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Ginny Ha-ha and duva

Conspiracy Theory
Chapter 3: Sirius 'Immature' Black
By Ginny Ha-ha and duva

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When Lily woke up the next morning, she wasn't sure if she was in a good mood. She thought she was... but it was equally possible that she wasn't.

Memories of yesterday hit her. She frowned. Fleureat, January and Sam... talking... about James Potter. James Potter, who 'liked' her. And Lily did like him back. She sat up and gave a half-smile. She did like him, and he liked her... but... but guys caused trouble. Especially James - he was a magnet for it, despite being a prefect.

Maybe not all boys were like Lily's old boyfriend... for a start, James was more cheerful and less sugar-sweet. Lily cracked up at the thought of James giving her a bunch of flowers, like he would have done...

In a certain way, Lily thought, James could be trusted... assuming that practical jokes were not, in any way, involved. She grinned. Well... she should let it lie for awhile, and see what happened.

Maybe she could be nicer to him, for a start, and anyway...

"Lily?" January's tousled head appeared next to her, making Lily jump. "Are you planning to lie there all day?"

"No, hint taken." Lily swung her legs round, and stood up, rubbing her green eyes.

It did not surprise Lily one bit, when Fleureat immediately asked, "What are you going to do about Potter?"

Lily sighed. Fleureat was one of those people with a one track mind.

"I was planning to kick him where it hurts if he comes anywhere near me," she informed them.

"Really?" January raised her neat eyebrows. "Poor James!"

Sam, as quiet as usual, giggled.

"Yes," Lily nodded, "Really."

She couldn't push the idea of him out of her head, though. Although when she had meant what she'd said about what she'd do to James if he came anywhere near he, she knew inside that it wasn't true. Although it was tempting, just now she'd rather carry out her threat on, say, Sirius.

Hey, maybe that wasn't such a bad idea...

~*~*~

James was awakened suddenly by the feeling of someone crushing his chest and everything in it. He opened one eye to see Sirius thrown over him, apparently looking for something.

"Do you mind, Padfoot?" he said with quite some difficulty, as Sirius was currently pushing his left elbow straight into James' right lung area.

"Sorry, Jamsie boy", Sirius said, and propped himself up. "Where's the map?"

James pulled the Marauder's map out from underneath his pillow and handed it to Sirius, who left James' bed and went back to his own.

"What time is it?" James asked groggily.

"Around 8.30", came Remus' voice from the end of the room.

"8.30?" James half screamed. "You woke me up at 8.30 on a SATURDAY?!"

At this, Peter looked very scared and mumbled something about needing a shower before he left the room in a hurry. James wasn't exactly famous for his perky morning moods.

Sirius, however, just laughed.

"Yeah. We decided that you need some time to think."

"About?" James asked, quite angrily.

"Why, Lily, of course," Remus said playfully, giving him a wink.

At this, James groaned inwardly, and threw himself back onto his pillow. Ah yes, Lily Evans. Who apparently liked him. At least according to Sirius... but then again, although very clever, Sirius had never exactly been what you'd call sane. Why would Lily like him?! They hated each other. They had since...

James frowned. Just why did he hate Lily?

After thinking for a few minutes, he decided that this was indeed freaky. He couldn't actually remember why he hated her.

Maybe he was coming down with some scary memory loss or something like that...

She'd done something to tick him off in their first year, and they'd never made up. That much he could remember. But just what was it? He groaned and sat up again.

"Padfoot, could you do me a favour?" he asked.

"Depends on what it is, Prongs, my man," Sirius answered.

"Tell me, why don't I like Lily?"

"Well, I really wouldn't know," Sirius said, suddenly sounding very interested. "She's smart, funny, nice, and pretty. Just your type, in fact. Are you so sure you don't like her?"

"Shut up, Sirius," James said tiredly. He didn't feel like contending with Sirius's relentlessly cheerful mood. It was way too early for that. "What was it that happened to make us enemies?"

Sirius frowned.

"Beats me. Can't have been that big of a deal, since neither of us can even remember what it was."

"Yeah," James added hesitantly.

OK, so he couldn't remember why he hated Lily. Fair enough. Well, whatever she'd done to begin with, he now knew that she wasn't nice. She was big-headed. She was full of herself. She was better than him at charms. She was weird, and not even in a good way.

Yep, James decided. She was weird. Weird, weird, weird. And so was Sirius, for thinking she liked him.

'Maybe it's contagious,' he thought. 'I wonder if there's a vaccine for it?'

Anyway... she didn't like him, he didn't like her, and neither of them ever would!

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Lily, accompanied by Fleureat, Sam and January, made her way down to breakfast. The Gryffindor table was empty, except for a small gaggle of scrappy first-years, who ignored them.

The four friends seated themselves at the table, and helped themselves to bacon and eggs.

"I'm glad it's Saturday," Sam told them. "I only feel like dosing today."

"Just as well there's nothing much else to do, then," Fleureat smiled, pouring out orange juice.

"I've got Divination Coursework to catch up on," Lily sighed, "but it won't take a mo. I'll just write down any old rubbish and she'll swallow it. She keeps telling me to 'consider the gentle lily flow'r'. I mean, what does that mean?!"

January frowned. "Well..." She seemed to think for a moment. "It gets to sit around all day doing nothing. Lucky bugger," she added with feeling.

The girls exchanged glances and Lily decided not to pursue the subject.

Some more students joined the Gryffindor table, sitting directly next to the group of girls. Much to Lily's vague horror - more because of force of habit then anything else - it was the Marauders. But, for some reason, the sight of James made her blush into her breakfast. She found herself avoiding his eyes.

"Hiya, freaks." Sirius plucked himself down next to Sam. Lily was relieved that James kept his distance from her, although she couldn't help but notice that he was nudged in the ribs by Peter.

"Hello," Lily greeted them unwillingly.

"James," Fleureat, as usual, as subtle as a herd of elephants, turned to him. "Lily wants a private word with you."

"Do I?" Lily looked warningly at Fleureat, her eyes hinting heavily. "How come I was the last person to know about this?"

"Oh, c'mon, Lil!" January said loudly, "No need to be shy!"

Lily glared at her friends. What did they think they were playing at?! When she could be bothered, Lily decided, she would have to kill both of them. Preferably horribly.

"What? You two are crackers! Why would I want to talk to that stupid scumbag?"

Sam opened her mouth to answer, but Lily cut across. "Actually, I'd rather not know," she said sharply.

Determined to leave before Fleureat, Sam and January could cause any more potential trouble, Lily got to her feet. As she made to go past Sirius, though, he caught her by the arm.

"Hey! Get off me, you psycho! I'll get you done for sexual harassment!"

"When you agree to talk to James," Sirius smiled sweetly at her.

"You're nuts!" Lily tried to pull her arm out of Sirius' grip, but he held fast. She sighed. Sometimes being a teeny little person could really be annoying. Especially considering that Sirius was about three times as big as her.

"Yeah!" James agreed, "I'm quite happy not to talk to her!"

"Same here!"

Sirius stood up, grabbed both Lily and James by each of their arms, and pulled them, protesting, out of the Great Hall into a corridor.

"Right. You two, talk."

"No!" Lily exclaimed.

"I have better things to do then exchange pleasantries with a wet hen, thank you very much!" James said, glaring at Sirius.

"Don't call me a wet hen, cretin!"

They glared at each other, and even more at Sirius. Sirius grinned.

"Look, how about this; I'll go, and you two can have a nice little conversation, yup?"

"No! I--"

"Because there's no use pretending, both of you..."

Sirius was going to die soon. You could see it in the two prefects' eyes.

"So get it over with! Oh, and..." he shot a curse at their feet, which immediately became glued to the floor. "Just so you don't end up killing each other... although I don't see why you would." He gave James a wink.

Lily blinked, still red-faced. It couldn't be a joke... Sirius was in on it... and Fleureat and Sirius couldn't get on well enough together to actually organise anything of this sort without turning each other into trees or something.

And now the two prefects were alone.

"Well, what do you want?" James scowled at her, wondering what on earth was going on now. This stupid joke, or whatever it was, even had Lily's friends in on it. Soon they'd no doubt announce it to the whole school, and it wasn't even true!

Lily was aware of her hot cheeks as she answered him.

"Nothing! They made it all up!"

"Yeah, right. We're both here, so you might as well tell me, you know."

"I seriously don't have any reason for wanting to talk to you," she said, deciding that she might as well try and be reasonable. "They're just being immature."

"Tell me about it. Sirius's middle name is Immature."

"Sirius Immature Black?"

"Has a certain ring to it, you have to admit." James grinned a little.

"Yes, it certainly suits him. Him and Fleureat both!" She gave a huffy sigh. "I don't know how I've put up with her for five years of my life."

"I know the feeling well," James rolled his eyes. "Come to that, how long d'you think it'll be before the spell wears off?"

"Well, Sirius' magic is... kinda dodgy..."

"Oh, well, that's reassuring! I don't suppose you have your wand with you at all?"

Of course! Lily could have hit herself for not realising that a simple counter curse could undo the spell. "Yes, actually."

James rolled his eyes. "Then for Goodness sake let's get out of here!"

"Right." Lily pulled out her wand, and pointed it, first at herself, then at James, as she reversed the spell.

"Thanks, Lily. That was decent. Hey, maybe you do have a good side!" He laughed at his own joke, and walked a few steps up and down. "Free at last! Now... to kill Sirius..." James strode off, leaving Lily to stare after him.

Maybe he did like her... after all, this was the first time he hadn't tried to kill her for... well, quite some time. Still in a daze, not in the mood to be angry at her friends, Lily almost waltzed off, daydreaming happily to herself.

~*~*~

As she walked away, three girls appeared from the shadows.

"That wasn't good enough," Fleureat said, shaking her head.

"Nope," January agreed. "They're too dense."

"Well, we'll do something about that..." Fleureat smiled devishly as they took off after Lily...

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