The prefect guy or maybe not....

Disclaimer: The characters in this story are based on the works written by Joanne Kathleen Rowling. The story and ideas put into this story belong to me and my brain. NO! You can't have my brain!!

A/N: This is about the first Yule Ball ever held at Hogwarts and it was Lily and James' 4th year. Someone mysterious shows up and pops James' hope to tell Lily how he feels about her. The new person is out to win more then Lily's heart. He is out for murder.

James saw everyone gathering around the battered old message board. He went trying to fit in to see it when Sirius came over and sat on a fluffy scarlet chair by the fire.

"Sirius, what's going on with everyone by the message board?"

"Blimey? You haven't heard?" said Sirius with much surprise in his voice.

"No, What did I miss?"

"James I can't believe that girls haven't started asking you yet!"

"Asking me what?" asked James curiously.

"They having a Yule Ball for fourth year and above on Christmas eve." said Sirius like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Really? That's really good to hear!" said James glimcing over to Lily Evans.

Sirius looked at the direction James was staring and saw Lily. He looked at James and started cracking up. James turned red in the face.

"James, you want to go with Lily Evans?" said Sirius after taking a breath from laughing his head off.

James didn't answer but kept staring at Lily's beautiful face. He had fallen in love with Lily since the first time he saw at the sorting ceremony. Her red hair that fell a bit off her butt and her eyes were green and beautiful to behold. Maybe it was love, maybe it was his hormones kicking in, but he knew he wanted to be with Lily Evans for the rest of his life. He just needed the guts to ask her to the Yule Ball.
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Lily entered the common room after a tough advanced Transfiguration class. Her usually clean red hair was stringy and red mixed some sort puss from the liver eating beetle she was trying to transfigure. She sat with her best friends, Maggie Lean and Lotty O'Toole. Charlotte ran to the message board where everyone seemed to be gathered. She came back with a grin on her face.

"Guess what!?!" she said rather excitedly.

"What?" said Lily and Maggie together.

"There is going to be a Yule Ball on Christmas eve!" Lotty said with a grin on her face.

"Oh my G-d! Who do you want to go with Lotty?" said Maggie who was jumping up and down.

"I want to go with Sirius Black! He is such a cutie!" said Lotty.

"No sorry he is my guy! Who do you want to go with Lil?" asked Maggie with much intrest.

Lily strugged.

"I don't know really. None of the guys here I like."

"Lily come on! You are the prettiest of all the fourth years! I am surprised guys aren't lining up to go with you." said Lotty with envy in her voice.

"I bet I know who wants to go with you considering he is staring at you right now!" said Maggie.

"Who?" asked Lily looking around to see who was staring at her.

"James Potter!" the two girls chorused.

Lily looked at them with hate in her eyes.

"That showoff? I wouldn't want to go with him! Look girls are lining up to be with him!" said Lily pointing to all the girls asking James to go with them.

"Lily! He is staring at you! He wants to go with you! I would die at the chance to go with James Potter!" said Lotty.

"You two have no life!" said Lily before going to her dorm.
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The next day, James finally convinced himself to ask Lily to go with him. By the time he made to the Great Hall for breakfast, he stopped Lily talking to another guy about their age. He walked over to them with a pretend nice guy smile on his face.

"Good Morning Lily," he said with fake brightness.

Lily smiled while rolling her eyes.

"Good morning James. Luke, This is James Potter, captian of the Gryfinndor Quidditch team. James, this is Luke Johnson, a new student at Hogwarts. He is a gryffindor as well."

Luke held out his hand to shake James'. James took it and Luke grinned as he wrapped his arm around Lily.

"James! Luke just asked me to the Yule Ball! Can you believe it?" said Lily with much excitement in her voice.

James felt a big balloon pop in his stomach. He smiled fakely.

"Yeah. It's great." said James before walking off.

James walked into the entrance hall and looked up into space."Why did Luke get Lily? Just because he is new and handsome and stuff doesn't mean he needed to get her...."
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Lily told Lotty and Maggie about Luke in Defense Agaisnt the Dark Arts. Both Lotty and Maggie envied Lily.

"I can't believe you got that new guy Luke! He is so cute!" whispered Lotty.

"Did you see his eyes? They are this pale blue and so manly!" said Maggie in a whisper.

"Miss Lean and Miss O'Toole is there something you would like to share with the class?" said Professer Shahs.

Both girls nodded no and remained silent for the rest of the class.
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That evening, James couldn't really do anything but think about how much he loved Lily and how much he hated Luke. James didn't go to dinner but straight to the common room just to think. James had many questions about Luke. Where had he come from? Did he only want to be with Lily? Why did Hogwarts let him into the school in the middle of the year? James only pondered these questions until the rest of the Gryffindor house came in. There he motioned for Remus, Sirius, and Peter to follow him. They walked up to the 4th year boys dorm and sat down on the floor.

"Guys, I have a weird feeling about this new guy Luke." said James.

"James. Maybe you are just pissed at him for going with Lily to the ball!" suggested Remus.

James shook his head.

"That's not it. Why would hogwarts let in a student a 5th year in fact at the beggining of the year?"

"Maybe he was super smart and was too gifted for any other school!" said Peter in his usually squeaky voice.

"No Peter otherwise James and I would be in 7th years if Hogwarts ran like that!" said Sirius.

"Guys There is just something that is not right about Luke. I am going to bed." said James.

The rest of the gang went back in the common room leaving James to think about his thoughts.
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Lily got into her dressing gown and looked in the mirror. She imagined her dancing with Luke very gracefully. She also imagined James falling all over himself. That made Lily crack up. Lily tried on his dress robes. They were a pretty silver silk and went perfectly with Lily's hair. With out realizing it, Lily laid down and fell asleep in her robes dreaming about the Yule Ball.
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A room was dimly lit. a shadowy figure was moving around. Traces of a boy's voice could be heard. It was whispering to another voice.

"My lord, Thank you for picking me to go this mission."

A high voice came in.

"Luke. I trust you are in my service and you are faithful enough to bring the Potter boy to me."

"That won't be a problem......"


A/N: Cliffhanger! I hope you enjoyed this first section. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! This story took me an hour and an half to do. I will post the second part tommorrow but start it tonight! Hope you keep reading!!