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Chapter Eleven: The Ravenclaw's Victory

Lily was starting to get use to the constant snickering and badmouthing that had followed Rita Skeeter report. December had tried to confront Rita on several different occasions, but she was a very fast runner. She had heard what December had done to Mikel. Beth on the other hand was driving her dorm mates crazy. It was Ludo this and Ludo that. December had placed a muting charm on Beth one evening in the common room. She didn't even notice. She just keep mouthing on about how cute Ludo was and who talented he was.

Lily however wasn't paying much attention to Beth's rants. She was to busy avoiding hexes herself. A couple Slytherins had tried to trick her into eating a hamburger charmed to make her blow up like a cream puff. While a handful of fifth year Hufflepuffs had started a petition to have her removed from the position of Head Girl.

It appeared that although her friends assured her nobody cared what Rita Skeeter had to say, and nobody at school read her stupid paper, they were wrong. James was especially troubled by his new fan club. Since the report had been released, random girls were begging him to break up with Lily, and even one fourth year Ravenclaw had kissed James in the hallway trying to break Lily's love spell. To top everything else off N.E.W.Ts were right around the corner.

Although the majority of Hogwart's Seventh year students were worried about the upcoming test, the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw quidditch teams were more concerned with the upcoming match. It was down to these two teams. If Ravenclaw could beat Gryffindor by 50 points, then they would be the new Quidditch champions. James was spending less and less time with Lily, and it was just adding to the speculations that Lily's love charm was starting to break.

Although at night, the two of them still found time to get quite cozy on the couch in front of the fire. December had even mock threaten to give them detention when she would find them snogging on the couch.

"You two should be ashamed!" December cried laughing as Dreamy and Beth stood behind her snickering on the stair.

Lily was wrapped in James arm and they were engaging themselves in a hot and heavy snogging season, right before December and the girls had appeared in the common room to check to see why Lily wasn't in bed at this late hour. Lily and James were acting very irresponsibility.

James had held a late quidditch practice for his team. Him and Lily had spend so little time together the past few weeks, they had decided to hang out a little later that usual in the common room

What had been an innocent study session had quickly gotten out of control.

Before either of them realized what they were doing in a very public place, they were all over each other. James glasses were lying careless on the floor, and Lily's normally perfect hair was a wreck.

Lily felt her cheeks flush pink when she saw a grinning December standing with her hands on her hips.

"We were just discussing the next Hogmeade trip," Lily tried.

"Ha, I'd say!" December jeered.

James fumbled carelessly trying to find his glasses on the floor, and ruffled his hair innocently.

"Shouldn't you guys be asleep by now," he asked in a very parental voice.

"And miss this?" December asked him.

Beth and Dreamy were now rolling in laughter behind December, and she was motioning for them to get a grip.

"I'll be up in a minuet! Lily spat at her friends. They seem to find it very amusing to catch Lily making out with James.

"Fine, come on, let's leave these lovebirds alone," December laughed.

Beth and Dreamy reluctantly followed December back up the stairs. When they disappeared Lily felt was James tackling her back onto the couch. It took her a second to get back to her senses. The last thing she needed was the Marauders to come down stairs and catch them next.

"James," Lily said pulling away, "we need to get to bed."

He gave her a puppy dog pout and shook his head in a playful no. He attempted to reinstate the snogging session., but she was too quick for him and dodge out of his way.

"James Potter, will you stopping," she laughed.

"Never!" he dared. He was now pulling her arm back towards him on the couch.

"Listen, I don't want Sirius catching us next," she said semi serious.

James suddenly stopped and realized that she was right, they were Head Boy and Head Girl, and they were definitely not setting a good example at this moment.

Lily sat back next to James, and smiled. "Maybe we can continue this tomorrow night?" she teased.

James felt a lump develop in his throat, "tomorrow? I don't think I can make it."

Lily thought he was just joking again, and poked him in the side as she giggled.

"No, seriously, I have something I need to do," he continued. He still hadn't told her about Lupin. He had wanted to, but not many people were willing to accept him when they found out he was a werewolf.

"What?" Lily asked starting to get the gist that James was being serious.

"I can't tell you," he prayed she wouldn't try to push him.

"Why now?" she asked offended.

James was now on his feet, " I just can't."

Lily felt heat rising to her face, "Not another prank! I'm not digging you out of this one," she warned."

James was now feeling a slight bit angry, "I didn't ask you to dig me out of the last one," he informed her.

"Sorry I even bothered!" Lily shot back. She was also now on her feet and storming off towards the girls dormitory stairs. James suddenly felt very stupid. He ran after her, "Lils, please I don't want to fight."

She felt his eyes pouring deep into her soul. She felt all that anger lift from her heart, and she wanted to do nothing but forgive him.

"I don't want to fight either," her eyes were now starting to burn.

He pulled her into a hug, and suddenly everything was forgotten. He kissed her lightly on her forehead, "goodnight Lily."

She felt him nudge her towards the dorm room steps, she hated being responsible.

The next morning was a typical quidditch day for Beth. This time she had lost her gloves, and she was once again in a panic mode. Lily again helped her find her equipment, and just like that she was out the door. This time however, Dreamy was also unable to get back to sleep. Dreamy and Lily walked down to the Great Hall, grabbed a bit of breakfast, and headed back to he Gryffindor common room to wake up December.

When Lily arrived back at the common room she stopped on the Gryffindor prefects and told them the Hogmeade day her and James had decided on. It would be the weekend after next, and it would also be the last Hogmeade trip of the year. When the girls finally got December awake they all went down to the Quidditch field to get a good seat. This was the biggest turn out of the year.

It seemed almost everyone was betting against Gryffindor, since they had won the Quidditch cup for eight years straight. Even the Hufflepuffs were holding a 'GO RAVENCLAW" sign.

Lily smiled as she saw James and the Gryffindors enter the Quidditch stadium. She didn't know what is was about his Quidditch robes, but she liked them.

The Ravenclaw team captain Sandy Wade met James at the midfield line, and the two shook hands. They player suddenly were all in the air, and in their ready position. The whistle was blown and the game was on. Lily always had so much trouble keeping up with what was going on. Every time December, Remus or Peter made a motion like something important had happened, Lily would do the same.

Lily tried to keep her eyes on James, but he was moving so quickly. She felt herself getting dizzy trying to follow him. Suddenly everybody around her was on their feet in panic. The Gryffindor seeker had just been pelted with a bludger and was laying motionless on the field. The game didn't stop. The chasers were scoring left and right from both teams. Sirius tried to hit the Ravenclaw seeker with a bludger in retaliation but missed. Thing just weren't going well for Gryffindor. When Lily looked up at the score board she saw that they were 50 points down. She heard the announcer say, "Oh no, if the Ravenclaw seeker catches the snitch now, it's all over." She then saw the one of the Ravenclaw seeker score another goal.

Gryffindor was now 60 points down.

Beth now had the quaffle, suddenly she went into a spiral dive towards the ground, she missed her pull moment to pull upwards and hit the ground hard. James caught the quaffle that flew out of Beth's hands. He was flying hard for the goals, he did a backwards somersault in midair and scored.

Lily was looking anxiously towards Beth on the field, she was walking away but her new broom was destroyed.

When Lily finally managed to catch a glimpse of James, he once again had the quaffle. Sirius was flying closely behind him, determined to keep him from getting pelted. Just then the announcer screamed, "Penny Johnson has spotted the snitch!"

Lily could almost feel the panic from James, he was hurling towards the goals at full speed, he had already left Sirius behind in the dust. A bludger came hurling at James head, and he made a narrow miss. He had to score before Penny caught the snitch.

He hurled the quaffle moments before young Penny Johnson closed her hands around the golden ball. "Ravenclaw wins the match but Gryffindor wins the cup!" as echoed all throughout the stadium.

Lily almost fell out of her seat as her fellow Gryffindor erupted into celebration.

Lily saw Sirius fly straight into James, jump off his broom in mid-air and engulf his best friend in a victory hug 20 feet off the ground. Lily made mental note to yell at Sirius for the stunt later. December was hooting and hollering next to her. Peter and Remus had already made a motion to seize the field. Lily just smiled, she didn't understand exactly what had happened, but she knew it was good.

The celebration was unbelievable back in the Gryffindor common room. Again sweets from Honeydukes were littering the table along with other Hogmeade goodies. Sirius had managed to charm some music, and everyone was out of control. Lily briefly thought about breaking up the party, but quickly decided against when she saw the Quidditch team make their way through the portrait. She even decided against going to tell Professor McGongall it was under control, afterall she hated lying.

James ran straight towards Lily and spun her around the room. "WE WON," he screamed!

The entire house erupted into applause. It took nearly three hours before everyone finally started to calm down. Lily felt bad for allowing such a celebration to happen on her watch, but she didn't try to stop it.

James approached her with a boyish grin, " Can I have this dance?" he bowed to her.

Lily smiled, "James nobody else is dancing," she informed him.

He scooped her up into his arms, "I never got to ask during the Halloween dance"

He twirled her around the room, dipped her a few times, until finally her head was nuzzled securely into his chest, the music stopped but they didn't.

December, Beth, Dreamy and the Marauders watched their friends dance into each others arms. Sirius slipped his arm around Decembers shoulder, and she rested her head against him. Dreamy gave Peter a flirty look, and he blushed. Beth was daydreaming again, looking like she was about ready to cry. She was probably thinking about Ludo Bagman, she was such a hopeless romantic. Remus was staring at December and Sirius, then back to Lily and James. He perhaps had the loneliest expression in the world on his face.

He silently disappeared up to the empty dormitory room he shared with the Marauders. He gathered his things, it was still early, but he was already getting seriously weak. He disappeared out the portrait. He saw the sun starting to fade into the horizon. He didn't have much time left.