Chapter 2
Don't know, don't care, own nothing. Don't presume to. This really depresses us.
Lily stormed out of the train and stamped down the platform to the luggage compartment, shoving past first, second and third years to yank her luggage out and drag it along to the carriages. She threw it in the back, climbed in and collapsed in a sulk by the window.
"Only one person in the world can possibly have provoked this reaction in the usually calm and composed Lily Evans." Lily looked up and glared at Maddy.
"If you even mention his name I will personally see to it that you do not sleep at all for the first term, moreover I will humiliate and destroy you. Publicly."
At that moment Paige climbed into the carriage, took one look at Lily's face and the terror on Maddy's and burst out laughing. "What did James say this time Lily?"
Lily let out a cross between a scream and a howl and buried her face in her arms.
"Ooookay." Paige surrendered her arms and took her place, and they spent the rest of the journey in silence, with Maddy and Paige communicating in eyebrow and with other significant looks.
What did James do?
This time? Apart from being born?
We've definatly started school.
Again.
Meanwhile, James climbed into the carriage clutching the side of his face. Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Okay this time I actually don't know what I did."
"You asked her out again didn't you?" said Remus not looking up from his book.
"Why does she keep saying no? You'd think she'd be flattered!" Remus sighed and put down his book.
"Prongs my friend."
"Yes Moony?"
"You are a sweet and loving guy…"
"I know!"
"Who is kind and thoughtful and loving and has his pick of about all the girls in Hogwarts…"
"I know, she's crazy, she's immune to my charm!"
"You are also one of the most conceited, arrogant pricks I know, and unfortunately that is the only side that you seem to be capable to show Lily so is it really any wonder that she DOESN"T LIKE YOU?"
"She just doesn't know me!"
The Marauders all cried out in despair. Sirius tried. "Mate, she doesn't like you. Move on."
"I don't wanna move on."
"Look, I didn't want to have to say this, but you are not going to get any, and I mean any if you keep on chasing a girl that doesn't like you. And at our age sex deprivation is just not healthy."
"Alarming but true Sirius," interjected Peter, "Alarming but true."
"At this rate, Peter's going to get more than you, and do you really think that you're reputation can suffer a blow like that? Winning most sexy male in Hogwarts just isn't the same if YOU DON"T EVEN TRY and compete."
Sirius grabbed James by the shoulders and shook him. This combined with the shaking of the carriage turned James a rather delicate shade of green.
"So James," said Peter when they'd pried Sirius off him. "Are you going to try and get a girlfriend this year?"
"Not just a girlfriend my dear Wormtail, THE girlfriend."
Sirius cried out in despair and buried his face in his arms. Remus sighed again.
"Have you actually listened to a word we've said to you?"
"Heard but didn't listen Moony my man, heard but didn't listen."
The Great Hall was packed by the time they'd unloaded the carriages and entered Hogwarts the building. The surprisingly nice weather was mirrored in the bewitched ceiling casting a twilighty glow over the tables.
To her horror, Lily saw that the only space was next to the Marauders. She let out a whimper, which was overheard by Ella Roberts, a tall brunette with a nice if slightly bookish personality and a fellow prefect. She raised her eyebrow in a sympathetic gesture and the two of them made there way over to the boys.
"Hey Remus" said Lily as she pointedly ignored James and Sirius, "What have we missed?"
"You missed the sorting but nothing major, hey Ella."
"Hey Wolf boy how's it going? Am I the only one who hates that Hat's incessant songs about "Unite or Die"-" she stopped when she realised all the Marauders were staring at her. "Okay what did I say?"
"Interesting choice of nickname Ella."
"Ella's my real name Sirius."
"No, Wolf boy, as a name for Remus…?"
"Not really, Remus, Romulus and Remus, raised by wolves, the legendary founders of Rome? Lupin, lupus, Latin for Wolf? Any takers, no, obviously you don't know what I'm talking about, so I'm going to talk to Lily now…" Her voice trailed off.
"This is going to be a long year, I can tell." muttered Remus before returning his attention to where it belonged. The food.
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