JUNE
Dear Diary,
My first year at Hogwarts is nearly over and I am worried about summer. I can just see my sister convincing my parents they don't want me for the summer either. But they have to take me home at some stage. They have a legal duty of care... I think.
In any case, I have to comment on the happenings at Christmas. After the Great November Castle Fight, James and Sirius were determined to get into trouble, since they couldn't be punished. Fortunately they forgot to tell Remus that there was no such thing as suspension, so he is balancing them out and reminding them that some things are just not things they should do. Which is fortunate, since Severus Snape's roots are showing. I think they would've touched up the pink dye and the poor guy would've had bright hair for the rest of his school life. I really feel sorry for him. He's so nice to me now, but maybe it's a good thing I hardly ever see him. It's not like I can afford to like a Slytherin, plus he hasn't washed his hair since the fight, which is kind of gross.
Anyway, a month after the fight in the Great Hall, and most of the school was getting over it. I don't think they thought things could get worse; after all, this was the epitome of Sirius and Kate's craziness. They had been quiet, and nobody had dared show them any soap powder. Often I had seen them disappear together and reappear smirking, but I thought nothing of it. If they were planning something they would tell us.
As it turned out, they didn't tell us anything until the night before Christmas.
We were all sitting in the common room playing chess and eating chocolate, all excited because it was Christmas Eve. Then a fateful thing happened. A flake of snow drifted past the window.
"Snow!" Sirius said, sounding so amazed and wonder-filled that I couldn't hold back laughing and saying in a patronising tone "Yes, Siri, it's snow." He sat there shocked for a while.
Sirius and Kate were going to build a snow fortress. For the sole purpose of having another Great Castle Fight, this time in December. We told them it would be better to have one annually, and finally they got talked out of it. I thought Christmas had been saved and boy, was I relieved.
We eventually opened our presents but during breakfast in the Great Hall, there were huge colourful snowballs flying around. Any student who had stayed for Christmas had snow all over them. This wasn't enough though. I showed my prowess at the colour spell yet again.
["Ooh ego, Lil!" Sirius muttered. Lily slapped him lightly, and then changed his hair and skin to orange and blue polka dots.
"You look like you have the plague" James commented. Sirius growled and changed into a dog in the hope the spell would wear off. No such luck. Even Remus couldn't hold back laughter at the sight of a polka dotted dog.
Sirius changed back, sighing resignedly. "If you don't change this back by tomorrow night, I'm eating here instead of going on a date" he threatened. Lily rolled her eyes and changed him to normal, before closing her eyes in readiness for another tale.
~Flashback~
Lily yawned and stirred her mug of hot chocolate as Remus studied the chessboard.
"Knight to D6, checkmate!" he grinned. Lily groaned and set up the pieces before turning to James. They played chess for a while, and then a fateful thing happened. So far, Sirius had been staring at the chessboard, but he sat up to stretch, and caught sight of the window. Snow was falling hard and fast outside.
"Snow!" he cried happily, running to the window.
"Yes, Siri, it's snow." Lily called, rolling her eyes. Kate got up to join Sirius in his bouncing around the room. Suddenly he whispered something to her and her eyes widened, and they left the room.
"What the..." Regina left her sentence unfinished. James made an indistinct comment, possibly some innuendo, and turned back to his chess game. Within minutes they were back, soaked to the skin and cold but looking excited.
"By tomorrow it should be big enough to have a Great December Castle Fight!" they cried in unison. Lily rolled her eyes, James sighed and Regina glared. Remus looked slightly excited, but thought it might be better to leave it until next year.
"Make it an annual tradition, then people can look forward to it. Also, make it randomly placed throughout the year, and they won't know when to be at school and when to hide out in Hogsmeade." He commented. Sirius and Kate agreed reluctantly that this was probably a good idea. With that, everybody left to go to sleep.
The next morning, Gryffindor Tower was awoken to the cries of "Presents!". Everything was in chaos, and somehow in the middle of this James and Remus managed to disappear. Not in the least worried, the girls and Sirius headed off to breakfast. They had just sat down when James and Remus came in, grabbed Lily and dragged her outside.
"Lily we need your help!" Remus muttered into her ear as they headed towards the Forbidden Forest. Lily rolled her eyes, then saw something that made her stare. And rub them. In front of her was the largest pile of snowballs she had ever seen.
"We want you to charm them so that they are different colours and the person they hit changes skin colour." James informed her.
"By breakfast?" Lily gasped
"Yes. I would advise you get started" Remus smirked. Lily groaned and then laughed. She had just had an idea.
"What colours do you want them and how many of each?" She asked. Remus shot James an inquiring stare.
"Uh, I think we want red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, gold, silver, pink, white, black. Also any other colour you can do." James told her.
"Okay. Bye bye." Lily said, waving her hand in front of James to make him and Remus leave. They got the point and headed back for breakfast. Ten minutes later, Lily, who had used the Multiple Copy charm, came in and informed the boys she had finished.
Within seconds the Hall was filled with bouncing snowballs, extinguishing all light and hitting people. Lily cast a charm, which enabled things to exit but not enter a specified area, while James and Remus reinforced the Anti-Shield charm on the snow. Soon everybody had strangely coloured skin except Lily, James, Remus, Regina, Sirius and Kate. Sirius and Kate had jumped out and tried to eat the snow, but luckily Lily had noticed and directed two of the five 'back to normal' coloured snowballs at them.
Afterwards, when they stood up to give a bow, not only the teachers (who had been spared) but also many of the students who liked their new look, applauded.
~End Flashback~
["Snow..." Sirius murmured half-dreamily, starting to drool. Everybody rolled their eyes, then jumped, startled, as there was a thud in the kitchen.
"I'll go" James volunteered, stepping over the cushion corner and to the doorway.
"STUPEFY!" he screamed. There was another thud, and a sheepish 'oops' from James.
"Enervate. Look who I found, everyone!" A rather stunned Kate crawled into the room and started to warm her hands at the fireplace. Lily muffled a laugh as the flames turned emerald. This happened every time Kate wanted to sit by the fire.
"Ouch!"
"I'm sorry, Kate." Regina laughed at her friend before turning to the rest of the room. "Hi people!" She smiled. Lily motioned everybody to sit down again as Remus filled Regina in.]
We didn't even get detention that time around. It was a very eventful Christmas. New Year was quiet, and before I knew it, it was that day that every male hates and every girl loves. Valentine's day. I didn't expect anything of course, I was just a first year, and I hung around the guys too much, but I got a note that morning when I went down to breakfast.
In with the owl post came a school owl carrying a note for me. It wasn't sweet, it was more funny.
I wish you were a duck egg
A bonnie blue-eyed smasher
And I beside you in the pan
A long, long streaky rasher.
That's what it said. I'm not sure if it's an insult or compliment.
["I'm glad you liked it so much." James muttered, sounding a bit miffed.
"It was you? I knew you'd admit it one day!" Sirius laughed at his best friend. Lily leaned over and gave James a kiss.
"Well I liked it!" She said with a smile.]
I wonder who it is? There was no name. I still haven't found out, and I even got James to analyse the handwriting for me. He's good at that. He's good at a lot of things. But I refuse to get a crush on my best friend.
["Ooh Lily, you never told me you liked James in FIRST YEAR!" Regina and Kate screamed. Lily blushed.
"I forgot that was there!" she protested, shutting the diary, then reopening it. "But never mind, the future is created so we can laugh at the past." Lily smiled.]
Repeat: I can't have a crush on my best friend. Though technically I could since Kate and Sirius get along really well, and Regina seems to like Remus. But I won't! It would spoil our friendship!
Love,
Lily
Dear Diary,
My first year at Hogwarts is nearly over and I am worried about summer. I can just see my sister convincing my parents they don't want me for the summer either. But they have to take me home at some stage. They have a legal duty of care... I think.
In any case, I have to comment on the happenings at Christmas. After the Great November Castle Fight, James and Sirius were determined to get into trouble, since they couldn't be punished. Fortunately they forgot to tell Remus that there was no such thing as suspension, so he is balancing them out and reminding them that some things are just not things they should do. Which is fortunate, since Severus Snape's roots are showing. I think they would've touched up the pink dye and the poor guy would've had bright hair for the rest of his school life. I really feel sorry for him. He's so nice to me now, but maybe it's a good thing I hardly ever see him. It's not like I can afford to like a Slytherin, plus he hasn't washed his hair since the fight, which is kind of gross.
Anyway, a month after the fight in the Great Hall, and most of the school was getting over it. I don't think they thought things could get worse; after all, this was the epitome of Sirius and Kate's craziness. They had been quiet, and nobody had dared show them any soap powder. Often I had seen them disappear together and reappear smirking, but I thought nothing of it. If they were planning something they would tell us.
As it turned out, they didn't tell us anything until the night before Christmas.
We were all sitting in the common room playing chess and eating chocolate, all excited because it was Christmas Eve. Then a fateful thing happened. A flake of snow drifted past the window.
"Snow!" Sirius said, sounding so amazed and wonder-filled that I couldn't hold back laughing and saying in a patronising tone "Yes, Siri, it's snow." He sat there shocked for a while.
Sirius and Kate were going to build a snow fortress. For the sole purpose of having another Great Castle Fight, this time in December. We told them it would be better to have one annually, and finally they got talked out of it. I thought Christmas had been saved and boy, was I relieved.
We eventually opened our presents but during breakfast in the Great Hall, there were huge colourful snowballs flying around. Any student who had stayed for Christmas had snow all over them. This wasn't enough though. I showed my prowess at the colour spell yet again.
["Ooh ego, Lil!" Sirius muttered. Lily slapped him lightly, and then changed his hair and skin to orange and blue polka dots.
"You look like you have the plague" James commented. Sirius growled and changed into a dog in the hope the spell would wear off. No such luck. Even Remus couldn't hold back laughter at the sight of a polka dotted dog.
Sirius changed back, sighing resignedly. "If you don't change this back by tomorrow night, I'm eating here instead of going on a date" he threatened. Lily rolled her eyes and changed him to normal, before closing her eyes in readiness for another tale.
~Flashback~
Lily yawned and stirred her mug of hot chocolate as Remus studied the chessboard.
"Knight to D6, checkmate!" he grinned. Lily groaned and set up the pieces before turning to James. They played chess for a while, and then a fateful thing happened. So far, Sirius had been staring at the chessboard, but he sat up to stretch, and caught sight of the window. Snow was falling hard and fast outside.
"Snow!" he cried happily, running to the window.
"Yes, Siri, it's snow." Lily called, rolling her eyes. Kate got up to join Sirius in his bouncing around the room. Suddenly he whispered something to her and her eyes widened, and they left the room.
"What the..." Regina left her sentence unfinished. James made an indistinct comment, possibly some innuendo, and turned back to his chess game. Within minutes they were back, soaked to the skin and cold but looking excited.
"By tomorrow it should be big enough to have a Great December Castle Fight!" they cried in unison. Lily rolled her eyes, James sighed and Regina glared. Remus looked slightly excited, but thought it might be better to leave it until next year.
"Make it an annual tradition, then people can look forward to it. Also, make it randomly placed throughout the year, and they won't know when to be at school and when to hide out in Hogsmeade." He commented. Sirius and Kate agreed reluctantly that this was probably a good idea. With that, everybody left to go to sleep.
The next morning, Gryffindor Tower was awoken to the cries of "Presents!". Everything was in chaos, and somehow in the middle of this James and Remus managed to disappear. Not in the least worried, the girls and Sirius headed off to breakfast. They had just sat down when James and Remus came in, grabbed Lily and dragged her outside.
"Lily we need your help!" Remus muttered into her ear as they headed towards the Forbidden Forest. Lily rolled her eyes, then saw something that made her stare. And rub them. In front of her was the largest pile of snowballs she had ever seen.
"We want you to charm them so that they are different colours and the person they hit changes skin colour." James informed her.
"By breakfast?" Lily gasped
"Yes. I would advise you get started" Remus smirked. Lily groaned and then laughed. She had just had an idea.
"What colours do you want them and how many of each?" She asked. Remus shot James an inquiring stare.
"Uh, I think we want red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, gold, silver, pink, white, black. Also any other colour you can do." James told her.
"Okay. Bye bye." Lily said, waving her hand in front of James to make him and Remus leave. They got the point and headed back for breakfast. Ten minutes later, Lily, who had used the Multiple Copy charm, came in and informed the boys she had finished.
Within seconds the Hall was filled with bouncing snowballs, extinguishing all light and hitting people. Lily cast a charm, which enabled things to exit but not enter a specified area, while James and Remus reinforced the Anti-Shield charm on the snow. Soon everybody had strangely coloured skin except Lily, James, Remus, Regina, Sirius and Kate. Sirius and Kate had jumped out and tried to eat the snow, but luckily Lily had noticed and directed two of the five 'back to normal' coloured snowballs at them.
Afterwards, when they stood up to give a bow, not only the teachers (who had been spared) but also many of the students who liked their new look, applauded.
~End Flashback~
["Snow..." Sirius murmured half-dreamily, starting to drool. Everybody rolled their eyes, then jumped, startled, as there was a thud in the kitchen.
"I'll go" James volunteered, stepping over the cushion corner and to the doorway.
"STUPEFY!" he screamed. There was another thud, and a sheepish 'oops' from James.
"Enervate. Look who I found, everyone!" A rather stunned Kate crawled into the room and started to warm her hands at the fireplace. Lily muffled a laugh as the flames turned emerald. This happened every time Kate wanted to sit by the fire.
"Ouch!"
"I'm sorry, Kate." Regina laughed at her friend before turning to the rest of the room. "Hi people!" She smiled. Lily motioned everybody to sit down again as Remus filled Regina in.]
We didn't even get detention that time around. It was a very eventful Christmas. New Year was quiet, and before I knew it, it was that day that every male hates and every girl loves. Valentine's day. I didn't expect anything of course, I was just a first year, and I hung around the guys too much, but I got a note that morning when I went down to breakfast.
In with the owl post came a school owl carrying a note for me. It wasn't sweet, it was more funny.
I wish you were a duck egg
A bonnie blue-eyed smasher
And I beside you in the pan
A long, long streaky rasher.
That's what it said. I'm not sure if it's an insult or compliment.
["I'm glad you liked it so much." James muttered, sounding a bit miffed.
"It was you? I knew you'd admit it one day!" Sirius laughed at his best friend. Lily leaned over and gave James a kiss.
"Well I liked it!" She said with a smile.]
I wonder who it is? There was no name. I still haven't found out, and I even got James to analyse the handwriting for me. He's good at that. He's good at a lot of things. But I refuse to get a crush on my best friend.
["Ooh Lily, you never told me you liked James in FIRST YEAR!" Regina and Kate screamed. Lily blushed.
"I forgot that was there!" she protested, shutting the diary, then reopening it. "But never mind, the future is created so we can laugh at the past." Lily smiled.]
Repeat: I can't have a crush on my best friend. Though technically I could since Kate and Sirius get along really well, and Regina seems to like Remus. But I won't! It would spoil our friendship!
Love,
Lily