Absolute Shocker!
By JamesRoxMySox
Disclaimer: I own nothing recognisable from the Harry Potter books or movies that belongs to J.K.Rowling and Warner Brothers studios
Tuesday 25th January – Library
I've had enough of this prefect business; I think I should resign seeing as how bad a prefect I actually am. I mean I never do anything that would be describe as prefect worthy. Sure I go on patrols but that's because I have to and I only do the whole saviour thing of younger students when it's absolutely necessary, far too much trouble otherwise
It's completely overrated anyway, all we do is sit around gossiping about who got caught with who in the 3rd floor broom closet
Note to self: Never use the 3rd floor broom closet for privacy (aka snogging session) as it never stays private for long… this is actually a useless note seeing as I don't actually have anyone to be private with (aka snogging partner), but it may be a good piece of advice to pass on, to say Charlie, I think it's one of the few pieces of advice to do with the dating sector I could actually pass on to him…
Oh my chocolate, a fourteen year old is more inclined to be romantically linked than I am! I truly am pitiful; I think I'll dwell on that for a while
Okay enough dwelling, it's too depressing let's get back to the subject at hand, what was that again? Oh right the prefect meeting
Ugh
I'm beginning to notice a trend at these meetings
Amy gets stressed due to… well being a seventh year and head girl
She then takes it out on James and the rest of us by screaming her head off
James then tries to calm her down and takes over the meeting so that important issues are still discussed in a rational manner
(Who count's Moaning Myrtle flooding the girls' bathroom as an important issue anyway? I mean really, she's always doing that, anyone mentions breathing – she throws a tantrum and water goes everywhere. Now, if Myrtle were to be peeking in the prefects bathroom that would be a different matter… she's truly a weirdo that one)
The meeting then dissolves into multiple disagreements with more than one lot of people screaming at each other with the occasional hex thrown in (but I think that was because one of the Ravenclaws insulted the Hufflepuff quidditch team… idiot)
The meeting then ends with Amy screaming again and James shooting up sparks
As you can probably tell Daniel and I usually have a good laugh about all this, Remus sometimes joins us to laugh at James' frustration as he takes yet another ear bashing from Amy.
Tonight didn't differ from this formula at all
The 'important' issue this week was the dear desire of many students to kick Mrs. Norris
Hmmmm I have to say I agree with this one
Of course Amy thought it was preposterous that authority figures even voiced such a disgraceful idea, such a bad example for younger students. Pft! Like she hadn't wanted to give Mrs. Norris a swift kick up the… anyway the disagreement quickly escalated when a couple of Ravenclaws mounted there high horses waffling about morality
Daniel, Remus and I were in hysterics as Bill Watts, the Gryffindor 5th year prefect, put forward a very convincing argument to set up a student based organisation with the sole aim of capturing Mrs. Norris and stuffing her in the Vanishing cabinet
Amy turned purple, while one of the Ravenclaws put forward some snooty reasoning, only half of which was heard due to the multiple shouts of support for Bill
It's one of the few times I've seen Gryffindor and Slytherin so united on the one subject
James was trying very hard to keep a straight face but even he had to turn away when he caught our eyes to stop himself from cracking up completely
After that I was slightly more optimistic about getting him to first admit that he had turned Melissa Darlington into a raccoon and then tell me how I could fix it
Have I ever mentioned that being optimistic is completely against my nature and that whenever I do try my hand at it things usually don't work out?
Yes, I achieve much more when I'm cynical and pessimistic
I told Remus and Daniel my mission to extract information from James
Daniel just smacked his hand to his forehead and shook his head
I believe he has given up on trying to tell me anything, most of the time I don't listen anyway – he's made the wise decision of saving his breath….
He'll probably just gripe about my stubborn, pigheaded nature to the Remus all the way back to the common room
Remus however was slightly more supportive
"Good luck Lily, you're going to need it"
Did I say supportive? I meant extremely unhelpful
Note to self: Must find more supportive friends who believe in me – Psh! Now where would I find people like that?
But despite what people think I do realise that I will need all the luck in the present vicinity in order to get James to cough up the counter curse for Melissa, not to mention some arm twisting
Make that a lot of arm twisting
I waited till everyone else had gone ("Amy just go it's fine I can handle it, you go do… whatever, I'm Head Boy I can handle a simple cleaning spell") to put my persuasive charms in action
"Hi James"
Ha! 'Persuasive charms'! I just crack myself up
He jumped about a foot in the air and spun around to stare at me like a deranged deer caught in some startlingly bright headlights
"Merlin Lily you scared me! I thought everyone had gone"
Scared?
Of little old me?
The silly boy has lost his proverbial marbles
"Well they haven't"
I'm just sooo witty
"But I need to talk to you about something"
He gave me a suspicious look
"This would be anything like the last time you 'talked' to me would it?"
See what I mean about boys and their assuming natures?
Though if I had been thrown into a wall as a result of the last time someone talked to me I would probably be wary as well
I glared at him for the stupid assumption making
"No, it has to do with transfiguration, raccoons and Melissa Darlington"
His mouth formed a little 'o' shape as though that was the last thing he expected this talk to be about
Well honestly he didn't think no one would notice his turning someone into a racoon now did he?
"Really? And what do all those things have to do with me?"
I gave him a look
Blasted Marauders, they never admit to anything
"Everything"
He raised his eyebrows
"And just how did you make that little connection"
Because you don't have a subtle bone in your body!
When I pointed out this lack of subtlety, his face took on a very grim look, made him look quite striking actually
Bad Lily, Bad!
You're supposed to be wrangling information out of him not admiring his physical appearance or berating him for that matter, there's plenty of time for that later
Especially the former
Reading that previous statement I can only claim temporary insanity
Note to self: Must stop admiring the physical attractiveness of the Head Boy as it seems to addle the brains, especially when in an argument or trying to extract information or doing homework or… how about we just leave it at 'stop admiring the Head Boy altogether'
Anyway I changed tack to wrangling mode as taught to me by Dana and Bridget
"James, I was wondering if you could please help me with a problem I'm having in Transfiguration"
Sweeter than sugar, that's the trick
James surveyed me with a wary look due to my sudden change in demeanour
"Okay"
He doesn't look very willing to cooperate
"Say you accidentally turn your friend into a raccoon and when you restored them they retain some 'raccoonish' characteristics, how do you return them to there true previous form?"
I ended with a piercing glare to make it clear that I knew he had turned Melissa into a raccoon and that he was going to help me get rid of the raccoonish attributes
And would you believe he had the nerve to smirk
Yes SMIRK and at ME, of all people
Oh, I could have smacked him one
"I'm sorry I can't help you, I've never 'accidentally' turned someone into a raccoon"
This time I did smack him, only on the upside of the head though
"Ow!" He rubbed his head and gave me a hearty glare
Pft! He glared at me, ME – the queen of death glares… what a pathetic effort
"Don't be a prat, and just help me would you!"
Why does he have to be such an arse about it?
"I'm a prat am I? That's not the best way to treat someone you're trying to get help from"
Oh dear, he's gone into that defensive, I'm-an-arsehole mode
Only one way to deal with this –
I grabbed him by the tie and pulled him down to my level so that our faces were inches apart
"Stop being such an arsehole and just tell me how to put Melissa right or else I'll tell McGonagall about who really disrupted her class" I hissed in a deadly whisper
Sweet Merlin, I'm such a snitch
I kept glaring at him as he thought about this, all the while not letting go of his tie and receiving quite the glare myself
"Fine, give her two table spoons of this" He pulled away and gave me a small sealed bottle of potion
I eyed it and then him suspiciously
Once I was satisfied I just gave him one more annoyed look and walked towards the door
"What I don't even get a thankyou? That's a bit harsh"
NO Lily, you are NOT under ANY circumstances allowed to kick him
Not even just in the shin, Anna…
No, that would be cruel… and as you have no self control would probably escalate to a full on beating which incidentally get you in trouble, him being the Head Boy and all
Stupid conscience
Note to self: Acquire new conscience as this one is completely off the rails, a new personality wouldn't go stray either – the present ones seem to be working together to plot my downfall, wait downfall from what? If I fall from grace I won't have very far to fall, now will I
Oh dear I'm confusing myself, let's move along shall we…
"Not when you're the one who caused the problem"
It was that or nothing, terrible comeback I know but I all my energy was concentrated on controlling the urge to just sock 'im and wipe that smirk off his face
I turned to go and next thing I know I'm staring at James' blasted chest, not that he doesn't have a very nice chest, it's just that it was unexpected
I mean really how do they keep doing that? Am I just abnormally slow or are the Potter brothers just incredibly fast? How is it that they always manage to miraculously cut off my exit just after I've turned my back on them?
They're a pair of weirdos I tell you, complete weirdos
Yes, I am completely aware that my name calling has a distinct resemblance to the saying 'the pot calling the kettle black' but I'm the self declared queen of hypocrisy so it's all good…
James had a funny little smile on his face, one that communicates to any normal person that things have just turned against them, a signal to run away from the smiler as fast as possible
See how I said normal, well I've never classed myself as normal and I definitely didn't pay attention to that smile, well not the way I was supposed to… it sort of put me on edge but I just gave him a 'get out of my way' look which he rudely ignored
Prat
"Now that's not very nice Lillianna"
I narrowed my eyes at the formal use of my name
"You should be a little more polite to your saviour; I do believe that's two favours you owe me now"
Now I was openly staring
I opened my mouth indignantly to reply but he cut me off
"You're so cute when you're angry beyond belief"
This alone unnerved me but the weird look in his eye really had me reeling
I was well beyond my comfort zone
Hey, what was that about being cute? I'm not 'cute'! I refuse to be cute!
Cute! Me? Ugh! What am I? An ugly puppy?
Actually I think I'd prefer not to get an answer to that one
He lovingly put my hair behind my ear before giving me one last smile and disappearing without a word
That boy has some serious issues
I think I mentioned previously that he has split personality disorder; the question is how many times exactly can the personality split?
Well, whatever that was about I resolutely refuse to acknowledge it
It took me a couple of minutes to get over the shock of that little exchange but once I did I rushed back to the girls dormitories, gave Melissa two spoonfuls and hopped into bed with hopes of never having to go over that little incident ever again
Note to self: Never again approach the Head Boy individually, always bring reinforcements, that way if he has one his little personality altering episodes there will be someone to protect you or at least witness his weirdness so that you can reassure yourself you're not going mad… wait that won't work seeing as I have to do patrols with him – bollocks all round
Bloody weirdo – that's the only way I can think to describe him
Speaking of weirdos…
Here's Charlie for his tutoring, which he doesn't really need anymore
He's just dumped his stuff on the table and is now glaring at it
I hope this has nothing to do with my talking to James or the Melissa thing because in all honesty I can't deal with either of those things at the moment
"I need to get a new tutor"
What an opening line…
Now that was totally unexpected
"What! I said I was sorry didn't I? I distinctly recall apologising profusely for talking to James on several different accounts! You can't still be mad at me! Can you?"
Charlie just looked at me startled for a second
"I'm guessing from that reaction you haven't heard then…"
I stare at him
"Heard what?" I managed to say through clenched teeth
Charlie gets a bit fidgety
"The rumours"
He looks positively scared
"What rumours?"
My voice is getting quieter and deadlier with each answer
Charlie takes a deep breath
"The-rumour-that-you-and-James-are-having-a-passionate-secret-love-affair-and-that-I-blasted-James-and-cursed-you-on-Thursday-in-a-fit-of-jealous-rage-when-I-found-you-together-in-the-common-room-as-I-have-fallen-deeply-in-love-with-you-while-you-were-tutoring-me"
It took me a moment to decipher exactly what he said because it all came out so quickly
"WHAT! Where in the world did that come from?"
I looked over at Charlie who had taken cover under his copy of The Standard Book Of Spells, Grade 4, he was using it as a head protection as he had sunken in his chair so all I could see was a pair of frightened brown eyes peering out at me
"Sorry Charlie, you can come out I promise I won't shout at you again or cause any grievous bodily harm"
The batty old Madam Pince stuck her head around the corner
"What is all this racket about? This is a library and that means there should be silence! I will have to ask you to leave Ms Evans if you do not quieten down"
It's a library? Wow, I didn't notice, what with all the BOOKS EVERYWHERE!
Stupid woman …
Although she is very talented in the way that she can scream at you without raising her voice above a whisper…
Okay Lily now is not a time for sarcasm but for bullshitting, I mean creative answers
"I'm so sorry Madam Pince it's just that someone's scribbled in this book"
I thrust a random book at her
She opened the book and examined it
"By Merlin's wand your right, tsk, tsk, tsk, I will have to clean it immediately and punish the culprit, thankyou so much for bringing this to my attention Ms Evans, please continue with your work"
I let out a deep sigh
Thank Merlin for over active imaginations
"That was close"
Charlie had finally emerged
"Yeah, we have a nutter for a librarian what do expect? And there was no need to act as though a nuclear bomb was going to go off"
"A what was going to go off?"
Purebloods, I tell you they have no concept of the danger the arms race between the superpowers has created and they call muggles ignorant…
"An nucl – oh never mind, I wasn't going to hex you or anything"
He gives me a measuring look
"Better be safe than sorry, you're not famous for your temper for nothing"
I'm famous for my temper, that's interesting
Wait who was it who said something about me and famous?
Nick!
I believe he called me 'the infamous Gryffindor redhead', I wonder if my temper's what he was referring too?
Anyway back to this rumour
Note to self: Must stop behaviour that has resulted in the multiple rumours that have been started this year… I mean it's not like I'm an interesting person they could at least find someone interesting to whisper and conspiracise about, anyway, technically, I have not done anything that would be considered controversial, stupid people and their stupid theories…
"Where did you hear that rumour from?"
Charlie collapsed onto the desk
"Everyone"
I need a cookie and I need one now
Thursday 26th January – Library
Charlie's just left
The whole love triangle thing is taking its toll on the poor little thing, apparently Melissa hasn't talked to him all week and he's devastated. I can relate to that, so I didn't mention anything when his wrist movement was a bit off this afternoon
He's not the only one feeling the effects of that stupid rumour. I've had numerous knowing glances thrown my way, some jealous glares and various crude comments
But really I think Charlie is worse off than me, I mean I'm only romantically linked with James (I love how I just said 'only' romantically linked, had this rumour gone round at the beginning of the year I would have been very, very distressed, but all I can say is at least he's good looking… Bad Lily! BAD!) and appear to be highly desirable, this in itself should have been an indication of the ridiculous nature of the rumour. Whereas Charlie is apparently insanely jealous of his older brother and has fallen in love with said brother's girlfriend, he comes off a little unbalanced to be honest and not at all likeable, which again is another indication of how off this rumour is seeing as I am yet to meet a person who doesn't like Charlie once they've met him, excluding some Slytherins
I mean honestly who takes Anna and Judy seriously? The pair of them are a rumour mill in themselves
At first Dana and Bridget came running up to me demanding to know why I hadn't told them – these would be the type of people who take Anna and Judy serious
Of course the rest of them thought it was just plain hilarious
Cam, Tri and Nessa wouldn't shut up, I thought they were going to stop breathing at one point, they all ended up in pain though due to the stitches they got from laughing so much, serves 'em right the twats
Rhi at least had the decency to just smile and shake her head
Once the twins realised it was the twisted workings of Anna and Judy's imaginations they dissolved into a fit of giggles
Cam finally calmed down enough to talk, he thought it would be good to console me seeing as I was looking a little down and at not at all humoured by this ridiculous rumour
"Think about the irony Lily, you and James, together, Charlie madly on love with you and then attacking you both, it's so ridiculous it's laughable"
As he said it a smile crept on my face as I thought about it I ended up laughing just as loud as Nessa, Tri and Cam
We were interrupted from our musings and laughter by Remus
"Do I even want to know what that was about?"
Remus must have witnessed Dana's impression of the rumour where Charlie catches James and I in the common room, there was a large amount of slapping hands to the face and horrified looks. Cam and I were leaning on each other for support we were laughing so much
It took me a moment to collect myself
"Probably not, but it was Dana's impression of that ridiculous rumour"
Remus considered it for a moment
"Which one?"
I had to laugh
"The one about James and I having a secret passionate love affair and Charlie attacking us in a fit of jealous rage"
Remus just stared
"I know, it's ridiculous in every account, was there something you wanted?"
It took him a moment to remember what he'd came over for
"Oh yeah, letters to deranged, determined mothers"
I went and got my letter to show him
Remus had his as well, his was a lot more informal and far nicer
But we both agreed that a firm line had to be taken with my mother, so my letter was fine
Remus said he would send them both away tonight hopefully that would be the end of the problem
"Now what's with this rumour?"
I looked at him searchingly
"You haven't heard it before just now?"
He shook his head
"Well you know the fifth years Anna and Judy?"
"Who doesn't?"
"Yes well they started it as they didn't know the full story of what happened on Thursday and the rest of Hogwarts has pounced on the scrap of seemingly juicy gossip"
"So what were they saying exactly?"
How do I put this?
Keeping a straight face would be an excellent start
"Firstly James and I are apparently secret lovers, we've been sneaking around Hogwarts, didn't you know. But that's not all, I being the scarlet woman I am have enchanted the younger brother, Charlie, who has fallen madly and deeply in love with me"
Remus was staring at me again
"Now, what has brought all this to the attention of the Hogwarts public was on Thursday night when Charlie discovered James and me in a passionate embrace in the common room, sending him into a fit of jealous rage. He then proceeded to take out his revenge on James for always being better than him by thrashing him multiple times against a wall and apparently he cursed me, all the while calling me a filthy whore"
Remus just blinked
"Yeah, it takes a couple of minutes to process but when you think it through it's hilarious, I mean as you know Charlie was trying to hex the living daylights out of me because I told James he likes Melissa Greenly"
We sat in silence for a minute
"That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard all year"
I smiled
"You can see why we laughing about it now can't you"
Remus just shook his head
"I feel really sorry for Charlie though seeing as everyone seems to think that he likes me when he's been agonising over this Greenly girl for weeks now"
Remus is smiling now and seems to be seeing the funny side
Note to self: Never mind about the finding of new friends thing the ones I have are just fine, including Remus
"I'm glad to see it's not getting you down, I'll go and post these letters now, I've got a horror of a defense essay to write tonight. See you later Lily"
More like he's gone to tell the rest of the Marauders
Well, here I am in the library, I should be doing my potions but really who cares it's not as if Fogarty'll read the silly thing anyway
Oh bollocks I have to do patrols tonight with James… hmmm I don't know if he'll be pleased to see me but I for one am dreading it seeing as what happened last time we met
Note to self: REMINDER – Do NOT under ANY circumstances consciously admire Head Boy's obvious physical attractiveness, what a task I've set for myself but hey, I can still admire on a subconscious level – I love loop holes
Dorm room
Well that went… it was… I suppose interesting could explain it, sort of
I was right about Remus telling the rest of the Marauders
James was a little weird about the whole thing tonight, he didn't quite know what to do or say, quite funny really
I dropped my stuff in the common room with Rhi and met James at the portrait hole as I was leaving. I smiled as he let me go through first and waited for him
My first tip off was that he wasn't wearing the usual grin
As we started off in silence James seem to be brooding about something
I thought it would be best to leave him be – Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus after all
I could sense trouble when we got to the astronomy tower, I hate having to check the astronomy tower. There's almost a guarantee that some idiot will be up there trying to 'wow' his girlfriend with a romantic night under the stars
gag
Note to self: Never let a boy take you to the astronomy tower as it is unimaginative and it's a definite that you'll be busted – what am I talking about, no one of the male species is about to take ME up there
Usually I get James to do the whole 'Stop! Desist!" thing but he was off in another world so I had to do it
That bloody Ravenclaw prefect and his girlfriend
Ick, ick, ick… ICK!
That boy has an unusual fascination with this place
I just pointed my lit wand at them
"Out, now"
James has sort of come to
"Jacobson! Not again, how many times do I have to tell you, the astronomy tower is not your personal cocoon of love! Get out! Ten points from each of your houses"
The poor girl looked mortified
"You mean it's not only 8:30?"
Oh dear why do I sense that Jacobson has been up to something
"No, now get going before I give you both detention"
The girl turned furiously on Jacobson; we could hear her berating him all the way down the hall
"Bloody Jacobson"
Well at least he's talking now, that's something
"Should we check the roof for anyone else?"
He turned and smiled at me
"If by 'we check the roof' you mean 'will I please check the roof' then sure, wait here"
I beamed at him as he disappeared up to the roof
He catches on quickly this one, at least he's realised that I hate having to bust people
I began to get worried I mean James was taking a while and I hadn't seen anyone come down yet
I decided to go up and see what he was up too
"James, what are you doing? Is there anyone up here?"
That's when my heart leapt into my throat, my palms started sweating and my eyes went very, very big
There was no one up there
I nervously approached the edge of the tower and peaked over
Please, please, please let there be no tormented looking body at the foot of the tower
Hey, James may annoy me beyond belief but I don't want him dead, no matter how many times I would actually like to kill him personally… plus I don't think the female population could handle losing one of the better pieces of eye candy it may destroy what little faith they have in the human race
Nope, no body, tormented or otherwise, that's a relief I can tell you
The only problem now is, where is the over-grown idiot?
Note to self: Never let patrols partner go on to the top of the Astronomy tower alone – you're practically assured of a heart attack
I went back down into the tower and James was there looking around like he had lost a favourite toy or like me when I lose a my homework
"Where have you been?" he immediately demanded from me
Well, if that just doesn't beat all, he disappears off the face of the earth and gives me a heart attack and then demands to know where I am, the nerve of some people!
"Where have I been? Where have you been? You went up to the top of the tower and didn't come back and when I went up there, the place was deserted, you scared the life out of me, you over grown moron!"
He has the decency to look a little ashamed
Too right he should, stupid wanker
"Oh, right, there was a couple of Hufflepuffs on brooms that were hovering around the tower and were pretty pleased with themselves so I decided to give them a bit of a fright and jump onto one of their brooms and got them to land in here and yeah…"
I stared at him as he trailed
"You jumped on to one of their brooms?" I asked incredulously "Are you completely insane? What about if you didn't make it?"
Has he hit his head lately? Brain damage can be the only explanation, I mean why else would someone jump from a tower to a broom with and I don't even want to think about how far down drop
"But I did"
I stared at him again
"And that makes it alright does it! You're mad, bleeding deranged, completely out of your tree"
He was looking a little uncomfortable
I was still in disbelief that he had leapt from the top of the tower onto a moving broom so I just walked out to continue the rounds
James came running after me
"Lily, wait up! I'm sorry, please don't be mad I wasn't thinking and well the Hufflepuffs are really getting on my nerves with their winning the quidditch cup nonsense"
I just looked at him
"Quidditch cup nonsense?" I asked with a raised eyebrow
He sort of paled a little
"Well, er…what I meant was… uh, that their boasting and all…"
I stopped him from his mumbling with a cheesy grin
"It's all right I want to ring their necks most of the time too when they start on about how they're destined for the cup. I mean who are they kidding? They don't stand a chance against Gryffindor"
I looked him in the eye
"You had better thrash them this weekend, especially after that reckless dare devil stunt you just pulled"
I was smiling to show that I wasn't really serious or mad at him
Though why he would think I was mad at him is beyond me, I thought he would just roll his eyes and tell me it was none of my concern what he does because to be honest it isn't really but still you can't just go throwing yourself off towers willy nilly – awaiting brooms or not
"So I take it you will be cheering Gryffindor on this Saturday"
Good thing I'm good at reading code - Oh yes I'll definitely be cheering you on James, don't you worry about that
"Nessa and Tri would slaughter me if I tried any thing else" James' face fell a little bit "… Plus I'm a Gryffindor, I want to see you lot wipe the floor with the Hufflepuffs"
He brightened a bit
"Well, well, well if it isn't Potty and Evans. Been in any broom closets lately? Or are we avoiding the wrath of the younger Potty"
Ugh! Peeves, the idiot of a poltergeist
Note to self: Must discover some way of buying Peeves so that he keeps his abnormally large, misty nose to himself
"Bugger off Peeves, we're on patrol"
Yeah, he'll really listen to that James
"Now, now, no need to get narky"
Peeves looks positively gleeful
"You know the Bloody Baron was around here earlier, muttering about not wanting to be interrupted, so I would be careful if I were you Peeves"
The gleeful look just melted to one of upmost fear
He mumbled something about catching students out of bed and zoomed away
Who knew he was so easily fooled, but it says more about Peeves' fear of the Bloody Baron than anything else
James is looking thoughtful again
It's definitely about that bloody rumour
Ugh! I think I've mentioned my intense dislike for awkward silences before and it was one of those moments when the awkward silence was overbearing
I just had to break it
"Knut for your thoughts?"
James looked up
"Only worth a knut are they?"
I gave him a look
"What 're you thinking about? It seems to have you quite distracted"
He didn't answer and just kept looking off in space
So I decided to bring up the subject we both knew was being avoided
"Is this about that rumour about us and Charlie?" I let out a little laugh "It's ridiculous you have to admit"
Oh dear he's giving me one of those looks, you know those odd looks that are sort of sad and hopeless and make you feel guilty as hell as though you've done something wrong, not that I have done anything wrong, that I know of anyway… yes, well it was a very weird look
I thought I better explain what I was on about
"I mean Charlie jealous of you? No one who knows him would ever say that and as for being in love with me…" here I really did laugh "I do believe he told me that it was easy to talk to me because 'I'm different and his charms tutor' to put it nicely, where as he's been agonising over this Greenly girl for weeks. Oh and did you know that being nervous is a foreign concept in your family? Charlie was bewildered by the fact that he got tongue tied and went red when he tried to talk to the girl, I don't think he's ever had that problem before"
I looked over at James he seemed rather amused
"Yeah, well we do have a tendency to be slightly over confident"
I gave him a disbelieving look
"Slightly over confident? The poor boy looked as though he'd been contacted by extraterrestrial beings"
James just looked at me rather confused
What is this? I can't say anything in relation to muggle concepts with out half the people in this school looking at me like I'm mad
"He looked like he'd never been so insecure before, would you believe he didn't even realise he was nervous, Charlie just thought he was a weird creature from the black lagoon"
James smiled
"Yeah, well, he always was a cocky little prat"
I raised an eyebrow
"As opposed to you – a cocky big prat"
He laughed at that
"Have you talked to him though about the whole dating thing and reassured him that it's normal to be nervous"
Great, just great, I sound like a broody mother hen
"Because he's even more paranoid about talking to Melissa now because of this whole rumour thing"
Poor little chap, I'm beginning to think I really will have to say something to Ms Greenly to clear up the whole mess
"Yes, I did my brotherly duty as you so kindly put it, but I'll talk to him again if you want me too"
"Thanks, that would make me feel better" I answered with a smile
We reached the portrait hole and I went through first
I said good night to James and I noticed that as I left he became rather serious and sober again, I hope he isn't to put out by the rumour thing or how lightly I'm taking it, I mean those nosy fifth years came up with it and it is essentially ridiculous
You know what though I can't wait till Saturday, I was serious about the Hufflepuffs being used as floor rags – if I have to listen to one more rant about the supremacy of the Hufflepuff quidditch team at a prefects meeting I shall throttle someone
And hopefully those extra quidditch practices will be worth it and then Nessa, Tri, Daniel and the rest of the quidditch team will shut up about how gruelling they are. But I do admire James for that he's not willing to underestimate the opponent even though it's probably all talk , he's still putting in the extra work just in case the Hufflepuff team are half as good as they say
Speaking of James, he's definitely not too happy about something, hopefully he'll snap out of it soon or else I shall be bored to tears on patrols. Usually I can at least have a semi decent and intelligent conversation about weird things now he's just sulking and that gets boring extremely quickly
Well the quidditch match should cheer him up
Oh bollocks I forgot about my potions essay, I better go do that now before I'm temped to go read the new soppy romance novel Dana just finished
What can I say, I'm a sucker for romance
Note to self: Must find more suitable and substantial reading material as present reading material is turning me into a romantic sap, I though a couple of fifth years acting all shy towards each other was sweet – ugh! Kill me now, and I happen to hate romantic sappage – it also makes more susceptible to getting carried away with my own little dream world and a lap over between fantasy and reality seems to be created
I really need to get that sorted out
Hey everyone! Aren't you glad to see me? I mean I updated in what a week? I have to say I'm pretty proud of my effort, also I'm extremely proud of the fact that I now have over 1000 reviews! Thanks so much to everyone who has reviewed, I really do appreciate the feed back about the story and how readers think everything is going.
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