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James Potter, Dandelion Evans, Lily Evans, Dandelion Potter, Lily Potter, Lily gasped, horrified. What had she just thought?

"Miss Evans"

Crap.

"Would you so kindly tell me the answer to my question?"

Ah, feck.

Lily giggled nervously, "You see, the answer to that question, erm, is really quite confusing and um, takes a while to explain…."

"The answer if you please Miss Evans" Professor McGonagall interrupted cuttingly.

"Animagus" Some one whispered behind her.

"Er, but of course Professor" Lily turned her body slightly as to hear the person more clearly.

"The answer's animagus" The person said louder.

"Animagus?" Lily said meekly.

"Indeed Miss Evans, I want a 3 foot essay on animagus. (There was a significant amount of groaning in reply) Class dismissed"

There was instantly the sound of chairs scraping across the floor as students rushed out of the classroom.

Lily turned around to give the person behind her a grateful smile and was shocked to see the person was none other than James Potter, but before she could thank him, he was already half way out of the classroom.


Lily was not happy. Furthermore, she had no one to blame but herself. Why hadn't she listened in class? A three foot essay her butt, she hadn't even written one foot yet and she was stuck. So far, this is what she had gotten down.

'An animagus is a witch or wizard that is (able)capable of (turning) transforming into a particular animal at will. It is very difficult to become an animagus and the wizard or witch cannot choose the animal they transform into. The animal reflects on the witch or wizard's nature.

There are only 7 seven registered animagi in the entire world and'

'ARGH!' And Lily threw her quill on the table and effectively broke it, only adding to her anger. She had never had much trouble writing essays, and now she was trying to find longer words to take up more room. How low did she have to stoop to finish her essay? Lily groaned and let her head fall onto the table, she let it rest there for a while.

The door to their common room opened and in came James Potter, jubilant from quidditch practice.

Lily sat up straight quickly. "James."

"Hello Lily"

"Thanks for helping me in class today"

James chuckled, "No problem, Lily Evans daydreaming in class, I never though I'd see the day"

Lily groaned.

"Well, I'm going to take a shower"

Lily returned to her essay and rested her arms on the table with her head on top and groaned. Either she didn't realise how fast the time flew, or never realised how fast boys took showers, but either way James was at her side again within minutes.

"What's causing you such grief?" He asked, half mocking her.

"Nothing" Lily mumbled, reluctant in admitting that she was stuck on her homework, "Essay"

"Oh, well I wouldn't be surprised, she spent the whole class explaining them, but you can copy off mine if you want" And without waiting for a response he went to fetch his essay.

James Potter had finished his essay? Lily though wonderingly, what was the world coming to? She was almost too disgruntled to admire his retreating figure. Almost.

"Here it is!" James waved it around with flourish.

"I don't want it" Lily mumbled into her arm

"You sure?"

Lily humphed.

"Going once, going twice…."

Lily realised this was probably the best thing that had happened to her today, "Fine! I'll take it, but just in case"

James chuckled and walked back to his room.

When James had disappeared from her sight, she quickly grabbed the parchment and read eagerly.

She had been reading and writing for a while now when she hit a sentence.

'Animagi, just like any other animal are not affected by werewolves'

And then it hit her, of course! That's why they went out once every month. She had already known that Remus was a werewolf, but this… , this was a completely different matter.

"JAMES POTTER!"

To her annoyance, there was no reply.

"James?" She tried again. Lily decided to take a peek in his room. Where had he gone? How had she not noticed?

And as if on cue, he walked back into their common room. "JAMES POTTER!" She repeated.

"Yes?"

"Where have you been?"

He shrugged, "Out "he continued to make his way into his room when he realised that Lily was glaring at his back.

"How may I help thee?"

"You can help me by telling what this sentence means." She replied cuttingly.

He read the sentence she was pointing to and inwardly stiffened. Crap. He should've known she would've figured it out. "What's wrong with that sentence?" James replied casually, playing it cool.

Lily glared, "Don't play dumb, I know Remus is a werewolf and I know that you and your little friends are animagi"

"Don't say it any louder" James replied sarcastically.

"Why would you do such a thing?" Lily continued.

"We did because we were helpi…."

"It's ILLEAGAL" Interrupting once again, "You could land yourself in Azkaban, you and your bunch of friends think you're so smart, well you…"

"If you would just listen to m…" James tried continuing.

"You're not helping anyo…."Lily interrupted again.

"You know what Lily?"James interrupted this time "I don't even know why I bother, I lend you my essay and then you accuse me of things and you ask me questions, but you don't even give me time to answer them. What? Is your sole purpose in life criticise James Potter?" And then without further ado, he snatched up his essay and stormed into his room."

Lily sat there frozen in her seat, what had just happened? Did James Potter yell at her? What had she said again? Ah, crap. I'll apologise tomorrow, right now I'll just concentrate on finishing my essay. Lily really hated herself at that moment.


James Potter was feeling rather bad about what happened last night, I mean it wasn't really her fault. Hence, he had gone to redeem himself.

"Lily" He said softly, nudging her gently, hoping he'd wake her up. No such luck.

"Lilyyy" He said louder.

Lily mumbled something incoherent.

"Okay fine, I'll just apologise to you in your sleep."

"Huh?" Lily sat up blearily, "Are you apologising to me?"

"Er, yes, that would be the case

"Well, don't." Lily stated firmly.

"Pardon?" James stopped confused.

"I'm the one who should be apologising, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions like that and I only realised after that you did because you cared about Remus… and after reading your essay about animagi, I'm very impressed"

"Er" James was lost for words, had Lily Evans just complimented him? "Thanks I think"

Lily chuckled, "Well I'm just going to get changed"

"Oh, sorry yeah" And James went back to his room.


"Class, I would like to return your homework and I have to say, I was fairly impressed with the high standard of work"

The atmosphere lifted a little, this was high praise coming from Mcgonagall.

"…by most of you"

And it dropped back down again.

"Miss Mckinnon; well done, Miss Abott; yes well done, Mr. Black; please proofread, but otherwise, well done, Mr. Pettigrew, watch your spelling please, Mr. Potter; very well done indeed, Mr. Lupin, you too, Miss Evans, well done, especially considering your behavior yesterday…" As she proceeded to hand back their homework it seemed Professor Mcgonagall was in a very good mood indeed.

Eek! So sorry about the late update, I had this chapter written, but then I decided to rewrite it cause I realised that it really wasn't that great. I'd really appreciate your reviews about this chapter, because I'm not sure how many more chapters I should write and if I'm dragging it along too much, but anyway! Review, review, review!