Lily was beyond mad the next morning as she headed to McGonagall's. She had her Muggle clothing from home with her and all her 'cant live without' items shrunken and placed neatly in her messenger bag.
She was wearing a simple pair of bellbottomed jeans, some converses, and a plain black tee shirt.
She groaned as she walked down the girl's stair case to find James, Sirius, and Remus all waiting for her. She ignored them and turned to go. She was also shocked to see they looked like average Muggles. All three wearing jeans, James wearing a loose green tee shirt, Sirius wearing like a black muscle shirt, and Remus wearing a slightly tight but loose all the same blue tee shirt.
"Look Evans, I'm a sorry about getting you in trouble, I thought I was going to get you i out /i of trouble not in it." James said walking up beside her.
"Yeah whatever were stuck together for a semester in a school were we know no one so I guess it wouldn't kill us to be civil to each other, yeah?" Lily said sighing.
"Yep, and besides, were going to need help seeing as we've never spent more than a few minutes with Muggles." Sirius said. Lily nodded and looked at what they had; each had a bag and something else. James had his broom, Sirius had well an other bag, and Remus had…..
"Remus is that a guitar?"
Remus jumped, blushed, and avoided eye contact with Lily.
"It's Possible."
"Aw you're such a hippy!" Lily said walking again towards McGonagall.
Sirius looked at James, "What the blazes is a hippy?"
"Dude, beats me." James said.
"Good, I see you are all here on time." McGonagall said nodding. "Ah, Mr. Potter you won't be able to bring your broom."
James looked heart broken, "But-"
"No buts, your going to a Muggle boarding school do not forget that," McGonagall said. br br
"Yes Professor." James said sadly.
"Mr. Lupin, you'll have to uncharm your guitar so it only plays guitar sounds not other instruments as well. And Mr. Black, leave the Kneazle behind." McGonagall said.
Sirius jumped and was in awe. He opened his second bag and indeed took out a Kneazle and handed it to McGonagall. br br
"How does she know?" He muttered to James and Remus who laughed quietly.
"The world may never know." Remus said.
"Okay, I trust you all put shrinking charms on everything in your bags. So when you arrive at the school and get to your rooms unshrink them and hide your wands. Disguise them if you have to. Muggles won't understand what they are and they'll break them. So be careful. Other than that do not use them for anything. " McGonagall continued, handing them each papers. "On here is your room number, a map, your dorm members, your class schedule, and rules."
"Wait a minute," Lily started, something just hit her, "Professor what will Remus do the two days of the full moon?"
Remus, James, and Sirius all jumped in surprise at Lily.
"Yo-you know?" Remus asked voice full of fear.
"Of course I know! How could I not?" Lily asked in return.
"Mr. Lupin has arrangements much like those here. Mr. Potter, I trust you have your invisibility cloak?" McGonagall asked.
James jumped again, getting aggravated with his acrobatic feats, "Yes Professor."
"Well how perfect." McGonagall said.
"You have an invisibility cloak?" Lily asked.
James nodded. Lily couldn't believe.
"Well that's it; I've finally discovered the Marauders secret. And it's simply genius." Lily said shaking her head. "And simply obvious."
Sirius snorted and Lily sighed, pushing her side bangs out of her face. She really needed to do something about her bangs. She took the paper from McGonagall and scanned through a few things.
"So, how are we getting there?" Lily asked.
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Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus were walking up the stone steps of Hydesdale School, taking in the sights and sounds around them. It seemed much like any school would. Teenagers absolutely everywhere.
Guys and girls of all shapes, sizes, ages, colors, just basically everything covered the open fields around the big stone buildings. Everyone looked like a typical Muggle and Lily thanked God they did too.
Entering the building the four were met with a wave of cool air, and one extremely hot kid.
The main hall area was brightly lit by an ancient but amazing chandelier and it was very cheerful. It had a huge marble staircase that landed at a long hallway, which they would later find out was the 'Halfway Hall.'
Marble tile led the way to the stairs and the walls were decorated nicely with stain glass picture and what seemed expertly done mosaics.
Couches and comfy chairs were scattered decoratively all over as a refuge for people when need be.
All together the place was beautiful.
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Lily felt her cheeks grow hot as the guy just inside the door walked over to them.
"You guys new here?" He asked smiling at Lily who grinned back.
"Yes." James said getting the kids attention away from Lily.
"Okay then. My name is Matt Hopi and I'll show you guys around." He said flicking his blonde hair of out amazing blue eyes, in such a Sirius was it was creepy.
For the next two hours were brought around the school, unpacked their belongings in their separate dorm rooms, and left together in the middle of what was called the 'Halfway Hall.'
The school was basically made up of two titanic sized buildings connected by the 'Halfway Hall.' On the right side of the building was the living area where the dining area, dorms, and such were. On the left side were the classrooms and library and gym and such.
The dorm rooms were nice. They had a large bathroom and six queen sized beds with six night tables that are able to be locked. They also had six dressers. They were all generally cozy and people were roomed by name. So Sirius, Remus, and James would all be in different dorms. They weren't to happy about that one.
Remus glanced at his watch which read 8:12. "We have our first classes in eight minutes." He said.
"Okay, ready guys to face your first day as Muggles?" Lily teased.
"So I don't really understand this. What in the blazes are we going to be learning, considering were not at Ho—our old school." Sirius asked.
"Math, History, English, Science, things like that." Lily said walking beside him, James and Remus behind them. Each had their back packs (in Lily's case a messenger bag) filled to the brim with much needed school necessities. James sighed and watched the Muggles around them interact fearing what the next two months would be like. br br
The four entered the first class on their list, which happened to be called History A-7.
McGonagall had put them in an Honors class. Lily sighed and noticed that no one was sitting but rather standing at the back of the semi big class room. Lily followed suit, hearing the three Marauders come behind her. Lily had to hold in laughter as Remus, James, and Sirius lounged around trying to be the typical Muggle. br br
The Teacher walked in and she was an elderly type lady of probably 50. She had a kind face and an extremely warm smile.
"Welcome to History everyone, if you don't already know me I'm Mrs. Barresi. I know how much you guys hate Alphabetical Order, so I decided to randomly place you." Mrs. Barresi said pausing a moment to look at everyone. Lily decided she was going to like this woman. She had to suppress laughter at the Marauders expression at not having to call their teacher Professor something or other. Lily had forgotten they didn't do that in Muggle Primary School, well not all teachers did that.
"Okay, Lora Memphis and Remus Lupin." Mrs. Barresi said pointing at the first table.
Remus walked over calmly smiling slightly at Lora before sitting. However, everyone's attention was now on the four new kids.
"Oh new prey, how perfect." One of the girls whispered to her friend staring at Lily. Lily sighed and just paid attention to Mrs. Barresi.
"Christina McDougal and Lily Evans." Mrs. Barresi said pointing right behind Remus's desk. Lily was silently thanking god when she realized that Christina was the girl who looked to Lily as prey.
Lily decided to get the worst over with. She put on a big smile and gave Christina her hand. "Hey, I'm Lily Evans."
Christina raised her eyebrow and gave Lily the once over. "Christina." Was all she said ignoring Lily's hand.
"Brett Dover and Mark Angelo." Mrs. Barresi said pointing to the desk behind Lily.
"Sirius Black and Brianna McDougal." Mrs. Barresi said gesturing to the desk next to Remus's. Lily watched someone identical to Christina walk over and sit down, but not before giving Sirius a big flirtatious smile.
"James Potter and Kelly Aridity." Sat behind Sirius. The four were still close to each other and all were very grateful. Mrs. Barresi continued on until the whole class was seated.
"Okay," Mrs. Barresi said. "Now I'm just going to go through an overview of what to expect this year. I don't feel like giving out work because then I would have to grade it. And frankly its too damn early in the year to be grading pointless assignments."
Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus grinned. They had a feeling this class wasn't going to be that bad.
"Basically we'll start from England's Medieval History, starting at the very beginning and most likely end with the American Revolution. A lot of this should be review for most considering that its only been taught to you all your life."
James leaned forward slightly to whisper to Sirius, "Okay we know the basics of medieval times, but what in bloody hell is the American Revolution?"
"Lily, what is gym?"