Disclaimer: This is the last one I'm putting on this fic. All the things that you recognize as JK's are JK's, the end. I don't get the point of these! Maybe you should have claimers only, so you can say "this fic is entirely mine" or "I was the author of this book" or something…

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Chaos figured that now was the time to act. None of her other friends were around, so Lily shouldn't suspect a thing if she decided she wanted to grab a quick snack.

"Hey, Lil-lee!" the girl shouted as she crept up beside the other's bed. "Rise and shine! You've missed breakfast already."

"Chaos, you are NOT a morning person. You're the one who's always impossible to get up," Lily said pointedly, sitting up. "I, on the other hand, am a very perky person in the wee hours of the sun. Has time been flipped?"

"No, I gave you a sleeping potion so I'd have an excuse to show you the kitchens."

"Fun!" Lily sprang out of bed whilst muttering a spell to open the curtains. "Let's go!"

"Er, Lily, in case you hadn't noticed, you currently remain in your nightclothes. Maybe you want to go out in, um, normal day attire?"

"Don't use such big words, silly. They're not good for you. Anyway, what's wrong with my clothes?" Lily's gesturing hand swept from her fuzzy blue slippers to her plaid pants (with Tigger on the pocket) to her overlarge tee shirt ("You otter be a reader!").

Chaos shrugged as she informed her, "Nothing. Just walk ten paces behind me. I don't want to draw more attention to myself than is necessary."

Pouting and crossing her arms, Lily followed Chaos to the door and let her take nine steps before following. The entire way to the kitchens, she maintained that distance. When at last they stopped in front of a picture of fruit, Chaos noticed the smirk Lily wore.

"What?" she asked, clearly baffled.

"HA!" Lily shouted. "You told me to walk TEN paces behind you, but I was only NINE."

"Right…" Chaos drawled clearly not impressed. She reached out and tickled a pear- a fuzzy purple one with orange splotches- an as it giggled and squirmed, the portrait opened.

"Nifty," Lily said as she walked in, fully prepared to make her own meal. But many little bodies bombarded her before she could take more than three steps.

"What can we get Miss?" seemed to be the most commonly squeaked, erm, squeak.

Lily laughingly shushed them and sat on the floor so she'd be the same height as them all. "Hello!" she said happily. "My name is Lily. What're yours?"

Each of the house-elves introduced themselves to the redhead, clearly pleased that she cared. Chaos looked on, also happy. It seemed her friend had unknowingly passed yet another test with flying colors.

"So," Lily began when the many names had been processed. "Can one of you show me where some milk and cereal might be?"

"We can do much better than that, Miss. We can make Miss Lily and Miss Lily's friend much better," the elf that seemed to be in charge of this particular encounter said. "Caddie can make eggs and toast and bacon and hot cocoa and…" she rambled on and on with very tempting foods.

"May… maybe I could have some hot cocoa with my cereal?" Seeming to have sensed that they took joy in serving people, Lily complied with them by accepting a little bit more to eat.

"All right, Miss Lily," Caddie squeaked. "And Miss's friend?"

"Chaos, are you hungry?" Lily called. Chaos shook her head. "Chaos'll have a hot cocoa if you could make one, Caddie."

"Right, Miss Lily. Caddie will make Miss Lily and Miss Chaos their meals now. You may sit over there, Misses."

The two girls grinned at each other as they seated themselves, Chaos making a mental note to inform the others of Lily's success, Lily looking around in wonder.

"How long have you known about this place? Who told you about it?" The redhead seemed fairly impressed.

Laughingly, Chaos informed her, "Well, James, Sirius, Dung and Electra had detention last week and missed supper, so we all came down here."

"Gotcha," Lily nodded, showing her understanding.

At that point, Caddie arrived with their food. "Here you are, Misses."

"Thank you, Caddie. This was made wonderfully fast." The house-elf blushed at Lily's compliment and bustled off.

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That night it snowed. Like, blizzard, school-is-canceled-for-the-next-four-days snowing. So the next morning, Lily and Chaos rushed outside along with all of the other remaining students. The two girls started making a wall of snow… and then another… and then another… and then the older Gryffindors (all the first years had been rather homesick that year) came over to help, using magic and their normal, snow-castle-building abilities. When they were finished, they had your average, over-gaudy palace, complete with marching snowmen (and dogs) circling it.

The dozen or so Gryffindors stood at the windows of their warm rooms, laughing at the rather pathetic attempts the other houses had made at forming their own forts.

The Slytherins all were working separately, forming dozens of little walls. The Ravenclaws had combined efforts and made an igloo with a hole in the top, smoke pouring from it. the Hufflepuff fort first was what Lily and Chaos had tried to make earlier- three walls with a slight overhang- only a bit larger.

Chaos nudged the person they'd elected captain (a girl nicknamed Milka for the time being), and, looking startled, the older person began to speak. "Man your stations!" Everyone scattered to different sections, except for Lily, Chaos, and Milka. "Now, girls, is when you learn some of the very useful spells for snow wars. Lily, the flag, if you please." Lily obediently raised up the Gryffindor flag, and then shouted a spell that threw the word "WAR" up into the air above their castle. Voice magically made louder, Milka announced, "Make sure all heating spells are in place! Now… fire at Ravenclaw!" Immediately, snowballs were whizzing at the Ravenclaws, melting spots of their igloo on contact.

By the demise of the Ravenclaw dome, Chaos and Lily had absorbed the banishing and heating charms. The Ravenclaws were marched into the Gryffindor palace, had their wands confiscated, and were put to work in the dungeons forming more snowballs. The next target was Hufflepuff.

During this particular crusade, Lily and Chaos polished up their aim and threw in a hooked ending to the banishing charm to help destroy the fort from the inside.

"Why have we been learning silly things over the past year and a half, when there were much more important things? I'd take heating over levitation any day," Lily proclaimed as the Hufflepuffs unwillingly joined the Ravenclaws.

"Are you mad? We need the levitation charm to move all the snowballs! Accio is all well and good, but for a large pile, it's much easier to fly them on your own. Of COURSE it's useful."

"But what about the other spells?" Lily said, attempting to make a point against the older girl.

"Name one," Milka responded, smiling smugly. "I'll find a use or two for it."

This simple statement was what provoked Lily to suggest the water charm (useful for forming a shower, or providing a drink of water for those poor referees that get stuck out in the desert) and cause the Slytherins' defeat. Instead of stumping Milka, however, her eyes lit up and she hugged Lily.

"You're a genius!" she crowed. "Everyone, we're going to water out those slimy snakes!"

of course, if you are outside shortly after a blizzard playing in the snow, you'd be rather chilly. Throw in a few gallons of freezing water dumped on each person and… you're running inside and practically throwing yourself in the fire. The three Gryffindors in the "control tower" laughed and high-fived each other as their prisoners were brought before them. lily suddenly had a magnificent idea, and nudged Milka to whisper in her ear. The older girl grinned and nodded.

"Will all prefects or higher ranking please step forward?" The head boy and a handful of prefects moved to the front of the crowd. "Right. Your mission is to get all the teachers into the Entrance Hall at precisely… twelve thirty. Everyone else, we have plans to discuss…"

At twelve twenty-nine, Lily was staring at her watch, counting down to the time when the teachers should arrive. She glanced up to make sure everyone was in position, then held up all her fingers. When they'd all been folded in one by one, the teachers all burst in from different directions, babbling about fires, meetings, attacks, and ever about a purple bubble spillage from the fireplace in the Great Hall. Then came the snowballs, pelting the teachers from absolutely everywhere, even the rafters.

Lily, with Milka looking on, cast a charm to spell the words "This snow war has been brought to you by Chaos, Lily and Milka of Gryffindor!" in snowballs, before allowing them to drop down onto the teachers and a few Slytherins that had surfaced from the dungeons.

Dumbledore simply laughed and walked away, muttering about asking for more warm dishes with lunch and dinner. Several teachers, including McGonagall, began searching for the offending trio. Lily cast yet another spell, this one of freezing water. It read:

Teeheehee, Minnie McGee.

You'll never be able to catch me!

Sincerely,

Lily, Milka and Chaos

P.S. Enjoy the shower! Sorry that we ran out of hot water.

Then, of course, the water splashed down on the very indignant teachers, who shrieked helplessly for the three to show themselves. Chaos mouthed "NO!" at them before dragging the other two off, all three holding in their laughter.

As soon as they had entered the common room, Milka excused herself as Lily and Chaos collapsed in giggles.

"Minnie McGee's face was priceless!" Lily gasped, clutching a stitch in her side.

Chaos nodded her agreement, and then collecting herself a bit, challenged Lily to a chess match. She began composing a letter as she played, one that could very well change Lily's fate forever.

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Lily and Chaos both received double detentions, the first because of beginning the snow war, the second because they wouldn't tell the teachers who Milka was. Dumbledore, however, awarded both of them ten points for "a wonderful time of fun, uniting the entire school in a single activity." He also gave ten points for Milka, "so you can tell her from me."

But that's not what Lily was thinking about at the moment. At the time we're all at, she was bouncing up and down on Chaos's bed chanting "Christmas! Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!" at the top of her lungs. Seeing as how this wasn't affecting her friend in the least, Lily stopped and leaned down to screech in Chaos's ear, "Kay Oss! If you don't get your butt up and start opening your presents NOW, I swear to God I will put them on top of the astronomy tower roof for you to get!"

"I'M UP!" Chaos screamed, lunging at her presents.

Lily opened the gift from Chaos first, then one that she'd received from Hagrid. What followed next was a bundle from her family. Sent it through Dumbledore, most likely, Lily thought. No matter! I just won't open the letters. So thinking, she put them away in a drawer before opening the presents. After those, there were nine envelopes and one large parcel. The nine envelopes held an apology note and a season's greetings from each of the other second year Gryffindors, and the package was quite a few pranking goods (from them as a group). Lily glowed with happiness. By some miracle, they'd finally accepted her, and she was all too ready to be one of them. She didn't stop to question their motives- she just jumped at the chance.

"CHAOS! They've all apologized, Chaos!"

Lily was too happy to even take note of the none-too-surprised "how wonderful" from her friend.

The remainder of the holidays was spent having lots and lots of fun, as they're HOLIDAYS. At night, Lily would sit up in bed pondering how to reveal her true self to the others without appearing over-eager or too forward.

Maybe… she thought sleepily the night before they were due back, I'll just do it gradually… a bit of joking and pranking here and there… and eventually… I'll be… me…

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I know, kinda bad ending. Sorry for taking so long, but May was my busy month, and after I posted another chapter for Usagi's Destinies, I got busy again. -.- Well, here's some responses, and then I'll post away!

Clavel- I'd rather write only a bit than a lot that isn't what I want it to be, too, so yeah, a bit is better than nothing.

Lady Knight of Kennan- that's okay! Molly didn't let Lily try out because she didn't think she could handle the mallet-thingy or whatever… it's hard to explain, but it's like when you're told you can't play football because you're too short/little. Glad you found stuffs funny!!!!! Welpers, I need to move on to answer more so I can post…

Tarawen- thanks. I'd lent my copy of the book to a friend who hadn't as of yet discovered the joys of Harry Potter. Glad you like things, and yeah, they're kinda loco friends.

Sierra*Sitruc- no, Chaos wouldn't have stopped being her friend… that's just what the others seem to think. Sorry this took a while, but busy-ness is as busy-ness does. That made NO sense…

Midnightlily- I believe you might've already read the note I had posted explaining things about chaser/seeker, and that'll be explained more thoroughly in future chapters.

Thistlemeg- I liked her roof thing, too. That's why I put it in. I figured I'd try to spend lots of time on the roof if I went to Hogwarts. I'd try to spend lots of time exploring, too, but the roof is cool. Sorry 'bout your heights fear… I'm claustrophobic, if it helps any. And I do NOT like wolves. And, to put your mind further at ease, no, she isn't Molly Weasley YET, so you can still like her :-D. I figured she was a really really really bad Quidditch captain, but if all the others quit, who are you stuck with? The one remaining.

Sailor Capricorn- I noticed that, but I couldn't fix it! It happens a lot for me, for some reason, and it drives me bonkers! I almost had it fixed once, but after I'd saved and exited out, it switched back. I think we should all crusade against the evilness of side-scrolling! Kora isn't cool. I don't like her.

Sailorartemis2000- here's moremoremoremoremoremoremore!! Lol.

Princess Gin-Gin- if everyone was as nice as Chaos, my plot so far would be down the toilet. Thanksssss! (sorry, 'bin' watching the HP movie lots.)

Emma- SHUT UPPP! You are such a bully! ::cries:: anywho, I know very well that James is a Chaser in the books and a Seeker in the movie, so I am working hard to accommodate BOTH. In case you haven't noticed, James doesn't have glasses yet. ::walks off whistling:: Oh yeah, you haven't reviewed UD yet.

TGWIOWHP- What do they count as fluff? And do you know when you are off the ban? Usagi's Destinies only really has fluff like mid-1st through very first 3rd year chapter, and you're past that. I killed him off for a reason :-D Oh, and tell your mom this from me: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING HER READ MY FIC! I love getting her reviews, and she's very nice about everything. And then, you give her a hug from me. Kay? I didn't really run out of name ideas… I just didn't want to think of some that I might want to use in the future and not be able to.

Sierra*Sitruc (take two)- Yep, I got MANY annoying reviews telling me precisely why James couldn't be a Seeker. Yes, I know it happens to many people, so I TOOK ACTION! Mwahahaha… um, yeah.

Erin- yeah, I feel bad for her too… that's why I'm going to make it all better! Thanks, and here is the next chapter… dum DUM DUM DUUUM!

G.D. Jade- sorry that this wasn't soon…

Lily evans potter- I could! Maybe I will! Just not in this fic. Nopenopenope! In the movie it said he was a Seeker, and in an interview JK said he was a Chaser (supposedly, so I've been told). Nit-pickyness provokes thought, which in turn provokes more detailed writing.

Sailor Capricorn (take two)- it's already in HTML format. That does sound annoying… and if we all followed the 'no real rules' policy, we could have much more diverse fanfics. Heheee I like the quote anyway!

Brielle- I will try! And thanks!

DragonRoyalty- I guess for starters all I really need to know is if all shows are like Riverdance, or do you do recitals, or competitions, or what? Things like that. And then maybe a bit of a description about some of the basic steps that everyone starts out with… like in tap, it's the 'tic-toc routine.' Um, if you want to e-mail me (dancinem13@att.net) that'd be excellent.

Jellybean Oasis- I'm writing! I'm writing! I'm flattered, too.

HPMystery- I'll try to dredge up some time to do that!

Sailor Capricorn (take three)- Um, I really don't know which you should take off! I say whichever one you like more, keep on, I guess. You write Sailor Moon fics, but no Harry Potter, so maybe you should keep Usagi's Destinies up and I can mention that this is the prequel (it is). That could work… and I'm very flattered that I've stayed in your faves for two stories!

Gwen- here's more! Is it really? Wow...

Jenna- here's more, since you were soooo polite! :-D

Twistie- my friend has an imaginary friend named 'Lampy Lamp' and it's a lamp… um, right. And thank you! Here's more, since I'm still writing.

Refrain- so I'm doing it for my sake, too? Cooool….

Saphire- thanks and thanks!

Anneliese- actually, I've come up with two ideas that might work. One is a weird version of Cinderella, with the medieval mindset and modern technology and whatnot. I had a dream, and that's what it was about. The other is different… maybe I could work this story into the idea I have for that, and it'd work out! That's what my original plans were for this fic, only I changed my mind. You really would buy my stuff? That's sooo nice! One of my friends and I are trying to get together this collection of poems and get that published, with 'Garden Girl' in it as well (we wrote it together.) well, I'm moving on so I can post this!

Nasha L. T. M. Potter- that WOULD be funny, wouldn't it? What year did I put him in? I'll check later…

Keller- sorry, I know it's been a while… here's the update!