A/N: Dear Readers: This is my very first fanfiction, so I would really like it if you could review when you read it. And please, no flames but constructive criticism is welcomed. Updates will be every two weeks, and a week before I update, a teaser picture will be uploaded to deviantART (link on profile). We (my elder sister and I) also have a twitter account (FebruaryBabes02), and tweets will be posted the second the chapter/pictures are posted. (Link also on profile). Me and my... conniving elder sister have a competition going - whoever gets the most reviews on their story wins. Hers is a Percy Jackson story, which fanbase is nicer? Help me win, please! I'll give internet chocolate! Anyway, enough rambling from me, please enjoy and don't forget to review

Genevieve

B/N: Elder sister here, yes it is my baby sisters first fanfic, all others are mine... mwa ha ha! So share the love and review ;D

(If you like PJO, check out my story, it'll be taken off hiatus soon, and help ME win the competition)

Jadey

Lily Evans had said many times, that if you opened up the dictionary and searched for 'Toerag' you would find:

Noun: Toerag

(pl. Toerags)pronounced t – oh – rag

Usage: British

A contemptible person

Synonyms:

James Potter, arrogant, egotistical, pig-headed, fat headed, bullying, despicable, prick.

Once for her birthday her friend Marlene had even bought a dictionary that said these exact things. It had been Lily's favourite present for that year, she had been on the verge of duplicating that page and framing it.

Why, you ask, did Lily Evans think so little of James Potter? Many people had asked that question of Lily, before resolving never to ask anything like that again. Lily had a mental list of the many shortcomings of James Potter.

So, when asked that question, Lily huffed, put her hands on her hips, and started to speak in a disdainful tone.

"Well, for one, he hexes any Slytherin's he can see, he never does any work, he disrupts classes, he plays pranks regularly he asks me out every minute of the day... arrogant...full of himself..."

Yes, James fancies Lily Evans. It was just another part of their strange relationship, as Lily had hated James Potter ever since she first saw him.

In their first year, James and his friends the Marauders, pranked, teased, jinxed and generally harassed Lily and her childhood best friend countless times. Probably the most memorable prank was when he turned her skin bright red, her hair green, her eyes purple and her fingernails and toenails yellow. The effects didn't wear off for a week.

In their second year, the Marauders somehow got hold of the contents of Lily's trunk and attached them to the school roof, showing quite remarkable knowledge of magic for a second year.

In their third year, he quite unexpectedly asked her out, before pestering her for the entirety of their school year.

It was much the same with their fourth year.

In their fifth year Lily and Remus both got to be Prefect. Both Lily and the Marauders delighted over that fact, Lily, that she could finally give detentions to the Marauders, and the marauders were happy that they could use Remus being a prefect to their advantage in playing pranks. And there were worse things that he did in their fifth year, causing Lily to lose her best friend since childhood.

In their sixth year, something happened to mature James permanently.

Yes, Lily's hatred of James was universally known, as was his love.

So Lily had to wonder why she was staring at the shiny badge with the letters H.B on his puffed out chest.

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