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"Another case of laughter/animagi potion, I see?" asked Madame Pompfrey as McGonagall led the seven friends into the hospital wing. "The Slytherins seem rather fond of it this year."
"Yes, I do believe it was either Mr. Snape or Mr. Malfoy this time. They seem to rather dislike Mr. Potter, Ms. Evans, and Co." replied professor McGonagall.
They were interrupted by a rather large fit of laughing from the 5th year/animals standing just inside the door behind them.
"Oh, I nearly forgot about you poor dears for a moment there. Come and follow me, and we'll get you the antidote for that dreadful potion you're suffering from."
They followed Madame Pompfrey to a cabinet at the far end of the Hospital wing, as Professor McGonagall left to return to the Great Hall and hand out some detentions (a/n *cough * Snape and Malfoy *cough *)
"Lets see, I know I left it in here somewhere, I had only used it just yesterday for a pour group of 2nd year Hufflepuffs. Ahh, here it is! Right on the shelf where I left it! To think, I'm only in my thirties and I'm already losing my memory! All right, now each of you go over there and lie on a bed, while I get this antidote ready."
They made their way back to the other side of the Hospital wing (why they had to even follow Madame Pompfrey in the first place, they weren't sure of, but like she said, she's starting to lose her memory, along with other parts of her mind). They each sat down on the nearest bed, and Lily ended up next to James. She was rather annoyed by this. "Well, at least if I get bored, I can burn some time by staring at his pretty face." Ha, that was a laugh. The guy spent more time staring at himself in the mirror in a week than Lily had done in her entire life. But she soon became too preoccupied with the task of controlling her uncontrollable laughter to think any more about the subject.
"Here you are dears. Your fits of laughing should end just a few moments after you drink this," Madame Pompfrey said as she handed each of them a glass. "but I'm afraid the transformation back into yourselves will be rather long and painful. I've added a bit of a sleeping draught to help with the pain, so don't be afraid to lie down and take a nap if you feel a little drowsy."
They each took their glasses of the odd looking potion. It was hard to swallow it amidst all of the laughing. They had to wait for a pause during which they only giggled, and then gulp it down fast.
Peter nearly choked while doing this. In attempts to make him laugh even harder, Sirius had done one of his imitations of Professor Silvaria (their potions teacher) just as Peter was about to swallow. As funny as this was on its own, the fact that Sirius was half pig made the scene even more hilarious. Of course, this through Peter's timing a little off, and his sudden spurt of laughing caused the potion to come out of his beak/nose.
This display caused anyone who had been attempting to swallow at that moment to do the same. Luckily for Lily, she hadn't tried to take the potion yet, and was still waiting for a pause in her laughter.
When Lily finally had only the giggles, she gulped down the potion quickly, as to avoid having her own Peter incident. Luckily, Sirius was to busy at that moment attempting tos wallow his own potion to put on any more displays of stupidity.
She had to wait only a few moments, before her laughing stopped like the rest of her friends.
Lily sighed. She was glad that was finally over. Fortunately, the potion hadn't tasted to bad. To her, it faintly resembled a Shirley Temple, with an after taste of peaches. In fact, she didn't feel any of the pain Madame Pompfrey had mentioned. Oh, wait, she thought to soon.
"Owwwww……" Lily moaned like the rest of her friends. She lied down on the bed, closing her eyes to block out the pain.
After sitting there for what seemed like forever, she realized her friends' moans and groans had all stopped. She opened her eyes, wincing, and glanced around at them.
They had all turned back into their regular selves again. Looking down at her hands, she realized that she was still part squirrel.
"What the…"Why did she still look like this? She had drunk the potion like everyone else! "Well, I am still awake. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it." With this new thought in mind, she once again closed her eyes, and desperately attempted to fall asleep.
It was no use, though, and Lily ended up sitting up once again, only this time out of frustration. She looked around at her friends once more, trying to see if they had done anything she hadn't.
Everyone seemed to be sleeping peacefully, courtesy of the sleeping draught. Well, everyone except Sirius that is. He appeared to be muttering something. Lily inched forward on her bed a little, so that she could hear.
"Mommy! Make the pink fluffy bunnies go away!!! Ahh!!! They're chasing me Mommy!! They're chasing me!!! Save me!!!!!Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!"
"Okay…"Lily thought to herself "I'm not gonna ask…"
As she turned her attention away from Sirius, she noticed that James was also talking in his sleep.
"Ha! I wonder if his dreams include killer pink fluffy bunnies?" Lily moved closer to his bed to hear what he was dreaming about.
"No!! I won't join you!! Leave me alone! I'd die before I joined your side! Hey!!! What are you doing?! Leave them alone! Expiliarmus!! It's me you want, not them, so leave them out of this!! No! No!! Nooo…!!!" he then let out a strangled sob as silent tears began to stream down from his eyes and onto his pillow.
"Whoa…Ok, that was definitely strange." Lily said aloud as she laid back down in her bed. "He's got more problems than I thought."
All thoughts of James were immediately knocked from her mind as a huge wave of pain cascaded over her. She let out a pain-filled groan and she slumped back into bed.
"Why whatever are you still doing awake dear??" asked Madame Pompfrey as she rushed over to Lily's side. She had heard Lily's groan all the way from her desk at the far end of the wing. "That sleeping draught should have put you out cold like the rest of your friends! Are you feeling all right?"
Lily tried to roll her eyes at the last question, but found that doing so just put her in even more pain. She suddenly had a splitting headache, even worse than the one she had had for week back in 3rd year when she fell 20 ft. off her broom and hit her head.
"Lily, can you hear me?"
By now, Lily's vision was becoming blurry. She was about to say something, but thought better of it, and instead just let out another large moan.
"I'll take that as a yes. Oh you poor dear, I think you may be having an allergic reaction to the antidote I gave you…"
That was the last of what Lily heard. The pain had become too strong for her, and she passed out.
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(a/n I know, I know, this one was pretty short once again, but this seemed like a pretty good point to stop. Now remember, no reviews, means no more chapters!! :-D ttfn)