Already at chapter six am I? I amaze myself.

Short chapter I know, but I wanted to get the James Lily stuff out of the way so I can start with the circle of light and the fact that Lily figures out, at about the same time as the maurders, that Remus is a warewolf. Of course she doesn't confront Remus about it, which is why she's left out….

Chapter Six

Classes

After finding the library, the only thing that could drag Lily away (unless you counted the fact that James was there) was the warning bell. Lily complained as they entered the classroom. "Bloody nonsense, that library is a god-sent."

"I'm glad you think that Miss Evans, but the bell for class just rung and I would suggest you sit down so we can get somewhere on the pile of work we must get done this year."

Lily blushed and James tittered. She muttered an apology and took her seat. As it turned out she was sitting next to James. If he scowled it was nothing compeered to Lily's. She wanted to raise her hand and asked to be swapped, but McGonagall had started class.

Sirius burst in, out of breath. "Terribly sorry got lot." He tried to explain but Professor McGonagall scowled.

"Mr. Black I would like a to foot roll of parchment explaining why people should be on time for class, tomorrow morning on my desk." Professor McGonagall said. Sirius groaned. "Please find a place to sit."

Sirius turned to find his place by James taken and Remus was sitting with Peter. He found himself sitting next to Frank Longbottom, which, he had to admit, was better then a girl.

Professor McGonagall started her first class with the roll call. She then told them that if anyone played around with the skills they were taught in her class, they would be asked to leave. And by that she meant never come back.

Setting the class to changing matches to needles, she settled back to watch the class.

Lily sneered at James and stared at her match. She trued to visualize it as a needle, but couldn't.

James grinned at her and showed her his needle. Lily glared at him, trying to stop the feeling of defeat that was washing over her.

The defeat switched over to James as they entered Charms. Professor Herald was a stern task master and after explaining the concepts of sewing charm set them to try it. Lily got it on her first try, while James got it on his twentieth.

After which the two set out to prove that they were better then the other until lunch when their friends pulled them away from a heated argument about who had managed the porter ghost better.

"Come off it James." Sirius said dragging his friend away, while James was yelling that he got rid of it in ten minute compared to her 9 minutes and 59 seconds, which made him come in the lead.

Karrie laughed at it and Arabella looked annoyed. "Goodness Lily, it's fine if he did better then you." She said as they headed towards the great hall.

"Ah but he didn't I got a shorter time. he's saying he did it more carefully but I-"

"Lily." Karrie said, cutting her off, "Shut up."

The days passed quickly for Lily and her new friends and Friday loomed up. It was surprising how soon it came. Arabella was extremely grateful. "Finally we can sleep in." she sighed.

"Sleep till noon and your system will be all off. I'm still up at five." Lily replied. Karrie looked at her.

"What are you going to do?" she asked.

"The library for homework then some reading. I'll go outside after that." She assured her friend.

Just then Remus and Sirius appeared, seemingly through a wall, and Lily was the only one who still jumped at it. Smiling at the girls Sirius headed over.

"So girls what are we doing over our weekends?" he asked. Remus smiled at them.

"I can't believe it; Lily's getting up at five in the morning for homework." Karrie said.

Sirius glared at Lily. "I will not let you do that Lily Evans." He cried. "Do your homework on Sunday with the rest of us. You can do Charms help with me and Remus the Dark Arts. Arabella can do potions-"

"I refuse to let you copy my homework Sirius Black!" cried Lily.

"Not copy-" Remus clarified, "Help with." Sirius glared at Remus. Remus merely shrugged and said nothing more.

"Well, you'll come out and join us flying? You have to learn sometime Lily and now would be a good time." Sirius said.

by the time they were at the great hall they had set out Lily's hole weekend and she was fine with that.

The only thing between the weekend and Lily was double potions with the Slytherins.

The only other class that the Gryffindors had with Slytherins was Astronomy, and Lily hadn't liked that.

The potions classroom was in the dungeon. It was filled with jars of things Lily would rather not think about, and the desks.

Professor Lightoff kept a strict reign on her class and if one broke the rules one would likely be faced with dire consequences. Professor Lightoff also was the only teacher to have assign seats.

In her other classes, Lily had been able to choose her seat the first day. She had been a little stupid, she realized later, since now she had to sit with James Potter in all her classes, but potions.

In Potions, Lily was placed with Sirius, which she didn't mind. But they were right next to James and Severus Snape.

Lily didn't know why they hated each other so much, but judging from the hiss James had given when Snape had been sorted, Lily thought it might have something to do with a rivalry between their families, but wasn't sure.

The week had cooled her temper slightly and she could now ask James politely to pass something. Anything more then that and she would explode at him, or humiliate him, which was better, in her opinion.

Talking quietly with Sirius while they waited for their boil cure potion to simmer.

"Come on Lily, flying isn't that bad. You can borrow my broom. I've got the top of the line Nimbus 1982." Sirius wheedled.

"Yeah, even you couldn't fall off that." James muttered to her as he dumped some ingredients into his caldron. Sirius had to grab Lily so she would disrupt class to kill his friend.

"Extremely poor taste James." Sirius admonished.

"Yeah, well she deserves it." James said. Professor Lightoff, sensing trouble in her classroom wandered by at that moment, stopping Lily from retorting.

Saturday came quickly and Lily found herself out side on the Quidditch pitch. Professor McGonagall had given Lily, Sirius, Remus, Karrie, Arabella, James and Peter permission to use the pitch for teaching people to fly. Since Lily was the only one who didn't know how to fly, Sirius had managed to get his broom to school to teach her with.

"Lily say it with feeling." Sirius said for the fourth time.

Lily tried again. "Up!" this time the broom jumped into her hand.

"Good!" Sirius cried. Arabella, who was flying on a school broom, whooped, and Karrie cheered.

After showing Lily how to mount a broom and start off, Lily was flying with ease. Of course it might have been the fact that James wasn't there.

Remus had said he needed to talk to James about something and that they wouldn't be going outside. Lily was extremely relieved. Sirius came up on a school broom. "Lucky you." He complained. "You get my broom. You don't get a broom that goes sideways." He moaned and as if to prove his point he started going off.

"You git, it's you that's making it go sideways." A voice yelled from below.

Lily swore and dived, stupidly. Trying to remember how to stop was a fruitless exercise since she hadn't been told. Trying to remember anything to help her she felt someone pull her handle straight.

Lily glanced over to thank Sirius, but found James bringing her broom up. She gulped.

Make amends. Her mind told her. Fight him with all you got! Her heart said. James smiled and her heart flipped. Her mind won. "James?" she asked as they soared around, still connected by James's hand.

"Yes?" James asked looking at her. His blue eyes looked somber.

"I'm sorry." She said.

"For what?" James asked smiling. God danm, why did he have to be so cute?

"For being a prat." Lily said.

"You a prat?" James asked, "Never."

"Well, James, can we be friends and not fight?"

"I guess we could try." James looked at her and she felt her breath catch in her throat.

I'm eleven. She reasoned with herself. I can like him if I want to. "Can we please?" Lily asked.

James smiled. "Of course."

Well, okay, I admit that this went quickly… but remember Lily likes James. It will fade away though. Also, don't tell me eleven year olds don't swear like that. I'll make you meet my brother. He says worse things then what I wrote.

Also, remember they are eleven.

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