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You know, this statement could become my trademark. Goodness knows I use it so often.
brand-new-red-head: Well, I've always wanted to be an author. And I really like reading. Reading and writing do come hand in hand. And yes, Mathilde is creepy. She even creeps me out. –shudders but feels slightly warmer-
blueholly: I like detail, you know. It's just that I'm not going to use a bunch of words where two would do. I do big descriptions in my spoken stories, but only because my sister gobbles up descriptions like candy. But anywho, Lily's still in shock about James. She'll come out later in the chapter, though. Muchos luff, Froggie!
lologirl: I like tying in stuff like that. It does me no good when I leave stuff hanging besides the main plot. You get bad stories with wimpy side-plots that way. Just ask my sister. (She reads my reviews too)
anonymous: Right, sissie?
A. Fan: Not for long, though. Here's another chapter for you!
hpgirl06: I'm wondering that myself, now I think about it.
This story is dedicated to my dear twin sissie, Amy. Review, Amy! –grins-
Chapter Six
Flight
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The following Monday, James did horribly at his classes. He was sitting at the back of the room, staring at the blackboard as if it was the only thing keeping him on the earth. He answered questions wrongly and bungled spells and turned in the wrong homework.
"Potter! Snap out of it!" James looked up to see a puffing Professor Slughorn standing in front of him. "You're stirring in the wrong direction!" James looked at his potion. Instead of going clockwise as his instructions had said to go, he had been stirring counterclockwise! His potion, instead of going clear like water, was instead turning blacker and blacker. James hurriedly tried to stir the other direction.
"Too late, Potter," Professor Slughorn sighed. With a wave of his wand, he cleaned James's 'potion' up. "Pack up and go. And I hope never to see such bad work on a potion again in my class."
"Yessir," James said automatically, stooping to gather up his ingredients and dump them into his bag. He picked up the bag, swung it over his shoulder, and walked out, feeling miserable.
Lily sighed as she walked out of Transfiguration Class. She had done poorly with her transfiguring, having turned the rat she was working on yellow instead of turning it into a ring.
She hurried along the corridors, barely noticing where she was going, until she bumped into someone. She gave a murmured apology then looked up.
James looked down at the girl he had run into. There was something familiar about her…
"Have I met you before?" he asked, staring at her.
She said "No," stepped smartly around him, and ran off in the direction he had come from.
Lily mentally kicked herself for running into James Potter, telling herself that she should have watched where she was going, avoided him, gone slower, and all the while a little voice in her head said You know, he really seemed to like you. Enough to look for you after you ran away.
You mean the mysterious girl in the golden dress, she told the voice. Once he knows that it's shy Lily Evans he'll laugh and make a fool out of me and say that I was a sparrow in a peacock's feathers.
He'd probably say that you are a nightingale, who looks drab on the outside until it breaks forth into song.
Shut up! I don't even like stupid James Potter! I don't care about him one whit!
If you don't like him, then why are you arguing with me?
So I can prove that you're wrong about me liking him.
Ok, then. Prove it.
Lily ignored the voice and kept walking fast, also ignoring three boys who turned to look at her.
"I don't remember her at the tryouts," Remus said to Sirius. "Do you remember her?"
"Who cares? It's James's problem now. Let him deal with it if he wants to." And with that the three boys walked off to their class.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Whew. That took longer than I thought it would. Sorry!