Head Girl
Disclaimer: As you probably know, I do not own Harry Potter, any of the names or places or anything. Anything you recognise from any of the books is not mine and I have not made any money from this. This is just for fun. But everyone already knows that so just go on and read the story! :)
Chapter 1 Head Boy
Lily Evans looked up at the magical ceiling. It was like looking right up at the clear night sky. there was the moon already and tiny stars sprinkled across the deep blue skye. It was breath taking. And in that moment, as Lily admired the wonderful works of magic, she realised that this was the last time she would ever return to this place. She would never return to Hogwarts ever again, not as a student anyway. This was her absolute last welcome-dinner in The Great Hall. Her last song from the Sorting Hat.
Somehow Lily had managed to ignore this fact all summer. but now it was inevitable. Lily Evans, seventeen going on eighteen and entering her seventh year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. A mix of feelings filled Lily. She was excited and thrilled and scared and sad and everything. She looked around at the people around her at the table. They were all eating like there was no tomorrow.
There was James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. It seemed that if you were friends with James the rest of them came as a package deal.
Remus Lupin was the only one that Lily knew from before, he was a prefect as well. She actually quite liked him. He was not as loud and obnoxious as James and Sirius. He was calm and cared a lot about his studies, he was a good boy. But he looked awful. He looked several years older than seventeen, his dark blond hair looked lifeless and dull and his face looked worn and he had dark rings under his eyes. It wasn't always this bad, he looked better somedays and then worse others. Lily wondered what could have happened that was so hard on him. She had noticed that he went away from school every now and then. He had a sick mother, James said, but there was something about him every time he said it that made Lily think that it was something else. She didn't want to ask Remus, feeling that she might intrude on his personal life.
Susan Holmes was there too, of course. She was Lily's best friend in the whole wide world and she had been since the first day of school. Susan and Severus. But Severus Snape was not here. No, he was at the Slytherin table. Lily hadn't spoken to him for ages, not since their fifth year.
"Hey, Lils", said James and put a hand on Lily's arm. She looked at him.
"James?" She said and moved her hand from the table to her lap.
"You're not touching your food, something wrong?"
Lily looked down at her full plate. He was right, she hadn't eaten anything yet. She smiled.
"I'm just a little overwhelmed", she said and put her fork into a piece of chicken. "Do you guys realise that this is our last year here?"
"Yeah", said Susan, "It's crazy." She ran her fingers through her hair. Susan's hair was very much like Lily's, long, thick and with big, soft curls, it was just that Susan's was dark brown and Lily's dark red. Lily saw Peter Pettigrew looking wistfully at Susan. His eyes followed her as she leaned forward and started eating again, they seemed far too small for his chubby face.
"NEWT-year", muttered Sirius. "As if it wasn't enough with the OWL's."
OWL, it stood for Ordinary Wizard Level Examination. It was a hell all students had to go through at the end of fifth year. The results from those tests could determine which classes you were allowed to take next year. Of course Lily did good, after all her studying. But Susan didn't make it in herbology and now she wouldn't be able to be a healer, like she wanted to.
So that was OWL's, NEWT's were practically the same thing but harder and you took your grades out in the real world and not school. Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests, that's what everybody said it meant and even though it probably was true, Lily didn't think that's what they were actually called.
Lily turned her attention to her food again, but James kept looking at her. She started to feel a bit awkward and turned to him again.
"Yes?" she said. James's face turned into a goofy smile.
"You look pretty tonight", he said. He ran his hand through his already messy black hair that never seemed to lay flat on his head. Lily rolled her eyes, he had tried this a million times before. She already knew what he would say next. "Will you go out with me?" And she was right.
Sirius chuckled, Peter looked at her hopefully and Remus and Susan acted as if they hadn't heard anything, even though they sat right there. Lily sighed.
"No, James", she said. James made a sad face and tilted his head to the side.
"Why not? Come on, please?"
Lily shook her head.
"I thought you said that if I went out with you once, you wouldn't bother me again."
Lily had gone out on a date with James last year. That was just one time, those other times did not count as dates. Lily would swear to Merlin that she had no interest what so ever in James Potter. He was just a boy who was a friend, not a boyfriend. Definitely not a boyfriend.
"Yeah", said James, "But we're friends now."
"Yes!" said Lily, "Friends, exactly. That's the word, James." She ate a bite of her chicken. When would he give up?
"But we could be more", said James stubbornly. "We are more, we kissed."
Sirius laughed out loud, Peter's eyes widened, Remus raised an eyebrow and Susan choked on her pumpkin juice.
"What?" she said. "Lily, why haven't you told me this?" she sounded slightly hurt.
"Way to go, Prongs!" said Sirius and grinned.
"Really?" said Peter surprised.
Lily clinched her teeth and turned slowly to James.
"That was not a kiss", she muttered. James looked at her with raised eyebrows. "It was barely more than a peck!" she said, "That was it!"
"According to James it was a little bit more", said Sirius who still had that annoying grin on his face.
"Well it wasn't", said Lily.
"But your lips touched?" asked Susan who still couldn't believe that her best friend hadn't told her this.
"Yes!" said James. "And you enjoyed it, admit!" he pointed with his fork at Lily.
"There was nothing to enjoy", said Lily and shrugged her shoulders, "it didn't even last for a second. It was over before it started."
James's eyes narrowed.
"I'm a great kisser", he muttered.
"Yeah", agreed Peter. Everyone fell silent and looked at him.
"And you know this because...?" said Sirius. Peter's face turned red.
"I mean, I bet he is..." he mumbled, embarrassed.
"I am!" said James, as if he felt that he had to clarify that point.
"Oh, could your ego be any bigger?" said Susan.
"Well, actually", James smiled mysteriously. Lily frowned and watched James as he took something out of his pocket.
"No way!" she outburst when she saw what is was. James nodded.
"It looks like we have something in common", he said and held up the gold and red badge. It was the exact same badge that Lily wore on the front of her robes, except his said Head boy and hers said Head girl.
Two seventh years were selected to be Head boy or girl every year, usually the prefects were picked.
Lily stared at Remus.
"Is he kidding me?" she asked, hoping that Remus's face would crack up into a slime and say that of course he was. "Why didn't you get it?"
Remus shook his head.
"Believe me", he said, "I'm just as surprised as you are."
James smiled and looked very pleased with himself.
"So, what do you say, Lily?" he said. "Wanna go up and use the prefects bathroom?"
"Ew, no!"
Lily shook her head. This was not happening. No way. She dug into her food and tried to say as little as possible to James through out the rest of the dinner.
Later that night they all went up to the Gryffindor tower.
"Good night, then", said James and hugged Lily. He went in for the kiss on the cheek, but she pulled away. James smiled. "Sweet dreams." Lily just rolled her eyes.
"Good night", she said and turned to Susan.
As soon as they reached the stairs to the girls dormitory and the boys were out of earshot, Susan said:
"Why don't you just go out with him, Lily?"
Lily sighed. James had managed to get everyone convinced that he and Lily should be together. Everybody except for Lily that was. Even Susan, who Lily had thought would stick with her was now just as annoying as the rest of them.
"Because", said Lily, "I do not like him that way."
Susan snorted.
"Sure you do, you just don't know it yet."
Their things had already been carried up to the dorms and the beds were neatly made by house-elves. Lily sat down and opened her trunk to look for her pyjamas.
"Come on, Lils", said Susan and followed her example. "Give the boy a chance."
"No", said Lily shortly.
"He's charming, good-looking, funny..." said Susan.
"Annoying, inappropriate, arrogant..." continued Lily.
"He's great at quidditch..."
"He's got bad grades..."
Susan shook her head.
"You'll come around soon enough", she said. "The two of you will be ruling the school this year, with those badges of yours."
"That's what you think", muttered Lily before climbing into her bed and pulling the curtains. Susan muttered something back but Lily didn't listen.
As she tried to go to sleep, she couldn't keep James out of her thoughts. Susan had made it impossible for Lily not to think about him. There was no point in denying that he was pretty good-looking. He had those beautiful hazel eyes and that messy black hair, it would never have the same class and elegance that Sirius's had, even if he let it grow as long, but it was kind of cute. And yes, James had a nice quidditch body too. He was chaser and captain of the team. He looked good. But Lily did not like him that way, she kept telling herself that as she thought of him. She thought of him as a friend and nothing more, period.
She thought back to that Valentine's Day last year. Her first and only date with James. He had asked her out probably a hundred times and he said that if she just went out with him one time, just once, he wouldn't bother her again. Well that's a promise he failed to keep.
So she had accepted. On Valentine's Day she went to Hogsmeade with James. He took her to The Three Broomsticks and who'd guessed that James Potter could be such a gentleman? It was all very romantic and that is why he got that peck on the lips - that did not count as a kiss - before they parted.
Lily fell asleep with a smile on her face and dreamt of a very charming black-haired, hazel-eyed young wizard...
A/N: Well, there you have the first chapter of Head Girl:) What did you think? Review and tell me! See you soon (I hope)^^
