ooc: happy birthday =)

"Thanks, love. Don't mind if I do," Sirius grinned, his glance lingering a couple of seconds more on Ally before turning to the welcoming mounds of food before him. Seconds later, he was gulping and struggling not to choke; he was that hungry.

"Any of you guys seen James and his belle? What's taking them so long?" Sirius asked the table, looking wonderingly from Sloane to Louisa to Ally. It was kind of odd. Where had the others run off to?

ooc: Oh, geez *ish embarrassed* . Thank you!

Ally surprisingly turned red as he called her "love". She turned her face away from Sirius and paid attention to a teacher who had accidentaly turned his goblet into a raccoon. She laughed slightly and momentarily forgot the pain in her arm and leg.

OOC: sorry guys, was away at my cottage and was having trouble accessing the sight. back now.

BIC:
Lily looked up quickly when she heard Sirius call Ally "love", she narrowed her eyes and coudln't help but notice the smile and enjoyment on Ally's face and Sirius' gaze that lasted just a little to long on her. There was deffinately something going on. However she was further along the table and couldn't catch Ally's eye. Instead she placed some food on her plate, thinking that if Ally and Sirius started going out, that would mean spending all the more time with the Marauders. And of course James. She ignored the butterlfies in her stomache as this thought crossed her mind. Everyone already expected it, that James Potter and Lily Evans should be dating. But why? Hadn't they always seemed to loath each other, and bicker over every little thing. Of course it was always James arrogance that turned her off of him, or maybe it was simply that Lily just couldn't back down from an argument or not put him in his place for being an idiot. However much she pretended not to like him, his dashing smile, his arrogance and even the stupid way he ran his hand through his hair to make it look as though he had just got off a broom, all those stupid little things made her fall for him even more. But she couldn't fall for him she thought and shook her head. She didn't trust boys at all, especially heartbreakers like James Potter. Perhaps that reason alone was why she would never allow her self to fall for him, why she put up the wall and acted like she hated him, simply because falling for him would mean opening up, taking down that wall that protected her, and blatantly putting herself in the position to get hurt. No she wouldnot do it, no matter how much she cared for him, no matter how much everyone expected it, she wouldn't do it. And with that upsetting thought she turned to Louisa, deciding that thinking about it was too upsettting and she needed a distraction.

"I hope they get the sorting going soon, its always exciting to see our new Gryffindors!" she said smiling in spite of how she felt.

Remus mutedly watched his surroundings as he poked at his food with his fork. He wasn't really that hungry.. he was just still groggy from the train ride. He hadn't noticed Peter's where-a-bouts in a while, or maybe he just didn't notice him sitting at the table with the rest of them. But that wasn't unusual.

He did notice that it didn't take Sirius long to start flirting with a girl, matter-of-fact being that they weren't even in the castle yet. There was a small partical in the back of his brain that wished, sometimes, that he was like Sirius with all the girls fluttering about him. Or maybe like James.. even though he may not be the best when it comes to relationship material, what with being stuck on Lily and all.

In deep thought, he barely even realized that Lily had been staring down at them, merely glaring at James as usual. He smiled at her in a polite way as in hoping she might glance away and talk to some of her friends as to not start something with James again.

Louisa had been daydreaming and had totally fazed out and not realised that everyone was sat around the table. "Sorry Sloane. What did you say? It should be interesting, the looks on their faces are adorable, they all look so scared!" She said towards both Sloane and Lily. Noticing Lily's fake smile, she wisphered. "Lils, are you okay?"

Remus shook his head as if waking himself up again. His eyes met with Sirius's a moment and he just smiled. "Oh, you know.. the homework for this year, the full moon.. etc. etc. Nothing exciting of course Padfoot." A remark that would emit to his almost jealousy of his dull life as a nerd in school.

Although he wasn't really complaining. Sometimes the quiet life was much more enthusiastic than one of mischieveous rompings.

The Headmaster rose and the Great Hall was instantly silent. The ancient sorting hat was brought down and placed on the stool, one by one the first years were called through, some being sorted instantly others taking more time for the hat to decide. Within twenty minutes the sorting was over and Lily looked around at the ten or so new Gryyfindor first years.
(OOC: if you think about it, we only know of 5 gryffindor boys in harrys year, so im assuming about 5 more girls? I dunno the books never actually say)
The hall buzzed with excitement but as soon as Dumbledore(he was the headmaster I belive....) stood the hall was again silent.
"Welcome everyone to another wonderful and exciting year at Hogwarts. The amount of wisdom and knowlegde to be gained this year is endless. The caretaker.....(?) would have me remind you that a complete list of banned objects from Zonkos, any joke store affiliated with them, or perhaps a joke store we are not aware of, can be located in your common rooms. I hope the feast was enjoyable for you all, and now that we are all busrsting at the seams, it is time to head to bed! Off you trot!" he said, smiling from under his half mood spectacles, his long white beard tucked into his belt.

Lily could not help but smile as Dumbledore stood and welcomed them all. He was by far one of her favourite teachers, his and Professor Slughorn of course. At the thought of NEWT potions her stomache flip flopped. She only hopped that she could keep up, NEWT classes were supposed to be much harder. She knew that she would be continuing on in Transfiguration, Potions, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms and Herbology, all the classes needed to become an auror. She also knew that Remus, James and Sirius had made it on as well as several of the girls. Poor old Peter had not of course passed much of anything with any outstanding grades. She quickly stood up, saying quickly to Louisa that she was fine and headed off to lead the first years to the Gryffindor common room.
OOC: i would assume that the 3 marauders would continue on in the classes to become an auror?

Peter sat quietly at the table, across from Lily, not saying much of anything but listening intently to the conversations that surrounded him.

"Oh yeah, tell me about it.." Sirius smiled back and ruffled Moony's hair in a spontaneous gesture. He knew it would annoy him; honestly, ruffled hair was more James' thing. Either way, Sirius was never really good at sorting out people's moods or delve too deep into their thoughts. He was too young, too impatient, and too self-absorbed for that to happen. Yet he did care for his friends, a great deal, there was no doubt about it.

Hearing Ally's voice on his other side, Sirius shook his head, and glanced up just in time to see Dumbledore put an end to his speech. He got up and stretched rather unelegantly.

"Well, missy, it's time for you to visit the nurse. Come on, let's go," he prodded her to get up, ready to support her if she needed it. "You lot coming?" he turned towards the rest of them, finally noticing Peter was among them again. James, however, was conspicuously absent.

Sloane gave Louisa a puzzled look and found it hard not to laugh. She had really been out of it, and it was quite amusing. "Oh, I just asked how your train ride went."

Hearing the word adorable leave her friends lips, Sloane wasn't quite sure what she was referring to. "Uh, adorable? Are we talking about the same thing?" she asked rhetorically. James and Sirius were far from adorable. Puppies were adorable, James and Sirius were...well she wasn't exactly sure what they classified as.

Remus went to swat at Sirius's hand, but blatantly missed, due to his slow reactions. He combed back his hair to back to its normal style and just shook his head at Sirius's impromtu behavior. Sirius knew that irked him. But he would always forgive him in the end. He wouldn't let it get to him when he did it, and knew that it was more of a .. well.. friend-like gesture.

As Lily called for the First Years to follow, Remus knew it was time to stand and follow the rest. And when he made it back to the Common Room, he sat down in his favorite chair beside the fire and the others and opened a book to read before going to bed for the night.