Britain Bound
By: BobDole77
"Learning the Marauding Basics: a Lily Guide"
The next day happened to be just as boring as the first. Lily got around to know her whole dormitory, although she thought that some of them probably didn't like her. However, as the day went on with all the new classes, such as History of Magic (which was an easy-A for people like Lily, and a "stupid class" for people like Sirius Black) and Defense Against the Dark Arts ("What are we suppose to learn in this class again?"), which was taught by a tall, scrawny old teacher who never knew where his spectacles had gone off to, Lily herself tended to grow with magic and also with the school.
"Ahhh... there's no place like home," said one of the girls, sighing as she rested her tired feet on the edge of her four-poster.
Lily glanced in the mirror to the side of her head to notice it was that Jeremi girl, who sat just beside the wall, opposite herself, and beside the Katie girl. She seemed like a likable girl, Lily thought returning to her brushing, but she's a little too erratic and feral for me. Actually, she continued in thought, she's just the type to be hanging out with Sirius Black and James Potter.
Katie, in the four-poster beside her, giggled, then flopped her head down on the four-poster. "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore," she said, before the two started cracking up with laughter.
Lily shook her head in disgrace just as Katie snagged the bathroom before Jeremi did, who resolved in slumping against the wooden door until Katie would come and open it, causing the black-haired psycho to hit her head on the ground and the girls soon to ensue in an all-out pillow... war. The other girls themselves hid in horror. (Lily believes that Jeremi and Katie sighed, murmuring that they had such sissy roommates, well, and then went back to fighting. Whereas Lily, who continued brushing her long auburn locks, shook her head in disgrace once more.)
Those four boys who had peeked in on Lily during the train ride made a lasting impression for the red-head: players. She know she shouldn't think bad thoughts like that, but the way they just want to snuggle up to every girl (especially during dinner, where they act like they want to have a candlelight dinner with every female occupant of the Hall) and they are just the type of guy every girl wants to snuggle up to. But to Lily, it's a different story.
All during classes today, those four boys didn't pay attention one bit (actually, only when Professor Manny, the DADA teacher, made a crack about dragons that wasn't at all too funny... the boys only laughed at the professor, making Manny believe that his dumb joke was actually funny.) Jeremi and Katie seemed to be having a jolly good time also, she'll add, by having mini sword fights below their desks with these plastic pirate swords (They also laughed, snorted, giggled, played some kind of flick-the-paper game, which was Paper Football but we won't tell Lily that, passed notes, especially to the four boys, and... did nothing that related to the school. Well, they did yesterday when the assignments were actually interesting and opened their books today to show the teacher that they were 'paying attention'.) But that wasn't what was bothering the easy-flare temper of a witch with red hair, no. But, it was actually the fact that they had no respect. Don't worry, she had thought about this one for a while. It would seem obvious that Lily, and only Lily, would have respect for anything magical. Lily probably was one of only two Muggleborn witches in the Gryffindor First Year dormitories. Honestly, the whole First Years goofed off during class, didn't even do the homework assigned until the last minute, then mess around and ruin everybody's life...wait, that sounds like the four boys.
Speak of the devil...
"JEREMI!" shouted some unknown male voice from down the Hall. The door burst open to show James Potter, followed by Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The shout had stopped the two girls from pounded themselves with fluffy white pillows and stared at the boys, each on other side of Katie's bed.
"Yes, Sirius, doll," Jeremi said kindly, swiping the hair from her.
The room had all of a sudden perked up. Talon and Elinda had jumped up from behind the bed that they took cover behind, only to find their male hunks currently walking into their room. Lily, who tutted when she shout came to her ears, scowled in their direction, then swiped the bathroom for her own use. Figg was the exception. Although it was only 9:00, she happened to be dead asleep.
"You--" James began.
"What were you doing, J?" Sirius asked curiously, as the four of them trailed in around the four-poster.
"Nothing," Jeremi responded a little to quickly, then smiled cheekily to cover up the corniness. Sirius snorted then flopped himself down on Katie's bed (almost like how Jeremi did herself).
"Hey!" Katie retorted then stood up and tried to push him off the bed, but failed miserably, leaving Sirius to grunt and kick her, as if sleeping. (Katie huffed at him then went and stood beside Jeremi, who was beside herself in laughter.)
Out of all idiocy that ensued in those two minutes, Remus came to the rescue.
(A/N: sorry about how bad that just was. I don't know where my writing went to.)
"James?" he asked kindly, causing James to turn his attention to the amber haired boy beside him. "Er... the, um, task ahead of us? Yes?"
James looked scared (for some reason) then grinned, taking time to muss up Remus' hair, then his, then Peter's. He grinned and went over to the side of the bed, (Mussing up Jeremi's hair on the way there, who didn't flinch, and tried to muss up Katie's but didn't succeed because she punched him in the jaw) mussed up Sirius' hair then completely shoved him off the bed. He then plopped down on the bed, stretching out, crossing his feet, and resting his hands behind his head. He sighed.
Jeremi sighed. Katie sighed. Sirius grunted (from the ground). Remus rolled his eyes. Peter snorted... for some reason.
"GOOD MORNING VEITNAM!" Jeremi suddenly shouted (she had on a cocky grin), spreading her arms like an eagle, and causing everybody to jump. James jumped so much (he had been resting) that he fell off the bed, onto Sirius. Sirius punched him. However, Katie and Jeremi started cracking up.
Lily flinched as she heard the shout come from the other room. Great, she thought, now my dormitory is infested with wild, idiots. Thanks a whole bunch. She sighed with great displeasure as she slid her emerald green bathrobe over her green nightgown and unlocked the bathroom door. With a quick glance at the mirror, she settled herself and opened the door, only to see that she couldn't move.
Standing, or actually laying, in front of the door were two black haired boys, whom Lily could identify as James Potter and Sirius Black--she was annoyed. Lily sighed, annoyed, and her dangerous temper flaring. She glared at the boys on the floor before cautiously climbing over them.
"Well, hello Lily! Nice weather up there?" James said cockily, raising his eyes suggestively. Beside him, Sirius was laughing into the ground whereas Lily was only glaring at him. She didn't really understand why he said that, only thinking that it was because he was lying down. But then, with one glance at all the others, she realized her mistake of climbing over two boys in her nightclothes.
Her eyes were wide and mouth agape before she swatted both those boys angrily. She then walked away in a huff, her nose in the air and refusing to look at the others, all of whom started breaking down with laughter once she reached her trunk. Throwing in the garments angrily, her eyes in slits and seething with anger, she finally threw herself in the four-poster, ripping the curtains shut, and tried desperately to get some shut-eye, even with them there (whom she tried desperately to ignore).
Finally, to the sound of distant laughter, Lily's eyes slid to a shut and her breathing was rhythmic as she slept.
~~*~~
She had been having a nice dream, if you could say that.
She was there, wherever there was. It looked to be in a dark, dark forest, with small lamps to guide her way. She walked on and on until she finally reached a large clearing in the forest-like place with a circle of oil- lamps lit up the place only slightly. There at the opposite end of the clearing were Sirius, James, Remus and Peter, and Jeremi and Katie soon joining them from the other side.
Then suddenly, there was a bright blue light and the six of them just exploded like that, and no remnants of them remained in their spots. Lily could feel herself grinning, but then Professor Mozzly, the Potions' Master, came into the clearing, picked up a stone and lazily threw it at Lily, who didn't even flinched when it banged up against her right eye.
The pain, however, was unbearable. Lily watched herself as she doubled over in pain and was cradling her eye, her hands soaked red. She then saw her stand up and move over and punch Professor Mozzly in the nose. She could tell that his nose was broken, but she didn't know that she could even hit that hard. Professor Mozzly was scowling and swearing (although Lily couldn't hear it) as he ran of into the trees. Lily smiled with a sick satisfaction as her eye didn't hurt anymore and she didn't touch it. She knew that she was still bleeding but didn't care.
She turned around to leave but another Professor stood in her path. Actually, two professors stood there: Professor Rambly, the Charms Professor, and Professor Lambert, Defense Against the Dark Arts Instructor. They were both smiling at Lily with a look of pleasure. Lily smiled at them, then continued walking, right on through them back onto the path where Professor McGonagall, the Transfiguration Deputy Headmistress, standing firmly before her. There was a look of disapproval on her face as she handed Lily a long scroll of parchment; it reached to Lily's toes. Lily looked at the top of the paper. She stopped.
She didn't see that it was her Transfiguration essay that was really due in two weeks. Nor did she see that her name was spelled wrong ('Lily Evens'). She only saw that there was a 'big fat F' in the middle of the paper. Her eyes welled up in tears as she stared at the failed paper.
But she didn't know that she wasn't with Professor McGonagall, or any of the other professors, in the forest. She was flying through a mist of rainbow, actually, almost as if on a broomstick. Soaring through the skies, she closed her eyes and let the wind blow back her beautiful red hair.
She smiled. But when she turned around, that smile turned upside down. James Potter was on the broomstick behind her.
He smiled and said, "Hello Lily! Nice weather up here, huh?"
She screamed.
Wait... she didn't scream like that. That sounded strangely like...
Lily was wide awake in a matter of seconds. She looked around to the bed beside her to see Figg screaming her head off. Lily raced out of bed to the side her friend, Talon and Elinda on the other side.
"Figg, what's wrong?" Lily asked, worried.
Figg did nothing but continue screaming. Lily frowned. What could be wrong with her friend?
At that moment, Talon and Elinda gasped as Figg turned to them and then turned away. Figg was frantically feeling her face, but Lily couldn't see what the problem was.
"Oh goodness, Figg..." Talon said with concern, Elinda resting her head on Talon's shoulder.
"I-is...is it that bad?" Figg asked, her voice strained and on the verge of tears. Talon sadly nodded as Elinda moaned into her shoulder.
Figg then shrieked.
"What is going on?!" a girl grumbled sleepily from the other side of the room. Lily looked over to see Jeremi and Katie slowly getting out of bed. She noticed that it was 4:30 in the morning and actually felt angry toward Figg for waking her up (Lily resolved to think that she was angry because of the boys last night and her dream). But she was more worried because she didn't know what was wrong with Figg.
Figg then turned toward Lily before racing to the bathroom.
Lily was shell shocked at what she saw.
Silence.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
It was the highest and loudest scream that Lily had ever heard.
Talon, Elinda and herself covered their ears and ducked. Katie and Jeremi jumped at each other and hugged themselves diving behind one of the beds.
Lily cautiously went over to the bathroom and gave Figg a comforting hug, whom in return, cried on her shoulder.
Poor Figg, Lily thought looking back her friend. Whoever did this, I'll kill them.
But she didn't even need to guess. She knew exactly who did this to poor Figg and they were going to get their revenge. Those boys (and the two girls) were going to pay for doing this to poor Figg. Dearly.
So, you see, after that day, the boys continued to prank the girls, including Lily, including neither Jeremi nor Katie. Yes, warts all over your face may have been bad, but what they called the 'Lily Treatment' was worse.
~~*~~
James Potter's favorite victims were two of the most well known and popular of their house like himself: Severus Snape (some other slimy-Slytherin who his gang likewise) and Lily Evans (you know). But with all the pranks flying left and right, the detentions following them, and the hatred ensuing, it was pretty hard to get a decent education out of anyone. The teachers especially despised each of the three groups who like revenge and pranks. Nothing they did seemed to help at all.
Severus Snape was a good for nothing, slimy Slytherin loser who did nothing but scowl, swear, Dark Arts, and rubbish. He hung out with the Malfoy crowd and remaining relatives of the Blacks. His hair... goodness his hair. It was just like Sirius' except with one tiny flaw... it looked like it was never washed--never. His long, dark hair was greasy and slimy (huh, go figure, Slytherin traits) and James believed that he didn't take a shower.
And he smelled to. Whenever they would pass him, or beat him up, or laugh at his pranks even, a horrible stench of body odor would reach their nose, and they would gag. Honestly, the boy could never sneak around because of smell it was so bad. Oh, and his nickname is Snivellus, created by Sirius (said when he got the 'snivels' when Snape was around)
So James and his friends resolved to pick on him, mainly because he's a good for nothing Slytherin and also because he stinks... and he picks on them too. So, from changing ever garment he's ever known a different color (including the boy himself) to forcing him to wash his beautiful hair by shoving it down a toilet (with pretty pink shampoo) they revolutionized the name of a prankster--a trickster--a marauder.
Lily Evans, red-head extraordinary, was a different story. Books, hair, girly stuff, books, staying on the ground, books, and learning were a few of her specialties that James and his friends loved to tease, pick on, and ruin in the life of Evans. However, she didn't take blue hair as an everyday occurrence like the rest of her dorm did. Actually, her and Figg had joined their own club, well made it actually, named it and the whole shebang. Welcome to Feggans. No, just kidding (although that was actually good, James thought... hmmm). Actually, they resort to calling themselves (well to Elinda it's "Boogers', but) OP (even with a hilarious incident where Jeremi and Sirius, who were eavesdropping on the conversation, tried to stop them from picking such a horrible name), which in turn was discovered that meant "Operation Pranksters' (thanks to a hilarious incident where Jeremi and Sirius, who were eavesdropping on the conversation, and tried to stop them from picking such a horrible name). So, OP, which consisted of Evans (whom the boys called 'Evans'), Figg (whom the boys called 'Arabella' or 'Poor Figg' thanks to an incident where Evans came up to them to scold them about the first prank they did on Figg, sorry Arabella, and kept mentioning Poor Figg), Elinda Morocco (whom the boys called 'Emers' in a high squeaky voice because Jeremi and Katie told them that that's what Talon calls her) and Talon Vixen (whom the boys called 'TV! TV!'). The pranks continued each morning, with the much thankful help from Jeremi and Katie who slept in the same dorm as the girls. The girls, however, did much less pranks (only against the four boys and the two girls) because they didn't have that many opportunities (and they were newbies at the pranking business, but when they're pranks came--they were good).
The boys had resolved in their own name (before OP came into the business) with a name that students, teachers and the world would remember for all time: The Marauders. There group was the most terrorizing, publicly displaying group of First Years that Hogwarts had ever seen. And they loved it. Everyone either loved them and wanted to be with them (or a part of them) and helped them with their pranks (which made them all the better) or they feared them because of their almighty pranks (that was the majority of the school's population). Whereas the Professors were usually the angry (or scared in some cases) ones. They were handing out more detentions in days than they had in a lifetime (well that's change). And, thus the Marauders were formed.
James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew were every girl's dream, having a new girl each week, in fact. They were the masterminds of laughter in each boring class and all the stupid jokes they heard (turning them into lavish inside jokes, too). They... were smart.
James Potter was the leader of the group, organizing the pranks and coming up with a few good ones himself (everybody assisted in the coming of the prank, but the preparation was different). His never-tidy, black messy hair was all over the place and snagged thousands of girls each day. He had rich blue eyes and a muscular form (well, as much as one could have for a First Year) and loved Quidditch (he's a reserve on the team). Sirius Black usually executes the pranks with James and loves picking on Snivellus (where James loves picking on Evans). He looks just the same as James but with beautiful deep brown eyes and his hair is actually tamable and he's a little wilder and dangerous (Jeremi is just the same as Sirius but with bluish-greenish eyes). Then there's Remus, who holds the darkest secret probably on the face of the earth (only Jeremi and Katie know this, however). And you won't know yet. He has beautiful amber hair (that the girls love) and matching amber eyes. His skin is pale and he's shorter than the two former. Usually the brains in the operation and is always perfecting the potions, and charms and everything that James and Sirius suck at doing (Katie is about the same as him...). He mainly studies and his always on track with the homework, always resolving to give James and Sirius the answers to the homework. And last but not least, is Peter--who is like Remus' assistant. He always follows Remus and assists him with the potions (Peter's great with the herbs and plants). But Peter's not all coward in his bones like most people would envision the pudgy little boy with matching black hair. In fact, he's mainly the one who goes over the pranks the night before (after having Remus help him with Transfiguration) and makes sure it's fool proof (and it's really helpful). He's usually the one that goes and gets the resources with either James or Sirius (usually Sirius loves that job, but James is better because Sirius gets sidetracked). And Peter--is one helpful mole (MOLEY, MOLEY, MOLEY).
And then there was Jeremi and Katie, who helped with marauding the OP. They hung out with each other mainly, but loved the Marauders all the same. They were considered a limb of them and helped every time, hanging out with the guys during free periods and helping come up with some pranks. They, however, didn't have one detention. Huh, go figure.
By: BobDole77
"Learning the Marauding Basics: a Lily Guide"
The next day happened to be just as boring as the first. Lily got around to know her whole dormitory, although she thought that some of them probably didn't like her. However, as the day went on with all the new classes, such as History of Magic (which was an easy-A for people like Lily, and a "stupid class" for people like Sirius Black) and Defense Against the Dark Arts ("What are we suppose to learn in this class again?"), which was taught by a tall, scrawny old teacher who never knew where his spectacles had gone off to, Lily herself tended to grow with magic and also with the school.
"Ahhh... there's no place like home," said one of the girls, sighing as she rested her tired feet on the edge of her four-poster.
Lily glanced in the mirror to the side of her head to notice it was that Jeremi girl, who sat just beside the wall, opposite herself, and beside the Katie girl. She seemed like a likable girl, Lily thought returning to her brushing, but she's a little too erratic and feral for me. Actually, she continued in thought, she's just the type to be hanging out with Sirius Black and James Potter.
Katie, in the four-poster beside her, giggled, then flopped her head down on the four-poster. "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore," she said, before the two started cracking up with laughter.
Lily shook her head in disgrace just as Katie snagged the bathroom before Jeremi did, who resolved in slumping against the wooden door until Katie would come and open it, causing the black-haired psycho to hit her head on the ground and the girls soon to ensue in an all-out pillow... war. The other girls themselves hid in horror. (Lily believes that Jeremi and Katie sighed, murmuring that they had such sissy roommates, well, and then went back to fighting. Whereas Lily, who continued brushing her long auburn locks, shook her head in disgrace once more.)
Those four boys who had peeked in on Lily during the train ride made a lasting impression for the red-head: players. She know she shouldn't think bad thoughts like that, but the way they just want to snuggle up to every girl (especially during dinner, where they act like they want to have a candlelight dinner with every female occupant of the Hall) and they are just the type of guy every girl wants to snuggle up to. But to Lily, it's a different story.
All during classes today, those four boys didn't pay attention one bit (actually, only when Professor Manny, the DADA teacher, made a crack about dragons that wasn't at all too funny... the boys only laughed at the professor, making Manny believe that his dumb joke was actually funny.) Jeremi and Katie seemed to be having a jolly good time also, she'll add, by having mini sword fights below their desks with these plastic pirate swords (They also laughed, snorted, giggled, played some kind of flick-the-paper game, which was Paper Football but we won't tell Lily that, passed notes, especially to the four boys, and... did nothing that related to the school. Well, they did yesterday when the assignments were actually interesting and opened their books today to show the teacher that they were 'paying attention'.) But that wasn't what was bothering the easy-flare temper of a witch with red hair, no. But, it was actually the fact that they had no respect. Don't worry, she had thought about this one for a while. It would seem obvious that Lily, and only Lily, would have respect for anything magical. Lily probably was one of only two Muggleborn witches in the Gryffindor First Year dormitories. Honestly, the whole First Years goofed off during class, didn't even do the homework assigned until the last minute, then mess around and ruin everybody's life...wait, that sounds like the four boys.
Speak of the devil...
"JEREMI!" shouted some unknown male voice from down the Hall. The door burst open to show James Potter, followed by Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The shout had stopped the two girls from pounded themselves with fluffy white pillows and stared at the boys, each on other side of Katie's bed.
"Yes, Sirius, doll," Jeremi said kindly, swiping the hair from her.
The room had all of a sudden perked up. Talon and Elinda had jumped up from behind the bed that they took cover behind, only to find their male hunks currently walking into their room. Lily, who tutted when she shout came to her ears, scowled in their direction, then swiped the bathroom for her own use. Figg was the exception. Although it was only 9:00, she happened to be dead asleep.
"You--" James began.
"What were you doing, J?" Sirius asked curiously, as the four of them trailed in around the four-poster.
"Nothing," Jeremi responded a little to quickly, then smiled cheekily to cover up the corniness. Sirius snorted then flopped himself down on Katie's bed (almost like how Jeremi did herself).
"Hey!" Katie retorted then stood up and tried to push him off the bed, but failed miserably, leaving Sirius to grunt and kick her, as if sleeping. (Katie huffed at him then went and stood beside Jeremi, who was beside herself in laughter.)
Out of all idiocy that ensued in those two minutes, Remus came to the rescue.
(A/N: sorry about how bad that just was. I don't know where my writing went to.)
"James?" he asked kindly, causing James to turn his attention to the amber haired boy beside him. "Er... the, um, task ahead of us? Yes?"
James looked scared (for some reason) then grinned, taking time to muss up Remus' hair, then his, then Peter's. He grinned and went over to the side of the bed, (Mussing up Jeremi's hair on the way there, who didn't flinch, and tried to muss up Katie's but didn't succeed because she punched him in the jaw) mussed up Sirius' hair then completely shoved him off the bed. He then plopped down on the bed, stretching out, crossing his feet, and resting his hands behind his head. He sighed.
Jeremi sighed. Katie sighed. Sirius grunted (from the ground). Remus rolled his eyes. Peter snorted... for some reason.
"GOOD MORNING VEITNAM!" Jeremi suddenly shouted (she had on a cocky grin), spreading her arms like an eagle, and causing everybody to jump. James jumped so much (he had been resting) that he fell off the bed, onto Sirius. Sirius punched him. However, Katie and Jeremi started cracking up.
Lily flinched as she heard the shout come from the other room. Great, she thought, now my dormitory is infested with wild, idiots. Thanks a whole bunch. She sighed with great displeasure as she slid her emerald green bathrobe over her green nightgown and unlocked the bathroom door. With a quick glance at the mirror, she settled herself and opened the door, only to see that she couldn't move.
Standing, or actually laying, in front of the door were two black haired boys, whom Lily could identify as James Potter and Sirius Black--she was annoyed. Lily sighed, annoyed, and her dangerous temper flaring. She glared at the boys on the floor before cautiously climbing over them.
"Well, hello Lily! Nice weather up there?" James said cockily, raising his eyes suggestively. Beside him, Sirius was laughing into the ground whereas Lily was only glaring at him. She didn't really understand why he said that, only thinking that it was because he was lying down. But then, with one glance at all the others, she realized her mistake of climbing over two boys in her nightclothes.
Her eyes were wide and mouth agape before she swatted both those boys angrily. She then walked away in a huff, her nose in the air and refusing to look at the others, all of whom started breaking down with laughter once she reached her trunk. Throwing in the garments angrily, her eyes in slits and seething with anger, she finally threw herself in the four-poster, ripping the curtains shut, and tried desperately to get some shut-eye, even with them there (whom she tried desperately to ignore).
Finally, to the sound of distant laughter, Lily's eyes slid to a shut and her breathing was rhythmic as she slept.
~~*~~
She had been having a nice dream, if you could say that.
She was there, wherever there was. It looked to be in a dark, dark forest, with small lamps to guide her way. She walked on and on until she finally reached a large clearing in the forest-like place with a circle of oil- lamps lit up the place only slightly. There at the opposite end of the clearing were Sirius, James, Remus and Peter, and Jeremi and Katie soon joining them from the other side.
Then suddenly, there was a bright blue light and the six of them just exploded like that, and no remnants of them remained in their spots. Lily could feel herself grinning, but then Professor Mozzly, the Potions' Master, came into the clearing, picked up a stone and lazily threw it at Lily, who didn't even flinched when it banged up against her right eye.
The pain, however, was unbearable. Lily watched herself as she doubled over in pain and was cradling her eye, her hands soaked red. She then saw her stand up and move over and punch Professor Mozzly in the nose. She could tell that his nose was broken, but she didn't know that she could even hit that hard. Professor Mozzly was scowling and swearing (although Lily couldn't hear it) as he ran of into the trees. Lily smiled with a sick satisfaction as her eye didn't hurt anymore and she didn't touch it. She knew that she was still bleeding but didn't care.
She turned around to leave but another Professor stood in her path. Actually, two professors stood there: Professor Rambly, the Charms Professor, and Professor Lambert, Defense Against the Dark Arts Instructor. They were both smiling at Lily with a look of pleasure. Lily smiled at them, then continued walking, right on through them back onto the path where Professor McGonagall, the Transfiguration Deputy Headmistress, standing firmly before her. There was a look of disapproval on her face as she handed Lily a long scroll of parchment; it reached to Lily's toes. Lily looked at the top of the paper. She stopped.
She didn't see that it was her Transfiguration essay that was really due in two weeks. Nor did she see that her name was spelled wrong ('Lily Evens'). She only saw that there was a 'big fat F' in the middle of the paper. Her eyes welled up in tears as she stared at the failed paper.
But she didn't know that she wasn't with Professor McGonagall, or any of the other professors, in the forest. She was flying through a mist of rainbow, actually, almost as if on a broomstick. Soaring through the skies, she closed her eyes and let the wind blow back her beautiful red hair.
She smiled. But when she turned around, that smile turned upside down. James Potter was on the broomstick behind her.
He smiled and said, "Hello Lily! Nice weather up here, huh?"
She screamed.
Wait... she didn't scream like that. That sounded strangely like...
Lily was wide awake in a matter of seconds. She looked around to the bed beside her to see Figg screaming her head off. Lily raced out of bed to the side her friend, Talon and Elinda on the other side.
"Figg, what's wrong?" Lily asked, worried.
Figg did nothing but continue screaming. Lily frowned. What could be wrong with her friend?
At that moment, Talon and Elinda gasped as Figg turned to them and then turned away. Figg was frantically feeling her face, but Lily couldn't see what the problem was.
"Oh goodness, Figg..." Talon said with concern, Elinda resting her head on Talon's shoulder.
"I-is...is it that bad?" Figg asked, her voice strained and on the verge of tears. Talon sadly nodded as Elinda moaned into her shoulder.
Figg then shrieked.
"What is going on?!" a girl grumbled sleepily from the other side of the room. Lily looked over to see Jeremi and Katie slowly getting out of bed. She noticed that it was 4:30 in the morning and actually felt angry toward Figg for waking her up (Lily resolved to think that she was angry because of the boys last night and her dream). But she was more worried because she didn't know what was wrong with Figg.
Figg then turned toward Lily before racing to the bathroom.
Lily was shell shocked at what she saw.
Silence.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
It was the highest and loudest scream that Lily had ever heard.
Talon, Elinda and herself covered their ears and ducked. Katie and Jeremi jumped at each other and hugged themselves diving behind one of the beds.
Lily cautiously went over to the bathroom and gave Figg a comforting hug, whom in return, cried on her shoulder.
Poor Figg, Lily thought looking back her friend. Whoever did this, I'll kill them.
But she didn't even need to guess. She knew exactly who did this to poor Figg and they were going to get their revenge. Those boys (and the two girls) were going to pay for doing this to poor Figg. Dearly.
So, you see, after that day, the boys continued to prank the girls, including Lily, including neither Jeremi nor Katie. Yes, warts all over your face may have been bad, but what they called the 'Lily Treatment' was worse.
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James Potter's favorite victims were two of the most well known and popular of their house like himself: Severus Snape (some other slimy-Slytherin who his gang likewise) and Lily Evans (you know). But with all the pranks flying left and right, the detentions following them, and the hatred ensuing, it was pretty hard to get a decent education out of anyone. The teachers especially despised each of the three groups who like revenge and pranks. Nothing they did seemed to help at all.
Severus Snape was a good for nothing, slimy Slytherin loser who did nothing but scowl, swear, Dark Arts, and rubbish. He hung out with the Malfoy crowd and remaining relatives of the Blacks. His hair... goodness his hair. It was just like Sirius' except with one tiny flaw... it looked like it was never washed--never. His long, dark hair was greasy and slimy (huh, go figure, Slytherin traits) and James believed that he didn't take a shower.
And he smelled to. Whenever they would pass him, or beat him up, or laugh at his pranks even, a horrible stench of body odor would reach their nose, and they would gag. Honestly, the boy could never sneak around because of smell it was so bad. Oh, and his nickname is Snivellus, created by Sirius (said when he got the 'snivels' when Snape was around)
So James and his friends resolved to pick on him, mainly because he's a good for nothing Slytherin and also because he stinks... and he picks on them too. So, from changing ever garment he's ever known a different color (including the boy himself) to forcing him to wash his beautiful hair by shoving it down a toilet (with pretty pink shampoo) they revolutionized the name of a prankster--a trickster--a marauder.
Lily Evans, red-head extraordinary, was a different story. Books, hair, girly stuff, books, staying on the ground, books, and learning were a few of her specialties that James and his friends loved to tease, pick on, and ruin in the life of Evans. However, she didn't take blue hair as an everyday occurrence like the rest of her dorm did. Actually, her and Figg had joined their own club, well made it actually, named it and the whole shebang. Welcome to Feggans. No, just kidding (although that was actually good, James thought... hmmm). Actually, they resort to calling themselves (well to Elinda it's "Boogers', but) OP (even with a hilarious incident where Jeremi and Sirius, who were eavesdropping on the conversation, tried to stop them from picking such a horrible name), which in turn was discovered that meant "Operation Pranksters' (thanks to a hilarious incident where Jeremi and Sirius, who were eavesdropping on the conversation, and tried to stop them from picking such a horrible name). So, OP, which consisted of Evans (whom the boys called 'Evans'), Figg (whom the boys called 'Arabella' or 'Poor Figg' thanks to an incident where Evans came up to them to scold them about the first prank they did on Figg, sorry Arabella, and kept mentioning Poor Figg), Elinda Morocco (whom the boys called 'Emers' in a high squeaky voice because Jeremi and Katie told them that that's what Talon calls her) and Talon Vixen (whom the boys called 'TV! TV!'). The pranks continued each morning, with the much thankful help from Jeremi and Katie who slept in the same dorm as the girls. The girls, however, did much less pranks (only against the four boys and the two girls) because they didn't have that many opportunities (and they were newbies at the pranking business, but when they're pranks came--they were good).
The boys had resolved in their own name (before OP came into the business) with a name that students, teachers and the world would remember for all time: The Marauders. There group was the most terrorizing, publicly displaying group of First Years that Hogwarts had ever seen. And they loved it. Everyone either loved them and wanted to be with them (or a part of them) and helped them with their pranks (which made them all the better) or they feared them because of their almighty pranks (that was the majority of the school's population). Whereas the Professors were usually the angry (or scared in some cases) ones. They were handing out more detentions in days than they had in a lifetime (well that's change). And, thus the Marauders were formed.
James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew were every girl's dream, having a new girl each week, in fact. They were the masterminds of laughter in each boring class and all the stupid jokes they heard (turning them into lavish inside jokes, too). They... were smart.
James Potter was the leader of the group, organizing the pranks and coming up with a few good ones himself (everybody assisted in the coming of the prank, but the preparation was different). His never-tidy, black messy hair was all over the place and snagged thousands of girls each day. He had rich blue eyes and a muscular form (well, as much as one could have for a First Year) and loved Quidditch (he's a reserve on the team). Sirius Black usually executes the pranks with James and loves picking on Snivellus (where James loves picking on Evans). He looks just the same as James but with beautiful deep brown eyes and his hair is actually tamable and he's a little wilder and dangerous (Jeremi is just the same as Sirius but with bluish-greenish eyes). Then there's Remus, who holds the darkest secret probably on the face of the earth (only Jeremi and Katie know this, however). And you won't know yet. He has beautiful amber hair (that the girls love) and matching amber eyes. His skin is pale and he's shorter than the two former. Usually the brains in the operation and is always perfecting the potions, and charms and everything that James and Sirius suck at doing (Katie is about the same as him...). He mainly studies and his always on track with the homework, always resolving to give James and Sirius the answers to the homework. And last but not least, is Peter--who is like Remus' assistant. He always follows Remus and assists him with the potions (Peter's great with the herbs and plants). But Peter's not all coward in his bones like most people would envision the pudgy little boy with matching black hair. In fact, he's mainly the one who goes over the pranks the night before (after having Remus help him with Transfiguration) and makes sure it's fool proof (and it's really helpful). He's usually the one that goes and gets the resources with either James or Sirius (usually Sirius loves that job, but James is better because Sirius gets sidetracked). And Peter--is one helpful mole (MOLEY, MOLEY, MOLEY).
And then there was Jeremi and Katie, who helped with marauding the OP. They hung out with each other mainly, but loved the Marauders all the same. They were considered a limb of them and helped every time, hanging out with the guys during free periods and helping come up with some pranks. They, however, didn't have one detention. Huh, go figure.