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Chapter 1
Beginning
of 5th Year
It was the 1st day of 5th year, as
Lily walked into the Great Hall to sit next to her friends, Samantha
McKinley and Abbey Knightly.
"Can you believe it? We are already 5th years. Where have the last few years gone?" asked Sam.
"I don't know. Where have they gone, ladies?" said James Potter as he walked up behind the girls making them jump slightly. James was followed, as always, by Sirius, Remus, and Peter. The eyes of almost every girl in the school were also following James and Sirius. They were generally considered to be the best looking guys in the year if not the school and they were talented athletically and academically. They knew almost every girl would go for them. Almost, because Lily would never consider going out with either of them. To her they were arrogant, stuck on themselves, brats who weren't good for anything but getting in trouble.
The boys plopped down on the benches in the Great Hall across from the girls. James sat across from Lily, as always. "So Evans have you thought about me this summer?" It was a well known fact, at least to the Marauders, that James would like nothing more than to go out with Lily, and with any other girl there wouldn't be an issue. But Lily was hard headed and she wasn't going to go out with a big headed, Quidditch player, just to have the bragging rights of going out with James Potter.
"No, asshole," replied Lily promptly without even looking at him.
"Why not? You know you want to go out with me."
"No I don't."
"Why no-"
"Prongs, I would shut up now before she kills you, it's only the first day, after all. You have all year to get a date," commented Sirius casually.
"What makes you think he's going to get a date – ever?" responded Lily edgily.
"Hey, just trying to get him off your back for a second. Chill out babe," said Sirius defensively, as he had a clawing movement and hissed like an angry cat.
"Yeah yeah whatever Padfoot. Well what do you guys reckon we do tonight? I mean we can't have our first night back be unadventurous," said James.
"I don't know. Anyone for Hogsmeade? The first full moon isn't for a couple of weeks, so no real adventures for a while," said Sirius.
"I like Hogsmeade! We should go there tonight," squeaked Peter. He looked ready to wet his pants with excitement. Peter never really looked healthy at any one point in time, he was always pale and always looked slightly sweaty in that paranoid, twitchy kind of way. He followed around James, Sirius, and Remus like they were living gods, and practically worshiped the ground they walked on.
"Calm down Pete. It's just a Hogsmeade sneak, it's not like we haven't done it before," said Sirius. Now Sirius by this point in his life was practically gorgeous in the hot, casual, mysterious, muscular kind of way, and he knew it. Girl after girl eyed Sirius with that hopeful look girls get when they see something they know they can't have, but want more than anything. Unfortunately, Sirius wasn't really interested in girls. He was only fifteen and in his opinion there was too much fun to be had without a girl getting in the way.
The rest of breakfast went by uneventfully mostly because the marauders were busy making plans for the night, and the girls were discussing their summers.
"Well summer wasn't too bad ' cause Petunia hates me so much she stayed out of the way most of the time. I went to Ireland with my parents and cousins. That was pretty cool, but I always miss this place a lot," said Lily. Basically, Lily didn't get along her sister Petunia, they had sort of gotten along before Lily went to Hogwarts because Lily never did anything outrageous to embarrass Petunia. But when Lily found out she was a witch, Petunia shunned Lily and grew to hate her. Well actually, Petunia didn't hate Lily, although she acted like it and treated Lily like trash, she was just jealous that Lily was suddenly getting so much attention from their parents. Their parents were really proud that they had a witch in the family because it was, well, cool.
She was also a little jealous of Lily looks and popularity. Lily was a perfect weight, she wasn't petite, but she wasn't at all heavy either. She had thick, layer, red hair that fell to just below her the top of her shoulders. Lily was relatively pale, with a like blanket of freckles resting on her nose, and lightly spreading across her cheeks like stars in a clear night sky. In contrast to Petunia's lanky frame, and plain, straight brown hair and grey eyes.
"My holiday was pretty sweet too, we went to Italy and rode horses through the country. But I always miss hanging out with you guys when we're off of school," said Samantha. Sam was incredibly intelligent. She had thick, wavy caramel color hair that fell to just below were shoulder blades, and she was tan, from her summer in Italy, Samantha came from a wizard family, and she had a older brother, Topher who was a 7th year Ravenclaw. Samantha was the brightest of the three friends, although, both Lily and Abbey were very talented and clever, Sam made the greatest effort in her studies. She was always the one to keep Lily and Abbey in line, and she made sure that they got al of their work done.
"Hey kids, I beat all of you as far as summer vacations go," said Abbey, "Because I went to the Quidditch World Cup. You know Ireland vs. the US team. It was kick ass! I had so much fun. I mean you should have seen the way the seekers played. They were amazing! And the chasers, gosh dang, they were awesome. One of them, Kristie Bell, she was amazing, and I got her to sign a poster for me. The US won though, that was bad, but it didn't matter the game was awesome. It went on for 12 hours! Wow, you should have seen –"
"ABBEY! Take a breath please. We love Quidditch and all, but I suggest you have this discussion about the way people played with James. Seeing as he is the new Quidditch captain for Gryffindor," interjected Sam.
Abbey was the most athletic of the three girls, and she was a chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Abbey was slightly tomboyish; but she was still a drop dead gorgeous brunette with crystal blue eyes. She had shoulder length dark brown hair that she always had pulled up into a messy bun or ponytail, and she hardly ever wore makeup. She didn't need to. But the best part about Abbey was that she wasn't just pretty, but she had the personality to go along with it. Abbey could talk your ear off if you got her going, and she loved to have a good time. If the boys were going out for an 'adventure' she was the one that wanted to go with them, and they let her because she was fast enough to run and hide and she was clever enough to get out of trouble.
After breakfast, the seven Gryffindors made their way to their first class, divination. They all knew that their divination teacher was a nut, but it was always good for a laugh. The girls sat around a table in the back corner, so that if they fell asleep Professor Rewtlany would not notice. The marauders sat at a table close to them.
"Ok students, seeing as your all in your fifth year, you will have to take the O.W.L. this year. And even though true seers are the only people who can do really well on the O.W.L. I am sure that with a lot of study and extra effort everyone can scrape by fair grades. I, myself, got a fantastic score on my O.W.L., but I'm not one to brag…" said Professor Rewtlany. While she was giving this little speech, the marauders were planning their trip into Hogsmeade.
"Time?" asked Sirius.
"8," answered James.
"Common room?"
"Yep"
"Transform?"
"No"
"Where?"
"Honeydukes"
"Cloak?"
"Yeah"
"Map?"
"Yeah"
"Girls?"
"Lily…"
"James."
"No girls."
"Don't you love it how guys can plan an entire night with a one word conversation?" asked Samantha. While the boys were discussing plans for the evening, the girls were marveling at the lack of words used to communicate plans. It was amazing James and Sirius understood each other so well, that they probably didn't even need words to communicate with one another. They were a pair you don't see everyday. Sirius and James were the best friends anyone had ever seen, if you saw James it was rare to not see Sirius somewhere close by, and vis versa. Neither would ever betray or hurt the other, and they stuck together like brothers, well they practically were considering that Sirius spent most of his time at the Potter's. Sirius was from an extremely dark-art-loving family. They were all in Slytherin, except Sirius and a few others, and the entire family supported Voldemort. When Sirius got tired of his evil family he left and went to live with the Potters for a while, but consequently he was disowned from the family. Not that Sirius really cared.
hey hey, ok I know that this wasn't exactly adventurous, but I was just explaining my view of the characters. Hope you like it and will r/r. I want to make a comment before I write any more chapters – please review. More to come.
