Hey I know it has been a while since I updated but I am sorry school has
become pretty overwhelming and with soccer. This weekend I got a major
sprain in my ankle playing and will be out from 2 to 6 weeks depending on
rehab and I also strained my groin in practice so I am out for a while.
Hopefully that will give me more time to write. I know the grammar in the
chapter may not be the greatest I am still looking for a beta reader. Well
on with the show. Nothing you recognize is mine.
~Stormie
Ch15 Christmas, jerks and animals
When they got to the rink they got skates and put them on. Slowly lily got up and they helped her onto the ice.
"See it's not that hard" Remus told her. About that time lily tripped and fell. The group was in a big pile in the center of the ice laughing.
"Sorry" lily apologized
"Half the fun of skating is falling down" Sirius told her
Slowly lily got the hang of it. It got to where she only needed one person to help her. James stayed.
"Thanks for staying even though it means falling" lily told him
"No prob I'd do anything to help you" he answered
"Thanks that sweet" lily told him
"I do try" he grinned
They skated a little longer and lily could finally skate on her own.
"You want to get some hot chocolate? Its cold out here." Lily asked
"Sure I need to be warmed up." James agreed
They skated over to the edge of the concession stand. It was an outside lake that was set up to ice skate in the winter. There were lights so you could skate at night.
"Two hot chocolates" James told the lady and paid
They walked over to some seats and sat down. "See skating not that hard." James told lily.
"I guess just last time it was really frustrating." Lily told him
"Why you're a natural" James countered
"I was with petunia and I was five. She wanted to learn so our parents got both us lessons. Petunia was bad at it so any time I started going she would push me down when the teacher wasn't looking. I have never ice skated since." Lily explained
"Wow that's harsh. You know how to now so she cant say anything or stop you." James comforted her. They continued talking for a while until they got so cold they had to get up and move around. They were skating when lily looked up and saw a clock. They didn't have much time to get home for dinner.
"Come on we have to go." She told everyone.
They changed out of their skates as fast as possible then ran to lily's house. They got there just as petunia was yelling at them to come and eat. They changed out of their coats and hurried to the dinning room. They sat down just as the food was being brought out.
"Just in time" Mr. Evans smiled
They couldn't respond because they were panting from running. "What else did you expect?" lily smiled sweetly
They were eating for a while when Mrs. Evans brought up a topic they were dreading. "Ok tomorrow the maids will be decorating the downstairs. I want you children to stay up stairs and to get ready. The gusts will be arriving at 5 for dinner." She looked at the boys "you do have clothes right?" she asked
"Yes ma'ma you said suits right?" Remus asked politely
Mrs. Evans looked at him and smiled "yes dear that is correct."
Sirius muttered, "suck up" and Remus just grinned.
When they finished eating they headed upstairs to avoid petunia, who was in a bad mood except when she was talking to Sirius.
"You better watch out next she will try to catch you under some mistletoe." Ames teased
"Don't even say that I think I'm going to barf." Sirius held his stomach.
"So lily where are your books on amagi?" James asked
"In my room" lily answered
"Can we see?" Sirius asked standing up.
"I don't know should we?" Sydney asked
"Might as well they wont understand the process." Lily said
"Right this way" Sydney motioned to follow her and Sydney
When they walked into the room lily closed the door and all blinds "never can be too careful." Sydney whispered
Then lily opened a hidden draw and pulled out two of her books Latin, and French. She handed them to the boys.
"You may have the books but you cant read them" James said
"Great you got our hopes up but these wont help" Sirius pouted
"What are you talking about I can read them fine" lily said and started reading. "To know which animal you are answer the following questions in this book. Then close it count to ten as your answers are evaluated and open the cover again. The page you open to will be your animal. Now start answering." The guys were looking at lily "what?" she asked.
"We didn't understand a word you just said" Sirius told her
"Of course not you oaf she was speaking French" Sydney pointed out.
"Exactly!" lily said
"Hey Lils. Hand me that book can you?" Remus asked. Lily handed him the book. "Ok this says that the process takes a year to simmer after you put all the ingredients in. Which may say will be hard to get. You need star spotted frog spleen and hazel-eyed sloth hair. Both are extremely rare." Remus kept looking thought the book.
"Wow Remmie you know Latin?" Sydney asked
"I learned young when looking for a cure for being a werewolf. Most old spell books are written in it" he explained.
Lily pulled out her other English written books and Sydney hers. "Here you uncultured folks can read these" lily told Sirius and James.
They had decided to go to bed early because they wanted to be able to stay up late the following night. When lily woke up she went down stairs for something to eat but saw the maids and didn't want to get roped into a job. She quickly ran to the kitchen grabbed a tray piled fruit cereal, milk and bowls on it and ran back up stairs. She grabbed a book and went into the "playroom". When the others woke up they ate breakfast and busied themselves with taking the test to indicate what they were. Some of the questions were off the wall but they did them. One of the examples was "if you could be any person who would you be?" another was would you rather be lime jell-o, mushrooms, vanilla pudding or oysters?". They didn't understand the questions but answered them anyways. Well the time for tem to get ready finally came. The guys went to be strangled by their suits that they had to fight to get on, while the girls got ready. They were done by 4:30 and downstairs in time to meet the guests.
"Wow I didn't know you guys could look decent" lily teased
"We do try not to" Sirius replied
They were introduced to everyone but didn't remember any names. There were a few kids their age. When everyone arrived they sat down to eat dinner. The kids sat at the end of the table together. Lily, Sydney and the others were tying to be serious but couldn't handle it. One of the guys there kept checking out Sydney and lily, who didn't like it. The guys wanted to have some fun so operation ditch the creep started. James who was sitting next to lily started acting like her boyfriend and Remus did the same to Sydney. The girls looked at them like they were crazy then caught on.
"So what are you doing tomorrow?" James asked
"Well I was helping we could hangout under the mistletoe" lily smiled
"I can go for that" they kept talking but the guy changed his tactics.
They finished dinner rather uneventfully. Next they had time to dance until 11. On the way to the ballroom James led lily on a detour under the mistletoe.
"What are we doing?" lily asked
"Just making a stop" James grinned
Lily then noticed the mistletoe they were standing under. "James Potter I cant believe you." Lily laughed
"Well you said you had never been kissed so I figured no place like the present."
Lily laughed "fine but only one." She stood there not knowing what to do.
James took her chin in his hand and tilted it back. He kissed her gently on the lips.
Lily looked at him "now that was part of your Christmas present."
"And what a wonderful one it was." James led her into the ballroom.
They were dancing the night away when the guy interrupted "hello may I dance with the lovely lady?" he asked
"It this déjà vu or what?" lily joked.
"With which one, snape of Malfoy?" Sydney asked
They looked at each other then the guy "definitely Malfoy" they said together
The guy had just been looking at them. "My names Marcus Zaire" he said like it was suppose to mean something.
Lily was getting sick of him "and your point is?" she asked.
"My dad's head of management at triple E." Marcus said
"What's your point?" James asked
"Well I think these to should dance with me or else their parents could get fired" he tried to gloat.
The group laughed hard at this. Lily had fun with her answer "first I wont dance with you because you're a big buffoon, secondly I could careless who your dad is you a slimy git, and lastly you cant get my dad fired because he owns triple E and twist, turns and knocks." Lily finished
"Ouch broke out the big guns," Sirius said
The guy was just looking at her stuttering "and you still standing here why?" lily asked. He walked off confused
"I think that was the first Time he had ever been bested" Sydney said
"Yea and been called a big buffoon and slimy git in the same decade" Remus laughed
"Well he needed to be but in his place" lily said she had been upset by the way he tried to use his fathers influence to get something. "He is definitely like Malfoy. Maybe they are related through distant relatives" everyone laughed at this.
They spent the rest of the night dancing and making merry. They wandered upstairs around eleven and fell asleep in their clothes. The next morning they were up at seven waiting to open presents. Lily went ad woke her parent up while everyone else woke petunia up. Lily's parents and petunia got downstairs at the same time but for different reasons. Her parents wanted to see the kids' faces when they walked down and saw all their presents and petunia was running to save her life. When they got downstairs the kids were amazed. The whole room was covered in presents. Apparently all the parents had sent their presents there to be opened. Both the potters and Evans had added a few. The bottom of the tree was hidden because of the presents and in front of the fireplace there were 6 piles of unwrapped gifts from Santa. The kids quickly ran and found their piles. Then they handed out the presents from under the tree. They slowly made a dent in the presents. The 5 Hogwarts students opened the presents form each other at the same time. When the guys opened the gifts from lily and Sydney they were ecstatic. They were running around showing everyone what they got. Lily had gotten a new soccer ball and sports outfit from Sydney. While lily had gotten Sydney a notebook to write her stories in. It was magical so only those she wanted to read it could. Next lily and Sydney opened their gifts from the guys. Sydney loved her book from James. Sirius had given her some dung bombs and joke stuff. Remus had given her a journal. From Remus lily got a huge volume of fairy tales, which she loved to read, Sirius gave her some sports magazines and ice skates, which everyone laughed at. Lily opened James's last. It was a lily that was frozen and floating a few centimeters above a crystal plack with her name on it. Everyone was admiring it while lily was speechless. She sat it down gently then tackled James with a huge hug.
"Thank you so much! Its beautiful." Lily said
"No problem" James smiled "so you like it?" he asked kind of afraid
"Like it? No" she told him his smile fell "I love it! Its wonderful." Everyone was laughing.
They continued opening presents for a while then they had to go to lily's grandparents. They piled into the Evans SUV and drove. When they got there lily gave her friends a briefing.
"Ok you know nothing about magic. They don't know and you can't let it slip." Lily explained. Sirius waved his hand. "That means no pranks either." Lily smiled at the guys who groaned.
They walked in and saw tons of people well actually around 40 but it seemed like more. Some were inside talking or watching TV while others were outside. Lily introduced her friends who felt a little uncomfortable at first but then fit in. Every one was laughing and talking and having a great time. They were talking to Lily's cousins Kurt and Hunter while watching TV. They were talking about the snow when all of a sudden they all jumped up grabbed their coats and ran outside. There was a huge snowball fight where even grown-ups joined in. When they finally ran out of energy they slumped in front of the fire and drank hot chocolate. All they did was hang around all day, which everyone was ok with. They talked and laughed. No big dinner or anything but they did open presents.
The group spent the rest of vacation at lily's house. The day before they went back to Hogwarts lily pulled James aside.
"Hey can we talk?" lily asked
"Sure what's it about?" he asked
"Us," lily pulled him into an empty room. James looked at her. "James your great and all but I don't know where this is heading." James went to say something, "no wait let me say what I have to first. You're a great friend and I trust you as much as Sydney. But right now I don't want our friendship to turn into a relationship. Right now I am taking a break from dating. Guys are good as friends but I am just not ready for more right now. Your one of my best friends and I don't want that to change." Lily finished and looked at James.
"Ok" James smiled and lily hugged him
"Thank you got understanding."
"No prob but if a guy tries anything just tell me and . we wont go into details" they both laughed
Soon they returned to Hogwarts and pranking. The year passed quickly and the group was studying for exams when James exclaimed, "guess what I am?" he started jumping around.
"A hyper active child who should be on ridilin?" lily asked
"No" James paused "well maybe but that's not what I am talking about." James told her
"A psychotic killer who is going to go on a goldfish killing spree?" Sirius guessed
"No"
"An ugly teddy bear named uggles who stole James body and is going to use it to rob Gringotts?" Sydney asked
"No"
"A mad scientist who has found the formula to make animal crackers move and make sound? Help me help me." Remus acted out
"No" James exploded "I'm a stag!" They all looked at him blankly then at the book he was holding.
"You finished?" lily asked
"Yep and I'm a stag."
"What's that mean?" Remus asked
"It says 'a stag exemplifies the characteristics nobility and braveness. He is swift and protective.'" James read then started striking poses. They all laughed at him.
Lily remembered something "hand me the book."
"Why?" James asked
"I only have two questions left I want to see what I am." James handed her the book. She started mumbling and wrote quickly then slammed the book shut. Everyone was watching her. She counted to 10 then opened it. She started jumping around like James "guess what I am!"
"A bee?" Sirius asked
"No"
"A hippopotamus" Sydney laughed
"No" lily stuck her tongue out at Sydney.
"A parrot?" Remus smiled
"No"
"A tiger" James guessed
"No- wait how did you know?" lily asked
"Just a good guess and reading backwards." James smiled
Lily looked behind her and there was a mirror "that's not fair. But yep I'm a tiger. It says 'A tiger is an animal you don't want to upset sleek and strong. Furious its bit it more fatal than its glare.'"
"Wow lily that fits you to a tee." Sirius told her
They continued passing the book around. Sydney found out she was a cat. 'The cat is cunning and sly. Its words can be interpreted many ways. But watch out for the teeth it is quicker than you would think.' Sirius was a dog. 'Loyal to the end the dog stays by your side and will not leave you alone. The playful beast will stay busy for hours chasing its tail. It is more friendly than it looks.' Peter was a rat and not two pleased with its description. 'The shifty animal picks friends stronger than itself to protect it. It is devious and untrustworthy do not turn your back on it.' Exams came and went. The group passed with flying colors top of their class. Well everyone but peter, he barely scraped through.
On the last day of school Lydia and Carolina got bad news. They were found in their dorm moping around.
"What's wrong?" lily asked
"We wont be here next year." Carolina said
"But you got excellent marks" dawn said
"No, that's not why." Lydia explained
"Our dad got transferred to America." Al the girls' jaws dropped.
"That's not that bad. Americas pretty" flair told them.
"Just think of all the hot guys" stormy said and the all agreed.
"There's just one thing you have to promise not to do." Eve told them
"What?" they asked together
The other six girls looked at each other and said at once "become idiotic, blond, American valley girls."
"We promise" Lydia said
"Do you have something against blonds?" Carolina asked since she was blond and everyone started laughing.
The next thing they knew they were on the Hogwarts express with 13 people squished into one compartment. They were in seats on the floor and on other people's laps. They were laughing and having a great time. To soon the train ride ended along with their first year at Hogwarts.
Ch15 Christmas, jerks and animals
When they got to the rink they got skates and put them on. Slowly lily got up and they helped her onto the ice.
"See it's not that hard" Remus told her. About that time lily tripped and fell. The group was in a big pile in the center of the ice laughing.
"Sorry" lily apologized
"Half the fun of skating is falling down" Sirius told her
Slowly lily got the hang of it. It got to where she only needed one person to help her. James stayed.
"Thanks for staying even though it means falling" lily told him
"No prob I'd do anything to help you" he answered
"Thanks that sweet" lily told him
"I do try" he grinned
They skated a little longer and lily could finally skate on her own.
"You want to get some hot chocolate? Its cold out here." Lily asked
"Sure I need to be warmed up." James agreed
They skated over to the edge of the concession stand. It was an outside lake that was set up to ice skate in the winter. There were lights so you could skate at night.
"Two hot chocolates" James told the lady and paid
They walked over to some seats and sat down. "See skating not that hard." James told lily.
"I guess just last time it was really frustrating." Lily told him
"Why you're a natural" James countered
"I was with petunia and I was five. She wanted to learn so our parents got both us lessons. Petunia was bad at it so any time I started going she would push me down when the teacher wasn't looking. I have never ice skated since." Lily explained
"Wow that's harsh. You know how to now so she cant say anything or stop you." James comforted her. They continued talking for a while until they got so cold they had to get up and move around. They were skating when lily looked up and saw a clock. They didn't have much time to get home for dinner.
"Come on we have to go." She told everyone.
They changed out of their skates as fast as possible then ran to lily's house. They got there just as petunia was yelling at them to come and eat. They changed out of their coats and hurried to the dinning room. They sat down just as the food was being brought out.
"Just in time" Mr. Evans smiled
They couldn't respond because they were panting from running. "What else did you expect?" lily smiled sweetly
They were eating for a while when Mrs. Evans brought up a topic they were dreading. "Ok tomorrow the maids will be decorating the downstairs. I want you children to stay up stairs and to get ready. The gusts will be arriving at 5 for dinner." She looked at the boys "you do have clothes right?" she asked
"Yes ma'ma you said suits right?" Remus asked politely
Mrs. Evans looked at him and smiled "yes dear that is correct."
Sirius muttered, "suck up" and Remus just grinned.
When they finished eating they headed upstairs to avoid petunia, who was in a bad mood except when she was talking to Sirius.
"You better watch out next she will try to catch you under some mistletoe." Ames teased
"Don't even say that I think I'm going to barf." Sirius held his stomach.
"So lily where are your books on amagi?" James asked
"In my room" lily answered
"Can we see?" Sirius asked standing up.
"I don't know should we?" Sydney asked
"Might as well they wont understand the process." Lily said
"Right this way" Sydney motioned to follow her and Sydney
When they walked into the room lily closed the door and all blinds "never can be too careful." Sydney whispered
Then lily opened a hidden draw and pulled out two of her books Latin, and French. She handed them to the boys.
"You may have the books but you cant read them" James said
"Great you got our hopes up but these wont help" Sirius pouted
"What are you talking about I can read them fine" lily said and started reading. "To know which animal you are answer the following questions in this book. Then close it count to ten as your answers are evaluated and open the cover again. The page you open to will be your animal. Now start answering." The guys were looking at lily "what?" she asked.
"We didn't understand a word you just said" Sirius told her
"Of course not you oaf she was speaking French" Sydney pointed out.
"Exactly!" lily said
"Hey Lils. Hand me that book can you?" Remus asked. Lily handed him the book. "Ok this says that the process takes a year to simmer after you put all the ingredients in. Which may say will be hard to get. You need star spotted frog spleen and hazel-eyed sloth hair. Both are extremely rare." Remus kept looking thought the book.
"Wow Remmie you know Latin?" Sydney asked
"I learned young when looking for a cure for being a werewolf. Most old spell books are written in it" he explained.
Lily pulled out her other English written books and Sydney hers. "Here you uncultured folks can read these" lily told Sirius and James.
They had decided to go to bed early because they wanted to be able to stay up late the following night. When lily woke up she went down stairs for something to eat but saw the maids and didn't want to get roped into a job. She quickly ran to the kitchen grabbed a tray piled fruit cereal, milk and bowls on it and ran back up stairs. She grabbed a book and went into the "playroom". When the others woke up they ate breakfast and busied themselves with taking the test to indicate what they were. Some of the questions were off the wall but they did them. One of the examples was "if you could be any person who would you be?" another was would you rather be lime jell-o, mushrooms, vanilla pudding or oysters?". They didn't understand the questions but answered them anyways. Well the time for tem to get ready finally came. The guys went to be strangled by their suits that they had to fight to get on, while the girls got ready. They were done by 4:30 and downstairs in time to meet the guests.
"Wow I didn't know you guys could look decent" lily teased
"We do try not to" Sirius replied
They were introduced to everyone but didn't remember any names. There were a few kids their age. When everyone arrived they sat down to eat dinner. The kids sat at the end of the table together. Lily, Sydney and the others were tying to be serious but couldn't handle it. One of the guys there kept checking out Sydney and lily, who didn't like it. The guys wanted to have some fun so operation ditch the creep started. James who was sitting next to lily started acting like her boyfriend and Remus did the same to Sydney. The girls looked at them like they were crazy then caught on.
"So what are you doing tomorrow?" James asked
"Well I was helping we could hangout under the mistletoe" lily smiled
"I can go for that" they kept talking but the guy changed his tactics.
They finished dinner rather uneventfully. Next they had time to dance until 11. On the way to the ballroom James led lily on a detour under the mistletoe.
"What are we doing?" lily asked
"Just making a stop" James grinned
Lily then noticed the mistletoe they were standing under. "James Potter I cant believe you." Lily laughed
"Well you said you had never been kissed so I figured no place like the present."
Lily laughed "fine but only one." She stood there not knowing what to do.
James took her chin in his hand and tilted it back. He kissed her gently on the lips.
Lily looked at him "now that was part of your Christmas present."
"And what a wonderful one it was." James led her into the ballroom.
They were dancing the night away when the guy interrupted "hello may I dance with the lovely lady?" he asked
"It this déjà vu or what?" lily joked.
"With which one, snape of Malfoy?" Sydney asked
They looked at each other then the guy "definitely Malfoy" they said together
The guy had just been looking at them. "My names Marcus Zaire" he said like it was suppose to mean something.
Lily was getting sick of him "and your point is?" she asked.
"My dad's head of management at triple E." Marcus said
"What's your point?" James asked
"Well I think these to should dance with me or else their parents could get fired" he tried to gloat.
The group laughed hard at this. Lily had fun with her answer "first I wont dance with you because you're a big buffoon, secondly I could careless who your dad is you a slimy git, and lastly you cant get my dad fired because he owns triple E and twist, turns and knocks." Lily finished
"Ouch broke out the big guns," Sirius said
The guy was just looking at her stuttering "and you still standing here why?" lily asked. He walked off confused
"I think that was the first Time he had ever been bested" Sydney said
"Yea and been called a big buffoon and slimy git in the same decade" Remus laughed
"Well he needed to be but in his place" lily said she had been upset by the way he tried to use his fathers influence to get something. "He is definitely like Malfoy. Maybe they are related through distant relatives" everyone laughed at this.
They spent the rest of the night dancing and making merry. They wandered upstairs around eleven and fell asleep in their clothes. The next morning they were up at seven waiting to open presents. Lily went ad woke her parent up while everyone else woke petunia up. Lily's parents and petunia got downstairs at the same time but for different reasons. Her parents wanted to see the kids' faces when they walked down and saw all their presents and petunia was running to save her life. When they got downstairs the kids were amazed. The whole room was covered in presents. Apparently all the parents had sent their presents there to be opened. Both the potters and Evans had added a few. The bottom of the tree was hidden because of the presents and in front of the fireplace there were 6 piles of unwrapped gifts from Santa. The kids quickly ran and found their piles. Then they handed out the presents from under the tree. They slowly made a dent in the presents. The 5 Hogwarts students opened the presents form each other at the same time. When the guys opened the gifts from lily and Sydney they were ecstatic. They were running around showing everyone what they got. Lily had gotten a new soccer ball and sports outfit from Sydney. While lily had gotten Sydney a notebook to write her stories in. It was magical so only those she wanted to read it could. Next lily and Sydney opened their gifts from the guys. Sydney loved her book from James. Sirius had given her some dung bombs and joke stuff. Remus had given her a journal. From Remus lily got a huge volume of fairy tales, which she loved to read, Sirius gave her some sports magazines and ice skates, which everyone laughed at. Lily opened James's last. It was a lily that was frozen and floating a few centimeters above a crystal plack with her name on it. Everyone was admiring it while lily was speechless. She sat it down gently then tackled James with a huge hug.
"Thank you so much! Its beautiful." Lily said
"No problem" James smiled "so you like it?" he asked kind of afraid
"Like it? No" she told him his smile fell "I love it! Its wonderful." Everyone was laughing.
They continued opening presents for a while then they had to go to lily's grandparents. They piled into the Evans SUV and drove. When they got there lily gave her friends a briefing.
"Ok you know nothing about magic. They don't know and you can't let it slip." Lily explained. Sirius waved his hand. "That means no pranks either." Lily smiled at the guys who groaned.
They walked in and saw tons of people well actually around 40 but it seemed like more. Some were inside talking or watching TV while others were outside. Lily introduced her friends who felt a little uncomfortable at first but then fit in. Every one was laughing and talking and having a great time. They were talking to Lily's cousins Kurt and Hunter while watching TV. They were talking about the snow when all of a sudden they all jumped up grabbed their coats and ran outside. There was a huge snowball fight where even grown-ups joined in. When they finally ran out of energy they slumped in front of the fire and drank hot chocolate. All they did was hang around all day, which everyone was ok with. They talked and laughed. No big dinner or anything but they did open presents.
The group spent the rest of vacation at lily's house. The day before they went back to Hogwarts lily pulled James aside.
"Hey can we talk?" lily asked
"Sure what's it about?" he asked
"Us," lily pulled him into an empty room. James looked at her. "James your great and all but I don't know where this is heading." James went to say something, "no wait let me say what I have to first. You're a great friend and I trust you as much as Sydney. But right now I don't want our friendship to turn into a relationship. Right now I am taking a break from dating. Guys are good as friends but I am just not ready for more right now. Your one of my best friends and I don't want that to change." Lily finished and looked at James.
"Ok" James smiled and lily hugged him
"Thank you got understanding."
"No prob but if a guy tries anything just tell me and . we wont go into details" they both laughed
Soon they returned to Hogwarts and pranking. The year passed quickly and the group was studying for exams when James exclaimed, "guess what I am?" he started jumping around.
"A hyper active child who should be on ridilin?" lily asked
"No" James paused "well maybe but that's not what I am talking about." James told her
"A psychotic killer who is going to go on a goldfish killing spree?" Sirius guessed
"No"
"An ugly teddy bear named uggles who stole James body and is going to use it to rob Gringotts?" Sydney asked
"No"
"A mad scientist who has found the formula to make animal crackers move and make sound? Help me help me." Remus acted out
"No" James exploded "I'm a stag!" They all looked at him blankly then at the book he was holding.
"You finished?" lily asked
"Yep and I'm a stag."
"What's that mean?" Remus asked
"It says 'a stag exemplifies the characteristics nobility and braveness. He is swift and protective.'" James read then started striking poses. They all laughed at him.
Lily remembered something "hand me the book."
"Why?" James asked
"I only have two questions left I want to see what I am." James handed her the book. She started mumbling and wrote quickly then slammed the book shut. Everyone was watching her. She counted to 10 then opened it. She started jumping around like James "guess what I am!"
"A bee?" Sirius asked
"No"
"A hippopotamus" Sydney laughed
"No" lily stuck her tongue out at Sydney.
"A parrot?" Remus smiled
"No"
"A tiger" James guessed
"No- wait how did you know?" lily asked
"Just a good guess and reading backwards." James smiled
Lily looked behind her and there was a mirror "that's not fair. But yep I'm a tiger. It says 'A tiger is an animal you don't want to upset sleek and strong. Furious its bit it more fatal than its glare.'"
"Wow lily that fits you to a tee." Sirius told her
They continued passing the book around. Sydney found out she was a cat. 'The cat is cunning and sly. Its words can be interpreted many ways. But watch out for the teeth it is quicker than you would think.' Sirius was a dog. 'Loyal to the end the dog stays by your side and will not leave you alone. The playful beast will stay busy for hours chasing its tail. It is more friendly than it looks.' Peter was a rat and not two pleased with its description. 'The shifty animal picks friends stronger than itself to protect it. It is devious and untrustworthy do not turn your back on it.' Exams came and went. The group passed with flying colors top of their class. Well everyone but peter, he barely scraped through.
On the last day of school Lydia and Carolina got bad news. They were found in their dorm moping around.
"What's wrong?" lily asked
"We wont be here next year." Carolina said
"But you got excellent marks" dawn said
"No, that's not why." Lydia explained
"Our dad got transferred to America." Al the girls' jaws dropped.
"That's not that bad. Americas pretty" flair told them.
"Just think of all the hot guys" stormy said and the all agreed.
"There's just one thing you have to promise not to do." Eve told them
"What?" they asked together
The other six girls looked at each other and said at once "become idiotic, blond, American valley girls."
"We promise" Lydia said
"Do you have something against blonds?" Carolina asked since she was blond and everyone started laughing.
The next thing they knew they were on the Hogwarts express with 13 people squished into one compartment. They were in seats on the floor and on other people's laps. They were laughing and having a great time. To soon the train ride ended along with their first year at Hogwarts.