Disclaimer: As usual I must say that I don't own anything that you recognize, that is JKR magnificent work, I just use her world as clay. Also I have to say that the new characters introduced in this chapter, Moo and Denzi, are both the marvelous creation, well their names and parts of their personalities, of my bestest friend in the world, Sammy, thanx babe. The only thing that is mine is the plot and the writing and wording of the story.
Chapter 2 - Thanks Miss Evans for shutting up:
The gleaming red Hogwarts express was steaming in front of Lily as she stood on Platform 9 ¾ . She heard a loud squeal from behind as her two best friends, Samantha Godenzie and Audrey McMew, ran and bounced on top of her, almost giving her a collapsed lung.
"Oh Merlin I missed you Lily" Audrey exclaimed "You look good, I like your sweater"
"Thanks Moo" Lily said calling Audrey by her nickname, "I missed you too, both of you. How are you Denzi?"
"I'm great thanx Lil," Sam, or 'Denzi', replied " How was your Summer?"
"It was pretty crappy, Petunia was-"
"Evans!" Called the voice of the person that the girls really didn't feel like talking to, or in Lily's case, rejecting again "There you are I have been look every where for you" said a tall, very good looking guy with untameable black hair and glasses.
"What do you want, Potter?" Lily said turning around to face James Potter, the biggest, most arrogant toerag she had ever met.
As she turned around, James saw how much she had matured since the end of their fifth year, lets just say his jaw almost hit the floor and he was feeling rather uncomfortable in the pants right now.
"I - I - um - Yeah" He stuttered, much to the embarrassment of himself as Lily and her friends were almost in hysterics.
"If you liked my green sweater so much just say so, because I don't really want you staring at that certain place on my clothes all day" said Lily.
Before he had a chance to recover and say something that would have most likely made him sound like a piggish prick, Lily stopped her giggles to say "Come on girls lets get onto the train before Potter over here gets himself into more trouble, in the pants, than he already is. If you know what I mean?" She added the last part to Potter as the three girls pushed past him and onto the Hogwarts Express. Leaving James to be dragged onto the train by his three best friends just before they all pulled out of the station and were on their way to Hogwarts.
The girls found them selves an empty compartment near the end of the train and started to discuss their Summers before James and the other Marauders stuck their heads in their compartment.
"Well if it isn't my three favourite Gryffindors" Said Sirius Black, James' Best Friend, as he grinned widely and sat down next to Denzi, putting his arm around her, only to have it removed by Denzi as she gave him a disgusted look.
James and Peter Pettigrew also proceeded to sitting down but, Remus Lupin remained standing and announced that Lily and him had to go to a prefect meeting. Lily, who had completely forgotten about the meeting bid good bye to her friends and left the compartment with Remus.
The two prefects returned an hour later to find Moo and Denzi still discussing their summers and what they wanted to do that year, James, Sirius and Peter were all involved in a game of exploding snap. Lily quickly went and sat down next to Denzi who had finally convinced Sirius to leave her alone, Remus joined in on the boys game. The rest of the train ride was spent with the girls keeping to them selves and the boys keeping to themselves, well no that's not true. The boys would in fact try to get the girls involved in the antics but it was to no avail, as if they even spoke a word to the girls they would get their heads blasted of so, they gave up and spent the rest of the train ride not talking to the girls.
"GRYFFINDOR" Yelled the old and battered sorting hat and a small girl with two long brown plaits jumped off the stool and ran over to the Gryffindor house table.
"Zeller, Jonathon" was called to the sorting hat, which yelled Hufflepuff before being taken away on it's stool by Professor McGonagall, the deputy Headmistress.
Dumbledore stood up and opened his arms in a gesture of welcome.
"2, 4, 6, 8, tuck in don't wait" He said as the golden plates filled themselves with food.
Lily smiled at the headmaster as she piled potatoes onto her plate. The three girls became deep in conversation about their classes for the year and beside them the boys were already planning their first prank. Well they occasionally made small talk about their first prank while they stuffed their faces with so much food that they couldn't talk properly anyway.
"So Girls" James said, coming up from the mountain of food on his plate "What are we doing tonight"
Denzi coughed into her chicken, Moo flushed red and Lily turned to face the guys "If by we you mean all of us together, then we aren't doing anything."
The other two girls began to giggle whilst the marauders all had faces of sadness and anger. "What is your friggin' problem with us Evans?" James almost yelled because of the anger he was feeling at being rejected by the three hottest chicks in their year.
"I don't have a problem with those three" Lily said at the same volume level as James, gesturing at Sirius, Remus and Peter, "I just have a problem with you! You the biggest arrogant jerk I have ever met, You strut around Hogwarts like you own the place, you think that you can just flash your smile at any body on two legs and they'll fall instantly and madly in love with you and then you just drop them after you've got what you want…"
Lily continued to tell James what she thought of him for the rest of the feast. Occasionally James would but in and add his thoughts but the rest of the group weren't listening. These fights were not unusual and the rest of the group knew that they would have to put up with a whole lot more of them for the rest of the year, well until Lily finally realised her true feelings for James.
As Professor Dumbledore got to his feet for the second time that night, Lily and James finally shut their mouths so they could listen to the headmaster. "Just a few things I would like to tell you all before we head up to our dormitories for a good nights sleep, firstly I would like to express upon you that the Forbidden Forrest has it's name for a reason, It's forbidden, so stay away from it please. Secondly, timetables will be handed to you all Monday at breakfast and information for Quidditch and all other clubs will be on your house notice boards. I would lastly like to thank Miss Lily Evans and Mr James Potter for stopping their argument long enough to hear my notices."
Lily and James flushed as the others in the group laughed harder than anyone else in the hall, tears silently rolling down Denzi's cheeks as Sirius shaked uncontrollably.
"Now before we all go off to bed why don't we sing the school song, every one pick your favourite tune" Dumbledore waved his wand and the words to the Hogwarts school song appeared floating in mid air in front of everyone.
The girls sang to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody by the wizarding group Queen which was by far their favourite song of all time.
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts.
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald or young with scabby knees.
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff,
For now there bare and full of air,
Dead Flies and bits of fluff.
So teach us something worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot.
Just do your best and we'll do the rest,
And learn till our brains all rot.
The Marauders of course were the last to finish the song, they were in fact singing to a very slow funeral march (A/N chuckles to self). When they finally reached the last line of the song the hall erupted in applause and Dumbledore concluded the evening with "Now off to bed all of you".
The group slowly made their way up to the common room, spoke the password (Whomping Willow) and climbed the stairs to their dormitories. Lily took off her Green Sweater, changed into her pjs and went to bed falling asleep almost instantly, not even hearing Denzi's random cry of "Thanks Miss Evans for shutting up" in a very Dumbledore like voice.
A/N Thanx for reading, now please review. I think I am just going to write what Denzi and Moo look like here because I can't work out how to write it in the story, so, here goes:
Denzi has Dark Blonde hair that could almost be called brown. She has blue eyes and is really skinny, she is gorgeous.
Moo has dark brown hair and brown eyes and a few freckles, she is not skinny but not fat, but just generally very pretty.
Of course I should have written that in the story but like I said I just couldn't work out where to put it in.
I would like to say that JKR never includes the school song in the books, she did in the Philosophers Stone but hasn't since, I would love to see more of it so I used it in my story, no one ever does.
PLEASE give me feedback on this chapter and the first, what did you think of Dumbledore's speech, was it alright?
Thanx a whole lot of galleons for reading.
Lots of Love from,
Skweeky Leisha
AKA Hpfreak91
