Chapter 3: Learning the ropes
"Wake up Jess!"
Someone groaned.
"Jess come on"
Elle walked out of the bathroom to find fellow dorm mate, Monica bent over another dorm mate Jessica, hopelessly trying to wake her.
"Jessica please wake up" Monica pleaded.
"Do you want a hand?" Elle asked
"Yeah that'd be good" Monica replied
Elle pulled out her wand and flicked it at Jessica. A fountain of water fell from it, drenching Jess and the bed around her. She sat up and screamed.
"Why did you do that?" she yelled
"You were asleep and running late, I can fix it with a drying spell if you want?"
"Yes of course I want you to do that" Jess half yelled slightly exasperated.
Elle performed a drying spell on Jess and her bed as she went to have a shower and Monica packed Jess' books.
Elle entered the great hall and sat down to eat breakfast with Lily. As they were eating, Professor McGonagall came over to them and handed them their timetables
"Good morning ladies" She said, and she walked off to hand out more timetables.
"Hey Elle" Monica sat down near her and started to speak
"Mmmhmm" Elle mumbled, as she swallowed a bite of toast.
"Do you often wake people up like that?" She asked
"What, oh yeah, I used to do that to my brother when he wouldn't wake up" Elle answered, going quiet at the end.
Lily chuckled. "Merlin knows how many people need people to do that to them"
"You can talk, Lily" Monica joked
"I admit I can sleep in, but so do many others"
"Examples"
"Well Potter and Black, I know Remus is often the first thing they see in the morning,"
"Yes, true Remus is their morning angel" she said sarcastically
"I know who Potter wishes would wake him up"
"Monica" Lily screamed
Monica erupted into a fit of giggles. Elle was still quiet.
"Hey Elle are you ok?" Lily asked when Monica had turned away to talk to Jess.
"What, oh yeah, yeah I'm fine" Elle answered, blinking a few times, bringing herself back to reality.
"You looked like you were off with the fairies" Lily said
"Huh?" Elle asked, looking confused
"You were all distant and spaced out and stuff" Lily said
"I was just thinking" Elle said, and she finished off her toast and stood up to head off to class.
Their first day went smoothly. Elle met some of her teachers and Lily helped her out when she had any trouble. Lunch went by uneventful. Their last class for the day was potions and that was where there was some trouble. Their potions teacher- Professor Wilks – had decided to assign them partners for when they actually brewed potions and, some people weren't to happy with the pairings.
Lily had been paired with James Potter, and she wasn't very happy. Monica had been assigned to Remus Lupin, and Jess to a fellow Gryffindor, Adam Feeche. Elle didn't have any problems with her partner – Sirius Black – at the moment.
At dinner that night the conversation of the group was mainly about their potions lesson.
"I can believe he did that, why did I have to be paired with him" Lily said exasperated.
"Oh come on Lily, give him a chance," Remus said
"Yeah, maybe James will actually help me with the work" Lily muttered darkly
"Oh come on, give him a break will you" Sirius said, with his mouth half full of food. He swallowed then continued "I'm happy with my partner"
Remus rolled his eyes.
"You're happy because you like Elle, Remus told me last night you were talking about her in your sleep," James said
"SHUT UP" Sirius punched James in the shoulder "I'm happy to be with her, because hopefully, she'll help me with my homework"
"Sure Sirius, sure" Remus said as he began eating.
Elle grinned as she placed food on her plate.
"It's ok Sirius, I believe you" Elle laughed
"Why, why, why, why, why?" Lily muttered as she ate.
"Lily, I'm sure James will behave" Elle said, "Come on, eat"
Lily looked up. "Oh fine" she said and she stacked food onto her plate
After the group had finished eating Lily stood and said "Well I'm off. We've got a prefects meeting in a couple of minutes"
"I'll come with you" Remus said before he took another bite of his meal, then stood to follow Lily.
"I think I'll go find Kristy" Peter said. And he stood up and left.
"Who's Kristy?" Elle asked
"Peter's girlfriend" James muttered.
"Well it looks like it's just us" Sirius said.
"What should we do?" James asked
"Wanna plan some pranks to pull on our good friend Snivellious?" Sirius suggested
"Sounds like fun" James agreed
"You're not gonna leave me on my own now are you?" Elle interrupted
Both boys glanced at each other.
"I mean, on my first real day and I could get lost and need some help and I'd love to hear about some of these pranks you plan to pull."
Now they were looking at her skeptically.
"I do have a sense of humour you know. Please"
"Alright" Sirius said, "You can come with us. Where do we wanna go?"
"Common room" James said.
"Yeah" agreed Sirius.
They headed through the halls towards the Gryffindor tower. James and Sirius planned their evil-ish schemes and Elle listened, and follows as she still had no idea where to go.
"So what do you think we should do to the Slytherins?" James asked Sirius
"I'm not entirely sure. Maybe do something to their food, or dye them pink." Sirius answered
"Maybe" James said
They arrived at the portrait of the fat lady. They gave her the password, and entered. They sat in a group of chairs in a corner of the room and continued their discussion.
"I like the idea of dying them pink" Sirius said
"Or red and gold" James said
"That's good" Sirius agreed
"Do you think you could do something to make them sing random muggle songs?" Elle asked
"What are we talking here?" James asked
"Like put something in their food so they sing wacky, happy, songs"
"Like?" Sirius asked
"Like uh, hmmmm… maybe Judy Garland or some soppy sweet stuff" she said
"I like that" James said
"Yeah, maybe we could ask Lily if she knows any songs or something" Sirius suggested
"I don't think Lily would want to help with this kind of thing" James scoffed
"We don't have to tell her what we're doing" Sirius compromised
"Yeah ok" James agreed
"We'll ask Moony if he knows any spells we could use" Sirius said "And we'll check the library, maybe the restricted section."
"Yeah, I'll think he'll like this one" James said
"So… come on, PLANNING, when do you intend to execute this rather, if I might say so myself, ingenious plan, and how will you do it, what resources do we have to do this with, come on people, please don't tell me you have no experience with these kind of things" Elle said
James laughed at her, while Sirius stared at her with disbelief. Not only was this girl pretty, and kinda funny, and shy in a cute way, she liked to prank people. A GIRL liked to PRANK people. Oh this was wonderful
A/N I told you I would update soon. Well there you go, chapter 3. Wow I'm proud of myself. Anyway, I'd really appreciate it if you reviewed. Any kind of feedback is good. Thanks, Ellen.