I am so sorry it took so long my computer crashed on me and i lost everything in my computer including the completed chapter 3 and half completed chapters 4 though 7. I even lost the bloody internet! And it's a miricle that fanfiction is now letting me update, so thank heavens for that. I did however change this chapter a bit i added more detail so please review and tell me what you think. and a major plus is it's a lovely 8 pages long in word perfect.!

I saw Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire today! it is so awesome! so go see it everyone! although I think the merpeople were creepy looking...and I absolutely died laughing during the whole bath scene with Moaning Myrtle and Herminone's explanation of Viktor Krum being more 'physical' then wanting to talk. LOL, any way ignore my pointless rambling and get on with the story!

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Deplorable Beginnings to Happier Ending s Chapter 2

"Back to the Drama of Hogwarts"

(A/N: Page 204-207, 'The Sorting Hat's New Song', Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, Book 5)

:DISCLAIMER:

I own nothing all these lovely characters belong to JK Rowling. I do however own the plot, Serenity Hugoi, Allie Anderson, Madame Hatch, Professor Budding, Professor Nalich, Chiloe Abbot, Nicklaus Zen, Matt Oliver and Lyra Derobee.

"Imaginary" Evanescence

Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos- your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape

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Lily Serenity and Allie quickly took their seats at the Gryffindor table. A few tables towards the center of the room sat the first years. The looked very nervous and kept glancing around. A few looked as if they would faint, either that or jump out of their skin. After a few minutes of noisy chatter the headmaster stood.

Professor Dumbledore was a tall older man with lengthy silver beard and hair covered by a cap. He wore half moon spectacles that perched on his long crooked nose. He has

twinkling blue eyes that were complemented nicely by his robes.

"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I am your headmaster Albus Dumbledore. To those who are new 'Welcome' to those that are coming back 'Welcome back'. I hope this year you will all learn a great deal from our teachers. Let me introduce them, Professor Slughorn our potions teacher, Madame Hatch our flying instructor, Professor Flitwick our charms teacher, Professor McGonagall our transfiguration teacher, Professor Budding our herbology teacher, Professor Nalich our defense against the dark arts teacher,..." the list went on and on. Each teacher stood up and nodded to the applauding students.

"A reminder to those the Forbidden Forest is off limits to those who do not wish to die a horrifying death. The room one the 9th floor corridor is still off limits so is Hogsmeade until our head boy and head girl plan the days for trips." he stopped briefly to clear his throat.

"Now I would like to introduce our Head Boy, James Potter and Head Girl Lily Evans, please stand and recognized" he said his eyes twinkling. The hall shook with clapping and yelling. James stood up and winked at a few girls that blew kisses at him.

Lily stood up and smiled shyly. Allie poked her and Lily laughed showing her genuine smile. Dumbledore held up and hand silencing the hall in seconds. He cleared his throat once more and said,

"Ms. Evans, Mr. Potter would you both kindly meet me after the feast? I would like to start our year with a meeting."

He added,

"Now let's start the sorting"

Professor McGonagall stood up, set a stood in the front of the hall and placed an old patched hat upon it. A large rip in the front opened as the hat began to sing,

"In times of old when I was new

And Hogwarts barely started

The founders of our noble school

Thought never to be parted;

United by a common goal,

They had the selfsame yearning,

To make the world's best magic school

And pass along their learning.

"Together we will build and teach!"

The four good friends decided

And never did they dream that they

Might someday be divided,

For which there such friends anywhere

As Slytherin and Gryffindor?

Unless it was the second pair

Of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?

So how could it have gone so wrong?

How could such friendship fail?

Why, I was there and so can tell

The sad, sorry tale.

Said Slytherin, "We''l teach just those

Whose ancestry is purest."

Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose

Intelligence is surest."

Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those

With brave deeds ro their name,"

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot

And teach them just the same."

These differences caused little strife

When they first came to light,

For each of the four founders had

A House in which they might

Take only they wanted, so,

For instance Slytherin

Took only pure-blooded wizards

Pf great cunning, just like him,

And only those of sharpest mind

Were taught by Ravenclaw

Whole the bravest and the boldest

Went to daring Gryffindor.

Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest,

And taught them all she knew,

Thus the Houses and their founders

Retained friendships firm and true.

So Hogwarts worked in harmony

For several happy years,

But then discord crept among us

Feeding on our faults and fears.

The Hoses that, like pillars four,

Had once held up our school,

Now turned upon each other and,

Divided, sought to rule.

And for a while it seemed the school

Must meet an early end,

What with dueling and fighting

And the clash of friend on friend

And at last there came a morning

When old Slytherin departed

And though the fighting then died out

He left us quite downhearted,

And never since the founders four

Were whittled down to three

Have the houses been united

As the once were meant to be.

And not the Sorting Hat is here

And you all know the score:

I sort you into Houses

Because that is what I'm for,

But this year I'll go further,

Listen closely to my song:

Thought condemned I am to split you

Still I worry that it's wrong,

Though I must fulfill my duty

And must quarter every year

Still I wonder whether sorting

May not bring the end I fear.

Oh, know the perils, read the signs,

The warning history shows,

For our Hogwarts is in danger

From external, deadly foes

And we must unite inside her

Or we'll crumble from within

I have told you, I have warned you. . .

Let the Sorting now begin.

"Abbot, Chiloe" called out Professor McGonagall from the staff table. The girl with the brown pigtails from the train stepped up. She looked extremely nervous as she sat on the stool, Professor McGonagall dropped the Sorting Hat on her head and it slid over her eyes. Quite giggles were heard here and there. After a few minutes of hushed murmuring from the Sorting Hat, it shouted,

"Hufflepuff!" Applause boomed from the Hufflepuff table as Chiloe stumbled to the table, looking very relieved. What seemed like hours later Zen, Nicklaus was sorted into Ravenclaw. Dumbledore was on his feet again

"Now since we are all simply famished let the feast begin" As soon as the last words fell from his mouth the empty platters, goblets, and dishes filled. The talking slowly began to rise as the students filled their plates with food. After the feast was over Dumbledore called James and Lily aside to speak with them.

"Ms. Evans, Mr. Potter I would like you two to help me welcome our newest transfer student from Beauxbatons (sp?) This is Lyra Derobee and she is in Gryffindor" Dumbledore said stepping aside so they could see her.

Lyra Derobee was a startling beautiful girl, she has an very curly, very long light reddish blonde hair. Her light brown eyes shone beautifully against her tanned skin.

"Pleased to meet you" said Lyra as she inclined her head. She spoke with a French accent.

"I 'am so excited to be 'er with you all" she said with a huge smile. Lily smiled back while James gave her a grin his hand coming up to ruffle his hair. Lily rolled her eyes at him.

"Oh and Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans I almost forgot to tell you. The head boy and girl will be sharing a dorm, with your own bedrooms of course. It is a tradition at this school to have you two be on good terms. Your password for the moment is Nargals, but that can be changed, it's on the 6th floor corridor behind the pictures of the Swan Princess and Gallant Knight. Goodnight." He added and with a wave of his hand went off.

Lyra stood there smiling away as Lily and James stood in shock, James was in delight that he would be practically living with Lily now and she was enraged.

"Lyra please follow me I'll take you to the Gryffindor common room before I turn in fo the night" Lily said guiding her along. James followed throwing a wink at the girls from time to time.

Sometime later...

Lily and James stood in front of the portraits. She took a deep breath and muttered 'nargals'. The large portrait swung open and they climbed inside. The first room they went into was the common room. The common room was huge and had plush peach coloured carpet and stone walls, in one corner stood a few book shelves with a dozen books on each shelf. Their school bags sat on the small table in the middle of the room, four chairs were around the table. There was a deep red loveseat and matching couch by the fire place in the opposite end of the room. Above the fireplace hung all four crests of the houses.

On each end of the common room there was a door, the one to the left had 'Lily Evans, Head Girl' on the door in gold letters, and the one to the left had 'James Potter, Head Boy' in the same gold letters.

Lily's room was decorated perfectly. She had a smooth tile floor and lavender sponged walls. A queen sized bed fitted with black sheets and pillows, and a hot pink comforter lay in the center of the room. It had a hot pink canopy hanging from the banister. On each side of the bed was a small end table and at the foot of the bed was her trunk and the pet carrier containing Romeo. He meowed happily at seeing her, Lily smiled and let him out. He rubbed against her leg and her eyes caught a lovely painting of a midnight beach scene. Lily had an prominent amour and even a small balcony.

James opened his door revealing his room. It had the same shiny tile as Lily's and white walls. A queen sized bed was in the right corner of the room, it was complete with dark green comforter and light green pillows and sheets. A dark green curtain hung from his bed's banister.

They each spotted another door in the back of the their rooms and went in. It was an epochal bathroom with a grande bathtub and shower, 3 sinks were on the marble counter below a long mirror. Lily saw James come in and headed towards the common room.

Lily went back into the common room and sat on the couch gazing around, a few moments later James came in and sat on the love seat across from her. There was a long awkward silence. It went on and on until Lily felt as if she would scream if someone didn't say something.

"So...this is a nice place" James said breaking the silence.

"Yeah it is..." Lily said very unsure. This was one of the most civilized conversation they have, ever.

James stood up and went over to the book case, he browsed it for a short while before pulling out a book.

"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?" he asked holding up the book. Lily's eyes lit up as she pulled the book from his hands.

"You've never heard of it? Well it's a muggle play, it's my favourite one" she said smiling.

"What's it about?" James asked.

"It's about these two families, the Montague's and the Capulet's, they are sworn enemies. They all live in the small city of Verona. Romeo is the son of Lord Montague and Juliet is the daughter of Lord Capulet. Well long story short Romeo sneaks into a party the Capulets are having, there he spots Juliet and falls in love with her the instant he lays eyes on her. Juliet does not know who he is until after she has fallen in love with him too. They sneak off together and-"

"Then why is it a tragedy?" he asked cutting Lily off.

"I'm not finished!" she cried. If there was anything she hated more than Slytherins it was people interrupting her when she was speaking.

"Go on then" he said obviously irritated with her shouting at him.

"You know what? You can just read it yourself! If your going to act like that!" Lily shouted.

"Fine then. I didn't want to read it, it's probably a rubbish play anyway!" he said loudly. Lily stomped out and into her room.

Lily, Serenity and Allie were all sitting in the Gryffindor common room talking and laughing.

"Bonjour gossie!" called our Lyra happily. Lily, Serenity and Allie looked up clearly confused.

Lyra let out a giggle,

"I said hello girlie. I'm terri-blee so-ree but when I 'am excited I speak in french."

"Oh it's alright" said Serenity smiling. She pulled out her wand, 12 ½ inches, Hawthorne with a Phoenix feather core. Muttering a few words she levitated her quill in sheer boredom.

"What do you 'ave for classes today? I 'ave 'erbology, potions, trans-fig-ur-ation, and charms"

"Oh you are in two of my classes, Potions and Transfiguration." Lily said.

"Well I have Herbology and Transfiguration with you" said Serenity spinning the quill.

"Only Transfiguration with me" Allie mumbled twisting a lock of hair around her wand. Her hair was curled. Her wand is 13 ½ inches, Willow with a Dragon Scale core.

"Oooh! It is so pretty! Can you show me how to do it?" asked Lyra smiling.

"Uh yeah sure" and for the next 10 minutes Allie taught Lyra how to curl her hair with her wand.

The first class of the day was Transfiguration, a horrid way to start the day in Lily's opinion. She was terrible at transfiguration and her friends knew it.

"Mutatio!" she cried flicking her wrist at the frog. The frog turned purple and swelled up. Lily shrieked in surprise as the frog popped. This was the fourth one that had burst.

Professor McGonagall walked up and muttered something in coherent.

"Ms. Evans , perhaps you should find a tutor, so you can pas your N.E.W.T.'s" McGonagall said sternly, conjuring another frog.

"Mr. Potter, would you be kind enough to aide Ms. Evans in her attempts?"

James's head shot up as he nodded.

"Then it's settled, Mr. Potter you will be tutoring Ms. Evans for the next month, Monday's, Wendsday's and Friday's" she said jotting down the plan in her planner.

"B-but professor! Three days a week for a month seems a bit extreme!" Lily protested.

James however looked quite pleased that they would be spending a great deal of time together

"That's nonsense you need a tutor, you blew up four frogs in an attempt to merely transform it into a teacup" said McGonagall running a hand over her face.

"Your lessons will start today after dinner until about 9 or 10" she added walking off.

Lily sat there in shock.

She looked around the room to find Allie flirting mercifully with a fellow 7th year Gryffindor named Matt Oliver. He was her type too, blonde hair, blue eyes. Lily thought to herself. She winced inwardly,

"Blue eyes... never trust blue eyed men" she thought remembering her mothers statement. Serenity sat to her right doodling on a scrap piece of parchment. Lily looked behind her to find James whispering with Sirius and Remus, Peter was nowhere in sight. James caught her stare and looked up giving her a wink. She rolled her eyes and turned back around.

After class Allie practically ran up to Lily.

"Oh my god...Matt Oliver just asked me out!" she cried with a loud giggle.

"Brilliant! I'm so happy for you" muttered Lily with a smile.

"When is the next Hogsmeade trip?" she asked her brown eyes lighting up with excitement.

"Uh...well we haven't planned it yet" Lily said awkwardly. Allie's face fell.

"Hey what's going on?" asked Serenity pushing a lock of black and red hair behind her ear.

"Hey Serenity, Allie was just telling me-"

"I'm going out with Matt!" she cried interrupting Lily.

"You are? Good choice Matt is ver-ree 'andsome" said Lyra coming up behind them.

"Lyra! You scared me" cried Allie jumping in surprise. Lyra giggled happily.

"Allie is going out with Matt, how is that so...she just met him..." Serenity thought sadly.

"Serenity? 'Ello? We 'ar going to leave you behind" called Lyra. Lily, Allie and her were almost out of McGonagall's classroom.

"Oh yeah I'm coming" she called catching up to them. The group of girls walked slowly to their next class talking about Lily's new tutor.

"I can't believe your spending time with James alone" laughed Allie flipping her hair over her shoulder.

Matt came up behind Allie and threw his arms around her shoulders, Allie flashed him a dazzling smile and leaned up against him as they walked. Serenity tightened her hold on her bag, wishing she wasn't there. Wishing they weren't happy wishing they would just disappear... A strange feeling in the pit of her stomach bubbled up, she pushed it back down and tried to ignore them.

Lily smiled at Allie and Matt, she was used to having Allie hang on some guy all the time. Allie always had a boyfriend, Lily had one once in a while but she never really needed someone to keep her happy.

"Although" she thought suddenly, "It would be nice to have someone to hug like that"

"Allie! How could you even suggest that! First of all he's James Potter, eww! And second I never agreed to this, I have no choice!" Lily cried causing a few people to look strangely at her.

"Calm down Lily I was only joking, even you have to admit he's not that bad looking" laughed Allie winking at her.

Lily threw her hands into the air and cried out in exasperation.

"Oh! Before I forget I need to get to ze Library and pick up a book for 'erbology" said Lyra running a hand though her long reddish-blonde hair. She blew them kisses and left for the library.

"Sweet girl but she's so odd" remarked Allie smirking.

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"Oh it is so dark in zis place" she muttered weaving her way though the tables. Lyra found the section she needed and started scanning the books. She took small steps to her left not taking her eyes off the dusty book spines.

"Oof!" she cried as someone bumped into her and she fell over.

"I'm sorry are you alright?" a male voice asked. A hand stretched down to her offering her help. Lyra took it and finally saw the person. She took a sharp intake of breath when her eyes met soft blue ones.

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So here's chapter 2 finally fanfiction is letting me update. please review!

always,

Belle