The following morning it took her a while to remember where she was again. She looked around her, the velvet drapes around her bed, the five other beds, her friends and classmates. It slowly dawned on her that she was in Hogwarts, and she was starting classes today. She got out of bed, showered, and dug up some clothes. Her skirts were too short in her own opinion, but at least Catherine's were shorter. She pulled on her clothes and went to wake up her friends. Catherine needed a few pushes until she was up, very grumpily though, muttering something about unholy hours. Anna ofcourse was already out of bed and neatly packing her schoolbag.
The three of them made their way down to the great hall for some breakfast and bumped into three, very sleepy, very grumpy Marauders.
"Is it just me, Cat, or are your skirts just getting shorter and shorter every year?" Sirius asked her, bending down a bit to examine. "Is it just me, Sirius, or are you getting more and more perverted every year?" Cat shot back, tugging at her skirt trying to pull it down a bit. "You know it," Sirius replied with a big grin on his face, then turned on his heel and ran off ahead of them. A few seconds later, when the gang cought up to him he was already chatting to a few girls, who looked like they were in 6th year, but Lily guessed they were in 4th. The girls were giggling and twirling their hair, and James seemed mildly interested and sidled over to Sirius. They soon had a date each for saturday night and sat back down with the gang, gloating over their "victory".
Lily had always hated the way they talked to girls, maybe because she already knew the way they talked ABOUT girls. She knew she was fighting a lost battle, but the words were out before she could stop them. "Oh, wow, really challenging that, getting some 14 year olds to go out with you." "They weren't 14, were they Padfoot?" James questioned his friend. Lily knew it wouldnt make a difference though, because James would still go. "Meh, I wasn't really paying attention to what they said, 4th year, 3d year, whats the difference, eh Prongs?" Lily couldn't believe them, they were so...annoying. "As much as it grieves me to say this, you guys can get almost any girl you want in this school, and I just can't see how it can be very satisfying to chat up some girl that you're obviously not going out with to get to know her." Sirius' face lit up as he pointed out the obvious to Lily. "I've found most of the girls Ive gone out with to be very satisfying actually." "You disgust me." Here, the rest of the gang cut in and stopped them before they begun. It was time for class, potions to be more exact, and they did not want to be late.
They made their way down to the dungeons and found a very excited Professor Slughorn inside. He was already going on about some potion they were supposed to be making and hardly even noticed them come in. Or at least, pretended he hadn't noticed them. They quickly paired up and sat down and started their first lesson. Lily was very good in potions,and had already learned the one he was teaching everybody so while he was giving instructions, she let her eyes wander around the classroom. Neither Snape nor Malfoy had suffered some horrible accident or died, sadly, and neither had any of Malfoys minions. She could see that alot of the students were dozing off, not really paying attention or just plain talking to other people.
All of a sudden she noticed a tall, blonde guy sitting in one of the corners. He had no partner, and was, if anything, a bit bored really. She didn't think she had seen him before and wondered who he was. All of a sudden he looked straight at her. He gave her a small smile and a wave. Just as she was about to return the favor, Remus poked her in the ribs. "Professor Slughorn asked you a question Lily," he hissed. She turned around and answered the question, after an embarrassing moment of having to ask him to repeat the question, and while Slughorn went on with his "Excellent dear, very good, you are so smart"-speech she turned back to the blonde guy, slightly embarrassed for having made an idiot out of herself in front of him. But there was no-one there. The blonde guy had disappeared.