At 6:30 in the morning, Mrs. Evans came to wake them up. "Lily, Jen. Get
up. Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes." Then she went over to Emily,
Bridget, and Sammie. In fifteen minutes, the five of them were in the
kitchen, looking extremely sleepy-eyed. "Go and get dressed. Breakfast will
be served by then." So the four friends went and got dressed. They pulled
on Muggle clothes, as they would change on the Hogwarts Express later. Lily
finished second to Bridget. She was wearing jean capris, a light pink tank
top, white tennis shoes, and white socks. She quickly applied white eye
shadow, a few strokes of mascara and pink-tinted lip-gloss. Soon, they were
all in the kitchen, chatting and defiantly more awake than before.
At nine thirty all of them, with the exception of Petunia piled into the Evans's mini-van and headed over to King's Cross Station. There, Lily said good-bye to her parents and promised to write often. Then they crossed the barrier. In front of them stood the Hogwarts Express, gleaming scarlet and puffing out black smoke. Students were saying good-bye to their parents or looking for their friends. Owls were hooting, cats meowing and Demon was scratching at the door of her crate, whining. Sammie spotted James, Sirius, and Remus and headed over to them. The rest followed her.
"Hey, guys. What's up? Do you want to sit with us?" Sammie said, coming up to the boys.
"Sure. Why not." Sirius agreed, after getting nods from the other two. They climbed on the train and began looking for an empty compartment. Finally, they found one near the rear of the train. They sat down and talked about everything from school to summer to Quiddich. Soon the food cart lady came by.
"Anything off the cart, dears?" the old lady asked kindly. Immediately, the three boys were swarming around the food cart. They took half the stack of candy and about three jugs of pumpkin juice. Then Lily went up to the cart and took some Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Cauldron Cakes and a variety of sweets that the four girls would share.
The rest of the ride went smoothly, except when Karen came into their compartment and started flirting with all the boys. They all got extremely annoyed and kicked her out. When it started getting dark, the train slowed down.
"Great! We're here!" Remus exclaimed, grabbing some candy and stuffing it in his pockets.
"I'm starving!" Sirius added, jumping up.
Lily and her friends laughed at the boys' excited expressions. As soon as the train stopped, they got up and started moving toward the exit.
Lily said, "James, you better go with the first years to be sorted." James left.
"Gee, Lils, what did you say to make him leave?" Sirius asked with mock suspicion, his eyes narrowed.
"Who, me? I didn't say anything." Lily said innocently. "Fine, I told him that he should go with the first years to get sorted." She added. The girls got in one carriage while the boys went in another. Soon, they were at Hogwarts. When they got into the Great Hall, Sirius, Remus, Jen, Emily, Bridget, and Lily headed for the Gryffindor table while Sammie went to the Ravenclaw table. The five Gryffindors sat down in the middle of the table and waited for the sorting to begin.
"I wonder who our new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher is. Professor Leocapri left for Africa." Emily mused, looking at the Head Table. The rest of the group also glanced up, but they didn't see any new faces.
Professor Dumbledore stood up. "Welcome, to another year at Hogwarts. Now, let the Sorting begin." He said, raising his arms. Just then, Professor McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher, came in followed by a large group of first years.
"Now when I call your name, please step up. I will place the sorting hat on your head and you will be sorted in your house. Anspach, Jamie." A small girl with blonde pigtails came up, trembling. She put the hat on.
"RAVENCLAW!" The hat shouted. In fifteen minutes, they were at the M's. After Zuric, Christopher became a Hufflepuff, Dumbledore stood up.
"We have one more student to be sorted. James Potter moved here from America. He will be sorted. Mr. Potter, please step up to the stool." Dumbledore said, motioning to the stool on which the hat was sitting. James went and placed the hat on his head.
"Hmm, yes. A Potter. I know just what to do with you. GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted to the hall. The Gryffindor table burst into cheers and applause. James jogged to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Remus.
"Hey, congrats buddy." Sirius said.
"Now that everyone has been sorted, I have a couple of announcements to make. First, the Forbidden Forest it off limits to all students. Second, no student shall approach the Whomping Willow unless they wish to be killed by it. Third, There will be a restriction put on the students allowed to visits Hogsmeade. From now on, only students third year and up will be allowed access to Hogsmeade. And finally, dig in!" Dumbledore said and at his final words, the dishes filled with all kinds of delicious foods from roast chicken to mashed potatoes to creamed corn.
The whole school followed that order very easily. After an hour of stuffing themselves, the dishes cleared. "Now off to bed. Prefects, lead your house to your Towers." Dumbledore said. The seven Gryffindors got up and headed for the stairs. While going through Hogwarts, they gave James a tour.
". And here is Gryffindor Tower." Sirius concluded.
"Huh? All I see is a picture." James said, confused. He stared at the portrait of a fat lady in a frilly pink dress.
"She guards the entrance. You need a password to get in. It changes about once a week." Lily explained.
"Balderdash" Sirius said. "A prefect downstairs told me." He explained. The portrait opened to reveal a circular room with squashy red chairs and sofas and a merrily crackling fire.
"The boys' dormitory is upstairs and on the left." Lily said, going up in her dormitory. When she got in, she looked around. Six four-poster beds were arranged around the room, all with their own posters and pictures. Lily headed for hers, which was near the window. She quickly unpacked and added a couple more pictures to her collection. Then she headed back to the Common Room.
"Hey Lil." Jen said from her position near the fire. She was watching Sirius and James play a game of chess. Remus had already gone upstairs and Emily and Bridget were talking to some friends. "When's our first practice? Did you know that Karen joined the Hufflepuff cheerleading squad?" Jen asked after Lily got seated next to her.
"I was thinking on Saturday. We also need two more cheerleaders, since Jillian and Alyssa graduated last year." Lily said. She was the head cheerleader mostly because she came up with the idea. The other houses soon followed and now all of the houses have cheerleaders.
Jen and Lily watched for another fifteen minutes until they got bored and headed upstairs. When they got upstairs, Jen and Lily saw that Samira Mesquite was already in the dormitory.
"Hey, did you two see that new Gryffindor from America? He's a hunk." Samira exclaimed. She was flipping through her magazine.
Lily just rolled her eyes and Jen shrugged. " He's her new neighbor and she can't see that he's hot." Jen explained.
Lily looked up from her book. " Yeah, he's a hunk alright. A hunk o' cheese." She replied sarcastically from her position on her bed. Jen giggled a little but Samira looked at her disdainfully.
"You are so immature." She said, sighing.
"Fine, what ever! I'm going back down there." Lily exclaimed, throwing her hands up and running down the stairs. Samira followed her. When Lily found James, she went up behind him and leaned over his shoulders. "James." She said. "Do you think that it is immature that I don't think that you are a hunk, hot, adorable, cute, and a hottie?" she asked sweetly.
James' eyes widened. "No, but I sure wouldn't mind if you did." He said in a teasing voice.
"You're awful. That's just wrong. Now I can imagine Sirius saying that, but coming from you, it is gross!" she exclaimed, slapping him upside the head.
"Hey, watch it! That hurt!" James exclaimed, rubbing his head.
"Yeah, sure. Like I believe you." Lily said, going upstairs. Samira, however, looked concerned.
"Aw, poor Jamsie. Are you -" she started, but was interrupted by James.
"Never, ever call me Jamsie. It's James." He said firmly. "And I'm fine" He added. He got up and walked up to the boys' dormitories.
The next morning, James was woken up by a very hyper Sirius jumping on his bed. "What are you doing?" he asked groggily. "It's six in the morning!" he groaned.
"Come on! If you get up now, you can see anyone in the house. They're all sleeping." Sirius said, hopping on the bed.
"I'm going to assume that you want to take me to the third year girls' dormitories?" James asked, getting out of bed and pulling a shirt on.
"Oh, yeah. Come on!" Sirius replied, his face cracking into an evil grin.
"Man, you are obsessed with Jen." James said, opening the door and heading to the girls' dorms.
"No, no. This way. Come on. We have to go through this secret passage because the stairs don't let you in." Sirius whispered frantically, motioning James to come towards a statue of Godric Gryffindor. "Rickusletus" Sirius whispered and the platform on which Gryffindor was standing on moved to the side. James and Sirius crawled in quietly. The passage inaudibly closed behind them.
"Lumos" James whispered. His wand-light gave off enough illumination for the two to see where they were going. "How much farther?" James questioned after a couple minutes of crawling.
"We'll be there in a little bit." Sirius whispered from the front. They soon opened a trapdoor and quietly slipped into the girls' dorm. Sirius was right; they all were asleep.
The two of them were walking around when James thought of something.
"Silensio!" he whispered. Now him and Sirius could talk, but the girls wouldn't hear them.
"What are you doing?" Sirius exclaimed.
"Listen; they are all asleep. What is a better time to pull a prank than now?" James explained.
Sirius's eyes lit up. " We could super glue their curtains together, mix up their clothes and of course, cover them in shaving cream!" Sirius exclaimed, grabbing some lotion. James easily transfigured it into a large bottle of shaving cream. First he went over to Lily. He shook the bottle and plastered her in shaving cream. While James was doing this, Sirius messed up the girls' toiletries and switched their clothes. As soon as James finished covering Lily in shaving cream, he quietly closed the curtains and super glued them shut. They worked quickly; in 10 minutes they were done. The two boys quietly slipped out of the girls' dorms. They burst into their own room, laughing.
"What the hell are you two doing this early in the morning?" Mike Vittardi asked grumpily from his bed. He pulled his curtain shut and turned around.
Their other dorm mate sat up in bed. "What did I miss?" Ross Northrope asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He looked a lot like James, but he had warm, chocolate brown eyes and his black hair wasn't naturally messy like James'.
"Nothing, we just totally trashed the girls' room." Sirius said. He went into the bathroom. Meanwhile, the others were either getting their clothes out or going to find another bathroom. As soon as Sirius got out, James went into the bathroom. In fifteen minutes, he had showered and had changed. James went downstairs to already find Sirius in the Common Room along with the four girls.
"Hey, what's up?" James asked. They greeted him but went back to talking in hushed tones.
"What are you guys talking about?" James asked, going up to them.
They turned to him, evil glints in their eyes. "Oh, a simple thing. Something along the lines of revenge!" Emily answered evilly. The look on her face had an amazing effect on her. Even though she was short, the look made her resemble a saber-tooth tiger. James silently gulped. He didn't know what the girls were planning, but he knew that he better be careful.
"Something unusual happened today." Lily said, smiling sweetly.
"Oh, it did, didn't it?" James answered innocently.
"Yes, apparently, someone glued our curtains shut, covered us in shaving cream, and messed up out stuff." Jen added with a deathly quiet whisper.
"Okay! Well, let's go down and have some breakfast. I'm starving." Sirius said loudly, trying to break the tension. On the way toward the Great Hall, the girls returned to normal. James, however, didn't notice the change because he was too busy trying to find marks that he could remember to go to the Great Hall. This was incredibly difficult because the pictures and stairs kept moving. Finally, they got to the Great Hall. The seven friends went towards the Gryffindor table. Sirius, James, Jen, Emily, and Bridget sat down in the middle of the table. Lily, however, went farther. She walked up to a guy and hugged him.
"Hey Ross." She murmured, giving him a quick kiss on the lips.
"Hey Lils. What's up?" He asked. He was relatively tall compared to her; she only came up to his shoulders.
"Nothing much. Oh, yeah. I want you to meet someone." Lily said, taking his hand and leading him to her friends. "Ross, this is my good friend James. He just moved near me. James, this is Ross. He's my boyfriend." She introduced them. James got up and shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you. You're in my new dorm, aren't you?" James asked politely. He really was being sincere, not just pretending.
"You too. Listen, are you gonna try out for Quidditch? We have two positions open. One for Chaser, the other for Keeper." Ross said, sitting down next to Lily and across from James.
"Yeah. I'm a Chaser. Do you play Quidditch?" James asked, buttering some toast and getting another bowl of porridge. "I play Beater. If you want to, try-outs are next Saturday at 5:30 P.M." Ross said.
At nine thirty all of them, with the exception of Petunia piled into the Evans's mini-van and headed over to King's Cross Station. There, Lily said good-bye to her parents and promised to write often. Then they crossed the barrier. In front of them stood the Hogwarts Express, gleaming scarlet and puffing out black smoke. Students were saying good-bye to their parents or looking for their friends. Owls were hooting, cats meowing and Demon was scratching at the door of her crate, whining. Sammie spotted James, Sirius, and Remus and headed over to them. The rest followed her.
"Hey, guys. What's up? Do you want to sit with us?" Sammie said, coming up to the boys.
"Sure. Why not." Sirius agreed, after getting nods from the other two. They climbed on the train and began looking for an empty compartment. Finally, they found one near the rear of the train. They sat down and talked about everything from school to summer to Quiddich. Soon the food cart lady came by.
"Anything off the cart, dears?" the old lady asked kindly. Immediately, the three boys were swarming around the food cart. They took half the stack of candy and about three jugs of pumpkin juice. Then Lily went up to the cart and took some Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Cauldron Cakes and a variety of sweets that the four girls would share.
The rest of the ride went smoothly, except when Karen came into their compartment and started flirting with all the boys. They all got extremely annoyed and kicked her out. When it started getting dark, the train slowed down.
"Great! We're here!" Remus exclaimed, grabbing some candy and stuffing it in his pockets.
"I'm starving!" Sirius added, jumping up.
Lily and her friends laughed at the boys' excited expressions. As soon as the train stopped, they got up and started moving toward the exit.
Lily said, "James, you better go with the first years to be sorted." James left.
"Gee, Lils, what did you say to make him leave?" Sirius asked with mock suspicion, his eyes narrowed.
"Who, me? I didn't say anything." Lily said innocently. "Fine, I told him that he should go with the first years to get sorted." She added. The girls got in one carriage while the boys went in another. Soon, they were at Hogwarts. When they got into the Great Hall, Sirius, Remus, Jen, Emily, Bridget, and Lily headed for the Gryffindor table while Sammie went to the Ravenclaw table. The five Gryffindors sat down in the middle of the table and waited for the sorting to begin.
"I wonder who our new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher is. Professor Leocapri left for Africa." Emily mused, looking at the Head Table. The rest of the group also glanced up, but they didn't see any new faces.
Professor Dumbledore stood up. "Welcome, to another year at Hogwarts. Now, let the Sorting begin." He said, raising his arms. Just then, Professor McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher, came in followed by a large group of first years.
"Now when I call your name, please step up. I will place the sorting hat on your head and you will be sorted in your house. Anspach, Jamie." A small girl with blonde pigtails came up, trembling. She put the hat on.
"RAVENCLAW!" The hat shouted. In fifteen minutes, they were at the M's. After Zuric, Christopher became a Hufflepuff, Dumbledore stood up.
"We have one more student to be sorted. James Potter moved here from America. He will be sorted. Mr. Potter, please step up to the stool." Dumbledore said, motioning to the stool on which the hat was sitting. James went and placed the hat on his head.
"Hmm, yes. A Potter. I know just what to do with you. GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted to the hall. The Gryffindor table burst into cheers and applause. James jogged to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Remus.
"Hey, congrats buddy." Sirius said.
"Now that everyone has been sorted, I have a couple of announcements to make. First, the Forbidden Forest it off limits to all students. Second, no student shall approach the Whomping Willow unless they wish to be killed by it. Third, There will be a restriction put on the students allowed to visits Hogsmeade. From now on, only students third year and up will be allowed access to Hogsmeade. And finally, dig in!" Dumbledore said and at his final words, the dishes filled with all kinds of delicious foods from roast chicken to mashed potatoes to creamed corn.
The whole school followed that order very easily. After an hour of stuffing themselves, the dishes cleared. "Now off to bed. Prefects, lead your house to your Towers." Dumbledore said. The seven Gryffindors got up and headed for the stairs. While going through Hogwarts, they gave James a tour.
". And here is Gryffindor Tower." Sirius concluded.
"Huh? All I see is a picture." James said, confused. He stared at the portrait of a fat lady in a frilly pink dress.
"She guards the entrance. You need a password to get in. It changes about once a week." Lily explained.
"Balderdash" Sirius said. "A prefect downstairs told me." He explained. The portrait opened to reveal a circular room with squashy red chairs and sofas and a merrily crackling fire.
"The boys' dormitory is upstairs and on the left." Lily said, going up in her dormitory. When she got in, she looked around. Six four-poster beds were arranged around the room, all with their own posters and pictures. Lily headed for hers, which was near the window. She quickly unpacked and added a couple more pictures to her collection. Then she headed back to the Common Room.
"Hey Lil." Jen said from her position near the fire. She was watching Sirius and James play a game of chess. Remus had already gone upstairs and Emily and Bridget were talking to some friends. "When's our first practice? Did you know that Karen joined the Hufflepuff cheerleading squad?" Jen asked after Lily got seated next to her.
"I was thinking on Saturday. We also need two more cheerleaders, since Jillian and Alyssa graduated last year." Lily said. She was the head cheerleader mostly because she came up with the idea. The other houses soon followed and now all of the houses have cheerleaders.
Jen and Lily watched for another fifteen minutes until they got bored and headed upstairs. When they got upstairs, Jen and Lily saw that Samira Mesquite was already in the dormitory.
"Hey, did you two see that new Gryffindor from America? He's a hunk." Samira exclaimed. She was flipping through her magazine.
Lily just rolled her eyes and Jen shrugged. " He's her new neighbor and she can't see that he's hot." Jen explained.
Lily looked up from her book. " Yeah, he's a hunk alright. A hunk o' cheese." She replied sarcastically from her position on her bed. Jen giggled a little but Samira looked at her disdainfully.
"You are so immature." She said, sighing.
"Fine, what ever! I'm going back down there." Lily exclaimed, throwing her hands up and running down the stairs. Samira followed her. When Lily found James, she went up behind him and leaned over his shoulders. "James." She said. "Do you think that it is immature that I don't think that you are a hunk, hot, adorable, cute, and a hottie?" she asked sweetly.
James' eyes widened. "No, but I sure wouldn't mind if you did." He said in a teasing voice.
"You're awful. That's just wrong. Now I can imagine Sirius saying that, but coming from you, it is gross!" she exclaimed, slapping him upside the head.
"Hey, watch it! That hurt!" James exclaimed, rubbing his head.
"Yeah, sure. Like I believe you." Lily said, going upstairs. Samira, however, looked concerned.
"Aw, poor Jamsie. Are you -" she started, but was interrupted by James.
"Never, ever call me Jamsie. It's James." He said firmly. "And I'm fine" He added. He got up and walked up to the boys' dormitories.
The next morning, James was woken up by a very hyper Sirius jumping on his bed. "What are you doing?" he asked groggily. "It's six in the morning!" he groaned.
"Come on! If you get up now, you can see anyone in the house. They're all sleeping." Sirius said, hopping on the bed.
"I'm going to assume that you want to take me to the third year girls' dormitories?" James asked, getting out of bed and pulling a shirt on.
"Oh, yeah. Come on!" Sirius replied, his face cracking into an evil grin.
"Man, you are obsessed with Jen." James said, opening the door and heading to the girls' dorms.
"No, no. This way. Come on. We have to go through this secret passage because the stairs don't let you in." Sirius whispered frantically, motioning James to come towards a statue of Godric Gryffindor. "Rickusletus" Sirius whispered and the platform on which Gryffindor was standing on moved to the side. James and Sirius crawled in quietly. The passage inaudibly closed behind them.
"Lumos" James whispered. His wand-light gave off enough illumination for the two to see where they were going. "How much farther?" James questioned after a couple minutes of crawling.
"We'll be there in a little bit." Sirius whispered from the front. They soon opened a trapdoor and quietly slipped into the girls' dorm. Sirius was right; they all were asleep.
The two of them were walking around when James thought of something.
"Silensio!" he whispered. Now him and Sirius could talk, but the girls wouldn't hear them.
"What are you doing?" Sirius exclaimed.
"Listen; they are all asleep. What is a better time to pull a prank than now?" James explained.
Sirius's eyes lit up. " We could super glue their curtains together, mix up their clothes and of course, cover them in shaving cream!" Sirius exclaimed, grabbing some lotion. James easily transfigured it into a large bottle of shaving cream. First he went over to Lily. He shook the bottle and plastered her in shaving cream. While James was doing this, Sirius messed up the girls' toiletries and switched their clothes. As soon as James finished covering Lily in shaving cream, he quietly closed the curtains and super glued them shut. They worked quickly; in 10 minutes they were done. The two boys quietly slipped out of the girls' dorms. They burst into their own room, laughing.
"What the hell are you two doing this early in the morning?" Mike Vittardi asked grumpily from his bed. He pulled his curtain shut and turned around.
Their other dorm mate sat up in bed. "What did I miss?" Ross Northrope asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He looked a lot like James, but he had warm, chocolate brown eyes and his black hair wasn't naturally messy like James'.
"Nothing, we just totally trashed the girls' room." Sirius said. He went into the bathroom. Meanwhile, the others were either getting their clothes out or going to find another bathroom. As soon as Sirius got out, James went into the bathroom. In fifteen minutes, he had showered and had changed. James went downstairs to already find Sirius in the Common Room along with the four girls.
"Hey, what's up?" James asked. They greeted him but went back to talking in hushed tones.
"What are you guys talking about?" James asked, going up to them.
They turned to him, evil glints in their eyes. "Oh, a simple thing. Something along the lines of revenge!" Emily answered evilly. The look on her face had an amazing effect on her. Even though she was short, the look made her resemble a saber-tooth tiger. James silently gulped. He didn't know what the girls were planning, but he knew that he better be careful.
"Something unusual happened today." Lily said, smiling sweetly.
"Oh, it did, didn't it?" James answered innocently.
"Yes, apparently, someone glued our curtains shut, covered us in shaving cream, and messed up out stuff." Jen added with a deathly quiet whisper.
"Okay! Well, let's go down and have some breakfast. I'm starving." Sirius said loudly, trying to break the tension. On the way toward the Great Hall, the girls returned to normal. James, however, didn't notice the change because he was too busy trying to find marks that he could remember to go to the Great Hall. This was incredibly difficult because the pictures and stairs kept moving. Finally, they got to the Great Hall. The seven friends went towards the Gryffindor table. Sirius, James, Jen, Emily, and Bridget sat down in the middle of the table. Lily, however, went farther. She walked up to a guy and hugged him.
"Hey Ross." She murmured, giving him a quick kiss on the lips.
"Hey Lils. What's up?" He asked. He was relatively tall compared to her; she only came up to his shoulders.
"Nothing much. Oh, yeah. I want you to meet someone." Lily said, taking his hand and leading him to her friends. "Ross, this is my good friend James. He just moved near me. James, this is Ross. He's my boyfriend." She introduced them. James got up and shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you. You're in my new dorm, aren't you?" James asked politely. He really was being sincere, not just pretending.
"You too. Listen, are you gonna try out for Quidditch? We have two positions open. One for Chaser, the other for Keeper." Ross said, sitting down next to Lily and across from James.
"Yeah. I'm a Chaser. Do you play Quidditch?" James asked, buttering some toast and getting another bowl of porridge. "I play Beater. If you want to, try-outs are next Saturday at 5:30 P.M." Ross said.