Disclaimer: see chapter one/prologue
Chapter One
"Bye, Lily." Said her father. He were dropping Lily off at King's Cross station.
"Just a reminder... We don't want you coming home for Christmas holiday!"
"Like I could forget." she whispered as he sped of in the car.
She heaved her trunk onto a trolley and walked inside the station. Looking at her ticket she knew she had to go to board the train on platform nine and three-quarters. She walked to platform nine. But there was no platform nine and three-quarters. There was platform nine and platform ten and where platform nine and three-quarters should be there was a barrier.
That, in Lily's mind, was the problem with transferring schools. One never knew where anything was. So Lily had no idea how to get onto the platform so that she could board the train.
'Okay,' she told herself. 'Think. How did I get onto the platform for Duachais?' Duachais was the school she had attended in Ireland. 'What am I talking about? We didn't have a train. We used floo powder.' She sighed.
"Hurry up, Eb!" said a young man. He was pushing a trolley with a trunk on it not unlike Lily's. "The train's gonna leave without us if we don't hurry!"
"Hold your horses, Sirius. I can't walk as fast as you can." A girl who looked to be around the same age as the young man was hurrying along side him also pushing a trolley, but she had an owl along with her trunk.
'Now those are wizards' thought Lily. "Excuse me!" she said running up to them.
"I noticed you had an owl there." she said.
"Yes..." said the girl.
"We're sorry," cut in the boy. "But we have a train to catch."
"Oh, right. Well I was wondering if you could help me?"
"With....?"
"Well with the owl I assume that you attend Hogwarts."
"Yeah..." said the girl.
"I don't know how to get onto the platform." Said Lily.
"Oh! That's easy." said the girl.
"How do I?"
"Just go through the barrier."
"What?"
"I'll go first and you watch." said the young man. Lily nodded
He lined himself up with the barrier then walked toward it. He was getting very close and Lily felt sure that he would hit the wall. But as he got to the wall he simply went through.
'You've been part of the wizarding world for six years.' she scolded herself. 'The fact that they walk through a wall shouldn't surprise you.'
"Now you go and I'll follow." said the girl.
"Thanks."
Lily did the same as the boy had done. When she came through the other side she was on another platform. There were many parents waiting to see their children off to school. There was a huge red steam engine that already held most of the students.
"Wow" said Lily.
"Yeah, I guess it's cool." said the boy she had been talking to before.
"Oh, aye. Back home we would just use floo powder to get to school."
"Oh"
"I am Lily, by the way. Lily Evans." she extended her hand.
"Sirius Black." he shook her hand. He was tall, maybe 6'1, had black hair and brown eyes. He was well muscled which lead Lily to believe that he played quidditch.
"And that's my twin." he said pointing to the girl he had been walking with on the other side of the barrier.
"I'm Ebony." Said the girl.
A loud whistle came from the steam engine. "Warning whistle." said Ebony. "We should get on the train."
They boarded the train and found an empty compartment. They set all their stuff inside and sat down.
"So," said Ebony. "Where are you from? I assume you're not a first year. You look a little too old." she laughed.
"I just moved from Ireland."
"Ireland? Cool" said Sirius.
"I suppose."
"I'm gonna go find Prongs." said Sirius. He got up and left the compartment.
"Prongs?" Asked Lily.
"One of his friends. They had silly nick names for each other."
"Oh."
"Are we out of the station yet?" asked Ebony. The train had not been moving very long.
"Yeah" said Lily looking out the window.
"Good. I can finally take this charm off." she took her wand out and did a charm on her hair. Her black hair now had several different colored streaks in it.
"Wicked." said Lily.
"Yeah. Mum and dad don't like it, so I charm it so it won't show during summer holiday."
Lily nodded.
"So, do you know what house you're going to be in yet?" asked Ebony.
"Yes, I do. In my letter they told me I'd be in Gryffindor."
"Oh, cool. That's the house I'm in. Best one though I do say so myself." Lily laughed.
"And what year?" asked Ebony.
"Seventh."
"Me too! Looks like we'll be sharing a dorm."
The compartment door slid open and Sirius came back in fallowed by two other boys. One was tall and had sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. He, like Sirius, looked like he played quidditch. The other was short, slightly pudgy, had mud coloured hair and brown, watery eyes.
"Hey, Remus." said Ebony.
"Hey, Eb'. How's it going?"
"Okay. Have a nice summer?"
"Yeah. I missed you though."
"I missed you too."
"Oh please." said Sirius. "Like you two didn't owl each other every day." He looked disgusted.
"Its not the same." said Ebony.
"Right well if you're going to be all mushy like you guys are acting now then I suggest you leave."
"Why?"
"I don't particularly care to see my little sister having eye sex with one of my best friends." He said.
"We were not having eye sex! And I'm younger by two minutes. Two! That hardly counts for anything!"
"Whatever."
She groaned.
"Well I guess introductions are left to me." said Remus. Lily looked up.
"I'm Remus Lupin. And this," he pointed to the other boy. "Is Peter Petigrew."
"Lily Evans." said Lily. "Pleasure to meet you." They shook hands.
"Where's James?" asked Ebony. Lily perked up at the sound of the name.
"James?" she asked.
"Another one of my friends." said Sirius.
"He's snogging with some sixth year." said Remus.
"Snogging."said Ebony. "As usual." she shook her head, but smiled.
They sat in silence for several moments (A/N: I write that a lot huh?). Then Remus and Ebony stood up.
"We're going to, uh..." said Ebony.
"Go somewhere else." said Remus. And with that they left walking hand in hand.
"My little sister is all grown up!" Sirius pretended to cry. "Going for a snog with my best friend." he pretended to cry harder.
Lily and Peter looked at him strangely. He stopped 'crying' suddenly. "What?" he asked.
Lily laughed and shook her head. They sat, again, in silence for several minutes.
"I've got to go to the loo." said Peter. He got up and left.
"So, Lily." Sirius smiled. "You got a boy friend?"
"No." She smiled. Maybe getting back in the game would help her get over James.
"Really? Someone as pretty as you is single?"
"afraid so."
"Well... I have a favor to ask of you then." Lily raised one eyebrow.
"And what might that be?"
"You see," he said. "I have friend and he's been a little depressed ever since he came back from the holiday his family took."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. You seem to be exactly his type. Would you go out with him?"
"Your asking me on a date for your friend?"
"Well he doesn't know it. I figure a date with a pretty girl is just the thing to lift his spirits."
"Oh." said Lily. "I was hopin' you were going to ask me out... For you." she said flirtatiously.
"Oh, really?"
"Well, how could I not? Your so handsome. Any girl would be glad for you to pay attention to them."
"Don't say that, Lily." Said Ebony as she walked through the door. "He had a big enough opinion of himself already." Lily laughed.
"I do not have a big opinion of myself." Said Sirius.
"Sure. And James hasn't dated every girl above fifth year."
"Okay, point taken. But can I help it if the ladies love me?" Ebony hit him over the head. "OUCH!" cried Sirius. "You're too strong for a girl."
"No I'm not. You're just a weakling."
"Are they always like this?" Lily asked Remus who had returned with Ebony. "Like what?" he asked.
"Fighting about everything?"
"Oh... This is good behavior for them." Lily laughed.
"What?" asked Remus. "I'm serious."
"No you're not." Sirius broke in. "I'm Sirius.. You're Remus." Remus and Ebony groaned.
"Hey Peter had been gone for a long time." said Lily.
"Yeah, wonder where he is." Said Sirius.
"Didn't he say he was going to the toilet?"
"Really?" Remus broke in. "We saw him going into a compartment." He looked at Ebony who nodded.
"Yeah." She said.
"Weird."
"Speaking of the toilet..." said Lily. "I'll be right back." She got up and left.
"So what do you guys think of Lily?" asked Sirius.
"She's nice." said Ebony.
"A little quiet though." Said Remus.
"I think Lily is very nice. Think we should set her up with James?" said Sirius.
"Why would we do that?"
"He's been really depressed lately. A girl is just the thing for him.. And doesn't Lily seem perfect?"
"Hmmm... She does seem like she would do well with him." Said Ebony thoughtfully.
"I think we should get to know Lily a little better before we do anything." said Remus.
"Who's Lily?" said another voice. They all looked up to see James. He had been standing in the hall way. When he had heard the name Lily he had had to find out who it was.
"New exchange student." Said Ebony.
"Yeah?" asked James.
"Yeah.... She is really hot." said Sirius. The girl James had been snogging with earlier came in behind him. She was a Ravenclaw sixth year. She had hair almost the color of Lily's and green eyes, like Lily, though not the same green. They were duller.
"James?"
"Right." said James. "I'm gonna go hang out with... uh" he searched for her name.
"Michelle." she said peevishly.
"Yeah. I'm gonna go hang out with Monique." They walked out the door. To be honest James didn't give a shit what her name was. He was only with her because she reminded him of Lily. Which was silly because the first reason he was looking for someone to snog was to get his mind off Lily. He sighed.
Lily walked back into the compartment. She had been in the bathroom thinking about — you guessed it — James. 'You have to get over him.' she told herself. 'Move on! You're never going to see him again anyway. You might as well meet someone new.' She smiled as she met the faces of her new friends.
"So, Sirius," she went to sit next to him. "You said your friend needed at date."
"I thought you wanted me!" He said in mock pain. Lily laughed.
"Well if you insist." She leant forward as though she was going to kiss him.
"No, no." he said. "My friend needs you."
"Well then." she sat back in her seat. "Who is this friend?"
"You should understand that you would be going on this date just so he could get his mind off... whatever happened over the summer." said Sirius.
"Oh, I'm fine with that. I need a bit of a distraction myself."
"Why is that?"
"Well I'm a bit hung up on my last fling."
"Oh... well then this is just what you need!" said Sirius smiling.
"Great. Well just tell me when."
"Okay."
They spent the rest of the train ride telling Lily how Hogwarts was. They told her about the different houses and teachers. When they were almost to Hogwarts a voice came floating out into the compartments. "Those of you who have no yet changed into your robes are advised to do so soon as we will be arriving at Hogwarts in thirty minutes time."
"Well I best do that then." said Lily. She got her robes out and went to change in the bath room. "I'll do that too." said Ebony and she did the same as Lily.
"Hey guys," said James. He came into the compartment. "We need to talk about our beginning of the year prank. Where's Peter?"
"Dunno." said Sirius. "He's been gone for several hours."
"Oh.... Well lets plan anyway." So they began to plan. Ebony walked back into the compartment after several minutes of planning.
"Hey, James." She said.
"Hey." he replied.
"Where's Lily?" asked Sirius. James looked up.
"She's still changing." Sirius nodded.
"Well, I'm going back to Margot." said James.
"I thought it was Monique." said Remus.
"No, no, it was Margery." said Sirius.
"Michelle, actually." said Ebony.
"Whatever." He walked out of the compartment. Several minutes later Lily came back in.
"Hey." they all said.
"Hey."
"You just missed the guy that I want you to go out with." said Sirius.
"Oh... well I am sure I will have other chances to meet him." she said.
"Yeah."
The train finally came to a stop at the station.
"We're here!" said Sirius excitedly!
"Sirius?" Lily looked confused.
"Food." he said as though that explained it all. "And prank. Now where is James... WE did to put the finishing touches on our prank." he said to Remus.
"He's still with Mary-Anne."
"Michelle!" cried Ebony.
"Whatever" The boys went over to a horseless carriage with Sirius continuously shouting "food!".
"He always gets excited." said Ebony. They found an empty carriage and got in. It took them up to the castle. They went to the Great Hall and sat down. Lily sat with Ebony while Remus disapeared somewhere. Assumably he was with Sirius and Peter.
"Students," said Dumbledore. The hall went silent. "I would like to welcome those of you who are returning to another year at Hogwarts. And I would like to welcome the rest of you to Hogwarts for the first time. Before we start the sorting I would like to introduce a new student that will be joining the seventh years this year. Lily Evans. She has already been privately sorted into Gryffindor. Now let the sorting begin!"
Sirius came to sit by them halfway through the sorting. "God I'm hungry." he said. "Where have you been?" asked Ebony. "Playing a prank on the Slytherins of course." Ebony nodded.
"Well go bother your own friends." she said. "Leave Lily and me be!"
"Oh, I love you too, sis." He said in mock hurt. He smiled and went to sit with Remus, Peter, and another boy that Lily couldn't really see.
Finally the sorting ended and Dumbledore stood again. "Before we start I would like to remind students that the Forbidden forest is indeed forbidden." He looked to where Sirius and he friends where sitting. "And, I'm sorry, Mr. Black," he again looked at Sirius. "But the name of the Forbidden Forest cannot be changed to 'The Lovely and Welcoming Forest Filled with Fuzzy Toed Munchkins.' That is all for now. Let the feast begin!" He waved his hand and food appeared on the tables.
"Honestly, Sirius." Ebony yelled to where he was sitting. "'The Lovely and Welcoming Forest Filled with Fuzzy Toed Munchkins'? Couldn't you have come up with something a little better?"
"I was working under pressure!" He said. Ebony shook her head.
"Sirius," said James. "Who's that girl sitting with Eb'?" He could only see part of her head. But he knew there was something familiar about her.
"Oh. That's the new girl. Just moved here from some country... Ireland I think." said Peter.
"Yeah." said Sirius. "Ireland. She's a seventh year and I guess she's already been sorted."
"Oh." They ate in silence (A/N: I use that way~ too much). Then James said "I can't wait to see the Slytherins in the morning!"
"Me neither!" said Peter.
"The prank was brilliant. Doing their common room in Gryffindor colours! And dying all their uniforms!.... bloody brilliant." said Sirius.
"You always come up with good pranks, Prongs." said Remus.
"Why thank you, Moony."
The rest of the feast continued in a similar fashion. The talked about pranks and food and almost everything else.
"I'm so full" complained James.
"You do this every year." said Remus.
"But this year I'm extra full."
"I feel like I'm pregnant." said Sirius.
"Is there something you're not telling us, Padfoot?" asked Peter.
"Shut up, Wormtail. I'm so full!" Remus and Peter laughed. They made their way up to the common room and went to their dorm.
"I've decided to give our dorm a name." said Sirius. He was feeling better as the feeling of fullness had gone away.
"Name our dorm?" asked Remus.
"Yes. What do you think of 'The Sex God Place'?"
"I think you've finally gone off you're rocker." said James.
"Yeah, you're right. That name's no good. How 'bout.... um...."
"The Shack" said Peter.
"No... um..."
"Sanctuary." said James.
"That's it!" cried Sirius. "The Sanctuary!"
"Okay.... our dorm is now going to be known as 'The Sanctuary.'"
One of the other seventh year boys came into the room. "Hello!!!!!" yelled Sirius. "Welcome to The Sanctuary!!"
The boy looked confused.
"Don't pay attention to him, Greg. He's decided to name our dorm." said Remus.
"Oh. that's.... different." said Greg.
"You're just jealous 'cause you didn't think to do it."
"Keep telling yourself that, Padfoot. If it makes you feel better." Said Remus.
"Now we have to name the girls' dorm!" said Sirius who had become rather hyper. He was now jumping from bed to bed regardless or whether it had an occupant or not.
"Oh, God." said Remus.
"'Place Where the Really Sexy Ladies Are.' How 'bout that?"
"How 'bout not." said James.
"Um.... 'Sex Goddess place.'?"
".....No"
"Goddess Shrine!"
"How 'bout just 'The Shrine'" said Remus.
"I love it!" said Sirius. "I'm going to go tell the girls of their dorm's new name!" He ran out the door and to the girls' dorm. A few minutes later Ebony came running into the The Sanctuary.
"What the hell did you do to him?! He's only this hyper when you give him sugar!"
"I think I saw him with a bottle of soda." said Peter.
"Oh no...."
"So, Eb'." said James. "Who's the new chick?"
"Lily. From Ireland."
"Lily?" 'It can't be the same Lily.... can it?' He asked himself. 'No, of course it can't.'
"Yes, Lily."
"Oh."
"So what is Sirius doing?" asked Remus.
"Well when I left he was jumping from bed to bed." She said.
"He was doing that in here too."
"Well I'm staying in here 'till he comes back." she said. "Remus, can I sleep in your bed?"
"If Sirius finds you he'll kill Remus." said Peter. "First snogging and now sleeping in the same bed." Ebony crawled into Remus' bed. Remus sighed and did the same.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" cried Sirius from the doorway. Ebony laughed and jumped out of the bed.
"You're in the same bed as my sister!" Sirius yelled at Remus.
"It wasn't my idea!" Cried Remus.
"It's true, it was mine."
"My sister.... and one of my best friends!"
"Honestly, Sirius. We've been going out for over a year. Get over it!"
"My little sister." said Sirius.
"BY TWO MINUTES!"
"That's true."
"I'm going to bed. I was only in here to get away from your hyperness anyway. 'Night, all!" She went back to The Shrine.
A/N: That was unexpectedly long. Sorry 'bout that. Anyhoo. Review my little lovelies! Review!
~Psycho Psychic
Chapter One
"Bye, Lily." Said her father. He were dropping Lily off at King's Cross station.
"Just a reminder... We don't want you coming home for Christmas holiday!"
"Like I could forget." she whispered as he sped of in the car.
She heaved her trunk onto a trolley and walked inside the station. Looking at her ticket she knew she had to go to board the train on platform nine and three-quarters. She walked to platform nine. But there was no platform nine and three-quarters. There was platform nine and platform ten and where platform nine and three-quarters should be there was a barrier.
That, in Lily's mind, was the problem with transferring schools. One never knew where anything was. So Lily had no idea how to get onto the platform so that she could board the train.
'Okay,' she told herself. 'Think. How did I get onto the platform for Duachais?' Duachais was the school she had attended in Ireland. 'What am I talking about? We didn't have a train. We used floo powder.' She sighed.
"Hurry up, Eb!" said a young man. He was pushing a trolley with a trunk on it not unlike Lily's. "The train's gonna leave without us if we don't hurry!"
"Hold your horses, Sirius. I can't walk as fast as you can." A girl who looked to be around the same age as the young man was hurrying along side him also pushing a trolley, but she had an owl along with her trunk.
'Now those are wizards' thought Lily. "Excuse me!" she said running up to them.
"I noticed you had an owl there." she said.
"Yes..." said the girl.
"We're sorry," cut in the boy. "But we have a train to catch."
"Oh, right. Well I was wondering if you could help me?"
"With....?"
"Well with the owl I assume that you attend Hogwarts."
"Yeah..." said the girl.
"I don't know how to get onto the platform." Said Lily.
"Oh! That's easy." said the girl.
"How do I?"
"Just go through the barrier."
"What?"
"I'll go first and you watch." said the young man. Lily nodded
He lined himself up with the barrier then walked toward it. He was getting very close and Lily felt sure that he would hit the wall. But as he got to the wall he simply went through.
'You've been part of the wizarding world for six years.' she scolded herself. 'The fact that they walk through a wall shouldn't surprise you.'
"Now you go and I'll follow." said the girl.
"Thanks."
Lily did the same as the boy had done. When she came through the other side she was on another platform. There were many parents waiting to see their children off to school. There was a huge red steam engine that already held most of the students.
"Wow" said Lily.
"Yeah, I guess it's cool." said the boy she had been talking to before.
"Oh, aye. Back home we would just use floo powder to get to school."
"Oh"
"I am Lily, by the way. Lily Evans." she extended her hand.
"Sirius Black." he shook her hand. He was tall, maybe 6'1, had black hair and brown eyes. He was well muscled which lead Lily to believe that he played quidditch.
"And that's my twin." he said pointing to the girl he had been walking with on the other side of the barrier.
"I'm Ebony." Said the girl.
A loud whistle came from the steam engine. "Warning whistle." said Ebony. "We should get on the train."
They boarded the train and found an empty compartment. They set all their stuff inside and sat down.
"So," said Ebony. "Where are you from? I assume you're not a first year. You look a little too old." she laughed.
"I just moved from Ireland."
"Ireland? Cool" said Sirius.
"I suppose."
"I'm gonna go find Prongs." said Sirius. He got up and left the compartment.
"Prongs?" Asked Lily.
"One of his friends. They had silly nick names for each other."
"Oh."
"Are we out of the station yet?" asked Ebony. The train had not been moving very long.
"Yeah" said Lily looking out the window.
"Good. I can finally take this charm off." she took her wand out and did a charm on her hair. Her black hair now had several different colored streaks in it.
"Wicked." said Lily.
"Yeah. Mum and dad don't like it, so I charm it so it won't show during summer holiday."
Lily nodded.
"So, do you know what house you're going to be in yet?" asked Ebony.
"Yes, I do. In my letter they told me I'd be in Gryffindor."
"Oh, cool. That's the house I'm in. Best one though I do say so myself." Lily laughed.
"And what year?" asked Ebony.
"Seventh."
"Me too! Looks like we'll be sharing a dorm."
The compartment door slid open and Sirius came back in fallowed by two other boys. One was tall and had sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. He, like Sirius, looked like he played quidditch. The other was short, slightly pudgy, had mud coloured hair and brown, watery eyes.
"Hey, Remus." said Ebony.
"Hey, Eb'. How's it going?"
"Okay. Have a nice summer?"
"Yeah. I missed you though."
"I missed you too."
"Oh please." said Sirius. "Like you two didn't owl each other every day." He looked disgusted.
"Its not the same." said Ebony.
"Right well if you're going to be all mushy like you guys are acting now then I suggest you leave."
"Why?"
"I don't particularly care to see my little sister having eye sex with one of my best friends." He said.
"We were not having eye sex! And I'm younger by two minutes. Two! That hardly counts for anything!"
"Whatever."
She groaned.
"Well I guess introductions are left to me." said Remus. Lily looked up.
"I'm Remus Lupin. And this," he pointed to the other boy. "Is Peter Petigrew."
"Lily Evans." said Lily. "Pleasure to meet you." They shook hands.
"Where's James?" asked Ebony. Lily perked up at the sound of the name.
"James?" she asked.
"Another one of my friends." said Sirius.
"He's snogging with some sixth year." said Remus.
"Snogging."said Ebony. "As usual." she shook her head, but smiled.
They sat in silence for several moments (A/N: I write that a lot huh?). Then Remus and Ebony stood up.
"We're going to, uh..." said Ebony.
"Go somewhere else." said Remus. And with that they left walking hand in hand.
"My little sister is all grown up!" Sirius pretended to cry. "Going for a snog with my best friend." he pretended to cry harder.
Lily and Peter looked at him strangely. He stopped 'crying' suddenly. "What?" he asked.
Lily laughed and shook her head. They sat, again, in silence for several minutes.
"I've got to go to the loo." said Peter. He got up and left.
"So, Lily." Sirius smiled. "You got a boy friend?"
"No." She smiled. Maybe getting back in the game would help her get over James.
"Really? Someone as pretty as you is single?"
"afraid so."
"Well... I have a favor to ask of you then." Lily raised one eyebrow.
"And what might that be?"
"You see," he said. "I have friend and he's been a little depressed ever since he came back from the holiday his family took."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. You seem to be exactly his type. Would you go out with him?"
"Your asking me on a date for your friend?"
"Well he doesn't know it. I figure a date with a pretty girl is just the thing to lift his spirits."
"Oh." said Lily. "I was hopin' you were going to ask me out... For you." she said flirtatiously.
"Oh, really?"
"Well, how could I not? Your so handsome. Any girl would be glad for you to pay attention to them."
"Don't say that, Lily." Said Ebony as she walked through the door. "He had a big enough opinion of himself already." Lily laughed.
"I do not have a big opinion of myself." Said Sirius.
"Sure. And James hasn't dated every girl above fifth year."
"Okay, point taken. But can I help it if the ladies love me?" Ebony hit him over the head. "OUCH!" cried Sirius. "You're too strong for a girl."
"No I'm not. You're just a weakling."
"Are they always like this?" Lily asked Remus who had returned with Ebony. "Like what?" he asked.
"Fighting about everything?"
"Oh... This is good behavior for them." Lily laughed.
"What?" asked Remus. "I'm serious."
"No you're not." Sirius broke in. "I'm Sirius.. You're Remus." Remus and Ebony groaned.
"Hey Peter had been gone for a long time." said Lily.
"Yeah, wonder where he is." Said Sirius.
"Didn't he say he was going to the toilet?"
"Really?" Remus broke in. "We saw him going into a compartment." He looked at Ebony who nodded.
"Yeah." She said.
"Weird."
"Speaking of the toilet..." said Lily. "I'll be right back." She got up and left.
"So what do you guys think of Lily?" asked Sirius.
"She's nice." said Ebony.
"A little quiet though." Said Remus.
"I think Lily is very nice. Think we should set her up with James?" said Sirius.
"Why would we do that?"
"He's been really depressed lately. A girl is just the thing for him.. And doesn't Lily seem perfect?"
"Hmmm... She does seem like she would do well with him." Said Ebony thoughtfully.
"I think we should get to know Lily a little better before we do anything." said Remus.
"Who's Lily?" said another voice. They all looked up to see James. He had been standing in the hall way. When he had heard the name Lily he had had to find out who it was.
"New exchange student." Said Ebony.
"Yeah?" asked James.
"Yeah.... She is really hot." said Sirius. The girl James had been snogging with earlier came in behind him. She was a Ravenclaw sixth year. She had hair almost the color of Lily's and green eyes, like Lily, though not the same green. They were duller.
"James?"
"Right." said James. "I'm gonna go hang out with... uh" he searched for her name.
"Michelle." she said peevishly.
"Yeah. I'm gonna go hang out with Monique." They walked out the door. To be honest James didn't give a shit what her name was. He was only with her because she reminded him of Lily. Which was silly because the first reason he was looking for someone to snog was to get his mind off Lily. He sighed.
Lily walked back into the compartment. She had been in the bathroom thinking about — you guessed it — James. 'You have to get over him.' she told herself. 'Move on! You're never going to see him again anyway. You might as well meet someone new.' She smiled as she met the faces of her new friends.
"So, Sirius," she went to sit next to him. "You said your friend needed at date."
"I thought you wanted me!" He said in mock pain. Lily laughed.
"Well if you insist." She leant forward as though she was going to kiss him.
"No, no." he said. "My friend needs you."
"Well then." she sat back in her seat. "Who is this friend?"
"You should understand that you would be going on this date just so he could get his mind off... whatever happened over the summer." said Sirius.
"Oh, I'm fine with that. I need a bit of a distraction myself."
"Why is that?"
"Well I'm a bit hung up on my last fling."
"Oh... well then this is just what you need!" said Sirius smiling.
"Great. Well just tell me when."
"Okay."
They spent the rest of the train ride telling Lily how Hogwarts was. They told her about the different houses and teachers. When they were almost to Hogwarts a voice came floating out into the compartments. "Those of you who have no yet changed into your robes are advised to do so soon as we will be arriving at Hogwarts in thirty minutes time."
"Well I best do that then." said Lily. She got her robes out and went to change in the bath room. "I'll do that too." said Ebony and she did the same as Lily.
"Hey guys," said James. He came into the compartment. "We need to talk about our beginning of the year prank. Where's Peter?"
"Dunno." said Sirius. "He's been gone for several hours."
"Oh.... Well lets plan anyway." So they began to plan. Ebony walked back into the compartment after several minutes of planning.
"Hey, James." She said.
"Hey." he replied.
"Where's Lily?" asked Sirius. James looked up.
"She's still changing." Sirius nodded.
"Well, I'm going back to Margot." said James.
"I thought it was Monique." said Remus.
"No, no, it was Margery." said Sirius.
"Michelle, actually." said Ebony.
"Whatever." He walked out of the compartment. Several minutes later Lily came back in.
"Hey." they all said.
"Hey."
"You just missed the guy that I want you to go out with." said Sirius.
"Oh... well I am sure I will have other chances to meet him." she said.
"Yeah."
The train finally came to a stop at the station.
"We're here!" said Sirius excitedly!
"Sirius?" Lily looked confused.
"Food." he said as though that explained it all. "And prank. Now where is James... WE did to put the finishing touches on our prank." he said to Remus.
"He's still with Mary-Anne."
"Michelle!" cried Ebony.
"Whatever" The boys went over to a horseless carriage with Sirius continuously shouting "food!".
"He always gets excited." said Ebony. They found an empty carriage and got in. It took them up to the castle. They went to the Great Hall and sat down. Lily sat with Ebony while Remus disapeared somewhere. Assumably he was with Sirius and Peter.
"Students," said Dumbledore. The hall went silent. "I would like to welcome those of you who are returning to another year at Hogwarts. And I would like to welcome the rest of you to Hogwarts for the first time. Before we start the sorting I would like to introduce a new student that will be joining the seventh years this year. Lily Evans. She has already been privately sorted into Gryffindor. Now let the sorting begin!"
Sirius came to sit by them halfway through the sorting. "God I'm hungry." he said. "Where have you been?" asked Ebony. "Playing a prank on the Slytherins of course." Ebony nodded.
"Well go bother your own friends." she said. "Leave Lily and me be!"
"Oh, I love you too, sis." He said in mock hurt. He smiled and went to sit with Remus, Peter, and another boy that Lily couldn't really see.
Finally the sorting ended and Dumbledore stood again. "Before we start I would like to remind students that the Forbidden forest is indeed forbidden." He looked to where Sirius and he friends where sitting. "And, I'm sorry, Mr. Black," he again looked at Sirius. "But the name of the Forbidden Forest cannot be changed to 'The Lovely and Welcoming Forest Filled with Fuzzy Toed Munchkins.' That is all for now. Let the feast begin!" He waved his hand and food appeared on the tables.
"Honestly, Sirius." Ebony yelled to where he was sitting. "'The Lovely and Welcoming Forest Filled with Fuzzy Toed Munchkins'? Couldn't you have come up with something a little better?"
"I was working under pressure!" He said. Ebony shook her head.
"Sirius," said James. "Who's that girl sitting with Eb'?" He could only see part of her head. But he knew there was something familiar about her.
"Oh. That's the new girl. Just moved here from some country... Ireland I think." said Peter.
"Yeah." said Sirius. "Ireland. She's a seventh year and I guess she's already been sorted."
"Oh." They ate in silence (A/N: I use that way~ too much). Then James said "I can't wait to see the Slytherins in the morning!"
"Me neither!" said Peter.
"The prank was brilliant. Doing their common room in Gryffindor colours! And dying all their uniforms!.... bloody brilliant." said Sirius.
"You always come up with good pranks, Prongs." said Remus.
"Why thank you, Moony."
The rest of the feast continued in a similar fashion. The talked about pranks and food and almost everything else.
"I'm so full" complained James.
"You do this every year." said Remus.
"But this year I'm extra full."
"I feel like I'm pregnant." said Sirius.
"Is there something you're not telling us, Padfoot?" asked Peter.
"Shut up, Wormtail. I'm so full!" Remus and Peter laughed. They made their way up to the common room and went to their dorm.
"I've decided to give our dorm a name." said Sirius. He was feeling better as the feeling of fullness had gone away.
"Name our dorm?" asked Remus.
"Yes. What do you think of 'The Sex God Place'?"
"I think you've finally gone off you're rocker." said James.
"Yeah, you're right. That name's no good. How 'bout.... um...."
"The Shack" said Peter.
"No... um..."
"Sanctuary." said James.
"That's it!" cried Sirius. "The Sanctuary!"
"Okay.... our dorm is now going to be known as 'The Sanctuary.'"
One of the other seventh year boys came into the room. "Hello!!!!!" yelled Sirius. "Welcome to The Sanctuary!!"
The boy looked confused.
"Don't pay attention to him, Greg. He's decided to name our dorm." said Remus.
"Oh. that's.... different." said Greg.
"You're just jealous 'cause you didn't think to do it."
"Keep telling yourself that, Padfoot. If it makes you feel better." Said Remus.
"Now we have to name the girls' dorm!" said Sirius who had become rather hyper. He was now jumping from bed to bed regardless or whether it had an occupant or not.
"Oh, God." said Remus.
"'Place Where the Really Sexy Ladies Are.' How 'bout that?"
"How 'bout not." said James.
"Um.... 'Sex Goddess place.'?"
".....No"
"Goddess Shrine!"
"How 'bout just 'The Shrine'" said Remus.
"I love it!" said Sirius. "I'm going to go tell the girls of their dorm's new name!" He ran out the door and to the girls' dorm. A few minutes later Ebony came running into the The Sanctuary.
"What the hell did you do to him?! He's only this hyper when you give him sugar!"
"I think I saw him with a bottle of soda." said Peter.
"Oh no...."
"So, Eb'." said James. "Who's the new chick?"
"Lily. From Ireland."
"Lily?" 'It can't be the same Lily.... can it?' He asked himself. 'No, of course it can't.'
"Yes, Lily."
"Oh."
"So what is Sirius doing?" asked Remus.
"Well when I left he was jumping from bed to bed." She said.
"He was doing that in here too."
"Well I'm staying in here 'till he comes back." she said. "Remus, can I sleep in your bed?"
"If Sirius finds you he'll kill Remus." said Peter. "First snogging and now sleeping in the same bed." Ebony crawled into Remus' bed. Remus sighed and did the same.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" cried Sirius from the doorway. Ebony laughed and jumped out of the bed.
"You're in the same bed as my sister!" Sirius yelled at Remus.
"It wasn't my idea!" Cried Remus.
"It's true, it was mine."
"My sister.... and one of my best friends!"
"Honestly, Sirius. We've been going out for over a year. Get over it!"
"My little sister." said Sirius.
"BY TWO MINUTES!"
"That's true."
"I'm going to bed. I was only in here to get away from your hyperness anyway. 'Night, all!" She went back to The Shrine.
A/N: That was unexpectedly long. Sorry 'bout that. Anyhoo. Review my little lovelies! Review!
~Psycho Psychic