Chapter 15: Little by Little

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Chapter 15: Little by Little

We the people fight for our existence

We don't claim to be perfect but we're free

We dream our dreams alone with no resistance

Faded like the stars we wish to be

Y'know I didn't mean... what I just said

But my God woke up on the wrong side of His bed

And it just don't matter now

Little by little we gave you everything you ever dreamed of

As little by little the wheels of your life have slowly fallen off

Little by little you have to live it all in all your life

And all the time I just ask myself why are you really here?

True perfection has to be imperfect

I know that that sounds foolish but it's true

The day has come and now you'll have to accept

The life inside your head we gave to you

Doesn't really make sense right? That's why I love it so much. Okay I'll keep quiet now.

"IT'S THE REVERSAL POTION!" James managed to choke out, as he was so angry that he could hardly speak. Immediately people began to try spitting out whatever punch that was left from their mouths.

"EEEEH! SIRIUS WAS SO LIKE HOT!" Becky squealed, the potion evidently taking a toll on her. She managed to keep quiet for a while, with a rather constipated look on her face, before she burst out again into very bimbotic giggles, ranging from laughing about the colour of make-up to how the sun was just so "cute".

"I LIKE SO TOTALLY AGREE!" Kim squeaked, now a timid nature was kicking in for our usually boisterous Kim and she gently tugged on Becky's sleeve whispering, "My hair is horrid, what if like the guys see me?"

"That would totally suck, I mean like totally!" Becky sympathized, and then they both broke out into a fit of extremely annoying giggles before clamping their hands over their mouths.

"L..ladies, I was er just er dropping?" Sirius stuttered and the girls he was talking too almost fainted on the floor. Sirius Black, THE Sirius Black was stuttering? That must mean he really liked them, but then our usually suave and relatively sophisticated women's men suddenly sniffled onto his sleeve.

"Could we please engage in conversation, I just saw this fascinating robot show, and you know the plugs and wires involved was simply brimming with suppressed intellect don't you think old bean?" That had to be the most shocking statement coming from Crabbe, Ethan Crabbe. He was standing around, a cup of punch held elegantly to his lips and his hair combed back neatly. ]

He was conversing with Goyle who had the IQ of a chipped cup and Goyle, who was probably full to the brim with punch was replying, "Well yes old fruit, but I rather prefer the eloquent content of that speech made by Winston Churchill, however I did feel it lacked a tad of what's the word, depth?"

"Yes, his frivolity did amaze me, I much prefer the works of Socrates" Crabbe remarked, taking another sip of punch. All of this was very shocking for Lily, who had just finished dancing with a troll. She had first seen Becky dashing about like a headless chicken, squealing about how her make up was "so last year" and now she saw the perfect cast members for "dumb and dumber" conversing like old educated Englishmen.

"What the hell?!" She murmured, as she saw Sirius sniveling away on a girl's shoulder about how his cat died a few months ago. Needless to say, the girl wasn't sure whether to be delighted or disgusted, and she did a good job of managing to have both expressions etched on her face while her friends looked on uncertainly.

"Lily dah-ling! How come your clothes are so untrendy? This is simply horrific! We so have to go shopping one of these days sweets!" Kim strutted over to Lily, and she was evidently fighting the potion by the look on her face.

"PERSONALITY REVERSAL POTION!" Becky managed to yell out before lapsing into her bimbo state, "EEEEEEH! MY DRESS IS LIKE SO RUINED!" Apparently, there was a splotch of dirt on the hem of the dress, and Becky was almost in tears over this, much to Lily's amusement.

Lily fought back the urge to laugh her ass off and walked quickly to where James was, as all the commotion seemed to be coming from there.

"SOCK PETE! SOCK PETE!" Elisa Bones, a usually soft spoken girl who had frizzy brown hair was yelling, punching her fists at the air.

"PETER GET OFF ME! I NEED TO GET TO THE POTION!" James was yelling, and Lily saw James fighting Peter, who was bashing him up. Peter seemed unstoppable as he pummeled James, who was too kind hearted to really hit back. James was concentrating on putting the remedy into the punch, and dodging Peter's hits to really observe his surroundings, so he did not notice when a weeping Sirius came crashing into him.

"JAMESIE! SHE JUST DIED! BUBBLES JUST DIED! I SAW IT! SHE JUST!" Sirius sobbed uncontrollably onto James's back, and then walked into Peter, with arms right open.

"PETIE HONEY! YOU KNOW..SNIFF.THE ROBE..SNIFF.IT TORE.SNIFF..ALL MY FAULT.BOOOO HOOOO HOOOO!" Sirius was always a rather strong person, so he managed to keep Peter controlled as he hugged Peter and cried into his shoulder.

"GET OFF ME SIRIUS!" Peter roared, trying to throw the enormous Sirius off him, needless to say he failed.

"EVERYONE HATES ME! BUT I ATE ME PEAS! MUMMY SAID THAT PEAS WERE GOOD! BUT SHE LIED! BOOOOOOOO HOOO HOOOO.." Sirius wailed, now collapsing onto the ground, almost dissolving into a puddle of tears.

James had bolted to the punch and he had emptied almost all of the contents of the antidote into the punch bowl, before grabbing Peter from Sirius and holding his nose, (Peter's nose not Sirius's or his own nose) he poured the liquid down Peter's throat, and Peter yelled in agony as the burning sensation caused him to shake.

"ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Peter growled, as the pain sent him to the ground, James had given him a lot of the liquid, and it was rather painful, but you could never tell as Peter was always a rather weak person, and was liable to grumble and fuss and he never had a high threshold of pain. James howled in pain, before Peter collapsed onto the ground, unconscious. James held his eye and turned around, but very soon he found that he could not see anything with that eye, and in his panic, knocked into a table and fell onto the ground. The antidote was almost all gone, as James had spilt quite a bit on the ground.

As quick as grease lightning, Lily picked up the antidote, pocketed it and then without any hesitation, knelt down beside James.

"James..shhh..it's me." Lily very gently cooed, feeling strangely antagonized as she saw James in so much pain.

"Lily," James managed to gulp, "I can't see.." James felt hot tears running down his face and winced in pain, as his eye was smarting.

"Shh..it's okay, everything's going to be fine." Lily helped James to his feet, but before Lily could bring him to the Infirmary Sirius grabbed hold of Lily's leg, and Lily fell to the ground.

"SIRIUS! GET OFF ME!" Lily yelped, as Sirius began to bawl loudly, this time about some candy or something weird like that.

Lily surveyed the damage Peter had done, and part of her felt like laughing and the other half like crying. People were fighting, and a few of the more senseless girls were now acting like intellectuals, all clustered in groups, talking about literature and divination. The more intellectually advantaged girls were also clustered together, giggling about boys and discussing clothing. Boys were beating each other up, and there were a few shy boys forming a congo line and singing and dancing on the stage, of course they were terribly off key.

Boys who were usually outgoing like Sirius were now cowering in corners, and a few Slytherins were being bullied by a couple of hufflepuff third years.

"PUREBLOOD! YOU'RE JUST A PUREBLOOD! HOW COMMON!" A Hufflepuff boy was pushing a Slytherin into the wall and was also yelling obscenities at him, and the sixth year Slytherin boy was almost reduced to tears.

"James?" Lily called out, as she managed to extricate herself from Sirius's grasp. "JAMES?!" Lily looked around for the raven haired boy but at the spot where he had been, Lily saw nobody.