"Jade… will you calm down?!?! It's only a game!" exclaimed Lily while shielding herself from Jade's random hexes.
"Only a game?!?! How can you say that, Lily!! We should've won!! If it wasn't for that git Flynt, we would've won! Sirius, you, James, and Remus should've scored more!"
"Oh, so now it's our fault… well if you and Bagman could do a better job keeping those bloody bludgers out of the way, then just MAYBE we would score a little more!" shouted Sirius.
"We did our best… it was YOU who was showing off.. you three, honest to Merlin, why can't you just deflate your heads just for once and do something right."
"LEAVE REMUS OUT OF THIS! IT WASN'T HIS FAULT. IN FACT, YOU SHOULD BE THANKING REMUS.. HE SCORED THE LAST TWO GOALS!"
Jade thought for a while and said, "You know what. you're right. Remus played awesome.. it was you and Potter who kept on showboating." spat Jade.
"We were TRYING OUT BEST!"
"WELL YOU'RE BEST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH!"
"Oh… enough the both of you!!" shouted Lily, with Carly and Penny nodding in agreement. "It was no one's fault. Just take the loss and move on. It's in the past already."
Sirius and Jade stopped arguing and just turned their backs to each other in a childish manner signaling the end of their quarrel. Lily rolled her eyes and went back to work. Remus came in all depressed and Jade felt a little more guilty blaming him along with James and Sirius. Remus however smiled a little showing that he was a good sport about it. Peter followed closely behind and with a coarse voice asked,
"Where's James?"
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"What did I do wrong?" was what James said to himself as he was walking slowly back to the dormitories. He was trying to figure out what went wrong during the quidditch match. He didn't even go to eat dinner afterwards. From a distance, he could hear the sounds of shouting and screaming.. probably coming from the Slytherin common room. Houses usually held parties each time they won a quidditch match, and James assumed that they were throwing a huge fest considering they beat Gryffindor, their arch-rival. He was disgusted at the fact that he was beaten by Slytherins. James hated to lose, yet he learned how to take it without a childish manner. His dad, who was an excellent quidditch player himself taught him to be a good loser.
James walked back into the common room to find no one else but Lily Evans studying as usual by the fireplace. He didn't want to have a run-in with her at the moment so decided to just go up to the dormitories. Lily looked up and saw James walk up to his room and saw the look of sadness in his eye. 'One of those rare moments again' she thought and closed her book.
"Good game, Potter."
"Yeah… yeah I guess."
"It's not your fault, ya know."
"I know… but hey.. Slytherin is a good team, though I hate to admit it."
"Yeah.. tough luck. Good luck calming down Sirius."
"I guess… I have bigger things to worry about." said James and he gave her a little wave before walking into his dorm. Lily knew exactly what he meant by his last statement. He was talking about his dad hunting down Voldemort.
James couldn't sleep that night. The past two weeks for him were almost unbearable. The news of his father leaving home, and the fact that he lost his first ever quidditch game were the main reasons of his lack of slumber. He looked over to the sleeping figures of Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Ah, yes, his best friends. Without them, James would be nothing… it was them that brought the adventure out of himself just like he did with them. Yes… their friendship was mutual. He knew they would be there through thick and thin with whatever problem he was faced with. He then looked out into the window and saw a shooting star. He remembered a muggle tradition that wishes come true when wished upon a shooting star. He decided to follow this and closed his eyes wishing for his father's safety………………………..
Little did he know that Miss Lily Evans was doing the exact same thing. Yes, she hated James Potter, but she didn't want anyone to die. Her father means so much to her, and she figured that James looked up to his dad quite a bit. For once, she realized how lucky she is to have her parents. Some had no parents, or had to suffer a loss of one, and she wished none of that on ANYONE… yes, not even James Potter himself.
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Weeks passed and the loss of their quidditch match was soon forgotten by the Marauders. Sirius and Jade were on speaking terms again, and James and Lily seemed to have forgotten their moment of civilness towards each other the night of the match, constantly fighting with each other whenever they were in the same room.
Wood, the captain, however, was one of the few that didn't forget about the loss of the team, and held practice every other day, and sometimes on weekends. The practices were long and hard, and the team would come back highly exhausted and angry at their dictating captain.
"That Wood is going to be the death of me one day." said Sirius.
"Tell me about it. Even I'm not that obsessed with winning." grumbled James.
"Ummm.. guys… I took a look at the schedule of quidditch for the rest of the year," said Remus. "And everything is fine.. but in the later years, what if one of the games comes on a full moon night?"
"Hmmm… that's a good one to think about, Remmy." said Sirius. "I don't know."
"Well, I guess I would have to quit after this season then."
"No!!! That would literally suck." said James.
"I have no other choice."
"Well, it looks as if we're going to have undo your winless record, bud." said Sirius.
"Yup! Gives me more reason to train now."
"Thanks, guys."
"And just what are you four dolts babbling about now." said Carly with a smirk as she walked in with the rest of the girls.
"We're talking bubbles. Why are you here?" replied James.
"Duh genius, we live here." said Lily.
"Sod off, Evans."
"Oh, no… not you two again." groaned Penny. "Honestly, I thought coming here would be peaceful and calming… and then I met you two." The other snickered and Penny let out a huff.
"Don't even laugh, you two are just as bad." she said
pointing to Jade and Sirius.
"Hey, now.. we're not as bad as them."
"Yeah, we do it because we actually mean it. James and Lily do it because they like each other."
"How could I like that garbage?" questioned Lily. James grinned, but Lily's scowl erased his grin in a second.
"Don't be so harsh, Evans. What's stuck up your…." Nothing else was heard because Lily put a silencing charm on James. It was amusing to see James still talking in silence not knowing that everyone had no idea what he was saying, but were just looking at him funny. They then started laughing at him when it looked as if he was screaming at Lily to undo the charm. Lily just smiled and walked off into the room as Remus shook his head and muttered the counter-curse.
"I'M GOING TO GET YOU, EVANS, YOU RED-HEADED DEVIL!"
Sirius scoffed. "Sure, James… just 'slide' right in there and get her back. I dare you.
"Double dare." said Peter.
"Double hippogriff dare!" said Remus.
James pouted and sat down in silence. He wasn't about to get his jewels all messed up again.
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Somewhere far away from any sign of civilization, a tall, hooded figure was standing in a house, mixing up some sort of potion. Nearby, a snake was slithering closer and closer.. looking ready to strike his prey. However, instead of attacking, the snake slid up his leg and towards his shoulders as the man continued mixing the unknown potion in the cauldron.
"Ah, Nagini.. I see you have already devoured your dinner."
The snake just hissed as if answering its master's statement.
"Those filthy mudbloods. I'm sick of just killing them. Next time I make an attack, I want the whole bloody world to know. And this.. ah yes.. this will do the trick."
He added a few more drops of a horned toad's blood and a cloud of smoke shot up revealing a large green skull with a snake slithering around and around it.
"The Dark Mark. Yes, Nagini, this mark will be infamous! Fear will be struck to those who see it, and death will be given to those who defy it… NOW EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHO LORD VOLDEMORT IS! THEY'LL EVEN BE AFRAID TO SAY MY VERY NAME!"
The man pulled out his wand, and the shape of the Dark Mark was then absorbed by the wand. The man smiled.
"Now, on to other business. There are people who will support my activities… I must recruit them… and then we'll take a look at that bloody mudblood lover Godric's journal again. He thought he could hide his secrets. This is what he gets for trusting no-good mudbloods with his things! His talk of a great power.. nonsense! Maybe Tom Riddle would be afraid and doubtful, but no. Tom Riddle is no longer in existence. I am the Great Power… I am the embodiment of Fear, Death himself is afraid of my presence. I am the Almighty Dark Lord, Heir of Salazar Slytherin himself…….
I AM VOLDEMORT.
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Our first encounter with Voldemort himself. Not that spooky, but that's my first time talking about that git. Seriously, just saying his name pisses me off sometimes haha but that's how much I am into Harry Potter ya know? Well, that's my chapter. I'll be updating slowly, do don't expect rapid updates like before. I still can't believe I did those first 15 chapters in a week. Keep the reviews coming! Love to hear from all different points of views. Thanks again for reading up to here.. hope you continue your faith in this story.