The Great Hall was full of people talking and laughing, stuffing their faces with food, gossiping, and it also contained one Lily Evans who had her face flat on the table. A table covered with letters while more rained down on top of her head. Quickly her head became buried under all the letters and Alexandria reached over and brushed them off.
"Lily? I know you're not in the best of moods but suffocating yourself under letters isn't the best course of action." Jennifer nodded, agreeing. "Come on, we have our share of letters too and you don't see us acting like you…." Lily mumbled something that they couldn't quite hear so they leaned forward.
"What?"
"I said that you didn't wake up due to the help of a bucket of icy water, you didn't suffer slipping on the puddle of water that dripped from the wet bed, therefore banging your head on the bed post, you didn't get up to realize you had five minutes to get down here, and you didn't have to rush around trying to get ready in time because in all the confusion and pain you forgot that you knew magic! Then you come in here, looking forward to a nice breakfast when even before you sit down, you're bombarded by owls which you can't even hex because it's not their fault their owners are stupid and inconsiderate! Plus, you didn't get drenched last night as well as this morning and have a traitor friend help!" She glared at Jennifer at that part who just mumbled that just because she helped out last night didn't mean she couldn't tease her the next day. Then Lily let out all her breath in one big sigh and then brightened.
"So, now that I got that off my chest, I think it's time to dish out a little revenge on the two very certain people that enchanted that bucket of water." Immediately her two friends looked scared. Lily wasn't the unofficial leader of the Prowlers for nothing. Waving her wand, Lily muttered a few quick words and then beamed at her friends.
"Since the offense wasn't too big, I went easy on you." Jennifer summoned a mirror hurriedly and she and Alexandria peered into it anxiously.
"Oh no," they said in unison. "This is going easy on us?"
Their hair was bright forest green ("Compliments my eyes don't you think?") but their eyes were the same if you left out the minor detail that they had white hypnotic swirls in them. The evil girl smiled.
"Don't worry, since you are my friends," here she muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, 'though you hardly act like it'; "I charmed you so it disappears after breakfast."
Jennifer sighed in relief but Alexandria had other ideas. She was reaching for her wand when Lily called out with her back against her, "Oh and by the way Alex? Don't bother trying to reverse it, it won't work." She scowled as she put her wand away. "Fine, fine."
"So," Jennifer said with mock cheerfulness, "what are we going to do with these letters now that the owls stopped coming? I was thinking of burning them." Lily shook her head. "No, there's too many, if we did that, the fire would be a bonfire, therefore dangerous." Alexandria looked at the mountain of letters thoughtfully. "Why don't we banish them?" The other two girls looked at her in surprise and then considered her idea.
"Why not," said Lily. Taking her wand, she swished it over the pile. In a split second they were gone. I wonder where they went, she thought.
"Okay, now that's taken care of, let's go to class, what do we have first?" Jennifer looked at their schedule. "Uh……we have Transfiguration first." Immediately she smiled. It was her favorite subject after all.
"Now remember Jen, transfiguring the teacher is a big no-no." Jennifer scowled at the laughing Alexandria and Lily but then burst out laughing too. Still laughing, the three made their way to class. Meanwhile…
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A herd of cows were grazing peacefully in the country side when suddenly, a loud pop! sounded. An enormous pile of letters appeared on the ground, nearly burying a cow. The cows slowly glanced at the pile and then resumed grazing.
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James lazily flicked his wand at the frog on his desk, effectively transforming it into a snitch. Before it could fly away, he undid the spell. Then he redid it. Frog, snitch, frog, snitch, frog, snitch, over and over again. Yawning as he scanned the classroom, his gaze fell on a certain struggling redhead. She was unsuccessfully trying to transform a mouse into a quill. Her oriental friend on the other hand was transforming her cat by giving it little fairy wings, talons, and floppy dog ears. The feline hissed reproachfully at her. Shrugging, she took the spells off and transformed it into a mouse which scandalized the cat. From there she transformed it into a quill, irritating her struggling friend. The blond looked on amusedly, a teacup that formerly was a bird on her desk. It had taken her three tries. Obviously that girl, err…..Jenny or something was the best in their little group. Maybe she could rival even him. He thought on that for a second……nah.
Sirius prodded him in the sides with his wand.
"Hey Prongs, take a look at that." He gestured to his desk. On top of it was a little sculpture of a Grim-like dog. James snorted. Gee, I wonder who it's supposed to be? "What was it?"
"Err….I think it was a mouse."
"Oh. Neat, it looks like a certain 'dog' if I do say so myself."
"Thanks. Anyways, what do you think of the new kids, 'specially the girls. Man, for some of them, all I have to say is that Hogwarts sure doesn't make 'em like that!"
"Mm, have an eye on any of them in particular?"
"Yeah, I think I'm gonna go for that brown headed girl right there, next to the door."
"Not a bad choice, I mean, she's easy on the eyes for sure."
Getting up, Sirius rubbed his hands together and grinned. "Watch as the famous Black charm does its magic Jamie-boy. Watch and you might learn a thing or two." As James looked on interestedly, his best friend rose and went up to the girl. He smiled his trademark grin at her and struck up a conversation. From time to time he would make her laugh. After exactly 27.3 seconds (James was timing him), Sirius draped his arm over the girl's shoulder and steered her over to their table.
"James, meet Mindy the brown haired goddess. Mindy dear, meet James." Politely James extended a hand to the blushing Mindy, mouthing to Sirius over her shoulder, 'nice, not bad for you '. Sirius just looked pleased.
The rest of Transfiguration flew by in a blur as the two boys chatted with Mindy, or at least James tried to talk while Sirius and Mindy flirted.
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"Phew!"
Lily collapsed onto the red and gold stripped armchair in the Gryffindor common room. It was evening now and the three girls were exhausted after their first day of classes at Hogwarts. Between struggling to find the classrooms, getting lost, dealing with admirers, and picking out potential prank targets, the girls had used up all their energy.
Jennifer and Alexandria flopped down on either side of Lily. Said person groaned.
"Ohhh, I don't think I can handle this, I think I'll just drop out." Alexandria replied to that comment without even opening her eyes.
"Lils, you say that every year on every first day during every first evening and yet you never do it. It's just that we're not used to this yet because we've been slacking all summer." Lily moaned.
"But they gave us homework! On the first day!" She opened her eyes and looked at Jennifer.
"Oh Jen- Jen…"
"No, I refuse to stay up till 2 o'clock helping you do your Transfiguration essay. Lily, one day I won't be here and who'd help you then?" Lily shrugged.
"I dunno, some random smart person? Anyways, you wouldn't want me to fail now do you?"
"Maybe."
"Jennifer! How could you ever say such a thing!"
"By saying it."
"You know what I mean!"
"Do I?"
"PLEASE! I'm begging you I'm hopeless without you!"
"Okay, okay fine. You're lucky I'm so nice," she grumbled.
"Thank you!"
"….Sure."
Getting up at last, the Prowlers headed up to their dorm, dreading one of the most horrible things in the world. Homework.
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Did you notice my attempts to make the chapters longer? If you guys are waiting for pranks, don't worry, there should be some in the next chapter or two. Remember, review!