Disclaimer: I do not own the 'Harry Potter' books.
AN: This chapter is what happened with James and Becky while the events in the previous chapter took place.
Chapter Twenty Nine: Not Lily?
I don't really know why Regulus chose me to this. The second years would probably have been much better at it and Steph is in Gryffindor so she probably knew more about James and Lily than I did. Then again the Gryffindors might have noticed if Steph was missing, and Regulus trusted me a lot more than he did his other friends.
The potion looked pretty but tasted vile. When I had finished transforming, I looked down at my best friend. I was now three whole inches taller than him. He gave me a weird look as if to say 'stop daydreaming', so I did, and tried to do my best impression of Lily. Regulus said it was a good one and let me go.
It didn't take long to find James and his friends; they were sitting at Gryffindor table in exactly the same places that they always sat in. I walked up to James Potter and tapped him on the shoulder.
"James, can I have a word?" I asked. He nodded and followed me out of the Great Hall and up the staircase.
"Where are we going?" he asked.
"I don't know. Somewhere private?"
"Oh, I know somewhere we could go," said James. "Follow me." I followed him all the way to the seventh floor to a corridor where there was a tapestry hanging. I watched as James walked up and down three times and a door appeared. I followed him through and saw a cosy looking room with a fireplace, two red chairs and a red sofa. I imagined it was a smaller version of Gryffindor common room.
"So, would you like to go to Hogsmeade with me, Lily?" James asked.
"Maybe," I said. I knew James had been asking Lily out since the start of the year and she'd been saying no. I didn't want to say yes because then James would run around the school screaming and looking for his friends. However, I also didn't want him getting all upset and mopey like last time Lily had said no.
"That's a start," said James. "My divination Professor says that you're going to marry me and we're going to have a kid together." Great, so James was going to be pestering Lily for the rest of his Hogwarts years until she finally gave in. At least I hoped he meant Lily and not me. I wouldn't marry James if he was the last person on earth. James stared dreamily at what he thought was Lily. I guessed Lily didn't do divination.
"So you believe that then? James, I wouldn't marry you if you were the last guy left on earth."
"But I'm not the last guy on earth am I? Besides, everyone knows that everything the Professor predicts comes true. Last year she predicted that our 'Defence Against The Dark Arts' teacher would die a painful death on a particular date, and he got attacked by acromantula exactly when she said."
I sincerely hoped they didn't all come true. Regulus had told me he'd overheard James and Sirius talking about some rather nasty predictions - something about someone dying in 1979 and 1981, which wasn't that far off.
"She also says I'm going to be an Auror and Quidditch captain on day," said James.
"Are there any predictions about me?"
"No, except that you will marry me. Sirius keeps getting loads of horrible predictions though. Last lesson, the Professor looked right at him and started chanting something."
"What happened?" I asked. James put on a very distant expression and started to mimic the teacher's voice:
He will die alone to bring down the only man he could ever hate,
The man he believed to have made everything go bad,
The truth not to be discovered until it is too late,
After the death of the greatest wizard Hogwarts has ever had."
"And what did Sirius say to that?" I asked.
"That he hated more than one person so it obviously didn't mean him," said James.
"I think the last line means Dumbledore?"
"That's what Sirius thought. That means it won't happen for ages because Dumbledore isn't going to just drop down dead, and no one's going to be killing him any time soon. Anyway, I don't want to talk about that. How are you finding Ancient Runes?"
Oh great. He had to pick a subject I'd never done in my life didn't he?
"Um, it's Okay. It's quite difficult what we're doing at the moment but I did some extra reading and now it all makes sense," I said. James seemed satisfied with my answer.
We talked about trivial things like lessons and the upcoming Hogsmeade weekend. James said that Sirius was taking Mary MacDonald on a date, and wondered if I would like to come with them and make it a double date. I said no, because I believed that's what the real Lily would have wanted me to say. Then somehow we managed to get onto the subject of Quidditch and James talked for hour on his quidditch skills. I would have done the same but I didn't know if Lily could even ride on a broomstick. I hoped James wasn't like that all the time; otherwise it would be very difficult for him to get the real Lily to actually like him.
I noticed it was almost time for dinner and suddenly realised that I had no idea how long the potion lasted for. Stupid friends for not telling me – or maybe they didn't know either.
"Your eyes!" said James, pointing. I looked at my reflection in one of the portraits and noticed my face was changing to its natural state. My hair was changing colour too.
"Lily?"
"I'm not Lily. I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen, but I'm really not Lily. Please don't tell anyone – especially not Sirius."
"I won't. Can I tell Remus?"
"If you want, but keep it a secret between the two of you please."
"Ok," said James. I ran out of the room as fast as my legs could carry me.
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AN: I hope you like this. Thanks for reading. Can any one suggest some names for the death eater characters. I've written the next three and a half chapters and noticed it gets a bit confusing with loads of people with the same name. I've got two unnamed older Rosier brothers (Regulus doesn't know which is which) and two characters called Mulciber so it could be a bit confusing in the future.
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