Until Death Do Us Part
Harry Potter theme and related characters are property of J.K. Rowling. Plot idea is accredited to the original author, J.K.Rowling. Plot angle and revisions idea of Melissa Pomeroy. Character Verissa Station (name borrowed with permission from an aquaintence) property of Meisako Pyoko-Chan (Melissa Pomeroy), 2002. Any and all reviews appriaciated.~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~
chapter SEVEN: No More MIss Nice-Girl
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Welcome to my version of 'life before Harry'. This is the story of James, Lily, and the gang in their seventh year of Hogwarts to the begining of the Harry Potter series as we know it... Please read my rendition of Harry's fifth year, Harry Potter and the Fallen Angel at Hogwarts (complete), and his sixth year, Harry Potter and the Children's Crusades (work in progress).
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Apparently, I've been informed that Lily Evans is too nice. Well. Not any more...
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Hogsmeade Weekend.
Halloween.
Finally. An antidote.
It had taken them the entire week to find and concoct the potion, but Lily and Verissa had done it. They had successfully produced a thick yellow solution which would reverse the effects of a Hate Potion.
"But... what will happen if they drink this stuff and they weren't under the influence of a Hate Potion?" As Verissa highly suspected.
"I don't know. The book didn't say."
"Shouldn't we ask Professor Argetch?"
"And let him know we had to sneak into his storeroom to get three of the ingredients? Highly expensive ingredients, mind you?" Lily poured the potion into a vile and stuck it in her rucksack. "Alright. We'll get the guys into the Three Broomsticks... I'll order a round of butterbeer and slip some of our potion into their drinks."
Verissa was biting her lip slightly. "Okay, okay. Where are they meeting us?"
"Front entrance."
James smiled as Lily and Verissa approached. From the way Remus and Sirius turned their backs to her, Lily assumed they were still upset.
"Ready?" James took her hand.
"Yeah. What do you say I buy everyone a round of butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks?" Lily looked at the others hopefully.
A small smile was begining on Sirius's face. "Alright, I'm game!"
"Yeah, that'd be nice, wouldn't it, Remus?" Peter elbowed Remus violently in the gut.
"Sure."
They walked down the sloping hill from Hogwarts grounds to the road below which would take them to the village of Hogsmeade. The air was a bit nippy, but no one complained. In fact, no one spoke at all. The tension was unbearablely thick about them. Lily would have said something to James but she was running her plan over and over in her head. Get the butterbeers and pour the antipdote in Sirius' and Remus' drinks. Lily's stomach was churning inside her. Maybe this wasn't a good idea after all...
"Lily? Did you want to go to the Three Broomsticks or get some shopping in first?" said James.
Lily looked at Remus's face. He still couldn't seem to look her in the eye. "The butterbeer first, is that alright with everyone?" They nodded in agreement.
When they had all taken a seat around a table, which Verissa had made sure was out of view of the bar, Lily went up and ordered six tall, foaming glasses of warm butterbeer. After looking about to see that no one was watching her, Lily uncorked her vile and poured a few drops into two of the glasses.
"Oh! Pardon me!" Lily turned around and apologized to the elderly witch who had tripped over her rucksack. "I'm so sorry! Are you alright?"
"Yes, dear. I'm fine, thank you." The witch smiled and continued out the door.
Lily kicked the bag under the counter so it would be out of the way for a moment and made to put the glasses on a tray. She stopped. Which were the two with the antidote? "Crap..." she muttered under her breath. Silently praying that there were no strange side effects for drinking the antidote when not neccessary, she emptied the contents of the vile a little into each of the butterbeer.
The antidote was tucked away safely in her rucksack, which was slung over one shoulder, and six tall glasses of butterbeer (a slightly orange color, now) collected on a tray was in her hands. "Butterbeer, all around!" Lily set the tray down and they all grabbed a glass. Verissa looked at hers oddly and glanced at Lily.
With a strained expression, Lily silently explained, in a way which hopefully, no one else saw her, that each drink contained the potion. Verissa turned up her nose slitghly and pushed her drink away from her.
"Something wrong, Rissa?" Remus placed his hand on hers.
"No. I just had breakfast, that's all. D'you think I can get my butterbeer to go?"
"I don't see why not," he paused and took a sip of his own. "Hmm." He peered into his glass. "Does this taste funny to anyone else?"
James, Peter, and Sirius all brought their drinks to their lips and took a gulp.
"A bit..." James was frowning.
Peter was sputtering into his napkin while Sirius continued to chug.
They all looked at him with perplexed expressions. "Ahh!" he said at last. "Really warms you up!"
Peter looked like he could gag. "How can you..."
Sirius shrugged. "Remember that time I tried to hex Snape and I missed? You know, the time it bounced off the mirror and hit me in the face?" Lily had no clue what he was talking about, but the guys all nodded. "Well, Madam Pomfrey says it will be a while before my tatses buds work properly..." Sirius's eyes got wide and he clentched his stomach. "Oooh!"
James, Remus, and Peter were having similar reactions.
"My stomach!"
"I'm going to be sick!"
"Someone get me a bucket!"
Verissa was rubbing Remus's back and trying to comfort him. "Remus? Do you need a doct-" She screamed and clapped her hands over her mouth. "Remus! You've grown a tail!"
People in the pub began to turn around to watch the commotion. Remus looked behind him and gave a strangled yelp, starring at his rear-end, where a large, fluffy grey canine-tail had burst through the seam of his robes.
James, Sirius, and Peter were reacting in the same way with their newly grown tails. Those in the Three Broomsticks watching were now having fits of laughter. Thouroughly upset, Remus grabbed his bag and rushed out of the pub.
"Remus!" Verissa tossed Lily a nasty look as she gathered up her purse and followed after him.
Lily was horrified. This wasn't supposed to happen. They were supposed to stop being mean... Not sprout tails! James and Peter pulled their cloaks over their behinds and hurried outside where Remus and Verissa were.
Sirius, however, was having a different reaction. He was admiring his bushy black dog tail with great joy. "Will you look at that!" A sly grin spread across his face. "Suits me, don't you think, Lily?"
Lily stood from the table and accidently knocked her stool over. "I'm sorry, Sirius!" she whispered hoarsly and ran outside, completely passing the others. She didn't stop running until she was at the Shreiking Shack and she only stopped there because she was entirely out of breath. She had wanted to keep running. Had wanted to run to the end of the road and up the mountain side, but she now needed to massage a stitch out of her side.
Panting, James approached at a run. "Lily..." he huffed, "why... did you... run off... like that? If anything, I'd think... I'd be the one...running." He raised an eyebrow and wagged his light brown tail.
Lily turned her head. "I'm sorry."
"What? You mean... You mean you did this?" He indicated to his tail.
She nodded.
"Why? Of all the ignorant things to do!"
"Well excuse me!" Lily's face had gone red with fury. "I thought you guys had been influenced by a Hate Potion so I tried to reverse to effec-"
"What would make you think a stupid thing like that? That Remus and Sirius were upset with you?" yelled James. Lily couldn't believe it. James was yelling at her.
"Yes, that's why! They've never been mean to me like this before and I couldn't see why they would start now! It was a simple, honest mistake-"
"They were upset because you said things to them that upset them. We've all been trying to ignore your little comments, but it just went too far!" he yelled. His face had gone all blotchy with red and purple. It was a scarey sight.
"And why? Because I didn't know any better, right? Because I didn't know?!" Her lip trembled violently and she felt a rage boiling inside her. Peter, Verissa, Remus, and eventually Sirius had now appeared on the top of the hill. "Well, why doesn't someone just tell me? Huh! Just tell me already what it is that I've been missing out on!" She was screaming at him, pure anger billowing up in her gut.
"You're obviously not trustworthy enough to tell. You just nearly poisoned me and my three best friends!"
Of all the things in the world to say, Lily could think of nothing. Instead, she glared at James and shoved past him. When she walked by the others (Sirius was currently trying to chase his tail), they stared after her like she was some sort of strange new creature they had never before seen.
"Lily," Peter started to say.
"Just leave me alone!" Lily screamed in all her rage. Her voice was now hoarse and tears had escaped her eyes. She raced off down the hill and back up the next until she reached Hogwarts castle. Once inside, Lily stormed down the corridor.
"Miss Evans? What's the matter?" Lily just ran past Professor McGonagall and into an empty classroom.
She panted and heaved with gasps as she slouched to the floor. Everything was going wrong. Her life was ruined. It was all their fault. If they had just told her their 'big secret' in the first place, none of this would have ever happened and she would be having the time of her life with her boyfriend and best buds. No. It was all over. They were all sure to hate her now. Even Verissa. Yes. Deffinately Verissa, too. Verissa knew the Hate Potion wasn't going to work on them. She had tried to tell that to Lily, but she was too stubborn to pay any heed to the warnings of true freinds. Now Lily was all alone.
She heaved a heavy sob and craddled her head. Her clentched eyes were giving her a headache. Lily was a horrible girlfriend. Horrible, awful, girlfriend! Lily was the worst person in the world!
Eyes thick with tears, Lily wiped her face on her sleeve. She shouldn't be so hard on herself, she rationalized, after all, she was only trying to help. She had thought she was in the right. It was James' fault. And Sirius', Remus', and Peter's. They were the ones to blame. They were the ones who would pay for her misery. Lily bit her lip and blinked away fresh tears.
"I am not going to cry any more. Not because of James," she said blantletly, "But that's not to say he wont cry because of me." Lily instantly began to formulate a plan of action in her mind.
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Yiipe! Lily's pyschotic!
Mr.P: No, actually, I didn't think she was too nice... I did, however, think she was turning a into a slight Mary-Sue... *shudder* Nice little bit of revenge... but I have no clue as to what she's going to do. I don't plan revenge... I plan wars.
Amy: :) That's what my sister said!
the Angelic Andria: You didn't review, but you read them, right? ^_^ LOL. I had a sudden burst of inspiration! So here I am... continuing....
otak-nut44: Getting good? LOL. I thought it was getting corny! I mean, Hate Potion? Really? LOL. Glad someone likes it! I'm not really sure what fluff is... so I don't know how to avoid it! hehehee
heehee: If you've read the third book, you should know what the boys are hiding. If you haven't read Prisoner of Azkaban... this will be a spoiler. ^_^ Don't want to ruin PoA if you haven't read it!
Peppermint: Thank you!
Please email me! Slytherin_Angel@MostlySunny.com
Harry Potter theme and related characters are property of J.K. Rowling. Plot idea is accredited to the original author, J.K.Rowling. Plot angle and revisions idea of Melissa Pomeroy. Character Verissa Station (name borrowed with permission from an aquaintence) property of Meisako Pyoko-Chan (Melissa Pomeroy), 2002. Any and all reviews appriaciated.
chapter SEVEN: No More MIss Nice-Girl
Welcome to my version of 'life before Harry'. This is the story of James, Lily, and the gang in their seventh year of Hogwarts to the begining of the Harry Potter series as we know it... Please read my rendition of Harry's fifth year, Harry Potter and the Fallen Angel at Hogwarts (complete), and his sixth year, Harry Potter and the Children's Crusades (work in progress).
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Apparently, I've been informed that Lily Evans is too nice. Well. Not any more...
****
Halloween.
Finally. An antidote.
It had taken them the entire week to find and concoct the potion, but Lily and Verissa had done it. They had successfully produced a thick yellow solution which would reverse the effects of a Hate Potion.
"But... what will happen if they drink this stuff and they weren't under the influence of a Hate Potion?" As Verissa highly suspected.
"I don't know. The book didn't say."
"Shouldn't we ask Professor Argetch?"
"And let him know we had to sneak into his storeroom to get three of the ingredients? Highly expensive ingredients, mind you?" Lily poured the potion into a vile and stuck it in her rucksack. "Alright. We'll get the guys into the Three Broomsticks... I'll order a round of butterbeer and slip some of our potion into their drinks."
Verissa was biting her lip slightly. "Okay, okay. Where are they meeting us?"
"Front entrance."
James smiled as Lily and Verissa approached. From the way Remus and Sirius turned their backs to her, Lily assumed they were still upset.
"Ready?" James took her hand.
"Yeah. What do you say I buy everyone a round of butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks?" Lily looked at the others hopefully.
A small smile was begining on Sirius's face. "Alright, I'm game!"
"Yeah, that'd be nice, wouldn't it, Remus?" Peter elbowed Remus violently in the gut.
"Sure."
They walked down the sloping hill from Hogwarts grounds to the road below which would take them to the village of Hogsmeade. The air was a bit nippy, but no one complained. In fact, no one spoke at all. The tension was unbearablely thick about them. Lily would have said something to James but she was running her plan over and over in her head. Get the butterbeers and pour the antipdote in Sirius' and Remus' drinks. Lily's stomach was churning inside her. Maybe this wasn't a good idea after all...
"Lily? Did you want to go to the Three Broomsticks or get some shopping in first?" said James.
Lily looked at Remus's face. He still couldn't seem to look her in the eye. "The butterbeer first, is that alright with everyone?" They nodded in agreement.
When they had all taken a seat around a table, which Verissa had made sure was out of view of the bar, Lily went up and ordered six tall, foaming glasses of warm butterbeer. After looking about to see that no one was watching her, Lily uncorked her vile and poured a few drops into two of the glasses.
"Oh! Pardon me!" Lily turned around and apologized to the elderly witch who had tripped over her rucksack. "I'm so sorry! Are you alright?"
"Yes, dear. I'm fine, thank you." The witch smiled and continued out the door.
Lily kicked the bag under the counter so it would be out of the way for a moment and made to put the glasses on a tray. She stopped. Which were the two with the antidote? "Crap..." she muttered under her breath. Silently praying that there were no strange side effects for drinking the antidote when not neccessary, she emptied the contents of the vile a little into each of the butterbeer.
The antidote was tucked away safely in her rucksack, which was slung over one shoulder, and six tall glasses of butterbeer (a slightly orange color, now) collected on a tray was in her hands. "Butterbeer, all around!" Lily set the tray down and they all grabbed a glass. Verissa looked at hers oddly and glanced at Lily.
With a strained expression, Lily silently explained, in a way which hopefully, no one else saw her, that each drink contained the potion. Verissa turned up her nose slitghly and pushed her drink away from her.
"Something wrong, Rissa?" Remus placed his hand on hers.
"No. I just had breakfast, that's all. D'you think I can get my butterbeer to go?"
"I don't see why not," he paused and took a sip of his own. "Hmm." He peered into his glass. "Does this taste funny to anyone else?"
James, Peter, and Sirius all brought their drinks to their lips and took a gulp.
"A bit..." James was frowning.
Peter was sputtering into his napkin while Sirius continued to chug.
They all looked at him with perplexed expressions. "Ahh!" he said at last. "Really warms you up!"
Peter looked like he could gag. "How can you..."
Sirius shrugged. "Remember that time I tried to hex Snape and I missed? You know, the time it bounced off the mirror and hit me in the face?" Lily had no clue what he was talking about, but the guys all nodded. "Well, Madam Pomfrey says it will be a while before my tatses buds work properly..." Sirius's eyes got wide and he clentched his stomach. "Oooh!"
James, Remus, and Peter were having similar reactions.
"My stomach!"
"I'm going to be sick!"
"Someone get me a bucket!"
Verissa was rubbing Remus's back and trying to comfort him. "Remus? Do you need a doct-" She screamed and clapped her hands over her mouth. "Remus! You've grown a tail!"
People in the pub began to turn around to watch the commotion. Remus looked behind him and gave a strangled yelp, starring at his rear-end, where a large, fluffy grey canine-tail had burst through the seam of his robes.
James, Sirius, and Peter were reacting in the same way with their newly grown tails. Those in the Three Broomsticks watching were now having fits of laughter. Thouroughly upset, Remus grabbed his bag and rushed out of the pub.
"Remus!" Verissa tossed Lily a nasty look as she gathered up her purse and followed after him.
Lily was horrified. This wasn't supposed to happen. They were supposed to stop being mean... Not sprout tails! James and Peter pulled their cloaks over their behinds and hurried outside where Remus and Verissa were.
Sirius, however, was having a different reaction. He was admiring his bushy black dog tail with great joy. "Will you look at that!" A sly grin spread across his face. "Suits me, don't you think, Lily?"
Lily stood from the table and accidently knocked her stool over. "I'm sorry, Sirius!" she whispered hoarsly and ran outside, completely passing the others. She didn't stop running until she was at the Shreiking Shack and she only stopped there because she was entirely out of breath. She had wanted to keep running. Had wanted to run to the end of the road and up the mountain side, but she now needed to massage a stitch out of her side.
Panting, James approached at a run. "Lily..." he huffed, "why... did you... run off... like that? If anything, I'd think... I'd be the one...running." He raised an eyebrow and wagged his light brown tail.
Lily turned her head. "I'm sorry."
"What? You mean... You mean you did this?" He indicated to his tail.
She nodded.
"Why? Of all the ignorant things to do!"
"Well excuse me!" Lily's face had gone red with fury. "I thought you guys had been influenced by a Hate Potion so I tried to reverse to effec-"
"What would make you think a stupid thing like that? That Remus and Sirius were upset with you?" yelled James. Lily couldn't believe it. James was yelling at her.
"Yes, that's why! They've never been mean to me like this before and I couldn't see why they would start now! It was a simple, honest mistake-"
"They were upset because you said things to them that upset them. We've all been trying to ignore your little comments, but it just went too far!" he yelled. His face had gone all blotchy with red and purple. It was a scarey sight.
"And why? Because I didn't know any better, right? Because I didn't know?!" Her lip trembled violently and she felt a rage boiling inside her. Peter, Verissa, Remus, and eventually Sirius had now appeared on the top of the hill. "Well, why doesn't someone just tell me? Huh! Just tell me already what it is that I've been missing out on!" She was screaming at him, pure anger billowing up in her gut.
"You're obviously not trustworthy enough to tell. You just nearly poisoned me and my three best friends!"
Of all the things in the world to say, Lily could think of nothing. Instead, she glared at James and shoved past him. When she walked by the others (Sirius was currently trying to chase his tail), they stared after her like she was some sort of strange new creature they had never before seen.
"Lily," Peter started to say.
"Just leave me alone!" Lily screamed in all her rage. Her voice was now hoarse and tears had escaped her eyes. She raced off down the hill and back up the next until she reached Hogwarts castle. Once inside, Lily stormed down the corridor.
"Miss Evans? What's the matter?" Lily just ran past Professor McGonagall and into an empty classroom.
She panted and heaved with gasps as she slouched to the floor. Everything was going wrong. Her life was ruined. It was all their fault. If they had just told her their 'big secret' in the first place, none of this would have ever happened and she would be having the time of her life with her boyfriend and best buds. No. It was all over. They were all sure to hate her now. Even Verissa. Yes. Deffinately Verissa, too. Verissa knew the Hate Potion wasn't going to work on them. She had tried to tell that to Lily, but she was too stubborn to pay any heed to the warnings of true freinds. Now Lily was all alone.
She heaved a heavy sob and craddled her head. Her clentched eyes were giving her a headache. Lily was a horrible girlfriend. Horrible, awful, girlfriend! Lily was the worst person in the world!
Eyes thick with tears, Lily wiped her face on her sleeve. She shouldn't be so hard on herself, she rationalized, after all, she was only trying to help. She had thought she was in the right. It was James' fault. And Sirius', Remus', and Peter's. They were the ones to blame. They were the ones who would pay for her misery. Lily bit her lip and blinked away fresh tears.
"I am not going to cry any more. Not because of James," she said blantletly, "But that's not to say he wont cry because of me." Lily instantly began to formulate a plan of action in her mind.
Yiipe! Lily's pyschotic!
Mr.P: No, actually, I didn't think she was too nice... I did, however, think she was turning a into a slight Mary-Sue... *shudder* Nice little bit of revenge... but I have no clue as to what she's going to do. I don't plan revenge... I plan wars.
Amy: :) That's what my sister said!
the Angelic Andria: You didn't review, but you read them, right? ^_^ LOL. I had a sudden burst of inspiration! So here I am... continuing....
otak-nut44: Getting good? LOL. I thought it was getting corny! I mean, Hate Potion? Really? LOL. Glad someone likes it! I'm not really sure what fluff is... so I don't know how to avoid it! hehehee
heehee: If you've read the third book, you should know what the boys are hiding. If you haven't read Prisoner of Azkaban... this will be a spoiler. ^_^ Don't want to ruin PoA if you haven't read it!
Peppermint: Thank you!
Please email me! Slytherin_Angel@MostlySunny.com