Fate- part 6

Christmas Jeers

Disclaimer: I only own Miss Humperdink and Maggie. JK Rowling owns everyone else.

"Lily?" For the second time in one day James potter was waiting for his best friend Lily Johnston to become conscious again.

Lily groaned and slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't in the great hall anymore. She was in a bed. Lily blinked and saw James sitting over her. "How you dong Lil?" He asked when he saw she was awake.

"My head hurts." She replied.

"I should think so. You hit your head on the teachers' table."

"So the patient's finally awake." The school nurse, Miss Humperdink walked into the room. "How are you deary?"

"My head hurts." Lily repeated.

Miss Humperdink bussled over to a small table on the other side of the room and shortly returned to Lily's bed with a steaming mug. " Here. Take this. I'll help."

She handed Lily the mug and said to James, "Make sure she drinks all of it." Then she hurried off to administer medicine to a student who had been beaten up by the new tree, the Womping Willow.

Lily looked at the mug in her hands. She raised it to her nose a sniffed. "Yuck! It smells like Limburger cheese."

"Drink it."

Lily slowly raised the mug to her lips and downed the medicine in two gulps. She set the glass on the bedside table. "So what happened to me?"

"You fainted when Professor Dumbledore called your name."

"Wonderful."

"Miss Humperdink said it was because you hadn't eaten anything all day and you had received a mild concussion this morning. "

" SO what house are you in?" Trying to change the subject.

James smiled. "Gryffindor. So are Remus and Sirius."

Lily nodded.

"Professor Dumbledore said he'd come and see you after you woke up and sort you."

As if on cue, Dumbledore showed up.

'How are you feeling Lily?"

"I'm fine Professor."

"Do you feel up to being sorted?"

Lily nodded, and Dumbledore handed her the sorting hat. Lily placed it on her head. At once, she heard a voice in her ear. "Well, well, well, what have we here? Fainted during the sorting did you? Tut tut tut. Now, let's see here. Smart, you'd do well in Ravenclaw,---"

"I don't want to be in Ravenclaw!" Lily thought.

"Don't want to be in Ravenclaw? Oh. I see. You're in love with James Potter."

"In love with James? Are you serious?" Lily turned absolutely scarlet at this accusation.

"Better put you in GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted the last word. James hugged Lily tightly, causing her to turn even redder.

"Well then, I'll talk to Miss Humperdink and see if you can't be released." Dumbledore said, getting up and leaving the two first years alone.

Lily's first few months at Hogwarts passed in a flash. Before she knew it, she was signing her name to the list of students staying at Hogwarts over Christmas. Her parents were taking a trip to France over Christmas, and Lily didn't really want to go. She was content with staying at school, however, because James, Sirius and Remus were staying, along with one of Lily's new friends, Magnolia. Unfortunately, all seven Riddle's were staying too. They had been the only bad thing about Hogwarts. They always had a nasty comment or some sort of malicious prank for Lily every time they saw her. She couldn't even enjoy Defense Against the Dark Arts, because they had it with Slythierins, so Lily had to put up with Lydia's taunting the entire hour.

Chhiristmas morning dawned bright and clear, as Lily found out when Maggie opened all the window shades flooding the room with light. "Merry Christmas Lily!" She yelled happily.

Lily sat up slowly and stretched her arms above her head, then scrambled happily over to the presents at the end of her bed. Ripping off the wrapping she discovered a new Muggle book (Anne of Green Gables) from her parents, a bag of Every Flavor Beans from Remus, a bag of Chocolate Frogs from Sirius, a box of Ice Mice from Maggie, and a Sugar Quill from James (all her friends had figured out about her sweet tooth).

"What'd you get?" She asked Maggie after both girls had finished opening their presents.

"A new drawing pad, some new quills, a necklace and a new cloak. How bout you?"

" A Muggle book and a bunch of candy."

"Do we know you well or what?" Maggie laughed as she survaid Lily's horde of candy.

This is when the boys showed up. James, Sirius and Remus, followed by Peter Petigrew, a clumsy boy who had started following them around, walked into the girls dorm at that moment.

"What's so funny?" James asked, making both girls laugh harder.

"You...aren't... suppose... to ... be... in here." Lily told them between giggles.

"SO?" Asked Sirius "Since when has that stopped us?"

"Come on. It's almost breakfast. I'm hungry."

"You're always hungry Remus." Maggie told him. "But you're right. Let's go down to the Great Hall."

The six friends made their way down to the Great Hall. It was decorated beautifully, with 12 Christmas trees, lots of holly, mistletoe hanging from the door way, and real snow fluttering softly down from the ceiling. As they walked past the Slytherin table, Lily fell face first into a pile of snow. Sputtering she let James help her up. All seven Riddles were laughing at the sight of her trying to brush the snow off her robes. "Are you all right Lily?" Asked the eldest Riddle, Eve, with mock sincerity.

"I'm fine." Lily replied though gritted teeth.

"Come on Lil." Maggie said, taking Lily's hand and pulling her away from the Slytherin table.

"I hate those idiots!" Lily practically screamed when she had sat down at the Gryffindor table. "Seth tripped me. I know he did!"

"Calm down Lily." Remus put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "We know he tripped you, but you aren't going to be able to make any teacher believe that. So just ignore them."

"Remus is right. You don't want to rise to their bait." Sirius's comforting words didn't help much. Lily stopped complaining about the Riddles, but the incident was on her mind the rest of the day.

End part 6

A/N: I hope that you people actually decide to review this part. Especially seeing as no one reviewed the 5th part, and it's been up for at least a week now. If no one bother's to review this part, I'm just gonna stop posting this story. It isn't worth typing it up if no one bothers to tell me what they think. SO, if you like this story and want to see the read of it, REVIEW IT!

Peace, Love, I am a Dove

Nagini