By: SotMoon*
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. I owned Raven up until the day she died, Ahhh… great character.
Authors Note! Sugar Thank you for hoping that my eye gets better, cuz now it is. I CAN SEE IT'S A MIRACLE! ~Coughs~ Um…Yes, here's the next chapter.
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It was the day before Lily Evans, and the Marauders' were to leave Hogwarts forever. Lily Evans packed as many things as she could into her trunk, and stepped back. The trunk was clearly over-stuffed with many things: School Books, Robes, Cloaks, normal every-day clothes, and other things she had gotten over the year. She sat down on the trunk, and tried to close it. After many minutes of grunts, and trying to pull down the trunk lid, she finally succeeded with a small click of the lock.
Lily wiped some sweat off of her brow, and started to walk out of the door, she turned around, with her small hand apon the doorframe, and looked behind her at the Common Room. Tiffany sat on her bed, reading a Witch Weekly magazine, Lily rolled her eyes and looked back over to the other places. The other parts of the room were completely bare. Raven's place seemed empty, and dark. Lily looked back over at Tiffany's side of the room and arched her eyebrows—she hadn't even started packing. Tiffany's blue eyes looked up at Lily, and she stood up and stretched.
"What do you want, Fido?" Tiffany said as she walked up to Lily. Lily tried not to laugh at the new nickname Tiffany had given her. She had already gotten used to her taunts, and sneers so it was just like water off of a ducks back.
"Just wondering why you haven't packed, is all," Lily said innocently, looking Tiffany in the eye.
"I'm getting my boyfriend to pack my things for me, Fido." Tiffany said, Lily looked out of the door into the Common Room. In a secluded corner sat Tiffany's boyfriend, getting pretty cozy with a fourth year.
"Oh, you mean that boyfriend?" Lily asked slyly pointing her finger at the two that were in the corner.
"That bastard!" Tiffany shrieked as she hurried out of the Dormitories. Lily followed closely behind, a huge smirk apon her face. Tiffany ran up, and yanked the smaller girl off of her boyfriend, and then continued to try and pummel the girl. The girl stood up, and hit Tiffany in the face. Tiffany held her eye, and looked horrified at the girl.
"Don't mess with me," the girl said coolly looking up at Tiffany. "I'm a third degree black belt." At this the whole Gryffindor Common Room began to laugh at Tiffany. Tiffany took one look around, and ran back up to the Dormitories.
Lily walked calmly out of the Gryffindor Common Room, taking one of her last walks through the Hogwarts Castle she had called home for the past seven years. She talked to as many paintings as possible as she walked, occasionally stopping to say hello to a ghost. Lily heard a crash from above her, and automatically told herself it was Peeves on the prowl again. Peeve was a Poltergeist that had haunted Hogwarts for about a year now. Lily remembered the day of Peeve's arrival:
The students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were just sitting down for dinner, everything as normal as they should be with a castle filled with under-age wizards. Lily was about to take a bite out of her sandwich when the doors of the Great Hall burst open suddenly.
Lily dropped her sandwich, and looked up to see what had threw open the doors like that. A large cackle emitted from the doorway, but no one was there. Lily stood up, her green eyes darting back and forth, looking for whoever it was. 'Must be Potter.' Lily thought.
"It's Voldemort!" Shrieked a Hufflepuff, loosing her mind completely. Almost everyone in the room flinched at the name, and a friend shushed the girl.
Suddenly a small ghost appeared. A large smile was plastered apon his face, as he zoomed over the students heads, they all ducked to the floor as he soared right at their heads. Finally Dumbledore stood up, and a bang emitted from his wand. Peeves stopped immediately, and The Bloody Baron floated up.
"Who are you?" Dumbledore asked, looking up at the floating poltergeist. He stopped blowing a raspberry at a student immediately.
"I've heard about you, Great One," Said the ghost in a sickengly oily voice. "I was wanting somewhere to stay, so I was wondering if I could stay here, Great One."
Dumbledore looked at the Ghost silently, then looked at the Bloody Baron floating beside him. Dumbledore really didn't know how The Bloody Baron died, and never felt it was time for him to ask. "Baron, you'll watch over Peeves. If he does anything rude, or uncalled for, come to me." The Bloody Baron nodded, and floated away. "What's you're name?" Dumbledore asked.
"Peeves, sir." Peeves answered. Dumbledore nodded, and went back to his dinner. Peeves smiled ruefully. He just had to be nice around The Baron, and Dumbledore. The after-life would be sweet.
Lily woke up out of her spacing and realized that she was in the Entrance Hall, and it was after hours. Lily quickly ran back up the stairs, as quickly as she could, and ran to the Fat Lady Painting.
"Password?" Said the noblewoman curtly, looking down at Lily.
"Gryffindor Lions." Lily said. The portrait swung open, and Lily clamored through the door, where she was met with the sight of James Potter sitting down, looking over at a young girl with shiny eyes. "What are you doing, James?" Lily asked, her eyes looking from James to the girl.
"Five…four…three…two…one…" James said, and on one, the girls hair spiked up directly into the air, turning a ugly greenish-brown color. The girl felt of her hair, and shrieked loudly, causing everyone to look over, and see her hair. Everyone grinned as the girl began to run to the Stairs, where Remus was waiting on her with Silly String.
"Surprise!" Remus shouted as he squirted the silly string all over the girl, mostly in her hair. The girl screamed the whole time, and finally when the whole can was gone, she ran up the stairs, crying hysterically.
"That was good," Sirius said walking down the stairs after watching the girl run up to the dormitories. "But…Mine was classic today."
"What'd you do, man?" James asked, his brown eyes shining in glee again.
"Well," Sirius began, a far-away look coming into his eyes as if he was remembering the greatest day of his life. "I was sitting at the table, minding my own business, mind you when Snape walked in and harassed me!" Sirius said, trying to sound innocent.
"What did you do to him before he harassed you?" Lily asked, a grin on her face. She knew that he had to have done something to make Snape just walk up and insult him for no apparent reason—Snape only insulted the Marauders' when he had back-up.
"Well…I turned all of his clothes pink, yellow, and baby blue…." Sirius said. "Anyways, he comes up, and insults me, so I wait until he's almost in the middle of the Great Hall, and WHAM! Out of nowhere Snape's' clothes disappear! I don't know what happened."
"God, I'm glad I wasn't at Lunch Today," Remus said, and the others agreed. They had gone to the Kitchens for lunch to say their good-byes to the house elves instead of going to the Great Hall.
"Yeah, it was pretty scary—I almost went blind." Sirius said. "Remind me to never do that again. "I wish Raven would have been there to see it…"
"So do I, Sy, so do I." Lily said quietly.
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AN2: Here's your next chapter, Hope you actually liked this one—it seems as if I'm getting littler reviews each Chapter, and It's beginning to upset me. I know there are people who read my story, and don't Review, and I'm like.* Wahh* The whole time, too.
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