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!
