(A/N): Hey Guys! So, this is the next chapter. I do have plans for Elaine (well, about as many plans as I do for Leo), so she's not just randomly stuck in there, okay? Also, I would like to thank my reviewer, sand paper button. Thanks for the tips, and I hope this chapter please you!

I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine and Nicholai.

Lily

It was nine a.m, the time classes would usually start, but fortunately for me it was a Sunday. Instead, Leo, Elaine and I had decided to explore the castle, seeing as we didn't really have anything else to do, and it might become useful to know later on. I had only met Elaine two hours earlier, but she seemed perfectly nice, and we both had a lot in common. We had wanted to visit Sev after breakfast, but he had left before us, without our noticing, and we had no clue where the Slytherin common room was, other than the fact it was in the dungeons, and we were almost sure that was where he would be.

"We can always visit him later." Leo said reassuringly, and I smiled slightly, not completely convinced. "It's not like we live in different countries Lil, just different houses. We'll see him all the time." I thought about it for a second before beaming at him.

"I guess you're right! How do you know the right things to say?" We shared a look before bursting out laughing, and saying his favorite line whenever anyone asked him how he knew how to do something.

"I guess it's just one of my talents!" We chorused at the same time, still giggling, Elaine looking at us like we were both crazy.

"So how long have you two been friends?" She asked curiously, eyeing us as if worried for her sanity.

"A few months." Leo told her, and I frowned. Was it really that short? It felt like we'd known each other for years, we were that close! We were closer even than Sev and I, and that was saying something. The thing about Leo that makes him so easy to be friends with is the fact that he doesn't like to judge. He's very loyal, and even though he may seem quiet and shy, he's really, really not. He's actually crazy. As in put me in an institute crazy, we sometimes speculate that he escaped from a muggle loony bin when he was younger, using his magic.

"Really? You act like you've known each other since birth!" She said, shaking her head, mystified.

"Well, we have an insane connection." I rolled my eyes at his attempt at humor before it turned into a glare as I saw the four boys, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew in front of us. Remus and Peter didn't seem bad, but Potter and Black had tripped over Sev as we were getting off the Hogwarts express, and had earned me a detention before we'd even reached the castle! Of course, I will admit that the particular incident that occurred to earn me a detention was partially my fault. I mean, I did break Potters' nose, but he had deserved it.

"Oh, I can see that." Elaine muttered, rolling her eyes before looking off to the side.

"Idiots." I heard Leo mutter under his breath, making me glance at him before following his gaze to the boys in front of us who were now talking to a mischievous looking ghost.

"What ghost is that?" I asked curiously, knowing that while I hadn't been able to, Leo had already finished 'Hogwarts: A History'.

"Peeves. He likes to make trouble. If they ally themselves with him, we truly are doomed. Peeves is a poltergeist who particularly likes to torture the first years by playing pranks on them, and also the caretaker, Filch." I paused to stare at him for a second, wondering how he had learned all this from a book. He met my gaze and grinned at me widely.

"Dumbledore told me most of it." Elaine looked curious, but she shook her head slowly, not wanting to get involved in personal matters.

"Of course he did. Would you like to share some of the other things he told you with me someday?" I asked quietly, getting a little pissed that he hadn't told me before this.

"Perhaps." He muttered back, shrugging. I glared at his back as he sped up, leaving me struggling to catch up.

"Leo!" He knew I hated it when he walked too quickly for me to follow, and he was doing this on purpose. Elaine was struggling to keep up as well, and was starting to pant behind me, and a few seconds later I saw the reason behind his speeding up. A couple dozen feet ahead of us, Peeves, Black and Potter were crowded around Sev, Remus and Peter standing further back, and I could hear them trying to persuade them to leave him alone. Black raised his wand at Sev and cast a spell at him that made his legs start to wobble, and then Potter raised his wand.

"Do it Potter and I'll break a lot worse than your nose!" I snarled, and the five boys and Peeves spun around, startled, and upon seeing my furious expression, Sev rushed over to our side, the other four boys standing exactly still.

"What is going on here?" Everyone spun around to face professor McGonagall, who looked more than a little angry that the students she had given detention the night before were once again making trouble, and that the student who had been keeping the peace, Leo, seemed to have given up.

"Sirius and James were hexing Severus, and Lily tried to stop them." Leo told her, before anyone else could, knowing that she would only believe Leo or Remus.

"Very well then, Mr Black, Mr Potter, you both have detentions." The two boys groaned and I smirked at them before she turned her stern gaze to me. "You too Miss Evans, I heard that threat of yours." The smirk dropped from my lips instantly and turned into a frown. "I suggest your two groups spend the day away from each other so you don't cause the school any more trouble than you already have." She raised an eyebrow before turning on her heel and stalking off. So, that's what we did. The boys group had decided they would spend the day inside, and our group decided to spend the day outside by the lake, seeing as it was a rather nice day, despite the cold.

(A/N): Please review and/or check out my other stories!

I started this story in 2012. I was fourteen. Its been almost ten years. If you don't like something in the early chapters, it's not going to suddenly change ten years after I wrote it. If you're going to review this story with criticisms, please log in so I can actually reply to you and not have to leave messages like this in chapters so you might actually see it. And if you're just going to bash the story for being inaccurate, again, please remember that I was fourteen, I wasn't born in the 1960's, and I have never been outside of Australia. And some things are inaccurate because that's what people in that time period thought- not necessarily what I think, or know today.