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Summary - What happens when High School Musical and Hogwarts mix? LilyxJames

Disclaimer: I'M NOT J.K. ROWLING, (aww :( dang it!) AND I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!


Chapter One - The Hog's Head

It was New Year's Eve at a vacation resort in the mountains. Snow covered the ground, and stars were sparkling in the clear air. Everyone was beginning to get in to the party mood. That is, except for James Potter and his dad, who were on the quidditch pitch playing one-on-one. They were covered in sweat, but that couldn't stop them from playing the sport they love.

James had the quaffle, and he was doing a great job getting around his dad. After all, James was the star chaser of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and he was the captain too. Mr. Potter is more than just James's dad, he's also his coach. So, naturally, Mr. Potter gave James advice as they played.

"Keep working left, James," Mr. Potter said said. "The guy guarding you in the Championship game won't expect that. You'll torch him."

James nodded, breathing hard. "By going left-" He started.

"He'll look middle, and you'll take it downtown."

"Like this?" James said, while spinning past his father, swerving, and sinking a reverse shot. The quaffle glided cleanly through the goal post.

"Sweet." They could've played all night, but Mrs. Potter, walked onto the pitch. She was wearing a nice party dress.

"Boys? Hello?" She called. When she caught their attention she continued. "Did we really fly all this way to play more quidditch?"

James and Mr. Potter glanced at each other slyly. They knew she really didn't want an answer to that question, but they gave her one anyway. In unison, they shrugged and said, "Yes."

Mrs. Potter sighed. "It's the last night of vacation. The party...? Remember"

The truth is, they had both totally forgotten the big New Year's Eve party that they Hog's Head was holding, but they knew that they shouldn't admit that.

"Oh right, right," Mr. Potter put in quickly. "New Year's Eve." He hesitated. "Do we have to wear funny hats?" He asked his wife.

"Absolutely," She said immediately. "And we're supposed to be at the party in half an hour. James, they have a kid's party downstairs in the Freestyle club."

"Kid's party?" James groaned.

"Young adults," Mrs. Potter quickly corrected. "Now go shower up." James heavily sighed, but did as his mom said. James looked back at the quidditch pitch one last time. The championship game is in a couple of weeks. He should be practicing, not going to a stupid 'kid's party'. Besides, how much could this party actually be...

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Meanwhile, in another part of the Hog's Head, Lily Evans comfortably curled up on a couch reading her book, and enjoying the peace and quiet. Everyone was at the party, and she had totally lost her self in her new book from the Fortnight series. It was the best book she's read since, well, the last book from the series.

However, she didn't get to the next page. Her book was lifted out of her hands, and she looked up to see her mother standing over her.

"Lily, it's New Year's Eve," Ms. Evans said. "Enough reading.

"But Mom, I'm almost done and-" Lily started to protest.

Ms. Evans just shook her head. "There's a teen party. I've laid out your best clothes. Go." Lily eyed her mother's sparkly party dressed and sighed. She knew when she was defeated. She nodded, but asked,

"Can I at least have my book back?" Ms. Evans handed her the book, and Lily headed towards her room to change. As soon as she was out of her mom's sight, she opened the book and began reading as she walked. She might have to go to a stupid teen party, but she didn't plan to turn her brain off until the very last minute.

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A little time later, James and Lily were in the teen club, feeling out of place. It was packed with kids wearing goofy party hats, blowing on noisemakers, and, of course, laughing. Everyone seemed to be having fun, James thought glumly. He had showered and dressed in night pants and a pressed shirt, picked out by his mother, but he just wished he could be back on the quidditch pitch.

In a different part of the room, Lily sat by herself, wearing the clothes her mother had laid out. Lily though, "I could be back in my room reading. I was just getting to the good part too!"

Neither of the two kids was having any fun at all. Most of the kids in the room were watching the karaoke contest that was happening on the stage. As the two teenagers currently singing finished their song, the emcee called out cheerfully, "How about that for a couple of snowboarders?" The audience cheered, and the emcee started looking around the room, trying to spot anyone else willing to sing karaoke to a room full of strangers. Spotlights swirled over the crowd and the music played even louder to get the adrenaline pumping.

"All right," said the emcee into the mike. "Let's see who's gonna rock the house next..." That was the cue. The music stopped. The two spotlights picked out the next karaoke 'volunteers.'

One spotlight was on James.

The other was on Lily.

Both of the teens were startled, and even a little terrified. They shook their heads, but it was no use. The emcee jumped into the crowd and pulled them onto the stage.

Lily and James were mortified. Somehow, they weren't quite sure how it happened, microphones were put in their hands. They were stuck...onstage...the center of attention...no way to escape.

Before either of them could actually faint or throw up from fear, the music started.

"Well, here goes nothing." James thought. He might as well make the best of it. He started singing, softly and carefully. He could barely get the words out. It was all he could do to read the lyrics on the screen of the karaoke machine and try to stay on tune. He sang:

"Livin' in my own world

Didn't understand

That anything could happen

When you take a chance"

No one seemed to be paying any attention to them. That was a good thing, according to Lily. And, after all, if this boy was willing to risk public humiliation, she might as well be a good sport and try to sing too. She opened her mouth and began singing. Although her voice was just above a whisper, it was sweet and pure. She sang:

"I never believed in

What I couldn't see

I never opened my heart

To all the possibilities"

All right, she thought. I can do this. It's not too terrible.
Okay, James thought. At least people aren't throwing things at us. They were both still too nervous to really belt out the song. They kept singing though, alternating the lines of the ballad.

"I know

That something has changed

Never felt this way

And right here tonight

This could be the start of something new

It feels so right

To be here with you, ooh

And now looking in your eyes

I feel in my heart, the start of something new"

Finally, they looked at each other, hoping for a little help from their partner in embarrassment. As they really saw each other, they both felt something they had never felt before. James felt a spark of electricity fun over his skin. Lily felt a warm glow flood through her body. They smiled and, for the first time, began singing to each other. They sang more loudly, more boldly, with more self-assurance.

Suddenly everyone in the room started to notice: there was something special going on up on stage. Kids began crowding around the edge of the stage, listening and swaying to the music. Now James and Lily were starting to enjoy themselves. Their nervousness was forgotten as they smiled into each other's eyes.

"Now who'd ever thought that

We'd both be here tonight

And the world be so much brighter

With you by my side

I know that something has changed

Never felt this way

And right here tonight

This could be the start of something new

It feels so right to be here with you, ooh

And now looking in your eyes

I feel in my heart, the start of something new"

Before long, they were dancing across the stage and back again, as confident as if they were performing at an arena. As they moved to the music, they never took their eyes off of each other.

"I never knew that this could happen

Till it happened to me, ooh yeah

I didn't know it before

But now it's easy to see

It's a start of something new

It feels so right

To be here with you, ooh

And now looking in your eyes

I feel in my heart

That it's the start of something new

It feels so right

To be here with you, ooh

And now looking in your eyes

I feel in my heart

The start of something new

The start of something new

The start of something new"

When the song was over, the crowd applauded and cheered. James and Lily smiled, breathless and a little stunned by what had just happened.

James leaned over and said, "I'm James."

Lily nodded. "Lily."

Neither one of them could stop smiling. Both of them felt an excited, fizzy feeling inside, as if the world had just become a lot more fun.