"Lily, bloody hell, chill! James is still an arrogant twot but you're head girl so something's telling me you have slight priorities over him!"
Zoe doesn't understand! Yes, I'm head girl (which, by the way, they all bought me a sweet of trolley when they found out. Which, yes, means putting on one hundred pounds but also means endless supplies of chocolate frogs and drew balls) but that still doesn't make Potter a nicer person than he was before!
Holy Merlin if only they could understand how annoyed I bloody am.
Why couldn't he wait until we were at school though?
I could've had an hour or so all to myself and my friends thinking about how great this year would be,
I hadn't even thought of him!
He could of just waited until we were in class, made a cough to announce himsel-
"LILY!"
Just got nicely spat on by Jes, Rose and Zo as they clearly have something so very important to say.
"Please say it next time, not spray it"
I do pride myself on my sarcasm sometimes.
"Lil not being funny and I know I'm not head girl and you probably know better…"
Sometimes, my dearest wish would be for Rose to just get to the point of the story quicker. She is the worst gossip teller known to witch kind. It took her about an hour to finally spit out that James had done something described as 'cheeky' with bloody Emma Brown again, to which we already knew. But, I do love her so she can be forgiven.
"Aren't you meant to have a meeting in the first carriage about prefects and all?"
Ah, thank goodness for Zoe.
Can always rely on her to get straight to the poi-
WAIT WHAT
"HOLY CRAP YES! What time is it! Dear god please says it's before half past! Holy shit what's the bloody time!"
"11:28 Lil! GO GO GO!"
I can definitely say I burnt off those chocolate frogs at the pace I was running.
I pegged it like there was no tomorrow because I had to arrive at the carriage at half past else I would get the shittest reputation for head girl, and better start of on a good one as nobody knows who I am at the moment.
But for the record, I didn't get there at half past.
Because of him.
He's like a freaking, bloody disease that's just everywhere you go.
"Whoa why so fast Evans? Somewhere to be?"
Yes dear Potter, don't you worry your little head off about how I'm red from running so fast all the way from the back end of the train that I think I am about to faint, and the fact I'm clutching my nose as you seemed to have filled out over the holidays as your back is bloody rock solid so much that I think my nose has broken from running into it.
Don't mind me at all.
"Potter seriously I don't have time for your comments at the moment. I am a responsible young women who needs to be somewhere very important"
"How were your holidays?"
Sorry what? What the merlin is he on about?
"Fab! Spiffing! The best yet! Now move, I need to go"
In fact,
Come on Lil! Use your girl power and barge right past the twit and that will tell him who's boss!
Don't take no for an answer, don't feel guilty, just barge straight past, like the young sophisticated head girl of Hogwarts you are!
"Glad you had a fab holiday but no need for sarcasm Evans"
Go Lily, bloody hell come on! Times ticking away just barge past him!
To say barge is an understatement for what I actually did.
Why do I give myself motivational speeches when I have no intention of doing what I say?
What I actually did was smile and squeeze past him.
I SMILED AT HIM.
Why the hell did I do that?
It's a just the nerves, that's why I smiled at James Potter. For in two minutes I will be meeting the head boy who I will be spending my whole year of headship with.
This is a pretty damn big moment yes?
"Hey look its Lily Evans!"
"You're the new head girl? Get in!"
"I knew it would be you Lily! Your deserve it!"
Is being a tomato a new look this year then Lil?
"Wow guys, that's so sweet of you! Thankyou!"
I never expected that welcoming!
"Hey Lily"
"Remus hey! How are you? How was summer?"
Remus has always been one of the marauders who I genuinely liked and valued his opinion. Yes I knew his secret, but he is a really nice bloke, and was a good help to me when we were prefects last year…
"I'm fine thanks Lily, how about yourself?"
Hang on!
"Remus your head boy aren't you! Thank goodness it's somebody like you who I know-"
"Erm Lily? I'm-"
"You know Remus; I was really, really starting to worry-"
"Lily I'm not head boy! I'm still a prefect! And I don't know where, or who, head boy is, and if you want my advice, its 11:45, so I suggest you start the meeting."
"Oh right, sorry Remus. And yea ok."
Well that couldn't have been anymore awkward, and what the hell do I say in this meeting?!
"Hullo everyone, I'm Lily Evans and in case you don't know already, I'm head girl this year. Nice to mee-"
"Your saying it as if we're surprised…"
Why thank you Bronte Taylor for that comment.
And also thankyou to you, Sophie Baggott for that snigger which you couldn't have made more obvious.
But we mustn't let Slytherin and Gryffindor competitiveness get in the way of our cooperativeness for working together to be a great head ship team, should we now?
And yes that death stare was intended for you both.
"Well, anyway, I have no idea who head boy is so you'll be as surprised as me when he comes, well I take it he's late, but I'm sure we can find the room to forgive as we all know how far away the seventh year carriages are."
"Thank you Lily, that's very kind of you, well I'm glad to say then that after what Evans' just said it looks like we're going to get on just fine as a headship team and make a fantastic Head Boy and Head Girl, and this year will be a great year for Hogwarts"
No.
No please anybody but him.
I knew I should have thought something weird of it when he didn't turn around and walk the other way after our meeting in the carriage.
"Wow Lil, what happened back at the meeting you look flustered"
"And troubled"
"And like you've seen a ghost"
Anything else you wish to add? Best friends?
"I'll tell you what's made me seem flustered, troubled and like I've seen something haunted! It's because I have! Guess who's head boy! GUESS!"
Why are they are staring at each other…
If this is bloody what I think it is.
"Jessica Shacklebolt. If the next words that come out of your mouth are something like 'James knew I Potter boy head was' then I have no responsibility of what spell I next do."
"Lil! Rose and Zo knew too! We just didn't say anything because, yanno, it would be better if you found out yourself!"
"Whoever would have told me, now or on the platform, it makes no difference to the fact James Potter is still head boy!"
"Lil!"
I forgave them saying that I knew they were doing it for my own good.
Yanno. If I wasn't me, and I was somebody else, I would really want me as a best friend.
I still however let all my emotions out on eating all the chocolate frogs they bought me.
I shouldn't have eaten all those chocolate frogs because now the ride in the carriages to Hogwarts seems shittier and bumpier than it normally does.
Oh hello Mildred Finney! Of course it's fine to stop in the middle of the path just to wave at Potter and Sirius!
Why do people like them anyway?
No I mean, Potter, why do people like Potter.
Ever since third year he's been practically bullying me.
But he's already ruined my day so I am not going to make it worse by letting him bother me. What a fun letter this will be to tell Mum who head boy is!
Soon enough we arrived at Hogwarts, going up the massive stairs which I swear get bigger every year to the entrance and into the Great Hall.
I don't appreciate this place enough.
It's so beautiful. With the ancient fire places which have a warming amber glow making the Great Hall seem like Nana's living room back home. The buzz you feel when you walk into the Hall is like the one you get on Christmas morning. You know the feeling of 'I know what happens on Christmas, but every Christmas it feels like a brand new experience'.
Hogwarts is my most favourite place in the whole world.
And there's Dumby, still looking like Santa with the gentlest face ever and the happiest smile in all of Hogsmeade.
This place makes me smile by just seeing it.
Like your favourite memory when all you have to do is think about it and you're laughing again.
Even Potter couldn't ruin the feeling and buzz I get from this place, not even Voldemort and all the shit that's going down with him.
I really hope that Dumbledore keeps Me and Potter (regrettably Potter) as Head Boy and Girl on a down low, really I don't want to be seen with him. But I guess that's bloody inevitable.
Because you know, he's head boy and all.
I've just returned from the last sorting hat ceremony ever in my life.
I just can't cope, that's too much of a big step, I feel like I'm already leaving this place behind and I've just bloody got here.
The new password this year for the Gryffindor tower is Animus.
I know!
Who the merlin comes up with these bloody passwords?! What does that even mean?!
Anyway I've decided to come straight into the dorm tonight as I have done my head girl duties of showing first years around, I have eaten my heart out on pasta and I am too emotional from crying about the fact that THAT WAS THE LAST SORTING CEREMONY I WILL EVER ATTEND.
"Lily?"
"Hey Chloe! How was your holiday?"
Chloe Tapping is the other girl I share my dorm with along with her best friend Hope Fletchly.
And of course us four.
She seems rather sweet but I've never got the chance to speak to her properly.
"Fine thankyou, how was yours? Hey, congratulations on head girl!"
I feel like the bloody queen today, with the amount of people who have said congratulations to me.
"My holiday was really good actually, I went to Spain. Aw thankyou! Can't say the same about Head Boy though…"
"Actually Lily, that's what I was going to say. James asked if you would go and see him, he wants to talk to you about Head business."
Sorry but leave my cocoon (as others may call a bed) for Potter? No thankyou. I am satisfied right here.
"I don't want to thanks Chloe."
"Lily, I know we're not close, but something's different about James this year. He seems nicer."
JAMES BLOODY POTTER? NICER?
Are we talking about the same boy?
"Sorry Chloe, he's still the same ignorant idiot to me."
"Oh okay. Well see you later"
God I think sometimes people see a different Potter to what I see.
Well I must, especially to Emma Brown who will have him any time of day.
"Hey Lil, why did you come back so fast?"
Finally, my top chums are back in my fantastic company.
"Sorry Jess, I was shattered"
No sorry that's a lie. I didn't want to mingle or breathe the same air as Potter.
"Hey Lil guess who we've just seen"
And the bitching has resumed.
Go on Zo, hit me, surprise me.
"Emma Brown"
Oh Zoe how did I not guess?
"And guess who she was with"
I thought Rose was smarter than this. Who else would it be.
"Potter?"
"Yep"
"But something was different this time."
I was wondering why Jess had kept so quiet.
"Why Jess what's different?"
"He wasn't kissing her back…"
To others this may be perfectly normal for a boy to not kiss back a girl.
But you don't know the Emma and Potter history.
And bloody hell there could be a whole book on it.
I was walking back in sixth year to potions class and I always like to get there early as it is my most favorite lesson, when I seemed to have found myself in a position where my classroom was occupied of two students.
Merlin, its making me vomit thinking about it.
She had him up against the wall of my beloved potions class room and, there was no denying, snogging his brains out.
He was enjoying it of course.
You could tell this by where his hands were positioned… if you know what I mean.
(The upper part of the body. I would probably be locked up in Azkaban if he went any lower)
This was such a strange sight because the day before it was rumoured that Emma had done something with Sirius.
And nothing and nobody gets in-between Potter and Sirius.
So to see them snogging with passion was slightly confusing.
No not slightly, really bloody confusing.
And this is how they had been at the end of term so unless something happened in the holidays, I don't know what's going on.
"Lil did you hear what I said?"
"No sorry Rose, go on"
"He really wants to speak to you, and it seems genuine"
Do these girls not learn?! Bloody fools,
They'd be nowhere without me!
"What Rose, like every other time since third year he's wanted to speak to me but instead took the piss by asking me out then shoving his tongue down Emma Browns throat? I don't think so."
"Lil just give him a chance"
Jess, you have just received a night times sentence of the silent treatment from Lily Evans.
"Alright Lil whatever, maybe we're just being stupid"
To damn right you are!
JAMES POTTER? CHANGED?!