Underneath It All
Summery
James Potter is the most popular guy in school, but only because of his wealth and looks. He never talks to anyone besides his 3 best friends if he can help it. And James has one rule: never fall in love, but what happens when he meets Lily Evans? Because buried under all the money, good looks and Quidditch is a heart of gold.
Disclaimer
Hogwarts, most of the teachers, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Hogsmead and anything else you recognize belongs to J.K Rowling. Lily's friends and anyone or anything you don't recognize belongs to me, including the plot.
A/N I have had so much homework lately. Somehow teachers must find it amusing to pile everyone with assignments on the first week of term. Plus I have a new science teacher who is an absolute biaaaatch!!!!. I really really hate science. it's my worst subject in the world, anyone else hate science heaps? I can sympathize. oh well, only 8 weeks til the summer holidays. Anyway thanks for listening to my lil rant, needed to get that out. And, yeah that's why I took so long to update this, and sorry this story has been so short but I'm having a bit of trouble making it longer, anyway I'll try and make it longer, k
Anyways, I'm personally thanking reviews today, so yay for me
Ruth3: Yay, I can't wait either coz it's fun writing this story. Anywho thanks 4 reviewing
ShorTi: nup, not intentionally but it did come out that way, I guess. Anyway thanks
Demeter: Thanks for the advice. I'll try to make em sound more British but coz I'm Aussie it might be a bit hard, but I'll try
Cora Eloise: Thanks, I was hoping it would be a new story
Pao Bloom: Yay, I can't wait til James is happy. Thanks
Fiery Pheonix: Thanks!
Bombshell: Is amoeba queen a author you want me to review, coz I tried to search but couldn't find anything, but anyway I'll keep looking, anyway thanks
Glitterdust: Really? I'm glad they were o.k. Thanks!
Lily Skylo: Awww, thanks, your so nice, glad u liked her friends, Thanks!
Yea: Thanks!
Okay, on with the chapter
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Detention in the Dungeons
At breakfast a few mornings after James met Lily something happened that the students had seen before, yet still disturbed them.
A student received an official looking white envelop with the Ministry of Magic stamp on the back.
This may have seemed not that bad but given the state of the wizarding world it was.
A power-hungry wizard, going by the name of Lord Voldemort was convincing more and more people to join him on his quest to gain control of the wizarding world.
Lord Voldemort and his followers were killing witches and wizards at an alarming rate and even though the Ministry of Magic was doing everything they could to stop him, they weren't having much success.
A letter from the Ministry most likely meant that a family member had been killed at the hand of Voldemort.
It didn't matter how many times James saw a student get one of the letters, he was still left feeling sick and shaken.
The name Lord Voldemort had created a deep sense of rage inside him that he couldn't put into words.
He couldn't stand one man so much sadness and destruction to the world he lived in. It seemed that everytime a small ray of hope shone through for people, death would rear its ugly and distorted head at them.
James was angry and confused to see his world crushed beyond repair while it seemed nobody could do anything about it.
Voldemort had spies everywhere and lately you had to be careful who you trusted. Voldemort was the reason James had become so withdrawn. When Voldemort had first begun gaining power James had realized that someday it might be someone he was close to that was hurt. He couldn't stand losing someone to Voldemort. At first James had tried to distance himself from Sirius, Remus and Peter but theyhad said that, Voldemort or not they would stick by him. So James kept the company of his three best friends but was careful not to get close to anyone else.
James felt sick as he watched the pale, teary third year girl fleeing from the great hall, a few worried friends following her.
The students and teachers were left shocked and somber at the aftermath of this event and the atmosphere stayed like this for the rest of breakfast.
The first lesson of the day was Potions with the Slythrins so it didn't really boost James's mood when it was time to go to class.
It was common knowledge that the Slythrins and Gryffindors hated each other and for James having potions with the Slythrins was complete torture and the potions teacher Professor Capeseo didn't help matters. He was rude, nasty and generally treated the Slythrins like kings and the Gryffindors like dirt.
So 15 minutes after the incident in the Great Hall, James entered the potions dungeon with his friends. They took there usual seats at a table in the back of the room and almost at once the drawling voice of Lucious Malfoy, a snobby, particularly nasty seventh year, met their ears.
'I think Lord Voldemort has the right idea, killing all the scum littering our world, I mean the best thing we can do is to get rid of the muggle borns'
Lucious looked over and saw James watching him.
'Don't you agree, Potter?' he asked, smirking evilly 'I mean, you as Head boy should care about the school and the best thing to do is to get rid of all the filthy mudbloods'
James felt a hot rush of anger develop in his chest. Inside his pocket his hand gripped his wand tightly
'Malfoy, the best thing for the school would be if you left' said James angrily 'but as that's not going to happen anytime soon, you should just shut your fat mouth'
'What are you going to do bout' it, Potter?' said Malfoy smirking and leaning back in his chair'
James didn't really have time to think at all as he stared and Malfoy's gloating face but he did know that he hated Malfoy at that moment more then any other time in his life.
James whipped out his wand and said the first curse that came to his head.
'Furnunculus!'
Great ugly boils immediately appeared on Malfoys face. He yelled in frustration and at the moment Professor Capeseo swept in the door.
'Professor, Potter cursed me' said Malfoy, showing Capeseo his face.
Malfoy was sent to the hospital wing and Capeseo turned his dark, threatening face to James
'Is it true that you were the one to give Mr Malfoy those boils?' He asked in a dangerous voice.
'Yes, sir' answered James
'Right, well if that's the case, detention, this evening in the dungeon and 50 points from Gryffindor'
'But-' started Sirius
'No arguments, Mr Black, or it will be you with detention' said Capeseo silkily 'and Mr Potter, if you value your position as headboy at all, you will not behave like this in the future, is that clear?
'Yes, sir' said Sirius and James in unison.
The rest of the lesson was spent working vigorously to get a potion finished by the end of the lesson and by that time James was well and truly in a bad mood
'Ah well' said Sirius as they walked out of the dungeon 'at least your one detention closer to getting the record'
That evening James dragged himself down to the dungeon for his detention. He was surprised to find 2 other students already in the dungeon. Usually Capeseo gave individual detentions
'Mr Potter, you here' drawled Capeseo 'right, well all these cupboards need to be cleaned out and stacked again neatly, then this floor and the walls need to be scrubbed clean ad no talking, is that clear?'
Capeseo strode to the door, opened it, walked out and slammed the door behind him.
James looked around at his company in the room.
There was a short, dark-haired boy who James was sure was Chaser on the Ravenclaw quidditch team. The other person in the room was a girl with red hair. It took James a few minutes to realize it was the girl that he ran into a couple of days ago at breakfast.
Lily was introducing herself the Ravenclaw boy and then turned to James.
'Hey, James, remember me?' asked Lily
'Er.yeah, hi' said James uncertainly.
'You know, it's a surprise seeing you here, I mean, with you being headboy and all, I didn't really think you'd get detention' said Lily cheerfully 'what did you do to get in here'
'Oh..um, Malfoy said something to me and I sort of.cursed him' answered James
'Malfoy? he's that Slythrin isn't he?, he's a git' Lily said
'Why are you here?' asked James in an effort to be conversational
Lily giggled 'Well, lets say I gave that Slythrin, Morsa Banks, a reason never to insult me again'
James raised an eyebrow 'You cursed her?'
'Yup, big time' said Lily, smiling 'well, we better get started cleaning, if we wanna get out of here soon'
After about an hour of silent cleaning, the dungeon was spotless, well as spotless as a dungeon can be.
Professor Capeseo came and let them out and Lily and James made their way to Gryffindor tower.
'Must be pretty hard being headboy, huh?' Lily asked out of the blue.
James was taken back by the question so he didn't answer straight away
'Um.Yeah, I guess, but I like it'
'Really? It always seems like such a hard job, all that work' Lily said earnestly 'anyway, when are you and your friends going to play another one of your great pranks, because, I'm telling you, the Slythrins are really testing my patience lately'
James laughed softly 'I'm sure we'll think of something pretty soon'
They had arrived at the portrait hole and climbed through.
'Well, anyway, I'm gonna head of to bed now, so I'll see you around' said Lily and she walked up the girls staircase
'Yeah, see you' said James, sitting down, on one of the couches.
James grinned to himself. He had never met a person who was so easy to talk to on the first meeting as Lily. Sure, he was still a bit wary of her constant cheerfulness but she made him laugh. James wasn't saying he was all of a sudden going to become best friends with Lily but it was nice to have someone to talk to who didn't place expectations and labels on him.
James made his way up the boys staircase to bed, thinking to himself that the day hadn't been a complete waste of time.
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Well that turned out longer then the others, I think. Anyway hoped you liked it. And don't forget to review or I'll be sad, savvy?
Peace
Summery
James Potter is the most popular guy in school, but only because of his wealth and looks. He never talks to anyone besides his 3 best friends if he can help it. And James has one rule: never fall in love, but what happens when he meets Lily Evans? Because buried under all the money, good looks and Quidditch is a heart of gold.
Disclaimer
Hogwarts, most of the teachers, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Hogsmead and anything else you recognize belongs to J.K Rowling. Lily's friends and anyone or anything you don't recognize belongs to me, including the plot.
A/N I have had so much homework lately. Somehow teachers must find it amusing to pile everyone with assignments on the first week of term. Plus I have a new science teacher who is an absolute biaaaatch!!!!. I really really hate science. it's my worst subject in the world, anyone else hate science heaps? I can sympathize. oh well, only 8 weeks til the summer holidays. Anyway thanks for listening to my lil rant, needed to get that out. And, yeah that's why I took so long to update this, and sorry this story has been so short but I'm having a bit of trouble making it longer, anyway I'll try and make it longer, k
Anyways, I'm personally thanking reviews today, so yay for me
Ruth3: Yay, I can't wait either coz it's fun writing this story. Anywho thanks 4 reviewing
ShorTi: nup, not intentionally but it did come out that way, I guess. Anyway thanks
Demeter: Thanks for the advice. I'll try to make em sound more British but coz I'm Aussie it might be a bit hard, but I'll try
Cora Eloise: Thanks, I was hoping it would be a new story
Pao Bloom: Yay, I can't wait til James is happy. Thanks
Fiery Pheonix: Thanks!
Bombshell: Is amoeba queen a author you want me to review, coz I tried to search but couldn't find anything, but anyway I'll keep looking, anyway thanks
Glitterdust: Really? I'm glad they were o.k. Thanks!
Lily Skylo: Awww, thanks, your so nice, glad u liked her friends, Thanks!
Yea: Thanks!
Okay, on with the chapter
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Detention in the Dungeons
At breakfast a few mornings after James met Lily something happened that the students had seen before, yet still disturbed them.
A student received an official looking white envelop with the Ministry of Magic stamp on the back.
This may have seemed not that bad but given the state of the wizarding world it was.
A power-hungry wizard, going by the name of Lord Voldemort was convincing more and more people to join him on his quest to gain control of the wizarding world.
Lord Voldemort and his followers were killing witches and wizards at an alarming rate and even though the Ministry of Magic was doing everything they could to stop him, they weren't having much success.
A letter from the Ministry most likely meant that a family member had been killed at the hand of Voldemort.
It didn't matter how many times James saw a student get one of the letters, he was still left feeling sick and shaken.
The name Lord Voldemort had created a deep sense of rage inside him that he couldn't put into words.
He couldn't stand one man so much sadness and destruction to the world he lived in. It seemed that everytime a small ray of hope shone through for people, death would rear its ugly and distorted head at them.
James was angry and confused to see his world crushed beyond repair while it seemed nobody could do anything about it.
Voldemort had spies everywhere and lately you had to be careful who you trusted. Voldemort was the reason James had become so withdrawn. When Voldemort had first begun gaining power James had realized that someday it might be someone he was close to that was hurt. He couldn't stand losing someone to Voldemort. At first James had tried to distance himself from Sirius, Remus and Peter but theyhad said that, Voldemort or not they would stick by him. So James kept the company of his three best friends but was careful not to get close to anyone else.
James felt sick as he watched the pale, teary third year girl fleeing from the great hall, a few worried friends following her.
The students and teachers were left shocked and somber at the aftermath of this event and the atmosphere stayed like this for the rest of breakfast.
The first lesson of the day was Potions with the Slythrins so it didn't really boost James's mood when it was time to go to class.
It was common knowledge that the Slythrins and Gryffindors hated each other and for James having potions with the Slythrins was complete torture and the potions teacher Professor Capeseo didn't help matters. He was rude, nasty and generally treated the Slythrins like kings and the Gryffindors like dirt.
So 15 minutes after the incident in the Great Hall, James entered the potions dungeon with his friends. They took there usual seats at a table in the back of the room and almost at once the drawling voice of Lucious Malfoy, a snobby, particularly nasty seventh year, met their ears.
'I think Lord Voldemort has the right idea, killing all the scum littering our world, I mean the best thing we can do is to get rid of the muggle borns'
Lucious looked over and saw James watching him.
'Don't you agree, Potter?' he asked, smirking evilly 'I mean, you as Head boy should care about the school and the best thing to do is to get rid of all the filthy mudbloods'
James felt a hot rush of anger develop in his chest. Inside his pocket his hand gripped his wand tightly
'Malfoy, the best thing for the school would be if you left' said James angrily 'but as that's not going to happen anytime soon, you should just shut your fat mouth'
'What are you going to do bout' it, Potter?' said Malfoy smirking and leaning back in his chair'
James didn't really have time to think at all as he stared and Malfoy's gloating face but he did know that he hated Malfoy at that moment more then any other time in his life.
James whipped out his wand and said the first curse that came to his head.
'Furnunculus!'
Great ugly boils immediately appeared on Malfoys face. He yelled in frustration and at the moment Professor Capeseo swept in the door.
'Professor, Potter cursed me' said Malfoy, showing Capeseo his face.
Malfoy was sent to the hospital wing and Capeseo turned his dark, threatening face to James
'Is it true that you were the one to give Mr Malfoy those boils?' He asked in a dangerous voice.
'Yes, sir' answered James
'Right, well if that's the case, detention, this evening in the dungeon and 50 points from Gryffindor'
'But-' started Sirius
'No arguments, Mr Black, or it will be you with detention' said Capeseo silkily 'and Mr Potter, if you value your position as headboy at all, you will not behave like this in the future, is that clear?
'Yes, sir' said Sirius and James in unison.
The rest of the lesson was spent working vigorously to get a potion finished by the end of the lesson and by that time James was well and truly in a bad mood
'Ah well' said Sirius as they walked out of the dungeon 'at least your one detention closer to getting the record'
That evening James dragged himself down to the dungeon for his detention. He was surprised to find 2 other students already in the dungeon. Usually Capeseo gave individual detentions
'Mr Potter, you here' drawled Capeseo 'right, well all these cupboards need to be cleaned out and stacked again neatly, then this floor and the walls need to be scrubbed clean ad no talking, is that clear?'
Capeseo strode to the door, opened it, walked out and slammed the door behind him.
James looked around at his company in the room.
There was a short, dark-haired boy who James was sure was Chaser on the Ravenclaw quidditch team. The other person in the room was a girl with red hair. It took James a few minutes to realize it was the girl that he ran into a couple of days ago at breakfast.
Lily was introducing herself the Ravenclaw boy and then turned to James.
'Hey, James, remember me?' asked Lily
'Er.yeah, hi' said James uncertainly.
'You know, it's a surprise seeing you here, I mean, with you being headboy and all, I didn't really think you'd get detention' said Lily cheerfully 'what did you do to get in here'
'Oh..um, Malfoy said something to me and I sort of.cursed him' answered James
'Malfoy? he's that Slythrin isn't he?, he's a git' Lily said
'Why are you here?' asked James in an effort to be conversational
Lily giggled 'Well, lets say I gave that Slythrin, Morsa Banks, a reason never to insult me again'
James raised an eyebrow 'You cursed her?'
'Yup, big time' said Lily, smiling 'well, we better get started cleaning, if we wanna get out of here soon'
After about an hour of silent cleaning, the dungeon was spotless, well as spotless as a dungeon can be.
Professor Capeseo came and let them out and Lily and James made their way to Gryffindor tower.
'Must be pretty hard being headboy, huh?' Lily asked out of the blue.
James was taken back by the question so he didn't answer straight away
'Um.Yeah, I guess, but I like it'
'Really? It always seems like such a hard job, all that work' Lily said earnestly 'anyway, when are you and your friends going to play another one of your great pranks, because, I'm telling you, the Slythrins are really testing my patience lately'
James laughed softly 'I'm sure we'll think of something pretty soon'
They had arrived at the portrait hole and climbed through.
'Well, anyway, I'm gonna head of to bed now, so I'll see you around' said Lily and she walked up the girls staircase
'Yeah, see you' said James, sitting down, on one of the couches.
James grinned to himself. He had never met a person who was so easy to talk to on the first meeting as Lily. Sure, he was still a bit wary of her constant cheerfulness but she made him laugh. James wasn't saying he was all of a sudden going to become best friends with Lily but it was nice to have someone to talk to who didn't place expectations and labels on him.
James made his way up the boys staircase to bed, thinking to himself that the day hadn't been a complete waste of time.
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Well that turned out longer then the others, I think. Anyway hoped you liked it. And don't forget to review or I'll be sad, savvy?
Peace