Diclaimer: I ain't JKR, don't even bother asking me if I am. XD

'I bet that didn't go down too well!'

'Picture your reaction when I said that I was going to dye your hair blonde….'

'Not well at all then.'

TO UNDERSTAND

Chapter 6: Toast anyone?

'WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE!'

'I KNOW!'

'WE'RE GOING TO BE REALLY REALLY LATE!'

Oh My God! Who the hell is making that racket!?! If it's Ron I swear I'll bury him so deep, all you'll be able to see is a tuft of hair… Hair….Something happened with hair yesterday...

'LILY HAVE YOU SEEN MY PINK HAIRSLIDES?!?'

Lily…Lily…Why is that familiar…OH MY GOD!

I sat bolt upright and stared around my new dormitory with two girls whizzing around nosily, both half dressed and in a hurry.

'Oh…shit…' I whispered as realisation hit me.

It's 1975 isn't it? So it wasn't just a bad dream…I leaned forward and groaned, lacing my fingers into my tousled hair.

'LILY!' screamed Alice from beside me. 'HAIRSLIDES? WHERE ARE THEY?'

'UNDER YOUR MATTRESS!' yelled a voice from the shower.

'Oh hey!' greeted Alice finally noticing me and lifting up her covers to pick up her glittering hair slides 'Sorry things are so loud it isn't usually this hectic in the-'

'MARLENE WHERE'S THE SPARE SHAMPOO?!?'

We both winced and Marlene grabbed a bottle from her bedside cabinet and passed it under the door.

'THANK YOU!!' shouted the reply and Marlene came over and sat on my bed.

'How are you this morning?' she asked smiling.

'I'll tell you when I'm awake…' I groaned, flopping backwards onto my pillows.

'Well you better get ready soon Ginny.' She said, getting up 'It quarter to 8 now and breakfast is in fifteen minutes…'

'WHAT?!?' I yelled and leapt out of bed whizzing past Lily who was coming out of the bathroom, wrapped tightly in a towel. I practically dived into the shower and was out within 5 minutes which has got to be a record for me. I ran a borrowed brush roughly through my hair finding it way easier to tame than usual. Maybe having straight hair isn't so bad after all…

'You ready?' asked Lily 10 minutes later, standing by the dormitory exit with Marlene and Alice. I stood with my new bag between my legs and a bobble in my mouth before wrapping it round my ponytail expertly and slinging my book bag over my shoulder.

'Yes.' I answered breathlessly and we walked down the stairs and into the common room where the whole room was teeming with life.

'Give that back!'

'Are you sure that essay's due in by today?'

'McGonagall's going to kill me!'

'What the hell were you doing last night?'

'I can't believe he gave me detention just for doing that…'

We wove our way through the groups of people and finally managed to reach the portrait hole.

'So, where are you from?' asked Alice when we'd climbed through to the other side.

'Um…Devon.' I replied. Hopefully Harry would stick to my life story too…

'Oh it's nice down there.' said Marlene quietly.

'Why'd you have to come here then? Why didn't you start in first year?'

'My Dad taught us at home up until now.' I said. 'But he's too ill to do it now…'

'Oh I'm sorry…' said Lily sadly. 'And who do you mean by 'we'- JAMES POTTER PUT THAT TOASTER DOWN!'

We had just reached the Great Hall when we saw a black haired 7th year sat holding an old, muggle toaster at an odd angle. He had a look of extreme concentration plastered across his face as his friends loaded it up with copious amounts of bread and marmalade.

'Put the toaster down' growled Lily dangerously and the black haired boy glanced at her surprised. It was a 17 year old James Potter. He looks exactly like Harry except his eyes are hazel instead of green and his nose is ever so slightly longer...

'Ah Lily!' he said pleasantly, still not looking up from the toaster.

'James I don't know what you are trying to do but-'

'All in good time my precious…' he said offhandedly as he aimed the toaster a degree higher 'Push the trigger Sirius!'

A 17 year old Sirius Black saluted jauntily before pulling down the lever at the side of the toaster.

'James potter!' puffed up lily as the rest of us took cover behind the Gryffindor bench.

'10…'

'You are no doubt-'

'9…'

'About to do something-'

'8…'

'Completely irresponsible-'

'7…'

'That will most probably result-'

'6…'

'With McGonagall-'

'5…'

'Taking another 30 points-'

'4…'

'From Gryffindor-'

'3…'

'And I for once-'

'2…'

'Do NOT-'

Sirius leapt up from behind the bench and dragged Lily roughly under the ready made barricade.

'1…'

'PING'

The toaster exploded, launching about two hundred compressed pieces of toast 30 metres across the great hall and spattering the entire Slytherin table with bits of bread and marmalade.

The whole hall burst out laughing, all apart from the occupants of the end table who were now screaming disgustedly and trying to fish bits of crust out of their hair. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were now rolling on the floor with the rest of Gryffindor house, absolutely weak with laughter.

'Did…Did you see the look on Bellatrix's face!' gasped Sirius, wiping tears from his eyes.

'Yeah and…and did you see that soggy one…hit Lucius?' joined in Remus and they burst out laughing again, congratulating themselves on a job well done.

'Did we hit Snivellus?' asked Peter grinning.

'Nope.' Said James sadly, wiping his eyes 'He's not come down yet but that would have been priceless to watch I must admit…'

The laughter faded out as the shadow of Lily Evans stood over them glaring.

'Um…Hi Lily.' said James nervously, running a hand through his hair, just like Harry does when he's on the spot. 'Do…Do you want some toast?' he said weakly.

She seemed to tower over them all and they cowered under her gaze. Harry's mum is one scary Lady…

'Don't say a word…'she said dangerously and all sound ceased. 'You will pick up every last speck of toast from this hall-'

'Aw but Lily-'

'AND.' she continued and all the boys gulped. 'You will go and apologise to every single person you hit!'

'NO WAY!' yelled James and a wave of déjà vu swept over me and I smiled. He sounded exactly like Harry did when I suggested about going 'Honey Blonde'…

'YES WAY JAMES POTTER!' she screamed back.

'BUT WHY?!?'

'BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING WRONG AND YOU NOW HAVE TO PAY FOR IT!'

'THIS IS NO WAY I AM APOLOGISING TO THE SLYTHERINS!'

'WELL YOU'LL HAVE TO IF YOU EVER WANT TO SEE FOOD EVER AGAIN!'

'IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN LILY!'

'OH BUT IT IS!'

A loud bang went off behind us and everyone spun around. It was a 22 year younger Professor McGonagall and her nostrils were flared and her wand smoking, which is never a good sign…

'What is going on here?' she said dangerously 'And why Mr Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew are the Slytherins all covered with what is supposed to be on your breakfast plates and not on their heads?'

'Um…' said James like a rabbit caught in headlights. 'Um well you see…'

'Explain Mr Potter...' Hissed McGonagall and everyone sidled away quickly, leaving Lily and the Marauders under the heavy glare of the Gryffindor head of house.

So that's James Potter… Well everyone's telling the truth I suppose, Harry is the spitting image of his father but he seems to have got his mothers eyes which at the moment (I looked back over to Lily who was glaring at the Marauders) do NOT look that happy… I looked across the great hall to where the Slytherins were still complaining and shaking their fists at the Gryffindors but there was still no sign of Harry.

'Where are you?' I said quietly and then walked into the entrance hall.

I spotted him, walking slowly out of the entrance to the dungeons looking more than a little uncomfortable in his new Slytherin robes and following behind a younger Severus Snape.

So that's the traitor is it? That's the little bastard who murdered Dumbledore… Who deceived us all! How can Harry even bare to be near him? Oh yeah I almost forgot... He's going to try and 'change' him isn't he? Try to turn him away from Voldemort… I've always had the highest confidence in Harry. He's always managed anything he's set his mind to but doesn't he think that this time he's gone a little too far? He's decided to put himself in a house full of Slytherins! A house fit to burst with soon to be deatheaters! And he thinks he can change them? He thinks that he can turn them away from Voldemort and….and just change the way that they've been brought up! I bet their parents have been dragging them up to join the deatheaters since they were born. I mean look at Sirius's house! Imagine growing up with all that! ... I don't want to have to say it but…. Harry will be able to change them as much as he can change the stars… I'm just worried now that they'll be the ones to…to change Harry… He'd never join Voldemort but…I just hope he doesn't get too caught up in this and drift away to somewhere, where I can't bring him back….

I gestured wildly to him from across the hall and he turned to see me and nodded happily. He went over to Snape and said something which made him walk away into the great hall and cause Harry to jog quickly over to me and hug me warmly. I hugged him back gratefully before be both realised what we were doing and let go quickly.

I've got to stop touching him all the time! It's going to drive me crazy! You're not going out with him anymore okay? You split up! He dumped you to protect you remember…? But why do I always just want to forget…?

'Are you okay?' I asked giving him a quick once over with my eyes.

'Yeah I'm fine, you?'

'Well now I've got over the shock of waking up to 1975 this morning, I guess I'm okay!'

'Did you think it was just a dream too then?'

'Yeah, I was totally confused! I thought Ron was making this big commotion when I realised it was all the girls in my dorm getting ready.'

'Have you been to breakfast yet?'

'Yep, though I didn't get much to eat on the fact that your Dad, Sirius, Remus and Peter were stuffing my breakfast into a rocket launcher come toaster machine…'

'What?!?'

'It was actually really funny. They managed to launch the whole toast supply for the Gryffindor table onto the Slytherins, covering all of them in bits of jam and crust.'

'Wow…'

'Yep' I grinned happily 'but they're in the great hall now getting a killing off McGonagall. You should have seen your mum's face…'

'Angry was she?'

'Absolutely livid... She told them all that they would have to pick it all up and then apologise to the Slytherins.'

Harry winced slightly.

'I bet that didn't go down too well…'

'Definitely not…Picture exactly your reaction when I said that I was going to dye your hair blonde.'

He ran a hand over his head and winced again.

'Not well at all then…'

We both went silent until Harry took in a breath

'I guess I'll see you in Transfiguration then…'

'Okay. See you after.'

'Bye.'

I walked off across the entrance hall and joined back up with Alice and Marlene who were watching a fuming James and Sirius extremely anxiously. The two boys were talking very quickly together with Peter and Remus both tailing them and their expressions were like thunder.

'What's going on?' I asked Marlene who was biting her lip.

'I think Potter and Black are going to kick off in a minute,' she said quietly.

'Oh god…' said Alice looking around desperately. 'Where the hell is Lily?!?'

'What do you mean by 'kick off'?' I asked nervously

'They're going to have a go at the next Slytherin they see' said Marlene darkly 'and it'll probably end up being their favourite punch bag…'

'I mean I hate the greasy coward as much as the next Gryffindor…' reasoned Alice 'but why they'll have a go at him when he hasn't even done anything I don't understand….'

'I still don't know what you mean.' I said but they seemed to be distracted. I looked to where they were staring and to my surprise found myself looking at Harry and Snape. The black haired teen was pulling on Harry's arm and urging him to move away, where as Harry seemed to be resisting. James and Sirius looked up at the bickering pair and grins slowly made their way onto their faces. What was going on?

'Oh Merlin, here we go' said Alice uncomfortably as she dragged me over to get a better view…

Hey! That's the updates for now! Though for the next couple of chapters it's going to be from Harry's point of view! Hope you liked it people! Please review!

Ellie.

ps. On the Ning Nang Nong where the cows go bong...