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A/N: Thank you senshi_of_time and Smiley_Freak :D for your reviews...I'll try to get the next chaper up quicker for you two.
The Project
"Hold you hand above the broom and command, 'up.'" Professor Vertagon instructed. Once you have done this, mount your broom and hover for a few moments. Call me if you have a problem."
Almost immediately, James's broom flew up, but not before Remus's. Trip's, Lynn's and Sirius's were next. A moment later, Lily's flew up, not seeming to be a problem. Christine's and Rebecca's took a bit longer, but did come up. Peter and Marelda's didn't seem to want to budge.
Once everyone had mounted their brooms, Professor Vertagon said, "Now, you may rise, if you want, and if you're comfortable, even do laps."
"I can't believe it's all ready Halloween!" Christine exclaimed during breakfast.
"I know," Sirius agreed. "I can't wait for the feast tonight!"
"Yes, well, that's not for a while," Marelda said. "We have History of Magic now."
"Before we start class, I would like to assign you a project," Professor Binns said. The class groaned. "You each are to choose a past Hogwarts student who did well in studies and school, but afterwards, did not do as well. You are then to identify why. This is due before your Holiday Break," Binns paused. "That brings me to today's lesson. We are going to the library to work on the project."
"Well," Lily said a half-hour later, 'I know who I'm doing. "Anyone else?"
"I'm doing Jessica Revere," Marie said. "And Rebecca's doing Jason Case."
"I'm doing Arnold Rugg," James said.
"Martin French," Remus added.
"Gerald Bosley," Peter said.
"And I'm dong John Washington," Sirius finished.
"Marelda's doing Monica Adams, Christine is doing Hilary Monroe, and I'm d doing Andrew Buchanan." Lynn said.
"Great!" Lily said. "I'm doing-"the bell rang as Lily said it. She sight. "That was supposed to be Tom Riddle."
"Our next subject in this class," Professor Williams started, "is snakes." Everybody started murmuring. "Silence!" Professor Williams snapped. "Ten points from Gryffindor!"
There were sounds of outrage in the room. "What for?!" James exclaimed.
"Speaking out of turn," Williams spoke, "And I think that you also earned yourself a detention, Mr. Potter. Now, as I was saying," She said without giving James the chance to protest, "In a few weeks, you will be given a group project on a certain snake. Today, we will start with the Runespoor, which is a magical snake. It has three heads, is six feet long, and can be found in Burkina, Faso. Because of the intimidating appearance, dark witches and wizards sometimes keep Runespoors for pets. Each of the three heads has a function. The right side plans, the middle dreams, and the left criticizes. Sometimes, the other two heads would bite off the left head. Runespoor eggs are produced through the mouth, and are used for potions and enhancing mental ability." She stopped to catch her breath. "For the remainder of the class, you are to write what I have said repeatedly until you have memorized it to my liking. You may begin."
"I like her less every class," Lily sighed, leaving.
"Before you all stuff yourself like the turkeys," Dumbledore said, "I would like to remind prefects that a meeting will be held after the feast. The first quittich match, Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin, will be held Saturday at noon. The following week, Hufflepuff will play Gryffindor. I would like to wish all the teams good luck. Enjoy!"
"Ohhhh," Trip groaned as dessert appeared. "Too much food!"
Lynn laughed at him as she helped herself to a piece of pumpkin pie. "You shouldn't have eaten everything."
"She's right, you know," Sirius said, putting some of each dessert on his plate.
"Be quiet, Sirius," James said, feeling the same as Trip. "You only had a roll for supper!"
"You know," Christine said, "That's a good idea."
"I know. Who wouldn't like all desserts for a meal," Sirius stated, quite proud of himself.
"It's not worth it unless there is death by chocolate ice cream with hot fudge, whipped cream, special cherries, and pink heart sprinkles," Lily said.
Remus laughed, while the others looked confused. "But I get blue heart sprinkles." Lily nodded seriously before bursting in laughter.
"Goodnight, everyone. Please try to make it to your dorms without collapsing," Dumbledore laughed fifteen minutes later.
"Today I am assigning the projects," Professor Williams said. "Because there are eleven in the class and six snake types, one person will be working alone. That person is Peter Pettigrew, doing the sea serpent." Peter groaned. "What was that, Mr. Pettigrew?" She challenged.
"Nothing," said Peter.
"That's what I thought," Williams said. "Ms. Weasley and Ms. Rolands, you will research Ashwind. Mr. Waters and Marelda Dorhety, you will do Runespoor. Rebecca Dorhety and Mr. Potter, you have Occamy. Ms. Netly and Mr. Lupin, your assignment is the dragon. Ms Evans and Mr. Black, you will do your topic on the basilisk. You are dismissed to work on it, now, work!" Professor Williams said.
After Williams had left the class, Marelda exclaimed, "She didn't even give an outline!"
"But we'll still get a decent grade," her partner assured.
"I think she purposely left me alone," Peter complained. "She wants to embarrass me, I know it!"
"So prove her wrong," Rebecca suggested.
"I think we all will," Lynn said.
"So, you want to work tonight?" Lily asked Sirius.
"Not really," he responded. Lily glared at him. "All right," he sighed.
"What about you, Remus?" Marie asked.
"I wish I could, but this evening I'm leaving for a few days. My grandmother is ill and it may be her last birthday, so, I have to go," Remus explained, looking at the ground.
"Oh, I hope she gets better! Maybe we can work some other time?" Marie said.
"Of course," Remus responded.
"We'll all work tonight," James said, while everyone else nodded. "Remus is the exception. It's settled."
"Welcome to this year's second quittich match, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff," the commentator said.
"I can't believe Remus is missing this!" James exclaimed, excited about the match.
Two hours later, however, everyone's enthusiasm had gone down.
"Catch the blasted snitch!" A voice called.
"If he doesn't catch that within tem minutes, I'm leaving," Marelda said.
"Hunt appears to have spotted the snitch. He's in a dive and- oh, it's the feint! Jacobson is in the ground," The announcer said ten minutes later.
"I'm out of here," Marelda said, "Two and a half hours is long enough."
"Suit yourself," Lily said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Hunt is diving again. This time, Jacobson doesn't follow. Hunt swerves from a bludger- get's off his broom?" The commentary stopped. "Gryffindor seeker, Marty Hunt catches the snitch, starting Gryffindor's Quittich season with a 250-200 victory."
"Oh, you just missed it!" Rebecca shouted over the crowd to Marelda. "We won!"
"How's your Grandmother, Remus?" Christine asked.
"Fine," Remus responded.
Seeing Remus didn't want to talk about it, Lynn quickly changed the topic. "Projects tonight," she declared.
Very quickly, breakfast was over.
"Bye Kayla," Lily said, "Bye Jenna."
"The basilisk," Lily started, "Is a wizard-bred dark creature, a giant serpent, sometimes known as the King of the Serpents. It is green with long teeth and yellow bulbous eyes. Under the correct circumstances, a basilisk can live for up to nine hundred years. Basilisk breading is outlawed, and has been since medieval times. This law is rarely broken because only a Parselmouth can control it."
"A basilisk can kill many creatures and in many ways," Sirius continued. "the two most known of these are it's venomous fangs, which kill within minutes of puncturing flesh and it's eyes, which instantaneously kill any who sees them. If a person sees the reflection of the basilisk's eyes or sees it indirectly will become petrified, but can be cured with mature mandrakes. The only animal which seems immune to the stare of the basilisk is a phoenix. Spiders are mortal enemies of the basilisk, and flee before it. The crow of a rooster, however, is fatal to the King of the Serpents."
"To end this," Lily said, "A basilisk is one of the possible creatures said to be in the 'Chamber of Secrets.'"
Many people laughed at this.
"Well, now that the presentations are done," Williams said, "I can only hope that the written reports are better than these. You are dismissed!"
"Great! One project finished, now onto the next." Lily sighed.
"And that's why Arnold Rugg did not do well after Hogwarts," James finished.
"And lastly, Ms. Evans, please educate us on Mr. Tom Riddle," Binns said.
"Thank you Professor," Lily said. "I'd like to start with a brief history of Tom Riddle. He was born in 1927 in Little Hangleton. His mother was a witch and father a Muggle. Tom's father, however, didn't know his wife was a witch, and when he found out, abandoned the pregnant woman. After Tom was born, his mother had enough time to name him before she died, leaving her son to grow up in a Muggle orphanage. In 1938, Tom began at Hogwarts, and was sorted into Slytherin. He was a 'true Slytherin,' in the aspect that he felt anyone Muggle born was not worthy of learning magic, nonetheless, he was named prefect and then Head Boy. In the end of his 1941-1942 school year, Tom was given an award for services to the school, but I was unable to find what these services were. In his last year, Tom even received a Medal for Magical Merit. He was said to be on e of the best students Hogwarts had seen. After hi graduation, however, there was no news of he getting a job or anything. Nobody has heard anything from him in years. I believe this is partially because of his obvious dislike of Muggles, which is not tolerable in the wizarding world now, and, as a student, Tom didn't work very hard for his grades. Now that he's out in the real world, he has to work, which seems to be something he is not willing to do." Lily finished.
"Well done, Ms. Evans. Class dismissed. Have a good holiday!" Binns said.
"Classes are over!" Peter exclaimed happily.
"That they are," Trip said from behind before joining his friends from other houses.
"Lily!!!" Petunia shouted.
"'Tunia!!!" Lily exclaimed in reply.
The two girls ran to each other, Lily dropping her trunk. The two girls started talking, continuously, while one breathed, the other spoke. After five minutes of this, Lily's parents spoke up.
"I guess she doesn't care about us anymore, Charles," Mona declared.
Petunia moved away as Lily exclaimed, "Mom! Dad!" As she ran up to her parents.
"Now," Charles said while in the family car, "before we say anything about life here, we want to know all about Hogwarts- those letters weren't very descriptive."
"Sorry," Lily said, her face reddening, "But I've been busy with school- It's a castle!" Lily said, talking for twenty minutes about Hogwarts. "I need to buy gifts for a few friends, but I have everything picked out. I also want to visit an orphanage where one extraordinary student, Tom Riddle, grew up," Lily finished. "So, how's everything around here?"
Petunia started by saying she broke up with Kevin, then continued on about school.
"We have a few plans made for the time you'll be here," Mona started after everyone had gotten home. "Tomorrow, you and your group of friends, including Petunia, are meeting at the community center, and then going to downtown London." Lily jumped with a huge grin. "It's also our turn to hold the Christmas eve party, so, you can invite your friends and their families, since all of Petunia's, including Arabella and Ruth, were invited. I think that's about it."
"This is great!" Lily exclaimed. "As much as I like my new school, I really missed all our you."
"We missed you too, Flower," Charles said. "You'd better really like that school, because if I hear a single complaint, you're not going back," he added, only half joking.
"You have no idea, Daddy. I wish you could all see it! It's wonderful!" Lily exclaimed.
"I have an idea," Petunia said a few moments later, "We should watch our favorite holiday movie for the rest of the night- after all, Lily is a few hours earlier than us anyway."
"Just like we did when we were little!" Lily exclaimed. "I definitely like that idea- still the Miracle on 34th Street?"
"Of course!" Petunia responded.
"Well, that sounds perfectly okay to me," Charles said.
"Time to get up girls!" Mona shouted the next morning. "Remember, we're going to London this morning."
Remembering this, Lily jumped out of bed, as did Petunia. "Coming!" The two responded.
A/N: Thank you senshi_of_time and Smiley_Freak :D for your reviews...I'll try to get the next chaper up quicker for you two.
The Project
"Hold you hand above the broom and command, 'up.'" Professor Vertagon instructed. Once you have done this, mount your broom and hover for a few moments. Call me if you have a problem."
Almost immediately, James's broom flew up, but not before Remus's. Trip's, Lynn's and Sirius's were next. A moment later, Lily's flew up, not seeming to be a problem. Christine's and Rebecca's took a bit longer, but did come up. Peter and Marelda's didn't seem to want to budge.
Once everyone had mounted their brooms, Professor Vertagon said, "Now, you may rise, if you want, and if you're comfortable, even do laps."
"I can't believe it's all ready Halloween!" Christine exclaimed during breakfast.
"I know," Sirius agreed. "I can't wait for the feast tonight!"
"Yes, well, that's not for a while," Marelda said. "We have History of Magic now."
"Before we start class, I would like to assign you a project," Professor Binns said. The class groaned. "You each are to choose a past Hogwarts student who did well in studies and school, but afterwards, did not do as well. You are then to identify why. This is due before your Holiday Break," Binns paused. "That brings me to today's lesson. We are going to the library to work on the project."
"Well," Lily said a half-hour later, 'I know who I'm doing. "Anyone else?"
"I'm doing Jessica Revere," Marie said. "And Rebecca's doing Jason Case."
"I'm doing Arnold Rugg," James said.
"Martin French," Remus added.
"Gerald Bosley," Peter said.
"And I'm dong John Washington," Sirius finished.
"Marelda's doing Monica Adams, Christine is doing Hilary Monroe, and I'm d doing Andrew Buchanan." Lynn said.
"Great!" Lily said. "I'm doing-"the bell rang as Lily said it. She sight. "That was supposed to be Tom Riddle."
"Our next subject in this class," Professor Williams started, "is snakes." Everybody started murmuring. "Silence!" Professor Williams snapped. "Ten points from Gryffindor!"
There were sounds of outrage in the room. "What for?!" James exclaimed.
"Speaking out of turn," Williams spoke, "And I think that you also earned yourself a detention, Mr. Potter. Now, as I was saying," She said without giving James the chance to protest, "In a few weeks, you will be given a group project on a certain snake. Today, we will start with the Runespoor, which is a magical snake. It has three heads, is six feet long, and can be found in Burkina, Faso. Because of the intimidating appearance, dark witches and wizards sometimes keep Runespoors for pets. Each of the three heads has a function. The right side plans, the middle dreams, and the left criticizes. Sometimes, the other two heads would bite off the left head. Runespoor eggs are produced through the mouth, and are used for potions and enhancing mental ability." She stopped to catch her breath. "For the remainder of the class, you are to write what I have said repeatedly until you have memorized it to my liking. You may begin."
"I like her less every class," Lily sighed, leaving.
"Before you all stuff yourself like the turkeys," Dumbledore said, "I would like to remind prefects that a meeting will be held after the feast. The first quittich match, Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin, will be held Saturday at noon. The following week, Hufflepuff will play Gryffindor. I would like to wish all the teams good luck. Enjoy!"
"Ohhhh," Trip groaned as dessert appeared. "Too much food!"
Lynn laughed at him as she helped herself to a piece of pumpkin pie. "You shouldn't have eaten everything."
"She's right, you know," Sirius said, putting some of each dessert on his plate.
"Be quiet, Sirius," James said, feeling the same as Trip. "You only had a roll for supper!"
"You know," Christine said, "That's a good idea."
"I know. Who wouldn't like all desserts for a meal," Sirius stated, quite proud of himself.
"It's not worth it unless there is death by chocolate ice cream with hot fudge, whipped cream, special cherries, and pink heart sprinkles," Lily said.
Remus laughed, while the others looked confused. "But I get blue heart sprinkles." Lily nodded seriously before bursting in laughter.
"Goodnight, everyone. Please try to make it to your dorms without collapsing," Dumbledore laughed fifteen minutes later.
"Today I am assigning the projects," Professor Williams said. "Because there are eleven in the class and six snake types, one person will be working alone. That person is Peter Pettigrew, doing the sea serpent." Peter groaned. "What was that, Mr. Pettigrew?" She challenged.
"Nothing," said Peter.
"That's what I thought," Williams said. "Ms. Weasley and Ms. Rolands, you will research Ashwind. Mr. Waters and Marelda Dorhety, you will do Runespoor. Rebecca Dorhety and Mr. Potter, you have Occamy. Ms. Netly and Mr. Lupin, your assignment is the dragon. Ms Evans and Mr. Black, you will do your topic on the basilisk. You are dismissed to work on it, now, work!" Professor Williams said.
After Williams had left the class, Marelda exclaimed, "She didn't even give an outline!"
"But we'll still get a decent grade," her partner assured.
"I think she purposely left me alone," Peter complained. "She wants to embarrass me, I know it!"
"So prove her wrong," Rebecca suggested.
"I think we all will," Lynn said.
"So, you want to work tonight?" Lily asked Sirius.
"Not really," he responded. Lily glared at him. "All right," he sighed.
"What about you, Remus?" Marie asked.
"I wish I could, but this evening I'm leaving for a few days. My grandmother is ill and it may be her last birthday, so, I have to go," Remus explained, looking at the ground.
"Oh, I hope she gets better! Maybe we can work some other time?" Marie said.
"Of course," Remus responded.
"We'll all work tonight," James said, while everyone else nodded. "Remus is the exception. It's settled."
"Welcome to this year's second quittich match, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff," the commentator said.
"I can't believe Remus is missing this!" James exclaimed, excited about the match.
Two hours later, however, everyone's enthusiasm had gone down.
"Catch the blasted snitch!" A voice called.
"If he doesn't catch that within tem minutes, I'm leaving," Marelda said.
"Hunt appears to have spotted the snitch. He's in a dive and- oh, it's the feint! Jacobson is in the ground," The announcer said ten minutes later.
"I'm out of here," Marelda said, "Two and a half hours is long enough."
"Suit yourself," Lily said, shrugging her shoulders.
"Hunt is diving again. This time, Jacobson doesn't follow. Hunt swerves from a bludger- get's off his broom?" The commentary stopped. "Gryffindor seeker, Marty Hunt catches the snitch, starting Gryffindor's Quittich season with a 250-200 victory."
"Oh, you just missed it!" Rebecca shouted over the crowd to Marelda. "We won!"
"How's your Grandmother, Remus?" Christine asked.
"Fine," Remus responded.
Seeing Remus didn't want to talk about it, Lynn quickly changed the topic. "Projects tonight," she declared.
Very quickly, breakfast was over.
"Bye Kayla," Lily said, "Bye Jenna."
"The basilisk," Lily started, "Is a wizard-bred dark creature, a giant serpent, sometimes known as the King of the Serpents. It is green with long teeth and yellow bulbous eyes. Under the correct circumstances, a basilisk can live for up to nine hundred years. Basilisk breading is outlawed, and has been since medieval times. This law is rarely broken because only a Parselmouth can control it."
"A basilisk can kill many creatures and in many ways," Sirius continued. "the two most known of these are it's venomous fangs, which kill within minutes of puncturing flesh and it's eyes, which instantaneously kill any who sees them. If a person sees the reflection of the basilisk's eyes or sees it indirectly will become petrified, but can be cured with mature mandrakes. The only animal which seems immune to the stare of the basilisk is a phoenix. Spiders are mortal enemies of the basilisk, and flee before it. The crow of a rooster, however, is fatal to the King of the Serpents."
"To end this," Lily said, "A basilisk is one of the possible creatures said to be in the 'Chamber of Secrets.'"
Many people laughed at this.
"Well, now that the presentations are done," Williams said, "I can only hope that the written reports are better than these. You are dismissed!"
"Great! One project finished, now onto the next." Lily sighed.
"And that's why Arnold Rugg did not do well after Hogwarts," James finished.
"And lastly, Ms. Evans, please educate us on Mr. Tom Riddle," Binns said.
"Thank you Professor," Lily said. "I'd like to start with a brief history of Tom Riddle. He was born in 1927 in Little Hangleton. His mother was a witch and father a Muggle. Tom's father, however, didn't know his wife was a witch, and when he found out, abandoned the pregnant woman. After Tom was born, his mother had enough time to name him before she died, leaving her son to grow up in a Muggle orphanage. In 1938, Tom began at Hogwarts, and was sorted into Slytherin. He was a 'true Slytherin,' in the aspect that he felt anyone Muggle born was not worthy of learning magic, nonetheless, he was named prefect and then Head Boy. In the end of his 1941-1942 school year, Tom was given an award for services to the school, but I was unable to find what these services were. In his last year, Tom even received a Medal for Magical Merit. He was said to be on e of the best students Hogwarts had seen. After hi graduation, however, there was no news of he getting a job or anything. Nobody has heard anything from him in years. I believe this is partially because of his obvious dislike of Muggles, which is not tolerable in the wizarding world now, and, as a student, Tom didn't work very hard for his grades. Now that he's out in the real world, he has to work, which seems to be something he is not willing to do." Lily finished.
"Well done, Ms. Evans. Class dismissed. Have a good holiday!" Binns said.
"Classes are over!" Peter exclaimed happily.
"That they are," Trip said from behind before joining his friends from other houses.
"Lily!!!" Petunia shouted.
"'Tunia!!!" Lily exclaimed in reply.
The two girls ran to each other, Lily dropping her trunk. The two girls started talking, continuously, while one breathed, the other spoke. After five minutes of this, Lily's parents spoke up.
"I guess she doesn't care about us anymore, Charles," Mona declared.
Petunia moved away as Lily exclaimed, "Mom! Dad!" As she ran up to her parents.
"Now," Charles said while in the family car, "before we say anything about life here, we want to know all about Hogwarts- those letters weren't very descriptive."
"Sorry," Lily said, her face reddening, "But I've been busy with school- It's a castle!" Lily said, talking for twenty minutes about Hogwarts. "I need to buy gifts for a few friends, but I have everything picked out. I also want to visit an orphanage where one extraordinary student, Tom Riddle, grew up," Lily finished. "So, how's everything around here?"
Petunia started by saying she broke up with Kevin, then continued on about school.
"We have a few plans made for the time you'll be here," Mona started after everyone had gotten home. "Tomorrow, you and your group of friends, including Petunia, are meeting at the community center, and then going to downtown London." Lily jumped with a huge grin. "It's also our turn to hold the Christmas eve party, so, you can invite your friends and their families, since all of Petunia's, including Arabella and Ruth, were invited. I think that's about it."
"This is great!" Lily exclaimed. "As much as I like my new school, I really missed all our you."
"We missed you too, Flower," Charles said. "You'd better really like that school, because if I hear a single complaint, you're not going back," he added, only half joking.
"You have no idea, Daddy. I wish you could all see it! It's wonderful!" Lily exclaimed.
"I have an idea," Petunia said a few moments later, "We should watch our favorite holiday movie for the rest of the night- after all, Lily is a few hours earlier than us anyway."
"Just like we did when we were little!" Lily exclaimed. "I definitely like that idea- still the Miracle on 34th Street?"
"Of course!" Petunia responded.
"Well, that sounds perfectly okay to me," Charles said.
"Time to get up girls!" Mona shouted the next morning. "Remember, we're going to London this morning."
Remembering this, Lily jumped out of bed, as did Petunia. "Coming!" The two responded.