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Chapter Five:  News: Talent Show, Conflicts With Slytherins

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Lily was walking to the Gryffindor common room, but as for rest of the students they were all going to the Quidditch pitch. They were all going to watch the Quidditch match that afternoon; Gryffindor and Ravenclaw would be playing for the cup. She had to finish some assignments, but she would watch the game from her window. After all this was biggest match of the year.

As she was walking up the staircase she heard someone calling her from below.

"Lily! Wait up!"

She looked down and saw James in his Quidditch robes running up the staircase.

"Aren't you supposed to be at the Quidditch pitch getting ready for the big match?" she said looking very confused.

"I – forgot – my –broom," James said while regaining his breath, "how about you, your going to watch the match right?"

"No…" she stopped as she saw the hurt look on his face. "I have some assignments to do, but I'll be watching from my window."

"Oh ok…. Well right after the ceremony in the great hall have you and the girls meet me in front of the common room, I'll be waiting with the guys," he said running off to got get his broom in the common room.

"Bye James and good luck!" she managed to say before he left.

Ever since the kiss they shared under the mistletoe that Christmas, they grown closer as friends. They never dated though; it just never really crossed their minds. Everyone thought that if they had dated they would have been the perfect couple. Even their own best friends tried to play matchmaker, but it didn't work, they weren't giving up just yet, they had bigger plans for those two.

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"GRYF-FIN-DOR! GRYF-FIN-DOR! GRYF-FIN-DOR!" chanted the whole Gryffindor table as the two Quidditch teams entered the Great Hall.

"Yes…yes. Well done Gryffindors for that fantastic game against Ravenclaw," Dumbledore said trying to clam the entire table down. "I have a announcement to make. As you all know every year we have an end of the year talent show, unfortunately this will be the last and final one we will be having."

Right after Dumbledore had stopped talking the whole hall fell into loud sighs. Every year they had a talent show and it had been better each year. Tons of students would sign up and even the professor would participate also. There wasn't a year where you couldn't say it was boring.

Dumbledore tried to regain the attention of the hall, " I'm very sorry about this, but the sign up sheet will be in the library this whole month for anyone who would like to sign up to participate in the show. Thank you, that is all."

After the announcements all of the students ran to the library to sign up for the talent show.

"Hurry Lily! Bella! Lets go before all the spaces to sign up are gone!" Selena yelled as she dragged Lily and Arabella out of the Great Hall.

"Clam down Lena!" Arabella told Selena, "They'll have the sign up sheet there tomorrow, you know everyone that signs up will perform."

"Yeah and besides were suppose to meet the guys in front of the common room," Lily said looking anxious.

"Ok. Ok. Let's go meet the guys then," Selena said pouting, "but I know you don't just don't want to see the guys, you want to just see your lil Jamie-poo!" she moved closer to Lily and fluttered her eyelashes.

Arabella started laughing. Lily turned around to face her.

"What are you laughing at Miss Bella?" Lily could feel her face get hot. "Can't wait too see you Remi-pie, so you can stare at him the whole time?"

Arabella turned bright red and stopped laughing. It was Selena's turn to laugh.

"Oh…no no no, don't think you getting away that easy Lena, "Lily said facing Selena, " we all know how much you can't wait to see your Siri-baby."

Selena began to laughing even more, "Your a funny one, that your are. Please that boy changes girlfriends faster than Gwen changes outfits in a day!"

All of them started to laugh.

"Hmm…. I wonder why? Maybe ever since you ran a muck around the great hall, screaming at the top of your lungs 'I've got a crush on you, I hope you feel they way that I do to Amos Diggory, hmm… you member that?" Lily said grinning.

"Oh lord, I was playing around and besides everyone thought it was funny, " Selena said sounding confused, "beside what does that have to do with Sirius almost dating the entire female population?"

"Well, as you made that scene it happened in front of Sirius and lets say…" Lily stopped giving up on explaining to her. "Never mind."

"OK. now that we are done with that lets go meet the guys," Arabella said leading the way to the common room.

As the three started to walk to the common room, all of a sudden Lily stopped and turned to Arabella and Selena, "Where is Gwen?"

"Umm… she said something about meeting up with Jared," Arabella said while resting her palm under her chin.

"If they keep up with their daily snogging sessions, I wouldn't be surprised to find Gwen with a baby soon," Lily said. All them began to laugh.

"For real. But I don't like that Jared boy very much," Selena stopped talking and looked at the ceiling, " there's something about him… I just get bad vibes from him."

"Actually I feel the same way, but you know Gwen really likes him so I can't stand in their way. Besides its not like he's done anything wrong," Lily said eyeing the girls to start walking back tot the common room.

"Yeah… guess your right," Arabella and Selena said at the same time.  They just looked at each other and laughed it off.

"We hang out together too much," Lily laughed. " Come on you two! Lets to the common room!"

All three of the girls started to run, until they bumped into four other figures.

"Well… well, what do we have here?"

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"Yes! We are finally Animagi!" Peter said while skipping out of the Gryffindor common room.

"Shove it Peter!" James shouted at Peter, "Remember no one must know, besides were very lucky everyone is in the library or someone would have heard you!"

"Sorry… sorry," Peter managed to squeak out.

"You know you guys. I don't feel right about this whole thing, I don't want to hide this from Dumbledore," Remus said looking very worried.

"Moony everything with be ok, don't worry so much this is making you stress out even more," James said trying to reassure Remus.

"Yeah, don't worry old chap! Let's go to the library now maybe its not that crowded anymore. This year we have to make the best performance yet!" Sirius said while walking down the hall.

"Hold on! Were suppose to meet the girls in front of the common room," James said stopping the gang.

"Hmm… excited to see a certain red head? Sirius said in a singsong voice.

"Shove it" James said feeling annoyed. Every time James would say something about the girls the guys would assume he was just talking about Lily.

"Ok then, the girls are probably walking over here right now, lets just meet them half way," Sirius said leading the group down the stair case into a hall.

Just as they were about to turn the corner they heard some voices.

"Well…well, what do we have here?"

They all stopped behind the corner and looked to see what was happening. They managed to see Lily, Arabella and Selena, but there were four other figures they couldn't see around the corner.

"Oh… look its just the Gryffin-WHORES!"

"Malfoy," James whispered angrily. Sirius and Remus were holding him back from doing anything stupid.

"Prongs… they can handle it themselves, if something bad happens we can jump them from behind," Sirius whispered to James.

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"Yes, why I agree with you Lucius. We just came across three Gryffin-WHORES!" Severus walked up to Lily, Arabella, and Selena.

"Is that all you two can come up with Malfoy? Snape?" Arabella spoke up, " I see you have your bed buddies with you, Crabbe and Goyle."

"Your words hurt me so," Lucius went up to Arabella and put his hand out to caress her face.

Arabella moved her face to the side and slapped him," You don't want your lovers over there to get jealous now."

"Why you little…" Lucius said as he raised his arm. Lily ran in front Arabella, while Selena grabbed her wand and pointed it out at him before he could get a hold of her.

"Malfoy I swear you put one more hand on her again, I'll –

"Kill me? Is that what you were going to say Stone?" Lucius said pretending to look hurt from the slap.

"You know what that's not a bad idea," Selena said. As she passed Crabbe and Goyle in the back, she noticed the Marauders were just around the corner. Selena started to nudge her head for them to do something and James, Sirius, and Remus made eye contact and slowly creped behind Crabbe, Goyle and Snape. Peter just sat in the corner terrified of what could happen.

Lily noticed what Selena was looking at, " Yes I would agree with her, but I have another idea."

Lucius looked at Lily very strangely and began to laugh, " What would that be mudblood?" he began to walk up to Lily and started leaning forward to her, he noticed a Lily- shaped diamond hanging around her neck. He extended his arm out to rip the necklace from her neck.

"Oh you'll find out soon enough," Lily said smiling and she started backing away from him before he could touch her. That gave the guys the signal to go.

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" James, Sirius, and Remus said together. Instantly Crabbe, Goyle, and Snape froze and fell on the ground.

Lucius turned around and saw what happened, he pulled out his wand till he heard a voice, "PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" he also froze and fell on the floor.

Lily had got him once he turned around to curse the guys. The Marauders including Peter ran up them and asked if they were ok. The girls thanked the guys and decided to go to the library and sign up for the talent show. 

As the group was all walking Lily stopped and turned facing them, " I feel like were forgetting something,"

The rest just shrugged and kept walking, it seemed that everyone forgot four frozen figures lying in the middle of the hall.

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After the group had signed up for talent show, they all walked back to common room. On the way down the hall James and Selena were arguing because neither of them would tell the other what they were doing for the talent show. The group was getting annoyed at this, after all James and Selena acted like brother and sister.

"Please…." Selena asked giving James the puppy, dog face.

"Umm… let me think about it. NO!" he replied.

"COME ON! IT'S NOT LIKE I'M GOING TO RUIN YOUR PERFORMANCE!" she yelled.

"You never know. I'll tell you later, when I feel like it," he said flashing her a smile.

"Easy there, Mr. Suavemente! (A/N : Sorry if I spelled it wrong! "Sa right?"- SOUTH PARK : P)That only works on your fan club." She said lifting her arms up in surrender.

The group just laughed.

"Actually not anymore, they left me for Amos Diggory," James said in relief, he never liked the fact of teenyboppers screaming in his ear every second.

"Hmm… I wonder wh- WHAT THE?!?" Selena said as she walked into something.

Everyone looked down to see what she walked into. There were four stiff figures lying on the floor.

"THAT'S WHAT WE FORGOT!" everyone said in unison, as they saw the frozen figures of Lucuis, Severus, Crabbe and Goyle.

There was a long silence and everyone just laughed it off.

"You know we hang around each other too much!" Arabella said laughing.

"Hey we forgot another thing," Selena said.

Everyone looked at her and Remus spoke, " And what would that be?"

Selena just looked at Lily and Arabella, they knew what she was thinking. The three girls walked up to the four figures, Lily and Selena took out their wands and a sheet appeared around them so the boys couldn't see. As they finished the sheet disappeared and appeared four figures. They had bright pink hair with green streaks in it, along with matching robes that suited their beautiful hair, and last but now least they had make up on that resembled a drag queen.

The guys were literally rolling the floor laughing, the girls just smiled. Once the boys were able to stand up correctly they left Lucius, Severus, Crabbe and Goyle lying there again in the middle of the hall. They decide they didn't want to be caught in the act this time, but they weren't worried about Lucius telling on them. No one would ever believe them if they had said that Ms. Evans, Ms. Figg, and Ms. Stone did this to them.

"Last one to the common room is a mountain troll!" Lily said running ahead of the group as they tried to catch up with her.

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Hey that was Chapter Five! Sorry that it' shorter compared to the other chapters. Hope its not boring to any of ya! : P Please REVIEW and be NICE! Thanx! : )

Oh yeah, I'm sorry about not making a part where it tells about the match, my not good at telling sport scene kind of things. And other thing, I didn't feel like making first names for Crabbe and Goyle, I'm lazy sorry! Enjoy! : )