Why Do You Hate Me?
A Lily/James fic.
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling is as rich as the Queen of England. I'm broke. Big difference.
Year 1 at Hogwarts
On the Train:
"This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!" She nodded, mopping her eyes, but in spite of herself, she half smiled.
"You'd better be in Slytherin," said Snape, encouraged that she had brightened a little.
"Slytherin?"
One of the boys sharing the compartment, who had shown no interest at all in Lily or Snape until that point, looked around at the word. It was James Potter, slight, black-haired like Snape, but with that indefinable air of having been well-cared-for, even adored, that Snape so conspicuously lacked.
"Who want to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?"James asked the boy lounging on the seats opposite him…
"Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"
James lifted an invisible sword.
"'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at hear!' Like my dad."
Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him.
"Got a problem with that?"
"No," said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. "If you'd rather be brawny than brainy—"
"Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?"
James roared with laughter. Lily sat up, rather flushed, and looked from James to Sirius in dislike.
"Come on, Severus, let's find another compartment."
"Oooooooo…"
James and Sirius imitated her lofty voice: James tried to trip Snape as he passed.
Later…
"Gryffindor!"
Lily took off the hat, handed it back to Professor McGonagall, then hurried toward the cheering Gryffindors…
Sirius moved up the bench at the Gryffindor table to make room for her. She took one look at him, seemed to recognize him from the train, folded her arms, and firmly turned her back on him.
Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter joined Lily and Sirius at the Gryffindor table…
"Hey Sirius!" James stage-whispered. "Who's the cute girl sitting next to you?"
"Don't you remember?" Sirius stage-whispered back, " It's the prissy red-head sitting with old Snivelly on the train."
" WHAT! Well, this is my chance to show her that I, James Potter, would be a much better friend than Snivellus."
James had his chance as everyone started exciting the hall for bed. "… Hey!" James looked appalled as Lily started walking away the moment he started trying to talk to her.
" Hey, wait up!" James started running to keep up with her. He grabbed her shoulder and said, " Hey, I just wanted to know…"
SMASH! CRACK! "OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" James yowled, effectively catching the attention of everyone that was left in the Great Hall. Lily had punched him. Professor McGonagall looked horrified that two first years would dare to fight before they had even started the term. Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster, looked rather amused.
"Ouch! Whab wub dat bor?!*" James mumbled through a broken nose. " Whab did I doob? Whyb doob yob bate be do mub?"
"What did you do? Oh, only drive me and Severus out of your ruddy carriage, attempt to push him out of the boat, and be insufferable nuisance. Why do I hate you? Because you're an ARROGANT TOERAG!" Lily shouted, her eyes glinting dangerously. Then, she ran away to catch up with the line of Gryffindor first-years that had left already.
"Bad luck, mate." Sirius said, rather kinder than usual.
"Whab did I doob again?" James groaned.
Severus Snape, looking on from the Slytherin table, watched, extremely amused. Lily was safe from idiots like Potter. With that punch, she would get along just fine, even with out him.
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