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Startling Revelations
That night, shortly after dinner, the 7th year girls trooped up to the Gryffindor dorms.
"Dorm, sweet dorm!" Alice sang, "how great it is to be home"
"I know, I always feel kind of bad about it, but Hogwarts is more home to me than my parent's house! Wait. Lilly, where's your bed?" asked Tabitha.
"I'm not living with you this year" Lilly explained "I live in the Head tower now"
Lilly helped the other girls unpack, then sat back and began to plait her hair.
"You always side-part your plaits. Why?" Alice asked
"I can tell you why" said Gretchen with a wicked grin. "The first time she did it, James Potter complimented her on it!"
The three girls began to laugh as Lilly's face colored slightly.
"That's not why I do it!" protested Lilly, "I just like it that way!"
"Face it, Flame. You've got a thing for Potter!" Alice said.
"While I won't deny that he is somewhat handsome-"
Gretchen snorted
"- that's gorgeous, Gea, really eloquent. Fine, he's exceedingly handsome, he's just so big-headed. And anyway, Allycat. What about you with Frank?" Lilly finished accusingly.
Alice pressed her hands to her face, to fight the blush that rose to flush her face.
"Frank doesn't even know that I exist." Alice whispered.
The other girls sighed. A blind witch could see Frank's regard for Alice. Lilly looked through Standard Book of Spells: Book 7, a new series of books assigned to the students. She didn't really need to study too badly, but she did anyway, because Potter didn't.
"Honestly! With all your studying you'd think you were a Ravenclaw! Will you ever give it a break?" Gretchen complained.
"She will when the sun sets in the east." Commented Tabitha dryly.
"Actually, the Sorting Hat thought of that. Putting me in Ravenclaw, I mean. It said:
'Plenty of brains, Ravenclaw perhaps.
But great courage, too, a thirst to prove worthy.
Loyalty, and love! A love story to end love stories.
It wouldn't do, to separate you two
Better be GRYFFINDOR!'" Lilly finished.
"You memorized the Sorting Hat's analysis?" Gretchen asked flatly.
"It was interesting!"
"OH!" Alice shouted, and began laughing hysterically, clutching her sides.
"Ice . . .you ok?" Gretchen asked, prodding Alice cautiously.
"If you call temporary insanity ok, then definitely" Tabby answered.
"No! Don't you see?" Alice gasped, "it's James!"
"Wha . . . oh!" Gretchen and Tabitha began to laugh as well.
"Am I the only sane person in the dorm?" Lilly asked the air.
"No, Lilly! You and James! He's your love!" Alice exclaimed.
"Get with reality, Alice" Lilly stated.
"But he was very nice on the train, you said so yourself! And the Head meeting went well. Anyway, he's loved you for forever, then in 5th year he started asking you out. He's never loved another girl! You are starting to like him- don't interrupt- and soon" the girls began to giggle again, " you bud of love" a cackle ripped loose of Gretchen, "will blossom into a flower of true love!" The girls collapsed into hysterical laughter.
"That's ridiculous. That only happens in stories!" Lilly said.
"Exactly!" Gretchen replied, quite seriously, "a love story to end all love stories."
"two gryffindors . . ." Tabitha said.
"I –" Lilly was interrupted by a knock at the door.
"James!" she explaimed after opening the door. "What- how did you get up here?"
It was common knowledge that the girls staircase turned into a slide, after James slid down, trying to continue an argument with Lilly in 2nd year.
James, shocked that Lilly had addressed him by his first name, responded shakily.
"Uh . .. Professor McGonagall sent me up. She's to show us to our new rooms" he was so flustered he didn't see the other girls laughing quietly in the backround, or Lilly's blushing face.
She brushed past him, shutting the door. He then permitted himself to grin
'Maybe this year won't be too difficult' he thought to himself.
