This is my re-vamped version of my previous story 'Silly Lily!'. It's got the same Title, only I've fixed most if not all of my mistakes. I didn't realie how bad it was until I found it and thought 'damn, this author sucks! Oh shit! It's me!'. True story. Anywho, hopefully you like it, any new readers, and for any returning readers, you may notice a few changes, especially early on.

Lily Evans was by no means someone you would ever consider smart. She slept all through class, and the few teachers who prevailed upon her for an answer were always met with a blank stare and a random mumble. Her dumbness got to be so well known, and so bad, that if someone bombed a test, they got told they 'Pulled a Lily'.

Despite all this, James Potter couldn't seem to stay away from her. Every day, he would ask her out, and every day he was met with the same answer; "Not on your life, Potter". This only affirmed everyone's knowledge of her stupidity. Who, afterall, would refuse the handsome, charming, athletic, James Potter?

"Miss Evans, can you please tell the glass what caused the goblin war of 1322?" Professor Binns asked one day. As expected, the redhead gave a violent start, woke up, and blushed.

"No sir, I'm afraid that I can't."

In the back of the class room, James Potter and Sirius Black were fighting hard to contain their giggles. Sorry, I meant chuckles. Men don't giggle. In public. Anyways, they were fighting to contain their chuckles (giggles) at the dumb 'Miss. Evans'. Sirius pulled out a quill and parchment, and passed a note to James.

You sure know how to pick 'em Prongs! Miss. Evans sure is a genius.

Right Padfoot and my next date is with the giant squid!

I congratulate you both

Shut up you wanker!

I ent talking, I'm writing

James glared, and Sirius shrugged and waggled his eyebrows giving his 'deal with it' smirk.

Touché

But really, of all the people in this whole school, you had to choose the one girl who isn't passing?

What can I say; I'm a sucker for a pretty face.

And Evans has one? Also, that doesn't account for why you, The James Potter, the top of the class, wants to date Lily Evans, the very bottom of everything.

Padfoot, you should know by now that I'm only second in the class

Ah, that mystery person still out ranking you?

Yes! And it's damn frustrating! It wouldn't be so bad if we could just you know, figure out whom the hell it is! That person is so much higher than me; they're practically in the clouds!

I'll bet its Diggory. No one spends that much time in the library willingly

Maybe it's Peter, pulling one over on us?

Both boys looked at each other at this, and said, very loudly 'NAH!' before dissolving into a fresh fit of chuckles (giggles).

Alright, so we don't know who it is. But there's one person I can GARANTEEN it isn't!

Who!

Evans!

Both boys grinned at each other, high fiving. Their best fried Remus Lupin was looking the other way, ignoring their rule-breaking, Lily was sleeping again (along with approximately half the class), and professor Binns was droning. So bored were the poor Marauders in the back, they took out their quills, and started a mock sword-fight. During this sword fight, with Remus still ignoring them, and Peter staring at the two in awe, James happened to glance at his watch

"Professor! Class ended 10 minutes ago! We're late for lunch!" He yelled. Binns looked appropriately startled, before looking at the clock himself, only to see that the boy was right.

"Class dismissed! You have 6 inches on the goblin war of 1322 due tomorrow." He ignored a collective groan from the class. "All of you must do it, except Miss. Evans."

"Because she's so dumb she can't!" James stage-whispered to Sirius. The class heard this and broke into a fit laughter. Lily heard this, blushed scarlet, and glared at James.

"Yes Potter. I'm an idiot. I can't do anything. At all. It's not possible for me to ever get the right answer to anything. I'm aware." She took a deep breath, pushing up the thick glasses which obscured her eyes, "Which is why I, Lily Evans, Challenge you, James Potter, to a spell off."

"What, we spell random words?" James asked, clearly confused.

"And they say I'm the dumb one? No, it's where we have a judge, a teacher, name off a list of spells that we've learned, we preform them, and then the judge will judge who's the best was!"

"Normally I'd say yes, but I've seen your spell work Evans, and I fancy living until I'm married with a kid."

"What, is the James Potter scared that he's gonna lose to dumb old Lily Evans?" The crowd that the two had drawn drew a collective breath at her taunt.

"No! James Potter fears nothing! I accept your challenge! But to make it more interesting, let's add some bets!"

"Alright then, Potter. If I win, you have to give up asking me out, then announce to the whole school that I'm the smartest witch you've ever seen." James smirked. The crowd that had gathered when Lily made a reference to her own intelligence.

"Sure Evans, but when I win, you have to go on a date with me. Oh! And you have to call me 'James', instead of Potter."

"It's set then. I'll get a teacher to proctor and-" she started, but was cut off by James.

"Ooh! Proctor! Big word Evans! Did you have to look it up?"

"No way Potter, but might I add that you repeating it does not increase the size of the word, twat?" James huffed at her. She ignored him. "As I was saying, I'll get a teacher to proctor, and we can host the competition tonight."

"Don't you want a little bit of time to attempt to learn the spells Evans?"

"Nope, I'll be fine. It's you I'm worried about. See you in the great hall, 7:00. Unless you're too afraid to face dumb, little me."

"Not on your life Evans. Meet you there!"

"By the way Potter, you may want to chance a glance at the class rankings. They're posted just outside the teacher's lounge. Look right at the top." She winked at Potter and walked away, presumably to her next class.

James wasted no time in following Lily advice. He took off like an arrow to the teacher's lounge, and as Lily said, the rankings were posted. He decided to disregard Lily's advice, and looked at the bottom of the 6th year rankings. He expected to find 'Lily Evans' posted, but instead he saw 'Peter Pettigrew'.

"Well that's odd." He commented to no one in particular, though he did get a funny look from a portrait of a fat man who began to chuckle (giggle) at the look on James' face.

James Searched for Lily's name in the bottom 20 of his year, but he couldn't find it. Remembering that Lily had told him to look at the very top, he did. Suddenly, James Potter wasn't looking forward to the competition later that night. He walked to his next class dejectedly.

"What's got his knickers in a twist?" Sirius asked Remus who shrugged.

"Dunno, maybe he took Lily's advice and looked at that list. I wonder who wanker out ranking him is."

"Why don't we take a looksee after class Moony?"

"Great plan Padfoot"

After muggle studies, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin made the trek to see the list of rankings. The two of them starred in absolute shock at the name listed as the top in the school.

Two…. James Potter…. 94%

Three…. Sirius Black…94%

Four….Remus Lupin….. 92%

Five….. Diggory….82%

"Damn! Jamsie is going down!"

"He sure is. I hope that it's not too late to change my bets." Because as you may have noticed, I haven't mentioned who was number 1. I'm sure that you've figured it out by now, but I'm not one to withhold information.

One…..Lily Evans…100%