Magic That Shines Green

Chapter One: Introduce The Characters

Yes, this is the story that with take over from Witches Wands and Magic. This story is about Annabelle Jacobs. Who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with James Potter. And you might see me steal some of my own ideas from Witches Wands and Magic and put it in here. It will be subtle hopefully, and I hope you like it better than Witches Wands and Magic. No offense to my own story, but I definitely after Within the Heart of the Ocean series, feel like my writing is much better than before.

My OC's:

Annabelle Jacobs: Shoulder length black hair, with a vertical blue stripe through it. She has bright ( as in they shine) blue eyes sometimes called deep blue. Just call them an ocean colored blue, and is in Gryffindor. She is in Seventh Year, and was Lily's acquaintance but now her friend. She is a muggleborn, and her brother was recently killed.

-l-Annabelle-l-

I walked into the Great Hall, pausing to marvel how it never seemed to change. It only grew more beautiful, even as it aged. Even now, looking at it in Seventh Year, it was just as beautiful, if not more so, for the years had taken their tole, making the place ever more like old ruins. Ancient, yet fascinating as magic itself.

Lily had left, having her Head duties to attend to, which included going to find out the new password. She would miss the Sorting, but not by much, as Dumbledore had said. She also had to go to the Head's Dorms and she and James had to make a password for the place.

I turned to Remus, my fellow Prefect, and he was listening with rapt attention as Dumbledore gave his yearly speech. Next to him, Sirius was talking to Peter, who looked as though he was only thinking about filling his stomach, not that I could say any differently.

I was hungry from the long train ride, despite the pumpkin pasties, and chocolate frogs.

As he introduced the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, I looked toward the ceiling, which for some reason was much more entrancing than that of whatever Dumbledore was saying.

My parents hadn't wanted me to come to school this year. They said that after my brother, Chris' death, I should be more careful with the threat of upcoming war on the horizon.

But I had insisted that I needed to go to school. If I didn't learn how to fight, then how would I ever be able to fend for myself? But that wasn't all of it. I loved my parents, and being muggleborn, I was in the most danger. I didn't insist on going just to learn. I wanted to get away from them.

Every day around them was boring and monotone. They didn't want to talk about anything since my brother's death and the memory of that day I had walked home from a friend's house and seen that Dark Mark, it haunted my dreams despite it being in the early summer.

Lily's own parents had died, of a muggle disease over the summer. Lily said that they had both died together, and that she was getting on okay, but I knew that she wasn't okay. No one was ever fully okay after their parents death. Of course, her sister had blamed Lily for not saving them with her 'magic powers.' Lily said that she didn't know how to cure a muggle disease, and despite the potion that she had tried, it had been in vain.

Her sister claimed that it was the 'magic water' that had killed their parents. I don't know if she said it enough, but as much as Lily tried to act as though it didn't get to her, I felt as though part of it, maybe not the potion making, but the blame itself, had gotten through to her.

Remus nudged me, breaking me from my thoughts. " Gravy?" he offered.

I jumped, nearly knocking the boat of gravy out of his hands. " Sorry Remus. I wasn't paying attention, er, I'll have some gravy on my potatoes I suppose," I said, taking the boat from him, and serving myself some mashed potatoes.

Lily ran in, sitting down next to me, smiling. " How was your summer Remus?" she asked, dishing up some roast beef, and pouring gravy over it.

" Oh, the usual," Remus replied, taking a fork away from Sirius who was attempting to have a fork fight with James who had just taken a seat.

" So did Dumbledore say anything important?" Lily asked, cutting up her potato.

I shrugged. " I didn't really listen, I was too busy spacing off," I admitted, taking a sip of my pumpkin juice.

I watched Sirius pile drumsticks on his plate, and then start prodding Peter with one of them, probably trying to annoy him.

Peter turned and said something to Sirius, but Sirius didn't relent.

" Sirius, stop!" I snapped at him.

He looked around, and shoved the leg to Peter, and gave me an innocent look. " Yes?"

I simply glared. Next to him, James was looking tired and bored.

I had long ago stopped fancying him, after Lily told me that he was just a heartbreaker. But now, I felt a twinge of affection that I had crushed down ages ago.

" I have to live with that," she said, pointing to James.

" Is he annoying you? You could always just stay in the dorm," I said.

She shook her head. " Nah, I mean, he's annoying, but he's kind of changed. He hasn't asked me out once. Maybe he was being truthful when he said he wasn't going to bother me anymore."

" He has changed, maybe you should just give him a chance," I urged her.

She shook her head. " I like Derek, he's over at Ravenclaw," she said, motioning with her fork.

I did see him. He had dark brown hair and sparkling green eyes. Lily had a crush on him from last year. " Ask him out," I said. " He won't turn you down, and if he does because of James, then convince him otherwise. You can't let James attack and drive all your suitors away."

" His parents died too," Lily admitted finally after staring at her plate for a considerable amount of time.

" What? How?" I asked her.

" They were Aurors," Lily replied. " They were in some kind of fight with a group of Death Eaters who were torturing muggles, and everywhere they were shooting killing curses, and they hit them both. In the middle of the battle, James," she glanced down the table. Whether to make sure he didn't hear, or out of concern for him I couldn't decipher. " He's doing alright, I guess it's hard on him. But he says he's alright."

" You say you're okay, but I know you aren't," I pointed out.

She said nothing, only took a sip from her own goblet, and then distracted herself with a treacle tart when the desserts appeared.

" So have you taken a fancy to anyone yet?" she asked, glancing once at Derek before back at me.

" Maybe," I said slowly, taking a spoon of strawberry ice cream.

" Do you?" she asked.

" Yes," I replied shortly hoping she wouldn't prod further.

" Who is it?" she asked, smiling.

" The boy who you hate," I answered.

" Snape?" she asked, and four heads whipped around in our direction. Two pairs of blue eyes, grey and a pair of hazel locked on Lily.

" Was I talking to you?" she snapped.

They all turned around after muttering a hurried excuse. " So, who is he?"

I shook my head. " I'll tell you that he isn't Snape."

She looked around, and scanned the room. "Derek?" she guessed next.

" No!" I exclaimed. " You like him, not me."

" Who then?"

" You hate his guts," I hinted.

She scanned the room again. " Potter?"

I couldn't help but smile. " Yes."

" I told you Belle, he's no good for a girl like you. He'll just break your heart. You know how he is, he...he always tries to make me jealous. And he always shows off, how can you like a guy like that?" she asked, pointing to where, despite Remus' efforts, James was in a spoon war with Sirius.

" He's sweet to you, you just never let him in. Besides, he's changed, like you said," I said, using her words against her.

" Yes, he has changed. But not so much that you need to go out with him or something. I mean, that maybe, he's matured a bit," she said.

" That's not so bad is it Lily?"

" No," she slumped. " But I don't want you with him, especially not in my dorm."

" Don't worry Lily, I won't go in your dorm and snog him. I'll do it outside your dorm so you can see," I teased.

Her eyes widened. " If you do, I'll hex both of you into the Hospital for a month," she threatened.

I held my hands up in surrender. " I won't. Merlin, I thought you said you didn't hate him," I pointed out.

" I don't, I would just rather not see a lot of PDA," she replied.

" What is PDA?" Remus asked, not familiar with the muggle term.

" Public Display of Affection," Lily and I both replied at the same time.

Remus wrinkled his nose. " As a Prefect, you'll see plenty of that."

I rolled my eyes. " Broom closets or bathrooms?"

Remus raised his eyebrows as Sirius threw ice cream at Peter. " Both. If they are like James, they prefer broom closets. Sirius on the other hand, he'll snog anywhere he can, and trust me, it isn't fun to yank your best mate off the lips of some other girl."

" And I've seen him do that," Lily added, looking at Remus sorrowfully. " It wasn't fun, I'll tell you that."

-l-James-l-

Maybe I never noticed her before because I was always set on having Lily Evans, or maybe it was the fact she only had Sirius and Remus between her. But either way, I took a liking to the girl sitting next to Lily.

She had straight black hair, so black that it had a blue sort of sheen to it, only added to by the unique blue stipe she wore in it.

She was laughing and talking to Remus and Lily, who were talking to each other like they were best friends.

In truth, I felt a twinge of jealousy, but pushed it away.

On my right was Sirius, who was attempting to chuck ice cream at Peter, who was on my left, using me as a shield.

I finally got up and swapped seats with Sirius, leaving Peter to get pelted by ice cream.

On my now right, Remus was still talking to the two girls.

" And James he wasn't happy about that so he decided his next attack would be on Phillip, which actually turned out to be a bad idea. See Phillip, was a year ahead of James, and dating Lily, so I guess that it didn't turn out well. James didn't say anything for a week after," Remus said, telling a story.

" What now?" I interjected as Lily and the black haired girl burst into laughter.

" I was telling them about the time you attacked Phillip, the boy who was dating Lily back in Fifth Year," Remus replied.

" Who are you?" I asked the raven haired girl.

She smiled, and looked at Lily who smirked at her. " I'm Annabelle. I'm the new Prefect who is taking over Lily's position. Funny, I'm her friend and Dumbledore chose me."

Annabelle, I repeated in my head. Not a bad name, I had always preferred Lily's name, but hers was nice too.

" I'm James Potter," I replied.

" Quidditch Captain, Marauder, Prankster, Trouble Maker, Blockhead, Idiot and Head Boy," Lily listed off, ticking them off on her fingers and laughing, smiling at me in a way that said she was only teasing.

Remus bit his lip to stop from laughing as well. " You still think I'm an Idiot?" I asked Lily.

" You've never really changed, and besides you're a Marauder. And all of them are a bit of an idiot sometimes," she replied.

" What is a Marauder?" Annabelle asked.

Remus, Sirius and Peter and I all turned together to stare at her in shock. Lily turned to her friend in shock as well.

" What's a Marauder?" Lily repeated, as though she'd never heard such a question.

We all blinked at Annabelle, who looked at us innocently. " I don't know, just tell me."

" They're pranksters, the ones who pull all the great pranks in this school," Lily said.

I turned to her. " You think our pranks are good?"

She looked at me as though I'd gone crazy. " Of course they are. They're brilliant, and no one else can do that kind of magic that you guys do. It's amazing really, I just never told you for fear you're ego would get to inflated."

" We're purveyors of aids to magical mischief makers," Remus recited, easily from the Marauders Map.

Annabelle jumped, and turned around as Dumbledore clapped his hands together for attention. " Follow your House Prefects, they'll lead you to your dorms, off you trot!"

I got up, still wondering about that new fancy, that raven haired girl with deep blue eyes named Annabelle Jacobs, as Remus told me later before I left for Patrols.

Okay I hope you don't hate the chapter, and please don't hate me for quitting Witches Wands and Magic. I also hope that you can see why I quit. It was awful if you compare it to this. This, THIS is my writing when I love to write and I'm inspired and I truly love the story.

Not that I didn't like Witches Wands and Magic, but if you saw my Within the Heart of the Ocean series, it was written so much better, and so I think Witches Wands and Magic deserved that kind of justice. This will follow kind of what I wanted to have happen in Witches Wands and Magic, but it might not be the same. Petunia isn't in this one.