James Potter: The boy who loved
At first Lily thought the boy smiling up at her was her father. He had the same unkempt black hair and round glasses. But then she noticed his eyes. They were brown, not the piercing green eyes of her father. He also had a head boy badge on his robes and Lily knew that her father hadn't attended his final year of Hogwarts. The boy in the photo ruffled his already messy hair, laughed, and then looked longingly towards someone just out side the picture.
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'Finally,' cried Sirius as the feast appeared on the long tables in the great hall. The sorting ceremony seemed to have gone on for longer than usual and Sirius was not the most patient of people, especially when he was hungry. Everyone began shovelling food onto their plates.
'So, how did Lily cope when she found out you were head boy, Prongs?' asked Sirius when he had finished shovelling food down his throat.
'Um, she kinda freaked out,' James replied.
'Just don't ask her out, then she might actually be willing to work with you,' said Remus.
James laughed and looked over to where Lily was sitting talking to her friends. There was a flash of light. And Remus, James and Sirius all turned to look at Peter who was trying to work out how a camera he held was supposed to work.
'Oops, sorry,' he apologised, 'I haven't quite got the hang of this camera.'
'No worries Wormtail,' replied Sirius. 'We know you just can't resist taking pictures of Prongsie here,' he joked.
When everyone had eaten there full, and all notices had been given, James got up from his seat.
'Well, I'd better go and show the first years to the Gryffindor Tower,' he told his friends. They stared at him with shocked expressions on their faces. However their astonishment was nothing compared to the dumbfounded expression on Lily Evans face.
Sirius let out a low whistle as James left the great hall.
'Well it looks like James is finally starting to act responsibly,' commented Remus. 'Maybe Dumbledore knew what he was doing after all.'
Sirius didn't seem too happy about this revelation, but then his face brightened up again. 'Did you see Evans' face!'
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Love does strange things to the people you would least expect. Love is a madness that makes people act out of character, whether it be for better or for worse. James was persistent and however many times Lily snubbed him he never gave up. He changed the way he had behaved for so many years, just to try and gain her affections. Perhaps Lily had always loved him. But thought his 'love' for her was just another of his many jokes. Yet they were meant to be and James' heart was satisfied. He was James Potter; Marauder, Prankster, Gryffindor Chaser, Head boy, a member of the Order of the Phoenix a man who defied Voldermort. He had been all of these. But he would always be James Potter: The boy who loved.
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Lily smiled at the messy haired boy, the Grandfather she would never know. From what she'd heard of him from her father he made as much mischief at school as her brother James did.
With a grin she turned the pageā¦
