James Potter and The Unogua Board
James Potter and The Unogua Board Chapter 4: Ouija?

'Don't you understand simply potions, Evans? What goes into that humongously this skull of yours?' Professor Cerberus bellowed. Lily said nothing but stared blankly at his face. 'Are you deaf?'

'No, sir,' Lily said, playing with the little knife she used to cut her ingredients.

'Put that down! What do they teach you in that stupid school of yours, Mudblood?' Cerberus yelled. Lily shrugged.

'We don't learn Potions there. It's an optional subject,' she said.

'You don't, eh? Well Mudblood, you learn it here, whether you like it or not!' Cerberus sneered, spatting in Lily's face.

The Slytherins cackled rudely and Lily calmly wiped the spat away, sitting down. James gaped in amazement. If it was him in Lily's shoes, he wouldn't killed the professor right there and then.

'Good thing he didn't take any points off you,' James whispered,

'I suck at potions,' Lily said, not bothering to whisper. Cerberus turned back to her.

'Ten points off Gryffindor for talking, Evans!' Cerberus said, cackling madly with joy.

'You're cackling,' Lily said, straight-faced.

'So?'

'You remind me of this goose at Bec's home. It just stared at me when I was tied,' Lily said.

'Fifty points off Gryffindor!' Cerberus snapped.

'That reminds me of a crocodile I see in the zoo. It just-'

'Lily, enough!' James whispered, pulling Lily back to her seat.

'Well, it's true.'

'Why do you do that for? Don't give him chance to take our points!'

'It says in Hogwarts Rule number 56: Points are not allowed to be taken more than fifty at once. Or else, the rest of point-grabbing will be counted as a penalty to the house. And that means we wouldn't lose even one point,' Lily said, holding out a book which had the print of Hogwarts crest and the words reading "Hogwarts Rule" at the bottom.

'He'll curse you if you even breathe another word!' James warned.

'… then they'll go after him,' Lily said quietly.

'What?'

'They'll go after him,' Lily repeated.

'Who'll go after whom?' James asked.

'Them.'

'Them who???? The spirits? They can't do anything!'

'No, not the spirits. Them, them!' Lily said, shuddering a little. And whilst James spent the rest of Potion lesson asking Lily "Who," Lily spent hers answering James with a repeating "Them."

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Sirius bounded happily to James, waving a thick book franticly in his hands and his face was beaming happily.

'Guess what I found?' Sirius said happily.

'What's with this book?' James asked curiously.

'Exactly! Look here!' Sirius said, slamming the book on the table. He slammed it so hard that James and his textbooks jumped in reponse.

'Whoa! What's this? Black magic? Sirius, when did you visit the library?' James said, reading the book's peeling silver title. It was battered. And very, very, very old. With dusts and bitten pages. And that, according to a rule, is something Sirius will definitely not touch.

'Just a week ago. And yes, this is a book on Black Magic,' Sirius said.

'What, you're learning that practice?' James asked.

'Of course not! I'm doing a research! Get it? Research!' Sirius said. 'Hie! Lily! come here!'

Lily closed the book she was reading and went over.

'Whatever for?' Jame said, confused. What is Sirius doing, or trying to do?

'Are you practicing Black Magic?' Sirius asked, looking at Lily right in the eye. Her face was as still and as stony as ever. Her eye pupils were sitting at their place, looking calmly back at Sirius.

'…'

'Is that a yes?' Sirius asked.

'…'

'Lily, have you got a mouth?' Sirius asked impatiently. Lily pointed blankly at her thin line of lips.

'No. I mean, can you speak?' Sirius demanded.

'No, I'm mute,' Lily replied.

'So, you have a voice. That thing you were playing a week ago, that's black magic, isn't it?' Sirius asked.

'…'

'So you practice it?' Sirius said.

'…'

'Could you please be more specific with your answers?'

'…'

'That'll be sometimes yes, sometimes no,' James said.

'Why?' Sirius asked. James just shrugged his shoulders.

'I'm not Lily, am I?' he said.

'Whatever, whatever,' Sirius said. 'So, you said that game you were playing will cost us our lives.'

'…'

'The book didn't say so,' Sirius said, showing her grandly his copy on Black Magic.

'A book is a book and only known knowledge lies in it,' Lily said, finally parting her lips.

'I'm so honoured that you spoke at least a sentence to me,' Sirius said. 'But a book is everything, all knowledge and truth.'

'If a book is everything, I'll be immortal,' Lily scoffed.

'Very unfunny, Evans,' Sirius said. 'But I believ what I believe.'

'…'

'Where'd you actually find this?' James asked, looking at the book.

'Library,' Sirius answered.

'Yeah, but where?'

'I tricked Madam Pince that this was a homework,' Sirius said innocently.

'I don't think you're innocent,' James said, eyeing him.

'Pardon me? I'm deaf, all of a sudden,' Sirius said.

'You're the worst actor ever!' James laughed.

'So Lily, that game was called the "Ouija Board" now, wasn't it?' Sirius said, turning back to the original subject he had came to ask her about.

'…'

'Yes? Or no?'

'No.'

'Why?' Sirius inquired.

James was reading the book, looking at the page Sirius had bookmarked. The diagram on the book looked almost like Lily's board, only slightly different. Lily's letters looked old and ancient, but this one was like the normal ABC they learn. Also, Lily's had a five-star circle and candles on it, which this one doesn't.

'The Ouija Board is different,' Lily said easily. 'Those kids at Epetons told me so.'

'Go on,' Sirius said excitedly.

'…'

'Why? Go on with the story! I'm all ears!'

'I am not to be ordered,' Lily said quietly. It seems as if she were in a trance. Her eyes were unfocused and she seemed to be thinking really, really hard at something.

'Um, pardon?' James said.

'No one is to order me, let alone you,' Lily said again, in a near whisper.

'Huh?' Sirius and James both said in unison as they stared at the girl.

'Like I said, I will not take any orders. Not from you,' Lily whispered.

'Hey Lily? You alright there?' James asked in concern. And to their surprise, Lily passed out suddenly.

'Sirius! I told you not to run and – huh? What's with Lily?' Remus panted as he entered the common room.

'Let's just get her to Madam Pomfrey,' James said, magicking a stretcher for Lily to lie on. 'And Sirius? Get Bec – uh, Professor Hart.'

'Dang. Missed the show,' Remus muttered, running after James.

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'Madam Pomfrey! Hey! Wake up! Patient here!' James yelled, banging the Infirmary door. Pomfrey opened it, clutching her ears painfully.

'Potter! Learn to speak, not yell!' Pomfrey scowled.

'Lily passed out,' Remus said importantly from behind.

'The last bed,' Pomfrey said dismissively.

'Alright. Remus, give me a hand here,' James said as they unload Lily from the stretcher.

'Lily!' Hart cried, bursting in.

'Ssh!' Pomfrey hissed.

'She's not awake,' Hart said in annoyance. She went over to her cousin's bed. 'What happened, James?'

'She was talking to us something when she suddenly passed out,' James said.

'What was she talking about?'

'Something about not taking orders and yadda yadda yadda,' Sirius said, coming in. 'I can't believe I was outrunned by a girl!'

'Well believe it then,' Hart said. 'Now, anything else?'

'Nope. After that, she passed out,' James said.

'Move off! Move off! Expert savior over here! If you want her saved, move away!' Pomrey cried from the back.

'It's okay, Poppy. Lily will wake later, in the time span of 48 hours,' Hart said.

'You mean this always happens?' James asked in amazement.

'No. Only once in a while. When she's frightened or something, she'll faint. Something about a weak spirit. I can't recall it. She'll wake after a day,' Hart said before leaving.

'But why would Lily be so scared to explain about ouija board? She explained it to me some time ago,' James said, puzzled.

'Oh, good. I'll be Lily-free for two days,' Sirius said happily.

'That's not really nice, Sirius,' Remus said.

'Honest! She keeps everything to herself!' Sirius retorted. 'C'mon, let's just leave her.'

'You two go along. I'll stay here,' James said, sitting on a nearby bed.

'Why???'

'She's my friend, and friends don't leave friends,' James said. 'Much as she hate boys, I'm still willing to befriend her.'

'You're nuts,' Sirius muttered.

James just shrugged and looked at the girl lying unconscious in bed. Somehow, he knew that all she wanted was to have a friend. Her anger for boys was probably because of a bitter childhood experience which is probably, well, childish. Once, he had asked her cousin why Lily hadn't any friends.

'She was secretive. Really quiet. Yet she's smart. Not your standard of smartness, of course, but she's pretty wise for her age. It's probably because of her old experiences,' Hart had once told him.

According to her, it was hard to befriend Lily at first. It was when Lily believed in her that she began pouring some tea to her cousin.

'What're they?' James remembered asking.

'Loads of secrets. She said that was all but I know that there were even more of them,' Hart had answered.

Lily is just one of those hurting souls out there. And Petunia, Lily's sister, was making it even harder for her.

'She hates me. For being a witch,' Lily had said, 'She even hate me before she knew I was a witch. For a thin, lanky girl like her, she's awfully strong.'

'Here, James, have some tea,' Pomfrey said, handing James a cup of tea.

'Thanks, madam Pomfrey,' James said, gratefully, taking the cup of warm tea. After this scene, James said to himself, I think I am even more confirmed that Lily is more than she seem.

~**~

AN: Wow! Two in a day: one story and one chapter. aren't I superb? J nah, I guess I'm not! And… I finished!!!!!!! Definitely not the story, of course, but the chapter J and see hermione potter? It could be ouija and it could not be ouija! It's just another, which I'll introduce in the next chapter. I had everything written out, really! But the only problem now is typing it up :P that's something I feel lazy about… please review for me, kayz? Thank you!!!