Hi everyone. this is my third fanfiction. i hope you like it. its my version of how james proposes to lily. i also included Snape and the other marauders. please review. tell me if im doing something wrong or what your opinion is!
disclaimer: i do not own any harry potter character whatsoever.
It was a sunny saturday afternoon at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.
James potter was sitting underneath his favourite tree with his girlfriend lily Evans and fellow marauders, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.
James was Lily's sworn enemy since fourth year but when he became head boy and quidditch captain he became more mature and responsible according to lily.
Sirius was describing some elaborate prank to play on the slytherins much to Remus and lily's annoyance.
"-We can turn their hair red and have lions eating snakes pictured on their forehead oh and-"
"Sirius, Grow up! Leave the slytherins alone. Can't you go at least a year without doing something juvenile?" Said a very angry-looking lily
"And besides we already did that in fifth year" said a smug james as lily usually gave out to him for pranks.
"TRAITOR ! Where's my best friend gone? Just because you got Evans to go out with you does not mean you have to side with her! What happened to bros before..." Sirius said in a rush and stopped when he realised what he was going to say so stopped before he said something that would most certainly get him hexed so bad.
"Bros before what ?" Said lily, her eyes narrowing.
James and Remus were trying to hide their laughter.
"Ugh Bros before...sweet loving, forgiving and beautiful girlfriends of best mates" said Sirius
"I'll let this one pass black but I will curse you one day!"
"Thanks for the warning" muttered Sirius ignoring lily's glare.
"I have to go. I promised mary I'd help her study for potions." Said lily kissing james goodbye and waving at the others.
"I'll meet you up in the common room before dinner." Said james smiling up at her.
"Okay see you later" said lily returning his smile.
When she was gone Sirius, Remus and Peter started talking about a prank again.
James was looking at the lake. He was sitting in the same spot that he had thought about giving up all hope. This was the spot in fifth year that james had made lily lose her best friend. The exact spot she said she'd rather go out with the squid than him. And now that she was his girlfriend for the last six months he had a very serious (no pun intended) question to ask her.
Remus realised james was very quiet. He looked over and saw james face empty of all expression but his eyes showed nervousness and excitement.
"Are you ok prongs? You usually burst with excitement at the mention of a prank especially on the slytherins."Said Remus waking james from his thoughts.
"Ugh yeah, I'm fine. Just have a lot on my mind I guess" said james becoming very interested in his hands.
He didn't tell anyone not even the marauders that he was planning on asking lily to marry him.
Well now is a good chance as any james mused to himself.
"Ugh guys there's something I need to tell you." Said james nervously. He didn't know what their reaction to him being engaged would be. he was afraid they would laugh at him.
"Sure prongs what's up?" Said Sirius curious about what would make his best friend so nervous.
A few minutes of silence followed and the tension was growing.
"James ? Are you ok? You haven't said anything ?" Said Sirius starting to get frightened. He was thinking of what could have happened to james. Maybe his broom was stolen... no james would have gone mad if his most prized procession was stolen. Maybe he didn't get accepted to be an auror...or maybe ! It had to be connected to lily! Maybe she's breaking up with him, or she's dying or...oh god no she couldn't be...
"Prongs you're not trying to say lilys...ugh..you know...um...has a bun in the oven some would say?" Said Sirius afraid his friend had just screwed up his life.
"WHAT ?! NO! OF COURSE NOT! Why would you think that?!" Said a very embarrassed james.
"Well then why are you taking so long to tell us something? Its not my fault you took too long."
"Fine! You all know I've been dating lily for the past six months-"
"Know about it? Its kind of hard not to when you sing about it all the bloody time." said Sirius impatiently. Remus and peter found this very funny as they were biting their lips to stop from laughing.
"ANYWAY, I was going to propose to her, tonight in fact. I went to that new jewellers in Hogsmead last week and found the perfect ring." Said james pulling out a small box from his pocket and showing his friends the ring.
It was a gold band with a flower on it. It had ruby as petals and diamonds in the centre and on the outside of the flower making it look like a second layer of petals. It was a beautiful ring thought james even if it costed quite a bit.
James looked up to see his friends shocked faces.
"You're seriously going to ask lily to marry you ? Said Remus. He couldn't believe how mature james had become this year and now he hadn't even finished school and he was already thinking of settling down.
"Yes I am. What do you guys think?" Said james worried they would tell him he was mental and that he was lucky lily was going out with him let alone would be engaged to him.
"Wow. Well I guess congratulations mate! Can't believe your actually going to settle down but good for you." Said Sirius.
"Your parents would be proud james. I hope you and lily will be happy together." Said remus.
"T-thats so c-cool" stuttered peter.
"Thanks guys better go. I'm going to see if the house elf's will do something for me." Said james looking even more excited and nervous.
"Good luck! Lily is a lucky girl!" Remus said.
"My little boy is growing up!" Said Sirius pretending to wipe away a tear.
Peter remained silent.
James was starting to walk back to the castle thinking about how he was going to propose.
There was a line of trees from where he was sitting and when he passed the third one he heard someone talk.
"Oy potter!" Said a greasy voice james knew all too well. He turned around and saw snape.
Snape and james had hated each other since the first train ride to Hogwarts. James had made it a sort of mission to make lily see how evil he was which he succeeded in doing in their fifth year and all through sixth year he kept pranking Snape as a punishment for calling lily a mudblood.
Snape had his wand out and james knew that by the time he got his wand out Snape would curse him.
"What do you want Snivellous? I've left you alone all year! What did I do to you now?!" Said james angry that he was defenseless and curious as to what Snape could be mad about.
"Lily will never marry you! She's just toying with you! She's trying to make me jealous by going out with you!" Said Snape with a smirk.
"For the past six months? If she had really wanted 2 make you jealous would she not go out with someone from slytherin? And besides why would she want to go out with a git like you? At least I grew up. I was there every time lily was sad, if she wanted me there or not. I didn't choose dark arts over her. I actually listened to her when she gets mad about her sister or someone picks on her for being muggleborn! And you want her to forgive you after what you called her in fifth year? After she was trying to help you? You are pathetic! lily deserves way more than you." Said james trying to catch his breath.
Snape looked stunned so james figured he won the argument. And he didn't even use his wand. He looked over to see the marauders stunned but looked proud.
James started to walk away. He was a few steps away from Snape when he heard him shout "SECTUMSEMPRA!". James turned around at the last-minute and tried to get his wand to defend himself when the spell hit him in the chest.
The spell sent him backwards but it didn't matter as he was in so much pain. it felt familiar like the time Snape had thrown a curse at him that day in fifth year but it had only been one gash. This felt like multiple stabbing's from swords. He had never heard of this spell. He felt very weak but he touched his chest and felt some warm liquid and lifted his hand up to see blood. Most likely his blood.
He could hear voices but they sounded far away. He could just make them out.
"SNAPE! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO ?!" James thought this could be Sirius as Remus would never swear.
"Sirius we have to get him to the hospital wing. He's losing way to much blood." James knew this was Remus. He could feel something lifting him up and the pain made him black out.
Please review if you think I should continue this story, I don't want to waste my time on a story if no one likes it. thank you :)
