A/N: For anyone who has looked through the reviews and got a bit scared; the ones from some1 luver are from my friend Laura and the ones from some1 lover are from my friend Kate, just to clear that up!

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Oh yeh, finally, Remus' character is loosely based on Ross Gellar from FRIENDS and my physics teacher! Hehe! I don't own either of them, thank god! Don't worry, he does get better!

Chapter 9

Lily and Gemini got the two beds closest to the window in their new dorm. It was decorated in reds and gold, had a big, gothic window at one end and had five beds in there. The children's things had already been brought up and were in the corner by the door.

The five new Gryffindor girls, Lily had noted were; herself, Gemini, that weird Katie girl, Sarah Chadwick a girl with short, wavy, mousy hair and a friendly smile and Anna Haigh who had blondish hair that was layered round her face and was really pretty.

Lily soon learned, after talking to Anna, that she really had Quidditch on the brain. Lily listened politely as she talked about her brother John who was a keeper on the Wimpbourne Wasps. Of course, this meant nothing to Lily but she nodded and quickly changed the subject slightly to flying lessons. Lily was terrified. You couldn't learn it by reading a textbook or making notes. It was practical. You either could do it or you couldn't.

Gemini decided to stick with Lily. She had met her first and she was so nice! Gemini admired Lily's courage to tell people what she really thought of them without being too harsh. Unlike Katie Felton who said what she thought without really thinking about it beforehand. Like when she had asked Remus Lupin why he had a rock polisher when everyone knew that only geeks had stuff like that and why he hadn't been put in Ravenclaw for being smart or Hufflepuff for being a loser. She had got glares from James, who actually seemed to like the strange boy and Sirius had had to choke back laughter.

Sirius liked Katie, sure she was a girl but she wasn't like the other girls. She didn't giggle. Sirius hated girls that went around in big groups giggling. No, Katie was different. She liked Quidditch, and adventures and PRANKS! At first he wasn't so sure about her. She talked loads and she seemed to prefer James to himself! But as the day went on he talked to her more and realised that they were very alike.

James liked Katie too. But the person he felt oddly drawn to was Remus Lupin, the science weirdo. It wasn't that he felt sorry for him, he didn't think. No, he definitely didn't feel sorry for him. It was a different feeling. Like he needed to open up to Remus and share all his secrets with him. Like he wanted to get to know him and gain his trust. It was weird.

James and Sirius bagged beds next to each other. Andrew Wood was on the other side of Sirius and Remus Lupin was on the other side of James and some small, blond boy was in between Andrew and Remus. The beds were arranged in a circle in the circular room. It was lavishly decorated in red and gold.

Sirius and Andrew Wood talked about Quidditch for hours on the first night. James was nodding and pretending to listen but really he was watching Remus Lupin draw with fascination.

"What's that?" James asked him eventually. Remus looked up in surprise. Not believing that James could be talking to him.

"It…it…it's my magazine. Physics boy! It's about this boy called Russell who fights crime armed only with his trundle wheel, which doubles up as an electron gun. It's fascinating. And his other weapon is a magnet with which he uses to destroy people's television screens." Remus said enthusiastically.

James had no idea what half of those things was but he looked interested anyway. Sirius and Andrew had stopped discussing Puddlemere United's latest tactics to listen to Lupin. They both choked back laughter but James glared at them.

"James, did you know that if this piece of sandstone was the nucleus of an atom then the electrons would be where Hagrid's hut is! Amazing or what?" he said.

"Fascinating!" laughed Sirius. James nudged him and Sirius shut up.

In the girls' dormitory Anna was telling Katie about her brother and how she was always being recognised for being John Haigh's little sister. Sarah, Lily and Gemini were talking about hair, as girls do.

"I'm gonna try and grow my hair out a bit" said Sarah "it might grow the waves out with it."

"Yeah that would look nice!" said Lily "I hate my hair! It's so…so…so red!"

"Your hair's gorgeous! Listen, if this is because of what Gemini's brother and that Potter boy said, what was his name again Gem? Josh?"

"James"

"Whatever! Then forget about it! They're boys! What do they know! They're self-obsessed, egocentric…BOYS!" Sarah said.

"I guess you're right, I'm tired, night guys, see you in the mornin'" Lily said, snuggling into her new bed. It was weird, but it almost felt like her bed at home. Weird.

The next morning James, Sirius and Andrew came down the stairs from the boys' dormitory looking very tired indeed.



"Ooooh! Not had much sleep I see boys!" said the fifth year Gryffindor prefect, Elaine Tang, "I wouldn't worry too much, the teachers aren't as harsh as they normally are on the first day back!"

Sirius sat down in a chair and closed his eyes. He was nearly asleep when someone slammed their hands down firmly on his shoulders.

"MORNIN' SIRIUS!" Katie shouted from behind him. He woke back up in a start. "Looking forward to lessons? I'm not! I bet they're going to be sooo boring! I can't wait until the feast this evening! I have the best prank every planned!"

"I wouldn't try pranks at dinner time" said Elaine sceptically from behind them. "I knew a boy who did that and someone said that Merrill Snoop, the caretaker, hung him from his toenails in the dungeons and that he's still there to this very day!"

"I very much doubt it!" said Katie. James and Sirius sniggered at how she could be so rude and bossy with a fifth year. "So…who's hungry? I am! Let's go eat!" she announced and the four of them went down to breakfast.

They sat down in the middle of the Gryffindor table. They were one of the first one's there. The Gryffindor first year girls soon came down and joined them and everyone was busy eating.

"Oh no! Potions first! That'll be like pure torture!" said Katie who had heard about the evil potions master. "Professor Kondola is like really really mean and he HATES anyone who's not a Slytherin or really good at potions!"

"Potions doesn't sound that bad. Sounds a bit like food tech." Said Lily from the other side of Gemini.

"And what would you know carrot-top?" James asked quizzically.

"Don't call me that again!" she warned.

"Call you what carrot-top?" he asked mockingly. But before anyone had time to do or say anything else she reached for her goblet of pumpkin juice and tipped it all over James' head.

"Anyone else want to call me names?" she asked steaming with anger. Her whole head was bright red and, to be honest, she did look a bit like a carrot, a very angry carrot.

"Miss Evans!" said a stern voice. She knew who it was. Professor Dreamstone. "Why on Earth did you do that?"

"Well…you see Professor…" she started.

"I don't want to hear excuses. Knowing what James' father was like at school I can guess that you probably had reason for doing it but I don't expect you to do anything like that again. James, I don't want to hear that you've been calling Miss Evans names again. It could be quite easily seen as a form of bullying. Scourgify!" she said and all of the pumpkin juice disappeared off James and the floor. Many of the first years were in total shock, as quite a few of them hadn't seen magic in any form before.

When they had all finished eating the ten Gryffindor first years trailed off down to the dungeons. They got lost a couple of times but they managed to find Elaine who kindly showed them where to go. All of the Slytherins were already there when they arrived. There was a mixture of people but they all had a slightly evil look about them. There were the two girls that Gemini recognised from the shop but no one knew any of the others.

"Yay! Gryffindors! We get to share our lesson with Gryffindors. Fun fun!" said a pale, blond boy from the front of the classroom. He had a pinched look about him and grey, almost colourless eyes. The Gryffindors all immediately decided that they hated him.

"You know you lot don't have the best of reputations yourselves!" piped up Katie from next to James. The Gryffindors all nodded in agreement.

"Well, at least we're not all stuck up, know-alls!" the boy said, encouraged by the other Slytherins.

"You know, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we'd rather be that than evil, slimy…slytherins!" Sirius said.

The blond boy just smirked and ignored them but a dark haired, greasy looking boy shouted "Oooh! Scary Gryffindors trying to scare us! I thought you were meant to be brave? Or is the new definition of brave swotty freaks?"

"Was that spotty? I think you got us mixed up with someone else, let me see, YOU maybe?" Katie shouted very sarcastically to him. The Gryffindors howled with laughter.

The door at the back of the classroom slammed and in walked a very angry looking Professor Kondola.

"I will have none of this insulting inside my classroom. 10 points off Gryffindor for your shouting Miss Felton, I assume considering what your brother's like. Another 10 off for all this noise and finally 20 off because you are all stood up and not ready for my lesson." The Gryffindors all groaned and sat down. "And if I have any more of this silly groaning it'll be 50!"

James sat next to Sirius and Katie sat next to Andrew Wood on the desk next to them. Remus and Peter sat together as did Gemini and Lily and Sarah and Anna.

"Now in today's lesson, our first lesson we will be learning the theory of potion making. That means that there will be no talking, lots of writing and definitely no playing around with ingredients. And yes it is because I don't trust you."

The lesson went in silence. The class copied notes off the board as the teacher wrote them. Most of the pupils thought they had missed most of it as Professor Kondola was writing with such speed.

All of the Gryffindors, and the Slytherins as well, were relieved when the lesson finished but didn't dare talk until they were well back into main school as they were absolutely terrified that Professor Kondola was still watching them.

The next lesson that the Gryffindors had was Charms with the Hufflepuffs. Andrew Wood had already made friends with Amos Diggory so he automatically sat with him. Katie felt left out and sat with some Hufflepuff girl, Rita Skeeter or something.

When the teacher came in James and Sirius burst out laughing as if it was a huge joke. The teacher, Professor Flitwick, was not even 5 foot tall and he had a frizzy, white beard. Lily muttered to Gemini that he looked like Father Christmas. Gemini thought that that was an insult because Lily was giggling. She let Lily know that Nicholas Christmas was a good friend of the family.

Unfortunately for all of them the fist charms lesson also turned out to be a theory lesson. They just wrote down information on levitating charms and draw diagrams. Professor Flitwick did tell them that the next lesson would be a practical so to practice the wand movement in their free time.

James, Sirius and Katie sniggered, like they needed to do that! Lily was awfully worried though. She spent all night practising the wand movement and saying the incantation over and over again in the common room until it started to annoy people.

"Can you just shut up for one minute flame head! You're really putting people off!" James said. He was trying to play chess with Sirius whilst Katie was commentating, which was annoying as well but James couldn't pass an opportunity to make Lily mad.

"I'm sorry was I disturbing your homework? No, didn't think so!" said Lily and carried on. James fumed, he was not going to let her get away with this.

"Well, tomato brains you must be thick if you feel the need to practice. It's so simple!" he said arrogantly.

"Oh yeah? Well let's see you try!" she said. James got out his wand and waved it at a chess piece. "Wingardium Leviosa!" he said and sure enough the figure floated into the air. "You're turn then!" he said.

Lily was scared. She didn't believe that he had actually done it first time and without practising. She looked around nervously, picked up her wand and then "Wingardium Leviosa" the chess piece didn't move. "Wingardium Leviosa" she tried again. Still nothing. She looked like she was about to burst into tears and ran up to her dormitory.

"Nice one!" said Gemini sarcastically and went up to find her friend.

James, Sirius and Katie went on playing chess as if the event hadn't even bothered them slightly.

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