Author's Notes- recovers from a fainting spell. OMG! I got 16 reviews in
less than 24 hours. So, I guess I'm continuing. Thanxs for those reviews.
Ok, I really don't know what to write. This is chapter 2 of "Yours Hating
James Potter". Yeah.
Disclamer- I don't own a thing! OK, I don't own anything you are reading, I don't have any money (Ok, I do have some, but you don't want it, trust me. It's left over from a field trip I took). It all belongs to J.K. Rowlings and whoever owns Harry Potter etc. I don't own a thing, and I'm not being paid.
1 Yours Hating James Potter
1.1 September 2nd
This school is much different then all those London schools, much different. I woke up early, thanks a whole bunch to Maria's alarm clock (which was set for 6:30 am!). When I yelled at her she just said, "Do you think I'm this beautiful naturally?"
"You're not beautiful," Jen whispered from her bed, which is right beside mine.
"No! It takes a lot of work, and that includes getting up at 6:30," Maria snapped, and I figured she didn't hear Jen's comment.
Her and Jen didn't exactly hit it off last night, unless you cont pushing each other around "hitting off".
So, anyway, after she disappeared into the bathroom Meg, Maddy, and Jen fell back asleep. But I couldn't, so I got out of bed, and got dressed. I don't think I'll ever get used to the sound of Maria's alarm clock at 6:30 am.
Anyway, around 7:30 everyone else got up, and the five of us (Meg wouldn't let us leave Maria behind, no matter how annoying she was getting) walked down to breakfast.
And guess who was there (well, other than the rest of the school)? Potter and his gang.
"Hi, James," Maria said in the sweetest voice (she doesn't sound like that naturally, oh no, she has to wake up at 6:30 am to do that).
"Hi." Potter started.
"Maria," Sirius whispered.
"Hi Maria," Potter finished.
"Oh, smoothe, Potter. Forget her name, real smoothe," I said, sitting down.
"Shut up, Turnip," Potter replied.
"Oh, great come back. I have tears in my eyes because of the great James Potter's comeback!" I announced sarcasticly.
"I'm just telling you, watch your back," Potter said, challengingly.
"I'm so scared," I said, rolling my eyes.
Then, after a few more comments, we stood glaring at each other as Professor McGonagall and another Professor stood between us.
"The first day, and allready they are making trouble!" Professor McGonagall told the other professor.
I wasn't supposed to hear that. The bell rang, and we went to our classes. Jen, Meg, Maddy, and I managed to get seats in all our classes far away from Potter and his gang. Maria, however, always chose the seat directly behind Potter, and would stare at him throughout the lesson. I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't take ONE note.
Honestly, the way she stares at him is SICKENING. Just thinking about it makes me want to puke.
The classes were really cool. However, with Potter in them they were worse. He wouldn't let me have one moment of victory.
In Potions, when we were called upon to tell the professor the 4 most used ingredients, Potter and I both answered two of them. We were the only ones who knew them.
In Defense Against the Dark Arts, we were the only ones who knew the Counter Curse for Body-Bind.
It went on and on in each class, except to.
First, there was Charms. Professor Flitwick called on Potter to answer the easiest question, and he didn't know the answer to anything he was asked! Professor Flitwick always called on me after this, and I always knew the answer. They were the easiest questions.
Then there was Transfiguration. I really hate that class. I can't do it, and Potter simply grinned when I couldn't turn my piece of hay into a needle and instead set fire to it. It was a complete accident, and I was mad at the thing for not turning into a needle.
So, all the classes were great, except for Transfiguration. I'm dropping that as soon as I can. Ok, maybe you can't drop the class, but I wish I could. The way Potter grinned at me just makes me want to crush his empty skull into powder and then burn it.
Urgh! Now I'm mad!
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
September 2nd
So much for that. Turnip is driving me crazy! She's muggle-born, and just as good as me in all my classes! Except Transfiguration! I will never forget that! The flames just bursting out of that piece of hay! Classic! Well, I did humiliate myself in front of the whole class in Charms, but that's a stupid class anyway. Besides, how can someone concentrate when an annoying girl is staring at them from behind? The annoying girl is named Maria, and she's a first year Gryffindor too. She's just too annoying for words. I swear! At least Sirius and I have made up a list of our victims. Even if I did tell Kel she was on it, she isn't. She's too far away, but in the summer she might be added.
Anyway, there's Turnip, right in bold big letters on the top. Then there's Jen Moons, Megan, and Madeline (Turnip's friends). Then there's also Severus Snape, the greasy slimeball of Slytherin. And a few others that looked like worthy targets. Remus will help, even if he did tell us to watch our backs.
"They won't just roll over and play dead, you know," he said, then added, "Especially Lily."
Who cares? What does Turnip have on me anyway?
Peter will help. I knew he would. Sirius and Remus aren't very fond of him, but he's ok. Besides, we're his only friends.
I plan to get really sweet revenge on Turnip. NO ONE makes fun of a Potter and gets away with it, especially me.
Hating Lily Evans (Turnip)
James
1.2 September 5th
Sirius is at detention right now. I swear, he loves detention. He diliberatly goes out of his way to get it. He set up a trap in one of the hallways, and hid to see who it would catch. Well, he waited until a teacher came along, and set the trap off. He got a detention, and came into the Common Room all happy.
"Only 4999 more!" he announced, "Until I get suspended!"
Did I mention he's crazy? Another piece of proof: he keeps a little notebook in his pocket with a tally, to see who wins the arguments between Potter and I. It's stupid, even if we get in more each day. Oh well.
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
1.2.1 Lily James Teachers
10 9 15
1.3 September 7th- Early morning
1.4 I just woke up from this really strange dream. I can't remember it very well. But I was in what looked like a nursery. Yeah. it was a nursery. There was a crib, so it had to be a nursery. The walls were blue, and there were baby toys spread here and there, and a window. The window was open slightly, and it was dark out. There was baby music playing. Then, lightning flashes, and there's a scream. I turn around, and there's a figure in the doorway, moving towards me. I'm scared, but I don't know why.
1.5 Then I woke up. Everyone else is asleep. I don't know why I'm worried about this, but I just got a strange feeling from the dream. It was so. REAL.
1.6 I'm probably just imagining things. 'Night.
1.7 Yours Hating James Potter,
1.8 Lily
1.9
September 12th
They give tons of homework here. Yet I find it all easy and help my friends (not including Maria, who still sits behind Potter and watches every movement he makes). But my group of friends do include Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, Potter's friends. They are really nice, and funny. How they ever became friends with an Idiot like Potter is beyond me.
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
September 15th
I'm gonna kill him. I'm going to wring his stinking neck! Do you know what Potter did? He planted dungbombs all over our room and in our hall. So now our room and hall smell like a pig pen!
Do you know how awful it is to wake up to that kind of smell?
Don't worry, we'll get Potter back, BIG TIME. And it will be more creative then dungbombs in a room. How about dungbombs in their trunk. hehehe, I think I've got an idea. Got to go dicuss it with Jen.
Yours Hating James Potter more than ever,
Lily
1.10 September 25th
Dear Diary,
Every morning for the past ten days, all of Gryffindor tower (except maybe Maria with her 6:30 wake up call) has woken to either the scream "POTTER!" or the scream "EVANS!". The reason: both my friends, Lily and James, are constantly fighting or pulling pranks on the other. So one of them or both of them is always waking up to something new: a different hair color, dungbombs, things missing (Lily dropped James' books out the window the other day, it was HILARIOUS), and so on.
I think the house is all tired with it, but it's Lily and James. There's nothing we can do to stop them, believe me, we've tried. Sirius suggested that we make them fall in love. The whole tower laughed. Besides, for saying that Maria will hate him forever.
Speaking of Maria, here she comes to wreck the day!
Jen
1.11 September 25th
Maria is mad at Sirius and me for some reason. Well, she's always mad at me since I threw her alarm clock out the window yesterday. But I don't see why she's mad at Sirius.
Did you know she's writing love notes to Potter? They are funny. Jen, Meg, Maddy, and I found a few yesterday on top of her trunk while she was in the bathroom. They were hilarious. Maria found us reading them and I thought she would explode. Her face turned bright red, and she snatched them from my hands.
"You better watch yourself, Lily Evans," she growled.
"You're spending way too much time around Potter. You're starting to sound alike," I told her.
Her face turned bright red, and her hand crumpled the notes. She turned around and stormed out of the room. I have to go and play a little spy work with Jen, so that I can set up the trick on Potter when he and his friends leave to do their nightly roam around the school to time themselves and see how long it takes to get detention. It's a shame they've all become nuetral. Yeah, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Jen, Meg, and Maddy have declared themselves nuetral, and won't help one of us without helping the other. Oh well, gotta go.
Yours Hating James Potter
Lily
1.12 October 1st
1.13 The teachers gave us all our standings in class after a month. Potter and I are tied for first in every class but Charms and Transfiguration. I'm leading in Charms, and he's at the bottom. I'm at the bottom in Transfiguration, and he's leading. He won't let me forget it, either.
1.14 All day it was "Haha, Turnip is failing Transfiguration! You won't be allowed to become a second year if you don't start passing it!"
1.15 Finally, I turned around and said, "Yeah, well you aren't exactly passing Charms, now are you?"
1.16 His face went red, and he turned away. I saw Sirius make a little check next to my name in the collum, and grinned.
1.17 Yours Very Madly,
Lily
1.18 October 3rd
1.19 Even as I write this I'm in shock. Ok, something weird just happened. Well, it didn't JUST happen, it was more a few minutes ago. I'm sitting in the girl's bathroom writing this, since I'm supposed to be in Charms, but got a break to go to the bathroom. Yes, I carry this diary around with me since I don't trust leaving it alone in my room.
1.20 Ok, about why I'm so shocked.
1.21 My friends and I (with Maria and Potter, Maria drooling over Potter and Potter joking with Sirius) were walking to Charms, from Potions. We have Potions with the Slytherins, and the two groups have to walk in the same hallways, since the Slytherins go to Transfiguration, which is right by Charms. So, anyway, the Slytherins were a bit ahead of us, and talking and giggling.
1.22 Jen, Meg, Maddy, and I were joking about something (I forget what we were joking about, but it will come to me). So, anyway, the Slytherins slow down and finally stop. We don't notice until we're standing a few feet behind them. They're blocking the hallway, so we can't get through.
1.23 "Come on, budge over," Sirius told them.
1.24 They just stood there, whispering among themselves, and occasionally laughing.
1.25 "Come on, just move," Potter said.
1.26 "Why is Potter in such a hurry to get to a class if he's failing it?" Severus Snape asked Potter.
1.27 "Because I, unlike you slimy Slytherins, actually care about my classes, which you can't say the same for," Potter answered.
1.28 "Come on, guys," I said, and started to walk towards them, planning to push through them.
1.29 Jen, Meg, and Maddy followed. When we got just a few steps away from them Snape, who was in front, stepped back.
1.30 "Careful, don't come to close! We just took showers, and don't want to be dirtied by a Mudblood like you. Or should I say a turnip?" Snape asked.
1.31 I turned bright red. All my friends, Maria, and Potter froze. I got the idea that when he had called me a "mudblood" he had called me something REALLY bad. My guess was confirmed when Potter did the strangest thing. He stood up for me.
1.32 Yeah, he seriously did. JAMES POTTER STOOD UP FOR ME, LILY "TURNIP" EVANS, AKA, HIS ENEMY! I thought I would faint with shock right then and there.
1.33 Here's what he did.
1.34 He told Snape, "First of all NO ONE calls her 'Turnip' but me, and second of all NO ONE calls her or ANYONE 'mudblood', Snape."
1.35 I thought for sure that Snape was dead.
1.36 "Don't you ever call Lily that again," Jen yelled.
1.37 They all looked like they could kill, expcept Maria, who I couldn't see but I know she wouldn't have cared much if I died.
1.38 Luckily, Professor Flitwick came walking down the hall, looking for us when he hadn't shown up in class.
1.39 I asked to be excused, and he let me, and I came here to write.
1.40 I feel a bit woozy. Why did Potter stand up for me? I'm his enemy. He's my enemy. We HATE each other. I can't get it straight. Oh well, I feel like he did me a favor. But it doesn't mean I have to stop playing tricks on him.
1.41 Yours feeling strange,
1.42 Lily
1.43
1.44 October 3rd
1.45 Dear Diary,
1.46 The nerve of Severus Snape! Now guess what he did? He called Lily a MUDBLOOD! I could kill him. I could take his little slimy neck and strangle him right now, without even fretting about it. That's how angry I am. But the only funny thing about it was that James stood up for Lils. I think Sirius might have been right about what he said.
1.47 Maria wasn't very happy about James sticking up for Lils, though. Oh well, she's still as annoying as ever.
1.48 Jen
1.49
1.50 October 15th
1.51 This stinks. I failed another Transfiguration test. Dang, I hate that class. What good is nowing how to change something into something else anyway? Besides, Potter got a 100 on the stupid test. He makes me so MAD sometimes. I've even managed to forget how he stood up for me.
1.52 Halloween is coming up. There's going to be a feast, and Dumbledore got a skeleton band to play for us while we eat. It sounds like a lot of fun.
1.53 Yours,
1.54 Lily
Jamie,
Mum told me to write you, and see how you were doing. I miss you a lot. So does Mum and Dad. Have you got all Mum's letters. She writes you at least ONCE A WEEK. I hope she writes me that much when I go to Hogwarts. I can't wait. You haven't sent me a letter yet. Come to think of it, you haven't sent ANY OF US a letter yet. Where's all the mail? Sis better bring back some mail for me! You said you were going to put me on your joke list, but I think you were lying because no one has played a joke on me (except Dally Fresh, but that was a SMALL prank, nothing you have to know about). So be proud, because when I come to Hogwarts I can help you (it's only two more years!). Does James Potter the Girl Magnet have a girlfriend yet? Better yet, have you even found a girl who doesn't grovel at your feet when you walk by? Sis better bring me mail after I send this. Kel
1.55 October 22nd
1.56 I'm still kind of mad at what Snape said about Turnip on the third, but now I have more problems. But Kelly's letter made me miss home, not a lot, a Potter will never admit that he's homesick. I've been too wrapped up with Hogwarts to remember that I have a family at home. So I have to write a letter when I'm done. I kinda miss picking on Kel, since I can't pick on anyone here the way I pick on Kel. I tease Turnip, yeah, but they're two different victims.
1.57 James
1.58
1.59 Kel,
1.60 I know, we haven't gotten to your name yet on the list, and probably won't, not until summer, but still, watch your back. A howler might be coming your way. wait, great idea.
1.61
1.62 Later
1.63 Note to self: send Howler to Turnip.
1.64
1.65 Kel,
1.66 To continue. Nah, I don't have a girlfriend. Not that there's tons of girls who would like to be my girlfriend, their just too annoying right now (like a Certain Person). And yes, there are certain people who do not fall on their knees and, as you put it, grovel before me, like another Certain Person. I'm kinda making life hard for her right now, but don't tell Mum or Dad that, kay? Hope alls well on the homefront, and if your brother's going to keep up his good grades he has to do his homework. James
1.67 P.S.- When are you going to stop calling me Jamie?
1.68 October 23rd
Dang that James Potter! He is so rude sometimes, do you know that! Guess what he did to me. I was surprised this morning when I woke up and everything seemed fine. I figured he had finally surrendered, but I didn't say anything. So, we went down to breakfast, and the mail came in. An owl came soaring past me, with a red envelope. Everyone stopped to stare at it, and it dropped down in front of me. Jen, Meg, and Maddy were staring at me.
"What did you do?" Meg asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
But I found out, when I opened the envelope. A roar erupted from it, a roar of a voice.
"LILY EVANS, I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU ARE FAILING TRANSFIGURATIONG! YOU ARE BRINGING SHAME TO THE FAMILY NAME! TO THINK, THE NAME EVANS RUINED BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T DO WELL IN ONE CLASS! YOU HAD BETTER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER RIGHT NOW!" the yelling voice cried.
"I didn't know you're mother did Howlers, Lils," Jen said.
"She doesn't even know what they are," I said cooly, then turned towards the other end of the table and yelled, "POTTER, YOU ARE SO GOING TO PAY!"
I can't believe he did that to me, in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL. I swear, I'm going to get him back so bad, he'll run away from school with his tail between his legs.
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
1.69 October 25th
Getting even with Potter will have to wait. The reason: Flying Lessons. They were today. The Gryffindors and Slytherins met outside, and were taught to fly. I think I could puke just remembering it. Potter was the best flyer, just like he bragged he was. Remus wasn't into it very much, Jen was having fun, so was Maria, Meg, and Maddy. I, however, was about to fall off my broom. It shook while we were in the air, and I was scared sick. It was shaking a whole lot, and Jen noticed. She wrapped the broomstick.
"Come on, Lils, fly a bit lower," she said, but no matter how low she got me it kept shaking, until I was clear laying on the ground and HURTING.
I had fell only about six feet but it HURT.
"You OK, Lils?" Jen asked.
"I'm fine. But I think I'll keep my feet on the ground from now on, thanks," I said, rubbing the back of my head.
I hate flying. I hope I'll never have to do it again. I'll never forget Potter's face, beaming when I fell off.
"Hah! Turnip can't fly!" he kept calling.
Yours in Pain,
Lily
1.70
1.71 October 31st
Halloween was GREAT! There were no classes, since it's kind of a holiday. The third years and all the years above went to Hogsmeade. But we were in first year, and couldn't. So, instead, I went to the library and got a book on curses, to see if I could find anything to make Potter wish he'd never been born. I found a few things, and went upstairs and hid the book, then went downstairs to the feast with my friends.
It was so neat! The Great Hall was lit with candles. Not even Potter could spoil this evening. The food was delicous. I loved it all, except for the fact that Potter was sitting just a few seats down and Maria was being the regular Maria.
Yours,
Lily
Author's Notes- That's all for now. Let's see, I want 25 reviews before I continue, total, not separate, and if I get 50 (which, let's just say, probably won't happen), I'll post Chapter 4 without the usual "it will take me this. to continue". So, people, tell all your friends you read a wonderful story if you like this, and if you don't just don't read anymore, but please don't flame. For those of you who got this from browsing, I have another story up, my original one. It's called "Lily's Lake" and it's another L/J story, with 19 chapter, with a different plot, and most of my reviews for it have been really good. So, check that out, and R&R for me, as a birthday present (my brithday's November 10th). Thanxs. ~Starlight Eve~
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1 Yours Hating James Potter
1.1 September 2nd
This school is much different then all those London schools, much different. I woke up early, thanks a whole bunch to Maria's alarm clock (which was set for 6:30 am!). When I yelled at her she just said, "Do you think I'm this beautiful naturally?"
"You're not beautiful," Jen whispered from her bed, which is right beside mine.
"No! It takes a lot of work, and that includes getting up at 6:30," Maria snapped, and I figured she didn't hear Jen's comment.
Her and Jen didn't exactly hit it off last night, unless you cont pushing each other around "hitting off".
So, anyway, after she disappeared into the bathroom Meg, Maddy, and Jen fell back asleep. But I couldn't, so I got out of bed, and got dressed. I don't think I'll ever get used to the sound of Maria's alarm clock at 6:30 am.
Anyway, around 7:30 everyone else got up, and the five of us (Meg wouldn't let us leave Maria behind, no matter how annoying she was getting) walked down to breakfast.
And guess who was there (well, other than the rest of the school)? Potter and his gang.
"Hi, James," Maria said in the sweetest voice (she doesn't sound like that naturally, oh no, she has to wake up at 6:30 am to do that).
"Hi." Potter started.
"Maria," Sirius whispered.
"Hi Maria," Potter finished.
"Oh, smoothe, Potter. Forget her name, real smoothe," I said, sitting down.
"Shut up, Turnip," Potter replied.
"Oh, great come back. I have tears in my eyes because of the great James Potter's comeback!" I announced sarcasticly.
"I'm just telling you, watch your back," Potter said, challengingly.
"I'm so scared," I said, rolling my eyes.
Then, after a few more comments, we stood glaring at each other as Professor McGonagall and another Professor stood between us.
"The first day, and allready they are making trouble!" Professor McGonagall told the other professor.
I wasn't supposed to hear that. The bell rang, and we went to our classes. Jen, Meg, Maddy, and I managed to get seats in all our classes far away from Potter and his gang. Maria, however, always chose the seat directly behind Potter, and would stare at him throughout the lesson. I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't take ONE note.
Honestly, the way she stares at him is SICKENING. Just thinking about it makes me want to puke.
The classes were really cool. However, with Potter in them they were worse. He wouldn't let me have one moment of victory.
In Potions, when we were called upon to tell the professor the 4 most used ingredients, Potter and I both answered two of them. We were the only ones who knew them.
In Defense Against the Dark Arts, we were the only ones who knew the Counter Curse for Body-Bind.
It went on and on in each class, except to.
First, there was Charms. Professor Flitwick called on Potter to answer the easiest question, and he didn't know the answer to anything he was asked! Professor Flitwick always called on me after this, and I always knew the answer. They were the easiest questions.
Then there was Transfiguration. I really hate that class. I can't do it, and Potter simply grinned when I couldn't turn my piece of hay into a needle and instead set fire to it. It was a complete accident, and I was mad at the thing for not turning into a needle.
So, all the classes were great, except for Transfiguration. I'm dropping that as soon as I can. Ok, maybe you can't drop the class, but I wish I could. The way Potter grinned at me just makes me want to crush his empty skull into powder and then burn it.
Urgh! Now I'm mad!
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
September 2nd
So much for that. Turnip is driving me crazy! She's muggle-born, and just as good as me in all my classes! Except Transfiguration! I will never forget that! The flames just bursting out of that piece of hay! Classic! Well, I did humiliate myself in front of the whole class in Charms, but that's a stupid class anyway. Besides, how can someone concentrate when an annoying girl is staring at them from behind? The annoying girl is named Maria, and she's a first year Gryffindor too. She's just too annoying for words. I swear! At least Sirius and I have made up a list of our victims. Even if I did tell Kel she was on it, she isn't. She's too far away, but in the summer she might be added.
Anyway, there's Turnip, right in bold big letters on the top. Then there's Jen Moons, Megan, and Madeline (Turnip's friends). Then there's also Severus Snape, the greasy slimeball of Slytherin. And a few others that looked like worthy targets. Remus will help, even if he did tell us to watch our backs.
"They won't just roll over and play dead, you know," he said, then added, "Especially Lily."
Who cares? What does Turnip have on me anyway?
Peter will help. I knew he would. Sirius and Remus aren't very fond of him, but he's ok. Besides, we're his only friends.
I plan to get really sweet revenge on Turnip. NO ONE makes fun of a Potter and gets away with it, especially me.
Hating Lily Evans (Turnip)
James
1.2 September 5th
Sirius is at detention right now. I swear, he loves detention. He diliberatly goes out of his way to get it. He set up a trap in one of the hallways, and hid to see who it would catch. Well, he waited until a teacher came along, and set the trap off. He got a detention, and came into the Common Room all happy.
"Only 4999 more!" he announced, "Until I get suspended!"
Did I mention he's crazy? Another piece of proof: he keeps a little notebook in his pocket with a tally, to see who wins the arguments between Potter and I. It's stupid, even if we get in more each day. Oh well.
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
1.2.1 Lily James Teachers
10 9 15
1.3 September 7th- Early morning
1.4 I just woke up from this really strange dream. I can't remember it very well. But I was in what looked like a nursery. Yeah. it was a nursery. There was a crib, so it had to be a nursery. The walls were blue, and there were baby toys spread here and there, and a window. The window was open slightly, and it was dark out. There was baby music playing. Then, lightning flashes, and there's a scream. I turn around, and there's a figure in the doorway, moving towards me. I'm scared, but I don't know why.
1.5 Then I woke up. Everyone else is asleep. I don't know why I'm worried about this, but I just got a strange feeling from the dream. It was so. REAL.
1.6 I'm probably just imagining things. 'Night.
1.7 Yours Hating James Potter,
1.8 Lily
1.9
September 12th
They give tons of homework here. Yet I find it all easy and help my friends (not including Maria, who still sits behind Potter and watches every movement he makes). But my group of friends do include Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, Potter's friends. They are really nice, and funny. How they ever became friends with an Idiot like Potter is beyond me.
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
September 15th
I'm gonna kill him. I'm going to wring his stinking neck! Do you know what Potter did? He planted dungbombs all over our room and in our hall. So now our room and hall smell like a pig pen!
Do you know how awful it is to wake up to that kind of smell?
Don't worry, we'll get Potter back, BIG TIME. And it will be more creative then dungbombs in a room. How about dungbombs in their trunk. hehehe, I think I've got an idea. Got to go dicuss it with Jen.
Yours Hating James Potter more than ever,
Lily
1.10 September 25th
Dear Diary,
Every morning for the past ten days, all of Gryffindor tower (except maybe Maria with her 6:30 wake up call) has woken to either the scream "POTTER!" or the scream "EVANS!". The reason: both my friends, Lily and James, are constantly fighting or pulling pranks on the other. So one of them or both of them is always waking up to something new: a different hair color, dungbombs, things missing (Lily dropped James' books out the window the other day, it was HILARIOUS), and so on.
I think the house is all tired with it, but it's Lily and James. There's nothing we can do to stop them, believe me, we've tried. Sirius suggested that we make them fall in love. The whole tower laughed. Besides, for saying that Maria will hate him forever.
Speaking of Maria, here she comes to wreck the day!
Jen
1.11 September 25th
Maria is mad at Sirius and me for some reason. Well, she's always mad at me since I threw her alarm clock out the window yesterday. But I don't see why she's mad at Sirius.
Did you know she's writing love notes to Potter? They are funny. Jen, Meg, Maddy, and I found a few yesterday on top of her trunk while she was in the bathroom. They were hilarious. Maria found us reading them and I thought she would explode. Her face turned bright red, and she snatched them from my hands.
"You better watch yourself, Lily Evans," she growled.
"You're spending way too much time around Potter. You're starting to sound alike," I told her.
Her face turned bright red, and her hand crumpled the notes. She turned around and stormed out of the room. I have to go and play a little spy work with Jen, so that I can set up the trick on Potter when he and his friends leave to do their nightly roam around the school to time themselves and see how long it takes to get detention. It's a shame they've all become nuetral. Yeah, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Jen, Meg, and Maddy have declared themselves nuetral, and won't help one of us without helping the other. Oh well, gotta go.
Yours Hating James Potter
Lily
1.12 October 1st
1.13 The teachers gave us all our standings in class after a month. Potter and I are tied for first in every class but Charms and Transfiguration. I'm leading in Charms, and he's at the bottom. I'm at the bottom in Transfiguration, and he's leading. He won't let me forget it, either.
1.14 All day it was "Haha, Turnip is failing Transfiguration! You won't be allowed to become a second year if you don't start passing it!"
1.15 Finally, I turned around and said, "Yeah, well you aren't exactly passing Charms, now are you?"
1.16 His face went red, and he turned away. I saw Sirius make a little check next to my name in the collum, and grinned.
1.17 Yours Very Madly,
Lily
1.18 October 3rd
1.19 Even as I write this I'm in shock. Ok, something weird just happened. Well, it didn't JUST happen, it was more a few minutes ago. I'm sitting in the girl's bathroom writing this, since I'm supposed to be in Charms, but got a break to go to the bathroom. Yes, I carry this diary around with me since I don't trust leaving it alone in my room.
1.20 Ok, about why I'm so shocked.
1.21 My friends and I (with Maria and Potter, Maria drooling over Potter and Potter joking with Sirius) were walking to Charms, from Potions. We have Potions with the Slytherins, and the two groups have to walk in the same hallways, since the Slytherins go to Transfiguration, which is right by Charms. So, anyway, the Slytherins were a bit ahead of us, and talking and giggling.
1.22 Jen, Meg, Maddy, and I were joking about something (I forget what we were joking about, but it will come to me). So, anyway, the Slytherins slow down and finally stop. We don't notice until we're standing a few feet behind them. They're blocking the hallway, so we can't get through.
1.23 "Come on, budge over," Sirius told them.
1.24 They just stood there, whispering among themselves, and occasionally laughing.
1.25 "Come on, just move," Potter said.
1.26 "Why is Potter in such a hurry to get to a class if he's failing it?" Severus Snape asked Potter.
1.27 "Because I, unlike you slimy Slytherins, actually care about my classes, which you can't say the same for," Potter answered.
1.28 "Come on, guys," I said, and started to walk towards them, planning to push through them.
1.29 Jen, Meg, and Maddy followed. When we got just a few steps away from them Snape, who was in front, stepped back.
1.30 "Careful, don't come to close! We just took showers, and don't want to be dirtied by a Mudblood like you. Or should I say a turnip?" Snape asked.
1.31 I turned bright red. All my friends, Maria, and Potter froze. I got the idea that when he had called me a "mudblood" he had called me something REALLY bad. My guess was confirmed when Potter did the strangest thing. He stood up for me.
1.32 Yeah, he seriously did. JAMES POTTER STOOD UP FOR ME, LILY "TURNIP" EVANS, AKA, HIS ENEMY! I thought I would faint with shock right then and there.
1.33 Here's what he did.
1.34 He told Snape, "First of all NO ONE calls her 'Turnip' but me, and second of all NO ONE calls her or ANYONE 'mudblood', Snape."
1.35 I thought for sure that Snape was dead.
1.36 "Don't you ever call Lily that again," Jen yelled.
1.37 They all looked like they could kill, expcept Maria, who I couldn't see but I know she wouldn't have cared much if I died.
1.38 Luckily, Professor Flitwick came walking down the hall, looking for us when he hadn't shown up in class.
1.39 I asked to be excused, and he let me, and I came here to write.
1.40 I feel a bit woozy. Why did Potter stand up for me? I'm his enemy. He's my enemy. We HATE each other. I can't get it straight. Oh well, I feel like he did me a favor. But it doesn't mean I have to stop playing tricks on him.
1.41 Yours feeling strange,
1.42 Lily
1.43
1.44 October 3rd
1.45 Dear Diary,
1.46 The nerve of Severus Snape! Now guess what he did? He called Lily a MUDBLOOD! I could kill him. I could take his little slimy neck and strangle him right now, without even fretting about it. That's how angry I am. But the only funny thing about it was that James stood up for Lils. I think Sirius might have been right about what he said.
1.47 Maria wasn't very happy about James sticking up for Lils, though. Oh well, she's still as annoying as ever.
1.48 Jen
1.49
1.50 October 15th
1.51 This stinks. I failed another Transfiguration test. Dang, I hate that class. What good is nowing how to change something into something else anyway? Besides, Potter got a 100 on the stupid test. He makes me so MAD sometimes. I've even managed to forget how he stood up for me.
1.52 Halloween is coming up. There's going to be a feast, and Dumbledore got a skeleton band to play for us while we eat. It sounds like a lot of fun.
1.53 Yours,
1.54 Lily
Jamie,
Mum told me to write you, and see how you were doing. I miss you a lot. So does Mum and Dad. Have you got all Mum's letters. She writes you at least ONCE A WEEK. I hope she writes me that much when I go to Hogwarts. I can't wait. You haven't sent me a letter yet. Come to think of it, you haven't sent ANY OF US a letter yet. Where's all the mail? Sis better bring back some mail for me! You said you were going to put me on your joke list, but I think you were lying because no one has played a joke on me (except Dally Fresh, but that was a SMALL prank, nothing you have to know about). So be proud, because when I come to Hogwarts I can help you (it's only two more years!). Does James Potter the Girl Magnet have a girlfriend yet? Better yet, have you even found a girl who doesn't grovel at your feet when you walk by? Sis better bring me mail after I send this. Kel
1.55 October 22nd
1.56 I'm still kind of mad at what Snape said about Turnip on the third, but now I have more problems. But Kelly's letter made me miss home, not a lot, a Potter will never admit that he's homesick. I've been too wrapped up with Hogwarts to remember that I have a family at home. So I have to write a letter when I'm done. I kinda miss picking on Kel, since I can't pick on anyone here the way I pick on Kel. I tease Turnip, yeah, but they're two different victims.
1.57 James
1.58
1.59 Kel,
1.60 I know, we haven't gotten to your name yet on the list, and probably won't, not until summer, but still, watch your back. A howler might be coming your way. wait, great idea.
1.61
1.62 Later
1.63 Note to self: send Howler to Turnip.
1.64
1.65 Kel,
1.66 To continue. Nah, I don't have a girlfriend. Not that there's tons of girls who would like to be my girlfriend, their just too annoying right now (like a Certain Person). And yes, there are certain people who do not fall on their knees and, as you put it, grovel before me, like another Certain Person. I'm kinda making life hard for her right now, but don't tell Mum or Dad that, kay? Hope alls well on the homefront, and if your brother's going to keep up his good grades he has to do his homework. James
1.67 P.S.- When are you going to stop calling me Jamie?
1.68 October 23rd
Dang that James Potter! He is so rude sometimes, do you know that! Guess what he did to me. I was surprised this morning when I woke up and everything seemed fine. I figured he had finally surrendered, but I didn't say anything. So, we went down to breakfast, and the mail came in. An owl came soaring past me, with a red envelope. Everyone stopped to stare at it, and it dropped down in front of me. Jen, Meg, and Maddy were staring at me.
"What did you do?" Meg asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
But I found out, when I opened the envelope. A roar erupted from it, a roar of a voice.
"LILY EVANS, I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU ARE FAILING TRANSFIGURATIONG! YOU ARE BRINGING SHAME TO THE FAMILY NAME! TO THINK, THE NAME EVANS RUINED BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T DO WELL IN ONE CLASS! YOU HAD BETTER GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER RIGHT NOW!" the yelling voice cried.
"I didn't know you're mother did Howlers, Lils," Jen said.
"She doesn't even know what they are," I said cooly, then turned towards the other end of the table and yelled, "POTTER, YOU ARE SO GOING TO PAY!"
I can't believe he did that to me, in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL. I swear, I'm going to get him back so bad, he'll run away from school with his tail between his legs.
Yours Hating James Potter,
Lily
1.69 October 25th
Getting even with Potter will have to wait. The reason: Flying Lessons. They were today. The Gryffindors and Slytherins met outside, and were taught to fly. I think I could puke just remembering it. Potter was the best flyer, just like he bragged he was. Remus wasn't into it very much, Jen was having fun, so was Maria, Meg, and Maddy. I, however, was about to fall off my broom. It shook while we were in the air, and I was scared sick. It was shaking a whole lot, and Jen noticed. She wrapped the broomstick.
"Come on, Lils, fly a bit lower," she said, but no matter how low she got me it kept shaking, until I was clear laying on the ground and HURTING.
I had fell only about six feet but it HURT.
"You OK, Lils?" Jen asked.
"I'm fine. But I think I'll keep my feet on the ground from now on, thanks," I said, rubbing the back of my head.
I hate flying. I hope I'll never have to do it again. I'll never forget Potter's face, beaming when I fell off.
"Hah! Turnip can't fly!" he kept calling.
Yours in Pain,
Lily
1.70
1.71 October 31st
Halloween was GREAT! There were no classes, since it's kind of a holiday. The third years and all the years above went to Hogsmeade. But we were in first year, and couldn't. So, instead, I went to the library and got a book on curses, to see if I could find anything to make Potter wish he'd never been born. I found a few things, and went upstairs and hid the book, then went downstairs to the feast with my friends.
It was so neat! The Great Hall was lit with candles. Not even Potter could spoil this evening. The food was delicous. I loved it all, except for the fact that Potter was sitting just a few seats down and Maria was being the regular Maria.
Yours,
Lily
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