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A/N: Thanks for the reviews people!!!!! This is FUN!
The Rivalry of James and Lily
Year 1 - Chapter 5
The Christmas Gift
Lily couldn't believe that she had already been at Hogwarts four months. Four whole months! So far, she was doing very well in all her classes, except perhaps transfiguration. That definitely was her hardest class. James, on the other hand, had top marks in transfiguration. He also was doing very well in his other classes, except he was weak at charms, where Lily was best. James and Lily were very competitive with each other, and this only increased how much they loathed each other.
Lily had also started to socialize a bit with Sibyll. Lily noticed that Sibyll was a very strange girl, who was obsessed with the future. She would constantly try to predict what Lily was going to do that day. It was actually quite annoying. Lily had also become better friends with Remus, but she noticed that he was sick very often. Lily was getting along very well with Kate and Alex. She considered them her best friends. Lily was, however, a little annoyed with Alex because she actually seemed taken with James Potter.
It was a week before Christmas, and Lily was in her dorm, playing with her locket. She was going to go home for the holidays. (A/N; I know you all probably want Lily to stay at Hogwarts with James or whatever, but its just not realistic. I mean she hasn't seen her parents for 4 months, and it's her first year. She's got to see them). She was actually pretty excited to see her parents. She had missed them dearly, and she had transfigured some quills into a beautiful necklace for her mother, and a nice gold watch for her father. She even managed to transfigure a very old quill into a decently nice tray of make-up for her sister.
Before she knew it, the week had passed and she was on the Hogwarts express with Kate and Alex, who were also going home, and then they were pulling it Kings Cross Station.
"Lily! Lily! Over here!" she heard her mum cry.
"Mum! Dad! Er..uh.. Hey Petunia," she said to her grim-looking sister.
"Oh Tiger! We've missed you! How's your year been so far?" replied her dad.
"Oh! It's been wonderful! I've learned loads and I've made some great friends! And one enemy, but nothing I can't handle," she smiled. This made Lily think about the couple of times she had made James end up in the hospital wing, along with stupid Lucius and Snape, but then she also thought of how she had ended up in the hospital wing. She shivered slightly, but told herself that she had come off better in most of the situations, and went back to talking to her parents.
When Lily woke up on Christmas day, she wasn't surprised when she saw two feet of snow outside her window. Every Christmas she had spent at her house had always been like a winter wonderland. She bounded downstairs to find presents from her family. She opened a box with a beautiful new green dress that perfectly matched her eyes. The dress was slightly big, but she figured she'd grow into it. She then opened a tiny box that had a key inside of it.
"What's this?" she asked her parents with interest.
"It's a key to your very own Gringott's account. We put a small deposit in there so you could take out wizarding money as you please when you need it," said her mother in a very proud voice.
"Thanks Mum! That will be extremely helpful I'm sure in years to come."
She put the key on the chain with her locket and gave her parents a huge hug, giggled at what Petunia gave her (a wicked witch of the west figurine), then bounded upstairs to relax.
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Lily patted her stomach uncomfortably as she laid down on her bed after dinner. She had had three servings of Christmas dinner, and four cookies for dessert! She was stuffed, utterly. But hey, it was only Christmas once a year, right? Alerting her from her stupor, she heard a knock on her window. Curious, Lily opened it and in flew her owl, Oe, who had been gone delivering the presents Lily had bought for her friends. To Lily's surprise and delight, the owl turned up with a pile of presents for her. Lily was very mystified at how the owl carried all the boxes, but was distracted after she opened her present from Kate. It was a box of beautiful green hair clips. She also got an assortment of lip-gloss from Alex. From Remus she got a box of scrumptious sweets. James gave her a very mysterious looking box of cookies, which she didn't eat. She was glad she didn't, because Sirius's letter that he had sent with his gift(a book called Curses and Countercurses) had said that he thought James may have done something to the cookies because he had a big grin of his face when he made them. Lily laughed at this and began to read the new book.
"This will come in very handy when I need to curse James," she thought happily.
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By the time Lily had gotten back to Hogwarts, she had memorized the whole Curses and Countercurses book, and was ready to use one on James. Suddenly, she heard a muttering behind her and felt her legs turn to jelly. She turned around with struggle, but saw James Potter holding the exact same book.
"James, put me back!" she yelped.
"Haha, no way. This book Sirius gave me is going to come in very handy."
"Hey James! Guess What?" She didn't wait for his reply before sending him a Hair Loss curse. "Sirius gave me the book, too!"
James looked very unhappy, maybe because he was bald, or maybe because Sirius had just created a major problem for him.
Right then, Sirius walked into the room and started laughing.
"I see you guys have read my book!" he said, jauntily.
"Yea, we have, and now we're going to have to read the whole countercurses section so we can put ourselves back," snapped James grumpily. He didn't like being bald.
"Ha! Speak for yourself James!" and Lily said the countercurse and her legs turned back to normal.
James knew better than to ask her to put him back, so he simply found a seat and started searching through the book for the countercurse.
***A LOT Of Time Passes***
As Lily was riding home on the Hogwarts Express after her first year, she couldn't help smiling. She had made some great new friends, passed with excellent marks, and even slipped past many detentions.
"What an awesome school," she thought. "I just can't wait until next year."
A/N: I know, I basically skipped the second half of the first year, but I need to get this story moving! I have so much planned to write about, from dances, to secret rooms, to, well, you'll see. I think I'm going to try to write about all 7 years, like Ms. J.K Rowling. I'm already almost done with the second year. R/R and enjoy!
