Harry Potter: What Should Have Happened
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter or any other characters in the story except Emily Piper Johnson (so far).
AN: I hoping to get the rest of my chapters a little longer now that I have time to work on them and since ff.n isn't working at the moment then I'll be writing a few more chapters. Please enjoy and don't forget to r/r and please no flames unless it's constructive! Thanks bunches! (
Chapter 7
It's Planning Time!
By UltimateFairyQueen
*~*~*
The owls flew into the Great Hall during breakfast the next day and two letters fell in front of Lily, one from her secret writer and another from Professor Dumbledore.
'Dear Ms. Evans, I'm very happy to inform you that you have been selected to be part of the planning committee for the up coming Christmas Ball. The meetings begin November 10, a week from today, and you'll embark on a new adventure of development. Have fun, Ms. Evans and don't forget about next week. Sincerely Headmaster Dumbledore.'
"You've been chosen for the committee? That is so cool! I can't believe it! You're going to be on the committee and I get to give you suggestions! This is going to be so awesome!" Piper exclaimed.
"Well who knows, maybe you'll be picked and you won't have to tell me your brilliant ideas!" Lily thought.
"And maybe you'll go to the ball with me!" James whispered and smiled.
"Or maybe you'll leave me alone and stop talking to me!" Lily snapped.
"As you wish, milady!" James bowed and left.
"That guy is so. weird!" Lily shivered.
"But he's cute, that's all I look at! Well, you have another letter, who's it from?"
"I don't know, let's see. Yes, it's the mystery guy!" Lily answered and excitedly opened it. 'Lily, you have done more than you've needed too once again! Your questions are few of the ones that I expected though. In answer to one of them and only one of them: I am not younger than you and I hope that answer is good enough! And my offer still stands; will you go to the Christmas Ball with me?'
"He sounds very romantic!" Piper said dreamily.
"Romantic, how do you get romantic out of this?"
"Well, maybe 'romantic' isn't the word I was looking for! Oh, mysterious, that's it, mysterious!"
"Yeah, okay, I'll go with that! So what do I say to this guy?" Lily wanted to know.
"Well, what about saying yes and if you have second thoughts than tell him you've decided not to go at all. That way you can have some mystery in your life but it can stop when ever you want it too!" Piper suggested.
"That sounds good to me! All right I'll do that; I'll go to the ball with a guy I don't even know!" Lily smiled and then ran of to the Owlry to write this unidentified guy her answer.
*~*~*
'November 10' Lily's watch read and she jumped out of bed. Today was the day of her meeting and she didn't want to be late. She ran down the corridor and with her red hair and muggle sweat shirt flying behind her.
"We have four fifth years with us and we would like-," Professor Dumbledore stopped. "Welcome to the meeting, Ms Evans. Lily Evans happens to be the first fifth year on our list. And then we have Mr. James Potter, Ms. Emily Johnson-."
"Umm. Sorry, Professor, but I go by Piper!"
"Pardon me, Ms. Johnson, and the last one Mr. Severus Snape," Dumbledore finished.
Lily gasped and almost fainted before the headmaster added, "We have specific instructions to not put Mr. Snape and Ms. Evans together in a group for problems that are not to be mention in this room, thank you!"
Lily looked at him with relief and sighed searching the room and wondered if anyone was thinking differently of her by now but no one seemed to care or maybe it was that they understood what was going on and she sighed again. Dumbledore nodded reassuringly at Lily and then went back to his speech.
"Now that you have your assignments get into two groups and I want to have two fifth years in each group one boy and one girl." Lily looked at the Professor with disbelief again and he nodded with a smile of comfort and whispered, "I know you can do it!" then left the meeting.
"All right, everybody, one group will do refreshments and you'll need to come up with a few ideas for the decorations and then the other group needs to come up with a band to play for the ball and you'll also need a few ideas for the decorations. Does everyone understand?" the Head Boy asked, all the students nodded. "All right, let's get to work!"
Students in Lily and James' group started shooting off ideas for the theme but no one was heard. Kelsey Anderson, the Head Girl, sat back and watched the group arguing with a smile on her face.
"Aren't you going to do something, Kelsey?" James asked after a few minutes of ear shattering in puts from the older kids.
"Just wait, James, it'll be over in. one. second." Kelsey answered still smiling.
"Kelsey, we can't decide which decoration idea we should go with!" a sixth year explained the next moment.
"See, I told you!" Kelsey whispered to James and Lily then looked at the sixth year in front of her. "Well what are the choices that we have right now?"
"There's the idea to go with the not- so- original red and green, then there's also red and black, green and black and all of the houses colours combined into a 'beautiful rainbow of the Christmas spirit!'" Lauren Boyette, a sixth year answered.
"Well let's take a vote! Maybe we can find out who wants which idea then we'll present them it to the rest of the group. Sound like a plan?" the Head Girl asked.
Everyone nodded. "I have an idea." Lily said a little timidly. No one heard her.
"If you're going to put in a suggestion you need to talk louder!" James told her quietly.
"Umm, I have an idea!" she stated slightly louder this time.
"Hey, guys," James spoke up, "Lily has an idea! Go ahead."
"Thanks, okay well I have a few lay outs that all have to do with my idea!" Lily announced as she pulled out a few sketches of what the Great Hall would look like on the night of the ball if her design was put into action.
"Lily, these are amazing! When did you find time to do this?" Kelsey asked while she examined the papers in her hand.
"I draw in my free time, I just happened to have some this week before lights out one night so I drew these, I hope they're descriptive enough!"
"They're wonderful; I can't believe you did these by yourself!" Lauren said, awed.
"Well." Lily blushed. "It's nothing big, just something I do, that's all!"
"The colours, they're so vibrant and man, Lily you're amazing!" Tyler Kirk remarked.
"Thanks!" Lily answered.
"So what does everyone think of this? I no you're probably disappointed that we didn't use you're idea but I think this one will be much more productive," Kelsey confirmed. "Hey Marcus, we have an idea for the decorations!"
The Head Boy glanced up from what appeared to be a very intense argument and nodded to Kelsey. "We've gotten no where so far, go ahead and start on your ideas for refreshments and I'll get back to you!"
"Have fun!" Kelsey laughed and went back to her group. "Okay guys we have some more planning to do! Does anyone have any ideas for refreshments?"
Several hands went up, "All right! Lauren, you first."
"Well, I was thinking something like a whole feast and then just have little candies and things in bowls on the tables."
"Sounds good, James you had an idea?" he nodded.
"I was thinking something like an authentic Middle Evil feast, if you look at Lily's sketches then my idea will work. The drawings show what looks like a Middle Evil celebration so why not have a Renaissance meal?" James answered.
"Not bad, and I think you're right about the sketches, the only problem with that idea is that back then witches and wizards were persecuted it wouldn't really work out!" Kelsey said.
"But it would work! We could kinda' show what it was like back then not with the whole burning thing but the life style. We could have people dress in their attire and talk like they did, stuff like that!" James explained.
"I like it! Does anyone have any other ideas?" everyone had smiles on their faces and shook their heads; this was probably the easiest ball they ever had to plan for.
"Marcus, we're done over here, we even have an idea for how to dress! What do you have?" Kelsey called.
"Well, we've got nothing!!" Marcus remarked and glared at his team. "So."
"Oh, okay well thanks to Lily Evans and James Potter we have come up with the ultimate Christmas Ball decoration/ attire idea!" Kelsey explained and went on to give details on the plan.
*~*~*
"Lily, you were great in there!" Piper whispered excitedly as they left the meeting room.
"No, I wasn't!" Lily argued.
"Yes, you were it takes courage to stand up in front of a lot of people like that! You and James were brilliant!" Piper insisted. "I can't believe you came up with all that stuff in one night! Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know, I wanted to surprised you and everyone else, I guess! Do you really think that my sketches were good?" Lily asked.
"Top of the line! They were magnificent! I think even Snape liked them!" Piper informed.
"No way! He was impressed? Not possible!"
"It was possible for that one moment when you pulled out your sketches! It was hilarious when I saw his face drop into awe." Piper said laughing.
"Guess what!"
"I give up!"
"I got another letter from Mr. Mystery!" Lily stated excitedly.
"What's this one say?"
"'Lily, it's wonderful to hear that you'll go with me to the ball, I can't wait for your presence at my side! I'll write later this week on what we should wear.' That's it, that's all he wrote!" Lily said.
"Well maybe he'll write more later, like he said he would!" Piper suggested.
Lily shrugged, "Maybe."
*~*~*
"Ugh!" James stated as he plopped down on his bed.
"What's the problem, man?" Sirius asked.
"That Lily Evans is so." James began.
"She hasn't done anything to you today, has she?" Remus wondered.
"That's not was I was going to say."
"Then what exactly were you going to say?" the two boys asked at once.
"Lily Evans is so beautiful!" James finally said.
Remus and Sirius almost fell over. "What?" they inquired stunned.
"James, how did you come by that? Just this morning you said that you couldn't stand her! What's changed?" Remus asked.
"I don't know! But I've seen her in a new light. I guess!" James answered.
"Dude, you're completely screwed up, you realize that, right?" Sirius stated.
"Dumbledore told me to tell her how I feel, but I don't think I can do that, it's just weird, but my plan seems to be working!" James smiled to himself.
"Are you going to clue us in on this 'master plan' of yours? Or are you just going to sit there with that stupid smirk on your face?" Sirius wanted to know.
"All right, do you really want to hear me out?"
"Of course!" Remus remarked.
"Okay, well, I've been writing anonymous letters to Lily for about a week and half now and I asked her to the Christmas Ball. I planning on waiting out until the night of the ball to tell her it was me and I'm trying to get her to fall in love with me before she knows who it is!" James explained.
"Why would you want Lily Evans to fall in love with you? She's a complete witch!" Sirius said.
"Exactly! She's a witch!" James pronounced.
"James, you really have lost it!" Sirius proclaimed as James left the dormitory.
*~*~*
Lily sat on her bed with her drapes pulled shut and her journal in her lap. She stopped writing to think, 'I can't be in love with James, that's crazy, he's an idiot and a jerk and.' 'You love him!' another part of her stated. 'That's impossible it's James, the only time he's ever been nice to me was when we first met in Diagon Alley and then another time at the train station my first year, now he doesn't know what nice is when it comes to me.'
"Hey, Lily, you have another letter, it's unmarked too," Piper called and pulled back a curtain.
"'My Dearest Lily, I have decided what I shall be wearing at the Christmas Ball. Since the theme has been decided by the committee I am going to go in Renaissance attire. I'll give you specific details as soon as I know more. Good luck finding your dress, you will look great in anything you wear.'"
"Is that all he wrote?"
"Yeah, so what do you think I should wear? What colour? And how does he know what the theme is, Dumbledore hasn't announced it yet!"
"Maybe he has a friend on the committee, or maybe he's on it!" Piper said, getting excited.
"I don't know, but word has gotten out so it wouldn't be hard for anyone to find what it is! Anyway, back to my main problem what am I going to wear?"
"We have a Hogsmead trip coming up; we can look for something then, sound good?" Piper suggested.
"Yeah, okay," Lily answered and went back to writing in her journal.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter or any other characters in the story except Emily Piper Johnson (so far).
AN: I hoping to get the rest of my chapters a little longer now that I have time to work on them and since ff.n isn't working at the moment then I'll be writing a few more chapters. Please enjoy and don't forget to r/r and please no flames unless it's constructive! Thanks bunches! (
Chapter 7
It's Planning Time!
By UltimateFairyQueen
*~*~*
The owls flew into the Great Hall during breakfast the next day and two letters fell in front of Lily, one from her secret writer and another from Professor Dumbledore.
'Dear Ms. Evans, I'm very happy to inform you that you have been selected to be part of the planning committee for the up coming Christmas Ball. The meetings begin November 10, a week from today, and you'll embark on a new adventure of development. Have fun, Ms. Evans and don't forget about next week. Sincerely Headmaster Dumbledore.'
"You've been chosen for the committee? That is so cool! I can't believe it! You're going to be on the committee and I get to give you suggestions! This is going to be so awesome!" Piper exclaimed.
"Well who knows, maybe you'll be picked and you won't have to tell me your brilliant ideas!" Lily thought.
"And maybe you'll go to the ball with me!" James whispered and smiled.
"Or maybe you'll leave me alone and stop talking to me!" Lily snapped.
"As you wish, milady!" James bowed and left.
"That guy is so. weird!" Lily shivered.
"But he's cute, that's all I look at! Well, you have another letter, who's it from?"
"I don't know, let's see. Yes, it's the mystery guy!" Lily answered and excitedly opened it. 'Lily, you have done more than you've needed too once again! Your questions are few of the ones that I expected though. In answer to one of them and only one of them: I am not younger than you and I hope that answer is good enough! And my offer still stands; will you go to the Christmas Ball with me?'
"He sounds very romantic!" Piper said dreamily.
"Romantic, how do you get romantic out of this?"
"Well, maybe 'romantic' isn't the word I was looking for! Oh, mysterious, that's it, mysterious!"
"Yeah, okay, I'll go with that! So what do I say to this guy?" Lily wanted to know.
"Well, what about saying yes and if you have second thoughts than tell him you've decided not to go at all. That way you can have some mystery in your life but it can stop when ever you want it too!" Piper suggested.
"That sounds good to me! All right I'll do that; I'll go to the ball with a guy I don't even know!" Lily smiled and then ran of to the Owlry to write this unidentified guy her answer.
*~*~*
'November 10' Lily's watch read and she jumped out of bed. Today was the day of her meeting and she didn't want to be late. She ran down the corridor and with her red hair and muggle sweat shirt flying behind her.
"We have four fifth years with us and we would like-," Professor Dumbledore stopped. "Welcome to the meeting, Ms Evans. Lily Evans happens to be the first fifth year on our list. And then we have Mr. James Potter, Ms. Emily Johnson-."
"Umm. Sorry, Professor, but I go by Piper!"
"Pardon me, Ms. Johnson, and the last one Mr. Severus Snape," Dumbledore finished.
Lily gasped and almost fainted before the headmaster added, "We have specific instructions to not put Mr. Snape and Ms. Evans together in a group for problems that are not to be mention in this room, thank you!"
Lily looked at him with relief and sighed searching the room and wondered if anyone was thinking differently of her by now but no one seemed to care or maybe it was that they understood what was going on and she sighed again. Dumbledore nodded reassuringly at Lily and then went back to his speech.
"Now that you have your assignments get into two groups and I want to have two fifth years in each group one boy and one girl." Lily looked at the Professor with disbelief again and he nodded with a smile of comfort and whispered, "I know you can do it!" then left the meeting.
"All right, everybody, one group will do refreshments and you'll need to come up with a few ideas for the decorations and then the other group needs to come up with a band to play for the ball and you'll also need a few ideas for the decorations. Does everyone understand?" the Head Boy asked, all the students nodded. "All right, let's get to work!"
Students in Lily and James' group started shooting off ideas for the theme but no one was heard. Kelsey Anderson, the Head Girl, sat back and watched the group arguing with a smile on her face.
"Aren't you going to do something, Kelsey?" James asked after a few minutes of ear shattering in puts from the older kids.
"Just wait, James, it'll be over in. one. second." Kelsey answered still smiling.
"Kelsey, we can't decide which decoration idea we should go with!" a sixth year explained the next moment.
"See, I told you!" Kelsey whispered to James and Lily then looked at the sixth year in front of her. "Well what are the choices that we have right now?"
"There's the idea to go with the not- so- original red and green, then there's also red and black, green and black and all of the houses colours combined into a 'beautiful rainbow of the Christmas spirit!'" Lauren Boyette, a sixth year answered.
"Well let's take a vote! Maybe we can find out who wants which idea then we'll present them it to the rest of the group. Sound like a plan?" the Head Girl asked.
Everyone nodded. "I have an idea." Lily said a little timidly. No one heard her.
"If you're going to put in a suggestion you need to talk louder!" James told her quietly.
"Umm, I have an idea!" she stated slightly louder this time.
"Hey, guys," James spoke up, "Lily has an idea! Go ahead."
"Thanks, okay well I have a few lay outs that all have to do with my idea!" Lily announced as she pulled out a few sketches of what the Great Hall would look like on the night of the ball if her design was put into action.
"Lily, these are amazing! When did you find time to do this?" Kelsey asked while she examined the papers in her hand.
"I draw in my free time, I just happened to have some this week before lights out one night so I drew these, I hope they're descriptive enough!"
"They're wonderful; I can't believe you did these by yourself!" Lauren said, awed.
"Well." Lily blushed. "It's nothing big, just something I do, that's all!"
"The colours, they're so vibrant and man, Lily you're amazing!" Tyler Kirk remarked.
"Thanks!" Lily answered.
"So what does everyone think of this? I no you're probably disappointed that we didn't use you're idea but I think this one will be much more productive," Kelsey confirmed. "Hey Marcus, we have an idea for the decorations!"
The Head Boy glanced up from what appeared to be a very intense argument and nodded to Kelsey. "We've gotten no where so far, go ahead and start on your ideas for refreshments and I'll get back to you!"
"Have fun!" Kelsey laughed and went back to her group. "Okay guys we have some more planning to do! Does anyone have any ideas for refreshments?"
Several hands went up, "All right! Lauren, you first."
"Well, I was thinking something like a whole feast and then just have little candies and things in bowls on the tables."
"Sounds good, James you had an idea?" he nodded.
"I was thinking something like an authentic Middle Evil feast, if you look at Lily's sketches then my idea will work. The drawings show what looks like a Middle Evil celebration so why not have a Renaissance meal?" James answered.
"Not bad, and I think you're right about the sketches, the only problem with that idea is that back then witches and wizards were persecuted it wouldn't really work out!" Kelsey said.
"But it would work! We could kinda' show what it was like back then not with the whole burning thing but the life style. We could have people dress in their attire and talk like they did, stuff like that!" James explained.
"I like it! Does anyone have any other ideas?" everyone had smiles on their faces and shook their heads; this was probably the easiest ball they ever had to plan for.
"Marcus, we're done over here, we even have an idea for how to dress! What do you have?" Kelsey called.
"Well, we've got nothing!!" Marcus remarked and glared at his team. "So."
"Oh, okay well thanks to Lily Evans and James Potter we have come up with the ultimate Christmas Ball decoration/ attire idea!" Kelsey explained and went on to give details on the plan.
*~*~*
"Lily, you were great in there!" Piper whispered excitedly as they left the meeting room.
"No, I wasn't!" Lily argued.
"Yes, you were it takes courage to stand up in front of a lot of people like that! You and James were brilliant!" Piper insisted. "I can't believe you came up with all that stuff in one night! Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know, I wanted to surprised you and everyone else, I guess! Do you really think that my sketches were good?" Lily asked.
"Top of the line! They were magnificent! I think even Snape liked them!" Piper informed.
"No way! He was impressed? Not possible!"
"It was possible for that one moment when you pulled out your sketches! It was hilarious when I saw his face drop into awe." Piper said laughing.
"Guess what!"
"I give up!"
"I got another letter from Mr. Mystery!" Lily stated excitedly.
"What's this one say?"
"'Lily, it's wonderful to hear that you'll go with me to the ball, I can't wait for your presence at my side! I'll write later this week on what we should wear.' That's it, that's all he wrote!" Lily said.
"Well maybe he'll write more later, like he said he would!" Piper suggested.
Lily shrugged, "Maybe."
*~*~*
"Ugh!" James stated as he plopped down on his bed.
"What's the problem, man?" Sirius asked.
"That Lily Evans is so." James began.
"She hasn't done anything to you today, has she?" Remus wondered.
"That's not was I was going to say."
"Then what exactly were you going to say?" the two boys asked at once.
"Lily Evans is so beautiful!" James finally said.
Remus and Sirius almost fell over. "What?" they inquired stunned.
"James, how did you come by that? Just this morning you said that you couldn't stand her! What's changed?" Remus asked.
"I don't know! But I've seen her in a new light. I guess!" James answered.
"Dude, you're completely screwed up, you realize that, right?" Sirius stated.
"Dumbledore told me to tell her how I feel, but I don't think I can do that, it's just weird, but my plan seems to be working!" James smiled to himself.
"Are you going to clue us in on this 'master plan' of yours? Or are you just going to sit there with that stupid smirk on your face?" Sirius wanted to know.
"All right, do you really want to hear me out?"
"Of course!" Remus remarked.
"Okay, well, I've been writing anonymous letters to Lily for about a week and half now and I asked her to the Christmas Ball. I planning on waiting out until the night of the ball to tell her it was me and I'm trying to get her to fall in love with me before she knows who it is!" James explained.
"Why would you want Lily Evans to fall in love with you? She's a complete witch!" Sirius said.
"Exactly! She's a witch!" James pronounced.
"James, you really have lost it!" Sirius proclaimed as James left the dormitory.
*~*~*
Lily sat on her bed with her drapes pulled shut and her journal in her lap. She stopped writing to think, 'I can't be in love with James, that's crazy, he's an idiot and a jerk and.' 'You love him!' another part of her stated. 'That's impossible it's James, the only time he's ever been nice to me was when we first met in Diagon Alley and then another time at the train station my first year, now he doesn't know what nice is when it comes to me.'
"Hey, Lily, you have another letter, it's unmarked too," Piper called and pulled back a curtain.
"'My Dearest Lily, I have decided what I shall be wearing at the Christmas Ball. Since the theme has been decided by the committee I am going to go in Renaissance attire. I'll give you specific details as soon as I know more. Good luck finding your dress, you will look great in anything you wear.'"
"Is that all he wrote?"
"Yeah, so what do you think I should wear? What colour? And how does he know what the theme is, Dumbledore hasn't announced it yet!"
"Maybe he has a friend on the committee, or maybe he's on it!" Piper said, getting excited.
"I don't know, but word has gotten out so it wouldn't be hard for anyone to find what it is! Anyway, back to my main problem what am I going to wear?"
"We have a Hogsmead trip coming up; we can look for something then, sound good?" Piper suggested.
"Yeah, okay," Lily answered and went back to writing in her journal.