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A/N - Well, I have to say that I am positively ecstatic about getting my first review ever! That you very much Celina Black! I just want to say, for everyone (if anyone) tried to send a review for this story, I just changed my settings so that people without accounts can review, sorry about that. Well, I shall not delay you any longer, so here it is, chapter 3! Enjoy!
Chapter 3 - Changes
"First years!" Boomed a very large man. "First years, over here!" All the tiny frightened kids began to walk towards the extremely large man.
"Oi!" Sirius shouted as something or actually someone bumped into him.
"Sor-sorry." The little boy muttered before running off towards the lake.
"Get a load of that!" James began.
"What?" Remus asked wondering what on Earth James was about to say.
"Padfoot scared that little first year! I used to think no one took him serious! Apparently I was wrong!" James stated befuddled by the thought.
"Of all the cra-" Remus started bellowing at James before someone linked their arm around his.
"What do you think you are doing Sirius Black!" Maggie said uncannily like a teacher.
"What have I done now!" Sirius yelled throwing his hands up in defeat.
"You just scared that poor first year! They have enough problems without you scaring them!" She screamed.
"Hey! He ran into me! I didn't do anything!" Sirius replied defensively.
"Why are you yelling at him?" Alison asked Maggie while walking up next to Remus.
"He just scared some poor little first year!" Maggie bellowed.
"I did not! He ran into me and just got scared or something. It's not my fault my appearance scares him!" He stated angrily.
"I don't know why he would be scared of you, Sirius. You don't scare me, but if you keep yelling at me like that, you'll be scared of me!" She said, rage beginning to become evident in her voice.
"Well now that that's said, I think the carriages are waiting for us." Remus said trying to get off the topic.
"Does anyone know where Lily is?" James asked puzzled. "We have to have a quick chat with Dumbledore before the feast."
Lily, who was wrapped up in her book, was standing right behind him. The only reason they found her was because of the light radiating from her wand. It made James look like a slightly untidy angel in the darkness.
"James, -" Sirius began.
"Yea?"
"Why are you glowing?" He asked confused. "Are you dead?"
"No you fool! Can't you see?" Maggie asked waiting for a response. However she got nothing from Sirius but a look of sheer puzzlement. "It's Lily! Honestly, the rubbish you come up with is just too-"
"Well now that's settled. To the carriages!" Remus said casting his hand in the right direction while Maggie continued to mutter under her breath.
Once they found some carriages, they were off to Hogwarts.
(A/N - Just to let you know I think the carriages seat four to one, but I'm not sure. Sirius, Alison, Maggie, and Remus are in one carriage. Peter mysteriously followed Cheryl, who is of course hanging out with Phil and his friends. James and Lily went in one together, much to her distaste, but it was for the headboy and girl.)
"So, umm, umm." Remus said trying to strike up a conversation.
"Com'on Lupes! Why is it that lately you have been forgetting your words?" Sirius asked teasing his friend.
"Firstly, don't EVER call me Lupes. Secondly, I have just been having trouble putting my words together. Probably stress." He replied trying to keep his cool.
"Well, I think you have estrioconfutitis." He said proudly.
"And what is that?" Alison asked.
"It's when you get confused when ever a female is around." He said fully satisfied with his new invention of a word. Remus however, was not happy at all with his friends diagnosis, especially considering that Maggie and Alison were with them. He was so embarrassed, he blushed a deep shade of rose visible even the dark of the carriage.
Meanwhile in the headboy and girl carriage...
"Lily,"
"Hmm?" Lily said not wanting to take her mind off her book.
"Could you lower your wand?" He asked politely.
"Oh, sorry." Lily said realizing what she had been doing. "Nox." And the light that was once radiating suddenly went out, plunging them into complete darkness.
"James," Lily finally said breaking the science.
"Yea?" He replied.
"Why did you stop calling me Evans?" She asked out of pure curiosity.
"I don't know, I guess I never really realized." He said nonchalantly. "Lily?" He asked.
"Yea?"
"Why did you stop calling me Potter?"
"Hmm. I guess I never really noticed either." She replied.
Meanwhile in the other carriage...
"So, Sirius, what's going on with your friend James?" Alison asked trying to get the inside scoop.
"What do you mean?" He asked knowing exactly, what she meant.
"I think you know exactly what she is talking about Sirius! You too Remus!" Maggie said matter-of-factly. "What do you think Alison?"
"I couldn't agree with you more. "She said looking up at Sirius. "Com'on Sirius, just tell us!" She said getting impatient.
"No way. My lips are sealed." He said pretending to lock his lips together and throw away the key.
"Oh! If you wanna get like that, then there is only one way to get you to spill the beans." Alison said.
"Hm'he'hm'mm'!" Sirius said with his lips closed completely, but still managing to get the point across.
"Maggie..."
"You really think they deserve that?" She asked.
"No, but I want to know what's going on with James more, so yea, we have to." She said trying to make it seem horrible.
"I guess you have a point." Maggie said somehow letting the joy show in her voice slightly.
"What the devil are you gonna do to us?" Remus asked shifting in his seat.
"One, two, three." And then the unthinkable happened. Both girls simultaneously started snogging (A/N - for all u peeps that don't know what that is, it's french kissing- lol!) the guys. After the initial shock wore off, and he went crazy, Sirius managed to crack under the pressure and spill the beans.
"Okay, okay, okay!" He yelled catching his breath.
"We'll tell you!-Mooney?" Sirius asked wondering why Mooney hadn't responded with him.
"One-second." He managed to say before being pulled back into the kiss by Maggie.
Sirius and Alison looked at their friends in utter disbelief.
"And I thought Cheryl and you were the wild ones!" Sirius said staring at Maggie.
"Me? I knew Cheryl and I were slightly over zealous at times, more so Cheryl than myself, but Maggie's giving Cheryl and me a run for our money!" Alison said to Sirius as they watched the two as if to say it was a spectator's sport.
"Umm, umm." Remus said dumbly after Maggie finally let him go.
"WOW!" Sirius said amazed at his friend's good fortune. "You should be more secretive more often!" He finished as they all burst into a fit of laughs.
"Now, back to James!" Maggie said after finally catching her breath from laughing and that incredibly long kiss. "Spill the beans, what's going on with him?"
"Okay here it goes..."Sirius began.
"So, what are we gonna do?" Maggie asked.
"Well for starters, we need to be able to communicate without having to bribe people!" Alison said teasingly.
"Aww!" Remus and Sirius whined in unison.
"I was liking that part!" Remus added.
"Anyway! What are we going to do?" Alison continued.
"Umm, umm." Remus stated.
"Jeez Remus! When are you gonna become human again and start talking normal!" Sirius teased.
"Leave it alone..." Remus calmly replied.
"That's it!" Maggie exclaimed abruptly.
"What is?" Remus asked puzzled.
"I figured out - well I can think of the first step in the process at least, but it'll take some behind-James'-back tinkering if you get what I mean..." Maggie began. "Starting with that prank you all were planning for after the feast...Listen up..."
Back in the Headboy and girl carriage...
Silence echoed in the carriage.
"So," James said finally breaking the awkward silence.
"So," Lily said in reply.
"This is pretty pathetic." James finally managed to get out.
"Pathetic?" Lily asked puzzled. "I hope your not referring to me! I'll have you know out of the two people in this carriage, you are the pathetic one!" Lily shouted. "And I-"
"Calm down!" He managed to say cutting Lily off in mid-sentence.
"I am calm!" Lily replied.
"Listen to yourself! 'I am calm!'" James said imitating her voice.
"James Potter! Sometimes you make me so, so, ERRR!" She said cringing her face and hands, which made James laugh. "What are you laughing at!" Lily commanded.
"I should think that would be obvious." He said. "You!"
"Me!" Lily said in shock.
"Your so cute when your angry." He said grinning, not realizing what he just said.
"James-I-no-ERR!" She said not being able to put her words together.
"Oh!" James screamed just realizing what he said.
"What?" Lily asked annoyed.
"Not-nothing." He said embarrassed and mad at himself for letting it slip.
The two of them sat in silence until they got to Hogwarts, where they went up to the Great Hall for the feast.
The Great Hall looked as magnificent as it had in the past years. Decorated with the usual floating candles and mystical glow.
Just then, the hall doors opened. The year's group of first years sheepishly walked in following Professor McGonagall. Within a few seconds she began calling out the names on her parchment after the Sorting Hat sang it's song.
"Gabrielle Abbidy." A short brunette girl walked up to the stool as Professor McGonagall put the hat on her.
"Hufflepuff!" The old hat boomed.
"...Lucus Arnolds." A slightly tall-for-his-age boy with steel grey eyes walked up to the stool.
"Hmm...Slytherin!" The hat yelled finally deciding on a house.
"Mental note, new Slytherin to add." Sirius said.
"Add to what?' James asked unsure of what was to come.
"I decided this year to make a list of every Slytherin I know, and see how many go to the dark side..." He said seriously. (A/N - LOL! Sirius is serious! LOL! No pun originally intended!)
"By the 'dark side' do you mean join that wizard the ministry is well, you know, investigating?"
"Yea, that's what I mean." Sirius said.
"Did Dumbledore ever say if we were going to get to take a quidditch class?" James asked remembering their conversation over the summer. "He said he would talk to you and a few other people to get their input."
"Well your headboy, and if he didn't say anything to you, why in the world would he tell me!" He said numbly.
"Because Dumbledore's not exactly what most people call normal. I mean after all he made me headboy, but I was never a prefect." He responded bluntly.
"I see your reasoning."
"...Rachel Sotzikeneetzian!" The blond haired brown eyed girl stepped up to the hat. "Gryffindor!"
"Eeeeeee!" A group of girls said greeting her at the Gryffindor table.
After the last few first years were sorted, Dumbledore stood up to speak.
"As I always say dig in!"
"I don't think I will ever get tired of eating at this feast every year!" Sirius said beaming while he grabbed two drumsticks. (A/N - um I don't know if people in other parts of the world use this term, but I'm talking about the part of a chicken right below the thigh.)
"I don't think you will ever get not like eating Padfoot!" Remus said sarcastically.
"I second that!" James said before stuffing some mashed potatoes in his mouth.
"Sirius." Alison said.
"B'lat?" He said with food still in his mouth.
"Number one, I can't understand you with food in your mouth; Number two, how do you eat so much?" She asked curiously.
"Well, James here believes that last summer, not the one that just passed but the one before that, he thinks that when we were trying to make a well bottomless, because it was the only one in the community and this was near a desert, that the spell went wrong and my stomach became bottomless. That's one theory, I just think I like food. Anyways, maybe you should try to find that charm." He said casually.
"Well, okay then!" She said continuing to eat.
"Lily, you've been awfully quiet tonight." Maggie said looking at Lily.
"Don't worry about me just because I'm not talking." Lily trying not to start a conversation.
"All I'm saying is last time you got like this, well, you know..." She said trailing off.
"Listen. I'm fine okay!" Lily starting to raise her voice.
"Common girls!" Sirius boomed. "There's plenty of food, everyone's here, can't we just have some fun!" He said almost confused as to how people could be upset at a time like this. Shortly after the was over Dumbledore stood up to announce a few last minute things.
"Mr. Filch has informed me that screwt screws, laughing lollipops, and funny fingers are now added to the list of forbidden items. Don't forget that if you ever wish to see the complete list of forbidden items, it is located in Mr. Filch's office. I'm sure he wouldn't mind letting you see it. Now with that said, you all- What is that?" Dumbledore said looking up at the ceiling. "Are those what I think they are?"
A/N - HA HA HA! Cliffhanger! Well I already started writing chapter 4, so as soon as I am finished, I will start typing it up! PLEASE REVIEW! Tell me what you think even if it's bad! Thanks : ) Oh and thanks to my first reviewers of my first story! Lol
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