Disclaimer: Why do I have to waste my time on this when everyone KNOWS I
don't own harry potter.
Well this is my fifth chapter, and I'd like to see some more reviews. I'd also like to know who my reviewers are. And I'm sorry, I won't be able to update very often this week because of yearly exams, and I have to study heaps. After the exams I'll update more often. Also, I'd like to thank my friend Sindhu for giving me some ideas for this chapter.
Well, here's acknowledgements:
huntedpadfoot - thanks for r/r. I'll tell u when I update it.
guesshoo- thanx for the tips, I'll try to incorporate it.
crystaldreams- thanx for all the reviews.
citcat299- thanks for r/r. your fanfic's really good as well
cute2boot- your fanfic is SOOOOO good and thanks for reviewing.
Well acknowledgements over, on with the show!
Chapter 5: Lily's Secret
Remus quickly sprinted out of bed as soon as he knew everyone was asleep and ran down to the Whomping Willow, which had been planted for him only a few days before. If anyone found out he was a werewolf.
His snout and teeth were lengthening and fur was growing on his face. He snarled ferociously, then began biting and tearing at himself, fervently hoping that there were cures for werewolfia (A/N my own word!).
James woke up to find Remus absent from his bed, then realised what he had said. "Sorry James, I need to do something for my mum at midnight. If you don't mind, she asked me not to tell anyone."
James wondered what it was. He was quite sure his friend was lying. There was something going on with Remus that he wouldn't tell anyone.
Sirius stirred, and woke up. "Where's Remus?" he asked groggily.
"No idea," James replied. "Wasn't it something to do with his mother?"
"That's a load of rubbish," Sirius snarled. "He's keeping something from us."
So Sirius shared his views. That was good. The pair fell asleep again, still thinking about the mysterious way Remus was acting.
The next day James woke up first. He turned over and looked at his clock, which showed the time as 8:00 (A/N does anyone know what time they usually go down?) and quickly dressed and hurried downstairs for breakfast. He was soon joined by Sirius and Remus, who had returned somewhere during the night.
"So, got any ideas to play on lilyflower?" Sirius asked. "After all, it is our first day and we want to surprise people with a BANG."
"Set her on fire," James suggested at once.
"Spill all her food," said Remus.
Sirius looked at them significantly. "Why don't we- " he dropped his voice, "turn her hair purple and her eyes yellow?"
"Do you know how to do it?" James asked.
"No probs," Sirius said cheerfully. "Here, if we do it quick she won't notice. "Craniumoccular incatetam!" He swished his gleaming mahogany wand and a sparks sped towards Lily.
Lily felt a peculiar sensation coming from her head. She touched it, but it felt the same. She took a strand of hair and looked at it, then screamed. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed. "Who did this? Who turned my hair purple?"
"And who turned your eyes yellow, Lily?" Sophie Belton, one of her friends, asked.
"WHAT? MY EYES ARE YELLOW?" Lily screeched, looking around.
Then her eyes fell on James, Sirius and Remus, sitting in a corner laughing to themselves.
"YOU! YOU DID THIS!" she screamed, fingers outstretched. "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!"
"Really?" James said mildly. "What a wonderful thing."
Lily swelled, but could not think of a retort. Instead, she simply stalked past them, her now yellow eyes boring into the side of their heads.
But when she got to a corridor, she collapsed. "What if it doesn't come off?" she wailed, tugging at a lock.
"It will, Lils," Sophie said soothingly. "I did it to my brother once. It comes off after a week, but maybe you should go to the hospital wing, because I don't know the countercurse."
"We do," came a voice from behind her. Lily turned around. "What is it?"
'Oh, I don't think we'll tell you, Evans, because you're a Mudblood," drawled Severus Snape. "In fact I think that was a rather clever piece of work."
Sophie clenched her fists. "Watch who you're calling a mudblood, Snape," she spat.
Snape raised an eyebrow. "Oh? I think I am, half-blood. Tell me, Belton, did your father marry your mother because she was a mudblood? Bad choice, and look what he ended up with - a halfblood daughter."
Sophie turned and walked away, half-dragging Lily with her. "Lets go, Lils," she said. "Snape isn't worth talking to."
But Lily turned back, one more time, to see Snape smiling at her wickedly. She didn't understand, and smiled back - a genuine smile.
Snape looked startled. Why had this girl just smiled at him? And it wasn't a knowing smile, either, it had just been an innocent smile at him.
He turned a corner to find James, Sirius and Remus walking up the steps to their first class, and quickly put his smirk back on. "Well, if it isn't Potty, Black and Loony," he sneered. "Played your first prank, have you?"
"None of your business, Snape," Sirius said. "What do you want? Friends deserted you? Wouldn't be surprised."
"You watch your mouth," Snape said silkily. "Otherwise something very unpleasant may just accidentally happen."
James snorted, and the three of them brushed past the greasy-haired boy. "So what do we have now?" Remus asked.
"Who cares?" Sirius said. "Let's jig."
"JIG?" Remus exploded. "And get ourselves expelled?"
"Okay okay, sheesh don't get your tail in a twist," James said quickly, putting up his hands. "We were only joking!"
"Well what do we have?" he asked testily.
"Potions," Sirius said, consulting his timetable, "with Professor Ignatius."
"Ignatius? What a funny name!" James said, bursting into peals of laughter. "Can we call him Iggy? Why don't we play a prank on him?"
"But what?" Remus asked.
"We'll think of something mate, don't worry your little head about it," Sirius said jovially, clapping him on the back.
Remus raised an eyebrow.
The door swung open and Professor Ignatius walked in. "A new class of first- years?" he enquired. "Good good. Good morning, class. My name is Professor Ignatius."
"Good morning Professor Ignatius," the class chorused, minus Sirius and James ("Hello Iggy!") and Remus nudged them with his elbow. Professor Ignatius frowned, but it was not sure if he had heard.
"We will start by calling the roll. Geoffrey Arakan?"
And so he droned on, until he reached to Sirius, who waved cheekily at him. Remus raised his hand when his name was called, and Lily immediately said, "Present, Professor Ignatius!" James rolled his eyes, and said, "How do you do?" in a mock serious voice. At the end Professor Ignatius closed the roll with a snap and looked up.
"Now, please turn to Page 1 in your textbook and read Chapter 1: The Beginning to Potions."
There was immediately a flurry of people taking out their textbooks. James, however, stuffed a large pieve of Droobles Best Blowing gum and blew a massive bubble. Ignatius saw and came over to their table. "Who are you?"
"James Harold Potter," he said, smiling winningly. "What's your name?"
"Silence! I do not appreciate impertinence or misbehaviour in my class. Five points from Gryffindor. Now take that disgusting piece of gum out of your mouth."
James did so, and held it up to him. "Isn't it pretty?"
Ignatius recoiled. "Throw it away," he barked. "Or a further ten points off!"
James obediently went to the window and threw it out. "Yes sir," he said meekly, but Sirius knew he had a plan up his sleeve.
He was correct. James turned around and threw a fistful of blue powder at Ignatius's back. The teacher immediately began to vanish.
Several people gasped. Ignatius looked down at his feet and screamed. But all that came out of his mouth was blue gas. Within seconds he was gone.
"Where did he go?" Lily shrieked. "I'm sure Potter did this! Potter, I will KILL you this time!"
"Why, liked him, did you Evans?' James jeered. "Wouldn't be surprised. After all, you do seem to have very bad taste."
Lily strode over to him and hit him with her cauldron. He collapsed to the floor, out cold. Lily smiled and turned and walked away.
Sophie ran over. "What happened?"
Sirius sood up, glaring at Lily's retreating back. "Belton, your friend walked over to James, hit him with her cauldron and walked away. What are you going to do about that?" He was shaking with anger.
Sophie put a trembling hand to her mouth. "That's not Lily at all!" she said. "She would never hurt someone intentionally and then just walk off! Excuse me." She ran off most probably in search of Lily.
People were running out the door. Not many had noticed James fall. They were still scared that the blue powder was on them too. Even Snape and Malfoy looked nervous.
James woke up fifteen mintues later in the hospital wing, with Remus and Sirius bending over him anxiously. "What happened?" he said groggily.
"Evans hit you with her cauldron and ran off," Remus said angrily. "Sophie's gone looking for her."
James sat up. "I KNEW Evans was a bad egg. How can ANYONE hit someone to make them unconscious and then run out?"
"My point exactly," Sirius said grimly.
Just then there was a knock at the door and Sirius cautiously peered through. He saw it was Sophie, and he opened it.
"Lily would like to say that she's sorry," Sophie said. She pushed Lily through, who was still glaring at James. The other three tiptoed out, leaving the two of them alone with each other.
"Sorry," Lily said reluctantly.
"Sorry," James said. "I shouldn't have said that."
"I know," Lily said. "You deserved it."
James stood up, throwing his covers off. "You're a spoilt jerk, Lily Evans and you don't deserve to stay in Hogwarts." He stormed out, leaving her alone.
"What happened?" Sophie asked when she saw James's furious face.
"Your friend, Sophie Belton, said that I deserved being hit over the head with a cauldron. She's not a Gryffindor; she's a Slytherin."
Sophie's lips pursed together, and she put out a restraining hand for Sirius and Remus, who had both turned red with rage.
Then Lily came out, her head hung down. She stopped in front of James. "James -" she said haltingly, " - sorry. I shouldn't have said that."
Sophie glared at Lily. "Never insult my friends again, Lily Evans."
Lily uncharacteristically burst into tears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone! I can't help it.I've got schizophrenia and I can't live with it!"
"What's schizophrenia?" James asked as Sophie gasped.
"It's a mental condition where you hear things," Sophie explained. "Why didn't you tell me, Lily?"
"I can't!" Lily wailed. "I can't live with it, Soph, I just can't!" She buried her face uin her hands, and Sophie put her arms around her.
"Never mind, Lily, it'll be alright," Sophie said., letting go of her after a few seconds, and ignoring the bell. James reluctantly came forward and gave her a hug as well, and then Sirius and Remus. They had finally become friends.
There! My fifth chapter! Aren't you proud of me? Did you like how Lily's schizophrenic? I didn't want to at first but then I thought that because she was being so mean it would be better to say that the cause was schizophrenia than because her parents died or something. This is probably the last time you'll see me update for a week because like I said, I have my yearly exams next week.
Well this is my fifth chapter, and I'd like to see some more reviews. I'd also like to know who my reviewers are. And I'm sorry, I won't be able to update very often this week because of yearly exams, and I have to study heaps. After the exams I'll update more often. Also, I'd like to thank my friend Sindhu for giving me some ideas for this chapter.
Well, here's acknowledgements:
huntedpadfoot - thanks for r/r. I'll tell u when I update it.
guesshoo- thanx for the tips, I'll try to incorporate it.
crystaldreams- thanx for all the reviews.
citcat299- thanks for r/r. your fanfic's really good as well
cute2boot- your fanfic is SOOOOO good and thanks for reviewing.
Well acknowledgements over, on with the show!
Chapter 5: Lily's Secret
Remus quickly sprinted out of bed as soon as he knew everyone was asleep and ran down to the Whomping Willow, which had been planted for him only a few days before. If anyone found out he was a werewolf.
His snout and teeth were lengthening and fur was growing on his face. He snarled ferociously, then began biting and tearing at himself, fervently hoping that there were cures for werewolfia (A/N my own word!).
James woke up to find Remus absent from his bed, then realised what he had said. "Sorry James, I need to do something for my mum at midnight. If you don't mind, she asked me not to tell anyone."
James wondered what it was. He was quite sure his friend was lying. There was something going on with Remus that he wouldn't tell anyone.
Sirius stirred, and woke up. "Where's Remus?" he asked groggily.
"No idea," James replied. "Wasn't it something to do with his mother?"
"That's a load of rubbish," Sirius snarled. "He's keeping something from us."
So Sirius shared his views. That was good. The pair fell asleep again, still thinking about the mysterious way Remus was acting.
The next day James woke up first. He turned over and looked at his clock, which showed the time as 8:00 (A/N does anyone know what time they usually go down?) and quickly dressed and hurried downstairs for breakfast. He was soon joined by Sirius and Remus, who had returned somewhere during the night.
"So, got any ideas to play on lilyflower?" Sirius asked. "After all, it is our first day and we want to surprise people with a BANG."
"Set her on fire," James suggested at once.
"Spill all her food," said Remus.
Sirius looked at them significantly. "Why don't we- " he dropped his voice, "turn her hair purple and her eyes yellow?"
"Do you know how to do it?" James asked.
"No probs," Sirius said cheerfully. "Here, if we do it quick she won't notice. "Craniumoccular incatetam!" He swished his gleaming mahogany wand and a sparks sped towards Lily.
Lily felt a peculiar sensation coming from her head. She touched it, but it felt the same. She took a strand of hair and looked at it, then screamed. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed. "Who did this? Who turned my hair purple?"
"And who turned your eyes yellow, Lily?" Sophie Belton, one of her friends, asked.
"WHAT? MY EYES ARE YELLOW?" Lily screeched, looking around.
Then her eyes fell on James, Sirius and Remus, sitting in a corner laughing to themselves.
"YOU! YOU DID THIS!" she screamed, fingers outstretched. "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!"
"Really?" James said mildly. "What a wonderful thing."
Lily swelled, but could not think of a retort. Instead, she simply stalked past them, her now yellow eyes boring into the side of their heads.
But when she got to a corridor, she collapsed. "What if it doesn't come off?" she wailed, tugging at a lock.
"It will, Lils," Sophie said soothingly. "I did it to my brother once. It comes off after a week, but maybe you should go to the hospital wing, because I don't know the countercurse."
"We do," came a voice from behind her. Lily turned around. "What is it?"
'Oh, I don't think we'll tell you, Evans, because you're a Mudblood," drawled Severus Snape. "In fact I think that was a rather clever piece of work."
Sophie clenched her fists. "Watch who you're calling a mudblood, Snape," she spat.
Snape raised an eyebrow. "Oh? I think I am, half-blood. Tell me, Belton, did your father marry your mother because she was a mudblood? Bad choice, and look what he ended up with - a halfblood daughter."
Sophie turned and walked away, half-dragging Lily with her. "Lets go, Lils," she said. "Snape isn't worth talking to."
But Lily turned back, one more time, to see Snape smiling at her wickedly. She didn't understand, and smiled back - a genuine smile.
Snape looked startled. Why had this girl just smiled at him? And it wasn't a knowing smile, either, it had just been an innocent smile at him.
He turned a corner to find James, Sirius and Remus walking up the steps to their first class, and quickly put his smirk back on. "Well, if it isn't Potty, Black and Loony," he sneered. "Played your first prank, have you?"
"None of your business, Snape," Sirius said. "What do you want? Friends deserted you? Wouldn't be surprised."
"You watch your mouth," Snape said silkily. "Otherwise something very unpleasant may just accidentally happen."
James snorted, and the three of them brushed past the greasy-haired boy. "So what do we have now?" Remus asked.
"Who cares?" Sirius said. "Let's jig."
"JIG?" Remus exploded. "And get ourselves expelled?"
"Okay okay, sheesh don't get your tail in a twist," James said quickly, putting up his hands. "We were only joking!"
"Well what do we have?" he asked testily.
"Potions," Sirius said, consulting his timetable, "with Professor Ignatius."
"Ignatius? What a funny name!" James said, bursting into peals of laughter. "Can we call him Iggy? Why don't we play a prank on him?"
"But what?" Remus asked.
"We'll think of something mate, don't worry your little head about it," Sirius said jovially, clapping him on the back.
Remus raised an eyebrow.
The door swung open and Professor Ignatius walked in. "A new class of first- years?" he enquired. "Good good. Good morning, class. My name is Professor Ignatius."
"Good morning Professor Ignatius," the class chorused, minus Sirius and James ("Hello Iggy!") and Remus nudged them with his elbow. Professor Ignatius frowned, but it was not sure if he had heard.
"We will start by calling the roll. Geoffrey Arakan?"
And so he droned on, until he reached to Sirius, who waved cheekily at him. Remus raised his hand when his name was called, and Lily immediately said, "Present, Professor Ignatius!" James rolled his eyes, and said, "How do you do?" in a mock serious voice. At the end Professor Ignatius closed the roll with a snap and looked up.
"Now, please turn to Page 1 in your textbook and read Chapter 1: The Beginning to Potions."
There was immediately a flurry of people taking out their textbooks. James, however, stuffed a large pieve of Droobles Best Blowing gum and blew a massive bubble. Ignatius saw and came over to their table. "Who are you?"
"James Harold Potter," he said, smiling winningly. "What's your name?"
"Silence! I do not appreciate impertinence or misbehaviour in my class. Five points from Gryffindor. Now take that disgusting piece of gum out of your mouth."
James did so, and held it up to him. "Isn't it pretty?"
Ignatius recoiled. "Throw it away," he barked. "Or a further ten points off!"
James obediently went to the window and threw it out. "Yes sir," he said meekly, but Sirius knew he had a plan up his sleeve.
He was correct. James turned around and threw a fistful of blue powder at Ignatius's back. The teacher immediately began to vanish.
Several people gasped. Ignatius looked down at his feet and screamed. But all that came out of his mouth was blue gas. Within seconds he was gone.
"Where did he go?" Lily shrieked. "I'm sure Potter did this! Potter, I will KILL you this time!"
"Why, liked him, did you Evans?' James jeered. "Wouldn't be surprised. After all, you do seem to have very bad taste."
Lily strode over to him and hit him with her cauldron. He collapsed to the floor, out cold. Lily smiled and turned and walked away.
Sophie ran over. "What happened?"
Sirius sood up, glaring at Lily's retreating back. "Belton, your friend walked over to James, hit him with her cauldron and walked away. What are you going to do about that?" He was shaking with anger.
Sophie put a trembling hand to her mouth. "That's not Lily at all!" she said. "She would never hurt someone intentionally and then just walk off! Excuse me." She ran off most probably in search of Lily.
People were running out the door. Not many had noticed James fall. They were still scared that the blue powder was on them too. Even Snape and Malfoy looked nervous.
James woke up fifteen mintues later in the hospital wing, with Remus and Sirius bending over him anxiously. "What happened?" he said groggily.
"Evans hit you with her cauldron and ran off," Remus said angrily. "Sophie's gone looking for her."
James sat up. "I KNEW Evans was a bad egg. How can ANYONE hit someone to make them unconscious and then run out?"
"My point exactly," Sirius said grimly.
Just then there was a knock at the door and Sirius cautiously peered through. He saw it was Sophie, and he opened it.
"Lily would like to say that she's sorry," Sophie said. She pushed Lily through, who was still glaring at James. The other three tiptoed out, leaving the two of them alone with each other.
"Sorry," Lily said reluctantly.
"Sorry," James said. "I shouldn't have said that."
"I know," Lily said. "You deserved it."
James stood up, throwing his covers off. "You're a spoilt jerk, Lily Evans and you don't deserve to stay in Hogwarts." He stormed out, leaving her alone.
"What happened?" Sophie asked when she saw James's furious face.
"Your friend, Sophie Belton, said that I deserved being hit over the head with a cauldron. She's not a Gryffindor; she's a Slytherin."
Sophie's lips pursed together, and she put out a restraining hand for Sirius and Remus, who had both turned red with rage.
Then Lily came out, her head hung down. She stopped in front of James. "James -" she said haltingly, " - sorry. I shouldn't have said that."
Sophie glared at Lily. "Never insult my friends again, Lily Evans."
Lily uncharacteristically burst into tears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone! I can't help it.I've got schizophrenia and I can't live with it!"
"What's schizophrenia?" James asked as Sophie gasped.
"It's a mental condition where you hear things," Sophie explained. "Why didn't you tell me, Lily?"
"I can't!" Lily wailed. "I can't live with it, Soph, I just can't!" She buried her face uin her hands, and Sophie put her arms around her.
"Never mind, Lily, it'll be alright," Sophie said., letting go of her after a few seconds, and ignoring the bell. James reluctantly came forward and gave her a hug as well, and then Sirius and Remus. They had finally become friends.
There! My fifth chapter! Aren't you proud of me? Did you like how Lily's schizophrenic? I didn't want to at first but then I thought that because she was being so mean it would be better to say that the cause was schizophrenia than because her parents died or something. This is probably the last time you'll see me update for a week because like I said, I have my yearly exams next week.