Chapter 3

The Roadblock

"Malorie! Molly! Marietta! Manny! Dani! C'mere!" Lily called to her friends. When the came to her corner of the common room, looking confused, she showed them a letter. "Look! It's from Petunia! Maybe she's not mad anymore!" All of her friends smiled. They knew how upsetting this had been for Lily.

"Well, open it!" Malorie urged her. Nodding at Malorie, Lily ripped open the letter and read it, a look on her face as though she had swallowed a cockroach cluster. Standing up, she walked quickly out of the room, so Potter and his friends wouldn't see her cry.

"Ooooh.." said Marietta, picking up the letter. "No wonder......

'Lillian-

You can quit writing letters to me. I'm disowning you as my sister. I'll not associate with the likes of you. Mum and Dad might not see it, but you're just a freak! So don't bother!

Petunia'

Oh, there's a P.S.

'Your pet owl left a treat for you in your church shoes. We had to throw them out.'"

The girls looked at each other sadly once Marietta finished, and went upstairs to check on Lily.

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James Potter had listened to the entire letter. He had a cold, calculating look on his face, one Lucius Malfoy would be proud of. Who said James didn't dabble in the dark side a bit? Beckoning Sirius closer, James hatched a plan.

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Sitting in a corner forgotten, Manilet Juvela heard James' plan. But, being one of his fanclub, he wouldn't tell Lily. She didn't like Lily anyways. To NICE. How could she stick up for SNAPE? However....

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James looked up as he heard footsteps. It was Manilet, and she was walking out of the closest corner.

"Good plan, Potter." she said in a drawling voice. (one that Harry Potter, if he were alive, would say had to belong to Malfoy's sister. But that's a fic I haven't posted yet...)

"However, you've forgotten that it's harder to get past Lily's clique than it is to stop Filch whipping you?"

"Well, I-" James began.

A/N A cliffhanger! What can defeat Lily's clique? What sinister plan is James hatching? Why did I mention another Fic in this? Some of these answers will be revealed, though the monkeys are still debating on some of them, in the next chapter:

I don't live a cliche!