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A short boy with light brown hair casually made his way over to where Lily, Tara, and Shannon were eating bacon and eggs and greeted Tara before warily glancing at Lily and Shannon. Although he didn't look much like Tara, he had her same cautious approach to strangers.
"Dylan, these are my friends Lily and Shannon," Tara said, pointing at each respectively.
"Hey," both Lily and Shannon smiled at Dylan.
"Hi," he said a little less shyly.
"Hey!" Shannon yelled past Dylan and waved at somebody. Lily looked over Dylan's shoulder to see whom Shannon was waving at. To her dismay it was three people, three people who she very much disliked. James Potter, Sirius, and Remus went over to the three girls and James sat down next to Shannon.
"Hey! Great Quiddich game last night!" James said to Shannon. Shannon turned around to face James and the two began to talk about Quiddich.
Lily, who knew nothing about Quiddich, except the fact that it included something called a snitch, thought it would be good to try to at least understand the game as it seemed to be such a huge part of Wizarding culture. As she listened she realized that there was no way she was possibly going to remember any of it, so she pulled out a dark blue spiral-bound notepad and began to jot down some notes.
"Evens, what are you doing? If you want to make a sketch of me or something, I don't have time to model now, but we could schedule a time for later if you like," James smirked at her again.
Lily was instantly taken aback by his rude manner and was at a complete loss for words. James' friend that Lily remembered to be named Sirius snickered. Even Shannon cracked a smile at this.
"You disgusting, little, insignificant, hubristic prat! How dare you continue to smirk at me, with that disgusting self-loving look on your face," Lily exclaimed, glaring James in the eye.
"Woah, Evens, chill," Sirius said slowly in low, even tones before rolling his eyes, which greatly annoyed Lily.
Lily rounded on Sirius, but James' other friend. A pale and skinny boy put a hand on her arm.
"Lily, isn't it? Just ignore James. He just has that kind of sense of humor, it doesn't mean anything," He said placatingly.
Lily looked at him, surprised. Her anger subsided as she sighed.
"I don't know how you can stand those obnoxious ogres," Lily said to him.
The boy shrugged before muttering, "They're my friends."
An awkward silence fell between them. "I'm Remus Lupin," the boy offered.
"I'm Lily."
"First years! Gather round and you can receive your new schedules," exclaimed the Gryffindor prefect as he began to distribute schedules.
Lily glanced at her schedule and checked over the classes she would have that day. Her first subject was Transfiguration with Professor Albus Dumbledore. Lily was slightly disappointed to see that the subsequent class was defense against the dark arts with the Slytherins. She had not really gotten to know any of them, but from what she had heard from older Gryffindors, they were considered the most cunning and deceitful of all the other houses.
After eating a large breakfast, Lily ran back up to the dormitories with Shannon and Tara to grab her school bag. The three arrived right on time to their first class and sat down in the first row of desks.
"Welcome to Transfiguration, first years. My name is Professor Albus Dumbledore. This year we will learn the basics of transfiguration. For those of you who do not know what transfiguration is, I will show you." Dumbledore pointed a long thin wand at the desk in front of Lily and promptly turned it into a pig and then back into a desk. Lily stared amazed at her desk.
The few students (including James and Sirius) who had not been paying attention to the lesson, were now listening closely to Dumbledore's every word. Dumbledore chuckled before continuing, "We will begin at basic color transfigurations and work our way up. Now, I will give you each a black wizard's hat. I would like you to picture the color you would like to change it to clearly in your mind, point your wand at it and say, reglashio. I will demonstrate this once." Dumbledore took off the black hat he was wearing and pointed his wand at it. He said very clearly, "Reglashio!" The hat turned a deep navy blue. Dumbledore than put the hat back on his head.
"Let me see," Dumbledore glanced at the attendance chart, "Evens and Potter. Would you two be so kind as to pass out these hats?" He gave them each a box of hats. James smirked at Lily as they rose to give out the hats. Lily returned his smile with a glare which only made James' confident smile grow wider, making him look like a giant Jack O' Lantern. After returning to their seats both Lily and James raised their wands to attempt the spell. After several failed attempts, Lily managed to change her hat from black to bright green. She looked around her and saw that she had been the first to complete the task, well, one of the first. James Potter and Sirius Black were both sitting next to two bright pink hats, which greatly annoyed Lily.
Lily was a little reassured that she would not be completely outclassed at Hogwarts just because she was born of muggle parents. All of a sudden Lily's hat became black again. Lily frowned before returning it to its original color. When her hat became black a second time, she turned around to face James and Sirius staging a mock sword fight with their wands. To her annoyance, she saw that both James and Sirius had outdone her. Their hats were flashing many neon colors with multicolored spirals and polka-dots.
Lily turned back around and tried to cast the spell on her hat again, only to find that the hat remained black despite her attempt to turn it purple. She than felt someone poke her, hard. Lily whipped around so fast, her red hair whacked Shannon in the face.
"Hey!" Shannon whined, but Lily ignored her.
"Excuse me," Lily said both loudly and rudely at James. "Potter!" Lily shouted in his face.
"Sirius, mate, do you hear something?" James asked, feigning confusion.
"Nope! Nothing at all .Sure you're not hearing things?" Sirius asked James, a look of mock concern written on his face.
"What's that I see on Evens' hat?" James asked Sirius looking over Lily's shoulder at her hat.
Lily turned to see that her hat was now bright pink with bold black letters rotating around the middle, "I love James Potter. He is my one and only God."
"Oho! Looks like we have a confession, ladies and gentlemen!" Sirius exclaimed. Other students were now craning their necks to read the words flashing on Lily's hat.
"POTTER!" Lily screeched, forgetting she was in a classroom.
"Miss. Evens, kindly kept it down please," Professor Dumbledore told her. He paused before saying, "Now what's this?"
James and Sirius grinned wickedly at each other as Dumbledore read the message, Peter was still attempting to read the message as it rotated around the hat, and Remus just watched the whole scene impassively.
"Miss Evens, did you write this highly amusing note on your hat?" Dumbledore inquired, even though he already knew the answer.
"No, sir. It was Potter," she said while pointing behind her.
Dumbledore read the note once more before making it vanish with a wave of his wand. He then turned to James, "Mr. Potter, I am not going to punish you. Nor you Mr. Black," Dumbledore said now turning to Sirius. "This note is, very clever, very clever indeed. I am impressed that you were able to come up with something like this, and on your first day... However, it is against school rules to fool around in class, so I will have to take five house points from Gryffindor," James felt the smirk slide right off his face, while Lily felt one inching its way onto hers. "But, I am going to award both of you, Mr. Black and Mr. Potter, five points each. For being clever, and completing the assignment first, take those well-deserved points," Dumbledore announced in a tone of finality.
Lily let out a huff on anger, "They disrupted the class and Dumbledore rewards them for it?"
"Oh and for those of you who were not able to complete the task, your homework is to practice the spell, and Lily Evens will now perform it for you," Dumbledore pointed his long, thin wand at Lily's hat and made it black again.
Lily nervously pointed her wand at the had and exclaimed, "Reglashio!" Her hat turned bright green.
Dumbledore clapped his hands and all the hats flew back into the boxes, "Thank you Miss Evens. Ten points to Gryffindor! You are dismissed."
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The first year Gryffindors sat down to dinner after a day of classes. All of them were discussing the day, teachers, and classes.
"Did you see the wart on Professor Binns' nose?"
"Wasn't defense against the Dark Arts cool?"
"Ugh, History of Magic is so boring!"
Those were only some of the snippets of conversation floating around the Great Hall as the students ate.
Finally the day was over and the first years returned to the common room to complete assignments for the next day.
"So," Lily began yawning, "I wonder what we are going to do in our classes tomorrow…"