A/n; Yeah ok, maybe I'll spoil the next few chapters even more… wait, never mind, you'll have to wait in agony! Sorry I can't think of anything intelligent to say at the present time…

Thank you so much to Slone who told me that Jaden reminded me of Lestat from Interview with a Vampire!! * claps hands * I loved that movie! Anyone who says Brad Pitt is not hot in that movie will DIE SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY =)

Feel free to say that Kirsten Dunst was a tad on the 'fucked up' side. I mean, hello, what was with the hair???

Also muchos thankos (can't speak Spanish, I'm a French-taking fool) to Ryuuko Megami for that bit on Avada Kedavra!

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Lily rolled out of bed rather drowsily that next morning, the day they were going to Hogsmeade. It was a Saturday, so naturally everyone in the girl's dorm was still sleeping. Lily wryly noted Sierra's outfit, hanging meticulously in the closet, was perfectly picked out down to the very shade of her lipstick for the big date.

Lily was happy for Sierra, she really was. After all, she'd found something good and honest in one of the biggest players at school. Doing that was like finding a cure for a mortal disease; you know its there, but its hard to get to.

Smiling to herself, Lily tugged on a pair of Muggle running shorts and a plain gray shirt with running shoes. Sometimes just a good jog around the Hogwarts ground was a way to forget all about your problems for a little while. She walked quietly to the entrance of the castle, intensely aware of the silence that still cloaked the school. On reaching the door, she checked quickly to make sure no one was watching and took off at a medium pace, the cold morning air fresh on her face.

Not slowing down at all, she jogged around the lake and noticed near the edge of the Forbidden Forest four figures walking slowly, huddled together. Curious (and slightly scared, for her heartbeat increased and her mouth felt dry), she cautiously slipped behind some dew-soaked bushes near the edge of the lake.

"Come on Remus, its only a little farther," said one voice that sounded familiar as the figures approached.

Fear gripped Lily like an icy hand around her throat. They were barely five feet from where she was crouching on the damp ground.

"Prongs – "

"What is it, Padfoot?" snapped 'Prongs.'

"There's someone on the other side of the bushes."

"How'd you figure? Look, I know these are strange circumstances but I really think this whole thing is getting to you!"

"No, Prongs, I can sense it…"

Lily didn't know whether to bolt up and run or stay placed and scream so loud it shattered windows. Eventually, she couldn't take it: she'd have to stand up sooner or later, and those people were getting awfully close…

"LILY EVANS?" A boy bellowed in shock.

Lily shot up like a rocket, brushing stray hairs out of her eyes and looking around wildly.

"Lily? What're you doing out here?" Sirius Black asked with a look of guilt, confusion and mistrust on his face.

"Bloody – bloody fuck! You nearly made me have a heart attack, you freaking morons!" Lily shrieked, breathing heavily.

"Oh God, Lily, don't say anything, don't say anything! Jesus, if someone catches us –" James Potter hissed, looking worried. Lily noticed absently he had for once called her by her name - a most unusual happening.

She stopped moving around and looked at the four people standing in front of her: Sirius and James were standing over a deathly pale Remus and beside Sirius was Peter Pettigrew.

"I didn't realize you guys hung around with Peter," Lily said suddenly.

James shook his head almost violently. "Not now, Evans."

"What're you guys doing out here anyway? Ooh… my gosh, you guys are out here…" Lily said her eyes slowly widening, looking in the direction of the Forbidden Forest.

"It's not what it looks like –" Peter started in a scared voice.

"Shut up Peter, yes it is!" James snapped.

Lily looked blankly at them, completely at a loss for words. What a strange occurrence of events!

"Would someone please like to tell me what is going on here?" she said suspiciously.

Sirius scuffed his toe on the ground, shoving his hands into his pockets. Remus sat up looking dead-tired.

"Remus…?" Lily asked with a sharp pang of sympathy hitting her heart. He had twigs and leaves and dirt in his sandy-blond hair and bloody scratches all over his arms and a few on his face. His lip was bleeding from a nasty gash on the lower right side. It seemed James, Peter and Sirius was in similar conditions.

"Lily, you've got to swear you will not repeat to anyone what I'm about to say," James threatened. His eyes reflecting a menacing glint.

Lily crossed her arms. "I promise I won't."

"Remus, do you give me permission to tell her?" James asked Remus seriously.

"Please Lily - please, don't tell anyone," Remus said in a quiet, ashamed voice.

"I promise, Remus," Lily said.

"I'm sure you've figured out that Remus gets sick or has to visit a sick relative, right?" James asked without a hint of sarcasm of coldness in his voice.

Lily nodded slowly, starting to like the James that wasn't a complete asshole around her.

"Especially around full moons?"

"James… I don't know. She hates you, she'd probably find some way to get you back using this information," Peter piped up.

James looked Lily squarely in the eyes, their gaze locking for a moment or two. Lily didn't feel at all irritated or awkward when he looked at her that way… almost like he was trying to read her mind and soul. She tried to do the same to him, though she felt no one could match that fervent intensity.

"No," James said in a decided voice, "she's not cruel in that way."

"Its your choice, Remus," Sirius spoke up.

"I trust Lily," Remus said with a weak smile.

"Remus is a werewolf, Lily," James said quietly, his eyes downcast.

Lily felt as though her oxygen supply had been cut off. Her stomach plummeted.

"Werewolf?" she said dazedly.

"Yes, he's a werewolf," James repeated with a little more irritation.

"But – but how?" Lily asked, unable to grasp the concept. The world seemed to be spinning strangely…

"I was bitten as a child, there's no cure for me so I come out here on every full moon," Remus said. He raised his hand a bit to try to point at the Forbidden Forest, but stopped midway and let it drop heavily back down. "I seem to have missed the mark a bit this time - usually Dumbledore escorts me to the Whomping Willow and leads me to the Shrieking Shack where I can transform and stay there until I'm human again."

"Lucky for him we found out last year and have been trying to turn into Animagus ever since," Sirius said, approaching the topic easily. "Although our attempts haven't worked very successfully yet."

"Do – do – do you know how much TROUBLE you're going to be in if anyone ever finds out? You could all be killed!" Lily shouted at them. She shook with some emotion she could not identify. It was not anger.

"We're not afraid, Lily," James said seriously.

"It doesn't matter! You're all a bunch of young, stupid –"

"But no one will find out, will they?" Peter reminded her with a small smile.

Lily looked at Remus and felt the world spin beneath her feet again. Her friend, her dear friend Remus was a… werewolf.

"Remus… werewolf…" Lily muttered and, feeling extremely faint, she collapsed on the ground in a crumpled heap.

"Shit," James spat and bent over her, pushing away the red hair covering her face. Her face was paler than usual and her eyes were closed, but she was breathing.

"Come on, we've got to get her to the Hospital Wing," Sirius said.

"Sirius, don't make me –" James said in a warning voice.

"Remus, can you walk ok?" Sirius asked.

Remus nodded and struggled up. Peter supported some of his weight, as Remus must've sprained his ankle running out of the forest.

"James, you've got to carry Lily," Sirius said.

"WHAT? Why me?" James protested.

"Because… you know, you're stronger than me," Sirius said. Lying on short notice was a skill that simply came naturally.

"Gee, thanks, but flattery at this point isn't accepted: you take her," James said sarcastically, pushing Lily's limp form towards Sirius.

"God James, she doesn't have cooties! Just pick her up and carry her to the Hospital Wing! I promise that no one is going to see you," Sirius assured his friend.

"All right! She better be grateful I'm doing this," James grumbled and picked her up. She was surprisingly light, but that might be because she was unconscious…

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"Oh gracious, what happened here?" Madame Blank exclaimed as they all entered the Hospital Wing in their strange entourage.

"Remus is feeling a bit down," Sirius supplied, helping Remus into one of the hospital beds.

James sighed heavily and laid Lily down on the closest bed to the door and immediately shook his arms to release the tension in them.

"Lily fainted from the - the cold," Peter said.

Madame Blank nodded, though still looking slightly bewildered. "What were you three doing out so early?"

All of them looked at each other with a look of panic on their faces.

"Um… scouting out the Quidditch field, you know, seeing if the grass needs to be cut…" James said quickly.

"Yes! Can't play Quidditch without good, clean-cut grass?" Sirius said, looking at James like he was crazy.

Madame Blank looked at James in the exact same way but let it slide. "Thank you… gentlemen… but you'll probably want me to examine those cuts you've got!"

James and Sirius groaned and sat down on the same bed, swinging their legs and waiting for her to examine them. Peter had mysteriously vanished off after he'd gotten Remus to the door.

"Goodness, how you boys get so dirty and scraped up is beyond me!" Madame Blank tutted.

"It is a wonder," Sirius replied sincerely, acting like he had no idea what she was talking about.

Madame Blank put a bandage on a nasty gash on James' forehead and muttered a spell, curing the rest of the two boy's minor scrapes.

"Your friends will be just fine, come back in a little while and they'll be in good enough condition to go to Hogsmeade!" She said, shooing them out in a motherly fashion.

"What do we do now? Everyone's going to want to know where Lily and Remus are," Sirius asked James once they had escaped the infirmary.

"We tell everyone absolutely nothing! This is just like every other time when Remus would go up to the Hospital Wing, we go on with our lives and forget about his condition while we can," James said.

"Oh," Sirius said, "I was hoping we'd be able to tell Misty and Arabella and – Sierra."

"No way," James said immediately. "Sirius, what do you think would happen if we betrayed his trust?"

"He'd go postal and eat us once he transforms next month?" Sirius said helpfully.

"Um… yeah, that and the entire school wouldn't know how to approach him and it'd be – er – awkward. Some people might take advantage of him in the aftermath of transforming."

"Yeah… ok well, its nearly breakfast, I have to go catch up with Sierra," Sirius said running off.

"You know, deserting your best friend for a woman is not how you earn brownie points!" James called after him.

Walking alone in the corridor, he thought of Lily and her being all alone in the Hospital Wing (Remus usually slept a long time after recovering) and suddenly remembered: she'd probably heard him refer to his friends as their nicknames.

Damn, he thought as he ran back to the Hospital Wing.

"Mr. Potter, I thought I told you to come back later!" Madame Blank scolded him although she couldn't hide a tiny smile.

"Sorry Madame," James said flashing her a charming apologetic smile that even she couldn't say no to. "You know, Lily's a really good friend and I just want to make sure she's ok."

Madame Blank nodded, touched. "Of course James! I'll be in my office if you need anything."

James nodded and pulled up a chair next to Lily's bed as she closed the door to her office.

James rolled his eyes. "Sucker."

Fortunately enough, it didn't take Lily long to come around. Her vision was slightly blurred but she could see an outline of a boy… with a bloody handsome face, might she add, until her vision became perfectly cleared and realized it was James.

"EURGH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?" she said in an annoyed voice, rubbing her eyes.

"Glad to see you've come around," James said in a perfectly chipper voice.

"Bugger off Potter, go find some girls to chase," Lily said sourly.

"You seem perfectly bitchy today Miss Evans," James commented.

"Thank you. You'd be this way too if you were in my place and I found your hideous face leering at me," Lily replied sweetly.

"Listen, I don't have time to talk and its just as well: I've got my own plans today at Hogsmeade. Did you hear anything before you stood up and saw us?" James asked.

Lily closed her eyes, groaning. "Are you going to blackmail me?"

James thought this over and thought better of it. "No, I just want to know."

"I heard somebody talking and said the words 'Prongs' and with a reply came 'something something Padfoot," Lily said.

James smiled. "Thank you Miss Evans, you've been most helpful."

Lily looked at him, slightly hesitant. "Are you going to kill me now that you've got your information?"

"No, but if you breathe a single word of it to anyone I'll get you back in ways you can't even imagine," James said with a grin.

"Devious little bugger, aren't you?" Lily remarked dryly.

"I've got a reputation to live up to Evans," James said with a shrug.

"Oh yes, that bloody infamous 'reputation' you go on about," Lily said sarcastically.

"You're just - jealous you don't have a reputation!" James said lamely.

Lily snorted. "There are better things in life besides being known at school as the person who's slept around the most."

James looked indignant. "I do not sleep around. That's low."

Lily shrugged. "I don't know, I wouldn't put it past you!"

"I'm sure you've done a fair share of it yourself Evans," James said coolly.

Lily smirked. "Wouldn't you love to know? And I'm only fourteen, I haven't done anything yet."

"Sure you haven't," James said rolling his eyes, starting to get up.

He felt her tug on his sleeve. "James, wait."

"What?" he asked sharply. His eyes softened when he looked at her: she looked like she was fighting an internal battle, biting her lip.

"Thanks," She said with a tiny, practically non-existent smile, "I mean, you know, for back there…"

"You're welcome," James said and walked out.

Lily sighed and sank back deep into her pillows, her cheeks flaming brilliantly.

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"Lily! I didn't think you'd make it!" Sierra called from the doorway.

Lily grinned. Still feeling somewhat faint, she had convinced Madame Blank to let her and Remus out of that God-forsaken Hospital Wing two hours later.

"Just in time to ruin the rest of the day!" James called with a snicker. A pretty fifth year girl Lily couldn't place a name to was hanging onto his arm.

"New girlfriend?" Lily asked coolly.

"Yeah this is um…" James thought quickly, "Betty?"

"It's Veronica," she said snottily.

"You know for someone who's gotten the opportunity to date Potter for a week, you certainly aren't making good use of your time," Lily said maliciously.

"Good one," Sierra said, high-fiving Lily with a laugh.

James rolled his eyes and Veronica tossed her brown hair over her shoulder.

"Was that a comment used to stick up for James?" Sirius asked, letting that question dangle in the air.

"No, I don't defend people. They can fight their own battles," Lily said airily.

"I wouldn't want Evans fighting for me anyway. She couldn't fight her way out of a wet paper bag!" James laughed.

Lily made a face at him. "You're so charming."

"All right, good use of insults today guys! I'd say it was a tie today," Sirius said with a tone of finality in his voice.

"Lets go! I want to go straight to the Three Broomsticks to go get some butterbeers," Sierra said happily.

"Whatever milady wants!" Sirius said jovially, offering his elbow to her. Sierra laughed, playing along and they walked out over exaggeratedly.

Veronica rolled her eyes and dragged James along behind her. Lily grinned to herself: Dating Veronica would be a bad thing from the start, and she could hardly wait until she could start taunting James. Oh, the simple pleasures in life!

It was a bright and breezy November day with leaves falling from the trees, the lake glimmering, and the giant squid swimming lazily on the surface.

"I wish I had a boyfriend," Lily said all of the sudden.

"Too bad Evans, no boy would ever date you!" James said just as suddenly.

"I guess I deserved that," Lily said with a roll of her eyes.

"Aw come on Lily, I know tons of boys who would go out with you!" Sirius said brightly.

"Like who?" Lily asked.

"Well," Sirius said, "there's Amos Diggory – "
 

"AMOS DIGGORY? You mean that smarmy bloke from Hufflepuff? The one who's Chaser on the Quidditch team?" James asked incredulously.

"Yeah, him!" Sirius said.

"He's cute," Sierra said thoughtfully.

"You think? You see, I've kind of been thinking that too – "

"Come off it Evans, even I know you and him haven't even exchanged distant glances, let alone a conversation!" James said.

"Well it isn't impossible, you ass!" Lily said hotly.

James shrugged. "I'm just saying!"

"God, how do you manage to piss me off with even the littlest of things?" Lily asked gritting her teeth.

"It's a gift," James said happily.

"He is rather good, isn't he?" Sirius said smiling.

"Shut up," James said. "Evans, I just remembered something!"

"What?"

"You're a Gryffindor and he's a Hufflepuff," James said pretending to be concerned, "so wouldn't that be… going against your own House?"

Lily put a finger to her chin, pretending also to be concerned. "Gosh Potter, you're so right! I mean, what the FUCK do you call your and Veronica's relationship? Casual friends through different Houses?"

"Hey! That's not fair," James shouted.

"Yes it is! What House are you from anyway?" Lily asked the arrogant girl.

"Hufflepuff," Veronica said uncertainly.

"Aha! So you know Amos Diggory?"

"Yeah," Veronica said edgily, "we've… dated."

"Oh, how fascinating," Lily said with a fake smile. From her tone, everyone could tell she couldn't care one way or the other.

"Lily, I think you should really go for him! He's one year ahead of you, but so what! James does it all the time, right?" Sierra asked.

"Righto," James said giving her thumbs up.

Lily was apprehensive and pretty down by the proposition of going out with Amos. Sure, she didn't know him from a load of wood but you could get to know people! But what if it didn't work out? She didn't want to be dumped by someone older than her; it would be too embarrassing for words!

"Lily? LILY! It's this way," Sirius said laughing, dragging her towards Hogsmeade.

A short while later, they were on the main streets of Hogsmeade, their cheeks turning pink from the cold and heading towards the Three Broomsticks. Plenty of people were milling around on the streets, from children to very old adults and many Hogwarts students running around with bags of things purchased from stores.

"Oh look, Lily! Gladrags! We didn't have one where we lived," Sierra said, looking wistfully at the designer store.

Lily smiled, jangling her pockets filled with wizarding money. "Maybe later, ok Sierra?"

"Ok!" Sierra said brightly.

Veronica, Sirius, Sierra, Lily, and James entered the bustling and cheery atmosphere that was the Three Broomsticks.

"There's a table over there," Lily said, pointing to a table over in the back.

"Who's paying for drinks?" Sirius asked as they settled and took off their sweatshirts (in Lily's case because she was wearing Muggle clothes) and cloaks.

All of them looked pointedly at Sirius.

"Oh all right, first round I pay; second, Jamesie!" Sirius said sullenly.

"You'd better pay for my drinks, Sirius," Sierra said with a pout.

"Yeah James, you'd better pay for mine too!" Veronica said self-importantly.

"Sure thing," James said lightly.

"I feel like the fifth wheel," Lily said morosely, leaning her elbows on the table and resting her chin on her fists.

"Maybe you can get Amos to sit with you," James teased.

"Shove off," Lily snapped.

"We should get another single gal over here," Sirius said. He looked up and scanned the crowd for one.

A pretty barmaid came up to the table. Lily watched as Sirius and James looked up with interest.

"Ah, Hogwarts students! I haven't seen you guys around here often," she said with a smile.

"Yeah, we don't come around too often. We haven't yet had the chance of meeting, my name's Sirius Black," Sirius said, smiling widely and showing off his perfectly white teeth.

The barmaid looked quite amused. "My name is Madame Lola, Sirius Black."

"My, you're all surrounded by such pretty girls, what's your name?" Madame Lola asked Lily.

"Lily. Lily Evans," Lily said in a friendly voice.

"Hmm unless I'm mistaken, redheads are notorious for their flaring tempers?" Madame Lola asked with a mischievous grin.

"Boy, you can say that again! If she was a firework, she'd set the school on fire!" James said loudly.

"Oh, come now, that's not very nice," Madame Lola said reproachfully. "And you are?"

"James Potter," he said pompously, flashing her an even whiter grin than Sirius'. Lily thought Veronica was going to have a heart attack when he smiled like that.

"Ooh, so you're Charles Potter's son?" Madame Lola said, intrigued.

"Yeah," James said nonchalantly.

"My little boy loves Quidditch," Madame Lola said.

"Wow, so do the rest of us!" Sirius said enthusiastically.

They all nodded.

"Well, what can I get for you?" Madame Lola asked finally, whipping out a piece of parchment to write down their orders.

"Five butterbeers, just to start with," Sirius said winking. Madame Lola pinched his cheek before she turned on her heel to go fetch them their drinks.

"Pretty lady," James said.

"My God," Lily said in an awed voice, "do you just spontaneously combust when women are around?"

"What're you talking about?" James asked defensively.

"What she means is that you two completely go off around women!" Sierra said, slightly peeved for the way Sirius had been outrageously flirting with Madame Lola as soon as she came into radar.

"Do not!" Sirius replied shortly.

"James, will you excuse me? I have to go powder my nose," Veronica said primly, pulling his head towards hers and kissing him long and hard. Lily looked absolutely disgusted as she pulled away, smirking.

James looked exceptionally pleased with himself, leaning back into the seat and putting his arms behind his head.

"That was disgusting," Sierra blatantly informed him.

"No it wasn't! You guys just don't understand how lucky James is to be going out with a person like Veronica," Sirius said with an air of importance.

"She's an absolute horrid wench," Lily said.

"Maybe so, but she's a damned good kisser," James retorted.

"What're you, thinking you can pull off dating someone older than you?" Lily hissed.

"You're going to do it, aren't you?" James replied coolly.

"Possibly so," Lily said casually.

"I rest my case," he said.

Madame Lola came back with the butterbeers a few minutes later and still Veronica had not returned.

"Maybe she got lost," Sirius said before taking a huge swig of butterbeer.

"Oh, gosh, James, what if she went to go hang out with her actual friends?" Lily spat.

"What're you talking about? We are her real friends!" James said.

"We? Where do you get this 'we' business from?" Sierra asked icily.

"All right, scratch the 'we business.' I'm her friend," James said offensively.

"Well, I'm out, this is horribly boring!" Lily angrily. She finished off her drink and got her sweatshirt.

"Lily, wait! Where are you going?" Sierra asked.

"Um… out? Probably shopping! Maybe I'll catch up with you and Sirius later?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, that's fine!" Sierra called as Lily walked out.

Heading back towards Gladrags, Arabella spotted Lily and waved her over.

"Buggers its cold out here, huh?" Lily said as they both entered the store.

"Mm, it's too damn cold," Arabella replied, trying to warm up her hands.

"Oh – wow," Lily said looking in awe at the amount of dress robes and other wizarding clothing items for sale.

"It's pretty amazing, also bloody expensive!" Arabella snorted, picking up a shirt that said 'Kiss Me I'm Magical' for 23 Knuts.

(a/n; Sorry for the interruption but I don't know the values for Knuts, Sickles or Galleons so I'm just going to make up some random prices, k?)

"I see your point," Lily said slightly dismayed.

"But we can still look around! I haven't yet bought a dress robe for whatever fancy occasion we might be having," Arabella said hopefully.

"Ooh look! Silk dress robes," Lily said excitedly, fingering a pale yellow one.

"Ugh. It'd look awful on you," Arabella said.

"Right! Well I was just looking at it," Lily said quickly.

"This one would be much better," Arabella said taking off the rack a shimmery gray silk robe.

"It looks kind of – "

"It goes well with your eyes," Arabella said shortly.

"You're the boss!" Lily said saluting.

"Go try it on! Maybe we'll be able to pool our money together," Arabella said.

"Oh Arabella, I don't know –"

"Lily, go try it on!" Arabella said. Although she was trying to be serious, she had a grin on her face.

"All right," Lily said with the same grin on her face.

A few minutes later, while Lily was still was still in the dressing rooms, Sierra, Sirius and James all walked over to Gladrags and met up with Arabella.

"Where's Lily?" Sierra asked.

"She's –"

"Arabella? What do you think? Looks rather limp, I'd say!" Lily called, coming out of the dressing room.

"Oh wow that doesn't look bad at all! It looks wonderful!" Arabella gushed.

"Lily, that looks great! Where'd you find that?" Sierra asked with her eyes wide.

"You think so?" Lily asked smiling at the reflection of the three-way mirror she was standing in front of. In the reflection, Lily could see James and Sirius.

Lily turned around and stuck her hip out a bit. "What do you think, boys?"

Sirius waited for James to come up with something witty. When that didn't happen and there was an awkward pause, Sirius nudged James sharply in the ribs.

"What's wrong?" he hissed.

"Nothing," James hissed back. "You look like an old piece of metal, Carrots," he said aloud.

"Thanks," Lily said, her bright smile not fading.

She stepped back into the dressing room to change and left Sirius and James to themselves.

"She looks bloody gorgeous, why didn't you –"

"Because I don't want to say that to her face!" James said sharply.

"Ooh…" Sirius said knowingly.

"How much is it?" Sierra asked.

Lily looked over her shoulder and at the tag hanging from the hood. She tried to reach it but couldn't quite get it. James stepped up and pulled the hood up so she could reach the tag, brushing his hand against her neck.

Lily got chills up her spine involuntarily when this happened. "Thanks."

"No problem," James said shortly.

"It's 54 Galleons!" Lily cried in shock and dismay.

"Damn. Sierra, how much money have you got?" Arabella asked.

"Arabella! Don't ask Sierra for money!" Lily scolded.

"I've only got twenty!" Sierra said also looking sad.

Lily smiled in a pained sort of way and twirled around once more. "It's ok you guys, I don't need them! I've got two already!"

She went back into the dressing room and came out carrying the silky robe. She put it back on the hanger somewhat disappointed and promptly walked out with all of her friends, off to enjoy the rest of their day in Hogsmeade.

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A/N: Hmm… a bit more L/J there! You know, it's killing me just as much as you not to just make them fall in love! But that would be horribly clichéd so I can't do that and I'll make you suffer! Don't forget to review, which I'm sure you won't! I love the responses I'm getting! Keep them coming!