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The next morning was as chaotic as any first day back to school. Alice came running into the room at seven thirty and said, "You guys better wake up. You only have thirty minutes to be in class!" "What! We set our alarm for six thirty. How's that possible?" Buzz! Buzz! The alarm clock went off."Okay we're up. You can go now, Alice. Thank you," Charlie said.
The girls quickly got ready and then went down to the Great Hall for breakfast and their schedules. The Marauders came running in super fast a few minutes after them. "Why were you guys so late?" Lizzie asked them, "Shouldn't you get here before the girls of your year?" "Well we were getting our prank ready," Peter said. The rest of the Marauders hit themselves in the head; they knew what was coming. "You what?!" Lily hissed at them. She had no patience for pranks. "Well Lily, it's just on the slimy Slytherins-," Sirius started. "I don't care who you did it on! Just stop it now!" Lily yelled as she stood up in anger. Most of the Hall stared at her. With her face red, she sat back down on the bench. "Sorry Evans but it's due to start in three, two, one..."
The Slytherins were suddenly covered in a greenish slime. The whole hall started laughing except for Lily. "You are the dumbest, arrogant, over your head guys I have ever known!" Lily shouted over the laughing to the Marauders. "Oh well. We love being arrogant, dumb, and over our heads," Sirius said. "Yeah what else would we be?" Peter asked. "Urgh," Lily said before leaving the Great Hall.
Charlie, Lizzie, and Alice followed her. "Come on Lils," Lizzie started to say, "You have to admit it was pretty funny." "It might have been, but the Marauders do it at least once a week so it's just plain stupid." "Well the Marauders have always been a bit crazy but they're just trying to prank the Slytherins with slime," Alice said. "They still don't have a right to," Lily said.
Classes that day went well. Lily got the top score on her Charms test, Alice finally beat Frank Longbottom at potions, Lizzie did really well at Transfiguration, and Charlie just did well all together. When the four got to the common room James Potter stood up. "Just to let the guys know, Quidditch Tryouts are Saturday at ten a.m. Girls are aloud to watch only," he said. Lily sighed and then asked loudly, "Why can't we tryout Potter? Are you scared that we're better than the guys?" A lot of the girls said yeah and why can't we. James looked bewildered. "Um…I guess you can tryout if you want too." Lily smiled in victory.
Saturday came fast. Lily was up quite early very excited to finally be able to tryout. She was down at the pitch at exactly ten o'clock. When she got down to the pitch it was just her and few other guys. James Potter came down a little bit later. He started with, "All right guys and lady," He nodded his head at Lily, the rest of the guys there laughed, "I hope all of you do great, but sadly only six of you can join me on the team. So first let's have Chasers go firsts"
Lily jumped up and got up on her broom. James had them first fly around the field to warm up. Then he had pairs of them pass the quaffle through the hoop past him, even though he wasn't going to be playing Keeper. He had each try to get past him five times. Lily's quaffle passed James each time. After the Chasers tried out, the Keeper, Beaters, and finally Seekers tried out. At the end of the try outs it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. James told the whole team at the end. "The Beaters are Sirius Black and David Johnson, Keeper is Johny Brown, Seeker is Kevin Klep, and Chasers are me, Henry Jones, and," Lily held her breath in hoping it would be her, "Lily Evans. If the team could meet me in the locker rooms for a minute I'd really appreciate it."
Lily practically ran to locker rooms. She had already sat down when the rest of the team had come in. James said, "Well, all of you are on the team because you were the best that Gryffindor has. But, that doesn't mean we are the best the school has. So, we will have Quidditch practice every Tuesday and Thursday evenings at seven to nine o'clock." The rest of the team groaned including Sirius at this. Lily didn't. She was just happy to be on the team. "So I will see you all tomorrow at seven o'clock sharp. Also, Evans may I have a word." "Sure," Lily said.
After the rest of the team left James started once again, "Evans, I just wanted to tell you congratulations. I don't know anyone who can throw a quaffle as well as you did today. And I'm sorry about the prank earlier today.."
"It's fine," Lily said, "And thanks for saying sorry. I'll see you tomorrow okay, Potter. I have to tell my friends I made it." And with this Lily ran off. Lizzie, Charlie and Alice found that Lily had made the team amazing.
Over the next few weeks the Quidditch team worked extreamly hard for the first game they had, Gryffindor verses Slytherin. As the practices went on, Lily became closer to her team mates and really started to have fun at school. Before it had been all about grades but now it was also about Quidditch. The guys on the team had forgotten all about the "no girls allowed" policy on Quidditch and were really enjoying the whole team.
The day of the Quidditch game came quite quickly in Lily's mind. It was due to be an afternoon game so there were classes the whole first part of the day. Lily was in Transfiguration when Professor Dumbledore came into the room with a grave look on his face. She knew it meant one of two things. She was hoping it wasn't the first. He talked to Professor McGonagall for a few moments before turning to the class and said, "Miss Evans, may I talk to you for a moment outside?" Lily answered by nodding her head slowly.
Lily stood up and followed Professor Dumbledore into the hall. The look was still on his face. "Lily, I am so sorry to say, but your parents have passed away due to Death Eater attacks.," Dumbledore said. Lily just stood there; she didn't know what to do. "What about my sister?" Lily asked softly. "She's fine but very mad at the Wizarding world, I believe she called us all freaks. Now, Miss Evans if you'd like to get out of the Quidditch game this afternoon-" "No. I still will play in the game. In fact, I'll back to class, I…I think it would be best." "Alright Miss Evans," Dumbledore said before walking off.
Lily went back into class. Everyone was looking back at her, but she ignored all of them and sat in chair the rest of class, not answering a single one of Professor McGonagall's questions. After Transfiguration, it was lunch time. Charlie, Lizzie, and Alice sat down next to Lily. "Lily, what happened when Dumbledore took you out?" Charlie asked. "Nothing. I don't want to talk about it," was all Lily said. The rest of lunch she just sat there playing with her food.
As soon as lunch was over it was time for the Quidditch game. Lily walked down to the pitch alone and went into the changing room without saying a word to anybody. As she was the first one there, she thought about never going home again and then she began to cry. She cried like she had never cried before. She cried for her parents and her sister, who would never forgive her for being a freak. Her back had been to the door, and all of the sudden a hand touched her shoulder. She jumped backwards and stood up. She couldn't believe who was in front of her. James Potter. "Oh… I'm sorry Potter…I'm sorry." Lily was trying to get out of the way and leave the room, but James wouldn't let her. "Evans, does this have something to do with Transfiguration today?" "No. It's just I'm stressed right now, that's all," Lily said. The look James gave her told her he didn't believe her. "Alright," he said. The rest of the team began to come in afterwards. Lily just got ready for the game once again not saying anything.
James gave his speech on how they would win, and the team went out onto the field. The game started but Lily didn't even seem to notice. She caught the quaffle a few times but she didn't score a single point. She was just flying around in circles, just the Seeker was, thinking. All of the sudden a Bludger came out of no where and hit Lily in the back. Lily fell off her broom and smacked hard onto the ground. All she heard were the screams of "Lily!" from her friends and teammates before everything went black.
Okay. Sorry it took so long to update. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter. It was hard to write. If anyone, has ideas on how to make my story better or anythong like that please review. Thanks for my first reviewer allie kat5!
