Chapter 2

"And then Will the weak was killed by..."

That was all i heard of Professor Binns history of magic lecture. Normally I'm good at paying attention and taking notes during History of Magic while the rest of the class falls asleep. And then I end up giving my notes to Gabby and Charli since they spend the class playing hangman. Today however was different. I was exhaused. Gabby and Charli had waited until the last minute to write their transfiguration essays and they made me stay up so i could help them. We were up until 4:00 in the morning.

I looked to my right where Gabby and Charli sat. Both their heads were on the desk as they slept through the lecture. I yawned and imitated my friends and within minutes i was asleep.

"Lily! Lily!" Gabby shouted in my ear.

"huh?" I mumbled opening my eyes.

"Class is over" Gabby told me.

I looked around the classroom, and indeed, everyone was gone. Slowly I gathered up my stuff and the three of us left the classroom and headed towards the great hall for lunch.

"So Lily, did you get any notes?" Charli asked as we descended the staircase towards the Great Hall.

"No" I yawned.

"No? Then how are we going to know what we missed?" Gabby asked.

I shrugged.

We reached the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table. About halfway through lunch, Professor McGonnagal approached us and handed us a clipboard?

"What's this?" Gabby asked staring at the list.

"A sign up sheet for all the gryffindors remaining at Hogwarts over the holidays Miss Hayden." Professor McGonnagall said.

"Oh. I'm going to visit my brother in Germany. Here Charli" Gabby said, handing the list to Charli.

"I'm going home. What about you Lily?" She asked, handing me the list.

"My parents and Petunia are going skiing" I explained, signing the list and then handing it back to Professor McGonnagall who continued down the table.

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"Lily why aren't you going skiing with your family?" Charli asked, as the three walked up to the common room after lunch. They had a free period before potions.

"I'm not much of a skier. And besides, me and Petunia dont exactly get along. She wouldn't want me to come" I told her.

"But what about your parents? Wouldn't they want you to come?" Gabby asked, as they entered the empty common room and sat down in the armchairs by the fire.

"Well they wanted me to come but I'd just rather stay here." I told them, pulling out my transfiguration book and began taking notes on the assigned pages.

"Why are you doing that now?" Gabby asked, stunned, "We have all weekend?"

"I just want to get a headstart" I reasoned. "Maybe you should too and not wait until the night before and end up staying up until 4 in the morning."

How I managed to get Gabby and Charli to do their transfiguration with me during freeperiod I'll never know, but an hour later we were heading down to the dungeons for Potions, completely finished with transfiguration until next week.

"I hope we do something easy today" Gabby said as we took our seats in the back of the dungeon.

"We could do the first potion from first year and it would still be hard for you" Charli mocked.

"Shut up." Gabby snapped. Potions wasn't Gabby's strong point. If me and Charli hadn't helped her so much with her potions owl, she wouldn't even be in the class. Not that we're not happy she's in the class.

Just then, Professor Slughorn entered the dungeon.

"Good afternoon class" Professor Slughorn said.

"Good afternoon Professor" the class responded.

"Today we are going to be making a potion that gets rid of boils. It's on page 132 of your book. You have an hour. Begin" Professor Slughorn said.

An hour later, the class was packing up their stuff and heading up to the Great Hall for dinner.

"Two days without classes" Charli smiled as we walked up the staircase towards the entrance hall.

"I know," Gabby said as we sat down at the Gryffindor table. "And one more week until the holidays"

"Thank god for that" Charli agreed, putting some mashed potatoes on her plate.

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"Knight to H-3"

Charli and I were playing wizards chess.

And she was killing me.

I've never been one for boardgames.

"Queen to H-3" Charli responded.

Charlis white queen made her way towards my knight, and with her chair, broke it into 3 pieces.

I sighed. I only had 2 pieces left. I made my final move before Charli called checkmate.

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"So you're going home over the holidays?" I heard someone ask from across the room. I recognized the voice instantly. It was James Potter.

I turned around and saw him talking to his friends, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.

"Yup" Remus told James.

"So it's just going to be me and Sirius here over break?" James asked.

My heart leaped. James Potter was staying over the holidays?

I turned back to face my friends who had been talking about hot chocolate.

How can you hold a discussion about a beverage? I shouldn't be too surprised though. Those two could talk about a pile of dirt for hours.

Not to say they ever had.

"I remember this one time, I was walking down the stairs with a cup of hot chocolate, and i spilled it all over myself." Charli said.

Gabby laughed.

"Hey did you guys know James and Sirius are staying at Hogwarts for the holidays?" I asked.

Both girls looked at me. "No. Why?"

"Because I just heard James ask Remus if he was going home and he said yeah."

"Oh. Well, I dont know anyone else who's staying. It might just be you three."

My smile grew like 100 times.

This could quite possibly be the best christmas ever.

A/N: So it's been almost a month since I've updated. I'm sooo sorry. Schools been crazy. I wanted to finish this before christmas but i dont htink i'm going to be able to since i still have this whole week of school. I'm thinking there's only going to be like 6-7 total chapters but i dont think i'll be able to add a chapter every day this week. I'll try to get a few more up though or combine a few to make it shorter. So, read and review please. 1234 if you must.

oh, and that hot chocolate story? It totally happened to me on friday. Friday morning before school was hot chocolate with the principle day. And I was walking down the stairs carrying a book, a binder, a donut, and a cup of hot chocolate and i spilled some on my pants. haha. I spent all of ceramics trying to get it out. Thank god for Tide to Go. haha.

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Emma