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Ch 1 - Polishing Broomsticks, Capsizings, and Warts
"Come on Lily, you'll be late!" yelled Eva Evans from the bottom of the stairs. "The Hogwarts train doesn't wait."
"Coming," Lily yelled back. She closed her trunk with a thunk and took one last look at her room before she began lugging it down the stairs. Finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, she dropped her trunk then gasped in dismay when it crashed open, spilling all over her robes and school things over the floor. "Damn, if only I knew magic now, I wouldn't be in this situation!" she said to herself. She heard a honk from outside and hurriedly stuffed all of her things back inside the trunk. She rushed down the front steps and threw the troublesome trunk into the car. "I'm ready." She said.
"Ok sweetheart," her mom said airily. Lily stared. Just what was she so happy about? Eva noticed the glance and said
"I'm just trying to be happy for you, going to this new school and everything, and I'm going to be all alone here."
Lily rolled her eyes, she hated when her mom brought up the fact that she was alone besides Lily, because of her father's death 4 years ago. "Mom, it's not like I'm going away forever you know."
"I know, it's just you've never been to a boarding school, let alone a magical one." Her mother replied.
Lily didn't answer; she was too busy thinking the same thing.
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They were running through the station, and laughing at the puzzled looks of the muggles as they ran by with owls and trunks and other things that a normal person would find odd.
"Get a move on James! We're going to miss the train!" gasped a handsome 11 year old boy.
"Oh shut up, it's not leaving for another 10 minutes," replied another equally as handsome boy of the same age. They came to a stop next to a brick pillar.
"Is this the one?" asked the boy called James. "`Because if it's not, I don't care."
"Okay, are you ready?" said the other boy, James nodded,
"Sirius, old buddy, it's finally our year, of course I'm ready!"
"Excuse me," a shy voice cut in, "But do you know where Platform 9 ¾ is?" James turned around to see a girl his own age with innocent green eyes and fiery red hair looking at him questioningly.
James grinned, "Hello little dragon, how about you and me go through together?" The girl rolled her eyes, boys were always asking her stuff like this, even if they were 11 and the same age as her.
"Does that sentence usually work on girls, because - it didn't."
"Awww come on now, don't be like that." Said another voice. Lily turned away from the boy she had asked to help her, (who was now gaping speechlessly), and to look at what she supposed was his friend. "Jamsie, didn't mean anything by it, he just sucks with the ladies."
Lily walked away, regretting she'd even wasted her time on those idiots.
"Lily! Lily!" a voice called. She turned around and saw her mother running towards her, with another woman and a girl beside her. Her mother caught up to her.
"This is Sheila Cooper, and her daughter Sara. Her family have all gone to Hogwarts," The girl came forward and shook Lily's hand.
"It's nice to meet you, but we'd better get on the train otherwise we'll miss it," Sara said happily.
"Thanks," Lily said gratefully. She hugged her mom goodbye and looked expectantly at Sara. Sara took her hand and with one hand on their trolleys, they ran towards a brick wall between platforms 9 and 10. Lily held her breath as they passed through, then all of a sudden they were in a totally different environment.
People were walking everywhere, running on and off the train as they forgot something to tell their parents or seeing someone they knew arrive. Lily felt shy all of a sudden and gripped Sara's hand tighter.
A hand tapped her shoulder. She turned around to see the face of the boy who had made fun of her earlier. She narrowed her eyes at him and swatted his hand away.
"What do you want?" she said unkindly. Sara had turned at the commotion and was watching now.
"I see you've found a friend and a very nice looking one too." He said. Sara scowled and moved next to Lily, as the boy's friend came up and joined him.
"Lookie here, it seems like we've found the best looking girls at Hogwarts." He said. "My name's Sirius, and this romantic here is James."
"Romantic?" Sara scoffed unbelievingly, "Dream on." She smirked. Lily grinned at this. "The closest you've probably come to being romantic is polishing your broomstick." (Polishing the broomstick is the wizarding term for masturbating). Sirius' and James' jaws dropped with astonishment. Lily too was having a hard time believing her sweet new friend had just said something like that. Her mother would have literally washed her mouth out with soap if she said something like that.
Lily shook her head at her friend's temper and said "And how would you know if we were the best looking girls at Hogwarts, if you've only seen a total of about 10 girls so far?" Her mother had always said that when you came across boys like this, be as cool and aloof as possible, they easily got the wrong idea.
"Lily! Lily!" her mother yelled for the third time that day. Lily saw her mother running towards her. "I forgot to gi- Oh Hello!" Eva said, looking at Sirius and James questioningly. "Who might you two be?"
"I'm James Potter, and this is Sirius Black, and we were just escorting your daughter and her friend on the train because they didn't know where to go."
"Oh how nice of you!" Eva bubbled, "Well, anyway Lily honey, I forgot to give you this," she thrust a brown parcel into Lily's hands. "Open it later. Anyway, you'd best be on the train, otherwise you'll miss it." Her eyes were teary as she said this, and gave her daughter one last kiss. Lily tried not to look at the boys smirking. As she and Sara ran onto the train she heard her mom say to the boys, "Take good care of them, they don't know much about being witches."
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Lily and Sara finally found a compartment on the last carriage, all the others were full. Inside was a pretty, slim blonde girl, who looked to be in the same year as them. "Hi," she said nervously. Lilly grinned and outstretched her hand," It's nice to meet you, I'm Lily Evans and this is Sara Cooper."
"I'm Tammy Waterford, its nice to have company; I thought I was going to be alone the whole trip." She said sweetly. Lily, smiled at her, instantly liking her, just like Sara.
"Good," Sara said, sinking into one of the comfy seats "We're finally away from those two idiots."
Lily laughed, she was glad Sara shared her feelings about those two. "They just have to be in the same year as us, don't they?" she sighed. She looked at Tammy and said "We met these two awful boys called James and Sirius, stay away from them." She warned only half-jokingly. Tammy nodded a bit confusedly.
"Sorry if I took you by surprise with the polishing broomstick remark, but they were really annoying me by then, which was only 30 seconds into the conversation." Sara apologised. "Don't tell my mom I said that, she would freak," she added.
Lily plopped herself down on the seat and gave a long sigh, it had been a way to hectic morning she thought, as she watched Sara do the same.
All of a sudden the compartment door slid open to admit four boys, two of them they unfortunately knew. Lily groaned and sat up in her seat. They had to do this didn't they she thought to herself. The two other boys with them were looking at them nervously and then glancing at Sirius and James, who seemed to be in their element.
"You're not serious," Lily sighed.
"No, but I am." Said Sirius jokingly. Sara groaned loudly and shot a look at Lily.
James dramatically faked surprise and winked at Sirius as he sat himself down while Sirius did the same. The other two boys hovered uncertainly by the door. They finally shrugged and stepped into the compartment, taking a seat.
The brown haired handsome one introduced himself first, "I'm Remus Lupin, sorry about bothering you." He addressed all of them, but he could hardly take his eyes of Tammy.
"I'm Lily Evans, and this is Sara Cooper and this is Tammy Waterford." Lily said, pointing to the girls in turn.
"No need to apologise to these hags, Remus old buddy." James said, aiming this at Sara. He obviously hadn't forgotten about the little polishing the broomstick comment.
"I'm Peter Pettigrew." The other, slightly shrimpy blonde boy piped up.
Lily nodded weakly, not trusting herself to speak. Sirius noticed Tammy in the corner and grinned at her.
"Tough company you keep." He said. Tammy glared at him and went to sit on the other side of the compartment next to the other girls. They made room for her and also glared at Sirius. He shrugged and whispered something to James, who nodded and laughed. Lily suspiciously wondered what they were talking about.
Lily realised that the different sexes had unintentionally taken sides of the compartment. They all sat in an uncomfortable silence for a while. Lily was watching James fingering his wand lazily, almost like he was waiting for something. The train lurched suddenly and Sirius went flying into Sara. Out of the corner of her eye, Lily noticed James move his wand the slightest bit.
"Get of me Black!" Sara shrieked. She was trying her best to slap him off her legs.
"I'm deeply sorry milady." He said mockingly, tipping and imaginary hat. Sara just glared at him.
She got back into her seat and once again the uncomfortable silence filled the compartment. After a few minutes of daydreaming, Lily noticed that Sara kept on twitching. Lily nudged her questioningly and Sara just shook her head and the twitching ceased. Then after about two minutes she started fidgeting quite noticeably and then started to itch and then scratch, by now everyone was looking at her except for Lily. Finally Lily looked at her and gasped in horror to see her friend's face covered in huge green warts that were multiplying by the second. Lily glanced at James to see a huge smirk on his face as he watched.
"POTTER!" she yelled, "What have you done?"
"Me?" he asked innocently.
"UNDO IT RIGHT NOW, I SAW YOU WAVE YOUR WAND AT HER WHEN SIRIUS SUPPOSEDLY FELL OVER!" she screamed. Sirius was holding his sides now and even Peter and Remus had to bite their tongues to keep from grinning.
"But she looks so pretty now, maybe she is the prettiest girl at Hogwarts, Queen of the Warts. You two girls, once you have your warts could almost pass for ladies in waiting!" Sirius protested.
James however was watching Sara calmly as every inch of skin disappeared under the warts. Lily stood up and slapped him which wiped the cocky look of his face right away.
"Undo it." She hissed. James heaved himself up like he was being forced to stop something he was really enjoying, and with a wave of his wand and a charm she couldn't quite hear, Sara's face was back to normal and she felt all over it just to make sure there were no lasting effects of the spell. Assured she was okay, she turned on James and gave him a stare that would have scared Lily even if she knew she was joking. James paled visibly and stammered something incoherent.
Just then they heard a knock on the door and they all turned to see an older girl march into the compartment and order them all to put their robes on because they would be arriving at Hogwarts in 5 minutes.
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As soon as the girls stepped of the train, they started angrily talking about the boys, Potter and Black in particular.
"The nerve of him, covering my face with warts! Just because he was so offended at my remark about him polishing his broomstick!" Sara huffed. "If we are in any of their classes I will hurl myself from the top floor of the castle."
"We can hope," Said a voice behind them. The girls ignored Sirius and looked in awe at a huge man beckoning at them,
"Firs` years, Firs` years! Over `Ere! You'll be taking the boats up to the school." He yelled over the top of the crowd. Lily looked fearfully at the lake's choppy water before she followed Sara and Tammy over to the boats. As they neared the edge of the water, Tammy was guided into a boat of three people. She looked back at Lily and Sara and mouthed that she would wait for them at the other side.
As the next boat came along, Lily and Sara hopped in and looked up at the two girls about to get in. All of a sudden an arm pushed them aside,
"Make way, coming through," Said a familiar voice. Sara and Lily looked at each other in horror, not again they both thought. Sirius' and James' now unfortunately familiar cocky faces grinned as they stepped into the boat. Lily gripped the sides to keep from falling over. "Ah, fancy seeing you here," said James, as he winked. The massive man pushed them off before Lily and Sara could get off and wait for the next one. Lily and Sara looked at each other in despair and moved as far as possible away from them.
Halfway across the lake, James started madly rocking to boat while Sirius chuckled at the girls' expressions.
"Potter stop that right now! We'll tip over if you keep doing that," Lily snapped. James grinned and rocked harder.
"Alright Potter, tha-," Lily had stood up to smack James, but at that exact moment he gave a huge rock of the boat and Lily toppled over the side. Sara shrieked and leaned over the side to see if she was alright,
"You idiot Potter! Everyone knows there's a giant squid living in the lake!" she yelled.
"Well, obviously not everyone does, because I didn't." James replied innocently.
"Don't you lie to me Potter! You're stupid pureblood family has been at Hogwarts for generations!" Sara yelled even louder, frantically scanning the surface of the lake for Lily. Suddenly a clump of dark red hair floated to the top of the water.
"Oh my god," whispered Sara, when the head didn't move. She leaned over the edge of the boat to try and somehow tow Lily in. The boys looked at each other, finding this opportunity too good to miss, and rocked the boat just the slightest bit. Sara screamed as she too fell into the water, kicking and splashing.
Fortunately she didn't go as deep as Lily and the first thing she did after she recovered from her shock was to grab hold of her and bring her towards the boat where the boys where actually on their knees laughing. Trying to keep images of a giant squid coming up from beneath them, she saw Lily smile at her from underneath her hair and wink. Sara understood in an instant what she was going to do. Looking back at where all of the other first years were, her eyes winded to see a huge crowd watching.
As they drew nearer to the boat, the boys had stopped laughing and were now looking at the "unconscious" Lily a bit anxiously. Sara hid her grin as they actually leaned over to help her hoist Lily up onto the boat. Suddenly, Lily grabbed hold of the edge of the boat and pushed down with all her might. The looks on the boys' faces were priceless as the whole boat tipped over and they smacked into the water. Lily and Sara were laughing there heads off, when the boys came up, coughing up water.
The girls turned the boat the right side up and climbed in, still laughing. The boys followed after, getting over their shock enough to send glares at Lily and Sara. When they finally reached the other side of the lake, the crowd was massive. Some looked amused, others horrified, and even some older people looked disapproving.
A cheer greeted them as they got off the boat, and the boys bowed dramatically as the girls grinned self-consciously, rolling their eyes at Potter and Black.
A tall figure stepped in front of the four of them, and even the boys gulped at the man now looking down at each of them.
"Hello children, I'm Albus Dumbledore, and you appear to be just a bit wet." The man said, calmly stating this as if he was telling them the time of day.
~~Okay, that was my first chapter - very long (I know I know) but I just wanted to fit everything in because I'm skipping to 7th year in the next chapter.(why you ask? Because I CAN) ~~
***Please R&R***
p.s. - For all those who want to know what happened after Dumbledore introduced himself, well, let's just say that it was the first record for their hundreds of detentions.
Niche Eenhoorn - Thanks so much. I changed it a bit to make it sound more believable. Please tell me if it's still not totally right. I suck at changing my stories.
Ch 1 - Polishing Broomsticks, Capsizings, and Warts
"Come on Lily, you'll be late!" yelled Eva Evans from the bottom of the stairs. "The Hogwarts train doesn't wait."
"Coming," Lily yelled back. She closed her trunk with a thunk and took one last look at her room before she began lugging it down the stairs. Finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, she dropped her trunk then gasped in dismay when it crashed open, spilling all over her robes and school things over the floor. "Damn, if only I knew magic now, I wouldn't be in this situation!" she said to herself. She heard a honk from outside and hurriedly stuffed all of her things back inside the trunk. She rushed down the front steps and threw the troublesome trunk into the car. "I'm ready." She said.
"Ok sweetheart," her mom said airily. Lily stared. Just what was she so happy about? Eva noticed the glance and said
"I'm just trying to be happy for you, going to this new school and everything, and I'm going to be all alone here."
Lily rolled her eyes, she hated when her mom brought up the fact that she was alone besides Lily, because of her father's death 4 years ago. "Mom, it's not like I'm going away forever you know."
"I know, it's just you've never been to a boarding school, let alone a magical one." Her mother replied.
Lily didn't answer; she was too busy thinking the same thing.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
They were running through the station, and laughing at the puzzled looks of the muggles as they ran by with owls and trunks and other things that a normal person would find odd.
"Get a move on James! We're going to miss the train!" gasped a handsome 11 year old boy.
"Oh shut up, it's not leaving for another 10 minutes," replied another equally as handsome boy of the same age. They came to a stop next to a brick pillar.
"Is this the one?" asked the boy called James. "`Because if it's not, I don't care."
"Okay, are you ready?" said the other boy, James nodded,
"Sirius, old buddy, it's finally our year, of course I'm ready!"
"Excuse me," a shy voice cut in, "But do you know where Platform 9 ¾ is?" James turned around to see a girl his own age with innocent green eyes and fiery red hair looking at him questioningly.
James grinned, "Hello little dragon, how about you and me go through together?" The girl rolled her eyes, boys were always asking her stuff like this, even if they were 11 and the same age as her.
"Does that sentence usually work on girls, because - it didn't."
"Awww come on now, don't be like that." Said another voice. Lily turned away from the boy she had asked to help her, (who was now gaping speechlessly), and to look at what she supposed was his friend. "Jamsie, didn't mean anything by it, he just sucks with the ladies."
Lily walked away, regretting she'd even wasted her time on those idiots.
"Lily! Lily!" a voice called. She turned around and saw her mother running towards her, with another woman and a girl beside her. Her mother caught up to her.
"This is Sheila Cooper, and her daughter Sara. Her family have all gone to Hogwarts," The girl came forward and shook Lily's hand.
"It's nice to meet you, but we'd better get on the train otherwise we'll miss it," Sara said happily.
"Thanks," Lily said gratefully. She hugged her mom goodbye and looked expectantly at Sara. Sara took her hand and with one hand on their trolleys, they ran towards a brick wall between platforms 9 and 10. Lily held her breath as they passed through, then all of a sudden they were in a totally different environment.
People were walking everywhere, running on and off the train as they forgot something to tell their parents or seeing someone they knew arrive. Lily felt shy all of a sudden and gripped Sara's hand tighter.
A hand tapped her shoulder. She turned around to see the face of the boy who had made fun of her earlier. She narrowed her eyes at him and swatted his hand away.
"What do you want?" she said unkindly. Sara had turned at the commotion and was watching now.
"I see you've found a friend and a very nice looking one too." He said. Sara scowled and moved next to Lily, as the boy's friend came up and joined him.
"Lookie here, it seems like we've found the best looking girls at Hogwarts." He said. "My name's Sirius, and this romantic here is James."
"Romantic?" Sara scoffed unbelievingly, "Dream on." She smirked. Lily grinned at this. "The closest you've probably come to being romantic is polishing your broomstick." (Polishing the broomstick is the wizarding term for masturbating). Sirius' and James' jaws dropped with astonishment. Lily too was having a hard time believing her sweet new friend had just said something like that. Her mother would have literally washed her mouth out with soap if she said something like that.
Lily shook her head at her friend's temper and said "And how would you know if we were the best looking girls at Hogwarts, if you've only seen a total of about 10 girls so far?" Her mother had always said that when you came across boys like this, be as cool and aloof as possible, they easily got the wrong idea.
"Lily! Lily!" her mother yelled for the third time that day. Lily saw her mother running towards her. "I forgot to gi- Oh Hello!" Eva said, looking at Sirius and James questioningly. "Who might you two be?"
"I'm James Potter, and this is Sirius Black, and we were just escorting your daughter and her friend on the train because they didn't know where to go."
"Oh how nice of you!" Eva bubbled, "Well, anyway Lily honey, I forgot to give you this," she thrust a brown parcel into Lily's hands. "Open it later. Anyway, you'd best be on the train, otherwise you'll miss it." Her eyes were teary as she said this, and gave her daughter one last kiss. Lily tried not to look at the boys smirking. As she and Sara ran onto the train she heard her mom say to the boys, "Take good care of them, they don't know much about being witches."
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Lily and Sara finally found a compartment on the last carriage, all the others were full. Inside was a pretty, slim blonde girl, who looked to be in the same year as them. "Hi," she said nervously. Lilly grinned and outstretched her hand," It's nice to meet you, I'm Lily Evans and this is Sara Cooper."
"I'm Tammy Waterford, its nice to have company; I thought I was going to be alone the whole trip." She said sweetly. Lily, smiled at her, instantly liking her, just like Sara.
"Good," Sara said, sinking into one of the comfy seats "We're finally away from those two idiots."
Lily laughed, she was glad Sara shared her feelings about those two. "They just have to be in the same year as us, don't they?" she sighed. She looked at Tammy and said "We met these two awful boys called James and Sirius, stay away from them." She warned only half-jokingly. Tammy nodded a bit confusedly.
"Sorry if I took you by surprise with the polishing broomstick remark, but they were really annoying me by then, which was only 30 seconds into the conversation." Sara apologised. "Don't tell my mom I said that, she would freak," she added.
Lily plopped herself down on the seat and gave a long sigh, it had been a way to hectic morning she thought, as she watched Sara do the same.
All of a sudden the compartment door slid open to admit four boys, two of them they unfortunately knew. Lily groaned and sat up in her seat. They had to do this didn't they she thought to herself. The two other boys with them were looking at them nervously and then glancing at Sirius and James, who seemed to be in their element.
"You're not serious," Lily sighed.
"No, but I am." Said Sirius jokingly. Sara groaned loudly and shot a look at Lily.
James dramatically faked surprise and winked at Sirius as he sat himself down while Sirius did the same. The other two boys hovered uncertainly by the door. They finally shrugged and stepped into the compartment, taking a seat.
The brown haired handsome one introduced himself first, "I'm Remus Lupin, sorry about bothering you." He addressed all of them, but he could hardly take his eyes of Tammy.
"I'm Lily Evans, and this is Sara Cooper and this is Tammy Waterford." Lily said, pointing to the girls in turn.
"No need to apologise to these hags, Remus old buddy." James said, aiming this at Sara. He obviously hadn't forgotten about the little polishing the broomstick comment.
"I'm Peter Pettigrew." The other, slightly shrimpy blonde boy piped up.
Lily nodded weakly, not trusting herself to speak. Sirius noticed Tammy in the corner and grinned at her.
"Tough company you keep." He said. Tammy glared at him and went to sit on the other side of the compartment next to the other girls. They made room for her and also glared at Sirius. He shrugged and whispered something to James, who nodded and laughed. Lily suspiciously wondered what they were talking about.
Lily realised that the different sexes had unintentionally taken sides of the compartment. They all sat in an uncomfortable silence for a while. Lily was watching James fingering his wand lazily, almost like he was waiting for something. The train lurched suddenly and Sirius went flying into Sara. Out of the corner of her eye, Lily noticed James move his wand the slightest bit.
"Get of me Black!" Sara shrieked. She was trying her best to slap him off her legs.
"I'm deeply sorry milady." He said mockingly, tipping and imaginary hat. Sara just glared at him.
She got back into her seat and once again the uncomfortable silence filled the compartment. After a few minutes of daydreaming, Lily noticed that Sara kept on twitching. Lily nudged her questioningly and Sara just shook her head and the twitching ceased. Then after about two minutes she started fidgeting quite noticeably and then started to itch and then scratch, by now everyone was looking at her except for Lily. Finally Lily looked at her and gasped in horror to see her friend's face covered in huge green warts that were multiplying by the second. Lily glanced at James to see a huge smirk on his face as he watched.
"POTTER!" she yelled, "What have you done?"
"Me?" he asked innocently.
"UNDO IT RIGHT NOW, I SAW YOU WAVE YOUR WAND AT HER WHEN SIRIUS SUPPOSEDLY FELL OVER!" she screamed. Sirius was holding his sides now and even Peter and Remus had to bite their tongues to keep from grinning.
"But she looks so pretty now, maybe she is the prettiest girl at Hogwarts, Queen of the Warts. You two girls, once you have your warts could almost pass for ladies in waiting!" Sirius protested.
James however was watching Sara calmly as every inch of skin disappeared under the warts. Lily stood up and slapped him which wiped the cocky look of his face right away.
"Undo it." She hissed. James heaved himself up like he was being forced to stop something he was really enjoying, and with a wave of his wand and a charm she couldn't quite hear, Sara's face was back to normal and she felt all over it just to make sure there were no lasting effects of the spell. Assured she was okay, she turned on James and gave him a stare that would have scared Lily even if she knew she was joking. James paled visibly and stammered something incoherent.
Just then they heard a knock on the door and they all turned to see an older girl march into the compartment and order them all to put their robes on because they would be arriving at Hogwarts in 5 minutes.
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As soon as the girls stepped of the train, they started angrily talking about the boys, Potter and Black in particular.
"The nerve of him, covering my face with warts! Just because he was so offended at my remark about him polishing his broomstick!" Sara huffed. "If we are in any of their classes I will hurl myself from the top floor of the castle."
"We can hope," Said a voice behind them. The girls ignored Sirius and looked in awe at a huge man beckoning at them,
"Firs` years, Firs` years! Over `Ere! You'll be taking the boats up to the school." He yelled over the top of the crowd. Lily looked fearfully at the lake's choppy water before she followed Sara and Tammy over to the boats. As they neared the edge of the water, Tammy was guided into a boat of three people. She looked back at Lily and Sara and mouthed that she would wait for them at the other side.
As the next boat came along, Lily and Sara hopped in and looked up at the two girls about to get in. All of a sudden an arm pushed them aside,
"Make way, coming through," Said a familiar voice. Sara and Lily looked at each other in horror, not again they both thought. Sirius' and James' now unfortunately familiar cocky faces grinned as they stepped into the boat. Lily gripped the sides to keep from falling over. "Ah, fancy seeing you here," said James, as he winked. The massive man pushed them off before Lily and Sara could get off and wait for the next one. Lily and Sara looked at each other in despair and moved as far as possible away from them.
Halfway across the lake, James started madly rocking to boat while Sirius chuckled at the girls' expressions.
"Potter stop that right now! We'll tip over if you keep doing that," Lily snapped. James grinned and rocked harder.
"Alright Potter, tha-," Lily had stood up to smack James, but at that exact moment he gave a huge rock of the boat and Lily toppled over the side. Sara shrieked and leaned over the side to see if she was alright,
"You idiot Potter! Everyone knows there's a giant squid living in the lake!" she yelled.
"Well, obviously not everyone does, because I didn't." James replied innocently.
"Don't you lie to me Potter! You're stupid pureblood family has been at Hogwarts for generations!" Sara yelled even louder, frantically scanning the surface of the lake for Lily. Suddenly a clump of dark red hair floated to the top of the water.
"Oh my god," whispered Sara, when the head didn't move. She leaned over the edge of the boat to try and somehow tow Lily in. The boys looked at each other, finding this opportunity too good to miss, and rocked the boat just the slightest bit. Sara screamed as she too fell into the water, kicking and splashing.
Fortunately she didn't go as deep as Lily and the first thing she did after she recovered from her shock was to grab hold of her and bring her towards the boat where the boys where actually on their knees laughing. Trying to keep images of a giant squid coming up from beneath them, she saw Lily smile at her from underneath her hair and wink. Sara understood in an instant what she was going to do. Looking back at where all of the other first years were, her eyes winded to see a huge crowd watching.
As they drew nearer to the boat, the boys had stopped laughing and were now looking at the "unconscious" Lily a bit anxiously. Sara hid her grin as they actually leaned over to help her hoist Lily up onto the boat. Suddenly, Lily grabbed hold of the edge of the boat and pushed down with all her might. The looks on the boys' faces were priceless as the whole boat tipped over and they smacked into the water. Lily and Sara were laughing there heads off, when the boys came up, coughing up water.
The girls turned the boat the right side up and climbed in, still laughing. The boys followed after, getting over their shock enough to send glares at Lily and Sara. When they finally reached the other side of the lake, the crowd was massive. Some looked amused, others horrified, and even some older people looked disapproving.
A cheer greeted them as they got off the boat, and the boys bowed dramatically as the girls grinned self-consciously, rolling their eyes at Potter and Black.
A tall figure stepped in front of the four of them, and even the boys gulped at the man now looking down at each of them.
"Hello children, I'm Albus Dumbledore, and you appear to be just a bit wet." The man said, calmly stating this as if he was telling them the time of day.
~~Okay, that was my first chapter - very long (I know I know) but I just wanted to fit everything in because I'm skipping to 7th year in the next chapter.(why you ask? Because I CAN) ~~
***Please R&R***
p.s. - For all those who want to know what happened after Dumbledore introduced himself, well, let's just say that it was the first record for their hundreds of detentions.
Niche Eenhoorn - Thanks so much. I changed it a bit to make it sound more believable. Please tell me if it's still not totally right. I suck at changing my stories.