A/N: wow…this was fast…I really wanna thank my reviewers!!! You were great!!! I'm really flattered at some of those reviews, thanks a lot! Well, here's chapter eight…
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Chapter Eight:
Lord Voldemort and Halloween Balls
"Yes, my Lord, he's as good as dead." The uncloaked man said, with an evil look in his eye, as he walked off.
James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Tawny and Grace stood on their brooms, speechlessly, trembling with fear. "Who were they?" Lily asked, breaking the silence.
Sirius' lips were trembling. "Lord Voldemort. And a deatheater." He replied.
"Let's get out of here. I don't like this one bit." Said Grace, shuddering, as she headed towards Hogwarts on her broom.
"Well, what're we gonna do? Tell Dumbledore?" Asked Tawny.
"And get us caught? We can't!" James yelled.
"Well, what do you propose we do? Someone's gonna get killed, Potter!" Lily shrieked.
"Maybe it was some kind of joke…" James said.
"That was not a joke!"
"Ok, well…we don't even know who the death eater's gonna kill. We can't tell. I have a feeling. If we see anything else, we can tell."
By then, they were on the grounds. "So, we're just gonna let them kill this guy? Lik e they did to my parents?" Sirius asked.
"And Hannah!" Lily cut in.
"Yeah, how would you like it if you were the person they're gonna kill?" Tawny added.
James had an odd look on his face. "I-I wouldn't want Dumbledore to know. I wouldn't want to be under constant security." James was looking very pale.
Remus surveyed James. "You're not telling us something. Spill, James."
"It's nothing." James said. "I just don't think we should tell Dumbledore, that's all."
"I don't get you one bit, Potter." Lily said.
Sirius looked over James, and decided to change the subject. "Ok, let's go to dinner. It's getting late."
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The weeks went by and, with many pleas otherwise, they didn't tell Dumbledore, let alone anyone, with the exception of Natty. On the Friday of the Halloween Ball, the entire Gryffindor common room was running around and getting ready.
"How do I look?" Asked Valery Freemore, who was going with James, and was the snobbiest girl in Gryffindor, and the most popular.
"Oh, you look great, Val!" Squealed Michelle Adams, Valery's best friend, also a snob.
Lily turned around from talking to Grace and Tawny. "Valery, let's just say if you plastered anymore makeup all over your face, people would confuse you with a circus clown."
"Hmph. I didn't ask your opinion, Evans. What do you think, Tawny? I think we'll have to start hanging out more, and becoming the best of friends, now that I'm going steady with James." Lily snorted. Could anyone ever "go steady" with James? "He is best friends with Sirius."
Tawny rolled her eyes. "Valery Freemore, you couldn't look like more of a freak if you dressed up like a pig, and ran around screaming."
Valery took a few minutes to grasp the insult Tawny had just thrown at her, and turned away. "Well! Obviously Sirius has bad taste in girls! 'Schelly, Let's get back to our work."
Grace was going with Remus, as friends, and Lily was going with Amos Diggory, the captain of the Hufflepuff quiddich team. James, who was the Gryffindor quiddich captain, said she was a 'traitor to Gryffindor', but that only made Lily want to go with him more. She didn't really like Amos much, because he acted like a dumb jock, but the fact that James didn't want her to persuaded her to. Plus, all she needed was a date, he'd probably go dance with some other girls, and she could hang out with Tawny, Grace, Natty, and the Marauders. Lily had curled her hair, and was wearing regular dress robes, that glittered various colors. Grace was wearing a sparkly gold dress, which looked particularly good with her black hair, for some reason. Tawny was wearing midnight blue dress robes, that would have looked rather plain on anyone else, but on Tawny anything looked good, and her golden blond curls made her look absolutely perfect without the use of any makeup, like Valery.
"Ok, it's 6:45, we have to get downstairs if we want to be fashionably early!" Tawny giggled and the girls started to run downstairs.
"Tanya, dearest, where do you think you're going?" Came the cry of Valery Freemore "I've decided to forgive you for that rude comment earlier, I know you were just jealous of my marvolous beauty, it's only natural! You may hang out with me at the ball. Now, wait for me, as I finish applying my makeup." Valery said in a sugary sweet voice that made Lily want to gag.
Tawny, seeing that Valery wasn't going to take no for an answer, "Ok, sure, Val!" Tawny said in an equally sugary voice, then she turned over to Lily and Grace, and muttered, "Looks like I'm gonna have to stay here with her highness. I'll see you guys later!"
"See you, TW!" Lily called, and headed into the common room with Grace. Inside the common room, Grace and Lily told Sirius and James that Valery and Tawny were coming out soon. Then, Remus left for the Great Hall with Grace and Lily. Lily then met up with Amos outside of the Great Hall.
"Wow, you look great." He said in his annoying jock voice that made him seem very stupid, and pathetic. Lily was beginning to regret agreeing to go with him, and he had only said four words so far.
"Thanks," Lily said awkwardly, and followed him into the common room. Lily sighed. She never went to balls with people she actually liked. It wasn't anything new, but she thought about Sirius and Tawny. At times she wished someone could feel the way Sirius felt about Tawny about her. Not just ask her out, because they thought she was pretty, like Lily knew Amos had. A vision of James came into her mind, but then she yelled at herself, in her head, of course. Lily! You moron! James is an idiot! A freak! A jock! He's not one bit better than Amos Diggery. He's worse!
Just then, Sirius, Tawny, James, and Valery came in. "Jamesie-poo, you don't want to hang out with these guys, do you? Of course not! Come on, my little Jamie-muffin, we're going to hang out with my friends!"
Obviously, Sirius and Tawny had done something to annoy "her highness". "Uhhh…ok, sure, Valery." James was going red from the use of his newly acclaimed nicknames.
"Oh, Jamie-poo! Don't be silly! You can call me Vally-bear! Now that we're going steady," James' face was going red with embaressment, at his nicknames, and horror at the phrase 'going steady'. "we're going to have to have our own little nicknames! Oh, Jamesie! It'll be just perfect! And when we get married, we'll name our son Jamesie Jr.!" James was now completely horrified.
"M-married?"
"Well, of course, muffin!" Valery squealed. "Now, come on, silly, we're going to go dance, and then I'll introduce you to my friends. You'll be hanging out with them from now on."
James was looking pale with horror. Lily was trying hard to keep from laughing. "Have fun, Jamesie-muffin!" Lily teased.
James just went redder and walked off. "Hey, Lily, wanna dance?" Asked Amos.
"No thanks, Amos." Lily said.
"Oh, ok." A few minutes later he turned toward Tawny. "Hey, do you wanna dance?"
Tawny stared at him ludicrously. After a few seconds she looked at Sirius, Grace, and Lily and laughed. The rest began to laugh also.
"What's so funny?" Amos asked, completely in shock that two girls had refused to dance with him. This was a new experience for him. Usually, girls were begging him to dance with him. Was his hair messed up?
"Oh, Let's just say you aren't my type, Amos." Tawny said.
Amos was shocked. How could he not be someone's type? He was completely put off. He decided to go get punch and wait for girls to beg him to dance with them.
A few minutes later, while Tawny and Sirius were going out for a walk, and Grace and Remus were dancing, James came back, soaking wet and sighing. "That is the most annoying girl on the face of this earth. I dumped her."
Lily laughed. "You're soaking wet!"
"Go figure." James said, laughing, "Valery poared punch on me after saying 'you were only using me!' I still don't see what I was using her for, but oh, well. At least I've got her off my back. Honestly! Jamie-muffin, and Vally-bear? My good Lord!"
Lily giggled. "And Jamesie Jr.!"
"Hey, Lil, I really am sorry for what I said the other day."
Lily looked at him and smiled. "It's ok. I shouldn't have butted into your personal life."
"Yeah, but, you were right, I guess." James said, then he looked over at the dance floor. "So, are we friends again?"
"Were we ever friends?" Lily laughed.
"I'm not sure, but let's be friends now."
"Ok!" Lily laughed. "Look! Now that's a match made in heaven!" Lily giggled. Valery Freemore was dancing with Amos Diggery.
James laughed along with her. "Hey, Lil? Wanna go out for a walk, and see Hagrid? I've only been to see him once this year, I feel kind of guilty."
"Oh, Hagrid! I haven't been to see him all year! Sure, let's go!" Lily was quite fond of Hogwarts' animal loving gamekeeper. So, Lily and James walked down toward Hagrid's hut.
"Hi, Hagrid!" Cried Lily and James in unison.
"Hello, James! 'Lo, Lily!" Hagrid cried.
Lily stared wide-eyed at a large Bassett Hound. "Hagrid! Did you get a new pet?" Lily squealed with joy.
"Yup! Name's Fang. Found 'im in the forest yesterday. Just a puppy, he is." Hagrid said excitedly.
James looked less enthusiastic. "D-does it bite?"
"He, not it." Lily corrected.
"Oh, nothing more than a few soft nips, he's very friendly, he is."
James still eyed the dog nervously. "Oh, James, don't be a baby! He's just a puppy!" Lily cried.
"Yeah, right, just a puppy. Until he bites my leg off!" James cried.
"You're such a wimp!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Ok, stop it, both of yeh. How have you been? Would yeh like some rock cakes? Just baked 'em, I did."
"No, thanks, Hagrid!" Lily and James both cried in unison.
"Well, would yeh like some tea?" Hagrid asked.
"Sure!" Said Lily, as Hagrid poured her some tea.
"No, thanks, Hagrid, I think I should get back to the ball. Coming, Lily?" James asked.
"Ok, bye, Hagrid!"
"See you later!"
"Bye, Lily! Bye, James!" Hagrid cried.
"Bye, Hagrid!"
Lily sighed, as she walked back toward the Great Hall with James. "Some ball this was. Both our dates were morons."
James grinned. "Well, at least we're friends."
"Yeah, At least we're friends." Lily repeated softly, smiling. Maybe James wasn't worse than Amos Diggery.
A/N: Ok, sooo…how was it? Tell me, please!!!