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Chapter 4 - First Day, First Major Fight
Monday morning rolled around sooner rather than later. Everyone was expected to be at breakfast by 7 o'clock. If they opted to skip breakfast, they were to show up at their first class which was to start at 8 o'clock.
In the Gryffindor sixth year girls dormitory, alarm clocks began buzzing at 6 o'clock on Monday morning. "Time to get up everybody," Kaylie announced. "Today's the first day of classes."
"Shut up, Kay," Tai said even though she was in the process of getting out of her bed. "How can you be such a morning person?" she questioned. Then, Tai went off to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for the day.
"Good thing those two bitches are already done in the showers," Kaylie muttered to herself meaning Kathy and Julie. They were still in the dorm in front of their mirrors pounding on the makeup and hairspray. They would continue to do this right up until it was time for breakfast to start. "Oh joy. Back to another year of having to wake up Lily in the morning because I'm they only one nice enough to do it," Kaylie thought to herself.
It was common knowledge to everyone in the girls dorm that Lily was not a morning person. Actually, she was the farthest thing from a morning person. Even Kathy and Julie knew better than to mess with Lily in the morning. "Oh well. I better give it a shot or else Lily will kill me even more if she misses the first day of classes because she overslept," Kay grumbled.
She walked over and got right next to Lily's bed. "Come on, Lily," she whispered in her ear trying to take a nice approach at first. Lily just pulled her blanket up over her head farther. "Well, you asked for it," Kaylie said. She bent over right next to Lily's ear and screamed, "Wake up or your gonna miss every class today!"
Lily finally responded and sat upright in the bed. "You freaking nag,"she complained to her best friend. "It's not even freaking 6:30 yet! You always have to wake me up so early. You know, I think you get some sick pleasure out of it," Lily kept on whining. "Whatever Lils. Just get ready so we can go get breakfast and get you in a good mood," Kay replied. It was also common knowledge that Lily always got in a better mood after eating breakfast. At 7 o'clock the girls arrived in the Great Hall for their morning meal.
At 6:30 in the Gryffindor sixth year boys dorm, things were going much differently. For one thing it was completely silent in the room, that is with the exception of snoring and breathing. All four of the Marauaders were in their beds still sleeping.
If one were in the room a little after 6:30, they would have heard a great thump on the floor. This thump was Peter Pettigrew falling out of bed. He realized what time it was a woke up Remus. "Guess what?" Peter said. "I give you the pleasure of waking up those two," he said to Remus while pointing at James and Sirius.
Sirius was tangled in his sheets with one arm and one leg hanging off the bed. He had his mouth wide open and was making soft snoring noises. James, on the other hand, was cuddled up with a pillow and sleeping very soundly while smiling. It was weird for the other Marauders to see someone smiling in their sleep but James always did it. Peter and Remus often got into battles about who would have to wake up Sirius and James. Sirius was definitely not a morning person and James was just plain difficult to awaken.
"Oh alright," Remus agreed albeit reluctantly. He decided to not even attempt a friendly approach for waking Sirius. He grabbed the pillow off of his own bed and started beating Sirius with it. "Come on!" Remus shouted. "Up you get. We only have 20 minuted to get to breakfast and Prongs isn't up yet," he toned down his yelling just a notch. "Alright, alright. I'm up," Sirius growled. "Good now we just have to get him," Remus said pointing to James.
While all of the shouting was going on James didn't even flinch. He just stayed right in the middle of his deep sleep. "Oh great," Sirius mumbled. "I better help, huh?" he questioned Remus. "Yeah, I think I'm gonna need it," Remus replied.
"Wake up Jimmy-boy," Sirius said into James's ear. "We have class today." James didn't move. "James, I know you're in there," Remus said roughly shaking James. James just curled up on the side of his bed opposite the side of Remus and Sirius. After five minutes of constant pestering, James was still asleep. Sirius and Remus just decided to push him off of his bed and onto the floor. That managed to get the job done as James finally awoke from the dead.
"Ouch. Whad you do that for?" he spoke incoherently. "Prongs, you have know idea how long we have been trying to wake you up," Sirius said. "Well, hurry up and get ready. Breakfast starts in 10 minutes."
Eventually, all of the Marauders arrived in the Great Hall only five minutes late. They all looked tired and sleepy from the previous night of prank planning. Unfortunately for James, the Marauders sat down by Lily, Kaylie, and Tai. During the meal, Remus, Peter, and Tai exchanged words about the new schedules that they had recently received and Sirius and Kaylie continued their shameless flirting. James and Lily just sat silently and ate their food. Part of the reason for them not bickering was because James was still too tired to fight.
The first class of the day for the seven was double Potions with the Slytherins. Professor Palmer was the Potions Master and head of Slytherin house. It was pretty bad considering Professor Palmer favored the Slytherins and hated everyone in Gryffindor. After Potions, the Gryffindors had Care of Magical Creatures where they studied hippogriffs.
At noon, everybody in the school went back into the Great Hall for lunch. This was what all of the Marauders were waiting for. It was their chance to finally prank their least favorite people in the whole entire school: Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy. Malfoy and Snape were both sixth year Slytherins.
Snape was tall, slim, and looked like he hadn't seen the sun in the past 15 years. He had piercing black eyes and long, greasy, black hair. Malfoy had long, silver-blonde hair and blue eyes. He was relatively short, but where he lacked in height he made up in mouth.
The Marauders at the Gryffindor table were in a huddle and whispering to each other. All of the people around them knew that something was about to go down. When Snape and Malfoy jumped up onto the the Slytherin table everyone knew who the victims were going to be.
Snape and Malfoy started singing love songs to each other, Professor Palmer, and Professor Dumbledore. After they finished their songs their robes abruptly changed to Gryffindor colors. Finally, to finish the prank, they shouted to the Great Hall that they loved the Marauders and the pranks that they pulled on them.
By the time the show was over, everyone in the hall was laughing. Sirius and James were practically rolling on the floor with laughter. Remus and Peter gave each other a high five. "Potter, Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew," Professor Palmer shouted. "Detention!" The four boys looked at each other and cringed.
The group of seven had Transfiguration and History of Magic after lunch. Time flew by the rest of the day and soon Lily, Kaylie, Tai, and the Marauders were spending some time together in the common room. Everyone was busy doing homework except Lily and James so Lily decided to be nice and attempt having a conversation with James.
"Hey, James," she said as she sat down on the couch beside him. "What do you want, Evans?" he responded rudely. "Fine. Be like that. I was just trying to be nice," she shot back. "Whatever," James said. "Gosh, what's up your ass today?" Lily was just trying to get him mad now. "You know what, Evans? Just leave me alone, ok," he said. "What if I don't want to?" By now they had gotten the attention of a lot of people in the common room.
"Look, I can't stand you! I would be surprised if anyone in this whole damn school could stand you. You strut around thinking you're so much better and smarter than everybody else. Why don't you do us all I favor and go back and live with the muggles?" James let his temper take over.
Lily looked up at James with tears in her eyes. "You bastard," she whispered and then ran up to her dorm. It was common knowledge that Lily was insecure about being Muggleborn since Malfoy and Snape constantly picked on her about it. Kaylie and Tai walked over and each gave James a swift slap across the cheek. They then left the room following Lily.
Sirius, Remus, and Peter walked over to James next. "That was really horrible of you," Remus said. "Yeah, James. That was really low," Sirius said. James always knew that Sirius was being serious when he used his first name. "James, can't you just be nice?" Peter asked.
"She didn't do anything wrong," Remus went on. "Maybe you should stay down here and think about what you did for awhile, James," Sirius said. "Because we really don't want to be around you right now."
"Fine!" James yelled. "Now that you've all lectured me will you just go the fuck away. You're not my dad, Sirius. I don't have to listen to a fucking thing you say," James screamed. "Consider our friendship on hold for awhile, James," Sirius replied calmly. Then he, Peter, and Remus went up to their dorm.
Meanwhile, with the girls, Kaylie and Tai were trying to calm Lily down. They kept telling her that James was a prick and that she shouldn't believe a single thing that he says. Lily eventually cried herself to sleep.
Remus, Sirius, and Peter were in the dorm trying to figure out what was wrong with James. They finally reached the decision that they would not talk to James for a couple of days unless he wanted to explain his actions to them. James just stayed sitting on the same couch, in the same position, the rest of the night deep in thought.
AN - I'm sorry I made James mean, but he has a reason which will be revealed soon. He will make up with the rest of the Marauders soon. Please review and give me some feedback. I hope that you liked it. Thanks!