Salt Lick
* I do not own Harry Potter. I know you thought I did, but I don't. So there.
Morning broke upon Hogwarts castle...
James Potter. Black hair, brown eyes, 5' 9", Quidditch Captain, 6th year, prefect, smart, funny. All of these summed up him pretty accurately. In fact, his nickname at school was "Prince of Hogwarts." A god. Oh yes...
James Potter, at the moment, was holding a half a piece of bacon. The other half was currently in his mouth, which he has long since stopped chewing.
Sirius Black, his best friend since they were 5, grabbed the piece of bacon and threw it at James's head.
"Wake up Prongs. You look bloody dead."
"Up all night I suppose?" Remus Lupin added, not withdrawing his head from Water Beasts of the Black Sea.
(A/N: Ah... Sweet Remus. No, he and Lily will not fall in love.)
"No," snapped James. "Well, yes, sort of. I couldn't sleep."
"Was it about a girl?" Remus asked, his hand snaking out to take a sip of orange juice.
"No! Well, yes, but it was different!"
The rest of the Marauders snorted.
"Seriously! I was out around 2:30 to get some hot chocolate from the kitchens and I had just gotten out of the portrait of the fat lady when..."
Remus lifted his head. "When..."
"I heard something. Crying. It was a girl I think. It sounded terrible. I was up all night thinking about it. It came from the corridor off of the entrance to the common room. Have we ever gone there?
"There's a hidden passage behind a tapestry of Pan chasing some nymphs. It's a dead end though," Sirius spoke up.
"We'll search it tonight," Remus conducted retreating behind his book, who's cover showed Loch Ness swallowing some terrified Muggles.
"All right then," said James spearing some eggs with his fork.
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Lily withdrew her tearstained face from the pillow and stretched. The clock showed 6:30.
(A/N: She wakes up before the Marauders have their conversation)
Lily got up and looked in the mirror. She winced. She remembered that she was Ellen Lohre, had black hair and blue eyes, and was at an English school, knowing mostly French, without friends, and her father was dead. She fished out her brush and school uniform from her bag and got dressed.
Brushing her hair, Lily walked over to the humongous window that was an entire wall. It opened to a balcony that looked over the lake. She gasped as the sun rose over the trees and bounced off from the surface of the lake, which looked like a polished mirror. "At least I have a beautiful view," she thought moodily.
She smiled wanly. At least it was a smile. She hadn't done that for days. It felt good. She had some exploring to do.
Ellen Lohre walked self consciously into the Great Hall. She felt her self shrink as several heads turned her way. She forced her chin up and walked bravely to the Gyriffindor table.
Minnie had told her she would switch Houses each week. Following each house's schedule when it changed. Her first week was in Griffindor.
(A/N: The Sorting Hat could not decide between Grifindor or Ravenclaw.)
She paused hesitantly deciding where to sit. "Elle! Sit here!" a voice shouted above the noise of the Hall.
(A/N: This is where the Marauder's conversation begins. Sorry for interrupting.)
Lily looked toward the voice and saw a blonde, blue eyed girl and her friend waving to her. She walked past some boy throwing bacon at one of his friends a couple of 3rd years giggling at Witch Weekly horoscope and sat next to the girl. She was about to say who she was and her situation in the best English that she could but was spared.
"I'm Bella. You must be the French exchange student Dumbledore told us about. Elle Lohre, right?
Lily smiled at Bella. "Oui."
Bella smiled back and introduced the Asian girl next to her. "This is Maria. Your in our year, right. We'll show you around. Have- She was interrupted by Dumbledore standing up and tapping his glass.
"Some recent announcements. Our new French exchange student arrived at 2:00 this morning and was sorted. Ellen was made an inter-house, between Griffindor and Ravenclaw. Our first in 30 years, I believe. She will be switching houses every week, and may try out for both Quidditch teams. I trust each of you will do your best to make Elle welcome at Hogwarts, seeing as she speaks little English already. Miss Lohre will be excused from all homework for 1 month, assuming that she will have learned much by then. Thank you. You may resume stuffing your faces with out excellent food."
There were some scattered laughs and everyone looked Lily's way and went back to their breakfast.
"As I was saying," said Bella. "Do you have your own room?"
"Yes, ze Professor showed me to ze room last night. It is lovely."
"Your not so bad in English," said Maria. "How much do you know?"
"Very little."
"We'll help. You be fluent in no time."
"Merci."
Maria and Bella went into talking about the classes and professors, the houses and cliques.
"See those boys over there", Bella said, pointing down the table. "They're the Marauders. It's every girl's dream here to go out with them for even an hour. They're cute, smart, funny. Even the Slytherins like them, despite all the pranks they pull on them."
Lily looked over at them. A boy with black hair and glasses looked over at her. Their eyes met, and what was a really a second seemed like many. Lily turned her head and resumed eating her grapefruit.
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Dumbledore sat down and the Marauders looked over at Elle.
"She's pretty." commented Remus staring fixedly at the French girl.
"Very." said Peter.
"All right. Who else wants her?" Sirius said putting down his glass.
"Leave her alone Padfoot." James said still looking at Elle.
"I'm just going to make her feel welcome, like Dumbledore says."
"Whatever. Do what you want."
"Thank you. I'm glad we agree."
James looked over at Elle to see that she was looking back curiously.
He met her eyes and froze. Her eyes flickered green for an instant and then resumed dark blue. She turned away.
James pulled his head away after a few seconds to see the rest of the marauders looking at him strangely."
"She's yours if you want her James."
"No. Go ahead, she's yours."
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Lily walked into Transfiguration with Maria and Bella. Minnie walked over to her and gave her a piece of Parchment.
"It's a translator." She said. What I say in English will appear in French on the paper as I talk, so you'll understand the class."
Lily beamed at her. "Merci, professor."
After class the students filed out of the classroom. James had to talk to McGonagall about the homework while Sirius, Peter, and Remus walked out. Before Sirius left he slapped James on the back and said: " Next time you see me, I'll have a hot French date." If he had suspenders, he would have pulled them out and let them smack back arrogantly. He laughed and followed Ellen out of the room.
James walked out of the classroom slinging his book bag over his shoulder. Bella and Maria were stifling laughter with some other Griffindors looking on at Sirius and Elle.
He walked over to the two girls. "What's going on?" he asked.
Bella answered. "Elle's faking not comprehending what he's saying. She understands English but can't speak it too well. Sirius is totally falling for it."
James snorted as he looked at Sirius waving his arms and talking very loud and slow.
"W-I-L-L Y-O-U G-O O-U-T W-I-T-H M-E???!
Elle put on a confused look and said: "Pordonnez moi?"
"James rolled his eyes as Sirius started again a walked forward to pull him back. "He'll ask you again once you learn more English."
Elle smiled and laughed. "Okay."
Sirius's mouth dropped as he heard her speak English and was about to reply testily but James pulled him away.
"I can't believe that." he said shrugging off. "She understood me and made me look like a total idiot. Well next time I ask her I won't fall for it."
"There won't be a next time, Padfoot."
"Why not?"
"I think she already said no."
"Nobody says no to me."
Remus looked over at him. "Woa, that was egotistical."
"It's true. No one ever has."
"She did."
"All the more reason to be persistent."
"Poor girl." said Peter. "Her first day and she already has her own personal stalker."
"I'll be more docile. Carry her books and stuff."
James snorted to himself. He doubted Sirius's plan would work.
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Lily walked out of the classroom with Bella and Maria to have someone tap on her shoulder. "Elle!" Lily spun around. She heard Maria squeal. "Sirius Black!" she whispered to Bella who's face was totally shocked. Lily remembered. The guy who every girl would give looks to go out with. She found herself annoyed. She was new and exciting to him,, but once she got old, she would be toast. She new his kind. She watched him blunder on, able to understand, but not listening. Time to play a little game to put him in his place. She waited until he paused, as if waiting for a answer. She put on an innocent smile.
"Pardonnez moi?"
She watched in amusement as his face fell. "Y-you didn't understand any of that." She cocked her head to one side in confusement, aware that they had acquired an audience.
"Right." he said. "W-I-L-L Y-O-U G-O O-U-T W-I-T-H M-E!?!?!?!?
It was all she had to keep from laughing. "Pardonnez?"
The boy from the Great Hall who had been looking at her appeared and pulled Sirius away and apologized. "He'll ask you again once you learn more English." She felt her heart skip a beat but controlled her expression. "Okay."
She watched as Sirius spluttered angrily and James heaved him away. Maria ran forward. "O my Gosh, Elle! You just turned down Sirius Black! How could you?!"
"Easily." Lily muttered something in French that Maria was glad not to understand.
"You understand that that doesn't happen very often. He'll come after you again."
" Let him come."
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Lily said goodbye to Bella and Maria that night at the portrait of the fat lady as ran to her room. She pulled her long hair into a ponytail and changed out of her school uniform. Pulling out an invisibility cloak from her trunk and flinging it over herself, she pulled open the trap door and made her way down the silk ladder. She watched as it drew itself up and disappeared. She smiled. A real smile. She had friends, a beautiful room, Minnie, and humongous grounds to explore. Things were going perfect. She turned and silently ran to the entrance hall.
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James pulled out his invisibility cloak from under his bed and brushed dust off of it. "Where's the map?" he asked Sirius. "Got it. He said, pulling it from his pocket. "No people near the common room, portrait, or corridors near. Nope, everyone is safe and snug in their little beds." "Excellent. Wake up Peter, Remus." Remus punched a lump on a bed, extracting a squeal. Peter fell out of bed and blinked sleepily. "What, now, right." He got up and walked over to the other 3 boys. James drew the cloak over them and pulled the drawstrings tight.
They climbed out of the portrait hole and walked down the corridor. They came to the tapestry and drew it aside. The walked down the hallway to the dead end. "The crying must have come from here," Remus said. "Check the map." Sirius pulled it out. The other boys heard his sharp intake of breath. "That's strange. The map shows that there's a room directly above us. Entrance by ladder, password: Return to Neverland. It wasn't there when we explored it in 4th year." They looked up as they heard a sound. The rope ladder dropped down in response to the password.
James took control. "Peter change form and go up to see if anyone is there. We'll stay down here with the invisibility cloak. If it's clear, call us up."
Peter untangled himself from the cloak and changed into a rat. Using his sharp little claws, he scurried up the rope into the room. A few moments later Peter's voice was heard calling, "All clear."
They tossed the cloak off and climbed up. They found Peter by a humongous window looking out at the lake. Sirius whistled slowly. "Weeping Wilma sure lives the good life."
The room was turquoise and was immensely beautiful. The bed was an enormous square couch with gold and dark blue pillows. One wall was a window that opened up to a balcony straight above the lake viewing the forest.
In a corner a gold spiral staircase led up to a bathroom, which the boys entered. The ceiling of the bathroom was a glass dome that perfectly showed the stars. It was obvious that the crying girl lived in luxury.
The boys walked down to the lower level and sat on the bed. Peter sat up with a squeak. He pulled up a diary he had sat on. "Weeping Wilma's diary. Excellent!" Sirius exclaimed. James looked up from the diary. "I think you mean Weeping Elle. It's all in French."
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A/N: Uggg. There it is! Chapter one. Enjoy! By the way, Slick Willy B. is my brother. He wrote the Digimon fic. ( A rather bad one, I might add) I'm his sister and I sign my reviews with Heart of Spun Sugar (silly, no?). Maybe you've seen one of my reviews. I'm NOT good at doing Lily's French accent, so you'll just have to imagine it. She'll learn English FAST in this story cause I know almost no French and she needs to talk more.
Concerning Jesus Freak's review on the title: Almost. There's something else that will be answered.
* I do not own Harry Potter. I know you thought I did, but I don't. So there.
Morning broke upon Hogwarts castle...
James Potter. Black hair, brown eyes, 5' 9", Quidditch Captain, 6th year, prefect, smart, funny. All of these summed up him pretty accurately. In fact, his nickname at school was "Prince of Hogwarts." A god. Oh yes...
James Potter, at the moment, was holding a half a piece of bacon. The other half was currently in his mouth, which he has long since stopped chewing.
Sirius Black, his best friend since they were 5, grabbed the piece of bacon and threw it at James's head.
"Wake up Prongs. You look bloody dead."
"Up all night I suppose?" Remus Lupin added, not withdrawing his head from Water Beasts of the Black Sea.
(A/N: Ah... Sweet Remus. No, he and Lily will not fall in love.)
"No," snapped James. "Well, yes, sort of. I couldn't sleep."
"Was it about a girl?" Remus asked, his hand snaking out to take a sip of orange juice.
"No! Well, yes, but it was different!"
The rest of the Marauders snorted.
"Seriously! I was out around 2:30 to get some hot chocolate from the kitchens and I had just gotten out of the portrait of the fat lady when..."
Remus lifted his head. "When..."
"I heard something. Crying. It was a girl I think. It sounded terrible. I was up all night thinking about it. It came from the corridor off of the entrance to the common room. Have we ever gone there?
"There's a hidden passage behind a tapestry of Pan chasing some nymphs. It's a dead end though," Sirius spoke up.
"We'll search it tonight," Remus conducted retreating behind his book, who's cover showed Loch Ness swallowing some terrified Muggles.
"All right then," said James spearing some eggs with his fork.
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Lily withdrew her tearstained face from the pillow and stretched. The clock showed 6:30.
(A/N: She wakes up before the Marauders have their conversation)
Lily got up and looked in the mirror. She winced. She remembered that she was Ellen Lohre, had black hair and blue eyes, and was at an English school, knowing mostly French, without friends, and her father was dead. She fished out her brush and school uniform from her bag and got dressed.
Brushing her hair, Lily walked over to the humongous window that was an entire wall. It opened to a balcony that looked over the lake. She gasped as the sun rose over the trees and bounced off from the surface of the lake, which looked like a polished mirror. "At least I have a beautiful view," she thought moodily.
She smiled wanly. At least it was a smile. She hadn't done that for days. It felt good. She had some exploring to do.
Ellen Lohre walked self consciously into the Great Hall. She felt her self shrink as several heads turned her way. She forced her chin up and walked bravely to the Gyriffindor table.
Minnie had told her she would switch Houses each week. Following each house's schedule when it changed. Her first week was in Griffindor.
(A/N: The Sorting Hat could not decide between Grifindor or Ravenclaw.)
She paused hesitantly deciding where to sit. "Elle! Sit here!" a voice shouted above the noise of the Hall.
(A/N: This is where the Marauder's conversation begins. Sorry for interrupting.)
Lily looked toward the voice and saw a blonde, blue eyed girl and her friend waving to her. She walked past some boy throwing bacon at one of his friends a couple of 3rd years giggling at Witch Weekly horoscope and sat next to the girl. She was about to say who she was and her situation in the best English that she could but was spared.
"I'm Bella. You must be the French exchange student Dumbledore told us about. Elle Lohre, right?
Lily smiled at Bella. "Oui."
Bella smiled back and introduced the Asian girl next to her. "This is Maria. Your in our year, right. We'll show you around. Have- She was interrupted by Dumbledore standing up and tapping his glass.
"Some recent announcements. Our new French exchange student arrived at 2:00 this morning and was sorted. Ellen was made an inter-house, between Griffindor and Ravenclaw. Our first in 30 years, I believe. She will be switching houses every week, and may try out for both Quidditch teams. I trust each of you will do your best to make Elle welcome at Hogwarts, seeing as she speaks little English already. Miss Lohre will be excused from all homework for 1 month, assuming that she will have learned much by then. Thank you. You may resume stuffing your faces with out excellent food."
There were some scattered laughs and everyone looked Lily's way and went back to their breakfast.
"As I was saying," said Bella. "Do you have your own room?"
"Yes, ze Professor showed me to ze room last night. It is lovely."
"Your not so bad in English," said Maria. "How much do you know?"
"Very little."
"We'll help. You be fluent in no time."
"Merci."
Maria and Bella went into talking about the classes and professors, the houses and cliques.
"See those boys over there", Bella said, pointing down the table. "They're the Marauders. It's every girl's dream here to go out with them for even an hour. They're cute, smart, funny. Even the Slytherins like them, despite all the pranks they pull on them."
Lily looked over at them. A boy with black hair and glasses looked over at her. Their eyes met, and what was a really a second seemed like many. Lily turned her head and resumed eating her grapefruit.
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Dumbledore sat down and the Marauders looked over at Elle.
"She's pretty." commented Remus staring fixedly at the French girl.
"Very." said Peter.
"All right. Who else wants her?" Sirius said putting down his glass.
"Leave her alone Padfoot." James said still looking at Elle.
"I'm just going to make her feel welcome, like Dumbledore says."
"Whatever. Do what you want."
"Thank you. I'm glad we agree."
James looked over at Elle to see that she was looking back curiously.
He met her eyes and froze. Her eyes flickered green for an instant and then resumed dark blue. She turned away.
James pulled his head away after a few seconds to see the rest of the marauders looking at him strangely."
"She's yours if you want her James."
"No. Go ahead, she's yours."
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Lily walked into Transfiguration with Maria and Bella. Minnie walked over to her and gave her a piece of Parchment.
"It's a translator." She said. What I say in English will appear in French on the paper as I talk, so you'll understand the class."
Lily beamed at her. "Merci, professor."
After class the students filed out of the classroom. James had to talk to McGonagall about the homework while Sirius, Peter, and Remus walked out. Before Sirius left he slapped James on the back and said: " Next time you see me, I'll have a hot French date." If he had suspenders, he would have pulled them out and let them smack back arrogantly. He laughed and followed Ellen out of the room.
James walked out of the classroom slinging his book bag over his shoulder. Bella and Maria were stifling laughter with some other Griffindors looking on at Sirius and Elle.
He walked over to the two girls. "What's going on?" he asked.
Bella answered. "Elle's faking not comprehending what he's saying. She understands English but can't speak it too well. Sirius is totally falling for it."
James snorted as he looked at Sirius waving his arms and talking very loud and slow.
"W-I-L-L Y-O-U G-O O-U-T W-I-T-H M-E???!
Elle put on a confused look and said: "Pordonnez moi?"
"James rolled his eyes as Sirius started again a walked forward to pull him back. "He'll ask you again once you learn more English."
Elle smiled and laughed. "Okay."
Sirius's mouth dropped as he heard her speak English and was about to reply testily but James pulled him away.
"I can't believe that." he said shrugging off. "She understood me and made me look like a total idiot. Well next time I ask her I won't fall for it."
"There won't be a next time, Padfoot."
"Why not?"
"I think she already said no."
"Nobody says no to me."
Remus looked over at him. "Woa, that was egotistical."
"It's true. No one ever has."
"She did."
"All the more reason to be persistent."
"Poor girl." said Peter. "Her first day and she already has her own personal stalker."
"I'll be more docile. Carry her books and stuff."
James snorted to himself. He doubted Sirius's plan would work.
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Lily walked out of the classroom with Bella and Maria to have someone tap on her shoulder. "Elle!" Lily spun around. She heard Maria squeal. "Sirius Black!" she whispered to Bella who's face was totally shocked. Lily remembered. The guy who every girl would give looks to go out with. She found herself annoyed. She was new and exciting to him,, but once she got old, she would be toast. She new his kind. She watched him blunder on, able to understand, but not listening. Time to play a little game to put him in his place. She waited until he paused, as if waiting for a answer. She put on an innocent smile.
"Pardonnez moi?"
She watched in amusement as his face fell. "Y-you didn't understand any of that." She cocked her head to one side in confusement, aware that they had acquired an audience.
"Right." he said. "W-I-L-L Y-O-U G-O O-U-T W-I-T-H M-E!?!?!?!?
It was all she had to keep from laughing. "Pardonnez?"
The boy from the Great Hall who had been looking at her appeared and pulled Sirius away and apologized. "He'll ask you again once you learn more English." She felt her heart skip a beat but controlled her expression. "Okay."
She watched as Sirius spluttered angrily and James heaved him away. Maria ran forward. "O my Gosh, Elle! You just turned down Sirius Black! How could you?!"
"Easily." Lily muttered something in French that Maria was glad not to understand.
"You understand that that doesn't happen very often. He'll come after you again."
" Let him come."
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Lily said goodbye to Bella and Maria that night at the portrait of the fat lady as ran to her room. She pulled her long hair into a ponytail and changed out of her school uniform. Pulling out an invisibility cloak from her trunk and flinging it over herself, she pulled open the trap door and made her way down the silk ladder. She watched as it drew itself up and disappeared. She smiled. A real smile. She had friends, a beautiful room, Minnie, and humongous grounds to explore. Things were going perfect. She turned and silently ran to the entrance hall.
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James pulled out his invisibility cloak from under his bed and brushed dust off of it. "Where's the map?" he asked Sirius. "Got it. He said, pulling it from his pocket. "No people near the common room, portrait, or corridors near. Nope, everyone is safe and snug in their little beds." "Excellent. Wake up Peter, Remus." Remus punched a lump on a bed, extracting a squeal. Peter fell out of bed and blinked sleepily. "What, now, right." He got up and walked over to the other 3 boys. James drew the cloak over them and pulled the drawstrings tight.
They climbed out of the portrait hole and walked down the corridor. They came to the tapestry and drew it aside. The walked down the hallway to the dead end. "The crying must have come from here," Remus said. "Check the map." Sirius pulled it out. The other boys heard his sharp intake of breath. "That's strange. The map shows that there's a room directly above us. Entrance by ladder, password: Return to Neverland. It wasn't there when we explored it in 4th year." They looked up as they heard a sound. The rope ladder dropped down in response to the password.
James took control. "Peter change form and go up to see if anyone is there. We'll stay down here with the invisibility cloak. If it's clear, call us up."
Peter untangled himself from the cloak and changed into a rat. Using his sharp little claws, he scurried up the rope into the room. A few moments later Peter's voice was heard calling, "All clear."
They tossed the cloak off and climbed up. They found Peter by a humongous window looking out at the lake. Sirius whistled slowly. "Weeping Wilma sure lives the good life."
The room was turquoise and was immensely beautiful. The bed was an enormous square couch with gold and dark blue pillows. One wall was a window that opened up to a balcony straight above the lake viewing the forest.
In a corner a gold spiral staircase led up to a bathroom, which the boys entered. The ceiling of the bathroom was a glass dome that perfectly showed the stars. It was obvious that the crying girl lived in luxury.
The boys walked down to the lower level and sat on the bed. Peter sat up with a squeak. He pulled up a diary he had sat on. "Weeping Wilma's diary. Excellent!" Sirius exclaimed. James looked up from the diary. "I think you mean Weeping Elle. It's all in French."
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A/N: Uggg. There it is! Chapter one. Enjoy! By the way, Slick Willy B. is my brother. He wrote the Digimon fic. ( A rather bad one, I might add) I'm his sister and I sign my reviews with Heart of Spun Sugar (silly, no?). Maybe you've seen one of my reviews. I'm NOT good at doing Lily's French accent, so you'll just have to imagine it. She'll learn English FAST in this story cause I know almost no French and she needs to talk more.
Concerning Jesus Freak's review on the title: Almost. There's something else that will be answered.