The New Girl

Chapter 4

After lunch Lily and Remus went to Arithmacy while the other Marauders and Emily went to Divination.

Lily was always good with mathematics so she made friends, with the other students and with teacher.

Remus was the same; he was very logical like Lily so they had no problems in that class.

But Transfiguration, that was another story for Lily.

Lily hated transfiguration.

She could never seem to get the transformation right.

Remus smiled when Lily told him this.

"Don't worry Lily, James will help you. He's a pro when it comes to transfiguration and he's good at explaining things so you understand what to do."

Lily looked at him shocked.

"Are we talking about the same James here?" Lily joked, she didn't know why but she felt like she had known the Marauders and Emily a lot longer than she actually had.

She had never had any real friends at Abby, except Maddy, and she never really trusted anyone at first until she really got to know a person but her friends at Hogwarts had an effect on her.

She felt she could trust them with her life; well not completely but pretty close.


When they reached the transfiguration classroom, they saw that James, Sirius, Peter and Emily were already there.

Remus sat down next to James and Lily next to Emily.

As soon as the bell ran, McGonagall began the class; she quickly took attendance and began right away.

After she had taken the attendance, she announced they were working on transforming objects into animals.

Lily groaned inwardly, this was going to be one long class.

Luckily for Lily the class went quite well.

Remus had been right, James was a great helper, he explained everything with such detail, that Lily, for the first time in her life, did a transfiguration right on her second try.


After that they had DADA, which was just a review of what they had learned the year before.

As they walked down to dinner Lily and Emily talked about their classes and the Marauders talked about the Quidditch season, which was beginning in October.

"Do they have any openings on the Griffindor team?" Lily asked.

James nodded.

"One, for Chaser, Jamie Johnson graduated last year. Are you going to try out Lil?"

James asked.

Lily raised an eyebrow. "Lil?"

James nodded.

"I think it works for you, don't you think?"

Lily slowly nodded, no one had called her Lil before, Maddy had called her Lily-kins but most of the time it had been just Lily.

Lily was shocked of how quickly her and James connected; Faster than with the others.

"Well are you?" James repeated.

Lily shook herself out of her trance and smiled.

"Of course, I was Chaser and Captain at Abby."

James smiled.

"Good, then you'll wont mind giving me a few tips eh?"

Lily laughed.

"Well I suppose I could."

They both laughed and continued on to the Great Hall.


As the weeks went by, Lily got to know her way around Hogwarts; she had a good memory and soon could remember how to get to each class every day.

Her classes were all going good, even potions because even though the teacher didn't like her, she had to grade everyone fairly.

Lily had even gotten better at Transfiguration, with James' help.


It was the first week of October when Professor Dumbledore announced that Quidditch House Teams tryouts were going to be that weekend.

Lily was so excited, and really hoped that she got on the team.

She had found out earlier that Sirius, James and Emily were on the team.

Sirius and Emily were Beaters and James was Seeker and Captain.

That night Lily went out to the Quidditch field to practice a bit before the tryouts.

She hadn't been able to practice during the summer because of the move and because she lived in a muggle community.

As she pushed of the ground, she smiled as she felt the familiar excitement of flying flow through her.

She loved to fly; she felt that up in the air, she was free.

Free from the pure blood maniacs and just the stress of life.

After about an hour, and when it began to get to dark she landed and was heading up to the school when she heard some very familiar voices.

"Peter watch where you're walking!" Snapped a voice, which Lily immediately recognized as Sirius.

And obviously Peter was there.

"Sirius keep it down or someone might hear us!"

'And there's James' ,thought Lily.

'I wonder where they're going.'

She quickly decided to follow them, she noticed that Remus wasn't with them, and remembered he had been sick that day and also had been the month before around the same time, Lily had had her suspicions, but had let it pass, but now that she thought of it, it had been a full moon last month when he had been sick and it was a full moon tonight as well.

She picked up her pace and followed the boys all the way to the Whomping Willow, and saw them picked up a stick and poked a knot in the tree.

Lily gasped as she saw the Willow freeze and saw them crawl through a whole at the bottom of the tree.

(They had taken off the Invisibility Cloak, which Lily had guessed they were using)

As soon as they had crawled through the tree began to move again, Lily copied what they did and followed them through. Lily crawled through until she saw a little light ahead and poked her head around the corner just in time to see Sirius change into a big black dog, Peter, a rat, and James a Stag.

Lily gasped, but her gasp was cut short when she saw what entered the room.

A werewolf.

She saw it start to walk towards the others, when suddenly it stopped and turned and looked right at her.

Lily could have kicked herself, she had read about werewolves and knew that they had a very keen sense of smell.

Lily froze; it glanced at her and then pounced.

Lily screamed and quickly grabbed her wanted and cried, "IMPEDIMENTA!"

The werewolf froze and Lily ran for her life.

She knew that spell didn't last long, she heard the werewolf's growl from behind her, she tried to run faster, but not fast enough.


(AN: ooooooo! Cliffhanger!! I KNOW I'M MEAN but don't worry I've already started chapter 5 and will probably finished it today!! R&R!!! Flame if you must!)