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New Beginnings
By Nicecupoftea1107
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
--Alphonse de Lamartine
James had finished patrolling the halls and had just had enough time to return to the Head Boy and Girl compartment to pick up some more food and get his things in order. Lily had arrived just seconds after him, breathless and red in the cheeks.
"What happened Lils? You look positively flushed." James raised his eyebrows and looked at her, amused.
"I found that dreadful Caddock Bulstrode throwing Dung Bombs at first years, and he gave chase and I had to run after him. Gave him a weeks worth of writing lines." Lily smiled as she told James the detention she had given their fellow 7th year, who was in Slytherin. Slytherin had beaten Gryffindor in their game last year, but Gryffindor had still managed to go on to win the House Cup, James having caught the Snitch 10 minutes into the game.
"Good, he deserves it." James said with a confirming nod. "All set to go?"
"Yes." Lily grabbed her oversized handbag and her wand, leaving her trunk there, knowing that the house elves would be down any second to take the trunks up to the proper dormitories.
James led the way out of the compartment, pinning his Head Boy badge to the front of his robes as he was walking. Lily could see his wand poking out of his pocket as his robes swished from side to side. She wondered what kind of wand he had. She knew that it had to have a core of phoenix feather, unicorn hair or dragon heart string, but she had a feeling it was phoenix feather or unicorn hair, dragon heart string had been used in wand making very rarely in the last few years. She thought about asking him, but then decided against it.
Lily shook her head quickly to shake these thoughts from her head. She had no idea what was going on, when had she quit thinking about Potter as the arrogant, big-headed, ignorant brat? Now…she wasn't so sure as to what to think of him. He was tall, lean, handsome, confident, and athletic. She was beginning to think of him very differently than she had before.
James turned around to look at the red-haired girl. "Do you want to share a carriage with the Marauders?" He asked her.
"Oh no, I'm going to share a carriage with Arissa and Lynn, we'll meet up later tonight at the feast. Dumbledore has to give us instructions right after the feast, he told me that he'd meet us in McGonagall's office."
"Alright, See you later Lils!" They had stopped walking and James had leapt of the train, and ran down the whole length of it, to the door closest to the compartment where he knew his friends always sat.
Lily shook her head and began to laugh at his antics. She had known he was the fastest and quickest in all of Gryffindor, but she hadn't actually seen how fast he was, she had never bothered to go to a Quidditch game…she had always spent her time studying for Transfiguration, which happened to be her worst subject.
She hopped down off the train and stood on her tip toes to search for her friends. She saw Arissa's tall head bobbing over all the others. She stood up on her tip toes again and waved her hands. "Arissa! Arissa over here!!" Her long black haired friend looked up at her and smiled. Lily looked near to Arissa and quickly saw her other best friend, Lynn.
Lynn was a pureblood, while Arissa was a half blood, and Lily was Muggle born. The three of them made a very interesting trio. In this day and age, with the man named Voldemort rising to power, more and more pure bloods were agreeing with his views. That only pure bloods should be allowed into Hogwarts, and anyone who wasn't a pure blood was second class. Half bloods and Muggle borns were being persecuted every day. Arissa was a half blood and she thought that Voldemort was full of rubbish. Lynn had also said that she didn't know what Voldemort was so worked up about, even he wasn't a pureblood, so he really was one to talk. Lily felt very assured by all of this, knowing that her two best friends would never lie to her about how they felt and knowing that if Voldemort did eventually get extreme power, it would be the Muggle borns such as her that would be the first he would come after.
Lynn also felt the same way, even though her parents were staunch purebloods. Lynn was distantly related to Sirius Black. Their entire family had been in Slytherin until they and their cousin Andromeda had been put in Gryffindor. Lynn's parents didn't support Voldemort, but they thought he had the right idea on the way to go about things. Lynn had shoulder length black hair, clear blue eyes and soft feminine features.
Lynn ran up to her red haired friend. "Lily!" Was all Lily heard before Lynn ran full force into her, knocking her down on the ground. "Oh Lily, I'm so sorry!" Lynn grabbed her friends hand and dragged her up to her feet.
"Ow…did you have to tackle me Lynn?" Lily said with a grin.
"Of course, because then how would you know how much I missed you?" Lynn smiled back at her.
Lily shook her head, the smile still on her face. "Come on lets go find us a carriage girls."
Together they walked to the white horseless carriages and climbed in, settling themselves on the soft velvet covered benches.
"So did you all have a great summer?" Lily inquired.
"Fantastic!" Lynn grinned at her friends. "Andromeda and I got a small flat together so I'm no longer living with my mother." Lynn scrunched up her nose at the thought of her mother.
"When did this happen?!" Lily exclaimed. "We've been writing to you all summer and you never bothered to tell us this?"
Lynn smiled. "Don't worry Lily, this just happened in the last week. Andromeda showed up last week with her suitcase and just asked me, so I took whatever money I had and we left."
"Wow…what does your mum think of this?" Arissa looked at her friend intently, attempting to pick up some sadness, or any kind of emotion besides happiness from her friend.
Lynn shrugged. "She was happy to see me go, and I was happy to leave." She left it at that before quickly changing the subject. "So who do you think will win the Quidditch Cup this year? I think we could pull it off, but Hufflepuff has that amazing Seeker…what's his name again? Oh that's right, Diggory. Didn't you go out with him for a week or so in 5th year Lils?"
"Yeah…he was so obsessive. He was telling people he wanted to marry me a week into the relationship." Lily gave her friends a look of disgust. "Plus, he just wasn't the right type of guy, it felt weird."
"Well maybe this year you'll finally agree to go out with James Potter." Arissa winked at her friend.
Lily snorted. "I doubt it, unless his ego's deflated a great bit." Lily was already slipping into the old habit of hating James. He had been so nice to her on the train, saving her life even, and yet here she was bashing him behind his back.
"What did you guys think about those dementors on the train? Who do you think they were looking for?" Arissa raised her eyebrows.
"Probably making sure that no one slipped on who's a servant for Voldemort. I hear that Voldemort is going to plan on sneaking into Hogwarts and taking it over." Lynn whispered to her friends. "I heard my mum whispering something about it to dad over the summer before I left."
Lily gasped. "You think he'd honestly try and do that? Dumbledore is the only one he's scared of though!"
Lynn gave a small smile. "I don't think he'll try while we're at Hogwarts, but I think one day he will try, that's why we need to offer our help to Dumbledore."
Lily nodded vigorously. "I agree," Lily's voice took on an older male quality, sounding exactly like Dumbledore. "There is a time for descision making, and this is NOT it!" The friends fell back into their seats in a fit of laughter, forgetting about all their troubles for the time being.
James leapt up the single white wrought iron step and into the carriage, plopping down next to his best friends. Sirius sat next to him, while Remus and Peter sat across from them.
"Did you have a good summer lads?" James leaned forward and leaned his elbows on his knees.
"Oh yeah it was good, my mum and dad wanted to go to the Bahamas to research the selkies, so I spent a lot of time in the sun while my parents were down in the depths conversing with them." Remus smiled good-naturedly. His face was tan except for the whiteness of the shallow scratches that had always been on his face.
"I went to the Black Forest in Germany for some research, it was actually very interesting." Peter stated smugly.
"What can be so interesting in the Black Forest besides vampires?!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Well I did find this new breed of fungi…" Peter trailed off.
"Oh yeah, fungi, real interesting mate." Sirius rolled his eyes. "That's almost as interesting as listening to Binns talk about goblin riots." Sirius yawned just thinking about goblin riots.
"Well, I thought it was interesting." Peter leaned back in his seat and stuck out his lower lip.
"Hey mate, if that's what floats your boat, don't let us sink it." James clapped a hand on Peter's shoulder and smiled at him. Peter tentatively smiled back. The conversation quickly changed to what pranks they were going to pull this year.
"I say we turn Lucius Malfoy into a hamster and put him in a cage in our room!" Sirius smiled at this thought.
"Noo…because they'd all wonder where he was, we should just transfigure his ears or legs or something." James stated matter-of-factly.
"Oh well…we'll figure something out." Sirius said just as they were pulling up to the castle. All four of the boys stuck their heads out the windows, getting a first glance of the lofty castle. The windows were brightly lit so you could see all the paintings and suits of armor inside. Sirius sighed, relieved. "Home again." He looked up longingly at the castle, realizing that this would be their last year here, never to return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry again.
The carriage pulled to a stop and all four boys stumbled out, and over to the steps that led to the main door. Together they walked up the steps and into the Great Hall to watch another Sorting and to start the beginning of their last year.
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