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Narcissa Grace looked nicer from this percpective, she looked like she was nice to be around. Melissa Parkinson wasn't exacly what you?d call stunning, but she had an air of mischief about her that made you want to talk to her. They started talking about the roof, and soon the five of them were in deep conversation over everything and anything. Sadly, it was past one in the morning and there was school the next morning, Dippet pointed out who to follow for each house, and wished them all goodnight. "There's this place around the lake, it looks like a mini cliff, its quite easy to spot but kind of hard to get to. You guys wanna meet there tomorrow? Say..after classes, at around four? " proposed Narcissa, and everybody agreed. They said goodbye, and Kathy and Lily got up and jogged to follow the Griffindors. As they exited, you could hear and see students falling back onto they're chairs.
« They're nice hey? » Asked Lily, who was wide awake.
Kathy mumbled something, and asked who she meant.
« Narcissa and Melissa! I'm glad Karine is around nice people...did you see how freaked out she was during the sorting?! And the hat told me to stay close...dont see why i wouldnt! » Lily was still a bit lightheaded, and was quite exuberant. Noticing Kathy didnt seem to be listening to her, she poked her in the side.
« Kathy. Kathy? Kathy!!!!!. »
They walked across the entrance hall and took the stairs leading to the second floor. The walls were filled with paintings who were waving and greeting the new students and the old. Lily sneaked another peek at Kathy, who was slowing down and almost sleeping. Lily slowed down to match Kathy's pace, and didnt notice the second, then third, then fourth up to seven years going past them, until they were the last ones.
As they turned and went up another set of stairs (the fourth thought Lily) Lily noticed they were alone in a torch-lit hallway, and that she had no idea which way the Griffindors had gone. To mentally tired to be scared, she was more annoyed than anything, and cast one of the spells she had mastered at home. The spell was made to make one's wand to sprout water, and when she cast it, ten times the ammount of water expected hit Kathy, sending her against the wall.
« Well at least shes awake. » Drily commented Lily, a bit shocked at herself.
« What the bloody hell was THAT for! » Yelled Kathy, waving at herself. « Oh never mind, I would of done the same thing. Where are the rest? » Kathy dismissed her question, and looked around, searching for something she knew or recongnised.
« We lost them. I think we're on the fifth floor...though don't ask me what that means. » replied Lily.
« Hmm...well what do we do now? If we get lost...not that we aren't already lost mind you, but if we get more lost..it would suck. » Brillantly commented Kathy. « And by the way, what was that spell you used to make me freezing, shivering, ugly, wet, soaked, uncomfortable and heavy? »
Lily carefully told her, and realised too late she had just activated the spell again, and that Kathy had pointed her own wand at her face, so that she was now as wet as Kathy.
Smilling a bit, Kathy thoughtfully said. « Mmm..what and Intresting spell heh? »
Kathy gave Lily her hand, and helped her up. « Now we're even. »
« Hm. Yeah i spose. So what now? »
« I say we just wait here. What could happen? You heard Melissa, the first day of classes starts at one in the afternoon, we just sit here and tomorow we ask a griffindor how to get to the dorms. Simple as that! »
« Of course...hm. Id say this is the most likely to backfire plan in the history of our lives, but you would ask me if i have a better idea, and though i would love to say I do, i cant.» explained Lily. « So lets just do that. I get the corner! » she concluded, before running to the only corner visible in the hallway, made by an weird statue of a wizard with a bump on his back.
Too tired to protest, Kathy put her hair in a lazy bun at her neck, took off her robes and rolled them up to use as a pillow, flipped the bottom of her jeans and pulled until only her tighs were covered and dropped to the floor.
Lily just pulled her robes around herself and fell asleep leaning on the statue.
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« Sirius you bloody moron, why did you leave it lying around! »
« Firstly, none of this would be happenning if MISTER James hadnt thought necessary to write down the EXACT location of the passageways, and if MISTER Remus hadnt thought it funny to outsmart the teachers by still using this, and if MISTER Peter hadnt...agreed! »
« Hey! What the bloody hell did I do! »
« Shut up all of you, they don't know where the other exit is, they only know its a wizard with a bump. Do you know how many bloody hunchbacked statues are here? A whole lot thats how! We have enough time to get out of the passageway throught the statue, and then...go to the dorms subtly and slyly. »
« Dont you patronize me MISTER James! And why the heck arent we lighting up our wands heh? Answer that, come on go ahead! »
« Because theres a magic detection spell put on the whole school during the first 10 hours of the school year. You dont want them knowing were here do you? And i dont think we should get out right now, we should wait till its five or so, we can find a easier excuse with that. »
« ... »
« ... »
« I agree. »
« Nah. We leave now, anyways theyre all looking for the statue, or searching for us back in the dungeons. Its easier to go now. »
« We could go to honeyducks... »
« Right. Brilliant plan James really. »
« Im listing the possibilitys okay? I agree with Remus, Peter agrees with Remus, therefor we go with Remus' plan. »
« Actually I kind of agree with Sirius, they're all busy elsewhere. »
« I stick with your old plan. Peter? »
« Do whatever you want, we're screwed either way. »
« Apart from your pessimistic view of life, are there any logical reasons to make you beleive that? »
« Going to Honeyducks would be dumb because w »
« We excluded that plan. Please never speak of it again. Proceed would you? »
« Leaving tomorow would be ridiculous because we'd be bound to meet someone, and while were at it we can find a good excuse for being out of dorms now as well as at five in the morning. »
« ... »
« Heh. »
« Its not That bad of a plan... »
« Leaving now seems good, but did it ever cross your minds that they might FIND the bloody statue?! »
« No..took us three years! »
« To find the passageway James, not the statue. Actually this is an entirely different situation. »
« Sorry im not thinking straight. Well were here, Peter chose I'm not changing my mind. »
« I go with them, for the simple reason I'm tired as hell. »
« Three against one, sorry James but Sirius's plan wins. »
« Fine lets get out. NOW! Ahem. Now. »
« ... »
« ... »
« ... »
« Its not openning. Its stuck. »
« Damn. »
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Stupid idea, stupid kids, stupid statue, stupid castle so big you can't go around it fully in five hours, stupid idea to put passageways in a stupid castle so big you can't go around it fully in five hours, stpid idea, stupid kids, stupid stat »
« ... »
« Two girls out of bed on the first night, and I found the damn statue. Karma I suppose...lets wake them and bring them to Dumbledor. »
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Kathy stired a bit, and slowly got out of the foggy state she was in. The pain of her cramped muscles helped a bit. She openned her eyes, vaguely remembering having the stupid idea to sleep here, to come face to face with the caretaker.
Ohhh nooo...wheres Lily?
She looked over to the statue against which Lily had been sleeping, and saw she was waking up to. They both got up and stood rather awkwardly, not knowing what to do and waiting for someone to speak.
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« ... »
« ... »
« ...Well push, someone? »
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Many things happenned at once. First, the caretaker openned his mouth to speak. At the same moment, in the wall, four boys pushed with all their strenght agaisnt the statue, Lily said « There is a very simple explanation to our being here sir. »
True to the theory of action-reaction, what was meant to happen did. As the caretaker looked expectanly at the girls, the statue behind them moved and four boys fell on the floor of the hallway in a most undignified manner.
« I see. » Too tired to bother going to chase after Dumbledor at such an ungodly hour, the caretaker decided to punish and reward them himself.
« Ten points from griffindor each boy, and fifteen to both girls for helping with the capture of those wannabe marauders. Now go to your dorms before I change my mind and report you to your head of house. » And before I fall asleep he added in his mind.
With that he left, mind too hazy to remember where the said and detested statue was.
Still dazed from too little sleep when much more was needed, Lily and Kathy looked at the four boys, and dismissed their appearing from a bumby wizard statue.
« Take us back to the tour? » Asked Lily, carefully not mentionning they had no idea where to go or the password.
The boys all nodded, and started walking left. The girls took their things, and tiredly picked themselves up and followed. As they climbed up a stair and followed a reddish hallway, Remus fell back into step with Lily – Kathy was leaning on Sirius behind Peter and James who were leading – and started talking.
« So you helped the janitor catch us? I find that hard to beleive...your both new. And clueless. »
« Excuse me? Clueless? And no we didnt « help your capture » we were simply there because we were sicken tired of the stupidness of the other first years and decided to just sleep there. »
« Hmm. Okay. » Remus looked up from his staring at the floor and smiled a slightly smug smile at Lily from under his longish hair. Lily did a doubletake when she glanced at him, with his hands in his robes pockets which were a bit too high and that smile and those eyes and damn that hair...he looked quite dashing.
Lily turned back to staring at the floor, smiling a little to herself.
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Kathy was pushing herself up on the railing of the stairs to get up each step, and eyes only dark slits were threatening to close. Sirius was walking beside her, and subcontiously waited for her, not wanting to get too close to Peter. Their brief talk during the feast had troubled him, it was the most personal moment he'd had with Peter in the four years they had been around together.
He felt extremely bad that he had secretly thought such things about the guy, when he apparently felt only friendship towards Sirius. Annoyed at feeling an emotion he didnt control, he prefered to ignore it.
Plus the tired Kathy seemed pretty intresting, her glasses and brown dryish hair gave her an air of not giving a damn, and she wasnt too shy which was a quality he liked in a girl. Though of course he liked everything...he had yet to meet a girl he couldnt find a quality in. They said he was a womanizer...but he wasnt like that fifth year Hufflepuff or the seventh year that graduated last year, he loved the woman, everything about them.
When they reached the door to get out of the small stair they had taken to get the the sixth floor where their dorm was situated, Sirius saw and heard Kathy bump into the doorframe and then muttering a pretty impresive collection of swears, a few Sirius was sure were in another language.
He put his hand on her back and gently pushed her through the door, and when they started walking in the hallway she put her head on her shoulder and leaned on him. He thought about putting his arm around her waist, but thinking it would be taking advantage of the situation he settled for keeping his hand on her back.
Wonder why I didn't see her yet. Thought Sirius, dismissing it as they got in front of the portrait of the fat lady.
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James walked briskly, hopeing the others were following. They'd almost gotten caught. It wasnt good. And all that because Sirius and Remus wanted to tease the authority. He was all for usually, but not on the first day back, not two things on the same day, just Not now. And he was troubled, word had gotten about during the summer, a murder had happened close to Godric's Hollow, the muggles were more violent, wars were more frequant, everybody was more nervous.
Even thought it worried him, he kept it to himself, he didn't want to lose his friends or his girlfriend of seven months because he was gloomy. So he kept it hidden, even though hed been scowling in his sleep. And he could be happy, he had been in the train, and he liked the two girls, they were nice, but Lily was starting school at fourteen...it was just weird. A bit too weird.
When he got to the portrait of the fat lady he muttered the password – mugworth – that he had gotten from his girlfriend which was a prefect his year. Eve was a year older than him, but it didnt matter. They were meant to be.
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Peter wasnt brooding happier thoughts than James. He kept thinking back to the conversation in the bar, and then the indiference from Lily in the train. It wasnt his fault he had been found in time by Hogwarts! It wasnt his fault, nor Lily's, they had made a mistake, thats it. Anyways, now she was alright, so all was good. And Peter had felt so awkward in the train...because of the invisible pressure he felt, hed been acting stupidly, nothing like his usual self. Just like in muggle school...when he was being bugged and when the few times he was talked to he was clumsy.Looking back on those conversations had always made him cringe. But things were different now...or were they.
He knew Remus was a real friend..but maybe a bit out of pity. And he kept feeling he just didnt fit in with James and Sirius. So at dinner when Sirius had been depressing because his little brother had been sorted into Slytherin, he had tried to help him out, even though the others had tried, even though he was used to not doing anything in those situations. Like when Remus had told them he was a werewolf, like when James had lost his great-grandmother.
And Sirius had been about to shove him off, but he actually listned and Peter felt he had been helpful. Even if only slightly. And then he and James and even Remus had been warmer to him, nicer. But now he felt Sirius was avoiding him, and James was just scowling and not talking.
He put his thoughts back into a corner of his mind, and when they got into the dorm he just went straight to bed, saying good night to the others as they went to theyre respective dorms. Kathy went to for the first years dorm, Lily followed her. He was a bit surprised to see her go in there, but forgot about it and dropped on his bed without unpacking.
He heard the others come in, and was faintly aware of Remus taking the time to kick their trunks out of the way. Then he went to sleep and didnt wake up until the next morning.
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When they followed the boys into the portraits hole, the girls openned their eyes wide at the sight of the warm common room. They said goodnight to the guys, and Lily followed Kathy not really knowing where to go. When she saw the two beds on the side of the door were empty, and that her trunk was beside the one by the window, she stopped worrying.
« Good you have the window, I get nervous when it rains, I can't sleep. Do you want the window though? Most people do...if you do its yours to keep. » Muttured Kathy when they got in the room.
« Sure ill have it. Night. »
« Hmm »
Lily dropped on her bed, too tired to even think about undressing and finding her pijamas. She was about to dose off, but wanted to get to know the castle before classes started so she groaned and turned dropping to the floor. She oppened her trunk and found her alarm clock, which was thankfully close to the top.
She climbed back in bed, this time taking the time to get under the covers, and stuffed the alarm clock under her pillow after setting it for six o clock.
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Sirius got comfortable in his bed by the window, and after saying goodnight to Remus, the only one ever awake when they came back from such expeditions, he cast a spell to wake him at seven o clock. He wanted to get a good start, last year he had gotten up an hour before classes and couldnt concentrate. He then cast a spell on his curtains to make them soundproof to drown the sound of Frank snoring and Remus kicking random things in the room. He curled up and fell asleep, looking much too young for what he acted.
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James was lying in his bed, curtains drawned, seemingly asleep but holding a rock shaped in a cube. A chain was passed through two faces. James ran his thumb over the cubes faces, feeling each cubes little dent. The face with a dent in the right top corner was Eve's face, the one with a dent in the lower right corner was Remus', the one with a dent in the left top corner Sirius' and the lower left dent for Peter. Even if he didnt show it, hed come to care for the short boy. Peter's face was cold, so was Sirius' and Eve's, which meant they were asleep. Remus' was the temperature of the room : he was awake. James waited until that face to turned chilly, before putting a charm on the chained cube to make it melt in the wood of his bed. Only then, did he fall asleep.
Angsty chapter : Experimental chapter (dialogue only scenes.) : This is actually my favorite chapter blushblush but how do you guys like it? I tried to make each character different, so they each have their personalitys. Did it work? I screwed up a bit on Kathy on the first parts..but i wrote the first two pages two days ago. So yeah. Do you guys like the way im writing? And im sooo sorry the action is so damn slow!! Grrrr. Six chapters and they didnt even start school for crisssake. Ahem. So review?
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I know there are many spelling mistakes, and i found a spellchecker on the net but it changes all quotation marks and apostrophes ( ') into question marks, and doesnt correct all mistakes. So i tried to fix them on the file itself, like recopying the corrections, but if i erase and try to type again it takes the space of another letter, so just to correct one thing i have to rerwrite the whole thing. So yeah, until I can fix that youll have to count on my checking my mistakes as I write (which means dont count to much. SEE!) ahem. So yeah.
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Narcissa Grace looked nicer from this percpective, she looked like she was nice to be around. Melissa Parkinson wasn't exacly what you?d call stunning, but she had an air of mischief about her that made you want to talk to her. They started talking about the roof, and soon the five of them were in deep conversation over everything and anything. Sadly, it was past one in the morning and there was school the next morning, Dippet pointed out who to follow for each house, and wished them all goodnight. "There's this place around the lake, it looks like a mini cliff, its quite easy to spot but kind of hard to get to. You guys wanna meet there tomorrow? Say..after classes, at around four? " proposed Narcissa, and everybody agreed. They said goodbye, and Kathy and Lily got up and jogged to follow the Griffindors. As they exited, you could hear and see students falling back onto they're chairs.
« They're nice hey? » Asked Lily, who was wide awake.
Kathy mumbled something, and asked who she meant.
« Narcissa and Melissa! I'm glad Karine is around nice people...did you see how freaked out she was during the sorting?! And the hat told me to stay close...dont see why i wouldnt! » Lily was still a bit lightheaded, and was quite exuberant. Noticing Kathy didnt seem to be listening to her, she poked her in the side.
« Kathy. Kathy? Kathy!!!!!. »
They walked across the entrance hall and took the stairs leading to the second floor. The walls were filled with paintings who were waving and greeting the new students and the old. Lily sneaked another peek at Kathy, who was slowing down and almost sleeping. Lily slowed down to match Kathy's pace, and didnt notice the second, then third, then fourth up to seven years going past them, until they were the last ones.
As they turned and went up another set of stairs (the fourth thought Lily) Lily noticed they were alone in a torch-lit hallway, and that she had no idea which way the Griffindors had gone. To mentally tired to be scared, she was more annoyed than anything, and cast one of the spells she had mastered at home. The spell was made to make one's wand to sprout water, and when she cast it, ten times the ammount of water expected hit Kathy, sending her against the wall.
« Well at least shes awake. » Drily commented Lily, a bit shocked at herself.
« What the bloody hell was THAT for! » Yelled Kathy, waving at herself. « Oh never mind, I would of done the same thing. Where are the rest? » Kathy dismissed her question, and looked around, searching for something she knew or recongnised.
« We lost them. I think we're on the fifth floor...though don't ask me what that means. » replied Lily.
« Hmm...well what do we do now? If we get lost...not that we aren't already lost mind you, but if we get more lost..it would suck. » Brillantly commented Kathy. « And by the way, what was that spell you used to make me freezing, shivering, ugly, wet, soaked, uncomfortable and heavy? »
Lily carefully told her, and realised too late she had just activated the spell again, and that Kathy had pointed her own wand at her face, so that she was now as wet as Kathy.
Smilling a bit, Kathy thoughtfully said. « Mmm..what and Intresting spell heh? »
Kathy gave Lily her hand, and helped her up. « Now we're even. »
« Hm. Yeah i spose. So what now? »
« I say we just wait here. What could happen? You heard Melissa, the first day of classes starts at one in the afternoon, we just sit here and tomorow we ask a griffindor how to get to the dorms. Simple as that! »
« Of course...hm. Id say this is the most likely to backfire plan in the history of our lives, but you would ask me if i have a better idea, and though i would love to say I do, i cant.» explained Lily. « So lets just do that. I get the corner! » she concluded, before running to the only corner visible in the hallway, made by an weird statue of a wizard with a bump on his back.
Too tired to protest, Kathy put her hair in a lazy bun at her neck, took off her robes and rolled them up to use as a pillow, flipped the bottom of her jeans and pulled until only her tighs were covered and dropped to the floor.
Lily just pulled her robes around herself and fell asleep leaning on the statue.
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« Sirius you bloody moron, why did you leave it lying around! »
« Firstly, none of this would be happenning if MISTER James hadnt thought necessary to write down the EXACT location of the passageways, and if MISTER Remus hadnt thought it funny to outsmart the teachers by still using this, and if MISTER Peter hadnt...agreed! »
« Hey! What the bloody hell did I do! »
« Shut up all of you, they don't know where the other exit is, they only know its a wizard with a bump. Do you know how many bloody hunchbacked statues are here? A whole lot thats how! We have enough time to get out of the passageway throught the statue, and then...go to the dorms subtly and slyly. »
« Dont you patronize me MISTER James! And why the heck arent we lighting up our wands heh? Answer that, come on go ahead! »
« Because theres a magic detection spell put on the whole school during the first 10 hours of the school year. You dont want them knowing were here do you? And i dont think we should get out right now, we should wait till its five or so, we can find a easier excuse with that. »
« ... »
« ... »
« I agree. »
« Nah. We leave now, anyways theyre all looking for the statue, or searching for us back in the dungeons. Its easier to go now. »
« We could go to honeyducks... »
« Right. Brilliant plan James really. »
« Im listing the possibilitys okay? I agree with Remus, Peter agrees with Remus, therefor we go with Remus' plan. »
« Actually I kind of agree with Sirius, they're all busy elsewhere. »
« I stick with your old plan. Peter? »
« Do whatever you want, we're screwed either way. »
« Apart from your pessimistic view of life, are there any logical reasons to make you beleive that? »
« Going to Honeyducks would be dumb because w »
« We excluded that plan. Please never speak of it again. Proceed would you? »
« Leaving tomorow would be ridiculous because we'd be bound to meet someone, and while were at it we can find a good excuse for being out of dorms now as well as at five in the morning. »
« ... »
« Heh. »
« Its not That bad of a plan... »
« Leaving now seems good, but did it ever cross your minds that they might FIND the bloody statue?! »
« No..took us three years! »
« To find the passageway James, not the statue. Actually this is an entirely different situation. »
« Sorry im not thinking straight. Well were here, Peter chose I'm not changing my mind. »
« I go with them, for the simple reason I'm tired as hell. »
« Three against one, sorry James but Sirius's plan wins. »
« Fine lets get out. NOW! Ahem. Now. »
« ... »
« ... »
« ... »
« Its not openning. Its stuck. »
« Damn. »
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Stupid idea, stupid kids, stupid statue, stupid castle so big you can't go around it fully in five hours, stupid idea to put passageways in a stupid castle so big you can't go around it fully in five hours, stpid idea, stupid kids, stupid stat »
« ... »
« Two girls out of bed on the first night, and I found the damn statue. Karma I suppose...lets wake them and bring them to Dumbledor. »
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Kathy stired a bit, and slowly got out of the foggy state she was in. The pain of her cramped muscles helped a bit. She openned her eyes, vaguely remembering having the stupid idea to sleep here, to come face to face with the caretaker.
Ohhh nooo...wheres Lily?
She looked over to the statue against which Lily had been sleeping, and saw she was waking up to. They both got up and stood rather awkwardly, not knowing what to do and waiting for someone to speak.
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« ... »
« ... »
« ...Well push, someone? »
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Many things happenned at once. First, the caretaker openned his mouth to speak. At the same moment, in the wall, four boys pushed with all their strenght agaisnt the statue, Lily said « There is a very simple explanation to our being here sir. »
True to the theory of action-reaction, what was meant to happen did. As the caretaker looked expectanly at the girls, the statue behind them moved and four boys fell on the floor of the hallway in a most undignified manner.
« I see. » Too tired to bother going to chase after Dumbledor at such an ungodly hour, the caretaker decided to punish and reward them himself.
« Ten points from griffindor each boy, and fifteen to both girls for helping with the capture of those wannabe marauders. Now go to your dorms before I change my mind and report you to your head of house. » And before I fall asleep he added in his mind.
With that he left, mind too hazy to remember where the said and detested statue was.
Still dazed from too little sleep when much more was needed, Lily and Kathy looked at the four boys, and dismissed their appearing from a bumby wizard statue.
« Take us back to the tour? » Asked Lily, carefully not mentionning they had no idea where to go or the password.
The boys all nodded, and started walking left. The girls took their things, and tiredly picked themselves up and followed. As they climbed up a stair and followed a reddish hallway, Remus fell back into step with Lily – Kathy was leaning on Sirius behind Peter and James who were leading – and started talking.
« So you helped the janitor catch us? I find that hard to beleive...your both new. And clueless. »
« Excuse me? Clueless? And no we didnt « help your capture » we were simply there because we were sicken tired of the stupidness of the other first years and decided to just sleep there. »
« Hmm. Okay. » Remus looked up from his staring at the floor and smiled a slightly smug smile at Lily from under his longish hair. Lily did a doubletake when she glanced at him, with his hands in his robes pockets which were a bit too high and that smile and those eyes and damn that hair...he looked quite dashing.
Lily turned back to staring at the floor, smiling a little to herself.
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Kathy was pushing herself up on the railing of the stairs to get up each step, and eyes only dark slits were threatening to close. Sirius was walking beside her, and subcontiously waited for her, not wanting to get too close to Peter. Their brief talk during the feast had troubled him, it was the most personal moment he'd had with Peter in the four years they had been around together.
He felt extremely bad that he had secretly thought such things about the guy, when he apparently felt only friendship towards Sirius. Annoyed at feeling an emotion he didnt control, he prefered to ignore it.
Plus the tired Kathy seemed pretty intresting, her glasses and brown dryish hair gave her an air of not giving a damn, and she wasnt too shy which was a quality he liked in a girl. Though of course he liked everything...he had yet to meet a girl he couldnt find a quality in. They said he was a womanizer...but he wasnt like that fifth year Hufflepuff or the seventh year that graduated last year, he loved the woman, everything about them.
When they reached the door to get out of the small stair they had taken to get the the sixth floor where their dorm was situated, Sirius saw and heard Kathy bump into the doorframe and then muttering a pretty impresive collection of swears, a few Sirius was sure were in another language.
He put his hand on her back and gently pushed her through the door, and when they started walking in the hallway she put her head on her shoulder and leaned on him. He thought about putting his arm around her waist, but thinking it would be taking advantage of the situation he settled for keeping his hand on her back.
Wonder why I didn't see her yet. Thought Sirius, dismissing it as they got in front of the portrait of the fat lady.
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James walked briskly, hopeing the others were following. They'd almost gotten caught. It wasnt good. And all that because Sirius and Remus wanted to tease the authority. He was all for usually, but not on the first day back, not two things on the same day, just Not now. And he was troubled, word had gotten about during the summer, a murder had happened close to Godric's Hollow, the muggles were more violent, wars were more frequant, everybody was more nervous.
Even thought it worried him, he kept it to himself, he didn't want to lose his friends or his girlfriend of seven months because he was gloomy. So he kept it hidden, even though hed been scowling in his sleep. And he could be happy, he had been in the train, and he liked the two girls, they were nice, but Lily was starting school at fourteen...it was just weird. A bit too weird.
When he got to the portrait of the fat lady he muttered the password – mugworth – that he had gotten from his girlfriend which was a prefect his year. Eve was a year older than him, but it didnt matter. They were meant to be.
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Peter wasnt brooding happier thoughts than James. He kept thinking back to the conversation in the bar, and then the indiference from Lily in the train. It wasnt his fault he had been found in time by Hogwarts! It wasnt his fault, nor Lily's, they had made a mistake, thats it. Anyways, now she was alright, so all was good. And Peter had felt so awkward in the train...because of the invisible pressure he felt, hed been acting stupidly, nothing like his usual self. Just like in muggle school...when he was being bugged and when the few times he was talked to he was clumsy.Looking back on those conversations had always made him cringe. But things were different now...or were they.
He knew Remus was a real friend..but maybe a bit out of pity. And he kept feeling he just didnt fit in with James and Sirius. So at dinner when Sirius had been depressing because his little brother had been sorted into Slytherin, he had tried to help him out, even though the others had tried, even though he was used to not doing anything in those situations. Like when Remus had told them he was a werewolf, like when James had lost his great-grandmother.
And Sirius had been about to shove him off, but he actually listned and Peter felt he had been helpful. Even if only slightly. And then he and James and even Remus had been warmer to him, nicer. But now he felt Sirius was avoiding him, and James was just scowling and not talking.
He put his thoughts back into a corner of his mind, and when they got into the dorm he just went straight to bed, saying good night to the others as they went to theyre respective dorms. Kathy went to for the first years dorm, Lily followed her. He was a bit surprised to see her go in there, but forgot about it and dropped on his bed without unpacking.
He heard the others come in, and was faintly aware of Remus taking the time to kick their trunks out of the way. Then he went to sleep and didnt wake up until the next morning.
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When they followed the boys into the portraits hole, the girls openned their eyes wide at the sight of the warm common room. They said goodnight to the guys, and Lily followed Kathy not really knowing where to go. When she saw the two beds on the side of the door were empty, and that her trunk was beside the one by the window, she stopped worrying.
« Good you have the window, I get nervous when it rains, I can't sleep. Do you want the window though? Most people do...if you do its yours to keep. » Muttured Kathy when they got in the room.
« Sure ill have it. Night. »
« Hmm »
Lily dropped on her bed, too tired to even think about undressing and finding her pijamas. She was about to dose off, but wanted to get to know the castle before classes started so she groaned and turned dropping to the floor. She oppened her trunk and found her alarm clock, which was thankfully close to the top.
She climbed back in bed, this time taking the time to get under the covers, and stuffed the alarm clock under her pillow after setting it for six o clock.
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Sirius got comfortable in his bed by the window, and after saying goodnight to Remus, the only one ever awake when they came back from such expeditions, he cast a spell to wake him at seven o clock. He wanted to get a good start, last year he had gotten up an hour before classes and couldnt concentrate. He then cast a spell on his curtains to make them soundproof to drown the sound of Frank snoring and Remus kicking random things in the room. He curled up and fell asleep, looking much too young for what he acted.
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James was lying in his bed, curtains drawned, seemingly asleep but holding a rock shaped in a cube. A chain was passed through two faces. James ran his thumb over the cubes faces, feeling each cubes little dent. The face with a dent in the right top corner was Eve's face, the one with a dent in the lower right corner was Remus', the one with a dent in the left top corner Sirius' and the lower left dent for Peter. Even if he didnt show it, hed come to care for the short boy. Peter's face was cold, so was Sirius' and Eve's, which meant they were asleep. Remus' was the temperature of the room : he was awake. James waited until that face to turned chilly, before putting a charm on the chained cube to make it melt in the wood of his bed. Only then, did he fall asleep.
Angsty chapter : Experimental chapter (dialogue only scenes.) : This is actually my favorite chapter blushblush but how do you guys like it? I tried to make each character different, so they each have their personalitys. Did it work? I screwed up a bit on Kathy on the first parts..but i wrote the first two pages two days ago. So yeah. Do you guys like the way im writing? And im sooo sorry the action is so damn slow!! Grrrr. Six chapters and they didnt even start school for crisssake. Ahem. So review?
IMPORTANT!
I know there are many spelling mistakes, and i found a spellchecker on the net but it changes all quotation marks and apostrophes ( ') into question marks, and doesnt correct all mistakes. So i tried to fix them on the file itself, like recopying the corrections, but if i erase and try to type again it takes the space of another letter, so just to correct one thing i have to rerwrite the whole thing. So yeah, until I can fix that youll have to count on my checking my mistakes as I write (which means dont count to much. SEE!) ahem. So yeah.
If anyone knows a good spellechecker, PLEASE! Tell me!