It seemed that the 2nd year had most certainly not believed her eyes as everything was seemingly normal as they took there seats. Lily rolled her eyes as she sat down with the energetic Marauders, Severus slunk off the Slytherin table, and Jaeger and Artemis stalked over to the Ravenclaw table, looking entirely opposite- light and dark, small and thin, large and muscled, etc, but their blue eyes were strangely similar as they scoured their house table, daring their house-mates to say something.
No-one ever did.
People found it odd that the two girls from predominantly Slytherin families with a strong history of the dark arts were not in Slytherin house. The conclusion was, that while Jaeger had the Slytherin biting tongue, she was occasionally studious and had a Ravenclaws quick mind, concealing a wealth of knowledge. She could be found quite often reading and woe betide those that interrupted her. Artemis was evil, for lack of a better word, and despite lacking the express subtlety most often found in Slytherin house, that probably wouldn't have prevented her from being sorted in there. What did was a little known fact about her, one that only Jaeger really knew.
Artemis had a heart.
Whether it being here beating up the students bullying Snape, or seeing her out on the grounds smiling and feeding the unicorns (which ironically lead to more taunting of Snape that he still hadn't succeeded in getting her in the sack yet, never mind that they weren't even officially dating- not that that had ever really bothered Jaeger and Remus), Jaeger knew her big friend had a heart.
And took the piss out of her for it at every available opportunity.
Jaeger and Artemis sent Lily a sympathetic look as she sighed moving out of James's grasp for perhaps the hundredth time today and almost sitting on another student's lap in the process. The sorting hat burst out into song and all the students looked around confused. It was the exact same Sorting Song as last year. Looks were traded between the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor table as Jaeger mouthed, 'He must've spent all of last year high.' This innocent (bullshit) little sentence caused the Marauder's to lose any battle they had with self-restraint and promptly started pissing themselves laughing directing all the attention away from the hat to themselves.
"Would you mind?!!!!" It called out in rage. It was a little known fact that the Sorting Hat was even more egotistical than James Potter and if diverted attention from him he would go into what would be a murderous rage if he had any body part that could inflict bodily harm.
Professor McGonagall, who had at least partially realized what was going on, rolled her eyes and stooped down to whisper something in the hats ear, or whatever it used to hear.
"What do you mean it's the same bloody song!?!" the hat cried, swinging its 'head' around to 'look' at the deputy head.
"The first years, please!" She hissed at it, but Jaeger noticed something had fallen out the hats band around its brim when it had swung him self around. She ran up in front of the High Table, picked it up, and held it up high.
"I KNEW IT!" she cried, holding up the half empty flask.
McGonagall snatched the flask off of her and inspected it with furrowed brows. "We shall post-pone the question of how exactly it drinks for now..." she muttered darkly. "And Miss Malfoy can you please take a seat?"
"Of course, professor." She said innocently but sent the Hat a smirk. There was a rather suspicious wrinkle around the place his eyes would be.
"Would you like me to sing another song then?" It cried, obviously exaggerating its sway to piss off the professors. He was awarded with a resounding "NO!" from the students as Jaeger smugly settled herself back down next to Artemis, sharing a thumbs up with the Marauders.
"What I want to know is where the hat got the booze from." Artemis whispered to Jaeger as the sorting commenced rather haphazardly. Despite still being as accurate as ever, if you looked closely, you could see it almost leering at the students' behinds as they got off of the chair.
"I wonder if a hat would know the difference between a good and a bad arse, being a hat and all..." Jaeger mused, but Artemis wasn't paying attention.
"Arty? Hello, Arty?"
Artemis looked off into the distance. "I just found the hats booze source," she grinned. Jaeger followed her friends' line of visions, over to the Slytherin table where Severus was raising his eyebrows as he dangled a similar flask to the hats' between his thumb and forefinger.
"That little potions bastard," Jaeger breathed. "At least it relieved us of the usual monotony of the Start of Year feast," she said as Artemis sent him a grin.
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Remus quickly glanced over at Jaeger as he filled his plate for the second time. She was doing almost the same as him although she was watching Arty unconsciously flirt with Snape.
Lily noticed both of her unwitting friends and their suitors attentions. She surprisingly didn't have a problem with either Remus or Severus. She often stuck up for Severus when he was being bullied, although that was more to piss of James and Sirius than any actual kindness. And Remus had always been nicer and quieter, more studious. The girls were more often than not cruel to the boys, but it was nice to see them in the rare moments of true flirting.
Not that that would ever happen to her, she thought as she elbowed James in the stomach as he leaned closer to her, and ignoring the shiver going down her back. Never to her.
Dinner ended not much later when the first years looked as if they were going to fall asleep where they were sitting. The houses split up most of them going in the direction of there Common Rooms but leaving the new prefects to deal with the First Years Lily joined the marauders as they went to harass her friends.
"How was the Sorting Hat!" Sirius burst out laughing.
"Tell me about it," Artemis muttered. "It was even more of a pervert than you usually are."
Sirius laughed at that, before realizing what she was implying and tried to hit her. She ducked as he swung causing his hand to slam into the wall.
"OWOWOWOWOWOW!" he yelled jumping around and shaking his hand.
"Anyway," she continued as if nothing had happened, "I'm so glad I don't have to take care of the little Ravenclaw berks, Jaeger got sucked into that one."
"And now I just make the fifth years do it," said prefect added.
"Really don't know why Flitwick made you one..." James pondered.
"Really don't know why you got made Head Boy!" Remus interjected on his crush's behalf.
Jaeger wasn't paying attention to the defense, though, so much as the statement about James.
"Lily, dear," she smiled, all sweetness and light, "what are your new duties as Head Girl?"
Lily and James turned identical shades of white and turned to each other, and with an exclamation of "SHIT!" turned and sped off down the corridor.
"What is it they're meant to be doing?" Peter squeaked nervously, as Jaeger's eyes turned onto him.
"No idea, but as Heads, I was pretty sure that they were meant to be doing something."