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AN: Chapter ten out soon and that might be the last chapter for a while because I am about to go back to school and I will not have the time to spend on Fan Fiction. I hope to get a chapter out ever couple of weeks so I don't really know when chapter 11+ will be out. Chapter Ten is completed it only needs some editing and then it will be out for everyone to read with in the next couple of day's.
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but Violet, Lily's girl friends, and the plot are all mine. JK owns every thing else.
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Lily's New Friend
Chapter 9
"She had fallen hard and fast for a Marauder"
When James saw the owl outside the window, he opened it to let it in. Fluff, the owl, flew over and picked up a lock of Lily's curly red hair with its beak and pulled it repeatedly trying to wake her up.
"Hey, stop that," said James in a harsh whisper to the bird. He waved his in a futile attempt to frighten the owl away from Lily.
"Um…what, what is that?" Lily said sharply waking with a start to find Fluff pulling her hair. She sat up quickly, and the owl was too shocked to let go, so Fluff was hanging in her hair.
The others had been woken up by Lily's shrill cry. All of them had a very strange sight in front of them. They saw James sitting very close to Lily with his arm around her shoulder, and Lily, who had very messy hair with an owl hanging in it.
"Lily, what did you do to my owl?" screeched Adrian, jumping and fishing Fluff out of the mess that was Lily's hair.
"Nothing," Lily said. She looked to her right, and her face almost bumped into James'. She blushed deeply as she moved away from James. James' hand also quickly moved back to his lap.
"I promise, Adrian, I didn't do anything, please give me my letter," said Lily, looking at a livid Adrian.
"Okay, but I am never going to let you use Fluff again," Adrian said glaring at Lily.
Adrian untied the letter from Fluff's claws and handed it to Lily. As Lily opened the letter, James looked over her shoulder to read it and caught Sirius' eye. Sirius winked at his friend's actions and James blushed moving even further away from Lily. Remus, seeing this interaction, was very confused but said nothing.
"So what does it say, Lily?" asked Fran.
"Well, I asked my mom if I could invite some of my friends to our Christmas party, and she said yes. So do you want to come to a Christmas party at my house?" she asked, looking around the room, avoiding James' eyes that sought hers.
"Sure sounds like a blast," said Sirius.
"Yeah, that should be fun," said Fran.
"Yeah, I guess I'll come," said Adrian, still mad at Lily for being mean to Fluff.
"Yeah, I'll try to get there," said Remus.
"What about you?" Lily asked, looking at James.
"Definitely," said James with a grin.
"Where is Peter? I should invite him too," said Lily looking around the compartment finally seeing Peter in a corner still fast asleep.
"We'll tell him we can come, but how are we going to get there, can we come by floo?" asked Sirius.
"Well, I'm not connected to the network so I think that you will all have to fly over to my house," said Lily.
"Okay, then, we'll be there. When is the party?" asked Remus.
"It's from one to four on Christmas day," said Lily.
"Okay, sounds like fun," said Adrian getting over how Lily treated her owl.
"Oh, look, we're at Kings Cross! Let's get our stuff out of this train, okay?" said Fran.
They all got their things, and they walked out onto the platform, where they waited to be allowed through the barrier. James ended up being next to Lily as they walked through the barrier.
"James, are you going to be able to come?" asked Lily.
"Sure! Would I miss it?" asked James.
Lily smiled and headed over to her parents, who were beaming at her. A small girl with bright red hair came running up and gave Lily a tight hug, making her laugh. Her parents gave her a hug and then headed to the car that was parked in the parking lot.
"James, earth to James!" said Remus, as he waved a hand in front of James' face as he stared after Lily and her family.
"Uh," said James, tuning and looking at Remus.
"I said, looks like some one has a crush," repeated Remus.
James blushed, said good-bye to his friends and went off to meet his parents.
A week later Lily Evans was sitting in her room wrapping Christmas presents for her friends when Violet came running into her room.
"Lily, are your friends coming tomorrow?" asked Violet.
"Yes, they are," said Lily, excited at the prospect of seeing her friends.
"Can they do magic too?" asked Violet. Violet was fascinated with magic and everything to do with it. The fact that there would be six or seven witches and wizards at her house the next day was thrilling.
"Yes, but none of them will be able to do any magic with all the muggles around tomorrow," said Lily.
Just then the door swung open, revealing Lily and Violet's older sister Petunia. Her hair was pulled back in a French braid with a couple strands of frizzy dirty blond hair escaping. The whole effect made her look just a little crazy.
Petunia's jaw jutted out, as she looked on her two little sisters. Though Lily was only two years younger than she was, she acted as if she was much older and more experienced in life than her two little sisters.
"Yes Petty?" questioned Lily,
"What are you telling Vi? I dearly hope that you are not polluting her mind with all that rubbish about witches and wizards," said Petunia, looking sympathetically at Violet, whom she felt shared the same pain of having a witch for a sister.
"Petty, do you still fell that much hatred for wizards?" asked Lily. "I just hope you will be civil to my friends when they come tomorrow."
"Oh yes," said Violet, "Lil' has been telling me all about it, mum said it would be okay if she invited some of her friends. Oh I can't wait to meet more magical people."
"But surly, Vi, you don't want to associate with these people," said Petunia, shocked at her youngest sister.
"Here, Petty, you want to see a picture of some of my fiends?" Lily asked as she dug through her trunk to find the pictures she had taken earlier this year.
"Uh, no. I'm going to go and make sure all my presents for my friends are wrapped," said Petunia leaving and shutting the door behind her.
"So, Vi, how has it been lately living with her?" asked Lily.
"Oh it's just horrid!" exclaimed Violet, "She got oh-so mad at me when I said that I wanted to get a letter from Hogwarts on my eleventh birthday. I would love to be a witch like you Lil'. Will you show me some more magic?"
(A.N. The law against using magic on holiday has not yet come into existence.)
"Sure, how about I sneak you a Christmas cookie?" asked Lily.
"Sure!" answered Violet.
"Okay then, accio Christmas cookie," said Lily, concentrating on the cookies she had helped her mother bake just that morning.
Seconds later, a frosted sugar cookie in the shape of Father Christmas flew into Lily's hand, and she then passed the cookie to her little sister.
Violet took a huge bite from the cookie with a huge grin on her face.
"Lil', Lil', LILY! Wake up, it's Christmas morning!" shrieked Violet as she bounded onto Lily's bed.
"Uh, Christmas, oh yeah it is Christmas," said Lily sitting up in her bed.
"Come on, I already woke up mum and dad and I think Petty is already up, too," Violet said grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her out of bed and down the stairs.
Violet was right, in the den Mrs. Evans and Mr. Evans sat on the couch with their morning coffee as Petunia knelt next to the tree, counting her presents her greedy little eyes wide with excitement.
"Oh, how very mature, Petty," Lily commented seeing her almost eighteen-year-old sister acting as if she was six.
"Come, now, girls can't you all get along? Remember it's Christmas," said Mrs. Evans from the couch.
Lily went and sat next to her stack of presents and began to open them.
The first present was a beautiful dress robe. The robes had obviously been bought in Diagon Alley. They were made of a green, silky fabric that shimmered in the light. It had sleeves with stones that looked like diamonds on the straps. It also came with a thin green shawl that could be worn with the dress in the winter.
"Oh, mum and dad, thank you so much for this robe! It's beautiful!" said Lily.
"Let me see that," said Petunia snatching the robe from Lily and running her hands over the fabric, "Why does Lily get such a fancy dress, mum, and all I get is this skirt and blouse?"
"First off, Petty," said Mr. Evans frowning at his eldest daughter, "You said you would die before you let your mum buy you a dress, so she didn't. Also, Lily is our little witch, and she wanted dress robes."
Petunia tossed the dress back over at Lily who caught it and placed it back into its box.
"Lily, aren't you going to open Petty's and my presents now?" asked Violet excitedly.
"Okay," said Lily, smiling at her sister.
Lily picked up a box with a card on it that said – To Lil From Vi. Lily unwrapped the gift and saw that Violet had also given her a magical gift. It was a book that was full of muggle fairy tales and legends telling about how all the misconceptions had happened. The book was called When Muggles Meet Wizards written by Clarence Tales. It was an interesting book and Lily loved it.
"Thank you, Vi, that is so nice of you," Lily said as she gave Violet a hug, "Now what could Petty have been so kind to get me?
Lily moved towards the gift from Petunia and opened it to reveal another book, this time by a muggle author. The book was called Cults and How They Work by Sucana Bransit, and it was all about how to tell if you or some one you know is in a cult.
"Oh how sweet, Petty," said Lily sincerely to her sister.
By the time all three girls and their parents had finished opening their Christmas presents, it was already fairly late in the morning. Lily's friends were going to be arriving at the Evans' house in less than an hour. They all had to come early because Lily did not want any of the muggle guests to see them flying in on brooms.
An hour later, all the girls had changed into their party clothes and so had their parents. It was also about time for Lily's friends to show up.
"Vi, come here. I want to show you something," said Lily.
"Sure," said Violet, following Lily outside.
Lily and Violet made it outside just in time to see five fifteen year olds on broomsticks flying over the next-door neighbor's house and landing in the back yard.
"Wow, can you do that too?" Violet asked Lily.
"Yeah, come on let me introduce you to my friends," said Lily, walking over to where her friends had landed.
"Fran and Adrian!" Violet said happily, running over to her sister's best friends and giving them both hugs.
"Vi, you know Fran and Adrian, but these are Remus, Sirius, and James," said Lily pointing to each of the boys in turn, "Guys, this is my little sister Violet."
"Can you show me how to ride a broom?" asked Violet.
"Sure! Here use my broom," said James.
"No, she might get hurt. What if she falls off," complained Lily.
"Come on, James, she can't fly! She's a muggle," said Sirius.
"Well, maybe not," said James looking at Lily, and she understood what he was saying.
"Okay, she can try if you fly up with her," said Lily.
"Hurray! I get to fly a broom! Wait till I tell my friends at school!" said Violet.
Everyone in the back yard stiffened at these words. "No Vi, you can't tell anyone about it, just like you can't tell anyone that I'm a witch," explained Lily.
"Okay, but I can ride the broom?" asked Violet, to make sure she was still allowed.
"Yes," said Lily, "She is going to be safe, isn't she, James?"
"Yeah, if any thing goes wrong I can catch her," James responded reassuringly.
"Okay, so how do I ride this thing?" asked Violet, walking over to James.
"Come here," said James, motioning Violet to stand next to one of the brooms, "Now, put your hand over the broom and say "up" loudly and clearly."
Violet stood next to the broom and looked at it as if this is never going to work, but she put her hand over the broom and said, "Up!" and the broom flew up into her hand.
Everyone's eyes opened wide as they saw her holding the broom. They were amazed that a muggle could do this, but then again she had a witch for a sister, so she might be a witch, too.
"Okay that's really good Violet, now all you have to do is straddle the broom and push off from the ground hard, then come back down immediately," said James.
Violet pushed off from the ground and went about ten feet in to the air with James at her side, and then came right back down. When they hit the ground they heard a shriek coming from the back porch.
Petunia was running out of the house with her hands over her mouth her party dress flying out behind her.
"Lily Evans, how could you do such a thing? She could have been hurt!" shouted Petunia running right into the middle of the crowd of magical people.
"She wanted to fly," said Lily, "Petty, she was safe. If anything had gone wrong, then James would have caught her."
"Yes and even if James hadn't caught her, (all one of us would have had to do) would be to slow her down before she hit the ground. It's a very simple spell that would have kept her from being injured," said Sirius, trying to reassure the frightened muggle.
"You, you would have let them use magic on your little sister, Lil'? How can you even let her associate with people like this, people like you!" shouted Petunia.
"Petty, just remember that if you insult one of these people it would be oh so easy for them to get back at you," said Lily calmly to her sister.
Fran took her cue and pulled out her wand and started to say all this gibberish to make Petunia think she was going to curse her. Petunia shrieked in fright and ran back into the house.
After Petunia had left everyone started to laugh at how silly she was. After they had all had calmed down, Violet ran over to Lily beaming.
"Did you see me Lil', I can fly! Wow! I thought you said only witches could fly. Dose that mean that I'm a witch, Lil'? I would love to be a witch like my big sister!" said Violet happily.
"Well, it means, Vi, that it is a big possibility. Maybe you will get a letter on your birthday this year," said Lily.
"Kids, it's time you all came inside," Mrs. Evans said from the door of the house.
"Come on and I'll show you where you will be staying tonight," said Lily walking into the house followed by her sister and her friends.
Lily showed the boys the room, they would be staying in and then told the girls that they would be staying in her room for the night like they did when they came to visit last summer.
After a little while the muggles started to show up, and Lily had to give James, Sirius, and Remus a lecture on how to act around them. Peter's father would not let him come to the party, so he was not there.
As Lily was talking to her friends a tall boy around the age of sixteen walked up behind Lily and placed his hands over her eyes. Lily smiled. She knew exactly who it was. It was one of the only muggles that she was still friends with. Last summer he had even taken her out to the movies once or twice. "Jacob!" Lily squealed spinning round to see her friend; she gave him a tight hug and then a peck on the cheek.
James' eyes were wide with shock, how could she do this to him? He wondered she was always hanging around with him and his friends acting in his opinion as if she was interested in him when all the while this guy was the one she really cared for.
Sirius looked over at James and could tell he was hurt-and for good reason, thought Sirius.
"Everyone, this is Jacob, one of my friends from before I went to boarding school," Lily said beaming, "Jacob this is Fran and Adrian, whom I think you might have already met, and this is Sirius, Remus, and James."
They all said "hello" politely with the exception of James who could only nod.
In the middle of the party, Lily and all her friends were sitting around a table talking. James was still brooding about how she had led him on when he saw Lily, who was already sitting close to this Jacob person, laying her head on his shoulder. This was all James could take and he took his cup of eggnog and left the group unnoticed by anyone but Sirius, who was concerned about him.
As soon as James had left Jacob stood up and said, "Um, Lily, I think we need to talk."
"Okay, Jacob," said Lily, confused.
They walked out onto the back porch and sat down on the porch swing.
"Lily, is there something you're not telling me about yourself?" asked Jacob.
"What do you mean?" asked Lily, who was scared that maybe he had figured out that she was a witch.
"I mean that first off you say you go to an English boarding school, when I know that that Sirius boy is Irish. Second, you said I couldn't write you any, but you are allowed post at boarding schools. I really like you, Lily, but if you can't be truthful with me, I can't date you. Also, I just think there is something really strange about you, Lily. When you can tell me the truth about what you have been doing the last five years, then I'll think about giving you a second chance," said Jacob firmly. He stood up and went back inside to the party.
Lily sat on the swing thinking. Why am I not sad? Lily asked herself. How come she didn't even feel the slightest pang of sorrow in being dumped by Jacob, who was a really nice guy. Then she realized that until just an hour ago she had completely forgotten that he even existed. To be truthful, she hadn't thought about any boys since around the beginning of the year. No, that wasn't right, she had thought about boys or more specifically one boy. How could she have done the thing she had said she would never to, the thing she thought would set her apart from other girls at Hogwarts. She had said she would never fall for a Marauder and become like all the other girls who followed them around, but she had failed, she had fallen hard and fast for a Marauder, not just a Marauder, but the leader of the Marauders. She the smart and sensible Lily Evans had fallen for James Potter.