Hello people! Yes! It's an HP fic! And I'm writing it! When did that happen?
I've been telling myself to write this little L/J for ages. I originally wouldn't write it because, as it's HP, it's so huge that if I make a mess of it there are big repercussions on my writing life. But I gave in when I came up - coughcoughyeahrightcoughcough - with this L/J idea.
Okay, so I didn't exactly come up with it. But I didn't outright steal it, either. Some of it's mine. Some of it just…isn't. I'm sorry if I borrowed part of your fic. I didn't mean to offend you!
Disclaimer: I own everything! Yeah right. Do I LOOK or SOUND like JKR? I mean, come on. Get your eyes checked.
Claimer: Um…I own everyone you don't recognise-basically everyone except for Petunia, Lily, the Marauders, and the familiar teachers.
I hope you enjoy this teeny leetle fic. I'm into L/Js at the moment. It's my next phase after F/Ans.
This is going to be a surprise to me, too, as I have no idea what I'm going to write. I never have any plans! This'll just go as it does.
Oh, and I don't mind flames as long as that's not all I get. Actually, I laugh at flames, and then leave little pointers to the people who left them, just to get them mad at me. I find it funny to get flames. Don't flamers have anything better to do with their lives?
This is my first HP fic. Tell me if it sucks!
The rating is for swearing and stuff like that. NO SEX. I am not that disgusting. I am only fifteen, to ease your concerns! I am writing about seventeen-year-olds (and briefly eleven-year-olds), and teens swear! So there! Don't read if you're offended!
And, in case you didn't get it, this is a traditional love/hate L/J (as in Lily/James, for those of you who don't understand letter language) fic!
Please R/R.
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Chapter 1, Meeting the Marauders
Two girls watched each other. They weren't the best sisters. One of the sisters didn't bother to say goodbye as her younger sibling walked over to the barrier reading `9'.
The redheaded girl turned back and looked at her family. Her mother and father waved goodbye to her, and she waved back. Then she watched as the three members of her family turned and walked away.
Eleven-year-old Lily Evans resumed her staring at the platform sign. She was standing at King's Cross Station, September 1st, and trying to get to the Hogwarts Train area. Platform 9 3/4, the letter had said, she remembered. But looking up, there was no sign proclaiming the area she wanted. There were just `9' and `10'. Nothing between them.
Lily sighed and sat on her trolley in annoyance. Her brown owl, Jill, squawked next to her. Lily giggled.
`Well, seeing as I'm here, I may as well make myself look even more foolish,' she thought. She heaved back on her trolley and smashed into the barrier between `9' and `10'.
Except that she didn't quite smash. She went through it. On the other side was a large red train proclaiming `Hogwarts' on the side.
Lily was amazed she was here. It had been a couple of months since Lily had received her letter to go to `Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry'. Originally everyone had thought it was a joke, but then they realised it wasn't when Lily discovered Diagon Alley completely by accident.
After that event, Lily had truly believed that everything was real. She was going to a boarding school to become a witch.
Lily walked up to the train. A blonde girl with bright blue eyes fell over as her companion cracked a few jokes. She banged into Lily's trolley.
Lily reached out and grabbed Jill's cage before it could fall over. The blonde girl and her companion, a rather fit black haired boy with grey eyes, reached out and tugged Lily's trunk back onto the trolley as it started to topple over.
"Thanks," Lily told them.
The blonde shrugged. "It was no problem," she said. "I'm sorry for knocking into you. It's just that Sirius is always so funny. My name's Bethany." She stuck out a hand. Lily took it.
"I'm Lily," she told the two.
"Sirius," the boy said unnecessarily. Lily nodded.
"Do you have anywhere to sit?" Bethany asked her. Lily shook her head. "Come on, you can sit with us."
They pushed Lily's trolley towards the train, and with combined efforts, managed to heave her trunk into one of the compartments in the train next to theirs. They all sighed and fell into the seats along the side, Bethany in the middle.
"Are you from a witch family?" Beth asked. "I am, and so is Sirius. We've lived next to each other forever."
Lily shook her head. "No, I'd never even heard of witches before I got my letter. All my family are normal."
Beth looked a bit annoyed as Lily said the word `normal'. "You mean muggle," she told the redhead.
"Sorry?"
"The term for non-magical people is muggle," Sirius explained to Lily.
"Oh." Just then, another girl walked into the compartment. "Can I sit here?" she asked. "Everywhere else is full." The new girl had brown hair and eyes. She was quite tanned and reasonably skinny, but not too much. They agreed to let her stay, saying that the more there were the merrier.
The girl's name was Tawny, and she was from a muggle family, same as Lily. The two girls hit it off immediately, chatting about the new TV drama A Penny for Your Thoughts.
About half an hour into the journey, a boy walked in. He had long black hair and deep eyes that it was impossible to tell the colour of. He grinned at Lily.
"My, oh my, what a pretty thing we have here," he said. "Let's see what we could do with you…"
Sirius jumped up and pointed his wand at this uninvited guest. "Get lost," he said.
"Why should I?" He saw Lily's questioning glance. "Oh, if you're wondering who I am, you may call me…"
"If it isn't old Snape," a boy cut in over him. This new arrival (there seemed to be a lot of them, Lily thought, seeing the two boys behind him. One of them seemed to be with this boy, but the other was further away, like a spectator) had unruly black hair and brown eyes beneath round black-rimmed glasses. The boy directly behind him had brown hair and hazel eyes, and the boy further behind was slightly chubby and short, with dirty blond hair and grey-blue eyes.
The first boy, Snape, said, "Severus, actually," to the other boy.
"Severus Snape, then," the second boy said. "Why don't you be going? You have no purpose here, really, apart from getting on everyone's nerves. Go."
Snape rolled his eyes, but exited. "Fine, Potter," he said as he left.
Potter sighed but grinned at everyone in the room. He noticed Sirius and his eyes lit up. "You dislike him, too?"
Sirius nodded. "I'm Sirius Black," he told the other boy.
"I'm James Potter," James said.
"Remus Lupin," the boy behind James put in. The boy further back scurried up.
"I'm Peter Pettigrew," he told the three boys. They all turned to look at him, but thought nothing of it and turned back to each other again.
The four of them talked about anything and everything, and realised that they all had a passion for mischief-making and Quidditch, a game poor Lily and Tawny had never heard of. Remus and James had met in Quality Quidditch Supplies buying their Danzip brooms, and had got talking. Now all of them decided to create a club.
The three girls rolled their eyes at the boys and started talking closely to each other.
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The Sorting Hat process was the scariest thing to happen to Lily that evening.
"BLACK, SIRIUS!" and "BROOK, TAWNY!" had got in Gryffindor, and Lily decided she'd like to be in their House. She was nervous when her turn came up.
"EVANS, LILY!" Lily walked up slowly, her school robes flapping after her, and she sat on the stool, the Sorting Hat on her head.
Barely minutes went by as the hat considered her house, but it felt like forever to Lily. Then finally:
"GRYFFINDOR!" Lily raced across to sit next to Tawny. Remus got placed in Gryffindor, then Peter, then James, then finally Bethany (Towers). Snape got put in Slytherin, which he deserved, according to James.
The first few days went well. The seven of them were really close friends. Then they drifted apart as the four boys (or the Marauders, as they called themselves) started scheming and pranking people. The official split was only between Lily and James, and it was when James charmed Lily's ink bottle to pour over her head. The two of them were never friends again after that.
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So, what do you think of that? I'm quite proud of it, actually. Yay! I wrote the first chapter of an HP story and liked it! Go me!
That might seem really slow but I had to introduce all the main characters and, ugh, Snape. The next chapters will have the story sped up and in the future.
I hope you enjoy it, and please submit a review! Please!
Cazzy
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