La Nozze di Figaro
Summary: James and Lily hate each other. They can't stand each other, they can't even speak to each other. They can't even be in the same room with each other. But some things are destined to be, they are meant to be, so how much you even fight against it, fate will win.
It's their fifth year, a year where everything begins, and with everything I mean EVERYTHING. What are James, Remus and Sirius planning to do, why is everyone starting to act strange…as if beeing under terror?…And who is this Dark Lord everyone talks about?
Expect hate, adventure, terror, mystery and the most important of all…love.
So read…La Nozze di Figaro!!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own the most important characters as Lily, James, Remus, Sirius and so on.
Chapter 3 " Counting minutes"
"Where are you going James?", asked Sirius, looking up from his potion lesson they had for tomorrow.
James looked at him with furrowed eyebrows, looking suspicious.
"Why do you ask?"
"You've only looked at your watch ten times this past ten seconds!", added Remus, dripping inc on Sirius's potion parchment as he stood up to get his book "800 potions to prepare and use", by Melinda Pattington.
James grimaced, and unconsciously he looked at his watch again.
"I have a prefect meeting in thirty minutes", he sighed", and I have to go there with Evans", he added very quickly, snorting.
"So, if it's such a hard time to go there with her…why don't you go separate?", Sirius asked, putting away his homework again, his full concentration on James.
"Well, it's just that she doesn't know where it is." James responded.
"But why couldn't you just explain where it is?" Sirius asked the next second.
"Because…wait, what is this?", asked James with a disturbed grimace." Do you think that I want to go with her?"
Sirius put his arms behind his head, leaning back against the puffy sofa.
"Certainly not…but does she want to go with you?", he asked looking smug.
"What?!" James bellowed in disbelief, standing up and causing Remus's brown cat Tutu to jump from his knee and with a hurt look she strode away with her tail up in the air, and sat by the warm fireplace.
"Well, you can never be to sure. I mean was it she who proposed to you if you could go together?" Sirius asked again, with a grin.
Remus rolled his eyes and continued looking for the billion time, the name Garcilla Boogalla, the first woman who had made the Homarus potion, in his potion book.
"Not exactly", James said thinking a bit.
"There is our answer."
"No wait…oh forget it!" James laughed.
"What?" Now it was Sirius time to look curious.
But James was now laughing so hard that he couldn't even squeeze out a word, even if he wanted to.
"What is it?", asked Sirius disturbed.
"E…E…E…w…M…N!", but it was impossible for James to talk. Remus looked at him with a funny expression.
"I think that he wants to say…Evans with me…never", Remus answered, his hand on his chin as he observed James face."…or maybe…Evans with Malfoy…nice?"
Several minutes went by, until James finally calmed down, though a few giggles still escaped from his mouth now and then.
He breathed in for air.
"Your really were hilarious Sirius, this time you were fabulous!"
But Sirius who really didn't know what he was talking about, examined his friend with a worried expression thinking that he may had been infected by the stupidity charm Serverous Snape had thrown on him at lunch.
"Me and Evans..ha!", James giggled.
"Ah…", Sirius said, now understanding." But it's not impossible"
"Please…what are you suggesting. Me going out with someone who looks like she died twice?"
Remus looked up from his parchment, where he tried to rub away a dot of inc he recently had spilled on.
"But she is not that ugly", he said, turning to his paper to hide his suddenly blush.
"WHAT!", James responded quickly, gazing at Remus.
Remus looked up, hoping that he looked normal.
"I mean she looks…like other girls…and ok in my opinion.", he said hesitating, looking at Sirius for help though he knew that he thought the same thing about her.
"Yeah James, she looks…nice", Sirius said, clearing his throat.
James looked at both of them, not believing what he just heard.
"I don't believe the two of you", he mumbled"…betrayed by my best friends."
"Oh, but come on James!", Sirius said." We know that you hate her, but that doesn't mean that she has to look ugly…because she doesn't…", he fell silent when he saw James's glare.
Sirius gathered courage to even say what he was about to say.
"I even thought about asking her to the Yule ball…", he said, avoiding James eyes, as he pretended to be concentrated on a dark dot on one of the green sofas' armrest.
"Me too", Remus said quickly.
"You did?", Sirius snapped his head up." Have you asked her?"
"…Not yet, but I thought of asking her tomorrow at Herbologi lesson.", Remus answered looking at Sirius from head to toe.
"Oh you did. I thought about asking her…tonight!", Sirius said, glaring at Remus.
"Well…I…I…I'm having second thoughts…I'm thinking about asking her…right about now!"
"…Me too!", snapped Sirius, suddenly standing up as Remus did the same thing.
"Hey, Hey!", James shouted, making the two of the to sit down. "What about me?"
"I certainly don't want to go with you James, sorry pal. But you can go with Remus.", Sirius said, with a devil grin.
"I'm not referring to that your git.", James said", I mean, have you forgotten that I. Hate.Evans. And do you think that I want you two to destroy your lives by going out with her!"
"But James give her a chance.", Remus sighed."…she is really pretty you know and I'm sorry that you haven't noticed that but I'm sure that I have…."
James fell in silence and so did Sirius, and also Remus.
They avoided to look at each other.
"Well…if you two really want to go with her…there's nothing I can do about it.", James finally said defeated.
An awkward moment went by.
"…But then don't say that I've warned you…"James said, trying to giggle though it instead sounded like he was coughing, breaking the strange silent.
"Well…if it actually disturbs you so much James…I mean…I don't really have to go with her…there are other candidates…as Maya Devi, Clara Mariella, Martina Clearwater…and so on", Sirius added.
"The same for me actually...", Remus said"…I mean…there are other girls in Hogwarts…"
James sighed, nor feeling pleased or disturbed.
"But it's fine to me you know", James said with a hidden grimace.
"Nah...don't worry…I've seen Toto Parkinson give me the eye…so I think that I will go on her." Remus joked.
"Yeah right that you will!" Sirius laughed"…and James will go with Lily, which would be never!"
And the three boys fell in laughter of the ridiculous idea…until Peter Pettigrew showed up, coming down from upstairs.
"What are you laughing about?", he asked, thinking that they were laughing about him. He hugged his round belly as if he was afraid that it would fall off.
"Oh, nothing actually…just something silly", James said between giggles.
Peter nodded and sat down on a small spot at the end of the green sofa in front of the one where Sirius and Remus were sitting, looking suspiciously from one another. He clenched his teeth wanting to disappear as he saw the glad and funny faces. "Oh, why must they always make fun of me", he thought, feeling a big knot in his stomach.
"You guys..", he whispered, breaking the laughter. He looked around the common room to see if it was really empty to continue." I think that Professor McGonagall is suspicious about You-Know-What.", he said in attempt to make them stop laughing.
"And why is that Peter?", Sirius asked suspiciously. He was still not convinced that it was for the best to include Peter. "I mean you haven't told anyone?"
"Oh, no, no!" Peter said waving his hands", I'm just saying that we have to be careful!"
Remus head snapped up, his face showing pure worry.
"Are…are you sure Peter?", he asked with shaking voice.
"Well not exactly…I mean I heard Professor McGonagall talk to Professor Alvin about some missing herbs and a missing unicorn nail." Pure lie, Peter knew that, but he had to make it believable.
"We are sold!", Remus whispered. "I think that you better re-think about it you know…I mean you don't have to…you are going to get caught."
"Nonsense Remus!", James said looking at all three" We'll have to be even more careful"
All of them nodded.
"When are we going to…you know." Sirius said, looking down at his feet. He felt nervous, and hated to admit it. Raising his head, he saw Peter look at him who turned his head immediately when meeting Sirius eyes, and he felt a strange feeling of anger bubble inside him. Sirius felt that Peter wasn't someone they could trust on, specially about something as important as this. But they couldn't do anything now. When Peter had founded out that they were planning of becoming Animagus when walking in on them when Remus said that it sucked beeing an werewolf, there wasn't any other option than including him or let him tell on them.
Sirius sighed.
"I think that we can start this spring actually. We only need a few other ingredients…lets see…a few hairs from a spider, a giant spider as you remember…a Hungary snake tongue… a small piece of rabbit fur...a Monsoulin bee…and…I think that that is everything", James said, thinking.
Sirius looked sick, but not more than Peter did.
"And that will be easy to get.", Sirius said, suddenly feeling a bit dizzy."…and the worse is left…the charms"
"Calm down Sirius, it will be ok…you may be a bit "bad" at charms but you beet me in potions", Remus comforted.
"Yeah Sirius, yo-", But James was interrupted by a voice, coming down from upstairs.
"Are you ready Potter?", Lily asked looking at three surprised faces and one scared face. "What? Have I interrupted something important?", she asked feeling good about herself.
"Nothing actually!", James said a bit quickly and louder than he had intended to.
Lily looked from one another, not entirely believing him.
"Anyway…I don't care at least what you talk about Potter so don't spare your breath to explain…so are you ready?"
Sirius and Remus suppressed the urge to laugh but fell silent when they saw James's murderous gaze, which wasn't precisely directed at them.
James sighed, lowering his gaze.
"Sure".
And with that the two enemies walked out from the Gryffendor common room, with not pleased smiles when they heard the ridiculous laughter from inside when beeing outside the Fat Lady's panting, who looked at them with a sleepy gaze.
" Great friends Potter"
"Oh shut up Evans", snapped James.
To be continue….
Please review, it really means a lot to me…flames are welcomed too…
Claudia
Summary: James and Lily hate each other. They can't stand each other, they can't even speak to each other. They can't even be in the same room with each other. But some things are destined to be, they are meant to be, so how much you even fight against it, fate will win.
It's their fifth year, a year where everything begins, and with everything I mean EVERYTHING. What are James, Remus and Sirius planning to do, why is everyone starting to act strange…as if beeing under terror?…And who is this Dark Lord everyone talks about?
Expect hate, adventure, terror, mystery and the most important of all…love.
So read…La Nozze di Figaro!!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own the most important characters as Lily, James, Remus, Sirius and so on.
Chapter 3 " Counting minutes"
"Where are you going James?", asked Sirius, looking up from his potion lesson they had for tomorrow.
James looked at him with furrowed eyebrows, looking suspicious.
"Why do you ask?"
"You've only looked at your watch ten times this past ten seconds!", added Remus, dripping inc on Sirius's potion parchment as he stood up to get his book "800 potions to prepare and use", by Melinda Pattington.
James grimaced, and unconsciously he looked at his watch again.
"I have a prefect meeting in thirty minutes", he sighed", and I have to go there with Evans", he added very quickly, snorting.
"So, if it's such a hard time to go there with her…why don't you go separate?", Sirius asked, putting away his homework again, his full concentration on James.
"Well, it's just that she doesn't know where it is." James responded.
"But why couldn't you just explain where it is?" Sirius asked the next second.
"Because…wait, what is this?", asked James with a disturbed grimace." Do you think that I want to go with her?"
Sirius put his arms behind his head, leaning back against the puffy sofa.
"Certainly not…but does she want to go with you?", he asked looking smug.
"What?!" James bellowed in disbelief, standing up and causing Remus's brown cat Tutu to jump from his knee and with a hurt look she strode away with her tail up in the air, and sat by the warm fireplace.
"Well, you can never be to sure. I mean was it she who proposed to you if you could go together?" Sirius asked again, with a grin.
Remus rolled his eyes and continued looking for the billion time, the name Garcilla Boogalla, the first woman who had made the Homarus potion, in his potion book.
"Not exactly", James said thinking a bit.
"There is our answer."
"No wait…oh forget it!" James laughed.
"What?" Now it was Sirius time to look curious.
But James was now laughing so hard that he couldn't even squeeze out a word, even if he wanted to.
"What is it?", asked Sirius disturbed.
"E…E…E…w…M…N!", but it was impossible for James to talk. Remus looked at him with a funny expression.
"I think that he wants to say…Evans with me…never", Remus answered, his hand on his chin as he observed James face."…or maybe…Evans with Malfoy…nice?"
Several minutes went by, until James finally calmed down, though a few giggles still escaped from his mouth now and then.
He breathed in for air.
"Your really were hilarious Sirius, this time you were fabulous!"
But Sirius who really didn't know what he was talking about, examined his friend with a worried expression thinking that he may had been infected by the stupidity charm Serverous Snape had thrown on him at lunch.
"Me and Evans..ha!", James giggled.
"Ah…", Sirius said, now understanding." But it's not impossible"
"Please…what are you suggesting. Me going out with someone who looks like she died twice?"
Remus looked up from his parchment, where he tried to rub away a dot of inc he recently had spilled on.
"But she is not that ugly", he said, turning to his paper to hide his suddenly blush.
"WHAT!", James responded quickly, gazing at Remus.
Remus looked up, hoping that he looked normal.
"I mean she looks…like other girls…and ok in my opinion.", he said hesitating, looking at Sirius for help though he knew that he thought the same thing about her.
"Yeah James, she looks…nice", Sirius said, clearing his throat.
James looked at both of them, not believing what he just heard.
"I don't believe the two of you", he mumbled"…betrayed by my best friends."
"Oh, but come on James!", Sirius said." We know that you hate her, but that doesn't mean that she has to look ugly…because she doesn't…", he fell silent when he saw James's glare.
Sirius gathered courage to even say what he was about to say.
"I even thought about asking her to the Yule ball…", he said, avoiding James eyes, as he pretended to be concentrated on a dark dot on one of the green sofas' armrest.
"Me too", Remus said quickly.
"You did?", Sirius snapped his head up." Have you asked her?"
"…Not yet, but I thought of asking her tomorrow at Herbologi lesson.", Remus answered looking at Sirius from head to toe.
"Oh you did. I thought about asking her…tonight!", Sirius said, glaring at Remus.
"Well…I…I…I'm having second thoughts…I'm thinking about asking her…right about now!"
"…Me too!", snapped Sirius, suddenly standing up as Remus did the same thing.
"Hey, Hey!", James shouted, making the two of the to sit down. "What about me?"
"I certainly don't want to go with you James, sorry pal. But you can go with Remus.", Sirius said, with a devil grin.
"I'm not referring to that your git.", James said", I mean, have you forgotten that I. Hate.Evans. And do you think that I want you two to destroy your lives by going out with her!"
"But James give her a chance.", Remus sighed."…she is really pretty you know and I'm sorry that you haven't noticed that but I'm sure that I have…."
James fell in silence and so did Sirius, and also Remus.
They avoided to look at each other.
"Well…if you two really want to go with her…there's nothing I can do about it.", James finally said defeated.
An awkward moment went by.
"…But then don't say that I've warned you…"James said, trying to giggle though it instead sounded like he was coughing, breaking the strange silent.
"Well…if it actually disturbs you so much James…I mean…I don't really have to go with her…there are other candidates…as Maya Devi, Clara Mariella, Martina Clearwater…and so on", Sirius added.
"The same for me actually...", Remus said"…I mean…there are other girls in Hogwarts…"
James sighed, nor feeling pleased or disturbed.
"But it's fine to me you know", James said with a hidden grimace.
"Nah...don't worry…I've seen Toto Parkinson give me the eye…so I think that I will go on her." Remus joked.
"Yeah right that you will!" Sirius laughed"…and James will go with Lily, which would be never!"
And the three boys fell in laughter of the ridiculous idea…until Peter Pettigrew showed up, coming down from upstairs.
"What are you laughing about?", he asked, thinking that they were laughing about him. He hugged his round belly as if he was afraid that it would fall off.
"Oh, nothing actually…just something silly", James said between giggles.
Peter nodded and sat down on a small spot at the end of the green sofa in front of the one where Sirius and Remus were sitting, looking suspiciously from one another. He clenched his teeth wanting to disappear as he saw the glad and funny faces. "Oh, why must they always make fun of me", he thought, feeling a big knot in his stomach.
"You guys..", he whispered, breaking the laughter. He looked around the common room to see if it was really empty to continue." I think that Professor McGonagall is suspicious about You-Know-What.", he said in attempt to make them stop laughing.
"And why is that Peter?", Sirius asked suspiciously. He was still not convinced that it was for the best to include Peter. "I mean you haven't told anyone?"
"Oh, no, no!" Peter said waving his hands", I'm just saying that we have to be careful!"
Remus head snapped up, his face showing pure worry.
"Are…are you sure Peter?", he asked with shaking voice.
"Well not exactly…I mean I heard Professor McGonagall talk to Professor Alvin about some missing herbs and a missing unicorn nail." Pure lie, Peter knew that, but he had to make it believable.
"We are sold!", Remus whispered. "I think that you better re-think about it you know…I mean you don't have to…you are going to get caught."
"Nonsense Remus!", James said looking at all three" We'll have to be even more careful"
All of them nodded.
"When are we going to…you know." Sirius said, looking down at his feet. He felt nervous, and hated to admit it. Raising his head, he saw Peter look at him who turned his head immediately when meeting Sirius eyes, and he felt a strange feeling of anger bubble inside him. Sirius felt that Peter wasn't someone they could trust on, specially about something as important as this. But they couldn't do anything now. When Peter had founded out that they were planning of becoming Animagus when walking in on them when Remus said that it sucked beeing an werewolf, there wasn't any other option than including him or let him tell on them.
Sirius sighed.
"I think that we can start this spring actually. We only need a few other ingredients…lets see…a few hairs from a spider, a giant spider as you remember…a Hungary snake tongue… a small piece of rabbit fur...a Monsoulin bee…and…I think that that is everything", James said, thinking.
Sirius looked sick, but not more than Peter did.
"And that will be easy to get.", Sirius said, suddenly feeling a bit dizzy."…and the worse is left…the charms"
"Calm down Sirius, it will be ok…you may be a bit "bad" at charms but you beet me in potions", Remus comforted.
"Yeah Sirius, yo-", But James was interrupted by a voice, coming down from upstairs.
"Are you ready Potter?", Lily asked looking at three surprised faces and one scared face. "What? Have I interrupted something important?", she asked feeling good about herself.
"Nothing actually!", James said a bit quickly and louder than he had intended to.
Lily looked from one another, not entirely believing him.
"Anyway…I don't care at least what you talk about Potter so don't spare your breath to explain…so are you ready?"
Sirius and Remus suppressed the urge to laugh but fell silent when they saw James's murderous gaze, which wasn't precisely directed at them.
James sighed, lowering his gaze.
"Sure".
And with that the two enemies walked out from the Gryffendor common room, with not pleased smiles when they heard the ridiculous laughter from inside when beeing outside the Fat Lady's panting, who looked at them with a sleepy gaze.
" Great friends Potter"
"Oh shut up Evans", snapped James.
To be continue….
Please review, it really means a lot to me…flames are welcomed too…
Claudia