Changing Times
Ok, this chapter is really boring, in my opinion... Action is in work people; please keep being sweet and patient... pleeease...
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E. C. R. Potter = Don't worry, Lily will
change. I didn't like her either, but that was kind of the point.
About BtVS, well, we can't all have the same taste, think about
how boring the world would be, then...
DreamCloud53 = You know; you're really scaring me! :)
Don't worry, the next chapter is here now. And I know it's short
and boring, but action is in work.
AznGolDragonGod = Hmm, will she, now...? About that, we
can only wonder... :)
Sucker for Romance = Thanks, and I will. Luckily, I have a
short vacation now, so hopefully I will have time to finish (?)
the story... well, ok, but make a few chapters, at least...
Amy Potter = Herm thought she looked like Harry... there
will be references to that in this chapter. Is Lily and James
together...? Well, read and find out! H/Hr4Eva!
Snitch Boy = Hmm, but I thought you liked Harry/Ginny...
At least that was what you said in your other review, on "Love
Her"... Well, just if you were curious, I like peanuts. At
least as I recall. Seeing as I have a very little brain, I don't
really remember. :-P
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Chapter 11 = Meeting the Parents
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The Marauders...? I stared at them all, completely dumbfounded. Then, suddenly, it dawned on me how completely blind I had been all day... Of course Lily was Lily Evans, soon-to-be Potter, and of course James was Harry's dad, that was why he looked so much like him. And where James Potter was, of course the Marauders would be too! Jeez, I could have kicked myself for being so stupid!
I looked around at the boys and girl looking expectantly at me. What did they expect me to do??? I looked at the boy James had addressed as Padfoot. I had to look at him a second time before I saw the resemblance - this boy was nothing like the Sirius Black who had escaped from Azkaban and had been forced to live in a cave behind Hogsmeade for several years, with main food being rats! At once, I wanted to warn him; to make all the pain he would later face go away... but then again, Dumbledore sure would kill me if I did such thing... so I kept quiet.
I continued looking at the Marauders curiously, and, sitting beside Sirius, was a boy with light brown hair, whom James had called Moony. "No way," I said, before realizing my mistake. I quickly covered up by adding, "Uh, he looks so much like a boy I used to know..." that was not a lie. That boy looked like (god forbid) an older version of Colin Creevey! I knew that Colin was Muggle-born, and I knew that Remus Lupin did not have any kids, but still... the resemblance was huge! Professor Lupin, Moony, or whatever, smiled kindly at me, and I returned it, none the less.
Then my gaze fell upon the last boy. He seemed quite shy, and had a slight resemblance of Neville, in his appearance. But, looking closer, I saw no Neville inside that boy. It was Wormtail, also known as Peter Pettigrew. He, too, smiled at me, but I did not return it. Here they all were, happily oblivious to the fact that -in less than ten years from now- Pettigrew would give James and Lily to the Dark Lord, kill many Muggles, and send Sirius Black to Azkaban... Or were they oblivious, now? It suddenly struck me that maybe Wormtail had already then been planning the Potters' deaths... I frowned at him, and his smile quickly faded. As he sat there, looking rejected, I wondered, for a slight moment, if it had been his intention to kill James and Lily... maybe he had been under the Imperus icurse, or maybe Voldemort had threatened him with the Cruciatus curse, or the Avada Kedavra curse... All these thoughts ran though my mind, but I suddenly slipped out as James cleared his throat slightly, as to make me say something.
"Uh... hi everyone," I said, with a fake cheer in my voice. All the boys 'heyed' me back, but Lily remained silent. I found this very odd, considering her unnaturally cheery state later that day. James suddenly spoke, breaking the silence, "Ah, I must apologise on the behalf of Miss Evans, but you must understand this is rather big for her. She used to be the only girl in our year, so she mostly just hangs out with this lot," he gestured towards the boys, then continued; "Actually, I don't even think she has ever talked to a girl before, besides of course her Muggle sister, if you can call that a girl, not to say a human being. And as nice and cute as we guys are, we are still not girls, are we Lily?" he patted Lily on the back, but she seemed to wince at his touch. I had no time to dwell on that, though, as I had to ask: "There are no other girls? Were you the only ones sorted into Gryffindor six years ago?"
Sirius was the one to speak now: "No, absolutely not. We just seem to be the only sane people in our year... but the only ones? No. There are Joseph Finnigan, he is a prefect... then there is Mario Bulstrode, but you probably won't be meeting him much, as he seems to be spending all his time with the Slytherins... we all believe he was sorted wrong. Then there is Paul Patil, and of course there is Frank Longbottom." When he finished, I tried to get it all through to my recently dissembled brains, all this information seemed to be breaking down my system. I wondered for a moment why Dean Thomas' parents weren't here, but then I realized they were Muggles. I also wondered how everyone from my year could all have equally old parents... and why there were no girls besides Lily and myself.
"Oh!" James said, suddenly pulling himself back up. He had made a great effort finding a space at the table, but as it was a little table and there were already four persons (excluding me, I was still standing up) sitting there, he had just sat on the table. Now, however, he got up, and said, "Look at the time! We need to go to bed, or Professor McGonagall will sure catch us. And seeing as I already have detention every day for the next two weeks, I'd rather just go to sleep." He stood up, as did the rest of them. "Goodnight," James spoke, addressing Lily and me. He patted Lily on the head, and she winched again. I couldn't keep it in any longer, and I asked, without thinking, "Are you two dating?"
The Marauders looked at each other and laughed. I noticed that James' laughter, however, seemed to stop way before the others'. "James and Lily???" asked Remus, still chuckling. "Yeah, right. And professor Claws has just given me a piece of Honeydukes' best chocolate for my decent behaviour!"
I smiled, as I remembered Professor Lupin in our third year, constantly feeding us chocolate.
"No," said James, now chuckling along with the rest of the guys. "Even though Lily here does seem oddly attracted to my strong, handsome features and my supreme wisdom - not to mention my irresistible Quidditch moves. You see, I know how to control my 'broom'" James said, with a mischievous grin. Lily, however, did not laugh. James seemed to notice, but looked away quickly.
"Now, Prongs," said Sirius, raising an eyebrow, "relax tiger, and don't get your hopes up. Lily would rather be dating Peeves than you, count on that."
"Well," said Lily, finally speaking. "Come on Cho, let me show you where you'll be sleeping, it's in the bed next to mine."
"Oh," I said. I suddenly remembered something. "I need to find my friend Ro- William. He should be here."
"Oh, him," Remus said, "I saw him just a minute ago. He was heading towards his dorm. You can talk to him in the morning."
"Oh," I said again. I wondered why Ron hadn't addressed me in the common room, but as Lily and I moved towards her dorm, I came to the conclusion that he didn't see me. After all, we were sitting (and standing) in a corner all the time, and he seemed to be pretty oblivious to anything but Leonora Brown, anyway.
We reached the dorm, and, to my pleasant surprise, it turned out to be my old one.
Lily showed me to an empty bed, (surprisingly enough my own!) and sat down on her own. She hadn't spoken a word since we had been in the common room, and I was starting to get worried.
"Lily, are you alright?" I asked her carefully. She looked at me for a moment, and then spoke: "You can't have him, you know."
That came as a complete shock to me. Who was it that I couldn't have?
"What?"
"James. I know we're not dating, but that gives you no excuse to come and act all 'uh, James, you look so familiar, let's have a nice, cosy detention in the dungeons together, all alone.'"
"I never said that!"
So that was what was bothering Lily, I thought.
"Well maybe not those exact words, but... well, aren't you attracted to him?"
I though about that for a while. He did look a lot like Harry... but his eyes were different. They didn't have that familiar spark which neither Lily nor James possessed... That spark was what I loved most about Harry. Sure, both James and Harry were attractive, but was I in love with Harry's dad?
"No."
Lily looked at me for a moment, obviously not really sure what to believe.
"Lily, I'm really not attracted to James. Trust me," I told her reassuringly. "He's all yours," I added with a grin.
Lily looked at me again, but then broke into a smile. "I'm sorry Cho, but I guess James is right, I do have a hard time talking to girls. Well, you would too, if you had a sister like Petunia."
I giggled. I remembered Harry telling me about his aunt. He and Lily seemed to share the exact same opinion about her.
"So," I said, motioning for Lily to sit down on my bed. "Spill. Why do you like James? And, more importantly, does he like you back?"
Lily hesitated for a moment before sitting down next to me. She finally did so, though, and said, "James and I met on the train to Hogwarts from London in the beginning of our first year. I came into the train car where him and Sirius were sitting. I don't remember why I came in in the first place, but I remember telling Sirius that he had something on his face. Later we became friends, after they had saved me from Moon- a werewo- a really large dog. We became friends with Remus too, and since Peter was always following James around anyway, we decided to let him in our 'gang'." She stopped for air. "Wow, I don't think I've ever spoken this much in my entire life. -Anyway, about him liking me... I don't know. I mean, he jokes about it sometimes, calls me his 'secret lover,' but I don't know if that's anything but joking..." She stopped speaking, looking quite sad.
"Don't worry," I said, without realizing it. "I'm sure he likes you too. And if he doesn't we'll just have to make him, won't we?" I added.
Lily smiled at me, happily. "It's nice to finally have a friend. A girly friend, I mean."
"Yeah, it is," I said, before she went to her own bed, and we both shut our curtains.
As I tried to sleep, I thought about what I had ever done to end up where I was... or *when* I was... when all I ever wanted in the first place was to save Harry... I also wondered about the Marauders. They were really sweet; I had imagined them to be a lot more like Fred and George. I still made a mental note though; to never accept any sweets from them, as the image of Neville eating a Canary Cream was still somewhat fresh in my mind...
Lily was, however, exactly like I imagined her.
All things considered, this had been a really good day.
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