October 1st; 9pm:

"It all started with James Potter," Lily said, shaking her head and looking up at Professor McGonagall, who looked unsurprised by this fact.

"You witnessed the entire thing?" the Professor asked grimly, her mouth in the thinnest line Lily had ever seen it.

"As much of it as I could, yes," Lily responded, still trying to wrap her head around what had just happened.

In all of her years at Hogwarts Lily had never seen something as chaotic as the events that took place tonight.

"And this was all James Potter's fault?" Professor McGonagall asked with a sigh.

14 hours earlier:

All too soon Lily's alarm clock was blaring, signaling that it was time for her to get up if she wanted to make it to breakfast in time to get the good muffins and the fresh coffee. She could hear Alice grumbling about the noise and covering her head with a pillow. Lily however, sat up, turned off her alarm (unlike Alice who was snoozing her's) and made her way into the bathroom. The nice, hot water helped wake Lily up, but she had to force herself out and into the chilly October air.

When she finally got herself out of the shower and dressed, Gemma was in the mirror fixing the waves in her hair, while Adrian was wordlessly fixing her makeup. Alice, who had finally gotten up, was dragging herself towards her shower. With a wave of her wand, Lily's hair was dry and five minutes later her hair was in a bun on the top of her head and her makeup was on.

Gemma, Adrian and Lily threw their stuff into their book bags and walked towards the Great Hall for breakfast. They made their way over to where Adaline and Peter were sitting with their Charm books spread out, both of them blushing slightly.

Sitting down, Lily reached for the coffee and eyed the last blueberry muffin on the plate. She started reaching for it when Adrian quickly snatched it and with a look of victory she shoved part of it in her mouth. With a glare, Lily reached for the toast and jam.

"I really hate you, you know…" Lily told Adrian, with a glare.

"I know," Adrian mumbled, her mouth still full of muffin.

"Why do you hate her?" Peter asked, closing his book and looking at the girls.

"She took the last blueberry muffin and they are my favorite."

"I really wanted one this morning!"

"Well, so did I!" Lily whined.

"Quit your whining and drink your coffee."

Lily glared at her, but did take a giant sip of her coffee.

"Good morning!" Adaline said in a chipper voice as Alice approached us.

"Is any morning good?" Alice asked, sitting down and putting her head back on the table, wishing it was her pillow and she was still in bed.

"Yes, because there is breakfast foods!" Gemma said, excitedly shoveling as much food onto her plate as possible.

Alice just groaned in response.

"So why were you here so early?" Gemma asked, looking at Adaline.

"We were going over Charms homework," she said nonchalantly, despite all of her friends knowing stares.

"She's been a great help, I honestly do not think that I would be able to pass without her."

"You are not that bad at Charms," Adaline said, looking at him with a small smile.

"He is pretty bad a Charms," Sirius said, shooting him a quick wink when Adaline turned her back.

7 Hours Earlier:

Lily was sitting in Transfiguration, glaring at her goblet in frustration. She could not for the life of her get it to transfigure into the bunny. Potter and Black had gotten to spell almost instantly, and were now sitting in the back of the room laughing. They were joined shortly by Remus (who thankfully, looked to be feeling much better) and Peter. There was a small group of Ravenclaws who were sitting up front smugly, since they had just gotten the spell as well. Alice was the first of the girls to get the spell, all of the others were starting to get frustrated. None, however, were as frustrated as Lily, who some would call competitive.

"Try flicking a little less?" Alice suggested, as she watched Lily try again.

"Thanks," Lily responded and tried her advice.

She had gotten a little bit closer, but had still not quite gotten it.

"Alright class, we will be practicing them again tomorrow. To those of you who have not succeeded in performing the spell, I suggest you re-read the last chapter. Class dismissed."

The girls walked out of class, and Lily was feeling slightly annoyed. When Lily looked down the hall she knew that her mood was not going to get any better as she watched Lucius Malfoy raise his wand at a 5th year Muggleborn Hufflepuff.

Lily waved her friends off, knowing that she could handle Malfoy on her own.

"Put your wand down Malfoy."

"I don't take orders from filthy little mudbloods like you."

"Put your wand down or I will give you a detention."

"I do not take orders from you Evans," he snarled, turning to glare at her, his wand now directed at Lily.

"No, but you do listen to Professor Slughorn, and I do not think that you want to explain to him that you are in detention with him for hexing a younger student."

"You will get what's coming for you, mark my word Evans," he said, before glaring and walking away.

"That was pretty gutsy Evans, I'll give you that," Black said, stepping out from the shadows.

"Erm, thanks? What exactly were you doing there?" Lily asked him, as we turned and started walking towards the common room.

"I saw you two arguing, I wanted to make sure you didn't get yourself into too much trouble," he said, "I grew up playing with Malfoy, I know that he doesn't play fair."

"Thanks," Lily said, and he just shrugged like it was no big deal.

"Anyways, I'll see you later Evans, there is a 7th year Hufflepuff in a broom closet waiting for me."

"You know that's against the rules Black," Lily said, shaking her head as he winked at her from over his shoulder.

Lily, however, was in a good mood for the moment, and she thought it was sweet that he stayed to make sure she was okay. She knew that he probably was hoping for an excuse to punch Malfoy, but she'd take it. With that thought, she turned and walked away, deciding to let him have his broom closet fun.

3 Hours Earlier:

Dinner was uneventful, Lucius Malfoy was glaring at Lily, and when Sirius sat down he turned and winked at her. Lily just shook her head and added some mashed potatoes to her plate.

"Are you going to the library after dinner Lils?" Gemma asked.

"No, I think I am going to try and get some work done in the common room. Are you?"

"Unfortunately yes…" Gemma said, "I have that fucking Potions essay to write…"

"The one that he assigned two weeks ago?" Alice asked, giving Gemma a look.

"Ummm, yes?"

"Have you started it yet?" Adrian asked, chuckling.

"Nope…"

"Oops?" Adrian laughed.

"You really need to learn to stop procrastinating your essays…"

"Maybe one day," Gemma said, winking at her friends.

"Well, if you need any help you know where I'll be…" Lily said, laughing at her.

"I'll probably take you up on that…" Gemma said, "You know I hate Potions. Besides, I won't be there for long, James is posting the Quidditch team tonight."

After dinner the girls went their separate ways Gemma and Alice went to the library, Adaline went to the Library as well, but she was waiting for Peter so that they could work on their Charms a little bit more. Adrian and Lily, on the other hand, started the hike towards the common room.

1 Hour Earlier:

Gemma was true to her word and came back to the common room about two hours later.

"I am so hopeless on this conclusion," Gemma said, flinging herself onto the chair next to Lily.

"Alright, let me see it," Lily said, and she passed her essay, grinning thankfully at her friend.

"Oh look! Potter is posting the team!" Adrian said gleefully.

"Oh, I wonder if we made it!" Gemma said, and they both burst out in a laughing fit, both knowing damn well that they made the team.

"Let's go look!" Adrian said.

Together the pair dramatically made their way up to the board, holding hands and pretending to be nervous. Lily sat, shaking her head and continued reading Gemma's essay, while Potter stood there laughing.

Lily watched as a fifth year transfer student named Jackson shoved both Adrian and Gemma out of the way so that he could see if he made the team or not. Lily raised her eyebrows and watched him closely.

"Reserve? I am on Reserve?!" he said, turning to glare at Potter, "I was the best one trying out!"

"You were the second best one trying out, Elsye blocked just as many goals as you, and her technique was better."

"I was the best player at Salem!" he practically shouted, looking furious.

"Than Salem must have had poor Quidditch skills," James said simply, before turning to talk to Gemma and Adrian.

Before Lily knew what was happening Jackson had his wand out and was sending a hex at Potter's turned back. Lily watched as Potter doubled over, not expecting the hex. Lily instantly had her wand out and was ready to disarm either of them should she need to.

"10 points from Gryffindor, for attacking another student, and from behind nonetheless," Lily said, glaring at Jackson.

"He didn't put me on the Quidditch team!"

"That is no need to throw a tantrum," Lily said, raising her eyebrows at him.

"He hexed James Potter?" Lily could hear the younger 5th year girls gossiping and she knew nothing good was going to come from this.

"How dare he?!"

Before Lily even had time to react one of the girls was sending a hex towards Jackson, who fired a hex right back. The problem was, he missed his target and before Lily knew it the whole common room was sending hexes at each other. It was complete and utter chaos.

"STOP!" Lily shouted, raising her wand ready to take action.

"EVERYONE FREEZE!" Remus tried shouting over the noise.

Lily raised her wand to fire a charm, when a stunning charm hit her from behind. She watched as different spells flew from different directions, everyone flinging different curses and spells in different directions. Lily lowered her wand, knowing that she was not going to be able to stop this alone.

Lily made her way over to Remus, who was now standing near Potter, Gemma and Adrian.

"Any ideas on how to get them to stop?" Lily asked, looking at her fellow 6th years.

"I don't know that we can," Remus said, nervously glancing at everyone, "I will go get Professor McGonagall, you keep trying…"

With that, Remus walked towards the door, ducking and dodging curses flinging by his head. With a shrug Lily looked at the others as they continued to block curses that flew near them (mainly from Jackson who was still angrily firing curses at James).

"Cover me for a moment?" Lily asked Potter, raising her wand towards her throat while he nodded.

"Sonorus" Lily mumbled before addressing the common room, "Everybody freeze!"

Lily watched as some people stopped, while others simply ignored her and kept firing spells. Clearly, their house had some unresolved anger.

"STOP!" Lily said, her voice echoing through the common room, causing the portraits on the walls to shake.

When no-one stopped, Lily shrugged in defeat and continued to fire blocks between different people who were fighting, some of the older students began doing the same. They stayed like this until McGonagall walked through the door. Her mouth in such a thin line it looked as though her lips had disappeared.

"What is the meaning of this?" she asked, not even having to raise her voice for everyone to stop, "I expect better from my house, 50 points will be taken from Gryffindor for fighting. We will not tolerate this behavior at Hogwarts, and the next person caught firing a spell at another student outside of class will be serving detention with me. Is that understood?"

Everyone nodded, some students bowing their heads in shame.

"With everything that is happening outside of Hogwarts we all need to make sure that we stick together. I want everyone to take a seat, I will be talking with each of you in my office individually. The person responsible for this will be punished. Amanda King, follow me," Professor McGonagall said, pointing at a shaking 4th year. She looked about ready to cry.

9pm on October 1st:

"It all started with James Potter," Lily said, shaking her head and looking up at Professor McGonagall, who looked unsurprised by this fact.

"You witnessed the entire thing?" the Professor asked grimly, her mouth in the thinnest line Lily had ever seen it.

"As much of it as I could, yes," Lily responded, still trying to wrap her head around what had just happened.

In all of her years at Hogwarts Lily had never seen something as chaotic as the events that took place tonight.

"And this was all James Potter's fault?" Professor McGonagall asked with a sigh.

"Well, not his fault per say, but it all started with him posting the Quidditch team…" Lily said, "Jackson, the transfer student, I don't remember his last name, was angry that he didn't make the first string, so he hexed James from behind. I docked him points, but one of the 5th year girls were angry that he hexed James so she went and hexed him, and then chaos broke out. Remus and I tried to stop it, but no one was listening, so Remus came to find you and many of the older students started sending blocking spells in the middle of different battles."

"Do you know which 5th year hexed Mr. Harrison?"

"I didn't see her, sorry Professor."

"So, who would you say is at fault here Miss Evans?"

"I would say Jackson is Professor, he is the one who sent the first curse."

"Thank you Miss Evans, you may go, please send Mr. Potter in on your way out."

"Of course Professor," I said, making my way towards the door before I turned around and asked, "Do you know if Madame Pomfrey needs any help in the Hospital Wing?"

"I think that she could use some assistance, thank you Miss Evans."

With that Lily walked out of her office and towards the common room to find Potter and then to the hospital wing to help.

The next day, was thankfully Friday, and went by pretty quickly. Before Lily knew it, she was sitting in the common room playing Wizarding Chess with Alice, while the rest of their roommates sat around and gossiped. The whole common room was pretty quiet after the incident yesterday, people were staying away in case someone started hexing again.

"Do you know what we need?" Alice asked, her blue eyes gleaming with excitement.

"What do we need?"

"Ice cream," she said, smirking.

"I could always go for ice cream," Lily responded, grinning at her.

"Well, it's decided. Let's go!" Adaline said, giggling while the other girls nodded.

The roommates quickly put away their game and made their way towards the kitchens. When they got there, Alice reached up and tickled the pear, before they piled themselves into the room. They asked the egear House Elves for their ice cream before sitting down at the table to talk.

"So, who's excited for the Hogsmeade trip tomorrow?" Adrian asked.

"Me!" Lily said, grinning at Alice and Adaline.

"Me too! Lily, Adaline and I are going to have a marvelous date day!" Alice said, smirking at her friends.

"Ummm, about that…" Adaline said, and all of her friends eyes went wide, "I'm actually going with Peter…"

"OH MY GOD!" Gemma screamed loudly, making the nearest house elf jump.

"Yeah…" she said with a shy smile, "he asked me earlier this week while we were working charms…"

"And this is the first time that we are hearing about his?" Lily asked, glaring at her.

"Oops?" she said, shrugging, "With everything that happened last night, I didn't think it was appropriate."

"We could have used that little bit of information as good news!" Gemma argued.

"I have been waiting for this for years!" Adrian said, "Seriously, years. Even though I haven't seen you two together at family gatherings since last year, Christmas, it was inevitable."

Adaline just rolled her eyes, "You are crazy…"

"So, what do you think you're going to do?" Lily asked, excited for her friend.

"I'm not sure...I think he wants it to be a surprise…" Adaline said, her face lit up with joy.

"Whatever it is, you are going to have a wonderful time," Alice said.

"I know," Adaline said happily, "I can't wait…"

"What about you Adrian? Who are you going with?" Lily said.

"Gemma and I are going on a double date," Adrian said, throwing her black hair over her shoulder and winking at a laughing Gemma.

"Yeah, we have dates with Rick Walker and Johnny Freedman," Gemma added, rolling her eyes at Adrian.

"Ohhhh, and what is on the agenda for that?" Adaline asked, taking a bite of her ice cream.

"I think we are doing butterbeers at the Three Broomsticks," Adrain said, "Nice and casual."

With that they all laughed and finished our ice cream before making their way back upstairs. Talking about what they were going to be wearing for Hogsmeade tomorrow.

Alice and Lily were crying of laughter, sitting and drinking their butterbeers. They had just gotten back from Honeydukes (who can pass up chocolate samples?) and were now laughing at their friends on their dates. Adrian seemed to be having fun on her date, a 7th year Ravenclaw Quidditch player. Gemma and his friend were not having nearly as good of a time. They were sitting silently, looking anywhere but each other. She kept shooting pleading glances at her friends. Remus, seemed to suffering just as much as Gemma a few tables down. His date was clearly into Sirius, who was sitting at a table in the back with his tongue down someone's throat.

"Hey Lils, do you remember our first trip to Hogsmeade?" Alice said, a small smile on her lips.

"Yeah, we were so sure it was going to be an awful day, and that we would hate it," Lily said, shaking her head.

"You were so angry because James had promised to spend the day with you, but instead he ended up spending it with Kristin…"

"It was Christine…" Lily said, cringing slightly at the memory.

"You would remember that…" Alice said, giving her friend a look.

"Yeah, I was so angry about it because he and I hadn't had our quality best friend time, and I was missing my friend, and he still ditched me," I said, "And if I remember correctly you were upset because Cody Boyle didn't go with you…"

"Oh my god!" Alice said hiding behind her hands in horror, before both girls burst out laughing.

"I think Remus is going in for the rescue!" Lily said, giggling, "His date headed for the bathroom and he headed for Gemma. He is so much nicer than we are."

"Oh my Merlin, is he going to ditch his date? They appeared to be having so much fun," Alice said sarcastically.

"It certainly appears that way."

They watched as he whispered something in Gemma's ear, and they got up and made their way towards the door.

"Shall we go and follow them?" Alice asked, a mischievous smirk falling onto her lips.

"Oh of course!" Lily said, grinning at her.

The two girls placed their money on the table and headed out after their friends. They followed them as they made their way towards the Shrieking Shack. With a shared look, Lily and Alice decided to attempt to scare their friends.

They waited a few moments before quietly sneaking up behind them, planning to scare them. It would have worked if Remus hadn't turned around and started laughing when he saw them.

"Really, what are we, 12?" Gemma said, giving them a look, while everyone burst out laughing.

"Like you are one to talk, aren't you supposed to be on a date right now?"

"I mean, I was hoping to at least get some Quidditch strategies out of him…"

"Did you really sink to that level?" Alice said, shaking her head.

"I was thinking ahead?" she said, shrugging.

"What about you Remus?" Lily asked.

"She was boring me, and into Sirius. Besides Gemma looked ready to die of boredom, and you were both ignoring her pleas for help."

"You know me so well…" Gemma said, giggling.

"Unfortunately," Remus said, shaking his head.

Remus looked at all the girls as they continued to walk, smiling. He was happy that they were all talking again. Things had been rocky for the past few years, for reasons unknown to him, and he was happy to have his friends back.

"So, how do you think Peter and Adaline are doing on their date?" Alice asked.

"Oh, it's definitely going well," Lily said, "They're too mad about each other for it to go any other way…"

"Right?" Remus said, smirking, "Sirius and I had to give him a pep talk before he would ask her out. He wasn't sure if she was into him…"

They all laughed at that, knowing full well that she had been crushing on him for ages.

The group of 6th Gryffindors spent the rest of the day walking around and talking, ducking into stores to avoid the dates that they ditched. Gemma was glad that Remus had helped her ditch her date and that she ended up having an awesome day.

The following Monday, the Great Hall was quiet. The post had just arrived and everyone was focused on reading.

Muggle Borns Beware.

The dark mark was found over three different houses last night, all over the homes of known Muggle Borns. There were no survivors within these homes and the Ministry would like to advise all to continue to be cautious. They would like to advise Muggle Borns to take extra caution as it is assumed that they may be being targeted.

Lily felt her stomach drop. This was not surprising news, but that did not make it pleasant to read. Her heart went out to the families that had lost their lives simply because they did not have 'pure blood'. She felt utterly sick, and looking around, it appeared that most people shared her point of view.

It looked like things were getting worse, before they were going to be getting better.

Okay, I really enjoyed writing this chapter. I enjoyed the common room chaos and Peter and Adaline finally going on a date. The question now is, did it go well? What do you think?

Thanks!