So this is the first chapter of my new story about Lily, her friendship with Severus, how James falls in love with her, and hopefully someday(depending on how long it takes me to get tot heir seventh year) how she falls in love with him too. Please review. While writing this you have no idea how difficult it was for me to write Severus instead of Snape. Snape's gonna be in the next chapter more, because I love Snape, and I will give him some other friends. Like I said, please review, and please enjoy.
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Lily Evans looked up as the owls delivered mail and the last day of her first week at Hogwarts. She was sitting with her new friend Mary Macdonald at the Gryffindor House table. She had never gotten any mail. But considering she was muggle born, and her parents didn't actually own an owl, this wasn't unusual. She returned her gaze to the eggs in front of her, but Lily wasn't hungry anymore. She was still upset over how she had left things with Petunia. She spent the remainder of the train ride with Severus trying to convince herself that she had done nothing wrong and she was most definitely not a freak.
"Hey Evans," James Potter said, sliding into a seat across the table from her. Sirius Black sat down beside him, and they were joined by Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. The four of them, especially James and Sirius, were already inseparable. Lily had never seen anybody make such good friends so fast.
"James," she responded stiffly. She hadn't gotten over him making fun of Severus on the train. She now pushed her plate away and pulled a book at random out of her bag. She only had to ignore them until Severus was also finished eating, and then she could leave. Since Severus had been placed in Slytherin, Lily had only seen him a couple times over the past week. Luckily though, Gryffindors had Potions with the Slytherins, and the two of them had already decided to sit together. Lily had barely started reading when Severus appeared behind her.
"Ready to go?" He asked. Lily nodded. She put her book away, bid goodbye to Mary, and walked with Severus out of the hall. It wasn't until they were in the dungeons that Lily realized they still had another twenty minutes until class started. She was eager to learn, but there was a reason she wasn't in Ravenclaw. When she voiced her concern to Severus, he just laughed.
"I was thinking we'd explore the dungeons."
"Are we allowed?"
"Of course. The only teacher who's ever down here is Slughorn. I'm in his house and after only two potions lessons he already favours you. He won't mind." Severus watched her green eyes as she digested this. At last she nodded.
"Alright. But if you make us late I'll..." She couldn't think of a threat, so she just wandered towards the nearest door. "I wonder whats in here?" She pushed on the door. "Darn, locked." Severus walked over. He nudged her lightly out of the way, pulled his wand out and aimed it at the handle.
"Alohomora." He said. Nothing happened. He put his wand away embarrassed. "I haven't really tried that yet... let's just... oh look. There's Mary going into the potions room. It's not to early now. Let's go!" Lily laughed inwardly at his pathetic attempt to cover his bad spell, but she followed him to the classroom anyways.
They sat in the seats they had claimed the first class. In the center of the first row. Mary was sitting on Lily's other side across the aisle. She leaned over to ask her a question. Severus sat watching. He had a feeling inside him he wasn't quite used to experiencing. He would feel the same feeling many times in the years to come. Pretty much anytime that anyone other than him talked to Lily. The angry he feeling he had when he felt that she should be talking to him instead. Also known as jealousy, although he didn't know this yet. He didn't think he should have any reason to be jealous of the people Lily talked to.
Lily turned back to Severus as the classroom began to fill up. James came in with Sirius and they took the seats directly behind Lily and Severus just like they had the first day. James sat down first, and Sirius rolled his eyes before joining him. They began a conversation about Quidditch, and how it was completely unfair that first years weren't allowed to play for house teams. And as much as Lily disliked James, she was very curious about Quidditch, so she reluctantly turned around to butt in on their conversation.
"What exactly is Quidditch?" She asked cautiously. She was afraid they would laugh at her for being so ignorant. On the contrary, James' eyes lit up and he immediately began to fill her in on every detail.
"It's a sport, played on broomsticks. There are four balls. A quaffle, two bludgers, and the golden snitch. There are seven players. Three chasers, who try to get the quaffle in the goalposts that the keeper guards. The beaters hit the bludgers with bats to try to knock players off their brooms and the seeker catches the golden snitch." Lily tried to imagine all of this in action. It was very difficult. James looked at Sirius, to get his attention, and then turned back to Lily before adding, "I'm going to play seeker. Just like my dad. It's the Potter gene. We're all natural seekers. Small and speedy. As perfect of seekers as you'll find anywhere." Lily sighed; James seemed to have the tendency to like to talk about himself. But luckily, Professor Slughorn chose that moment to enter the room, and all talking ceased immediately.
"Good morning students!" He smiled brightly at the class, and proceeded to call roll. "Alright," He said after all the names were called, "please open your books to page 17. I would like you to make the potion you see there. You have until the end of class. Begin." Lily and Severus eagerly opened their books and started gathering ingredients.
An hour later Slughorn stopped the class. There was a thick smoke issuing from a cauldron at the back of the room. Everyone was coughing. Slughorn started at the back of the room, grading each persons potion as he went.
"Sev," Lily whispered as he slowly made his way up to the front. "Does my potion seem a little dark to you? Yours is the perfect shade of red, but mine seems a little too..." she stopped talking as Slughorn approached their desk. Severus gave Lily and encouraging smile, and she turned to face the professor.
"Very good Lily. One of the best first attempts I've seen in a long time. I'd say you just waited to long to add the flobberworm parts, which gave it the slightly darker colour, but still, very good." Lily inflated. Her first week at school and she was being praised on her potions. A subject that she honestly thought that she wouldn't be very good at. He wrote something on his paper, then moved on to Severus. "Oh my. This is perfect. You have talent, my dear boy, there's no doubt about it. Five points to Slytherin." Lily deflated. She liked being the smartest, most talented. She wasn't pompous or anything, she was just used to being outshone by Petunia. She'd be better off sitting with Mary, who's potion had been called passable.
Lily and Severus parted ways in the Entrance Hall after class. He was off to Herbology while she had Transfiguration with the Hufflepuffs. She hurried to join Mary, who was already at the top of the staircase, when James intercepted. He was alone this time. Sirius must've been with Remus and Peter.
He had just opened his mouth, when Lily cut him off. "I'm sorry James, but I have to go ask Mary about the proper wand movement of that spell we learned yesterday," and she ran up the stairs, leaving James looking defeated.
"I think he likes you," Mary said to Lily once she caught up.
"Who?" Lily asked bewildered.
"James Potter. You should've seen his face when you started talking to him about Quidditch in Potions."
"That was a look of surprise purely because he was amazed I could be interested in a sport. You've got to admit it is pretty farfetched."
"You playing Quidditch? No, I could see you as a chaser in a couple years. Your very determined." Lily, who was pretty certain she had just been complimented, smiled at her. They had now reached the Transfiguration room. They took seats in the center of the room.
"Why are you always talking to Evans?" Sirius asked James as they took their seats in the back corner of the classroom.
"What are you talking about? I don't talk to her any more than I talk to anybody else." He thought about this for a second. "Except for you and Remus and Lupin."
"But you make more of an effort to talk to her." A look of terrible comprehension crossed Sirius' face. "You don't... like her, do you?" James laughed.
"Sirius, please. I am 11 years old. I have better things to do than like girls." He laughed again, and Sirius joined in.
"Phew. I was worried for a second there. Theres no point in liking girls until we can take them somewhere. Like Hogsmeade. In our third year. Like where would we take them now? The library?" Sirius snorted, earning a disapproving look from Professor McGonagall, who had apparently began the lesson which both James and Sirius had failed to notice.
James was thinking about what Sirius had said. He had a good point. But even so, James couldn't stop the images that kept coming into his head of him and Lily in the library. These images soon turned into short videos, her cheering him on in Quidditch matches, them holding hands in the corridor, them sitting in a nice tea shop, or possibly pub, in Hogsmeade, heads together laughing. He shook his head furiously, trying to get the images out of his head. She was Lily Evans, a girl. Simply a girl, nothing else. Not to mention she was friends with Severus, or Snivellus, Snape. James didn't like Snape. His greasy long greasy black hair disgusted him. He would prefer Lily choose to be friends with someone with nice clean short black hair, like himself. He shook his head again.
"I don't want to be friends with Evans," He muttered under his breath.
"What?" Sirius asked quietly.
"Oh nothing. I was just talking to myself."James shook his head one last time, then turned to face Professor McGonagall and tried to keep his thoughts away from Lily Evans.