I didn't arrive back to the common room to at least eleven thirty. I was the first one to arrive in the Transfiguration Corridor; James was looking at the trophy case. I was furious of course but that seemed to amuse him more for some reason.
"You could loosen up a bit," he had said once I found him in the trophy room. "I was just looking around."
"Did you check the East Wing though?" I said scrutinizing him. "You did right?"
"Yes I did," he said as if it were an obvious question. "I just took a little detour."
"I was waiting in the Transfiguration Corridor for at least fifteen minutes. It doesn't take you very long to go around the whole wing."
"Well," he started. "I thought . . ." he leaned against the wall and showing his mischievous smile. "That you would come looking for me – hoping that you actually did care for me." I gaped at him. What was he getting at? "So I've come to a conclusion. You do,"
I smacked him in the head. One moment you think you're having a mature conversation with him and the next moment he turns it upside down.
"What was that for?!" he asked rubbing the back of his head. "I didn't do anything to you!"
I rolled my eyes. "You're impossible," and walked out of the room and to the dormitories.
I was the last one to wake. Alice had to literally drag me out of bed just to get me up. Now, I was too tired to even get dressed let alone go to my classes. I hoped Potter was having the same problems, but yet again the boy was literally a wild child. Once I was finally not among the living dead, we made our way down to the Great Hall. Annabeth had joined us with a depressing mood – Alice and I didn't press on with the subject. The hall was packed of course; everyone was excited about the first day of school.
"Yes we have Transfiguration!" Alice exclaimed. "I've been dying to get my hands on some of these spells."
"You could all summer," I said stifling a yawn. "You're not underage anymore,"
"I didn't want to damage anything," she replied sheepishly.
I laughed at her. That's what I seemed to be doing all day – laughing. To me it seemed to be the funniest day of my time here at Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall cracked a few jokes today, surprising me. Even Professor Binns cracked a few smiles although they looked like grimaces. The day went on like this, a gleeful day for a tiring me.
The first two weeks sped by rapidly. It surprised me how much I was enjoying it, even the company someone was holding me with. James Potter. He was someone very easy to talk to when he wasn't being a git, which in my case, was rarely. I was on my way to Transfiguration now, we were practicing turning a brush into a porcupine and to my dismay, and I was literally failing Transfiguration. It was my favorite class besides Defense Against the Dark Arts and Potions.
"You know you aren't going to be able to hide your bad grades forever." Alice said skeptically. "McGonagall isn't dumb."
"I'm not hiding anything, Alice." I replied. "She'll talk to me when she realizes I'm not doing so well."
"Well it surprises me that you are even failing."
The class dreaded on since I couldn't even give my brush a porcupines quill. Verasco! Nothing happened to the brush. I felt a cease come between my brow and snickering behind me. Great, now I was the laughing stock of the class.
"Ms. Evans, can you come up here please?" McGonagall called from her desk. I walked up slowly dragging my heals.
"Yes Professor?" I said slowly.
"I see you are having troubles with this type of Transfiguration." She said looking at me. I nodded. "I want you paired up with Potter.'
I gaped at her as if she were idiotic. "But Professor, I thought he was failing also."
"No, he's the best in the class at the moment. He will tutor you," she said and looked at her class. "Potter, come up her please."
"Hey Evans," he murmured as he stood next to me.
"You're to tutor Lily, she isn't doing too well." She said and shooed us away as the bell rang.
"I never thought McGonagall would ever ask me to tutor someone." James said as he walked out of the classroom with me.
"I'm glad you are enjoying it," I replied sarcastically.
"I am actually – I'm better than you in one thing." He said and walked away, going to divination I expected. I wasn't good at anything for one thing, I couldn't play Quiditch – heck I don't even know how to ride a broom. I guess the only thing he knew I was good at was my grades but they weren't extremely good at all.
The day droned on. My homework pile was starting to double and I could only imagine how late I was going to have to stay up to. Alice seemed optimistic about it for some reason but whenever I asked she would always say, "It's important for our future, Lily. We both want to become Aurors, right?" So I couldn't deny the fact that she was right even though it did require a lot of homework. At the moment though I was working on a Defense Against the Dark Arts essay, about Inferi, a very disturbing subject.
Inferious are dead corpses, however, they do not have a brain to use for themselves therefore they are controlled or in other words controlled by a dark wizard. Although they are dead they aren't transparent, they have full bodies.
I looked at my paper and read over what I had. This was going to take forever! Twelve inches of creepy dead people – what joy. I didn't pick up my quill as I placed the parchment back on the corner table of the common room. I just wasn't in the mood to do any studying or homework for that matter.
"Leaving already?" A voice called from behind. "I just got back from the feast and needed some help on the Potions essay."
"Sorry Potter, and don't you have better things to do then stalk me?" I said. He rolled his eyes and I continued. "I thought you would've had detention already."
"What do you mean?"
"You haven't been Snape hunting?" I asked astonishingly.
"No," he replied and of course his mischievous smile appeared on his face. "I haven't had time but thank you . . . you just reminded me of my favorite game."
"Don't let me catch you," I hissed warningly. "You could be fired from your duty as Head Boy --"
"Speaking of which I need you to ask Longbottom if he can take my place for tonight's duty," said James interrupting. "I have things to take care of,"
"And what might those things be?" I asked innocently, batting my eyelashes like an idiot.
He blushed slightly but shrugged it off by running his hands through his hair. "Professor Slughorn wants me, Padfoot, and Wormtail to go out with him to find this stupid plant. I guess it is only good during the full moon . . ."
I eyed him suspiciously. "Merlin's beard, Potter, I'm going to be a one man show soon. You can go and find whatever plant you are looking for."
"Thanks Lil's!" he said and hugged me. I cringed a little bit since he was squeezing me a bit. "I'll never ask you for anything again!"
"Well that is an open ended promise," I muttered. He didn't hear he was already gone by the time his words had sunk into my brain. Snorted to myself and ran up to the girls dormitories to try and find Alice to see if she knew where Frank was.
What a boring chapter in my opinon. I like action and this was too mellow for me. I hope you are enjoying the story so far!!! I think it is really shaping up!!! My curiosity is making my right this but do you have any clue what two books I go the name Annabeth Mason from (*hint* the first name is from one story and the last name is from another)
I do not own any of these characters! (except Annabeth Mason)