Leading up to seventh year:

Year one:

NoL Pitlou always expected to be sorted into Ravenclaw. Yet, she was still incredibly nervous when Professor Larange (McGonagall was there, but she was not Head of Gryffindor nor Deputy Headmistress) called her name.

"Pitlou, NoL!"

NoL took a deep breath and walked up to the stool. She shoved the battered hat on her head and sat down, waiting.

"Hm...let's see...brave, definitely...a hard worker...and very clever..." the small voice said into her ear.

"Put me into Ravenclaw or I'll tear you apart, Hat," she thought furiously.

The hat seemed to chuckle. "Your threats don't concern me, my dear...but, it does seem that that's where you belong...you went to a Muggle boarding school before you came here?"

"Yeah..." she thought, even though she didn't think she really needed to answer.

"Okay, it's RAVENCLAW!!"

NoL took the Hat off her head, gave it a hug, placed it on the stool, and ran to the Ravenclaw table. Her hair was simply straight and brown today...she barely did anything exciting to it when she was young...

After the feast, NoL followed the prefects up to Ravenclaw dormitory, which was hidden behind a map at the bottom of the North Tower.

"Girls' dormitories to the right and up, boys' dormitories to the left and up," the prefects told them. "Your stuff will already be there."

NoL ran up the right staircase until she reached the door that said "First Years". She went in and found the bed by her trunk. She sat on it and waited for others to arrive.

The first girl to enter had bright blue eyes, and dark brown hair with natural red highlights, pulled back in a ponytail with flippy bangs (or fringe, as I believe they're generally called in England).

"Hey," NoL said. She had always hated saying "hi", "hey" sounded way better to her. "I'm NoL."

"I'm Sha," the girl said. "Sha O'Reilly."

"Cool."

"Always."

The next girl entered. She had long red hair and bluish grey eyes. She smiled at them and said, "Hi. I'm Liz. Who are you?"

"I'm NoL and this is Sha," NoL said. She loved introducing people she barely knew.

"Interesting name," Liz said. "Sha and NoL...how's that spelled?"

"Which one?" asked Sha.

Liz paused, then answered, "Both."

"N-O-ASTERICK-L," NoL told her.

"Odd."

"I know...I got it legally changed for my birthday last year."

"And Sha is S-H-A," Sha explained.

"Nice."

The last two girls came in at the same time. They were obviously twins. They were Egyptian, tall, and had beautiful black hair and eyes. One girl had chin-length hair, while the other had hers mid-way down her back.

"Hey, everybody," the one with shorter hair greeted them. "I'm Nakia Ghaly, and this is my sister, Sagira Ghaly."

"We're NoL, Sha, and Liz," NoL told them, gesturing to each person as she said her name. "I have a feeling you guys are gonna rock."

Year two:

They had Herbology with the Gryffindors that year. The Herbology professor at the time, Professor Mazurka, split them into groups to work on the Mandrakes they were working on. Unfortunately, NoL was separated with her friends and placed with some Gryffindors she barely knew. She took a deep breath as she walked over to them.

"Hey, I'm NoL." She tucked her bluish-blonde hair behind her ears.

The nearest girl to her smiled up at her. She had reddish hair and green eyes. "Hi, I'm Lily Evans, and this is Revenna Jones," she pointed to a girl with straight brown hair, "Angelique Alli," she pointed to a tall blonde girl, "and Adara Black," she pointed to the last girl, with dirty blonde hair.

NoL took a half-step back. "Black?" She had heard about the Blacks, with their evil pure-blood obsessiveness and Muggle torture and such. No way was she gonna work with this girl.

"It's okay," Angelique promised. "Her and her twin brother, Sirius," she pointed to a boy at a Mandrake nearby, "both got Sorted into Gryffindor. They're not evil like the rest of their family."

NoL looked over at the Mandrake Angelique had pointed to. There were four boys there, laughing and fooling around. She vaguely recognized them, but never really bothered to learn who they were. There was one boy with messy brown hair, one mousy looking boy, one extremely tired looking boy, and one incredibly good looking boy.

"Wait...is he the hot one?" she asked without even thinking.

Angelique, Lily, and Revenna all laughed, though Revenna's laugh seemed kinda forced. Adara looked mad.

"I would've slapped you if I hadn't just met you," she said, in a kind of shocked anger.

"I would've slapped you back if I hadn't just met you," NoL assured her. Then they had to put their earmuffs on.

At the end of class, all the girls from Gryffindor were discussing a party that was being thrown in their common room that Friday.

"You should come, NoL," Lily said. "It's gonna be really fun."

"How would she get in?" Revenna asked, as if prepared for any excuse to keep NoL from going.

NoL smirked. "I have my ways. What time is the party, and what's your password?"

"It starts at ten, and the password's 'toad hearts'" Angelique said.

"I'll be there."

Sirius and James stood at one end of the dance floor, watching the girls sitting in chairs next to the dance floor at the other end of the dance floor.

Sirius sighed. James's obsession with Lily was becoming a bit boring. He looked around the room for something interesting. Suddenly, he noticed the portrait door opening. In stepped...Lily. Sirius looked back to where the girls were sitting. Sure enough, Lily was there, too. He looked back at the entrance to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Nope, definitely not. He nudged James and pointed at the two Lilys.

"What's going on?"

"Oh," James said. "That's probably NoL from Ravenclaw. She's a Metamorphmagus."

Sirius looked at him. "How do you know all that?"

"I...er...ran into her at the library once when she was disguised as Lily. We talked for like, five minutes, before she finally broke down laughing and told me who she was. She's pretty good at changing her voice."

As they spoke, NoL started changing back into how she normally looked. She then ran over to her friends.

"She's friends with Adara and such?" Sirius asked casually.

"Yeah..." James said. "Look, it's not that big a deal, she's just a girl." He turned back to Lily.

Sirius raised an eyebrow at him. "You should listen to your own advice sometimes, mate."

"They're totally staring at you, NoL," Angelique said.

"Who?"

"James and Sirius."

Adara leaned a bit to look around NoL's chair. "Actually, I think James is staring at Lily."

"Shut up," said Lily. "They're probably trying to figure out who NoL is or something."

NoL kinda grinned. "Actually, James knows who I am. I was practicing my disguises in the library this once, and he thought I was you."

"What do you mean, 'practicing your disguises'?"

"Didn't I tell you? I'm a Metamorphmagus. That's how I got in here."

"Oh."

"Are they still staring?"

Revenna checked. "Yeah."

"Good. Do me a favor, and call them over here and introduce Sirius to me. Please?"

Adara said, "No."

"I'll do it," Lily said.

"You just want James to come over here," Angelique smirked.

"Shut up. OY, JAMES! SIRIUS! GET OVER HERE!"

At the same time, Revenna whispered, "Don't try anything funny, NoL. Sirius is mine."

"We'll see about that."

By the time all this was done, Sirius and James were there.

"This is NoL," Lily told them. "NoL, this is James and Sirius."

"We've met," James muttered.

"Hey," said Sirius.

"Hi." NoL mentally kicked herself. She NEVER said "hi".

"Now leave," Adara instructed.

"Sure," Sirius said. "We'll just go over there and have a nice chat with MOONY." He watched his sister's expression closely, smirking.

"Shut up!"

"Maybe we'll discus Padfoot's FAMILY TREE," James joined in.

"You wouldn't dare."

"Wouldn't we, though, Adara? Wouldn't we?"

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!" she finally screamed, jumping up from her chair and chasing Sirius around the common room.

The rest of them watched them for a bit, quite entertained. Then James turned to Lily and said, "So, how's it going?"

"I'm not Lily," Lily said immediately. "I'm NoL."

NoL took the cue and changed her appearance to look like Lily.

"Yes," she agreed. "I am Lily."

James turned to look at her. "No you aren't."

Sirius and Adara came back. "Why are there two of them?" Sirius asked. "One was more than enough."

"No, Padfoot, one of them is NoL, remember?"

"Oh yes, but which one is it?"

James smirked. "There's only one way to find out. Lilys, I want both of you to slap Padfoot."

"What?" yelled Sirius.

"Believe me, I'll be able to tell from this."

The real Lily went first. She simply slapped Sirius hard across the face.

"Ow."

NoL went next. She stood up, took a deep breath, hesitated for one and a half seconds, and slapped Sirius somewhat lightly on the cheek.

"Okay," James said. He pointed at Lily. "That one's Lily."

"How can you tell, Prongs?" asked Sirius.

James smirked. "NoL hesitated."

Revenna glared, fuming.

Year three:

NoL was becoming good friends with Lily, Adara, Angelique, and the Marauders (not so much Revenna). She had really started to like Sirius, too, and Adara had started to really like Remus, and Sha had started to like this random kid in Ravenclaw named Adam, and Liz had this crush on this random kid in Hufflepuff named Tony Blackman...but we'll get to all that later.

One day, Adara asked Revenna and NoL to come with her for a minute. Bewildered, they followed, NoL pushing her curly black hair out of her face. She led them away from the others, and said, "You know, you both are driving me crazy with your obsessions of Sirius."

NoL looked at Revenna. "What do you mean, BOTH of us?"

That had created a rivalry that ruined all chances of friendship between them.

Year four:

Dumbledore decided to throw a Valentine's Day Ball that year, don't ask me why. Dates where not required, it was merely for fun...much like middle school dances...

NoL had made her hair fuchsia , and she went from friend to friend, talking and having a good time, not dancing as she had nobody to dance with. When she was talking to Sirius, Revenna was watching them from a distance where she was standing by Adara, Angelique, and Lily. "Who does she think she is?" she muttered as she walked over to them.

"Sirius," she said flirtatiously, "wanna dance?"

Sirius looked like his first impression was to say, "NO," but then he kinda smirked and said, "Yeah, dancing sounds fun." He then turned to NoL, who was glaring at Revenna, and asked, "Will you dance with me?"

Revenna's face went from evil "ha-I-just-got-the-guy-of-your-dreams-to-dance-with-me" to "oh-my-gosh-you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me".

"Yeah!" NoL said. "Bye, Revenna."

Sirius and NoL went to the dance floor and slow danced for the next song.

"That girl drives me insane," he muttered.

"I know, me too," NoL agreed.

He looked at her. "You know, I'm partially only doing this to drive her crazy and make her leave me alone...it's like she's been stalking my lately."

"That's okay. Why else are you doing this?"

"What do you mean?"

"You said 'partially'. What's the other part?"

He smiled. "Cuz I kinda like you."

Year five:

Adara, NoL, Angelique, and Lily were all standing by the lake. They were all watching the Marauders out of the corners of their eyes, but they hid it much better than James, who was quite obviously watching them. When James hung Snape upside-down in mid-air, Lily murmured, "Who do they think they are??" and marched over to them. The remaining three girls exchanged a look.

"I suppose we'd better go after her," Adara said.

NoL sighed. "Yeah." So they followed Lily over to where she was standing about a yard away from James and Sirius, lecturing them about how stupid they were. Adara, NoL, and Angelique stood a bit behind her, half-heartedly nodding every now and then, and pretending to be listening. After a while, Lily finally stopped, and they all went back to their spot by the lake.

"You were a bit hard on them, Lily," Angelique commented.

"They deserved it," Lily scoffed.

"Oh, come on, you know you love James," NoL smirked. Lily hit her on the shoulder, but she was blushing, which was a dead giveaway.

"You didn't have to be so mean to all of them," Adara said, obviously thinking of Remus.

'Wow, she's setting herself up for this,' NoL thought as she said out loud, "Yeah, like Sirius! I mean, he's a sexy beast!"

Adara tried to punch her, but she ducked, laughing. "You set yourself up for that one, Adara."

"I was talking about Remus!" Adara said somewhat indignantly.

"I know, that's why it was so funny."

This conversation had gone so far off topic that they all forgot to continue scolding Lily about being so mean to the Marauders. But that was okay, because then they might have looked over to see that James had not stopped torturing Snape. As it was, they managed not to look at them until right after James had let Snape down for the second time (he never did take Snape's pants off, thankfully). Snape was on the ground, gasping for air when Lily and friends finally looked at them again.

"Oh gosh," Lily muttered. "Don't they ever give up?"

And with that, she went back over to the Marauders.

NoL shook her head. "No way am I going back over there again. Anyway, we should be able to hear her fine from here."

Sure enough, they could soon hear Lily shouting, "YOU STUPID FREAKS, CAN'T YOU JUST GET A LIFE?"

None of the girls heard it, but at this point, Sirius muttered, "I think she likes you, mate."

"Shut up, Padfoot," James whispered back. Louder, he said, "Obviously you don't have much of a life if you don't have anything better to do then come over here and lecture us."

Lily look taken aback for a second, not knowing what to say, but then she smiled and whispered so only James could hear her, "No, James, not 'us'. Just you. Only you." And with that she turned and walked away, leaving James quite confused.

"What do you think she meant by it, Prongs?" Sirius asked later when James explained what Lily had said. The Marauders were up in their dormitory even though they had only just finished dinner, discussing the day's events.

James shrugged. "I'm not sure if she meant it to insult me, or to hint something, or if I just imagined it. I really have no clue."

James and Sirius automatically turned to Remus.

"What?" he asked.

"Come on, Moony, you're the brains of the group. What did she mean by it?"

Remus shrugged. "How should I know? I'm no expert on girls."

"But you can always tell what people mean by how they say it!" Sirius prodded.

"Two problems with that," Remus explained. "First of all, I didn't exactly hear her say it, did I? And second of all, girls speak an entirely different language."

James sighed. "We need a girl to decipher this for us. Padfoot, could we torture your sister into telling us?"

Sirius shrugged. "Go ahead, mate."

Remus paled slightly. "But Lily doesn't always tell her friends everything she does, does she? Adara might not even know that Lily said anything to you."

James smirked slightly. "You just don't want us to torture Adara."

Remus shook his head. "I'm just pointing out that we would have a much better chance of getting the information we need if we went straight to the source."

"What do you mean?" Sirius asked, glancing at James to watch his reaction. "Torture Lily?"

"What?!" James practically screamed. This woke up Wormtail, who had been sleeping. He now sat up in bed, screamed "OH MY GOSH THE PENGUINS ARE GONNA EAT ME!", and fell back, asleep again. His friends ignored this strange behavior.

Sirius started laughing at this point. "You both are so pathetic. This is hilarious."

"I have an idea," James suggested, glaring at Sirius.

"What?" asked Remus, also glaring at Sirius.

"How bout we just torture NoL?"

That shut Sirius up. "How would that help any?"

James shrugged. "I dunno, but it got you to shut up. NOW who's laughing?"

Sirius looked around. "No one, actually."

"Er...I meant figuratively!" James said, easily making up an excuse.

"That doesn't even make sense, Prongs," Remus reminded him.

"Right. The point is...we're cool."

And with that, James pulled the curtains closed around his bed, and laid down, pretending to go to sleep.

Sirius threw a pillow at Remus, who just glared at him. They too closed the curtains around their bed and stayed quiet.

Nothing of importance to the story happened in their sixth year, so now I can begin the actual fanfic, which takes place in year seven.