Lily Evan's red hair glinted in the sun as it blew in the wind, her nose in another one of her muggle books as she sat under the shade of a tree near the black lake. James approcahed her quietly, the warm air giving him the bravery to speak to her, he had finally found her alone, no Snape in sight.
"Hey Lily," he said as he stood in front of her looking down. Her green eyes met his and she gave no responce but turned back to her book.
"Can I help you, Potter?" she asked cooly, not looking up from her book.
"You could ask me to sit," James said back.
"By all means," she said. "But don't sit in my sun."
James sat down across from her on the bright green grass that stretched endlessly to the Hogwarts castle in the distance. He watched her for some time as she truned the page of her thick book.
"So, have you started that potions assignment Slughorn set us yesterday," he asked casually plucking few strands of grass from the ground.
"Yes," she replied. "Severus helped me, he's quite advanced in that subject."
It gave James' stomach a twinge of jealousy, he hated how much Lily trusted Snivellus! Everyone else but her could see he wanted to be a death eater! And the fact she hung out with him like she didn't care made her seem less like the great person he knew her to be.
"Why do you hang out with him," James asked before he could stop himself.
"Because he's not a trouble maker," Lily replied quickly.
"He soon will be," James replied.
Lily's head shot up and she stared at him with furious eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" she snapped, her eyes not moving from James'.
"Only that everyone knows he's training to be a death eater!" James replied sharply and suddenly Lily's face turned pale and her eyes grew wide.
"N-no he's not, Sever-rus is a good man," Lily tried to insist.
"No, he's not Lily! His whole family are known death eaters, and he himself wants to be one! I heard him gloating about the fact he's going to be able to become one by the time he's left Hogwarts to his friends!" James said and Lily got up, her book bound protectivly to her chest as she walked off in tears.
James ran up to her side and walked at the fast pace she walked, not daring to speak in fear of her turning her wand on him. Slowly she came to a stop just at the rim of the forbidden forest, a few meters from the Hagrid's hut. She turned to him, the tears still rolling down her cheeks.
"Are you really telling me the truth," she asked, voice trembling.
James bravely took out his hankerchief from his pocket and gave it to her, she wiped the tears from her cheeks. "Gryffindors never lie, Lily, where Slytherins often do."
She gave him back the cloth and he stuffed it into his robes, looking into her red and puffy green eyes.
"I'm going to ask him for myself," said Lily angrily, she suddenly turned and stormed back up towards the castle, her red hair sashaying behind her. She turned around and glared at James. "And if he tells me to my face that he is not a death eater, then I shall beleive him!"
"Slytherin's lie!" James yelled after her as she stormed away.
"And so do Potters!" she yelled back not turning around this time.
James kicked the dirt around him angrily as Lily became a red dot at the top of the hill. Snivellus would lie to her, he's a slytherin, they lie and cheat to get their own way! Why didn't Lily see that about him? Why couldn't she see that James, the brave and true hearted Gryffindor was the one she truly deserved!
"Oh relax, Prongs," came Sirius' voice from behind James. "Your girlfriend will soon come to her sences!"
"Shut it, Padfoot!" James said, storming away from his friend and back towards the castle. He heard two sets of footsteps run up behind him and before he knew it both Sirius' and Remus' arms were around his shoulders.
"Ignore Padfoot, Prongs," Remus said in his usual soft voice. "We all know he's all worked up about Slughorn's latest test."
"She just believes him!" James ranted as they walked, still joined, up the stepping hill. "Anything he tells she believes to be true because unlike evryone else, Lily thinks the sun just shines out of Snivellus' arse!"
Sirius began to laugh but James's spirits were too damp to laugh, he loved Lily but for some reason she was following Snape blindly into a path of Death Eaters and he-who-must-not-be-named! That was not the path that Lily Evan's is meant to take, she's got too much spirit in her, too much love!
"Try to explain that to me, Moony," James asked his wise friend. "Is it love that blinds her?"
"Or maybe the imperious curse!" Sirius suggested.
"Its friendship, Prongs," Remus replied. "Like how you trust me even though I'm not what I used to be."
"But being a werewolf is not the same thing as being a death eater, Moony!" James insisted, they had come to a stop half way up the hill and now stood in a small crcle discussing it so that none of the other students could over hear.
"Yeah, exactly," agreed Sirius. "You had no choice, Snivellus does!"
"Its just that friendship is a special kind of bond," Remus said. "Maybe Lily thinks that if she just keeps loving Snivellus that he would change, and choose the right path."
The thought of Lily actually loving Snape sickened James, of course, he knew that Snape fancied Lily. The thought of what Snape dreamt of late at night in his dorm room made James' stomach flip in revultion. But the idea that Snape, of all people, could love Lily in that way, well it was too much to bear.
He had begun to walk on when he felt Sirius' hand enclose tightly on his upper arm, dragging him back to where he once stood. Remus and James looked at their friend's face and saw that it had been twisted into the naughty smile he usually showed when his mind was building a scheme.
"I think I have a plan to make lil' ol' Snivellus fall from grace,' Sirius sad and they all shared the same devious smile as they straightened their robes out and agreed to meet in the shreiking shack later that night, to plan it.
(A/N) The next chapter you might recognise but i've written it in my own words somewhat, and put in my own spin on the whole thing. But its all to the sheer genious of J. K. Rowling