It seems the founder has been scarred away. What a wuss? Anyway I am Blueskywillow - yes the real one! For liability reasons keep everything to yourself and inside the bus. Toilets are that way and someone will be along to serve you food. Now lets get going. Hey I heard that, I am so not boring! You wanna hear a joke then here we go. What farts like a sheep and lives in a field?

Disclaimer: Blueskywillow does absolutely not own Harry Potter - Past, Present or Future, she merely runs the tour. And just to mention she doesn't get paid either, after all the tour is free.

Chapter 10

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Two weeks later Lily was sitting in the common room with Michelle. She was reading Pride and Prejudice in French. Michelle looked at Lily.

"You're weird." Michelle said thoughtfully.

"Thank you." Lily said her eyes still focused on the book. Michelle just looked at her and shook her head. The portrait hole opened and in walked James and Sirius.

"How was Quidditch practice?" Michelle asked the boys as they sat down beside them.

"We kinda didn't get to that." Sirius grinned.

"Why?" Michelle asked curiously.

"We got into a food fight." Sirius said sheepishly. Michelle laughed.

"I take it you guys have detention then?" Lily asked looking at James. He nodded his head.

"I don't know why your nodding cause you got of with it." Sirius said.

"How did you get off with it?" Michelle asked. Sirius moved a magazine of her lap and put his head down, Michelle acted as if she hadn't noticed. Lily and James looked at them, but didn't say anything.

"My dad's is having dinner here, and I have to have dinner with him." James replied.

"Lucky git. But at least I get to have dinner with these lovely ladies." Sirius grinned.

Michelle and Lily rolled their eyes.

"We're privileged now." Lily said mockingly.

"Come on Lil, you-" Sirius began but was hit in the stomach with the novel Lily was reading. "-Ow, bloody heck Lily what are you reading?" Sirius asked rubbing his stomach and looking through the book. James and Michelle laughed as he tried to say some of the French words.

"What is this anyway?" Sirius asked.

"Pride and Prejudice." James answered for her. They all looked at him.

"How'd you know that?" Lily asked taking the book from Sirius.

"My mum has it. For some reason she enjoys reading it in French as well." James said. Lily smiled.

"It's the challenge of it, James. If only you knew what that was like." Lily said.

"Oh you think I can't read that and understand it." James said smiling with his eyebrows raised. "Fine then." He took the book of Lily. He opened it and picked a page. He read over it in silence then looked at Lily. He read the section in French then translated it into English.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters." James said without even looking at the book. James beamed at her. Lily was impressed that he knew that.

"Trust you to pick that line, even though it is true." Sirius commented. "James has been offered every daughter in the country." Sirius said. Michelle slapped his arm to shut him up. Lily and James ignored them.

"You are very puzzling, Mr. Darcy. At this moment it is difficult to believe you are so proud." Lily said repeating a line from the book Elizabeth had said to Mr. Darcy. James smiled at her.

"At this moment it is difficult to believe you are so prejudiced. Shall we not call it quits and start again?" James said smiling. He remembered what Mr. Darcy had said to Elizabeth. Lily was very impressed. Michelle and Sirius looked at them both strangely. Sirius was sitting up in the chair again. He looked at Michelle. They both shared the same thought. Lily and James had gone crazy.

"How do you know that?" Lily asked him in awe.

"When I was home schooled as a child, my mum made me read the whole book in German, French and for some reason Gaelic." James said.

"Now James you know it was for the best, plus your mother insisted upon it, considering it is her favorite book." James' father said. James turned round and looked at his dad.

"You're here early." James said to his dad.

"And hello to you to." Mr. Potter smiled.

"Hey Dad." James said rolling his eyes.

"That's much better. Hello Michelle, Lily...Sirius." Mr. Potter said Sirius' name stiffly.

"Mickey, Mickey, Mickey." Sirius said in a sarcastic tone. "You are still a sore loser." Sirius grinned.

"Sirius you cheated in that last game of snooker. You know I would've won if some how the white ball hadn't of jumped of the table." Mr. Potter said crossing his arms.

"You hit the ball too hard." Sirius said.

"I didn't even touch it." Mr. Potter argued.

"Guys we're not getting into this discussion again." James said rolling his eyes.

"I'll have you a rematch when we get home at Christmas." Sirius said to him. Mr. Potter rolled his eyes.

"James where is your sister?" Mr. Potter asked. Just as James was about to reply the portrait hole opened and Eve walked in with a guy. Eve stopped dead in her tracks as she seen her father there, she tried to walk out the door again but her father had seen her.

"Eve!" Mr. Potter called. Eve spun on her heel and plastered an innocent smile on her face.

"Hi, daddy. I didn't see you there." Eve said sweetly. She walked over to her dad and hugged him. "What are you doing here?" Eve asked innocently. She had her hands behind her back and was motioning for the guy to leave the common room. James was eyeing the guy. James didn't like him.

"I'm here to talk to James." Mr. Potter said.

"So, you don't need to talk to me, that means I can go." Eve said, she motioned to leave.

"Well, I kinda hoped you would have dinner with us later. You're mother is here also. She needed to speak with Lily." Mr. Potter said. Michelle and Sirius looked at Lily as Lily looked at Mr. Potter.

"But...I umm can't I umm..." Eve looked at Michelle for some help.

"She has a huge test to study for." Michelle said.

"Yeah, I have a test." Eve said. "I better go." Eve said, she hugged her dad then left, the guy following her. James motioned to leave when Lily pulled him back down.

"Why does Mrs. Potter need to speak to me?" Lily asked Mr. Potter.

"I don't know, but she insisted upon coming." Mr. Potter smiled. "She told me tell you to meet her at Dumbledore's office in an hour and to bring some of your work." Lily's eyes went wide.

"I better go get my stuff ready." Lily said excitedly and ran up the stairs. James watched her go

"James I was wondering if we could talk." Mr. Potter said. James turned to his dad.

"Yeah, I just gotta talk to Lily first." James said. Mr. Potter smiled and nodded his head. He turned to Sirius as James went up towards the girls' dormitories.

"A game of exploding snap?" Mr. Potter asked sitting down.

"You're going down." Sirius said as he took a pack of cards and laid them out.

Meanwhile, James knocked on Lily's dorm room door. He could hear some bustle then Lily opened the door and let him in. She then went back to looking through a number of sketchpads.

"Lily, what're you doing?" James asked sitting down beside her.

"I'm looking for my best designs. But I can't find any." Lily said flicking through page after page. "Ugh! These are all crap." Lily said aggravated at her self. James put a hand on hers to stop her flicking.

"Lil calm down, okay? Take a deep breath." James reassured her. "It's only my mum." James said.

"It's not just your mum; this could be the start of me career. The designs she sees have to be perfect." Lily stressed.

"Lily, the stuff you draw is perfect. They're beautiful, just like their creator. Now please stop fussing, I'll help you choose some, I'm sure my dad won't mind waiting. He's probably in a heated battle of exploding snap." James said mockingly. Lily laughed.

"Thank you." Lily said before hugging him. They then started looking through her sketchpads. Unknown to them but someone had heard every single word of this conversation. Michelle was standing in the doorway; she had followed James hoping that she too could talk to Lily. Michelle watched them. They were acting so different towards each other. Michelle only realized it now, but they had been acting weird ever since they came back to school. Something must have happened between them, something that had finally stopped the little feud they had. This didn't freak out Michelle, as you would expect, she was actually happy. She knew that James was a good guy (even though barely anyone knew it) and was happy that Lily seen it as well and vice versa for James. Michelle walked back down the stairs with a smile on her face. She sat down beside Sirius who was in fact in a heated battle with Mr. Potter, so heated his eyebrows had been singed badly. Anybody who wasn't a second year Gryffindor and up would've found this odd, the Minister of Magic playing exploding snap with a seventh year, this seemed almost unimaginable to most people. But most people were used to this because James' father came to visit him a lot. Mr. Potter was always laid back so it wasn't really odd for Michelle because she knew him since she was a kid, and she was used to his and Sirius' game rivalries. She always saw Mr. Potter as a kind man, always looking out for his children and their friends, as was Mrs. Potter. She was practically a mother to Michelle ever since her own mother left her with only her and her father. Mr. Potter was also always so nice to Sirius, he and his father didn't really get on well, so Mr. Potter always tried to cheer Sirius up by there little rivalry they had. Mr. Potter was also so nice to Remus; he always treated him with respect even though he knew Remus was a werewolf. She guessed Lily would be the new edition to their little group of people who were looked after by the Potter family, but as what, a daughter, a friend or maybe even a daughter-in-law. Michelle smiled at this thought, a daughter-in-law, how ridiculous was that? Michelle leaned back in the chair and watched Mr. Potter and Sirius singe their eyebrows some more. After a while James came back down.

"Dad are you ready-?" James began but busted out laughing when he seen his and Sirius' faces. They had no eyebrows and James found this very funny. Mr. Potter rolled his eyes then flicked his wand so that he had eyebrows again.

"Hey, what about me?" Sirius asked.

"That's what you get for cheating." Mr. Potter smiled.

"I didn't cheat." Sirius said. Mr. Potter rolled his eyes then flicked his wand, but the funny thing was that not only did Sirius' eyebrows grow back, but they grew back pink. James and Michelle started laughing.

"What're you guys laughing at?" Sirius asked. But none of them could speak; finally Michelle found her voice.

"Fix them right, Mr. P. I already have to look at his ugly mug, and I don't wanna be laughing at it cause it's rude." Michelle laughed.

"Hey!" Sirius said and started chasing her round the room. Mr. Potter flicked his wand and Sirius' eyebrows went back to its original color.

"You ready son?" Mr. Potter asked James.

"Yeah." James said and they walked out of the room.

A while later Lily came down the stairs with a portfolio and looking very nervous. She sat down beside Sirius, Michelle, Remus and Peter.

"Hey guys." Lily said as she sat down. "Where have you been?" Lily asked Remus and Peter.

"I was doing my homework." Peter squeaked.

"I was...umm...studying." Remus said quickly. Lily was too nervous to think about his slowness of answering that question. Lily kept checking her watch, Ten minuets left.

"Lily, chill. It'll go okay." Michelle comforted her. Lily smiled at her.

"What's going on?" Remus asked curiously.

"Lily, has an interview type thing with Mrs. P." Michelle said. Lily looked at her. How did she know it was an interview? Lily hadn't told her...unless she overheard her and James talking? Then she would have seen her and James kissing. But before Lily could say anything James came storming into the common room. Lily looked up to see James very angry.

"I can't believe him. That fucking asshole." James said muttering to himself.

"James, what's wrong?" Remus asked. James was about to speak again when his father came through the portrait hole.

"I told you I didn't want to talk about it anymore." James spat at him.

"James we have to talk about it sooner or later." Mr. Potter said calmly.

"We don't need to talk about it cause I'm not f**king-" James began but immediately stopped when a hand touched his arm. Lily had gotten off her chair and was now standing beside James. James touched his head and looked at the ground. Michelle and Sirius both noticed how quickly James calmed down when Lily touched him. They gave each other perplexed looks.

"I'm sorry about this Mr. Potter." Lily said.

"It's understandable, Lily. I was exactly the same as James in my younger days. But he just needs to understand-" Mr. Potter began.

"I don't need to understand anything-" James said through clenched teeth. Lily took a hold of James' arm.

"James let's go outside so you can cool off for a bit." Lily said calmly. James said nothing but let Lily lead him out of the common room. Everyone in the common room sat in shock at the way James talked to the minister of magic even though he was his father.

"What was that all about?" Michelle asked.

"I tried to talk to James about his future, and I suggested a job at the ministry. And unfortunately he has the same anger problems as Sirius." Mr. Potter said rubbing the back of his neck. Sirius jumped up.

"I don't have anger problems!" Sirius said angrily. Mr. Potter chuckled.

"Not at all." Mr. Potter said as Michelle made Sirius sit back down in the seat. "I better go. I'm sure Jane won't be happy about this." Mr. Potter said.

"Mrs. Potter is gonna kill you now." Remus smiled.

"Don't I know it." Mr. Potter said before he left.

Meanwhile Lily and James were walking round the castle.

"What happened?" Lily asked. James looked at the ground.

"I flipped at him because he offered me a job at the ministry." James said quietly rubbing his forehead. Lily stopped and looked at him. "I know it's stupid, it's just..." James trailed off.

"You don't want to get a job just because of your father's position." Lily said understanding him.

"Yeah, its not that I'm not grateful, it's just..." James trailed of again.

"You want to make your own way in life." Lily said again. James looked at her.

"Can you read people's mind?" James asked her seriously. Lily smiled.

"No, I can just read you like a book." Lily said.

"I guess I was only meant for one reader then." James smiled wrapping his arms round her waist. Lily chuckled.

"What other options are you thinking about in your career?" Lily asked. James went quiet.

"Well there is only one other option I'm thinking about." James said quietly, moving away from her.

"Oh yeah, what's that?" Lily said attentively.

"Quidditch." James said.

"You can't have a career in Quidditch." Lily chuckled.

"Actually...umm...I already have a career in it." James said his eyes on his feet.

"I hardly count captain of Gryffindor team a career." Lily smiled.

"Actually, I've been accepted into the English Quidditch camp." James said still staring at her feet. Lily stopped in her tracks. Her eyes went wide in shock.

"W-what? You're joking, right?" Lily said in surprise. James smiled and shook his head, now looking into her eyes. Lily flung her arms around him. "OMG! James that's great! Omg! Why didn't you tell me before?" Lily asked pulling away from him.

"I don't know why." James shrugged. "There are some scouts coming to some of our games to make sure they are doing the right thing. So I have to get by that first before I am truly accepted." James said.

"James this is great. Do your parents know?" Lily asked. James shook his head.

"You gotta tell them, you know that right?" Lily said. James nodded his head. Lily started pacing the corridor, one hand on her head the other on her hip, a grin on her face. "I still can't get over this; it's like wow." Lily said. Just then a person came round the corner.

"What's amazing?" Jordan asked them. Lily looked up then looked at James.

"That, we...umm...actually got to plan our own ball." Lily said with a fake smile.

"Speaking of which, I was wondering what your costume was gonna be? A bunch of us in Hufflepuff are planning to wear togas and just thought you could go as one of those people who served the grapes." Jordan said. Lily looked him, was he really saying that he wanted her to go as a servant? James knew that a full-scale riot was about to brake out so decided he better leave.

"Lil, I better go." James said.

"Make sure you talk to your dad, please, for me." Lily said before kissing him on the cheek. James nodded then walked away. Lily turned to Jordan who had a look of shock on his face that Lily had just kissed one of her enemies.

"What makes you think I am gonna dress up as a Greek servant?" Lily said with her hands on her hips. Jordan grinned, forgetting about what he had seen. He slid his hands through her arms, and pulled her towards him.

"Cause you love me?" Jordan asked barely inches from her.

"Whatever, I'm still not dressing up as that." Lily said moving away from him. "I gotta go; I'm late for a meeting with Jane." Lily said.

"Who's Jane?" Jordan asked curiously.

"James' mum." Lily said.

"Why do you have a meeting with her?" Jordan asked, his eyebrows furrowed.

"About my work." Lily replied getting impatient.

"What work?" Jordan asked confused.

"I told you all about this. Look I gotta go." Lily said turning on her heel and walked away from him. Jordan watched her go. What has gotten into her lately? She has been acting different, and she is hanging around with Potter and his friends a lot. And why didn't she kiss me goodbye? She always kissed me goodbye. She kissed Potter goodbye and she hated him. What's going on between them? Jordan thought as she disappeared round a corner. Jordan sighed then walked back to his common room. Potter and Lily seem to have gotten very close. They spend lots of their time together planning this Halloween ball, surely it doesn't take that long to plan it? There is only one thing I can do...Spy! Jordan thought.

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A farting sheep of course! I like that - that was so not lame!!!! Anyway the review section is somewhere about here.

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