Song is mine!!! The hat song. It came out pretty easily strangely
enough...angsty stuff always insipire me..go figure :)
Disclaimer : This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
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.
Lily found herself pushed forward by a crowd of nervous eleven year olds, and considering the mood she was in after coming to the realisation that they would be her classmates didn't help her sympathise. Sure, they had the right to be nervous, but damn it, couldn't they advance and shut up!
« Hey look red-head, I don't know you but you already annoy me, get out of my way, shut up and I might give you a kiss » said a blond kid, answering her apparently loud question.
How the heck does he have the right to be so cocky when he's two years younger than me! A kiss? The little..?
« Note to self, get aWay from blue-eyed cocky young bastards. » muttered Lily.
« Yeah he really thinks he's someone else hey? Hes so cocky and full of himself! » feircely replied a girl about her height, with black hair cut straight at her shoulders and a pretty face dotted by a couple of freckles. Her incredibly light blue eyes shadowed by long black lashes made her look like a goddess of some sort. Incredibly pure for some, but for Lily she looked like the picture of lady death herself.
Which didn't mean she didn't look pure. Her eyes managed to look sad and innocent at the same time, her full lips didn't seem used to smilling, but when she did it was like a little secret. She looked like she could be fourteen, but she couldn't possibly be reasonned Lily, though she sounded mature as one.
« I'm Lily Evans. » smiled Lily to the girl, now walking with her along the wide path made of earth.
« Andromeda Black » replied the girl with a smile, looking away in an almost resentfull way.
« Black...sounds familiar. So whos that jerk? Your brother? »
« Half cousin, but we really don't consider ourselves relatives. How d'you guess? Normally I wouldn't of hung out with him but since we don't know anyone...well I'm stuck with him. I just hope were not in the same house, that way I could get a life away from him you know? » Resignation clouded her words.
« The wisarding community is a small place I thought, how come you don't know anyone? » she asked, while the little group led by the sign of first year turned from the small trail they had taken a ten minutes before into a little beach where waited ten boats floating peacefully on a small lake, which was surrounded by a forest.
Lily could see beautiful spots for thinking and reading and just listening to music that she hadn't had the luxury to have back in town. On the other side of the lake, was a cliff on top of which sat a imposing castle, the school presumed Lily.
You could see glimpses of the main road they had left after the train being cut by a massive fence before it continued up a smooth hill to the castle doors. There seemed to be large grounds owned by the casle, you couldn't see the bottom of the castle from their view.
Karine took Lily to a boat, before sitting in and looking around in childish awe. Hold old could she be...ah well. She quicly dismissed the thought to go back to staring around at the beauty and magnificience of the little haven they were seeing. It was only when Karine's brother and another girl joined their boat, that Lily noticed Karine hadn't answered her question.
The girl looked slightly scared at the majesty of the place, her big brown eyes looking around and seeming overpowered. She had brown straight hair going to her middle back, and glasses which gave her a shy and pretty bookworm air.
She was pretty, shy, and seemed like someone smart, true, but her words when Karine's brother put his arm around her waist and moved up fastly spoke of strong spirit.
« Don't you dare go any higher if you want to keep those filthy fingers of yours. And take you arm back to yourself, I can smell something foul and I wouldn't want to be sick. » The low voice, almost a growl, spoke the words neutrally and her owner didn't take her eyes off the majestic castle during the interlude.
Now Lily could see she wasn't scared or intimidated, she was simply intrested and was evaluating something. What it was, she couldn't know, but she had to leave those thoughts when the annoying guy sitting with them moved his attention to her.
« You seem like a big girl, your sure you don't want me to..um..teach you to put that temper to better use? » Before Lily could push the insolent and perverse kid overbord, Karine took matters into her own hands.
« Amos Diggory you insufferable bitch stop hitting onto every single warm- blooded creature you see. Your eleven for christ sake! »
« Ya well so are you, but you still go out with guys older than you! And heck, you don't even say your real name! They divorced Karine, get over it. Your no Black anymore, your a Diggory. Face it and accept it. »
The new girl couldn't seem to take anymore, because she abruptly turned to him. « GOING OUT! Not hitting on, not harassing, not perversly sticking around every guy in sight, going out! So shut the hell up before I push you overbord. »
« And don't expect me or your sister to help you out of the cold, dark and dirty water. » warned Lily, getting aproving looks from the other two girls.
« Ah come on ladys, don't get touchy now. On the other hand... »
And that did it, the girl pushed him away from her, Lily kicked him into the chest breaking his balance and Karine pulled the last straw, tilting the boat his way making him fall backwards into the water. Lily took the liberty of yelling after him that it should cool him down, the girls agreeing and cracking up as the boat entered the cliff through an oppening.
Lily checked out the bottom and saw there were no rocks in the water, it was strangely clear now that she consentrated, and she could see the bottom close to the cliff a good five meters down going downhill into darkness about two meters in the open. So no rocks in the bottom...you could jump and survive to tell the tale then.
She stopped laughing as the others did, and they looked back seeing Amos being pulled out by another boat. Looking more closely at the boat, she saw with surprise and puzzlement it contained the four guys she had hung out during the ride.
Had they followed her?
They couldn't possibly be first years! Well if she wasn't an exception then sure they could be in the same program.
« Hey I'm Kathy Patil, first year obviously. Your Karine Black, but who are you? » asked the brown-haired girl nodding to Lily.
« Lily Karine Evans. Nice to meet someone with as good judgement as me. » Lily winked at the girl as she said this, pointing towards the lake where they had thrown Amos.
The boats, they noticed, were currently lined across a rised rock platform, and the kids were disembarking. The girls followed suit, and started commenting on various things, the castle, the ride etc.
After about five minutes, a man about thirty years of age, handsome in an old way walked in. Everybody immidiatly shut up, the man was slightly intimidating.
« Firstly, I would like to welcome you all to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wisardry. I am the transfiguration professer, and also the assistant headmaster. I know you are all wondering how you will be sorted, which house you will go in and so on. Well this will happen in a few minutes, but before we proceed, I would like to tell you that when the feast is over »
(various oh's and ah's from the group of children)
« Yes there is a feast. So after it, you will follow the children from your own table, and they will guide you to your dormitories. The rest will be explained by prefects after you are inside your tower. Now follow me. »
The group walked after the teacher, into a series of stone hallways brightly lit by torches on the walls. As the hallways widthened, paintings appeared on the walls. Living paintings. « Under the bed, just under the bed kay? » thought Lily.
They finally stopped in front of a small door, and with a ceremonial air the teacher oppened it. One after the other, they stepped into it and never came back. Logically, for it wouldve been quite illogical to come back. When her turn came, Lily walked in, expecting a small room or another hallway considering the small door.
A vast hall greated her instead. She looked quickly around and went to sit on the bench beside the wall where the others were. As the other kids filed in, she looked around. Four long tables lined with black robe wearing kids were in it, and though the bench was at the same level as everything else, it seemed as though they were looking from a different height.
Odd, thought Lily.
What is odder though, is where this light is coming from... She looked up and saw candles, thousands of them, yes, but also the night sky, billions of shinning stars winking at her from their faraways spots. She could see the foundations of the roof if she concentrated, but if she drifted away she could only see the brilliant stars.
Looking away, Lily noticed for the first time how much she stood out. No wonder the kids at the tables were glancing at her all the time. She was wearing black robes on her shirt and jeans, but she still had her purse, and with heads only standing out because of all the black, her red hair and her earphones stood out.
By accident, the girl beside her leaned against her purse, causing the discman it contained to turn on. Luckily, the volume was down, but still she could hear the faint sound of the bring it on soundtrack singing sweet cherry pie to her ears.
She made a move to turn it off, but before she could the transfiguration teacher and the headmaster had settled down, and there were stating intently at a stool on which was placed a battered wizard hat.
And then the hat had a tear.
And then it had profoundess outlining eyes.
And then it was singing.
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In this school you just entered.
Sleep many important things.
Some of which you never heard.
Some of which generations sings.
Through four ways you will learn.
Each has its good, each has its bad.
But each of them, respect has earned.
To underestimate them, you should be mad.
Of power and wit, Slytherin so great.
Prides independance and words among all.
Submission and laziness, are enemys you will hate.
If you enter this house of Pride.
Of wit and courage, Griffindor so brave.
Prefers challenges and adventure, to lectures and rules.
Smart, witty and brave, some forget to behave.
But good people to the heart, they reward Courage.
Of courage and knowledge, Ravenclaw so thoughtful.
Reading, Learning, Words and Theorys rule this house.
Of thoughtful courage and brave thoughts they are full.
The most important thing to them is Freedom.
Of knowledge and good heart, Hufflepuff so grand.
Nature, Learning and Spirit, they are good and bright.
Calm, Intelligence and goodness is at hand.
In this house of thoughts, dreams and Spirit.
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Review?
Disclaimer : This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
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.
Lily found herself pushed forward by a crowd of nervous eleven year olds, and considering the mood she was in after coming to the realisation that they would be her classmates didn't help her sympathise. Sure, they had the right to be nervous, but damn it, couldn't they advance and shut up!
« Hey look red-head, I don't know you but you already annoy me, get out of my way, shut up and I might give you a kiss » said a blond kid, answering her apparently loud question.
How the heck does he have the right to be so cocky when he's two years younger than me! A kiss? The little..?
« Note to self, get aWay from blue-eyed cocky young bastards. » muttered Lily.
« Yeah he really thinks he's someone else hey? Hes so cocky and full of himself! » feircely replied a girl about her height, with black hair cut straight at her shoulders and a pretty face dotted by a couple of freckles. Her incredibly light blue eyes shadowed by long black lashes made her look like a goddess of some sort. Incredibly pure for some, but for Lily she looked like the picture of lady death herself.
Which didn't mean she didn't look pure. Her eyes managed to look sad and innocent at the same time, her full lips didn't seem used to smilling, but when she did it was like a little secret. She looked like she could be fourteen, but she couldn't possibly be reasonned Lily, though she sounded mature as one.
« I'm Lily Evans. » smiled Lily to the girl, now walking with her along the wide path made of earth.
« Andromeda Black » replied the girl with a smile, looking away in an almost resentfull way.
« Black...sounds familiar. So whos that jerk? Your brother? »
« Half cousin, but we really don't consider ourselves relatives. How d'you guess? Normally I wouldn't of hung out with him but since we don't know anyone...well I'm stuck with him. I just hope were not in the same house, that way I could get a life away from him you know? » Resignation clouded her words.
« The wisarding community is a small place I thought, how come you don't know anyone? » she asked, while the little group led by the sign of first year turned from the small trail they had taken a ten minutes before into a little beach where waited ten boats floating peacefully on a small lake, which was surrounded by a forest.
Lily could see beautiful spots for thinking and reading and just listening to music that she hadn't had the luxury to have back in town. On the other side of the lake, was a cliff on top of which sat a imposing castle, the school presumed Lily.
You could see glimpses of the main road they had left after the train being cut by a massive fence before it continued up a smooth hill to the castle doors. There seemed to be large grounds owned by the casle, you couldn't see the bottom of the castle from their view.
Karine took Lily to a boat, before sitting in and looking around in childish awe. Hold old could she be...ah well. She quicly dismissed the thought to go back to staring around at the beauty and magnificience of the little haven they were seeing. It was only when Karine's brother and another girl joined their boat, that Lily noticed Karine hadn't answered her question.
The girl looked slightly scared at the majesty of the place, her big brown eyes looking around and seeming overpowered. She had brown straight hair going to her middle back, and glasses which gave her a shy and pretty bookworm air.
She was pretty, shy, and seemed like someone smart, true, but her words when Karine's brother put his arm around her waist and moved up fastly spoke of strong spirit.
« Don't you dare go any higher if you want to keep those filthy fingers of yours. And take you arm back to yourself, I can smell something foul and I wouldn't want to be sick. » The low voice, almost a growl, spoke the words neutrally and her owner didn't take her eyes off the majestic castle during the interlude.
Now Lily could see she wasn't scared or intimidated, she was simply intrested and was evaluating something. What it was, she couldn't know, but she had to leave those thoughts when the annoying guy sitting with them moved his attention to her.
« You seem like a big girl, your sure you don't want me to..um..teach you to put that temper to better use? » Before Lily could push the insolent and perverse kid overbord, Karine took matters into her own hands.
« Amos Diggory you insufferable bitch stop hitting onto every single warm- blooded creature you see. Your eleven for christ sake! »
« Ya well so are you, but you still go out with guys older than you! And heck, you don't even say your real name! They divorced Karine, get over it. Your no Black anymore, your a Diggory. Face it and accept it. »
The new girl couldn't seem to take anymore, because she abruptly turned to him. « GOING OUT! Not hitting on, not harassing, not perversly sticking around every guy in sight, going out! So shut the hell up before I push you overbord. »
« And don't expect me or your sister to help you out of the cold, dark and dirty water. » warned Lily, getting aproving looks from the other two girls.
« Ah come on ladys, don't get touchy now. On the other hand... »
And that did it, the girl pushed him away from her, Lily kicked him into the chest breaking his balance and Karine pulled the last straw, tilting the boat his way making him fall backwards into the water. Lily took the liberty of yelling after him that it should cool him down, the girls agreeing and cracking up as the boat entered the cliff through an oppening.
Lily checked out the bottom and saw there were no rocks in the water, it was strangely clear now that she consentrated, and she could see the bottom close to the cliff a good five meters down going downhill into darkness about two meters in the open. So no rocks in the bottom...you could jump and survive to tell the tale then.
She stopped laughing as the others did, and they looked back seeing Amos being pulled out by another boat. Looking more closely at the boat, she saw with surprise and puzzlement it contained the four guys she had hung out during the ride.
Had they followed her?
They couldn't possibly be first years! Well if she wasn't an exception then sure they could be in the same program.
« Hey I'm Kathy Patil, first year obviously. Your Karine Black, but who are you? » asked the brown-haired girl nodding to Lily.
« Lily Karine Evans. Nice to meet someone with as good judgement as me. » Lily winked at the girl as she said this, pointing towards the lake where they had thrown Amos.
The boats, they noticed, were currently lined across a rised rock platform, and the kids were disembarking. The girls followed suit, and started commenting on various things, the castle, the ride etc.
After about five minutes, a man about thirty years of age, handsome in an old way walked in. Everybody immidiatly shut up, the man was slightly intimidating.
« Firstly, I would like to welcome you all to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wisardry. I am the transfiguration professer, and also the assistant headmaster. I know you are all wondering how you will be sorted, which house you will go in and so on. Well this will happen in a few minutes, but before we proceed, I would like to tell you that when the feast is over »
(various oh's and ah's from the group of children)
« Yes there is a feast. So after it, you will follow the children from your own table, and they will guide you to your dormitories. The rest will be explained by prefects after you are inside your tower. Now follow me. »
The group walked after the teacher, into a series of stone hallways brightly lit by torches on the walls. As the hallways widthened, paintings appeared on the walls. Living paintings. « Under the bed, just under the bed kay? » thought Lily.
They finally stopped in front of a small door, and with a ceremonial air the teacher oppened it. One after the other, they stepped into it and never came back. Logically, for it wouldve been quite illogical to come back. When her turn came, Lily walked in, expecting a small room or another hallway considering the small door.
A vast hall greated her instead. She looked quickly around and went to sit on the bench beside the wall where the others were. As the other kids filed in, she looked around. Four long tables lined with black robe wearing kids were in it, and though the bench was at the same level as everything else, it seemed as though they were looking from a different height.
Odd, thought Lily.
What is odder though, is where this light is coming from... She looked up and saw candles, thousands of them, yes, but also the night sky, billions of shinning stars winking at her from their faraways spots. She could see the foundations of the roof if she concentrated, but if she drifted away she could only see the brilliant stars.
Looking away, Lily noticed for the first time how much she stood out. No wonder the kids at the tables were glancing at her all the time. She was wearing black robes on her shirt and jeans, but she still had her purse, and with heads only standing out because of all the black, her red hair and her earphones stood out.
By accident, the girl beside her leaned against her purse, causing the discman it contained to turn on. Luckily, the volume was down, but still she could hear the faint sound of the bring it on soundtrack singing sweet cherry pie to her ears.
She made a move to turn it off, but before she could the transfiguration teacher and the headmaster had settled down, and there were stating intently at a stool on which was placed a battered wizard hat.
And then the hat had a tear.
And then it had profoundess outlining eyes.
And then it was singing.
----------------------
In this school you just entered.
Sleep many important things.
Some of which you never heard.
Some of which generations sings.
Through four ways you will learn.
Each has its good, each has its bad.
But each of them, respect has earned.
To underestimate them, you should be mad.
Of power and wit, Slytherin so great.
Prides independance and words among all.
Submission and laziness, are enemys you will hate.
If you enter this house of Pride.
Of wit and courage, Griffindor so brave.
Prefers challenges and adventure, to lectures and rules.
Smart, witty and brave, some forget to behave.
But good people to the heart, they reward Courage.
Of courage and knowledge, Ravenclaw so thoughtful.
Reading, Learning, Words and Theorys rule this house.
Of thoughtful courage and brave thoughts they are full.
The most important thing to them is Freedom.
Of knowledge and good heart, Hufflepuff so grand.
Nature, Learning and Spirit, they are good and bright.
Calm, Intelligence and goodness is at hand.
In this house of thoughts, dreams and Spirit.
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