Fantasy
I stole some of Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows in this chapter from J.K. Rowling.
This is about James and Lily's friendship not their romantic relationship. After this, I will write a sequel about their romance. I hope you enjoy this!
Chapter 1- Mudblood
"What is all that commotion going on over there?" my best friend Marlene McKinnon asked, squinting towards the source of loud noise and cheering. Marlene had blond hair that reached her elbows and was in layers, blue eyes, and a body girls would kill for. She was known for her reputation to get any guy she wanted. Boys at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry fell at her feet. Marlene was the greatest friend a girl could have. With her fiery attitude and fun personality, she was truly a stunning person. Not that the rest of my friends aren't just as great.
Here at Hogwarts I had six best friends: Marlene McKinnon, Macy Johnson, Alice Prewett, Katherine Grey, Elizabeth Davis, and Severus Snape. Macy was the quiet, shy one of my friends. She was shy and timid but she was the most adorable one of my friends. Macy had a cute little baby face with a perfect little button nose, hazel eyes, long, perfect eyelashes, full red lips, and short shoulder length brown hair that framed her face perfectly. Even though she was an amazing witch and could stand up for herself, our group treated her like our like little baby. Anyone who hurt her was dead.
Alice Prewett was our frantic romantic. She was the one who kept us all up to date on new fashions and styles. Alice had blond hair and beautiful, striking green eyes. Alice also had something the rest of us lacked. A boyfriend. Alice had Frank Longbottom. Those two have been a couple since the middle of third year and if they got married, I truly wouldn't be surprised. Alice was a very lucky girl. Don't get me wrong. I'm not jealous or anything. It's just that sometimes I wish I had someone who adored me just as much as Frank adored Alice.
Katherine Grey was the tough one. She couldn't care less about what anyone thought of her. This was the main reason I became her friend. I respected Kathy. She had been through a lot in her life being someone who her parents hated because she adored Muggleborns. She was never proud of her parents' prejudice against Muggleborns. She saw how wrong it was for her whole life. Kathy had black curly hair, ocean blue eyes, and a beautiful-winning smile.
Elizabeth Davis was the complete opposite. She was so sensitive and was definitely a follower. I still loved Lizzy though. She was a little like Macy but Macy was more of her own person. But Lizzy always stuck out in a crowd and she didn't like it. She wanted to fit in but her beauty was amazing. She had perfect long dirty blond hair that fell down to her waist. Her eyes were a mystery: sometimes they were blue, sometimes gray, sometimes green, and sometimes hazel. She had a tall frame but didn't hold herself awkwardly, she was elegant. Like Marlene, guys fell at her fell. Their beauty was exquisite.
Severus Snape was a very awkward boy but he was the one who introduced me to my new world and told me I was a witch. He had greasy hair, black eyes, and a hooked nose. I know. I know. Not very attractive but he was still an important part of my life. And there he was right now. Being bullied by the oh-so-amazing Marauders.
The Marauders: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. Potter was an arrogant, bullying toerag who enjoyed seeing me blow up every time he asked me out. I've said no to him every single time. You'd think he'd get the point but no. He didn't care about me. He just liked to annoy the crap out of me. He thought he was so cool but he truly wasn't. Just because you're a talented wizard and can play Quidditch that does not mean you're an amazing person.
His best friend, Sirius Black, was not like him at all in my eyes although everyone said that Potter and Sirius are extremely alike in personalities. Maybe it was because Sirius did not ask me out every minute of the day. I considered Sirius one of my closest friends ever since he put a Slytherin in the hospital wing for calling me a Mudblood in our second year. With handsome gray eyes and graceful hair that fell into his face, Sirius was an extremely entertaining person. He made me laugh when I wanted to cry, stood up for me when I was being picked on, and was there for me whenever I needed him. His one flaw was the way he treated girls. He always had a girlfriend and when he was bored with the one he had, he would dump her and find another one.
Remus Lupin was my fellow Gryffindor prefect and the most decent member of the Marauders with sandy hair and pretty blue eyes. Remus was a werewolf but I didn't care. He told me in our second year and I still considered him an amazing friends. I felt bad for him because he was so ashamed of himself when he shouldn't be. Remus is smart, kind, and really sweet.
Peter Pettigrew is not someone I am particularly fond of due to the fact that he is a follower. I know that Lizzy is one too but Pettigrew worships Potter like a dog worships its owner. He has no personality and just hides in Potter's shadow. He was also fat and short. Pettigrew was never seen without food which is why it was so surprising to see that he didn't have any right now, even though we had just come out from our Defense Against the Dark Arts examination.
I narrowed my eyes at the sight of Sev being bullied by Potter and Sirius once again. Another flaw of Sirius I forgot to mention? He assists in the bullying of one of my best friends. I pulled my feet out of the water (me and my friends' way of relaxing after an exam) and put my shoes on.
"Lily, where are you going?" Marlene asked wearily.
"Do you expect me to sit here and watch them hurt Sev?" I asked incredulously. I turned on my heel and walked quickly towards the scene. My friends thought I was absolutely out of my mind to be friends with Sev. They felt as if he would hurt me. At first, I was one hundred percent sure he wasn't. But this year, he'd changed and our friendship was hanging by a thread that I was scared. That didn't stop me from standing up for him though.
As I approached the Marauders, I heard Potter tell Sev to wash out his mouth and watched as pink bubbles came out of Sev's mouth.
"Leave him ALONE!" Potter and Sirius both turned towards the sound of my voice. Of course, as soon as Potter saw me, his had jumped to his messy, untamable, jet black hair, making it messier than necessary. Why he had to do that, I still don't understand.
"Alright Evans?" said Potter.
"Leave him alone," I repeated, looking at him with pure hatred. "What's he done to you?"
"Well, it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean…" Potter said. The pig-headed git. I wish he didn't exist. I was pretty sure that if people were laughing at him right now and not Sev, he wouldn't appreciate it.
"You think you're funny," I said coldly. "But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."
"I will if you go out with me Evans," Potter said quickly. "Go on … Go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again." Snivelly? What if people called him Potty? Would he be happy? I don't think so! And of course he had to go ahead and try to get me to go out with him. Sorry Sev. I care about you and everything but I just can't go out with Potter. I don't think Sev would want me too either. He hates Potter too much.
Why won't I go out with Potter? Because he doesn't really care about me. Because he doesn't give a crap about me. He could have any girl at Hogwarts but I'm just the only one who's ever said no to him. I'm just a challenge. A toy. Once he has me, he'll throw me away.
Behind Potter, the Impediment Jinx was wearing off of Sev and he began reaching for his wand on the floor.
"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid," I said.
"Bad luck, Prongs," Sirius said briskly, turning back to Sev. "OY!"
Sev had grabbed his wand and was now pointing it at Potter; there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on the side of Potter's face, splattering him with blood. Before anyone knew it, Potter had Sev hanging upside down in the air, his robes falling and revealing skinny legs and graying underpants. I had to admit, this was a bit funny but it wasn't fair to Sev.
"Let him down!" I said.
"Certainly," Potter said, and jerked his wand upward. Sev fell to the ground as he was getting up, Sirius said, "Petrificus Totalus!" and Sev fell once again, rigid as a board. I was getting really impatient.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" I shouted, completely fed up. I pulled out my wand and Potter and Sirius eyed it warily.
"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you," Potter said.
"Take the curse of him, then!"
Potter sighed, turned back to Sev, and muttered the countercurse. "There you go. You're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus-"
"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!"
I pushed the tears forming away from spilling out of my eyes. I couldn't believe my ears. How could he call me that? Blinking the tears away from my eyes, I said coolly, "Fine. I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you Snivellus." I didn't care if it was mean, but he deserved it. I came to help him but all he had done was call me a Mudblood.
"Apologize to Evans!" Potter roared at Severus, pointing his wand threateningly at him.
"I don't want you to make him apologize," I shouted. "You're just as bad as he is …"
"What?" yelped Potter. "I'd NEVER call you a- a you-know-what!"
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can- I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK." I turned on my heel and walked quickly away, the tears threatening to spill over.
"Evans!" Potter shouted after me. "Hey, EVANS!" I ignored him and kept walking. I avoided my friends and didn't look at them. I knew they were waiting for me to come and complain about Potter like I always did. I quickened up my pace and ran to the edge of the Forbidden Forest where there was a beautiful tree. It was the place I could think, the place where I could cry, the place I ran to when I wanted to get away from the rest of the world. The leaves that were green all year round regardless of the weather offered shade and comfort. No one knew about this place except for Sirius because he followed me here when I was crying about my parents' divorce in third year.
I let the tears run down my cheek and blind my vision. I cried and cried an let rivers run down my face.
My friend. My best guy friend has just called me a Mudlood. How am I supposed to react to that?
I am the type of person who acts like noting hurts her in the world. I walked with my head high and proud. Every name I was called by my sister, Petunia, every time a Slytherin called me a Mudblood. I shrugged it off and pretended that everything was ok. That nothing hurts me until it becomes too much and one little thing can set me off into hours and hours of tears.
But this wasn't something small! I can't believe I didn't see it coming like my friends did. They knew this was going to happen. I was just ignoring the inevitable. This was the first time that I had lost an important friendship. I didn't know how to deal with the fact that one of my ex-best friends was now on his way to becoming a Death Eater. A murderer.
What made all of this so shocking is that I knew Severus. I knew what he used to be like. I knew the sweet kid who wore a large coat and tried to comfort me at the park when I was worried about my blood status. He told me it didn't matter but his views had obviously changed. I couldn't throw away my memories and forgive and forget. The inside jokes. The laughs. The late night hats when my parents got divorced or when his beat him. I despised Avery and Mulciber and all the other Slytherins who changed the sweet, innocent boy deep down inside him. And at that moment I couldn't stand Sirius or Potter for pushing him to say that unforgivable word, even though they didn't tell him to.
Potter. Okay. So maybe what I'd yelled at him had been a bit harsh. I mean he was only trying to defend me. Oh Merlin. I didn't even know what to think about anything anymore.
"Damn, Lilyflower! You look horrible!" Sirius said, coming literally out of nowhere, leaning against the opposite tree and interrupting my thoughts. Concern and worry was written all over his face.
"Thanks Sirius. Best way to make a girl smile. Tell her how atrocious she looks," I said sarcastically, tears still running down my cheeks. Sirius was one of the few people who have ever seen me cry.
He came and sat down next to me. "Lily, I'm really sorry. I feel terrible. And so does Prongs. We both feel horrible for what we've done to you. What that greaseball said to you was all our fault."
"Don't worry Sirius. It's not your fault. You didn't go up to him and tell him to say it," I said. Then after a moment I added, "And tell Potter that it's not his fault either."
"You know, he really does love you."
I scoffed. "Haha. That's like saying that London isn't in England."
"Alright. Think whatever you want but remember you will never find another arrogant, bullying toerag or scrawny, pathetic, little git who loves your annoying freckles and offending hair color as much as James does," he teased, bumping his shoulder into mine. This set me off into a round of giggle for no reason. Sirius always did that to me.
"Thanks for being her for me Sirius."
"Anytime Lilyflower. Come on, your friends are waiting for you and are very annoyed with Snivellus." He walked with me back to the Gryffindor common room where my friends and the rest of the Marauders were sitting around the fireplace with worried looks on their faces. I headed up to the girls' dormitory and felt the girls come up behind me.
"If you want me to go permanently scar that snake for life, I will do it Lily!" Kathy shouted, enraged. Kathy had a temper.
"Thanks Kathy but I'll deal with it," I said. "I just need some time. I can't believe I thought he was really different."
"Lily?" a timid fourth year named Mary MacDonald asked. "A boy named Severus Snape is waiting to speak to you. He threatened to sleep outside if you wouldn't." I felt all my friends tense beside me.
"Thanks Mary," I said.
"Lily, don't think you have to talk to him," Macy pleaded.
"Yeah Lils. He doesn't deserve to talk to you. Just say the word and we'll go hex him into the next century," Marlene said.
I smiled at them. I had the greatest friends ever. "Thanks guys, but I have to deal with this myself." I got up, went down to the common which was Marauder free and outside the portrait hole. I spotted Severus and walked towards him.
"I'm sorry," he blurted out.
"I'm not interested," I shot back.
"I'm sorry!" he repeated.
"Save your breath," I said harshly. "I only came out because Mary told me you were threatening to sleep here."
"I was. I would have done. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
"Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends- you see, you don't even deny it! You don't even deny that's what you're all aiming to be! You can't wait to join You-Know-Who, can you? I can't pretend anymore. You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine."
"No- listen, I didn't mean-"
"-to call me Mudblood? But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?" With that, I climbed back into the portrait hole and went up to my dormitory. My faithful, true friends were in their beds waiting for me. These were the people who really cared about me. I smiled at them. "Guys, don't worry. I'm fine. Really. Go to sleep." Knowing that I had them helped me deal with the fact that I had just lost a friend.
James POV
"Prongs, calm down. She said it wasn't your fault," Sirius groaned. We were lying in bed and I was still upset over what happened to Lily and still blamed myself. Remus and Sirius were trying to calm me down while Peter had already gone to sleep.
"But did you hear what she said to me Padfoot?"
"James, you need to relax. People say thing they don't mean when they're upset or angry," Moony said, trying to comfort me.
"But-"
"PRONGS! GO TO SLEEP!" Remus and Sirius yelled. So I shut up but couldn't stop thinking about it.
Lily Evans was everything I've ever wanted. She was my life. She was beautiful with her gorgeous red hair and stunning emerald green eyes. I always acted like an idiot around her but I really did love and care about her. But she doesn't see it. Snivellus deserves to burn and rot because of what he called her. When she got back to the common room with Sirius, her beautiful face had tear stains and her eyes were puffy.
If only Lily could see how much she meant to me. But that was a fantasy. My fantasy. A fantasy where just being friends with Lily was perfect enough.