Chapter 2: Our Hogwarts Letters
The next morning everyone in the house woke up to find little Christina (who is only three) being chased around the house by Claire.
"YOU LITTLE BRAT! GIVE ME BACK MY LIP GLOSS" Claire shouted chasing her little sister down the stairs.
Lily, James, Remus and Ella who were already up heard all the commotion and were distracted from their conversation.
"I better go find them or we will be planning a funeral for the both of them by the time my dad is out of bed" James said getting up and making his way over to the stairs.
Before he reached the steps Christina came running down and when she saw James, jumped into in arms and hugged him like there was no tomorrow. James didn't even have time to progress what was happening when Christina started talking
"James help! She will get me. I wuv you. Pwease keep me safe." She begged batting her eyelashes.
"Well, okay but first tell me what you took this time" James said properly holding his little sister in his big arms and adjusting her so he could sit down again. Christina grinned and took Claire's favourite lip gloss out of her pocket. James just sighed.
"What do you mean by 'this time'?" Remus asked amused at the situation.
"This happens all the time. Missy here" James said poking Christina in the belly making her giggle "takes something from Claire while she is sleeping and keeps it until Claire realises it is gone and ends up being chased around the house, until she finds me and begs me to be a nice big brother and keep her safe"
"Well we know who she takes after in the family" Lily said smiling and taking Christina from James' arms and fixing her hair.
"Yeah, well what can I say? She learns from the best" He said running a hand through his hair.
Just then Claire ran down the stairs. When she spotted Christina she ran for her and tried to get her but once again Chris jumped into James' arms again.
"Give it back, now" Claire said in a deadly low voice.
"Or what?" Christina said but when Claire reached for her she screamed and held onto James tighter than before.
"Ok, stop both of you." There was a thumping and everyone realised that someone was coming downstairs. "Chris, do you hear that? It is probably a very angry dad coming to get you so you better give Claire her lip gloss back and run" James said putting his little sister down. Chris threw the lip gloss on the floor and ran to hide in a toy basket.
"Aaaargh, she is so annoying" Claire screamed
Sirius appeared from the stairs in nothing but his boxers and rubbing his eyes.
"Did I miss something?" he asked between a yawn.
Before anyone could answer Mr and Mrs Potter walked in. Mrs Potter had letters in her hand and Mr Potter was carrying Jake down the stairs because he was too lazy to walk himself.
"I knew everyone would be up. I mean with all the noise. I do apologize, we have been trying to get Christina to stop annoying Claire but she doesn't listen. Well anyway, here is your Hogwarts letters, they just arrived." Mrs Potter said handing them out to everyone.
"Did anyone see where Christina went? I have to make sure she eats something before we take her to her cousin's house" Mr Potter asked as he put Jake down.
"Yeah dad, she is hiding from you on the laundry basket" Jake stated as if he were there when the fight was happening. Mr Potter was about to ask but decided against it and left the room with his wife and son.
"OMG OMG." Lily said and everyone turned to face her.
"I'm Head Girl" she said in total amazement.
"HOLY COW!" James said from the other side of the room, and everyone turned to face him.
"I'm Head Boy" he said dropping his letter and badge on the floor and taking a seat at the table.
"Stop lying you probably opened Remus' letter" Sirius said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Nope. Here this is what it says:
Dear James Potter
Congratulations! You have been chosen to be the Head Boy of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year. You will find a badge enclosed in your envelope and will be expected to attend the meeting on the Hogwarts Express to meet the Head Girl and other prefects."
"Bummer. This means I have to spend a whole year working with you, even more than usual. Yeah great way to finish off the year" Lily groaned but inside she felt really happy and slightly nervous at what might happen to their friendship.
"Sorry sis. But get use to it. You can't back out now" Sirius said leaving with Claire to go get some breakfast.
"It won't be that bad" James said looking slightly upset that she wasn't happy about it. She started to feel bad and said "I know, I was just kidding. But do you think you will be able to handle me for a whole year?" she said grinning
"Well I will have to try, but I think so" he said a smile returning to his face.
Later that day the three Marauders and the girls decided to go to Diagon Alley to go and buy their school supplies. Mr. and Mrs. Potter gave Claire and James enough money for the both of them, but Lily and Sirius went to Gringotts Wizarding Bank to take money from their parents vault. (Sirius stole the key from them before they left and moved into the Potters).
"No, you guys go and we will catch up later. Gotta get some money from the family vault." Sirius said as they made their way over to the large building.
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Claire, James, Remus and Ella were sitting in the Leaky Cauldron having a few butterbears when Lily and Sirius ran through the door, obviously out of breath.
"Hey guys …..Sorry it took so long….. Sirius saw…… our older brothers….." Lily said between puffs.
"Wait all five of them?" Claire said looking slightly worried and casting glance at the door every now and then.
"Man they are scary, and strong. Did you see the muscles on Nick? He can probably pick you up with one hand and smash you against the wall." Ella said while James and Remus sat there just listening, having no idea what the Black brothers look like.
"Yeah he can because he did that to me once. Remember in third year when I had a big lump on the back of my head" Lily added before Sirius continued, as their eyes grew wide.
"Well we saw them harassing a little girl, and you know how much I hate it when they even look at girls. Probably bash them up. Anyway I decided to hex them"
"How, you are not of age to do magic outside of school yet?" Remus said hoping that Sirius didn't get himself into any trouble.
"Remember I told you that we learnt wandless magic from Dumbledore in our second year. He lets us use it for protection against our family." Lily said standing up and ushering everyone out of the place.
"Oh, by the way they are probably looking for us so we better go." Lily said shifting her bag in her hands
"Yeah, they looked really mad" Sirius added with a smile.
"Well what did you do to them?" James asked hoping it was something really funny.
"All I did was using a summoning charm to strip them of the clothes they were wearing so that they were standing naked and shrink their manhood to the size of a 6 month year old babies. I wasn't that bad." She said grinning evilly as everyone in the room burst out laughing. They were laughing so hard that they all fell to the floor holding their stomachs.
"Oh my god... that is funny... Padfoot... you... are... A... genius" James said between laughs.
"Yes guy I know it is funny but you need to go home before they find and kill us" Lily said looking over her shoulder.
"Ok, let's go home." Claire replied picking herself up from the floor, and they went home by Floo Powder
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When they got home they told Mr. Potter about what Sirius did and he was also left laughing hysterically. After their little talk with Mr. Potter they went up to their rooms to pack their trunks because tomorrow they will be returning to Hogwarts for their final year.