Just a reminder I don't own Harry Potter, J. does. I also don't own Maximum Ride, James Patterson does. This is my first fan fiction so please review and tell me what you think, Thank you to Ukrainanelfhorse for being my first reviewer. I apologise if there is any spelling and grammar mistakes (I haven't finished school yet) I'm sorry if the sorting song is corny but I didn't want to use one from the other Harry Potter books. Also please note that Keenan Abbot was supposed to get sorted before Freda and here is chapter and Review,

SpringBabe

Chapter 4: Routines.

"So you couldn't sleep," either a guy said from behind me.

I turned around and saw James Potter, Sirius Black, Dylan, Nick and that Remus Lupin guy. I was glad to see Dylan and Nick, didn't mind seeing James and Sirius as long as they were nice to me and I didn't know Remus but as long as he doesn't turn into an Eraser I wouldn't mind getting to know him.

"No I couldn't get to sleep just needed to think and was sending a letter." I told them all.

I tied the letter around Magnum's leg and opened the window to let her out. Once she flew away I sat back on the couch joined by the five boys.

"Look Max we are really sorry for..." James began to apologise but I cut hin off.

"I already told you it's not me you have to apologise to its Lily, I don't like Severus any more than you do and since we are all Gryffindors why don't we forget about it and be friends." I said fast hoping they would catch on. Sirius and James just sat there with a blank look on their face and mouths wide open while Dylan and Nick cracked up laughing followed by me and Remus. Sirius and James joined in the laughter once they got over their shocked expressions.

Remus had something odd about him, a secret that he had that he couldn't share with anyone. I wondered if he was like us in ways, I doubted that he had wings but maybe he isn't completely human. Sirius and James stopped apologising to me and started to include me in normal conversations. I looked at the clock and saw that we should all be in bed if classes started tomorrow.

"Well I'm off to bed; I'll see you all at breakfast tomorrow morning." I told them all and headed up to my dorm.

I managed to get to sleep after that and woke up the next morning before the other girls with a decent amount of sleep. I got changed in the adjoining bathroom and noticed that my jumper and tie had changed from black to maroon and the tie had stripes of gold. Once I was dressed and refreshed I went back into the dorm and found that the others were up. I should have woken up earlier to go fly around since my wings were tight from pulling them in.

Lily was the next one ready followed by Alice and Kerry. All three girls looked pretty in their uniform and all that I hoped was that my wings wouldn't show. We walked down to breakfast getting there in plenty of time and sat across from the boys. Lily was going to sit somewhere else but I pulled her down to sit next to me. I glanced at James and Sirius since this was the perfect oppertunitity for them.

"Umm Lily we're really sorry for what happened yesterday on the train but that boy just didn't look friendly, we never meant to insult you." James said looking down.

"Yeah really sorry," Sirius mimicked trying to sound sorry and going back to stuffing his face with food.

I helped myself and piled my plate high with food but Dylan had the most food on his plate followed by Sirius, Nick then me. The rest of our friends had a decent amount of food on their plate and Lily's eyes went wide when she saw how much was on mine. I managed to finish all the food with ease before an older student came around handing out our schedules. Today was Tuesday and we had missed out on double care for magical creatures and astronomy which was yesterday. Today we had transfiguration, flying classes, and potions. Transfiguration was right after breakfast then we had flying after that and potions after lunch. Once we were all finished we quickly headed upstairs to grab our books and found our way to transfiguration with Professor McGonagall.

Halfway there we caught up to the boys since they took their books to the Great Hall with them for breakfast and since they were walking while we were running. We found the classroom just in time because the rest of the students were going in. Kerry, Alice, Lily and I found a table for four in the middle of the room and the boys sat behind and in front of us. Peter and Remus were in front of us next to two Ravenclaw girls and James, Sirius, Nick and Dylan were sniggering behind us. We were sharing this class with the Ravenclaws and they were on one side of the classroom and the Gryffindor were on the other side. A tabby cat walked in and sat at the front desk watching us. Instantly the cat transformed into Professor McGonagall and she began to talk to us about the subject.

Transfiguration wasn't too bad; I managed to transform my match stick into a button on the last attempt while Lily, James and Remus managed to transform their matchsticks on their first and second tries. Peter was the only one that wasn't able to transform his matchstick and set his on fire a few times and the first time singed his eyebrows. We left the class with homework which was to practise and have a sentence ready on why we need transfiguration in our lives. We headed to flying and luckily we were the only house for this class because transfiguration was a bit crowded. James boasted to us about how good he is at flying and how he was going to try out for the Quiditch team next year. By the time we got to the Quiditch pitch Lily had had enough and told him to shut up. I knew that she hadn't forgiven him and Sirius for the train scenario and that this would be a long grudge. Once we got to the pitch and I was thankful that it wasn't any further because I didn't want to hear James boast any longer and Lily was about to punch him. The pitch was green like the field behind our house but it wasn't grass growing but a mossy sort of plant. There were 10 brooms lined up in two lines and the flying teacher who looked like she had just finished school holding a broom in her hand.

"I am Madam Hooch your flying instructer. All first years take this class and I will teach you how to fly well and the basics of Quiditch so that you will be able to try out for the team next year. I also referee the Quiditch games starting this year and yes I have graduated from school Mr Black so you can put your hand down." Madam Hooch said and Sirius reluctantly put his hand down. "Now go stand by a broom place your hand over it and say up."

We did as we were told my broom moved to the side but not up into my hand. James' broom flew straight into his hand and proved that he really knew how to fly since he was the first one to hold a broom. Sirius was the next one, followed by Kerry, Nick, Me, Dylan, Remus, Alice, Lily and Peter but his broom hit him in the face breaking his nose and he was sent to the hospital wing missing our lesson.

We were told to kick off the ground, hover for a few seconds then land back on the ground. James of course was showing off and hovering higher than any of us and trying to land as perfect as possible. Once we landed Madam Hooch walked past and corrected our hand grip and sitting position. It was funny to see James sitting there acting like everything that he did was perfect when Madam Hooch whispered loudly in his ear telling him his hand position was wrong. James' face blushed red with embarrassment and we all crack up laughing. Once we were all sitting correctly we were allowed to fly for longer and show her what we could do on a broom. James and Sirius were showing off by doing hard and risky tricks. Dylan, Nick and I weren't afraid to try what the boys were doing since we had wings and could use them if we really needed to. I tried the loop that Sirius just did and was amazed to find out that I didn't need my wings to complete the trick. Sirius and James had their mouths hanging open once again and were surprised to see that I could do something that they could do when they have had more flying time then I had. The lesson had finished and Madam Hooch held me, Nick and Dylan back for a few minutes once the others had left the pitch and were meeting us in the Great Hall.

"I've heard about how you three can fly without brooms because of some wings, would I be able to see?" Madam Hooch asked.

I didn't know if we could trust her and looked at the other two.

"Of course if it's too personal you don't have to it must have been horrible growing up in a lab." She said.

I decided that we could show her as long as no one else was around. I pulled of my jumper and spread my wings out. Dumbledore performed a spell over our shirts so that if our wings made any holes when we spread them through the shirt they holes would be sealed as soon as we pulled our wings back in.

My wings were about 13 feet long and Madam Hooch gasped with amazement.

"Wow if only you could use those instead of the brooms." Madam Hooch said, she wasn't that old and when I asked her what year she graduated she told me that it was two years ago and that she got this job part time last year while she was a resereve Keeper for one of the professional Quiditch teams but because of a permanent injury that ended her career she was given the job full time this year. After saying goodbye the three of us headed to the Great Hall not knowing that a Ravenclaw prefect had seen me pull my wings out but didn't see my face so they didn't know who I was. We sat down with the others and Lily looked like she would rather sit at the other end of the table. As I was about to sit down Lily shouted at James.

"I don't care if you don't like him, It doesn't give you any right to speak about him like that and I'm not forgiving you until you show me that you can be a nice person that doesn't brag about himself every two minutes!" Lily yelled and stormed past me out of the Great Hall. I saw Severus Snape get up from the Slytherin table bumping into me and pushing me to the ground as he ran after Lily.

"Hey!" I shouted after him as Nick and Dylan helped me up and we sat down at the Gryffindor table. "What did we miss?" I asked as James looked guiltily at his plate and mumbled something that I didn't hear.

"You need to lay off Lily, she can hold a grudge for ages, you should have seen the grudge that she had on her sister before we came. Now stop pestering her because she doesn't seem to like you after the train ride and if you keep asking her for forgiveness she is just going to hate you more." I said sternly towards James.

Kerry and Alice chattered to me about the flying lesson we just had and started to predict what potions would be like. Kerry was a pureblood witch and Alice was a half blood so she knew about muggle and wizard items. I piled up my plate once again and ate it all before we headed off to potions down in the dungeons. The boys walked down with us and talked to us about the previous lessons and other things. James couldn't stop talking about flying once the topic was brought up and how he used to fly everyday back home, and the type of broom he had. James went on and on that even Sirius had his hands over his ears. Kerry, Alice and I tried to talk about something else but James was still ranting about him and flying. I looked around for Lily but I didn't see her anywhere. When we got to the door I saw Lily talking to Snape, James and the others said that Slytherins are only every called by their last names when the other houses talked about them and after he pushed me to the ground I started calling him Snape. I didn't want to talk to Snape and gave Lily a small smile from where we were standing, and she returned half a smile once she noticed who I was with. The door to the potions room was opened and a large round man was standing in the doorway directing us to our seats.

"I am Professor Slughorn, today we will be brewing a simple potion called Ferunis Gerden." The man boomed. "You will be in groups of two or three depending on the numbers. Get out you books and the potion is on the first page. The ingredients are up here on my desk but if you need more please see me and I'll get you some. Lily was sitting next to Snape and they already had a cauldron out and their books open so I went with Alice and Kerry. Alice and Kerry are really nice and friendly but Lily was the only person I was friends with before I came to Hogwarts and now that she doesn't like the boys in our house and year she may not be with me as much. I didn't see what she disliked about James and Sirius but since they apologised she has shown that she doesn't want to forgive them or like them. Alice, Kerry and I collected our ingredients and tried our hardest but the potion wasn't bubbling like it should. It was the right colour though but the Lily and Snape's cauldron was perfect, bubbling the right amount and the right purplish colour. James, Sirius and Peter were having trouble with their potion because Peter accidently poured too much flower juice and the potion was melting Sirius' brand new cauldron and spilling over the bench. I tried to ignore the commotion behind me and was trying to make the potion right. Alice was stirring and Kerry was helping me add the ingredients. Alice had stopped stirring and was watching the boys try to clean up their mess before the potions teacher saw them. The three boys were unsuccessful and Professor Slughorn was headed over towards them after seeing Lily's and Snape's potion. I was annoyed at Lily because she ditched me for Snape and is letting her anger at James and Sirius ruin the friendship between us. Once Professor Slughorn comes over to assist the boys clean up the mess Alice and I turn our attention back to the cauldron which is bubbling nicely and is the purplish colour that Lily's and Snape's is. Once Slughorn was finished with helping the boys he checked our cauldron.

"Well done girls that's exactly how the potion should be." He told us cheerfully.

I turned and smiled at Kerry, "what did you do?" I asked her nicely.

"I added a pinch of wormroot and mixed it one more time," she explained as I high fived her.

Alice picked up the text book, "but it doesn't say to add wormroot and Slughorn didn't leave any wormroot on the bench."

"I know I snuck in and got some from the storage cupboard while you two were watching the boys behind us." She said sneakily.

"Awesome now let's try to finish it." I told them.

We carefully read the instructions and did what they said but when it was difficult to cut the ashdrens Kerry grinded it and our potion had the exact same colour as the picture in the book when Slughorn told us to stop. I noticed that Lily and Snape were a shade off what it should look like and that we did better than them. Nick, Dylan and Remus were also close to the finishing product but no one was as close as we were. Slughorn went around the room and inspected all the potions, the three boys behind us had tried again in Peter's cauldron and put him in charge of stirring but they weren't exactly on the right path. Peter had stirred the potion too many times and James had left out an ingredient. Slughorn looked at our potion, gave us an encouraging smile then checked, the boys in front of us. At the end of the lesson Slughorn announced that he would be awarding ten points to each person from the group that made the best potion. When he announced that it was us I had to smile at Kerry and Alice and glance at Lily who was annoyed and happy for us at the same time.

Lily came walked with us up to the common room and acknowledged that the boys were there, she didn't mind Dylan and Nick it was just James and Sirius that got on her nerves. We put our books away started on our homework from McGonagall and Slughorn who gave us half a foot length on how we made our potion. Kerry, Alice and I agreed that we wouldn't mention the extra potion or that we didn't cut one of the ingredients and explained that we followed the rules. McGonagall's homework was easy and I was able to transfigure my quill into parchment and back before we went down to the Great Hall for dinner. Lily sat next to me and was quiet through the whole meal while the rest of us chattered about the potion experience that James, Peter and Sirius had. Just like normal Dylan had the most on his plate, followed by Sirius, Nick and me. Sirius and Dylan were having a competition on who could eat the most. I knew that because we were bird kids that we needed to eat a lot more but because Sirius was normal I didn't know that he could eat as much as Dylan. Sure enough Dylan one the competition and had a plate full of food more than Sirius, then desserts came and Dylan still managed to consume two plates of dessert while Sirius couldn't even manage a treacle tart. As we headed up to the Gryffindor tower I looked outside at the dark sky, if no one was in the common room later tonight or early in the morning I was going to go out and fly.

After a week of school we all got into the routine. On Monday mornings we didn't have any lessons then had Care of Magical Creatures after lunch and Astronomy after dinner. Tuesdays were full and we had Transfiguration then flying, lunch and potions with the Slytherins. Wednesdays we had charms, Herbology and Defence Against the Dark Arts. Thursday was Transfiguration, Charms and Potions again then on Friday we had Herbology and Astronomy. Nick Dylan and I would fly every morning before anyone was up and get back to the common room for an hours sleep before breakfast. Lily was top of the class in Charms and Herbology, James in flying and DADA tying with me, and Transfiguration with Lily and Remus. Kerry was the top in Potions followed by Lily. I was up behind Lily and James in all my subjects except for DADA and we would all help each other out with homework. James and Sirius had already gotten a detention with Professor McGonagall for duelling with Snape and, Dylan Nick and I got caught by the caretaker Mr Filch one morning when we were coming inside from flying, our detention was a lot worse than James' and Sirius because we had to polish the trophies in the trophy cabinet. When Lily asked me why we were in detention and why we were up so early I told her that I was hungry and met the boys in the kitchen. Remus would disappear for a few days every month and we all wanted to know why. James and Sirius were trying to get it out of him and he just said that he was visiting his sick grandma.

One morning when we were flying above the school we saw Professor Dumbledore come out of a hole underneath a ferocious tree with the school nurse Madam Welsh they didn't see us I don't think but we waited for them to get inside the castle before we tried to sneak under the tree. We were unsuccessful and we fly up to the castle for an hour's rest before we would be woken up again. Since it was a Saturday we didn't have classes so we were playing outside while it was still warm by the lake watching the giant squid come to the surface and splash around. Sirius and Dylan were to close to the water when the squid splashed them and came back drenched and laughing. I laughed along with them but couldn't help but wonder why Professor Dumbledore and the nurse were coming out from the trunk of the tree when the tree wouldn't move then when we go to find out what's under the tree we can't because the tree bashes us around. I couldn't help but think what was under the tree, what Professor Dumbledore was keeping at the school that had to be hidden under the tree.

Well thats chapter 4 done hope you liked it please review and tell me what you think.