First Year: Part Two

Winter and Christmas were coming up.

Things were going terrible between James

and Lily and the others teased them about

it. Although Lily thought Sirius was such an

idiot, they soon became close friends. The

feud between Lauren and Melissa was still

there and Lily found this difficult as Lauren

and Lily were great friends. Lily and

Roxanne tried to stop Melissa and Lauren

from arguing but to no luck. Lily wondered

whether to stay at Hogwarts for the holidays

but then she found out James was serious and Peter warned her about an upcoming

prank. Lily was a little annoyed by that as

she wanted to spent her holidays away

from Petunia as she kept on becoming

worse and calling her a freak. One day, Lily

was at a Defense Against the Dark Arts

lesson with Professor Richard. Lily was a

little suspicious today as James and his

so-called gang - The Marauders - kept on

sniggering and exchanging looks.

'Lily watch out,' Melissa whispered. 'The

boys are up to something.' Lily hoped the

prank wasn't on her. Lily opened her

Defense Against the Dark Arts and all her

notes disappeared.

She nugged Melissa, 'All my notes disappeared.'

Melissa narrowed her eyes. 'It's obviously

the boys.'

Lily wailed, 'Now what will Professor

Richard will say.'

'What will I say?' Said a voice.

Lily and Melissa whirled around. Professor

Richard had short dark brown hair and a

hooked nose. He didn't look friendly which

of course as he tried to give out detentions

and detect points from other houses apart

from Slytherin.

'Where's your notes, Evans?' He asked. Lily

gulped, she was so in trouble now.

'I.. I don't know.'

'So Lily Evans, the one who gets the

highest score in every subject, has not

been paying attention to her DADA

lessons,' Professor Richard announced to

the whole class. 'Detention for the whole

two weeks and you have to sit with Snape

here.'

Lily gasped in horror. Detention for two

week and sitting next to Severus Snape

who follows her around all the time.

Shooting a glare at the boys, Lily took her

belongings and replaced Bellatrix Black

who had to sit next to poor Melissa which

was a bad idea as the Bellatrix always tried

to hex Melissa. Remus gave her a

sympathetic look but she ignored him.

'So will you get back at Potter?' Severus

asked.

'Why do you care?' Lily glared.

'Well, he did a prank on you and made you

get two weeks of detention which is a bit

harsh,' Severus explained.

Lily thought of this for a while and agreed.

After the lesson, Severus and Lily met up

outside and hatched a prank on James.

Melissa was walking down the entrance to

the Hogwarts grounds when she saw Lily

and Severus talking as if they were old

friends. Melissa frowned at that. She

decided to find out what was going on but Professor Flitwick called her.

'So are you ready?' Severus asked.

'Yeah,' Lily smiled. Although Severus was a

Slytherin and had a crush on her, he was a

really funny and great person but for

cautions she decided to not become proper

friends. The next morning, James arrived to

a lesson with his hair all shaved off.

Everyone started laughing and James shot

a glare at everyone and Lily and Severus

high fived.

'Lily Evans,' James said haughtily.

'Warming up to Snivellus and the

Slytherins. You're not even a true

Gryffindor.'

Lily shot up, 'Shut up, you arrogant jerk. You should just stop destroying people

things.'

James and Lily were arguing to each other

for ages until Professor Flitwick stopped

them. Severus tried to comfort Lily but she

shrugged him of.

The Christmas Holiday

Lily's parent and Petunia was spending the

holiday with other relatives so Lily decided

to stay here with Melissa. Christmas was

Lily's favourite time of the year. The

Hogwarts Grounds was covered with a thick

blanket of snow. The wind howled as the

snow fell obliquely. Lily and Melissa sat in

the decorated Great Hall. There was the

most biggest Christmas Tree at the front of the Hall. The air was filled with a festive

mood.

'It's really lovely here during Christmas,'

Melissa said. 'And peaceful.' Lily agreed

and was starting to enjoy staying at

Hogwarts for the Holidays.

'So Melissa, what's up with Sirius?' Lily

asked.

Melissa frowned, 'What do you mean?'

Lily smirked, 'Don't hide it. It's obvious you

two like each other.'

'What!' Melissa exclaimed. 'There's nothing between us but everyone knows you and James were meant for each

other.'

Lily snorted, 'Yeah right. We're enemies.'

'But you two will grow onto each other and

will start dating,' Sirius cut in.

'SIRIUS!' James shouted. 'For the millionth

time, we will never be together!'

Sirius and Melissa exchanged looks.

'Whatever.'

As usual, Lily and James kept on bickering

on irrelevant subjects.

One day, Sirius came into the common room sulking. 'What's up, buddy?' James asked.

'My parents wants me to come over but I

don't want to,' Sirius replied gloomily.

'Why not ignore them?' Melissa suggested.

'But the problem is that they will come to

Hogwarts and force me to come with them,'

Sirius said.

Lily felt sorry for Sirius and thought of an

idea.

'Well, there's this place called the Room of

Requirement on the Seventh Floor,' Lily

explains. 'It only opens for those who needs

and you have to say 'I need a place where I can hide' '

'Yes Lily!' Sirius exclaimed. 'Let's go there

now.'

And so they did. They arrived at the

Seventh Floor and Lily walked in front of a

wall.

'I need a place that me and my friends can

hang out in,' Lily thought.

A grand door opened and Lily, Melissa,

Roxanne, Lauren and The Marauders

poured in and inside was a huge room. It

had comfy sofas, a TV, a snack bar,

restrooms and even some beds.

'This is amazing Lily,' James said. Lily raised an eyebrow. James rarely said

anything friendly to her. James and Sirus

immediately headed towards the snack bar

ando started stuffing themselves. Remus

sat down and started reading a book while

Peter stood in the corners. Lily and her

friends were studying and talking. It was

quiet peaceful apart from the fact that

James and Sirius kept on laughing out loud.

Just then, someone entered the room. It

was Severus.

'Snivellus, what are you doing here?' James

asked.

'You can control where I go, Potter,'

Severus sneered. 'And I came here to talk to Lily.'

Lily was about to open her mouth when

James said, 'Lily wants nothing to do with

you so go away.'

Severus turned towards Lily. 'That's not true

isn't it Lily?'

Lily snorted, 'Yeah it is and like Potter said,

go away.'

Boiling with rage, Severus left the room.

After they planned the prank, Severus

thought they were friends but it looked like

she betrayed. Severus decided to do

nothing with her anymore.

'You know Lily,' Melissa says. 'It was really

cute how James defended you. '

Lily rolled her eyes , 'It's not cute but I

wonder why he did it. We'recommend

enemies.'

'Maybe he found out his feelings about you

and cares about you,' Melissa suggested.

Lily smacked a pillow at her. 'Would you

stop with the love nonsense. As if you don't,

I'll keep on smacking you with this pillow.'

'Never!' Melissa squealed. After that,

everyone got into a pillow fight. Suddenly,

someone stormed into the room. It was

Professor McGonagall. She was wearing

her dress robes and had a serious look on her face. 'What on earth is happening here?' She

asked. Everyone stopped and renlisted it

was past curfew. No one responded.

'It's past curfew and I expected better of

you. Everyone go to your dormitories before

I give out punishment.' And so they did.

They actually raced to their dormitories.

'That was so funny,' Lily said.

'Yeah I know,' Melissa agreed. 'Anyways,

I'm exhausted.' And she fell asleep. Lily

smiled to herself. Hogwarts was the best place ever!