Lily didn't get a chance to beat up or at least slap James for several weeks. She was too busy trying to find her way around the castle and trying to make new friends. She became good friends with two of her roommates, Celeste Williams and Kyla Jacobson. However, she soon got her chance to humiliate James at the first quidditch match.
Since she hadn't learned enough magic yet to curse him, she decided to settle for a more classic trick. She had learned from passing conversations that James played seeker for the Gryffindor team, so she decided to get him back at the first quidditch match against Slytherin, when everyone was sure to be there. She didn't want to do anything to sabotage the actual game, (Lily had come to hate the Slytherins very quickly, and didn't want them to win either the house or the quidditch cup) so she went for something that would embarrass James after the game.
The night before the quidditch match, Lily snuck into the
boy's dormitory. Everyone was downstairs in the common room, nervously talking
about tomorrow's match. She quietly took a tube out of the pocket of her robes.
It read: Suki's Super Glue- Eternally sticks
together any two non-living things. Won't dry out until two or more things are
firmly stuck together. Won't stick to hands or any other living thing.
Kyla's brother had gotten it for her from Zonko's. She didn't really have any use for it, so she had let Lily have it. Lily had tried it out cautiously, dabbing a little bit onto a bit of parchment and then slowly poking her finger into the little blob. It hadn't stuck to her finger at all, she hadn't even been able to feel it. But when she dabbed her old quill into it, she hadn't been able to pull them apart, forcing her to throw away both.
She grinned as she squeezed an ample amount onto the handle of James' broom. The glue was invisible, and you couldn't feel it at all, so James wouldn't know about it until it was too late. She leaned the broom against the wall as she'd found it, carefully making sure that the glue did not come in contact with the wall.
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"And they're off!" yelled the announcer. Lily smiled. James still hadn't realized that his quidditch robes and broomstick were more adhered together than a tongue to a cold metal pole.
She was very excited to be there; this was her first time watching a quidditch match, after all. But her focus was mainly on James as he wove through all the other players, looking for the snitch.
Suddenly, he spotted it hovering about five feet above the grass. He pulled into a sharp dive and caught it. Triumphantly, he landed on the grass among his cheering teammates. However, when he tried to dismount his broom, he found that he couldn't.
"What the--" James looked up into Lily's smug face and realization dawned on him.
"What's the matter?" asked Sirius, who had noticed that James was still on his broom. "You—you're not stuck, are you?"
"Shut up," said James, trying to muster up a smile but failing. Instead, he hurried off the field in a very uncomfortable gait, trying to ignore Sirius' howls.
"Gotcha," whispered Lily, smirking.