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Lily and James- A Prophecy Fulfilled
Chapter 5
She kept having nightmares about a huge black dog, a rat, a deer, and a werewolf. A werewolf was going to attack a boy. The deer made the werewolf back off. Then her dreams flashed to her and James. It looked like a wedding. She was sitting at a table, and all of a sudden Remus knocked some wine over and stood up. When he did the tablecloth went sliding, and dumped the cake on Lily, and she woke up laughing. It was four o'clock, so she decided to go ahead and go downstairs to wait for Remus after she dressed.
Lily sat reading Hogwarts: A History for three hours until dawn. She was on the final chapter when the boys came down, looking surprised to see her there. She went up to Remus and said, "I just needed a little time to adapt." and she kissed him on the cheek.
"Y-you mean you still wanna go out with me?" Remus asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, you weren't trying to scare me off were you?" she asked teasingly
"Nope. Are you ready for breakfast?" Remus asked and they all headed down to be the first ones at breakfast. If Lily would have turned around she would have seen a peculiar statement on James's face akin to enlightenment.
It was a Saturday, so they didn't have classes. James disappeared somewhere, and Remus, Lily, and Sirius were playing exploding snap. James came bounding through the portrait hole and said, "Guess what? I'm going out with Saran Wrap! From Hufflepuff."
Lily and Sirius started laughing at her name, because they were familiar with the muggle world.
"You're going out with plastic wrap!" They both shouted simultaneously, looked at each other, then started laughing at each other.
"No. I'm going out with Saran Wrap. She has a brother named Reynolds. Nobody names Plastic though, to my knowledge." James said seriously.
James went to get a wizard chess set to play with Sirius, and once he left, Lily immediately started plotting.
"Hey, guys, do you wanna pull a really great prank on James?"
"YEAH!" they said jubilantly
"Okay, I'm going to write to my parents, and they should send me some stuff, and once I get it we will plan our prank out all the way." Lily said, and then raced to the owlery. Surprisingly, her package came back that night. It was 300 rolls of Saran Wrap and 10 cases of crazy glue, just in case.
It wasn't very late, so Lily ran downstairs to get Remus and Sirius. She pulled them over to the side and said, "Okay, here's the plan. My parents sent me boxes of Saran Wrap at my request-"
"How could they send you Hufflepuff girls in a box?" Remus questioned,
"No, the Saran Wrap we're talking about is a plastic film used to cover dishes and stuff. Okay, what we're going to do is sneak down to the kitchens and get honey and lard. We spread this stuff on the Saran Wrap and wrap James in it, and anybody else you want to while we're at it. We should also put this stuff around all of his stuff, like his clothes and books, only without the honey and stuff. Got it?"
"Yeah, this is a great idea Lily." Sirius grinned, and Remus was barely containing laughs.
"My parents also sent me Crazy Glue for some reason. We could use that if you have any ideas."
"Duh, glue them to their beds." Remus said.
"Okay.. You guys go get the honey and lard. I'm guessing you know how to sneak down to the kitchens?"
"Oh, yes."
"Okay, great. I'll look up the spell to make people sleep deeply real quick, and we'll be ready to roll." Lily said with a devilish glint in her eyes. Amelia was tops on her hit list.
When everyone was asleep Lily met Sirius and Remus in the common room, levitating a sack of Saran Wrap rolls in front of her.
"Are you guys ready?"
"Yeah!"
"Let's get James first. We might as well get Peter and Anthony while we're up there."
"Okay, should each of us have a person, or everybody work together?" Remus asked,
"Good thinking, each of us should have our own person. I'll take James." Lily said.
"I got Peter" Sirius said,
"So I'll take Anthony." Remus concluded,
"That's right. The spell is Rentingut Sleperus." Lily told them, and they quietly walked up the stairs and let themselves into the boys' dormitory.
"Retingut Sleperus!" all three said at the same time, pointing their wands at their victims, immediately putting them into a deep sleep. Lily opened her first box of Saran Wrap and spread honey on the entire length. She then levitated James and wrapped him mummy-style in the Saran Wrap. Remus and Sirius were doing similar things. Lily was trying really hard not to burst into laughter at the sight of James drooling. Then she spread a bottle of Crazy Glue on James's bed and put him on it. Then she spread lard on more rolls and completely encased his four-poster bed. Sirius had done something similar to Peter, only with honey, and Remus was Crazy gluing Anthony's bed curtains closed. They got done and they did the same thing to Shane Maddox and Matthew Moratsin. Next they went into Lily's dorm. Lily wrapped Amelia in honey and her bed in lard. She couldn't resist Crazy-gluing Amelia's slippers to the floor. Sirius also got a crafty gleam in his eyes and wrapped Gina in lard, but spared the bed trappings. The funniest part about all of this was that a simple spell 'pranktin renturnus' would reverse all of these effects. They just had to figure this out. For Shane and Matthew they had left a note, just in case so they wouldn't be too steamed. They didn't give James, Peter, Amelia, or Gina this luxury.
The next morning, a comical sight was acted out in the first year dorms. The expressions of the honeyed and larded victims were priceless. When Lily got downstairs she high-fived Sirius and Remus and said, "Some things are priceless, but for everything else, there's MasterCard. Well, that truly was priceless, but I'm sure we could've bought the Saran Wrap and glue with MasterCard."
"So I guess I just met the infamous muggle Saran Wrap huh?" James said.
"Yep!" All three chorused.
A week later, during History of Magic with Ravenclaw Remus saw Lily stare longingly at Taylor Webster. This went on for several days, but Lily always pretended like nothing was wrong to Remus. Then he KNEW. He knew why she didn't break up with him. Pity. He hated it. Finally one night in the common room he went to talk to her.
"Lily, I know you don't really want to go out with me anymore, and I don't want your pity." Remus said bitterly.
"Remus, I don't pity you. I just didn't know how to end it. I realized it before you told me you were a werewolf, and I was going to tell you, but then you told me about that. I couldn't break up with you then, because I thought you would think it was because of you being a werewolf."
"Thanks for considering my feelings Lily. It's more than most would do. But you deserve to be happy."
"Thanks Remus. Friends?"
"Friends."
Very soon it was all over school that they had broken up, and within the week, Taylor Webster asked Lily out, and of course she accepted. He still wasn't quite the type she was looking for, but he was definitely a long way from Remus. He had short blond her and golden good looks. Actually, he reminded Lily of a Viking. Taylor was actually a fun person to be around and she was getting to really like him.
James meanwhile was still going out with Saran, but he seemed to have difficulty putting up with her incessant whining, flirting, and just plain stupidity. If she wasn't so pretty, he would have broken up with her long ago. He was discovering he didn't care much for Taylor Webster, and it was a growing dislike the more time he spent around Lily. To banish these feelings he spent more time with Saran, but that was succeeding in driving him crazy.
Lily walked into a classroom on the Thursday before Christmas break and saw Taylor talking loudly to a huge group.
"Lily Evans is a real dummy. She thinks I actually like her. Ha! She needs to lose some of that baby fat first. Maybe get rid of those freckles. I know there's not many, but she should have clearer skin. And that hair! How hideous. Nope, it's the straw blonde stick thin girls that I like Saran. You are gorgeous. You make her look like a trash can lid. I was just hoping you would come to me after you saw me with her. I was just trying to make you jealous, Saran." Taylor declared. Lily drew out her wand and used a curse James had made up, "Snottium floo!" and Taylor's nose started producing huge amounts of snot. She turned and saw James had heard everything she had. They both silently went back to the quidditch common room.
Lily was rather depressed about the whole Taylor Webster affair, and James was mad. This wasn't too flattering for him either. Lily was relieved when Saturday came, and she could ride the Hogwarts train home for Christmas break. She and James and Gina were the only ones going home out of their group. James and Gina didn't really want to, but their parents insisted since he was a first year. When train finally got to the platform 9 3/4 station Lily was very ready to be home. She really wanted her mother. When she stepped off the train her parents didn't recognize her at first. She walked up to them and said, "Mama! Papa! I missed you!"
They stared down at her for a moment then said, "Lily, honey, we didn't recognize you, you've changed so much."
"You've finally done something with your hair. And lip-gloss. You look spectacular." Her mother declared.
"Lily, you look wonderful" Meredith Potter declared.
"Err, thank you."
"The Potters let us go with them to pick up James and Gina, so we only had to take one car." her mother explained as they all piled in one car.
"How did they do this?" Lily asked once she got settled between James and the window.
"Magic. How else?" he said, looking at the four adults sitting in the front seat with apparent ease.
Gina read most of the way home, while James and Lily were thinking up things to repay Saran and Taylor.
"I've still got the plastic wrap and crazy glue left over." Lily said
"Lily, dear, what did you use all of that Saran Wrap for?" Lily's mom asked, and Lily looked like she was going to faint.
"Umm, I uh, was umm, using it for, a umm, uh, experiment. I was testing it on umm-"
"She was seeing how much it takes to bind a person completely." James said sweetly.
"WHAT?"
"Chill. I was just wrapping some of my friends in it. It was a joke." Lily jumped in.
"You haven't been getting into trouble at this school have you?" Lily's mom asked sternly.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT! I am doing very well in all of my classes, and I've only had detention once. And it wasn't my fault. It was James's." She said,
"Oh, it was not."
"Was too"
"Was not"
"Was too"
"Stop it!" Gina said, "It was Lily's boyfriend's fault."
"LILY! DO YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND?" her dad bellowed in outrage.
"Uh, not anymore." she said in a tiny voice.
"GOOD. I don't suggest you get another one unless you want ME to meet him." He continued, and Lily scooted way down in the seat, and covered her face.
Lily got home, and she felt safe in her old room. She had been up there a few hours when her mother came upstairs.
"Lily, honey, tell me what's bothering you."
"Nothing's wrong mama."
"I can tell something's wrong."
"Well, I did have a boyfriend at school. Actually my first one was really nice, and he is still my friend. He was that boy with brown hair and eyes that was at James and Gina's birthday party.. Then we broke up and this other boy asked me out. I thought he was really nice mama, but he wasn't. We went out for a couple of weeks, then I heard him talking to a bunch of friends, saying he was just trying to make this other girl jealous. He said I needed to lose weight, and get rid of my freckles." by now Lily was crying, and Mrs. Evans wanted to give this boy a good beating.
"Lily, don't cry over him. He's not worth it. You're eleven years old. You've got a long time to find THE ONE. He's obviously not it. You're perfect the way you are, but if you still want to change your looks, I'll help you this summer, but don't do anything drastic."
"Mom, thanks, how did you know Papa was the one for you?" Lily said tearily
"Well, you can tell if the person you like is the one-" Mrs. Evans started, but was interrupted by Lily.
"Wait, just a second" and she dashed over to her trunk, and got out a quill that was supposed to take notes on its own. "Okay, continue."
"Every night, when you close your eyes, is he the last thing you see. Do you smile just to see him smile back at you? Do you feel like you can't breathe unless he's with you? That's how I feel about your father. That's how I knew he was the only man for me."
"Thanks mama. I love you."
"I love you too, sweetheart. The Potters are having a Christmas party if you want to go with us."
"Yeah, I guess."
"Good, it looks like you and James are friends now?"
"Yeah, we are."
"Good, you need friends Lily. They make life work living."
"We bought you dresses and jewelry as sort of a early Christmas present. It's in our room. Also, tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, we will be hosting the neighborhood Christmas party, then the Potters invited us over for Christmas dinner the next day."
"Great, so we'll practically be living with them for the next two days."
"Basically."
"Great, anyhow, I'll get dressed."
Lily chose a gold dress. It was glittery and it had a double cowl neckline in front and back. It was rather slinky too, so she wasn't looking forward to her father's opinion. She could tell her mother picked it out. Since it had a rather high neckline, a necklace wasn't possible, but she wore pearl stud earrings. She pulled her hair up again, leaving a few curls dangling.
She walked down the stairs to her waiting parents the same time as Petunia. Lily's parents exclaimed, "Lily, you look beautiful. You look nice too Petunia." but it was a gross flattering of Petunia. She had chosen the tackiest dress possible, and she had picked it out herself. He had mousy brown hair, and she wore short sequined red dress, giving her a rather unflattering appearance. Mrs. Evans looked like she was going to die of shock, but kept her mouth shut, and walked to the Potters.