The 7 Days It Took To Get James Potter
Lily Evans: Beautiful, Brave and Brainy, but what happens when she finally realises her feelings for James Potter? She panics of course!
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
Chapter 1/ Introduction
Sunday 9th October 1977
Dear Diary,
I've spent too long hating James Potter to fully admit this out loud, so I'll write it: I think I like him. You know, in thatway.
I can't believe I just said that, I don't think anyone else would either. Except possibly my best friend Marlene McKinnon, but that's only because she's always claimed that I've always secretly fancied James. I know she'll be delighted when I tell her my revelation, unfortunately I'm not; I'm kind of annoyed by it actually.
Potter and I have an infamous legacy, built up from arguments spanning over our 7 years at Hogwarts. I was shocked to discover that even a 3rd year I stopped in the corridor the other day (for hexing a fellow 3rd year) knew who I was, not because I'm Head Girl, but because I'm apparently 'the girl who argues with James Potter'. How flattering.
So anyway, I've spent as long as I can remember detesting Potter with a passion and it's always been that way. My justification: he's a bullying prat, therefore he deserves it. And that was always fine, until this year.
I was expecting the usual Potter, i.e. a scruffy haired idiot, when I began my 7th year, so imagine my shock when I walked into the prefect carriage on September 1st and discovered James Potter, just sitting there. He looked up when I walked in and smiled (dare I say it) nicely, a complete change to his usual arrogant smirk.
That was my first clue that something had changed, although I paid no attention to the fact and immediately demanded to know what on earth he was doing in the Prefects carriage. Then he told me the biggest shock of them all- he was Head Boy.
I had my clever insult ready to throw back at anything he said but I truly wasn't expecting that, so I just stood there in stunned silence, taking in the boy in front of me.
He had grown about an inch over the summer, making him even taller, he'd obviously been doing quite a lot of Quidditch or something because his build seemed to have filled out slightly more, making him seem more muscular and less lanky than before. However, possibly the most noticeable thing about him was his hair.
His hair, otherwise known as James Potter's pride and joy. Whereas before it was deliberately messed up and completely dishevelled, now it was something close to tame. It looked as if he had spent a long time trying to comb it into place and, although it had still rebelled, it looked much neater than usual and for some reason I didn't like it.
That was probably the beginning of my silly crush on James Potter and things have gone downhill from there.
The Potter I knew was loud and arrogant; James (he asked me to call him by his first name now we had to work together as heads) was polite and said intelligent funny things.
The Potter I knew hexed Slytherins; I saw James helping a 2nd year Slytherin to the hospital wing without complaining once.
The Potter I knew asked me out every day (usually more than once!); James hasn't tried to flirt with me or asked me out for the whole of this year.
The Potter I knew argued back when I fought with him; James always managed to deflect whatever disagreement I had with him.
Of course he hadn't completely changed, he looked more like his usual self wearing the Hogwarts robes than in his muggle clothing he had been wearing on the train and his usual messy hair had returned by the next morning (I was surprised to discover that I was relieved- I had obviously developed a certain fondness for James Potter's stupidly messy hair.)
Over the past two months James has continued acting incredibly nice so, of course, I have found myself fancying him and he hasn't asked me out once- how illogical is that? Now I think I've reached the point where there is honestly no point in pretending any more, I fancy James Potter. There I said it- now how do I make him realise that?
This is a bit different to my other fan fics (with the whole diary style) and the next chapter will be more choppy than this one e.g. more of a running commentary. So let me know what you think- seriously it's really useful to have even the slightest bit of feedback about my stories.