Learn from it?

James sighed ''What does he mean; it's for him to know and me to find out. That's even more than less than unhelpful.''

''That made no sense,'' Lily pointed out ''and I don't know, maybe he just thinks you can learn from it.'' She added thoughtfully,

They were walking through the deserted school towards the Griffindor common room, discussing their meeting with Dumbledore.

''How am I meant to learn from it, there's nothing to learn about apart from telling people what to do and that isn't exactly hard.''

Lily sighed ''That's not what I meant; you can learn plenty from it, like being responsible and mature''

''Where's the fun in that?'' James asked,

Lily sighed again ''I'm not even going to answer that,'' she said exasperatedly,

''Technically you just did,'' James pointed out,

''No, that wasn't an answer,'' Lily said,

''Was.''

''Let's talk about something else'' Lily said changing the subject,

''Okay, what was your first detention for?'' James asked,

Lily raised her eyebrows ''I haven't ever had a detention,''

James seemed unable to speak for a moment, ''how can you never of had a detention, I've had-" he was silent for a moment ''a lot.'' he finished having given up counting them.

''I've never felt the need to get one,'' Lily said shrugging,

''Well I never wanted one'' James said ''it didn't stop me getting them,''

Lily shrugged again ''I just never did anything to get one,''

''You must have a really boring school life," James said shaking his head,

''You don't have to break the rules to have fun,'' Lily said,

''I guess not, but it makes it more fun if you do,'' James finished grinning.

''Yeah because sitting in detention for hours on end sounds really fun,'' Lily said sceptically,

''It depends on what you do to get it,'' James said still grinning,

''Somehow I think I can live without one,'' said Lily,

''Maybe,'' James said mysteriously,

''What do you mean; maybe?'' asked Lily narrowing her eyes,

''Nothing,'' James said without explanation,

Lily sighed and shook her head; they were having a proper conversation. They hadn't been forced to; they could have walked back in silence or separately. But they didn't and to her surprise she found that she was glad they hadn't, she was enjoying talking to him.

''Oi,'' James voice cut in to her thoughts

''What sorry,''

James laughed they had reached the common room, ''Do you know the password,''

Lily laughed as well, ''It was in the letter, did you even consider reading it,'' she said the password to the fat lady, who smiled and let them in,

''I considered reading it,'' he said ''But then I found that I had other things that I'd much prefer to do,''

Lily laughed in spite of herself and James grinned. They looked around for their friends who were sitting together in the best seats next to the fire. They made their way over too them and sat down.

''Did you find out then?'' asked Sirius

James frowned ''Find out what?''

''Why Dumbledore felt the need to make this year the most boring ever,''

Rolling his eyes James answered ''If you mean why Dumbledore made me head boy he said it was for him to know and for me to find out,''

''What does that mean?''

James shrugged ''No idea,'' they all laughed,

''Maybe he wants you to learn from it,'' Mary suggested repeating Lily's suggestion from earlier,

''Uh-no, lets not start this again,'' Lily groaned remembering their earlier conversation,

Laughing Alice yawned ''Well then I'm going to bed,''

''Yeah me too,'' Lily said,

Mary and Marlene nodded and all the girls got up to go to bed, Lily turned to James ''our rooms are up there right?'' she said pointing to where the other dormitories were,

He shrugged ''you're the one who read the letter, you tell me,''

''I told you you should have read that,'' Sirius said grinning

''No you didn't, you through it out the window,''

Sirius shrugged ''same difference,''

Lily shook her head smiling as she and the other girls turned to go up stairs ''night.'' They all said to the boys who replied in the same way.

James watched as Lily followed the other girls up stairs to find her new room. They hadn't fought since entering Hogwarts, they had even had a proper conversation that wasn't forced or to prove something, it was just a conversation between two friends. Friends. He repeated the word in his head, when applying the term to him and Lily it just sounded strange. Like when you eat something after brushing you teeth and its all new, not a particularly bad new, but different.

Suddenly a sharp edge collided with the side of his head ''Ow,'' he said loudly looking up to see that Sirius had just thrown his transfiguration book at him ''what,''

''Have you decided yet?''

''Decided what?'' said James, confused,

Sirius sighed, ''decided on whether you want to do lots of pranks this year or not,''

''Oh right,'' he had been so busy thinking about, well everything that he hadn't given the subject much thought. He weighed up the options in his head; lots of pranks and detentions and probable an angry Lily, or in reality a quite boring year with more studying, but also a happy Lily which in itself was a pretty big incentive.

''Well after a lot of thought I have decided that,'' he paused ''and this is just my opinion by the way, it doesn't mean that this is what we should do-''

''Oh get on with it,''

''Well I think we should go through this year as we do every year, with lots and lots of pranks,''

Sirius let out a whoop of pleasure and beamed ''I told you I'd win,'' he said sticking his tongue out at Remus, who was also grinning,

''I never actually thought that we'd do the sensible option I just thought I'd point it out'' he said laughing with the others ''I never wanted to do it either, but this way when we get caught it looks like I was trying to be responsible.''

Once the laughter had died down James said ''about the getting caught bit, I was thinking that this year we should try to do it less,''

''So you want us to do the pranks like normal, really big, like no one else can do, and then you want the teachers to just think it wasn't us,'' Remus said raising an eyebrow

''Yeah, that was about it,''

''why?'' Sirius said ''it's more fun when we get caught,''

''Yeah but I don't know if you've noticed Padfoot but I'm head boy and they don't tend to do the kind of pranks we do,''

''Oh,'' Remus said beginning to grin ''so it's got nothing to do with wanting to impress Lily then,''

''No,'' James said not meeting their eyes

''If you say so'' Sirius said grinning in a slightly to knowing way

James coughed to cover the blush creeping up his neck ''Well, I'm going to go to bed.''

Sometimes he thought his friends knew him a bit to well.

A/N

Hello all you wonderful people :D

10 reviews, the story has 10 reviews that's so awesome and I love you all :D

Okay so I wrote some of this at like four in the morning so it could be slightly strange, especially the bit about brushing teeth :/ if it really is strange tell me and I'll change it.

Now two new chapters in like a week, come on I think that deserves a review ;D

Unfortunately my half term will end on Monday and I have this maths G.C.S.E on Tuesday ): so I probable won't start writing another chapter until after that. Any tips on higher maths would be greatly appreciated as I've sort of been neglecting my revision :/

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I know every one does the ''what was your first detention'' thing but I was stuck and that was a way of continuing the conversation. Ill try and be more original in the future (:

This chapter's really small, I know the next one will be bigger, promise :D also there's lots of speech and not much thought ill change than next chapter as well (:

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