After the train stopped, Lily and her two new friends got off.
As they exited they heard a loud voice saying "firs' years over here! Firs' years over here!" The three friends headed towards the voice, and when they arrived at their destination, they saw a multitude of boats in a lake.
"Four ter a boat! Four ter a boat!" The same loud voice said. The three friends hurriedly climbed into a boat.
Soon after they were comfortable in a boat, another girl joined them. "Hey!" Said the girl with short brown hair, and a round friendly face. "My name's Alice. Can I join you?"
Without waiting for an answer Alice climbed into the boat. They other girls introduced themselves, and were soon deep in conversation. After a while, the boats began to move, and to the girls deep dismay, a boat full of boys pulled up next to theirs.
And, that group of boys just happened to include James Potter.
"Hey Flower! Who are you friends?" James yelled to Lily.
Instead of answering, Lily pulled a chocolate frog out of her bag, and threw it at his head.
As expected, James ducked. However, as he did that, he threw the boat of balance, and it tipped over. Everybody around them began to laugh, and the girls in the next boat were back in their discussion.
(A/N: I didn't really want to write about the sorting, so this is at the feast, after everybody had been sorted. I'm hoping that you read enough Harry Potter, that you basically know who got sorted into which houses.)
James watched the four girls as they laughed. Lily was shoving the girl next to her playfully, and they kept pointing over at him. Lily was getting more forceful with each shove, until finally, they both fell out of their chairs and onto the floor. They were laughing as they got back up, and James wanted to know what they were talking about.
"James. James! JAMES! OY! JAMSIE-BOY!" Sirius bellowed in James' ear."What do you want Sirius? And I told you, don't call me Jamsie!"
"Sorry mate, but you weren't listening!"
"Fine, what were you saying?"
"Well before you drifted off, we were discussing pranks to play. So far we've decided to turn Malfoy's food into slugs. That prat."
"Oh, that blonde guy on the train? Okay, Sirius, do you know the spell?"
"No, but I'm sure Remmy here does."
"Call me Remmy again, and you're getting nothing."
"Fine, Remus. What's the spell?"
"Slugosis"
In barely a whisper Sirius pointed his wand at the Slytherin table and muttered the spell. At this point, James decided to start a count down.
He stood up on the table and yelled,
"5," at this everybody looked up.
"4," some people joined in.
"3," the Slytherins went back to their food.
"2," even the some of the teachers were joining in.
"1," people were nearly exploding with excitement.
"0!"
"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Everybody turned to the Slytherin table. It was an odd sight. Everybody on the entire right half of the table were headless. Everybody on the left side of the table had two heads. Everybody at the table was glowing in pink and green stripes. It was silent for a moment. Then, the entire hall (with the exception of the Slytherins) erupted in laughter.
Remus turned to Sirius and muttered, "What did you DO?"
"Nothing.." Sirius replied as innocently as he could while laughing along with everybody else.
Madame Pomfrey hurried over to the Slytherins and began attempting to put them right. This only made Sirius laugh harder. Remus then pushed Sirius into his food.
After everybody had finished laughing, and they had been showed to their dormitories, (the teachers completely forgot to punish James and his friends) The four friends sank gratefully into their beds.
The girls arrived at their dormitory, still discussing the night's events.
"Personally, I'm afraid. If they can do that on the first day of school, imagine what they will be able to do once they learn how do more complex spells." Lily said. Her friends agreed with her, and they climbed into bed unaware of the surprises to come.
The next morning, the girls all dressed and headed down for breakfast. When they got there, they got their schedules.
"9:00, History of Magic," Lily read aloud. Her friends groaned.
"History of Magic is the most boring class there is," Parker explained at Lily's questioning look. "Hardly anyone can stay awake."
They arrived at their first class to find that James and his friends were already there. He stood up and said,
"Hey flower! I thought that I would introduce you to my friends."
Lily, looked at him. She was not expecting this.
"This is Sirius Black, but you already know him" The handsome boy swooped in front of James and murmured "Pleasure to see you again Lily, pleasure."
Lily giggled and replied, " The pleasure is mine Black," with a fake curtsy.
"And this is Remus Lupin," James continued. The wiry boy with sandy colored hair and clear blue eyes, stepped up and said "Nice to meet you Lily,"
"And this is Peter Pettigrew," James finished. Peter just grunted from his spot.
"Now, will you introduce me to your lovely friends without throwing things at me?" James asked.
"Fine.. This is Parker." The beautiful girl stepped up and pretended not to notice the boys jaws as they dropped.
"This is Stephanie" Once again the boys looked astonished at her beauty, and Remus actually stepped up and said ,
"Your eyes are the most amazing color." Stephanie blushed at this and thanked him.
" And this is Alice, wait, ALICE come over here for a second!" The girl looked up from her conversation with a second year and came over.
"What?" she said. "You messed up my conversation with Frank" The other three gave each other significant looks, then began to giggle. They finally stopped, and Lily spoke once more.
"Sorry 'bout that Alice, but Potter wanted to meet you." James shook her hand.
"Okay, now go away Potter."
"Why, what did I do?" James asked, somewhat shocked.
"Well, you never apologized for yesterday." Lily replied.
"You should be honored that I even touched you. Most girls would die to have that opportunity."
"Okay, now your being an arrogant prick. Go away Potter." When he didn't move, Lily and her friends picked up their things and moved.
James turned to his friends, who were all standing behind him and said,
"This calls for revenge."
