Chapter 3: "I wonder if they have Lucky Charms on Hogwarts?"
Stella's point of view:
In the morning, I wake up to the sound of rain drumming heavily on the windows. So much for a good start to the beginning of my school life. Everyone else is awake and up already.
"About time, Ella! We were about to leave without you!" Lily teases. I stick out my tongue childishly in retaliation and swiftly get changed in the bathroom.
"Sorry…overslept, I guess!" I roll my eyes and shove all my textbooks absentmindedly into my bag.
"Finally! Now we can go to breakfast!" Susie laughs and links arms with me and Lily, with Alice and Fran following suite and linking on, Susie hurrying us on down the stairs and into the common room before you can say "Fried bacon with eggs".
"I wonder if they have Lucky Charms at Hogwarts?" Alice wonders aloud. All of us look at her in question.
"Lucky Charms is this muggle cereal you get in America. It has marshmallows in and is to die for. My American relatives always send my family a big box of Lucky Charms every month." Alice explains.
"Well we'll soon find out!" Fran quips.
When we get down to the Great Hall, Black, Potter, Lupin and Pettigrew are already seated at the Gryffindor table, each eating their way through copious amounts of cereal. Alice takes one glance at a massive bowl of cereal in the middle of the table, squeals excitedly and promptly shovels a portion of cereal into her bowl.
"Looks like they do have Lucky Charms at Hogwarts after all!" I mutter light-heartedly as I sit down on the bench between Fran and Lily. I finish off my cereal and absentmindedly watch Potter teasing Lily.
"Oh, come on now, Evans. You are being far from reasonable. All I'm asking for is a kiss and then I'll give you back your timetable, ok?" Potter smirks evilly at Lily, dangling her timetable in front of her and then holding it above her reach whenever she tries to snatch it back.
"Over my dead body, Potter." Lily says in barely a whisper, giving him a death-stare. This continues for a while, until a passing third-year snatches it out of his hand.
"Tut tut tut, James, I might have known," She says in a singsong voice, passing the timetable back to Lily. "I ought to tell Aunt Sandra what you've been up to. Pestering girls already at your young age."
"Oh, hi, Lyra! You know, you always were my favourite cousin! Please don't tell Mum!" Potter yelps in concern. So she's his cousin, is she? She looks the complete opposite of Potter except for their almost identical eyes.
"Only kidding, Jamesie. Be good now. No more skirt-chasing at least until Fifth Year or Mother dearest won't be too pleased, will she?" She says mockingly and goes on her way towards some other third years higher up the Gryffindor table. I catch Lily's eye and she looks at Alice and somehow we all break down into hysterical giggles.
Sirius' point of view:
I wake up at some ungodly hour, and swiftly run into the bathroom and shower. Well, I've got to look my best for the ladies, haven't I? After showering, I change into my uniform, then look at my reflection in the mirror. Oh yes, Sirius Black has landed at Hogwarts. Form an orderly queue, ladies! I playfully hit James on the shoulder as a kind wake-up call.
"Where's the fire? Oh it's you, Sirius." He grumbles and attempts to go back to sleep again.
"James, James, James? Earth calling James, the entire female population of Hogwarts is waiting impatiently for us!" I yell in his ear. Serves him right.
"Huh?" Remus says curiously, waking up at last.
"Argh, thanks to you I'll be deaf for the rest of my life! What time is it? " James mutters grumpily.
"It's about seven. Come on, breakfast!" I say, merrily hitting Peter with a pillow. Well, someone needs to him up. It would be cruel for him to miss out on breakfast.
I'm eating my way through my second bowl of Shreddies when the Gryffindor girls walk into the Hall. I wink coyly at Stella, but she ignores me. Ah, I just know that in reality, she loves the attention I shower her with. She just is playing hard to get. Professor McGonagall is handing out our timetables. I'm one of the first to get mine. Double transfiguration, oh great. James steals Lily's timetable as soon as McGonagall has gone and is hold it out of her reach.
"Give it back, Potter!" Lily hisses furiously.
"Oh, come on now, Evans. You are being far from reasonable. All I'm asking for is a kiss and then I'll give you back your timetable, ok?" James teases her.
"Over my dead body, Potter." She mutters. Just then, a pretty blonde girl makes her way over to James and takes the timetable from his hand.
"Tut tut tut, James, I might have known," She says in a singsong voice, passing the timetable back to Lily. "I ought to tell Aunt Sandra what you've been up to. Pestering girls already at your young age." She says mockingly, before handing the timetable back to Evans.
"Oh, hi, Lyra! You know, you always were my favourite cousin! Please don't tell Mum!" James yelps in apprehension, not getting that she's kidding with him…or is she? The mystery thickens.
"Only kidding, Jamesie. Be good now. No more skirt-chasing at least until Fifth Year or Mother dearest won't be too pleased, will she?" Lyra laughs and moves back to her friends.
"James, mate, why do you have to have such a hot cousin?" I say by accident. The look on James' face is worth it though.
"Ewwwwwwwwwww, you fancy my cousin?" James stares at me in shock.
"Well, you thought Narcissa was good-looking." I state pointedly.
"That was before I found out that she was in Slytherin and pure evil."
"But still."
"So, what have we got next?" James swiftly changes the subject.
"Double transfiguration with McGonagall." Remus promptly says.
"Do you know everything?" Peter gazes at Remus in wonder.
"Yes. I am the omnipotent one that comes from the mountains from far, far away, little one." Remus drawls sarcastically.
"I never knew you lived in the mountains." Peter says somewhat stupidly.
"Pete, you do know he was being sarcastic, right?" I inform him as we follow the girls to transfiguration.
"Erm…yes. Of course I did." Peter smiles foolishly.
"James, can you please explain sarcasm to the young one here sometime when you give him "the talk"?" I mutter quietly as McGonagall enters the class.
Transfiguration is pretty dull. McGonagall gives us a pep talk that lasts about half a century and then sets us a basic task of transfiguring matchsticks into needles. After five minutes, I've finished and spend the remainder of the lesson playing hangman with James on a spare bit of parchment. At the end of the lesson, me and James are the only ones to have transfigured our matchsticks into needles. McGonagall smiled at us when she saw our final pieces. That was quite scary. I think that she loves me. Oh dear God. After lunch, we have charms. Flitwick lectures us with another pep talk, which is quite ironic as it lasts the entire lesson, so we do bugger all. Herbology is pretty much the same. I amuse myself by poking Stella in the back with my quill every five minutes and blaming it on Peter. It irritates her so much that she ends up hitting me on the head with her copy of "Beginner's guide to Herbology" and flounces off in huff. I love her when she's angry. She looks even more cute than normal.
Stella's point of view
After class, I spend the remainder of the day talking with Lily, Susie, Fran and Alice in the Gryffindor common room, talking about everything and anything.
"I swear I not rest until I have killed him. How am I meant to concentrate in Herbology if he keeps poking me every five minutes?" I grumble.
"He likes you. He does it to annoy you cause he likes you." Fran explains.
"Yeah, like he likes the entire female population of Hogwarts." I roll my eyes at Lily.
"What, like Potter, you mean?" Lily mutters. I nod in answer.
"Aww, young love!" Susie jokes. "Stella and Sirius! Lily and James!"
"And…Susie and Remus?" I tease her, raising an eyebrow slightly. We all see the surprised look on Susie's face and burst into hysterics.
Writer's notes: Right, I'd like to apologise for the extreme lateness of this chapter. I know I said I was going to update around Christmas and it's now February, but I have had writer's block and also have had very little time due to being in year 11 and have been trying to finish off all my coursework before I start my evil GCSE revision (GCSEs are the english muggle equivalent of Ordinary Wizarding Levels). I know this chapter is pretty bad, but I have written some later chapters which will appear at towards the end of their time at Hogwarts, and I'll try and write some more chapters to continue this fanfic soon, seeing as I'm on half term break now (thank God!). Thanks to my lovely readers who have reviewed. I love you all and the first one to comment will get a lollipop! (not meant in a derogitory term or anything, but I have a little erm...more like HUGE obsession with lollipops and have been known to give friends lollipops as presents whenever they are sad). I'm getting my friend Ellie to do some anime pics of Sirius and Stella heehee...she's chained up to a desk in the basement with her promarkers as we speak as I'm pretty much pants at drawing people. I'm good at drawing vases, though. It's a real shame that one of the main characters is not a vase in this story, or I'd be having a field day. Hmm...maybe I'll get James or Sirius to "convently" hex Snivellus sohe has a vase on his head...idea! Then I could draw a pic of Snape with a vase for a head andI could get Ellie to dothe rest of him! Erm yeah...I have started writing another Sirius fanfic, but it's onanother computer so Ican't post it up tonight and I don't think I remember what it was about...oh well...that's just the way the oreo crumbles, I guess...
Btw, for any overseas readers out there, Shreddies is this strange English cereal which is basically made out of wholegrain wheat methinks...here's a link to a pic of some Shreddies...i know they're not very pretty to look at...marmite on toast is a much tastier alternative for breakfast -
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