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Lily and James- A Prophecy Fulfilled

Chapter 3

Sirius found James had already uncursed Remus, and when he walked in Remus asked sadly, "She said yes, didn't she?"

"No"

"Great!" and Remus was off and running to Lily.

"I wonder who she is waiting for?" Sirius asked James.

"Who knows."

"I don't know what I'll wear, providing Remus asks me." Lily said, "Orange looks terrible on me, and black? I don't know about that. I'll write my mum though, maybe she can find me something."

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK the Remus shouted, "Lily, will you PLEASE go to the ball with me?"

"Yes I will!" Lily shouted back, and then opened the door.

Remus stared, "You will?"

"Yes."

They smiled at each other and Remus said, "I'll go write our names in the book."

"Okay, see ya later." Lily said, and flashed him a dazzling smile, then backed into the room, shutting the door.

Remus thought this was perfect, he wouldn't even have to worry about the full moon, it would be the orange harves moon, so he wouldn't have to worry about it. Since it fell on Halloween for the first time in decades, it wouldn't faze him; he'd already checked that out.

Lily turned around and screamed, "YES!! HE ASKED ME!!!" and Remus heard this halfway down the stairs, and smiled.Lily said, "Can you believe it?"

"Yes, we can. You've had guys falling all over you ever since your makeover." Renee told her

"Thanks you guys, I owe you so much for that."

"No problem" Gina told her.

Remus wrote their names in the floating book in the center of the common room, theirs was the third entry. Then he walked back up to the dorm.

"Well, did you get turned down too Remus?" Sirius asked,

"Nope, she said yes." he said blissfully.

"WHAT?" Sirius and James shouted with identical expressions.

"She was waiting on you to ask her?" Sirius asked with disbelief.

"She turned us down for you?" James continued.

"Hey, watch it." Remus said with mock hurt.

"Sorry, but I can't believe it." James said.

"Well believe it. Lily Evans is going with ME to the ball." "So, who are you guys going to ask now?" Remus asked.

"Well, maybe I could ask Gina." Sirius said

"NO! Absolutely not! I won't allow it!" James shouted at Sirius.

"Relax, James, how about Adriana. She's in Lily's dorm, and she seems nice, I guess."

"And I think I'll ask that Genevieve Riggs, from Ravenclaw. How about you Peter?" James said

"I wanna ask Patricia Patterson." he said.

The next morning at breakfast Lily and Remus sat next to each other, earning the evil eye from James and Sirius, though they weren't really mad. Sirius asked Adriana, and they agreed to go to the dance together. James couldn't bring himself to ask the pretty, popular Ravenclaw girl (sound familiar) and decided to put it off for a while. They had fun classes that day, and it turned out, they were all succeeding in them. That night quidditch practice was fun too, but the conditioning wasn't.

They were just about ready to start the conditioning, which consisted of running the entire distance around the Hogwarts land, then a partner run, when Amelia came running out from the castle over to James.

"James" she panted, "I'm so glad I found you. I wanted to ask you to the ball."

"Uh, NO. I would rather go with my sister than go with you." he said flatly.

"Fine, Potter. But you will be sorry for messing with me. My father is second in command for the owner of Mentinen."

"Haven't you learned your lesson yet?" Lily asked in an exasperated voice. "My father is the owner of the company, so I don't think you should mess with one of my father's friends children."

Shane Maddox shouted, "Okay, run all the way around Hogwarts property, you will see fluorescent flags that mark the boundary." then he took off, and everybody followed him. At first everybody thought 'how hard could this be?' and were joking around, all of the boys on the team, with the exception of Shane started jinxing each other, but they didn't mess with Caitlin, she was too tough for them. Lily however was free game, so often got caught in jinxes, but she just turned angry eyes to whoever did it and haughtily demanded the counter curse, and they obeyed. They were about halfway around the castle grounds when they started panting, and when they finally made it back to the starting point everybody collapsed, excluding Lily and Shane, who was in better shape than everybody else, but they were breathing hard.

"Okay everybody, ten minutes then the partner run, I'll explain that in a minute." Shane shouted, and everybody groaned.

"Okay" Shane shouted five minutes later, "I'll let you choose your partner today, but if it gets to be a problem we'll have to draw. What we're going to do is a muggle-military drill (is it really?). What you do is carry your partner piggyback at a run, or as fast as you can for 25 yards. We'll progress to longer distances as the season goes along. Then we'll switch, so that each partner has to be the runner once. Okay, on three pick your partner. One.... two.... three!"

"LILY!" Every person on the team shouted and ran over to grab her.

Lily looked at all the people who wanted to be her partner. One of the boys HAD to weigh 250.

"How dumb do you think I am? Caitlin, will you be my partner?"

"Sure" and everybody groaned. James eyed Sirius and Remus, "Remus, will you be my partner?"

"Yeah, I guess."

Sirius went and asked Shane to be his partner, and then there was only one person left, and Shane announced, "Since there are an odd number of players, the odd person will have an invisible weight spell placed on them."

Matthew Moratsin-the 250-was the one without a partner. James, Sirius, and Caitlin would run first. Lily and Caitlin thought she should go first because Lily would probably be too tired to hang on after she ran, because Caitlin was about 30 pounds heavier than Lily's own 98. Just before they started running, Remus grinned at Lily and said, "This should be fun". They were running, and as it turned out, Sirius came in third out of three places. Then it was Lily's turn to run, and Caitlin kept sliding off. She finally made it past the finish line, coming in the same time as Remus.

"Jesus James! You need a diet!" Remus exclaimed, dumping James unceremoniously on the ground.

"Hey!" he said, when he landed roughly, "You're no lightweight either Lupin!"

Lily meanwhile was lying on the ground, half-dead.

"Shane" she wheezed, "could we only do this maybe once a week?"

"I can see this could be a problem for you Lily. I'll see if I can find a solution for it."

The next morning Lily couldn't get out of bed. Gina, Renee, and Adriana all tried to help her up, but she moaned, and fell back to the mattress, then she finally explained, "We did the partner run last night, and I think Caitlin broke my back."

"Oh, I'll get a teacher" Renee said, and ran out of the room

Professor McGonagall came back looking very worried. "Miss Evans, can you get up?"

"No, it hurts too bad."

"Okay, I'm going to levitate you to the hospital wing."

"Wait! Let me brush my teeth first!" Lily said, she was obsessed with dental

hygiene. Renee brought her toothbrush, and she quickly brushed her teeth in bed. Then she was levitated through the common room, to her chagrin, still in her ducky pajamas. Actually they were kind of cute for her girlie side, but not for Lily's tough girl appearance. The students in the common room stared at her.

"What happened?" Remus asked.

"Quidditch practice." Lily said shortly, and all of the quidditch team knew exactly what was wrong.

When she got up to the hospital wing, the very old nurse said, "My dear, what is wrong?"

"My back" and she was flipped painfully over so she was lying on her stomach.

"What happened, it appears to be badly strained. It almost seems as if a hippopotamus jumped on you."

"Well, in quidditch practice we had to do the partner run. I got the lightest person on the team, besides me, and I think she probably weighed thirty pounds more than me."

"That could definitely do it. You are such a dainty child, much like my great great granddaughter. I'll perform a spell, and it should reduce the pain, and help it heal quicker. But no more of this partner running, and avoid any back strain, like standing for more than 10 minutes."

Lily was magiced some clothes, then she went down to the great hall for the remaining 20 minutes of breakfast.

"How's your back?" James asked when she got sit down.

"Not, too great, but better than before. Guess what, I have a note that excuses me from the partner run."

"Lucky" the three other members near her exclaimed. As it turned out, the partner run wasn't ever used again.

That evening, at dinner, a large, flat box was dropped at Lily's feet by several owls. She peeked inside, and there was her outfit for the Halloween ball, 3 weeks away.

Very soon those three weeks passed, and it was Halloween. The girls were about ready to go up, when James came running over to Gina and pulled her over to the side. "Gina, do you have a date?"

"No. Why?"

"I don't either, I waited too long to ask this one girl, and I kind of forgot about asking anyone else to the ball. I've checked the entire school, EVERYBODY except for me and you have got a date. We will be humiliated. There isn't a student in this school going stag."

"What are you trying to say?"

"Gina, will you go to the dance with me?"

"WHAT?"

"Please, everybody know your my sister."

"That's what I'm afraid of. INCEST!"

"Shut up Gina, come on, you'll be the only girl without a date."

"Fine, James. But I'm not going to dance with you."

"Deal." Then all the girls went to get dressed.

Lily was twisting her hair into little twists, secured into a bun with onyx and pearl studded bobby pins when they asked, "what are you wearing?"

"A dress my mum sent me, but its a surprise, you'll have to wait till I put it on." and Lily continued fixing her hair, leaving a few curls trailing down her back, then some in front. Her mother had sent her a Neiman-Marcus exclusive dress, tailored to her measurements. It was a black silk column dress, with a back that laced up. With is she wore a string of pearls and black heels. She looked stunning she could tell by the wide-eyed expressions of her roommates.