Over the holidays I stayed at Lily's house with her family along which included her older muggle sister Petunia. While I was there Lily's family accepted me as one of the family, all except Petunia who seemed to hold a grudge against the wizarding world. None the less it was nice to feel welcome at a place other that Hogwarts. During the holidays I taught Lily how to play quidditch with two brooms I had packed in my bag, just in case.
Once we had arrived back at Hogwarts for the second of four terms this year the warmth and joy of the school lifted everyone's spirits as always. The Triwizard tournament was to be held at Hogwarts this year meaning that students from both Beauxbatons and Durmstrang schools would be arriving any day now. In those few days before they arrived everything was normal, the boys and I played pranks which Lily usually partook in once we persuaded her, we went to classes had feasts in the common room and the best of all we had created a map that showed us were everyone in castle was all the time, we had names it 'the marauders map' we used it to plan pranks as we had access to where everyone was, we knew peoples habits and we could plan where they would be. We were sitting in the Great Hall together when Dumbledore made his way up to the podium to make an announcement. The students from the other schools would be arriving any minute. "oh this is gonna be great" I heard whispered variations of this sentence spread across the room form almost everyone. I assumed that they were talking about the fact that the Beauxbatons girls were known for being the most beautiful women in the Wizarding world and the Durmstrang guys were known for being very handsome. I heard whispers from some of Lily's friends that I had become acquainted with, "they Durmstrang boys are so handsome" one of them whispered next to me, they all looked at me expecting me to agree like the rest of them did. I however looked at them blankly and shrugged my shoulders. The boys roped me into a conversation with them and Lily when I realised that I never really thought about dating, I mean obviously Lily and James were dating but the rest of us (being me, Peter, Sirius and Remus) never really thought or talked about that sort of thing. Well firstly I didn't get roped into the conversations like that with Lily's friends because it was all slightly awkward when thy were talking about boys and how cute they were and I on the other hand I thought about how cute some of the girls were in our year. I never really had a crush though. Sirius and Remus had both come out as gay in 4th year when one of the dickheads in Gryffindor was going on and on about how all homosexual people would go to hell, the 2 of them stood up together and headed to their dorm slightly mad. The boy in question asked where they were going, and they had spun round at the same time and yelled 'hell apparently' and stormed out.
We continued our conversation and Peter suddenly said "wait, so I'm the only one in this group that will ask out one of the Beauxbatons, cause you two are together *pointing at Lily and James* you two are both gonna fall head over heels for one of the Durmstrang guys *pointing at Sirius and Remus who both looked at each other and smiled, in my head I knew something was there even if they didn't* so I'm the only one that would go for one of the Beauxbatons" I raised my hand from the table smiling, "I think you might have been wrong there Wormtail" he looked at me weirdly for a few second before he realised, "oh right, cool" he said. "I knew it!" Sirius said smiling. Just then the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students arrived, the Beauxbatons entered the hall first and I alongside most boys in the room watched them to a kind of skip run thing to the end of the hall. When I turned back round to the people, I was sitting with they were all looking at me smiling, I blushed for the first time I think ever as they all laughed with me. The high-pitched squealing from the girls in the hall indicated that Durmstrang entered my face fell into a sneer which made the boys laugh more. "they are just doing what you were doing a second ago" said James laughing, "yeah, I know but do they have to burst my eardrums in the process" I said rubbing my side of my head. We all smiled and turned around to listen to Dumbledore who was now standing at the podium once again. "please welcome the students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons who have arrived in honor of the Triwizard tournament which will commence at the start of next week, anyone who wishes to partake in the tournament will write their names on a piece of parchment and pace it into the Triwizard cup, you have 6 days to do so. Do not do so lightly for if you are chosen there is no backing out and the tournament can be brutal and dangerous." Both schools were standing at the front as Dumbledore made this announcement.
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FanfictionShe is the Slytherin twin of James Potter but she has made her own name as captain of the quidditch team, the best player ever, and her name? Ivy Potter. This is the story of how I came to be who I am.
