Hogwart's Sweethearts

By Katherine Bell

Summary: It's Lily and James seventh year, and Hogwarts has decided to put on a play!  Lily and James are chosen to direct the play, and must suffer through countless hours together, writing this romance.  Will the play turn out to be a catastrophe, or will they fall for each other?  Read and find out.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters save those that I created.

Author's Note:  This is yet again my crazy idea to write a fanfiction for some reason.  This is my fourth one, and I hope it turns out to be my best.  My other three haven't been getting a lot of reviews, but I hope against hope, if ppl really like this fanfiction, they'll be motivated to read my others.  My inspiration right now is my Lord of the Rings soundtrack!  And in a few seconds, I'm going to put in Harry Potter to motivate me some more!  Ok, sry, you didn't need to know that.   So, please, read and review, review, and review some more!  If you read this ff, and leave w/o reviewing, I will get my friend who is a very good at karate like stuff to track you down and personally hurt you.  Are you scared?  You better be!  Okay, as you can tell, I am yet another insane nut out there, but please don't let that discourage you from reading my ff!  I already can tell you are insane, b/c you bothered to read this LONG author's note!  Ok, shutting up now!  (No outbreaks of The Halleluiah Chorus, please!  Even though I know you can probably sing better than me!)  REALLY going now!  KatherineJ (Don't forget to review!!!)

         "Lily!  Hey, Lily, wait up!"

Lily Evans swerved around to see her best friend, Olivia "Liv" Calehen running towards her, smiling.  Her slim figure allowed her to slip through the raucous crowd as her ponytail bobbed up and down ambitiously.

"Liv!" Lily exclaimed as well, as she pulled Liv into a hug, "It's so great to see you!  Especially after spending the summer with Petunia."

Liv grinned evilly, "I know what ya mean, babe.  Having a stepbrother like Vernon Dursley is no picnic either.  But I'm sure he'll find his sock drawer an interesting treat…"

"Liv!  You didn't!" Lily gasped fervently, as the two made their way towards the scarlet steam engine, arms linked.

"I did!  I'm sure Vernon will be much pleased when, firstly, is blasted in the face by Filibuster's Fireworks and Dungbombs, and secondly, doesn't know what hit him or how to put them out.  I swear, Petunia and Vernon are so deprived of having fun, they should meet and marry or something."

Lily, trying to keep a straight face, said sternly, "Do you know how much trouble you could get in?"

"Aww, Lily, you take the fun out of things!"

Lily chuckled, "I swear, you get more and more like Sirius and his gang every day now."

"To right, she does." A deep voice spoke up from behind them, causing Liv to emit a huge squeal.

"Sirius!" She half yelled, and allowed herself to be pulled into an intense kiss, Sirius's hand running through her golden blonde hair, and Liv's down Sirius's back.

The other three (James, Lily and Remus—I can't stand Peter, so, during my ff, I'm, going to make him be visiting his relatives, or something.) watched on, the boys smirking, probably wishing that it was them that was being kissed, and Lily's face contorting with disgust. "Eww, how can you breathe when you're sucking the breathe out of each other like that?"

Sirius and Liv broke their kiss, laughing hysterically, and Remus replied, "Easy.  They just breathe through their noses." 

Lily looked at him surprised, "Oh, so you've had experience, Remus?"

Remus flushed a profound shade of magenta before excusing himself, saying something about 'Got to go comb my hair.'

Lily shook her head, "I still don't understand why and how you can do that."

James held out his hand, and said, "Wanna try and see?"

Lily shriveled back in disgust, "Potter, I wouldn't kiss you if you paid me a million pounds!"

"Pounds?" Sirius asked confusedly, completely ruining the moment.

"Muggle money," Lily explained quickly, and was about to throw another insult at James, when Sirius took that time as a good idea to exclaim, "So, you all for joining us in our compartment?"

"Course, hon, " Liv agreed, and had just started following the guys, when Lily grabbed the back of her shirt, and hissed:

"What did you do that for?  You know I can't stand James!"

"Lily, come on.  I mean, it's not like you have to talk to the guy anyway."

"You're right.  I won't talk to him.  I'll be yelling at him after he's stuck frog spawn down my shirt or something!"

Liv sighed, "Lily, you're going to have to get over these childhood difficulties, and recognize him for who he really is.  An extremely hot guy."

Lily huffed, "James?  Hot!?!?  Are you losing it?"

"Come on, Lils, it won't be that bad!  Anyway, Sirius is my boyfriend, so could you please do me the favor of suffering through the train ride with them?"

"Fine.  But don't blame me if you lose your best friend because James blows me up or something."

Liv chortled, "He won't.  Now, come on."

The two girls advanced down the hallway again, finding the boys waiting for them, "Come on, now!  We don't have all year!" Sirius yelled.

Lily sighed, as she followed Liv to the compartment, "No, but it'll feel like a year with Potter in there, "she muttered to herself, as she entered the compartment.

         Well, Lily managed to survive the train ride, emerging with only a broken finger, sprained ankle, cat like orange eyes, and bright pink hair.  Liv, however, the lifesaver that she is, managed to fix all of these problems.  The only physical evidence that James had cursed her was a few pink streaks in her long, curly, fiery red hair.  Lily complained viciously, and Liv finally assured that it was attractive in a weird way; it made her look more daring.

"But I don't want to look more daring," Lily was still whining ten minutes later as they entered the Great Hall, once again marveled be its exquisite decorations.  Lily was running her hands over and over again through her hair, muttering undistinguishable words under her breath.

The troupe ran jubilantly over to the Gryffindor table, and grabbed seats.  Liv took one at the end, and Sirius immediately grabbed one beside her.  Lily sat down in the chair across from Liv, and Remus almost fell over in his rush to get the one beside Sirius.  You know where that left James.

James groaned inwardly, kicking his feet.  He shuffled, sighed, and asked Lily, "Do you mind if I sit here?"

Lily, who wasn't all pleased with the situation herself (and was determined that Sirius and Liv had set this up), rolled her eyes, and said, "I guess so.  But if you lay just one finger on my food, you're dead meat, mister."

James smiled evilly, as he placed his gangly self in the chair beside Lily, and whispered, "Oh, don't worry.  Just make sure you watch out for that chocolate pudding…"

James chuckled at his own joke.  Lily gave him a treacherous look that clearly read, 'I'm not stupid,' and turned her attention to the sorting that had just started.

James sighed, "Okay.  So I see that this year is going to be different.  I'll have to think of some new jokes," he quickly turned to Sirius, "Hey, isn't your sister starting this year?"

Sirius nodded, "I think Thomas and Timothy (his younger twin brothers) scared her.  They seemed to convince her that to be sorted, you had to write an essay on why you wanted to be in the house that you wanted to be in.  I tried to tell her that they were lying to her, but she wrote the essay nonetheless.  I swear, those twins are the biggest troublemakers I've ever met!"

"And I wonder where they get it from?" Liv said mischievously as she gave him a peck on the cheek.  James grinned again, as Lily muttered something about 'revolting—exchanging saliva.'

The five chatted louder that they should have, but respectfully paid attention when Serria was sorted.

"Black, Serria!" The Transfiguration teacher, Professor McGonagall, called out.  The nervous eleven-year-old girl stepped forward to the stool, and placed the old hat on her head, which naturally fell over her face.  The hat instantaneously began talking.

"Ah, yes, it's another one of them Blacks," the rest of the school cracked up, and Sirius, grinning, said:

"I guess she's got herself quite a reputation around here!"

The hat spoke for a couple more minutes, scaring little Serria half to death.  Finally, he exclaimed to the rest of the school, "GRYFFINDOR!"

Serria jumped up elatedly, and half ran over to the Gryffindor table, receiving a hug from Sirius, and pats on the back from the fourteen year old twins.

After the long sorting finally ended, the Headmaster of the school, Albus Dumbledore, stood to talk.

"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts!  And before I announce my other announcements *Dumbledore laughed at his own alliteration*, let's eat!" And with a jovial wave of his hand, he sat, and the food appeared magically in front of them all.

"Finally," James groaned greedily, grabbing the nearest tray of food, and began filling his plate with it.

Lily, however, was eating less than usual, her plate only containing a pear, roll, a piece of ham, and some corn.  She had begun munching on her ham (in unusually small bites), when James offered her some chicken wings.

"Want some chick—" he stopped short, glaring at her plate, "What's wrong with you?  Are you not hungry?"

Lily shook her head, and said, "I just don't feel like eating."

"Why not?  I mean, you're not fat,"—Lily rolled her eyes—," Come on, try some chicken wings.  They're really good," he finished, offering her some wings.

By this time, Sirius and Liv had caught on, "Yeah, sweetie.  Don't starve yourself," Liv said through a mouthful of green beans.

Lily banged her hands down on the table, and yelled, "I am NOT starving myself!"

Not intending to, her outburst had silenced the entire hall, and everyone heard her little explosion.  Dumbledore stood up to see who had yelled the words, and Remus said, "Take a picture, it would last longer."

The people that had been staring quickly turned their attention back to their meal.  Lily mouthed a 'Thank you' to Remus, and Sirius and Liv went back to feeding each other food.  James, however, took it his responsibility to begin filling her plate with food.

"Here's some chicken wings and some English Peas, and some potatoes," he began, piling her plate with generous amounts of cuisine.

"James—no—"

"And some fries, pudding, turkey, cake…"

"Stop!"

But James didn't stop until Lily grabbed his hand, and shrieked in a shrill voice, "James!  Will you please stop!  I'm not hungry, all right?"

James shrugged his shoulders, put down the scalloped potatoes from which he had been serving Lily her fourth ration, "Suit yourself," he muttered, but before he went back to stuffing his face, he muttered one last word, "Anorexic."

Lily opened her mouth in shock, "Why, I never!  I an NOT anorexic!"

"Huh," James muttered, not believing her., "You coulda fooled me,"

"Urgh!" Lily yelled.  A normal Lily Evans reaction right here would be to walk away and pretend like it never happened.  But not this time.  She was sick and tired of James always ragging on her all the time.  So she grabbed the nearest tray of food, slapped James to get his attention, and began cramming her mouth with it, "Look.  I'm eating.  Eating!"

James nodded his head, obviously satisfied, and Lily put down the tray, looking as though she might throw up.  But before she could could lean back in her chair to rest, James grabbed another bowl, took a spoon, and began feeding her.

"Here you go, baby," James commenced, forcing the spoon into a surprised Lily's mouth, "Some yummy soup for my baby girl here, you need your Vitamins E, A and K, swallow it now."

"Ja—Jame—James!  JAMSIES!" Lily roared and took the bowl, and thrust the contents in his face.  James gaped in amazement.

"YOU!" He barked, and poured a casserole on her head.  Lily sat there, her eyes blinking furiously in anger.

They were broken from their hatred gazes when Liv and Sirius broke out laughing across the table.

"What?" Lily solicited sourly, snapping her head in Liv's direction.

"Oh, not a thing," Liv said carelessly, popping a pretzel in her mouth, "We were just saying how cute a couple you two would make."

"WHAT!" Lily and James yelled together this time, and before you knew what was happening, Liv and Sirius were covered in vanilla pudding.

This immediately led to a food fight.  The four stood up, grabbing any victuals that was near them, and began throwing it.  The whole school had caught on now, some yelling 'FOOD FIGHT!', while others fought as well, having no idea what they were throwing food at each other for.

The ruckus was finally stopped when Dumbledore stood up, and yelled across the Hall, "SILENCE!"  The group of teenagers, some dripping in Pumpkin Juice, others wiping casserole off them, some even moaning as they tried to get gooey egg yoke out of their hair turned to face Dumbledore with ashamed looks on their faces, "What is going on here?"

The students couldn't answer that, however, because, in actuality, they had no idea what they were causing such pandemonium for.  And James and Lily didn't want to admit that they had really started all of this mess, so Liv spoke up timidly, "I don't know.  We just wanted to have some fun, I guess."

McGonagall shook her head in censure, but the students were astonished to see that Dumbledore was actually laughing.  They supposed he was taking all of this on a lighter note, so they all relaxed, taking a seat in their chairs.

"Well, I suppose all of this will have to be cleaned up, "Dumbledore said, and with a snap of his fingers, the tables were cleared, and the students were back to their normal state.  'Thank you!' a Ravenclaw prefect said, as she ran her fingers through her hair, glad to have the sticky egg out of her it.

"Now, I would normally punish whoever started all of this chaos, but since I can tell that you're just excited about being back at school, I shan't do anything.  Now onto more important matters."

"Thank goodness," Lily said, as she slipped into her chair, relieved.  James, however, stomped his feet, and said, "Darn!" for not getting a detention.

"Now, as you know, each year, a new Head Boy and Girl are chosen.  The responsibilities of the Head Boy and Girl are to keep order in the hallways, maintain control of House Common Rooms, keep fights from breaking out, and so on and so forth.  To be awarded the position of Head Boy and Girl is quite an honor, and is only offered to two people a year.  And you must have been a prefect to be conferred this title. (James, Lily, Sirius and Liv looked around smugly, for they had been the four prefects of their year.  I know, Sirius and James—obviously, miracles do happen!)  However, this year the Head Boy and Girl will also be granted another job.

"This year, Hogwarts has decided to produce a play, " Students broke out in excited chatter.  Some, who were Drama people, almost squealed in stimulation.  Some, like Severus Snape and his wanna-be's, saw this as a disruptive way to show school cheer, "Yes, the staff is very thrilled about this as well.  The only problem is, we don't know what the play is going to be yet."

Several students gasped, the Slytherins smirked, and Dumbledore held up his hand to retrieve silence, "It will be written soon, I assure you.  That is because the new duty of the Head Boy and Girl is to write the play."

Most everyone saw this as a reasonable decision.  Dumbledore continued, "Anyone in the school is capable for trying out for the actual play, if they wish.  The production will be at the end of the year, so your parents can come and see it if they wish.  But back to the Head Boy and Girl.

"And the new Head Boy and Girl are," Dumbledore began with importance.  Lily crossed her fingers excitedly.  Liv was whispering, "Please let it be me and Sirius, please let it be me and Sirius.", and James and Sirius, however nonchalant they were trying to look, couldn't help but hope it was them, "Lily Evans and James Potter."

AN: End of Chapter One!  End of Chapter One!  Did you like it?  I hope you did.  I intend to make the next chapter longer, however.  I don't know when I'll be able to post it, b/c I just started new classes, and it's really hectic with quizzes every other day. :cough, ALGEBRA, cough: GAG ME!!!!  Also, I just started Voice Lessons, and I'm auditioning for Little Women tomorrow, and if I make that, it will REALLY squeeze my schedule tight.  AND I also am working on another story for myself, so I WILL be busy.  But don't worry, I won't forget about this ff!  Neway, if you liked my ff, please review!!!!!!!  Reviews are very helpful!!!  Remember what I told you about the karate stuff?!?!?!?  So that means you HAVE to review!!  :cough, KATIE F. cough:  Okay, going now!!!  Don't forget to review!!!!  PLEASE!!!!!  Oh, and one more thing:do you like the title?  If so, please tell me!  If you don't, it won't hurt me, just suggest a new one.  Thanx!