A/N: This is my first story. So sorry if it\'s boring. In my opinion, I
think it kinda is, but I know it will get better. I would loooove if you
guys left a review, considering this is my first \"publication\". Thank you
before hand!
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Chapter 1: The Social Ladder of Hogwarts
"Lily! Lily, for heavens sakes, wake up!"
"No.hmm.want to sleep."
"Too bad!" and Lily was smacked in the face.
"Ok, ok, I'll get up!" Lily said, hastily. She opened her eyes, and saw Emilie, standing over her, looking quite annoyed. For good reasons.
"I've been trying to wake you up for at least 10 minutes, Lily!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Lily said, and hurriedly got out of bed.
Lily was at Emilies house. Emilie (nickname Em) was Lily's best friend, and had been since their first year at Hogwarts, where they had collided with each other on the slippery surface of the Entrance Hall. They were now well on their way to their 3rd year at Hogwarts. The day was, in fact, the 1st of September, the day of their return to Hogwarts. Lily was a bit moody; she had loved staying at Ems house, and was reluctant to leave.
Lily was smacked again.
"Lily, you're daydreaming! Wake up!" Em practically shouted in her ear. "We only have half an hour to get ready!" Lily opened her eyes and looked at Em. The first impression of her might have been that she was quite violent, the way she went on smacking everyone, but Lily knew Em would never hurt anyone deliberately. She only meant the smacks for a joke, and Lily always took them as one. Em was actually quite pretty. She had green eyes (though not as green as Lily's) with long, black eyelashes, and short, curly, orangy hair. Her features were pleasant, and her smile was beautiful. Lily herself had long, ginger hair, and very green eyes. The both of them had been told many times that they so resembled each other. Bot their bodies were already quite curvy, but unfortunately, no one had taken any notice of these two girls beauty. They belonged to the Middle Class in the social pyramid of Hogwarts, and they liked it that way.
Lily ducked, as a hand aimed for her face yet again.
"Ok, yes, I get it! I'll get ready," she said, hastily. Lily walked towards Ems bathroom, Em staring crossly at her back. Lily stripped and got into the shower, letting the warm water wash her. She immediately felt better. She was going back to Hogwarts! No matter how much she had enjoyed the summer vacation at Ems house, she had missed Hogwarts.
"Well, thank God! I was beginning to think you would be in there for a millennium or something!" Em said as Lily emerged from the bathroom. Lily cracked a smile.
"Come one, let's get something to eat!" she said. They went downstairs, where they were met by the wonderful smell of pancakes.
"Thought I'd make you last morning here special, girls!" Mrs. Jensen, Ems mom, said. Both girls smiled, and flopped down into the kitchen chairs, ready to shovel as many pancakes as possible in their mouths.
When they were done, they rushed upstairs to brush their teeth and pack the last minute things. Everyone was quite strained, given that Em couldn't find her retainers. When they finally found them (they had been in their case all along), it was 10 minutes to 11.
"Oh dear, I don't think we'll make it by car." said Mrs. Jensen. "But we had our fireplace connected to the floo network last summer, and I\'ve been dying to try it. This seems like a good occasion!" She rushed to the hearth, and opened the lid to a small can.
"Here you go, dearie," she said to Lily, handing her the can. Lily took it, threw the powder into the fire, and pronounced
"Platform 9 and ¾!" and off she went. She was going so fast, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to stop, but then.BAM! Her legs hit the ground, and crumpled under her.
"Uuh, auw." she moaned.
"Yes, auw!" She heard someone say. She looked down. She had fallen on top of none other than James Potter, the most popular boy in school. She didn't care about that, though. Popularity was not all it was cracked up to be. She looked down at the girls who worshipped the ground he walked on. After all he was just a normal person, like anyone else. Why did he deserve this special attention? But still, this was kind of embarrassing.
"Oh my Gosh, I'm so sorry! You see, I'm not very used to Floo Powder and that, and I didn't exactly know what to do, and-\" Lily rambled. James sighed.
"Yes, ok, whatever! Just get off me!"
"Oh, yes, sorry" Lily hastily said, and she scrambled off him, brushing off her cloak. She looked around for her suitcase, found it squishing some else's toad, and then tried to see where James had gone. He could at least have asked if she was all right. But he had vanished.
\"That just proves what a spoiled brath he is,\" though to herself in disgust. \"A very handsome spoiled brat.\" but she immediately stopped that thought. Just because James had black hair sticking up in every direction in a cute way, and grey eyes, and a muscular body, didn't mean he was that great.
"Hey, get going! We don't wanna miss the train!" Emilie said. She had just appeared from the fireplace, and soon, her mother had too. Lily rushed up to the train, and lugged her baggage on to it. Then she clambered on. She waited for Emilie's mom to finish hugging and kissing Emilie, and then they both searched out an empty compartment. As always, the last ones were the only ones free. They slumped into their seats. Suddenly a head with messy, black hair stuck through the door.
"Oh sorry, I thought it was empty," said James. Em shrugged.
"That's ok. I think the very last one is free, if you wanna try that."
"Ok, thanks," and the head withdrew again
After a few moments, Lily and Em started talking about random things People and teachers at school and such, when the black, messy hair appeared at the door again. This time though, the whole body of James stepped into the compartment.
"Sorry, but no other compartments are free, may we sit in here?" He looked like he didn't exactly enjoy the thought, but he would definitely rather sit with these girls than sit on the floor.
"Oh, sure, no problem." Em said. James opened the door completely, and his loyal followers, Sirius, Remus and Peter shuffled inside. They decided to ignore their fellow travel mates, seeing they were lower on the ladder of sociality, and started talking amongst themselves.
\"Have you seen that new broom, Siri? It's the best yet!" James said.
"Stop calling me Siri, James!" Sirius sighed in annoyance. \"And yes, I have seen it!\"
Lily turned to Em, and they, too, started talking. After some hours, the topic landed on Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy, the most disgusting and terrible brats and bullies in the school. Both were in Slytherin.
"That fucking Malfoy keeps calling me a Mudblood!" Lily exclaimed.
"Yeah, same. And Snape always has to fling anything disgusting at me," Em added. "And aren't we lucky, we have potions with them: the subject containing the most disgusting things!" Lily chuckled.
James had been listening to their conversation, and had agreed with everything they said about Malfoy and Snape. He couldn't help himself.
"Yeah, Malfoy and Snape are such gits. I can't wait to learn human transformations so I can use it against them!" He said, eyes flaming maliciously. Everyone turned their heads towards him. There was a silence. A two-completely-different-social-groups-silence that always occurs when the binding rules of the Social Ladder are broken. And then it cleared up. Sirius joined in with his comments, then Remus, and finally Lily and Em. Peter stayed out of the way. He was very quiet. The Marauders (Lily had heard James' groups being called that many times) seemed to have quite a lot of experiences with Malfoy and Snape. The conversation drifted to other topics after awhile, and suddenly, the train slowed down, right until a screeching was heard. Then it stopped.
\"Oh great,\" Lily thought. \"James isn't so bad, and neither are any of his friends, but they so won't talk to us in public. Them and their reputation.\" Meanwhilee James was thinking along the same lines.
\"Nice people. Oh well, its probably safer not to talk to them in public. Don't wanna ruin my reputation.\"
Lily and Em pushed open the door and got out of the train. They were in the middle of a loud, rowdy crowd. When they finally got to the carriages, they had been bumped into at least 15 times.
"Whew!" Em said, as they settled in the soft seats. "Glad that's over!" The carriage started moving, and soon it stopped at the big oak doors.
"Home." Lily sighed and smiled. She was so happy. She ran to the door, Em right behind her, and pushed it open. Warmth and chatter met her. She glided inside, and followed the crowd to the Great Hall. As usual, she and Em sat at in the middle of the table, on the right side. This had become a habit. It made them feel comfortable. They started chatting as the school settled down. And in marched the shivering and scared first years. Lily felt sorry for them. She remembered how it was being one of them. McGonnagall took a small, shabby stool out of a dark corner, and placed the famous (and in some cases infamous) Sorting Hat on it. A crease in its side opened, and it started to sing.
"So here you all sit
Your stomachs empty as pits
Waiting for me
To see into the brains of thee
In Rawenclaw you may happy be
If you are smart and witty, I will see
That here you belong
As true as my song
Here dwell the clever and nice
With you, we might add a little spice
In Hufflepuff you may find your place
Being nice and loyal is your case
You want to help and do your best
Then go here, and you will pass the test
But if this does not suit you well
In Slytherin you may dwell
If you are one with ambitions
You might have your small suspicions
That this is where you will go
To achieve your goals.
And last but not least Gryffindor
Here bravery will wear you soar
And hard work is appreciated
And it will definitely be compensated
All the houses I have listed
Now it is your turn to be tested.
The Sorting hat then closed its crease, and stayed quiet. Professor McGonagall unrolled a piece of parchment, and started to read out students names. Lily listened intently, especially when Gromek, Marie was sorted into Gryffindor. Her house. She loved her house so much. It was her home, her only home. In the muggle world lived her sister, Petunia. She couldn't stand Lily. They hadn't been the best of friends, but when Lily had received her Hogwarts Acceptance letter, Petunia had started to despise her. She still loved her parents, of course, but Petunia made Lilys life living hell.
"You may begin." Dumbledores voice sounded over Lilys daydreams. She looked down, and found the many golden plates had been filled with chicken legs, sauces of all kinds, potatoes, spareribs, and a variety of vegetables. She hungrily filled up her plate, and ate. When Dumbledore seemed to be finished with his meal, which took a great deal longer than others, he snapped his fingers. And on the now clean, golden plates appeared desserts. Pudding, ice cream, fudge, carrot cake, cupcakes, and one particularly big bowl of sherbet lemon. Even though Lily definitely was far from starving, she couldn't help herself. She took all the desserts that could fit on her plate, and ate them up.
"My, my! What an appetite!" Em exclaimed from Lilys side. Lily laughed and looked over at Ems plate
"Well, look who's talking!" she smiled. Em had filled hers up with only sherbet lemon.
"You must have an especially fine taste, Miss Jensen!" someone chuckled from behind. It was Dumbledore. The two girls turned red. It wasn't everyday the headmaster paid one a private visit during dinner.
"I myself ordered our house elves to makes this," he said.
"Well, thank you Professor. I'm enjoying it!" Em answered, remembering to be polite. Dumbledore smiled, and moved back to the teachers' table. Lily and Em just got to look at each other before Dumbledore stepped up on the podium, and announced that dinner was over. And if they would please go to their dormitories. Lily silently answered yes, and she slipped off the bench and followed the crowd, Em right behind her. When they got to the Entrance Hall, they spotted James and Co.
"Should we say good night to them?" Em asked, reading Lily's mind.
"I'm not sure. Maybe we'd embarrass them. I don't think they want to talk to us.in public at least." Lily replied, eyeing James.
"Yeah." Em agreed.
Over on the other side of the Hall, a similar debate was going on.
"Shouldn't we say good night to them, James?" Remus asked. "They were quite nice to us on the train."
"No. We were nice to them. They returned it. Remember, we have a higher authority." James answered stubbornly. But with the look on Remus' face, James let go of his argument.reluctantly.
"Well, yeah, ok, I guess so," James said, unsure.
"Ok!" Remus said happily, and he started waving his arm in the air frantically. "Goodnight! Goodnight Lily! And Em! Goodnight!"
"Get down!" James hissed. His face was red. "This is how you do it! Jesus Christ." He waved a tiny wave, and smiled discretely at Em. There. Done.
Over on the other side of the Hall: Lily and Em stared at Remus, who was suddenly jumping up and down. He was yelling goodbye to someone.to them! They looked at each other. Everyone was staring at them. They waved slightly, over in the direction of Remus, but he had been pulled down by James, who now, trying to be discrete, was waving and smiling in small measures. Boy, were these people weird. Popular, but weird.
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Chapter 1: The Social Ladder of Hogwarts
"Lily! Lily, for heavens sakes, wake up!"
"No.hmm.want to sleep."
"Too bad!" and Lily was smacked in the face.
"Ok, ok, I'll get up!" Lily said, hastily. She opened her eyes, and saw Emilie, standing over her, looking quite annoyed. For good reasons.
"I've been trying to wake you up for at least 10 minutes, Lily!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Lily said, and hurriedly got out of bed.
Lily was at Emilies house. Emilie (nickname Em) was Lily's best friend, and had been since their first year at Hogwarts, where they had collided with each other on the slippery surface of the Entrance Hall. They were now well on their way to their 3rd year at Hogwarts. The day was, in fact, the 1st of September, the day of their return to Hogwarts. Lily was a bit moody; she had loved staying at Ems house, and was reluctant to leave.
Lily was smacked again.
"Lily, you're daydreaming! Wake up!" Em practically shouted in her ear. "We only have half an hour to get ready!" Lily opened her eyes and looked at Em. The first impression of her might have been that she was quite violent, the way she went on smacking everyone, but Lily knew Em would never hurt anyone deliberately. She only meant the smacks for a joke, and Lily always took them as one. Em was actually quite pretty. She had green eyes (though not as green as Lily's) with long, black eyelashes, and short, curly, orangy hair. Her features were pleasant, and her smile was beautiful. Lily herself had long, ginger hair, and very green eyes. The both of them had been told many times that they so resembled each other. Bot their bodies were already quite curvy, but unfortunately, no one had taken any notice of these two girls beauty. They belonged to the Middle Class in the social pyramid of Hogwarts, and they liked it that way.
Lily ducked, as a hand aimed for her face yet again.
"Ok, yes, I get it! I'll get ready," she said, hastily. Lily walked towards Ems bathroom, Em staring crossly at her back. Lily stripped and got into the shower, letting the warm water wash her. She immediately felt better. She was going back to Hogwarts! No matter how much she had enjoyed the summer vacation at Ems house, she had missed Hogwarts.
"Well, thank God! I was beginning to think you would be in there for a millennium or something!" Em said as Lily emerged from the bathroom. Lily cracked a smile.
"Come one, let's get something to eat!" she said. They went downstairs, where they were met by the wonderful smell of pancakes.
"Thought I'd make you last morning here special, girls!" Mrs. Jensen, Ems mom, said. Both girls smiled, and flopped down into the kitchen chairs, ready to shovel as many pancakes as possible in their mouths.
When they were done, they rushed upstairs to brush their teeth and pack the last minute things. Everyone was quite strained, given that Em couldn't find her retainers. When they finally found them (they had been in their case all along), it was 10 minutes to 11.
"Oh dear, I don't think we'll make it by car." said Mrs. Jensen. "But we had our fireplace connected to the floo network last summer, and I\'ve been dying to try it. This seems like a good occasion!" She rushed to the hearth, and opened the lid to a small can.
"Here you go, dearie," she said to Lily, handing her the can. Lily took it, threw the powder into the fire, and pronounced
"Platform 9 and ¾!" and off she went. She was going so fast, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to stop, but then.BAM! Her legs hit the ground, and crumpled under her.
"Uuh, auw." she moaned.
"Yes, auw!" She heard someone say. She looked down. She had fallen on top of none other than James Potter, the most popular boy in school. She didn't care about that, though. Popularity was not all it was cracked up to be. She looked down at the girls who worshipped the ground he walked on. After all he was just a normal person, like anyone else. Why did he deserve this special attention? But still, this was kind of embarrassing.
"Oh my Gosh, I'm so sorry! You see, I'm not very used to Floo Powder and that, and I didn't exactly know what to do, and-\" Lily rambled. James sighed.
"Yes, ok, whatever! Just get off me!"
"Oh, yes, sorry" Lily hastily said, and she scrambled off him, brushing off her cloak. She looked around for her suitcase, found it squishing some else's toad, and then tried to see where James had gone. He could at least have asked if she was all right. But he had vanished.
\"That just proves what a spoiled brath he is,\" though to herself in disgust. \"A very handsome spoiled brat.\" but she immediately stopped that thought. Just because James had black hair sticking up in every direction in a cute way, and grey eyes, and a muscular body, didn't mean he was that great.
"Hey, get going! We don't wanna miss the train!" Emilie said. She had just appeared from the fireplace, and soon, her mother had too. Lily rushed up to the train, and lugged her baggage on to it. Then she clambered on. She waited for Emilie's mom to finish hugging and kissing Emilie, and then they both searched out an empty compartment. As always, the last ones were the only ones free. They slumped into their seats. Suddenly a head with messy, black hair stuck through the door.
"Oh sorry, I thought it was empty," said James. Em shrugged.
"That's ok. I think the very last one is free, if you wanna try that."
"Ok, thanks," and the head withdrew again
After a few moments, Lily and Em started talking about random things People and teachers at school and such, when the black, messy hair appeared at the door again. This time though, the whole body of James stepped into the compartment.
"Sorry, but no other compartments are free, may we sit in here?" He looked like he didn't exactly enjoy the thought, but he would definitely rather sit with these girls than sit on the floor.
"Oh, sure, no problem." Em said. James opened the door completely, and his loyal followers, Sirius, Remus and Peter shuffled inside. They decided to ignore their fellow travel mates, seeing they were lower on the ladder of sociality, and started talking amongst themselves.
\"Have you seen that new broom, Siri? It's the best yet!" James said.
"Stop calling me Siri, James!" Sirius sighed in annoyance. \"And yes, I have seen it!\"
Lily turned to Em, and they, too, started talking. After some hours, the topic landed on Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy, the most disgusting and terrible brats and bullies in the school. Both were in Slytherin.
"That fucking Malfoy keeps calling me a Mudblood!" Lily exclaimed.
"Yeah, same. And Snape always has to fling anything disgusting at me," Em added. "And aren't we lucky, we have potions with them: the subject containing the most disgusting things!" Lily chuckled.
James had been listening to their conversation, and had agreed with everything they said about Malfoy and Snape. He couldn't help himself.
"Yeah, Malfoy and Snape are such gits. I can't wait to learn human transformations so I can use it against them!" He said, eyes flaming maliciously. Everyone turned their heads towards him. There was a silence. A two-completely-different-social-groups-silence that always occurs when the binding rules of the Social Ladder are broken. And then it cleared up. Sirius joined in with his comments, then Remus, and finally Lily and Em. Peter stayed out of the way. He was very quiet. The Marauders (Lily had heard James' groups being called that many times) seemed to have quite a lot of experiences with Malfoy and Snape. The conversation drifted to other topics after awhile, and suddenly, the train slowed down, right until a screeching was heard. Then it stopped.
\"Oh great,\" Lily thought. \"James isn't so bad, and neither are any of his friends, but they so won't talk to us in public. Them and their reputation.\" Meanwhilee James was thinking along the same lines.
\"Nice people. Oh well, its probably safer not to talk to them in public. Don't wanna ruin my reputation.\"
Lily and Em pushed open the door and got out of the train. They were in the middle of a loud, rowdy crowd. When they finally got to the carriages, they had been bumped into at least 15 times.
"Whew!" Em said, as they settled in the soft seats. "Glad that's over!" The carriage started moving, and soon it stopped at the big oak doors.
"Home." Lily sighed and smiled. She was so happy. She ran to the door, Em right behind her, and pushed it open. Warmth and chatter met her. She glided inside, and followed the crowd to the Great Hall. As usual, she and Em sat at in the middle of the table, on the right side. This had become a habit. It made them feel comfortable. They started chatting as the school settled down. And in marched the shivering and scared first years. Lily felt sorry for them. She remembered how it was being one of them. McGonnagall took a small, shabby stool out of a dark corner, and placed the famous (and in some cases infamous) Sorting Hat on it. A crease in its side opened, and it started to sing.
"So here you all sit
Your stomachs empty as pits
Waiting for me
To see into the brains of thee
In Rawenclaw you may happy be
If you are smart and witty, I will see
That here you belong
As true as my song
Here dwell the clever and nice
With you, we might add a little spice
In Hufflepuff you may find your place
Being nice and loyal is your case
You want to help and do your best
Then go here, and you will pass the test
But if this does not suit you well
In Slytherin you may dwell
If you are one with ambitions
You might have your small suspicions
That this is where you will go
To achieve your goals.
And last but not least Gryffindor
Here bravery will wear you soar
And hard work is appreciated
And it will definitely be compensated
All the houses I have listed
Now it is your turn to be tested.
The Sorting hat then closed its crease, and stayed quiet. Professor McGonagall unrolled a piece of parchment, and started to read out students names. Lily listened intently, especially when Gromek, Marie was sorted into Gryffindor. Her house. She loved her house so much. It was her home, her only home. In the muggle world lived her sister, Petunia. She couldn't stand Lily. They hadn't been the best of friends, but when Lily had received her Hogwarts Acceptance letter, Petunia had started to despise her. She still loved her parents, of course, but Petunia made Lilys life living hell.
"You may begin." Dumbledores voice sounded over Lilys daydreams. She looked down, and found the many golden plates had been filled with chicken legs, sauces of all kinds, potatoes, spareribs, and a variety of vegetables. She hungrily filled up her plate, and ate. When Dumbledore seemed to be finished with his meal, which took a great deal longer than others, he snapped his fingers. And on the now clean, golden plates appeared desserts. Pudding, ice cream, fudge, carrot cake, cupcakes, and one particularly big bowl of sherbet lemon. Even though Lily definitely was far from starving, she couldn't help herself. She took all the desserts that could fit on her plate, and ate them up.
"My, my! What an appetite!" Em exclaimed from Lilys side. Lily laughed and looked over at Ems plate
"Well, look who's talking!" she smiled. Em had filled hers up with only sherbet lemon.
"You must have an especially fine taste, Miss Jensen!" someone chuckled from behind. It was Dumbledore. The two girls turned red. It wasn't everyday the headmaster paid one a private visit during dinner.
"I myself ordered our house elves to makes this," he said.
"Well, thank you Professor. I'm enjoying it!" Em answered, remembering to be polite. Dumbledore smiled, and moved back to the teachers' table. Lily and Em just got to look at each other before Dumbledore stepped up on the podium, and announced that dinner was over. And if they would please go to their dormitories. Lily silently answered yes, and she slipped off the bench and followed the crowd, Em right behind her. When they got to the Entrance Hall, they spotted James and Co.
"Should we say good night to them?" Em asked, reading Lily's mind.
"I'm not sure. Maybe we'd embarrass them. I don't think they want to talk to us.in public at least." Lily replied, eyeing James.
"Yeah." Em agreed.
Over on the other side of the Hall, a similar debate was going on.
"Shouldn't we say good night to them, James?" Remus asked. "They were quite nice to us on the train."
"No. We were nice to them. They returned it. Remember, we have a higher authority." James answered stubbornly. But with the look on Remus' face, James let go of his argument.reluctantly.
"Well, yeah, ok, I guess so," James said, unsure.
"Ok!" Remus said happily, and he started waving his arm in the air frantically. "Goodnight! Goodnight Lily! And Em! Goodnight!"
"Get down!" James hissed. His face was red. "This is how you do it! Jesus Christ." He waved a tiny wave, and smiled discretely at Em. There. Done.
Over on the other side of the Hall: Lily and Em stared at Remus, who was suddenly jumping up and down. He was yelling goodbye to someone.to them! They looked at each other. Everyone was staring at them. They waved slightly, over in the direction of Remus, but he had been pulled down by James, who now, trying to be discrete, was waving and smiling in small measures. Boy, were these people weird. Popular, but weird.