Chapter Seven: Punka
The students arrived in the village of Hogsmeade and the first years sailed across the vast lake but shortly enough they were all in the great hall of Hogwarts and the school was working it's usual magic on the first years. All of them by now were gaping at the fantastic ceiling over head. Lily,
Tom, Anna, Ganelle and Geoffrey were standing watching their soon to be class mates get sorted. When Lily's name was called, her friends around her wished her luck and she walked up to the stool and pulled the old hat down over her head.
"ah... quite a difficult one aren't you? Intelligent, friendly and desperate to keep something hidden. But bravery I see is your main aspect. Maybe not now but defiantly later in life Bravery for love and this house will help you. Better be... GRYFFINDOR!"
She smiled and removed the hat from her head, then walked grinning to the Gryffindor table. She looked over at the Ravenclaw table. Jenny smiled and tapped Amanda who was next to her. She noticed Lily and they both waved. Lily was waving back just as the sorting hat announced Ganelle being put in to Gryffindor. Lily cheered with the rest of her house as Ganelle sat next to her.
"This is amazing!" She whispered in Lily's ear. Lily smiled and agreed.
"I know!" The sorting continued and ended... Remus joined the two of them in Gryffindor along with seven other class mates. James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pittigrew, Raven Couser, Kelly Matolese, and Fran Stanting. Geoffrey was put in Ravenclaw and Tom and Anna were rightly so placed in Hufflepuff. Lily, Ganelle and Remus sat together Lily next to Ganelle with Remus across from her. Sitting next to Remus was Raven Couser who seemed to have been previously aquatinted with another house member named Peter Pittigrew. The group was soon aquatinted and rather friendly towards each other, Which caused them to be disappointed when they soon were told to go to their dorms to get sleep for the first day of school. Once in the dorms, they found themselves unable to go to sleep. The dorm had five girls, Lily, Ganelle, Raven, Kelly Matolese and Fran Stanting. Almost immediately after they entered their room they found themselves immersed in a conversation about their families until late hours of the night until finally they all fell peacefully asleep. The next mourning the five girls awoke and like lemmings followed each other down to the great hall. They were joined by Remus soon. "So how are they other guys in Gryffindor Remus?" "Pretty cool, I don't know... There's Peter who you already know. He's the sanest of them all I think. Sirius Black's quite a character, that's him over there" Remus pointed to the end of the table. The group of them turned there heads towards a boy with neat black hair and then all but one turned back to Remus. As Remus went on about the other guys in his dorm, Lily stared at the boy. He was familiar in a distant way. Like she has seen him in a dream.
"Lily?" She heard from her left side. She snapped back in to reality and looked at Remus with a smile.
"Hmm?"
"You were in a completely different world Lil. Where were you?" Lily glanced back at Sirius and nodded in his direction,
"He's cute wouldn't you say?" They all looked at her for a moment then Raven said,
"Guess you could say that. We should get to our first class. We don't even know where it is." They all nodded in agreement but Lily said,
"Hang on." She turned towards the Ravenclaw able and noticed Amanda and Jenny were quite near her. "Jenny!" She called and Jenny looked up. She smiled as she saw Lily and stood to come talk to her.
"A little help is required see we don't know where to go..."
"No problem Lil' manda come on your little brother needs help!" Jenny said. Soon Amanda and Jenny were leading the large group of people hanging around Lily to their first period defense against the dark arts class.
"So are you guys all good with Danise?" Lily asked while they were walking.
"Yes all back to normal. What about you? What's been going on? Looks like you have quite a crowd hanging around you."
"Yeah... well they're not Tom and Anna but I do my best." She replied sarcastically. Both girls laughed and stopped walking.
"Your class." Jenny motioned towards the door to the left.
"Thanks. So I'll see you later maybe?"
"Maybe"
"Ah the first days end with great success wouldn't you say?" Ganelle asked stretching out on one of the arm chairs in the common room. Lily let out a snort of laughter,
"If you call two essay's due tomorrow a success."
"Well if you're a fast writer it is!"
"Well I'm not a fast writer." Ganelle laughed a little.
"Look." She said tapping Lily on the shoulder. Lily follow her gaze and found nothing "What?" She asked.
"There. Look it's James and Sirius." Lily looked again and this time noticed Sirius and smiled. Ganelle watched her and noted out loud "You have a thing for him."
"I don't!" Lily countered, "He looks familiar that's all." Ganelle smiled "Sure... I'll ask Remus to get some info on him. Although he didn't look all that well after lunch today and I haven't seen him since. Do you think he's alright?" Lily nodded "I'm sure he'll be fine. I'm going to go put some of this stuff away." She said and walked up the stairs to the girls first years dorms. Went she got in she found an owl on her night stand with a letter in it's talons.
"Thanks." She muttered to it as she took the letter. She sat on her bed and read,
Lily,
Congratulations on getting into Gryffindor! I would have thought Ravenclaw but what do I know? So I was wondering if you wanted to hang out with Anna and me sometime. Maybe Friday? Owl me back! -Tom Lily sighed and took out a quill and some parchment. She was just about to write Tom on the top but instead she scribbled down Dear mum, Petunia and dad, all is fantastic here. You should see this place it's amazing! I can't describe it a letter I'll have to tell you all about it over Christmas break. The classes I'm taking are quite out of the ordinary... History of magic, potions, Charms, Transfigurations. It's all very overwhelming. Wow when we got here we were sorted in to houses. There are four of them and your put in them according to your personality! I was placed in Gryffindor, home of the courageous. I've seen Tom a couple times but he isn't in my house. I met a couple nice people. Jenny and Amanda are third years. They showed me around. And Amanda's brother Remus is nice... and Ganelle and Raven are a few other people I've met. I guess I was just writing to say I'm here! It's all real. Love Lily She pocketed the note and made a mental note to ask Jenny how to get hold of an owl tomorrow. Shortly after she laid down and fell asleep.
"OK Lil' I have some interesting stuff for you." Remus said plopping in to an arm chair next to Lily that Friday afternoon.
"Stuff?"
"Information... about Sirius." Lily blushed and nodded him on. "OK he's a pure blood but he likes muggleborns and muggles. His dad is a teacher at a muggle school and his mom died at his birth. His best friend is James Potter. They've been friends since they were born basically. And he's noticed you out and about."
"Noticed me?" Lily asked excited.
"Yup he's noticed you." Lily smiled then looked around nervously and said,
"Thanks Remus. I think I'm gonna go to the library. See you at dinner." Lily got up and left the common room. "It's not as if I like him... I just recognize him." She muttered to herself. When she reached the library she grabbed a random book off the many selves and sat at a table to read. Well... that was her intention, to read, but she really ended up thinking. Was it right that she was completely forgetting about Rose when she was around her new friends? Had Petunia forgiven her yet? It given the choice would she go back to her old life or stay here. "Excuse me." A voice said from next to her. She looked up from the book she wasn't reading to the face of an old classmate. "Josh?" She muttered, the boy looked at her confused,
"Josh? My name's Severus, Severus Snape... what's yours?" Lily stared at him oddly for a moment then shook her head,
"Oh sorry! You looked like an old friend of mine. Lily Evens is i... me... I am..." He was smiling and when she noticed this she laughed and began again, "I'm Lily Evans."
"Well Lily Evans may I say that you are the slowest reader in the world?" Confused Lily asked, "What?" He gestured towards the book in front of her.
"That's the only copy of that book in the Library. Did you know you've been on the first page for the last four hours?"
"Four hours?!" Lily asked.
"Yeah. I've been sort of waiting for the book, while doing other research."
"Oh wow I'm sorry, here take it." She said pushing the book towards him slightly embarrassed.
"So tell me, what had you entertained with this page so long?" Lily looked at curiously and answered a bit nervously,
"Oh you know... stuff?" He chuckled at this remark and said,
"All right. Keep your secrets. It was nice to have met you Lily Evens." With this he stood and left the library. For a long time after words she stared in to the space he had left from then finally she turned her gaze back to the table in front of her. She noticed he had left the book and took note of the title. Punka. It was called. She went to the Librarian and asked where the book went and she pointed to the novel section. Lily found it odd that Severus would need a novel named Punka so badly but she shrugged it off as she looked for it's spot. When she found it she laughed to herself. A vacant spot for the book was right in front of her surrounded by a copy of Punka and another copy of Punka. She smiled to herself as the realization hit her that it wasn't the book Severus had taken interest in.
Tom, Anna, Ganelle and Geoffrey were standing watching their soon to be class mates get sorted. When Lily's name was called, her friends around her wished her luck and she walked up to the stool and pulled the old hat down over her head.
"ah... quite a difficult one aren't you? Intelligent, friendly and desperate to keep something hidden. But bravery I see is your main aspect. Maybe not now but defiantly later in life Bravery for love and this house will help you. Better be... GRYFFINDOR!"
She smiled and removed the hat from her head, then walked grinning to the Gryffindor table. She looked over at the Ravenclaw table. Jenny smiled and tapped Amanda who was next to her. She noticed Lily and they both waved. Lily was waving back just as the sorting hat announced Ganelle being put in to Gryffindor. Lily cheered with the rest of her house as Ganelle sat next to her.
"This is amazing!" She whispered in Lily's ear. Lily smiled and agreed.
"I know!" The sorting continued and ended... Remus joined the two of them in Gryffindor along with seven other class mates. James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pittigrew, Raven Couser, Kelly Matolese, and Fran Stanting. Geoffrey was put in Ravenclaw and Tom and Anna were rightly so placed in Hufflepuff. Lily, Ganelle and Remus sat together Lily next to Ganelle with Remus across from her. Sitting next to Remus was Raven Couser who seemed to have been previously aquatinted with another house member named Peter Pittigrew. The group was soon aquatinted and rather friendly towards each other, Which caused them to be disappointed when they soon were told to go to their dorms to get sleep for the first day of school. Once in the dorms, they found themselves unable to go to sleep. The dorm had five girls, Lily, Ganelle, Raven, Kelly Matolese and Fran Stanting. Almost immediately after they entered their room they found themselves immersed in a conversation about their families until late hours of the night until finally they all fell peacefully asleep. The next mourning the five girls awoke and like lemmings followed each other down to the great hall. They were joined by Remus soon. "So how are they other guys in Gryffindor Remus?" "Pretty cool, I don't know... There's Peter who you already know. He's the sanest of them all I think. Sirius Black's quite a character, that's him over there" Remus pointed to the end of the table. The group of them turned there heads towards a boy with neat black hair and then all but one turned back to Remus. As Remus went on about the other guys in his dorm, Lily stared at the boy. He was familiar in a distant way. Like she has seen him in a dream.
"Lily?" She heard from her left side. She snapped back in to reality and looked at Remus with a smile.
"Hmm?"
"You were in a completely different world Lil. Where were you?" Lily glanced back at Sirius and nodded in his direction,
"He's cute wouldn't you say?" They all looked at her for a moment then Raven said,
"Guess you could say that. We should get to our first class. We don't even know where it is." They all nodded in agreement but Lily said,
"Hang on." She turned towards the Ravenclaw able and noticed Amanda and Jenny were quite near her. "Jenny!" She called and Jenny looked up. She smiled as she saw Lily and stood to come talk to her.
"A little help is required see we don't know where to go..."
"No problem Lil' manda come on your little brother needs help!" Jenny said. Soon Amanda and Jenny were leading the large group of people hanging around Lily to their first period defense against the dark arts class.
"So are you guys all good with Danise?" Lily asked while they were walking.
"Yes all back to normal. What about you? What's been going on? Looks like you have quite a crowd hanging around you."
"Yeah... well they're not Tom and Anna but I do my best." She replied sarcastically. Both girls laughed and stopped walking.
"Your class." Jenny motioned towards the door to the left.
"Thanks. So I'll see you later maybe?"
"Maybe"
"Ah the first days end with great success wouldn't you say?" Ganelle asked stretching out on one of the arm chairs in the common room. Lily let out a snort of laughter,
"If you call two essay's due tomorrow a success."
"Well if you're a fast writer it is!"
"Well I'm not a fast writer." Ganelle laughed a little.
"Look." She said tapping Lily on the shoulder. Lily follow her gaze and found nothing "What?" She asked.
"There. Look it's James and Sirius." Lily looked again and this time noticed Sirius and smiled. Ganelle watched her and noted out loud "You have a thing for him."
"I don't!" Lily countered, "He looks familiar that's all." Ganelle smiled "Sure... I'll ask Remus to get some info on him. Although he didn't look all that well after lunch today and I haven't seen him since. Do you think he's alright?" Lily nodded "I'm sure he'll be fine. I'm going to go put some of this stuff away." She said and walked up the stairs to the girls first years dorms. Went she got in she found an owl on her night stand with a letter in it's talons.
"Thanks." She muttered to it as she took the letter. She sat on her bed and read,
Lily,
Congratulations on getting into Gryffindor! I would have thought Ravenclaw but what do I know? So I was wondering if you wanted to hang out with Anna and me sometime. Maybe Friday? Owl me back! -Tom Lily sighed and took out a quill and some parchment. She was just about to write Tom on the top but instead she scribbled down Dear mum, Petunia and dad, all is fantastic here. You should see this place it's amazing! I can't describe it a letter I'll have to tell you all about it over Christmas break. The classes I'm taking are quite out of the ordinary... History of magic, potions, Charms, Transfigurations. It's all very overwhelming. Wow when we got here we were sorted in to houses. There are four of them and your put in them according to your personality! I was placed in Gryffindor, home of the courageous. I've seen Tom a couple times but he isn't in my house. I met a couple nice people. Jenny and Amanda are third years. They showed me around. And Amanda's brother Remus is nice... and Ganelle and Raven are a few other people I've met. I guess I was just writing to say I'm here! It's all real. Love Lily She pocketed the note and made a mental note to ask Jenny how to get hold of an owl tomorrow. Shortly after she laid down and fell asleep.
"OK Lil' I have some interesting stuff for you." Remus said plopping in to an arm chair next to Lily that Friday afternoon.
"Stuff?"
"Information... about Sirius." Lily blushed and nodded him on. "OK he's a pure blood but he likes muggleborns and muggles. His dad is a teacher at a muggle school and his mom died at his birth. His best friend is James Potter. They've been friends since they were born basically. And he's noticed you out and about."
"Noticed me?" Lily asked excited.
"Yup he's noticed you." Lily smiled then looked around nervously and said,
"Thanks Remus. I think I'm gonna go to the library. See you at dinner." Lily got up and left the common room. "It's not as if I like him... I just recognize him." She muttered to herself. When she reached the library she grabbed a random book off the many selves and sat at a table to read. Well... that was her intention, to read, but she really ended up thinking. Was it right that she was completely forgetting about Rose when she was around her new friends? Had Petunia forgiven her yet? It given the choice would she go back to her old life or stay here. "Excuse me." A voice said from next to her. She looked up from the book she wasn't reading to the face of an old classmate. "Josh?" She muttered, the boy looked at her confused,
"Josh? My name's Severus, Severus Snape... what's yours?" Lily stared at him oddly for a moment then shook her head,
"Oh sorry! You looked like an old friend of mine. Lily Evens is i... me... I am..." He was smiling and when she noticed this she laughed and began again, "I'm Lily Evans."
"Well Lily Evans may I say that you are the slowest reader in the world?" Confused Lily asked, "What?" He gestured towards the book in front of her.
"That's the only copy of that book in the Library. Did you know you've been on the first page for the last four hours?"
"Four hours?!" Lily asked.
"Yeah. I've been sort of waiting for the book, while doing other research."
"Oh wow I'm sorry, here take it." She said pushing the book towards him slightly embarrassed.
"So tell me, what had you entertained with this page so long?" Lily looked at curiously and answered a bit nervously,
"Oh you know... stuff?" He chuckled at this remark and said,
"All right. Keep your secrets. It was nice to have met you Lily Evens." With this he stood and left the library. For a long time after words she stared in to the space he had left from then finally she turned her gaze back to the table in front of her. She noticed he had left the book and took note of the title. Punka. It was called. She went to the Librarian and asked where the book went and she pointed to the novel section. Lily found it odd that Severus would need a novel named Punka so badly but she shrugged it off as she looked for it's spot. When she found it she laughed to herself. A vacant spot for the book was right in front of her surrounded by a copy of Punka and another copy of Punka. She smiled to herself as the realization hit her that it wasn't the book Severus had taken interest in.