A/N: Ok....This is going to be REALLY REALLY long because...well...u know.. I want to get this caught up with what I've written. So...um.. yeah... That's why this is so long and i don't want to take the time to re-save each and every chapter and junk...
Chapter 16-Adventures in a New Land
When they got back to the common room they were surprised to find that no one else was there. Lily said good-by to James and went up to her dormitory. She was hoping Jen, Amanda, and Cassidy would be there but they weren't. Something on the nightstand by her bed caught her eyes though and stopped her from looking for them. It was the snow globe that she had received for Christmas in her first year. She still didn't know who had sent it. The snow globe was beautiful. The base was of Hogwarts, the castle went all the way around the globe. Inside the picture changed a lot. Lily had noticed that the day after she got it. Some days it was of the school, sometimes it was her with her friend, or sometimes just her or just one of her friends. It all depended. On days that there was a Quidditch match, it usually showed either a broomstick or the Quidditch pitch.
But now, now it was something Lily had never seen, and never expected to see. The only thing inside the globe was a foggy mist. There also seemed to be some glitter inside of it. The outside was glowing green. Lily walked up to it and touched it gently with the tips of her fingers, which was a mistake.
Sooner than she knew what was happening, she was spinning around. It felt something like using Floo Powder but much, much, faster. Lily had closed her eyes and kept them closed tight. She was still whirling around as fast as before. She wanted it to stop, it hurt it was going so fast and whipping her around. She had tears coming out of her eyes.
After awhile something else gave her pain. It felt like she was being stabbed with knives, which she wasn't. She had opened her eyes quickly to see and she was still spinning. The poking of the object that wasn't there got worse and she was screaming bloody murder. She wanted it to stop. She wanted to be back at Hogwarts with James and her friends. Soon, it did stop. She opened her eyes quickly and it was misty were she was. She saw a boy, about 16, with black hair. At first, from the back, she thought it was James. But she knew better, it wasn't him.
She'd knew she had seen his picture somewhere. He had looked so familiar. She couldn't put her finger on it though, and even if she could've, she wouldn't have had much time. The spinning came back and she felt like she was going to get sick. The stabbing came back too, but worse than before. It lasted longer too. She still had tears coming out of her eyes and she was screaming for it to stop. And after awhile, it did. She felt a huge bang and then everything went black.
~*Meanwhile, when Lily was gone*~
"Lily! LILY!!! WAKE UP!!" screamed Jen.
Jen, Cassidy, and Amanda had come up to the dormitory only a minute after Lily had. Her body had been laying on the floor and she was crying. They were shaking her trying to wake her up. Then she started to scream, louder than loud.
The four boys came rushing in to see what was wrong. James was also trying to shake Lily, but nothing was working. She wouldn't wake up. Soon, the screaming and tears stopped. They thought she was going to wake up, but she didn't. It wasn't even three minutes before the tears and screams came back. They were awful.
"MAKE IT STOP! STOP HURTING ME! STOP! STOP! MAKE IT STOP!"
They couldn't stand to hear Lily like this. Peter had gone to get McGonagall, or the first teacher he could find. By the time they got back, Lily had stopped screaming. James was sitting on the floor holding her hand. The three girls were sitting on her other side trying to get her up. Remus and Sirius were sitting by her head, they had put a pillow under it so she wouldn't keep hitting the floor. The girls were crying and the boys looked like they were about to, especially James. McGonagall came rushing in and quickly levitated Lily up to take her to the hospital wing. The seven 15 year olds followed all the way there. They didn't want to leave her side.
Unsolved Mysteries
They stayed with Lily for the rest of the day. Until after supper when Dumbledore requested to talk to them. They followed him into his office.
"Now, do any of you know what happened to Miss Evans?"
They all shook their heads. Jen spoke up, guessing it probably had something to do with what they had seen before Lily had collapsed.
"We were just coming up from-from the common room, into the dormitory. Lily was standing there. She was looking at a snow globe of her, that someone gave her in first year. It always changes what's inside it."
Amanda continued from there.
"This time, it was all misty and it had a green glow to it. Lily touched it quick and it did something to her. She just collapsed on the ground. Then after awhile she started crying and screaming, then she stopped, and then she started again. We couldn't get her up for anything."
"Hmm, I see"
"Do you think it was a portkey or something like that?"
"It could of been, but it very likely wasn't, normally with portkeys, your whole body will go with you, and the case with Miss Evans, is that her mind went and not her body."
"Then what was it Professor?"
"I'm not quite sure. Can I please see the snow globe?"
"Yes, it's in our dormitory."
They went into the Gryffindor 5th year Girls dormitory. They pointed to the snow globe. Once again, it had changed. Now, the mist had lightened up and the green glow was red.
"You said that this glow was green before?"
"Yes, and the mist was thicker"
"OK, where did Miss Evans get this?"
"She got it for Christmas in first year, but we don't know who it was from"
"Interesting. We'll have to check, but I'm guessing that this had something to do with Dark Magic. We'll have hope Miss Evans wakes up soon so she can tell us what she saw, or heard or what happened."
"Will she be okay?"
Dumbledore sighed. "I hope so, but I don't know for sure."
"You-you mean she could die?"
"Yes, she could very easily die any minute."
"Can we, spend the night with her?"
"You really shouldn't but if you stay in the hospital wing all night, then you may, I'll let Madame Promfey know about it."
Madame Promfey wasn't happy about seven students staying in the hospital wing over night when they didn't need to. But she didn't argue, she just walked away mumbling something about never being able to take care of students properly and them always having to many visitors. Dumbledore had brought food up for them, seeing as they missed supper and most of them hadn't eaten a lunch either. They ate up in the Hospital Wing and didn't leave Lily's side. Lily still hadn't awaken the next morning when the seven woke up. It was only 4:30, but they were being told to leave because the night was over by Madame Promfey. They walked back to the common room in mostly silence, all wishing Lily would've woken up.
They went back to the dormitories and got ready for the day. They were all very silent, none of them really felt like talking. They talked once in awhile, but only a few words would be said before silence took them over again. Everyday, they would go to their classes, do their homework, which was quite a bit seeing as O.W.L.S were coming later that year.
Two Down
Two weeks had passed and Lily was still laying helplessly in the Hospital Wing. Her condition was getting worse and worse all the time. A few times, she had stopped breathing. One of the times was when Jen was the only one with Lily. She had been crying, her and Lily had been best friends sense they had been three. Jen was hanging onto Lily's hand, she was just staring into space. Normally, with it so quiet in the Hospital Wing, you could hear her breathing. But this time Jen couldn't. Jen figured she just wasn't listening closely though. She closed her eyes and leaned her head down slightly. She couldn't hear breathing though. She quickly opened her eyes and focused them on Lily. She watched her closely and Lily's chest was no longer moving up and down. Lily wasn't breathing.
"OH MY GOD! MADAME PROMFEY! SHE'S NOT BREATHING! HELP!"
Madame Promfey came beside the bed were Lily was laying. She quickly took out a potion and her wand and made Lily drink the potion, even though she wasn't breathing. Jen sat in shock, she couldn't move, she thought she had lost her best friend. After five minutes was up, Jen finally noticed that Lily was once again breathing. Not normally, but at least breathing. Jen was told to leave the Hospital Wing. She went up to the dormitory ignoring everyone asking her what was wrong.
Once up there, she looked at Lily's snow globe. It had gone back to normal, but today, today it was misty again. With the same green glow it had had earlier. The glow seemed darker then it had when Lily had touched it. Jen didn't care what happened to her. She was tired of seeing Lily laying in the Hospital Wing bed. She wanted to know what her friend was going through. She walked slowly up to the snow globe.
She was holding out one of her hands ready to touch it. She could hear Amanda and Cassidy telling her not to but she didn't listen. Amanda called for the four boys to come quick. James was the first to come in.
He ran to Jen, to pull her hand away. He grabbed onto Jen's shoulders and pulled her back. She was trying to fight him but she couldn't. He was to strong. He started to let go of her, thinking that she wouldn't try to touch the globe again, but she reached her hand out to touch the globe once again.
The other three boys and the two girls were now also trying to pull a sobbing Jen away from the globe. Amanda and Cassidy were also crying. Jen's hand was about half a centimeter away from the globe. James, who was closets to her arm, grabbed her hand to pull her back, his arm, being longer than Jens, reached the globe and hit it. Everyone backed away as James flew back and hit the floor. The globe changed back to normal in an instant after James had touched it.
The second James' body hit the floor, Lily shot straight up in bed.
"Why, Miss Evans, I'm glad to see you up."
Lily shook her head. "I have terrible headache, what happened?"
"Do you remember anything?"
"I remember touching my snow globe and then...." She was cut off by Professor Dumbledore walking in.
"Miss Evans, It's so good to have you up. Do you happen to remember what happened after you touched the snow globe?"
"Well, I remember hearing someone scream, I think it was Jen. Then I started to spin and I got really dizzy. Then I started feeling like I was being stabbed by knives or something. And then it stopped, and I saw someone. But then I started to spin and feel the pain again. Then everything went black. Do you know what happened?"
"No, we're assuming that you snow globe was tampered with and it most likely had something to do with Dark Magic. Do you know why you woke up? I mean did you hear or see something?"
Lily nodded. "I heard Jen crying and people shouting, I think it was my friends. They were trying to stop Jen from doing something, I think I saw her trying to touch the globe. And James, he-he touched it, and he flew backwards and landed on the ground and I woke up."
"Oh Dear, you mean he..." started Madame Promfey but never got to finish because Sirius and Remus ran in carrying James. The three girls and Peter were following them. The put him down on a bed before noticing Lily. Jen was the first that did.
"LILY!! YOUR AWAKE!" she screamed and ran over to hug her friend. Cassidy and Amanda hugged her to.
"Oh my god! I was so worried! I thought, we all did, that you were going to die!" said Cassidy.
Sirius, Remus, and Peter also hugged Lily. Professor Dumbledore then spoke.
"Am I correct in assuming that Mr. Potter has touched the globe?"
"Yes, how did you know that?"
"It's what woke Miss Evans up, someone else touched the globe when it was glowing I'm assuming."
What about James? Will he be ok?" asked Lily
"He should be, but once again, I am not sure."
"When can I be released?" asked Lily
"Oh, I don't think-" started Madame Promfey, but once again she didn't get to finish.
"I think we should let her out tonight, if she wants, it may do her some good."
"Yes, but I don't think that she should be let out this soon."
"Miss Evans, what do you think? Are you feeling ok?"
"I'm fine, I have a headache but otherwise I'm fine."
"Well, if you don't mind Poppy, maybe just give her some medicine for that headache and let her go. If anything is wrong with her I'm sure Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin can bring her up."
"Well, OK" she said hesitantly.
She went to some cupboards and pulled out a few bottles. She mixed some of this with some of that and gave Lily a bottle and told her to drink it.
"Here, drink this, it should get rid of that headache, and I want you to stay for at least half and hour, to make sure you'll be ok."
Lily did as she was told and drank what was in the bottle. Professor Dumbledore left and Madame Promfey went into her office.
"You guys?" asked Lily
"What?"
"Why'd he touch the globe? He did it to stop Jen from touching it didn't he?"
"Yeah, how'd you know that?"
"Well, I kind of saw it and heard it in my head. When he fell and hit the floor, I woke up"
"Oh, well then that means he should wake up right?"
"Yes, unless, he need someone to touch the globe again, and then people will just keep being put in the Hospital Wing."
"You know what's weird?" said Cassidy
"What?" asked Peter
"Well, when Lily touched to globe, she was screaming and crying, but James, he just fell back"
"Maybe he'll wake up sooner then?" asked Lily
"Maybe"
Lily spent the next two weeks worrying about James, along with six of her friends. Many of the teachers, especially McGonagall and Dumbledore spent that time trying to figure something about the globe out.
~*In Dumbledore's Office*~
"Minerva! I've found it"
"What is it?"
"Ah, oh my! We must warn those children never to touch that globe again! It get more and more dangerous!" He started towards the door.
"Albus, what is it?"
"I'll explain to you as I explain to them. We don't have time, those eight are so close they would risk their lives the wake up Mr. Potter, and I'm afraid that's exactly what will happen."
Dumbledore turned back around and headed for the door, closely followed by McGonagall.
~*Meanwhile, in the Girls Dormitory*~
The globe was glowing again, but it went straight for red, not green.
"I'm touching that globe" stated Lily
"No! You can't do that!"
"Why? It's my fault James touched it."
"No it's not Lily, it just happened, if anyone's fault, it's mine for trying to touch it."
"I don't care! I'm not going to sit here and wait for him to wake up!"
"No! Lils! Don't!" screamed Sirius and reached to grab Lily.
"Why? Why not? Besides, no one's ever touched it when it's red before! You don't know what'll happen, maybe it'll be good."
"Maybe it won't" said Remus
"I don't care"
At that second, the two teachers came into the dorm.
"Miss Evans! Do not touch that globe"
But it was to late, Lily had already touched it and unfortunately, in trying to stop her, so had Sirius, Remus, and Jen. Cassidy, Amanda, and Peter had gotten quite close to it. But were all thrown back when Lily, Sirius, Remus, and Jen were. They were thrown at full speed against one of the walls.
They landed with a huge thud and into a pile on the dormitory floor. Luckily, all of them had their eyes open and except for a splitting headache were fine.
"Why are we conscious?" asked Sirius
"Would you rather not be?" retorted Jen
"No, I was just wondering why we weren't"
"Sir, Did you find anything out about this globe?"
"Yes indeed I did."
"What'd you find?"
"It's seems this globe, as thought, was tampered with by Dark Magic. A very powerful spell was put on it. When the globe is normal, as it usually is, it's fine to touch it, however, if it's green, it would kill you."
"How come it didn't kill me?"
"Ah, Miss Evans you and Mr. Potter are very powerful, you can both fight it."
"Why?"
"That's another story for a later time. But, as I understand it, when Mr. Potter touched it, he was stopping Miss Whittler from touching it. If Miss Whittler would have touched it she would've died."
Jen's eyes widened as did everyone else's.
"What about when the globe is red?" asked Remus
"When the globe glows a red color, it's best not to touch it. You are all more powerful than usual witches or wizards. Normally, when it's red it would knock you unconscious for awhile.
Seven heads nodded in understanding, eight counting Professor McGonagall. Dumbledore took this point to continue.
"Now, each time you touch the globe it takes out some of your magic powers. You are slowly drained of them. If you touch it when green it usually takes all your powers, causing you to die. If it's a dark green it has the same effects as red. The red takes a lot of power leaving you just a little left. It takes the most power the first time you touch it and less and less each time. Soon or later all powers are in the globe."
"Well couldn't we just destroy the globe and be done with it?"
"No! The globe keeps your energy and power. As long as the power isn't taken out of the globe and the globe is still in one piece, you still have it all. But once the globe is broken, the people who have touched it all die. Unless they touched it when it was normal."
"Oh, well what do you mean *taken* out of it?"
"We are assuming that that is why the Dark Lord made this, he will try to retrieve it and take you powers, which will kill you. Sometimes, when broken only some people die depending on how powerful you are. There has only been one other case of someone living after it's been broken. You cannot under any circ-umstances let this globe be broken. You eight are very powerful."
"Why? And what about James?"
"I cannot tell you now. And when someone has touched the globe and are unconscious, and someone else touches it when glowing, normally it just makes two unconscious people. But with special circ-umstances, this will not be true. These are one of them. Mr. Potter should be awake at this moment."
Dumbledore smiled and walked out of the dorm with McGonagall close behind. She turned back around facing the seven fifth year students.
"I'm sure your aware that boys are not allowed in the girls dormitory?" She said sternly, although they all swore they saw a small smile playing on her lips. She turned back and walked out.
"Oh, and please inform Mr. Potter about this and don't let anyone else know." They all walked out, two teachers going to offices and seven students going to the hospital wing. Once out, a fifth year with icey blue eyes opened the curtain to her bed.
'Interesting' she thought 'That globe breaks and they die, most of them, then James will be mine' She obviously not thinking about the reason James was in the Hospital Wing now. 'So, if that globe "accidentally" falls and breaks.....' She trailed off walking out of the dormitory.
Chapter 17-A Hospital Visit
The seven fifth years walked out of the common room following the Headmaster and Professor Dumbledore. After they were out of sight, the seven looked at each other and all got the same idea. They took off running down the hallways to see James. They wanted to make sure he was ok. They got there quite fast, considering they were running.
Once they got in there they noticed that Dumbledore was already there. They were all wondering how he got there so fast but decided not to question it seeing as he could ask them the same thing. Not that they'd get in much trouble for running, but still, it was just easier not to push the subject at all.
Sure enough, James was sitting up in his bed eating. He was eating like it was going to be his last meal he would ever eat. Either that, or like he hadn't eaten in five months. The teachers all left shortly and Lily was the first to do or say anything. She ran up to him and gave him a big hug. He hugged her back.
"I'm so glad your ok."
They talked for awhile, James was still eating.
"How can you eat that much?" asked Lily
"You learn to, my whole family does it."
"Yeah, and Sirius."
"Hey!" yelled Sirius "I resent that"
"What? You don't eat a lot?" asked Jen
"Well...yeah but....." he trailed off and the eight started laughing. It wasn't that funny but still, they were laughing.
James was let out of the hospital later that day and everyone, excluding James, decided it would be the best time to tell him about the globe. They decided this with eye contact, not wanting to say anything because if they decided not to tell him he would act like a two year old and whine until he got what he wanted. That was just the way he was, and that was why Lily liked him so much.
The other six had figured out that Lily and James were dating without anything having to be said. When the other was in the Hospital Wing, they worried about each other like the world was about to end.
Soon, they had started a conversation that would have to some how lead into talking about the globe because James was about to fall asleep with Lily laying her head on his shoulder. He didn't mind, he actually like having her by him, he felt safer around her. But that was currently beside the point. Cassidy had taken up the time to say something about the globe.
"James, Dumbledore found out some stuff about the globe."
"Really? What'd he find?" he asked, more awake now
"Well...." and this started the conversation about the globe and what everything meant.
"What did he mean about me and Lily being powerful enough to wake up and all of us being extra powerful anyways?"
"We don't know. He wouldn't say."
"We just have to find out."
"Hey!" started Sirius "What if we're like these really powerful people, like aliens and we're so smart that we'll never have to do homework or take tests or study again?"
Lily rolled her eyes along with several other people.
"Were" started Lily "Do you get these ideas?"
"I didn't think that was a bad idea." said James
"Oh good Lord! Their both like this!"
"Your just figuring that out?"
"No, I figured it out a long time ago."
"Then why'd-" but he was cut off by Lily
"Because I just chose now to bring it up."
"Oh" said James, he knew he was fighting a losing battle.
Chapter 18- New Discoveries
What was going on with the globe "attacks" was between the eight fifth years and Professor Dumbledore and maybe a few other teachers, so naturally, the whole school knew. Though, the rest of the school wasn't quite as aware of what was really happening.
Tracy was still planning on a way to get the globe broken. Although, she still thought this was the perfect plan she had taken it into her mind that James had indeed touched the globe she didn't care. He'd only touched it once and from her understanding, which wasn't quite right, he wouldn't die from it, just be put in the Hospital Wing for a little while. Though Lily, now she had touched it twice. But this of course wasn't exactly right, all of them that had touched it would die. That was what was assumed anyways.'
Lily and James had gotten closer after that. Why they didn't exactly know, but they did all the same. The eight friends stuck together even more, they didn't want any of them to be touching that globe for some reason. None of them had really thought about it though, but you never know.
They were all studying hard so that they could get good marks on their O.W.L.'s. Even though this was almost the full year away. It was only the middle of October at this time. During free time, they would search on stuff about the globe but weren't getting any more information. They didn't even know the exact spell put on the globe. But they were checking the spells to see if any had symptoms like the one on the globe.
They were still wondering why they were all powerful, and Lily and James more than the others. The Cassidy, Jen, and Amanda still believed that it was their destiny's to be powerful. Of course, not that Lily didn't believe in Serendipity and Destiny, because she did, she didn't know if it had to do with that. But then again, she did believe it because everything made sense. Dumbledore tried to drop hints as to why they were more powerful without actually telling them. His hints would be something along the lines of:
"Your all getting more powerful everyday" or
"True things are more powerful then pretending things"
None of them understood but just nodded their heads or something along the sort. Of course, Dumbledore had figured they didn't understand but also knew they were smart enough to figure it out. And they were. But they still hadn't figured it out yet. They had given up for awhile, decided they would just have to wait to figure it out.
One day, in early October, there was a message posted in the common room. Lily was the first one to wake up and go to the common room, and she had dragged Jen along with her. They walked over to read the message.
This year, Hogwarts has decided to start a few new traditions, for a few years only. We will have a Halloween Ball on October 31st. It will be like the normal feast. Only it will be followed by a ball. This will be a formal event so please dress in dress robes or you may wear muggle dress clothes.
We will also be having a Christmas Ball on the 24th for only the students who choose to stay for Christmas Holidays. This will also be a formal event. Muggle Clothing or Dress Robes are appropriate.
At the end of the year, we will have a end-of-year Ball. This ball will be for 7th years only and will be extremely formal. Head Boy and Girl will be planning these.
Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
"Oh my Gosh! This is so cool!" exclaimed Lily
"I know! Lets go tell Amanda and Cassidy!"
With that said and done, they ran up to the 5th year girls dormitory. Lily shook Amanda awake and Jen shook Cassidy awake.
"What???" said both Amanda and Cassidy groggily
"We're going to have a ball!"
Both girls shot straight up in bed.
"What?? When?? Who??" asked Amanda quickly
"One on Halloween and one on Christmas Eve. They're both formal! And the 7th years get one at the end of the year!"
"Oh my God!"
The girls jumped up and down for several minutes before realizing they had to get ready.
After spending about half and hour trying to get ready they weren't having much success. They were all overly excited about the dances and couldn't wait to attend them. Lily now had her robes on and her make-up half on and hadn't brushed her hair at all. Jen, Amanda, and Cassidy were all in similar states, some not having shoes on, or not having changed into robes yet but having everything else done. They manage to stop talking and jumping up and down long enough to get ready. After about ten more minutes they were finally ready to go. They bounced down the steps, not being able to get rid of their unexpected excitement just because of a dance or two.
James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were all waiting in the common room when they came down. Lily gave James a quick kiss before he asked what took them so long.
"Did-you-see-the-note?" asked Jen out of breath from jumping up and down so much.
"No. What's it about?" Sirius asked not bothering to get up.
"There's going to be a dance for Halloween and Christmas! Read it!" screamed Amanda, shoving the paper into their hands. They read the note and looked up.
"This is what your so excited about?" asked Peter
"Yes!! Isn't this so cool!"
"I suppose," started James "does this mean that I'm going to be stuck going with you?" he asked Lily teasingly
"Yes, Mr. Potter, it does" she replied in the same tone
"What if I don't want to?"
"You have to"
James didn't bother asking again, not that he had time before Lily kissed him.
A few days later, at about 2:00 a.m, Lily was the only one up. She was sitting beside one of the windows looking out of it at the grounds. The moon was so full, and Lily knew that Remus was probably in the Shrieking Shack right now. The mysterious thing about it was that James, Sirius, and Peter had all disappeared earlier that day too. It had happened the month before though, so they were half expecting it. Lily was the only one of the girls that knew about Remus, she had promised not to tell anyone else.
She noticed that the four boys were disappearing quite a bit though. Suddenly, Lily saw three animals standing out on the grounds. She looked at them closely. A beautiful Silver Stag, with eyes that looked so familiar. A big black dog that looked very friendly and a dirty rat. Lily looked at them for a few minutes when suddenly she saw a small flash. The three animals were gone. But now, three new figures stood in their places.
This explained so much she thought. Those two books they had left in the common room one night, on how to become Animagi. And that piece of paper. The one that Lily had kept. She went to her nightstand and pulled it out. Yes, it all made sense. On the note was written:
James-Stag-Prongs
Sirius-Dog-Padfoot
Peter-Rat-Wormtail
Remus-Werewolf-Moony
She couldn't figure out *why* she hadn't figured it out before. It fit together like pieces of a puzzle. She smiled at her new discovery and ran down to the common room to meet the boys once they came in from their "adventure". Before Lily left she made sure Jen, Amanda, and Cassidy were completely asleep, she didn't want anyone following her. She even checked Tracy, because her finding out would be the worst.
After she made sure her four roommates were completely asleep, and not faking it, she grabbed a blanket and a book and headed down to the common room. Once down there, she noticed that no one else was there, which she was hoping for. She made her way over to one of the couches sat down and covered up with the blanket. She opened her book to the first page, but she was really reading it. Just pretending. She'd might read a sentence here or there but she was trying to figure out what to say to the three boys once they came back.
She knew this could be some really good stuff for blackmailing them, but she would never tell anyone anyways. And unfortunately for her the boys, well, Remus, Sirius, and especially James would know that. Unless of course, they did something to make her REALLY hate them. Which, she knew was possible but she still didn't think she'd tell. Besides, Lily had always said that she'd deal with these kind of problems when they arrived instead of before. After ten minutes, she turned a few pages in her book that she had already read numerous times so it didn't matter if she skipped ahead.
Lily didn't know what was taking them so long. They had already changed back for their Animagi forms, which should mean they were heading back to the common room. Lily looked at her watch, it was already a quarter to three. She didn't know how long Remus stayed a werewolf, but she figured he still was one considering the moon was still out and as full as ever. This, also puzzled her, why the boys wouldn't be out with Remus yet. But she didn't have much time to wonder about it before the common room door opened and nothing but air with a hand and a foot was walking in.
Lily quickly looked down at the page in her book to make it appear as so she was reading it before speaking.
"You know, when you sneak out at night you should really make sure the cloak is completely covering you. I don't really think the teachers would stay completely sane if they saw various body part wondering around the school, but then again, you never know." She announced this, still looking down at her book.
James pulled the cloak off of them and stood there, staring at her. She looked up after awhile.
"How'd you know?" asked James
"Know what?"
"That we were coming into the common room soon."
"Why on earth would you think that I knew?"
"Because, you weren't really reading your book," he said pointing to it and coming over to sit by her "if you were, you wouldn't have noticed us come in."
That was true, whenever she read a book she was oblivious to everything and anything around her, usually anyways.
"Alright," she started, by this time, Sirius and Peter were both sitting down to, "I saw you out the window in the dormitory"
They stared at her. All wondering the same thing, had she seen them transform. And they all knew that she had.
"You know, you could get expelled if anyone ever told a teacher, seeing as you *are* underage, but I'm guessing you already knew that?"
They all nodded their heads.
"It's a good thing you have a good reason to do it."
"What do you mean?" asked Sirius "You know about Remus"
Lily decided that she was up for some fun right about now. "What? What about Remus"
"You mean you don't know?" asked Peter
"Know what?" she asked confused, but not really confused
"That he's a-a-a" but Lily cut him off.
"a werewolf? of course I knew about that, figured it out in our second year"
They all glared at Lily. Lily giggled, this was fun. "You know, it'd be kinda fun to see the headmasters face when he found out that three fifth years figured out how to become Animagi, don't you think?"
"No!" The three boys coursed
Lily smiled and stood up and started walking to the stairway to the girls dormitory. She looked back at them "I Do" she said and walked up. Lily crept into her dormitory and crawled into her bed with a smile on her face. Perfect blackmail, she thought. Of course, they knew she'd never really tell.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Meanwhile, In the Common Room*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~
Peters eyes were wide as she walked up the stairs. He turned back to Sirius and James, who didn't look the least bit worried.
"You-you don't r-really thing that s-she'll tell d-do you?" he asked
James threw the book Lily had left down there at him. It narrowly missed his head. Of course, James being a Chaser with very good aim, could've hit him if he had wanted.
"Of course she won't tell"
"Yeah, you know Lily, she'd never do that"
"A-are you s-sure?" he asked, still not convinced
"Yes Peter" Sirius and James coursed and walked up the stairs to the boys dormitory.
Chapter 19-Hogsmeade Visits
The next morning, Lily and the other three girls were the first one's in the common room. How Lily managed to wake up early was beyond her but it might have had something to do with the fact that Jen, Cassidy, and Amanda dumped freezing cold water on her.
"See! I told you earlier that they'd probably have a dance this year!" said Amanda
"How'd you know that though?"
"Hmmm...I have my ways!"
"Haha! Really! How'd you know that?"
" Well my dad talked to Dumbledore a few times over break and he said it. I overheard the conversation, but I wasn't supposed to."
"Oh! Anyways, what are the chances that the dresses we want are still their?"
"Probably not much, but it wasn't to terribly long ago!"
"Are you going to buy two or just one?" asked Lily "You know, one for Halloween and one for Christmas."
"Um, probably just for Halloween 'cause they might have new dresses in that muggle clothes store by the time Christmas comes."
"Yeah, they probably will."
"When's the next trip?"
"This Saturday"
"So, another words in two days?"
"Yeah."
By this time, more people were filing into the common room. But not the ones they were looking for. Lily knew they'd be late, but she wasn't going to say that. What they didn't know, couldn't hurt them, as long as they didn't know.
"Hey Lils?"
"Yeah?"
"Where were you last night?"
"Um....what do you mean?"
"Well I woke up at about 3:00 or something and you weren't in your bed, I was going to go down to the common room but I decided you were probably just reading a book or something."
"Yeah, that's what I was doing! Reading a book!"
Jen gave her a strange look and Cassidy and Amanda seemed very intrigued in the conversation.
"But then I heard other voice, and I was about to come down when you came up. And you seemed kinda happy."
"Oh, um well James and them were down there."
"Why?"
"They" she trailed off for a second trying to figure something out. "were just coming back from the kitchens, with food"
"Oh! That makes sense, I swear those four eat enough to feed twenty horses, and that's just what they eat in one day!"
"I wonder sometimes"
"So Lil? Why'd you seem so happy about it?"
"I don't know! I just was" Lily was saved from answering an further questions when the three boys came down the stairs.
"Hey!" James shouted
"Don't yell so loud James!" said Lily
James sat down next to her and put his arm around her shoulder.
"Didn't Lily get enough sleep last night?"
Lily glared at him. No! James! Don't bring up last night please!! Don't bring it up at all! thought Lily
"So James" started Amanda "I heard you had an interesting adventure last night!"
James looked shocked and so did Sirius. Peter just looked plain old scared. James shot Lily a glare and took his arm off her shoulder. He wasn't happy with Lily and Lily could tell. She had to figure out how to tell him she didn't tell them *that* without actually saying it.
"Yeah James," she began "Did you guys eat all that food that you got from the kitchens?"
James looked relived, along with Sirius who seemed to be doing whatever he was doing and Peter, who evidently didn't catch on still looked scared.
"W-what Food?" he asked
"You know Peter," started James "The food that Remus, Sirius, and I were bringing back from the kitchens last night"
"Oh! OH! Yeah! That food!"
"Where is Remus anyways?"
"Oh, he um, ate to much candy or something and woke up like four hours ago and went to the Hospital Wing."
"Should we visit him?"
"NO! He's probably sleeping, you know Remus, he doesn't like to be bothered when he doesn't feel well."
"Oh, well then lets go down to breakfast"
"Ok!"
They hurried down to the Great Hall, most trying to avoid any topic of anything that had to do with the night before. Once in the Great Hall, their ears were filled with laughter. Lots of laughter. Except for at one table, Slytherin. As they seven entered, heads turned their way. Their "group" was probably one of the most popular in the school. They were known widely for many things. Amongst those things pranks.
And this is exactly what had occurred at the Slytherin table. The whole situation was embarrassing, but more embarrassing for the boys then the girls. Every single Slytherin had extremely long beach blonde hair. Not only that, instead of regular Hogwarts Uniforms, they all had VERY short skirts on and tank tops. And if this wasn't enough, each one was acting something like a valley girl ditz.
Snape and Malfoy marched over. They didn't have the most pleasant looks on their faces, not that they usually did. They stood right in front of the group and the group backed away slightly.
"Like what did you totally think you were like doing? We'll like totally get you like totally back for the totally stupid prank you like all just like played! "
"Excuse Me? I couldn't quite understand you. Would you mind speaking a little clearer?" asked Lily
" Like shut your like totally smart mouth you like little mudblood b-" He was quickly cut off by James who tried to hit him, or tackle him, or do something to him. Lily held him back though. She didn't want him getting in anymore trouble then what he had to.
"Why thank you Malfoy" she started "For saying I have a smart mouth."
"That like totally isn't like a totally good thing" Snape said, speaking up for the first time
"Why not? At least it isn't stupid like yours." Lily knew she could've thought of a better comeback, but nonetheless, that's the one that came out. With that said, she turned back out of the Great Hall without even eating. In doing so, she caught a quick glimpse of Dumbledore obliviously telling the teachers to "Let the Students stop the Fight" Which is what they did.
By Saturday, the prank was basically forgotten, well not talked about anyways. Every once in awhile you'd see some pictures floating around of bleach-blond haired Slytherins. Now the new excitement was going to Hogsmeade. Whether for dresses or prank kits no one cared. They were just going and that was that.
The four girls woke up early that day, well, for a Saturday. They were jumping up and down practically the minute they woke up to. After the girls had been so hyper beforehand, James had asked them if they'd ever considered taking pills for it or something. In return, he got hit on the head five times. One time by each girl and an extra from Lily, as she called it "Just Because". James then decided that they should take Anger Management classes too, and got hit a few more times.
They got completely ready, once again wearing muggle clothing instead of robes. Lily wore a purple tank top and denim shorts. Jen was wearing a denim skirt and a blue top. Amanda was wearing a pink skirt and white top. And Cassidy was wearing a white and purple top with denim Capri's.
By this time Tracy still wasn't up yet. She usually was the last one up. Over the years she stayed close with her Ravenclaw friends. She had also made friends with two other Gryffindors in the same year as her. Tracy was probably the most popular girl after Lily and all of her friends. No one really knew who *was* the most popular. Anyways, she wasn't up yet and didn't exactly look like she would be getting up anytime soon. She had recently been dumped by her so called "boyfriend" and obviously didn't want to get up. But the girls decided that everyone needed to get up. Whether they woke up perfectly dry, or soaked with freezing cold water, as long a they were up.
So they filled about 20 water balloons along with some dungbombs of course, and anything else they could possibly find quickly and fired them at Tracy right before walking out the door. They were surprised to already see the boys down in the common room. Suddenly, the heard a loud, high, scream. "AHHHHH! I'M GONNA KILL YOU GUYS".
"Um...Time for breakfast" said Jen quickly
"Yep I'd say"
"What'd you do to her?" asked James
"You don't want to know" said Lily
"Yes I do! Why is it embarrassing"
"No! Well, not really. But I don't want to wait"
"I do!"
"Fine! Suit yourself! I'll be in the Great Hall!" Lily said this quickly and kissed James and ran out to catch up to the other three. Not a second later Tracy came down soaked and smelly with some sort of green goo on her. Her hair seemed to be have electric blue and half shocking green. The boys laughed at this, along with the rest of the common room.
Once Tracy realized that Lily and co. weren't there she went back upstairs and the boys headed for the Great Hall.
Unfortunately, Tracy managed to get all the goo and the smell off of her before coming down to the Great Hall. But seeing as most of the Gryffindor Tower saw her, it was still highly embarrassing.
After breakfast the group of eight decided to go to Hogsmeade. Once there, they had to stop by Gringotts to get some money. Even though they all had enough, they thought the cart rides were rather fun. And they were, until they got off and decided that they went far to fast.
After that, the boys and girls split up. The boys didn't feel like spending hours in a clothing store when they could spend five or ten minutes and then go to Zonkos. So that's what they did. The boys all got their robes at Madame Malkins and then headed to Zonkos.
The girls on the other hand, went to other robes shops. (I don't really think they actually had other one's or not, but just pretend, K?) They walked into Mika's Magical Clothing for Special Occasions. The robes shop was huge, with three different floors and not one robe was exactly the same as any other. Although, if wanted you could get some of the same robes. They started searching, going through the racks and pulling out the ones that they really liked, and some that were hideous just for laughs.
After each one of them had about 20 robes/dresses in their hands, they went to the dressing rooms. It made them laugh quite hard when Cassidy came out with an electric blue dress without any straps and was so short she couldn't even bend over. Of course, she never actually considered getting it, it was just for fun. Lily came out once with a hot pink spaghetti strap dress on. It wouldn't have been so bad, if hot pink didn't clash terribly with fiery red hair. After getting their share of laughs, they decided to be serious for a little while.
Amanda decided on getting a black spaghetti strap dress with small pink and blue butterflies on the bottom right hand corner. It looked beautiful on her, and it fit her perfectly so she wouldn't have to get it fixed to her size. It went down to just a little bit past her ankles.
Lily got a floor length dress. It was a robins egg blue color and was one strapped. Lily had to go and get this fits because even though it was supposed to be floor length, she couldn't have it as long as it was or she'd be tripping even other second.
Cassidy chose a off the shoulder plain black top. She got a red and black skirt. The skirt was two different shades of red and one shade of black with diagonal strips. It was knee length and fit her very well.
Jen was the last to decided and finally chose a blue dress. It wasn't quite floor length but went down a little past her ankles. It was spaghetti strapped and had a slit on one side of the dress. The whole dress was sparkly and this also fit her very well.
After purchasing their purchases, they headed to the Three Broomsticks for a quick drink. They were supposed to meet the boys there, but they had never set a time so there was a slight problem. But, assuming that beings on every other Hogsmeade visit, they'd met there at five o'clock, they were assuming that was the case this time also. Which meant, seeing as they had actually shopped rather fast for their dresses, they still had a few hours to shop for other things.
Once they finished their butterbeers, they headed out of The Three Broomstick into another new shop. This shop had hair accessories and was called: Rach's Radiant Hair. It was a hair salon on the first floor, but the second floor was all hair accessories.
They looked for awhile and then started buying stuff. Sure, they knew they *shouldn't* but it didn't mean they *couldn't*. They knew they would probably be doing this before Christmas too, but they didn't care. I mean, at least before Christmas they wouldn't have to buy make-up and shoes. Actually, they didn't even need to buy them this time, but like I said, it didn't mean the *couldn't*.
After buying all their things that they decided they *had* to have, they headed out to see other stores. They ended up going to two more stores to buy stuff for the ball. The stores were a shoe store, and a jewelry/make-up store. After shopping in these stores and spending un-godly amounts of money on this and that they were satisfied. All with at least four shopping bags, headed to The Three Broomsticks.
Once they were there, they noticed they *still* had one hour before five o'clock. They couldn't believe it. So they had another Butterbeer each and decided to just walk around outside. It was a beautiful day out and they didn't want to miss it all. At five to five, they headed to The Three Broomsticks for the umpteenth time that day. They sat down in a booth and waited for the boys. While they were sitting, having yet another Butterbeer each, they heard a huge boom outside the window they were sitting next to and quickly looked out.
Standing outside the window, where James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus, all with huge smiles on their face. Outside, people were either plugging their noses, watching fireworks blast through the sky, trying to get green goo off of them, or some were even trying to stop dancing around like idiots.
Lily rolled her eyes, that *was* something they would do. Without a doubt, it was definitely something they would do. The boys came in not many minutes later obviously trying to hide smiles of triumph.
A few weeks later, the ball was on everyone's mind. Some of the teachers gave up trying to teach them anything in class, none of the students were really listening anyways. Surprisingly or Unsurprisingly, however you want to look at it, all four girls and all four boys had dates to it.
Lily and James were obliviously going together, but Tracy tried asking James anyways. Of course, he returned her question with a look of disgust and didn't even bother saying anything and just walked away. Tracy had taken this as a no, and walked up to the dormitory. When Lily heard about it, it earned Tracy a slap on the face. Three boys besides James had asked Lily but she turned them all down. Two of them were Hufflepuffs and one was a Slytherin, Serveus Snape to be exact. Lily decided it best not to tell James about this.
Jen was going with a Hufflepuff that had originally asked Lily, but then turned to Jen. Jen knew when she said yes, that he was simply a date for the dance and nothing more. Meaning, not boyfriend or really even a friend. Amanda had been seeing how many times she could be asked. She had originally planned on going stag but then a "REALLY SUPER CUTE" as she said it, Gryffindor sixth year asked her as she said yes. So far, she'd been asked 9 times, not counting him. Cassidy was going with a fifth year Gryffindor. His name was Brian, and besides that they really didn't know anything about him.
James was going with Lily, but that didn't stop him from being asked. He just said a simple "no" to them and walked away, well except for when Tracy asked him. Sirius was going with his current girlfriend. She was a pretty sixth year Gryffindor. Her name was Kirsten and she played seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Remus was also going with his current girlfriend. who was named Elena. She was a very smart girl and also a Gryffindor. Peter was going with some Hufflepuff that seemed desperately in need of a date when Peter asked her, so she said yes, Plainly saying it, she was using him to make an old boyfriend jealous. (A/N: I didn't think any of you guys really wanted to be Peter's date......).
Chapter 20-Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw
Three days before Halloween aka the ball, there was a Quidditch match. First one of the season to be exact. Normally, they started earlier but there had been certain setbacks. James had been made captain this year, seeing as the old one graduated. James had played Chaser since his second year. Sirius played beater since second year also and his girlfriend, Kirsten, was seeker. She was a very good seeker, even though it was only her second year on the team. Remus didn't play, just incase anything ever landed on "his time of the month" as the boys called it. Lily had played her second and third year as a seeker but stopped after that, Kirsten took her place. Jen played Chaser along with James on the team. Amanda's date for the ball also played, as the other beater. Though, Cassidy's date didn't. Their keeper this year was a fourth year, it was his first year, but he was very good at it. The other Chaser was a second year, by the name of Nick.
Lily, even though she wasn't on the team, went to all the games to cheer on James, Sirius, and Jen. Her other friends went to, and now Elena was with them to. Lately, Elena and Kirsten had become very good friends with the others. Two other Gryffindor girls hung out with them a lot to. One was Elena's best friend, who was named Samantha, but everyone called her Sam. The other was a sixth year that was Kirsten's best friend. Her name was Teri.
This of course, made their "group" of friends relatively large. Of course, the original eight had a tighter bond then all the others. Lily was starting to suspect that maybe this had something to do with that whole Snow Globe thing because of a few hints. But this made her even more confused. Then why are James and me stronger than the rest? Of course, Lily knew an answer to this but she decided it best not to think about it.
It was an hour before the Quidditch game and Remus, Lily, James, Jen, and Sirius were sitting in the common room. Jen, James, and Sirius were getting ready to go and Remus and Lily were looking for Cassidy and Amanda so they *could* go.
"Hey James?"
"Yeah?"
"Have you seen Cass or 'Manda anywhere recently?"
"No, why?"
"Well this morning in the dormitory they told me to meet them here because they were going to do something and I don't know where they are"
James shrugged "Don't worry about, they'll show up". With that, he gave Lily a quick hug before going out of the common room with Jen and Sirius. Amanda and Cassidy did come in eventually. They all headed to the stands to watch the game. A Hufflepuff third year was doing the commentary, it seemed they had someone else every game since the group had come to Hogwarts.
The game started fast and before they knew it, there was fourteen people on brooms up in the air.
"Potter passes to Whittler, back to Potter, Potter passes to Shrean *Nicks last Name*, back to Whittler and she scores!! 10-0, Gryffindor"
Lily cheered loudly for her best friend, as did most of Gryffindor. They game was played close, Ravenclaw had a very good team. After a few hours of the games and a score of 80-70, Gryffindor, the snitch was spotted. Unfortunately, not only had Kirsten seen it, but also the Ravenclaw seeker. The Ravenclaw seeker was much closer but Kirsten tried anyways.
"The seekers rush for the snitch. A buldger comes from a Ravenclaw Beater straight to Kirsten. She quickly dives out of the way as it hits Crane's (Ravenclaw Seeker) broom and swerves her away."
Kirsten ended up catching the snitch after this, and doing so won the game. Their was to be a party in the Gryffindor common room later, after the game.
Everyone attended the party. Of course, thanks to the four boys, had wonderful food and drinks. At about 8:00 that night, the party was still going full blast. Lily, Jen, Amanda, and Cassidy decided to take James' Invisibility Cloak and go to Hogsmeade. Of course, they hadn't found this passage but following their best friends, that happened to be boys that loved sneaking out and pulling pranks had it's advantages.
They snuck out quietly. The girls knew that the boys would wonder where they were, but they also knew that they'd check James trunk for his cloak and once they found it not there, they'd also know they were in Hogsmeade.
Once they arrived in Hogsmeade, they went to The Three Broomsticks and sat down. The owner of the Robe store and the Hair store, also known as Mika and Rach, were in their. The two girls were cousins and were both 18 years old. Over the Hogsmeade visits, Lily and co. had become very good friends with them. They were also used to the occasional appearances that the girls would make out of thin air. Of course, they didn't tell, their responses were: "Hey, you gotta have fun don't you?" and "Why on earth would we wanna tell, this gives us someone to talk to".
The four girls took off the cloak and walked over to their table.
"Hey!" said Mika "We were wondering when you were going to come visit us"
The girls, all six of them, smiled and Lily, Cassidy, Amanda, and Jen all sat down. After having numerous butterbeers each and talking about whatnot, none of them were making sense. They were having a nice, calm, conversation sure, but once you add a few to many butterbeers with that, you get a noisy, rowdy, conversation.
They were telling jokes at the moment, blonde jokes, which, even the blondes were laughing at. Rach was telling one now.
"Three blonde's were driving to Disneyland, when they came to a fork in the road. There was a sign that said "Disneyland left". So the three girls went home."
Lily found this extra funny and seeing as she was sitting a the end of the booth, she fell out and landed on the ground. Rach, who was sitting next to Lily tried to catch her so she didn't fall, which wasn't smart and ended up falling with her. Mika, who was sitting by Rach was pulled down at the same time. Amanda, Cassidy, and Jen were laughing rather hard at this and Jen tried to get them up. But she was laughing way to hard and ended up falling. After five minutes, the six girls managed to all get up off the floor. Mika told the next joke, and they laughed just as hard a before, but didn't fall on the floor this time. Mika and Rach were the only one's with wands so they had charmed to floor into one big pillow, just incase.
About two hours later, the fifth years decided it would be best to leave. It was well after ten o'clock and no one, except for a few people, would know where they were. They said there goodbye's to Rach and Mika and headed out.
Once outside the common room, they could hear shouts and music from inside. The party was still going. Jen was just about to go in when Lily go an idea.
"Hey you guys!"
"What?"
"Come here" said Lily, leading them to a corner
"What?"
"What'd you say we play a little prank"
"Ok...What is it?"
"Well, we go inside, and keep the cloak on, we take it back up to the boys dorm and put it in James' trunk"
"Ok? But what the prank with that?" asked Amanda
"Hold on 'Manda, let me finish!"
"Ok, ok"
"Then, we sneak down to the common room and then go back out of the portrait. Then we go back in and pretend we never left. And just say we were in there the whole time. It's not the best prank, but it'd be kinda fun to see the boys really really confused"
"How are we going to convince them that we were there the whole time?"
"Easy, we're good at acting, and we just make it look like we were playing a card game or something, and just go with the flow."
"Sure"
They quickly walked in, first going to the girls dormitory to get some cards, then they went to the boys dorm and dropped off the cloak. The party was going as full blast as it was earlier and so they didn't have problems sneaking back down. Deciding they didn't actually have a reason to go back out of the portrait, seeing as it could just draw more attention to them, they just went and sat down in a spot that you would have to be able to see them as soon as you walked anywhere near them. The took out some of the games they brought down and made it look like some of them had exploded and they started a chess game, charming it so it looked like they'd been playing for awhile.
The four boys obviously saw them and came over.
"Where were you?" asked Sirius
"What do you mean?"
"You disappeared, and so did James' cloak"
"What? We've been sitting right for like two hours"
"But--"
"Can't you tell by all of our stuff that we've been here the whole time?" asked Lily
"Yeah, but you coulda charmed it"
"Check our wands" said Lily handed the boys the four wands. They had learned a spell once when they were looking for stuff about the globe to check the last spell performed by wands. Of course, the girls had thought of this and performed the last charm they could remember performing before that.
They checked the wands quickly, and were surprised to see they *hadn't* used those charms, well so they thought.
"See?" said Cassidy
"But then what about the cloak"
"I don't know, go see if it's there or not, you coulda missed it"
They boys ran up to the dorm to check James' trunk, sure enough, there was the cloak, sitting right on top, but stuffed down a little so it didn't looked as if anyone had used it for a few days.
The boys came down the stairs, with very confused and stressed looks on their faces. Lily quickly took some pictures and then hid the camera. But James had seen her put the camera away and realized they'd been tricked. He walked over and sat down beside Lily.
"Lils?"
"Yeah?"
"You planned it didn't you?"
"Planned what?" Lily asked, pretending to be clueless
"The prank you just played"
"What prank? I didn't just play a prank"
The girls couldn't take it any longer and burst out laughing.
"See!" exclaimed James "I knew it!"
The boys then made them tell them what they did in Hogsmeade and they just simply said that they talked with Rach and Mika. They decided it best to leave out the part about falling out of the booth and having to charm the floor into pillows.
"You took my cloak and didn't even ask?" asked James in mock anger
"Yes hon," started Lily "and besides, whatever happened to "what's mine is yours?"" she asked.
James simply shrugged and put his arms around Lily. Sirius however, decided the question needed an answer and he was just the person to give one.
"Oh oh oh oh! I know! I know!"
The other seven simply gave him weird looks and raised eyebrows.
"What? Don't you want to know?" asked Sirius
"Um....OK?" asked Amanda unsurely.
"Ok! It ran away with the blue cheese and pink talking cat."
"And where did that go?" asked Jen
"Where the saying "what's mine is yours" went, duh Jen!" said Sirius
"Ok...um...yeah. Sirius, I really didn't need an answer to that."
"Then why'd you ask?"
"It was rhetorical"
"It was what?" shouted Sirius and James at the same time
"Ouch! James! That was my ear you screamed in"
"Sorry..."
"What is it?" asked Sirius
"What is What?"
"Rhetorical"
"You mean you really don't know?" asked Remus and Cassidy and the same time
"No...why does everyone else?"
"Everyone besides you and James"
"Then what is it, so that we know to?"
"It means you weren't supposed to answer."
"Ohohoh"
When Sirius and James had shouted, it caused many people to look over. Kirsten, Elena, Teri, and Sam all came over to sit down next to them. The group of 12 talked for awhile and then decided to go to bed. It was already about midnight and they were getting tired.
The ball was taking place on that Tuesday, so they had the afternoon free from classes. They were originally supposed to have classes the next day, but Dumbledore, figuring that not many people would get much sleep, decided against it.
Tuesday came quickly and the ball didn't start until 8:00, but even so, the girls were already up in their dorms by four. The boys spent the day doing other things. They were working on creating a map, it was supposed to show Hogwarts and were everyone was with a certain spell. They weren't sure what to call it, and they were also working on a name for themselves, just the four boys. (A/N: If I remember right... they made the map and the name for themselves in 6th year so I'm wait till then to use it)
The girls were now trying to decide exactly how to do their hair. Lily had her hair up in about 20 different styles by 5:30. All four girls, and Elena, Sam, Teri, and Kirsten had taken showers by that time. They had all decided to get ready in the same dorm, just because.
Lily decided to skip her hair and work on her make-up first. She put on just the right amount of make-up and it went perfect with her dress. Amanda was working on kinking her hair, she had also used a spell to make it just a little longer so it would look better. Jen and Cassidy were also planning on putting their hair up, so they did their make-up first.
By six o'clock, they all had their make-up done, except for Amanda who had her hair done instead. Lily ended up putting her hair up in an elegant bun, with a small piece of hair left down on each side. She charmed so when she danced or changed into her dress it wouldn't come out and would stay in perfectly. (A/N: Wouldn't you just LOVE that charm?) Cassidy put her hair up with two black Chinese looking chopsticks and it held it up and she managed to get it in perfectly. She also had some extra hair left down. Jen had decided on putting her hair in a low French twist. She used the same charm as Lily had on her hair. After awhile, all the girls had their hair and make-up done. Amanda had kinked her hair and put a small silver crown in it. Elena had left her hair down and curled it under. Teri had done the same. Kirsten pulled half her hair back, fastening it with a beautiful silver barrette. Sam had put her hair up in a ponytail and had it completely spiral curled. (A/N: Jeez! I have alot of these this time...I'm not going to describe dresses, it's to hard, so make your own please!).
At 7:30, they were meeting dates at 7:45, they put on their dresses. All eight girls looked fantastic. They sprayed some glitter on them, and put on their jewelry and any other finishing touches. Lily took some pictures of them all to send to people, mostly to Kate and Lydia. By that time it was 7:43, and the boys were getting anxious, as the girls started coming down the staircase.
The boys were in awe from how beautiful the girls looked. Once Lily reached the bottom of the stairway, James took her arm in his and they followed everyone else out of the portrait hole.
"You look beautiful Lily"
She smiled at him and simply said "Thank you"
Once everyone was matched up with their dates, they went into the decorated Great Hall. It looked beautiful, something like the normal feasts. Only more, special. The four house tables were replaced with smaller ones, ones that could fit up to six people. The tables either had an orange or black tablecloth on it with glitter over it all.
After figuring out who would sit with who, they sat at tables that were all very close to each others. Lily ended up sitting with James, (duh! it's doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out!) Sirius, Kirsten, Jen, and her date from Gryffindor. The time was currently 7:55 and the feast was supposed to start at 8:00 sharp. At 8:45, dancing and music would begin until midnight, when the students were to report back to dormitories.
The feast that night was wonderful. House elves had obliviously worked extra are on it. They had done things a bit different though. Instead of having the food right on your tables, they did it in more of a muggle buffet type of thing. The boys weren't to happy about this, in Sirius's words saying "By time we get through this stupid line, the dancing will start and all you girls will be dying to dance with me because I'm so great at it, that I won't have time to eat". This earned Sirius a whack across the back of his head by Kirsten.
Everyone ended up getting through by 8:15, so they had an hour to eat. At 8:45, the dishes were cleared and the buffet stands were taken down, to reveal a clean, shiny, wooden dance floor. The music started, at fast song first. Not many people dance the first song, but by the second one, the floor was filling up rapidly. Jen and her date had already gone out on the dance floor so Cassidy and Brain took their places. The third song was a slow one, in which James and Lily decided to dance to. The song was called As Long As You Love Me. {A/N: It's by Backstreet Boys)
*Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine,
I'm leaving my life in your hands
People say I'm crazy and that I am blind
Risking it all in a glance *
James put his hands on her waist as she put her hands around his neck. She rested her hand on his shoulder, and they stayed that way for the rest of the song.
*And how you got me blind is still a mystery
can't get you out of my head
Don't care what is written in your history
As long as you're here with me
I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
Don't care what you did
As long as you love me *
The two fifteen year olds fit together like puzzle pieces. The two were basically in their own world, they knew people around them were there, but they didn't care. They just danced, in each others arms.
*Every little thing that you've said and done
Feels like it's deep within me
Doesn't really matter if you're on the run
It seems like we're meant to be
I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
Don't care what you did
As long as you love me
I've tried to hide it so that no one knows
But I guess it shows
When you look into my eyes
What you did and where you're coming from
I don't care
As long as you love me baby
I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
where you're from
Don't care what you did
As long as you love me*
They danced to a few fast songs after that and then decided to take a break. They were sitting and talking for awhile. No one was really sitting at the tables they ate at anymore, they were moving around far to much and some tables had even disappeared for more dancing room.
They danced on and off all night. Lily and Jen were some of the best dancers, they had taken lessons and still did in the summers. At 11:55, the last song was announced and almost everyone with a date danced to it. It was called, It Only Took A Minute (A/N: Mandy Moore sings it)
Everyone walked out on the dance floor and dance to the song and listened to the words.
*Don't tell me how I had a vison
That this day would come to be
Call it luck, call it intuition
Here I am (here we are), isn't that enough
For a little bit of reality
Fate is good, fate can be real
If you believe it's what you feel
Oh, what a moment
When I looked into your eyes
I knew I got the prize
Oh baby, what a sweet surprise
It only took a minute, to let you in my life
It only took a minute, for me to realize
It only took a minute, and I knew just what to do
It only took a minute to fall in love with you
Time and time again, boy I've always been
The only one who thinks things through
You got a hold on me, set me free
Who would've known that out of the blue
I discovered the magic of all my dreams that night
With just one look at you
I knew everything would be alright
It only took a minute, to let you in my life
It only took a minute, for me to realize
It only took a minute, and I knew just what to do
It only took a minute to fall in love with you
Here I am, isn't that a vision
Here I am, isn't that a vision
Oh, what a moment
When I looked into your eyes
I knew I got the prize
Oh, baby what a sweet surprise
It only took a minute, to let you in my life
It only took a minute, for me to realize
It only took a minute, and I knew just what to do
It only took a minute, to fall in love with you*
A/n: Wow...That was a lot. For one chapter anyways...still not caught up. Whew... Don't ask about some of the A/N notes in the story...cuz i posted this on HP message boards so some of them are from that.