September 1, 1973
In Gryffindor Tower, the door to the third-year girls' room opens, and LILY, MARLENE, and MARY enter. Three four-poster beds have been arranged around a center heater, with each of their trunks placed at the foot of each, and moonlight spills in from several windows.
MARY: (gazing around the room) It's perfect.
MARLENE: All right, we are gonna have some fun times in here this year, girls.
LILY: Yeah we are. Get out the music, let's start personalizing this place. I've been waiting to use magic all summer.
MARY opens up her trunk and removes her wireless, which begins playing a fast-beat song by the Weird Sisters. LILY sweeps her wand through the air, casting faint fairy lights near the ceiling. MARLENE begins producing scarlet drapes and shawls over the four-poster beds.
LILY: Ooo, nice touch!
MARLENE: (smiling) Thanks.
MARY: So, Lily. Looks like things got pretty heated with James earlier.
LILY: I don't know. He just makes me so angry when he bullies Severus. One, because it's wrong, and two, because it was for no good reason! You know what I mean?
MARLENE: Yeah.
LILY: Like, he wasn't even doing anything. What right is it of Potter's to go around tripping people just for the fun of it?
MARY: You've got a point, Lily, but I'll still never understand why you hang around with that Snape boy.
LILY: He's really nice!
MARY: He's creepy!
LILY: You just don't understand. He was there for me in the beginning. He helped me understand what magic was, he introduced me to this life. He was a good friend.
MARY: Well, he gives me nightmares, and that's all I'm saying. (She magically produces a mirror on the wall next to her bed, and surrounds it with white lights).
MARLENE: How about that Ice Queen Slytherin Prefect, though? Talk about nightmares.
MARY: I know, right? I nearly wet myself just watching that whole scene.
MARLENE: I hear her sister is Bellatrix Lestrange.
MARY: That woman in with You-Know-Who? No way!
MARLENE: That's what I've heard.
LILY: Well, it would explain why she's scarier than Slughorn without his morning coffee.
MARY: Don't you say a word against Slughorn! He's perfect in every way.
The three girls laugh hysterically, and continue decorating their room until the late hours of the night.
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