DISCLAIMERS I do not own any of the characters you recognise.
DEDICATIONS I dedicate this chapter to all those who have reviewed previous chapters. Thank you for all your suggestions, they will be taken into account. Please anyone else reviews are greatly received.
AUTHORS NOTE I am really sorry that it has taken so long to update, but I have been really busy, and as you have probably seen, there was a problem with my computer! This chapter starts at Platform 9 and ¾ on the day that they go back to Hogwarts for their 5th year. So on with the story.
CHAPTER FOUR - Fifth Year - Back to school. YIPEE!
It was 1st September and Lily, James, Belle and Sirius had just arrived at Platform 9 and ¾ King Cross Station.
'Bye!' they called jointly to Belle's parents as they walked through the barrier in one big group, trying to be inconspicuous, but failing miserably because of Romeo and Juliet (for those who don't remember, they are Lily's owls).
As they passed through the barrier the noise suddenly exploded in their ears. They heard people shouting at each other, moaning because of forgotten replies to letters.
'How about we find a carriage and wait for the others in there?' suggested James.
'Yeah.'
Eventually after ten minutes of searching they found an empty carriage, and after loading their trunks in settled down to wait.
As the train moved off and gathered speed, Peter rushed into the carriage followed a second later by Alison. With a quick,
'Hi guys.'
To the girls, Peter immediately started whispering to James and Sirius, who both started grinning broadly.
On seeing Alison, Lily and Belle had screamed.
'You did not write to me once you mean cow!' complained Lily.
'Hey, I'm sorry.'
Just then Remus and Rebecca came in.
'And what have you two been up to?' asked James, winking at Sirius.
'What the hell do you mean?' asked Remus confusedly.
'Nothing, nothing, Moony pal. But come listen to what Peter just told us.'
'I already heard.' Replied Remus dryly.
'So what do you think?'
'What does he think about what?' interrupted Belle.
'Um.' the boys looked wildly around, 'nothing.'
'Sirius?' questioned Belle, giving him a look.
And Sirius, understanding what this look meant, replied,
'Well, you know how EVERY year Gryffindor has the most parties, successful parties.'
'Yes?'
'Well, Peter here,' he said clapping Peter on the shoulder, 'overheard a conversation between Snape and some other Slytherin muppet, to the effect that they will have more parties than us, and break our record.'
'So?'
'Well, we have planned that we will break our own record, by having double the amount of parties we usually have. Parties for every occasion.'
'For breaking 100 points in the house championship,' supplemented James,
'For breaking 200 and 300 points.' Added Remus,
'For winning Quiditch matches.' Added Peter,
'For playing a successful prank,' again James,
'And for the start and end of each term / holiday.' Concluded Sirius. 'Which means that it'll all start tomorrow night.'
The girls looked at each other and started a slow sarcastic clap.
'What?' asked James.
'We have noticed a couple of flaws in your plan.' Said Alison.
'Which are.?' asked Sirius.
'A. Do you honestly think we will be allowed to have a party every weekend basically?'
'Well we weren't exactly going to ask.'
'And B. where are you going to get all the food from.'
'Kitchens. The house-elves give you whatever you ask for.'
'OK. So that's the food covered. But McGonagall isn't going to let us have a party every weekend.'
'We weren't going to ask! If we keep the noise down, she won't find out.'
'Um. OK. But it's nothing to do with us.' Replied Belle.
Just then the trolley lady stuck her head round the door,
'Do you want anything dears?' she asked.
'Oh yes.' Answered Rebecca speaking for the first time, and proceeded to buy enough food to feed them all for a week.
The rest just stared in shock.
'Um. Rebecca,' stuttered James after the lady had left.
'Yes?'
'Are you going to eat all that yourself?'
Rebecca looked at them all. 'No.' she said slowly. 'OH! You thought.' and here she broke off into peals of laughter. Finally she gasped, 'you thought that I was going to eat it all myself!'
Here the others nodded.
'I WAS planning to share it with you lot.' She said as she started giggling again.
The others looked at each other and shrugged before sitting down to eat. After they had eaten, and caught up, with exclamations of,
'You're not?' form Remus, Peter, Alison and Rebecca when Sirius and Belle admitted that they were going out.
'We are!'
'Oh my gosh!' exclaimed Alison, 'when did that happen?'
'The same day Lily met Mike.' Replied Belle grinning at her friend, who responded with a glare as they all turned to her.
'Whose Mike?' demanded Remus.
'My boyfriend.' Replied Lily.
'Wohoo!' yelled Alison. 'So finally three of our number are attached, and have been for more than two day,' she looked pointedly at the boys. 'Though I must say, I always thought it would be Lily and James who got together.'
Lily and James both raised their eyebrows at this, but decided not to rise to the bait. It wasn't worth it. She was only trying to wind them up. The truth was, they had been 'romantically involved' as Rebecca would put it, for about a month the previous year. The thing was, none of their friends knew about it, and they had decided that it wasn't right, they didn't like each other in THAT way!
Or did they, more exactly did he, thought James to himself. He liked Lily a lot, but it was just because they were such close friends. But Lily as thinking the same thing, however she also thought, well I have Mike now, I really like Mike. Not James, we're just REALLY close friends.
'Right, well I'm gonna write a letter to Mike.' Lily suddenly said, ending the awkward silence.
'Lily! You only say him a couple of hours ago!' replied Belle.
'So?'
'And how do you propose to send it?'
'I'll post it when I get to Hogwarts.' (read bio, but basically there is a post box in Hogwarts).
'OK Lily, you go ad write your letter.' Said James trying to calm everyone down. 'Anyone for a game of exploding snap?'
'Yeah.' Replied everyone else.
So as Lily wrote and the others played, the countryside went floating by. Eventually when they got tired of snap, Remus and Alison slept, Rebecca and Peter read, and Belle and Sirius `spent some time together`, and James looked out of the window.
He was thinking about Lily. Last year when they had been 'romantically involved' it had been brilliant. He loved Lily's company, she was fun, like Sirius, but she also had a sense of responsibility. They had ended their 'relationship', if that was what it was, because they decided that they were just friends, no strings. But now. Now, well, like Lily, A LOT. Jut when she got a boyfriend, he decided he liked her, it was ridiculous really. He would just have to ignore it.
Suddenly a voice filled the train.
'Students, we will be arriving at Hogwarts in five minutes. If you are not already, please change into your uniform. Leave all baggage and belongings on the train. Thank you.'
After shaking wake Remus, the boys went to get changed, after agreeing to meet later.
It was 45 minutes later when they all joined Lily, Belle, Alison and Rebecca, at the table, all laughing their heads off.
'OK, what have you done now?' asked Belle.
But Sirius waved her off with a 'I'll tell you later.' As he first years filled into the hall. Then the sorting began.
'Danielle Mitchfield' yelled Professor McGonagall.
'RAVENCLAW!'
'Susan Dracon.'
'HUFFLEPUFF!'
'Emma Aaback.'
'GRYFFINDOR!'
'George Aabeck.'
'GRYFFINDOR!'
'Pierre de Pomp.'
'SLYTHERIN!'
'What's he doing here?' muttered James.
'What do you mean?' asked Alison.
'Well he's French, he should go to that French school.'
'What does it matter?' asked Alison again.
'The less Slytherins the better.' Replied James and Sirius together.
Whilst they had been talking the sorting had carried on. Lily noticed that it was a very small intake this year. With only 4 Hufflepuffs, 6 Ravenclaws, 10 Slytherins, and only 3 Gryffindors. As she was bout to comment on this, Professor Dumbledore stood up to speak. The chatter died away, as if by magic (sorry :-( )
'Welcome to another year at Hogwarts. A last for some, a first for others, as you are all hungry I am going to keep this short: enjoy.'
Claps rang out as the food appeared, but soon it was as if it had never been there. When there are hungry teenagers and food, things happen very quickly. And again Dumbledore stood up.
'I can see that you all enjoyed your food, and you now wish to go off and socialise. However, I fist have a few announcements. A reminder to all students that the Forbidden Forest is, well, forbidden. Mr Filch, the caretaker has decided to ban certain objects, a list will be posted in each common room, and anyone caught in possession of these things will be issued a detention. And finally, this year we are going to experiment with a 'buddy' system. This will involve first years and fifth years, so can those in the respective years remain behind at the end to discuss the details of this. I hope that we will all have a pleasant year, so thank you, and have a good nights sleep.'
At these final words the hall rose as one, and everyone apart from first and fifth years left. As the final student left, Dumbledore beckoned them to the front.
'Thank you for remaining behind. Now, as I was saying before, this year, as an experiment, we are going to try a 'buddy' system, adopted by many muggle schools. What this means is that each fifth year will pair off with a first year, and then the fifth year will be responsible for the first years welfare, taking them to classes, an just generally keeping them company. As you see however, this year's intake has been particularly small, so that means that some of you will not take part in the scheme, so to begin with, we will decide your 'buddies'. We as teachers have put a lot of thought into this, and placed the fifth years ion each house in the order by which they are most suited to act as buddies. So in Gryffindor could we have Lily Evans and Emma Aabeck, James Potter and George Aabeck, and finally Rebecca Kiln AND Sirius Black with Steve Kemp. Miss Kiln and Mr Black will share responsibility for Steve's welfare. And now we have you sorted out, you may go.'
So they left.
'OK. Well, I'm Lily, this is James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Alison, Rebecca and Belle.'
'Hi.' Answered Emma, George and Steve.
'So. We have to show you round?' Asked Sirius.
'Yeah what was that about the most suitable people then he chose Sirius?' asked Alison.
'Probably wants to teach me some responsibility.' Replied Sirius slipping an arm around Belle's waist.
James, Lily, Alison and Peter suddenly all coughed something like 'Fat Chance'. Whilst Rebecca just answered, 'Take a long time then.'
'Hey you guys.' Said Sirius
''What?' they asked looking nervously at each other.
'Look what I've got.' He replied pulling a bottle of tomato ketchup out of his robes. (One of the squirty type, not the glass ones)
'Sirius, you wouldn't'
'Don't you dare!'
'No Sirius.'
Sirius just grinned at them. Then they ran, dragging George, Steve and Emma along with them. All of them screaming.
Out of the shadows stepped Professor Dumbledore, he watched as they ran down the corridor, and he smiled. He knew that the buddy system was going to work, especially with people like James, Lily and Sirius involved in it, people he knew had a important future, just what the future was, no one would no until it happened. Especially with that knew Divination Professor around.
That was what Lily remembered as she lay down that night in bed, and that was why grinning she turned over and slept, hoping for a year like that evening, full of laughter and fun. *******************************
AN: And so my friends what did you think? Will it be a year of laughter and fun? Which two characters do you want to see together (not Lily and James, cos we all know that that is going to happen) (and Shadow, not Emma and George, they are brother and sister, why do you think I made them so?) What pranks can be pulled? And the question of the century, how many parties will they hold?
Please review and tell me what you think, answer my questions PLEASE!!!!!!!!
And special thanx to Shadow, who kept me writing this, how else would I be able to shut her up? AND she uploaded it for me, so again thank you. Thank you, thank you, and thank you. (Oh I just can't wait to be King / Queen) R&R Star*
DEDICATIONS I dedicate this chapter to all those who have reviewed previous chapters. Thank you for all your suggestions, they will be taken into account. Please anyone else reviews are greatly received.
AUTHORS NOTE I am really sorry that it has taken so long to update, but I have been really busy, and as you have probably seen, there was a problem with my computer! This chapter starts at Platform 9 and ¾ on the day that they go back to Hogwarts for their 5th year. So on with the story.
CHAPTER FOUR - Fifth Year - Back to school. YIPEE!
It was 1st September and Lily, James, Belle and Sirius had just arrived at Platform 9 and ¾ King Cross Station.
'Bye!' they called jointly to Belle's parents as they walked through the barrier in one big group, trying to be inconspicuous, but failing miserably because of Romeo and Juliet (for those who don't remember, they are Lily's owls).
As they passed through the barrier the noise suddenly exploded in their ears. They heard people shouting at each other, moaning because of forgotten replies to letters.
'How about we find a carriage and wait for the others in there?' suggested James.
'Yeah.'
Eventually after ten minutes of searching they found an empty carriage, and after loading their trunks in settled down to wait.
As the train moved off and gathered speed, Peter rushed into the carriage followed a second later by Alison. With a quick,
'Hi guys.'
To the girls, Peter immediately started whispering to James and Sirius, who both started grinning broadly.
On seeing Alison, Lily and Belle had screamed.
'You did not write to me once you mean cow!' complained Lily.
'Hey, I'm sorry.'
Just then Remus and Rebecca came in.
'And what have you two been up to?' asked James, winking at Sirius.
'What the hell do you mean?' asked Remus confusedly.
'Nothing, nothing, Moony pal. But come listen to what Peter just told us.'
'I already heard.' Replied Remus dryly.
'So what do you think?'
'What does he think about what?' interrupted Belle.
'Um.' the boys looked wildly around, 'nothing.'
'Sirius?' questioned Belle, giving him a look.
And Sirius, understanding what this look meant, replied,
'Well, you know how EVERY year Gryffindor has the most parties, successful parties.'
'Yes?'
'Well, Peter here,' he said clapping Peter on the shoulder, 'overheard a conversation between Snape and some other Slytherin muppet, to the effect that they will have more parties than us, and break our record.'
'So?'
'Well, we have planned that we will break our own record, by having double the amount of parties we usually have. Parties for every occasion.'
'For breaking 100 points in the house championship,' supplemented James,
'For breaking 200 and 300 points.' Added Remus,
'For winning Quiditch matches.' Added Peter,
'For playing a successful prank,' again James,
'And for the start and end of each term / holiday.' Concluded Sirius. 'Which means that it'll all start tomorrow night.'
The girls looked at each other and started a slow sarcastic clap.
'What?' asked James.
'We have noticed a couple of flaws in your plan.' Said Alison.
'Which are.?' asked Sirius.
'A. Do you honestly think we will be allowed to have a party every weekend basically?'
'Well we weren't exactly going to ask.'
'And B. where are you going to get all the food from.'
'Kitchens. The house-elves give you whatever you ask for.'
'OK. So that's the food covered. But McGonagall isn't going to let us have a party every weekend.'
'We weren't going to ask! If we keep the noise down, she won't find out.'
'Um. OK. But it's nothing to do with us.' Replied Belle.
Just then the trolley lady stuck her head round the door,
'Do you want anything dears?' she asked.
'Oh yes.' Answered Rebecca speaking for the first time, and proceeded to buy enough food to feed them all for a week.
The rest just stared in shock.
'Um. Rebecca,' stuttered James after the lady had left.
'Yes?'
'Are you going to eat all that yourself?'
Rebecca looked at them all. 'No.' she said slowly. 'OH! You thought.' and here she broke off into peals of laughter. Finally she gasped, 'you thought that I was going to eat it all myself!'
Here the others nodded.
'I WAS planning to share it with you lot.' She said as she started giggling again.
The others looked at each other and shrugged before sitting down to eat. After they had eaten, and caught up, with exclamations of,
'You're not?' form Remus, Peter, Alison and Rebecca when Sirius and Belle admitted that they were going out.
'We are!'
'Oh my gosh!' exclaimed Alison, 'when did that happen?'
'The same day Lily met Mike.' Replied Belle grinning at her friend, who responded with a glare as they all turned to her.
'Whose Mike?' demanded Remus.
'My boyfriend.' Replied Lily.
'Wohoo!' yelled Alison. 'So finally three of our number are attached, and have been for more than two day,' she looked pointedly at the boys. 'Though I must say, I always thought it would be Lily and James who got together.'
Lily and James both raised their eyebrows at this, but decided not to rise to the bait. It wasn't worth it. She was only trying to wind them up. The truth was, they had been 'romantically involved' as Rebecca would put it, for about a month the previous year. The thing was, none of their friends knew about it, and they had decided that it wasn't right, they didn't like each other in THAT way!
Or did they, more exactly did he, thought James to himself. He liked Lily a lot, but it was just because they were such close friends. But Lily as thinking the same thing, however she also thought, well I have Mike now, I really like Mike. Not James, we're just REALLY close friends.
'Right, well I'm gonna write a letter to Mike.' Lily suddenly said, ending the awkward silence.
'Lily! You only say him a couple of hours ago!' replied Belle.
'So?'
'And how do you propose to send it?'
'I'll post it when I get to Hogwarts.' (read bio, but basically there is a post box in Hogwarts).
'OK Lily, you go ad write your letter.' Said James trying to calm everyone down. 'Anyone for a game of exploding snap?'
'Yeah.' Replied everyone else.
So as Lily wrote and the others played, the countryside went floating by. Eventually when they got tired of snap, Remus and Alison slept, Rebecca and Peter read, and Belle and Sirius `spent some time together`, and James looked out of the window.
He was thinking about Lily. Last year when they had been 'romantically involved' it had been brilliant. He loved Lily's company, she was fun, like Sirius, but she also had a sense of responsibility. They had ended their 'relationship', if that was what it was, because they decided that they were just friends, no strings. But now. Now, well, like Lily, A LOT. Jut when she got a boyfriend, he decided he liked her, it was ridiculous really. He would just have to ignore it.
Suddenly a voice filled the train.
'Students, we will be arriving at Hogwarts in five minutes. If you are not already, please change into your uniform. Leave all baggage and belongings on the train. Thank you.'
After shaking wake Remus, the boys went to get changed, after agreeing to meet later.
It was 45 minutes later when they all joined Lily, Belle, Alison and Rebecca, at the table, all laughing their heads off.
'OK, what have you done now?' asked Belle.
But Sirius waved her off with a 'I'll tell you later.' As he first years filled into the hall. Then the sorting began.
'Danielle Mitchfield' yelled Professor McGonagall.
'RAVENCLAW!'
'Susan Dracon.'
'HUFFLEPUFF!'
'Emma Aaback.'
'GRYFFINDOR!'
'George Aabeck.'
'GRYFFINDOR!'
'Pierre de Pomp.'
'SLYTHERIN!'
'What's he doing here?' muttered James.
'What do you mean?' asked Alison.
'Well he's French, he should go to that French school.'
'What does it matter?' asked Alison again.
'The less Slytherins the better.' Replied James and Sirius together.
Whilst they had been talking the sorting had carried on. Lily noticed that it was a very small intake this year. With only 4 Hufflepuffs, 6 Ravenclaws, 10 Slytherins, and only 3 Gryffindors. As she was bout to comment on this, Professor Dumbledore stood up to speak. The chatter died away, as if by magic (sorry :-( )
'Welcome to another year at Hogwarts. A last for some, a first for others, as you are all hungry I am going to keep this short: enjoy.'
Claps rang out as the food appeared, but soon it was as if it had never been there. When there are hungry teenagers and food, things happen very quickly. And again Dumbledore stood up.
'I can see that you all enjoyed your food, and you now wish to go off and socialise. However, I fist have a few announcements. A reminder to all students that the Forbidden Forest is, well, forbidden. Mr Filch, the caretaker has decided to ban certain objects, a list will be posted in each common room, and anyone caught in possession of these things will be issued a detention. And finally, this year we are going to experiment with a 'buddy' system. This will involve first years and fifth years, so can those in the respective years remain behind at the end to discuss the details of this. I hope that we will all have a pleasant year, so thank you, and have a good nights sleep.'
At these final words the hall rose as one, and everyone apart from first and fifth years left. As the final student left, Dumbledore beckoned them to the front.
'Thank you for remaining behind. Now, as I was saying before, this year, as an experiment, we are going to try a 'buddy' system, adopted by many muggle schools. What this means is that each fifth year will pair off with a first year, and then the fifth year will be responsible for the first years welfare, taking them to classes, an just generally keeping them company. As you see however, this year's intake has been particularly small, so that means that some of you will not take part in the scheme, so to begin with, we will decide your 'buddies'. We as teachers have put a lot of thought into this, and placed the fifth years ion each house in the order by which they are most suited to act as buddies. So in Gryffindor could we have Lily Evans and Emma Aabeck, James Potter and George Aabeck, and finally Rebecca Kiln AND Sirius Black with Steve Kemp. Miss Kiln and Mr Black will share responsibility for Steve's welfare. And now we have you sorted out, you may go.'
So they left.
'OK. Well, I'm Lily, this is James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Alison, Rebecca and Belle.'
'Hi.' Answered Emma, George and Steve.
'So. We have to show you round?' Asked Sirius.
'Yeah what was that about the most suitable people then he chose Sirius?' asked Alison.
'Probably wants to teach me some responsibility.' Replied Sirius slipping an arm around Belle's waist.
James, Lily, Alison and Peter suddenly all coughed something like 'Fat Chance'. Whilst Rebecca just answered, 'Take a long time then.'
'Hey you guys.' Said Sirius
''What?' they asked looking nervously at each other.
'Look what I've got.' He replied pulling a bottle of tomato ketchup out of his robes. (One of the squirty type, not the glass ones)
'Sirius, you wouldn't'
'Don't you dare!'
'No Sirius.'
Sirius just grinned at them. Then they ran, dragging George, Steve and Emma along with them. All of them screaming.
Out of the shadows stepped Professor Dumbledore, he watched as they ran down the corridor, and he smiled. He knew that the buddy system was going to work, especially with people like James, Lily and Sirius involved in it, people he knew had a important future, just what the future was, no one would no until it happened. Especially with that knew Divination Professor around.
That was what Lily remembered as she lay down that night in bed, and that was why grinning she turned over and slept, hoping for a year like that evening, full of laughter and fun. *******************************
AN: And so my friends what did you think? Will it be a year of laughter and fun? Which two characters do you want to see together (not Lily and James, cos we all know that that is going to happen) (and Shadow, not Emma and George, they are brother and sister, why do you think I made them so?) What pranks can be pulled? And the question of the century, how many parties will they hold?
Please review and tell me what you think, answer my questions PLEASE!!!!!!!!
And special thanx to Shadow, who kept me writing this, how else would I be able to shut her up? AND she uploaded it for me, so again thank you. Thank you, thank you, and thank you. (Oh I just can't wait to be King / Queen) R&R Star*