Lily Bud

Year 3 Chapter 26

Potter was a stupid git! He was always playing pranks with Black and sometimes with Remus and Peter as well. He had just walked up to her and called her name. Lily had even stopped for a moment. Then he just grabbed her hand and when she wanted to pull away, it was stuck!

Lily shouted at him to let go, but he just smiled his stupid grin at her. People were looking and pointing at them.

"Potter, let go off my hand you berk!" Lily's voice sounded even shrill to her own ears.

"Nay, not feeling like it…" He just replied and smiled some more.

Lily turned red with embarrassment and anger when all her pulling was fruitless and she was really stuck with him. "We are going to Madam Pomfrey!" She tried to pull him along, but he just wouldn't move no matter how much she tried to. After some minutes he suddenly pulled his own arm back and she stumbled against his chest.

"Lily-Silly, we'll go where I want us to go!" With those words, he pulled her after him and proceeded to tell her stuff about Hogwarts. He mimicked Binns while he told her about the different ghosts and paintings.

Finally Lily had enough and pulled out her wand at him.

"Listen you sewer rat that somebody accidental turned into a boy! We will reverse this!" She angrily shook their joined hands. "Right now! Or I'll hex your nose on your foot and your tongue into your ears. So that you forever smell nothing but your own cheesy feet and taste nothing but earwax!"

He turned pale and made cross-eyes at her wand, while stuttering. "Don't know how…."

Lily growled at him. "Madam Pomfrey! Now!"

He nodded and walked a few meters in the right direction. "You know, we can go to the infirmary…"

"What we are going to do!"

"But for that we have to go past the Great Hall and dinner is starting soon… Everybody is going to see us…"

Lily stopped and bared her teeth at him.

"Or we could go to the library and find a solution for ourselves…" He tried to sound nonchalant.

"It is not that much further from here to the library than the infirmary." She watched him suspiciously.

"Oh, but it is!" He pulled out his wand and tipped at two suits of armor, that moved their lances to the other hand and a corridor appeared between them. "It leads directly to the library." He grinned his wide and boyish grin at her and for some reason she decided to trust him. True enough, they appeared in a small back room of the library. James opened the door for her and with a small bow invited her through. "After you m'lady."

Lily suppressed the smile that wanted to form on her lips and tugged him along with her.

It took them nearly half an hour to find the right spell. Lily read through two whole chapters of household spells before she found it. Lily looked at him over the edge of her book. Potter really couldn't be still for a moment. Even now the hand that held hers was moving and his fingers darted over hers. He really was a silly boy with too much energy and stupid ideas in his head.

That evening Sulfia assured Lily that Potter made a much bigger fool out of himself than her and that everybody will forget about it by tomorrow.

They lay in bed and still talked about how big of an idiot Potter was when Dorcas giggled.

"Maybe he likes you?"

Lily and Sulfia looked equally horrified at the idea.

"Surely not!" Sulfia claimed. "He would be nicer and romantic and stuff, if he did."

Lily nodded eagerly to that idea. No way that idiot liked her, right?

A.N. And we are back to that prank from The Best. Here we see it from Lily's perspective. Of course she is annoyed by him, but some little part of her can see that James can be charming and fun as well. We get a first look at Lily's ability to creatively insult James, I hope you like it.

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