*^*^*Harry Potter and Ages Gone By*^*^*





YOU are NOW going BACK in TIME....







You have now gone back to when Lily Evans was in her fifth year..





Lily Evans woke up in her Gryffindor dormitory. No one else was in the room; the beds were all tidy. Lily Evans had overslept again! She couldn't believe it. This was the 15th time that month. (of course, it was November 15).

Lily jumped out of bed, froze from the cold, morning air, and jumped back in bed. This time, she wrapped all of her bed sheets around her and slowly crawled out of bed. She slapped on some clothes, having no time to shower, and she ran her fingers through her frizzy, red hair, (which always naturally kept tidy) and ran down to the common room, through the portrait hole, and down to the great hall.

Breakfast was just ending, so Lily only had time to grab a piece of buttered toast and answer her mail. Patrick, her owl had been sitting on her empty plate waiting for her. Lily unraveled her copy of the Daily Prophet that Patrick had brought, to show him that she acknowledged it. He was such a fussy owl, he wouldn't leave until Lily opened all of her mail (letters from her mother, etc...) "Late again, Lily!" Samantha Crinkle said. Samantha Crinkle was Lily's best friend. "Lily, this is your-,"

"Fifteenth time this month, I know, I know," Lily finished for her. Sam and Lily started towards Transfiguration, their first class of the day.

Lily frowned as she looked at the schedule. "Double Potions with the Slytherins after Transfiguration! I hate that!" Lily said as they walked down the corridor. Prof. Cecil Seabourne, the Potions professor was the most wicked man on earth, or so Lily thought. She couldn't understand how her boyfriend Sirius Black, and other people thought that he was cool.

The Gryffindors finished Transfiguration (kitchen knives into daggers) with Prof. Caddvia within an hour and they headed off towards the dungeons for Potions. Lily walked the slowest she could walk.

Samantha came back from the front of the crowd heading to Potions to talk to Lily. "Lily, why are you so reluctant to go to Potions?" she asked. "Like, I know the Slytherins are nasty, but Prof. Seabourne is so hot! He makes up for everything." Samantha finished. Lily shrugged and walked slower. Professor Seabourne always liked to pick on her because she was muggle-born, and the Slytherin students didn't help either, especially Severus Snape.

She finally got to the dungeons, five minutes after everyone else did. She took a seat in between Sirius and Samantha. Prof. Seabourne stood at the head of the class, shiny black hair plastered back over his scalp. "Today, class, we will be doing love potions," the Potions master said, his dazzling green eyes glittering in the dim light of the dungeons. "Now, there are many different types of love potions, and they are all very dangerous. The type we are learning today is the easiest. The Cupididius Potion. This---yes Miss Crinkle? he stopped to answer Samantha's raised hand.

"We aren't really going to...to try them, are we?" Samantha asked with a slight smile.

"Why, yes, of course! I have the antidote all made, though, of course." the Professor answered. Samantha giggled as she nodded her head.

Later into the class, when they were chopping up ingredients, Prof. Seabourne bent over Lily's cutting board. "No, no, Miss Evans. You're cutting those Mandrake greens all wrong!" the professor criticized. "You're supposed to cut along with the grain on the cutting board, not against it!" he continued. "Oh, the heck with it, start over, Miss Evans, oh and Mr. Snape, can you come here and help Miss Evans do things right for once?" Prof. Seabourne said as he wiped Lily's cutting board clean.

The potions had gotten almost ready; all Lily had to do was add the salamander heart to finish it. She dropped it in and the potion turned from a sickly brown to a deep shade of bright red. It almost hurt your eyes to look at it. "Now, this potion affects men better than females, and as you see, I have paired you up boy-girl. Now, would the female partners give one half of a teaspoonful to your partner." Prof. Seabourne instructed.

Lily looked at Severus and almost barfed. She shoved a teaspoonful into his mouth and ducked under the desk expecting him to explode. Little did she know that it was supposed to be a half teaspoonful..

Lily peeked up from behind the desk; Severus was hanging, mouth open, and eyes awhirl, staring at her. "My sweet mandrake blossom!" he cried. "Marry me! Or else, I must kill myself." Lily went back under the desk, taking a bowl with her to vomit into.

Prof. Seaborne hurried over, pushing aside a very jealous-looking Narcissa. He looked at Lily, who was wiping her mouth from the puke. "You gave him a teaspoonful! Didn't you!?!?!!!" He shouted. "This is a very powerful potion!! All my antidote can do is minimize the effect!" he continued. "Five hundred points from Gryffindor, and a three nights of detention to you, Lily Evans!" he yelled as he took a cup of the antidote and poured it down a very repelling Severus's mouth.

Severus swallowed, shrugged and walked away with Narcissa. As he sat down at a desk, he eyed Lily dreamily. Lily walked to Sirius's side and put her arm around him defiantly.

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ALL OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS EXCEPT FOR SAMANTHA CRINKLE AND CECIL SEABOURNE AND PATRICK THE OWL BELONG TO JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING.



A/A: So, dij'ya like it? Narcissa is future wife of Lucius Malfoy if you haven't figured that out. So, did dreamy-eyed Snape scare you too, or am I just strange? I don't know what I had going on with mandrakes, but it's the only magical plant I can think of, if you can find anymore tell me in a review. That's all for now, look for next story soon..*remus lupin*....cough, cough....Review and be good to get that one....