Disclaimer: I'm nowhere near owning Harry Potter. It'd be cool if I did though.

Merry Christmas

Lily

Lily Evans had known about the ratings on the bathroom wall for years. They were the reason she avoided going that bathroom, usually choosing to walk up an extra flight of stairs instead. Some of the ratings were amusing, most accurate, but several unkind. She hated that her best friend Sev was in negative numbers, though even she couldn't call him good looking. It was no question that he deserved to pass zero, though. But no matter how much she told herself that she despised those ratings, every time she set foot in that room, she found herself checking them.

It was a guilty fascination. Lily would find herself thinking about them sometimes; during a class practicing a charm she'd already mastered, in the last few minutes before she fell asleep, or while working on an essay that just didn't want to be put on paper. She would think about the people that had written them, wondering if they had known Severus, if they had some reason to particularly dislike him. Or if they'd just been siding with Potter, who's name was also on the wall, along with a 8.8 in the same light blue ink as Sev's -5. The interest Lily felt was the main part of the reason she worked so hard to stay away. Mild curiosity was one thing, but Lily didn't want to care so much about something that was so against her beliefs.

The ratings were immature, against the rules, and offensive to many people. But Lily couldn't help but doubt hurt was intended, or that the writers would particularly care if she thought they were childish troublemakers. And, somehow, knowing that didn't bother Lily, because even if the ratings were hurtful, in the back of her heart, Lily liked them anyways. The ratings were also amusing, and accurate, and many fairly generous. The writers couldn't be all that bad.

Except for the one with the light blue ink. She ought to be slapped in the face.

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