Lily stared at the back of James' head all throughout Transfiguration. He was the best in their year in this class, and was certainly outdoing her. Normally, that would've set her off, but ever since something strange had happened at the beginning of this year (their sixth year) he had matured. Oddly enough, he had ditched Sirius as a friend for awhile during the beginning of the year even though they were friends again now. She often wondered what had caused it, as ever since none of the "Marauders" had done anything serious to Sev- Snape. Maybe Potter was changing… He had seemed to have given up on her. Lily felt a pang in her chest and realized that it was because she wanted James to try and ask her out again…