CHAPTER 8: SNAPE'S WORST MEMORY, SNITCHES AND GOOD-BYES
And so OWL's swooped upon us. Charms was fairly easy, more so than I had thought in any case. Lo was complaing about accidently popping the balloon she was supposed to banish, I was wondering if they might take points of for summoning the wrong object, but Bernadette was the most worried about missing the frog she should have been silencing and hitting her examiner. After charms we had astronomy, my worst subject. Then we moved on to divination on Wendsday I was postitive I did well on he written part and I pretended to be seeing the baby agian, with the sliced head and the dead women beside him, I think It went well. Thursday I had care of magial creatures which Peter Pettigrew spent in the hospital wing because five minutes into the exam he was attacked by a bowtuckle. Care of Magical creatures went very well for me execpt for the niffle trying to steal my silver ring. Friday we had Herbology which Lo swore she failed miserably and nobody doubted it seeing as a mandrake knocked her uncouncious for the entire day. By the weekened even though most people would like to relax we still had Transfiguration, Defense agianst the dark arts, and for some people anceint runes. Our defense exam was taken on Monday, we did the pracitcal in the morning and I easily got and E if not an O. The written test was slightly harder I felt a pang of sympathy for Remus when answering question ten which was about how to identify a werewolf. After defense Lo, Haven, Lark, Bernadette and me went out to enjoy a bit of the warm summer air. I figured I could study transfiguration that night If I had too. We headed to the lake and removed our shoes to dip our feet in the cool water, an escape from the summer heat.
"Hey, whats the crowd for? The best not be forming a mosh pit without me." Lo said standing as we all put out shoes back on.
"Hey its Potter, Black and Snape!" Bernadette informed as Lo picked her up so she could see over the heads of the crowd. James glanced at us and grinned at Snape who was alone from his friends and splayed on the ground, his wand laying several feet away from him. I jumped up running towards the crowd, towards James. Snape had let out a sting of curses and swears and James glared at him raised his wand.
"Wash your mouth. Scourgify" He said and soap bubbles emitted from Snape's mouth, choking him.
"Leave him alone!" I yelled to James who turned around and his voice changing slightly, becoming much more pleseant, more mature. He was smirking in a suprised way, he was acting as though I was supposed to be impressed at him ganging up in Snape when none of his cronies were around.
"All right Evans?" he asked
"Leave him alone! What has he done to you?" I asked looking at him with distaste, he was just as arrogent and mean as I had thought.
"Well" he began thoughtfully. "Its really more the fact that he EXISTs if you know what I mean." he said and servel onlookers laughed.
"You think your funny." I said an icy note in my voice. "But your just an arrogent bullying toerag Potter. Leave him ALONE."
"I will if you go out with me, Evans! Go on...Go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old snivelly agian." He replied smoothly. Behind him Snape was inching towards his wand but I didn't pay attention.
"I wouldn't go out with you if it were a choice between you and the giant squid!" I said fiercly.
"Bad luck Prongs." Sirius said looking anxioulsy at Snape who grabbed his wand. James raised his own but not quickley enough. There was a flash of light and a gash formed on James's cheek blood splatterd on his robes and n the ground. "Oh my gods!" I whisperd, but no one heard me because James counter attacked by flipping Snape upside down, just as Hagrid had suggested. His robes fell over his head and his pale skinny body and a pair of graying underpants were revealed to the jeering crowd. I fought to keep my face straight and it wasn't easy. I wanted to laugh so badly I even felt my mouth twitch as though I were about to smile.
"Let him down." I said my voice notably less cold.
"Certainly!" James agreed with a smile and Snape fell to the ground trying to detangle himself from his robes. He managed to get to his feet, wand raised when Sirius bellowed.
"Locmotor mortis!" and Snape keeled.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" I yelled Sirius and James, furious once agian at the pair of them. I grabbed my own wand and raised it so it was in clear veiw to Potter.
"Ah Evans don't make me hex you!" He implored.
"Take the curse off him, then!" I snapped still clutching my wand. James sighed deeply and reluctantly mutterd the counter curse.
"There you go. Your lucky Evans was here, Snivellus." James said snidly.
"I don't need help from a filthy mudblood like her!" Snape yelled. I felt like someone had just punched my stomache, I had helped him and what did he do? insult me! He was a Slytherin and a friend of Bellatrix...What had I expected? I blinked my eyes to rid my face of emotion.
"Fine. I wont bother in the future. And I wash my pants if I were you, Snivellus." I said coolly.
"Apologize to Evans!" James yelled to Snape, his wand poised to attack.
"I dont want you to make him apologize! Your just as bad as he is!" I shouted at James who looked deeply offended.
"WHAT? I'D NEVER call you a- a you-know-what!" he said shocked
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool like you've just gotten off your broomstick, showing off wiht that stupid snitch, walking down corriders hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can-I'm suprised your broomstick can get off the ground with your fat head on it! You make me SICK!" I yelled in anger and frustration looking at him as though seeing him for the first time. I tried not to remember the dreams, the snitch for christmas, the day in the three broomsticks, the valentine, I blinked back tears as I stomped away.
"Evans! hey EVANS!" he called to me, btu just like the night when he had been kissing Acanatha in the common room I didn't even glance back. I heard him talking to Sirius and I was just about back in the castle when I heard the jeering and laughing grow louder and Bernadette, Havem Lark and LO came running up to me Lark looked as though she might throw up, Haven was blushing and Lo was laughing hysterically. Bernadette looked shocked and giggily.
"He took off Snape's pants." Bernadette said and tears of laughter flowed down Lo's cheeks.
"He isn't a very big boy..." Haven said making Lo double up and lean agaisnt the wall for support.
"I hate James." I said but I couldn't help smiling, Snape didn't deserve that bt he did call me a mubblood the greasy basterd.
"Lets go inside and try and study for transfiguration." I suggested chortling a bit as we made our way to the Gryffindor commmon room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Come on Lily!" Lark nagged grabbing my arm and dragging me out of the dorm.
"You can't miss the final quiddich game!" Bernadette said incredously.
"Why not?" I scoweled, allowing my friends to usher me down to the quiddich feild.
"We have it after OWL's this year because McGonagall wanted to give the Gryffindors more time to train. Justin told me" Haven said no no one in particular.
"Um...I have to go because Wood told you its after OWL's?" I asked confused. Lo snickered and rolled her eyes.
"No, you have to go because its Gryffindor verses Slytherin for the cup and I don't care whats going on with you can James, your going to watch this match and your going to support Gryffindor." Lo stated indiffernt to my feeble excuses for forgetting my scarf and not feeling well.
"You feel perfectly fine and its June, why the hell do you need a scarf?" he asked dismissevly.
"Fine." I groaned taking my seat in the stands. James scanned the many rows of Gyrfifndors above him and when he spotted me he smile and met my eye. I didn't return the grin instead I kinda've half shurgged and pretened to be interested in my nails. Lyle began announcing the players and I began wondering how many OWL"s I got.
"AND THEY'RE OFF! Primrose with the quaffle! Nice pass to Nixie Olive who doges a bulger oo blocked by Roe, Cooper, from Slytherin, grabs the quaffle he is cut off by a nice bludger from the Gyrffindro beaters. OH AND THAT IS A FOUL!" Lyle roared as the Slytherin beater Devlin Welford zoomed over to James and Kicked him.
"Nixie Olive takes the fouls shots and yes!!! she gets it past the keep Lestrange!! Gryffindor Ten, Slytherin 0!" Lyle announced and that was how the game began. I watched James for a bit, he looked strained as the score was now Gryffindor 170 and Slytherin 150. If he failed to get the snitch, and Charles Flint got it instead, Slytherin would win. Alexander Johnson managed to put another goal between the teams but it was still only 30 points apart. Flint began zooming across the feild towards Alexander Johnson and Devlin Welford who were near the Slytherin goal posts. Devlin spotted a bludger and pelted it towards James who swerved out of the way clutching his broom and flying foward, grabbing his broom with one hand and his other stretched out for the snitch. Flint reached fowards from behind James and hit him in the head sending his glasses slightly askew. James kept his focus and grabbed the snicth just as Devlin Welford his him in the back of the head with his bat. The look of triumph on James's face didn't change but he fell twently feet backwards and hit the ground with a thud. The noises in the staduim varied from screams of anxiety for James, shouts of Victory for the win for Gryffindor, heckling from the Slytherins and roars of angrey Gryffindors who all look as though they would like nothing better than to kill Devlin Welford who looked very nervous, indeed. Professor McGonagall conjured a stretcher and brought James into the castle, the rest of the quiddich team was smiling and crying as they held up there new quiddich cup for the school to see. Sirius, Remus and Peter had already set off for the castle and Lo had jumped up to follow.
"YOU HAVE TO COME ALL OF YOU HE COULD BE DEAD!' she screamed and I followed dashing down the corridersd until we finally reached the hosiptal wing. I ambled in clutching a stich in my side and trying to catch my breath. James ficked his eyes opena nd blinked as though dazed.
"He should be fine." Madam Pomfrey reassured us and Professor McGonagall, who looked very shaken.
"Oh, very well then. I shall need to collect the quiddich cup. Boys, girls do make sure James is all right." McGonagall said as she went back to the feild. James stared up at us all with a disoriented look on his face
"Did I get it?" he asked urgently.
"Get what?" Remus said soothingly.
"The snitch! Did we win?" he sat up and winced a bit.
"Yeah Gryffindor won!" Sirius said grinning and slapped James in the back, which juding by the way James's flinched and yelped, wasn't a good idea.
"Fell of a broom? Hit in the head with a bat? What is this school coming too?" raged madam Pomfrey as she removed James's quiddich robes and shirt and began applying cream to the large bruises on his back and ribs and the growing lump on the back of his head.
"You should be fine now dear just rest up a bit." She said to James before returning to her other patients.
"Why did you all come here?" James asked rumpeling his hair which was completely unnessary seeing as it was already extremely untidy.
"To see if you were alive or dead." Lo said bluntly.
"Oh...thanks I think." he grinned and then looked at me.
"You care if I'm alive Evans? Thought I was conceited?" he said smugly.
"Of course I care if your alive." I blushed and he grinned again and opened his hand to reveal the snitch. His palm was bleeding from holding it to tight.
"Didn't even realize I was had it." He said suprised and cleaned the blood from it with his wand before handing it to me.
"A gift from me to you, the quiddich cup winning snitch." He opened my hand and placed the glittering gold ball into my hand before taking my fingers and his own and closing them around my newest snitch.
"I already have a snitch, the one you gave me for Christmas." I reminded him.
"Now you have two, start a collection." He said smiling lightheartedly.
"Maybe I will." I said with a grin.
"Wanna go ot with me?" he asked.
"Er...sorry Potter not this year." I said awkwardly.
"Its almost time to began another year." he said offhandedly.
"Well meet the next year when it comes." I felt the snitch's little wings beating agaisnt my hand.
"Anyways come on Lily lets go inform the rets of the world that Potter is okay." Bernadette suggested and lead Lo, Lark Haven and I from the infirmary.
"I can't wait to go congratulate Justin." Haven said happily and ran ahead of us towards the fat lady.
"You and James are so going to get married one day, gods your lucky." Lark said enviously.
"We are ot going to get married." I protested,
"Oh give it up Lily, your madly inlove with him and you know it." Lo teased.
"I am not madly inlove with anyone!" I said loudly.
"Yeah and your not overemotional." Lo mutterd sarcastically. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The week leading up to the final day of my fifth year went by quickly. I put my newest snitch with my old one, in a velvet satchle I keep jewelery in. Disheartened as I was for the school year to end and to leave the beautiful castle, that was my home, I was also happy that soon I would be able to see my parents agian. The last day of fifth year had clear, warm wheather. I spent most of the afternoon packing my trunk before going to the end-of-term feast. The hall was decorated in red and gold to celebrate Gryffindor winning the house cup. "Hey Lily, over here!" Lark beckoned as I sat down across from her and next to Bernadette
and Lo. "Welcome to the feast! Another year has pass us by! May you go home tomorrow with good hopes! And as the next year will soon be upon us I ask you all to stand by your friends and settle disagreements with your enemies because dark times are dawning upon us and I look to you all, the future of the wizarding world, to show us your inner strength and stay true to yourself! With that said, let us eat! Tuck in!" Dumbledorr finished his speech and the plates filled with food. " Encouraging speech." Lo said admirably helping her self to steak.
"Well spoken." Remus agreed as he sat next to her.
"I'm going to miss you over the summer." Lo said to her boyfriend and the two of them became disolved in their own conversation.
"Send me loads of owls!" I said to Bernadette Haven and Lark.
"Of course we will!" Bernadette promised.
"Justin said he would send me and owl twice a week...poor boy just can't be without me!" Haven bragged twiling her blonde hair on her finger.
"If he can't be without you then why is he over with his friends right now, and not you?" Lo interjected.
"Oh shut up and shag Remus." Haven snapped and Lo laughed.
"I think she offerd a reasonable suggestion..." Remus joked and Lo stuck her tounge out at Haven who rolled her eyes in return.
"So Evans, gonna send me any owls over the summer?" James asked as he, Peter and Sirius came over to sit near Remus.
"I don't have an owl to send to anyone Potter." I said briskly.
"Oh thats okay, I'll send you owls." he winked at me.
"James has his own Owl named Godric!" Peter piped grinning.
"And Sirius has one named Gryffindor." Remus said smiling.
"So when you puit them together its "Godric Gryffindor!" Peter exclaimed as though that were the most excitng thing in the world.
"Isn't it clever?" Sirius asked beaming.
"Its genious." Bernadette said sarcastically. The conversation turned ro quiddich as we ate our way through dinner and dessert.
"To bed!" Dumbledoor said smiling warmly to his students who all dragged them selves off their benches feeling very comfortable and sleepy. "Nighty night." Sirius said yawning widley as he Peter, Remus and James walked up the boys staircase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The day was warm and sunny as we boarded the Hogwarts express.
"Do you have to go with the prefects agian?" Lo asked sulkily.
"No, I'm all yours this time." I replied grinning and her sulky expression vanished as she returned my grin.
"Ugh Lily your boyfriend better not annoy us on the train trip." Haven said haughtily as we climed into a compartment. "I don't have a boyfriend." I replied calmly.
"James! Uh duh." she said
"He isn't my boyfriend! I don't even know if we're friends!" I yelled angrily.
"He is obviously crazy about you." Bernadette reminded me smiling.
"He is obviously an arse." I reminded her.
"He is cute though." Lark said frowning, probabley remembering how he humilated her.
"Hello! Potter cute? ugh. Now Justin is cute." Haven grinned stupidly
"Oh shut up Haven." Lo said yawning. Pouting, Haven turned and looked out the window. The ride passed smoothly littered with conversations about quiddich, clothes WNN (Wireless wizarding network) the cutest boys (Haven said Justin, Lark said James, Bernadette blushed and said Sirius, Lo said Remus I got out of it by pretending I dropped something outside the compartment) and of course about what a git Bellatrix Black and her friends are. It wasn't until the trip was almost over was our quiet train ride interupted.
"Well, well,well its the Gryffindor girls." Bellatrix smirked as she slid open the compartment door.
"Well, well, well its the slytherin bitch." Lo repiled smiling.
"Watch your mouth." Bellatrix warned waving her wand.
"You think your so bad ass, but your not." Lo stood up her fingers twiriling her own wand. Bellatrix raised the hand that wasn't holding her wand and for a second I thought she was going to hit Lo, but instead she snapped her fingers. Snape, Nott and Avery all appeared behind Bellatrix, with there own wands raised. Bernadette and I jumped up, Lark tried to sink back into her seat and become invisable and Haven took out her wand eyeing Bellatrix with great distaste.
"You don't think I'm bad, love?" Bellatrix asked her voice danerously sweet.
"I think you wish you were bad, because it makes you feel specail of powerful or something." Lo hissed.
"Locmoter Mor-" but even before she had finisished the incantion Lo had yelled "Protego" and Bellatrix changed her target at we watched horrifed at Lark keeled over, ridged and slumped to the floor, but even before we could counterjinx Lestrange roared the same spell James had put on the first year and the slytherins laughed delighted as Haven was forced to do a kinda of jig in the middle of the compartment.
"Finite incantem." I said waving my wand, Lark struggled back to her seat and Haven stopped dancing immediatly.
"Oh the mudblood knows how to play." Bellatrix sneered.
"So do the blood traitors, get lost." Sirius said his wand agaisnt Bellatrix's back and her cronies back into a wall by James, Peter and Remus.
"Fine we'll go." Bellatrix grunted and snapped her fingers again as she and her friends left.
"Thanks Black." I said smiling warmly at Sirius. "No problem mouse partner." He replied while unwrapping a chocolate frog he had in his pocket.
"Well, it looks like we're here." James said as the train slowed to a stop inside the station.
"Everyone send me owls." I instructed as I began pulling my trunk towards the exit.
"Evans?" James said blushing a bit.
"Yes, Potter?" I asked turning to face him.
"Can I have a hug?" He asked sheepishly.
"Um...I guess so." I agreed wrapping my arms around his neck as her out his on my waist,
"Don't forget about me Evans." He said still not realsing me from the hug.
"How can I forget you?" I asked frowning slightly.
"You couldn't I am the best damn seeker Gryffindor as seen in a good many years." He bragged and I pulled away glowering at him.
"Lighten up Evans." He said grinning and kissed me swiftly on the cheek before leaving the compartment.
"He isn't your boyfriend?" Haven asked rolling her eyes.
"No, he isn't!" I shot at her. slightly annoyed that I was secretly pleased by the kiss.
"Come on you guys, your family's await." Bernadette said helping me carry my trunk out of the train and on a trolly.
"I'll see ya guys." I called to my friends as we exchanged hugs.
"Good-bye Lily!" they all said, Bernadette had tears in her eyes.
"I'll miss you." she sniffed.
"I'll miss you too." I smiled at her and turned around to see my mom, dad and sulky sister and felt a strange desire to go back on the train with my friends, a strange desire to never leave the magical world. Reluctantly and absentmindly rubbing my cheek where I had been kissed, I crossed the train station to my family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AN: Okay James & Lily are not going out just to make sure you know, the kiss was just James's way of expressing how much he was gonna miss her. James & Lily dont go out til 7th yr. Sirius says so in book5, but don't worry they will hook up soon enough. So what did ya think about this chapter? Good? Bad? well the next chappy is all about Lily's summer.READ & REVIEW IF YA WANT ME TO POST NEW CHAPTERS-April
And so OWL's swooped upon us. Charms was fairly easy, more so than I had thought in any case. Lo was complaing about accidently popping the balloon she was supposed to banish, I was wondering if they might take points of for summoning the wrong object, but Bernadette was the most worried about missing the frog she should have been silencing and hitting her examiner. After charms we had astronomy, my worst subject. Then we moved on to divination on Wendsday I was postitive I did well on he written part and I pretended to be seeing the baby agian, with the sliced head and the dead women beside him, I think It went well. Thursday I had care of magial creatures which Peter Pettigrew spent in the hospital wing because five minutes into the exam he was attacked by a bowtuckle. Care of Magical creatures went very well for me execpt for the niffle trying to steal my silver ring. Friday we had Herbology which Lo swore she failed miserably and nobody doubted it seeing as a mandrake knocked her uncouncious for the entire day. By the weekened even though most people would like to relax we still had Transfiguration, Defense agianst the dark arts, and for some people anceint runes. Our defense exam was taken on Monday, we did the pracitcal in the morning and I easily got and E if not an O. The written test was slightly harder I felt a pang of sympathy for Remus when answering question ten which was about how to identify a werewolf. After defense Lo, Haven, Lark, Bernadette and me went out to enjoy a bit of the warm summer air. I figured I could study transfiguration that night If I had too. We headed to the lake and removed our shoes to dip our feet in the cool water, an escape from the summer heat.
"Hey, whats the crowd for? The best not be forming a mosh pit without me." Lo said standing as we all put out shoes back on.
"Hey its Potter, Black and Snape!" Bernadette informed as Lo picked her up so she could see over the heads of the crowd. James glanced at us and grinned at Snape who was alone from his friends and splayed on the ground, his wand laying several feet away from him. I jumped up running towards the crowd, towards James. Snape had let out a sting of curses and swears and James glared at him raised his wand.
"Wash your mouth. Scourgify" He said and soap bubbles emitted from Snape's mouth, choking him.
"Leave him alone!" I yelled to James who turned around and his voice changing slightly, becoming much more pleseant, more mature. He was smirking in a suprised way, he was acting as though I was supposed to be impressed at him ganging up in Snape when none of his cronies were around.
"All right Evans?" he asked
"Leave him alone! What has he done to you?" I asked looking at him with distaste, he was just as arrogent and mean as I had thought.
"Well" he began thoughtfully. "Its really more the fact that he EXISTs if you know what I mean." he said and servel onlookers laughed.
"You think your funny." I said an icy note in my voice. "But your just an arrogent bullying toerag Potter. Leave him ALONE."
"I will if you go out with me, Evans! Go on...Go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old snivelly agian." He replied smoothly. Behind him Snape was inching towards his wand but I didn't pay attention.
"I wouldn't go out with you if it were a choice between you and the giant squid!" I said fiercly.
"Bad luck Prongs." Sirius said looking anxioulsy at Snape who grabbed his wand. James raised his own but not quickley enough. There was a flash of light and a gash formed on James's cheek blood splatterd on his robes and n the ground. "Oh my gods!" I whisperd, but no one heard me because James counter attacked by flipping Snape upside down, just as Hagrid had suggested. His robes fell over his head and his pale skinny body and a pair of graying underpants were revealed to the jeering crowd. I fought to keep my face straight and it wasn't easy. I wanted to laugh so badly I even felt my mouth twitch as though I were about to smile.
"Let him down." I said my voice notably less cold.
"Certainly!" James agreed with a smile and Snape fell to the ground trying to detangle himself from his robes. He managed to get to his feet, wand raised when Sirius bellowed.
"Locmotor mortis!" and Snape keeled.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" I yelled Sirius and James, furious once agian at the pair of them. I grabbed my own wand and raised it so it was in clear veiw to Potter.
"Ah Evans don't make me hex you!" He implored.
"Take the curse off him, then!" I snapped still clutching my wand. James sighed deeply and reluctantly mutterd the counter curse.
"There you go. Your lucky Evans was here, Snivellus." James said snidly.
"I don't need help from a filthy mudblood like her!" Snape yelled. I felt like someone had just punched my stomache, I had helped him and what did he do? insult me! He was a Slytherin and a friend of Bellatrix...What had I expected? I blinked my eyes to rid my face of emotion.
"Fine. I wont bother in the future. And I wash my pants if I were you, Snivellus." I said coolly.
"Apologize to Evans!" James yelled to Snape, his wand poised to attack.
"I dont want you to make him apologize! Your just as bad as he is!" I shouted at James who looked deeply offended.
"WHAT? I'D NEVER call you a- a you-know-what!" he said shocked
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool like you've just gotten off your broomstick, showing off wiht that stupid snitch, walking down corriders hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can-I'm suprised your broomstick can get off the ground with your fat head on it! You make me SICK!" I yelled in anger and frustration looking at him as though seeing him for the first time. I tried not to remember the dreams, the snitch for christmas, the day in the three broomsticks, the valentine, I blinked back tears as I stomped away.
"Evans! hey EVANS!" he called to me, btu just like the night when he had been kissing Acanatha in the common room I didn't even glance back. I heard him talking to Sirius and I was just about back in the castle when I heard the jeering and laughing grow louder and Bernadette, Havem Lark and LO came running up to me Lark looked as though she might throw up, Haven was blushing and Lo was laughing hysterically. Bernadette looked shocked and giggily.
"He took off Snape's pants." Bernadette said and tears of laughter flowed down Lo's cheeks.
"He isn't a very big boy..." Haven said making Lo double up and lean agaisnt the wall for support.
"I hate James." I said but I couldn't help smiling, Snape didn't deserve that bt he did call me a mubblood the greasy basterd.
"Lets go inside and try and study for transfiguration." I suggested chortling a bit as we made our way to the Gryffindor commmon room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Come on Lily!" Lark nagged grabbing my arm and dragging me out of the dorm.
"You can't miss the final quiddich game!" Bernadette said incredously.
"Why not?" I scoweled, allowing my friends to usher me down to the quiddich feild.
"We have it after OWL's this year because McGonagall wanted to give the Gryffindors more time to train. Justin told me" Haven said no no one in particular.
"Um...I have to go because Wood told you its after OWL's?" I asked confused. Lo snickered and rolled her eyes.
"No, you have to go because its Gryffindor verses Slytherin for the cup and I don't care whats going on with you can James, your going to watch this match and your going to support Gryffindor." Lo stated indiffernt to my feeble excuses for forgetting my scarf and not feeling well.
"You feel perfectly fine and its June, why the hell do you need a scarf?" he asked dismissevly.
"Fine." I groaned taking my seat in the stands. James scanned the many rows of Gyrfifndors above him and when he spotted me he smile and met my eye. I didn't return the grin instead I kinda've half shurgged and pretened to be interested in my nails. Lyle began announcing the players and I began wondering how many OWL"s I got.
"AND THEY'RE OFF! Primrose with the quaffle! Nice pass to Nixie Olive who doges a bulger oo blocked by Roe, Cooper, from Slytherin, grabs the quaffle he is cut off by a nice bludger from the Gyrffindro beaters. OH AND THAT IS A FOUL!" Lyle roared as the Slytherin beater Devlin Welford zoomed over to James and Kicked him.
"Nixie Olive takes the fouls shots and yes!!! she gets it past the keep Lestrange!! Gryffindor Ten, Slytherin 0!" Lyle announced and that was how the game began. I watched James for a bit, he looked strained as the score was now Gryffindor 170 and Slytherin 150. If he failed to get the snitch, and Charles Flint got it instead, Slytherin would win. Alexander Johnson managed to put another goal between the teams but it was still only 30 points apart. Flint began zooming across the feild towards Alexander Johnson and Devlin Welford who were near the Slytherin goal posts. Devlin spotted a bludger and pelted it towards James who swerved out of the way clutching his broom and flying foward, grabbing his broom with one hand and his other stretched out for the snitch. Flint reached fowards from behind James and hit him in the head sending his glasses slightly askew. James kept his focus and grabbed the snicth just as Devlin Welford his him in the back of the head with his bat. The look of triumph on James's face didn't change but he fell twently feet backwards and hit the ground with a thud. The noises in the staduim varied from screams of anxiety for James, shouts of Victory for the win for Gryffindor, heckling from the Slytherins and roars of angrey Gryffindors who all look as though they would like nothing better than to kill Devlin Welford who looked very nervous, indeed. Professor McGonagall conjured a stretcher and brought James into the castle, the rest of the quiddich team was smiling and crying as they held up there new quiddich cup for the school to see. Sirius, Remus and Peter had already set off for the castle and Lo had jumped up to follow.
"YOU HAVE TO COME ALL OF YOU HE COULD BE DEAD!' she screamed and I followed dashing down the corridersd until we finally reached the hosiptal wing. I ambled in clutching a stich in my side and trying to catch my breath. James ficked his eyes opena nd blinked as though dazed.
"He should be fine." Madam Pomfrey reassured us and Professor McGonagall, who looked very shaken.
"Oh, very well then. I shall need to collect the quiddich cup. Boys, girls do make sure James is all right." McGonagall said as she went back to the feild. James stared up at us all with a disoriented look on his face
"Did I get it?" he asked urgently.
"Get what?" Remus said soothingly.
"The snitch! Did we win?" he sat up and winced a bit.
"Yeah Gryffindor won!" Sirius said grinning and slapped James in the back, which juding by the way James's flinched and yelped, wasn't a good idea.
"Fell of a broom? Hit in the head with a bat? What is this school coming too?" raged madam Pomfrey as she removed James's quiddich robes and shirt and began applying cream to the large bruises on his back and ribs and the growing lump on the back of his head.
"You should be fine now dear just rest up a bit." She said to James before returning to her other patients.
"Why did you all come here?" James asked rumpeling his hair which was completely unnessary seeing as it was already extremely untidy.
"To see if you were alive or dead." Lo said bluntly.
"Oh...thanks I think." he grinned and then looked at me.
"You care if I'm alive Evans? Thought I was conceited?" he said smugly.
"Of course I care if your alive." I blushed and he grinned again and opened his hand to reveal the snitch. His palm was bleeding from holding it to tight.
"Didn't even realize I was had it." He said suprised and cleaned the blood from it with his wand before handing it to me.
"A gift from me to you, the quiddich cup winning snitch." He opened my hand and placed the glittering gold ball into my hand before taking my fingers and his own and closing them around my newest snitch.
"I already have a snitch, the one you gave me for Christmas." I reminded him.
"Now you have two, start a collection." He said smiling lightheartedly.
"Maybe I will." I said with a grin.
"Wanna go ot with me?" he asked.
"Er...sorry Potter not this year." I said awkwardly.
"Its almost time to began another year." he said offhandedly.
"Well meet the next year when it comes." I felt the snitch's little wings beating agaisnt my hand.
"Anyways come on Lily lets go inform the rets of the world that Potter is okay." Bernadette suggested and lead Lo, Lark Haven and I from the infirmary.
"I can't wait to go congratulate Justin." Haven said happily and ran ahead of us towards the fat lady.
"You and James are so going to get married one day, gods your lucky." Lark said enviously.
"We are ot going to get married." I protested,
"Oh give it up Lily, your madly inlove with him and you know it." Lo teased.
"I am not madly inlove with anyone!" I said loudly.
"Yeah and your not overemotional." Lo mutterd sarcastically. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The week leading up to the final day of my fifth year went by quickly. I put my newest snitch with my old one, in a velvet satchle I keep jewelery in. Disheartened as I was for the school year to end and to leave the beautiful castle, that was my home, I was also happy that soon I would be able to see my parents agian. The last day of fifth year had clear, warm wheather. I spent most of the afternoon packing my trunk before going to the end-of-term feast. The hall was decorated in red and gold to celebrate Gryffindor winning the house cup. "Hey Lily, over here!" Lark beckoned as I sat down across from her and next to Bernadette
and Lo. "Welcome to the feast! Another year has pass us by! May you go home tomorrow with good hopes! And as the next year will soon be upon us I ask you all to stand by your friends and settle disagreements with your enemies because dark times are dawning upon us and I look to you all, the future of the wizarding world, to show us your inner strength and stay true to yourself! With that said, let us eat! Tuck in!" Dumbledorr finished his speech and the plates filled with food. " Encouraging speech." Lo said admirably helping her self to steak.
"Well spoken." Remus agreed as he sat next to her.
"I'm going to miss you over the summer." Lo said to her boyfriend and the two of them became disolved in their own conversation.
"Send me loads of owls!" I said to Bernadette Haven and Lark.
"Of course we will!" Bernadette promised.
"Justin said he would send me and owl twice a week...poor boy just can't be without me!" Haven bragged twiling her blonde hair on her finger.
"If he can't be without you then why is he over with his friends right now, and not you?" Lo interjected.
"Oh shut up and shag Remus." Haven snapped and Lo laughed.
"I think she offerd a reasonable suggestion..." Remus joked and Lo stuck her tounge out at Haven who rolled her eyes in return.
"So Evans, gonna send me any owls over the summer?" James asked as he, Peter and Sirius came over to sit near Remus.
"I don't have an owl to send to anyone Potter." I said briskly.
"Oh thats okay, I'll send you owls." he winked at me.
"James has his own Owl named Godric!" Peter piped grinning.
"And Sirius has one named Gryffindor." Remus said smiling.
"So when you puit them together its "Godric Gryffindor!" Peter exclaimed as though that were the most excitng thing in the world.
"Isn't it clever?" Sirius asked beaming.
"Its genious." Bernadette said sarcastically. The conversation turned ro quiddich as we ate our way through dinner and dessert.
"To bed!" Dumbledoor said smiling warmly to his students who all dragged them selves off their benches feeling very comfortable and sleepy. "Nighty night." Sirius said yawning widley as he Peter, Remus and James walked up the boys staircase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The day was warm and sunny as we boarded the Hogwarts express.
"Do you have to go with the prefects agian?" Lo asked sulkily.
"No, I'm all yours this time." I replied grinning and her sulky expression vanished as she returned my grin.
"Ugh Lily your boyfriend better not annoy us on the train trip." Haven said haughtily as we climed into a compartment. "I don't have a boyfriend." I replied calmly.
"James! Uh duh." she said
"He isn't my boyfriend! I don't even know if we're friends!" I yelled angrily.
"He is obviously crazy about you." Bernadette reminded me smiling.
"He is obviously an arse." I reminded her.
"He is cute though." Lark said frowning, probabley remembering how he humilated her.
"Hello! Potter cute? ugh. Now Justin is cute." Haven grinned stupidly
"Oh shut up Haven." Lo said yawning. Pouting, Haven turned and looked out the window. The ride passed smoothly littered with conversations about quiddich, clothes WNN (Wireless wizarding network) the cutest boys (Haven said Justin, Lark said James, Bernadette blushed and said Sirius, Lo said Remus I got out of it by pretending I dropped something outside the compartment) and of course about what a git Bellatrix Black and her friends are. It wasn't until the trip was almost over was our quiet train ride interupted.
"Well, well,well its the Gryffindor girls." Bellatrix smirked as she slid open the compartment door.
"Well, well, well its the slytherin bitch." Lo repiled smiling.
"Watch your mouth." Bellatrix warned waving her wand.
"You think your so bad ass, but your not." Lo stood up her fingers twiriling her own wand. Bellatrix raised the hand that wasn't holding her wand and for a second I thought she was going to hit Lo, but instead she snapped her fingers. Snape, Nott and Avery all appeared behind Bellatrix, with there own wands raised. Bernadette and I jumped up, Lark tried to sink back into her seat and become invisable and Haven took out her wand eyeing Bellatrix with great distaste.
"You don't think I'm bad, love?" Bellatrix asked her voice danerously sweet.
"I think you wish you were bad, because it makes you feel specail of powerful or something." Lo hissed.
"Locmoter Mor-" but even before she had finisished the incantion Lo had yelled "Protego" and Bellatrix changed her target at we watched horrifed at Lark keeled over, ridged and slumped to the floor, but even before we could counterjinx Lestrange roared the same spell James had put on the first year and the slytherins laughed delighted as Haven was forced to do a kinda of jig in the middle of the compartment.
"Finite incantem." I said waving my wand, Lark struggled back to her seat and Haven stopped dancing immediatly.
"Oh the mudblood knows how to play." Bellatrix sneered.
"So do the blood traitors, get lost." Sirius said his wand agaisnt Bellatrix's back and her cronies back into a wall by James, Peter and Remus.
"Fine we'll go." Bellatrix grunted and snapped her fingers again as she and her friends left.
"Thanks Black." I said smiling warmly at Sirius. "No problem mouse partner." He replied while unwrapping a chocolate frog he had in his pocket.
"Well, it looks like we're here." James said as the train slowed to a stop inside the station.
"Everyone send me owls." I instructed as I began pulling my trunk towards the exit.
"Evans?" James said blushing a bit.
"Yes, Potter?" I asked turning to face him.
"Can I have a hug?" He asked sheepishly.
"Um...I guess so." I agreed wrapping my arms around his neck as her out his on my waist,
"Don't forget about me Evans." He said still not realsing me from the hug.
"How can I forget you?" I asked frowning slightly.
"You couldn't I am the best damn seeker Gryffindor as seen in a good many years." He bragged and I pulled away glowering at him.
"Lighten up Evans." He said grinning and kissed me swiftly on the cheek before leaving the compartment.
"He isn't your boyfriend?" Haven asked rolling her eyes.
"No, he isn't!" I shot at her. slightly annoyed that I was secretly pleased by the kiss.
"Come on you guys, your family's await." Bernadette said helping me carry my trunk out of the train and on a trolly.
"I'll see ya guys." I called to my friends as we exchanged hugs.
"Good-bye Lily!" they all said, Bernadette had tears in her eyes.
"I'll miss you." she sniffed.
"I'll miss you too." I smiled at her and turned around to see my mom, dad and sulky sister and felt a strange desire to go back on the train with my friends, a strange desire to never leave the magical world. Reluctantly and absentmindly rubbing my cheek where I had been kissed, I crossed the train station to my family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AN: Okay James & Lily are not going out just to make sure you know, the kiss was just James's way of expressing how much he was gonna miss her. James & Lily dont go out til 7th yr. Sirius says so in book5, but don't worry they will hook up soon enough. So what did ya think about this chapter? Good? Bad? well the next chappy is all about Lily's summer.READ & REVIEW IF YA WANT ME TO POST NEW CHAPTERS-April
