I failed at my last story. Epicly. But this has more potential. I am looking forward to writing this! This is just a prologue. The rest of the story will continue a few years in the future. This was just a glimpse of first year Lily. I will probably change this! Hope you like my very short prologue! :)
Leanne.
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling is a wealthy literary Goddess. I am not her. Thus why I'm on and in a luxury spa getting a full body hot stone massage.
It never seizes to amaze James Potter how interesting and satisfying Transfiguration is. It was his subject. Sure, even though he made sufficient grades in all of his classes, nothing else worked out quite so well as Transfiguration.
In his youth, at the sweet age of eleven, he mistakenly said "When Professor McGonagoll kicks it, that job is mine. I just hope I'm a bit nicer with the homework." Unfortunately the poor boy did not know that the very Professor in question was standing right in front of him. Thus, an undeserved detention. Scrubbing floors was not his favourite way to spend a Saturday night.
This first detention landed him with him first 'Lily Experience.' Lily Evans was left to empty, clean and re-stack all of the shelves of the Transfiguration classroom for some idle charm work in the corridors that Filtch did not approve of. Unfortunately without magic. James tried to chat with Lily, tried to be funny and really made an effort to impress her with impressions of Professor Slughorn. This did not impress Lily. She already liked potions and respected Professor Slughorn. Lily distracted herself by propping a book open and reading it as she cleaned to stop herself from getting angry at James for his immature behaviour.
The night also involved a visit from a one Sirius Black, who tried to trip James up on the already slippery floor, and also a quiet Remus Lupin who looked nervous and pained to be out at night, as if frightened he would be caught. Courteously Remus helped Lily stack the shelves of buttons, matchstick boxes and tea-pots back to their place and this didn't go unnoticed by James. Trying to catch Lily's attention, James offered to assist Lily with reaching the top shelves, with him being the tallest of the four in the room. James overestimated himself and slipped from the first shelf upon which he perched to fall to the ground with thirty odd plates crashing down around him.
When Lily tried to pull James up to his feet and clear the ceramic debris from his clothes, James couldn't help but smile like an idiot, for reasons he could not figure out.
This was Lily's first impression of the bumbling idiot who chased her for many years afterwards, not the man she eventually fell in love with.