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Chapter 3—Getting Used to the Marauders
The sorting was finally completed, the feast eaten and Dumbledore's speech over. The mass of students got up to go to their warm and comfortable dorms.
"Lily!" She heard a voice and turned around. Jason was a few meters away, waving at her.
"I'll meet you at the common room." Katie smirked and Lily went over to Jason.
"Hey!" She smiled at him, though disappointed that the hat put him in Ravenclaw. "What do you think of Hogwarts so far?"
"I like it a lot. It's different. Oh, congratulations on becoming Head Girl! I didn't know what I huge honor it was!" He told her.
"Thanks. You better go with the Ravenclaws. I don't know where your common room is yet. I'll find out tonight. See you later." Lily waved and walked to the Gryffindor common room. She knew where the Heads one was but figured she would hang out with Katie before she went in it. She gave the password that McGonagall told her earlier and found Katie sitting with Sirius, James, Remus and Peter Pettigrew, a mousy little boy that seemed like friends with 'the Marauders'. Lily, not wanting to start an argument, sat with them. Sirius (who was sitting next to her) was draped lazily over the side of the couch, his head upside down, turning red from all the blood rushing to it and his hair all over the place. He started to fall, so he put his feet on Lily's legs to steady himself. Lily just rolled her eyes, after the train ride to Hogwarts, she'd gotten used to things Sirius did. Katie was sitting cross-legged on her favorite squashy chair, playing with her hair. James and Remus were engaged in a serious battle of Wizards Chess, and Peter was watching and cheering stupidly. Lily smiled, it seemed natural to be hanging with the Marauders, though she admitted it was still strange, but could tell they would be with them a lot. She groaned to herself.
As the clock in the common room chimed ten-oh-clock, Lily realized she and James needed to go to their dorm.
"Um, Potter? We have to find our dorm." She said.
"Oh yeah! I forgot we weren't staying here!" He stood up. Lily got up quickly too, knocking Sirius's legs off the couch and sending him flying, landing face-first on the floor.
"Ow." Came his muffled voice.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" Lily apologized. She heard a light snort behind her and saw Katie fighting the temptation to laugh. Sirius rolled over onto his back, rubbing his nose, his dark hair sticking up in all directions.
"Geez, Lily. You're not very nice." He said, still rubbing his nose, but beginning to smile.
"Sorry." She started laughing and turned to face the portrait hole. "We better go before I hurt anyone else." She said to James, who grinned, not just because he found the whole thing amusing, but because Lily said something to him without yelling or swearing at him, or even hitting him.
"Good idea." He answered and they bid their friends good-night and left the Gryffindor common room.
"It's on the 5th floor, behind the portrait of the Hogwarts crest." Lily told James. James nodded and followed her to the portrait.
"Um, Lily? We don't know the password." James told her.
"Yeah, we do." She said, digging in the pocket of her jeans, which were under her robes. They never wore full uniforms the first night back. She pulled out a letter from Professor McGonagall. "Didn't you get one?" She asked him, and he shook his head. "Well, I suppose that makes sense. You'd probably lose it." She told him and James scowled.
"Just tell me how to get in the room." James got grumpy at Lily's sudden change of mood.
"Okay, listen carefully because I am not going to keep telling you this. Gosh, this is weird. Okay, you have to tap each part of the crest. Like the Gryffindor lion, Hufflepuff badger, get what I'm saying?" Without waiting for his answer, she continued. "Then, after tapping them, you say your name and then tap the H. Watch." Lily tapped each part of the crest, stated her name, tapped the H and a doorknob appeared. James looked impressed. "We can tell the door whoever we want it to allow in. If someone tries to get in that we didn't allow, the doorknob won't appear." Lily told him. She turned the knob and opened the door.
"Wow." Lily breathed, smiling. There was a large common room that slightly resembled the Gryffindor common room, just a little smaller. There was a marble fireplace with a warm, welcoming fire burning. The scarlet couches looked soft and comfortable. On the left side there were tall, floor-to-ceiling windows that showed a beautiful view of the lake. Tall bookshelves were against the walls, with some books already there. The carpet was soft and added a nice touch to the room. The lighting in the room was bright and gave off a feeling of home. On the wall with the windows there was a staircase that led to a small hallway, with a balcony at the top.
Lily and James climbed the staircase and went up to the balcony. There were two doors, the one on the right read Mr. James Potter, and the one of the left said Miss Lily Evans. They went into James's room first. There was a large bed in the middle with red blankets. There were big windows that had gold curtains drawn in front of them. A mahogany desk was in the corner and a matching bureau. Another door led to an amazing bathroom. It had a bath like the Prefect's, with tons of knobs doing different things and also a marble shower.
After touring James's room, they headed into Lily's. Hers was pretty much the opposite of James's. Her bed had gold covers and her red curtains covered the windows (which were on the opposite side that James's were). Lily's bathroom was just like James's with the marble bath and shower. Out of pure happiness, Lily ran, jumped and landed on her bed. James laughed.
"Do you do that often?" He asked, amused. She sat up, leaning on her soft pillows.
"No. I just finally feel at home. I never do." She explained.
"You don't feel at home in your own house?" James questioned. She shook her head.
"No, I don't get along with my sister, I don't talk to my parents much and it's just weird. I mean, I'm closer to my butler than my mum, because the butler actually talks to me, and takes care of what I need. I love my house and everything it's just not much of a home and--." She stopped all of a sudden. "Why am I telling you this?" She asked herself aloud. "Okay, good night, Potter. Just go." She said.
"But--." James tried.
"Potter! Classes. Early. Tomorrow. Leave!" She whined. James sighed and walked out of Lily's room, across the balcony and into his room. He thought they were actually going to become friends, but he supposedly guessed wrong. He quickly changed and got into bed, feeling annoyed.
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Lily woke up to sunlight streaming into her room. She felt great. She'd slept the best she'd ever slept before. After a steamy, comfortable shower, Lily put on her gray Hogwarts uniform and Gryffindor robes over them. After putting a drying spell on her perfectly straight hair, she emerged from her room and down the stairs. James was sitting on the couch, falling asleep.
"Late sleeper?" Lily said, rather loudly, making him jump.
"Uh—yeah." He replied, rubbing his eyes. "I hate getting up early." He added grumpily. Lily began walking toward the door to go to breakfast and James quickly jumped up and followed. He's lucky that I'm in a good mood, Lily thought. They walked into the Gryffindor common room to wait for their friends. Katie was lying on the couch, sleeping, while waiting for Sirius, and Remus was looking through a textbook. Sirius emerged from the boys' dormitory, looking sleepy.
"Looks like getting up early made us all wide awake!" Remus said sarcastically, and Lily smiled. Sirius squeezed Katie's shoulder to wake her up. Tired students were in the Great Hall, eating their breakfast. Everyone was so used to sleeping late over the summer that no one wanted to get up in the morning. Professor McGonagall was walking among the students handing out schedules. Lily was excited, she couldn't wait to get started with classes. She was taking all the essential classes for becoming an Auror. She dreamed of the day she could. Though, it turned out, The Marauders had that same dream, so they were in all of Lily's classes and break times. There would be just no getting away. Katie was taking Care of Magical Creatures also, because that was one of her favorite classes, so Lily would have to spend her free period after lunch alone.
After a delicious breakfast, the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws set off to the dungeons for Potions. That was always Lily's best class. She'd never gotten anything below an 'E'. It turned out, the professor wanted them to make Amortentia, an incredibly strong love potion.
"Lilyyyyyy." Katie whined, dragging out the end of her name. Katie's potion was turning blue, rather than the light pink it was already supposed to be.
"Try putting in another piece of root. It looks like you only put in 6 instead of 7. Then stir it 8 times. " Lily instructed her friend.
"How, Lily, how, do you know everything in this class?" Katie said, awestruck after her potion turned a light pink. Lily just smiled in response. She looked at her classmates, some had achieved other shades of pink, but none the perfect soft shade.
"Oh no!" Sirius cried. "Wait, stop!" His potion (which was bright purple) started bubbling higher and higher until it started to spill over onto the counter-top.
"Time's up!" Professor Slughorn said cheerfully. He vanished Sirius's mess quickly.
"I think a 'P', would be the appropriate grade, don't you, Mr. Black?" He said to Sirius, who nodded grumpily and plopped down onto his chair. Slughorn clapped cheerfully once he reached Lily's cauldron.
"Perfect! You've done it again, Miss Evans! Of course you'll be getting an 'O'." He wrote down her grade on the sheet. Katie smiled hopefully at him when he looked in her cauldron.
"Hmm, I think an 'A', would be about right." Katie groaned and turned to Lily.
"I never get an O in this class! It's not fair! Can't wait for Care of Magical Creatures class." She mumbled, scowling like Sirius.
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Sorry but I'm not updating until I get at least 16 reviews. If not a lot of people like it, why bother?
hey! I know this chapter really wasn't that good, so I hope it will get better as it goes on! Once again, it's just the beginning and I'm trying to introduce the personalities of some of the characters. Hope you still liked it!
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books4me—haha yeah sorry, like I said at the top, I guess I'm just used to everything these days, I forget sometimes. Thanks for telling me. Hope you still like the story!
Lyny Angell—haha yeah it is annoying to write! Oh and I understand about how you don't always read K/K+...but thanks for still reading this! The rating's going to change anyway so I guess it doesn't matter too much. And thank you for saying I'm a good writer….it means a lot! haha I knew the word boxers didn't look write but my spell check was all messed up and I was too lazy to look it up. LoL… I know, I will try to start the sequel sometime soon…! oh and yes, I totally loved HBP, I wont say anything about it on here in case other people haven't read it, but it was so good! hope you still liked this chapter.
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