sight Jordy could tell that she wasn't to be messed with. She wrinkled her nose.
"The firs' years, Professor McGonagall," said Hagrid.
"Thank-you Hagrid" she answered with a curt nod at the giant man. She surveyed the newest arrives slowly.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," Said Professor McGonagall. "The start-of-term Banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. Your house will be like your family. You will have classes with your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room.
"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn you house points, while any rule breaking will lose points. At the end of the year the house cup is awarded to the house with the most points.
"The sorting ceremony will begin momentarily. I suggest that you smarten yourselves up a bit while you are waiting." Her eyes lingered on Eliza and Sirius, standing side by side, sopping wet and shivering.
"What happened to you two?" Viva looked at them with her eyebrows raised.
"He pushed me in!" Eliza said, glaring at Sirius, who glared right back.
"No, you pushed me in!" he said.
"I think I know perfectly well what happened, Black."
"I think you don't, midget."
"I do!"
"Do not."
"Do too."
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Ha got you!"
"No you didn't!"
"Yes I did."
"I don't have times for your stupid immature games Black; I don't know why I was talking to you in the first place."
"Bitch."
"cocky bastard"
"Cow."
"Screwed-up grasshopper."
"Conceited hedgehog shaped cucumber"
"Conceited hedgehog shaped cucumber?"
"Enough!" Viva said loudly, in her 'no nonsense' tone of voice. Everyone turned and stared at Eliza and Sirius for a second, and then started talking again. Eliza flushed pink and glared up at Sirius.
"I hate you." She said venomously.
"Love you too, hon." Sirius said, batting his eyelids. Eliza kicked him in the shin, but left it at that as Professor McGonagall had just come back in.
"They are ready for you." She said, and opening the huge oak door, she led the way into the great hall. The group of nervous first years filed in behind her.
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As McGonagall opened the door to the great hall, James had to stare. From beside him, he heard Viva gasp. He imitated her in falsetto.
"Shut up, James." She whispered, elbowing him in the stomach.
"Ouch. It bites." He whispered back, grinning.
"Like that really hurt you." She rolled her eyes. James raised an eyebrow.
"Shut up." he murmured.
"You were the one talking in the first place." Viva muttered back. James ignored her.
"Line up here" Professor McGonagall called to them. Viva was getting the twitches in her knees. She hated it when that happened. It only happened when she was nervous. She punched her knees so that they would stay straight, all the while cursing her last name for starting with a B.
"Abbot, Rochelle." Professor McGonagall called out. A small girl with pigtails and chubby cheeks walked up to the hat and put it on her head. After a few seconds, the hat yelled out;
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Anton, Jeremy."
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Black, Sirius."
Viva tensed up as she watched Sirius, devoid of his usual strut, walk nervously up to the hat. It was nice to know that the king-of-cool could be fazed by something. He put it on his head and it stayed there for a few seconds before bursting into laughter. Viva raised her eyebrows in surprise, smiling a little. Her brother was a weird one all right.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat yelled. Viva let her shoulders sag in relief, as she heard James wolf whistling beside her.
"Black, Viva."
Viva immediately tensed up again, but walked proudly up to the hat anyway. She could feel hundreds of eyes on her back and her sparkly blue toe socks. She sat down and pulled the hat over her ears.
"Ah yes, another Black. Goodness knows you and your brother are going to cause a lot of trouble around here. Oh, by the way, he is planning to trip your friend Eliza up with that pondweed that he kept from the boat trip. You might want to pick it up. By the way, nice socks. Now let's see, where to put you. Hmmm, how about…GRIFFINDOR!"
Viva, grinning, heaved a sigh of relief, and got up from the chair. On her way down to the Gryffindor table, she bent and picked up the slimy pondweed in front of Eliza.
"You might want to kill my brother." She whispered happily, putting the pondweed into Eliza's hand and continuing to walk to the table.
"Evans, Lily." McGonagall read out.
They all watched as Lily walked up to the hat, her hair catching the light from the thousands of floating candles, making it look like it was on fire. They waited only a few seconds before the hat called out;
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Yeah! Woohoo! Go Lily!" shouted Viva, hugging Lily as she sat down.
"Now we only have to hope for two more people." Lily replied.
"Figg, Jordana."
Jordy ran up to the hat and crammed it on her head.
"If she did that any faster, we wouldn't have been able to see her." Sirius commented.
It only took around 3 seconds for the hat to yell;
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Viva and Lily jumped up to hug their new friend and welcome her to the table.
"Only one more person!" Lily said, so happily, that she thought she might burst. They watched nervously as some more students were sorted into Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin as Remus drew closer to the front of the line, Viva watched in interest as McGonagall called out names.
"Lockhart, Gilderoy!" the professor's voice rang out over the hall.
A rather handsome boy with startlingly blonde hair, and when he grinned at McGonagall, even more startlingly white teeth made his way confidently to the front of the great hall. When he arrived in front of the stool, he paused for a moment before pulling from the pocket of his robes with a flourish a sky blue handkerchief. As the school watched on in amazement, he dusted off the stool before he daintily placed himself on it, crossed one leg over the other and hesitated to put the tattered hat on his head in such a way that Viva was given the distinct impression he was worried about ruffling or dirtying his hair.
The hat mused on the boys head, and from what you could see of the expression on his face, he had gone from politely uncomfortable, to pretty annoyed.
Finally, after several more minutes, the hat yelled out
"SLYTHERIN!"
Viva found herself unsurprised.
"Lupin, Remus."
Viva watched with interest as Remus walked up to the hat. He caught her eye just before it slipped over his eyes and smiled. Viva smiled back, although he couldn't see her. They waited for what seemed forever, before the hat shouted out;
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Remus took the hat off and came down to the Gryffindor table smiling, but looking very white.
"High fives, Rem!" Sirius said, holding up a hand, which Remus slapped happily.
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"Malfoy, Lucius."
Lucius sauntered up to the hat and James glared at him. He hated that git and his crony Snape; they were always trying to make life miserable for others. The hat barely touched his head before it shouted out
"SLYTHERIN!"
Malfoy walked over to the far table with a self-satisfied look on his face. James felt sick.
"Pettigrew, Peter." McGonagall called out. James saw that this was the blonde boy who had been running from Snape and Malfoy. Now instead of terrified, he looked quite confident, and it transformed his face entirely. He sat down and pulled the hat over his ears. It didn't take long for him to be sorted into Gryffindor either.
It had just occurred to James that he was next, when McGonagall called out
"Potter, James."
James walked slowly up to the hat and put it on, letting it slip over his nose.
'Godric Gryffindor sure had a big head', he thought. To his surprise, a voice answered him.
"Actually, no he didn't. I'm only a medium size hat. Don't worry you'll grow. Now let's see. Where shall I put you? You're definitely not for Hufflepuff, you've already planned too much rule breaking for Ravenclaw, and you're too caring about others for Slytherin. Well I must say it's always the last place you look. You'd fit like a glove in … GRYFFINDOR!"
James jumped up and ran over to the Gryffindor table, grinning like there was no tomorrow. He felt Sirius pat him on the back, and heard Remus say "Well done mate!" And saw Lily smile and nod. He grinned back at her, but she had already looked away. His stomach growled hungrily as "Rom, Sarah." was sorted into Ravenclaw.
"Silverstein, Eliza." McGonagall called out. Eliza walked up to the hat and put it on. All you could see of her face were her nose and mouth, the latter of which was smiling evilly.
Next to James, Remus muttered; "Oh no. It usually means trouble when she smiles like that."
"Was she dropped on her head when she was a baby?" Sirius asked.
"Huh?"
"Well, something's stunted her growth."
"Shhhh"
A few seconds later, the hat hollered out;
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Eliza grinned and half skipped over to the table, and as soon as she saw Sirius, her face darkened.
"What the hell is this?" she whispered, waving the pondweed in Sirius's face. Sirius raised his eyebrows.
"I don't know?" he tried innocently.
"I'm ignoring you. You are the most immature person in the world!" She glared at him.
"Have you met everyone in the world?" Sirius asked with a grin on his face.
Eliza ignored him.
James grinned at his friends and looked over at Viva, who was now fake-crying, blowing her nose in a wary Sirius's sleeve and emotionally declaring; "Isn't it wonderful! We're all together!"
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Lily looked over at the blonde boy that they had rescued on the train. She thought she might as well make some introductions, while they were waiting for the sorting to end, so she stuck out her hand and said;
"Hey, I'm Lily Evans, who are you?"
"Peter Pettigrew, nice to meet you." He replied, smiling. "Are you muggle-born?"
"Yes." Lily replied loudly, over the booing of James and Sirius as Severus Snape was sorted into Slytherin. She couldn't help but think it was a rather strange question. "Are you?"
"Half blood." He answered. "Mum's a squib and dad's a muggle, but my grandma's a witch."
"What's a squib?" Lily asked, curious.
"Someone whose parent are magic, but can't do magic themselves." Peter replied.
Lily nodded. It sounded a though it was exactly the opposite situation to what she was in. "That must be horrible." She said.
"Yeah, but I'm used to it." he said with a shrug. He was then silent as Dumbledore stood to make a speech.
"I am well aware that after a long hard day of sitting on a train eating sweets, you must all be ravenous, so I'll make this quick." He said, his blue eyes twinkling. "As you are all aware, the forbidden forest is absolutely forbidden to all students. No magic is to be used in the hallways between classes, and Quidditch trials will be held in the third week of term. Any second years or above who are interested in trying out for their house team should contact madam Hooch, or your house Quidditch captain. And now, we eat!"
He sat down and food instantly appeared on the plates. Lily's mouth fell open. Peter laughed.
"Wow! Food!" he said, grinning delightedly, before dishing some shepherds' pie onto his plate.
"Hey, you know who you should meet?" Lily said, helping herself to a bit of everything except the mint humbugs.
"Who?" Peter asked.
"Them." Lily said, pointing up the table to Sirius, Remus and James, who were laughing. "Hey guys!" she called.
"Yeah?" James asked, leaning forward to look down at her.
"Meet Peter." She said "he's the guy you saved on the train. Peter, this is James, Sirius and Remus. Be nice, guys."
Peter rolled his eyes as Lily turned around to talk to her friends.
"Hey." Peter said "How do you eat those, Remus! They're disgusting!" he looked at the mint humbugs on Remus's plate. The boys cracked up, holding their stomachs, which were already sore from so much laughing. Peter raised his eyebrow, confused. He was trying to work out whether they were laughing at what he had just said, or if they were laughing at him. Finally Sirius wheezed; "Great minds think alike mate! I just said exactly the same thing and James before me, before I joined the conversation." Peter grinned, glad at being included in their joke. Maybe Hogwarts wouldn't be so bad after all.
"Hey, Remus?" Sirius asked, through a mouthful of food
"Hmmhmm?" Remus replied, also eating, but possessing enough good manners to keep his mouth firmly closed.
"What did the hat say to you?" Sirius asked. Remus paused for a minute, looking edgy. He shook his head, and continued eating, not giving an answer.
Sirius shrugged, and followed his friends' lead, not seeing the ice glare that Eliza turned on him. Viva however, saw it, but put it down to jealousy of Sirius talking to Eliza's best friend.
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At last, the food disappeared, and the Headmaster got to his feet once more.
"I think," he said, "that we have eaten all we can. So now, it is time to sleep, as you all have classes tomorrow. Goodnight to you all." He sat down again, and watched as the students got up sleepily to go off to bed.
Eliza, James and Remus lagged behind talking, when suddenly another group of students cut through the crowd of Gryffindor, cutting them off from the rest of their house. The 3 friends pushed their way through the group of Slytherins- according to the 7th year talking at the head of the crowd- and Eliza was pushed off her feet by a boy ramming into her side. Someone grabbed her by the waist to prevent her from falling to the floor and looking up she came face to face with a blonde boy she had noticed form the sorting. He seemed entirely oblivious to the students pushing past them on either side and was instead gazing down at Eliza with at dreamy, far off expression on his face.
"Er, thanks." She said loudly to be heard over the din.
Gilderoy Lockhart kept his hands firmly on her waist, "Do you believe in love at first sight?" he asked her, "Or do I have to walk past again?"
She looked frantically over her shoulder to see if Remus and James were behind her. They were. And they were both smirking.
"No," she said. "Could you…um- let me go..."
"I do." he continued, paying no heed to her.
Eliza gave a nervous laugh and began to pry his hands of her waist. The crowd around them was now thinning, and the group of Gryffindors had long disappeared. "We…er…have to go," She said, stepping backwards.
"What's your name?" Gilderoy asked, then went on without waiting for an answer, "I'm Gilderoy. But to you- to you I'm Gildy. When I was six months old I won the award for Britain's Bonniest Baby."
"Nice," Eliza commented , backing away even further, so that she was standing between James and Remus- both who looked rather like burly body guards, standing a head taller than her on either side of her petite frame. The only difference between them and burly body guards was the fact that Remus was smirking and James had a huge delighted grin on his face.
Eliza grabbed both their hands and dragged them out of the Entrance Hall, looking terrified for her life, leaving Gilderoy Lockhart standing in the centre of the now deserted room. James called over his shoulder, in a high falsetto, "Till we meet again Gildy…" as he was dragged away.
As soon as they rounded the corner that the group of Gryffindors had disappeared around, Eliza dropped both their hands and looked up at her friends terrified.
"What was that?" she looked disgusted as she continued in a dangerous whisper, "the idiot was sexually harassing me!"
This was the last straw for James and Remus, who up till that moment had been trying very hard to act at least partially civilized, and they burst out laughing.
"Gildy!" Remus snorted.
"Britain's Bonniest Baby!" James exclaimed gleefully. Eliza glared up at them both, arms crossed across her chest.
"It's not funny!" she hissed.
"Yes it is!" James laughed, "Gildy!"
Eliza looked desperately at Remus, who much to her annoyance, was practically doubled over with laughter. James suddenly looked at her very seriously and turned her around so as to take her hand,
"Do you believe in love at first sight?" he asked, batting his eyelashes.
Eliza heard Remus snort behind her and she pulled her hand abruptly out of James. "It's not funny!" she exclaimed, "How would you feel! He was molesting me in public!" Probably very luckily, James was spared from answering by a pair of echoing footsteps, accompanied by a deep, male voice.
"And just what exactly is going on here?" the man asked icily. Both Remus and James immediately stopped laughing and stood straight facing him, "Why aren't you in your common rooms?"
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Lily, who was feeling particularly tired, shuffled along with Viva, who was yawning hugely.
"I don't think I can drag my case all the way up to the dorms." Lily said, looking at the flights of staircases, and gasping as one of them suddenly broke off from the wall and moved to another floor.
"Don't worry." Viva yawned. "They'll have brought them up for us."
"First years follow me!" a girl with bushy brown hair called, beckoning for them to follow her. "I'll show you where your dormitories are."
Lily followed eagerly, wanting nothing other than to fall into a nice warm bed and sleep.
She was so tired, in fact, that as they walked through the many corridors, she didn't even notice that the portraits were all moving, or that every so often, a suit of armour would salute, or the many hidden entrances behind portraits and tapestries that the girl led them through.
When finally, they reached a portrait of a stately lady dressed in pink, who asked for the password, and the girl called out; "Brussels!" she woke up a bit, and made a mental note to remember it, after doing a double take to look at the moving portrait again.
"This way." The girl ushered, gently pushing a gaping Lily through the portrait hole and into a warm cosy room filled with red and gold tapestries and squidgy armchairs, Lily found herself smiling tiredly despite herself, not really listening to what the girl was saying, but hungrily- despite all she had eaten- drinking in her surroundings.
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Eliza recognized him immediately as one of the teachers sitting at the high table at the start of term banquet. He was a huge, black man- not overweight at all, just big and very muscly- like a rugby player. The emphasis was taken off his heavy jaw line with a squarish sort of beard which joined into his moustache, and his long black hair was pulled back into a ponytail. A thin scar ran along his left cheek, stopping just before it reached his wide, straight nose. His thick eyebrows were furrowed so deeply they cast a shadow over his black eyes. He was not a man to be messed with.
"We...er..." Eliza began, "I dunno…" she trailed off, looking nervously up at the big man who seemed to positively tower over her.
"We got separated from our house," Remus said responsibly, in the grown up voice that he reserved especially for adults, "and we don't know the way to our common room."
"A likely story," the man sneered, surveying the three of them with an already decided dislike, "What house are you in?"
"Gryffindor." James said immediately.
"You will address me as sir, or professor." The man said coolly now training his eye on James, "Gryffindor did you say, I probably could have guessed. Unfortunately, it is not up to me what happens to you as I am not your head of house- but minus 5 points each." He ran his eyes over them again and sneered, "As soon, as there are any points to be lost. For being out of bounds."
"But sir-" Eliza began.
"Be quiet Miss- or it will be 10." Eliza shut her mouth very quickly. "Now follow me." The man turned walked off in the direction of the great hall. James, Remus and Eliza glanced at each other before going after him. "What are your names?" The man asked, not looking back at them.
"James Potter."
"Eliza Silverstein." Eliza made a rather offensive gesture at his back as she said this, and James had to stifle a laugh. Remus just looked at her warningly as he said, "Remus Lupin, Sir."
"Ahh. Professor McGonagall." The man called, and the professor, who had been making her way across the Entrance Hall, turned to look at him questioningly.
"Yes Professor Dakota?" she asked, "Is there anything I can do?"
"Yes- as a matter of fact there is." He stepped aside and motioned James, Eliza and Remus to move forward. They did so rather nervously. Professor Dakota continued, "I found three of your students wandering around out of their common rooms- they tell me that they were separated from the rest of their house after the feast and didn't know how to find their way to the Gryffindor Tower- although I can't help but wonder why, half an hour after the banquet is over they are still wondering around near the Entrance hall and haven't been to find help."
Professor McGonagall surveyed them through her square spectacles and pursed her lips, "Well, thank you Professor- if you 3 would kindly follow me."
James, Remus and Eliza now followed McGonagall out of the hall again, leaving Dakota watching the with utmost contempt. The stern looking lady stared straight ahead but Eliza could swear that she saw the corner of her mouth twitch as she said, "I'm glad to see that you have dried yourselves off."
Eliza and James glanced at each other behind her back and grinned.
The four walked in silence for a long while before McGonagall came to a stop in front of the portrait of a large blond woman wearing an elaborate lacy pink dress. She smiled kindly down at them as the Professor said, "this is the entrance to the Gryffindor common room."
"We're not in trouble?" James asked confused. Eliza and Remus looked just as blank- all three had assumed that the professor was taking them to her office to dish out detentions.
McGonagall shook her head, "I don't like to give out detentions on the first night," she pursed her lips and looked down at them sternly, "In fact, I don't enjoy giving out detentions at all- and it would be much appreciated if you would stay out of trouble so that I don't have to." The three friends nodded up at her.
"Good- the password is Brussels, and I will be seeing you three at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Gryffindor first years is my first class of the year."
"Thank you." Remus called, as she turned and disappeared around the corner.
Eliza was grinning gleefully, "what a cool old bat!" she exclaimed, "Brussels." The portrait whole swung open to reveal a large cosy, circular room filled with an assortment of mismatched plush scarlet armchairs and small tables. Scarlet and gold tapestries hung around the walls and a large stone fireplace stood at one wall- now alight and sending soft golden light dancing around the large room. Small groups of students were sitting around chatting and as the three walked into the room a voice called, "Remus, James, Eliza!". Looking across the room they saw Viva, Sirius and Jordy sitting on a particularly large couch by the fire.
"Where've you been?" Sirius yelled at them, causing people to look up at him. Out of the corner of her eye, Eliza could see James' face slowly being taken over by a delighted grin. She had a pretty good idea of what was running through his head.
"You had better not tell him!" she hissed out of the corner of her mouth as they made their way over.
"About what?" James asked, not bothering to keep his voice down. "Britain's Bonniest Baby?"
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Jordy awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of a faint strumming. Soundlessly, she slipped from her bed, and padded over to the windowsill, where it was coming from. She raised her eyebrows as she saw Viva, sitting with a guitar under the huge half-moon, strumming and scribbling alternately on a sheet of parchment, and muttering under her breath.
"Do you play?" Jordy mumbled as she sat down next to Viva. Viva jumped, pulling her wand out from nowhere, and gasping as she turned.
"Oh." She sighed, letting out a long breath and putting her wand down. "It's only you. You gave me a fright, Jordy."
"Sorry." Jordy replied, smiling and looking at the sheet that Viva had been scribbling on. It appeared to be music, scribbled hastily so that Viva was probably the only one who could read it. "You any good?" she asked, gesturing to the guitar nestled comfortably on Vivas lap. Viva shrugged noncommittally. "How long you been playing?" Jordy pressed.
"Seven years." Viva muttered.
"So you've got to be good!" Jordy replied brightly, a bit shocked at how long Viva had been playing. Viva shrugged again.
"Play me something." Jordy said. Viva didn't move. "Please?" she begged. "Play and I'll braid your hair so it won't be all messed up in the morning."
Viva smiled. "Who else do you know with curly hair?" she asked.
"Sister." Jordy responded.
"'Kay." Viva said, shifting so Jordy could braid her hair and strumming a chord on her guitar.
She smiled contentedly. Hogwarts had begun.
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End of chapter three
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PS. So you're not all confused, next up we'll be skipping to fourth year. Don't worry, this is the only time skip, but we figured that the first three years were pretty much boring elementary stuff. There's only so many chapters that you can read about a bunch of 11 year old waving wands and putting fireworks down peoples pants before you start to doze off.