Disclaimer: Oh Potter, you rotter, oh what have you done? You're creating fanfic writers, they think it's quite fun. They don't own anything because they're quite sad, but really this poem is rather quite bad.

Note: My first story ever to be posted on the net. :) Be nice!

A Cinderella Story

Chapter One ll Head Boy, Head Girl

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James Potter watched as Remus Lupin's queen moved along the black and white squares, and attacked his castle with a thunderous crack and resultant smash.

"Damn," was all he could say as a triumphant Remus picked up the remains of the castle and put them on the table.

As James decided on his move, he heard a shriek coming from upstairs, from the girls' dormitories.

Remus made a face, "What's with the girls?"

"I dunno," James said absently, concentrating on his move.

After a couple a seconds, James grinned with triumph, "Knight to E4!"

James' knight moved along and smashed Remus' bishop. As James swept the little bits off the board, murmuring a little "victory song" under his breath, Remus said slyly, "CHECK!"

"What?" James gaped at the board, "That was bloody brilliant, Moony. How'd you do that?"

"You take too long to clear up the little bits," Remus said simply as James' king was attacked ferociously. Smiling, Remus waved his wand the pieces all flew back together and onto their right places on the board, "Another round?"

"Bring it on," James said challengingly, "I'm going to cream you this time."

Remus snorted.

About twenty minutes later, just as Remus was about to claim victory, two girls arguing in loud voices came running down from their dormitory. Almost everyone looked up as they entered.

"...she needs to learn to get along!" the brunette James vaguely knew as Jessie or Jenny was saying heatedly.

"I know she does," argued the Japanese one (Nikki? Natasha?) as she and her friend moved towards the portrait hole, "But honestly, just put yourself in her position..."

They couldn't hear anymore as the girls had left the common-room.

"Err, okay, well, something's definitely wrong," Remus said awkwardly. He cleared his throat, "James, you lost."

"Oh, did I?" James said distractedly, "Uhh, okay... well..."

"I think the feast's about to start," Remus said, looking at his friend oddly, "You coming?"

"Err, yeah, in a moment," James replied, eyeing the stairs that went up to the girls' dormitories, "You go on ahead--save me a seat!"

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"Wow, Lils, Head Girl," whistled Namie, "Still can't believe it."

"Yeah, everyone thought the badge would be winging its way to Sammantha!" said Joey distastefully, "She's never going to be as bright as you, of course, but still. She was like, the stereotypical leader of the school."

Lily chuckled, "Yeah, well, I've always wanted to be Head Girl. But the fact that I didn't even become a prefect really--"

"--got your hopes up?" Namie finished softly, "Yeah, that would sting. Oh well, you got it now!" She grinned and hugged Lily. Almost instantly, both girls shrieked and sprang back, as Mr. Squiggles, Joey's black-and-white kitten, had jumped on Namie's head.

"Squiggy!" pleaded Joey, chasing her cat around the dorm, "Come back!"

Laughing and unpacking her clothes, Lily said, "I can't wait 'till the feast."

"Yeah, where you get announced and everyone'll be like, 'Thank Merlin we have brains for a Head Girl'," Namie said obstinately, also unpacking her clothes, "Blimey, where's Zippy?"

Lily paused for a moment and stood back as Joey dived for Mr. Squiggles.

"Did you leave her on the train?"

"I'd never leave my precious owl on the train!" exclaimed Namie, though her eyes grew wide in fear.

"You did in second-year!" Joey yelled, scrambling under her four-poster bed, "AHA! I got you now, Squiggy! OW!"

Namie was frowning, "Ah, I better go see Dumbledore--"

"No, wait, here she is," Lily said as Zippy flew in their open dorm window, "Probably anxious to stretch her wings after that train ride."

"Hmph," Namie said disapprovingly.

"Say, I really can't wait 'till the feast, so does anyone know who the Head Boy is?" Lily asked, picking up her Head Girl badge and looking at it fondly. She pinned it on her robes, looking at herself in the mirror.

"Well," Joey said slowly, struggling with her cat, "I kinda heard from Lot, who heard it from Patty, who heard it from Roger that it's--"

"WHERE'S MY OWL TREATS?" Namie suddenly yelled over Joey, glaring at her brunette friend dangerously.

Joey rolled her eyes, "She has to know someday. Or maybe, like, now."

"No," Namie said firmly.

"Yes."

"No."

"What?" Lily said irritably, "What's this deep, dark secret about the Head Boy? Besides, you heard it from Lot, who heard it from Patty, for crying out loud, so it's most likely not true."

"Well, it is," Joey said grimly, "By confirmation, that is. Well, the Head Boy is..." she trailed off and glanced at Namie, who shrugged and mouthed back, "It's your funeral."

"Tell me!" Lily complained, looking from one to the other.

Joey took a deep breath and said, "Okay, okay. It's James."

"James..." Lily frowned for a moment as her friends looked at her with sheepish expressions on their faces, "James Davies from Ravenclaw?"

"No!" burst out Namie, "Potter! James Potter!"

Lily froze entirely.

Then she let out a shriek that expressed all her frustration and anger.

"Lily!" Joey said anxiously, trying to keep Mr. Squiggles steady as he tried to leap away, provoked by Lily's shriek, "Calm down!"

"Calm... calm down?" Lily gasped, looking at her best friend in disbelief, "Good Merlin, no! No calming down! I have a perfectly legible reason to throw a tantrum this time!"

"Lily, it's only James. I know you two haven't always gotten along--" Namie started to comfort.

"--that's the understatement of the millennium," murmured Joey.

"--but it can't be that bad," Namie finished, glaring at Joey. Then she paused, "Can it?"

"Of course it can!" trilled Lily, "Are you mental? Oh, no, Potter!" She let out another cry of frustration and fell back on her bed, covering herself with her pillow.

"Oh, come on Lily," Joey said soothingly, walking over and pulling the pillow away from the redhead, "He's not that bad. In fact, he's kinda cute."

That, evidently, was the wrong thing to say.

"HE IS NOT CUTE! UGH!"

Namie sighed and shook her head. She said nothing more and resumed unpacking. Joey stared at Lily for a moment, gave up after a five-minute staring competition, and also went back to unpacking.

"C'mon, the feast's going to start," Namie tried to coax at Lily who still remained immobilised. They had heard her muttering all sorts of things.

"You guys go on ahead," Lily replied muffledly.

"Well you better hurry up," Joey said, after exchanging glances with Namie, "They need to announce you and J-- uhh, all that stuff." With that, she went off with Namie, the two arguing loudly.

When she was sure they were gone, Lily kicked off her covers and stared at the top of her four-poster.

"Stupid ruddy Potter, becoming stupid ruddy Head Boy, stupid, stupid, stupid!" she cursed aloud.

"Hello."

Lily immediately looked up at the doorway and her heart fell when she saw the familiar mocking smile, untidy black hair and stupid round glasses.

It was stupid, ruddy James Potter.

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A/N: Hey! Okay, these are my changes: the students return to Hogwarts in the late afternoon/early evening, so they are allowed to spend time in the common-room until the start-of-term banquet. The first-years are kept in a hall with Professor McGonagall and they do some activities to enhance their magic and to get to make some friends. The Head Boy and Head Girl are not announced until the banquet, and they do not play a part in the Hogwarts Express (giving jobs to the prefects, etc;). :) I hope everything's explained, chapter two will come soon! --MSQ.