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Disclaimer: Ok, we all know I don't any of the characters you recognize or any of the settings – they are J.K. Rowling's. I do claim Alyson though.
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Aly's happiness didn't last long. By the end of the first day, the students who knew her, like Andrew, saw her as a messily first year, below all of them. The students who didn't know her, the first and second years, were all intimidated by her and the power she possessed. So, she lacked the friends and popularity that she thought were guaranteed.
Lily stuck close to her though. Aly thought it had more to do with her being Lily's own personal guide and less to do with wanting to be friends. However, by the end of the first week, no one would be able to tell if it was Lily clinging to Aly or Aly clinging to Lily. They moved from class to class together. They ate meals together. They did their homework together. They stayed up late talking through the curtains on their beds.
Lily told Aly all about being a muggle and all about her family. Lily was the first person Aly ever talked about her mom with. She never had anyone to talk to and Lily became her safe haven.
They were never late to class thanks to Aly's extended knowledge of Hogwarts, but that wasn't the case for any of the other first years. Two particular first years had become determined to find an easier way to their classes by the end of the first week.
On their first Saturday at Hogwarts, while many first years took advantage of the warm weather outside, Sirius Black was found at a round table in the corner of the common room surrounded by stacks of books. It wasn't long until James Potter came stumbling in carrying even more books.
As Sirius helped him collect all the spilt books, they discovered they were both after the same thing and James sat down with Sirius. They worked tirelessly through the books, searching and finding nothing, throughout the entire day. Not long after midnight did Aly come bounding down the stairs, startling the two boys and Lily, who was doing a muggle crossword puzzle on the couch.
"Where're you running off to?" Lily asked looking back down at her crossword.
"I'm hungry," Aly told her walking towards the portrait.
"You can't just go wandering around the school at this time of night," Sirius interjected.
Aly exhaled loudly through her nose and continued on.
"We can't let you leave," Sirius snapped standing up. "You'll get points taken if you get caught."
She turned quickly and her ponytail whipped around. "I won't get caught," she said simply. "Plus, I'd like to see you stop me," she challenged.
Judging by the look Sirius had in his eyes, James stood up and started around the table so Sirius was within in his reach if it was necessary to grab him.
Over the first week, Sirius and Aly had already had brawls in the common room that sent anyone in distance of them running for cover. They had already destroyed two chairs and caught a table on fire with their fights. So, Lily, having gotten use to the fights, decided to stay out of this one by rolling over onto her stomach and filling in another answer on her puzzle.
"Come'on, Black. Are you going to stop me or are you just full of yourself?"
His faced changed to rage and he started towards her with James dragging behind him. He stopped right in front of her. Aly and Sirius stared at each other. Then suddenly Aly's wand was out and she yelled, "Leghi insu!"
A silver thread shot from her wand and James and Sirius got tangled. They fell to the floor, tied back to back.
"This is not funny!" Sirius yelled as he and James struggle for release.
Lily suddenly pushed herself up on her elbows. "Wicked!" she exclaimed.
"Avagli," Aly said and instantly the two became gagged. Aly curtseyed in front of them and turned to Lily. "Wanna come?"
"Sure," she replied tossing her crossword aside and jumping off the couch. "Later boys!" she called over her shoulder as she and Aly proceeded out of the Gryffindor tower arm in arm.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Lily question once they were on their way.
"I have my ways," Aly replied simply.
They continued down the halls until a noise from a classroom caught their ears. There were voices; Aly could pick two or three. She was pretty sure one of them was her father's. Lily gasped and tightened her hold on Aly. "What are we going to do?" she whispered.
"No prob," Aly laughed back. "Povedra," she whispered pointing her wand straight up. A gold light shot out of it forming an umbrella shape. It then floated down around them and enveloped them. Suddenly Lily gasped even louder.
"Don't let go of me," Aly advised her.
"Well, I cant, you aren't, what did you just do?"
"I just turned us invisible. Not to worry though. I'm pretty sure I know the counter-curse."
"You're pretty sure? Pretty sure?" Lily hissed. "What if you're wrong? We could be stuck like this forever!"
"Lils, chill out. Let's just keep going," Aly said pulling her forward.
They continued past the classroom cautiously.
Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Binns, the history teacher, were conversing around a large piece of paper,
"What are they doing?' Aly wondered aloud.
The three adults turned towards the noise to see an empty doorway. Aly grabbed Lily tightly and started to run.
They entered the front hall and proceeded down a passage way, much like the one that leads to their potions classroom.
Aly stopped them in front of a large picture of a bowl of fruit.
"Where are we?" Lily asked.
"Ritoredra," Aly said with her wand straight up in the air again. The light formed around them again and then shot up into the umbrella shape again. It finally descended into Aly's wand. Lily stood mesmerized.
"Tickle the pear," Aly told her.
"Do what?" Lily asked snapping out her trace.
"Tickle the pear,"
Lily cautiously approached the picture. This should be good Aly thought. Lily extended her finger very slowly.
"It's not going to bite you. Hurry up, someone else might be wondering around." Aly instructed her, looking up and down the hallway.
Lily gently tickled the pear and it began to wiggle and Lily was shocked and it showed on her face. When it turned into a door, she turned to Aly and said, "How did it do that?"
Aly just smiled, shook her head, and pulled the door open. As Aly and Lily climbed into the kitchen, they were greeted by small creature with large pointy ears.
"What are these?" Lily whispers at the creature ushered them in.
"House elves." Aly told her, "Aren't they cute?"
Lily made a face. The creatures weren't exactly what she'd call cute. Aly seeing her facial expression, leaned over and whispered, "So, ugly, they're cute." Lily let out a laugh.
The elves brought them large trays of pastries and danishes and Aly and Lily retreated to the hearth of the large fireplace to eat them.
After they had eaten, Aly asked one of the elves to wrap up two of the danishes for them.
"What for?" Lily asked.
"Peace offering. 'Cause you know, Black and Potter might be a weensy-bit mad at us about being tied up."
"Good idea!" Lily exclaimed.
They were sitting there, enjoying the feeling of being full and the warmth of the fire, when a house elf came flouncing up to them.
"Alyson Patricia,"
Aly turned, horror-struck, to face the rather old looking house elf.
"What would your father say if he knew you were down here?" the elf asked putting her tiny hand on her hips.
"He'd probably ask to join us," Aly said trying to crack a joke.
"Well, we'll see won't we?" the elf replied, turned, then stormed away the best her small legs would let her.
Lily watched the elf and then turned back to Aly. She seemed perplexed by the apparent relationship between the elf and her friend.
"She learned how to do that from me," Aly said motioning to the fit the elf was throwing.
"Who was that?"
"Muggles have, hm, what do you call them," she paused for a moment trying to remember what the correct word was. "Nannies," she finally said. "Well, that's my equivalent to a nanny."
"That thing is your nanny?"
"Tipsy, actually."
"Huh?"
"Her name is Tipsy. Well, actually, it's Tipsily, but I can't stand that name. Plus, I couldn't say it as a baby. So, she's Tipsy."
Lily suppressed a laugh at the thought of the severe looking elf being called Tipsy. She turned to face Aly and then for some reason they both started laughing, startling all the elves in the kitchen.
They thanked the elves, grabbed the danishes for the two boys, and started back towards their common room.
Aly put the invisibility charm on them again and as they walked, they passed Dumbledore being dragged, by Tipsy, towards the kitchens.
"Wicked little thing ain't she?" Lily said after they passed them.
"You have no idea," Aly told her bitterly.
They reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, who let them in without opening her eyes. They had accepted to see James and Sirius sitting right where they had left them except they weren't there. In fact, they there was no one in the common room except them. Although, technically, it appeared empty because they were both still invisible.
"Where'd they go?" Lily asked Aly loudly.
Lily let go of Aly to investigate and as Aly made a reach for Lily, to keep her close so she could lift the spell, there was a loud bang.
James and Sirius jumped out of the puff of smoke they had created. Aly and Lily coughed and the boys looked around for them.
"What the?" Sirius asked at the same moment James said, "Where are they?"
They both had their wands drawn, ready to attack and both looked around confused.
"Don't hide from us," Sirius called out.
"Lily, don't move!" Aly called out and the two boys jumped. Aly, who was still holding the two danishes, had a sudden idea.
She slowly made her way towards the two boys. She got right behind them and she reached around them and smashed the two danishes right into their faces. They didn't know what hit them. They both let out a yelp and Sirius swung behind him just to wrap around and smack James. As he bent down to help James up, Lily came running over to the mass and ran into something solid that wasn't there.
"Aly?" Lily asked the air. An arm flung around her and she heard Aly say, "Ritoredra."
The spell lifted and they stood ready, wands pulled out, for the boys counter-attack.
As James stood, he and Sirius wiped the mess out of their faces. "Oh, it's on," Sirius said in a low hiss.
With a screech, Lily and Aly darted off. They began to chase each other around the common room. It was a playful chase as they shot water from their wands, chucked pillows at each other, and knocked over chairs.
Sirius had just tackled Aly to the floor, holding her down, when a voice called down the steps, "What's going on down there?"
All four of them stopped. Aly looked up at Sirius and Sirius looked down at Aly and they both declared at the same time, "Run!"
They sprinted off towards their rooms. Lily and Aly only made it so far though. It seemed the two boys had planned on this happening and had greased the steps. They both slid back down. "Uh-oh," Aly said simply as the perfect appeared; Andrew, in fact.
"Come along," he said sharply.
Aly sent a regretful look at Lily. Not because she was upset they got caught, but because Sirius and James had gotten away.
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"What were you thinking?" Dumbledore asked pacing around his office.
Lily, totally petrified, sat staring at her hands. They were both dripping water onto the chairs and down onto the floor.
McGonagall stood in the corner looking very disapprovingly at the two girls.
"Why?" Dumbledore asked when neither girl answered his first question.
Both girls remained silent.
"Who else was involved in this?"
Both girls' heads shoot up.
"Ah, I see I may just get some answers now."
"Why do you think we weren't acting alone?" Aly questioned him.
"We found a trail of water up to the first year's dormitory. All the boys were asleep and dry though," McGonagall told them.
"We acted alone," Aly said loudly and determinedly. "And if we didn't, do you really think we'd rat out our fellow 'delinquents'?" she asked turning to her father.
Dumbledore studied Aly then turned towards Lily, who was looking at Aly as if trying to calculate why she wasn't telling on the boys. She turned to Dumbledore and said, "We acted alone."
Dumbledore frowned and then sighed and announced, "Detention."
The girls looked at him and he said, "You may go."
Professor McGonagall followed them back to the Gryffindor tower. As they entered she told them, "And I expect you to clean up your . . ." Her sentence fell short since the room was already clean.
"Worked alone?" she inquired.
Aly smiled at her and said, "Good night Professor."
She and Lily walked up the freshly ungreased stairs to their bedrooms.
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The next morning while the two of them were eating breakfast, Sirius and James took the seats next to them.
"You rat us out?" Sirius whispered.
"Well, good morning to you too," Aly replied.
"Answer the question," Sirius demanded.
"Has McGonagall talked to yet today?"
"No,"
"Then you're free," Aly told him. "But I do think she has a suspension it was you."
Sirius nodded to James who was eating already.
James looked up and with a mouth full of food replied, "Awh-rye." They both stood, Sirius announced, "Later," and they both made their way out of the hall together, James still holding his plate of food, whispering about something.
Lily made a face and said, "So, their friends now?"
"I suppose," Aly said, then added, "I have a really bad feeling about that."
"A bad feeling about them being friends?" Lily questioned.
"Yeah, something tells me that nothing good can come from it. Nothing good at all."
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TA-DA!!!
Chapter 5 over and out. Hope you enjoyed it, if you did, drop me a word. That's right, just take your mouse and just move it over to that little box and click review. Hey, even if you didn't like it, tell me. "The truth shall set you free." So, why keep all you're feelings for the story bottled up, let'em out. Constructive criticism, gotta love it.
Later days!
Disclaimer: Ok, we all know I don't any of the characters you recognize or any of the settings – they are J.K. Rowling's. I do claim Alyson though.
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Aly's happiness didn't last long. By the end of the first day, the students who knew her, like Andrew, saw her as a messily first year, below all of them. The students who didn't know her, the first and second years, were all intimidated by her and the power she possessed. So, she lacked the friends and popularity that she thought were guaranteed.
Lily stuck close to her though. Aly thought it had more to do with her being Lily's own personal guide and less to do with wanting to be friends. However, by the end of the first week, no one would be able to tell if it was Lily clinging to Aly or Aly clinging to Lily. They moved from class to class together. They ate meals together. They did their homework together. They stayed up late talking through the curtains on their beds.
Lily told Aly all about being a muggle and all about her family. Lily was the first person Aly ever talked about her mom with. She never had anyone to talk to and Lily became her safe haven.
They were never late to class thanks to Aly's extended knowledge of Hogwarts, but that wasn't the case for any of the other first years. Two particular first years had become determined to find an easier way to their classes by the end of the first week.
On their first Saturday at Hogwarts, while many first years took advantage of the warm weather outside, Sirius Black was found at a round table in the corner of the common room surrounded by stacks of books. It wasn't long until James Potter came stumbling in carrying even more books.
As Sirius helped him collect all the spilt books, they discovered they were both after the same thing and James sat down with Sirius. They worked tirelessly through the books, searching and finding nothing, throughout the entire day. Not long after midnight did Aly come bounding down the stairs, startling the two boys and Lily, who was doing a muggle crossword puzzle on the couch.
"Where're you running off to?" Lily asked looking back down at her crossword.
"I'm hungry," Aly told her walking towards the portrait.
"You can't just go wandering around the school at this time of night," Sirius interjected.
Aly exhaled loudly through her nose and continued on.
"We can't let you leave," Sirius snapped standing up. "You'll get points taken if you get caught."
She turned quickly and her ponytail whipped around. "I won't get caught," she said simply. "Plus, I'd like to see you stop me," she challenged.
Judging by the look Sirius had in his eyes, James stood up and started around the table so Sirius was within in his reach if it was necessary to grab him.
Over the first week, Sirius and Aly had already had brawls in the common room that sent anyone in distance of them running for cover. They had already destroyed two chairs and caught a table on fire with their fights. So, Lily, having gotten use to the fights, decided to stay out of this one by rolling over onto her stomach and filling in another answer on her puzzle.
"Come'on, Black. Are you going to stop me or are you just full of yourself?"
His faced changed to rage and he started towards her with James dragging behind him. He stopped right in front of her. Aly and Sirius stared at each other. Then suddenly Aly's wand was out and she yelled, "Leghi insu!"
A silver thread shot from her wand and James and Sirius got tangled. They fell to the floor, tied back to back.
"This is not funny!" Sirius yelled as he and James struggle for release.
Lily suddenly pushed herself up on her elbows. "Wicked!" she exclaimed.
"Avagli," Aly said and instantly the two became gagged. Aly curtseyed in front of them and turned to Lily. "Wanna come?"
"Sure," she replied tossing her crossword aside and jumping off the couch. "Later boys!" she called over her shoulder as she and Aly proceeded out of the Gryffindor tower arm in arm.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Lily question once they were on their way.
"I have my ways," Aly replied simply.
They continued down the halls until a noise from a classroom caught their ears. There were voices; Aly could pick two or three. She was pretty sure one of them was her father's. Lily gasped and tightened her hold on Aly. "What are we going to do?" she whispered.
"No prob," Aly laughed back. "Povedra," she whispered pointing her wand straight up. A gold light shot out of it forming an umbrella shape. It then floated down around them and enveloped them. Suddenly Lily gasped even louder.
"Don't let go of me," Aly advised her.
"Well, I cant, you aren't, what did you just do?"
"I just turned us invisible. Not to worry though. I'm pretty sure I know the counter-curse."
"You're pretty sure? Pretty sure?" Lily hissed. "What if you're wrong? We could be stuck like this forever!"
"Lils, chill out. Let's just keep going," Aly said pulling her forward.
They continued past the classroom cautiously.
Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Binns, the history teacher, were conversing around a large piece of paper,
"What are they doing?' Aly wondered aloud.
The three adults turned towards the noise to see an empty doorway. Aly grabbed Lily tightly and started to run.
They entered the front hall and proceeded down a passage way, much like the one that leads to their potions classroom.
Aly stopped them in front of a large picture of a bowl of fruit.
"Where are we?" Lily asked.
"Ritoredra," Aly said with her wand straight up in the air again. The light formed around them again and then shot up into the umbrella shape again. It finally descended into Aly's wand. Lily stood mesmerized.
"Tickle the pear," Aly told her.
"Do what?" Lily asked snapping out her trace.
"Tickle the pear,"
Lily cautiously approached the picture. This should be good Aly thought. Lily extended her finger very slowly.
"It's not going to bite you. Hurry up, someone else might be wondering around." Aly instructed her, looking up and down the hallway.
Lily gently tickled the pear and it began to wiggle and Lily was shocked and it showed on her face. When it turned into a door, she turned to Aly and said, "How did it do that?"
Aly just smiled, shook her head, and pulled the door open. As Aly and Lily climbed into the kitchen, they were greeted by small creature with large pointy ears.
"What are these?" Lily whispers at the creature ushered them in.
"House elves." Aly told her, "Aren't they cute?"
Lily made a face. The creatures weren't exactly what she'd call cute. Aly seeing her facial expression, leaned over and whispered, "So, ugly, they're cute." Lily let out a laugh.
The elves brought them large trays of pastries and danishes and Aly and Lily retreated to the hearth of the large fireplace to eat them.
After they had eaten, Aly asked one of the elves to wrap up two of the danishes for them.
"What for?" Lily asked.
"Peace offering. 'Cause you know, Black and Potter might be a weensy-bit mad at us about being tied up."
"Good idea!" Lily exclaimed.
They were sitting there, enjoying the feeling of being full and the warmth of the fire, when a house elf came flouncing up to them.
"Alyson Patricia,"
Aly turned, horror-struck, to face the rather old looking house elf.
"What would your father say if he knew you were down here?" the elf asked putting her tiny hand on her hips.
"He'd probably ask to join us," Aly said trying to crack a joke.
"Well, we'll see won't we?" the elf replied, turned, then stormed away the best her small legs would let her.
Lily watched the elf and then turned back to Aly. She seemed perplexed by the apparent relationship between the elf and her friend.
"She learned how to do that from me," Aly said motioning to the fit the elf was throwing.
"Who was that?"
"Muggles have, hm, what do you call them," she paused for a moment trying to remember what the correct word was. "Nannies," she finally said. "Well, that's my equivalent to a nanny."
"That thing is your nanny?"
"Tipsy, actually."
"Huh?"
"Her name is Tipsy. Well, actually, it's Tipsily, but I can't stand that name. Plus, I couldn't say it as a baby. So, she's Tipsy."
Lily suppressed a laugh at the thought of the severe looking elf being called Tipsy. She turned to face Aly and then for some reason they both started laughing, startling all the elves in the kitchen.
They thanked the elves, grabbed the danishes for the two boys, and started back towards their common room.
Aly put the invisibility charm on them again and as they walked, they passed Dumbledore being dragged, by Tipsy, towards the kitchens.
"Wicked little thing ain't she?" Lily said after they passed them.
"You have no idea," Aly told her bitterly.
They reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, who let them in without opening her eyes. They had accepted to see James and Sirius sitting right where they had left them except they weren't there. In fact, they there was no one in the common room except them. Although, technically, it appeared empty because they were both still invisible.
"Where'd they go?" Lily asked Aly loudly.
Lily let go of Aly to investigate and as Aly made a reach for Lily, to keep her close so she could lift the spell, there was a loud bang.
James and Sirius jumped out of the puff of smoke they had created. Aly and Lily coughed and the boys looked around for them.
"What the?" Sirius asked at the same moment James said, "Where are they?"
They both had their wands drawn, ready to attack and both looked around confused.
"Don't hide from us," Sirius called out.
"Lily, don't move!" Aly called out and the two boys jumped. Aly, who was still holding the two danishes, had a sudden idea.
She slowly made her way towards the two boys. She got right behind them and she reached around them and smashed the two danishes right into their faces. They didn't know what hit them. They both let out a yelp and Sirius swung behind him just to wrap around and smack James. As he bent down to help James up, Lily came running over to the mass and ran into something solid that wasn't there.
"Aly?" Lily asked the air. An arm flung around her and she heard Aly say, "Ritoredra."
The spell lifted and they stood ready, wands pulled out, for the boys counter-attack.
As James stood, he and Sirius wiped the mess out of their faces. "Oh, it's on," Sirius said in a low hiss.
With a screech, Lily and Aly darted off. They began to chase each other around the common room. It was a playful chase as they shot water from their wands, chucked pillows at each other, and knocked over chairs.
Sirius had just tackled Aly to the floor, holding her down, when a voice called down the steps, "What's going on down there?"
All four of them stopped. Aly looked up at Sirius and Sirius looked down at Aly and they both declared at the same time, "Run!"
They sprinted off towards their rooms. Lily and Aly only made it so far though. It seemed the two boys had planned on this happening and had greased the steps. They both slid back down. "Uh-oh," Aly said simply as the perfect appeared; Andrew, in fact.
"Come along," he said sharply.
Aly sent a regretful look at Lily. Not because she was upset they got caught, but because Sirius and James had gotten away.
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"What were you thinking?" Dumbledore asked pacing around his office.
Lily, totally petrified, sat staring at her hands. They were both dripping water onto the chairs and down onto the floor.
McGonagall stood in the corner looking very disapprovingly at the two girls.
"Why?" Dumbledore asked when neither girl answered his first question.
Both girls remained silent.
"Who else was involved in this?"
Both girls' heads shoot up.
"Ah, I see I may just get some answers now."
"Why do you think we weren't acting alone?" Aly questioned him.
"We found a trail of water up to the first year's dormitory. All the boys were asleep and dry though," McGonagall told them.
"We acted alone," Aly said loudly and determinedly. "And if we didn't, do you really think we'd rat out our fellow 'delinquents'?" she asked turning to her father.
Dumbledore studied Aly then turned towards Lily, who was looking at Aly as if trying to calculate why she wasn't telling on the boys. She turned to Dumbledore and said, "We acted alone."
Dumbledore frowned and then sighed and announced, "Detention."
The girls looked at him and he said, "You may go."
Professor McGonagall followed them back to the Gryffindor tower. As they entered she told them, "And I expect you to clean up your . . ." Her sentence fell short since the room was already clean.
"Worked alone?" she inquired.
Aly smiled at her and said, "Good night Professor."
She and Lily walked up the freshly ungreased stairs to their bedrooms.
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The next morning while the two of them were eating breakfast, Sirius and James took the seats next to them.
"You rat us out?" Sirius whispered.
"Well, good morning to you too," Aly replied.
"Answer the question," Sirius demanded.
"Has McGonagall talked to yet today?"
"No,"
"Then you're free," Aly told him. "But I do think she has a suspension it was you."
Sirius nodded to James who was eating already.
James looked up and with a mouth full of food replied, "Awh-rye." They both stood, Sirius announced, "Later," and they both made their way out of the hall together, James still holding his plate of food, whispering about something.
Lily made a face and said, "So, their friends now?"
"I suppose," Aly said, then added, "I have a really bad feeling about that."
"A bad feeling about them being friends?" Lily questioned.
"Yeah, something tells me that nothing good can come from it. Nothing good at all."
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TA-DA!!!
Chapter 5 over and out. Hope you enjoyed it, if you did, drop me a word. That's right, just take your mouse and just move it over to that little box and click review. Hey, even if you didn't like it, tell me. "The truth shall set you free." So, why keep all you're feelings for the story bottled up, let'em out. Constructive criticism, gotta love it.
Later days!