~*~GREEN EYES~*~
Chapter 48- Exchange Students
Lily's alarm clock sounded at 7:00 am on Thursday morning. She turned it off and yelled for Jamie to wake up, but then realized that Jamie wasn't actually in the room. She tried not to dwell on that thought for too long as she got her things together to meet James in the common room so that they could walk down to breakfast together as usual. He was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs, and gave her a kiss on the cheek as soon as she had walked down.
"Good morning sunshine," he said with a smile.
"Hey you," she said, taking his hand. They began walking down to the great hall when they noticed a multitude of people standing by the announcement board at the end of the great hall.
"I can't believe it, from France!"
"I know, how cool is that?"
"Double cool with knobs!"
"I wonder what's going on," said Lily, trying to get closer to the board but not accomplishing this task. She had almost resorted to throwing Gilderoy Lockhart out of the way when Sirius tapped her on the back.
"I bet you want to know what happened don't you?" he asked slyly.
"That might be nice," she said.
"It'll cost you five kisses so pucker up," said Sirius, pouting his lips.
"I can take care of that for you," said James, rushing toward Sirius.
"Oh James, I thought you didn't want anyone to know about that," Sirius stated, blushing.
"No really Sirius, what's going on?" asked Lily, splitting the boys apart.
"Didn't you hear about what happened at Beauxbatons?" asked Sirius, surprised that Lily had not kept up with the latest news.
"No, I haven't, please enlighten me," said Lily.
"Well somehow Voldemort found Beauxbatons Palace," said Sirius, his expression dropping quite a bit.
"What do you mean he found Beauxbatons?" asked James, pulling Lily closer to him as if he could protect her from bad news.
"I mean he found the castle. He snuck into it in the middle of the night and..." Sirius trailed off.
"And..." Lily prompted.
"He just destroyed practically everything. The pictures around the castle, statues, classrooms, everything," explained Sirius.
"Well what about the students? I'm sure he wouldn't take mercy on them," said Lily.
"No, of course he wouldn't have any type of sympathy for them. Fortunately enough, they were having a trip down to the nearby village that day," Sirius explained.
"Something like Hogsmeade?" asked James.
"There's an all wizarding village about a mile away from Beauxbatons, it's some french word that I don't know how to say. The students are allowed to go there on one weekend of the month regardless of age to engage in social activity. Everyone goes, there are dance parties down there and they don't get back until after midnight most of the time," recited Lily, as if she had memorized a book. Sirius and James both looked at her. "I read it in The Guide to Wizard Education in Europe."
"You're a freak Lily," Sirius stated. "Anyway, there really wasn't anyone there, and the Headmistress was able to come down when she heard the noise and drive him off."
"What does this have to do with Hogwarts?" asked Lily.
"Well, Beauxbatons was shut down. It was deemed as unsafe and has to meet all these requirements to be allowed to accept students again," said Sirius.
"So they're shipping off the Beauxbatons students here?" James asked. Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, but not all of them. They seperated them out into groups and are sending them to schools all over Europe. They're sending tweleve students here, the tops of the fifth, sixth and seventh years," said Sirius.
"How long are they going to stay?" asked Lily.
"I have no idea, I told you as much as I know," said Sirius.
"Speaking off, how do you know all of this?" asked Lily.
"I had a nice chat with Professor McGonagall," explained Sirius with a wink.
"You had a nice chat with Professor McGonagall?" Lily asked skeptically.
"Well not really a chat per se. See I was sneaking into the kitchens early this morning and she caught me. She said 'What are we going to do with you when the students from Beauxbatons arrive?' and so naturally I couldn't resist the urge to inquire," said Sirius. James gave him a high five.
"Boys," said Lily, rolling her eyes. James took her hand.
"Come on Lils, let's go down the dinner."
***
"Lily, may I speak with you for a moment?" asked Professor Dumbledore as she walked in the entrance to the Great Hall.
"Of course," said Lily, following Dumbledore out the Great Hall and down a staircase to the castle entrance.
"I'm sure you've heard the news about the students from Beauxbatons," said Dumbledore. Lily nodded, she had figured that was what this was about.
"Yes, it will be very exciting to get to meet people from another culture," said Lily.
"And they no doubt feel the same way about meeting you. Unfortunately they may not be able to get ample opportunity to explore our world as Professor McGonagall and I will be extremely busy with the added security measures," explained Dumbledore.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," said Lily.
"Well all is not lost. Professor McGonagall and I have deided to put a student committe in charge of the exchange students' affairs. We have noticed that you haven't quite been yourself lately, so we were hoping that you would be the head of the committe. You don't have to accept, but it would be very helpful if you would,' said Dumbledore.
"That sounds great, excpet I will need some people to help me arrange everything," said Lily.
"Arrange what?" asked Sirius, coming out of the Great Hall and shoving about five or so donuts in his mouth.
"Nothing," Lily said quickly.
"No I want to help I want to help I want to help!" he exclaimed.
"Then it's settled, you and Sirius can be the planning committe for the exchange students," said Dumbledore. "Good day!"
"Great!" said Sirius, finishing off another donut.
"Great," said Lily, a little more sarcastically. "This is just going to be oh-so-great."
***
"Hello and welcome to the first meeting of the Student Committe. I'm Lily Potter, president of this little thing-" Lily began, but Sirius cut her off.
"Oh yeah, and I'm the vice president!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, Sirius is the vice president. Now I'd like to thank all of you for showing up on such short notice," Lily had made an announcement during breakfast, and about tweleve students had shown up to the meeting. They were mostly very excited third and fourth years, and had spent the entire first five minutes of the meeting throwing marshmallows at each other. Needless to say, Sirius had provided the marshmallows. "Now, first order of business, let me see..."
"First of all we have to figure out where the new students will stay," said Sirius, much to Lily's suprise. He took out a clipboard and looked at a list that he had apparently made. "Now we have several options as to where they will stay. They can either go into their own type of house that we will make for them, but I believe this will make them feel ostrasized. We could let them pick a house to live in or, and this is my personal favorite idea, we can let them try on the sorting hat and let it tell them what house they should be in. All in favor to that idea say ay!"
"Ay!"
"Ay!"
"Ay!"
"Okay," said Lily. "Then it's settled, we will put the exchange students in houses. Now next on the list is-" but she was cut off once again by Sirius.
"Go to bed, have some fun. You don't want to be stuck here forever!" he said, and everyone left despite Lily's desperate calls of "No, no, don't leave!"
"Oh, it's oh so much fun working with you Lily," said Sirius. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, I know," she said sarcastically. Then she left and walked, very quickly, to her common room.
A/N- Well I meant this chappy to be a lot longer than it turned out to be, but oh well, no worries. I still think it's great, and this story is actually going somewhere in my head so just keep reviewing and I will keep writing.
Disclaimer- It's all J.K.'s.
Chapter 48- Exchange Students
Lily's alarm clock sounded at 7:00 am on Thursday morning. She turned it off and yelled for Jamie to wake up, but then realized that Jamie wasn't actually in the room. She tried not to dwell on that thought for too long as she got her things together to meet James in the common room so that they could walk down to breakfast together as usual. He was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs, and gave her a kiss on the cheek as soon as she had walked down.
"Good morning sunshine," he said with a smile.
"Hey you," she said, taking his hand. They began walking down to the great hall when they noticed a multitude of people standing by the announcement board at the end of the great hall.
"I can't believe it, from France!"
"I know, how cool is that?"
"Double cool with knobs!"
"I wonder what's going on," said Lily, trying to get closer to the board but not accomplishing this task. She had almost resorted to throwing Gilderoy Lockhart out of the way when Sirius tapped her on the back.
"I bet you want to know what happened don't you?" he asked slyly.
"That might be nice," she said.
"It'll cost you five kisses so pucker up," said Sirius, pouting his lips.
"I can take care of that for you," said James, rushing toward Sirius.
"Oh James, I thought you didn't want anyone to know about that," Sirius stated, blushing.
"No really Sirius, what's going on?" asked Lily, splitting the boys apart.
"Didn't you hear about what happened at Beauxbatons?" asked Sirius, surprised that Lily had not kept up with the latest news.
"No, I haven't, please enlighten me," said Lily.
"Well somehow Voldemort found Beauxbatons Palace," said Sirius, his expression dropping quite a bit.
"What do you mean he found Beauxbatons?" asked James, pulling Lily closer to him as if he could protect her from bad news.
"I mean he found the castle. He snuck into it in the middle of the night and..." Sirius trailed off.
"And..." Lily prompted.
"He just destroyed practically everything. The pictures around the castle, statues, classrooms, everything," explained Sirius.
"Well what about the students? I'm sure he wouldn't take mercy on them," said Lily.
"No, of course he wouldn't have any type of sympathy for them. Fortunately enough, they were having a trip down to the nearby village that day," Sirius explained.
"Something like Hogsmeade?" asked James.
"There's an all wizarding village about a mile away from Beauxbatons, it's some french word that I don't know how to say. The students are allowed to go there on one weekend of the month regardless of age to engage in social activity. Everyone goes, there are dance parties down there and they don't get back until after midnight most of the time," recited Lily, as if she had memorized a book. Sirius and James both looked at her. "I read it in The Guide to Wizard Education in Europe."
"You're a freak Lily," Sirius stated. "Anyway, there really wasn't anyone there, and the Headmistress was able to come down when she heard the noise and drive him off."
"What does this have to do with Hogwarts?" asked Lily.
"Well, Beauxbatons was shut down. It was deemed as unsafe and has to meet all these requirements to be allowed to accept students again," said Sirius.
"So they're shipping off the Beauxbatons students here?" James asked. Sirius nodded.
"Yeah, but not all of them. They seperated them out into groups and are sending them to schools all over Europe. They're sending tweleve students here, the tops of the fifth, sixth and seventh years," said Sirius.
"How long are they going to stay?" asked Lily.
"I have no idea, I told you as much as I know," said Sirius.
"Speaking off, how do you know all of this?" asked Lily.
"I had a nice chat with Professor McGonagall," explained Sirius with a wink.
"You had a nice chat with Professor McGonagall?" Lily asked skeptically.
"Well not really a chat per se. See I was sneaking into the kitchens early this morning and she caught me. She said 'What are we going to do with you when the students from Beauxbatons arrive?' and so naturally I couldn't resist the urge to inquire," said Sirius. James gave him a high five.
"Boys," said Lily, rolling her eyes. James took her hand.
"Come on Lils, let's go down the dinner."
***
"Lily, may I speak with you for a moment?" asked Professor Dumbledore as she walked in the entrance to the Great Hall.
"Of course," said Lily, following Dumbledore out the Great Hall and down a staircase to the castle entrance.
"I'm sure you've heard the news about the students from Beauxbatons," said Dumbledore. Lily nodded, she had figured that was what this was about.
"Yes, it will be very exciting to get to meet people from another culture," said Lily.
"And they no doubt feel the same way about meeting you. Unfortunately they may not be able to get ample opportunity to explore our world as Professor McGonagall and I will be extremely busy with the added security measures," explained Dumbledore.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," said Lily.
"Well all is not lost. Professor McGonagall and I have deided to put a student committe in charge of the exchange students' affairs. We have noticed that you haven't quite been yourself lately, so we were hoping that you would be the head of the committe. You don't have to accept, but it would be very helpful if you would,' said Dumbledore.
"That sounds great, excpet I will need some people to help me arrange everything," said Lily.
"Arrange what?" asked Sirius, coming out of the Great Hall and shoving about five or so donuts in his mouth.
"Nothing," Lily said quickly.
"No I want to help I want to help I want to help!" he exclaimed.
"Then it's settled, you and Sirius can be the planning committe for the exchange students," said Dumbledore. "Good day!"
"Great!" said Sirius, finishing off another donut.
"Great," said Lily, a little more sarcastically. "This is just going to be oh-so-great."
***
"Hello and welcome to the first meeting of the Student Committe. I'm Lily Potter, president of this little thing-" Lily began, but Sirius cut her off.
"Oh yeah, and I'm the vice president!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, Sirius is the vice president. Now I'd like to thank all of you for showing up on such short notice," Lily had made an announcement during breakfast, and about tweleve students had shown up to the meeting. They were mostly very excited third and fourth years, and had spent the entire first five minutes of the meeting throwing marshmallows at each other. Needless to say, Sirius had provided the marshmallows. "Now, first order of business, let me see..."
"First of all we have to figure out where the new students will stay," said Sirius, much to Lily's suprise. He took out a clipboard and looked at a list that he had apparently made. "Now we have several options as to where they will stay. They can either go into their own type of house that we will make for them, but I believe this will make them feel ostrasized. We could let them pick a house to live in or, and this is my personal favorite idea, we can let them try on the sorting hat and let it tell them what house they should be in. All in favor to that idea say ay!"
"Ay!"
"Ay!"
"Ay!"
"Okay," said Lily. "Then it's settled, we will put the exchange students in houses. Now next on the list is-" but she was cut off once again by Sirius.
"Go to bed, have some fun. You don't want to be stuck here forever!" he said, and everyone left despite Lily's desperate calls of "No, no, don't leave!"
"Oh, it's oh so much fun working with you Lily," said Sirius. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, I know," she said sarcastically. Then she left and walked, very quickly, to her common room.
A/N- Well I meant this chappy to be a lot longer than it turned out to be, but oh well, no worries. I still think it's great, and this story is actually going somewhere in my head so just keep reviewing and I will keep writing.
Disclaimer- It's all J.K.'s.