The Products of Tragedy
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to J.K. Rowling
Summary/Author's Note: With on a few days left in Lily Evan's sixth year, James continues to find himself obsessed with her and she continues to find herself hating him. But during a time of death eaters and Voldemort causing trouble at ever corner, things change in everyone's lives. DH spoilers!
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Chapter 1
Four 6th year Gryffindor girls, who all happened to be best friends, walked up the stairs towards their dormitory talking about their upcoming plans for the summer, that happened to be only days away. Upon entering the room one of the girls, Mary MacDonald, suddenly changed the subject squealing "Oh my God, Lily, Ray Wood was so checking you out!" shutting the door behind her.
Lily was surprised by this sudden change of subject, stopping mid-sentence to turn and stare at Mary. At first a brief look of excitement bubbled into her features, but within a blink she was looking exasperated and plopped down onto her bed.
"No way! He would never check me out. I'm just that geeky redhead," Lily said while trying to peel open a candy wrapper she had found on her nightstand.
"Lils you aren't that geeky!" Natasha added, another one of the four.
Lily turned her head to look at Natasha, raised her eyebrows and said sarcastically, "Thanks Tasha I feel so much better about myself now."
"Yeah Lily you can't be that geeky I mean your friends with me, the hottest girl in school," Mary interjected.
Lily, Natasha, and Marlene, who still hadn't added in the conversation, all burst out laughing. Lily was the first to speak in saying, "Please Mary sometimes you sound as bigheaded as Potter."
In unison Mary, Natasha, and Marlene groaned.
"Lils he really isn't that bad once you get to know him," Natasha said.
"Yeah, well that's because he isn't out to get any of you."
"Don't be paranoid," Mary retorted.
Marlene finally spoke saying, "He can be kind of bigheaded, but you shouldn't be so mean to him."
Lily looked up from the candy she was still hopelessly try to tear open and rolled her eyes.
"Ok guys want to know the only reason you don't hate him? Well, Tasha you met him in first year and became quick friends over some stupid thing like quidditch."
Natasha made a hissing noise and glared at Lily.
"Then Mary you don't mind him cuz you both have something in common," she drew in a breath and continued, "you're both incredibly shallow and spend most of the year snogging than anything else."
Mary glared at her and said, "I resent that!"
Everyone turned to stare at her for a moment, then she shrugged and said, "I guess that's kind of true."
Rolling her eyes in amusement Lily continued, "Then Marl your too quiet for him to even notice you and that way he doesn't know you exist, so he never has the chance to make fun of you."
Marlene looked slightly hurt and so Lily quickly added, "But why would he make fun of you? There's nothing to make fun of and besides you're way too nice for him to hate you like he hates me."
All the girls besides Lily gave each other looks at hearing Lily's last statement and once after, Marlene looked back to Lily saying, "Nice save, but Lily how many times do we have to tell you, he doesn't hate you, he likes you, and a lot at that."
Lily rolled her eyes and went back to fiddling with her candy, trying to get it opened. Natasha laughed and took the candy from Lily's hand, opening it. She gave it back to Lily smirking and said, "I could only open it because of my muscles from that stupid sport. What was it...hmm…oh yeah quidditch."
Lily looked at her and said, "You don't get muscles from sitting on a broom and secondly you don't need muscles to open up a candy wrapper."
"Well then you're either completely clueless or have no muscle."
"Whatever."
"But hey Lils why do you hate Potter so much?"
Lily looked at Natasha clearly showing her distaste for the subject. Natasha shrugged and said, "So then at least tell me why you are so mad at him today."
"Just this morning he asked me out about ten more times. And he cursed Severus terribly. I won't be surprised if he's in the hospital wing unti we have to leave.
"Please Lily, you're overeating and we only have like today and tomorrow left."
"That's not my point," Lily said with a slight frown.
"Hey, well, I bet he did something horrid to deserve it."
"Tasha that is horrible! Severus does nothing to deserve any of the cruel pranks the marauders play on him."
"You have no idea then becasuse he deserves about everything he gets. And besides do you think his constant mudblood calling at you is nothing?"
"He only called me it once, in fifth year. But he was sorry. Remember he said he wouldn't leave the portrait until I came out just so he could apologize? Mary was the one that told me he was out there," Lily now said looking in Mary's direction, to which Mary gave a small nod.
"Yes, well his friends still all call you a mudblood and me as well. Does that not matter to you at all?"
"As a matter of fact it doesn't bother me in the slightest sense. I mean come on, mudblood, Marl's little brother could do better than that and he's six."
Natasha broke into a smile and said, "Yeah I know it's so pathetic. And do you see how happy the slytherins get when they say it? As if they think we're about to start crying over it."
By now Hestia had looked up from her Witch Weekly and Marlene had looked up from some thick, dusty, old book she had been reading, preparing for their last exam that happened to be in a few hours.
Hestia smiled and said, "It's incredible how you two get on the verge of a fight and then act as if nothing happened at all."
Lily and Natasha laughed, with Lily said, "You know what, I think I'll start on my homework that's due next term. That bit McGonagall gave us is going to take a nasty bit of time."
"Lils?"
"Hmm," Lily murmled as she jumped up to search in her trunk at the foot of her bed.
"I take back what I said earlier. You are a geek."
Lily, who was kneeling by her trunk, looked up at Natasha to give her a playful glare just as the trunk lid started to close, hitting her right above her forehead.
With a wince she jumped up and backwards only to trip on something belonging to the mess around Natasha's bed, falling on her butt.
As all the girls laughed, Lily threw a piece of clothing at Mary holding her head in her head and missing by a mile.
Lily threw another shirt and this time it draped itself on top of Marlene's head. Lily began opening her mouth to say some sort of retort when at once Marlene, Mary, and Natasha jumped up and grabbed clothes from the floor or Lily's opened trunk and began throwing them at Lily.
She sat in shock holding her head as she was soon in the middle of a mound of clothing, with her mouth still hanging open. Marlene grabbed another piece of clothing out of Lily's trunk to throw, but stopped herself when she looked down at it.
The other two girls who had been throwing clothes stopped to look at Marlene wondering why she had suddenly quit the game of drowning Lily in clothes. Mary began laughing and picked up the piece of clothing in Marlene's hand, it was a red, lacy thong and asked in a mock hurt voice, "And you think you have the right to call me skanky!"
Lily burst one of her shoulders and arms out of the pile to grab at them when what do you know, James Potter burst into the room. He held a puzzled look as he looked at his surroundings. Natasha and Marlene were doubled over laughing on top of each other, while Mary had a thong outstretched in her hand towards Lily, who had one arm reaching for it, the other arm holding her head, and the rest of her body buried under a pile of clothing.
Everyone now stared at him. He stepped over to Lily and picked a sock out of her hair. He then turned to look Lily in the face and said, "Are you guys alright because I heard a loud noise."
"Yes you idiot we're fine. Now get out!" Lily screamed already in a bad mood with him.
James opened his mouth to reply when his eyes followed Lily's outstretched arm once more, which led to Mary holding out Lily's lacy thong.
Mary saw him looking and quickly dropped it to point in Lily's direction. James head swung towards Lily as she glared up at Mary. James looked baffled and then smiled.
"So Evans you do have some Gryffindor pride, even though we all thought you didn't. What, do you wear those every time I play quidditch? Hoping to impress me with them when we have our on celebration after each win?"
Lily gapped at him and it was easy to tell she was about to erupt with anger. And screamed, "What! How dare you Potter! You're just a chauvinist pig!"
He turned to leave, mentally slapping himself and pretending not to of heard. Then coolly replied, "First night back I'll be expecting you in my room...wearing those."
Lily opened her mouth to retort, but instead erupted from the pile of clothes and grabbed for a book to throw at him, that hit him square in the back of his head.
James wasn't expecting this and fell forward, flat on his face.
She began yelling, "You're a bigheaded prat Potter! And I would never wear those in your presence if it meant my life! Now get the hell out of here before I come over there and make sure you can't have kids."
James scrambled to his feet, holding the back of his head, and ran to his dormitory.
The compartment door swung shut after him. Lily crossed her arms and her lips went so thin that McGonagall would be proud.
"I hate him so much!"
Everyone exchanged looks and began to find something to occupy them during Lily's rant.
James ran back to his dormitory holding his head. When he walked in he took his hand off his head and looked at his palm, which had a small trickle of blood.
Sirius began laughing and said, "Moony that's three galleons, he's bleeding!"
James held his head again and looked questionably at them. Sirius responded saying, "I bet she'd make you bleed. He bet she'd just bruise you. And Peter bet that you'd be in a body bag."
He sat and said, "Wow Peter I'm amazed you could come up with something like a body bag."
Sirius ate a chocolate frog as he asked, "So what happened?"
"Well I was stupid and said something that you would've said to a girl Padfoot. Then said something else and she threw a book at me."
Sirius looked at James with fake disgust and said, "Your pathetic."
James looked insulted and said, "I can't wait to see the day you fall in love and they play hard to get. And hey it wasn't all that bad. I mean I got to see her thong."
Remus looked worried and urgent and said, "What did you do in there!"
Sirius just smirked and said, "For one I don't get crushes I get crushed on and second no girl wouldn't want all this and thirdly Lily has a thong eh. I wouldn't ever have guessed."
James noticing Sirius expression quickly said, "Don't you be getting any ideas! She's off limits. But damn my head hurts."
Remus smirked and said, "That's what you get for eavesdropping."
Natasha Murrel had finished folding all the clothes belonging to Lily and placing them back in her trunk, so she grabbed up a quidditch magazine sitting on her nightstand.
Lily was still ranting to her and was in such a bad mood that she didn't even notice that Natasha wasn't listening to her.
Natasha crossed her legs showing a very toned calf muscle. After all she was the athletic one in the group. She was on the quidditch team and had been since third year, she played as one of the chasers for the team. She also was the one who forgave you in a second and made you laugh even when you were down in the dumps. Natasha also was a muggle born, as was Lily.
She was about 5'6", had long golden blond hair that was filled with layers of natural highlights, she had beautiful blue eyes that were often complimented (but nothing compared to Lily's bright green eyes), had a tan from spending so much time outside, and a toned body from her love of sports.
Mary MacDonald sat on her bed reading her witch weekly. She was probably the most popular girl in school and went on too many dates to count. She was the girly part of the group who made sure they went to every dance and went beautifully. She held grudges pretty easily and was known for not being the nicest when she didn't like somebody. Mary had two halfblood parents that generally stuck to the wizarding world and thus didn't know much about the muggle world.
She had shoulder length black hair that flipped out at the end and side bangs. She was very pale, her eyes were a misty blue, and she was about as tall as Natasha.
Marlene McKinnon sat next to Mary on her bed, but closer to the door and was reading an old textbook. Marlene was the quiet and very shy one in the group. She wasn't known by that many people because of her quietness. Also she was the motherly one in the group who helped sort things out and usually was the one to try and calm Mary down when something bad happened.
She was incredibly smart, but wouldn't tutor anyone for she was too shy and was overlooked by many teachers who were only interested in Lily. She had chocolate brown eyes, medium length brown hair with bangs, and was about 5'4".
Lily sat on her bed now. She had luscious red hair which was the only part of her that she would admit she liked. She also had a curvy figure that all the boys loved.
In the group she was very studious, nice to everyone (with the exception of James Potter and sometimes Sirius Black), she was friends with practically everyone, didn't like to break rules that much, and was extremely nice. In fact people really only saw her lose her temper when it had something to do with James Potter.
After about half an hour of Natasha nodding her head and saying "uh huh," every so often, Lily had fused out her anger and now sat quietly staring out the window through her emerald green eyes.
Mary threw down her magazine and began checking her hair for split ends. It was Natasha though who finally dropped her magazine in her lap and whined, "Ugh, I'm so bored!" drawing out the so.
Lily smiled and started a conversation about boys which lasted until they had to leave for their last exam of the year.
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