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Lily and James- A Prophecy Fulfilled

Chapter 6

The Evans walked into the Potter residence, and it was soon obvious that they were the only ones there not related to Meredith and Anthony Potter in some way. She spotted James across the room at the buffet, pulling uncomfortably on his tie, while loading his plate. She made her way over to him after Meredith Potter to make herself at home and fill up on the buffet. She walked up to the buffet, grabbed a plate and said, "Hi James."
There was immediately the sound of cracking china as James dropped his plate when he saw Lily. Somebody who looked like James's uncle pulled out his wand and repaired the plate, darting an amused smile at James.
"Can they do that? I mean with my parents here?" Lily asked,
"He just did. Anyhow, your family is the only muggles here, and since they know you're a witch, it's okay to use magic in front of them."
"Okay, cool. Sorry to startle you."
"Oh, it's okay." James said, relieved she just didn't realize that he was shocked to see her looking so pretty in a dress. "Do you wanna sit with me at that table over there? That's were everybody under 18 is sitting."
"Yeah." and she grabbed her plate, filled only with a salad.

She sat down at the table, and she felt rather like a cardinal with a bunch of ravens. She sat at a large round table with about 13 people besides her and James. Every one of them had jet-black hair and sapphire eyes. When she sat down at the table one boy immediately said, "You're not a Potter."
"That obvious huh?" they all nodded and she said, "I'm Lily Evans, I live next door."
"Cool" another boy said, then continued with the questioning, "Where do you do to school?"
"Hogwarts, how about you?"
"Awesome. Most of us go to Beauxbatons." a boy about her age said.
"I go to Shingle's Girls Academy, also a witchcraft school." a girl, looking similar to Gina said.

"So why do only James and Gina go to Hogwarts" Lily asked
"They're the only ones who live in England." the same boy asked, and she found out his names was Frederic. Not Fred, Frederic.
"Hey, hello, I'm still here." James said, annoyed.
"Chill, James." Lily said, and continued her conversation with Frederic. As it turned out, Frederic knew about the muggle sport, tennis. One of James's cousins leaned over and whispered in his ear, "I hope you don't fancy Lily Evans too much, because she and Frederic seem pretty happy."
"Shut up Rick."
"Ooh, James is getting pretty riled up over his girlfriend" Rick teased.
"SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" James yelled, causing the entire room to look at him.

Lily looked up and could only guess what was causing James's discomfort, but she felt sorry for him and jumped in and said, "He's right, he's not going out with Saran Wrap anymore."
"Thanks a lot Lily." James said sarcastically as the entire table cracked up with laughter. Apparently James was the only Potter who didn't know about plastic wrap.
"You went out with plastic wrap! How pathetic!"
"Shut Up! Saran is a girl. A very dishonest girl, but a girl nonetheless." James said, "Please explain to them Lily."
"He's right, she is a girl at Hogwarts. She even has a brother named Reynolds Wrap. Remus, Sirius, and I have teased him a lot about Saran. In fact, I wrapped him in Saran Wrap covered with honey." Lily said proudly, and everybody stared with shock.
"You mean you were the one that wrapped me like that? I figured Sirius did. I mean, I know you wrapped Amelia and Gina. I had a hard time finding my way out of that mess."
"James, several points of information here. One, I only wrapped you, Amelia, and Shane Maddox. Two, Sirius wrapped Peter and Gina. Three, you couldn't find your way out of a brown paper bag."

This sent the entire table into hysterics. "Lily!" James shouted
"James!"
"You're infuriating, you know that."
"I try my best."
"That's obvious"
"Awwwww, a lover's quarrel" Gina said
"SHUT UP!" both Lily and James shouted.
"Watch your language Lily!" Mrs. Evans shouted at her daughter.
"Yes, Mama." Lily replied wearily, and started eating her salad she had ignored until now.
"Did you overlook the rest of the buffet?" Frederic asked, and Lily looked at everybody else. The all had either two plates, or plates filled to overflowing.
"Did I miss something? How can you guys eat all of that?"
"Potter family appetite." one cousin answered.
"Must be" Lily agreed, and finished her salad. The children were dismissed shortly to go play games or watch TV. Most people changed, so Lily ran home, dressed in a pair of jeans and a sweater, and then ran back.

When Lily got back there were several boxes brought out. They were all labeled TWISTER. She squealed, "Oooh, are we playing Twister? I love twister!"
"Yeah, there's fifteen of us, so we could have 3 games, with four people to a game, and each game has to have a spinner. Everybody get the mats spread out and get into four people groups." Frederic said. Everybody did get into the groups, and strangely, all the girls besides Lily bricked out, and decided to be the spinners. Lily was playing against James, and an eight year-old, Joseph. Since all the girls chickened out, there wasn't enough for a third group of four. She thought, "Boy, this is going to be a piece of cake to win, an eight year-old and James, no problem."
Lily soon realized why the girls had chickened out. Twister was like a second religion for male members of the Potter family, even 8 year-old ones. James and Joseph weren't about to give up. Soon, all the other games were over, Joseph was out, and James and Lily were still battling it out. Lily was in a precarious position, one foot on red, one on green, one hand on yellow, and another on blue. James on the other hand, was having great luck, and had both hands on red, and both feet on green. It was Lily's turn, and she had to stretch across the mat, but hit James's hand, causing him to fall, but she fell first, so she lost.
"Potter, you are just lucky."
"It's all skill Lily, all skill."
"And I'm Severus Snape."
"OUT OF MY HOUSE! I DON'T WANT SLIME LIKE YOU IN HERE!" James shouted
"Chill, I'm Lily again." sending the entire room into fits of laughter. Lily's parents came in to get her, and they had to go home. The next day, the Evans residence was pandemonium. Caterers and decorators were rushing all over the house. Finally, they left, leaving the ballroom decorated as a winter wonderland, a contrast to the mild weather of this year. The caterers had not planned on the entire Potter family, so the Evans family had to pick up the slack. The problem was, Lily was the only one who could cook anything besides grilled cheeses, and so she had to magic up some food with a spell found in an extra reading book she had got in Diagon Alley. Soon, it was only an hour until the neighborhood party began.
Soon, an owl came swooping in the kitchen, with a note for Lily.
Dear Miss Evans,
Please refrain from the use of magic outside of Hogwarts. You are an underage wizard. This is a first offense, so this is just a warning. You are an excellent pupil, and it would be a shame to have to expel you from Hogwarts if it happens again.
Merry Christmas,
The minister of magic
Oh great, Lily thought. She jogged over to the Potters. She had to take this matter into her own hands. She and Petunia was in charge of the activities for the neighbors age 11-17, who would have a separate party, in the indoor gym in the Evans's back yard.

Meredith Potter opened the door, and before she could say anything, "Mrs. Potter, we are having some difficulties at my house, and I was wondering if we could borrow a house-elf to finish up cooking dinner? Everybody else at my house is in charge of stuff, and we didn't have the caterers make enough food. Please?" Lily said in her most adult-friendly attitude.
"Oh, yes, dear, you certainly may. Here sit down and I'll go get you a few." Mrs. Potter came back with 5 house elves. Lily ran with them back to her house, hoping the neighbors wouldn't see, and gave them instructions. Lily now only had 50 minutes to get changed. She ran upstairs, showered in five minutes, dried her hair in 10, put on some lip-gloss and silver eye shadow, and then dawned her dress. This one was a one-shouldered chiffon dress with a asymmetrical hem ending at her knees. It was emerald green, with matching shoes, and the jewelry that matched it was an emerald bracelet and barrette that she pulled some of her hair back with. She thought she looked just pretty darn good for 30 minutes. She ran back downstairs to chaos.