Certain elements from the book may be over looked I'm not sure yet, however they are only small things like ignoring their transfiguration exam even though it is mentioned within the story. Similarly be warned some of the dialogue is directly lifted from the order of the Phoenix, this is simply to show the individual characters views on the event.
This is only a fan story, the characters etc all belong to J.K.Rowling.
Chapter 1:
'Lily! Wait for me.' My friend Alice cried as she grabbed the sleeve of my robes, shaking her head in an attempt to shake the hair of her blond bob out of her eyes. She'd just pushed her way through a crowd of fifth years all of which were trying to get as far away from the great hall as possible following our defence against the dark arts paper.
'Alice! I couldn't find you, quick let's go outside' I suggested before pulling her playfully by the arm in an attempt to make her follow.
'Where's Mary? Have you seen her?' I barely finished my question before nearly colliding with said Mary; she was the tallest of us three and had soft brown hair that fell just below her shoulders.
'I'm he-re' Mary proclaimed in a sing-song voice before making her own way outside. We, along with a couple other girls from our dormitory, settled down by the lake relaxing on the grass and soaking our feet in the water.
'How'd you find it?' Alice inquired to the rest of us in a trying-to-seem-indifferent tone which I instantly recognised but chose to ignore.
'Draining!' Mary nearly shouted; flamboyantly throwing her arms above her head before collapsing down on the grass to demonstrate her exhaustion. I couldn't help but laugh at her as she did before proceeding to answer Alice's question in the manner of which I believed was expected.
'It was quite hard, but I think I've done fine', I'd actually found the paper relatively easy but I knew Alice would have believed it hard; Alice was very intelligence but had a tendency to lack confidence. The answer seemed to suffice; Alice smiled in a reassured way and resumed kicking her legs in the water.
'I was sat near that Peter boy who's always following James and Sirius around, he looked terrified, he was sat there biting his nails'. Alice brought her hands up to her mouth imitating his actions while rocking back and forth making the others laugh. All except me who had just spotted the subject of their amusement settle down a little way away from us along with James, Sirius and Remus who together formed what was unofficially proclaimed to be the 'Marauders'.
'Speak of the Devils' I muttered coldly.
'I don't get why you hate them so much, I mean sure they mess about but they're clever'. Alice argued in their defence.
'...And hot' Mary added smiling cheekily as I made a half hearted smile, more at her obsession with the entire male population than because I believed it to be true. Granted yes they weren't unattractive, James, the ring leader had dark, messy hair which was almost completely untameable, reflecting his personality very well, and deep brown eyes; and was perhaps the only guy in school that managed to pull off wearing glasses.
'It's not that, it's the way they seem to believe they own the school, they're conceited and hex anyone they even consider not liking... well excluding Remus from that description'. At that moment I caught James smile in my direction and turned away almost immediately.
'So who's going to test me on transfiguration?'
...
'We've still got Transfiguration, if you're bored you could test me. Here...' My friend Remus held out his book to Sirius, a tall, dark haired boy whose previous complaints of boredom had resulted in the last thing he wanted: the suggestion of work.
'I don't need to look at that rubbish, I know it all.' He claimed as he puffed out his chest to highlight his conceited claim. I couldn't help but laugh at this, Sirius, along with Remus and Peter were my best friends; though Sirius was more like a brother to me. As I turned away from my friends, in pursuit of catching Lily's eye again, however I caught sight of a not-so friendly face, Severus Snape, a fellow fifth year, who had greasy dark hair and a hooked nose and was a member of Slytherin, which was a good enough reason as any to hate him. However that is not the sole reason for my dislike, Snape was also a close friend of Lily Evans, A girl with beautiful auburn hair that fells in soft curls
down her back, who despite all my attempts barely gives me a second thought, and yet she had the time of day for Snape...the thought made my blood boil.
'This'll liven you up, Padfoot' I muttered into Sirius' ear watching as his eyes found Snape.
'Excellent...Snivellus.' We watched as he stowed away his belongings, clambering to our feet.
'All right Snivellus?' I called in a mock pleasant voice as we approached by a few steps. Snape dropped his bag and lunged for his wand...however his attempts were in vain.
'Expelliarmus!' I shouted sending Snape's wand flying into the air and landing with a soft thud a few feet away. Snape dove towards his fallen wand but was again foiled, this time by Sirius.
'Impedimenta!' Snape was knocked off his feet as other students began to approach, some looked apprehensive, but the one whose eye I really wanted to catch was no longer in sight.
'How'd the exam go, Snivelly?' I asked.
'I was watching him, his nose was touching the parchment. There'll be great grease marks all over it, they won't be able to read a word.' At this a number of people laughed but no one more than Peter. Snape struggled against the invisible binds panting as he spoke:
'You- wait' he said as he glared up at me with a look of utmost hatred. 'You- wait!'
'Wait for what?' Sirius replied coolly. 'What're you going to do, Snivelly, wipe your nose on us?' At this Snape started making some sort of inaudible stream of hexes and swear words, most of which regarding me, not that it mattered to me, his wand was out of reach anyway.
'Wash out your mouth,' I replied coldly. 'Scourgify!' I glared down at him as soap bubbles erupted from his mouth.
'Leave him ALONE!' At the sound of her heavenly voice my hand automatically jumped to my hair, most of the girls liked it this way, and despite her clear dislike of it I was all for promoting anything which might get me noticed by her.
'All right, Evans?' I caught Sirius' eye and knew he was inwardly smirking at the deepening tone of my voice.
'Leave him alone,' she glared deep in my eyes, despite her anger I still couldn't help but stare at her beautiful green eyes.
'What has he done to you?'
'Well...' I thought for a moment, I could hardly tell her I was jealous of him, what would she say? Part of me wanted to get her really riled, although every time she was angry at me her intense glare hurt me I'd rather be hated and have her pay attention than be lovely and ignored.
'It's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean...' a number of people laughed at this remark but Lily's eyes flashed threateningly.
'You think you're so funny but you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone.'
'I will if you go out with me, Evans,' I knew now wasn't the time or place but maybe just maybe she'd say yes...who was I kidding but I just had to go on. 'Go on...go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again.'
'I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid,' she replied with a great deal more conviction than I would have liked; Sirius seemed to find it funny though, laughing beside me.
'Bad luck, Prongs...OI!' before I even had chance to turn and see what was happening Snape had reclaimed his wand and had fired a spell at me creating a huge gash across my face staining my robes with blood. Within a second I'd fired my own spell leaving him hanging upside down in mid-air with his robes falling down over his head. I couldn't help but laugh, the sight of his pale legs hanging above his head and his arms flailing like a rag doll beneath his robes was too much.
'Let him down!' Lily commanded.
'Certainly' he fell back to the ground in a heap jumping to his feet as he grabbed his wand.
'Pertificus Totalus!' Sirius shouted sending him back down to the floor as rigid as a board.
'LEAVE HIM ALONE!' Lily's face was growing as red as her hair as fury engulfed her.
'Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you'. I replied earnestly; honestly I never would but still...
'Take the curse off him then!' I knew I'd gone too far, with a flick of my wrist I muttered the counter-curse.
'There you go...You're lucky Evan's was here Snivellus-' And thats when he did it, when he said the most unforgivable thing possible, the thing that made me want to physically pummel him:
'I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!'
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And that's when I said it...the singular worst thing I've ever done:
'I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!' The words were barely out of my mouth before I realised what I'd done, in my anger and humiliation I'd lashed out at the one purely undeserving person ever to touch my life. I wanted to beg, plead, do anything to make her see my remorse, but I'd never seen such hurt in her eyes, those beautiful almond shaped emerald eyes, even when her sister had called her a freak I'd never seen such hurt. The pain in her eyes disappeared as quickly as it had appeared, behind a cold hard mask I knew she'd learnt from me, but the ghost of her pain still lingered.
'Fine...I won't bother in future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus.' I went to speak...
'Apologise to Evans!' Potter roared as he pointed his wand to my chest, I glared at him; how dare he, how dare he tell me how I should behave to MY best friend, granted yes I shouldn't have said what I did but he treats her like some sort of prize to be won and I need to apologise? I turned back to face her as much sorrow and repent in my eyes as I saw pain in hers but before I could she spoke again, her soft beautiful voice full of anger and hate.
'I don't want you to make him apologise. You're as bad as he is.' In that moment I knew...how could I have been such a fool? If I was being compared to the likes of him who jumped through hoops and still couldn't gain her attention then I'd lost her...no, she's my friend, she's angry...she can't hate me...I hope.
'What? I'd NEVER call you a –you-know-what!' he cried.
'Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've 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.' She spun on her heel, her beautiful crimson hair swaying briskly as she walked clearly trying to get as fall away as physically possible. I saw her 'friends' rush off after her...friends? They're not friends like me and her are friends! They don't know about her sister, they wouldn't risk their lives to save her...that's real friendship...that's what I'd do.
'Evans!' Potter shouted after her. 'Hey, EVANS!' I glared at him, her name isn't Evans you imbecile, not that he'd know any different, having never been close enough to call her Lily, having never been so close you can feel her soft breath on your lips...she didn't look back.
'What is it with her?' Potter asked that idiot of a friend of his as my eyes found the floor.
'Reading between the lines, I'd day she thinks you're a bit conceited, mate.'
'Right...right' He spun on his heel to face me now.
'Who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?' he asked the general audience that had arisen from my humiliation as he sent me flying upside-down again...at that point I didn't care any more...the one thing I had ever wanted was lost.