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The Secret and The Sneak Lily sat in the common room alone one night in late February, watching the rain fall outside. The moon was full and, there was Remus and Madam Pomfrey with him. She stopped and said something then walked back to the castle. Rem grabbed a stick and prodded the knot and then he disappeared under the tree. But, no, I couldn't be, there was a shadow, coming towards the whomping willow, and another, and then two more behind. There was shouting and they began running faster. The first one had long greasy hair. The second, very messy, the third had long neat hair and the fourth, was very short.
"Snape, Potter!" She whispered, as much as she hated James, she would never want him dead. She ran as fast as she could through the portrait hole, down the stairs and out into the dusk where the figures were just now reaching the tree. One was gone, Snape, then the second.
"James." She muttered. Then the other two were running back, Sirius and Peter.
"Lil'? What are you doing here?"
"I-saw-you-running-and-I-had-to-"
"It doesn't matter, c'mon," Sirius grabbed her arm and they ran very fast, up the stairs down the corridors and then,
"Mr. Black, Mr. Pettigrew, Ns. Evans? What are you doing?" It was Dumbledore.
"Dumbledore, Snape is trying to get into the willow, and James went after them." Sirius gasped.
"Dear me." He vanished with a small pop. They ran again, all the way outside. Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey and McGonagall were standing by the willow and there were two floating stretchers, moving as if on water.
"Are they okay, Professor?" Lily asked quickly.
"Just unconscious. Mr. Potter here is very brave, you guys are too." Said Madam Pomfrey. Lily stared. She had said professor, meaning either Dumbledore or McGonagall, not the nurse.
"Well, that will be fifty points from Slytherin, for plain stupidity, then, well there are four of you in Gryffindor, so I'd say a hundred?"
"No, Minerva, one hundred fifty." They beamed. As they walked back to their dormitories, Lily asked,
"How did Snape find out." Sirius turned so red he looked like a giant cherry. "Sirius, what were you thinking? He could have been killed. Not that I like him or anything."
"He was bragging, and I well, I went to far." Lily sighed and climbed the stairs with Tanya.
When classes started a week after new years, Lily and Tanya went to working on homework in bed again. When they finished their homework, they would find something to do with the boys.
"We've done that!" Lily scrieched, as they fought to find something to do.
"It's the best thing we can do-" Sirius was looking at the snow outside. "Snowball fight!" Lily smiled, looking at Tanya who was also smiling.
"On brooms!" James added in. "Kay, Let's see, six people, let's nick a broom from the shed, then, er, Sirius, Me and Rem are the only one's who can fly.right?" everyone nodded. "Right, Sirius, you and Tanya, Remus, and Peter and me and Stinkwad." Lily glared at him. It was bitter cold outside, but they wore their warmest cloaks and tried to stay warm. Lily dodged almost everyone's snowballs, but nobody missed hers.
"God, Evans, you have too good of reflexes." He said, missing a large tree, and flying farther and farther away from the school.
"You're right." Lily said. He turned around and she mauled him with a snowball. They started going down, down, down, and CRASH!!
Lily woke up moments later, having no clue where she was. "Potter! POTTER! James, where are you?" She looked around. She seemed to be in some sort of valley, and Marsh. She pulled herself out of a cold swamp and onto a nearby rock. James was lying with his head resting on a rock.
"James!" She ran over to him. He opened his eyes.
"Go! It's getting dark! I- Ouch! - Can't move my leg, go get help and come back."
"Even being Stinkwad, I can't leave you here, I can't fly, it would take me ages to get back."
"Go, we're wasting time." Lily bit her lip then nodded. "I'll hurry." He shut his eye again. She grabbed the broom and shot upwards. She hit her head then weaved her way through the trees. After at least ten minutes she saw the school. She leaned forward and sped up. She landed at the steps and ran. She ran all the way up to McGonagall's study, on the sixth floor.
"Professor! It's James! W-we were having a snowball fight. He fell. He needs help, past the forest."
"That far?" Lily nodded. "You'll have to show me, hurry now. She reached over for a cabinet and pulled out a very battered old broom.
"You're going to-er-fly?"
"Of course." Lily led her to James' broom, hopped on and flew, faster then last time. It was pitch black now. It would be near impossible to find him. You've got to Lil'. Said a voice in her head. She sped up. She looked behind her. McGonagall was right on her tail. She began to lower as her own rock came into view. There he was. He opened his eyes, smiled and shut them again. "James! Are you okay?"
"Same as last time." He said grinning.
"Mr. Potter, you must get on my broom, here you go, good, now Evan's let 's go." Lily followed them. For the first time since she woke up her neck and arm hurt terribly.
Back at the castle Madam Pomfrey gave them each a potion to cure broken bones, then they went straight up to the common room. It was midnight by then and they collapsed onto the couches and were forced awake the next morning by Sirius, Remus, Tanya, and Peter. After telling the story they ran down to breakfast laughing. James and Lily both complained of pain in their arms, legs and neck, and were let off a day of classes.
"You're getting good at hurting yourself, Evans." James said in a very jealous tone. Lily smiled boastfully. The next day however Snape accused them of faking, so they received a fortnight worth of detentions. So that night they went to McGonagall's office who told them to clean the floor, walls and tables of the Great hall, for three hours each night. They finished about half the floor by midnight. They climbed the stairs in a very tired way.
"It's all your fault Evans!" Lily jumped around at him, slipping into the trick step up to his knee.
"What? I saved your life and-"
"You told us to run out!" She dropped her jaw.
"You didn't have to follow bonehead! Don't you go telling me it's my fault. Snape doesn't dislike me anyway! I wouldn't have gotten into this mess if you hadn't given him a dang swirly!" She was fuming so much smoke was almost coming out her ears. He shrugged and walked off. "Wait. What about me?" He shrugged and walked away. The step became very painful, so Lily leaned against the rail for a balance. Night passed and the Bloody Baron, the Slytherin ghost, flew past four times sniggering at her. But nobody walked past till morning.
"Lily!" It was Tanya. "I thought you had gone to breakfast, have you been here since you woke up, was that like ages ago?" Lily stared at her.
"I was here all night." She groaned.
"Weren't you with James?" Lily laughed.
"As if that son of a gun would help me! He laughed and walked away."
"Yeah! Right after you told me how it was all my fault about the detention!" James and Remus were walking down the stairs.
"Yah! Right after you told me it was all my fault about the detention!" Lily yelled.
"Tanya, leave her there."
"No way! Lil' C'mon!" But as soon as Tanya pulled her out Lily grabbed her wand.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Remus pulled out his wand. James was on the ground in the full body bind. He couldn't even move his fingers.
"Sorry Lil', It's just payback! Petrificus Totalus!" He yelled. Tanya muttered the counter curse and helped Lily up. "C'mon Lily!"
"Petrificus Totalus!" Lily yelled, but at that moment Peter and Sirius came out.
"What the heck? What did you do to them?" Sirius yelled, he pulled out his wand and began muttering the counter curse.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" She said to both of them. "Now, tell anyone and I'll do it again! Got it Potter? Sorry you guys." She said the counter curse to all of them and they brought out their wands.
"I don't think so. Leave him there." The next thing Lily knew she was on the ground, stiff as a board, with Tanya, flat on the floor next to her as the boys sped down the corridor. They were the last ones who had exited the Gryffindor tower, so they sat, stiff as boards, on the stairs for what seemed like hours. But when they began to get very hungry, due to the fact it was dinnertime, they heard voices on the stairs.
"Mr. Black and Mr. Potter, I understand, but Remus Lupin, How could you do such a thing to your own friends?" It was a stern voice Lily and Tanya recognized at once. Two figures came around the corner, A very red Remus and a counter cursing McGonagall. Lily and Tanya stood up, rolling their necks, which cracked and their elbows and knees snapped. "Mr. Lupin, a week detention and-"
"Professor, he-er-didn't do anything." Remus looked up, amazed. "It was Pot- It was me. I got stuck in the trick step last night after detention. Then in the morning Tanya came down and helped me out, then I cursed Tanya, but it didn't work, and as a joke we, er, cursed at the same time, and we're here."
"Professor, No, she's covering for me. I cursed Tanya."
"Lupin and Evans will get detention. And Ms. Evans," she continued, "I don't understand, you and Mr. Potter are Gryffindors, houses are like families! AND THIS FAMILY IS NOT WORKING! I would like to see some kindness between you from now on." McGonagall finished looking as if someone had just died. Lily turned as red as a cherry and frowned. Then smiled.
"Okay, I'll be a load nicer to dear James." Remus' eyes widened and Tanya stifled a snort. "We'll be the best of friends." Even McGonagall laughed.
"As if.One more fight and I'll put you in Slytherin." She said smiling.
"Oh, fine, I'll be serious."
"Good." She stomped off, and her high heels clicked until she was two floors below.
"Evans!" It was James, He jumped out of a suit of armor with Sirius. "Did you just get me out of detention?" Lily smiled. He was very friendly now that Lily thought about it, she would never show it though. Lily and Tanya ran down to the Great Hall to catch the end of dinner, while James, Sirius and Remus climbed up to see Peter sitting by the portrait hole.
"Pete!" Rem said oddly, "What on earth are you doing?"
"Ask him!" he said pointing at the portrait.
"Pete," said James, as if soothing a small child, "that is the fat LADY!" Peter sighed and tapped his teeth.
"No, inside." They whispered the password and slipped inside, there were about 20 Slytherins sitting on the couches and Armchairs, even walking into the dorms.
"What the-" Said Sirius before they spotted him.
"GRYFFINDORS!" They all charged. James pulled them out and they ran, yelling for McGonagall. The day ended and so did the week, then the end of term was coming to a close. All Slytherins were to stay half the summer to repaint the Gryffindor Common Room and all the furniture. Then they would have to wash all the walls and clean all the beds by hand.
Tanya, Lily, Remus, and Peter studied hard every night until midnight, while James and Sirius set off dungbombs in the girls' dormitories. By the end of June the exams had begun.
'47. Name the year that Dragons were banned, and why the ministry did so.' James paused. Then wrote, In either 1709 or 1809, Not sure why, Probably because of the muggles that spotted them, even though in my opinion they should have been burned since they burned us, even though it never worked, it's the thought that counts.
After the exams they walked out to the grounds. Snape was sitting under the tree reading.
"Hey! Snivellus!" He looked up and covered his face with the book. "We're not stupid like you! We know you're not reading! Your too stupid!" He stuffed the book in his back and pulled out his wand.
"Rictusempra!" His wand sparked and flew backwards into the lake. James and Sirius laughed so hard they nearly fell over.
"Ha! You can't do that either! Rictusempra!" He fell over and began rolling all over the ground laughing and itching himself. James had hit him with the tickling spell. A boy beside Snape had summoned his wand and he jumped forwards.
"Tarantellegra!" James and Sirius split apart and didn't notice it hit Lily whose feet began doing a strange foot movement. Remus and Tanya began to try to figure out the counter- curse.
"Locomotor Mortis." The spell hit Lily again and she looked as if she had had a heart attack. Her legs were as stiff as a board but her feet seemed to be trying to move. Finally there was a loud pop and she stopped moving, and her eyes shut. She was unconscious.
"Don't you ever.EVER.Hurt her again!" Tanya screamed. Sirius aimed the disarming charm at Snape and he shot backwards into the lake. They helped her up as she opened her eyes.
"Where's Snape?"
"In the lake." She dropped her jaw.
"What has he done to you?"
"Nothin, it's more that he's here. If you understand."
"Potter, I was kind of thinking that you weren't all that bad, but you are, and you will never change. You Careless Git!"
"I took his wand and he flew into the lake." Sirius admitted, proudly.
"Prat!" She stood up and ran towards the castle. She ran up to the owlery to visit her owl, Kathey. She wasn't there. There were footsteps behind her. It was McGonagall. "Ms. Evans, Your owl was found on the grounds with 100 roses, the trip was too much for her she, well, she's, er-dead." Lily ran to the dormitory and cried into her pillow. Tanya and Remus left, a minute after Lily and Peter, Sirius and James watched Snape swim to the side and climb out, throwing small rocks at the giant squid. As Lily cried in her bed, she heard a voice,
"Lil'? You in here?" It was Tanya. Lily thought she left when she
popped from behind Lily's hangings. "Wazzup?" she said oddly. "James is 'what's up.'" She stared, very confused. "My owl was found on the grounds dead! With eight so dozen roses. WHO ELSE WOULD DO THAT?" She shrugged. "Sorry Lil'." It was James in doorway. "I was sorry about the spell, so I gave you a gift. It didn't turn out. Really, I'm so sorry." The term ended and the next thing they knew they were on the train home. As they climbed on, James thought, I blew it.As if she would have liked that. I thought we could be friends, she's too innocent.I totally blew it.I guess I can go on insulting her.
Lily waved to Tanya who jumped into her father's car and sped off. Lily got to a bus and began to look for a seat. "Lily!" It was Sirius who was standing with James looking oddly innocent. "Not so fast, we're taking the same bus." Lily dropped her jaw. "Why?" Lily asked, flabbergasted. "Because we feel like it, we will get there, get off, and fly home on brooms." "You are two brainless gits." Lily said walking onto the bus again. "We don't have to sit together." Lily turned.The seats were all full except for three seats in the back. Sirius and James ran to get the sides and Lily was stuck in the middle, trying to ignore the pulling of hair, the pinching and the prodding of wands from James. When the bus stopped she stomped off with out a backward glance. They ran after her, but stopped at the door as it was slammed in their faces.
Lily called for her mother.Her father.No answer. "Petunia!" "I'm behind you stupid." She said, leaning against the kitchen doorframe. "So, how was freak school?" "How would I know, I wasn't there?" Petunia was looking both scared and murderous. " 'Tunia, what's wrong?" She pointed to the stairs behind her. James and Sirius were poking the pictures on the wall with their wands, trying to make them move.
"Potter! Get out of my house!" Lily screamed.
"Okay." He ran past me and out the open front door. Sirius however began balancing a table on the wall.
"SIRIUS!" Lily screamed, "OUT!" He ran out and James ran in and covered Petunia in frogs, she screamed and ran up the stairs. "POTTER, BLACK! OUT! NOW!" They looked quite hurt.
"You didn't like our magic?" Sirius asked.
"It was marvelous, but you'll get expelled."
"It was in your house!" James yelled and they ran out the front door as three owls flew into the room and about a dozen brooms landed in the front yard. There was a tall man who came up to the door first.
"I'm Harvey Lawtwart . Ms. Evans, you conjured three spells in the last four minutes. You cannot do that. You will be expelled."
"No, I swear! It was James Potter and Sirius Black, they each did one, no James did two, even ask my sister.Petunia!" Petunia ran halfway down the stairs shrieked and ran back up. "PETUNIA!" She walked down slowly. "Petunia, who conjured those spells a minute ago?"
"YOU!" Lily dropped her jaw. "Fine, two tall boys, one with long black hair, and one with messy black hair."
"James and Sirius, I swear, I didn't, but please don't expel them."
"Ms. Evans, they each only did two, three are needed to expel one, but they will not be expelled, yet." Lily nodded and walked upstairs.
The Secret and The Sneak Lily sat in the common room alone one night in late February, watching the rain fall outside. The moon was full and, there was Remus and Madam Pomfrey with him. She stopped and said something then walked back to the castle. Rem grabbed a stick and prodded the knot and then he disappeared under the tree. But, no, I couldn't be, there was a shadow, coming towards the whomping willow, and another, and then two more behind. There was shouting and they began running faster. The first one had long greasy hair. The second, very messy, the third had long neat hair and the fourth, was very short.
"Snape, Potter!" She whispered, as much as she hated James, she would never want him dead. She ran as fast as she could through the portrait hole, down the stairs and out into the dusk where the figures were just now reaching the tree. One was gone, Snape, then the second.
"James." She muttered. Then the other two were running back, Sirius and Peter.
"Lil'? What are you doing here?"
"I-saw-you-running-and-I-had-to-"
"It doesn't matter, c'mon," Sirius grabbed her arm and they ran very fast, up the stairs down the corridors and then,
"Mr. Black, Mr. Pettigrew, Ns. Evans? What are you doing?" It was Dumbledore.
"Dumbledore, Snape is trying to get into the willow, and James went after them." Sirius gasped.
"Dear me." He vanished with a small pop. They ran again, all the way outside. Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey and McGonagall were standing by the willow and there were two floating stretchers, moving as if on water.
"Are they okay, Professor?" Lily asked quickly.
"Just unconscious. Mr. Potter here is very brave, you guys are too." Said Madam Pomfrey. Lily stared. She had said professor, meaning either Dumbledore or McGonagall, not the nurse.
"Well, that will be fifty points from Slytherin, for plain stupidity, then, well there are four of you in Gryffindor, so I'd say a hundred?"
"No, Minerva, one hundred fifty." They beamed. As they walked back to their dormitories, Lily asked,
"How did Snape find out." Sirius turned so red he looked like a giant cherry. "Sirius, what were you thinking? He could have been killed. Not that I like him or anything."
"He was bragging, and I well, I went to far." Lily sighed and climbed the stairs with Tanya.
When classes started a week after new years, Lily and Tanya went to working on homework in bed again. When they finished their homework, they would find something to do with the boys.
"We've done that!" Lily scrieched, as they fought to find something to do.
"It's the best thing we can do-" Sirius was looking at the snow outside. "Snowball fight!" Lily smiled, looking at Tanya who was also smiling.
"On brooms!" James added in. "Kay, Let's see, six people, let's nick a broom from the shed, then, er, Sirius, Me and Rem are the only one's who can fly.right?" everyone nodded. "Right, Sirius, you and Tanya, Remus, and Peter and me and Stinkwad." Lily glared at him. It was bitter cold outside, but they wore their warmest cloaks and tried to stay warm. Lily dodged almost everyone's snowballs, but nobody missed hers.
"God, Evans, you have too good of reflexes." He said, missing a large tree, and flying farther and farther away from the school.
"You're right." Lily said. He turned around and she mauled him with a snowball. They started going down, down, down, and CRASH!!
Lily woke up moments later, having no clue where she was. "Potter! POTTER! James, where are you?" She looked around. She seemed to be in some sort of valley, and Marsh. She pulled herself out of a cold swamp and onto a nearby rock. James was lying with his head resting on a rock.
"James!" She ran over to him. He opened his eyes.
"Go! It's getting dark! I- Ouch! - Can't move my leg, go get help and come back."
"Even being Stinkwad, I can't leave you here, I can't fly, it would take me ages to get back."
"Go, we're wasting time." Lily bit her lip then nodded. "I'll hurry." He shut his eye again. She grabbed the broom and shot upwards. She hit her head then weaved her way through the trees. After at least ten minutes she saw the school. She leaned forward and sped up. She landed at the steps and ran. She ran all the way up to McGonagall's study, on the sixth floor.
"Professor! It's James! W-we were having a snowball fight. He fell. He needs help, past the forest."
"That far?" Lily nodded. "You'll have to show me, hurry now. She reached over for a cabinet and pulled out a very battered old broom.
"You're going to-er-fly?"
"Of course." Lily led her to James' broom, hopped on and flew, faster then last time. It was pitch black now. It would be near impossible to find him. You've got to Lil'. Said a voice in her head. She sped up. She looked behind her. McGonagall was right on her tail. She began to lower as her own rock came into view. There he was. He opened his eyes, smiled and shut them again. "James! Are you okay?"
"Same as last time." He said grinning.
"Mr. Potter, you must get on my broom, here you go, good, now Evan's let 's go." Lily followed them. For the first time since she woke up her neck and arm hurt terribly.
Back at the castle Madam Pomfrey gave them each a potion to cure broken bones, then they went straight up to the common room. It was midnight by then and they collapsed onto the couches and were forced awake the next morning by Sirius, Remus, Tanya, and Peter. After telling the story they ran down to breakfast laughing. James and Lily both complained of pain in their arms, legs and neck, and were let off a day of classes.
"You're getting good at hurting yourself, Evans." James said in a very jealous tone. Lily smiled boastfully. The next day however Snape accused them of faking, so they received a fortnight worth of detentions. So that night they went to McGonagall's office who told them to clean the floor, walls and tables of the Great hall, for three hours each night. They finished about half the floor by midnight. They climbed the stairs in a very tired way.
"It's all your fault Evans!" Lily jumped around at him, slipping into the trick step up to his knee.
"What? I saved your life and-"
"You told us to run out!" She dropped her jaw.
"You didn't have to follow bonehead! Don't you go telling me it's my fault. Snape doesn't dislike me anyway! I wouldn't have gotten into this mess if you hadn't given him a dang swirly!" She was fuming so much smoke was almost coming out her ears. He shrugged and walked off. "Wait. What about me?" He shrugged and walked away. The step became very painful, so Lily leaned against the rail for a balance. Night passed and the Bloody Baron, the Slytherin ghost, flew past four times sniggering at her. But nobody walked past till morning.
"Lily!" It was Tanya. "I thought you had gone to breakfast, have you been here since you woke up, was that like ages ago?" Lily stared at her.
"I was here all night." She groaned.
"Weren't you with James?" Lily laughed.
"As if that son of a gun would help me! He laughed and walked away."
"Yeah! Right after you told me how it was all my fault about the detention!" James and Remus were walking down the stairs.
"Yah! Right after you told me it was all my fault about the detention!" Lily yelled.
"Tanya, leave her there."
"No way! Lil' C'mon!" But as soon as Tanya pulled her out Lily grabbed her wand.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Remus pulled out his wand. James was on the ground in the full body bind. He couldn't even move his fingers.
"Sorry Lil', It's just payback! Petrificus Totalus!" He yelled. Tanya muttered the counter curse and helped Lily up. "C'mon Lily!"
"Petrificus Totalus!" Lily yelled, but at that moment Peter and Sirius came out.
"What the heck? What did you do to them?" Sirius yelled, he pulled out his wand and began muttering the counter curse.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" She said to both of them. "Now, tell anyone and I'll do it again! Got it Potter? Sorry you guys." She said the counter curse to all of them and they brought out their wands.
"I don't think so. Leave him there." The next thing Lily knew she was on the ground, stiff as a board, with Tanya, flat on the floor next to her as the boys sped down the corridor. They were the last ones who had exited the Gryffindor tower, so they sat, stiff as boards, on the stairs for what seemed like hours. But when they began to get very hungry, due to the fact it was dinnertime, they heard voices on the stairs.
"Mr. Black and Mr. Potter, I understand, but Remus Lupin, How could you do such a thing to your own friends?" It was a stern voice Lily and Tanya recognized at once. Two figures came around the corner, A very red Remus and a counter cursing McGonagall. Lily and Tanya stood up, rolling their necks, which cracked and their elbows and knees snapped. "Mr. Lupin, a week detention and-"
"Professor, he-er-didn't do anything." Remus looked up, amazed. "It was Pot- It was me. I got stuck in the trick step last night after detention. Then in the morning Tanya came down and helped me out, then I cursed Tanya, but it didn't work, and as a joke we, er, cursed at the same time, and we're here."
"Professor, No, she's covering for me. I cursed Tanya."
"Lupin and Evans will get detention. And Ms. Evans," she continued, "I don't understand, you and Mr. Potter are Gryffindors, houses are like families! AND THIS FAMILY IS NOT WORKING! I would like to see some kindness between you from now on." McGonagall finished looking as if someone had just died. Lily turned as red as a cherry and frowned. Then smiled.
"Okay, I'll be a load nicer to dear James." Remus' eyes widened and Tanya stifled a snort. "We'll be the best of friends." Even McGonagall laughed.
"As if.One more fight and I'll put you in Slytherin." She said smiling.
"Oh, fine, I'll be serious."
"Good." She stomped off, and her high heels clicked until she was two floors below.
"Evans!" It was James, He jumped out of a suit of armor with Sirius. "Did you just get me out of detention?" Lily smiled. He was very friendly now that Lily thought about it, she would never show it though. Lily and Tanya ran down to the Great Hall to catch the end of dinner, while James, Sirius and Remus climbed up to see Peter sitting by the portrait hole.
"Pete!" Rem said oddly, "What on earth are you doing?"
"Ask him!" he said pointing at the portrait.
"Pete," said James, as if soothing a small child, "that is the fat LADY!" Peter sighed and tapped his teeth.
"No, inside." They whispered the password and slipped inside, there were about 20 Slytherins sitting on the couches and Armchairs, even walking into the dorms.
"What the-" Said Sirius before they spotted him.
"GRYFFINDORS!" They all charged. James pulled them out and they ran, yelling for McGonagall. The day ended and so did the week, then the end of term was coming to a close. All Slytherins were to stay half the summer to repaint the Gryffindor Common Room and all the furniture. Then they would have to wash all the walls and clean all the beds by hand.
Tanya, Lily, Remus, and Peter studied hard every night until midnight, while James and Sirius set off dungbombs in the girls' dormitories. By the end of June the exams had begun.
'47. Name the year that Dragons were banned, and why the ministry did so.' James paused. Then wrote, In either 1709 or 1809, Not sure why, Probably because of the muggles that spotted them, even though in my opinion they should have been burned since they burned us, even though it never worked, it's the thought that counts.
After the exams they walked out to the grounds. Snape was sitting under the tree reading.
"Hey! Snivellus!" He looked up and covered his face with the book. "We're not stupid like you! We know you're not reading! Your too stupid!" He stuffed the book in his back and pulled out his wand.
"Rictusempra!" His wand sparked and flew backwards into the lake. James and Sirius laughed so hard they nearly fell over.
"Ha! You can't do that either! Rictusempra!" He fell over and began rolling all over the ground laughing and itching himself. James had hit him with the tickling spell. A boy beside Snape had summoned his wand and he jumped forwards.
"Tarantellegra!" James and Sirius split apart and didn't notice it hit Lily whose feet began doing a strange foot movement. Remus and Tanya began to try to figure out the counter- curse.
"Locomotor Mortis." The spell hit Lily again and she looked as if she had had a heart attack. Her legs were as stiff as a board but her feet seemed to be trying to move. Finally there was a loud pop and she stopped moving, and her eyes shut. She was unconscious.
"Don't you ever.EVER.Hurt her again!" Tanya screamed. Sirius aimed the disarming charm at Snape and he shot backwards into the lake. They helped her up as she opened her eyes.
"Where's Snape?"
"In the lake." She dropped her jaw.
"What has he done to you?"
"Nothin, it's more that he's here. If you understand."
"Potter, I was kind of thinking that you weren't all that bad, but you are, and you will never change. You Careless Git!"
"I took his wand and he flew into the lake." Sirius admitted, proudly.
"Prat!" She stood up and ran towards the castle. She ran up to the owlery to visit her owl, Kathey. She wasn't there. There were footsteps behind her. It was McGonagall. "Ms. Evans, Your owl was found on the grounds with 100 roses, the trip was too much for her she, well, she's, er-dead." Lily ran to the dormitory and cried into her pillow. Tanya and Remus left, a minute after Lily and Peter, Sirius and James watched Snape swim to the side and climb out, throwing small rocks at the giant squid. As Lily cried in her bed, she heard a voice,
"Lil'? You in here?" It was Tanya. Lily thought she left when she
popped from behind Lily's hangings. "Wazzup?" she said oddly. "James is 'what's up.'" She stared, very confused. "My owl was found on the grounds dead! With eight so dozen roses. WHO ELSE WOULD DO THAT?" She shrugged. "Sorry Lil'." It was James in doorway. "I was sorry about the spell, so I gave you a gift. It didn't turn out. Really, I'm so sorry." The term ended and the next thing they knew they were on the train home. As they climbed on, James thought, I blew it.As if she would have liked that. I thought we could be friends, she's too innocent.I totally blew it.I guess I can go on insulting her.
Lily waved to Tanya who jumped into her father's car and sped off. Lily got to a bus and began to look for a seat. "Lily!" It was Sirius who was standing with James looking oddly innocent. "Not so fast, we're taking the same bus." Lily dropped her jaw. "Why?" Lily asked, flabbergasted. "Because we feel like it, we will get there, get off, and fly home on brooms." "You are two brainless gits." Lily said walking onto the bus again. "We don't have to sit together." Lily turned.The seats were all full except for three seats in the back. Sirius and James ran to get the sides and Lily was stuck in the middle, trying to ignore the pulling of hair, the pinching and the prodding of wands from James. When the bus stopped she stomped off with out a backward glance. They ran after her, but stopped at the door as it was slammed in their faces.
Lily called for her mother.Her father.No answer. "Petunia!" "I'm behind you stupid." She said, leaning against the kitchen doorframe. "So, how was freak school?" "How would I know, I wasn't there?" Petunia was looking both scared and murderous. " 'Tunia, what's wrong?" She pointed to the stairs behind her. James and Sirius were poking the pictures on the wall with their wands, trying to make them move.
"Potter! Get out of my house!" Lily screamed.
"Okay." He ran past me and out the open front door. Sirius however began balancing a table on the wall.
"SIRIUS!" Lily screamed, "OUT!" He ran out and James ran in and covered Petunia in frogs, she screamed and ran up the stairs. "POTTER, BLACK! OUT! NOW!" They looked quite hurt.
"You didn't like our magic?" Sirius asked.
"It was marvelous, but you'll get expelled."
"It was in your house!" James yelled and they ran out the front door as three owls flew into the room and about a dozen brooms landed in the front yard. There was a tall man who came up to the door first.
"I'm Harvey Lawtwart . Ms. Evans, you conjured three spells in the last four minutes. You cannot do that. You will be expelled."
"No, I swear! It was James Potter and Sirius Black, they each did one, no James did two, even ask my sister.Petunia!" Petunia ran halfway down the stairs shrieked and ran back up. "PETUNIA!" She walked down slowly. "Petunia, who conjured those spells a minute ago?"
"YOU!" Lily dropped her jaw. "Fine, two tall boys, one with long black hair, and one with messy black hair."
"James and Sirius, I swear, I didn't, but please don't expel them."
"Ms. Evans, they each only did two, three are needed to expel one, but they will not be expelled, yet." Lily nodded and walked upstairs.
