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Chapter 3 - The Sorting and the Feast
The Hogwarts Express finally rolled into Hogsmeade station. Like every previous year the weather was horrible. It was extremely rainy and cold outside. All of the students spilled out of the train and into the horseless carriages as fast as they could. Everyone would ride the carriages up to the school except for the new first years. The first years would go with Professor Shelton in four-person boats across the lake up to the school. Professor Shelton was the Care of Magical Creatures teacher for Hogwarts.
"Guys, hurry up. We need to find an empty carriage," Peter said to his fellow Marauders. They couldn't find a carriage that could fit all of them in it. "Here's one that looks empty enough. It only has three people in it right now," Sirius said.
James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter quickly climbed into the carriage before anyone else could take it. At that point they would do almost anything to get out of the rainy weather. Too bad they didn't realize exactly who was already in the carriage.
"Oh great! Look who happens to be in our carriage. It's Miss Perfect Prefect Evans," James taunted. The three people in the carriage turned out to be Lily, Kaylie, and their other best friend, Tiffany Wang. Tiffany, who most of the time chooses to go by Tai, is shorter than both of her best friends and is of Asian decent. She has wavy, black hair that goes down to her mid-back and dark brown eyes.
"Well, Potter, we just happened to be here first. Maybe you can go find your own carriage," Lily shot back. "Oh my gosh! Can't you two get along for just a couple of minutes? It's getting really annoying and we haven't even arrived at the school yet," Tai exclaimed. Sometimes she could have a very short temper.
"I agree," Remus said. "Just try not to bite each others heads off yet." Sirius, Peter, and James always had a supicious feeling that Remus had a thing for Tai. They were so much alike but also so different anything could happen.
"Hurmph," James let out in a bad mood before slouching back in his seat glaring at Lily. Lily as good as did the same thing back to James. The whole ride up to Hogwarts the two sat and glared at each other which was just fine with all of their friends. Just as long as they weren't physically fighting. Really, besides James and Lily, the whole group got along brilliantly. If Lily and James could just get along then one would see the two groups together most of the time.
When they finally arrived up at the school, all seven of the Gryffindors piled out of their horseless carriage. James had had a clumsy moment and bumped into Lily. "Watch it, Potter," Lily said. "I don't want your germs all over me."
"Shove it, Evans," James said walking away with the rest of the Marauders. "Git," Lily muttered under her breath turning in the opposite direction with Kaylie and Tai.
Both groups made it into the Great Hall and into some seats at the Gryffindor table. Much to the dismay of Lily and James, the Marauders and the girls ended up sitting with each other. The two decided just to settle with a glare in the others direction instead of the normal verbal abuse.
"Come on! Let's get this sorting over with so I can eat," Sirius exclaimed as Professor McGonagall came in with the Sorting Hat and stool. "Still always thinking about food at every possible moment, Sirius?" Kaylie asked. Everyone was always amazed at how much the kid could eat and still be thin. "You know I'm a growing man and that I need my food, babe," Sirius comented to Kaylie. There was always some shameless flirting between the two, but they always had some shouting matches too.
About 45 minutes later, the Sorting concluded and all the first years were sitting at their new house tables. Headmaster Dumbledore stood up and gave his annual start-of-the-year speech. It consisted of all of the usual announcements like staying out of the Forbidden Forest and who the new Head Boy and Head Girl were. "And now, let the feast begin," Dumbledore announced when he was done making his speech.
Immediately, all of the Marauders, especially Sirius, dug into the food that had just appeared on the tables. The girls had revolting looks on their faces. "Uhh, guys," Tai said. "Don't you want to slow down a little bit so you don't get sick." The four boys looked at her like she was crazy. "Or not," she muttered. They went back to shoveling it in their mouths.
Eventually the feast came to an end. "Prefects if you would please lead the first years up to your houses and show them the dorms," Dumbledore said above all of the noise in the Great Hall. Lily got up and joined Remus, the other Gryffindor sixth year Prefect, out in the entrance hall. They gathered up all of the first year Gryffindors and headed up toward the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Alright everybody. The password is 'Mountain Troll.' Don't forget the password or you won't be able to get in the common room," Remus said. "The girls' dormitories are on the right and the boys' dorms are on the left," Lily said.
After Remus and Lily got the first years settled, they went and joined their friends in their respective dorms. The Marauders spent the rest of the evening planning pranks for the following day. Lily, Kaylie, and Tai were chatting up in their room until Kathy Bennett and Julie Goodrite walked in.
They were the last two Gryffindor sixth-years that shared the dorm. They were known as the resident bitches of Hogwarts. The two of them weren't very bright, looked extremely superficial, and thought that they could get with any guy that they wanted. Another thing that Kathy and Julie were notorious for was hating their other roommates, especially Lily.
Kathy Bennett had fake, straight blonde hair that went down to her waist. She also had brown eyes and an average looking body. Julie Goodrite, on the other hand, was slightly chubby and had dyed raven-colored hair. She was really short and had blue eyes.
"Oh joy! The bitches are back," Kaylie muttered sarcastically out of the corner of her mouth so that Kathy and Julie couldn't hear. "Umm, like, just so you three know, we won't be associating with losers like you this year," Kathy said. "Good. Because we want absolutely nothing to do with you," Lily replied.
Lily and Kathy glared at each other for awhile and then went back to their friends like nothing had happened. Soon all of the sixth year girls were asleep in their beds awaiting their first day of school on the following day.
AN - Thanks to Tai-for-you and DobbyGrl for reviewing so far. I hope you guys like this chapter as well. It's not that long but it gets to some more exciting stuff. Please review. Thanks!