A/N: No one has probably picked this up but Mafalda (Mia) Hopkerk is actually a cannon character. I was just wondering if anyone can tell me where she shows up (which is more then once.) I'll give who ever comes up with the answer 10 points! This also goes for Gideon Prewett and Arnold Peasegood. Amelia Bones is also cannon but that's a really easy one, so I'll only give 5 points to anyone who knows where she's from.

Chapter Five:

The Princess of Red and Gold

Lily woke very early the next morning, a for a second couldn't remember where she was. Then she saw Mia in the bed next to and it all came back to her. Smiling like she had done only a few times before, from real happiness, she got up and started to dress.

A few moments later she was very glad she had woken up on her own, as Mia's alarm clock went off. This was no ordinary alarm clock though, when it went off, it shot of water at the bed of the person it was facing. However, Mia had obviously faced it the wrong way the night before, as water shot onto Lily's bed, soaking her pillow.

"MIA!" Lily exclaimed, going over to turn of the alarm clock.

"One more minute mom," Mia grunted and turned over. Instead of turning off the clock, Lily turned it to face Mia. There was an immediate reaction as Mia shot out of her bed and screamed.

"What did you do that for?" Mia exclaimed.

"Me, your stupid alarm clock soaked my bed," Lily complained.

"Must have been my mom," Mia explained, "I'm not a morning person, so she must have bewitched my alarm clock so I wouldn't be late on my first morning."

"You think?" Jenny said groggily from the bed, "tomorrow could you just shack me or something, not make me deaf?"

"Sorry," Mia muttered, as some of the other girls expressed their displeasure in the wake up call.

"But what about my bed?" Lily asked, looking at her soaking bed.

"Oh, don't worry," Penelope, told her, "the house elves will clean it up. My mom told me they come in every day to make our beds, isn't that great!"

"Sure," Lily said, pulling on her robes, "well now that you're all up, can we go to breakfast?"

On the way down to breakfast, Lily found that heads turned and people whispered wherever she went. It was a little unnerving, but Lily was just so happy to have friends around her that she could care less. The other three girls had joined her little group, so now there were five of them grouped around Lily, who was the unannounced leader.

At breakfast she got a letter from her father and mother telling her how proud they were of her.

"Good for you," Sirius said moody, he was still mopping from the Howler his mother had sent him, so Lily ignored him.

Defense Against the Dark Arts, their first class, was okay. She thought the teacher was a bit of an airhead but she was still really interesting. Then they had History of Magic, one of the most boring classes ever. The teacher, Professor Binns, was a ghost, and a very boring one at that. He droned on and on about goblin rebellions till Lily wanted to scream, and she had always loved history too.

Halfway though the class she noticed that the black haired boy, Jamie Porter or something, was watching her. No James Potter, that was it. When he saw he look in his directions he turned his headway to quickly and turned a light shade of red. This annoyed Lily, for some reason she had though he might not be one of those annoying people who just liked her for her looks and because she was royalty, but she guessed she was wrong about Potter.

On the way out of class her fears were confirmed. Potter knocked into her, knocking all her books out of her arms.

"I-I'm so sorry," he said, turning red and not looking at her.

"Will you watch were your going," Lily said angrily, annoyed that he wouldn't even look at her.

"Sorry," James muttered, handing her back her books.

"Scholarship students," Lily muttered, shacking her head as she walked away, clutching her books to her chest.

"What was that about?" Mia asked as Lily joined her outside.

"Oh, just those stupid scholarship students, one of them rammed into me."

"But, he's so cute," Mia said, giggling, as the two waked down to the Great Hall for lunch.

"So? He's trash Mia; you'd better remember that. How would your parents react if you came home with Him?" Lily argued, shooting a fowl look at the retreating back of James Potter.

"I never said anything about dating him!" Mia exclaimed, "I just said he was hot, I'm a girl, I can't help it."

"Well, maybe he is a little cute," Lily, said, sitting down across from Amelia at the Gryffindor table. "But he's still trash, and I can't be seen with him."

Over the next few weeks, Lily got use to Hogwarts. She really didn't miss home at all, except to sometimes long for the solitude she had once had. She was just not use to sharing a bedroom with five other people, she was royalty. It was also a little annoying the way some people continuously fawned on her. Yet, a the same time it was nice that boys would carry her books to class, or save the best seat for her, or give her little gifts.

Lily had quickly become the 'queen' of her year, heading a little band of giggling girls. Not that she was passing punishments onto others or anything, but she was shown the respect her station demanded. She was a princess, which did mean she was entitled to special 'exceptions' right?

The only people who didn't seem to bow and scrap when ever she came near where the scholarship students. Over the weeks, she came to wonder about these students. They were white trash, yet they seemed so well behaved and even smart. Yet, she had heard parts of their 'music' and it was just so 'dirty.' How could people who listened to that music be good people?

"Lily, which one do you think?" Amelia asked, holding up two shades of nail polish.

"The red one," Lily said, absent mildly, then realized she hadn't taken in a word of the passage of her History of Magic book she was reading.

"Come on," Mia said, "we're going to be late for flying class."

"Oh, I forgot!" Lily exclaimed, slamming her book closed and going to tie her hair up.

Twenty minutes later the three girls raced across the lawn, and arriving last to the lesion.

"Stand by a broom girls, we're just starting," the elderly teacher, Madam Hooch told them.

Lily looked around and realized they were sharing this lesion with the Slytherins. Although she had not yet had actually contact with any of the Slytherins, Lily knew enough to be wary of them. So she took a broom next to James Potter, instead of the other empty one next to a greasy haired male Slytherin.

Madam Hooch then continued to give the class a ten-minute speech on the dangers of broomsticks. Afterwards, Lily felt she would have been very happy keeping her feet firmly on the ground, but seeing the look on James Potter's face, she decided to show off. She had flown a broom before, of course, being a princess; they had a whole Quidditch field out back. She wasn't very fond the sport, but figured it was pretty good for a game that involved two balls that flew around trying to kill people. She was a pretty good flyer too; her father had once told her she could play professional, before berating her for choosing such a dangerous pastime.

So, it came as no surprise, that when Madam Hooch came around to inspect their grips on the broom handle, that hers was perfect.

"Now, when I blow my whistle, I want you to gently push off the ground, hover of a few seconds, then push forward on the broom handle to come down," Madam Hooch said, and a few seconds later blew her whistle.

Next to Lily, James Potter shot up into the air, straight, then leaning forward landed perfectly. Huffing at being outdone, Lily preceded to lift of too, except for one thing. She had stood on someone's used chewing gum! And it was double deluxe, super bubble, bubble gum too. So as she raised into the air a thin line of used chewing gum followed. A couple people ran into it, and it being very strong, got stuck to it.

People on the ground were trying very hard not to laugh as Lily turned bright red and tried to wipe the gum off her shoe. Unfortunately, this just caused the gum to expand more.

"Princess Evens, I think you'd better land," Madam Hooch yelled up to her. Lily, brighter a little at the though of getting to show off a perfect landing, completely forgot she was suppose to pull forward not backward on her broom. With Lily handing on for dear life, the broom shot of up into the air, and she fell of, clinging onto the broom handle with on hand.

It was then that someone had the brilliant idea of pulling Lily's broom back down with the chewing gum. So, beat red and utterly humiliated, Lily slowly sank to the ground, to the muffled giggles of her classmates.

"Oh, don't be overdramatic," Mia, said, as the girls walked across the ground at the end of the lesion, "it wasn't that bad."

"It took them a half hour to get the stupid gum of my shoe, and to unstuck everyone else," Lily exclaimed, "how is that not bad?"

"Well, we got to fly around well you were being unstuck," Amelia said happily, "that was so much fun. Normally, we would have had to listen to stupid lectures on broom safely."

"Oh yes, great fun for you. It was horrible for me, I had to stand there well James Potter flew in circles around me, that was so humiliating."

"Who's James Potter?" Jenny Warrington asked.

"One of those stupid scholarship kids. He totally ran me over on Monday. Sure he apologized and everything, but you just know he meant to do it. Actually, that's the second time he's run into me, he did it at the bookstore, in Diagon Alley, didn't I tell you about it?"

"Um, Lily, don't you think your obsessing over Potter a little to much. I mean, he's a scholarship student, you shouldn't even know his name," Mia pointed out.

"That's what I'm saying, thanks for the support," Lily said, huffing and walking off.

"What was that about?" Penelope asked, twirling her hair.

"I think Lily has a little crush on one Mr. Potter, this is not good," Mia told her, looking worried. "Her parents are so going to kill her."

"Dream spells… dueling… dungbombs? What's that doing here?… use of daisy roots… no… Deflating Draught… Doxycide… aw, Draught of the Living Dead, oh, hello."

Lily pulled back and looked at the sandy haired boy who was holding the book she needed.

"Doing Slughorn's essay already?" The boy asked.

"Well, yes, I like getting my homework out of the way as soon as possible," Lily, said, looking at the book pointy.

"Oh, sorry, I'm almost done with this actually. I just have to copy something if you could want a moment," the boy said smiling.

Lily couldn't believe it; everyone always gave her everything she wanted. Why should she wait for a book, this boy could just use it later? Then she realized that this boy probably hadn't recognized her.

"I'm Princess Lily Evans," Lily said, coming over to the boy's table, "I didn't know if you recognized me or not."

"Yeah, I did," the boy said, looking up. "Nice to meet you, I'm Remus Lupin. Thank you so much for waiting, my grandma died and I have to go home this weekend, so I really need to finish this."

Lily gaped at the boy, he was one of those scholarship kids, she realized now. Yet, even thought he wasn't royalty like her friends, he though he could treat her like an equal. Then Lily realized something else, she really liked being treated like an equal. It was so, refreshing, not to be fawned over, or immediately given what she wanted. It was then that Lily decided to do something almost impossible, she wanted to be friends with Remus Lupin. Well, at least secret friends, like she was with Sirius.

"That's horrible," Lily said, "are you all right?"

"Oh," Remus said, looking up again, "well it's a bit of a shock, but I'll get over it I guess. I do have three more and she's been sick for ages."

"I never meet any of my grandparents, they're all dead," Lily told him, "it must be nice."

"Yeah, it is," Remus, said, dreamily, "my family's really big. My mum was one of nine and my dad one of six. So there are always tons of people in my house. Its especially great at Christmas time, we all get together and just be together. I can't really explain it."

"That sounds really nice," Lily said, with a pang of jealously, "it's only my mother, father, Petunia, and me in my family. We're not really close. Father is always to busy, and except for the lesions mother gives me, she likes to be left alone."

"What sort of lesions?"

"Oh, you know, how to sit, stand, dance, play a party, that sort of think, how to act proper. I only really like the lesions because I get to spend time with mother."

"Sounds fun," Remus said, sarcastically, "I never knew you had to have lesions on how to be a princess, I though you were just born that way."

"Well, sort of," Lily said thinking, "its like my sister, Petunia, she's a squib, but she still can't be the heir because she doesn't know how to act. She's always rude to guests, and can't even waltz! To be Queen you have to be able to rule."

"I never though of it like that," Remus muttered, thinking, "so, you mean, if you couldn't dance, you couldn't inherit the throne."

"Well, probably not, since I am the last remaining heir. But the government would never let me play a role in government, they would just lock me up in a castle somewhere, so I don't turn into an 'embarrassment.' That happened to my grandma, she was a lot like Petunia, and they sent her to Scotland to live out her life as a spinster till her brother's son, my dad, inherited the throne."

"That's horrible," Remus exclaimed, looking up at her.

"I know, that's why I have to be so proper and talk to only the right people. Because I really want to rule some day, and not just as a figurehead. I want to have at least some influent on this country, and make it better. So there wouldn't be any poverty or crime or Dark Lords."

"That's a beautiful dream," Remus said, then handed her the book and standing up, "but you probably know by now, I'm not one of those right people. You should probably go find someone else to talk to."

"Remus wait," Lily called after the boy, making him turn around. "Listen, do you know Sirius Black?"

"Of course," Remus said, coming back over to hear, since Lily was whispering.

"Right, your one of those boys he's friends with, who helped turn Peasegood and Prewett pink."

"That was all Sirius and James," Remus said, "besides they deserved it."

"Yes, but you don't go around turning people pink!" Lily exclaimed, then as people turned to look at them, she dropped her voice. "That's besides the point. If you're friends with him, you'll know that we're friends."

"He did say he was," Remus said skeptically, "so?"

"Well, I have been forbidden from talking to him from my parents. We're secret friends, of a kind, and I was wondering if you'd want to be friends like that too?"

"What would that mean?" Remus asked, looking slightly shocked.

"Well, I don't know, we could do homework together or something. Just not in public, it's not that I'm embarrassed to be your friend or anything, but like I said, I have to be seen with the right people."

"I don't know," Remus said, slowly, "I'd like to, but-"

"I know, it feels a little…sneaky."

"I don't know if that's the word I'd use, but yes. I've never had a secret friend."

"Me neither, before I meet Sirius, but it works out fine with him. Think of it this way, how would your scholarship friends feel if they saw us together."

"Like I'd betrayed them probably," Remus mused, "they don't really like the preps- I mean other students."

"Preps? Nice name, I should remember that," Lily said as Remus turned red.

"Well, okay," he said, talking his book back, "but lets not tell anyone okay? Not even Sirius or your girl friends."

"Sure, it'll be our little secret."

"Yeah, the Secret Homework Club."

"I like that, the SHC."

"We're official!" Remus exclaimed, "wow, major deja vue."

"What?" Lily asked, curiously.

"Oh, nothing," Remus said, far to quickly, "So when do you want to have our SHC meetings?"

For Lily, the weeks seemed to fly by. In no time at all, October had come, and with it Halloween. Lily had always loved this holiday, maybe because it symbolized everything her world stood for, or maybe it was the feeling that magic was in the air on all hollow's eve. Either way, she was delighted to learn that Hogwarts had a Halloween feast every year, and this was not because she loved the food.

"So, Princess," a second year boy, Lily though was called Gildory Lockhart, said to her, a couple days before the feast. "Who are you sitting with at Halloween?"

"Mia and Amelia of course, why?" Lily asked, startled at the question.

"Oh, I though you might like to sit with, well me," he said, shinning his teeth at her.

"Err… well thanks for the offer, but I already promised Mia and I've got to go, bye," and with that Lily walked away, very red in the face. Some random guy she had never even talked to before, had just asked her out, what was the world coming to?

"Oh Princess, will you do me the great honor of sitting with me on Halloween," Sirius sarcastically, flashing his semi-white teeth at her.

"It's not funny," Lily said, turning red.

"Sorry, I just wanted to borrow your Charms notes, m'lady," Sirius mocked, bowing to her.

"You know, one of these days, that isn't going to be funny," Lily muttered pulling out her notes. Sirius put on a mocked, shocked look.

"Someone not finding me funny, that is an insult to the sanity of that person m'lady." Sirius sang, "Well off to cause more headaches, ado my dear princess."

And with that he skipped off, humming under his breath.

"To bad he's a black," Mia said, coming up behind Lily, "I'd love to date him, he's so hot."

"Yeah," Lily muttered, staring after the boy, "and would people stop sneaking up on me, you're the third person to do that today."

"Sorry, you're just so easy," Amelia said, giggling, as she appeared on Lily's other side, making her jump.

"Come on, let's go to lunch," Lily said, ignoring her friends giggles, and walking off, them following in her wake.

The Halloween feast was perfect, or at least Lily though so. Never before had she been to a feast where she didn't have to sit up straight or waltz with boring bald men who were friends of her parents.

The three of them pilled their plates with everything in sight. Down on the other end, the scholarship kids were even having a food fight, though they were the only ones. Lily laughed so much at Sirius's antics when he decided to come down to their end, covered with food, because he had joined in the food fight.

"Sirius you really shouldn't be associating with them," Penelope said, patting the seat next to her, "why don't you join us."

"Aww, penny, it's just a lot more fun over there, I'm sure you understand," Sirius told them, then skipped back to his seat. Lily squirmed thinking of the SHC.

That night she dreamed of chocolate cake and pumpkin pies stretching as far as the eye could see. In class they learned Wingardium Leviosa and she was the first to get it, even before Potter. Outside the weather turned from fall to winter. Students made snowman out of the hip deep snow that cover the grounds. Then in no time at all it was Christmas. Much to her parent's dismay, Lily decided to forgo the usual Christmas ball and stayed at Hogwarts.

On the morning of December 31st she woke to a huge pill of presents on her bed, and laying on the floor around her bed. After giggling over their presents, the girls topped downstairs and joined the school wide snowball fight one of the first year boys, probably Sirius, had started.

"Got you," a voice yelled, and Lily turned to see Professor McGonagall lobbing a snowball at tiny professor Flitwick. She was so thrown by this completely out of character act, that she totally didn't notice that one James Potter had just aimed a huge snowball at her head.

"I'll get you for that Potter," she giggled, and scooping up a huge chunk of snow, ran after the messy haired devil. They ended up sprawled on each other in the snow, laughing. They lay there for a moment, in peaceful harmony for once, until a shower of snowballs were sent their way by Sirius and Remus. Giggling, the two formed an alliance and charged after the two.

That night, Lily went to bed wishing life could always be like this. No though to rank or status, just fun and laughter all the time. Then she realized how ridicules that was, and went back to hating James Potter.

Months passed like seconds for the red haired princess. One moment she was walking across the snow covered ground shivering against the bitter cold, and the next she was staring out at a beautiful spring day. She barrowed herself in her studies and friends, and enjoying herself. It was three weeks till exams, then two weeks, then she was in the library all hours of the day, cramming a year's worth of knowledge into her brain.

The next second she was walking out of her last exam, sighing with relief.

"Please try not to forget everything you worked so hard to learn this year," Dumbledore said at the leaving feast as they all laughed, knowing they would. Lily dug into a shepherd's pie, thinking longingly of this time next year, and the friendless summer that awaited her.

"Owl me," Mia exclaimed, hugging her best friend. "I'll ask mum about coming to stay, but I'm sure she'll agree."

"Oh good, Amelia, remember to find some time for us well your traveling the world," Lily said, hugging her.

"Oh, I don't know, I might be busy," Amelia said, sarcastically. "Seriously, I'm going to miss you guys."

"Its only for the summer," Lily said, looking over to were her driver stood, her parents being to busy to pick her up. "Well, I'd better go, write you two."

"Oh, m'lady," a sly voice said in her ear and Lily turned to see Sirius standing there, "weren't you going to say farewell to little old me."

"Of course," Lily said, then hugged him, blushing the whole time, "owl me."

"I would be honored," Sirius said, also a little red, and bowed. "Till next year, princess," then he was gone.

Sighing, Lily walked out of the station, anticipating a long lonely summer. She felt a twine of jealousy as she saw James Potter being greeted by his large and very loud family. Then she shrugged it off, and slide into her limo.

A/N: So, what do you think? I personally loved this chapter, especially the end, but that's just me. Please, please, review and tell me what you think!

Thank you to .Aurorablu. (Thanks for reviewing twice, and it will probably always come in two chapters, which is why it takes me so long to update. You know, a Lily chapter and a James chapter.) sugur-huny-bun, ash, Lady-Elizabeth4242, (thank you so much for pointing that out, I totally forgot. If you'll notice, I went back and changed that part to make James know Dumbledore. Please tell me if anything else is off, I feel so stupid for that one.) And jmarit17 for REVIEWING! (Which everyone else should do right now!)