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Before jealousy could creep up on her she had picked up a book at random from her bag and found herself immersed in elementry spells level one, not even feeling it when the train left the station, latin words mixing with the lyrics from the song she listened to.
Those incantations were truly intresting...Lily supposed that elementry words like fire and water and flight and stuff was for what the spell dealt with...and the rest of the spell to precise what it should do. Her old walkman seemed stuck on the Led Zepelin side but she simply couldn't bring herself to to change the tape herself. It would mean leaving the pecular train of thoughts you take when understanding a problem. And plus it wasn't as if the songs weren't good.
It had been about three hours since the train had left the station, and her back and legs were feeling it, considering she had taken to herself to organize her bags in a way to make them take as less space as possible.
She was sitting by the window with her legs propped on her suitcase, bags at her feet, purse by the window and her personnel space clearly identified to anyone who couldve stepped in the compartment. Convinient as this position was, any way of sitting becomes uncomfortable after three hours, and though the standard book of spells volume 2 was dead intresting, it was hard to consentrate while your back is suffering.
She had gotten through the standard book of spells1 and the Transfiguration book pretty easily, managing to turn a hair pin into a match pretty quickly, same for making her suitcase levitate, though she had nearly heard her heartrate go up when she her feet were dragged with the suitcase and her head nearly hitting the chair. Smart thing it wouldve been, getting a concussion on you first our at school.
The Defense Against the Dark Art material was mostly theoric, because practical exercises weren't very popular in the first year. Potion seemed the magical equivalent of chemistry, though it didn't seem to have laws as neatly defined as the muggle side of the science of mixing, Lily felt a definite connection with the subject.
Herbology seemed too specialized at first to be a obligatory class, but after seeing how vague the potion class was going to be, she figured she needed it greatly. The only things in the book however, were pictures and names, pretty useless in her opinion. How the teacher could teach like this, she didn't know.
« I undertand pretty good, I probably won't need all that half or year to do it. » thought Lily, stretching and hearing her back crack several times before putting away the book and proceeding into looking out of the window, into the beautiful horizon painted in a rectangle.
She started whispering to herself, as she always did when thinking about these sort of things.
« Perspective is everything, and it's surprising how much your view of things change between different angles. When you have the bigger picture, sure, you know everything, but you miss details, and after all isin't the road more important than the destination?
When you take your time viewing details, the more you look the more you will see, and the more you will know. But you need to let your mind wander...not bind it...nor guide it...just let it float away...into the little river...in the pond...in the fox running parallel to them now. But unfortunatly as soon as you realise your doing this, your mind rushes back to its prison, leaving many little details behind, but keeping a few.
Some less important, some more, but in the end only they will matter as you will be forced to forget the others. The road you chose, when faced with choices, separates itself from the others when your past them. There are no bad choices...what makes them bad in your view is when you don't adapt and they run over you. »
« Thats a very deep thought for one to ponder in a train. Though I wouldn't expect less from you » remarked a voice, neutral at first, then thoughtful and teasing.
Startled, but hiding it quickly, Lily turned to Remus, who was sitting in the seat beside her. The book he had been reading was sitting in his lap. He was dressed in Hogwarts robes, though you could see from the openning into the aforementionned robes that he was wearing a dark blue shirt and black slack jeans.
When did he get in here...
« Copycat » she accused teasingly, nodding to his pants and then to hers when he raised an eyebrow in confusion. Looking at his pants, then at hers, he smiled an apolegletic smile, before asking her why she was thinking about things like that, when yesterday she hadn't seemed a very profound type.
Excuse me? Where did he learn tact...
« Well, Remus my dear, if you must know... » was the draggy reply, full of accents and rolled r's. « I suppose it has to do with my terribly poetic soul...not one thought goes bye unexplored nor unexplained, and, I must always do much explaining to less...theoricly gifted minds. »
« Really, many thoughts? It must be quite embarassing when thinking red- like to exclaim out loud your many thoughts? » the smooth voice clearly contained a smirk and a side-long glance, but, refusing to look into the creamy brown eyes she was sure were laughing at her, she shot back with a reply of her own.
« Clearly I was true in my thoughts when I pondered the attitude and expression you displayed, you are nought but a merchant son by blood my dear, and well deserving.. » She was cut short by Remus exclaiming.
« Well-deserving! Well Milady, though I must say I'm tempted, I must refuse for the sake of your poor young and foolish heart. Who knows what bad influence it could take from such activities? » the teasing was now highly present, along with fake regret and when Lily turned back to Remus from the window she had been rolling her eyes at, she noticed his three friends were in the room now to.
James was sitting the same way as she had been before, except his feet were definatly not on his suitcase, Sirius was leaning against the doorframe, amused brown eyes sparkling with mischeif. Peter was sitting politly by James, arms crossed on his chest and looking quite uncomfortable.
Deciding to ignore the not-so-subtle hints from Remus, who was clearly expecting a slap though it would be more like a punch if she was really willing to hurt such a yummy face, Lily decided to make a classy departure.
« I was saying you are well-deserving of my pity which you undoubtly have aquired by your desperate attempt to get laid. »
Oh well. So much about not aknowledging his comment. After all, in a battle of wit, all was permited as long as it wasn't in a straight line.
Suddently, Black was standing waving around in a way that managed to stay dignified while you got the impression that anyone else acting like him would look desperate. « And the medal of bronze for the Wittyiest girl in the compartement goes to... »
« There only one girl here Sirius, it's pretty obvious who will win. » drawled James, looking like the picture of knowledge itself.
You look and sound like a cute little bookworm James.
Lily told her thought on James's attitude to the room, and was rewarded by a snort of dismay from James. To that, Lily started laughing and James in an attempt to make her pay got up and tried to grab her. Lily moved just in time, and James ran after her trying to catch Lily.
Lily was laughing so hard she had no strenght and was obviously losing, while James was grinning as he pushed Lily down on a seat and mercylessly tickled her until she was running short on air. After all, thought Lily, he isin't that bad when he's sober.
« Okay, silence in the courtroom, I must announce the winner! »
Blank stares directed towards Sirius.
« Yeah » added Peter « It's as important as a murder case or something eh? »
Same blank stares, though you could feel they weren't as easy-going as they had been with Sirius, not as obviously funny.
Peter was now the object of the stares, and even though Lily, Sirius and a fraction of a second later Remus and James turned away and waited for the announcement, you could feel the awkardness was in everybodys minds.
« Ok...so the wityiest girl here is... »
« Hey wait! Theres only one girl here its no fair! » James's insulted shout was met with contradicting responses.
From Sirius « Don't worry Prongs, when we finally figure out what's your special category we will inform you. »
From Remus « It's ok I'm sure Sirius wouldn't dare put himself in the contest to, after all organisers cannot participate, even when they qualify. »
From Lily « Chill Jamesy, I promess Ill give you a fair competition, I wouldn't dream of paying Sirius to win . »
Sirius and James, both equally insulted, sulked until Remus payed each a chocolate frog and Lily granted them a kiss on the cheek. Of course Sirius turned a second before she was to kiss him, so she got his lips instead of his cheek. But who's to say she didn't anticipate it? And as for James he gave her one on the cheek to for good measure.
« Okay! So, now that we have all sorted out the fact that only Remus is gay, I wi »
« Hey! I wouldn't talk mister 10 second kiss with Adams for a dare! » To illustrate his point Remus named an impressing number of girls with which he had supposedly went out, saying that if he wasn't in girls than neither was Sirius. After about five minutes, Lily asked if they could get on with the contest, it was after all the highlight of the day. Sirius finally finished the announcement he had started an hour ago.
« Okay! » snigers from everyone, then Lily and James calm down leaving Sirius trying to stop laughing. Ten minutes later he tried again. « The winner of this bloody riduculous contest is Lily. End of story. » Lily jumped up and started her winner speech.
« I would like to thank Remus, for suffering through my scathing combacks » coughya rightcough « Sirius for being such a wonderful organiser as usual » What? « And Potter and Pettigrew for being endless sources of laughter for me, even though I only met James about thirty hours ago. Thank you, thank you, god don't bless you. » she finished, miming an imaginary tear.
« Hey where did Peter go? »
After Sirius' question, everybody looked around and noticed Peter was indeed gone. Feeling guilt creep up on her, Lily tried to exorcise it the best she could by taking his defence.
Maybe I should apologise to him...but no. He went to Hogwarts before me, He'd have to suffer a lot to make it up to me. Even though he didn't do it on purpose...
« You know guys, we sort of should of been nicer to him. Like try to talk and include him in our conversations and stuff...I don't know. Something. »
« Ya I suppose...but we've been taking care of him since first year, he's used to being the odd one out. It sucks to say it, but he just doesn't fit in with us. We can't really fake it. »
« Ya were boys, it's not in our nature. » Remus' smartass comment received a well-deserved smack behind the head, before the group decided to move onto more intresting things. Namely lunch since it was now one thirty, and they had been gone five hours already without eating.
They all sat down on the floor Remus put all theyre bags on the benches. The boys pulled candy out of their bags, Remus seemed to be in more for chocolates, while Sirius and James liked well...anything with sugar in it.
« Chose something. » offered James, almost daring her to touch the sour candies, piled up in front of his crossed legs.
Picking here and there, she was surprised to see that when she oppenned her vampire veins, red liquid (strawberry flavored) squirted out from her first bite. She must of jumped at least a foot, because Sirius looked at her, mischief making his eyes shine, and told her that it was magicked to behave like that. Apparently only James had normal candy and he offered her some.
As the afternoon dragged on, Lily found herself thinking that none of the boys were superior to another, they all had special things about them, but they were all incredible. James was more the casual type, he was only concerned when the others werent paying attention, and he was quite smart, a joker borned. He liked to talk about crazy theories, like why were there no stiped or doted smarties, he was also from the muggle world and caught all her jokes and references.
Sirius was the most concerned of the three. He was nice, always charming to everyone, though he had wit he never crossed lines, only teased to tease, not for more reasons. He had a sadness in his eyes though when he looked away. Much like the one she figured she had when she slept. He was the one she felt the most emotionnaly closed to now. Now and then he would come up with a comment so deep...she felt she could melt right there and then.
Remus was the most paradoxal of all. He teased and hinted, all about mistery and subtility, full of principles, and she could with him for ages about anything, he had an opinion and was ready to learn and explore new things, views and theorys. He was open, yet he seemed to draw back into darkness sometimes. Thats why she felt so connected to him...he was like her. With Remus she felt that someday she could just go to him and be sad freely.
Of course the issue that they were all hot, wonderful boys was there, but being from a muggle highschool, she had grown up knowing it was possible to be friends with a guy when your a girl. You just had to...let it go. Ya so, its a guy, what does it matter? In Lily's mind, if she ended up going out with one of them, then hell she'd be happy and worry then. Even so, probably not.
But strangly enough, though they knew lots of things about everybody elses past, they knew nothing of the present. Neither did she. She knew their name. Go figure what year they were in. Ah well, anyway the ride was coming to an end, they had announced students should prepare to unboard about fifteen minutes ago, and all her things were packed and ready.
The train stopped to a halt in front of a red building, Lily took her bags, her purse and her walkman, and again she found herself accompanied by music when she unboarded the train, the soft rythm of the Beatles with her as she walked towards the first year signs hovering in the air. When the sign started backing away into a small path, she followed the other first years and because of the song Yesterday taking her back to the sadness and aprehension she had forgotten, she didn't hear the boys' worried questionning about where she was heading.
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Before jealousy could creep up on her she had picked up a book at random from her bag and found herself immersed in elementry spells level one, not even feeling it when the train left the station, latin words mixing with the lyrics from the song she listened to.
Those incantations were truly intresting...Lily supposed that elementry words like fire and water and flight and stuff was for what the spell dealt with...and the rest of the spell to precise what it should do. Her old walkman seemed stuck on the Led Zepelin side but she simply couldn't bring herself to to change the tape herself. It would mean leaving the pecular train of thoughts you take when understanding a problem. And plus it wasn't as if the songs weren't good.
It had been about three hours since the train had left the station, and her back and legs were feeling it, considering she had taken to herself to organize her bags in a way to make them take as less space as possible.
She was sitting by the window with her legs propped on her suitcase, bags at her feet, purse by the window and her personnel space clearly identified to anyone who couldve stepped in the compartment. Convinient as this position was, any way of sitting becomes uncomfortable after three hours, and though the standard book of spells volume 2 was dead intresting, it was hard to consentrate while your back is suffering.
She had gotten through the standard book of spells1 and the Transfiguration book pretty easily, managing to turn a hair pin into a match pretty quickly, same for making her suitcase levitate, though she had nearly heard her heartrate go up when she her feet were dragged with the suitcase and her head nearly hitting the chair. Smart thing it wouldve been, getting a concussion on you first our at school.
The Defense Against the Dark Art material was mostly theoric, because practical exercises weren't very popular in the first year. Potion seemed the magical equivalent of chemistry, though it didn't seem to have laws as neatly defined as the muggle side of the science of mixing, Lily felt a definite connection with the subject.
Herbology seemed too specialized at first to be a obligatory class, but after seeing how vague the potion class was going to be, she figured she needed it greatly. The only things in the book however, were pictures and names, pretty useless in her opinion. How the teacher could teach like this, she didn't know.
« I undertand pretty good, I probably won't need all that half or year to do it. » thought Lily, stretching and hearing her back crack several times before putting away the book and proceeding into looking out of the window, into the beautiful horizon painted in a rectangle.
She started whispering to herself, as she always did when thinking about these sort of things.
« Perspective is everything, and it's surprising how much your view of things change between different angles. When you have the bigger picture, sure, you know everything, but you miss details, and after all isin't the road more important than the destination?
When you take your time viewing details, the more you look the more you will see, and the more you will know. But you need to let your mind wander...not bind it...nor guide it...just let it float away...into the little river...in the pond...in the fox running parallel to them now. But unfortunatly as soon as you realise your doing this, your mind rushes back to its prison, leaving many little details behind, but keeping a few.
Some less important, some more, but in the end only they will matter as you will be forced to forget the others. The road you chose, when faced with choices, separates itself from the others when your past them. There are no bad choices...what makes them bad in your view is when you don't adapt and they run over you. »
« Thats a very deep thought for one to ponder in a train. Though I wouldn't expect less from you » remarked a voice, neutral at first, then thoughtful and teasing.
Startled, but hiding it quickly, Lily turned to Remus, who was sitting in the seat beside her. The book he had been reading was sitting in his lap. He was dressed in Hogwarts robes, though you could see from the openning into the aforementionned robes that he was wearing a dark blue shirt and black slack jeans.
When did he get in here...
« Copycat » she accused teasingly, nodding to his pants and then to hers when he raised an eyebrow in confusion. Looking at his pants, then at hers, he smiled an apolegletic smile, before asking her why she was thinking about things like that, when yesterday she hadn't seemed a very profound type.
Excuse me? Where did he learn tact...
« Well, Remus my dear, if you must know... » was the draggy reply, full of accents and rolled r's. « I suppose it has to do with my terribly poetic soul...not one thought goes bye unexplored nor unexplained, and, I must always do much explaining to less...theoricly gifted minds. »
« Really, many thoughts? It must be quite embarassing when thinking red- like to exclaim out loud your many thoughts? » the smooth voice clearly contained a smirk and a side-long glance, but, refusing to look into the creamy brown eyes she was sure were laughing at her, she shot back with a reply of her own.
« Clearly I was true in my thoughts when I pondered the attitude and expression you displayed, you are nought but a merchant son by blood my dear, and well deserving.. » She was cut short by Remus exclaiming.
« Well-deserving! Well Milady, though I must say I'm tempted, I must refuse for the sake of your poor young and foolish heart. Who knows what bad influence it could take from such activities? » the teasing was now highly present, along with fake regret and when Lily turned back to Remus from the window she had been rolling her eyes at, she noticed his three friends were in the room now to.
James was sitting the same way as she had been before, except his feet were definatly not on his suitcase, Sirius was leaning against the doorframe, amused brown eyes sparkling with mischeif. Peter was sitting politly by James, arms crossed on his chest and looking quite uncomfortable.
Deciding to ignore the not-so-subtle hints from Remus, who was clearly expecting a slap though it would be more like a punch if she was really willing to hurt such a yummy face, Lily decided to make a classy departure.
« I was saying you are well-deserving of my pity which you undoubtly have aquired by your desperate attempt to get laid. »
Oh well. So much about not aknowledging his comment. After all, in a battle of wit, all was permited as long as it wasn't in a straight line.
Suddently, Black was standing waving around in a way that managed to stay dignified while you got the impression that anyone else acting like him would look desperate. « And the medal of bronze for the Wittyiest girl in the compartement goes to... »
« There only one girl here Sirius, it's pretty obvious who will win. » drawled James, looking like the picture of knowledge itself.
You look and sound like a cute little bookworm James.
Lily told her thought on James's attitude to the room, and was rewarded by a snort of dismay from James. To that, Lily started laughing and James in an attempt to make her pay got up and tried to grab her. Lily moved just in time, and James ran after her trying to catch Lily.
Lily was laughing so hard she had no strenght and was obviously losing, while James was grinning as he pushed Lily down on a seat and mercylessly tickled her until she was running short on air. After all, thought Lily, he isin't that bad when he's sober.
« Okay, silence in the courtroom, I must announce the winner! »
Blank stares directed towards Sirius.
« Yeah » added Peter « It's as important as a murder case or something eh? »
Same blank stares, though you could feel they weren't as easy-going as they had been with Sirius, not as obviously funny.
Peter was now the object of the stares, and even though Lily, Sirius and a fraction of a second later Remus and James turned away and waited for the announcement, you could feel the awkardness was in everybodys minds.
« Ok...so the wityiest girl here is... »
« Hey wait! Theres only one girl here its no fair! » James's insulted shout was met with contradicting responses.
From Sirius « Don't worry Prongs, when we finally figure out what's your special category we will inform you. »
From Remus « It's ok I'm sure Sirius wouldn't dare put himself in the contest to, after all organisers cannot participate, even when they qualify. »
From Lily « Chill Jamesy, I promess Ill give you a fair competition, I wouldn't dream of paying Sirius to win . »
Sirius and James, both equally insulted, sulked until Remus payed each a chocolate frog and Lily granted them a kiss on the cheek. Of course Sirius turned a second before she was to kiss him, so she got his lips instead of his cheek. But who's to say she didn't anticipate it? And as for James he gave her one on the cheek to for good measure.
« Okay! So, now that we have all sorted out the fact that only Remus is gay, I wi »
« Hey! I wouldn't talk mister 10 second kiss with Adams for a dare! » To illustrate his point Remus named an impressing number of girls with which he had supposedly went out, saying that if he wasn't in girls than neither was Sirius. After about five minutes, Lily asked if they could get on with the contest, it was after all the highlight of the day. Sirius finally finished the announcement he had started an hour ago.
« Okay! » snigers from everyone, then Lily and James calm down leaving Sirius trying to stop laughing. Ten minutes later he tried again. « The winner of this bloody riduculous contest is Lily. End of story. » Lily jumped up and started her winner speech.
« I would like to thank Remus, for suffering through my scathing combacks » coughya rightcough « Sirius for being such a wonderful organiser as usual » What? « And Potter and Pettigrew for being endless sources of laughter for me, even though I only met James about thirty hours ago. Thank you, thank you, god don't bless you. » she finished, miming an imaginary tear.
« Hey where did Peter go? »
After Sirius' question, everybody looked around and noticed Peter was indeed gone. Feeling guilt creep up on her, Lily tried to exorcise it the best she could by taking his defence.
Maybe I should apologise to him...but no. He went to Hogwarts before me, He'd have to suffer a lot to make it up to me. Even though he didn't do it on purpose...
« You know guys, we sort of should of been nicer to him. Like try to talk and include him in our conversations and stuff...I don't know. Something. »
« Ya I suppose...but we've been taking care of him since first year, he's used to being the odd one out. It sucks to say it, but he just doesn't fit in with us. We can't really fake it. »
« Ya were boys, it's not in our nature. » Remus' smartass comment received a well-deserved smack behind the head, before the group decided to move onto more intresting things. Namely lunch since it was now one thirty, and they had been gone five hours already without eating.
They all sat down on the floor Remus put all theyre bags on the benches. The boys pulled candy out of their bags, Remus seemed to be in more for chocolates, while Sirius and James liked well...anything with sugar in it.
« Chose something. » offered James, almost daring her to touch the sour candies, piled up in front of his crossed legs.
Picking here and there, she was surprised to see that when she oppenned her vampire veins, red liquid (strawberry flavored) squirted out from her first bite. She must of jumped at least a foot, because Sirius looked at her, mischief making his eyes shine, and told her that it was magicked to behave like that. Apparently only James had normal candy and he offered her some.
As the afternoon dragged on, Lily found herself thinking that none of the boys were superior to another, they all had special things about them, but they were all incredible. James was more the casual type, he was only concerned when the others werent paying attention, and he was quite smart, a joker borned. He liked to talk about crazy theories, like why were there no stiped or doted smarties, he was also from the muggle world and caught all her jokes and references.
Sirius was the most concerned of the three. He was nice, always charming to everyone, though he had wit he never crossed lines, only teased to tease, not for more reasons. He had a sadness in his eyes though when he looked away. Much like the one she figured she had when she slept. He was the one she felt the most emotionnaly closed to now. Now and then he would come up with a comment so deep...she felt she could melt right there and then.
Remus was the most paradoxal of all. He teased and hinted, all about mistery and subtility, full of principles, and she could with him for ages about anything, he had an opinion and was ready to learn and explore new things, views and theorys. He was open, yet he seemed to draw back into darkness sometimes. Thats why she felt so connected to him...he was like her. With Remus she felt that someday she could just go to him and be sad freely.
Of course the issue that they were all hot, wonderful boys was there, but being from a muggle highschool, she had grown up knowing it was possible to be friends with a guy when your a girl. You just had to...let it go. Ya so, its a guy, what does it matter? In Lily's mind, if she ended up going out with one of them, then hell she'd be happy and worry then. Even so, probably not.
But strangly enough, though they knew lots of things about everybody elses past, they knew nothing of the present. Neither did she. She knew their name. Go figure what year they were in. Ah well, anyway the ride was coming to an end, they had announced students should prepare to unboard about fifteen minutes ago, and all her things were packed and ready.
The train stopped to a halt in front of a red building, Lily took her bags, her purse and her walkman, and again she found herself accompanied by music when she unboarded the train, the soft rythm of the Beatles with her as she walked towards the first year signs hovering in the air. When the sign started backing away into a small path, she followed the other first years and because of the song Yesterday taking her back to the sadness and aprehension she had forgotten, she didn't hear the boys' worried questionning about where she was heading.
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