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(A/N thank you, you kind kind reviewers! Well, this chapter, according to me, isn't much fun, it's going to be boring stuff, I think, I might throw in some cool stuff, if I can, but so far, I think it'll be me trying to get through fourth year. So PLEASE REVIEW!!!??
I'm on spring break so I can probably get a lot more chapters done, I don't know exactly where I'm ending it. What do you guys think?)
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CHAPTER 11
September crawled by very slowly, for Lily, not talking to the Marauders was a hard job, but she and her friends had to do it. Between Quidditch practice, school work, and this whole curse thing, Lily was getting quite exhausted, not to mention the nightmares, which were getting worse…
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Lily woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare, she was sweating, and panicked, but she couldn't even remember the dream…She strained to recall it, but failed.
She couldn't get to sleep that night, and she had Quidditch practice in the morning…
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Lily walked to practice half asleep, the new captain, Robert Saratoga, had them get to the Quidditch pitch at 9:00 in the morning. The new chaser was Steven Sitruc, and the new beater, much to Lily's happiness, Winnie Williams a fifth year.
She got there and everyone met on the pitch, and started going through the drills, Lily was only half paying attention. Twice she was saved by Sirius from a bludger to the face.
"Lily! Pay attention!" Robert said, he was turning out to be a very good captain.
Surprisingly enough, Mindy turned up to watch practice, she said it was to see Lily, but Lily had a feeling it was to see Robert, who when she got there, flew down to say 'hi'.
They were practicing hard for there game against Hufflepuff, in two weeks. It was an earlier game then usual, it was in mid-October.
Lily, James, and Winnie made a good team. It was hard to get used to, not having the same Quidditch Cup winning team they had, had last year. They had won every year Lily and James had been on the team. They were hoping to win for the third year running.
The only was the fact that James and Lily weren't saying a word to each other, well not much.
"Look out bludger behind you James!"
"Thanks Lily." Or maybe.
"Lily here!" And would throw the Quaffle, but other then that, not much conversation.
The quidditch game against Hufflepuff was getting closer, and the Hufflepuffs had a good team this, year, and would be a challenge.
The day before the game they had a very early practice, 5:00 am to be exact. Lily hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, so she kind of drooped on her broom.
It is not a good idea to fall asleep on your broom, it is a very awful thing to do, and most everyone with a brain knows this, but when you only got two hours of sleep, its very hard to do.
(A/N I wonder what going to happen…)
Lily was sitting there from James' point of view, she looked like she was falling asleep, but didn't say anything about it. Then right before his eyes, thirty feet in the air, Lily just kind of slid of her broom, and hit the ground with a big 'thud' before anyone could yell Quidditch!
The rest of the team gathered around the unconscious, again, Lily Evans. James felt all too guilty about it.
"I think her legs broken, and maybe her arm." Robert said grimly, "If they are, she won't be in the game tomorrow."
"Damn, this is bad!" James muttered, they had a second year replacement for Chaser, wasn't good at all.
"We are going to lose!" Sirius yelled, not bothering about hurting the second years feelings who was standing next to him.
"This is awful!" Winnie whined. (A/N I like that Winnie Whined.)
"Let's get Lily to the Hospital Wing." Mindy perked up. Robert agreed, and he conjured up a stretcher for her.
"That should teach him not to have such early practices." Sirius yawned as they sat at breakfast.
"Yeah, I know, now we're going to lose, Lily whether I like it or not, is the only one who actually gets this stuff!" James mumbled, he was still feeling guilty, why hadn't he felt anything, and known that she was about to get hurt? Well, it must've been because it wasn't life threatening. James's thoughts continued to wander until they went to class.
(A/N yeah tough schedule, up by five in the morning on a FRIDAY!)
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Lily was out of classes all day and for that matter, she was out of consciousness too.
She finally woke up, and found that her arm and leg were in a lot of pain; Madame Pomfrey came in and quickly gave her skel-o-grow. (A/N spelling?)
She was informed of what had happened, and was very, very disappointed to find that she couldn't play in the game, but could still watch, up in the stands. Lily was mad at this, but they didn't want her to get hurt all over again, since her bones were still pretty weak.
Lily groaned, it wasn't fair that she had to practice, and practice, and then get hurt at the last minute and not be able to play!
She went to sleep, only to be plagued by nightmares, of quidditch.
She woke up around three in the morning, knowing that something bad was going to happen, but she didn't know what! Maybe something was going to happen…to James?
Lily shrugged that thought away, maybe she was just nervous, or had head injuries Madam Pomfrey over looked. She went back to sleep.
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Lily was very grumpy in the morning, along with the other quidditch team members. Lily came down to breakfast, in a huff, and the team swarmed around her asking if she was going to get a chance to play. Even the second year replacement.
"Sorry, Pomfrey's orders." Lily said annoyed still.
"Err, now we're going to lose the quidditch cup, and maybe even the house cup!" James muttered.
"I know guys, I'm so sorry I fell asleep but I was sooo tired, I haven't been sleeping well." Lily tried to explain, but they all went back to breakfast eating in silence.
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The game wasn't going to be fun for the Gryffindors, they were missing an important player from their team, and it wasn't a good thing at all.
Lily shuffled into the stands, a place she hadn't been to when her own team was playing, not since first year.
"Cheer up Lils, we could still win!" Sierra tried.
"Yeah, that second year isn't THAT bad." Jimena put in.
"I hope so, or we are dead!" Lily moaned.
The game got started very quickly, and the Gryffindors weren't doing well. It was 20-0 in five minutes, the only chance the Gryffindors had of beating Hufflepuff was if they caught the snitch.
Mindy, came up and sat next to Lily, "I hope Saratoga catches that Snitch or he's going to be in big trouble with me!"
Lily inwardly smirked; Mindy was still denying any feelings, other then hatred towards Robert.
Lily found herself looking at James, and she began to feel a bit distressed and that same feeling she had had earlier during the night came back.
The entire house of Gryffindor watched in horror as James was thrown from his broom by a nasty bludger.
Lily screamed as loud as she could and they watched him hit the ground, with a sickening thump.
Even though Lily hadn't been talking to James, a fifty foot fall, by anyone on her team had an effect on her. Lily ran as fast as she could down to the field, which was pretty quick for someone who had just broken their leg the day before.
She heard the announcer all of a sudden talking about her, the boy was still talking even though the game had stopped.
"LILY EVANS JUST RAN ON TO THE FIELD TO SEE HER FALLEN TEAM MATE, WHEN SHE HERSELF JUST HAD AN ACCIDENT ON THE PITCH YESTERDAY!" Lily blushed a bit, how'd they know that?
She kept running to where James was surrounded by the team, and Professors. Sirius was kneeling next to him trying to wake him up. Lily pushed through the crowd, but couldn't get through, from lack of height.
She finally got on her knees, and crawled through making it to the unconscious James.
(A/N I sure need to think of some knew ideas, always unconscious!! But it works for me anyways.)
James' glasses were broken, so Lily repaired them and put them back on him. He was still her friend after all.
"Lils did you see it! He just got knocked so hard in the head; I couldn't get there in time to block it, stupid damn Hufflepuffs!" Sirius muttered more to himself then Lily.
"James, James Potter? Are you alive in there?" Lily called leaning over him, still kneeling. Surprisingly enough everyone was quite shocked that James' eyes opened.
"Lily?! Wh- What happened?" James asked trying to sit up, he hadn't gotten too badly hurt when he fell.
"JAMES!" Sirius said shocked. "YOU fell off your broom, when a damn bludger came and pelted you on the back of the head!! Sorry I didn't get there in time."
"Ah, that's okay, I'm not TOO badly hurt." He grinned a bit. "I can still play I think." He stood up, and before anyone could say anything got on his broom and took off.
"JAMES POTTER!" McGonagall shouted at him.
"Yes Professor? I'm feeling quite all right, so let's keep playing!" He called down at the amused crowd, and McGonagall with much persuasion from the team, let them keep playing.
Robert got really lucky and saw the snitch a few minutes into the game and the Gryffindors won!
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There was a lot of celebration, everyone was quite happy. The Gryffindor common room was very rowdy until the early morning hours of Sunday morning, and they deserved it. But Lily didn't feel quite like celebrating, since she was feeling a bit sick. James had given her quite a scare that afternoon, but they hadn't spoken since.
The Marauders had once again, some how gotten a ton of food and butter beer, but Lily just sat in the corner observing the party.
Sierra was flirting with a sixth year, and Jimena his best friend.
James and Sirius in what seemed like retaliation were flirting with two sixth year girls, who were quite pretty. Remus was off somewhere. Peter was just drinking down butter beer after butter, after butter beer, after butter beer…
Lily looked over towards Mindy, who was once again talking to Robert, 'They are so adorable together!' Lily thought, smiling at the two fifth years.
Lily was getting bored, and felt a headache coming on, probably from all the noise, so she decided to retreat to the Hogwarts grounds, she opened the door to the grounds and immediately noticed the full moon, Remus might be out there somewhere, so she left again, sighed disappointedly and went all the way back to the common room.
Not wanting to go back in, Lily say by the portrait off the fat lady in the pink dress.
"Whatever are you sitting here for girl?" The fat lady spoke up, after Lily had been sitting there for a few moments. "Forget the password?"
"No, it's just crazy in there."
"All right then." The fat lady looked a bit disturbed.
Lily sat for quite a few minutes when she heard voices down the hall way, definitely professors. Lily thought.
"The master said to kill them; he said the girl would be hardest to get to, but easiest to kill."
'OH my God!' Lily thought. 'They're talking about murdering someone! Would her professors do that?'
(A/N I don't know how this got into my head!)
"Yes, but Dumbledore seems to suspect us, we are going to have be very careful about this." Another Professor said.
"Yes, last night would have been easy to get to the girl since she was in the hospital wing, but I couldn't get away from that meeting!"
"So have any ideas?"
"Yes, I think we should check through the girl'-." Lily couldn't here anymore because she made a run through the portrait hole, after saying the password very quickly.
"Grindewald!" Lily fell down on her knees when she made it through, and then collapsed on a free couch, stricken with fear. She could have been dead if she'd been caught. Who were those Professors they seemed familiar, she just couldn't recognize their voices since they were sort of muffled.
"Lily, are you okay?" James sat next to her looking extremely worried.
"Fine James, why do you ask?"
"Uh, because I was…Erm…getting a feeling again…" His voice trailed off.
"James, I can take care of myself perfectly fine, I was just, in a tight spot a moment ago okay? Leave me alone." With that Lily stomped up to the girls' dorms.
Lily heard her four room mates trudge into the room at around 2:30 in the morning and soon there was snoring heard. Jimena snored with her nose mostly, so it was quiet. Sierra was very breathy, and loudish, Catty, was a snorter, ever so often you would hear a 'snort' and some rolling over sounds from her bed. Vanessa was the worst though, it was loud and sounded like something from a cartoon, you wouldn't expect that from a small pretty blonde girl! Lily didn't know what noises she made in her sleep, and hoped that she wasn't like Vanessa.
Lily couldn't sleep, it was getting later and later when she heard some noises outside her…window? Lily got really scared all of a sudden, fear had taken over. She hid under her covers, but thought better of it, and braved a peak through the hangings around her bed.
There was a man, with a cloak, and had his hood over his face. He was apparently on a broom, and was trying to get in through her window! Lily didn't know what to do. Scream? Do a quick charm? If so which Charm? Should she wake up her dorm? She could do that easily by screaming.
Lily was panicking and her thoughts started jumbling up after that. She kept watching, noticing that he was opening the window; Lily finally did something that showed all the terror she felt, and at that same moment, James Potter raced into the room.
"Lily!"
"James?!" Lily was a bit shocked that he had just come in her room, boxers and all.
"Lily!" James yelled again, and raced over to her. "What the hell happened?!"
"Someone was at the window!" She pointed at the open window, James didn't doubt her, her room mates were a bit clueless as they woke up and found a boy in their room.
"Hey who screamed?" Jimena asked, and then noticing James she pulled the curtains around her bed again.
"There was someone at the window." Lily told everyone.
"Oh my gosh! Let's get the Professor!" Catty said getting out of bed, in the next few minutes the whole entire girls dorms managed to be woken up and scared finding out the reason for being awakened. Several cranky seventh year girls, including the head girl, controlled everything as best they could.
"James Potter! Go to your own dorms!" The head girl shouted.
"Yes ma'am." James said and ran back, feeling a bit embarrassed as it was.
He got down to the common room and was quite shocked to see the head master.
"Have your work cut out for you, don't you Mr. Potter?" He said when he saw James coming down from the girls' dorms.
"Professor I can explain-."
"No, need, I trust you, I got quite a distress call from the Head Girl and came as quickly as possible."
"Someone tried to get into Lily's room; I got there just as she decided to start screaming." James informed the professor of everything else that had happened.
"Good work James, always keeping an eye out for her like your suppose to."
"Uh, thanks sir."
"Just remember don't always do everything because of duty, but because you want to." James looked confused, "Well, I better calm down the Head Girl, Miss Figg; she gets quite huffy at times."
James went to bed thinking about the Professor's words, but soon fell asleep.
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The girls of Gryffindor slept in quite late Sunday morning, none of them got to sleep easily, several first years even slept with the Seventh years, that's how scared they were.
Lily had an awful feeling they were coming after her, James entering the room that night made her even more sure. She needed to tell James about what she had overheard, maybe he would know something.
Lily didn't find James all day though, she hoped to see him during classes on Monday.
Lily spent Sunday in her dorm with Jimena and Sierra, talking about Lily's curse not to mention the frightening dream they had had the first night back at Hogwarts that had caused them to disown the Marauders.
"Lily, I'm really worried about you, and I wish I never would have bought that dream decipher book, then we could still be friends with the Marauders!" Sierra said while sitting on her bed.
"I'm worried about you too Lily! How many times has your life been in danger now?" Jimena was quiet a moment. "Well, I'm not for sure, but it's more then the average for a 14 year old!"
"I'm scared to guys, I mean, there has to be something they want from me, or don't want me to know about that could make Voldemort want me dead!"
"Don't say his NAME!" Sierra had increasingly gotten afraid of Voldemort, but Lily would always say his name.
"Well, continuing, last night I heard two professors talking about killing someone, and I think it was me and James." Lily explained what she heard the night before.
"Lily! You should have told us!" Sierra shouted.
"Lily, we should go to Dumbledore with this, right now!" Jimena equally shouted.
"I don't think he'd believe me. I think I should tell James, but then again I don't want him to worry about me!" Lily pondered aloud. "He's like the big brother I never wanted!"
Jimena and Sierra laughed. "Yeah that's for sure!" Jimena stuttered, through her laughing.
"It's NOT funny!" Lily said jumping up and standing on her bed. The two girls continued to laugh. "Well, aren't you two the most mature people in the world." Lily muttered as she got an idea.
"What is it Lils you look like your planning something." Lily's eyes looked very mischievous, she grinned evilly.
"Girls, I think its time we pay the Marauders a…visit."
"Do I hear a revenge coming on!?" Jimena asked sharing the grin.
"Do tell me if you have something planned to get Sirius!" Sierra yelped, and got the same maniacal smile.
"Okay girls listen up, we can do this, this weekend. Saturday would be good, we can get the supplies from Hogsmeade!" Lily explained her plan, the two girls grinned at her and agreed.
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(A/N what are those girlies planning!? I don't even know exactly…Hmm, I think it will be more of an embarrassing prank then anything, if I have my way with my story! Muhahaha!)
Lily approached James at breakfast Monday morning prepared to tell him everything, but was quite shocked to see some fourth year Hufflepuff, one that was in his 'fan club' hanging all over him! Lily decided against telling him at that moment.
Lily sat down next to Sierra and Jimena who were already there. "That's disgusting!" She said taking a piece of toast and buttering it up. (A/N I love toast!!)
"What is?" Jimena asked through a mouth full of pancakes.
"James and the Hufflepuff- for get her name." Lily said and nodded in their direction.
"Jealous?" Sierra asked joking a bit.
"No way! That's sick, I-. Sorry Jim, I forgot you dated him for a moment."
"It's okay, I don't mind, I have currently set my interests on a certain Alvin Patil, he's Ralph's younger brother!" Jimena said dreamily.
"Alvin, he's in Ravenclaw, right?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, too bad."
"I always find it weird when siblings are put in different houses!" (A/N Remember how Parvati and Padma Patil are twins and are put in different houses?) Lily commented.
"I hope he asks me out, I can't wait for Defense Against the Dark Arts today!" Jimena squealed.
"Ugh, but first we have to get through, potions with that mean new Professor Blint!" Sierra groaned. (A/N I got that professors name from another fan fic, I can never think of names on my own!)
"The DADA Professor isn't any better!" Lily put in.
"Who? Professor Kenyon?" Jimena liked DADA that day.
"Yes, him! He's always glaring at me like he wants to-." Lily stopped what she was saying.
"LILY! You don't think he'd-?" Jimena started to say.
"Yes Jimena, I seriously think he would! Today is not going to be a fun Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson…" Sierra said announcing the obvious.
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Lily managed to get through potions, Professor Blint hated everyone, well everyone except the Slytherins. They got special treatment.
The class started off terrible since the three girls walked in late. "5 points from Gryffindor-Each!" He steamed, and the girls ran to their seats. "Today you will be finally making the forgetfulness potion. Now remember to use your notes, and get started, you will be testing them at the end of the hour."
Lily turned to Jimena and Sierra. "He wants us to test a FORGETFULNESS potion?!" She whispered in outrage.
"Lily I just hope we don't forget anything important…is there an antidote?" Sierra asked.
Lily and Jimena shrugged. They unfortunately seemed to have done their potions right by the end of the hour.
"Class, you will each try the potion, and you will forget everything from the past few hours, but it will come back soon, don't worry." Lily kept thinking, 'this is bad, this is bad!'
Lily, Jimena and Sierra each took a gulp of their potion.
"Um, what are we doing here?" Lily asked confusedly.
"I was hoping you would know that." The whole class broke out into confusion, since no one could even remember getting out of bed.
"Class calm down, calm down, you have each taken a forgetfulness potion, your potions were weak, so your memories will come back soon, and I hope nothing important happened at breakfast for you!"
The entire class left to their next class either extremely grumpy or very confused.
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Needless to say at Defense Against the Dark Arts, Lily, Jimena and Sierra remembered nothing of their conversation at breakfast, so when Lily was asked to stay after class, nothing was thought of it, except that Professor Kenyon wanted to yell at her or something, not severe, at least not as severe as death.
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(A/N Short chapter, don't get worked up, it's nothing too big happening…MUHAHAHAHA!! I love this! Okay being the writer is so much more fun then being the reader when it comes to these cliff hanger endings! I did good today, I was stuck at home on break, so I was able to get three chapters done in one weekend!! Yeah it's a record, and if I type fast and don't get distracted again…I might get another one up!! Yeah!! Also I apologize for mistakes in my chapters, I can normally get most of them by reading through them but I haven't felt like it…so sorry if I confuse stuff! Okay please READ AND REVIEW!!)
(A/N thank you, you kind kind reviewers! Well, this chapter, according to me, isn't much fun, it's going to be boring stuff, I think, I might throw in some cool stuff, if I can, but so far, I think it'll be me trying to get through fourth year. So PLEASE REVIEW!!!??
I'm on spring break so I can probably get a lot more chapters done, I don't know exactly where I'm ending it. What do you guys think?)
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CHAPTER 11
September crawled by very slowly, for Lily, not talking to the Marauders was a hard job, but she and her friends had to do it. Between Quidditch practice, school work, and this whole curse thing, Lily was getting quite exhausted, not to mention the nightmares, which were getting worse…
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Lily woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare, she was sweating, and panicked, but she couldn't even remember the dream…She strained to recall it, but failed.
She couldn't get to sleep that night, and she had Quidditch practice in the morning…
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Lily walked to practice half asleep, the new captain, Robert Saratoga, had them get to the Quidditch pitch at 9:00 in the morning. The new chaser was Steven Sitruc, and the new beater, much to Lily's happiness, Winnie Williams a fifth year.
She got there and everyone met on the pitch, and started going through the drills, Lily was only half paying attention. Twice she was saved by Sirius from a bludger to the face.
"Lily! Pay attention!" Robert said, he was turning out to be a very good captain.
Surprisingly enough, Mindy turned up to watch practice, she said it was to see Lily, but Lily had a feeling it was to see Robert, who when she got there, flew down to say 'hi'.
They were practicing hard for there game against Hufflepuff, in two weeks. It was an earlier game then usual, it was in mid-October.
Lily, James, and Winnie made a good team. It was hard to get used to, not having the same Quidditch Cup winning team they had, had last year. They had won every year Lily and James had been on the team. They were hoping to win for the third year running.
The only was the fact that James and Lily weren't saying a word to each other, well not much.
"Look out bludger behind you James!"
"Thanks Lily." Or maybe.
"Lily here!" And would throw the Quaffle, but other then that, not much conversation.
The quidditch game against Hufflepuff was getting closer, and the Hufflepuffs had a good team this, year, and would be a challenge.
The day before the game they had a very early practice, 5:00 am to be exact. Lily hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, so she kind of drooped on her broom.
It is not a good idea to fall asleep on your broom, it is a very awful thing to do, and most everyone with a brain knows this, but when you only got two hours of sleep, its very hard to do.
(A/N I wonder what going to happen…)
Lily was sitting there from James' point of view, she looked like she was falling asleep, but didn't say anything about it. Then right before his eyes, thirty feet in the air, Lily just kind of slid of her broom, and hit the ground with a big 'thud' before anyone could yell Quidditch!
The rest of the team gathered around the unconscious, again, Lily Evans. James felt all too guilty about it.
"I think her legs broken, and maybe her arm." Robert said grimly, "If they are, she won't be in the game tomorrow."
"Damn, this is bad!" James muttered, they had a second year replacement for Chaser, wasn't good at all.
"We are going to lose!" Sirius yelled, not bothering about hurting the second years feelings who was standing next to him.
"This is awful!" Winnie whined. (A/N I like that Winnie Whined.)
"Let's get Lily to the Hospital Wing." Mindy perked up. Robert agreed, and he conjured up a stretcher for her.
"That should teach him not to have such early practices." Sirius yawned as they sat at breakfast.
"Yeah, I know, now we're going to lose, Lily whether I like it or not, is the only one who actually gets this stuff!" James mumbled, he was still feeling guilty, why hadn't he felt anything, and known that she was about to get hurt? Well, it must've been because it wasn't life threatening. James's thoughts continued to wander until they went to class.
(A/N yeah tough schedule, up by five in the morning on a FRIDAY!)
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Lily was out of classes all day and for that matter, she was out of consciousness too.
She finally woke up, and found that her arm and leg were in a lot of pain; Madame Pomfrey came in and quickly gave her skel-o-grow. (A/N spelling?)
She was informed of what had happened, and was very, very disappointed to find that she couldn't play in the game, but could still watch, up in the stands. Lily was mad at this, but they didn't want her to get hurt all over again, since her bones were still pretty weak.
Lily groaned, it wasn't fair that she had to practice, and practice, and then get hurt at the last minute and not be able to play!
She went to sleep, only to be plagued by nightmares, of quidditch.
She woke up around three in the morning, knowing that something bad was going to happen, but she didn't know what! Maybe something was going to happen…to James?
Lily shrugged that thought away, maybe she was just nervous, or had head injuries Madam Pomfrey over looked. She went back to sleep.
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Lily was very grumpy in the morning, along with the other quidditch team members. Lily came down to breakfast, in a huff, and the team swarmed around her asking if she was going to get a chance to play. Even the second year replacement.
"Sorry, Pomfrey's orders." Lily said annoyed still.
"Err, now we're going to lose the quidditch cup, and maybe even the house cup!" James muttered.
"I know guys, I'm so sorry I fell asleep but I was sooo tired, I haven't been sleeping well." Lily tried to explain, but they all went back to breakfast eating in silence.
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The game wasn't going to be fun for the Gryffindors, they were missing an important player from their team, and it wasn't a good thing at all.
Lily shuffled into the stands, a place she hadn't been to when her own team was playing, not since first year.
"Cheer up Lils, we could still win!" Sierra tried.
"Yeah, that second year isn't THAT bad." Jimena put in.
"I hope so, or we are dead!" Lily moaned.
The game got started very quickly, and the Gryffindors weren't doing well. It was 20-0 in five minutes, the only chance the Gryffindors had of beating Hufflepuff was if they caught the snitch.
Mindy, came up and sat next to Lily, "I hope Saratoga catches that Snitch or he's going to be in big trouble with me!"
Lily inwardly smirked; Mindy was still denying any feelings, other then hatred towards Robert.
Lily found herself looking at James, and she began to feel a bit distressed and that same feeling she had had earlier during the night came back.
The entire house of Gryffindor watched in horror as James was thrown from his broom by a nasty bludger.
Lily screamed as loud as she could and they watched him hit the ground, with a sickening thump.
Even though Lily hadn't been talking to James, a fifty foot fall, by anyone on her team had an effect on her. Lily ran as fast as she could down to the field, which was pretty quick for someone who had just broken their leg the day before.
She heard the announcer all of a sudden talking about her, the boy was still talking even though the game had stopped.
"LILY EVANS JUST RAN ON TO THE FIELD TO SEE HER FALLEN TEAM MATE, WHEN SHE HERSELF JUST HAD AN ACCIDENT ON THE PITCH YESTERDAY!" Lily blushed a bit, how'd they know that?
She kept running to where James was surrounded by the team, and Professors. Sirius was kneeling next to him trying to wake him up. Lily pushed through the crowd, but couldn't get through, from lack of height.
She finally got on her knees, and crawled through making it to the unconscious James.
(A/N I sure need to think of some knew ideas, always unconscious!! But it works for me anyways.)
James' glasses were broken, so Lily repaired them and put them back on him. He was still her friend after all.
"Lils did you see it! He just got knocked so hard in the head; I couldn't get there in time to block it, stupid damn Hufflepuffs!" Sirius muttered more to himself then Lily.
"James, James Potter? Are you alive in there?" Lily called leaning over him, still kneeling. Surprisingly enough everyone was quite shocked that James' eyes opened.
"Lily?! Wh- What happened?" James asked trying to sit up, he hadn't gotten too badly hurt when he fell.
"JAMES!" Sirius said shocked. "YOU fell off your broom, when a damn bludger came and pelted you on the back of the head!! Sorry I didn't get there in time."
"Ah, that's okay, I'm not TOO badly hurt." He grinned a bit. "I can still play I think." He stood up, and before anyone could say anything got on his broom and took off.
"JAMES POTTER!" McGonagall shouted at him.
"Yes Professor? I'm feeling quite all right, so let's keep playing!" He called down at the amused crowd, and McGonagall with much persuasion from the team, let them keep playing.
Robert got really lucky and saw the snitch a few minutes into the game and the Gryffindors won!
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There was a lot of celebration, everyone was quite happy. The Gryffindor common room was very rowdy until the early morning hours of Sunday morning, and they deserved it. But Lily didn't feel quite like celebrating, since she was feeling a bit sick. James had given her quite a scare that afternoon, but they hadn't spoken since.
The Marauders had once again, some how gotten a ton of food and butter beer, but Lily just sat in the corner observing the party.
Sierra was flirting with a sixth year, and Jimena his best friend.
James and Sirius in what seemed like retaliation were flirting with two sixth year girls, who were quite pretty. Remus was off somewhere. Peter was just drinking down butter beer after butter, after butter beer, after butter beer…
Lily looked over towards Mindy, who was once again talking to Robert, 'They are so adorable together!' Lily thought, smiling at the two fifth years.
Lily was getting bored, and felt a headache coming on, probably from all the noise, so she decided to retreat to the Hogwarts grounds, she opened the door to the grounds and immediately noticed the full moon, Remus might be out there somewhere, so she left again, sighed disappointedly and went all the way back to the common room.
Not wanting to go back in, Lily say by the portrait off the fat lady in the pink dress.
"Whatever are you sitting here for girl?" The fat lady spoke up, after Lily had been sitting there for a few moments. "Forget the password?"
"No, it's just crazy in there."
"All right then." The fat lady looked a bit disturbed.
Lily sat for quite a few minutes when she heard voices down the hall way, definitely professors. Lily thought.
"The master said to kill them; he said the girl would be hardest to get to, but easiest to kill."
'OH my God!' Lily thought. 'They're talking about murdering someone! Would her professors do that?'
(A/N I don't know how this got into my head!)
"Yes, but Dumbledore seems to suspect us, we are going to have be very careful about this." Another Professor said.
"Yes, last night would have been easy to get to the girl since she was in the hospital wing, but I couldn't get away from that meeting!"
"So have any ideas?"
"Yes, I think we should check through the girl'-." Lily couldn't here anymore because she made a run through the portrait hole, after saying the password very quickly.
"Grindewald!" Lily fell down on her knees when she made it through, and then collapsed on a free couch, stricken with fear. She could have been dead if she'd been caught. Who were those Professors they seemed familiar, she just couldn't recognize their voices since they were sort of muffled.
"Lily, are you okay?" James sat next to her looking extremely worried.
"Fine James, why do you ask?"
"Uh, because I was…Erm…getting a feeling again…" His voice trailed off.
"James, I can take care of myself perfectly fine, I was just, in a tight spot a moment ago okay? Leave me alone." With that Lily stomped up to the girls' dorms.
Lily heard her four room mates trudge into the room at around 2:30 in the morning and soon there was snoring heard. Jimena snored with her nose mostly, so it was quiet. Sierra was very breathy, and loudish, Catty, was a snorter, ever so often you would hear a 'snort' and some rolling over sounds from her bed. Vanessa was the worst though, it was loud and sounded like something from a cartoon, you wouldn't expect that from a small pretty blonde girl! Lily didn't know what noises she made in her sleep, and hoped that she wasn't like Vanessa.
Lily couldn't sleep, it was getting later and later when she heard some noises outside her…window? Lily got really scared all of a sudden, fear had taken over. She hid under her covers, but thought better of it, and braved a peak through the hangings around her bed.
There was a man, with a cloak, and had his hood over his face. He was apparently on a broom, and was trying to get in through her window! Lily didn't know what to do. Scream? Do a quick charm? If so which Charm? Should she wake up her dorm? She could do that easily by screaming.
Lily was panicking and her thoughts started jumbling up after that. She kept watching, noticing that he was opening the window; Lily finally did something that showed all the terror she felt, and at that same moment, James Potter raced into the room.
"Lily!"
"James?!" Lily was a bit shocked that he had just come in her room, boxers and all.
"Lily!" James yelled again, and raced over to her. "What the hell happened?!"
"Someone was at the window!" She pointed at the open window, James didn't doubt her, her room mates were a bit clueless as they woke up and found a boy in their room.
"Hey who screamed?" Jimena asked, and then noticing James she pulled the curtains around her bed again.
"There was someone at the window." Lily told everyone.
"Oh my gosh! Let's get the Professor!" Catty said getting out of bed, in the next few minutes the whole entire girls dorms managed to be woken up and scared finding out the reason for being awakened. Several cranky seventh year girls, including the head girl, controlled everything as best they could.
"James Potter! Go to your own dorms!" The head girl shouted.
"Yes ma'am." James said and ran back, feeling a bit embarrassed as it was.
He got down to the common room and was quite shocked to see the head master.
"Have your work cut out for you, don't you Mr. Potter?" He said when he saw James coming down from the girls' dorms.
"Professor I can explain-."
"No, need, I trust you, I got quite a distress call from the Head Girl and came as quickly as possible."
"Someone tried to get into Lily's room; I got there just as she decided to start screaming." James informed the professor of everything else that had happened.
"Good work James, always keeping an eye out for her like your suppose to."
"Uh, thanks sir."
"Just remember don't always do everything because of duty, but because you want to." James looked confused, "Well, I better calm down the Head Girl, Miss Figg; she gets quite huffy at times."
James went to bed thinking about the Professor's words, but soon fell asleep.
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The girls of Gryffindor slept in quite late Sunday morning, none of them got to sleep easily, several first years even slept with the Seventh years, that's how scared they were.
Lily had an awful feeling they were coming after her, James entering the room that night made her even more sure. She needed to tell James about what she had overheard, maybe he would know something.
Lily didn't find James all day though, she hoped to see him during classes on Monday.
Lily spent Sunday in her dorm with Jimena and Sierra, talking about Lily's curse not to mention the frightening dream they had had the first night back at Hogwarts that had caused them to disown the Marauders.
"Lily, I'm really worried about you, and I wish I never would have bought that dream decipher book, then we could still be friends with the Marauders!" Sierra said while sitting on her bed.
"I'm worried about you too Lily! How many times has your life been in danger now?" Jimena was quiet a moment. "Well, I'm not for sure, but it's more then the average for a 14 year old!"
"I'm scared to guys, I mean, there has to be something they want from me, or don't want me to know about that could make Voldemort want me dead!"
"Don't say his NAME!" Sierra had increasingly gotten afraid of Voldemort, but Lily would always say his name.
"Well, continuing, last night I heard two professors talking about killing someone, and I think it was me and James." Lily explained what she heard the night before.
"Lily! You should have told us!" Sierra shouted.
"Lily, we should go to Dumbledore with this, right now!" Jimena equally shouted.
"I don't think he'd believe me. I think I should tell James, but then again I don't want him to worry about me!" Lily pondered aloud. "He's like the big brother I never wanted!"
Jimena and Sierra laughed. "Yeah that's for sure!" Jimena stuttered, through her laughing.
"It's NOT funny!" Lily said jumping up and standing on her bed. The two girls continued to laugh. "Well, aren't you two the most mature people in the world." Lily muttered as she got an idea.
"What is it Lils you look like your planning something." Lily's eyes looked very mischievous, she grinned evilly.
"Girls, I think its time we pay the Marauders a…visit."
"Do I hear a revenge coming on!?" Jimena asked sharing the grin.
"Do tell me if you have something planned to get Sirius!" Sierra yelped, and got the same maniacal smile.
"Okay girls listen up, we can do this, this weekend. Saturday would be good, we can get the supplies from Hogsmeade!" Lily explained her plan, the two girls grinned at her and agreed.
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(A/N what are those girlies planning!? I don't even know exactly…Hmm, I think it will be more of an embarrassing prank then anything, if I have my way with my story! Muhahaha!)
Lily approached James at breakfast Monday morning prepared to tell him everything, but was quite shocked to see some fourth year Hufflepuff, one that was in his 'fan club' hanging all over him! Lily decided against telling him at that moment.
Lily sat down next to Sierra and Jimena who were already there. "That's disgusting!" She said taking a piece of toast and buttering it up. (A/N I love toast!!)
"What is?" Jimena asked through a mouth full of pancakes.
"James and the Hufflepuff- for get her name." Lily said and nodded in their direction.
"Jealous?" Sierra asked joking a bit.
"No way! That's sick, I-. Sorry Jim, I forgot you dated him for a moment."
"It's okay, I don't mind, I have currently set my interests on a certain Alvin Patil, he's Ralph's younger brother!" Jimena said dreamily.
"Alvin, he's in Ravenclaw, right?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, too bad."
"I always find it weird when siblings are put in different houses!" (A/N Remember how Parvati and Padma Patil are twins and are put in different houses?) Lily commented.
"I hope he asks me out, I can't wait for Defense Against the Dark Arts today!" Jimena squealed.
"Ugh, but first we have to get through, potions with that mean new Professor Blint!" Sierra groaned. (A/N I got that professors name from another fan fic, I can never think of names on my own!)
"The DADA Professor isn't any better!" Lily put in.
"Who? Professor Kenyon?" Jimena liked DADA that day.
"Yes, him! He's always glaring at me like he wants to-." Lily stopped what she was saying.
"LILY! You don't think he'd-?" Jimena started to say.
"Yes Jimena, I seriously think he would! Today is not going to be a fun Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson…" Sierra said announcing the obvious.
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Lily managed to get through potions, Professor Blint hated everyone, well everyone except the Slytherins. They got special treatment.
The class started off terrible since the three girls walked in late. "5 points from Gryffindor-Each!" He steamed, and the girls ran to their seats. "Today you will be finally making the forgetfulness potion. Now remember to use your notes, and get started, you will be testing them at the end of the hour."
Lily turned to Jimena and Sierra. "He wants us to test a FORGETFULNESS potion?!" She whispered in outrage.
"Lily I just hope we don't forget anything important…is there an antidote?" Sierra asked.
Lily and Jimena shrugged. They unfortunately seemed to have done their potions right by the end of the hour.
"Class, you will each try the potion, and you will forget everything from the past few hours, but it will come back soon, don't worry." Lily kept thinking, 'this is bad, this is bad!'
Lily, Jimena and Sierra each took a gulp of their potion.
"Um, what are we doing here?" Lily asked confusedly.
"I was hoping you would know that." The whole class broke out into confusion, since no one could even remember getting out of bed.
"Class calm down, calm down, you have each taken a forgetfulness potion, your potions were weak, so your memories will come back soon, and I hope nothing important happened at breakfast for you!"
The entire class left to their next class either extremely grumpy or very confused.
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Needless to say at Defense Against the Dark Arts, Lily, Jimena and Sierra remembered nothing of their conversation at breakfast, so when Lily was asked to stay after class, nothing was thought of it, except that Professor Kenyon wanted to yell at her or something, not severe, at least not as severe as death.
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(A/N Short chapter, don't get worked up, it's nothing too big happening…MUHAHAHAHA!! I love this! Okay being the writer is so much more fun then being the reader when it comes to these cliff hanger endings! I did good today, I was stuck at home on break, so I was able to get three chapters done in one weekend!! Yeah it's a record, and if I type fast and don't get distracted again…I might get another one up!! Yeah!! Also I apologize for mistakes in my chapters, I can normally get most of them by reading through them but I haven't felt like it…so sorry if I confuse stuff! Okay please READ AND REVIEW!!)