"What arrogant, egotistical, self-centered pigs!" Lily fumed, walking aboard the Hogwarts Express. "They know that I would never waste my time being anywhere near them! What makes them think that I would actually share a compartment with them? I mean-!"
A squeal loud and high enough to rival a banshee's filled the air and cut her off. A second later, Lily found herself engulfed in a massive hug that was given by a mass of black hair. "Lily!" the hair squealed again. Lily at last recognized the mass of hair as one of her friends, Tina Thomas. Lily squealed back in greeting, and the girls hugged again, this time chattering excitedly as they ran into an empty compartment.
When they came up for breath, they heard a snide voice remark, "Well, if this isn't they most touching sight I've yet to see, Severus." Lily groaned inwardly and turned to face Lucius Malfoy. He continued speaking to Severus, just loud enough for the girls to hear. "The Mudblood and the Half-Breed are together again." Severus Snape stood just behind and to the left of Lucius, trying and failing to look malicious.
"That's not the most touching sight you've yet to see Malfoy!" rang out a voice from behind. Malfoy whipped around and sneered and the two petit blondes walking towards them, Alice and Arabella Davis.
"Yeah!" Arabella was saying. "This is!" Both girls ran past Lucius and Severus, into the compartment, and jumped on Lily and Tina, giving them huge hugs. The four girls fell into a madly giggling pile on the floor.
Lucius scowled and dragged Severus away from the compartment. "Bye Malfoy!" they called. As the train began to move, the girls began to tell everything about their summers that weren't covered in letters.
Their laughter was interrupted by a knock on the compartment door. Lily untangled herself from her friends and opened the door. Remus Lupin stood in the doorway; looking as if the sight of girls sprawled all over the floor was a natural occurrence. He greeted the tangled mess on the ground one by one and turned to Lily.
"Hello Lily," he said in his mild voice. Lily felt a pink tinge creeping up her face.
"Hi Remus," she managed. All of Lily's friends knew that she was taken with Remus.
"Lily, can I walk you down to the Prefect's compartment?" he asked.
"Sure Remus. Thanks," she replied, stepping out of the compartment. "How did you know that I made Prefect?"
Remus smiled down at her. "Well, Lils," he said, using his nickname for her. "You're the obvious choice. You're at the top of our year, everyone loves you, and you're perfect from the job. No question about it. Oh, then there is your beauty, but I don't know if that's fair to the other candidates."
Lily cursed her genes. 'Why do I blush so easily?' she pleaded with herself. Remus looked down and saw with delight that she was blushing. "Of course," he finished. "That's just my opinion."
Lily had no time to come up with a reply, because Remus had just opened the door to the Prefects compartment. He held it open for Lily and stepped in after her. They sat down quietly in the matching red and gold seats with large P's above the headrest representing Gryffindor.
Since the Head Boy and Girl hadn't arrived yet, Lily took the opportunity to look at the other Prefects. In the blue and silver seats for Ravenclaw, Joanne Edwards and Thomas Boot sat. Occupying the two yellow and black seats of Huffelpuff were Ashley Bones and Matthew Jones. Donning green and sliver were the Slytherin prefects Andromeda Black and Severus Snape.
Lily didn't know Andromeda too well, but Lily had seen her screaming at her younger cousin on a regular basis, so she was alright in Lily's mind. She knew and was on friendly terms with everyone in the compartment, (yes, Snape too) so she felt pretty much at ease with everyone in the compartment.
That was, of course, until she found out who the Head Boy was.
All chattering in the compartment ceased when the new Head Girl, Molly Pewitt crossed the threshold. She was a gorgeous girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. As pleasant a girl as she was, most people made a point to stay on her good side. Her chocolate brown eyes swept the compartment and came to rest on Lily and Remus. She smiled and sat down on a black chair bearing the Hogwarts crest and the letters HG.
Not long after, the Head Boy entered. To nearly everyone's dismay, the new Head Boy was none other than Lucius Malfoy. He shook his blond hair out of his eyes and fixed a cold gaze upon everyone in the compartment except for Severus. The coldness in his eyes intensified when he saw Lily and Remus. He looked as if he were about to saw something, but Molly was already calling the meeting to order. He settled himself beside her and continued glaring at Remus and Lily.
Over the next hour, the Prefects learned of the four balls being given that year. There was to be one ball for each Halloween, Christmas, New Years, and Valentines Day. This information left Lily positively shivering in anticipation of the first, the Halloween ball.
The Prefect were told that they were to act accordingly, (by Molly) when they were to do rounds and who they were to do them with, (by Molly) when all of the meeting of the year were to be, (by Molly) and that the Heads were taking no from anyone during the school year. (By the fire-breathing dragon himself, Lucius.)
At the end of the meeting, they were given the list of passwords for the entire school year. When Lily and Remus looked at their list, they found it blank. When they looked at Molly questioningly, she glared at Lucius who was looking determinately in the other direction. She rolled her eyes and looked around the compartment at the Prefect's questioning faces.
She instructed them to point their wands at the parchment, say their entire names, their house name, their fellow Prefect's name, and who they were rooting for in the Quidditch World Cup that year.
When they looked at her again, she shrugged and said, "Dumbledore." Everyone smiled in understanding.
"He's always been off his rocker," Remus whispered to Lily. She giggled. If possible, Lucius' glare became so strong that Lily and Remus could feel him boring holes into their backs.
Remus looked around at Lucius sharply and gave him a glare of him own. Lucius' eyes widened slightly, and he looked away.