Author's Note: Hello Dearies, aren't you proud of me? This is actually early instead of late! Oh, and I would like to clarify that this is AU. The future pairings are VERY AU. Well, now that that's over, let's get this show on the road:))

I do not own anything except for my original content and what not.

"Bloody Hell!"

Came the ever so distinguised yell of the one, the only, Miss Joesphine Ophelia Hayworth! This little outburst was due to the abrupt awakening of Josie, when she, gracefully of course, fell out of her bed. 'Why me?' Was her only thought. After getting up off the ground, she looked around and saw that she was alone, her roomates were no where to be seen. Turning to look at the clock, she saw that she was late for breakfast. Speedily dressing and grooming herself, she was ready in under five minutes. Feeling proud of her accomplishment, she sauntered out the door into the common room. Even though she was late, she stopped just to take in the magnificent room. It was so different from home. Nothing was dirty and the decorations were remarkably warm and inviting. 'I guess this is home now,' thought Josephine. Scampering out the portrait hole, she soon arrived in the Great Hall, after a few detours.

Walking in she noticed that every table was chock full of students, even her own house table. The only spot left was next to Remus Lupin. 'That's not so bad, thought Josie, 'He was nice to me yesterday.' Walking up to the table, she timidly asked

"May I sit here?"

This earned her the warm look of Remus Lupin who relpied, "Of course you may."

After thanking him, Josie took in her surroundings. Across from her was Peter Pettigrew, next to him was James Potter, and on the other side of Remus was Sirius Black. Lily and her other roomates were at the other end of the table. Slowly filling her plate with food, Josie prayed that no one would notice the large amount, seeing as she didn't eat dinner the night before. She didn't want anyone to make a fat joke on her first day.

Apparently she didn't pray quickly enough seeing as James Potter was eyeing her plate amusedly. "A little hungry aren't we now, piggy?" He and Sirius then proceeded to make very convincing pig sounds. I just ignored them and continued eating, though my appetite had disolved somewhat. Remus just looked at them with a dissaproving glare. He then looked at Josphine with a look that said, to her at least, that he did not want to lose his new friends by standing up for a stranger. She understood, at least he wasn't joining in like everyone at her old school would. She would just have to put up with it as always was the case.

Soon after eating, their head of house came over to the table and began handing out timetables. Josephine looked at hers and saw that she had Double Herbology with Hufflepuff then Transfiguration with Hufflepuff followed by Lunch, after Lunch she had Defense Against the Dark Arts with Hufflepuff then a few hours of free time until flying lessons and after that was dinner. That was tomorrow's schedule as well, but with the addition of Astronomy later in the night. 'Whew!' Thought Josephine, 'That is quite a load. I just hope that I don't pass out from all the learning. At least I have all my classes with Sapphirre today! Speak of the devil', Sapphirre came skipping up to Josephine and ethereally giggled, "Look Josie, we have all day together! Yay, hehehehe." Josephine had never been so happy to have a friend in every house, even though they were all weirdos, including Andie and herself, they were a regular group of misfits. Coming out of her little thought bubble Josephine looked at Sapphirre and said, "Let's get a move on, I don't want to be late to Herbology seeing as it's outside." And with that, they were off.

Arriving at Herbology ten minutes early, the two girls chose two seats next to eachother and waited for everyone else to arrive. "Hello, girls. How are you doing today?" asked a chipper Professor Sprout. "Teriffically fantastic, professor!" Was Sapphirre's dreamy response. "Good, well it looks like the rest of the class is about to be here." As soon as Professor Sprout finnished saying this, James Potter, and the rest of his little group, ran through the door to the greenhouse followed by the other Gryffindor and Hufflepuff first years. The only other first year boy in Gryffindor was Frank Longbottom, a quiet boy with a friendly, round face. Frank sat next to Josephine and offered a friendly smile. Class began and nothing worth speaking of happened, just the usual first day spiel.

Frank walked with Sappirre and Josephine to Transfiguration, the group spoke quietly the entire way, only interrupted once by the ever so loud James and Sirius.

"I swear, those boys are the most obnoxious people at this school!" I whipspered to Frank and Sapphirre.

"I share a room with them and they completely ignore me, well except for Remus. He's pretty nice." shared Frank.

"I agree about the Remus thing, but he isn't perfect that's for sure. This morning at breakfast James and Sirius made fun of me and Remus just sat there. I understand though, he doesn't want to rock the boat with his new friends. Even though I understand, it still hurts."

Frank frowned when I told him this, but it was quickly replaced with a smile, "We can be friends Josephine. I'll stick up for you and you can stick up for me, okay?" Josephine stopped walking.

"You mean you actually want to be friends with me?" She asked with a shocked expression.

"Why wouldn't I?" was the curious reply of Frank.

"You're the first person that has ever asked to be friends with me. I mean I have been friend's with Andrea Rodriguez, a Ravenclaw, for years, and I have quickly become friends with Saphhirre and Lizzy, a Slytherin, but no one has ever asked me to be friends with them. This is amazing!"

"So, I'm going to assume that meant yes."

Josephine offered a wide smile and said, "Of course it means yes!"

The two smiled at eachother, then at Sappirre who, in turn, smiled back, and the newly befriended group arrived at Transfiguration. Walking into the room, they chose seats next to eachother, with Josephine in between Frank and Sappirre.

"Hello class, I am Professor McGonagall and this is Transfiguration. Today we will be discussing what will happen throughout the rest of the year."

Fourty five minutes later McGonagall released them with a warning to be prepared for class tomorrow because they would be working. Josie and her friends walked to the Grat Hall for lunch. Once inside, Sapphirre said her goodbyes and joined her house table. Frank and Josephine walked to the Gryffindor table and sat down as far away from Frank's roommates as possible. After loading their plates with food, they settled into a comfortable silence as they began eating. Around the middle of lunch Frank asked Josephine if she "had a nickname" to which she replied, "Josie, what a bout you?" Frank thought for a moment and said "Well, my mum calls me Frankie, but I guess you can just call me Frank, I don't like Frankie very much." "Okay, Frank it is."

After that exchange they went back to eating until lunch was over. They then joined Sapphirre once again and began the trek to Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"I wonder what the professor will be like. My brother said that there is a new professor every year for this class. It's cursed." said Sapphirre.

"I've heard that too." offered Frank.

"Well, I guess there's only one way to find out." replied Josephine as she grabbed the arms of her companions and walked into the classroom. Upon entering the room they looked everywhere for a professor, not seeing one, the sat down in the same fashion as in Transfiguration with Josephine in the middle. When eveyone else had arrived, aside from James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter, the teacher walked in. He was a young man with dark brown hair and grey eyes. He looked over the class and offered a friendly smile.

"Hello class, my name is Alexander Paraguin and I am your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. This is my first year teahing, but I have been an Auror for ten years." This was met by a chorus of oohs and ahhs.

"Today I would like for us to go around the class and introduce ourselves. Let's start with you." He pointed at Frank. Shyly, Frank stood and said "Frank Longbottom, Gryffindor."

"Very good, and you?" He looked at Josephine. As Josephine blushingly began to stand up, she was interrupted by four red-faced boys bursting into the room, laughing.

"Excuse me boys, but may I inquire as to why you are late to my class?"

"Well, professor, we got a little bit...lost on the way here." supplied James confidently.

"Very well, seeing as it is the first day, I won't give you a detention. Sit down, we are introducing ourselves. Go ahead darling, finish introducing yourself." Josephine blushed a red that would put Hagrid to shame when he said 'darling,' but stood up regardless.

"My name is Josephine Hayworth and I..." Josephine was interrupted by a surprisingly pig-like sound coming from the back of the room, James Potter.

"Mr..."

"Potter sir."

"Yes, Mr. Potter. Would you care to share with us why you are making those sounds while the rest of the class was trying to listen to Miss. Hayworth."

"Well, I was being funny. So, I made pig sounds. You know, because she looks like a pig."

"Twenty points from Gryffindor for making fun of a housemate."

"But professor!"

"No buts about it Mr. Potter. One more word out of you and I will give you that detention. Now, Josephine, would you like to finish what you were saying?"

"I was just going to say that I am from Gryffindor, professor." She diffidently whispered.

"Okay, let's move on class."

After Sapphirre came two Hufflepuffs, Lily, Mary, Alice, six more Hufflepuffs, then James, Sirius, Remus and Peter. James introduced them all as the 'Marauders.' They all grinned wildly when he said this. By the time everyone was finished introducing theirselves, class was over.

"Okay class. I will see you all tomorrow. Miss Hayworth, Mr. Potter, will you please stay after for a moment."

James and Josephine walked quickly up to the professor's desk and waited expectantly for him to begin speaking.

"I am sure you know why you are here. I would like to know why, Mr. Potter, you were so bluntly rude to Miss Hayworth."

"I don't know." mumbled James. "I thought it was funny."

"Well, you thought wrong James. I would like you to apologize to Josephine."

"He doesn't need to do that Professor. He was just telling the truth. You can't punish the truth." said Josephine.

James and Professor Paraguin just looked at her, shocked.

"May I leave now?"

"Yes, I guess. You may leave Josephine."

"Thank you." She said, scurrying out the door leaving two very confused males behind her.

When Josephine was out of the room she looked around, only to be surprised by seeing Frank waiting for her. "Hey Josie, was that about Potter?" he asked with a frown on his face. "Yes, but I handled it. Let's go to the common room to hang out before our Flying Lesson." Frank agreed and they set out to the common room. On the way up they heard something that sounded like a girl crying. Looking around for the girl they spotted her sitting against the wall with her face in her hands. "Are you okay?" asked Josephine gently. The girl looked up at the sound of Josephine's voice. It was Lizzy!

"Oh my good gravy! Lizzy, what's wrong?"

"Oh Josephine! I am so glad you're here! I have had classes with Andie, but I have had a terrible day otherwise. The Slytherin's hate me because I'm half-blood. I am one of the only non-pureblood's sorted into Slytherin this year. The only person that hasn't been mean to me is Severus Snape, Lily's friend, and he has just ignored me. I hate it here, I wanna go home!"

"Calm down Lizzy, we've all had bad days. Come along with Frank and I. We can all go outside to hang out and talk about everything, okay?"

"Okay."

Walking back down the stairs, the threesome ventured outside, through the main door, onto Hogwart's grounds. They walked over to sit under a large tree by the lake.

"So Lizzy, before we start our little discussion, I would like to introduce you to my friend Frank. Frank, this is Lizzy. Lizzy this is Frank. Sapphirre has already met him. He' s really nice and cool."

"Hello Lizzy."

"Hello Frank."

"Well, now that that's over, let's get to talking! So, what do you think you can do to be happier Lizzy?"

"I guess I could try to talk to Severus, and I could spend as much time as possible with you, Andie, Sapphirre and Frank."

"Good idea. Don't you agree Frank?"

"I concur vehemently Josephine."

"How was your day Josie?" asked Lizzy.

"Ugh, don't get me started Lizzy! First off, I woke up late after not one of my lovely roommates decided to wake me up. Then at breakfast James Potter and Sirius Black called me a pig and made noises. Sapphirre and I then walked to Herbology where we met Frankie here...I mean Frank, sorry." Corrected Josie after recieving a hearty glare from said person. "After Herbology, we all went to Transfiguration which went fine, then came DADA. The Professor introduced himself and had us all introduce ourselves. When I was about to start my introduction, the 'marauder' as they now call themselves, burst in and ended up sitting in the back. When I began speaking again, James started making pig noises again and called me fat. He got in trouble and that's about it." I said in one long breath.

"Wow." was all Lizzy said. Frank just sat there with a look of amazement on his pleasantly round face, clearly he was impressed with my speed-speaking skills. After that we just hung out and talked about ourselves for an hour before we headed off to Flying Class. Every first-year had this class together, so we were very excited. Upon arriving, we introduced Andie and Frank, who got on smashingly I might add. Soon enough after we arrived, Madam Hooch introduced herself and we began our lesson. Frank, Sapphirre and I all caught on pretty quickly, along with James, and several other kids. Andie, Lizzy, Remus, Sirius, Peter and most everyone else was flying within about twenty minutes. Lily was the last person to get in the air. It was hilarious, to Josephine at least.

Before long dinner was upon them, Frank and Josie ended up having to sit closer to the Marauder's than they would have wanted. Dinner was pretty uneventful, aside from several glares from Sirius and curious looks from James and Remus. Frank and Josephine finished eating, then took a leisurely stroll up to the common room. They were worn out after such a long day. Collapsing on the big, comfy couch they talked fro about an hour before reluctantly saying goodnight and going to their unwelcoming rooms.

When Josephine entered her room she was greeted with a pitying look from Alice, a smirk from Lily, and a look of indifference from Mary. Josephine went to the bathroom, got ready for bed, and retired to her bed. She fell to sleep quickly, even though it was still early, and slept contentedly the morning when she woke up on time, met Frank and set off, ready to start a new day.