The Little Things
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First Classes
First Year
The next day, classes began.
Lily was top of the class in Charms, then did well in Herbology and Potions (where she quickly impressed Slughorn), actually stayed awake and took notes in History of Magic, performed excellently in Defense Against the Dark Arts, and fared so well overall (especially for a Muggle-born) that both the students and the teachers were sure she'd do well in Astronomy later that week and Transfiguration later that day.
Severus did well in Potions.
James and Sirius did well goofing off, thus having all the points Slughorn had awarded Lily (plus twenty more) taken away within two and a half hours.
Then the first years arrived at the Transfiguration classroom.
They listened to a lecture.
James got in trouble.
They took notes.
Sirius got in trouble.
The class was given directions for what to do as well as a demonstration.
James and Sirius got in trouble.
Then each of the first years attempted to turn their match into a needle.
After half an hour, about a third of the class, including Sirius and Severus, had turned their matches silver.
A boy named Peter Pettigrew somehow lit his match.
James had perfected the art of turning a match into a needle and back again, so he spent the rest of the period showing off, messing around with the needle, then the match, then the needle again, making witty remarks, commenting negatively on others' work, and stealing glances at Lily.
She was upset.
Her face was red with embarrassment and concentration, and her appearance was distraught. So far, this was the one subject she had not done extremely well in. To add insult to injury, James Potter (whom she had disliked since he and Sirius had insulted Severus on the train) had not only accomplished the task at hand, he had mastered it in half an hour, something she was not able to do in any of the earlier classes. Lily wondered if he had noticed her obvious frustration.
He had.
Of course, he didn't let anyone know that he had, and he definitely didn't let anyone know that he did feel a bit sorry for the red-head, although she had beat him in every class other than that one, and he would have liked to gloat.
But he didn't.
Because James, no matter how much he would have liked to brag, did feel sorry for Lily.
James didn't like that feeling.
But there wasn't really anything James could do, seeing as Lily wouldn't even talk to him, so he amused himself for the rest of the period by poking Sirius with his needle.
But, still, there was that annoying feeling nagging at him. And what made it infinitely more annoying is that he couldn't make that feeling go away, and that he didn't even know why he felt so sorry for this girl. After all, he barely even knew her, and she already disliked him, so why would he feel sorry?
Near the end of the period, the professor was going around, checking how people did with their task for the day. James' awful feeling came back, stronger than ever.
Before she got to James and Sirius, James Transfigured Sirius' match for him ("Why didn't you do that earlier?" "You want me to change it back?" "...No. Thank you, James.").
The professor awarded both James and Sirius full points, which they were very happy about.
As soon as the professor left, James told Sirius to throw his new needle at Severus, and Sirius readily agreed.
Sirius took aim and threw the needle.
A yell of pain and fury told the boys that, to their great delight, the needle had hit its mark.
Unfortunately, Sirius had thrown as the professor was grading Severus, so she saw the needle hit him.
The professor looked around for whoever had thrown the needle, thinking that whoever didn't have their own needle must have thrown it.
However, James was ready for this, and had picked up Peter Pettigrew's burnt-out match lying discarded on the floor, Transfigured it, and handed it to Sirius.
The professor, going off on a hunch, told Sirius off and docked points anyway.
Meanwhile, Lily had been worrying herself sick about her match, as it was still a match.
'At least it didn't burn up, like Peter's,' she thought. 'I might not get that bad of a grade. It even looks a little silver near the ends, and a bit pointy. It sort of resembles a needle. Plus, it's just the first day, I'll get better at this. I can recuperate!'
But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't cheer herself up. She knew she would fail the first day of Transfiguration.
Lily looked around nervously for the professor, to see how much longer she had till she was graded. She was shocked and saddened to see the professor standing mere feet away from her, grading Severus.
She glanced back down at her match.
To her great surprise (and much greater delight), her match was gone.
In its place was a shiny, silver needle.
Lily was awarded full points.
James put away his wand, happy that he'd gotten rid of that awful feeling for Lily he had felt for the whole period.
So, what did you all think?
Please remember to review, I apologize for the lateness of the hour, I meant to update earlier this afternoon, sorry.
Also, there's a couple things I wanted to say.
First, do NOT plan on regular updates. Sorry, I don't know about my schedule right now.
Second, Severus Snape is probably not going to be in the story all that much, he is a very minor character, this is more about James and Lily and a bit of the Marauders. I have mixed feelings for Snape, thinking of him as an adult, he is super-cool and really hardcore, one of my favorite characters. But as a teen, he appears as a threat to my favorite pairing, with his obsessive love for Lily, so I just prefer not to write too much about him.
Third, I would like to know if you guys want dialogue. I thought I'd try without dialogue to begin with, because it's really fun this way, and much easier to get to the point, but if you want more dialogue, tell me and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for reading my story, and please review!
