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Chapter 5: The First Class
"Slytherin!" The hat bellowed after being placed on top of the slick, greasy hair. The boy sneered, as he always did, and took a seat next to his friend Luscious.
"Let the feast begin." Dumbledore exclaimed as food magically appeared in front of all of them.
When the feast was over and Dumbledore had made a few final announcements, the four houses were led out of the Great Hall. The Gryffindors were taken to the high tower, following the Head Girl and Boy.
"Fortuna Major," the Head Boy said when they reached a portrait a fat woman. The portrait swung open to unveil a crawl space which led into the Gryffindor Common Room.
"This is the Common Room for the Gryffindor house. Up those stairs are the girls' dormitories," the Head Girl said pointing to a case of stairs to their left. "And up those are the boys' dormitories," she continued gesturing to the other flight of stairs. "You will see your things have things have already been brought up to your rooms. And just incase Professor Dumbledore did not make it clear we are to enforce the 9 o'clock curfew. Which means no one should be leaving this room tonight unless it is to go up to the dormitories." At this James and Sirius exchanged equally disappointed looks, neither of them had planned on security measures taking place so early. "Goodnight," the Head Girl finished her speech and she and the Head Boy went to their quarters.
Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter agreed that they wanted to go up to their dormitory. Inside the room were four four-poster beds all with red and orange comforters and curtains.
Sirius ran and jumped on the bed closest to them. "I call this one!" he said bouncing up and down excitedly.
James jumped on the second closest bed and said "I claim this bed in the name of James." Sirius reached over and pushed him off.
Remus dove onto the third bed and said "This one's mine," laying his head into the pillow.
"I'll take this one," Peter said climbing onto the last bed and falling once again, the three boys laughed as he got up and brushed himself off. So he stuck his tongue out at them mockingly which only made them laugh harder.
Remus yawned loudly. "Well, I guess we should get ready for bed now," he reasoned. He looked over to find both Sirius and James staring anxiously at the dormitory door. "What's the matter with you guys?"
"It's not fair," Sirius stated not lifting his gaze. "They didn't even give us time to explore."
"Explore?" Remus questioned.
"Well, it's a bloody big castle. I'm sure we could find lots of cool stuff." Sirius responded.
"Well, I'm sure there will be plenty of time to "explore" in the morning, let's just get ready for bed," Remus said turning back to his trunk.
"Oh, OK," James and Sirius moved away from the door and they all dug in their trunks for pajamas and changed.
"Well, goodnight all," Sirius said sleepily.
"Goodnight," the others replied, each falling into his own dream world.
The next morning James woke and pulled back the curtains to see the other boys doing the same. "I'm really here," he thought. "I'm finally at Hogwarts."
"Come on, Mate! I'm hungry, let's go get some food," Sirius announced jumping on his bed. Sirius had apparently been up for awhile as she was already sporting his new Gryffindor robes. James clamored out of bed to retrieve his own robes as did Remus and Peter.
"I think we go back to where the feast was last night for breakfast," Remus stated.
"OK, but do you remember how to get there?" Sirius asked.
They all exchanged glances. None of them had bothered to pay attention when the prefects led them from the Great Hall.
"Well, maybe someone in the Common Room will know," James suggested and the others agreed following him down the stairs.
"There were only a few people in the Common Room but James noticed Lily talking to another girl in the corner.
"Morning, Lily." James said bowing his head slightly.
"Good morning, James, Sirius. I don't think I've met your friends before."
"Oh, right, where are my manners? This is Remus Lupin…" James introduced as Remus and Lily shook hands. "And this is Peter Pettigrew." Peter just stood and waved like an idiot.
"Nice to meet you boys," Lily said politely.
"Umm, Lily could you do me a favor? Could you show us where the Great Hall is?" James asked sweetly.
Lily laughed, "Sure I'll take you there now."
On the stairs Lily started up the conversation again, "How do you boys ever hope to get to your classes if you can't even find the Great Hall?"
"Well…" James muttered, "do you think you could lead us there as well?"
"I suppose if I don't you'll probably end up walking into the lake or something if I don't, so yes," Lily said chuckling to herself.
"We thank you milady," Sirius bowed jokingly.
"Well here we here," Lily stated. "Do you think you can get here by yourselves next time?"
"Uh…" the boys all waited for the others to respond.
Lily giggled, "We'll I'll see you after breakfast." She walked to the end of the table to sit with some first year girls.
The four boys sat down and started digging into the food immediately. About half way through the meal they received their schedules.
"Let's see first thing today is… potions." Remus said reading the slip of paper that had landed in front of him.
"Sounds cool," said Sirius.
"Yea, but we've got it with the Slytherins," James muttered sadly.
"You mean we have to sit through class with Snivellus?" Sirius moaned and the other boys looked at him.
"Snivellus? How did you come up with that?" Peter asked.
"I thought of it last night after he got put in Slytherin, not that I expected anything else." Sirius said proudly.
Remus absentmindedly played with the glass of Pumpkin Juice in front of him, still chuckling at the name Sirius had come up with.
Just then a horde of owls came flying in for the first mail post of the year. Many dropped issues of The Daily Prophet and some bringing in letters from home.
James', Remus', and Peter's owls landed on the table, each carrying a letter. James noticed the slight disappointment in Sirius' face when Feathers didn't show up holding a letter.
Before he can speak, Sirius met his eyes and as if reading James' mind waved his hand as if to say "don't worry about it" so James dropped the subject.
"You ready to go?" Lily asked, coming up behind them with a few of her friends.
"Sure," said James, "you lead the way."
The boys got up to follow her down to the dungeons. "I don't believe we've met," Remus said walking beside a brown haired girl with blue eyes, mirroring his own.
"I'm Teresa Johnson," the girl said smiling.
"Remus Lupin," Remus introduced himself shaking her hand, not being able to pull his gaze from her eyes.
"And you are…" Sirius asked the girl on the other side of Lily. She had curly black hair and dark brown eyes that reminded Peter of Maggie's. He was saddened by that thought.
"Elizabeth Robinson," the girl answered.
"We're here," Lily stated in front of the potions classroom door.
"I have got start paying attention to were I'm walking," James said realizing that even though Lily had just led them through the dungeons, he still had no idea how to get there himself.
The rest of the group giggled as they entered the classroom.
"You're late," a man they assumed to be the potions master sneered.
"Sorry, sir, we just…" Lily defended.
"Making out with your boyfriends instead of coming to my class?" he snickered.
"Professor, that's absurd!" Lily said a bit louder than she meant to.
"Leave her alone!" James said trying to be intimidating, Sirius, Remus, and Peter walked to his side for support.
"50 points from Gryffindor… for each of you." The teacher said turning toward his desk.
"Sir, that isn't fair!" Lily snapped.
"Perhaps you would like me to send you straight to the headmaster. Eh, Evans? Now take your seats." The man stalked down to the board behind his desk as the group found seats in the back.
"I am Professor Breaker," the man tapped his wand on the board and the name appeared. "As this is your first lesson, we will start with something simple," again he tapped his wand on the board and instructions instructions for a (something) potion. "You have until the end of class."
"That's simple?" James asked no one in particular. "I've never seen anything more complicated."
Meanwhile Remus was starting to set up seeing nothing difficult about the potion they were to create at all. Lily, being very studious herself, seemed to feel the same way.
"Potter! Black! Clean up this mess!" The professor snapped.
This was 50 minutes later, and James had made some sort of green concoction that had exploded out of the cauldron, coving Sirius, Remus, Peter and himself in the gook. The other boys had found it highly amusing, even Remus who had actually managed to make the right potion. Sirius' potion was only slightly worse then James' his had turned blue but instead of exploding, it had jumped out of the cauldron and stuck to the ceiling. Peter, on the other hand, had done something terribly wrong and his was spitting out smoke and seemed to be eating anything Peter put in it to try to fix it.
Lily didn't get her potion quite as perfect as Remus', but did exceptionally well compared to the rest of the class. Her friend, Theresa had somehow managed to get her potion in her hair, which was now burning her scalp. While Elizabeth was having troubles of her own as her potion had wrapped itself around her arm and seemed determined to not get off anytime soon.
At the front of the room a very satisfied Snape looked down at his perfectly brewed potion. Lucious' potion wasn't so well done and he sneered at it as if trying to scold it for not being up to his pure-blood expectations.
"Excellent Mr. Snape, 50 points to Slytherin," the potions professor smirked.
"Hey! What about Remus! His potion is just as good as Snivellous' over there!" Sirius yelled jumping out of his seat and incidently calling a lot of attention to himself.
"Mr. Black," Breaker said as if trying to hold back a burst of evil laughter, "I suggest you sit down before you cost Gryffindor any more points than you already have."
"But I haven't…" Sirius started, now fuming.
"50 points from Gryffindor. See, now you have," the professor smirked.
Sirius was about to rebute again but was pulled back into his seat and reduced to muttering curses under his breath.
"Class dismissed," the professor stated, never losing the cool evil tone in his voice.
The four boys and three girls met near the entrance to the dungeons. Lily was calling Mr. Breaker every horrible insult she could think of, including many muggle ones which made James laugh.
"Well, he's just one happy camper, isn't he?" Remus asked sarcastically.
"More like a cold-hearted little bugger if you ask me," Elizabeth mumbled angrily.
Peter silently agreed and they continued walking toward the Entrance Hall.
"Umm… where do we go from here?" James wondered out loud.
"Our schedule says we have lunch now and then our afternoon classes." Lily answered scanning a piece of parchment.
"Lunch?" Sirius' ears perked up at the word. "Great, I'm starved."
"How shocking," joked James.
Sirius gave him a friendly push, leading to a mock-fight, ending in Sirius getting James in a headlock and giving him a noogie, which served as great entertainment for the others.
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This is a repost because I totally forgot that I had to add in the Potions professor's name. So, now I'll reviewer thanks-yous.
This is another repost because I decided that Breaker would be more suiting for the professor, glassdragon2's suggestion was great, thanks so much, I just had to make it sound a bit more evil. Thanks for reviewing!
glassdragon2: Thanks so much for reminding me and the great suggestion! I'll be sure to read your story!
Pickledishkiller: Lol, I know, I want to make him sort of like Snape as a teacher, kind of like Snape's idol-person, if that makes any sense. Thanks for reviewing!
BlackDreamLily: I don't want to do a what if Lily and James had lived type story so their distant futures will be the same but up until then is unpredictable. Thanks for reviewing!
Dee: Thanks! The pranks will star next chapter, I'll post it soon!
