7this chapter has been the hardest to write, until now I've been doing a
day-by-day account but I can hardly write Lily's whole year like that can
I?
A little disappointed by the lack of reviews, another reason why I haven't
been updating - who wants to write a story that isn't going to be read by
anyone?
Anyways, things should start happening soon.
If you read my story, I luv you, if you review it, I luv you even more
Llyana
White Icing and Marzipan
Settling in
Lily was suddenly awoken the next morning by a loud crash. She sat up in her
four-poster bed, disorientated for a second, and then pulled back the red velvet
curtains. Cassie was sprawled on the floor next to an upturned bookcase, covered in
a heap of schoolbooks. Lily giggled,
"What the hell are you doing, Cass? Lessons don't start 'til tomorrow." Cassie
scowled at her,
"A little help would be good, ya know." Together they managed to gather all the
books up and line them on the bookcase again. By the time they had finished
narrow slices of misty sunlight were flooding through the window and they could
here the sounds of voices and footsteps below them. When they had both showered
and dressed Lily and Cassie, both feeling a bit hungry, headed down to the
Griffindor common room, only to realise that neither of them remembered the way
down to the great hall. The common room was emptying fast.
"Maybe we should follow someone?" Suggested Lily.
"Yeah... hey, there's my brother! Peggy!" A tall boy with Cass's bright blue eyes
sighed and strolled over to them.
"You lost already peia?" Cassie grinned at him,
"You guessed it. We're absolutely starving. Can we follow you to the hall?" The two
of them tried to remember the way down, but by the time they had reached the
marble staircase they were totally and utterly confused. They sat down next to
Sirius and the others on the Griffindor table and helped themselves to porridge and
toast. Sirius nudged Lily,
"Have you two seen the ceiling yet?" Lily looked up, puzzled, and gasped. It
didn't look as though there was a ceiling at all. Fluffy white clouds were drifting
lazily across a watery blue sky, and bright sunlight was shafting through the
early morning mist. "It's bewitched to exactly mirror the sky outside". Another
surprise followed quickly after. Hundreds of owls circled into the hall, dropping
letters and parcels on the students. James got some homemade sweets from his
mother, Peter received a postcard from his parents, Remus, Cassie and Lily had all
been sent long letters from home and Sirius was almost knocked off his seat by a
lumpy package containing a dozen pairs of socks which he had forgotten to pack.
A short time later Mundungus Fletcher came around handing out
timetables. James grinned,
"Look, we get Friday afternoons off. We've only got double charms
tomorrow morning, and then it's the weekend! Oh, and flying lessons start on
Tuesday." There were a lot of things on the timetable that confused Lily
immensely, lessons like 'Transfiguration' and 'Defence Against the Dark Arts'.
Lily did not like the idea of staying up until midnight on Wednesday for
Astronomy, and she was definitely not looking forward to flying lessons, but
everything else seemed like a lot of fun.
When James and Sirius had finally finished their breakfasts the six of
them decided to take advantage of the good weather and explore the school grounds.
To one side of the school was the massive forbidden forest. Dark and shadowy,
students were forbidden to go past the edge. Dark creatures were rumoured to live in
there, and most students feared it. Within a week, James and Sirius had decided
that they simply had to explore it.
Lessons properly started on Monday. They had Herbology,
Transfiguration, Potions, History of Magic and Defence against the Dark Arts.
They had to go out to the greenhouses in the school grounds for Herbology, which
was taught by a squat witch called Professor Sprout and involved the study of
magical plants. Transfiguration trained the art of turning objects into something
else, strict Professor McGonagall taught Transfiguration and it was extremely
difficult. Potions was by far one of Lily's worst subjects, the teacher, Professor Hall
was unfair and seemed to hate Cassie and James especially. He bullied Peter and
was only ever nice to students of his own house, Slytherin. History of Magic was
the sole class to be taught by a ghost, droning, wrinkled Professor Binns. Sirius
surpassed himself by falling asleep and snoring loudly throughout the best part
of the lesson. Last of all was Defence Against the Dark Arts, which seemed to be
taken very seriously. Professor Jury-Morgan was a formidable old man with a
shadowy face and appeared even stricter than Professor Mc Gonagall. Cassie was
by far the best in the class, undoubtedly due to her background as the daughter of
Orion Blackthorn, and Professor Jury-Morgan treated her as an old friend.
As the days went on, Lily found herself feeling more and more at home. She and
Cassie started making it to breakfast without getting lost, Sirius got used to
having as much food as he wanted, and used it to his full advantage, and Peter
got used to getting up at midnight once a week for Astronomy. Remus surprised
everyone with some superb charms work, and James gained himself the adoration
of his classmates with an outstanding performance in flying lessons.