A/n: ok, this is my first fic ever but i worked REALLY hard on it. It's
only chapter 1 but whatever.
PLEASE READ AND REVEW. just incase it doesn't say Lily and James are in their 6th yr ppl. and its also kinda long but w/e.
REMINDER: R/R!!
Chapter 1
Autumn had just started on the day the train left for Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, which Lily attended. She shivered as she stepped into the station, dragging her huge suitcase in with her. Her sister Petunia, who with her extremely long neck resembled a giraffe in many ways, accompanied her. Usually her parents would have been there to see her off but dark wizards had killed them that summer, leaving Lily and Petunia to cope with their loss. Every time she thought of them, it made her want to cry, but she wouldn't allow herself to. She wouldn't let herself fall apart. She had changed a lot over the summer.
"Well, bye," Lily said mumbled to her sister Petunia.
"Um, well, don't expect me to hug you or anything," Petunia remarked meanly. "Just because mom and dad are dead, I mean KILLED, doesn't change the fact that you are a disgusting little witch,"
"Well, don't expect me to want to," She snapped back.
"Are you planning on going? Because I really do need to get back home. I do have a life, you know"
Petunia despised Lily for being a witch, just like she despised anyone different. She felt she had a right to know everything about anyone. But Lily didn't want to fight anymore. She was too tired, too sad. So she decided to forget replying with another nasty comeback. The train was leaving soon and there was no time to prolong their fight, anyways.
"See you in the summer," Lily muttered. Then she walked briskly into through the barrier to the only place she'd ever belong in, the world of magic.
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As usual it was absolute chaos at platform nine and three quarters. There were first years crying as they said goodbye to their parents, Slytherins bullying muggle-borns, witches and wizards shouting about lost toads or rats, friends shouting a friend across the room, ect. Lily located her best friend Annie Moffat as soon as she stepped into the train. She was sitting at their usual compartment with her other best friends, Lynn Anderson and Joy Johnson.
"Hi guys."
"Hey Lil," The girls chorused.
"Oh Lily, I'm really sorry about your parents. It's horrible what happened. They were just so nice. They really didn't deserve it. I just can't believe it," Lynn said earnestly. Lynn was extremely pretty. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a nose that turned up a bit. She was exceptionally perky, a little too perky sometimes, her friends would tell her.
"Yeah, me too," Annie said sympathetically. Annie had shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes. She was the most practical and sensible of Lily's friends.
"I'd rather not talk about it," Lily said shortly. If she would start talking, she would start crying, and never stop. And she certainly didn't want to do that now. She was going to Hogwarts and she wanted to be happy, not sad. After all, Hogwarts was far, far from Petunia.
" We understand," Joy said. She patted Lily's hand. Joy had big brown eyes, dark brown hair, and a cute round face. She was the quietest of the four.
"So…"Lily said trying to change the topic. "Did you all finish the home work?"
"Barely," Lynn declared, "I could kill Professor Natal. My Defense Against Dark Arts essay was two inches too short. And I practically copied it out of the book."
"Well, you don't have to worry about him anymore. He's retiring this year. I think we wore him out. We're having someone new. I think his name is Professor Katigun." Joy told her.
"That's the third Defense Against Dark Arts teacher we've had in three years! I'm beginning to think that job is cursed. Well, I hope he teaches as good as Professor Natal. He may not have been the nicest teacher we had, but you definently can't say that he didn't teach you anything." Lily said.
"That's only because you were the favorite," Lynn replied.
"So not true," Lily insisted. She wrapped her fingers around a piece of her wavy red hair.
"You know it is," Joy jumped in. "He loved you,"
"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh," Lynn said devilishly "Do you know something about Lily and Natal's love life that we don't?"
"Lily and Natal? Never would've dreamt it. But then again I always wondered why you were on top of the class, Evans, now I know why," Lily heard a voice say as the compartment swung opened.
Lily groaned out loud and her face turned to a mixture of pink and red from embarrassment and anger. It was James Potter, her enemy and rival "First of all," She exploded "I'm not going out with anyone and if it was it wouldn't be Natal, so stop making fun of me. Second of all, Potter, what are you and your little annoying friends doing here?"
"The other compartments were full, and since we now how much we would be welcomed here we decided to grace you with our presence," James said easily. He sat down at the empty seat next to Lily and put his arm around her.
By now it looked as though steam was coming out of her ears. "Take. Your. Hand. Off. Me. now." She said slowly.
"Hey, don't set the train on fire because of me," James said holding up his hands. "You have gotta learn how to control that hair of yours,"
"Used wrongly, and it can become a weapon," Sirius Black said snickering. He, Remus Lupin, and Peter Petiggrew were James's best friends, or the mauraders as they called themselves.
"Oh, shut up," Lily muttered, and scooted over to the wall as much as possible without being totally squished. She reached for her wand but Annie stopped her by saying, "Remembered what happened last time,"
"You do not wanna start of school like that," Joy warned.
Lily sighed and put her wand back into her pocket. Lynn was unusually quiet during this whole scenario. She had been one of the many girls to go out with James, and ever since he had broken up with her, she had been extremely embarrassed in front of him.
Remus leaned back in his chair, propped his legs on the table and said, "So, you guys heard about the new Defense against Dark Arts teacher?"
"Can you not put your muddy shoes all over the table?" Lily said as she pushed them off. "And yeah, we did." She didn't really have anything against Remus. He was the most normal out of James's friends. In fact, she felt bad for him, because of his mother. She was very sick and Remus was being pulled out of school constantly. But right now, she was just so mad, that she didn't care whom she snapped out. James always brought out the worst in her.
"Speaking of Defense Against Dark Arts, Moony ol' boy, you don't mind if I say, borrow your essay and rewrite it for my own personal use?" Sirius asked.
"Hey, what are friends for? Besides, it would only be right to share. I don't want to seem selfish,"
"That's not fair," Lynn cried out. "I worked SO hard on that essay, and I'm still two inches short. And then he gets it for free?" As if she suddenly realized her outburst, she turned red, and looked as if she was going to attempt to crawl under her seat.
"It wouldn't be like that," James, said "He would just be reading it over, using the same ideas, but he WOULD change the words a bit,"
"Whatever," Lynn muttered, staring down at the ground.
Lily glared at the four boys. "Lynn's right. It's not fair. Some people actually work hard on those essays and would appreciate if you didn't copy each others homework all the time."
"Well, some people couldn't care less," Sirius, replied.
"I'm sure Professor McGonnagol would,"
"Well, who's telling?" James retorted.
"Aaargh," Lily sank back into her chair. This was going to be a looooooong ride.
"So," Annie said trying to be the peacemaker, as usual "Exited to become sixth years?"
"Hell, yeah," Sirius exclaimed. "Only one more year after this and then I am outa here!"
"Same here," James added.
"With your grades it might not only be one year," Lily snapped at him.
"Oh, really? Maybe you didn't hear, but I got top marks on almost all my exams,"
"Only because you copied from Remus," Lily shot back "It's horrible that you do that. Some people, people who work hard, like ME, do this really cool thing that might sound weird to you, but let me assure you, it isn't. It's where you actually take out your books and use them for something, otherwise than clomping Snape on the head with. It's called studying. You might wanna add that to your vocabulary,"
Just as James was about to answer, most probably with an equally obnoxious comment, in came the food cart carrying all kinds of goodies. The woman stopped short as she saw who was in the compartment and her face was pulled into a large frown.
"OH NO, Not you four again. NOT after what you did last year. You have better act like civilized human beings this time. No pushing, hexing, cursing. Do you have any manners? If i had known that you were sti-"
"We were deprived of those at birth,"Sirius exclaimed, as he jumed up,accidentingly hitting Peter in the face.
"Bloody maniac,"Peter said angrily, jumping after Sirius and hitting him on the back.
Lily felt herself being elbowed horribly in the stomach as James and the rest of the boys shot up from their chairs.
"Stupid git," She almost yelled at him.
But James wasn't listening. He was busy picking out every possible candy he could see.
"I'll take this," he said pointing to a chocolate frog. "Actually just give me that whole bunch. Thanks. Oh, and a few of those,"Lily saw him say as he pointed to a Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans bag. The woman muttered angrily under her breath, as she gave him his purchases. Lily sighed and rolled her eyes at Annie, who grinned and then rolled her eyes back.
When the boys finally finished purchasing their candy, Lily got up from her seat to get a pumpkin pasty. She had brought lunch and didn't feel the need to buy heaps of candy, only to stuff herself and have no room for dinner.
"I'll have a pumpkin pasty," She said.
"Is that all?" the woman asked. When Lily nodded, she sighed with relief, grabbed a pumpkin pasty off her cart and hurried out of the compartment as fast as she could go.
"I do believe we scared her away," Sirius remarked grinning evilly.
"6th year in a row,"Peter said happily
"I don't see what's so great about that," Lily said.
" I'm guessing its time of the month again. Wow that seems, to happen to you a lot, Lil."
That shut Lily up. She sank back into her chair and then looked over at Annie who was talking to James. 'How can she stand him?' she thought to herself.
She watched him open one of his many Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans bags, and wished on him a vomit flavored one. But alas, as he popped it into his mouth she heard him say, "Mmmmmmmmmm, chocolate,"
"Want one?" James asked her as innocently as possible.
"That's alright," She said in an overly sweet voice. "As I'm not very fond of booger or ear-wax flavored ones."
"Why would I ever do that to you?" He said in a mock hurt voice.
"Hmmm,Thats a good one. I have no idea. MAYBE its because you already have, say, ten, twenty, times"
"Suit yourself," he said, and popped another one into his mouth. "Yum, tomato,"
" Eeew," Joy said, surprising Lily by entering the conversation. "I've always hated tomatoes. They're so mushy, and gooey, and well, they just don't taste all that well,"
"Let's see," he said, taking another one out. He looked at it for a few seconds and then burst out laughing. Lynn, Remus, and Sirius looked up from their conversation. James thrust the jellybean at Lily.
"F,f, fungus foot," he managed to get out.
Remus began to laugh. "I remember that day,"
Lily remembered that day all too well. It had been the day she first came to Hogwarts. She remembered it like it was yesterday……………………
* Start Flashback*
"Lily dear, are you sure it say platform nine and three quarters. Maybe it said platform 9. Or 10. We must have asked all the guards here,"
" I'm sure mum, I checked the letter at least a hundred times," a frustrated Lily answered.
" She is SO not coming home with us mother, I don't care what you say I'm not sleeping in the same room as some crazy bi-"She was cut off by her father who cleared his throat rather loudly and gave her a harsh look. "I, I mean witch," Lily's sister Petunia finished.
"Petunia, she's your sister. Her being a witch doesn't change anything. Do you understand?"
"Yes dad," she mumbled as she rolled her eyes.
"I mean you've always been a ghastly giraffe your whole life, but that didn't change anything, did it?" Lily said glaring at Petunia.
Her mother cut in before Petunia had a chance to answer. "Girls, honestly! This is our last chance to say good-bye to Lily, and I don't want it to be this way,"
"Sorry mum. Hey, that girl looks as if she's on her way to Hogwarts. Look she even has her wand in her hand," Lily rushed over the girl as fast as she could. Finally! They had been here for two hours trying to find the platform, and with Petunia there, it had definitely NOT been fun at all.
"Excuse me, are you looking for the train to Hogwarts?" she asked.
The girl breathed a huge sigh of relief. "You are too? Oh, good I thought I was the only going there and I was so-"
"Lily, is she going to the school?" her father asked as her family came over.
"Yup," she answered. With a look at Petunia she said, "You can all go now if you want. I'll be fine," She definitely didn't want to stand around with Petunia all day.
"Oh, are you sure?"
"Don't worry mum, I'll be fine,"
"Oh, well, if you insist. But write to me the minute you get there." Lily hugged her father and mother.
"Petunia, give your sister a hug," chided her mother
"I refuse to touch her," Petunia replied. She stuck her nose up in the air, and walked away. That is, she began too. As she walked away her foot got stuck in the strings of Lily's suitcase and she landed on the ground with a huge thud.
"You did that on purpose. I don't know how you did, but I do know that you did. Probably with some of your crazy witch powers," she fumed. "You ruined my brand new coat and I bumped my nose so hard I think it broke"
"Oh don't worry it was bumpy before. No one will be able to tell the difference," Lily blurted out. Realizing what she had said, her hand flew to her mouth. Lily had never wanted to fight with her sister, but Petunia always made her SO mad, and sometimes she said things she didn't really mean. She hadn't had anything to do with Petunia tripping but as usual her darling dearest sister blamed her for things that went wrong.
Petunia's face got bright red and her extremely long neck looked even longer. Her nostrils flared as she pushed Lily. Lily landed on the floor. HARD. She stalked off angrily without another glance.
"Are you ok, Lily? You're bleeding. I don't why Petunia always acts like that.
Lily's nose was bleeding and trying not to cry she lied, " I'm fine, mum. I barely feel anything,"
Are you sure?" Her father asked
"Yes! Don't worry about me. I'm sure I'll be fine. Honestly, I'm 11 not 2."
"Well, if insist. I love you, darling." Her mother drew her into a close hug "We better go find you sister. Be good dear," and then with another peck on the cheek, her parents followed in Petunia's direction.
Lily wiped her nose and the girl who Lily had just found out was a witch finally spoke up. "I'm Nina Perkins," She had brown hair pulled pack into two neat pigtails, large, wide gray eyes, and a bit of a chubby face.
" Lily Evans," said Lily "So, do you know how to get on to the train?"
"Oh no, you don't know how either? I was hoping you were magic- born but I guess you're not. I'll just die if I don't get on that train. We traveled for an hour to get here. This was probably a practical joke. What if there is no Hogwarts? What if I came here for nothing? And my parents will be so mad.
"Well, if it is real, I do hope I'll be in Griffindor, but most probably they'll put me in Slytherin because nothing good ever happens to me. Or maybe this is real, but they made a huge mistake and I'm not a witch at all. Or maybe…......................"
As the girl droned on and on about her worries Lily looked around the station hoping to see other witches or wizards who actually knew where to go. She nodded her head from time to time and pretended that she was listening.
But honestly, this girl was acting like those batteries that went on and on and on and on…..... (You get the picture). This girl, Nina, was the most annoying girl she'd ever met. All she was doing was worrying, and if Lily had learnt anything over the past eleven years it was that to achieve your goals you had to stay calm and level. Panicking made it too hard to think.
"So which house do you think you'll be in?" Nina asked, panting a bit from reciting her long list of worries.
"Mmm?" Lily said confused.
"I said, which house do you think you'll be in?"
"Oh. I dunno. I didn't really consider that yet. Hopefully a good one, I guess."
"I just know I'll be in Slytherin, I just know it," Nina began moaning.
Suddenly out of the corner of her eye Lily saw four boys and their parents, holding huge trunks just like hers. One of them was holding a rat, and another had a birdcage in their hand. She tried to pay attention to what they were saying but it was sort of hard with Nina blaring in her ears. "Shhh," she said, craning her ears.
Nina looked at her curiously. "What?"
"I think I see some wizards over there," Lily answered.
"Oooh, over where? I can't see," The girl squealed jumping up and down.
Lily rolled her eyes and pointed. As Nina tried to find the group she was pointing to, Lily caught a bit of the conversation.
"Oooh, look Mum. There's tons of muggles here," one of the boys said excitedly. " Can't I just try one measly spell on them?"
"Now Sirius," his mother lectured. "Weren't you listening to what your father and I were telling you all the way here? You put one foot out of line, one toe even, and we'll march right up to Hogwarts and fetch you,"
At the mention of Hogwarts Lily's face brightened. "Come on," Lily hissed to Nina and practically dragged her over to the boys.
" Hi," She said. " Are you going to Hogwarts?"
" What's it to you?" a boy with glasses and messy black hair said.
'Well, isn't he rude' Lily thought as she glared it him.
"You know, the question I asked was a pretty simple one. Is too much to hope for a simpe answer?
When she said that to him he grinned and said light heartedly "I was just kidding. Honestly, mum," he added as she began to reprimand him.
"Well James, you take care now," she said and hugged him closely.
"Mother," he said crossly "You're embarrassing me,"
Lily thought that the boy named Remus, should be a bit more embarrassed as his mother was asking rather loudly if he had packed the adorable new underwear she had bought him, with the cute pattern of owls on it. It was fairly hard for Lily to suppress a giggle smile when Nina cut in to say that she had the same exact pair and was wearing it right at that moment. Finally the last goodbyes were said, and the boys parents tearfully left with Sirius's father still bellowing what he would do if Sirius tried any funny business.
"Um, do any of you know how to get platform nine and three quarters?" she asked.
"I'm guessing you're not magical born," the boy named Remus said smiling.
"Nope, I'm moggle-born," Lily anounced, feeling quite proud to use her first magical word and was surprised when all the boys burst out laughing. James fell on the ground and Sirius toppled over onto him, clutching his stomach as he let out the loudest laugh Lily ever heard.
"What's so funny?" Lily asked, wrinkling her nose in confusion.
"It's MUGGLE born," Nina said smugly. "Not moggle,"
Lily felt her face burn up. How could she be so stupid? She had read her books so many times she had practically memorized them. Finally Remus recovered long enough to squeak out "You have to walk through the barrier between platform nine and ten. Its enchanted,"
Feeling rather stupid, Lily saw the barrier was right in front of her. She stuck her nose up high in the air and then walked briskly towards it. She was almost through it when BANG! Lily bumped right into it and almost lost control of her trolley. People were staring her and James and the other boys were positively howling as they rolled on the floor. What did she do wrong now?
"That was the barrier between platform 8 and 9," she was informed by Nina. "This is the right one," she said pointing to it. Lily had never been more mortified in her life. She just wished the ground would open up right here and swallow up Nina and the others.
"Alright already," She snapped. "I made a mistake. It wasn't that funny,"
"Oh, but it was," James panted.
Lily just wanted to cry. She had never thought this day would turn out so bad. She had thought this would be one of the best of her life. But now, she was already thinking of asking her parents to let her come home. She had already met five magical people, each more horrible than the next and she was having a very disagreeable time.
"Well, are you coming or not? The train might leave with out us,"Nina asked, looking annoyed.
She took one last look at the muggle world, sighed and said "Wait up Nina, I'm coming," and ran after her through the barrier.
"Wow," she breathed, taking a look at her surroundings. But before she had any time to do anything else, she was pulled quite harshly by Nina who said "Come on! Do you want to get a seat or not?"
" I think you should calm down," Lily told her. " We're here already so there's no need to worry. We have time to do other things before the train leaves like, breathe, for one thing."
"Well, I'm sorry for trying to make sure that we got on the train all right. I don't understand why people are always telling me I worry too much. Just because I like to think about the ways something will go wrong, so they don't happen! But, fine, have it your way, "Nina said, as her eyes teared up.
Lily groaned. She really didn't feel like dealing with this now. "I'm sorry Nina. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings," She said, rolling her eyes inwardly.
"Well, I'm sure you didn't mean too, but they still were damaged. I'll see you later,". She ran off to join a group of girls at in the next compartment.
Lily sighed. Now what was she supposed to do? She went from compartment to compartment but they were all full. Finally she came to the last one. It was empty. Lily put her stuff down and sat down. She hadn't planned on sitting all alone. She had thought she would have made friends with someone by now.
"Sitting alone isn't soo bad," she said aloud as she opened her one of her school books. Its better than sitting with Ja-" She was interrupted as the door suddenly was slammed shut. Lily turned around to see who it was but before she could do that, she was pushed to the floor.
"Ouch,"she said as James rolled off her. She stared at him for a second and then cried angrily "What are you doing here, Potter?"
"Since when am I Potter?,"James asked.
"Is that some kind of sweet little nickname? Is Jamesy boy your pet?"
"Will you just cut it out?"
"Calm down, carrots. If you want to know the truth, as you probably saw, all the compartments are full. So we came to sit with you,".
"Nina's compartment wasn't,"Lily answered back. "And don't call me carrots. You dont see me calling you Coca-cola or something just because your hair is black."
"If you want to leave us so badly then why don't you join Nina? It seems to me like you were having bundles of joy with her, Miss Redhot"James said, ignoring her other remark.
"Did I not just tell you to cut that out?"
"You said to stop calling you carrots. You said nothing about redhot.How about strawberry shortcake?"
"That reminds me,"Sirius commented to noone in particular"I haven't eaten since breakfast! Don't we get something to eat? I'm hungry!"
"I am going to count to ten,"Lily said slowly, ignoring Sirius "If you don't shut up by then I will be forced to kill you,"
"OK,OK. How about Evans?"
"Well, its better than the other suggestions. Though I'd prefer you wouldn't call me anything. In fact, i would be delighted if you wouldn't talk to me at all!"
"Playing hard to get I see, Evans,"he said smoothly, sitting down besides her. Lily just glared at him and then opened her book to the first page.
"Aww, look at the two lovebirds,"said Remus.
"Isn't it sweet?"Sirius snickered."And it's just adorable the way they call each other by their special names,"
"Put a sock in it,"Lily cut in, rolling her eyes.
"Really Lily, you don't have to hide your feelings from me,"James added.
"I'm not listening,"Lily covered her ears and stared into her book.
"Now honey, its ok to have feelings for people. I promise not to take advantage of y-"
He was interrupted as Lily read aloud from her book "Dragons are dangerous creatures and can be found in various parts of the wor-"
James rolled his eyes and said "Why thank you, Proffesor but I think I know a little bit more about the magical world than you do. If I recall, didn't you just mispronounce the word muggle a few hours ago, which is one of the most commonly used words in any wizarding household?"
"You're never going to let that go, are you,"Lily stated angrily.
"Wouldn't dream of it,"He answered.
"You're horrid,"
"Coming from you, that's a compliment,"he shot back.
"Really now, I think we should break this little lover's quarrel up now before it gets out of hand,"Sirius declared.
"I think this is highly entertaining,"Remus said looking back and forth at Lily and James, with a look of avid interest upon his face.
"Well, I think its highly dangerous, and slightly murderous.Come on guys, break it up,"Sirius tried to get their attention, but with no avail. The door opened and the food cart came rolling in with a plump, merry woman wheeling it.
"First years?"She asked smiling."Any of you mu-"
She didn't get to finish her sentence because right at that moment, she and her cart were sent rolling back as Sirius came, running a little too enthusiastically, and bumped into the cart. Candy fell all over the place.
"Food," gasped Sirius.
"Lemme at it,"James cried as he jumped over the table and crashed into Sirius.
"JERK,"Sirius exclaimed through mouthfuls of unpaid candy.
Meanwhile Peter and Remus were engrossed in a competition as to who would reach the beloved food cart first. The woman's merry face was screwed up into a rather angry one.
"What are you doing,"She yelled, smacking Sirius's hand with a chocolate frog."You didn't pay for that yet!"
She tried to push James away as he grabbed as many every flavor bean bags as he could."Are you mad? Have you never seen food before?"
She made a run for the door and left, slamming the door behind her.
"Come back,"cried Remus"I didnt get anything yet,"He looked angrily at Peter"It's all your fault,"
"My fault?!,"Peter cried angrily. And they were off again.
Lily glared at Sirius "Well maybe if you would have acted a little more, whats it called again?oh yeah, NORMAL,then she wouldn't have left like that. Now I didn't get anything,"
"Cheer up,"James said "have a bertie bott's bag. They're great,"
"You probably hexed it,"Lily muttered.
"Come on, take it. You know you want too," he teased.
Lily rolled her eyes at him, and reluctantly held out her hand. He handed her a bag, and she stared at it suspiciously. After all, she hadn't been too nice to him, so why would he all of a sudden be giving her bags of candy? There had to be something behind it.
" So, what's the catch?," she asked him.
"There is none. Come on, do I really look like someone who'd do that?"He looked at her, smiling innocently. She glared at him, and he added quickly "Honestly, there is none,"
Lily gingerly opened it and looked inside. "Jellybeans,"She said, feeling a bit disappointed. She had hoped that there would be new candy in the wizarding world. But this just looked like any normal jelly bean bag she could have gotten from any muggle store. She popped a pink one into her mouth. It was bubble gum 'No surprise there,' She thought wryly.
She took a handful and stuffed it into her mouth. 'Yum, these are pretty good,'. She looked at James and the rest of the boys and found them staring at her as if she was doing something utterly strange.
"What,"She said feeling perturbed.
"Nothing,"James said leaning back,"You're in for a surprise though."
She just stared at him for a few more second and then took out another one out of the bag. This one looked weird. It was a sort of pale yellow with dark green splotches on it. It looked a bit moldy, but she put it into her mouth anyway. The second she chewed she knew it had been a mistake. She had never tasted something more horrible in her life.
The boys began to laugh hysterically at the look on her face. She spit the bean out and began to cough uncontrollably.
"What is this,"she cried, thrusting the mushed jelly bean in James face. He began to laugh even harder after he looked at it and fell on top of her. She pushed him off and glared until he stopped.
"Told you,"he said panting slightly."It's called Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and it means every flavor. And it looks to me," he took a closer look at it and began to laugh again "f,f,Fungus foot,".
That was when she resolved never ever to open another bag of jelly beans in her life
********End Flashback (FINALLY!!!!)
"How could I forget,"Lily said angrily, as all the memories rushed back to her."My first day at Hogwarts was oh, so horribly ruined thanks to YOU,"
Of course Hogwarts hadn't been so bad and she had ncver ended up sending her parents an owl to come home. She had met Annie, Lynn, and Joy later that day. But still, she would never forget how horrible the train ride up had been. Especially since she had James to remind her, which he did, at every chance he had.
James continued laughing, making Lily burn with uncontrollable anger, Not even thinking straight she pulled out her wand and turned him into........................................................................ ............................................................................ ................................. a jelly bean. A James jelly bean. She smiled triumphantly at the spot where James would have been and looked down at where James the jelly bean was rolling around.
"Oh my G-D!," she heard Lynn cry "Lily, what the h*ll did you do with him?"
"Oh he's right here,"she answered bemusedly "right in front of you," Lynn and all the others looked down at the spot where Lily was pointing to.
"Lily, you didn't," Annie burst out, her eyes wide.
"Oh I did. And I think I'll be keeping him that way for QUITE a while, thank you very much,".
"You have to admit James, this is pretty funny,"Sirius said snickering. The jellybean rolled over to Sirius and began to try to push him over. "Prongs, you're gonna have to try a little harder,"
"Why, I can just eat him up," Remus declared laughing.
"Lils, I hate to break it to you, but he can't stay that way forever,"Joy raised her eyebrow at Lily.
"Why not?"Lily said rebelliously.
"For one thing, professor McGonagall would KILL you," Joy started.
"For another, we're here!!!!"cried Sirius happily.
"Oh well," Lily said sadly. "It was fun while it lasted, Back you go James,".
With another swish of her wand the blackhaired boy was back, looking pretty angry though. Lily just smiled sweetly at him, and then holding her head high, walked out of the compartment, and onto the grounds of Hogwarts.
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Chapter 1
Autumn had just started on the day the train left for Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, which Lily attended. She shivered as she stepped into the station, dragging her huge suitcase in with her. Her sister Petunia, who with her extremely long neck resembled a giraffe in many ways, accompanied her. Usually her parents would have been there to see her off but dark wizards had killed them that summer, leaving Lily and Petunia to cope with their loss. Every time she thought of them, it made her want to cry, but she wouldn't allow herself to. She wouldn't let herself fall apart. She had changed a lot over the summer.
"Well, bye," Lily said mumbled to her sister Petunia.
"Um, well, don't expect me to hug you or anything," Petunia remarked meanly. "Just because mom and dad are dead, I mean KILLED, doesn't change the fact that you are a disgusting little witch,"
"Well, don't expect me to want to," She snapped back.
"Are you planning on going? Because I really do need to get back home. I do have a life, you know"
Petunia despised Lily for being a witch, just like she despised anyone different. She felt she had a right to know everything about anyone. But Lily didn't want to fight anymore. She was too tired, too sad. So she decided to forget replying with another nasty comeback. The train was leaving soon and there was no time to prolong their fight, anyways.
"See you in the summer," Lily muttered. Then she walked briskly into through the barrier to the only place she'd ever belong in, the world of magic.
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As usual it was absolute chaos at platform nine and three quarters. There were first years crying as they said goodbye to their parents, Slytherins bullying muggle-borns, witches and wizards shouting about lost toads or rats, friends shouting a friend across the room, ect. Lily located her best friend Annie Moffat as soon as she stepped into the train. She was sitting at their usual compartment with her other best friends, Lynn Anderson and Joy Johnson.
"Hi guys."
"Hey Lil," The girls chorused.
"Oh Lily, I'm really sorry about your parents. It's horrible what happened. They were just so nice. They really didn't deserve it. I just can't believe it," Lynn said earnestly. Lynn was extremely pretty. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a nose that turned up a bit. She was exceptionally perky, a little too perky sometimes, her friends would tell her.
"Yeah, me too," Annie said sympathetically. Annie had shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes. She was the most practical and sensible of Lily's friends.
"I'd rather not talk about it," Lily said shortly. If she would start talking, she would start crying, and never stop. And she certainly didn't want to do that now. She was going to Hogwarts and she wanted to be happy, not sad. After all, Hogwarts was far, far from Petunia.
" We understand," Joy said. She patted Lily's hand. Joy had big brown eyes, dark brown hair, and a cute round face. She was the quietest of the four.
"So…"Lily said trying to change the topic. "Did you all finish the home work?"
"Barely," Lynn declared, "I could kill Professor Natal. My Defense Against Dark Arts essay was two inches too short. And I practically copied it out of the book."
"Well, you don't have to worry about him anymore. He's retiring this year. I think we wore him out. We're having someone new. I think his name is Professor Katigun." Joy told her.
"That's the third Defense Against Dark Arts teacher we've had in three years! I'm beginning to think that job is cursed. Well, I hope he teaches as good as Professor Natal. He may not have been the nicest teacher we had, but you definently can't say that he didn't teach you anything." Lily said.
"That's only because you were the favorite," Lynn replied.
"So not true," Lily insisted. She wrapped her fingers around a piece of her wavy red hair.
"You know it is," Joy jumped in. "He loved you,"
"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh," Lynn said devilishly "Do you know something about Lily and Natal's love life that we don't?"
"Lily and Natal? Never would've dreamt it. But then again I always wondered why you were on top of the class, Evans, now I know why," Lily heard a voice say as the compartment swung opened.
Lily groaned out loud and her face turned to a mixture of pink and red from embarrassment and anger. It was James Potter, her enemy and rival "First of all," She exploded "I'm not going out with anyone and if it was it wouldn't be Natal, so stop making fun of me. Second of all, Potter, what are you and your little annoying friends doing here?"
"The other compartments were full, and since we now how much we would be welcomed here we decided to grace you with our presence," James said easily. He sat down at the empty seat next to Lily and put his arm around her.
By now it looked as though steam was coming out of her ears. "Take. Your. Hand. Off. Me. now." She said slowly.
"Hey, don't set the train on fire because of me," James said holding up his hands. "You have gotta learn how to control that hair of yours,"
"Used wrongly, and it can become a weapon," Sirius Black said snickering. He, Remus Lupin, and Peter Petiggrew were James's best friends, or the mauraders as they called themselves.
"Oh, shut up," Lily muttered, and scooted over to the wall as much as possible without being totally squished. She reached for her wand but Annie stopped her by saying, "Remembered what happened last time,"
"You do not wanna start of school like that," Joy warned.
Lily sighed and put her wand back into her pocket. Lynn was unusually quiet during this whole scenario. She had been one of the many girls to go out with James, and ever since he had broken up with her, she had been extremely embarrassed in front of him.
Remus leaned back in his chair, propped his legs on the table and said, "So, you guys heard about the new Defense against Dark Arts teacher?"
"Can you not put your muddy shoes all over the table?" Lily said as she pushed them off. "And yeah, we did." She didn't really have anything against Remus. He was the most normal out of James's friends. In fact, she felt bad for him, because of his mother. She was very sick and Remus was being pulled out of school constantly. But right now, she was just so mad, that she didn't care whom she snapped out. James always brought out the worst in her.
"Speaking of Defense Against Dark Arts, Moony ol' boy, you don't mind if I say, borrow your essay and rewrite it for my own personal use?" Sirius asked.
"Hey, what are friends for? Besides, it would only be right to share. I don't want to seem selfish,"
"That's not fair," Lynn cried out. "I worked SO hard on that essay, and I'm still two inches short. And then he gets it for free?" As if she suddenly realized her outburst, she turned red, and looked as if she was going to attempt to crawl under her seat.
"It wouldn't be like that," James, said "He would just be reading it over, using the same ideas, but he WOULD change the words a bit,"
"Whatever," Lynn muttered, staring down at the ground.
Lily glared at the four boys. "Lynn's right. It's not fair. Some people actually work hard on those essays and would appreciate if you didn't copy each others homework all the time."
"Well, some people couldn't care less," Sirius, replied.
"I'm sure Professor McGonnagol would,"
"Well, who's telling?" James retorted.
"Aaargh," Lily sank back into her chair. This was going to be a looooooong ride.
"So," Annie said trying to be the peacemaker, as usual "Exited to become sixth years?"
"Hell, yeah," Sirius exclaimed. "Only one more year after this and then I am outa here!"
"Same here," James added.
"With your grades it might not only be one year," Lily snapped at him.
"Oh, really? Maybe you didn't hear, but I got top marks on almost all my exams,"
"Only because you copied from Remus," Lily shot back "It's horrible that you do that. Some people, people who work hard, like ME, do this really cool thing that might sound weird to you, but let me assure you, it isn't. It's where you actually take out your books and use them for something, otherwise than clomping Snape on the head with. It's called studying. You might wanna add that to your vocabulary,"
Just as James was about to answer, most probably with an equally obnoxious comment, in came the food cart carrying all kinds of goodies. The woman stopped short as she saw who was in the compartment and her face was pulled into a large frown.
"OH NO, Not you four again. NOT after what you did last year. You have better act like civilized human beings this time. No pushing, hexing, cursing. Do you have any manners? If i had known that you were sti-"
"We were deprived of those at birth,"Sirius exclaimed, as he jumed up,accidentingly hitting Peter in the face.
"Bloody maniac,"Peter said angrily, jumping after Sirius and hitting him on the back.
Lily felt herself being elbowed horribly in the stomach as James and the rest of the boys shot up from their chairs.
"Stupid git," She almost yelled at him.
But James wasn't listening. He was busy picking out every possible candy he could see.
"I'll take this," he said pointing to a chocolate frog. "Actually just give me that whole bunch. Thanks. Oh, and a few of those,"Lily saw him say as he pointed to a Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans bag. The woman muttered angrily under her breath, as she gave him his purchases. Lily sighed and rolled her eyes at Annie, who grinned and then rolled her eyes back.
When the boys finally finished purchasing their candy, Lily got up from her seat to get a pumpkin pasty. She had brought lunch and didn't feel the need to buy heaps of candy, only to stuff herself and have no room for dinner.
"I'll have a pumpkin pasty," She said.
"Is that all?" the woman asked. When Lily nodded, she sighed with relief, grabbed a pumpkin pasty off her cart and hurried out of the compartment as fast as she could go.
"I do believe we scared her away," Sirius remarked grinning evilly.
"6th year in a row,"Peter said happily
"I don't see what's so great about that," Lily said.
" I'm guessing its time of the month again. Wow that seems, to happen to you a lot, Lil."
That shut Lily up. She sank back into her chair and then looked over at Annie who was talking to James. 'How can she stand him?' she thought to herself.
She watched him open one of his many Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans bags, and wished on him a vomit flavored one. But alas, as he popped it into his mouth she heard him say, "Mmmmmmmmmm, chocolate,"
"Want one?" James asked her as innocently as possible.
"That's alright," She said in an overly sweet voice. "As I'm not very fond of booger or ear-wax flavored ones."
"Why would I ever do that to you?" He said in a mock hurt voice.
"Hmmm,Thats a good one. I have no idea. MAYBE its because you already have, say, ten, twenty, times"
"Suit yourself," he said, and popped another one into his mouth. "Yum, tomato,"
" Eeew," Joy said, surprising Lily by entering the conversation. "I've always hated tomatoes. They're so mushy, and gooey, and well, they just don't taste all that well,"
"Let's see," he said, taking another one out. He looked at it for a few seconds and then burst out laughing. Lynn, Remus, and Sirius looked up from their conversation. James thrust the jellybean at Lily.
"F,f, fungus foot," he managed to get out.
Remus began to laugh. "I remember that day,"
Lily remembered that day all too well. It had been the day she first came to Hogwarts. She remembered it like it was yesterday……………………
* Start Flashback*
"Lily dear, are you sure it say platform nine and three quarters. Maybe it said platform 9. Or 10. We must have asked all the guards here,"
" I'm sure mum, I checked the letter at least a hundred times," a frustrated Lily answered.
" She is SO not coming home with us mother, I don't care what you say I'm not sleeping in the same room as some crazy bi-"She was cut off by her father who cleared his throat rather loudly and gave her a harsh look. "I, I mean witch," Lily's sister Petunia finished.
"Petunia, she's your sister. Her being a witch doesn't change anything. Do you understand?"
"Yes dad," she mumbled as she rolled her eyes.
"I mean you've always been a ghastly giraffe your whole life, but that didn't change anything, did it?" Lily said glaring at Petunia.
Her mother cut in before Petunia had a chance to answer. "Girls, honestly! This is our last chance to say good-bye to Lily, and I don't want it to be this way,"
"Sorry mum. Hey, that girl looks as if she's on her way to Hogwarts. Look she even has her wand in her hand," Lily rushed over the girl as fast as she could. Finally! They had been here for two hours trying to find the platform, and with Petunia there, it had definitely NOT been fun at all.
"Excuse me, are you looking for the train to Hogwarts?" she asked.
The girl breathed a huge sigh of relief. "You are too? Oh, good I thought I was the only going there and I was so-"
"Lily, is she going to the school?" her father asked as her family came over.
"Yup," she answered. With a look at Petunia she said, "You can all go now if you want. I'll be fine," She definitely didn't want to stand around with Petunia all day.
"Oh, are you sure?"
"Don't worry mum, I'll be fine,"
"Oh, well, if you insist. But write to me the minute you get there." Lily hugged her father and mother.
"Petunia, give your sister a hug," chided her mother
"I refuse to touch her," Petunia replied. She stuck her nose up in the air, and walked away. That is, she began too. As she walked away her foot got stuck in the strings of Lily's suitcase and she landed on the ground with a huge thud.
"You did that on purpose. I don't know how you did, but I do know that you did. Probably with some of your crazy witch powers," she fumed. "You ruined my brand new coat and I bumped my nose so hard I think it broke"
"Oh don't worry it was bumpy before. No one will be able to tell the difference," Lily blurted out. Realizing what she had said, her hand flew to her mouth. Lily had never wanted to fight with her sister, but Petunia always made her SO mad, and sometimes she said things she didn't really mean. She hadn't had anything to do with Petunia tripping but as usual her darling dearest sister blamed her for things that went wrong.
Petunia's face got bright red and her extremely long neck looked even longer. Her nostrils flared as she pushed Lily. Lily landed on the floor. HARD. She stalked off angrily without another glance.
"Are you ok, Lily? You're bleeding. I don't why Petunia always acts like that.
Lily's nose was bleeding and trying not to cry she lied, " I'm fine, mum. I barely feel anything,"
Are you sure?" Her father asked
"Yes! Don't worry about me. I'm sure I'll be fine. Honestly, I'm 11 not 2."
"Well, if insist. I love you, darling." Her mother drew her into a close hug "We better go find you sister. Be good dear," and then with another peck on the cheek, her parents followed in Petunia's direction.
Lily wiped her nose and the girl who Lily had just found out was a witch finally spoke up. "I'm Nina Perkins," She had brown hair pulled pack into two neat pigtails, large, wide gray eyes, and a bit of a chubby face.
" Lily Evans," said Lily "So, do you know how to get on to the train?"
"Oh no, you don't know how either? I was hoping you were magic- born but I guess you're not. I'll just die if I don't get on that train. We traveled for an hour to get here. This was probably a practical joke. What if there is no Hogwarts? What if I came here for nothing? And my parents will be so mad.
"Well, if it is real, I do hope I'll be in Griffindor, but most probably they'll put me in Slytherin because nothing good ever happens to me. Or maybe this is real, but they made a huge mistake and I'm not a witch at all. Or maybe…......................"
As the girl droned on and on about her worries Lily looked around the station hoping to see other witches or wizards who actually knew where to go. She nodded her head from time to time and pretended that she was listening.
But honestly, this girl was acting like those batteries that went on and on and on and on…..... (You get the picture). This girl, Nina, was the most annoying girl she'd ever met. All she was doing was worrying, and if Lily had learnt anything over the past eleven years it was that to achieve your goals you had to stay calm and level. Panicking made it too hard to think.
"So which house do you think you'll be in?" Nina asked, panting a bit from reciting her long list of worries.
"Mmm?" Lily said confused.
"I said, which house do you think you'll be in?"
"Oh. I dunno. I didn't really consider that yet. Hopefully a good one, I guess."
"I just know I'll be in Slytherin, I just know it," Nina began moaning.
Suddenly out of the corner of her eye Lily saw four boys and their parents, holding huge trunks just like hers. One of them was holding a rat, and another had a birdcage in their hand. She tried to pay attention to what they were saying but it was sort of hard with Nina blaring in her ears. "Shhh," she said, craning her ears.
Nina looked at her curiously. "What?"
"I think I see some wizards over there," Lily answered.
"Oooh, over where? I can't see," The girl squealed jumping up and down.
Lily rolled her eyes and pointed. As Nina tried to find the group she was pointing to, Lily caught a bit of the conversation.
"Oooh, look Mum. There's tons of muggles here," one of the boys said excitedly. " Can't I just try one measly spell on them?"
"Now Sirius," his mother lectured. "Weren't you listening to what your father and I were telling you all the way here? You put one foot out of line, one toe even, and we'll march right up to Hogwarts and fetch you,"
At the mention of Hogwarts Lily's face brightened. "Come on," Lily hissed to Nina and practically dragged her over to the boys.
" Hi," She said. " Are you going to Hogwarts?"
" What's it to you?" a boy with glasses and messy black hair said.
'Well, isn't he rude' Lily thought as she glared it him.
"You know, the question I asked was a pretty simple one. Is too much to hope for a simpe answer?
When she said that to him he grinned and said light heartedly "I was just kidding. Honestly, mum," he added as she began to reprimand him.
"Well James, you take care now," she said and hugged him closely.
"Mother," he said crossly "You're embarrassing me,"
Lily thought that the boy named Remus, should be a bit more embarrassed as his mother was asking rather loudly if he had packed the adorable new underwear she had bought him, with the cute pattern of owls on it. It was fairly hard for Lily to suppress a giggle smile when Nina cut in to say that she had the same exact pair and was wearing it right at that moment. Finally the last goodbyes were said, and the boys parents tearfully left with Sirius's father still bellowing what he would do if Sirius tried any funny business.
"Um, do any of you know how to get platform nine and three quarters?" she asked.
"I'm guessing you're not magical born," the boy named Remus said smiling.
"Nope, I'm moggle-born," Lily anounced, feeling quite proud to use her first magical word and was surprised when all the boys burst out laughing. James fell on the ground and Sirius toppled over onto him, clutching his stomach as he let out the loudest laugh Lily ever heard.
"What's so funny?" Lily asked, wrinkling her nose in confusion.
"It's MUGGLE born," Nina said smugly. "Not moggle,"
Lily felt her face burn up. How could she be so stupid? She had read her books so many times she had practically memorized them. Finally Remus recovered long enough to squeak out "You have to walk through the barrier between platform nine and ten. Its enchanted,"
Feeling rather stupid, Lily saw the barrier was right in front of her. She stuck her nose up high in the air and then walked briskly towards it. She was almost through it when BANG! Lily bumped right into it and almost lost control of her trolley. People were staring her and James and the other boys were positively howling as they rolled on the floor. What did she do wrong now?
"That was the barrier between platform 8 and 9," she was informed by Nina. "This is the right one," she said pointing to it. Lily had never been more mortified in her life. She just wished the ground would open up right here and swallow up Nina and the others.
"Alright already," She snapped. "I made a mistake. It wasn't that funny,"
"Oh, but it was," James panted.
Lily just wanted to cry. She had never thought this day would turn out so bad. She had thought this would be one of the best of her life. But now, she was already thinking of asking her parents to let her come home. She had already met five magical people, each more horrible than the next and she was having a very disagreeable time.
"Well, are you coming or not? The train might leave with out us,"Nina asked, looking annoyed.
She took one last look at the muggle world, sighed and said "Wait up Nina, I'm coming," and ran after her through the barrier.
"Wow," she breathed, taking a look at her surroundings. But before she had any time to do anything else, she was pulled quite harshly by Nina who said "Come on! Do you want to get a seat or not?"
" I think you should calm down," Lily told her. " We're here already so there's no need to worry. We have time to do other things before the train leaves like, breathe, for one thing."
"Well, I'm sorry for trying to make sure that we got on the train all right. I don't understand why people are always telling me I worry too much. Just because I like to think about the ways something will go wrong, so they don't happen! But, fine, have it your way, "Nina said, as her eyes teared up.
Lily groaned. She really didn't feel like dealing with this now. "I'm sorry Nina. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings," She said, rolling her eyes inwardly.
"Well, I'm sure you didn't mean too, but they still were damaged. I'll see you later,". She ran off to join a group of girls at in the next compartment.
Lily sighed. Now what was she supposed to do? She went from compartment to compartment but they were all full. Finally she came to the last one. It was empty. Lily put her stuff down and sat down. She hadn't planned on sitting all alone. She had thought she would have made friends with someone by now.
"Sitting alone isn't soo bad," she said aloud as she opened her one of her school books. Its better than sitting with Ja-" She was interrupted as the door suddenly was slammed shut. Lily turned around to see who it was but before she could do that, she was pushed to the floor.
"Ouch,"she said as James rolled off her. She stared at him for a second and then cried angrily "What are you doing here, Potter?"
"Since when am I Potter?,"James asked.
"Is that some kind of sweet little nickname? Is Jamesy boy your pet?"
"Will you just cut it out?"
"Calm down, carrots. If you want to know the truth, as you probably saw, all the compartments are full. So we came to sit with you,".
"Nina's compartment wasn't,"Lily answered back. "And don't call me carrots. You dont see me calling you Coca-cola or something just because your hair is black."
"If you want to leave us so badly then why don't you join Nina? It seems to me like you were having bundles of joy with her, Miss Redhot"James said, ignoring her other remark.
"Did I not just tell you to cut that out?"
"You said to stop calling you carrots. You said nothing about redhot.How about strawberry shortcake?"
"That reminds me,"Sirius commented to noone in particular"I haven't eaten since breakfast! Don't we get something to eat? I'm hungry!"
"I am going to count to ten,"Lily said slowly, ignoring Sirius "If you don't shut up by then I will be forced to kill you,"
"OK,OK. How about Evans?"
"Well, its better than the other suggestions. Though I'd prefer you wouldn't call me anything. In fact, i would be delighted if you wouldn't talk to me at all!"
"Playing hard to get I see, Evans,"he said smoothly, sitting down besides her. Lily just glared at him and then opened her book to the first page.
"Aww, look at the two lovebirds,"said Remus.
"Isn't it sweet?"Sirius snickered."And it's just adorable the way they call each other by their special names,"
"Put a sock in it,"Lily cut in, rolling her eyes.
"Really Lily, you don't have to hide your feelings from me,"James added.
"I'm not listening,"Lily covered her ears and stared into her book.
"Now honey, its ok to have feelings for people. I promise not to take advantage of y-"
He was interrupted as Lily read aloud from her book "Dragons are dangerous creatures and can be found in various parts of the wor-"
James rolled his eyes and said "Why thank you, Proffesor but I think I know a little bit more about the magical world than you do. If I recall, didn't you just mispronounce the word muggle a few hours ago, which is one of the most commonly used words in any wizarding household?"
"You're never going to let that go, are you,"Lily stated angrily.
"Wouldn't dream of it,"He answered.
"You're horrid,"
"Coming from you, that's a compliment,"he shot back.
"Really now, I think we should break this little lover's quarrel up now before it gets out of hand,"Sirius declared.
"I think this is highly entertaining,"Remus said looking back and forth at Lily and James, with a look of avid interest upon his face.
"Well, I think its highly dangerous, and slightly murderous.Come on guys, break it up,"Sirius tried to get their attention, but with no avail. The door opened and the food cart came rolling in with a plump, merry woman wheeling it.
"First years?"She asked smiling."Any of you mu-"
She didn't get to finish her sentence because right at that moment, she and her cart were sent rolling back as Sirius came, running a little too enthusiastically, and bumped into the cart. Candy fell all over the place.
"Food," gasped Sirius.
"Lemme at it,"James cried as he jumped over the table and crashed into Sirius.
"JERK,"Sirius exclaimed through mouthfuls of unpaid candy.
Meanwhile Peter and Remus were engrossed in a competition as to who would reach the beloved food cart first. The woman's merry face was screwed up into a rather angry one.
"What are you doing,"She yelled, smacking Sirius's hand with a chocolate frog."You didn't pay for that yet!"
She tried to push James away as he grabbed as many every flavor bean bags as he could."Are you mad? Have you never seen food before?"
She made a run for the door and left, slamming the door behind her.
"Come back,"cried Remus"I didnt get anything yet,"He looked angrily at Peter"It's all your fault,"
"My fault?!,"Peter cried angrily. And they were off again.
Lily glared at Sirius "Well maybe if you would have acted a little more, whats it called again?oh yeah, NORMAL,then she wouldn't have left like that. Now I didn't get anything,"
"Cheer up,"James said "have a bertie bott's bag. They're great,"
"You probably hexed it,"Lily muttered.
"Come on, take it. You know you want too," he teased.
Lily rolled her eyes at him, and reluctantly held out her hand. He handed her a bag, and she stared at it suspiciously. After all, she hadn't been too nice to him, so why would he all of a sudden be giving her bags of candy? There had to be something behind it.
" So, what's the catch?," she asked him.
"There is none. Come on, do I really look like someone who'd do that?"He looked at her, smiling innocently. She glared at him, and he added quickly "Honestly, there is none,"
Lily gingerly opened it and looked inside. "Jellybeans,"She said, feeling a bit disappointed. She had hoped that there would be new candy in the wizarding world. But this just looked like any normal jelly bean bag she could have gotten from any muggle store. She popped a pink one into her mouth. It was bubble gum 'No surprise there,' She thought wryly.
She took a handful and stuffed it into her mouth. 'Yum, these are pretty good,'. She looked at James and the rest of the boys and found them staring at her as if she was doing something utterly strange.
"What,"She said feeling perturbed.
"Nothing,"James said leaning back,"You're in for a surprise though."
She just stared at him for a few more second and then took out another one out of the bag. This one looked weird. It was a sort of pale yellow with dark green splotches on it. It looked a bit moldy, but she put it into her mouth anyway. The second she chewed she knew it had been a mistake. She had never tasted something more horrible in her life.
The boys began to laugh hysterically at the look on her face. She spit the bean out and began to cough uncontrollably.
"What is this,"she cried, thrusting the mushed jelly bean in James face. He began to laugh even harder after he looked at it and fell on top of her. She pushed him off and glared until he stopped.
"Told you,"he said panting slightly."It's called Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and it means every flavor. And it looks to me," he took a closer look at it and began to laugh again "f,f,Fungus foot,".
That was when she resolved never ever to open another bag of jelly beans in her life
********End Flashback (FINALLY!!!!)
"How could I forget,"Lily said angrily, as all the memories rushed back to her."My first day at Hogwarts was oh, so horribly ruined thanks to YOU,"
Of course Hogwarts hadn't been so bad and she had ncver ended up sending her parents an owl to come home. She had met Annie, Lynn, and Joy later that day. But still, she would never forget how horrible the train ride up had been. Especially since she had James to remind her, which he did, at every chance he had.
James continued laughing, making Lily burn with uncontrollable anger, Not even thinking straight she pulled out her wand and turned him into........................................................................ ............................................................................ ................................. a jelly bean. A James jelly bean. She smiled triumphantly at the spot where James would have been and looked down at where James the jelly bean was rolling around.
"Oh my G-D!," she heard Lynn cry "Lily, what the h*ll did you do with him?"
"Oh he's right here,"she answered bemusedly "right in front of you," Lynn and all the others looked down at the spot where Lily was pointing to.
"Lily, you didn't," Annie burst out, her eyes wide.
"Oh I did. And I think I'll be keeping him that way for QUITE a while, thank you very much,".
"You have to admit James, this is pretty funny,"Sirius said snickering. The jellybean rolled over to Sirius and began to try to push him over. "Prongs, you're gonna have to try a little harder,"
"Why, I can just eat him up," Remus declared laughing.
"Lils, I hate to break it to you, but he can't stay that way forever,"Joy raised her eyebrow at Lily.
"Why not?"Lily said rebelliously.
"For one thing, professor McGonagall would KILL you," Joy started.
"For another, we're here!!!!"cried Sirius happily.
"Oh well," Lily said sadly. "It was fun while it lasted, Back you go James,".
With another swish of her wand the blackhaired boy was back, looking pretty angry though. Lily just smiled sweetly at him, and then holding her head high, walked out of the compartment, and onto the grounds of Hogwarts.
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FINALLY!!!that took 4ever. R/R!!!!!!!!!!!!!11