DECEMBER
Dear Diary,
I can hardly believe Christmas is nearly here! It seems like yesterday my parents kicked me out of my house and I boarded the train to start at a new school. Really, it's been several months!
So I guess I should start at the beginning of term, because I haven't written anything since September and so much has happened! After I finished writing last time, I got really curious about James and Sirius's families, since they looked so guilty when Regina mentioned she was 'pure-blood'. So I asked her. James is the Minister of Magic's son, and he and Sirius are somewhat related, but I can't remember how. All the purebloods are related. Regina is James's second cousin once removed, apparently. Sirius is the son of a dark witch, his family is really evil and Sirius is not, so it's kind of inevitable that he will get disowned one day. He lives with James most of the time I think. They are both really rich though.
I think I was slightly annoyed that they lied to me, but technically they didn't say anything so I guess it was just my assumptions and I can't blame them for that.
I know that if Remus is a werewolf, he must have had contact with wizards. I asked him the next day and he says that his dad was a wizard but he died when Remus was very young and he doesn't remember him, but his dad's best friend looked after him and his mother. He has told me a lot lately, we are really good friends.
Sirius and James are up to breaking the school detention record, because they already have over fifty. In fact, I lost count. They might have had over a hundred, though how they fit them all in I don't know. Somehow they remain on top of their homework too.
Did I mention that Snape now has permanently fluoro pink hair! We dyed it after the Great November Castle Fight. He has to wait for it to grow out. I feel sort of sorry for him, it's not his fault he can be such a greasy git. Well, maybe he could wash his hair without us, but otherwise I guess it's his pureblood family.
All this bloodline purity stuff is making me confused, and sick. It's disgusting and racist that people base others on how many witches and wizards are in their family. I know that I am smart, but just because I am muggle-born my potions teacher always grades me lower. It's worse that I am Gryffindor as well, because it's only the Slytherins he likes. Which is ironic, considering he was once a Ravenclaw.
I guess this means you don't have to be Slytherin to be bad.
Anyway, enough about the boys for now. Regina and Kate are my two best friends, we are inseparable. Star and Spray, the twins in our dorm, are our half friends, but they often hang around their friends in other houses and they are slightly crazy. Luckily they aren't ditzy, or I don't know what I would do!
Regina is slightly crazy. She is in love with this boy back at home, and she knows that it's stupid. She won't look at another guy, or even admit somebody else is attractive because she thinks nobody compares to this boy. His name is Zac. I've seen a photo - he's not bad, but I think it's time she moved on. She's liked him for nearly three years!
So Kate and I pranked her. We hid her photo of Zac, but that didn't work, because she still wouldn't get over it. But, amazingly, when we showed her the completely unedited photo, she thought we had done something to it because it (I quote) 'is not how I remember him in my dreams'. This spawned a new idea, and for the last few months we have been slowly making Zac look uglier. Just gradually. She's finally looking at other boys, namely
["Hellooooooooooooo?" A voice called through the door. James and Sirius jumped.
"REMIE!" they yelled, opening the door. Remus tumbled onto the doormat and had to suffer Sirius sitting on him until Lily stood up.
"Nice to see you Rem." She smiled. Lily always had a soft spot for Remus. Remus groaned and pushed Sirius away, then smiled.
"Do you know how long I was standing out there knocking?" He asked indignantly. Lily smirked, James laughed and Sirius... well, Sirius barked.
"We were just reading my diary, we were up to the end of Term 1 first year. Want to join in? You might find this bit interesting..." Lily let her sentence trail away, to give an air of mystery. Remus was intrigued, and he nodded to show he would stay and listen.]
She's finally looking at other boys, namely Remus. Kate and I want to set them up but we aren't stupid enough to think she wouldn't go soppy over Zac when she gets home.
Kate is crazy too. There is no other word for her, crazy is it. She can be bouncy at the weirdest of times, like when she got detention for being loud, she was just louder. She is the only one who can understand Sirius's obsession with soap powder. In fact, she will join in with his attempts to ignite it, and then they will go and build a toilet paper castle in the centre of the common room and hurl soap powder cannon balls at anybody who comes near them unless they offer tribute of twenty Honeydukes chocolate bars or three butterbeers. It's actually pretty funny because I can often storm the castle simply by collecting the already fired soap powder and throwing it back. Both of them then fall off the battlements screaming about how evil has breached the castle and they need reinforcements. Of course, then they conjure up about fifty boxes of powder and levitate them to empty on my head, but it usually signifies the end of the battle. Plus it keeps my hair clean. Snape should try it.
Ok, so he did try it, or rather, we washed his hair, in the Great November Castle Fight.
[Sirius and James burst out laughing and Lily could barely keep from smiling. They all remembered how Snape looked shortly after the Great November Castle Fight. Remus pouted, he had been 'visiting relatives' during that fight. All he knew was that he had come back to school and Snape had had clean hair.
"Tell me about what happened, you never really explained it to me" Remus said. Lily laughed.
"I don't think Sirius meant to do what he did, but he got given soap powder presents, so I guess it was too much for him. But, if you can shut them up, I'll tell you all about that day." Lily agreed. Sirius and James were immediately quiet.
~Flashback~
Lily yawned and began to make her way down to breakfast. It was a Saturday and she had wanted to lie in, but she was awoken by Regina's screams as Kate charmed Zac's picture to grow fangs. Finally Kate was overpowered and she ran out of the room dodging Regina's curses.
Within seconds she came back in screaming. Regina had scattered soap powder all over the stairs. By this time Lily was up and dressed, and she shoved Kate out the door so she could get down to breakfast unharmed. Kate hit the powder and started sliding down the stairs, helped by the fact Sirius had just tried to come up, turning the stone into a large slide.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeee!" she screamed, and Lily rolled her eyes and followed demurely. By the time she got to the bottom, Sirius and Kate had disappeared, and so had the powder. Half asleep, Lily didn't suspect any danger until she entered the great hall. Sirius was standing on a table screaming about how all he wants for Christmas was a box of soap powder from everybody, and he wanted it by 9:00 that morning. Sirius was popular. He didn't know it, but as soon as people finished breakfast they went to buy soap powder. By 8:30 a massive pile of soap powder boxes surrounded him. He turned to his accomplice, Kate, and told her to get as much toilet paper as she could.
"For," he said, his eyes gleaming wickedly, "Today is the day we take over the school using that deadly white substance and toilet paper." Sirius never called it soap powder.
Kate left the Great Hall only to return a few minutes later with what had to be the entire school supply of toilet paper levitated in front of her. She had also managed to get hold of more powder.
Luckily for them, no teachers were present to witness the founding of the Toilet Paper Castle. Maybe because Lily made a truce with Sirius and Kate, and locked all the doors to the Hall with her superior magic. Lily was the best of the group, and the group was the best in the school, so it followed Lily was the most powerful witch in the school. Lily's condition of truce was to help, because after all, if you have a castle that big you need people to protect it. Soon the centre of the great hall was one big toilet paper fortress, the house tables were against the wall excepting the Gryffindor one which was covered in food for Sirius's energy and the drawbridge was closing when James and Regina dashed across.
By lunchtime, they were ready to withstand any attack. Supplies were being sent up via the Gryffindor house table, they were bribing the house elves, there were hammocks, a watch was posted, and the soap powder supplies were so large that they filled up most of the castle.
"What say we open the doors to the hall so people can get lunch?" James asked with an evil smirk.
"The only lunch round here is that spawn of Satan" Sirius grunted, trying to create powder balls that stayed together as opposed to sending granules everywhere. Lily rolled her eyes, and the doors swung open.
"Everyone in position!" She cried, as half the school came pouring into the Hall to witness this magical event. Lily quickly summoned her camera and snapped photos like there was no tomorrow. Soap powder was released and soon the whole hall was full of flying soap.
"Let's add a touch of water!" Regina screamed over the noise of a soap fight. The defenders grinned evilly at each other, and then each sent a jet of water over the wall.
Just then, Snape, Malfoy and their sidekicks entered the hall.
"Concentrate fire on Slytherins!" Lily screamed, then swung the toilet paper cannon around to aim directly. Malfoy got covered in soap and burst into tears, screaming out "Mummy, mummy, I have soap in my eyes, help me mummy!"
Snape, however, got a huge powder ball in his hair, followed by more water, and a thorough washing from Lily. He sank to his knees looking like he was in deep despair.
"My hair, oh my beautiful greasy hair, oh" he kept saying.
The battle lasted hours. The defenders in the castle were very good, but soon enough the teacher and prefect's combined magic overthrew the five kids.
"If only Remie were here!" James cried, "He's the last of the four, we needed the - " James was cut off by Sirius hitting him. Regina and Kate were staring.
"Come along to my office" Dumbledore said, looking sternly at the first years. They followed silently along behind him and up the gargoyle stairs into the office.
"Now, I'm sure you're aware that displays like that aren't very useful to the quiet life of the school?" He asked. There was a sulky assent and Dumbledore continued. "However, since this school needed an awakening like that, as it proved that all the teachers in this school combined are not as strong as we thought, so you will, if you wish, escape the major punishment that goes with situations like this, i.e. suspension, although that carries conditions."
"What are the conditions, sir?" Lily asked, sounding slightly worried.
"Keep this school on its toes. Of course, I will have to punish you every so often or else it will look like favouritism, but basically, I am just asking you to play pranks. As long as no specific students are targeted, I will see to it that you get nothing worse than detention. This also includes your friend Mr Lupin."
The little group was stunned. The headmaster had just asked them to play pranks.
"Done." They all chorused at once.
~End Flashback~
["So that was how we never got suspended, and why Sirius just got a term of detentions with the Snape incident in sixth year!" Remus said, realisation dawning on his face.
"Yup" James smirked. Remus just sat there. Sirius frowned. He didn't like remembering the Snape incident. He knew that Dumbledore wouldn't break his word but he also knew that if Snape pushed charges, there wouldn't be much Dumbledore could do against him going to Azkaban. And Sirius hated Azkaban with a passion, just as Remus hated teaching people about himself and James hated the thought of dying at the hand of Voldemort. So far only James's pet hate had any hope of coming true.
"Anyway, back to the story." Lily said in a business-like tone.]
So, after the Great November Castle Fight, we couldn't taunt Snape about his hair again. But by now it is back to normal so we can call him Grease ball again. The funny thing is, though, while his hair was clean he was so nice! It was like he said to himself "Okay, something has changed, let's just see how many people I can be nice to before it changes back" and he actually tried at more subjects than just potions! Maybe underneath all that grease and dirt there is a decent person.
Anyway, I should go, because I have to finish my Transfiguration assignment and I also want some sleep so I can enjoy Christmas.
Love,
Lily
(Author's Note:
Phew, this was a long chapter! Sorry I haven't updated, I guess I'm just slack *looks embarrassed* I will spend the rest of today writing more chapters that I can put up over the next few weeks, and hopefully I will finish up to second year over the next while...
Also, I don't know much about the term system in England, so I assume that they start back late August - early September, and there is a holiday over Christmas, a holiday over Easter, and then they finish in early - mid July, so that's how I will be basing their holidays at Hogwarts. I also assume Christmas and Easter are two week breaks. If anybody wants to correct me feel free :)
The Invisible Stranger)
Dear Diary,
I can hardly believe Christmas is nearly here! It seems like yesterday my parents kicked me out of my house and I boarded the train to start at a new school. Really, it's been several months!
So I guess I should start at the beginning of term, because I haven't written anything since September and so much has happened! After I finished writing last time, I got really curious about James and Sirius's families, since they looked so guilty when Regina mentioned she was 'pure-blood'. So I asked her. James is the Minister of Magic's son, and he and Sirius are somewhat related, but I can't remember how. All the purebloods are related. Regina is James's second cousin once removed, apparently. Sirius is the son of a dark witch, his family is really evil and Sirius is not, so it's kind of inevitable that he will get disowned one day. He lives with James most of the time I think. They are both really rich though.
I think I was slightly annoyed that they lied to me, but technically they didn't say anything so I guess it was just my assumptions and I can't blame them for that.
I know that if Remus is a werewolf, he must have had contact with wizards. I asked him the next day and he says that his dad was a wizard but he died when Remus was very young and he doesn't remember him, but his dad's best friend looked after him and his mother. He has told me a lot lately, we are really good friends.
Sirius and James are up to breaking the school detention record, because they already have over fifty. In fact, I lost count. They might have had over a hundred, though how they fit them all in I don't know. Somehow they remain on top of their homework too.
Did I mention that Snape now has permanently fluoro pink hair! We dyed it after the Great November Castle Fight. He has to wait for it to grow out. I feel sort of sorry for him, it's not his fault he can be such a greasy git. Well, maybe he could wash his hair without us, but otherwise I guess it's his pureblood family.
All this bloodline purity stuff is making me confused, and sick. It's disgusting and racist that people base others on how many witches and wizards are in their family. I know that I am smart, but just because I am muggle-born my potions teacher always grades me lower. It's worse that I am Gryffindor as well, because it's only the Slytherins he likes. Which is ironic, considering he was once a Ravenclaw.
I guess this means you don't have to be Slytherin to be bad.
Anyway, enough about the boys for now. Regina and Kate are my two best friends, we are inseparable. Star and Spray, the twins in our dorm, are our half friends, but they often hang around their friends in other houses and they are slightly crazy. Luckily they aren't ditzy, or I don't know what I would do!
Regina is slightly crazy. She is in love with this boy back at home, and she knows that it's stupid. She won't look at another guy, or even admit somebody else is attractive because she thinks nobody compares to this boy. His name is Zac. I've seen a photo - he's not bad, but I think it's time she moved on. She's liked him for nearly three years!
So Kate and I pranked her. We hid her photo of Zac, but that didn't work, because she still wouldn't get over it. But, amazingly, when we showed her the completely unedited photo, she thought we had done something to it because it (I quote) 'is not how I remember him in my dreams'. This spawned a new idea, and for the last few months we have been slowly making Zac look uglier. Just gradually. She's finally looking at other boys, namely
["Hellooooooooooooo?" A voice called through the door. James and Sirius jumped.
"REMIE!" they yelled, opening the door. Remus tumbled onto the doormat and had to suffer Sirius sitting on him until Lily stood up.
"Nice to see you Rem." She smiled. Lily always had a soft spot for Remus. Remus groaned and pushed Sirius away, then smiled.
"Do you know how long I was standing out there knocking?" He asked indignantly. Lily smirked, James laughed and Sirius... well, Sirius barked.
"We were just reading my diary, we were up to the end of Term 1 first year. Want to join in? You might find this bit interesting..." Lily let her sentence trail away, to give an air of mystery. Remus was intrigued, and he nodded to show he would stay and listen.]
She's finally looking at other boys, namely Remus. Kate and I want to set them up but we aren't stupid enough to think she wouldn't go soppy over Zac when she gets home.
Kate is crazy too. There is no other word for her, crazy is it. She can be bouncy at the weirdest of times, like when she got detention for being loud, she was just louder. She is the only one who can understand Sirius's obsession with soap powder. In fact, she will join in with his attempts to ignite it, and then they will go and build a toilet paper castle in the centre of the common room and hurl soap powder cannon balls at anybody who comes near them unless they offer tribute of twenty Honeydukes chocolate bars or three butterbeers. It's actually pretty funny because I can often storm the castle simply by collecting the already fired soap powder and throwing it back. Both of them then fall off the battlements screaming about how evil has breached the castle and they need reinforcements. Of course, then they conjure up about fifty boxes of powder and levitate them to empty on my head, but it usually signifies the end of the battle. Plus it keeps my hair clean. Snape should try it.
Ok, so he did try it, or rather, we washed his hair, in the Great November Castle Fight.
[Sirius and James burst out laughing and Lily could barely keep from smiling. They all remembered how Snape looked shortly after the Great November Castle Fight. Remus pouted, he had been 'visiting relatives' during that fight. All he knew was that he had come back to school and Snape had had clean hair.
"Tell me about what happened, you never really explained it to me" Remus said. Lily laughed.
"I don't think Sirius meant to do what he did, but he got given soap powder presents, so I guess it was too much for him. But, if you can shut them up, I'll tell you all about that day." Lily agreed. Sirius and James were immediately quiet.
~Flashback~
Lily yawned and began to make her way down to breakfast. It was a Saturday and she had wanted to lie in, but she was awoken by Regina's screams as Kate charmed Zac's picture to grow fangs. Finally Kate was overpowered and she ran out of the room dodging Regina's curses.
Within seconds she came back in screaming. Regina had scattered soap powder all over the stairs. By this time Lily was up and dressed, and she shoved Kate out the door so she could get down to breakfast unharmed. Kate hit the powder and started sliding down the stairs, helped by the fact Sirius had just tried to come up, turning the stone into a large slide.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeee!" she screamed, and Lily rolled her eyes and followed demurely. By the time she got to the bottom, Sirius and Kate had disappeared, and so had the powder. Half asleep, Lily didn't suspect any danger until she entered the great hall. Sirius was standing on a table screaming about how all he wants for Christmas was a box of soap powder from everybody, and he wanted it by 9:00 that morning. Sirius was popular. He didn't know it, but as soon as people finished breakfast they went to buy soap powder. By 8:30 a massive pile of soap powder boxes surrounded him. He turned to his accomplice, Kate, and told her to get as much toilet paper as she could.
"For," he said, his eyes gleaming wickedly, "Today is the day we take over the school using that deadly white substance and toilet paper." Sirius never called it soap powder.
Kate left the Great Hall only to return a few minutes later with what had to be the entire school supply of toilet paper levitated in front of her. She had also managed to get hold of more powder.
Luckily for them, no teachers were present to witness the founding of the Toilet Paper Castle. Maybe because Lily made a truce with Sirius and Kate, and locked all the doors to the Hall with her superior magic. Lily was the best of the group, and the group was the best in the school, so it followed Lily was the most powerful witch in the school. Lily's condition of truce was to help, because after all, if you have a castle that big you need people to protect it. Soon the centre of the great hall was one big toilet paper fortress, the house tables were against the wall excepting the Gryffindor one which was covered in food for Sirius's energy and the drawbridge was closing when James and Regina dashed across.
By lunchtime, they were ready to withstand any attack. Supplies were being sent up via the Gryffindor house table, they were bribing the house elves, there were hammocks, a watch was posted, and the soap powder supplies were so large that they filled up most of the castle.
"What say we open the doors to the hall so people can get lunch?" James asked with an evil smirk.
"The only lunch round here is that spawn of Satan" Sirius grunted, trying to create powder balls that stayed together as opposed to sending granules everywhere. Lily rolled her eyes, and the doors swung open.
"Everyone in position!" She cried, as half the school came pouring into the Hall to witness this magical event. Lily quickly summoned her camera and snapped photos like there was no tomorrow. Soap powder was released and soon the whole hall was full of flying soap.
"Let's add a touch of water!" Regina screamed over the noise of a soap fight. The defenders grinned evilly at each other, and then each sent a jet of water over the wall.
Just then, Snape, Malfoy and their sidekicks entered the hall.
"Concentrate fire on Slytherins!" Lily screamed, then swung the toilet paper cannon around to aim directly. Malfoy got covered in soap and burst into tears, screaming out "Mummy, mummy, I have soap in my eyes, help me mummy!"
Snape, however, got a huge powder ball in his hair, followed by more water, and a thorough washing from Lily. He sank to his knees looking like he was in deep despair.
"My hair, oh my beautiful greasy hair, oh" he kept saying.
The battle lasted hours. The defenders in the castle were very good, but soon enough the teacher and prefect's combined magic overthrew the five kids.
"If only Remie were here!" James cried, "He's the last of the four, we needed the - " James was cut off by Sirius hitting him. Regina and Kate were staring.
"Come along to my office" Dumbledore said, looking sternly at the first years. They followed silently along behind him and up the gargoyle stairs into the office.
"Now, I'm sure you're aware that displays like that aren't very useful to the quiet life of the school?" He asked. There was a sulky assent and Dumbledore continued. "However, since this school needed an awakening like that, as it proved that all the teachers in this school combined are not as strong as we thought, so you will, if you wish, escape the major punishment that goes with situations like this, i.e. suspension, although that carries conditions."
"What are the conditions, sir?" Lily asked, sounding slightly worried.
"Keep this school on its toes. Of course, I will have to punish you every so often or else it will look like favouritism, but basically, I am just asking you to play pranks. As long as no specific students are targeted, I will see to it that you get nothing worse than detention. This also includes your friend Mr Lupin."
The little group was stunned. The headmaster had just asked them to play pranks.
"Done." They all chorused at once.
~End Flashback~
["So that was how we never got suspended, and why Sirius just got a term of detentions with the Snape incident in sixth year!" Remus said, realisation dawning on his face.
"Yup" James smirked. Remus just sat there. Sirius frowned. He didn't like remembering the Snape incident. He knew that Dumbledore wouldn't break his word but he also knew that if Snape pushed charges, there wouldn't be much Dumbledore could do against him going to Azkaban. And Sirius hated Azkaban with a passion, just as Remus hated teaching people about himself and James hated the thought of dying at the hand of Voldemort. So far only James's pet hate had any hope of coming true.
"Anyway, back to the story." Lily said in a business-like tone.]
So, after the Great November Castle Fight, we couldn't taunt Snape about his hair again. But by now it is back to normal so we can call him Grease ball again. The funny thing is, though, while his hair was clean he was so nice! It was like he said to himself "Okay, something has changed, let's just see how many people I can be nice to before it changes back" and he actually tried at more subjects than just potions! Maybe underneath all that grease and dirt there is a decent person.
Anyway, I should go, because I have to finish my Transfiguration assignment and I also want some sleep so I can enjoy Christmas.
Love,
Lily
(Author's Note:
Phew, this was a long chapter! Sorry I haven't updated, I guess I'm just slack *looks embarrassed* I will spend the rest of today writing more chapters that I can put up over the next few weeks, and hopefully I will finish up to second year over the next while...
Also, I don't know much about the term system in England, so I assume that they start back late August - early September, and there is a holiday over Christmas, a holiday over Easter, and then they finish in early - mid July, so that's how I will be basing their holidays at Hogwarts. I also assume Christmas and Easter are two week breaks. If anybody wants to correct me feel free :)
The Invisible Stranger)