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Playing with minds: Part deux
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It seemed as though the weeks passed very quickly after James' announcement to his friends about the Snowball. Now the whole
school knew, and the Marauders had gotten a lot of requests. So, by the day before the Snowball, everyone had a date.
Everyone except James.

"What's wrong with you?" Sirius asked, not really wanted to do his Potions homework. "You always have a date a week before
a dance! The Snowball's tomorrow!"

James shrugged. Sure he had gotten many offers, but James didn't want to take any of those girls. His mind was bent on
proving that Evans was a woman, and didn't want to think about girls. "I'm not even sure if I want to go."

Remus, Sirius and Peter all stopped working and looked over to James.

"Wh-what?!" Sirius exclaimed.

"You're lying!" Peter yelled.

Remus noticed James staring at something. He looked over and saw Evans right in his view. Remus smiled. "I never expected
this..." he said to himself. No one had heard except James.

James looked clueless. "What?" He asked Remus.

Remus picked himself up, then made James get up. "Walk with me." He said.

Sirius cocked an eyebrow. "What's this? Can't I go?"

Remus shook his hand. "I just need to ask James something..." He took both of his hands, and the two went into a dorm room.
Remus made sure the door was closed, and turned to James. "Evans?" He asked.

James took back a step, and blushed. "What?"

"Evans. I'm surprised I didn't realize it before!" Remus smacked his forehead, then turned back to James. "Why don't you
just ask... shim?"

James' jaw fell to the ground. He was making incoherent noises, then finally said, "You think I want... I want..."

Remus just smiled.

"No no no nananana NO!!" He waved his hands defensively. "I don't want to take Evans to the Snowball! I'm just curious to
know if shim's a woman!"

"To see if it would be OK to ask her to the ball." Remus seemed as if he finished James' sentence.

James blushed. "No! Not that!"

"Well," Remus began. "You can find out if shim's a woman or not. Look around you."

James blinked, then looked around. It wasn't their room. It was "EVAN'S ROOM!?!" He blushed insanely. "Why did you take us
here?!?!" He yelled.

Remus put a finger to his lips to shush him. "Shh. People will hear us. Just... poke around."

"My god..." James rolled his head. "You're ending up more and more like Sirius each day. You've been hanging around him too
much lately." Then walked over to the bed.

Remus grinned. "You have no idea..." he murmured.

James turned around. "What?" He asked.

"Look under there." He pointed to the suitcase under the bed.

James pulled out the suit case. It read:

L. Evans

He shrugged, and tried to open up the case. "Hmf. It's locked, and I don't have my wand..." He tugged once more. "Oi, Remus.
Lend me your wand for a sec." He held out his hand, not looking back. Nothing came into his hand.

"Oi, I said-" He was cut off by seeing Remus against the wall, looking horrified, and had reason, too.

Evans stood there, with anger on shim's face James had never seen before.

James paled. "Ooooooh... shit." He whispered.

"What are you doing here?" Evans whispered back.

"I was just-"

"How DARE you go through my personal things." Evans was still whispering. Shim fell to the floor, grabbed James by the
coaler, and made sure his face was unusually close to shims. "thought you were better than this, Potter. Snooping around
one'sroom just to see if they're female or not. You're disgusting." Shim spat.

James was so close to Evan's face, he could feel shim's hot breath. If he wasn't in such a horrible pinch, hell, he would
of-He scratched the thought.

Evans let him go, then started to kick James out of the room. Shim shot a look of death to Remus, and pushed him out of the
room, then slammed the door shut.

The two boys looked at each other.

"The voice... it... I couldn't tell if it was a guy or a girl..." James sat thoughtfully.

"Well James, it's late. We should get to bed." Remus began to walk to their room, which Sirius and Peter were already in it.

James took one more glance at Evan's door, then walked to the room.

He didn't know why, but there was something about Evans... that... well, he couldn't place his finger on it. And there was
that fleeting minute where the two of them were so close...

James smirked. He couldn't wait for the Snowball to come.