A/N: Well here is the next chapter a little sooner than I had originally planned, all set for you :D Thanks to all who reviewed and thanks in advance to all who are going to review. Let me know what you think! I just finished making breakfast for my grandmother... lol after my pancake incident, I wouldn't blame her if she was scared. I tried making pancakes one day... and accidentally, hit it with something, dunno what, and it tipped and spilled all over. I quickly grabbed it before it was all over the counter and, wouldn't you know it, I tripped like I often do and it ended up all over my clothes. OUCH! Lol Anyways, here's the next chapter, enjoy.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter isn't mine.

Time Turner

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Chapter Seven: First Day of Classes

The next morning, Lily awoke to the sound of Lexi falling out of the bed. Apparently she had been dreaming, and in this particular dream she was fighting... Lily stifled a laugh when she was told this... giant rabbits. Mutated, Lexi assured her. Either way, it was quite an odd reason to fall out of bed. It was then that Lily realized— it was the first day of classes!

"Oh my goodness! We have classes today!" Lily exclaimed. She jumped up out of bed and rushed to shower. When she came back out she was already in her robes and ready to go.

"But... what classes do we have?" Lily asked. "If we don't know when we have classes, how can we know what books to bring?" Lily asked. Erin shrugged.

"Dunno. Lexi, I think you might want to consider putting your shoes on your feet as opposed to your hands. I could be wrong but in this case I highly doubt it. I think they give us our timetables at Breakfast. We don't have all that many books to carry and we won't need all that much parchment, so maybe we could just... bring them all?" Erin suggested. She changed quickly into her robes and then opened her trunk.

"I still haven't unpacked my things either," Lily replied. "I do believe that this bookshelf could come in handy. Its large enough for thousands of books but I only brought a few. So tell me, will this always be our dorm? Or is it specific to the first year Gryffindor girls only?" Lily asked. Lexi came up out of a pile of clothes with a sock on her head. She pulled it off before replying, "I think its always ours, but I'm not sure. You'd have to ask McGonnagol," Lexi replied. Erin looked at her pile of clothes disgustedly.

"Just how exactly have you managed to already have a pile of clothes on the floor?" she asked. Lexi looked at the clothes and thought for a moment How had they ended up there?

"Oh right, well somehow last night I think I may have opened it while I was dreaming and dumped everything out of it thinking it was a golden chest full of chocolate frogs. Not entirely sure, though," Lexi replied. She put her shoes on the proper body part this time and sat up.

"Tell me something, Lexi, do you always act out your dreams as you dream them?" Lily asked. Lexi nodded.

"Oh yeah, loads of times. That's why James probably hates me as much as its possible to hate a cousin. See, our house was flooded with some weird creature that smells bad... dunno what its called. So we were staying at the Potters. James is like my second cousin three times removed, something like that, and I was walking in my sleep. Sirius happened to be spending the night there, and they were talking about how disgusting girls were. They were only eight at the time," Lexi added. "Well as luck would have it, I walked in at that moment and I was having the oddest dream about shoving someone off the plank on a pirate's ship. Quite a funny dream actually, see— oh right, the story," Lexi replied after seeing the look on Lily's face. "Well I sort of shoved James off his balcony, he just stopped right before he landed on the ground and then slowly landed. That was when he first started showing his powers. He never quite forgave me though," Lexi added. Lily looked at her confused.

"Why?" Lily asked. It didn't make sense to her that someone, even James, would be upset for three years over something as minor as that. Lexi laughed.

"Oh, because he landed in his mothers freshly manured garden. If that weren't enough, he landed near a skunk. Sprayed him, being deathly afraid of someone who defied the laws of gravity, I suppose, and ran. James stank up the house for over a week. Seems his mother didn't believe his story that I had shoved him out the window, and he had ruined her good flowers also. Of course his father was just glad he had shown signs of magic. Still though, I've never let him forget the skunk." Lexi laughed wickedly. "I suppose that's why." Lily and Erin burst out laughing at the sight of James Potter getting sprayed by a skunk. Lily remembered the time when her sister had gotten sprayed by a skunk— she refused to leave the house for days, which was quite unfortunate as the smell stuck with her. Lily suddenly had a thought occur to her.

"But Lexi, couldn't his mother have just used magic to remove the smell? Surely there's some spell that could do that," Lily replied reasonably. Lexi nodded.

"Yes, she could have. But as a punishment for James ruining her favourite flowers, which were actually an assortment of Roses and Lilies, some tulips as well, she refused to. And she took the book that the spell was in so James' father couldn't do it secretly behind her back. As if we wouldn't have noticed the smell missing." Lexi added reasonably. She cracked a grin. "I suppose James thinks I should be in Slytherin. He thinks I'm pure evil now." The girls laughed again, and, finally ready, headed down the stairs to breakfast.

–later–

"So we're in all the same classes with every first year Gryffindor?" Lily asked. She noticed some other names that weren't familiar. "These people aren't in Gryffindor," Lily replied. Erin looked at the names which Lily was pointing at and shrugged.

"I know this girl is in Hufflepuff... for sure. I suppose it gets mixed as well," Erin replied. Lily saw Remus and walked up to him. He was sitting by himself outside the Herbology Greenhouse, reading. There was still 15 minutes before class would start.

"Hello Remus," Lily replied. She sat down next to him and looked at the book he was reading. It was Hogwarts: A History. "Oh! I read that book too! Its fascinating," Lily added. Erin and Lexi rolled their eyes.

"Yes, simply fascinating Lils. Listen we're going to go walk around for a bit, you can catch up on your reading if you want." Lexi replied. She and Erin started to walk off so Lily took their words to heart and pulled out her Herbology book. Remus looked up from his own book.

"Do you like reading?" he asked her. Lily nodded.

"Very much. I take it you do as well?" Lily asked. Remus nodded and put a marker in his book. "So have you made any other friends yet?" Lily asked. Remus looked at her confused. Other friends?

"Er, what do you mean other?" Remus asked. Lily this time was confused for a moment before she realized what he was asking.

"I meant other than me." Lily replied softly. Remus felt horrible after she said that, realizing she must think he didn't consider her as a friend.

"Oh! I didn't realize that you thought of me as a friend... I'm sorry," he added. "And no, I haven't. I don't exactly make friends the easiest... because— well because I... I read so much! It takes up a lot of my time and I never really was one for sports. Like Quidditch," Remus added. "My cousins, whenever they'd come to visit, used to think it was insane how I never wanted to play Quidditch. In fact I never have. We have broom flying lessons this year though, and I'm a little afraid of heights when I'm only on a small... twig sized broomstick." Lily nodded.

"I usually just didn't go out at all. My sister, Petunia, used to bring her friends over until strange things started to happen. With me, I mean. Finally she just always went to their home and I stayed in my room. It was even worse once I got accepted into Hogwarts, because I had a huge disadvantage, not knowing anything about magic or Hogwarts. That's why now I read even more, even if it is just the school books." Lily held up the Herbology book. "I'm halfway through this. Do you think we'll cover topics in order from the start of the book?" Lily asked. Remus nodded.

"Most likely," he replied.

"Remus?" Lily asked.

"Yeah?"

"Do you know why we have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs?" Lily asked. She felt a little stupid asking that but she wanted to know.

"Oh, yeah. Professor Sprout is the Hufflepuff House Head. We also have Potions with the Slytherins, because Professor Slughorn is their house head. Charms with the Ravenclaws, since they're house head is Professor Flitwick. I don't know who we'll have Transfiguration with though, since Professor McGonnagol is our house head." After that the two of them read in silence until it was time for class. Lily was glad that there was at least one person who enjoyed reading as much as she did. She had been deathly afraid of being totally outcast by the rest of the school. Yet surely some of the Ravenclaw's would have read as much. It was the house for the intelligent.

"Welcome to Herbology class. I will be your Professor for Herbology during your stay at Hogwarts. Professor Sprout, ironically, is my name. Throughout your Herbology lessons you will encounter many plants, some of them very dangerous and others not so much. For the first few lessons however we will simply do some book work about the subject of Herbology, and we will then move on to some hands on activities. Please pull out your books and turn to page 15." Professor Sprout called out. She was a slightly plump woman dressed in green robes, and wearing a very tattered old green witch hat. The students weren't wearing their hats as it wasn't necessary for classes and made it extremely hard to see with hats in the way. Lily looked at the page and saw a Mandrake. She raised her hand and Professor Sprout smiled at her.

"Yes, Miss... Evans?" Professor Sprout asked after looking at the seating charter.

"I... I thought we didn't learn about Mandrakes until the second year." Lily replied. Professor Sprout smiled again.

"Actually, we learn about many different species of plants this year. It won't be until your second year that we will actually get hands on activities with the mandrakes. How may I ask did you know about the school using Mandrakes in the second year?" Professor Sprout asked kindly. Lily felt rather put on the spot and didn't want to say anything. The students were already looking at her as if she were a freak of nature. Only Remus, Erin, and Lexi weren't. Even James and Sirius looked at her oddly, although she supposed not as bad as the rest of the class.

"Oh... I read it in Hogwarts: A History. It spoke about several classes and different accidents that had happened. The mandrakes were mentioned... in there. That's all," Lily replied quietly. She felt embarrassed just as she had always felt at her other schools, when she showed that she actually read books that weren't necessary for school. Professor Sprout nodded.

"Ahh, yes. I remember Professor Dumbledore telling me that when I first got the job teaching Herbology. One of the accidents that involved a mandrake was when they still allowed first years to have hands on experience first rather than book knowledge. One of the students had not listened to the teacher when she said to put on ear muffs and he was knocked right out." Professor Sprout replied. Lexi raised her hand.

"Why would that knock them out?"

"Because the cry of the Mandrake is so powerful that anyone who hears it immediately gets knocked out. Sometimes only for a short while, other times for days on end." Lily replied. Professor Sprout smiled at her.

"Yes, exactly correct. Five points to Gryffindor. But don't get any ideas about using Mandrakes to get out of your lessons," Professor Sprout replied. "If it happens more than once, it is suspected by the staff that it is intentional and you lose house points. There are ways to find out, such as using the truth serum. I believe you may learn about that in your third year of Potions—"

"Veritaserum. It makes anyone who drinks it speak the truth," Remus replied. He suddenly felt everyone's gaze fall on him. "Er... one of my relatives thought it would be funny to use on me, that's all." he lied. In all honesty he had read about the potion, but he didn't want the whole class to know that. They seemed to accept his answer and turned to face the teacher who got on with her lesson.

–later–

"Did one of your relatives really try to use Veritaserum on you Remus?" Lily asked. Remus shook his head.

"No, I read about it. But I saw how everyone looked at you for knowing about Mandrakes— I thought I'd rather like to avoid that myself." Remus replied. They had already had Potions and it was now time for them to head to the Great Hall for lunch. James and Sirius ran up to Remus.

"Hey, Remus, right?" James asked. Remus nodded but didn't say much other than that. Although Lily didn't like James and Sirius that much after they had intentionally made their potion explode, covering the entire class in green goo, she saw this as an opportunity for Remus to make some new friends.

"Remus I'm just going to get changed, could you tell Lexi and Erin for me if you see them? Thanks," Lily added when Remus nodded. She ran off, leaving Remus alone with the two boys.

"Well, we saw how well you did that Potion today in class. Although we didn't try the hardest for our own, because of our planned prank," James replied, "I was wondering if maybe you could help us. Potions isn't exactly my favourite class, down in the dreary dungeons like that. And its far from my best, that's for sure." James added. Remus looked at the two of them, trying to see if they wanted his help or his answers. He finally decided that it was help that they wanted.

"Sure, if you'd like. It isn't that difficult as long as you follow the instructions exactly, but sometimes the instructions aren't enough. They try to be as brief as possible but with more complex potions there are sometimes other steps they don't tell you. We won't get to potions like that until the fifth or sixth year though." Remus added. James and Sirius looked at him oddly.

"You enjoy reading, don't you?" James asked. Remus nodded. "Well, that's... cool. Have you ever pulled pranks on people?" James asked. Remus was about to shake his head when he remembered the one prank he had pulled.

"Well... there was this one time..." Remus trailed off, but James and Sirius' eyes were glinting.

"Do tell," James replied, putting an arm around Remus and leading him to the Great Hall.

A/N: Well there's part 1 of classes, yes there will be a part 2 as well, lol. Anyways this chapter wasn't all great but its just to get classes out of the way and get the students to start to know one another. Don't forget to review!