Year 1: The Legend Unfolds
Chapter five: Fights and Teacher Fetishes
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"James! Wake up! Come on, you big oaf," Sirius's said, his voice ringing through the dorm like a bell. Er... perhaps a broken bell. James, however, just rolled over and fell back to sleep with a loud snore.
"This is ridiculous," Remus said, and went into the bathroom, coming out moments later with a large bucket of water.
"Oh, I love the way your mind works," Sirius said, and also went to go get a bucket of water.
"Okay, on three, we throw. One, two, three," and with Remus's cue, both boys tossed the water on James, who sat up suddenly, sputtering and wiping water from his eyes.
"Hey! What did you do that for?" he demanded, shoving his glasses on his face.
"To wake you up duh," Sirius said matter-of-factly, "Plus, we thought we would save you the horrible inconvenience of showering," Sirius added. James stood up, scowling and dripping wet, and began to change.
Once James was dressed and they had woken up Peter (By the non-wet method of screaming in his ears), the four boys headed down to breakfast.
They found seats at the Gryffindor table, and James and Sirius instantly began to shovel food into their mouths again.
"Lily and Alice are right, you two are disgusting," Remus said as James shoved a whole pancake in his mouth, chewed, and swallowed. Peter quickly agreed with him.
"Look who's talking, Mr. I-can-eat-twelve-rolls-in-a-minute-and-23-seconds," Sirius said, chuckling.
"Just because I can eat fast, doesn't mean I don't posses the manners to control myself," Remus said with a smirk. James opened his mouth to retort, but just shrugged and continued to eat, causing Remus to laugh harder.
About halfway through breakfast, a professor came around and handed them schedules. She had dark brown hair that was pulled back into a bun, and brown eyes with square spectacles over them. She told them that her name was Professor McGonnagal, and that she was the transfiguration teacher, and head of Gryffindor.
"What class do we have first?" Peter asked Sirius, who had all four of their schedules in his hands.
"Ugh, double potions with the Slytherins," Sirius said with a groan. After they had all finished eating (ending with Remus, who refused to speed up in order to remain polite), they headed down to the potions classroom in the dungeons.
They were about 10 minutes early, so they were the only ones there.
"You know, this place is way too calm. Have you guys ever pulled a prank?" James asked. Peter nodded, as he had helped James turn Lily's hair pink, and Remus shook his head. Sirius, however, began nodding his head enthusiastically, his eyes brightening.
"Of course! At home, the only way I could survive was to pull pranks on my idiotic parents and brother," Sirius said, causing James to grin. He had known from the start that he and Sirius would get along very well, and it was definitely confirmed when he had gone against his parents and gotten into Gryffindor. And this was just the cherry on top of the sundae.
"Cool," James said, "I definitely think we should pull one soon. Oh, and since it is Remus's first prank it will have to be really good," James said with a chuckle. However, before they could plan anything, two girls walked up, whispering to each other. One of them had heavily lidded eyes, and James recognized her as Bella Black. She had been sorted into Slytherin right before Sirius had become a Gryffindor, and because of the last names he could only assume they were in some way related. The other girl had dark skin and hair, and James didn't know who she was.
"Well, look who it is. The perfect Gryffindors," Sirius's cousin, Bella, said, laughing cruelly. Sirius's facial expression contorted into one of anger, and he started to grit his teeth.
"Hello cousin dearest," Sirius said grimicingly, and James was shocked to hear the word cousin leave his mouth. Of course he knew anyone with the last name of Black would be related, but certainly hadn't expected cousins, "I see you already found a skanky Slytherin to be your friend. Or wait, I take that back. She isn't your friend because friend would imply that you don't have to pay her to be around you. How much does she give you Patricia? 40 galleons a day? 50?" Sirius continued, and James chuckled a little bit.
"Oh, brilliant comeback. Real witty," Bella snorted, "At least I have parents that care about me, and would actually mind if I got eaten by the Giant Squid," Bella grinned as soon as the words left her mouth. She knew she had hit a nerve. And, sure enough, Sirius had launched himself at her as soon as she finished the statement. James barely had enough time to grab his shoulder to hold him back.
"Save your energy mate, it's not worth it," James said, keeping a firm hold on Sirius, and trying to drag him against the wall. Bella was smirking triumphantly, and Sirius was still struggling to get at her, muttering incomprehensible things, although James could have sworn he heard the words giant squid, Bella, and eaten.
"Sirius stop! Remus, help me," James said, and Remus hesitantly stepped forward. Sirius was beginning to stop struggling so much, but before James and Remus had completely succeeded in settling him down, they were broken up by a voice at the door.
"Not fighting, are we boys?" Professor Slughorn said, startling them all, and causing Sirius to quickly stop squirming, and Remus and James to let go of him.
"No, sir. Of course not," James said, lying very convincingly. Professor Slughorn decided it would be easiest to just let it go.
"Why don't you come in. The rest of your classmates are arriving," Professor Slughorn said, pointing down the hall. There, sure enough, were the rest of the students, the Gryffindors walking slightly behind the Slytherins.
"You all right mate?" James asked Sirius as they walked in and found seats.
"I would have beat her into a pulp if you hadn't stopped me," Sirius said, staring off at nothing in particular.
"And risked expulsion? She's your cousin, she was just trying to get to you," Peter said.
"No," Sirius said, looking back at them, "It's not like that. She's right. My parents wouldn't care if I was eaten by the giant squid, they don't give a shit about me. They would probably be happy that I was killed. Got rid of a 'blood traitor' after all," Sirius looked rather upset, and James was about to say something to change the subject, but was saved the trouble by Professor Slughorn, who began the lesson.
"Welcome, to your first ever potions class. I am Professor Slughorn. I would like to begin by calling roll. Bellatrix Black," Bella raised her hand, and Sirius caught her smirk in his direction. Professor Slughorn then called Sirius's name, and he too raised his hand, still glaring at Bella.
"Henry Crabbe," A large, muscular, stupid looking Slytherin raised his hand.
"Bartimus Crouch, Jr," A short boy with sandy blond hair raised his hand, "I remember teaching your father. He was brilliant. I do hope he is still well," Professor Slughorn said. Bartimus Crouch nodded his head, and Professor Slughorn continued.
"Lily Evans," Lily raised her hand eagerly, and Professor Slughorn looked at her for a bit before moving on.
"Alice Leoni," Professor Slughorn said, and Alice, too, raised her hand.
"Remus Lupin," Remus raised his hand and Professor Slughorn commented about knowing his and Alice's mothers, who were apparently twins.
"Marlene McKinnon," However, Marlene was off staring in space when Professor Slughorn called her name, so she didn't hear him, or answer, "Marlene? Is there a Marlene McKinnon here?" Professor Slughorn called again, looking around at the students. Lily elbowed Marlene, who was sitting next to her, and told her that Professor Slughorn had just called her name.
"Sorry, I'm here," Marlene said loudly, causing everyone to look at her. She was blushing slightly.
"Thank you," Professor Slughorn said, smiling, "Peter Pettigrew," Peter raised his hand and looked around. Most people were still looking at Marlene, sniggering slightly.
"James Potter," James raised his hand, "Oh, I remember your father quite well. He was such a great wizard. It was a shame the way he went," Professor Slughorn said, smiling kindly. However, when he said that, James looked down, a sad expression crossing his face. Lily knew he didn't like to talk about his dad.
"What's up with James?" Marlene asked Lily quietly.
"He doesn't like to talk about his dad. He's dead," Lily said, feeling very sorry for the boy she usually despised.
"Melanie Prewett," Melanie raised her hand, but she also was looking curiously at James.
"Severus Snape," Snape raised his hand from a shadowy table in the corner, where he sat all alone.
"And, last, but certainly not least, Patricia Zabini," The dark skinned girl who was with Bellatrix earlier raised her hand.
"Now, we aren't going to start brewing potions for two weeks. This week we are just going to focus on basic safety measures," Professor Slughorn said.
The rest of they class they took notes. Professor Slughorn had not given any homework, but he had told them they would have a pop quiz the next class period about what to do if a potion catches fire.
"Doesn't he know that the very definition of a pop quiz is to be a surprise?" Sirius said, chuckling.
"Hey, I'm not complaining, now we know that we should study for that. Does anyone know what we have next?" James asked. Peter opened his bag to dig out his schedule but Remus beat him to the answer.
"Break. Then Lunch at 12 and Charms after that," Remus said instantly, not even looking at his schedule, then inwardly cringed. Idiot. They are going to get suspicious. Everyone knows werewolves have ridiculously good memories. Remus thought as James Sirius and Peter looked at him. Peter still had his hand in his bag, as he had stopped mid-search.
"What?" Remus asked nervously.
"You've only had your schedule for about 3 hours, and you already memorized it?" James asked, chuckling, as they walked back to Gryffindor tower, "You must have, like, some sort of photographic memory," James continued as they sat down in the common room.
"Uh, yeah. It runs in my family. Alice has a really good memory too," Remus said, trying to recover from his little slip-up.
"Alice said her memory was horrible on the boat ride over here," Peter said. Remus thought back, and realized that he was right. He really had some quick thinking to do.
"Uh, by Alice, I meant my mom. That's her name too," Remus said, obviously lying.
"You call your mom by her first name?" Sirius asked curiously.
"Um, yes? You know, we had better get down to the Great Hall if we don't want to miss lunch," Remus stated, heading towards the portrait hole.
"But it's only 11:15!" James yelled after Remus, but he was already out the portrait hole. James, Sirius, and Peter agreed that Remus was hiding something, and decided to find out what it was.
After a few games of wizard chess the boys set off to the Great Hall for lunch, where they saw Remus sitting at the Gryffindor table with Alice. The two were talking in hushed voices but stopped when the boys arrived. Lunch was particularly uneventful, with the obvious exception of James and Sirius eating faster than the speed of light. After it was over, the eight Gryffindors headed off to Charms together.
Charms was also rather boring, as Professor Flitwick, the small, squeaky professor in charge of the subject, also only did an introduction. They had class with the Ravenclaws, and Lily sat in the front row next to Emmeline Vance, the girl she had met during the sorting, and Rose LaFleur, the girl who was, obviously, French.
Lily got along with them quite well, and learned that Rose did, in fact, live in France. She normally would have gone to Beauxbatons, but her parents didn't like the headmaster nearly as much as they liked Dumbledore. By the end of the class period, Lily had discovered that she really liked charms. She checked her schedule on the way out of the classroom, and saw that her next class was Defense Against the Dark Arts, which was also with the Ravenclaws.
The teacher was not there when she walked into the classroom, and she sat down next to Marlene, who was talking to two boys from Ravenclaw, who appeared to be identical twins. A few minutes later, Emmeline walked in and sat down on Lily's right.
By the time everyone was in the classroom, seated, the professor was still not there. Everyone was starting to get restless, and about 5 minutes after class should have started, a man came hurrying into the room. He had dark blond hair, and grey eyes that seemed to have no warmth in their depths, even though he was smiling. He looked like he was about 25 years old. As he walked in, he was pulling the sleeve of his robes down over his left arm, and he stopped right in front of his desk, leaning back against it as though sitting.
He looked around at the students, and his eyes rested on James for a few seconds longer than anyone else. However, he soon looked away, and began to speak.
"Welcome, to your first Defense Against the Dark Arts class. I am you professor, Professor Avery," the man said. His voice was deep, and sounded slightly vacant, "The dark arts are a very," he paused and his eyes, yet again, found their way to James, "special branch of magic, and you must there fore study hard to learn how to defend yourselves against them," he continued to speak, and every so often, his eyes would find their way towards James, and stay there for about a minute, then he would quickly look away.
"The teacher keeps looking at you James. I think he's in love," Sirius muttered, causing James to laugh.
Lily kept looking back at James, who was seated in the far left corner of the back row, a place Avery would not normally look unless he was looking at someone. James seemed to be aware that the professor was looking at him, and was looking back at him, a curious expression on his face. Sirius then whispered something in his ear which caused him to laugh.
Lily looked away, but soon found out that Marlene and the one of the boys next to her were looking back and forth from James to Professor Avery as well. Lily looked around and noticed that many people were either looking at James or Professor Avery, and few people seemed to be paying attention to what he was actually saying. In fact, Alice, and the other twin next to Marlene were to only ones who were.
"...So, you will no have any homework tonight, and we will be studying the theory of counter curses on Wednesday. You may go in a few minutes, and may talk amongst yourselves for the remaining time," Professor Avery said, and with that, he turned away from James and went to sit at his desk where he began writing feverishly.
When they were all dismissed from class, Lily and Marlene met up with Alice and Melanie, and they all headed to the common room for a 30 minute break before their first broomstick lesson.
"I'm really excited to try flying," Alice said as she sat in a chair by the fire place. Since the moment she saw a broom in Diagon Alley, she knew she would love flying.
"Do we have flying lessons all year?" Marlene asked, who didn't seem as eager as Alice.
"No, just the first month. From then on, the time that was flying lessons becomes study time in the library," Melanie answered, and Marlene looked relieved.
They spent most of the remaining time talking about how Professor Avery had been staring at James. They left about 20 minutes later, followed by the boys (who had spent the break huddled in a corner, whispering animatedly), and they all headed down to the grounds together.
After a surprisingly eventful flying lesson (Marlene flat out refused to get on it, and Lily hovered for about 2 seconds before jumping off), the young Gryffindors headed off to dinner together, exhausted after their first day.
As they walked through the grounds towards the castle, they walked by Hagrid's hut. Lily looked over and saw Hagrid in the garden tending to some rather large pumpkins. Lily waved and Hagrid waved back smiling. Lily smiled too and turned away, hurrying up to the castle because a sudden wind blew.
Lily sat down at the Gryffindor table and began loading her plate with food. Learning magic really seemed to take a lot out of a person, Lily noted as she realized just how tired and hungry she was. A few minutes after the meal started, a large barn owl flew in the room.
"Huh, odd. Usually mail comes in the mornings," Melanie said as she looked up at the bird. It was a few moments until Lily realized it was headed towards them
"I think it's for one of us," Marlene said, voicing Lily's thoughts. The owl landed on the table right in front of Lily and she saw that it was indeed addressed to her.
Lily grabbed the letter off of the owl's foot and opened it up.
Hi Lily
I hope your first day of classes went alright. Hows about you come down to me hut Saturday afternoon around 1:30. I'll have some food ready for you and I'd love to hear all about yer first week of classes. And if you'd like you can bring some of your friends too.
Hagrid
"It's Hagrid, he's invited me down to his hut on Saturday to tell him about my first week. Do you guys wasn't to come with me?" Lily asked. Marlene, Melanie, and Alice nodded and Lily quickly scribbled a reply on the back of the parchment and sent it off with the owl.
After dinner, the girls were all exhausted, and so they headed off to the Gryffindor tower and crawled right into bed. Lily smiled as she thought about her first week, and she couldn't wait until Saturday when she would get to see Hagrid.
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