Author: Hallie Marie Potter
Author E-mail: hypergal1987@hotmail.com
Title: Is it Love or Hate?
Summary: Have you ever known someone who you thought you hated? Yet, through a coming of time. You realized wasn't you enemy, but your closest confidant? Everyone always says that hate is the closest emotion to love. Let's see if that's true. This is an L/J about just that. We will watch Lily and James, among others, growing up, trying to figure out what is going on.
Genre: Romance
Chapters: 7/?
Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I do not own any of the characters in the Harry Potter universe. Well, I own a few of the OC's, but none of the others, they all belong to the legend, J.K. Rowling.
A/N: This universe which James and Sirius are visiting is an AU universe.
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1975 - Gryffindor Common Room
"Rose, how on earth can you date a guy who does what Sirius and James just did?" Lily asked her sister.
"Well," began Rose," Firstly, he's so kind, nice, sweet, cute, wouldn't hurt a fly –" Rose would have continued, but she was rudely interrupted by her sister.
"Oh, so hurting Snape doesn't count as hurting a fly?" Lily asked sarcastically. After saying this, however, she immediately starting shrieking, "I didn't just say that, did I? Please say that I didn't say that and I was hallucinating. Hurting Snape doesn't count as hurting a fly!" Lily started to whack herself on the head promptly after making this statement, how could she have been so dumb.
"I think the only way to make up for that comment, dear sister, is to go and hurt Snape, and we all know that you wouldn't hurt a fly," Rose told Lily, trying to get Lily to go on a late night walk.
"Yes, I do think that that is the only way to make up for the dumbest statement in the world." Lily said, getting out of bed and putting on her robe as her sister did the same. If Sirius and James weren't there to torment Snape, then someone had to take their places, and who better to do it then the boy's female counterparts.
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1995 – Dumbledore's Office
Sirius and James had been telling Dumbledore's captives about all the pranks that they had done back in their time period when Dumbledore came over to the group and requested to see the two boys. Dumbledore took them over to his antique desk and gave the boys a look, his eyes twinkling more then they had in ages. He was about to start talking to the boys when he heard a scream coming from across the room. He looked over to see Kayte chasing her little brother, and instead of having hands, she had webbed duck feet. After much effort on Kayte's part, she managed to get Josh into a headlock, promising him he wouldn't see the light of day again until he turned her hands back to normal. Dumbledore chuckled and the sibling love, and started to talk to his visitors.
"Mr. Black, Mr. Potter," Dumbledore addressed the two boys, "During your stay here you two will be needing a place to sleep. The top drawer on the right hand side is the entrance way to your room. All you need to do is open the drawer, a tunnel is then revealed. Slide down the tunnel, feet first, and you will come into a large room. That is where you will be staying. To get back up into my office all you need to do is stand at the end of the tunnel, and you will be brought back up to my office. Any questions?"
"Yes, Professor, actually, I would like to know what we will be doing about or school work. Will we be attending classes with the other fifth years in this time?" James asked, not wanting to fall behind in school.
"No, Mr. Potter, you will not be attending classes with the other fifth years. Instead I will have the teachers give me their agenda and then assign you homework for each day. The only reason for this is because the fifth years here are learning what you will be learning in three or four months from now in your time, and we don't want you to become so bored that you don't do your homework in your time," Dumbledore explained to James.
"Thank you, Professor."
"Is that all?" Both boys nodded at this question, "Well, I think you two should be getting to bed now." With Dumbledore's request James and Sirius pulled out the top drawer, and slid down the tunnel, each in turn of course.
When the boys got into their sleeping quarters they were greeted by a warming sight. The room was huge. It was much bigger than their dormitory in Gryffindor Tower. However, instead of five beds, there were only two. The beds were magnificent four posters, Gryffindor colors decorating the bed linens and curtains. In the middle of the two beds were two nightstands with a candle and at the end of each bed was a trunk, holding all the contents that would be needed during their stay. On the other side of the room there were two desks and a bookcase that took up the whole wall. Sirius immediately ran over to the bookcase and searched for any mischief making books, seeing how advanced the collection was. To his delight, there was a whole shelf devoted to the art of mischief making.
Grabbing a book Sirius sat down at one of the desks and started to read it when an old looking piece of parchment caught his eye. Sirius put down the book and grabbed it off of the desk top. He read the parchment, a smile growing bigger and bigger as he went farther and farther down. After Sirius had finished reading it, he promptly starting making cat calls in James' direction.
"Oh, Lily, Lily I want you so much! Come to me Lily, come to my bed, I want you so badly, I'm yearning to hold you, to love you, oh Lily."
"Sirius, you have a girlfriend, who happens to be Lily's sister. What would she think about you wanting her sister so much?" James asked, concerned about his friend's sanity.
"Oh, no, I was doing an impression of you, and I think that Rose would most definitely agree with my comments, you love you little Lily, and you do yearn for her," Sirius said, loving the look of horror that had come across James' face.
"That is not so, I do not want Lily in my bed, for God's sake, I don't even want her in the same room as me," James said, looking as though he was about to barf.
"That's not what this little piece of parchment says, in fact it states exactly the opposite, care for me to read you some of it?" Sirius asked, already knowing James's reaction.
"What piece of parchment, give me that!" James said reaching for the parchment, which Sirius held as far away from James as he was able to without using magic.
" James Potter, January 8, 1976 – I can't believe this. I can't believe that I have to spend the rest of term with her. I swear, McGonagall will regret the day that she suggested this idea to Dumbledore.
I have to spend every single minute, except those minutes in the loo, with Lily Evans. I have to spend all my time outside of classes and meals in this dungeon with her. How on earth can anyone stand her, all she does is nag me to do my homework. Then she tries to get me to go and play pranks with her, saying it's the only way we can get out of this dungeon and do something fun. I want to say no, however my urge play a prank tells me yes, and the sparkle in those big green emeralds pushes me even more towards saying yes. I have agreed each and every time she has asked me to go pranking with her, and we have played some of the best pranks in the world. We could write a book about the pranks we pulled they are so awesome.
Maybe spending the entire time with Lily won't be all that bad after all. I think I may actually be beginning to like her, she is incredibly pretty, I hadn't ever noticed that before. I now wish that there were only one bed in this dungeon, oh that would be perfect. I can't believe I just wrote that! Uh oh, and I can't find my wand, if Lily reads that then I will never hear the end of it, oh and even worse, if Sirius ever reads this I won't hear the end of this. Damn it, where is my wand when I need it!
Oh well, I can't find it, I just pray to God that no one ever reads this, otherwise my reputation will be ruined. I think I had better go before and I go and write some more incredibly stupid things that will only dig me into a deeper hole."
"What the hell, I didn't write that. I would never write anything like that about Lily Evans, she's a hag and will always be a hag no matter what anyone does to her," James stated adamantly.
"Of course you haven't written it, yet. But you will, and you will write it soon, like in the next year." Sirius was loving every minute of the emotional torture he was putting James through at the moment.
"Oh shut up, I'm going to bed, I don't have to take this from you Sirius." James promptly went to one of the beds and pulled the curtains shut, hoping that Sirius would not realize how he was coming to analyze his feelings for Lily.
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The boys slowly got out of bed the next morning, not wanting to leave the comfort of their dreams. It took them about five minutes to realize that they were not in their dormitory, explaining the mysterious absence of their roommates, and were not even in their own time period. After remembering the events of the day before, the boys decided that since they didn't have to go to school, they had no reason to get up so early, and crawled back into dreamland.
Just as James was about to pull his curtain shut, he spotted a piece of parchment lying beside the candle on his night stand. He reached over and picked it up, hoping it was not another declaration of his love for Lily that wasn't so. He was incredibly relieved to find out that it was not, in fact, another piece of work written by himself in his future, or this time periods past. It was a letter from Dumbledore, telling the two boys that they were allowed to sleep in as late as they wanted to, how to get food in his office for their meals, and that he would be getting their workload shortly. After reading the letter, James placed it on his nightstand once again, pulled back the curtains, and with little difficulty fell back to sleep.
When the two boys got up, finally, they went up to the office and ate a hearty breakfast. The boys conversed with the kids in the office with them, talking about everything they could possibly think of, James and Sirius telling more stories about their pranks, and all of them sharing their complaints about Snape. The weekend passed quickly, too quickly in James and Sirius's opinions.
James and Sirius stayed up quite late on Sunday night, probably until around five or six in the morning. They had decided to investigate the school and see if any of it had changed since 1975. Since they were not allowed outside of Dumbledore's office that weekend they had made an invisibility potion so that even without James's cloak they would be able to sneak around the school. James wanted to find someone with an invisibility cloak and borrow it even though they had the potion, because he had the perfect prank worked out in his mind that they would HAVE to have a cloak to be able to pull off. So, after investigating the school and finding little different, except one wing that looked like there had been a war in which had not looked that way when Sirius and James had left 1975, the two boys went to sleep. James set his internal alarm for eleven, to make sure he had enough time to get ready for the prank of the century, he just hoped Sirius would be up in soon after him so that they would be able to play the prank.
After Sirius had gotten a few hours (or several) of sleep he emerged from his bed to find that James had already vacated his bed. After seeing no sign of James in the loo or anywhere in the room, he came to the conclusion that James had been up for a while and was up in Dumbledore's office already. Sirius got dressed, thinking that it probably wouldn't be cool to have those girls see him in his boxers and Rose would have a cow if she somehow found out, and proceeded to go up and join James in the office.
"Hey, buddy old pal, what on earth is up with you getting up so early. What time is it anyways?" Were among the first things he said to James upon seeing him.
"Well, first off, it's four o'clock in the afternoon. I got up around eleven. I was wondering if you'd died down there. I was planning on going and pulling off some pranks during afternoon classes, but as you were asleep I couldn't," James said, thoroughly disgusted with his friend's sleeping habits.
"What, couldn't little ole James think of a good prank on his own? Nope, he needs his best bloke to think those things up for him, and set them up too," Sirius said teasing James.
"No, I had a plan all worked out, but it requires two people to make it work. I was planning on doing something to McGonagall which had something to do with disappearing and reappearing. We've got that invisibility cloak so I was planning on having some fun with it. But, I guess we'll just have to do that tomorrow, as we can't do it now." James told Sirius.
"Hey, that actually sounds like a good idea. Wow, James can think up things on his own," Sirius said to himself, chuckling softly.
"All right, two things. I'm still here and I can hear everything you say, and secondly, I'm smarter then you are," James retorted and stuck his tongue out at Sirius, acting rather mature, or not.
"Point number two is debatable James."
"No, I don't think so." As James stated this, the office door opened and in walked the prisoners of Dumbledore's office. Hallie and Harry walked up to the boys, their arms full of papers, books, and such, and dumped their load into Sirius and James' laps. Hallie walked over to join Kayte and Angelina by the window. Harry, however, sat down in the armchair close by, and watched their shocked faces.
"Harry, what is this stuff?" James asked having regained his thought.
"That," Harry said pointing to the stack, "is your homework. Dumbledore told me to tell you that you have until Monday to finish all of it." Harry then pulled his own homework out from his bag and started to work on it.
"This is a bloody lot of homework! What, do they work you guys like you're slaves here or something?" Sirius asked, still gawking at his pile of homework.
"No, don't you get that much stuff back from where you come from?" Harry questioned, not seeing why James and Sirius were gawking at their piles, it wasn't all that much homework, it was definitely not as much as they usually got.
"Heck no, we get about a forth of this! They are working you like slaves. I swear, their gonna have you guys start doing house elf work here pretty soon." James said, contemplating the thought of doing all this homework in a few days.
"House elves? What are those?" Harry asked, with a curious look on his face.
"You haven't ever heard of a house elf? Where are you from, planet dumb?" Sirius asked Harry inquiringly, as James was shooting a glare in his direction. Sirius was obviously oblivious to the fact that this boy was muggle-born.
"Sirius, don't you get it, he's muggle-born, like Lily and Rose," said James, shaking his head at his friend.
"Actually," Hallie interrupted, "We're not muggle-born. Harry and I just grew up with our aunt and uncle, whom are muggles. We didn't even know about the wizarding world. They tried to squash the magic out of us. When our letters came, they put them in a muggle blending machine and shredded them up into tiny pieces. The letters kept coming though, and they kept them away from us. Aunt Pet-ty found a way to keep them away from us. Until Hagrid came to fetch us." Hallie had glanced in Harry's direction, she had almost said her aunts name, whom would most certainly give away the identity of their parents, which would lead to disaster.
"How'd you end up with your aunt and uncle?" Sirius asked nosily.
"That is none of your business," Angelina sniped from the other side of the room.
"Well, someone's a bit snippy tonight," James said, now knowing not to cross paths with Angelina. However, Sirius did not get that point through his head, and continued to question the kids.
"Did your parents die or something?" Sirius asked, wanting an answer.
"If you absolutely HAVE to know, yes, they did. Oh, and if you ask how they died, then you will be hexed from here to the muggle world where I KNOW that you would never make it without magic," Angelina told Sirius, getting up and looking at him threateningly.
"All right, all right, I won't ask." Sirius smirked over in James's direction, telling James with his eyes that Angelina acted exactly like him.
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1975 - Hogwarts
"I think I'm beginning to miss James," Lily confessed to Scarlet. She more then missed James, she wished desperately that he was there with him.
"So, you are now fancying James, aren't you," replied Scarlet, "I knew that it would happen one of these days."
"What?" screamed Lily, "The day I start to fancy James Potter is the day my life falls apart." Instead of waiting for Scarlet to reply, Lily stormed off. Scarlet just stood there, watching her friend storm off, with a knowing smirk on her delicate face.
"You know you like him," Scarlet shouted after her friend.
Lily stomped into the Gryffindor Common room madder then anything. She was muttering vehemently. Lily walked over to a chair next to the fireplace and sat down. Rose, who was sitting in the armchair across from Lily's, looked over at her sister and started to laugh harder then she had ever laughed before. Lily looked in her sister's direction and positively glowered.
"What exactly do you find so amusing, Rose." This statement only made Rose start to snort like a pig.
"You," she managed to say in between giggles.
"Care to elaborate."
"No, not particularly." This statement only made Lily even madder then she was to begin with. Lily stood abruptly and marched up to the dormitory without another word.
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1995 - Outside McGonagall's Classroom
James looked over at Sirius, just waiting for him to do something stupid that would give away their prank. Sirius however, was so quiet James was beginning to think he had killed his friend with his eyes. Suddenly Sirius looked over at James and grinned, this was going to be an awesome prank. In their own time they had never had the courage to prank McGonagall while she was teaching. The Marauders really never had the chance, as they always had classes while she was teaching, so now was the perfect time to prank her during a class.
"Ready?" Sirius whispered to James.
"It's now or never, lets go," James murmured back.
"All right, remember the plan."
"It's you who needs to remember the plan, as I was the one to come up with the plan, Padfoot."
"Prongs, just shut up, we're heading in." Sirius opened the door slowly, making sure that it squeaked loudly. Slowly the two boys, hidden underneath two invisibility cloaks (they had discovered another one in their present dormitory), made their way in, making sure that their footsteps made no sound. The boys approached the professors desk, watching her look around the room in surprise. As they reached the desk the boys separated, each going to opposite sides of the room.
Once James was sure that Sirius was where he was supposed to be, by using a special charm they had cooked up, he took the hood off from over his head as Sirius took the entire cloak off, though leaving his hood on. This sudden appearance startled McGonagall silly. She let out a shrill scream. She calmly walked over to James, who had then put on the hood. Then, all of a sudden, there was a body in front of her, and Sirius's head was across the room. McGonagall then ran towards Sirius's head, and before Sirius could put the head back on his cloak, the professor grabbed his ear and had a look to kill on her face.
"Mr. Black, what is the meaning of this?" McGonagall asked, with a stern look on her face.
"Well, I'm trying to catch my body, it seems to be constantly running away from my head. Would you help me professor?" Sirius looked up at McGonagall with a guileless look on his face.
"Yes, I will help you, because if I am correct, there is another head running around this room." McGonagall walked over to the other side of the room, whispered a spell, and waited for the invisibility cloak which hid James Potter to appear. However, much to her dismay, it never appeared.
"Professor, what are you looking for?" Sirius questioned his transfigurations teacher.
"I am looking for your accomplice. Would you mind telling me where he might be?"
"Professor, I had no accomplice, and this wasn't a prank. My body does keep running away from me. In fact I don't think it's in this room right now." After telling the professor this, Sirius ran as fast as he could, hood still down, out of the room. After he was out of the classroom he felt someone grab onto his cloak. He looked back and saw nothing, just as he expected.
"Let's get out of here, now."
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Hey, thanks for reading. I'm sorry that I hadn't updated in a while, and I am sorry that this is just a revision of the latest chapter, but I was having a bit of writers block which I couldn't shake off.
I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed this story, it has meant quite a lot to me. I hope to have the next chapter out sometime in October. I'm going to do my best to finish this, and hopefully I won't experience another spout of writers block.
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Auf Wiedersehen
Hallie