A/N WOW! I didn't expect so many reviews! Thank you all.
I changed something in the last chapter: James doesn't slap Snape – he punches him. Thanks to Eleana 23 for letting me know I wrote slap and not punch. She also wrote James and Lily moved so quickly from love to hate and I wanted to explain that they don't go straight from love to hate, they go forwards and backwards. You'll see…
My house is going through renovation so my family and me had to move to a different apartment and it is so boring!!! I have no internet, no cables and almost nothing to do, so this chapter is going to be long!
Is It Love?
Chapter Seven: Dancing Lesson And The New Exchange Student
Lily stayed at the hospital wing for a couple of days before returning to the Gryffindor tower. Her friends came to visit her a few times during those days, Kathleen came to apologies and Lily forgave her, but she heard nothing from Potter and she started to think that he only played with her, like he always does with every girl, and was very mad at herself for letting him play with her like that. She decided to act like nothing happened. And actually nothing really did. Right?
When she came to the back, at last, to the Gryffindor tower she saw no other then Potter sitting with one of the Gryffindor girls and well... making out with her. She felt even madder at herself for her stupidity. And she really didn't wanted Potter. Why would she want an ugly, stupid, jerk person? She hated him with pure passion!
But besides that, everything was going quiet well in her life: She was popular with many good friends she could count on, she had many lovely admirers, Snape had to apologies to her in front of the whole school, she was top of her class in almost every subject (damn transfiguration!) and she never felt better.
And to her great happiness the dance lessons were to start the next day, she really hopped to be with someone cute who knew how to dance. The only thing that made her a bit upset was that right before the lesson she hade a meeting with Dumbledore and Potter. She really didn't know what it was about, so, when the time came, she was kind of curios and made her way quickly too Dumbledore's office.
When she came in she saw that Dumbledore was already inside and so was Potter.
She seated herself in one of the chairs and waited for Dumbledore to speak.
"Well, this meeting is going to be short but it is nevertheless important." Dumbeldore explained both of them and they both nodded.
"I know that this could be some what personal but I need to ask it" he said "What do you think of each other?"
Lily was shocked, that was the last thing she expected, especially from Dumbledore. She looked at Potter and saw he was in the same state as her.
"Well…" she started but didn't know how to answer it.
"To be honest, we kind of hate each other, professor" she heard Potter saying and was very happy he said that and not her.
"Yes" she told Dumbledore.
"Well, I wasn't really expecting something else but I had to ask anyway" he said, he sighed, and than continued "your rivalry goes back to first year, as I remember, and it got stronger and stronger through the years, am I correct?" he asked.
They both nodded.
"Well it has now come to a level where people can't ignore it anymore, especially your teachers" he said giving them a meaningful look "they say it is quite hard to teach like that".
Lily felt uncomfortable, she never had problems with the teachers until now, and it was all because of Potter.
James, on the other hand, didn't find it very disturbing, he was used to detentions and all those stupid things.
"I know you can't stop being enemies." He said " but your not a really good example for younger students, especially since your both prefects! Anyway I arranged for you to be together on the dancing lessons so you will learn to live with each other, and hopefully became something like friends."
Lily was about to agree, when she heard the last part of the sentence-
"What?!" she and Potter both said together.
"I know it doesn't seem very good for now, but you have to learn how to live with each other."
"But professor, it is supposed to be an activity for people from different houses!" said Lily.
"Yeah, Evans is right" Potter said "don't you want to see us making inter house relationships?" he asked Dumbledore.
"There is no point arguing, because 1: they already made the pairs for the lessons and 2: you make a great couple, I nearly choked with my pudding when I saw what you did to the poor Slytherins!" Dumbledore said.
Both Lily and James smiled when they heard that, they knew there was no way to argue with him so they left his office, heading to the great hall to the dance lesson.
When they reached it they saw that everybody were already speared in the hall in pairs.
McGonagall, who saw that they entered the hall, said "Please join the rest of us as we are just about to start"
They both took a place near the doors together and waited for instructions.
McGonagall was standing near another man, grabbed his arm and said:" we are going to start with tango!" she waved her wand and tango music filled the hall "please look at me, 2 steps forward and 1 backward!" she said. (A/N I have almost no idea how to dance so just imagine!)
She started dancing and everybody were trying to copy her.
Lily and James weren't doing really bad, actually they were quite good and especially compared to the other students.
Lily had to admit Potter was kind of good but he was so annoying! He had that cocky, I-am-the-best smile that she hated so much.
"Now boys, low the girls slowly and carefully" said McGonagall.
James was already halfway in lowering Evans when everybody heard a loud thud. Everybody turned their heads to the direction of the voice. Apparently Peter has lost hold of his girl, a big and nasty Slytherin, and dropped her to the floor.
Everybody started laughing and James laughed so hard that he forgot that he was halfway in lowering Evans, and because he forgot that, he also forgot that he was holding her, which made her fall from his arms.
Lily didn't have time to do anything, she was going to hit the hard floor when a strong arm caught her.
"Thanks" she said, panting.
"Your welcome, I always like to help pretty princesses in danger" said the person with the strong arm.
Lily got up and looked up to see who rescued her and in that moment the world stopped – in front of her stood no other then an angel, he had blond short hair and crystal blue eyes, he was very high, like one and a half of Lily.
For a second she was speechless but quickly caught herself and decided to play along with what he said.
She gave him a big, flirtiest, smile and said in a sweet voice: "and what, may I ask, is the name of the brave knight, who just saved the fare princess?" she asked.
"William Westwood, from Beauxbatons, at your service" he said and bowed and smiled "and what, may I ask, is the pretty princess's name?" he asked.
"Lily Evans, from Hogwarts." She said and bowed.
"May you cut the crap Evans and come here to dance?" said James, who was feeling quite upset, for an unexplained reason.
Lily gave Potter a death glare and then smiled back at William.
"Forgive this 'fool' about his language" she said "he's meaning was to ask me to come back to dance with him."
"Is he your man?" asked William, a little bit worried.
"No!" she said quickly. She and Potter? Never!
"No, he is only an unselected dance partner" she reassured William "with a bad case of words."
"I understand, responsibilities come first" he said " but I do hope to see you again in some other time, my fare lady" He said/asked hopefully.
"But of course!" Lily said and smiled.
"Then goodbye for now" he said.
"Goodbye, brave knight!" she said and he walked away.
Lily felt she was melting with joy, when someone disturbed-
"Evans? Falling for someone? She has feelings? She has a heart? Can't be!!!" said Potter mockingly.
"Shut up Potter!" Lily said, all the joy melting away "we need to dance!" she said.
He took her arm and they started dancing, which made almost every girl in the hall the desire to push Lily and dance with James and almost every boy the desire to kick James and join Lily for a dance. They, however, didn't notice anything.
"I think I should let go of you and make you fall more often, Evans" said James with the same mocking way "how will you meet boys other ways?"
"Mock as much as you like I don't care" said Lily with a dreamy expression on her face.
James found it weird, very weird, normally she would take any chance of insulting him but now, after he dropped her on the floor, she didn't do a thing!
They kept dancing, each lost in his own thoughts, until the lesson ended.
When Lily was leaving the hall with her friends James gave a loud, faked, dramatic call: "goodbye my fare lady!!!"
But Lily didn't respond and went up to the Gryffindore tower ignoring him with the same dreamy expression…
A/N My room is being painted and I needed to pick colors for it so I sat down with this something that looked totally like a fan with tons of colors on it and they were all almost the same! I just sat there for hours trying to decided the colors and they all had these weird names: Warm Toast, Weak Tea and so on! Lol! :)
Anyway, I just needed a break from all the writing but I was so bored I came back. So on with the story:
When all the girls came back to the dorm they all sat down and started talking about the dance lesson.
"I got stuck with this weird Hufflepuff! He keeps staring at me and can't even move himself!" Anne said sadly.
"Oh, you poor baby!" Emily said sarcastically.
"Very funny!" said Anne.
"She really is in a horrible state" said Kathleen "I watched her and that boy for awhile."
"Hey! I didn't wanted you to make it worse, I wanted you to comfort me!" said Anne.
"I can't really say something good about your partner, but I can say that Kathleen's wasn't so good either." Emily tried to cheer Anne up.
"No way! Mine's cute!" Kathleen tried to defend herself.
"Maybe he's cute but I heard him talk!" Emily said "did you know that the latest researches say that…" she said, imitating a very slow, boyish, voice.
"That does it!" Kathleen said and all three started pillow fighting. Between all the mess and the flying feathers sat Lily, completely unaware of what's around her, only one thing floating in her mind: William…
After 5 minutes the pillow fight stopped and the three girls sat, breathing hard on the bed.
"Earth to Lily! Earth to Lily" Kathleen said, noticing Lily wasn't playing along.
"Is anybody home? Hallo?" said Emily.
Anne shook her hand in front of Lily's face – no response.
"On the count of three" said Emily to the others "one, two, three"
"LILY!!!" they all shouted. Lily snapped and looked at them totally calm.
"What?" she asked.
"You ask what?" said Kathleen amazed.
"Lily, you just sat there in a complete trance for at least 5 minutes!" said Anne.
"I did?" asked Lily.
"Yes!" they all said.
"Oh! I remember! I was thinking about…" and the dreamy expression came to her face again "William…" she said.
"Who is William?" asked Anne, completely puzzled.
"Is that the person who came for a sec to the great hall?" asked Emily.
Lily nodded.
"The blond hottie?" asked Kathleen.
Lily nodded again.
"I was dancing and Potter accidentally let go of me and I nearly hit the floor when William caught me…" Lily explained.
"You touched him? You are so lucky!!!" Kathleen said.
"I know" Lily said dreamily "we talked a bit. Apparently he's from Beaxbutton, He's so charming."
"Then he must be a exchange student!" said Anne "that means we will have him for a couple of months at least!"
"Yes!!!" the other three said happily.
Then they started to organize and get to bed. And a minute before everybody fell asleep Lily said out loud: "I can't wait to see Potter's face" and happily fell asleep.
On breakfast the next morning Dumbledore asked everybody's attention.
"I have the pleasure to tell you that we have an exchange student from Beuxbuttons that will attend Hogwarts for a month!" he said.
"Only a month?!" Lily said disappointed to Kathleen.
On the other side of the table the Marauders were also having a chat about the new student.
"I met him last night, I was on my way to the kitchens when he walked out from Dumbledore, we talked a bit and he is really nice." Said Sirius.
James groaned.
"What's the matter Prongs?" asked Peter.
"I saw him last night and he isn't like this at all – he's totally disgusting! Acts like some sort of king or something." James answered.
They stopped talking because Dumbledore was starting to talk again.
"Please welcome… William Westwood!" he said and William walked in to the hall, Lily quickly turned to look at him and gave him a small smile and, to her great happiness, he returned it.
"William please come here, we want to sort you to your house. Please put the hat on your head." Dumbledore said and pointed at the sorting hat, that was standing on her usual chair. (A/N no idea if it has three or four legs)
William sat on the chair and put the sorting hat on his head.
The hall was quite for a couple of seconds. And then-
"RAVENCLAW" the hat shouted.
"Shit!" Lily said and the other girls sadly agreed.
"I knew he wasn't Gryffindor material!" James said happily to the Marauders.
Lily finished her breakfast and got up from the table, she was near the door when someone called her name.
"Lily!" she turned around and saw William was getting up from the Ravenclaw table, "Wait for me!" he said.
She waited for him and tried to act cool and not revealing her happiness.
"So, we meet again." She said.
"Yes, I am so happy to be here." He said "I heard so much about this place"
"Well, Hogwarts is a beautiful place, I'm sure you'll like it." She said looking out at the grounds.
"I'm sure I will" he said but he wasn't looking at the grounds, he was looking at her.
She felt herself going red.
"I have to get to my class" she said.
"Me too, so I see you around." He said and went up the marble staircase.
"Bye" she said softly. She stayed there for a second before remembering she needed to go to Defense Against The Dark Arts.
The Marauders were making their way to the DADA class.
James was at the door when someone pushed him out of the way.
"Move Potter!" said a very upset Malfoy.
James was ready to say something back when professor Tulbo came in too. (A/N I'm totally uncreative when it comes to names!)
Professor Tulbo was head of Slytherin and had an annoying habit for favoriting the Slytherins and taking as many points as he could from the Gryffidors.
"Potter! Black! Lupin! Pettigerw! Get in!" he hissed "and 5 points because you were late."
There was no point of telling him Malfoy was late too because he will just tell them to shut up, so they just made their way as quickly as possible to the end of the class.
They all sat down and while professor Tulbo was writing notes on the blackboard James asked the others quietly: "what's up with Malfoy?"
"Isn't it obvious?" said Sirius.
"What?" asked both James and Peter.
"He's got that crush on Lily since forever and he's totally upset because she and this William were flirting with each other today and last night." Explained Remus.
At this James had to fake a cough so that no one will hear him laugh.
"A crush on Evans? Is he nuts?" he asked.
"If he is then so is half of the school!" Sirius said.
"What are you talking about?" James said puzzled.
"Come on Prongs! Even if you don't like her you have to admit she is hot!" Peter said.
"Did she give you love potions too?" James asked.
"Of course not! Lily's beautiful, Prongs, ask any guy you want!" Remus replied.
"I can't believe you just said that Moony!" James was stunned "her hair looks like it's on fire, her eyes are boring green and she doesn't have a body!"
"Now that's were you're wrong my friend!" said Sirius "she has thick, wavy, long, red stunning hair, Emerald, sparkling, green beautiful eyes and the most incredible body I have ever seen."
"And not only this" Remus added, "she is nice, sweet, funny, wise, amazing, and a very special girl!"
"Yes, and we don't even know her well!" Peter said.
"You are totally wrong my friends!" James said, trying not to yell and not to be heard by someone else, "Evans is a horrible person!!!"
The others were just about to disagree when the professor hissed at them again:
"As interesting as Evans may be I ask you four gentlemen not to discuss her on my class!!! 5 points and if you won't start copying these notes it'll be 5 more!" he told them.
To his great relive Evans was busy copying the notes and didn't hear anything. He didn't want her to think he was talking about her! She will think she is interesting! Which she was definitely not!
He started copying too and was happy to stop the discussing with the others. They were definitely on something!
While Professor Tulbo was explaining about giants and half giants James couldn't help but notice that, unlike every other lesson, Evans wasn't paying attention at all.
He leaned forward (she sat just in front of him) and slowly, carefully and weakly pulled a bit of her hair. She didn't noticed. He pulled again. Still no notice. He pulled a bit harder. Still nothing. He looked at her and saw she had a very strange expression on her face. He pulled even harder. She took her hand and organized her hair like there was a small thing, like a fly, was messing her hair.
It was annoying, it wasn't really fun annoying her when she didn't respond!
What the hell is wrong with Evans?
A/N well that was long! But I enjoyed writing it and I'm not bored anymore!
I went to harrypotter.com and saw there the movie poster for 'harry potter and the chamber of secrets'! It's so cool! You see dobby, and he looked a bit scary, and above it says "Dobby has come to warn you sir". I can't wait to see the movie!
So enjoy and: Review! Review! Review!
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I changed something in the last chapter: James doesn't slap Snape – he punches him. Thanks to Eleana 23 for letting me know I wrote slap and not punch. She also wrote James and Lily moved so quickly from love to hate and I wanted to explain that they don't go straight from love to hate, they go forwards and backwards. You'll see…
My house is going through renovation so my family and me had to move to a different apartment and it is so boring!!! I have no internet, no cables and almost nothing to do, so this chapter is going to be long!
Is It Love?
Chapter Seven: Dancing Lesson And The New Exchange Student
Lily stayed at the hospital wing for a couple of days before returning to the Gryffindor tower. Her friends came to visit her a few times during those days, Kathleen came to apologies and Lily forgave her, but she heard nothing from Potter and she started to think that he only played with her, like he always does with every girl, and was very mad at herself for letting him play with her like that. She decided to act like nothing happened. And actually nothing really did. Right?
When she came to the back, at last, to the Gryffindor tower she saw no other then Potter sitting with one of the Gryffindor girls and well... making out with her. She felt even madder at herself for her stupidity. And she really didn't wanted Potter. Why would she want an ugly, stupid, jerk person? She hated him with pure passion!
But besides that, everything was going quiet well in her life: She was popular with many good friends she could count on, she had many lovely admirers, Snape had to apologies to her in front of the whole school, she was top of her class in almost every subject (damn transfiguration!) and she never felt better.
And to her great happiness the dance lessons were to start the next day, she really hopped to be with someone cute who knew how to dance. The only thing that made her a bit upset was that right before the lesson she hade a meeting with Dumbledore and Potter. She really didn't know what it was about, so, when the time came, she was kind of curios and made her way quickly too Dumbledore's office.
When she came in she saw that Dumbledore was already inside and so was Potter.
She seated herself in one of the chairs and waited for Dumbledore to speak.
"Well, this meeting is going to be short but it is nevertheless important." Dumbeldore explained both of them and they both nodded.
"I know that this could be some what personal but I need to ask it" he said "What do you think of each other?"
Lily was shocked, that was the last thing she expected, especially from Dumbledore. She looked at Potter and saw he was in the same state as her.
"Well…" she started but didn't know how to answer it.
"To be honest, we kind of hate each other, professor" she heard Potter saying and was very happy he said that and not her.
"Yes" she told Dumbledore.
"Well, I wasn't really expecting something else but I had to ask anyway" he said, he sighed, and than continued "your rivalry goes back to first year, as I remember, and it got stronger and stronger through the years, am I correct?" he asked.
They both nodded.
"Well it has now come to a level where people can't ignore it anymore, especially your teachers" he said giving them a meaningful look "they say it is quite hard to teach like that".
Lily felt uncomfortable, she never had problems with the teachers until now, and it was all because of Potter.
James, on the other hand, didn't find it very disturbing, he was used to detentions and all those stupid things.
"I know you can't stop being enemies." He said " but your not a really good example for younger students, especially since your both prefects! Anyway I arranged for you to be together on the dancing lessons so you will learn to live with each other, and hopefully became something like friends."
Lily was about to agree, when she heard the last part of the sentence-
"What?!" she and Potter both said together.
"I know it doesn't seem very good for now, but you have to learn how to live with each other."
"But professor, it is supposed to be an activity for people from different houses!" said Lily.
"Yeah, Evans is right" Potter said "don't you want to see us making inter house relationships?" he asked Dumbledore.
"There is no point arguing, because 1: they already made the pairs for the lessons and 2: you make a great couple, I nearly choked with my pudding when I saw what you did to the poor Slytherins!" Dumbledore said.
Both Lily and James smiled when they heard that, they knew there was no way to argue with him so they left his office, heading to the great hall to the dance lesson.
When they reached it they saw that everybody were already speared in the hall in pairs.
McGonagall, who saw that they entered the hall, said "Please join the rest of us as we are just about to start"
They both took a place near the doors together and waited for instructions.
McGonagall was standing near another man, grabbed his arm and said:" we are going to start with tango!" she waved her wand and tango music filled the hall "please look at me, 2 steps forward and 1 backward!" she said. (A/N I have almost no idea how to dance so just imagine!)
She started dancing and everybody were trying to copy her.
Lily and James weren't doing really bad, actually they were quite good and especially compared to the other students.
Lily had to admit Potter was kind of good but he was so annoying! He had that cocky, I-am-the-best smile that she hated so much.
"Now boys, low the girls slowly and carefully" said McGonagall.
James was already halfway in lowering Evans when everybody heard a loud thud. Everybody turned their heads to the direction of the voice. Apparently Peter has lost hold of his girl, a big and nasty Slytherin, and dropped her to the floor.
Everybody started laughing and James laughed so hard that he forgot that he was halfway in lowering Evans, and because he forgot that, he also forgot that he was holding her, which made her fall from his arms.
Lily didn't have time to do anything, she was going to hit the hard floor when a strong arm caught her.
"Thanks" she said, panting.
"Your welcome, I always like to help pretty princesses in danger" said the person with the strong arm.
Lily got up and looked up to see who rescued her and in that moment the world stopped – in front of her stood no other then an angel, he had blond short hair and crystal blue eyes, he was very high, like one and a half of Lily.
For a second she was speechless but quickly caught herself and decided to play along with what he said.
She gave him a big, flirtiest, smile and said in a sweet voice: "and what, may I ask, is the name of the brave knight, who just saved the fare princess?" she asked.
"William Westwood, from Beauxbatons, at your service" he said and bowed and smiled "and what, may I ask, is the pretty princess's name?" he asked.
"Lily Evans, from Hogwarts." She said and bowed.
"May you cut the crap Evans and come here to dance?" said James, who was feeling quite upset, for an unexplained reason.
Lily gave Potter a death glare and then smiled back at William.
"Forgive this 'fool' about his language" she said "he's meaning was to ask me to come back to dance with him."
"Is he your man?" asked William, a little bit worried.
"No!" she said quickly. She and Potter? Never!
"No, he is only an unselected dance partner" she reassured William "with a bad case of words."
"I understand, responsibilities come first" he said " but I do hope to see you again in some other time, my fare lady" He said/asked hopefully.
"But of course!" Lily said and smiled.
"Then goodbye for now" he said.
"Goodbye, brave knight!" she said and he walked away.
Lily felt she was melting with joy, when someone disturbed-
"Evans? Falling for someone? She has feelings? She has a heart? Can't be!!!" said Potter mockingly.
"Shut up Potter!" Lily said, all the joy melting away "we need to dance!" she said.
He took her arm and they started dancing, which made almost every girl in the hall the desire to push Lily and dance with James and almost every boy the desire to kick James and join Lily for a dance. They, however, didn't notice anything.
"I think I should let go of you and make you fall more often, Evans" said James with the same mocking way "how will you meet boys other ways?"
"Mock as much as you like I don't care" said Lily with a dreamy expression on her face.
James found it weird, very weird, normally she would take any chance of insulting him but now, after he dropped her on the floor, she didn't do a thing!
They kept dancing, each lost in his own thoughts, until the lesson ended.
When Lily was leaving the hall with her friends James gave a loud, faked, dramatic call: "goodbye my fare lady!!!"
But Lily didn't respond and went up to the Gryffindore tower ignoring him with the same dreamy expression…
A/N My room is being painted and I needed to pick colors for it so I sat down with this something that looked totally like a fan with tons of colors on it and they were all almost the same! I just sat there for hours trying to decided the colors and they all had these weird names: Warm Toast, Weak Tea and so on! Lol! :)
Anyway, I just needed a break from all the writing but I was so bored I came back. So on with the story:
When all the girls came back to the dorm they all sat down and started talking about the dance lesson.
"I got stuck with this weird Hufflepuff! He keeps staring at me and can't even move himself!" Anne said sadly.
"Oh, you poor baby!" Emily said sarcastically.
"Very funny!" said Anne.
"She really is in a horrible state" said Kathleen "I watched her and that boy for awhile."
"Hey! I didn't wanted you to make it worse, I wanted you to comfort me!" said Anne.
"I can't really say something good about your partner, but I can say that Kathleen's wasn't so good either." Emily tried to cheer Anne up.
"No way! Mine's cute!" Kathleen tried to defend herself.
"Maybe he's cute but I heard him talk!" Emily said "did you know that the latest researches say that…" she said, imitating a very slow, boyish, voice.
"That does it!" Kathleen said and all three started pillow fighting. Between all the mess and the flying feathers sat Lily, completely unaware of what's around her, only one thing floating in her mind: William…
After 5 minutes the pillow fight stopped and the three girls sat, breathing hard on the bed.
"Earth to Lily! Earth to Lily" Kathleen said, noticing Lily wasn't playing along.
"Is anybody home? Hallo?" said Emily.
Anne shook her hand in front of Lily's face – no response.
"On the count of three" said Emily to the others "one, two, three"
"LILY!!!" they all shouted. Lily snapped and looked at them totally calm.
"What?" she asked.
"You ask what?" said Kathleen amazed.
"Lily, you just sat there in a complete trance for at least 5 minutes!" said Anne.
"I did?" asked Lily.
"Yes!" they all said.
"Oh! I remember! I was thinking about…" and the dreamy expression came to her face again "William…" she said.
"Who is William?" asked Anne, completely puzzled.
"Is that the person who came for a sec to the great hall?" asked Emily.
Lily nodded.
"The blond hottie?" asked Kathleen.
Lily nodded again.
"I was dancing and Potter accidentally let go of me and I nearly hit the floor when William caught me…" Lily explained.
"You touched him? You are so lucky!!!" Kathleen said.
"I know" Lily said dreamily "we talked a bit. Apparently he's from Beaxbutton, He's so charming."
"Then he must be a exchange student!" said Anne "that means we will have him for a couple of months at least!"
"Yes!!!" the other three said happily.
Then they started to organize and get to bed. And a minute before everybody fell asleep Lily said out loud: "I can't wait to see Potter's face" and happily fell asleep.
On breakfast the next morning Dumbledore asked everybody's attention.
"I have the pleasure to tell you that we have an exchange student from Beuxbuttons that will attend Hogwarts for a month!" he said.
"Only a month?!" Lily said disappointed to Kathleen.
On the other side of the table the Marauders were also having a chat about the new student.
"I met him last night, I was on my way to the kitchens when he walked out from Dumbledore, we talked a bit and he is really nice." Said Sirius.
James groaned.
"What's the matter Prongs?" asked Peter.
"I saw him last night and he isn't like this at all – he's totally disgusting! Acts like some sort of king or something." James answered.
They stopped talking because Dumbledore was starting to talk again.
"Please welcome… William Westwood!" he said and William walked in to the hall, Lily quickly turned to look at him and gave him a small smile and, to her great happiness, he returned it.
"William please come here, we want to sort you to your house. Please put the hat on your head." Dumbledore said and pointed at the sorting hat, that was standing on her usual chair. (A/N no idea if it has three or four legs)
William sat on the chair and put the sorting hat on his head.
The hall was quite for a couple of seconds. And then-
"RAVENCLAW" the hat shouted.
"Shit!" Lily said and the other girls sadly agreed.
"I knew he wasn't Gryffindor material!" James said happily to the Marauders.
Lily finished her breakfast and got up from the table, she was near the door when someone called her name.
"Lily!" she turned around and saw William was getting up from the Ravenclaw table, "Wait for me!" he said.
She waited for him and tried to act cool and not revealing her happiness.
"So, we meet again." She said.
"Yes, I am so happy to be here." He said "I heard so much about this place"
"Well, Hogwarts is a beautiful place, I'm sure you'll like it." She said looking out at the grounds.
"I'm sure I will" he said but he wasn't looking at the grounds, he was looking at her.
She felt herself going red.
"I have to get to my class" she said.
"Me too, so I see you around." He said and went up the marble staircase.
"Bye" she said softly. She stayed there for a second before remembering she needed to go to Defense Against The Dark Arts.
The Marauders were making their way to the DADA class.
James was at the door when someone pushed him out of the way.
"Move Potter!" said a very upset Malfoy.
James was ready to say something back when professor Tulbo came in too. (A/N I'm totally uncreative when it comes to names!)
Professor Tulbo was head of Slytherin and had an annoying habit for favoriting the Slytherins and taking as many points as he could from the Gryffidors.
"Potter! Black! Lupin! Pettigerw! Get in!" he hissed "and 5 points because you were late."
There was no point of telling him Malfoy was late too because he will just tell them to shut up, so they just made their way as quickly as possible to the end of the class.
They all sat down and while professor Tulbo was writing notes on the blackboard James asked the others quietly: "what's up with Malfoy?"
"Isn't it obvious?" said Sirius.
"What?" asked both James and Peter.
"He's got that crush on Lily since forever and he's totally upset because she and this William were flirting with each other today and last night." Explained Remus.
At this James had to fake a cough so that no one will hear him laugh.
"A crush on Evans? Is he nuts?" he asked.
"If he is then so is half of the school!" Sirius said.
"What are you talking about?" James said puzzled.
"Come on Prongs! Even if you don't like her you have to admit she is hot!" Peter said.
"Did she give you love potions too?" James asked.
"Of course not! Lily's beautiful, Prongs, ask any guy you want!" Remus replied.
"I can't believe you just said that Moony!" James was stunned "her hair looks like it's on fire, her eyes are boring green and she doesn't have a body!"
"Now that's were you're wrong my friend!" said Sirius "she has thick, wavy, long, red stunning hair, Emerald, sparkling, green beautiful eyes and the most incredible body I have ever seen."
"And not only this" Remus added, "she is nice, sweet, funny, wise, amazing, and a very special girl!"
"Yes, and we don't even know her well!" Peter said.
"You are totally wrong my friends!" James said, trying not to yell and not to be heard by someone else, "Evans is a horrible person!!!"
The others were just about to disagree when the professor hissed at them again:
"As interesting as Evans may be I ask you four gentlemen not to discuss her on my class!!! 5 points and if you won't start copying these notes it'll be 5 more!" he told them.
To his great relive Evans was busy copying the notes and didn't hear anything. He didn't want her to think he was talking about her! She will think she is interesting! Which she was definitely not!
He started copying too and was happy to stop the discussing with the others. They were definitely on something!
While Professor Tulbo was explaining about giants and half giants James couldn't help but notice that, unlike every other lesson, Evans wasn't paying attention at all.
He leaned forward (she sat just in front of him) and slowly, carefully and weakly pulled a bit of her hair. She didn't noticed. He pulled again. Still no notice. He pulled a bit harder. Still nothing. He looked at her and saw she had a very strange expression on her face. He pulled even harder. She took her hand and organized her hair like there was a small thing, like a fly, was messing her hair.
It was annoying, it wasn't really fun annoying her when she didn't respond!
What the hell is wrong with Evans?
A/N well that was long! But I enjoyed writing it and I'm not bored anymore!
I went to harrypotter.com and saw there the movie poster for 'harry potter and the chamber of secrets'! It's so cool! You see dobby, and he looked a bit scary, and above it says "Dobby has come to warn you sir". I can't wait to see the movie!
So enjoy and: Review! Review! Review!
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