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Lillith would honestly be the first person to admit that she had certain issues that limited her ability to socialize, for example when she felt a person was beneath her interest they simply stopped being registered as a human being in her mind; much like how your average muggle would ignore a bum on the street really. Hermione told her this was a sign of sociopathic tendencies, which she'd freely acknowledge sounded about right especially after the bullshit she went through second year, there were roughly ten people in her entire house she'd consider her friends after that fiasco everyone else was just a useful idiot. Useful idiots could be as the moniker described useful but on that note that also makes them disposable and since she really had no intentions of associating with what amounted to potential cannon fodder she stuck close to her core friends.

Ronald Weasely was not a core friend, his little sister Ginny was, as where the twins (their tutoring her on potions the only reason she got consistent 'O's in Snape's class earned them major points) and she was probably the only person in the entire school who got along with Percy. He'd confided in her once "You never did anything to harm our houses name that was not done in retaliation, while I cannot condone your actions I cannot find it in myself to condemn them either," which in Percy speak essentially meant "Rock on little sister." But she was going on a tangent, Ronald, the walking food vacuum that proved that a mother could in fact use up her ability to produce intelligent males in large quantities was currently starring at her pale faced with a furious fire of jealousy in his eyes.

This never made any sense to Lilly, the ginger prat was jealous of her "fame" never once registering the fact that her parents had been brutally murdered and their killer somehow fucked up offing her thus making her famous, woo. Truthfully she didn't know what pissed her off more at the moment, the fact that after four years the idiot still hadn't registered they weren't friends or that he obviously thought she'd put her name in that goblet despite the unbreakable vow.

Deciding to just stare him down while letting her eyes slowly begin to glow she remained unmoving at the top of the common room stairs as Hermione shifted about nervously beside her, eventually deciding that his brain probably locked up she said,

"Weasel...you're in my way," it said something about the boys mental facilities that he was going to remain belligerent even after she threatened genitalia damage via shop tools, after a moment he finally said,

"If you were going to cheat your name into the cup you could have at least told the rest of us how you did it," this was just...goddamn did she really have to deal with this right now, really? As a collective the other brave lions in the room all took a step back, never let it be said there was anything wrong with having a strong sense of self preservation. Glaring at Ronald she calmly replied,

"I do believe I made it perfectly clear that I had no part in that, Hermione can verify as can your family since unlike my rather forgettable times with you I happen enjoy their company so they would have known, and I would be careful about throwing around the *cheat* word if I were you." Ronald proving yet again that he hadn't a sapient thought in his head snapped back,

"Of course you'd have Granger on your side, that bookworm nearly cost us the house cup last year when she gave MacGonnagal that broom your Godfather sent you and you even forgave her! She'd say anything to stay in your good graces!" Oh for the love of the Morrigan, and having the audacity to involve Hermione...

"Listen Ronald, I'm not sure you understand how women operate but we have an aversion to sticking long objects between our legs before assessing where they've been first, so obviously I wouldn't have issues with my best friend looking out for me." This got a light chuckle from the entire room, Lavender and Pavarti being the loudest and Hermione going completely red faced, Ronald just looked at her in confusion, unsurprising. "As for costing Gryffindor the house cup, at what point in the past two years have I given a flying fuck about that paperweight? You and those like you made your bed second year, now you have to lay in it." Before anything else could be said three redheads stepped forward, Gred and Forge each grabbed one of Ronald's arms as Ginny stunned him, turning to her personal hero Ginny nervously said,

"Sorry about that Lils we'll keep the prat under control from here on out," grinning at her surrogate sister Lilly pulled her in a brief hug causing the small girl to squeak,

"Aw, thank you Firecracker, after your brothers deposit the refuse in his room grab them and meet us in the Come and Go room ok?" Her favorite redhead nodded quickly as she bolted after her family, ignoring the rest of the common room Lilly went to her dorm to grab a few books and then followed Hermione who was quickly flanked by Neville as they made their way to their destination. There was alot that could be said for having a "bad" reputation, on the positive, everyone got the hell out of your way so it took no time at all to reach the empty hall and summon the door to their personal lab.

"I truly rue the day someone else figures out this room is here, the idea of having to transfer everything to the Chamber of Secrets...damn does that place smell terrible" Neville lamented, glancing to her cousin Lilly nodded in agreement,

"Yes, it will be a definite loss for us and I'm not fond of the alternative either but there is very little we can do for it outside of the literal dozen layers of 'Notice me nots' we've placed on this hall. Come on lets get set up while we wait for the others to show, our little project isn't going to maintain itself." As the doors appeared before them Lilly pushed them open to reveal what amounted to a massive laboratory, bubbling cauldrons of brewing potions, pulsing runes containing various magical substances, and in the center of the room the key to all their efforts.

Approaching the central table Lilly examined the glowing runes snaking along its surface while Hermione checked the golden liquid in the various vials, the maze of faint silvery lines all led to the Nu Marauder's greatest coup, the philosophers stone. Honestly when Lilly had acquired the stone she'd had no intention of ever using it, but after a group of first years managed to get through the defenses and off the possessed professor that was after it she felt it was far safer in her knicker drawer then anywhere near Dumbledore. The sad part was she had been right, no one ever found out about it and Lilly only broke it out after Hermione had been petrified by the basilisk, that of course had required bringing Fred and George in on its existence since she needed help with something as complex as the Elixir of Life.

That had actually led to her most (at the time) daring bit of breaking and entering, getting into the Headmasters office and stealing a copy of his alchemy notes, sadly it had been so easy to pull off it was disturbing, all she'd had to do was fly up to his window, vanish the glass and riffle through his bookcase while under her invisibility cloak. After that anti-climatic let down they'd gotten to work on the project shortly before Lilly had her faceoff with Voldemort's shade, at that point she had ended up in the hospital wing with the whole getting poisoned by a basilisk thing...damn did she hate her second year. Shaking herself from her memories she noticed Hermione nodding approvingly at the current batch of the Elixir of Life,

"Looks good so far, I can't believe how much of our supply was needed to heal Sirius' body from his time in Azkaban, I'm beginning to think that a proportional amount is needed for the damage to mind body and soul...either that or our first tun was weaker then we thought." She glanced towards Neville who looked a bit nervous as he observed the massive alchemical array, "Don't worry Nev this should be enough to bring your parents minds back, Lilly and I have been playing with the arithmantic formula's for over two years, if anything our trial run on Sirius is a successful proof of concept." He smiled and actively tried to relax some as Lilly absently rubbed his back while reading through some notes in her free hand, eventually the doors swung open and the three remaining members of the Nu Marauder's entered.

"Now that Ronnikins is taken care of lets get down to business!" Fred announced cheerfully,

"Indeed indeed, how has our little project handled itself?" Questioned George, Ginny simply rolled her eyes,

"I sincerely doubt much has changed since yesterday you two, I admit though I'm a bit curious myself with the swapped out out ingredients. Took nearly six months to make what we needed to use on Sirius, I'm kinda hoping the refined formula works better," Hermione waved to the trio of redheads as she glanced over Lilly's shoulder to review the notes herself.

"Its looking like you were right, unicorn blood freely given to a virgin maiden was what we were missing, thank Luna again for us will you? As it stands I think we can have this batch ready before Christmas, Lilly what do you think?" The ravenette remained quiet for a moment then nodded,

"Yes, and as soon as we've repaired the Longbottom's minds we can switch back to gold production, our liquid assets are running low again since most of the previous run is tied up in investments, the return for the next fiscal year will be rather impressive though so I'm not complaining." The Weasely trio nodded at that obviously pleased, while Lilly was vested in this venture due to the fact that she didn't have access to her families wealth until she was seventeen and the allure of how horrifically illegal it all was this was a long term shot at financial freedom for her ginger friends.

Ginny approached the cauldrons and nodded approvingly, the little redhead's gold flecked eyes taking in the potions before her, luckily despite Snape's inability to teach the youngest Weasely shared the twins innate talent for brewing so her seal of approval was always a good thing. Lilly honestly loved her pint sized friend, Hermione and Neville were amazing people who would do anything for her but as the old joke went, they'd gladly bail her out of jail in the dead of night while Ginny would have been sharing her cell laughing about how awesome that had been. Pity she was as strait as a ruler, ah well, falling into an armchair that had suddenly appeared behind her Lilly pulled out one of her books and began reviewing,

"Well, Gred, Forge, any new breakthroughs on the pranking front?" The twins grinned wickedly as they popped a candy into each others mouths and turned into rather large luridly yellow canaries, about a minute later they molted their feathers and returned to normal while bellowing out an exaggerated "Tada!" Shaking her head Lilly gave them a thumbs up and began thinking of ways she could weaponize the prank, as a gag it was amusing, as a method of killing people it could be profitable in so long as she felt like getting creative.

"Ok, I need to get some rest for tomorrow so lets just skip the rest of our nightly plotting and do our animagus meditations so I can go hole myself up in my room," the group sat in a circle and began their mind clearing rituals, a few hours later they all groggily stood shaking their heads to clear their vision. According to dad this was the most annoying part of becoming an animagus, once you meditated to the point your animal form is revealed (if you have one) you would take the necessary potion and basically just play around transfiguring your body until it "clicked".

Sighing Lilly cracked her back and headed for the dorms, tomorrow was another day and all that tripe, passing through the silent common room she ignored the rest of the Gryffindor's and slammed open the door to the dorm farthest from the stairs, she and Hermione had taken to staying there when she'd been ostracized second year and she'd never left.

Fuck everything kept going back that goddamn snake... Plopping into bed with her arms behind her head Lilly silently acknowledged that if it hadn't been for her friends getting involved she'd probably have let the entire school get petrified, they betrayed her and she had no intention of forgiving them. Sighing she mumbled, "And now I'm their champion...irony you fickle whore..." and with that she fell into the bliss of sleep.


The next day Lilly was rudely awoken by her favorite brunette and redhead, well to be fair it was only rude due to the fact she had no desire to deal with the schools inevitable drama and the pair of witches were going to drag her out into the thick of it, throwing her arm over her eyes she let out an exasperated sigh.

"Ugh...why the fuck do I even still go to this school, I'm sure there's places just as respectable in Canada or Australia, I'd even be willing to deal with the States if they don't make me fight a bloody dragon," she whined mostly to herself, Hermione 'hmmphed' a bit at that,

"You stay because you don't want to leave your friends behind in this madhouse, we'd be dead in a week!" Grimacing at that she lifted her arm to meet her friends gaze, the bookworm blushed slightly realizing the truth behind her words, both Hermione and Ginny would be dead if it hadn't been for Lilly's intervention. Leaping up suddenly she pulled both girls into a tight hug,

"Don't worry I'd never leave you two behind, besides what would Nev do without me playing wingman? Come on lets get breakfast," gasping for breath Ginny tried to worm out of her arms while Hermione was letting out small squeaks, laughing a bit Lilly let them go and changed. The trio hooked up with the boys in the common room expertly avoiding Ronald, making there way to the Great Hall became interesting seeing as several students were wearing buttons that switched between "Support Cedric Diggory the Real Hogwarts champion," and "Potter Stinks." She was actually beside herself on this one, who would waste money on an attempt to belittle her and have that as the coup de grace?

"You like what you see Potter? I had them made last night," Ah, that answers that, turning to address her self appointed nemesis (she considered Snape a far more satisfying foe, being able to outsmart a grapefruit worked in his favor there) Lilly faced off against the sickly pale blonde and his two gay lovers. Well she didn't know that for sure but that's what she cataloged them under, Neville agreed as did Ginny, Hermione abstained from voting but she did smile so there's that.

"Wotcher Draco, should probably demand your money back, the Noble family of Malfoy was ripped off seeing as they got my name wrong," looking confused he let out a rather intelligent sounding "Huh?" causing Lilly to hold her forehead in annoyance. "My name isn't Potter, it is the Lady Lillith Oriana Potter-Black heiress to the Most Ancient and Noble Houses of Potter and Black that can trace their lineage to the days of Merlin, did you forget that Frenchman?" Draco's face started turning as red as Ginny's hair, walking past the infuriated boy she patted him on the shoulder grinning the entire time, childish displays such as the buttons didn't phase her in the slightest. But that doesn't mean she won't take the chance presented to throw the Pureblood ideology right back in the inbred prats face, sometimes, even if only for a few seconds, it was pretty great being her.


I know I promised more but the Philosopher's Stone is the setup for Hermione's super weapon so there's one of my promises, sorry I really want to get back to my other stories so just pushing this out for now. Also writing a borderline sociopath is fun, (I say borderline because she likes SOME people) now that I have a laptop to replace my dearly departed PC and all the unfinished chapters on it I should be getting more out faster. Anyway, REVIEW!