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It's Not a Game Chapter 2

Sadly the silence in the compartment was short lived. Not five minutes after Lily had sat down the door burst open revealing the groups rival, Daniel Dursley.

Daniel wasn't just a classmate and rival to Lily and the boys, he was also their cousin. Daniel was the only child to Harry's cousin Dudley. During a freak attack on Privet Drive back during the war, Dudley had run into Pansy Parkinson while she was there to capture Harry. To say it was love at first sight was an understatement. They later married and had Daniel who was a fifth year Slytherin at Hogwarts.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't my little cousins and their friends" said Daniel with an air of arrogance "ready for another year of pay back?"

"Ha!" laughed Sirius "That's a joke and a half,"

"Ya Daniel, everytime you even try to get us, it backfires in your face," Lily smirked.

"Oh ya? Well this years going to be different," said Daniel rising up to his full height, which was not overly tall, but he was quite large for his age. He had taken after his father and grandfather when it came to his body size.

"Is it now?" said Sirius standing up to look Daniel right in the eye.

"Ya, this year you guys won't know what hit you," said Daniel confidently "I'll finally put you in your place, like it should of happened ages ago,"

"Why am I having a hard time believing you?" said Lily as she rolled her eyes. Daniel was always trying to intimidate them, but it never worked.

"Ok look here Daniel how about we make a deal" Draco stood up and started bargaining with Daniel "You leave us alone for the rest of the train ride and we don't pull a prank on you for one month, how does that sound?"

"Wait a minute Draco, that's not fair!" Sirius was not happy with that idea.

"I don't think so, I want to finish this right here, right now" Daniel suddenly started pounding his fist.

"He'll never learn will he?" James took this moment to finally look up from his book to see what was really going on. He was never one to get involved in petty fights especially with Daniel.

"No James he won't, but that's fine by me" Lily then pulled out her wand "With one simple curse this can all be over,"

"Oh of course, daddy's little princess wants to show off" mocked Daniel in a baby voice "I must prove I can use my wand so that daddy will stop hiding from the press long enough to look at me,"

"What did you say!?" roared Lily has she went to take a dive at Daniel. Anyone making comments about their father had always been a soar spot with Lily and the boys. As for when Lily went to take her dive Sirius wasn't far behind her. Even James had thrown his book down. That left poor Draco to hold two of the three Potter's back before they got themselves into serious trouble.

"Alright that's enough!" yelled Susie as she jumped to her feet.

"Oh, Miss Malfoy, can I call you Susie? I didn't know you were in here," Daniel had always been infatuated with Susie, a fact that made her sick to her stomach.

"Yes I'm here and no you can't call me Susie. I've been here the whole time," Susie continued to glare at Daniel "I think it's time for you to go,"

"But Miss Malfoy…"

"NOW!"

Daniel quickly scurried down the hallway back to his compartment before he could anger Susie anymore. Everyone at Hogwarts knew not to mess with an angry Susie. She had the last name of a Malfoy, and had the Weasely temper which made it scary to see her mad.

"Way to go Susie!" Lily rushed over to hug her best girl friend.

"Stupid git, hitting on my sister," grumbled Draco. He was very protected of his baby sister just like how James and Sirius were protective of Lily.

"Thank you, thank you," Susie jokingly bowed signaling an end to her great performance.

Quiet had once again settled throughout the compartment. James returned to his book, Sirius and Draco started playing a game of Exploding Snap. Susie doodled on some parchment while Lily was content to stare out the window before picking up her own book.


The rest of the trip to Hogwarts was uneventful. The witch with the trolley stopped by and everyone stopped what they were doing for a snack. They then took turns changing into their robes for when they would arrive at Hogwarts but afterwards the silence returned and stayed until the end of the trip.

Once the teens had arrived at Hogsmeade Station they quickly said hello to Hagrid, who was collecting up the first years, and then headed off to the carriages that would take them up to the school itself.

Once inside the school, the teens headed straight for the Great Hall where the sorting and then the start of term feast would commence. The sorting went by rather quickly, to the relief of Sirius, and soon they were all tucking into the feast. Conversation was rather simple during dinner, mostly people were discussing what they had done over the summer. Sirius thought he would liven things up a bit and snuck a few Canary Creams into the food trays down by the first years. After three students had successfully turned into canaries for a few minutes, Professor Sprout came over to see what the fuss was about and Lily was forced to confiscate the treats. She did promise to give them back to Sirius after the feast was over because she enjoyed a good prank as much as the next person.

Soon the feast was over, Lily and James took off because they had to lead the new first years up to Gryffindor Tower but not before passing on the new password to their friends.

"Sus, the password is 'Gillyweed' this year, be sure to pass it on to the boys ok?" Lily bent down and whispered to Susie.

"Will do Lil, see ya when we get upstairs,"


Once James and Lily had finished showing the first years where their dorms would be, they went down to the common room where they met up with Draco, Sirius and Susie. Draco had challenged Sirius to a game of Wizards chess and despite the fact that Draco had been taught to play by his Uncle Ron and Sirius barely understood the game, he never backed away from a challenge.

"Check,"

"What? There is no way that you've got check again Draco, that's the fifth time in the last six turns,"

"Well I'm sorry but my queen is in check to your king,"

"Fine I'll just move this pawn here," Sirius' face spread into a huge smile thinking he had outsmarted Draco.

"Ok then," Draco moved his queen and took out Sirius' pawn "Checkmate,"

"What? That's not fair," Sirius crossed his arms over his chest and began to pout.

"All's fair in love and war," said Lily as she entered the common room from the girls dormitories. "And besides, we all know that Draco rocks at chess, even I don't stand a chance at beating him half of the time,"

"Very true Lily, I think the only person who can beat Draco is Uncle Ron himself. Although I will admit that it was fun watching Sirius get his ass kicked by Draco," Susie said with a smile.

"Thanks for the support Sus," Sirius mumbled bitterly.

"Aww you know I love you Sirius" Susie then reached over and gave Sirius a hug making everyone else laugh.

"Ya, ya," Sirius pulled out of Susie's grasp and straightened out his robes "I'd hate to see what you would do if you didn't love me,"

"You probably wouldn't be here right now," smirked Lily

"Now I'm really starting to feel the love," Sirius let out a yawn at this point "Well I don't know about you guys but I'm heading off to bed, it's been a long day,"

"It definitely has been and we've got class tomorrow," James started walking towards the stairs that would take him to the boys dormitories.

"I think we should all call it a night," Draco also got up and followed James with Sirius right behind him.

"You boys go ahead Lily and I are going to stay up and talk for a bit," Susie just smiled and gave the boys a wave as they climbed the stairs.

"Alright but not too late you too," Draco called over the banister.

"Don't worry Draco, unlike you boys we don't need as much beauty sleep because we're already beautiful," Both Susie and Lily starting laughing at that comment. It was just like Lily to say something like that.

Draco just shook his head and continued upstairs, he learned a long time ago to just smile and nod when Lily made comments like that.

"So Sus, what did you want to talk about?' Lily asked once the door to the boys dormitories was closed. They were the only ones left in the common room, everyone else had long headed up to bed since it was after midnight now.

"Well, I saw the article about you and the boys in the Daily Prophet this morning and wondered what your thoughts on it were?"

Ever since they were young, whenever there was an article about Lily and the boys or even about her family she would discuss her opinions and such with Susie. She was the one person that she felt she could confide in and that would understand where she was coming from.

"Oh that," Lily suddenly became interested in looking out a nearby window.

"Ya, that. What's the matter Lil? Usually you jump at the chance to talk about these stupid articles,"

"I know that Sus, but this one seems different,"

"Different how? They've talked about your upcoming love lives before and it's never upset you this much,"

"That's because they were upcoming at the time," Lily finally turned and was now looking at Susie. "They're right you know, we're fifteen now, romances will occur,"

"But that's what's exciting about growing up, experiencing new things,"

"Not when you have it posted for the world to see!" Lily was in full rant mode by this point and had started pacing in front of Susie. "I know that in two years I'm going to be of age, but not yet. I'm only fifteen and already the papers have my life planned out for me. It's not just me either, James and Sirius as well. Hell both James and Sirius have a fan club of girls who follow them around and would do anything for them,"

"Look who's talking, they aren't the only ones with admirers," Susie gave a knowing smile. Being asked to pass many notes to Lily without the notice of her overprotective brothers.

"I know that, but seriously any boy or girl for that matter who has nothing better to do than follow someone around like a little lost puppy has some major issues and is not worth my time." Lily suddenly plopped back down onto her chair. "I told my dad that I wasn't even interested in boys,"

"Well are you?"

"Well yes…no…I don't know. I've got more important things to be worried about and yet I find myself being attracted to boys. Is that a bad thing?"

"No, it just means your human, something the papers need to realize. Look Lil, the reporters may have your life planned out for you but that doesn't mean you have to follow their plan. You are your own person, you are not James, you are not Sirius, you are Lily. Lily Elizabeth Potter and you have to live your life your way and to hell with anyone else,"

"Your right Sus, it's my life to do what I want with it,"

"Exactly. Which brings me to my next question. The paper's have named a boy who they think you'll end up with and I want to know how you feel about said boy,"

"Oh really? Who is it?"

"Draco Malfoy, my brother,"

"What?" Lily's face immediately turned a bright red.

"You heard me, and I was just wondering if there was any truth to it. I mean he is my brother after all,"

"To be honest Sus, I didn't even know they had named anybody. Well Draco's a really nice guy and very nice to look at but at this time I've only got platonic feelings for him. But I reserve the right to change that opinion at a later date. Because one never knows what the future may hold,"

"Well Professor Trelawney may beg to differ on that one," Both girls had a laugh over that one. "But I see where you're coming from. I just wanted to ask because he is my brother and I worry about him, you know what I mean?"

"Oh course I do, I would be doing the same thing if we were discussing one of my brothers,"

"Good, now I don't know about you but it's after one and I need some sleep before classes tomorrow,"

"It's after one already? Wow, ya we should both get to bed. See ya at breakfast tomorrow Sus,"

"Night Lil,"

Both girls entered their rooms and settled down in bed, before drifting off to sleep they both wondered what will this year bring?