Hey everyone I'm back. Sorry for the late update I'm going to use the same old excuse everyone uses and say I was busy. This chapter was really fun to write because it's getting to the good parts, (or what I think are the good parts). So I hope you enjoy and please review.
Also please keep in mind that italics are thoughts and bolds are letters.
Discalimer: I do not own Harry Potter
Lily sat up quickly in her bed and looked at her watch. It read 6am. I guess being in this bed has got me back into old habits. Lily quietly got out of bed as to not wake any of her roommates. She quickly showered, dressed in her robes and headed down to the common with her bag to wait for everyone else to wake up.
Once she was seated in her favourite chair by the fireplace, she opened her Ancient Runes book and began to read. She absolutely adored this class and wished that more of her friends had taken the class instead of Divination. Thankfully she wasn't completely alone because James had also refused to study Divination. The other two however were looking for an easy class instead of something interesting and useful, as was her opinion.
Very soon students began to make their way downstairs on their way to breakfast. Not long after Lily had started to read, James came downstairs.
"Morning Lil, sleep well?"
"Oh yes, quite, Sirius and Draco still sleeping?"
"Ya, I tried to get them up but failed miserably, so I thought I'd give them a few more minutes and that perhaps you could assist me?"
"Certainly, you do know how much I love being the one to wake Sirius up," She grinned evilly at that comment.
"Excellent, I assume that Susie is still asleep as well?"
"I think so, but knowing Sus she'll be down momentarily,"
"Your right about that comment Lil, Good morning James," Susie said from the stairs.
"Would you like to assist in waking up Draco and Sirius Sus?" James asked looking up at her.
"Oh yes, I would love to. How do you suppose we wake them up this time?"
"I was thinking a little in bed shower would do the trick," said Lily with that same evil grin.
"Sounds like a plan, shall we go now?" Susie asked looking between the two Potter's.
"I think so, they take forever to get showered and changed," With that said James stood up and started back up the stairs with Lily and Susie both following him.
Once they got into the room they noticed that Draco and Sirius were the only ones left, their other two roommates had departed sometime earlier.
Lily and Susie took their positions next to their respected brother's bed and in one voice said the spell.
"Aqua Erupto,"
"AHHHHH!" came two similar screams. Both Draco and Sirius were forced awake and out of bed while James, Lily and Susie were trying to pick themselves up off the floor from laughter.
"What did you do that for?" asked Sirius angrily, he was soaking wet and shivering.
"Ya, we would of gotten up if you had asked us to," Draco was also shivering.
"Ya right," smirked Susie.
"We all know that you guys would have rolled over and gone back to sleep. But still it's time for breakfast. Get yourselves cleaned up and we'll meet you down in the common room in ten minutes, now move!" said Lily. With that her Susie and James left the two soaking wet boys to get themselves ready for the day.
"Oh ya and one more thing," Lily had turned back right before completely exiting the room "You do not want me to come back up here," with that said she left the room completely.
Ten minutes later both boys were dried off, dressed and standing in the common room with their school bags. Although you could tell that they were slightly bitter about the earlier incident. A bitterness that would dissipate after a spot of breakfast.
The five teens then headed down to join the rest of the school in the Great Hall for some breakfast and the passing out of the yearly schedules. Once they arrived their seventh year prefects handed them their schedules and went off to eat themselves.
Once the teens were seated and had a plate full of food in front of them they began to inspect their schedules.
"Double Potions first thing in the morning every Monday what a way to start the week," groaned Sirius. "Followed by double Divination, lunch, Care of Magical Creatures and then Transfiguration, oh yay what a fun day,"
"It could be worse Sirius, we could have had History of Magic as well," said Draco.
"That's true I guess, but at least we get a break with Care of Magical Creatures," Sirius then smiled as the aspect of having a class with Hagrid on the first day. He always made class fun with some new creature, and the more dangerous the better in Sirius' eye.
"And Divination, unless you've decided to start paying attention in that class," said Draco with a smirk.
"Ya right," laughed Sirius.
"And while you guys are in Divination James and I will be in Ancient Runes learning something fascinating no doubt," said Lily with a smile.
"Poor misguided Lily, she has no true understanding for the art that is Divination," Sirius said melodramatically.
"And while you guys are doing that I'll be in my Muggle Studies class," said Susie proudly. Being a pure blood wizard did have its disadvantages. Susie had always been fascinated with the muggle world much like her grandfather so when her extra course options came around in third year she immediately signed up for Muggle Studies. Something that none of her other friends could understand. But since it made her happy they didn't freak out over it.
"So basically we're all in a class that will make us happy," said James with a smile.
Just then the mornings owls started to make their appearances. Hundreds of owls starting flocking into the Great Hall with letters and packages for the students. Draco, Susie and each of the Potter's got a small package from Molly Weasely filled with cookies and other goodies as a start of term treat. Molly had started sending these packages back when they had started their first year and it was something the teens looked forward to.
Lily then looked up to notice a familiar owl heading her way it was Pig. Pig was the Weasely's family owl now that he had grown up a bit. This meant that they were getting a letter From Vi and Ron. Violet and Ronald were Ron and Luna's kids. They were fifteen as well and were twins. They used to attend Hogwarts with the other teens but during the summer moved to America because Ron was offered a job from a top Quidditch team over there. As well their mother Luna wanted to expand the Quibbler so she and the kids packed up and moved to America with Ron.
Pig then landed in front of Lily and stuck his leg out for her to remove the letter attached to it. Lily then offered Pig some of her bacon and told him to head up to the owlery for a rest before heading back home. She would send her reply back with her own owl Gilbert.
A few years back Hedwig gave birth to three little owlets. And since no one wanted to give the owls up, James, Sirius and Lily inherited them as their own. James had a female owl named Scarlet, because of her vibrant Scarlet eye colour. Sirius' owl that was also female was named Gilly for reasons unknown and Lily had named her male owl Gilbert after a book she once read as a child.
"I've got a letter from Vi and Ron here,"
"Well go on and open it, I want to here how they are liking America," said Sirius.
"Dear Hoggies," Lily began.
"Hoggies?" questioned James.
"I can't believe she actually used that word," groaned Draco.
"Me neither," said Lily
"Hoggies?" repeated James.
"Come on James, you don't remember Hoggies?" asked Sirius
"I don't remember Hoggies," said Susie.
"That's because you weren't here yet Sus," said Lily.
"We had a discussion with Vi about what the students at Hogwarts were, like how if you live in England your English, or if you live in America your American," started Draco.
"So we had a bit of a debate over what to call ourselves, I said Hogwartians," said Lily.
"I said Hogins," said Sirius
"I remember now, Ron said we should call our selves Hogs, then Lily said…" started James
"That we sound like a bunch of pigs," interrupted Lily.
"Well then Vi pipes up that we should be Hoggies, like in the school song 'Hoggy Warty Hogwarts' and kept on singing that over and over," chucked Draco as he remembered past events.
"I remember that, Snape finally put her in detention because she wouldn't shut up," laughed Lily.
"Ya, but after that day it was never brought up again, I wonder why now." Wondered Sirius.
"No idea," said Susie "But let's hear the rest of this letter now, maybe she'll explain why she used it,"
Lily nodded and then continued reading.
Dear Hoggies,
I'm sure that first line brought back some interesting memories. I still remember the detention I had to serve because of that. Anyways so here we are, fifth year, OWL year. Too bad I'm not going through it with you guys. Ron and I miss you terribly, and it feels really weird to not be at Hogwarts this year, that place is like home to all of us.
Ron and I are now attending a school called Salem Academy and boy is it weird. It's in downtown Boston for one thing and it's not a castle or even a boarding school. We go home to our parents every night, plus there's no uniform, we have to wear muggle clothes because our school is located in a muggle community. How weird is that? Despite all that it really is a great school. I will also admit it's nice to see our parents everyday, you sometimes miss them being away so much.
How are you guys doing? Are there any new developments that I should know about? I read that article in the Daily Prophet Lil, and I must say that I find it highly amusing who they've paired you off with this time. They'll never change will they…
Well it's late and I've got class tomorrow. Write back quick all of you, these letters are the only things that will make me feel as if I'm still slightly in the loop, unless we set up a fire chat sometime. Hmm… that definitely has potential. Merlin knows old Minnie McGonagall will let you use the fire to talk to me, I mean its me.
Love ya lots,
Vi Weasely
P.S. Give Snape hell for me
"Gotta love Vi," Sirius then began to chuckle "she was always quite a character,"
"That she was, oh no look at the time, if we don't leave now we'll be late for potions," cried Lily frantically.
Everyone quickly gathered up their belongings and raced off to their first class.
To the joy of the teens classes went by fairly quickly and soon they were all eating dinner together. Dinner conversation were fairly light consisting about what had gone on in today's classes and the usual groans from Draco and Sirius about the amount of homework the teens had received from each of their teachers.
After dinner they all retreated to the Gryffindor common room to get started on their homework and to socialize.
"There should be a law against this much work, especially on the first day of class,"
"It's not that much Si, we've had more before. Besides this is OWL year after all,"
"Lily's right, so stop your complaining and get to work, besides if you get it done now you'll have the rest of the evening free to do as you please,"
"A lot you know Sus, you're only a fourth year,"
"Honestly Sirius, try to keep your grumbles to a minimum some of us are trying to work,"
"Haha, someone got shot down, and by your little sister no doubt,"
"Shut up Draco, who's side are you on anyways?"
"Yours mate, but I also know not to mess with Lily when she's studying,"
"And I'm finished,"
"How did you get finished so quickly? You and James had more work then the rest of us because of that extra Ancient Runes works,"
"I'm finished because I didn't waste all my time complaining about the amount of work I had, I just did it, and now I'm free to do what I want for the rest of the evening,"
"That's not fair,"
"How is it not fair? I did my work, I didn't complain about it, because I know that complaining about it doesn't get it done,"
"Oh really, I had no idea, thanks for telling me that,"
"Don't act smart Sirius,"
"Oh so now I'm smart? Just a minute ago you called me stupid!"
"I did not!"
"Oi, Lil, Si, stop fighting,"
"STAY OUT OF IT DRACO!" yelled Sirius and Lily.
James knew the fight was coming as soon as Lily announced she was finished her work. He also knew to just sit back and let them battle this one themselves, they've had this fight before and it usually didn't last long as long as they weren't disturbed. Then just as Draco got involved in the argument James noticed something black outside the common room window. It was a raven and it looked like it had a letter in its beak. It must be an important letter because ravens were rarely, if ever, used to deliver letters.
"Umm Lil?" James asked cautiously, he knew that this could potentially be fatal but he just had to get Lily's attention.
"WHAT!?" the two teens yelled in unison once again.
"There's a raven outside the window with a letter in its beak,"
"Ya so?"
"Well it looks like the letter has your name on it Lil,"
"What?" Lily then got up to let the raven in. It did a once around the common room quickly catching the attention of everyone in there. It wasn't everyday you saw a raven. Once the raven spotted Lily it quickly dived towards her, dropped the letter and flew back out the window and out of sight.
The noise level in the common room suddenly increased ten fold. Everyone wanted to know where the raven had come from, why it was here and what the letter that Lily held in her hands said.
"Come on Lil, let's go somewhere else and read that letter," James had to dodge at least 20 people that had suddenly surrounded Lily to see what the letter contained. He quickly pulled her away from the group and out the portrait hole with Sirius, Draco and Susie quickly following behind.
"Thanks James," Lily had said once outside the common room "let's head to the room of requirement quickly before we're followed it'll be quiet there,"
The others just nodded and quickly headed in the direction of the room.
They opened the door to the room of requirement and were faced with a room very similar to the common room just a lot smaller. There were five chairs placed neatly around a small fireplace with a small table in the middle. There also was a small window with a window seat.
"This looks cozy," said Susie immediately upon entering the room.
"Ya it does, but let's read this letter, my curiosity is killing me,"
"Same here Si, go on Lil open the letter,"
"Oh right sure thing James,"
Lily quickly opened the letter. It was very short, only a few words long. After reading it once herself she placed it on the small table so that everyone could see it.
The time for the end is near; your fate rests with me. Your father survived, will you?