"Why didn't you tell me?" James asked her when all three of them were sitting in the common room.
"I didn't know if you'd still want to be friends with a freak." She said looked sadly into the fire. James and Sirius gaped at each other.
"How could you think that?" James said confused. Then realization dawned on him. "Petunia said that, didn't she? She told you were a freak going to a freak's school."
Lily nodded; still staring into the flames as tears slowly began to fall from her eyes.
James put his arms around her and hugged her tightly as she cried into his shoulder.
Sirius looked thoughtful for a moment and then said,
"Well I guess we can all be freaks together then."
Lily looked up at him and laughed as she watched him conjure bright red hats for the three of them with 'I am a Freak' written on them in blue.
James looked at his friend in astonishment.
"How…when….wha…you're just a first year!"
"My dad taught me a few spells." Sirius said shrugging. "Now come on you two, you're both gonna wear these." Lily and James put the hats on their heads and looked at each other before bursting out laughing.
They sat for about another half an hour before people began to slowly trickle downstairs.
"Come on, let's get some food. I'm starving."
"Is there ever a time when you're not hungry Sirius?" Lily asked with a grin. "You're like a walking, talking dustbin."
"The only time I'm not hungry is when I'm flying."
Lily and James looked at each other, confused.
"What do you mean flying? Humans can't fly, in case you hadn't noticed."
Sirius laughed at the confusion written on his friend faces.
"Come on," he said. Dragging them out of the portrait hole. "I'll tell you on the way to breakfast."
As the three friends wandered into the hall Sirius was just moving onto the finer points of the game when they were stopped by Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape.
"Discussing Quidditch Black? You don't mean to tell me that can actually fly?"
Sirius shrugged.
"I can but these two never have before."
Malfoy burst out laughing.
"Oh this is going to be so good. The two mud-bloods have never heard of Quidditch. Well I hope you've made a will Potter. Knowing the skill of mud-bloods it's 100 to 1 that that you'll fall and break your neck. Oh I just wish that I can watch. See you on Saturday." And with that they shoved past the trio and continued on down the corridor.
Lily and James looked at Sirius quizzically. He held his hands up in surrender.
"Don't look at me! I don't what that was about."
James shrugged and continued walking to the Great Hall.
"Come on you two. I need food!"
Lily and Sirius looked at each other and dashed to catch up with him.
The next few days flew by as Lily, James, Sirius and Remus started to find their way around the school.
On Wednesday as they had a free period the four of them decided to spend the afternoon doing research on the possible pranks that they could pull on the Slytherins.
"What about this," Lily said reading from a book entitled, 'Speech impediments'
" 'The Vocknoal potion. Administer 1 drop into a cup of liquid and the drinker will momentarily lose their voice for approximately 1 hour before it changes to the voice of the person they hate the most. Effects should last for 24 hours.' There's also one to make you lose your voice for 48 hours."
The three boys stared at her with amazement on their faces.
"Wow! That's so cool! How do you make the first one?"
Lily looked at the ingredients needed for both potions.
"They both the same except that the voice changing one needs three banshee hairs instead of one. All the other ingredients are available in the student supply cupboard."
"Nice. I say we should start with that one. What do you think?"
James looked round and saw them all nodding.
"Okay. Lily and I'll go get the ingredients. You two continue looking for more potions." Sirius and Remus nodded, silently accepting James's unspoken leadership.
"You think we can pull this off?" Lily asked him as they made their way to the dungeons.
"Don't see what would go wrong with it. No-one's going to know it was us."
She smiled.
"Oh good. I don't really want to get a detention this early in the term."
James grinned at her.
"Ah, that's were me and Sirius differ from you. We want to try and create a record for the most detentions ever received. Good plan?"
"It might be for you but you can count me out!"
He laughed.
"So where's this student cupboard then?"
After about an hour of searching through books Sirius and Remus had found about 20 different charms and potions to inflict enough pain and ridicule on the Slytherins for the rest of the term. They staggered back to the Gryffindor tower almost collapsing under the weight of the huge arm fulls of books they were both carrying and dumped them on James' bed in the dormitory. Seeing that they had about an hour before dinner they went down to the common room and sat round the fire. Suddenly Sirius' face turned as white as a vampire.
"Oh no, this is so not good."
Remus looked confused.
"What's wrong? What's not good?"
Sirius pointed to a notice pinned above the fireplace.
'Flying lessons to commence on Saturday 8th of September at 10 o'clock sharp. All 1st year students to attend.'
Remus was still confused.
"What's wrong with that?" Then he saw who the Gryffindors would be learning to fly with.
"Ah, that's not good."
"It's not. I've got to go tell James. This must have been what Malfoy meant."
Sirius rushed out of the common room leaving Remus standing just as confused as he was before.
"Sirius! What did he say? Sirius!"
He scowled and plonked himself into an armchair.
"Hey Adam, want a game of chess?"
The days till Saturday flew by and suddenly it was Saturday morning and the Gryffindor and Slytherin first years were standing in two lines each holding a broomstick.
Madame Hooch who was taking the lesson had already demonstrated how to lift off, fly in a small circle and then land back down and the whole class were eager to try it for themselves. That is, everyone except Malfoy. He was hovering on his broom to save his feet the stress of standing on their own and sneering at Madame Hooch.
"Gods, this'll be a laugh to watch. Mud-bloods trying to fly."
Madame Hooch who had walked silently up behind him said suddenly,
"Right Mr Malfoy, you can be the first to try. Come on boy, we haven't got all day."
With a glare at her, he got up off he floor, (She'd made him jump so much that he'd fallen off his broom,) he got on his broom and rose into the air. Quietly she raised her wand and pointing it at his broom whispered the words,
"Kedo umvai."
Suddenly his broom started to roll over and over very quickly. Malfoy's face very quickly turned green but as he hadn't fallen onto the ground the broom stopped. He had just about managed to get control of it when it started to rise into the sky bucking very vigorously. His grip suddenly slipped and he fell about 20ft to the floor. Surprisingly enough no-one stepped forward to help him as the entire class was in fits of laughter. Snape was kneeling on the floor clutching his stomach in hysterics. Malfoy got shakily up and staggered indoors. Madame Hooch looking around at her class and smiled.
"Class dismissed."
AN: Huge thanks to Lani, who helped me to get writing this chapter. It wouldn't have happened without her.
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