The Room, Waiting for Marlene.

Can this girl get any slower?

I've only been up here for 10 minutes, whilst she gets her stuff for DADA.
I, however, am a very organised person, and got it all sorted this morning -taking extra long, because Lily pinched Dark Mythical Magic for Beginners, to read whilst the others were showering, and didn't seem to realise that I was panicking at the thought that I had lost It. That book is blooming expensive.

"Katie!" Marlene yells, in my ear, very loudly.

Ow.

"What!" I cry back. She winces, and I smirk at her.

"I can't find my cloak!" she whimpers, and starts to dig through her trunk, again. Oh dear.

She was wearing it not 5 minutes ago, but there you are.

"Where did you put it?" I reason, trying to remain a bit sane.

Marlene gripped her hair and rampaged round again. "That's the problem! I don't know!"

Oh dear Merlin on a Hippogriff, this girl is mad.

"Marlene, you've just destroyed the room, and chucked your stuff everywhere, so it's probably on someone else-" I started, only to be cut off by the crazy child who just ran across the room, bombed only Lily's bed (it made a scary creaking noise) and cried, "I've got it! Lily stole it!"

I put my face in my hand. No comment on the madness needed.

Marlene slipped the recovered cloak on, then bounded to the door, and looked at me.

"Come on then, we'll be late!"

I nodded, and grabbed my bag, and she was gone.

Whoosh. Just like that. She vanished.

How that girl can move so fast on a full stomach, I don't know.

Defence Against Dark Arts.

Well, we didn't have a brawl outside the classroom. I think it's because we're with the Hufflepuff's. And they're far too nice to start a fight. Really.

So we stood in two long lines (there appeared to be two more Gryffindor girls and another boy, I didn't notice them before, but Lily says they were always here. Oh well.) opposite the 'Puffs, and waited.

It was actually really quiet, not many people were talking (duh) and then the bloke to teach us came out.

He's really, really young. As in, probably only 5 years out of Hogwarts young.

I think Emma thinks he's fit. She had that expression, the same one Olivia gets when she looks at her fiancé/boyfriend David. All moony and lovey. It's rather disturbing.

So he came bumbling out, with tight fitting robes and a huge grin and waved at us.

Yes, waved.
Oh dear.
"Right, class, get into your two separate house lines, then come in and take a place anywhere, but no more than two to a desk," he called. We were already in lines, but oh well.

The classroom was dark. All the shutters on the windows were closed, and there were no candles or anything.

Just darkness. Light enough to see the outlines of desks to sit on, but it was dark.

Some of the little (as in short) Hufflepuff's made a strange yelping sound as they came in.

Merlin's pants, they were scared of the dark.
Us Gryffindors (brave and awesome) came in, looked around, and sat down. Just like that. No Fear.

That's quite a good motto, actually.
My family have tonnes of mottos, from Italian ones (Nan's) to all the Latin ancient ones (Dad's) and it's very confusing.
I learnt them all of by heart, so when Nan does accuse me of not knowing family history (she does that a lot – literally, every time we go and visit her) so I can recite them perfectly. Shuts her up, too.

Anyway, I sat with Lily in the middle of the middle, with Mary and Marlene on one side, and Emma with another Gryffindor girl, possibly one of slag's friends, on the other.

And we did all of that in silence.

The professor bounded to the front – his feet were making funny squeaks – and stood in front of a huge projector thing with a candle.
His face was all wobbly.

From the flame, duh.

"My name is Professor Casius, and I have agreed to take this position up for a year, before returning to the Aurors. We will cover simple defensive charms and mild hexes, and then next year you should be moving onto looking at more dangerous spells and jinxes. Are you with me?"

We all nodded.

We got out our books and he showed us a defensive few wand movements and explained how it affects our spell work. He was slashing at the air. The front row all flinched back.
I don't blame them; one of the boys almost got a wand in his eye. Ouch.

No Longer In DADA, Free Period

Yes!

Free period! But astronomy at 12 o'clock at night.

We have to go, in the freezing, freezing cold up to a tower, looking at stars.

Apparently it's really interesting though. I hope so, Defence wasn't so bad. HOM is worse.

Sirius was all in a mad buzz as we came out from the classroom, poor Remus had to try to stop him running into some fifth years.

It didn't work. They gave him stroppy glares, and carried on walking.

"Sirius, calm down. It's only astronomy, no need to get worked up," Remus said.

Sirius gave him a funny look. He looked like some type of mad animal thing.

"I know, but it's brilliant! We get telescopes and get to look at stars and the moon and galaxies and space!"

Us three girls, those two and James Potter with Peter Pettigrew were the only ones in the corridor.

Sirius went silent after a minute, and we just stood there.

You could have walloped the awkwardness with a bludger and kill someone with it.

It was quite painful, to be honest.

Lily rolled her eyes as she dragged me in the opposite direction, away from the mad creature. I grabbed Emma, and she came with us, yelling and moaning the entire way.

"What was that for?" she screeched when we stopped in a corridor. Honestly, that girl needs to calm down. This morning it was her dragging us everywhere, getting lost and irritating Olivia (that's a good thing).

Lily still looked grumpy. I don't think all defence-y stuff works with her.

"I need to get this homework done, or they'll be no time later, and we have to get up at some ridiculous hour in the morning for Astronomy." She glared.

Finally, someone agrees with me! We should use lunascopes or something so we don't freeze our poor little bums off.

"Aww, but Lily! Emma wanted to talk to professor Casius, she thinks he's fit!" I Grinned, and skipped around the blond.

"What!"

She glared at me, albeit a little sheepishly. Lily noticed.

"Emma, he's over ten years older than you! That's gross!"

"I don't like the bloke, Lil. He's just pretty fit."

Lily snorted and rolled her eyes.

"I'm pretty sure that means you like them, 'Em'."

"Shush, you. This is all your fault, Armstrong."

Oi! It's not me! Honestly, blame it on the (occasionally) 'innocent one'. I gave her the wide eyed, startled look.

"Oi! It's not my fault you like him! Really, you lot are getting settled down a bit quick, aren't you?" I shot back.

Haha. *Cough*Marlene*Cough*

She was getting all cosy with her 'brother', now Emma's at it too!

Lily smirked, and Emma blabbed her mouth around a bit like a goldfish. I hope she has a brain, and a memory. Otherwise we are all screwed.

Screwed, I tell you, Screwed!

She might give me and Lily madness infections.

Oh yay. Insanely-ness all around.

Lily grabbed her bag off the floor, then we were off again, being dragged down some hallway.

A mangy cat thing meowed at me.
sounded like some dying banshee.

My thoughts seem to be very death related at the moment.

Hmm. Strange.

Anyway, dear Lily kept dragging us through hallways until I finally asked; "Errm, Where are we going?" in a very daring way.

Lily is not one to irritate, as I have already figured out.

I dared to ask again (she ignored my first try), after a few minutes of scuffled dragging.

Oww. That girl has pointy long finger for an eleven year old. I may be gaining some bruises. Hurrah, hurrah.

"Study. Homework. Library." Was all I got in reply.

Well then.

How very, very fun indeed.

Library, free period

Eargh. Lily's friend Snape's in here, sitting at a table with the trollish people, and a few older ones.

Including Lucius Malfoy.

Dad is very best friends with his dad, Abraxas Malfoy.

Har Har, NOT.

They hate each other's guts out; it's so very, very funny.

The evil bloke tried to get Dad fired from his office – it failed. Dad only got put as the department head. Abraxas got fined.

Lily waves to 'Sev', and Emma and I have just sat down at a table near the back, away from the Slytherins.
Ohh. Lucius has done the devil glare at me! So harsh. So has his girlfriend. She looks like an inferi.

Am I supposed to be intimidated?

How pleasant.

Snape half smiles at Lily, then turned away, talking to them.

Lily settles herself down with a contented sigh, and put her bag on the desk, and starts to rummage around searching. Everyone seems to be doing that at the moment.

"Are you to going to make a start on the homework to, or save it for later?" she asks, pulling out a long strip of parchment, quill and ink.

"Maybe, saves me doing it later," I reply. Emma nods in agreement.

So in other words, I won't. It's only a few inches long, on Protego – the shield charm and how it's effective.

Emma's just pulled out the same as Lily, glanced sneakily over at what she's done, and started writing.

How quiet is it in here? Very. The Slytherins have gone, so there's us, a few older Ravenclaw's (but not Olivia, phew,) and some Hufflepuff's. All in a huge spread out blob. Everywhere.

But seriously, this library is huge! None of them are even near our table, and the book shelves are really tall (I want to climb them) and between each one is an alcove. Then it spreads out even more round the sides, and I might get lost one day.

Emma probably will, anyway.

Ooh, my pages have quivered. Lily has sighed and is itching her head with her quill.

"What's wrong, Lily?" I ask quietly. Emma looks up at the redhead.

"I can't write with this – I've never used quills before, only pens and pencils," she puts her parchment up and shows us.

Brilliant! Her handwriting looks like chicken scratch! Both of us start to laugh, and Lily gives us a look.

Bum, that's the look that says 'I'm-really-not-very-happy-with-you,-you-will-pay'.

Olivia pulls it at me and Jakey a lot.

Emma has shut up to, I think she gets the message.

Nobody would like to be killed by a new friend on the first day at a magical school. Not good at all.

"Can I have a closer look at it please?" Emma asks. Lily passes the parchment over, and starts digging in her bag again.

Emma smirks at me, and reads through what Lily's put.

HAH! That's brilliant!

"Katie, copy it, quickly!" she mutters to me.

She's not as dim as she looks!

Her hands moving bloody fast over that parchment, evidently she knows how to use a quill, therefore having at least one wizard relation.

Observation skills are coming into play here!

Emma's put the parchment back, Lily's still digging through her stuff, and I'm sitting here, writing.

Hang on a moment, Lily's growling. Good grief. I glance quickly at Emma; she looks as taken back as I feel. Very.

"Bugger!"

"Lily!" Emma exclaims, looking very, very shocked.

She just swore! My reasonably normal little Lilykins just swore!

"I've lost my book! I need it to check if this is correct or not!" she moans, still rooting around.

Emma groans, haha, the work could be useless! And she just pretty much copied it!

Lily looks up at me and does a puppy eye face.

Her eyes are ridiculously big. And pleading.

Ohh, it's too adorable!

I sigh. "What do you want me to do?"

She brightens up immediately.

"Could you look for 'Defence – Back to the Basic's' by Horatio Williamsons for me please? I've left mine in the dormitory, and probably can't reach the shelf,"

She glares up at said shelf as if blaming it for being too tall.

Finally! Something to do!

"Okay!" I agree merrily, "Come on Emma!"

Emma slouched up, huffing a bit in a moody way. Honestly, she could just stay here with Lily and homework, or go on an adventure! With me!

Lily waved us off, and I immediately turned to Emma.

She had her mouth open and looked a bit cross.

"Why, must we be in here, doing homework, on the first day?" she stormed.

Holy Merlin, not good.

"Well, we could sneak away in a bit, after delivering the book, I suppose. Lily wants to see the Snape guy," I tell her.

"Hmmm..." came my answer. Friendly.

"come on Emma, at least have some enthusiasm," I say.

Emma nodded, and then wandered over to the DADA section, looking for whatever Lily wanted.

I honestly could not remember.

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