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Lily's New Friend

Chapter 2: "What can he want?"

"Lily! Lily! Come on! We need to get to the greenhouses," said Fran from the door of their room.

"Oh Fran, I'll be there in a second. I just want to finish this letter to my mum," Lily said from her bed.

"Okay, well, we'll see you there okay but you better hurry you don't want to be late," said Adrian from right behind Fran, Then they turned to leave and went down to the greenhouse.

Lily stood up about two minutes later and put down her note; she then went to change quickly into 'okay-to-get-messy-in-clothes'.

'Darn, I'm going to be late!" thought Lily as she hurried through the halls to the greenhouse.

Lily got to the large front doors of Hogwarts to see what looked like all the 5th years standing in front of the greenhouses. Fran and Adrian were standing in the front, and Lily could not get to the front of the group, but she got there just in time to hear Professor McGonagall say, "Professors' Flitwick, Figg, Caine, and I will be splitting you into four different groups. Each group will be in charge of a greenhouse to clean with one of us looking after you to make sure you stay on task. We will number you off into groups. Please, everyone hold your hand in front of you."

Professor McGonagall raised her wand and said a spell under her breath and a number one, two, three, or four appeared in everyone's hand.

"Now that you have your numbers, all the ones will go to greenhouse one with Professor Figg. All number twos will go to greenhouse two with Professor Caine. All number threes will go to greenhouse three with Professor Flitwick. Last but not least, all number four's will come with me to greenhouse number four. Now everyone go to your respective greenhouses and listen to your teacher for directions; and everyone work hard!" said Professor McGonagall, turning and heading for greenhouse four.

Lily looked down and in her hand lay a small yellow number one so she headed off toward greenhouse one. Lily looked around to see who else was walking over to greenhouse one. She saw five other girls walking over there, but neither Fran or Adrian seemed to have been picked as a number one.

"Over here, over here, all number ones over here," Professor Figg shouted over the crowd.

All of the number ones stood around Professor Figg, a tall woman who had just graduated from Hogwarts four years ago when she was the head girl in Lily's first year. Lily had always thought Professor Figg, Arabella as she had been called by Lily four years ago, was a very nice lady, and she was really enjoying the fact that they were getting a chance to get to know each other again.

Lily looked around and saw that there were in fact five other girls and four boys. There was Narcissa Cordia, a very smug girl who was in the Slitherin house. She was tall with dark black hair, and she also had very dark eyes, and she always had a look on her face as if there was some very nasty smell around. One of the other girls was also a Slitherin. Her name was Vivian Sands, and she had dark brown hair and gray eyes like the color of a battleship. Narcissa and Vivian where best friends neither was very nice though.

The other three girls were Tina Bird, Amanda Donaldson, and Sandria Donaldson. Tina Bird was a girl of average height with very light brown hair and blue eyes. She was a Hufflepuff and a bit of a ditz in Lily's view. Amanda and Sandria where twins and were both in Gryffindor with Lily and were great roommates as well as Fran and Adrian. They were very pretty. They were black with chocolate skin, they had dark brown eyes and had long braided hair that was always up in a large bun. Lily didn't know any of them very well besides Amanda and Sandria and she wasn't that good of friends even with them. Lily really wished she could have been with her friends.

She looked back over to where the four boys had been standing earlier with their backs to her. When she saw who they were, her heart dropped. The four boys she thought where the most immature in the whole school, except maybe for Severus Snape, and his gang just happened to be in her group. In other words, it was Peter Petigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and the most immature of all, James Potter.

When Lily looked at them and saw who they were, she thought, "Oh great, how can I spend a whole morning around them?"

James grinned at her, and again she just glared at him. Thank goodness this is when Professor Figg started to talk.

"Okay kids, let me tell you what we will be doing this morning. I am going to assign each of you a section of the greenhouse to work on. You need to weed everything in your area, water everything in your area, and last but not least, you need to put this powder," she held up a bag of magical fertilizer, "into all the flowerpots in your assigned area. Lily, dear, you have this area over here." She walked over to a section of the greenhouse and then moved on with the rest of the group.

Lily started to work in her area right away, and so did everyone else. After about an hour, Lily was still going at it hard, but there were some people who seemed to be getting a little bit bored. Lily looked up and saw James, Sirius, and Remus standing together with Amanda, Sandria, and Tina hanging all over the boys. They where giggling about everything they said. It made Lily sick that she was sitting here with all these people she really didn't like and was working her butt off while they were over there having a good time.

"Hey Lily," Professor Figg's voice broke into her thoughts, "You're doing an awesome job! You have more than half of your area done, and the others are barely done with a fourth. You should be proud of yourself." She turned her head and gave Lily a sweet smile. She thought Lily was a very sweet and hard-working girl and could tell that Lily was getting mad that her friends were not with her, so she was trying to help cheer her up.

"Thanks Professor!" Lily said, thankful that at least one person here was talking to her.

"Oh, Lily, when we are not in class you can call me Arabella. I'm still pretty young you know!" Arabella said with a laugh.

"Okay, Arabella," Lily said, giving her favorite teacher a smile.

Lily worked hard for about another thirty minutes. When she looked down at her watch and saw that they only had about an hour and a half left of this unusual torture. She was sitting on her knees pulling weeds in one of the small inside gardens when she heard footsteps coming over to her area. She looked up expecting to see Arabella but to her surprise and horror it was James Potter.

'What can he want,' Lily thought angrily.

He came and sat down next to her as if they had been friends forever and looked at Lily with his big smile and asks, "Hello Lily, what's up?"

"Hello James, nothing really, just sitting here pulling weeds," Lily said thinking, "What the is he up to?"

"Yeah, this is really boring isn't it. You're from Gordrics Hollow, right?" he asked.

Lily looked up in surprise, "Yes, why?" she asked, in the meanest tone she could while glaring at him.

James Potter was unaffected by the tone and glare that would have shut up almost anyone else up. He said, "That's where my father grew up and my mum only lived a little while away when she grew up and I thought it was neat that you live there."

"Oh, where do you live now?" asked Lily, trying to be a little nicer and very surprised at how nice James was being.

"London but only for a little while. See, we have to move. My father was in the Ministry, but he quit because he doesn't like the way the Ministry is handling the current situation," James said quietly. Lily could tell he hadn't told many people this. It seemed that his family was going through a big transition, and he was not happy about it.

"You mean all this stuff about Voldemort?" Lily asked, wondering why he was being so friendly.

"Yes, he says, 'they are going about it the wrong way'," said James. His eyes were wide with shock.

"What?" asked Lily wondering why he was looking like that.

"Oh, nothing, it's just that I have not heard many people say his name. I thought that Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore, and I were the only people who would say his name out loud," said James with a big grin.

"Well I just thought it was very stupid to be scared of a name. I mean, it only gives him more power the more we fear him, right?" said Lily.

"Yes, I guess you are right," James said, smiling still at Lily, and for once Lily smiled back, seeing James in a new light.

"Mr. Potter, get working!" yelled Professor Figg over to where Lily and James were sitting.

"But I'm keeping Lily company, Professor," James called back.

"Yes, Arabella, look at this big pile of weeds he's been pulling," Lily yelled back over to Professor Figg motioning to half of her pile she had quickly moved over near him to make it look like his.

"Yeah, Professor, see," James said back, grinning at Lily's antics.

"James, I really do not care if you stay over there and help Lily so long as you work," said Arabella smiling over at them.

Lily and James talked and worked together for the next hour.

"Okay," called Professor Figg, "Time's up. You're free to go now."

Lily and James started to walk back to the castle talking when their conversation was interrupted.

"Lily! There you are, come here," yelled Adrian, running over from greenhouse three with Fran right behind her.

"Well, I guess I'll talk to you later," said Lily over her shoulder as she ran over to meet her friends.

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