Bwa! DISCLAIMER! Beware, no? Yes yes, I actually got a review! Magical!
I really need to write more, I only have a chapter or two prewritten!
THANKS FOR READING JARVEY! ^^..ok ok, I'm stable I swear.
I wont make Snape too corny I promise, I'm trying to keep in character!!I
have more research to do! Maybe some alchemy and what-not! ^_^ I have cool
encyclopedia books about this sort of thing! MORE RESEARCH!
Ok enjoy!
~Fangirl
Alexandria and Lily were painting again. This time it was each other. They
had gone up to Trelawney's room for some peace and quiet, besides, on their day
off, the Marauders wouldn't even think of spending it inside. Celarea Trelawney
liked these girls too, she didn't mind them being in her classroom while she was
visiting her daughter.
Alexandria had already finished the preliminaries for Lily's portrait. Now it
was Lily's turn to sketch out her friend. She had sandy blonde hair, greenish-blue
eyes, and a devilish smile. Alexa could have had nearly any of the boys at Hogwarts,
but she chose to just be a tease. She was especially fond of flirting with teachers. It
was harmless, but it did start a whole mess of rumors.
"Let's take a break," whined Alexandria.
The girls were wearing fancy dresses, most likely the ones that they would
wear to the Yule Ball. Alexandria couldn't decide on whom she would go with. She
didn't much care in truth.
"You are lucky that you have `ickly little Potter to take to the Yule Ball Lil',"
sniffed Alexandria.
"Oh please! You have so many choices! Anyone you ask will say yes," scoffed
Lily, who was still sketching.
"You think?" asked Alexandria. "Fine then. The next boy our age that I see,
ill ask."
"Always so risqu‚. Better watch out who you mess with. Boys can be fragile
y'know."
They got back into the painting pose, and began again. Just then the doors
flew open.
"Damn them! They're not in here!" said a very irritated Severus. He
scrunched his nose.
Lily and Alexa exchanged looks and shrugged.
Severus was about to leave, when Alexa waved her hand and the door shut.
He turned around to face them.
"What do you want?" asked the annoyed and slightly startled Slytherin boy.
Alexandria smiled through his harsh words like she didn't even care. "Well
Severus, I just wanted to know if you wanted to attend the Yule Ball with me."
This obviously took him off-guard, "Do you mean it? Go with me?" He was
stammering every word.
She nodded, "Is that a yes?"
Wide-eyed and a little twitchy, Severus Snape nodded yes eagerly.
"Well see you later!" smiled Alexa, waving her hand and opening the doors
gracefully.
Severus left and Lily was shaking her head in amazement and part
disapproval.
"You should teach me some of that non-wand magic you know," pouted Lily.
"It always looks so cool!"
"Wiccan magic? Oh it's alright. Lots of concentration for some, and for
others it's just natural."
***
It was only a week now before the Yule Ball, and a good many girls were
pestering Harry. Cho was going with some Hufflepuff boy named Eric DanTrov.
Harry wasn't really bothered though. The winter seemed really dismal, but he was
looking forward to the circus.
Hermione had gotten word that Krum was in the hospital from a Quidditch
injury and couldn't attend. She cried in the bathroom until lunch, missing
Herbology for the first time. At lunch Harry and Ron tried to soothe her.
"I'm sure you can find a date to the Yule Ball, Hermione," said Ron, who felt
uncomfortable dealing with girls when they were crying.
She wiped her nose, "It's not that, I don't care about the dumb Yule ball."
Harry and Ron shrugged at each other, "Then what is it Hermione?"
She took a deep breath, "I'm worried about him. I really hope that he's ok."
She turned a bit pinker, "I don't care about the dance," she reiterated. She cleared
her throat and changed the subject to Ron, "Are your you-know-what flowers ready
for your one and only?"
Harry chuckled nervously.
"They'll be done tomorrow," Ron was smiling. "I gave slipped a note into her
bag to meet someone in the observatory tomorrow night."
"Now Harry, who are you going to go with?" questioned Hermione.
Harry grew rather silent, "I don't really know. I'm not very enthusiastic
about it."
"We know, even Ginny's got a date. I wonder who we can set you up with.
What about that cute school assistant girl. Miss Winters or whatever. Would you go
with her?"
Harry smiled, "In a heartbeat."
"I knew it!" burst Hermione with her first real smile all day.
"Why don't you go and ask her?" prodded Ron, excited.
Harry turned pink to match Hermione, "Ok, I think I will then."
All three of them gathered their things and went looking about the halls to go
and find her.
BOOM! A loud noise erupted from Potions.
"What was that?" asked Ron frantically.
They hurried down to the room and peered in.
En Winters was coughing and fanning away smoke from a large cauldron.
Snape looked in disapproval at Hermione, Ron and Harry.
"Now what. are you doing in here?" He asked.
"We heard a loud noise," Hermione said innocently.
En looked a bit embarrassed, Snape must have been giving her lessons
during lunch.
"I fly flew into my potion and it exploded," she said quietly, her ears turning
red.
Harry had lost a lot of his nerve. Ron elbowed him in the ribs.
"Oh En, Would you like to go to the Yule Ball with me?" he asked nervously.
She smiled sweetly, brushing soot from her nose, "Oh I would love to, but I
already have a date. Thanks for asking though."
Snape was beaming.
Harry didn't dare ask who in front of Snape, instead he waved goodbye and
walked out.
"Oh bummer Harry," said Ron.
"Oh what the heck," said Harry, "I think I'll ask Parvati again."
Hermione let out some air, "I was going to suggest that next actually."
So Harry did, and Parvati said yes under a few conditions.
1. You must be punctual and courteous
2. You must actually dance with me
3. You must help me study for our next History of Magic test! (please please
please!)
Harry agreed, and Parvati seemed pleased.
"Whipped, she has you," muttered Ron as they walked away. "So soon too!"
"Oh shut up Ron."
***
It was the Yule Ball and James was adjusting what he was wearing. He
spritzed some cologne upon himself and smiled into the mirror. He felt like he
should take off his glasses, but decided against it. He stayed in the stairway leading
up to his dorm. Three boys came barreling down past him in a mad rush.
"Company halt!" said Moony, or Remus Lupin, jokingly.
They all saluted and laughed.
Even Wormtail, or Peter Pettigrew, was going to the Yule Ball. He had asked
a young 3rd year from Slytherin.
Lupin poked Sirius, also known as Padfoot, in the ribs, because he had been
smiling to himself all day.
"Don't be too vain Padfoot old friend, or Emily Blood is not gonna want a
kiss at the end of the night!" laughed Prongs, tying his shoes.
"Same to you James!" tittered Moony, "Little `ickly James has to look good
for Ms. Top of the Art World, Lily Evans!"
"Oh shut up Remus," said Prongs, who was rubbing his cheek where Moony
had grabbed it.
"Well now, are we ready Marauders?" asked Peter nervously.
"I'd say so."
"Definitely."
"As ready as James is to get Lily into a dark corner."
James nearly jumped upon Sirius, but Remus held him back.
They all laughed, straightened their clothes and walked down to the common
room.
Lily and her friend Lorelei, came down the right stairs a minute later. Lily
was dressed in a very whitish lavender, and Lorelei was dressed in a crimson, just
for Sirius. They walked arm in arm, (all but Remus and Peter) down to the hall.
Remus and Peter headed off the Slytherin and Hufflepuff to pick up their dates.
James smiled at his date lovingly, "This is going to be fun, don't you think
Lilith?"
"It's sure going to be something alright," she giggled, taking very graceful
strides and eyeballing James' silly dress robes.
"What are you sniggering at Lil'? These happen to be the most in
fashionable dress robes of the year!" James defended.
"Oh right, right, I forgot how cool you make everything that you wear," she
laughed and moved his bangs out of his face. "You could have at least combed your
hair Jamesy!"
Remus and Sirius burst out into a fit of giggles.
"Too sappy for me," Remus, who was promptly poked in the ribs by his date,
a pretty Hufflepuff girl named Leona Abbot. "Least around these fools," he said
covering, "lets go get something to drink mon cherie!" He guided his date over to
the table, and looked back with a wink.
James blushed a bit, "I did comb it.it just tries to embarrass me when I go
out."
Something sparkly caught their eyes. Walking in, fashionably late, was
Alexandria Summers. She was wearing pearl covered dress robes, adored in
patched of sequins shaped like snowflakes. At her arm was none other than Severus
Snape.
"That cat!" exclaimed Peter, whose date was in the restroom. "How did he
land a date like that?"
"She asked him," said Lily slyly.
Sirius, open mouthed strode over to Snape and Alexa.
"Nice to see you Severus, Alexandria, this is my date Lorelei, I'm sure you
know her."
Alexandria gave a look straight out of the movies, teeth gleaming. "Nice to
see you both," she gave a slight curtsey and Lorelei hesitantly mimicked her back.
"Now Severus lets go dance!"
Severus gave a look of pure and utter triumph to Sirius. He left him to go
dance with his date.
"Look at him! Hair tied back with a bow and all! He must be thrilled!" said
Remus, spinning his date around.
"Can we make this be about us?" said Leona, smiling impatiently.
"Of course dove," he twirled her again.
"Professor Freemont got word of some sort of attacks last week," said Lily,
making conversation.
"Yeah?" said James, not very interested.
"James, if you just want to stare at me all night and not make conversation,
its fine, we can do that elsewhere."
James apparently misinterpreted this and turned pink.
"Ah you fool! I forget that you don't speak in figures of speech," she kissed
him lightly on the forehead.
He leaned in close, "You're so gorgeous tonight, no wonder you have such a
handsome date!"
"Oh James! Now don't be too modest!" she laughed.
"Ou Contraire!" he smiled, "The more the better. Would you like to take a
break from dancing and take a walk with good ol' Prongs? I'll make it worth your
while."
Lily blushed and flushed.
"Of course," she said.
He led her to the light door, arm in arm.
***
Later that day Pigwideon arrived triumphantly with a rather large package.
She nipped at Ron's fingers happily as he untied the parcel.
"Its from Fred and George!" he exclaimed, and looked down to the other end
of the table to wave at them.
"We had it shipped in from Hogsmeade," said George happily.
"Saw it and thought of you," added Fred.
Ron unrolled new dress robes made from satiny material that was silvery
black.
"Whoa!" he exclaimed, "these are great!"
The robes then crumbled into dust.
"You've ruined them!" spouted Fred.
"Handled `em, too harshly I suppose!" added George.
Ron looked shocked and hurt. He also looked lost.
"Just kidding Ron," smiled George, handing him a new package.
"These look the same, but the wont crumble, I swear!" smiled Fred.
The robes were very nice and Ron bit his lip humbly.
"Thanks guys, I don't think I could `a' managed ta wear what I wore last
year."
Malfoy sniggered loudly from the Slytherin table. Ron ignored him and
folded up his new robes.
I really need to write more, I only have a chapter or two prewritten!
THANKS FOR READING JARVEY! ^^..ok ok, I'm stable I swear.
I wont make Snape too corny I promise, I'm trying to keep in character!!I
have more research to do! Maybe some alchemy and what-not! ^_^ I have cool
encyclopedia books about this sort of thing! MORE RESEARCH!
Ok enjoy!
~Fangirl
Alexandria and Lily were painting again. This time it was each other. They
had gone up to Trelawney's room for some peace and quiet, besides, on their day
off, the Marauders wouldn't even think of spending it inside. Celarea Trelawney
liked these girls too, she didn't mind them being in her classroom while she was
visiting her daughter.
Alexandria had already finished the preliminaries for Lily's portrait. Now it
was Lily's turn to sketch out her friend. She had sandy blonde hair, greenish-blue
eyes, and a devilish smile. Alexa could have had nearly any of the boys at Hogwarts,
but she chose to just be a tease. She was especially fond of flirting with teachers. It
was harmless, but it did start a whole mess of rumors.
"Let's take a break," whined Alexandria.
The girls were wearing fancy dresses, most likely the ones that they would
wear to the Yule Ball. Alexandria couldn't decide on whom she would go with. She
didn't much care in truth.
"You are lucky that you have `ickly little Potter to take to the Yule Ball Lil',"
sniffed Alexandria.
"Oh please! You have so many choices! Anyone you ask will say yes," scoffed
Lily, who was still sketching.
"You think?" asked Alexandria. "Fine then. The next boy our age that I see,
ill ask."
"Always so risqu‚. Better watch out who you mess with. Boys can be fragile
y'know."
They got back into the painting pose, and began again. Just then the doors
flew open.
"Damn them! They're not in here!" said a very irritated Severus. He
scrunched his nose.
Lily and Alexa exchanged looks and shrugged.
Severus was about to leave, when Alexa waved her hand and the door shut.
He turned around to face them.
"What do you want?" asked the annoyed and slightly startled Slytherin boy.
Alexandria smiled through his harsh words like she didn't even care. "Well
Severus, I just wanted to know if you wanted to attend the Yule Ball with me."
This obviously took him off-guard, "Do you mean it? Go with me?" He was
stammering every word.
She nodded, "Is that a yes?"
Wide-eyed and a little twitchy, Severus Snape nodded yes eagerly.
"Well see you later!" smiled Alexa, waving her hand and opening the doors
gracefully.
Severus left and Lily was shaking her head in amazement and part
disapproval.
"You should teach me some of that non-wand magic you know," pouted Lily.
"It always looks so cool!"
"Wiccan magic? Oh it's alright. Lots of concentration for some, and for
others it's just natural."
***
It was only a week now before the Yule Ball, and a good many girls were
pestering Harry. Cho was going with some Hufflepuff boy named Eric DanTrov.
Harry wasn't really bothered though. The winter seemed really dismal, but he was
looking forward to the circus.
Hermione had gotten word that Krum was in the hospital from a Quidditch
injury and couldn't attend. She cried in the bathroom until lunch, missing
Herbology for the first time. At lunch Harry and Ron tried to soothe her.
"I'm sure you can find a date to the Yule Ball, Hermione," said Ron, who felt
uncomfortable dealing with girls when they were crying.
She wiped her nose, "It's not that, I don't care about the dumb Yule ball."
Harry and Ron shrugged at each other, "Then what is it Hermione?"
She took a deep breath, "I'm worried about him. I really hope that he's ok."
She turned a bit pinker, "I don't care about the dance," she reiterated. She cleared
her throat and changed the subject to Ron, "Are your you-know-what flowers ready
for your one and only?"
Harry chuckled nervously.
"They'll be done tomorrow," Ron was smiling. "I gave slipped a note into her
bag to meet someone in the observatory tomorrow night."
"Now Harry, who are you going to go with?" questioned Hermione.
Harry grew rather silent, "I don't really know. I'm not very enthusiastic
about it."
"We know, even Ginny's got a date. I wonder who we can set you up with.
What about that cute school assistant girl. Miss Winters or whatever. Would you go
with her?"
Harry smiled, "In a heartbeat."
"I knew it!" burst Hermione with her first real smile all day.
"Why don't you go and ask her?" prodded Ron, excited.
Harry turned pink to match Hermione, "Ok, I think I will then."
All three of them gathered their things and went looking about the halls to go
and find her.
BOOM! A loud noise erupted from Potions.
"What was that?" asked Ron frantically.
They hurried down to the room and peered in.
En Winters was coughing and fanning away smoke from a large cauldron.
Snape looked in disapproval at Hermione, Ron and Harry.
"Now what. are you doing in here?" He asked.
"We heard a loud noise," Hermione said innocently.
En looked a bit embarrassed, Snape must have been giving her lessons
during lunch.
"I fly flew into my potion and it exploded," she said quietly, her ears turning
red.
Harry had lost a lot of his nerve. Ron elbowed him in the ribs.
"Oh En, Would you like to go to the Yule Ball with me?" he asked nervously.
She smiled sweetly, brushing soot from her nose, "Oh I would love to, but I
already have a date. Thanks for asking though."
Snape was beaming.
Harry didn't dare ask who in front of Snape, instead he waved goodbye and
walked out.
"Oh bummer Harry," said Ron.
"Oh what the heck," said Harry, "I think I'll ask Parvati again."
Hermione let out some air, "I was going to suggest that next actually."
So Harry did, and Parvati said yes under a few conditions.
1. You must be punctual and courteous
2. You must actually dance with me
3. You must help me study for our next History of Magic test! (please please
please!)
Harry agreed, and Parvati seemed pleased.
"Whipped, she has you," muttered Ron as they walked away. "So soon too!"
"Oh shut up Ron."
***
It was the Yule Ball and James was adjusting what he was wearing. He
spritzed some cologne upon himself and smiled into the mirror. He felt like he
should take off his glasses, but decided against it. He stayed in the stairway leading
up to his dorm. Three boys came barreling down past him in a mad rush.
"Company halt!" said Moony, or Remus Lupin, jokingly.
They all saluted and laughed.
Even Wormtail, or Peter Pettigrew, was going to the Yule Ball. He had asked
a young 3rd year from Slytherin.
Lupin poked Sirius, also known as Padfoot, in the ribs, because he had been
smiling to himself all day.
"Don't be too vain Padfoot old friend, or Emily Blood is not gonna want a
kiss at the end of the night!" laughed Prongs, tying his shoes.
"Same to you James!" tittered Moony, "Little `ickly James has to look good
for Ms. Top of the Art World, Lily Evans!"
"Oh shut up Remus," said Prongs, who was rubbing his cheek where Moony
had grabbed it.
"Well now, are we ready Marauders?" asked Peter nervously.
"I'd say so."
"Definitely."
"As ready as James is to get Lily into a dark corner."
James nearly jumped upon Sirius, but Remus held him back.
They all laughed, straightened their clothes and walked down to the common
room.
Lily and her friend Lorelei, came down the right stairs a minute later. Lily
was dressed in a very whitish lavender, and Lorelei was dressed in a crimson, just
for Sirius. They walked arm in arm, (all but Remus and Peter) down to the hall.
Remus and Peter headed off the Slytherin and Hufflepuff to pick up their dates.
James smiled at his date lovingly, "This is going to be fun, don't you think
Lilith?"
"It's sure going to be something alright," she giggled, taking very graceful
strides and eyeballing James' silly dress robes.
"What are you sniggering at Lil'? These happen to be the most in
fashionable dress robes of the year!" James defended.
"Oh right, right, I forgot how cool you make everything that you wear," she
laughed and moved his bangs out of his face. "You could have at least combed your
hair Jamesy!"
Remus and Sirius burst out into a fit of giggles.
"Too sappy for me," Remus, who was promptly poked in the ribs by his date,
a pretty Hufflepuff girl named Leona Abbot. "Least around these fools," he said
covering, "lets go get something to drink mon cherie!" He guided his date over to
the table, and looked back with a wink.
James blushed a bit, "I did comb it.it just tries to embarrass me when I go
out."
Something sparkly caught their eyes. Walking in, fashionably late, was
Alexandria Summers. She was wearing pearl covered dress robes, adored in
patched of sequins shaped like snowflakes. At her arm was none other than Severus
Snape.
"That cat!" exclaimed Peter, whose date was in the restroom. "How did he
land a date like that?"
"She asked him," said Lily slyly.
Sirius, open mouthed strode over to Snape and Alexa.
"Nice to see you Severus, Alexandria, this is my date Lorelei, I'm sure you
know her."
Alexandria gave a look straight out of the movies, teeth gleaming. "Nice to
see you both," she gave a slight curtsey and Lorelei hesitantly mimicked her back.
"Now Severus lets go dance!"
Severus gave a look of pure and utter triumph to Sirius. He left him to go
dance with his date.
"Look at him! Hair tied back with a bow and all! He must be thrilled!" said
Remus, spinning his date around.
"Can we make this be about us?" said Leona, smiling impatiently.
"Of course dove," he twirled her again.
"Professor Freemont got word of some sort of attacks last week," said Lily,
making conversation.
"Yeah?" said James, not very interested.
"James, if you just want to stare at me all night and not make conversation,
its fine, we can do that elsewhere."
James apparently misinterpreted this and turned pink.
"Ah you fool! I forget that you don't speak in figures of speech," she kissed
him lightly on the forehead.
He leaned in close, "You're so gorgeous tonight, no wonder you have such a
handsome date!"
"Oh James! Now don't be too modest!" she laughed.
"Ou Contraire!" he smiled, "The more the better. Would you like to take a
break from dancing and take a walk with good ol' Prongs? I'll make it worth your
while."
Lily blushed and flushed.
"Of course," she said.
He led her to the light door, arm in arm.
***
Later that day Pigwideon arrived triumphantly with a rather large package.
She nipped at Ron's fingers happily as he untied the parcel.
"Its from Fred and George!" he exclaimed, and looked down to the other end
of the table to wave at them.
"We had it shipped in from Hogsmeade," said George happily.
"Saw it and thought of you," added Fred.
Ron unrolled new dress robes made from satiny material that was silvery
black.
"Whoa!" he exclaimed, "these are great!"
The robes then crumbled into dust.
"You've ruined them!" spouted Fred.
"Handled `em, too harshly I suppose!" added George.
Ron looked shocked and hurt. He also looked lost.
"Just kidding Ron," smiled George, handing him a new package.
"These look the same, but the wont crumble, I swear!" smiled Fred.
The robes were very nice and Ron bit his lip humbly.
"Thanks guys, I don't think I could `a' managed ta wear what I wore last
year."
Malfoy sniggered loudly from the Slytherin table. Ron ignored him and
folded up his new robes.