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When all of the first years were sorted into the 4 houses, the headmaster of the school, Armando Dippet, rose and made the speech opening the year. Lily, Tara, Shannon, and Remus watched and listened intently to the headmaster, Peter slept and drooled on the table, while James and Sirius whispered loudly and snickered at each other's jokes.
"James, Sirius, you two might want to listen to this, it's important!" Remus reprimanded the two.
"It's all right. You can fill us in later," Sirius said.
"Shh!" Lily hissed, highly irritated at the distraction. She shot dagger eyes at the two boys. James and Sirius rolled their eyes at her and kept on talking. After a while they got bored of talking and tried to find something better to do. When they couldn't find anything better to do, they decided to listen to the speech.
"This is so boring!" James said.
"Tell me about it," Sirius replied.
Their conversation was interrupted when Dippet announced, "And now the feast will begin!" With those words, the tables filled with all sorts of food imaginable. Peter woke up with a jolt at the sound of the word "feast". He joyfully dug in. James, Peter, and Remus followed his lead.
"Come on Lily, you don't want your food to get cold!" Shannon said. Lily was amazed. She had never seen so much food on one table.
"Wow," Lily said. After saying this she realized how lame it must have sounded. She embarrassedly put food onto her plate and began to eat. It was the best food she had ever tasted.
After the entire main course was eaten up, desserts engulfed the table. There were chocolate frogs, Cauldron cakes, and other foods that Lily did not recognize from the trolley on the train. She gleefully helped herself to all of these foods too. James and Sirius decided to play catch with a small round pastry. Their fun was ruined when Sirius over-threw the pastry and it landed in Lily lap and exploded. "JAMES POTTER!" Lily screamed. She had cream all over her black robes.
Lily was about to reach out and grab James when Dippet said, "First years, your head boy and head girl will show you to your dormitories. Please follow them, and don't get lost," he added. James and Sirius quickly escaped from Lily and ran to the students shouting, "Gryffindor, First years".
"That was bad luck," Sirius said to James. James and Sirius followed the head boy and head girl up many flights of staircases to a portrait of a large lady in a pink dress.
"Password," the portrait demanded.
"Lionwing" the head boy replied.
Lily watched in awe as the portrait nodded its approval and opened up to allow the students into the Gryffindor common room. "Wow," was the only thing that Lily could manage to say.
James and Sirius made their way over to the fireplace and occupied two of the three big comfortable chairs that were surrounding the fireplace. Lily spotted them and made her way over to them. When Lily approached the boys James gave her his most charming smile. "You," Lily uttered, "You nearly decapitated me with that flying gold object, and then you made a pastry explode cream onto my robe. I come over here and you are still able to keep that stupid, sickening smile on your face. How do you do it?"
James smiled even bigger as he replied, "Evans, that flying, gold object is a golden snitch. It is one of the three different types of balls in the wizarding game called Quiddich. It did not almost decapitate you, you stepped into the way of the snitch. Also, it would not be able to decapitate anything. Well, it might be able to decapitate a flubberworm, but not a person." James chuckled, "The reason why I am still able to smile at a time like this is because you amuse me Evans."
With this, he got up and walked up to the first year boy's dormitory. Sirius followed him.
"She digs me," James said when in the dormitory.
"Right, and what makes you think that?" Sirius questioned.
"Well, how can she not. I'm me. All the girls dig me," James said.
"And that's the attitude that is driving her nuts. James, girls do not like it when you automatically assume that they are into you," Sirius informed James.
"Who are we talking about?" Remus asked the two boys. James and Sirius turned to see Peter snacking on chocolate frogs on his bed and Remus half-way through a thick leather-bound book.
"Lily Evans," Sirius replied. Remus instantly understood and went back to his book. Peter, on the other hand, thought that this was a joke and burst out laughing.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Peter said, "Lily Evans into you! She can't stand you! She would rather fall in love with a -". Peter stopped when he saw both Remus and Sirius shooting him looks.
These comments bruised James's ego and he chose to go back down to the common room to avoid further embarrassment. "James, wait," Sirius called after him. When James did not turn around or come back, Sirius followed him down the stairs. "How 'bout a game of Quiddich?" Sirius asked James. This cheered James up and the two of them played Quiddich until way after midnight.
"What are you two doing?" they heard someone say. They looked up from their game to see Shannon staring at them.
"What are you doing up?" Sirius asked.
"I could ask the same to you," Shannon replied, "I couldn't sleep. Too wound up."
"We're playing Quiddich," James told her.
"With pillows, apples, and a snitch?" Shannon asked, amused.
"Yeah. Wanna join?" Sirius asked.
"Cool, totally," Shannon replied. Shannon joined Sirius's team and the three of them had an intense two-on-one game of pillow Quiddich.
Lily woke up to see Shannon's bed empty, Tara sitting reading a book, and two other girls whom she did not recognize, one braiding the other's long black hair. "Oh, hello, I didn't get to meet you two last night," Lily greeted the two other dorm-mates, "I'm Lily Evans".
"Macy Willinson," the black haired girl replied and smiled cheerfully.
"Denise Dillindrew," the other girl said. She pushed her short, platinum-blonde hair out of her face and then went to shake Lily's hand.
"I'm Tara Simon," Tara said.
"Simon, isn't there another first year with the last name Simon?" Denise asked Tara.
"Oh yeah, my twin brother Dylan. He was sorted into Gryffindor too."
"You never told me you had a twin brother!" Lily exclaimed.
"Well, I guess it just never came up," Tara said.
"He's not rooming with Potter, is he?" Lily asked.
"No, he's in the other dormitory," Tara replied.
"Phew, he's not with that troll!" Lily said, relieved.
"What do you have against James?" Macy asked.
"He's one of those egotistic, everybody-loves-me, trouble making, I-can-get-away-with-anything-and-nobody-can-stop-me kind of boys," Lily replied.
"Oh," Macy said smiling, "Is that all?"
"And that's an honest description of him?" Denise inquired, also with a smile.
"Yes. Completely. So, Tara, tell us about your brother," Lily said.
"Well, he looks sort of like me. He has light brown hair and bright blue eyes. He's good looking, but he prefers to hang out with me even though he could be popular," Tara said.
"Oh, we better get down to the dining hall. We want to have enough time to find our classes," Macy announced. The four girls got dressed and headed down to the common room. There they found Shannon, James, and Sirius asleep on the three, big chairs.
Tara tapped Shannon's shoulder, "Shannon, we're going down to the dining hall. We'll save you a seat." Shannon nodded sleepily and went up to the dormitory.
When they were all in the dining hall Lily questioned Shannon, "What were you doing with James and Sirius?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I went down to the common room and they were playing pillow Quiddich. I decided to join in," Shannon replied.
"Oh," Lily said quietly.
"Oh! Look! There's Dylan," Tara said happily and waved him over.