A Different Beginning

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters in this story, except for my own character Elizabeth Potter.

What a wonderful first day?

Here I was sleeping peacefully enjoying a good night sleep when I get woken up by something very fluffy laying across my head, that very fluffy thing turned out to be Socks. What a wonderful way to be woken up by having a cat sit on your head and I tell you now I am not a morning person as the others were to find out sooner or later . There's also another thing me not being a morning person and my very fiery temper (courtesy of mum) are not a good mixture, so in retrospect I'm a ticking bomb if I'm not woken at the correct time. I checked my watch and the time showed 6:00 am which was half an hour too early, thanks a lot Socks and gave said cat a very nasty glare.

I got out of bed and got my wash bag and uniform out of my trunk, and being a nice person I am I set and alarm for 6:15 which would wake the other two up (well at least I was giving them an extra 15 minutes sleep in). I locked the bathroom door and got washed, pulled my hair into a ponytail and put my uniform on. I got out of the bathroom in time for my alarm to go off and to see two girls jump out of their skin Alicia managing to fall out of bed in the progress bringing her sheets down with her I couldn't help but laugh at the mess on the floor where she was having an intense battle with the sheets and Angelina apparently couldn't hold her laughter in either. I did help her out in the end which she then hit me over the head with a pillow and being the very mature person I am did the same to her and we carried on doing so until we heard Angelina laughing which we then preceded into throwing our pillows at her. We had an epic pillow fight which ended with us all on the floor in a pile laughing our heads off (what a great start to a blossoming friendship). We old stood up I straightened out my uniform and redid my hair while the others got ready and by 6:50 we were all ready. "What a great first morning we've had ehh girls" I said as we sat down at the Gryffindor table for our breakfast. " It was, wasn't it" Alicia laughed " Yes and can you believe that it all started with Socks sitting on my head waking me up half an hour early" Ange and Alicia looked at me strangely and we all burst out laughing.

"Did our ears deceive us" "or did you say that" "socks was sitting on your head" Fred, George and Lee sat down with us at the table. "And here enter Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb" the twins and Ange looked at me weird while Alicia and Lee started laughing "Ohh don't worry you three it's from a muggle movie" they all nodded and the boys started piling food on their plates. "You're not seriously going to eat all of that are you" Alicia said while looking at them with a disgusted look on her face but all she got as a reply was three "Yep's" with mouths full of food again Ange and Alicia look at them horrified but I just laughed. About halfway through breakfast McGonagall came over with our time tables " First lesson Potions, great that's what Snape teaches and both Bill and Charlie say that he is rotten to anyone who isn't in Slytherin" well that seem rude "He sounds like a right asshole" I said and they nodded "Well we better head to Potions then we don't want to get in Snape's bad books before we even get to his lesson", and that's exactly what we did we got up and went to potions. We all went into the Classroom and found seats I sat with Ange and Alicia and the boys sat behind us.

As soon as Snape strode through the door he gave off the impression of a grumpy old bat, and that's exactly what he was . He went through the register "Amy Baddock" "Yes sir I'm here" what a suck up "Jonathan Blake" "Here sir" "Marcus Flint" " Here" I wonder if it's just me but Snape'[s giving off that impression that you shouldn't mess with him "Angelina Johnson" and that he doesn't like Gryffindor's either by the sound of it "Present" "It's present Sir Johnson, 1 point from Gryffindor" yes its true he really does hate Gryffindor "Lee Jordon" "Present Sir" Lee seemed to spit out sir but Snape either ignored it or didn't hear "Edward Nott" "here sir" "Jenny Parkinson" "here sir" what a snooty bitch "Elizabeth Potter" he spat out the name Potter as if it were a filthy swear word "Ppresent Sir" "Don't cheek me Potter" "I didn't sir I'm sor.." but he cut me off "5 points from Gryffindor do not talk back to a teacher Potter" I could hear Parkinson laughing under her breath. "Alicia Spinet" "Present Sir" "Fredrick Weasley" "It's Fred professor would you care to get my name right" I smiled "Detention Weasley for rude behaviour my office tonight, you'll be scrubbing down the used caldrons" George snorted "You too Mr Weasley, I'm afraid you will be joining your brother in detenti..." I cut in "But sir if your just giving out detentions for free I wouldn't mind taking up the offer to have one myself" the twins burst out laughing while the others were holding back their laughter" "Apparently Potter, you are just as rude and have the same regards towards rules as your father" I smirked and stood up "I know Professor, I've been told!" "SIT DOWN POTTER OR I WILL BE SENDING YOU ALONG WITH MR WEASLEY TO YOUR HEAD OF YEAR" George continued "Which Mr Weasley would you be talking about Professor?" "I SAID SIT DOWN, THE THREE OF YOU HERE BETTER BE HERE NONIGHT AT 8 OCLOCK SHARP OR I WILL BE REPORTING YOU TO THE HEAD MASTER!" I smirked but sat down and so did Fred and George and the rest of the lesson went by pretty uneventful.

We walked out of the Classroom an halfway down the Hall the twins and I burst out laughing "That was brilliant Lizzie" George said and he put his arm over my shoulder "I mean I can't believe you asked him for a detention" I smiled "Yes and your 'but which Mr Weasley are you talking about Professor' that was just great, Ohh boy doesn't he hate us" We had transfiguration and charms next. Transfiguration was with McGonagall our head of house but unlike Snape she didn't favour her house no she was equally strict with everyone. We didn't learn any spell's in today's lesson mainly because we were going through the basic steps and rules of transfiguration. I was sat in between the twins and the Ange and Alicia were sitting with Lee in the row next to us. About ten minutes into the lesson George passed me a note which read.

Hey, do you have any idea on what McGee is talking about?

Yes, and so should you, have you even taken any notes!

George and I take notes Lizzie darling, oh please!

Yer, what do you think you're here for, your our little note writer ;)

What makes you think that I am going to let you copy my notes, huh! And don't wink at me George Weasley!

Oh come on Liz you know you Love us :D

Yer, Lizzie you love us really even if it's deep, deep down and we only met you yesterday!

Well, I would say yes but since you two distracted me I haven't got half the notes written down so I'm now going to have to copy down the rest of my notes off of Alicia or Ange! But yes it's true after this long tiring day I do believe the both of you are growing on me ;)

See Georgie Boy, didn't I tell ya she loved us!

Of course she loves us, why wouldn't she we are awesome after all Freddie :)

But of course she loves me more because of my devilishly handsome looks that make the girls swoon ;)

We're twins you twat we look exactly the same and everyone knows I'm the more handsome twin anyway its always been that way!

I thought we looked exactly the same? And do we really have to go over this again, you can't be the more handsome twin that's obviously me and always has been!

We do look exactly the same only I look a lot more handsome, a handsome that you dear brother will never reach"

"Oh Georgie boy, I have already past your mark of handsome by miles and I'm afraid that you are the one that will never catch up with me and my awesome handsomeness"

"I don't know what universe you're living in but it's certainly not this one because I am the most awesome handsome, strapping young lad this world has ever been and no one not even you Freddie will ever meet my standards of handsomeness"

"Are you ill Georgie because there is no way that you are at all more handsome then me and as I've said before you never will be ;)

Will you two shut it already, we have barely been here a day and I'm already getting a headache!

Because it's you Lizzie dear of course we will!

Well for today we will anyway ;)

I looked down at the parchment and sighed, these two are more trouble than they're worth but hey, at least they can make me smile. It's actually quite nice having friends and these people don't think I'm a nutter. Well at least for now they don't. The lesson flew by after that and charms went by nearly exactly the same as Transfiguration, all we were doing was writing down note of the basic rules of Charms. So really they weren't the most exciting lessons but once we get on doing actual magic in them I'm sure it will be a lot more fun. The bell rung indicating lunch and everyone ran out of the charms classroom. "So what did you think of today so far" I asked George "Ahh well Lizzie, I would say it's been quite hmmm what's the word Fred" "interesting, eventful, boring take your pick" " Yes eventfully boring I would say! How 'bout you Lizzie dear?" I shook my head "It's been all right I suppose, Snape's a grumpy old fart but I suppose it's been alright" we all laughed and continued into the great hall. And sat at the Gryffindor table. "I heard that you two have gotten detention on your fist day here" Percy Weasley the twins stuck up older brother said as he walked over "I'm writing a letter to mother after lunch and I am going to tell her, Oh how disappointed she will be when she finds out you have gotten detention on your first day of school" he huffed and walked away from the twins. "What's stuck up his arse" I said as I watched the boy retreating "Who Percy, well let's just say legend has it there were some complications when he was around two and he caught the snotty ass hole disease" George said as dramatically as I think he can "He hasn't been the same since" Fred finished wow these boys could be dramatic "So around the time when you two idiots were born!" "Yep". I laughed at them and started dumping food onto my plate when Angie and Alicia sat down opposite us " So what have we got after Lunch" Angie picked up a serving spoon and put some veg on her plate " Umm I think we got double history of Magic with Professor Binns" I groaned, apparently Binns was a Ghost and his lessons were deadly boring "I'm really not in the mood for this I heard he's the most boring teacher there is and me and the twins have detention tonight I don't know how we'll survive"

Everyone laughed at my complaining and soon we had finished eating and went up to the common room to spend the remaining half an hour talking and messing around. As soon as I sat down on the sofa a pillow hit me across the head I looked up and saw the twins laughing on the floor, I took my chance and jumped on them, which I can tell you now they weren't expecting. They started tickling me and that was that they had found my weakness, I was laughing so hard I started crying and when they had finished we were all laying on the floor laughing and Lee, Angie and Alicia were staring at us laughing. Seriously it feels like I have known these boys forever. We were all having so much fun we were nearly late for history of Magic, which was as I presumed the most boring lesson ever. I ended up falling asleep on George's shoulder and nearly missed the final bell. "Ok who knew that a lesson could be that boring, I mean come on" I yawned and linked arms with Alicia and Angelina and we went back up to the common room were once again I found myself collapsing on the sofa. "Well guys we have dinner at six and Fred, George and I have a meeting with Snape to go to at eight so we have a couple of hours to muck around and have fun." Fred and George smiled and sat on me and I let out a gasp at their combined weight. "Merlin what do you guys eat, it feels I like I've just been sat on by a baby elephant." "Well they do eat half the food of the Gryffindor table" Alicia giggled and Angie continued "It's true there is barely enough food for us when we get there" and the Twins mocked gasped "Oh dear Ladies why do you think so poorly of us" " Yes why, would you wound us with your cruel words" so they got up and fell onto Lee knocking him over " God , they're right you two are a couple of fat arses" Lee groaned from under the pile of two red headed boys leaving the girls to sit there and laugh as the boys began to fight.

When six came the six of us went back down to the Great Hall for dinner and once again the wide range of food covering the tables was able to amaze me. The girls and I had chicken, roast potatoes, peas, carrots and gravy with a glass of Pumpkin Juice where as the boys went for the 'lets' dump as much food as we can our plates' look. "I still don't see how you can eat that much" Alicia said in disbelief and we shook our heads and carried on eating. "I can't be bothered for detention" I moaned "Then why did you ask for it?" Angie asked "It seemed a good idea at the time ok" they all laughed at me. "Oi, you two" the twins turned and looked at me with raised eyebrows "We better get going before Snape blows his top" "But..."they started "No buts come on" but of course they didn't listen! So I did the best thing I could think of; I dragged them all the way to the dungeons by their collars. We got there ten minutes early and at five to eight Snape stepped out of the classroom "So" he drawled "I guess I won't be reporting you three to Professor Dumbledore after all" he walked back into the classroom and I threw the boys looks and whispered "See if we had left much later we would have been late" they rolled their eyes and we followed Snape into the Classroom. There were cauldrons set out on every bench "You will be cleaning these by hand, and won't be leaving until I believe you have done a good enough job" he sneered "We'll be here all night then" I muttered under my breath and begun to clean out the cauldrons.

We weren't allowed to leave until half nine and when we got back to the common room we exchanged good nights and went our separate ways to our rooms. Alicia and Angie were waiting for me when I got into our room and I explained to them how much o hated Snape and I wasn't going to ask for detention ever again, especially not from him. That left me wondering why he hated me so much and why he had it out for my Dad and that's how I fell asleep wondering what Snape's problem was.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while I been caught up with homework and I'm at the year in school where the teachers feel the need to give out as much homework they can think off because of the exams we have coming up. I hope you enjoyed the Chapter and Please review!