CHAPTER 11:THE OTHER SIDE OF BERNADETTE SHADOW
It was now almost October. School went by as usual. No further kisses with James and I wasn't sure whether I should be relieved or not. The truth is, I don't mind Kissing, it is every bit as sweet as the dreams, its the aftermath that gets annoying. I don't want to date him right now! He doesn't need to take everything so personally.
Hey Evans!" I was walking down to care of magical creatures with Lo and Bernadette when I heard James's voice behind me.
"What's up Potter?" I asked. Tossing my longish red hair out of my face.
"I was thinking, that maybe you and your friends could hang out with me and Sirius, Remus and Peter on Halloween. There is a Hogsmeade visit that day. I thought it might be fun." He said trying to act as though it wouldn't matter if I said no, but I knew he would be crushed.
"Of course it will be fun. Count us in." I smiled.
"Oh, well cool. I'll see you around then." he walked over to his friends, lookingvery smug.
"You and James make the best couple." Lo said smirking,
"So do you and Remus." I smirked back at her,
"So do Bernadette and Sirius." Lo winked at Bernadette who turned crimson.
"So do Haven and the giant squid." Lo added as we burst out laughing.
"What's so funny ladies?" Professor Kettleburn asked faintly annoyed we had disrupted class as he was about to began.
"N-Nothing. Sorry Professor." I said trying to keep a straight face.
"Very well then." He said frowning slightly and returned to his lesson about the Yeti.
"So why does James call you 'Evans' still? You two kissed, and he can't call you 'Lily?" Bernadette whispered as the professor looked at his reference book.
"He called me Lily once..." I whispered back.
"Once? Great! So kiss him one more time and the git will call you Lily twice." Lo said rolling her eyes.
"What's the big deal if he wants to call me Evans?" I asked.
"Its not abig deal, its just weird. Remus doesn't call me Ping." Lo said pretending to be taking notes.
"Yeah, but you and Remus are going out. Me and James aren't" I said out of the corner of my mouth.
"True but neither are me and you, but I don't call you Evans and we never even kissed." Lo said grinning. I put my hand over my mouth to keep from giggling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Lily, Lily, tell me your heart is true! I'm completely crazy over the love of youuuu!! I can't afford a carriage! It wont be a fancy marriage! But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a broomstick built for two!" James sang loudly as I entered the common room that night.
"James, James Lily says she loves youuu!" Lo began to sing back when I mumbled "Silencio!" and she continued to mouth her own version of the song, but no sound came from her mouth.
"Gods, I love silencing charms." I said smiling at Lo, who flicked me off, while returning mysmile.
"Hey Evans?" James called out still standing on the other side of the common room.
"Hey Potter?" I called back. "Catch!" He threw me what looked like an innocent white ball. When I caught it---
"POTTER!" I yelled frustrated. The "innocent" white ball had exploded covering me in what seemed to be stinksap.
"Scrouifgy"Bernadette said trying not to laugh as the foul green liquid disappeared.
"Thanks Potter." I grumbled sarcastically. "A-anyt-ime Evans!" he said still laughing. I bit my lip trying to think of a way to get him back...the dumb-arse git.
"Come on." I waved my friends to follow me as we entered our dorm.
"Any suggestions for payback?" I asked Lo, Bernadette, Lark and Haven as we sat in a circle on the floor.
"Finite incantem." I said to Lo who was silent and sulky. She brightened as the curse was taken off her.
"Throw a dungbomb at him?" Lark said shrugging.
"Throw him at a dungbomb?" Logrinned.
"Now there's an a good idea, Lo" Bernadette laughed.
"Maybe we could bewitch his mirror so he thinks he has a mustache or a big zit?" Lark said
"Maybe we could make his quill write only "James is an arse, James is a prat, James is a git" over and over and over an over-"
"Okay, Lo we get it." I said smiling,
"What if we gave him a quill, that would write in ink that would disappear after a few hours...He would do all his homework at night and the next morning it will be gone!" Bernadette said smiling.
"And where would we get such a quill?" Haven asked raising her eyebrows.
"Right in my trunk. Bethem let me use it to do some of my summer homework. I nearly killed her but she said I could keep the quill, so I would forgive her." Bernadette explained, pulling an ordinary looking black quill from her trunk.
"I like the idea." Lark piped.
"Yeah, but is he really dense enough to fall for it?" Haven askeddoubtfully.
"OOOOH YEEEAH." I said loudly.
"Then lets do it! Tomorrow night, even he would be suspicious if we offered him a 'gift' tonight." I said smiling and went to the door.
"Whose up for dinner?" Lo asked jumping up with me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Tomorrow is the full moon. Bet'cha can't wait, can ya Remus?" James teased at breakfast the next morning.
"Oh yes, I love the moon." He said through gritted teeth.
"Your not being sarcastic, are ya Rem?" Sirius warned trying to sound stern.
"NOOO." Remus said with such obvious sarcasm Sirius waved his finger disapprovingly, but the act wasn't very good as Sirius was laughing while he lectured.
"Sarcasm isn't appealing. Not at all, son." he chocked through snorts.
"Since when am I your son?" Remus asked confused.
"This conversation is getting kinda weird." Bernadette said inching away from Sirius, whom she was sitting nexttoo.
"You scare easy Shadow." Sirius said smirking.
"No I don't." she disagreed. Sirius mumbled something under his breath and a golf ball sized, hairy spider appeared next to Bernadette's goblet.
"AHHHHH!" She screamed and jumped off the bench, half the great hall looking at her. Sirius tried to keep a straight face, while avoiding Bernadette's eyes.
"Get a grip." Lo said impatiently flicking her wand and vanishing the spider.
"You don't scare easy? yeeeeah riiiiiiiiiiiiight, and Lily isn't over emotional." Sirius smirked.
"Shut up Black." Bernadette, couldn't help but smile.
"If I must." He quieted and returned to eating his porridge.
"Hey did you guys here about the care for magical creatures lesson today?" James asked suddenly.
"No, what about it?" I said turning towards him.
"We are going to be studying a beast who has an evil nature, hideous features. A beast so terrifying, so hairy so foul..." James brokeoff shuddering.
"What is it?" Lark asked anxiously, she seemed to have forgotten she wasn't even in our care for magical creatures class...
"Snivellus!" James said dramatically. We all started laughing, mostly because Snape and his friends were walking by an had heard EVERYTHING James had just said.
"Oh really?" Snape said his eyes flashing. James whipped around.
"Good morning, Snivelly, we were just talking about you." James greeted cheerfully.
"And so I heard." Snape's lip curled.
"Oh really? So wasn't my description of you alarmingly accurate?" James said, proudly.
"No, it sounded more as though you were describing yourself." Snape retorted. James laughed.
"Great comeback, your so clever!" He said sarcastically. Snape raised his wand when Professor McGongall caught his eye. Sulking he walked away mouthing "Watch your back! " as he stalked out of the great hall.
"Slimy git." Remus said resentfully watching him go.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We didn't study Snape in class today, Potter, you lied." I said as we sat by the fire doing homework.
"Sorry 'bout that Evans." he said smiling. He was so cute....
"Want to borrow my quill?" I offered handing the bewitched quill to him.
"I have my own." He said but found it wasn't in his bag. Lo took it when he went to the bathroom.
"Must have fallen out."he frowned. I handed mine to him again.
"Thanks." he said taking the quill and beginning his transfiguration essay. I meet Bernadette's eye and we turned away snickering.
"What is so funny?"James asked suspiciously.
"Bernadette had ink on her nose." I lied quickly. Mumbling, about idiot girls he returned to his homework.
"I need some sleep for tomorrow night." Remus said kissing Lo on the cheek and ascending the stairs to his room.
"Poor, mate." Sirius said watching him go.
"Oh guess what!?"Bernadette exclaimed excitedly.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I made friends with a Slytherin." She beamed.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you right." Sirius said shaking his head disbelievingly.
"I am officially friends with-"
"It better not be Bellatrix or Snape." Lo said harshly.
"Like I would talk to Bellatrix or Snape!" she said making a face.
"I'm friends with Jared Moon. His twin is in our house, James Moon." She said
"The kid who copied my house and my name is the twin of your new buddy?" James grumbled.
"Yes, he is. Get over yourself Potter." She said rolling her eyes.
"So congratulations, I guess." I said
"Thanks! I invited him to study with us in the library tonight...who is coming?"
"Forget it." Lo said quickly.
"Callisto is coming." Bernadette smiled.
"You convinced my little sister to go meet some slithering ass?"Lo asked indignantly.
"Yep." Bernadettedeclared.
"I'm coming too then. Your gonna try and set my baby sister up with that bastard."
"I am not going to try and set them up. And how can you say he is a bastard when you don't know him?"Bernadette asked.
"Oh fine, but if he turns out to be evil or something and marries my sister the blame is all on you." Lo grinned.
"In that unlikely situation...Okay the blame lies on me." Bernadette smiled.
"Deal." she and Lo shook hands.
"Are you coming Lily?" Bernadette asked.
"Yeah, sure why not?" I shouldered my book bag.
"Haven, Lark wanna tag along?" I asked them.
"No thanks." Haven said giving us a reproving look as we set off for the library.
"So what are we? Some bizarre Gryffindor welcoming committee for Slytherin first years?" Lo asked Bernadette as we exited the portrait.
"Not exactly..." Bernadette shrugged.
"Is anyone else going to be there, besides the Moon kid?" I asked.
"Maybe."Bernadette mumbled evasively.
"Who else?" Lo demanded.
"No one." Bernadette insisted, staring at her shoes. We didn't have anymore time to press the matter as we had arrived at the library.
"Hey Bernadette! Over here!" Called a seventh year Slytherin boy who was sitting with Callisto and Jared Moon.
"Hey! Everyone I would like to introduce you to Andrew Not." Bernadette said grinning.
"So, are you part of Bernadette's whole project "Befriend a Slytherin?" Lo asked bluntly.
"I guess so. She is part of my project 'befriend a Gryffindor." He smiled.
"I see....So your the only two idiots who took the message seriously?" Lo questioned.
"Yeah, I think so." Bernadette
"It figures, that you would be one of the only people who takes an old hat's advice." Lo teased Bernadette.
"So, who are you friends?" Nott asked watching us.
"Oh, this is Lo Ping and Lily Evans." Bernadette, pointed us each out.
"Oh, cool.Anyway, your coming to hang with me late r on after our studying session right?" Nott asked.
"Of course! We made plans didn't we?" Bernadette said grinning like an idiot.
"Yeah." He couldn't take his eyes off of her.
"Okay maybe I'm wrong but are you two going out?" Lo asked
"You didn't know?" Nott asked throwing his arm around Bernadette's shoulders.
"Well, um lets get studying, shall we?" I asked taking out my books. An hour passed before another word was spoken between us.
"Well I'm finished, wanna go back to the common room Lily?" Lo asked not looking at Bernadette.
"Sure." I stood up quickly waving Bernadette, Callisto and her new Slytherin friends good-bye.
"What the hell is Bernadette thinking? I thought she liked Black!" Lo shook her head angrily as we entered through the fat lady and stomped up the stairs to the girls dormitory.
"What's wrong with her?" Remus asked.
"Bernadette has a Slytherin boyfriend."I frowned.
"WHAT?" cried two indignant voices in unison.
"Yes that's right, Potter, Black. Bernadette is going out with a Slytherin. Andrew Nott, I think he said his name was." I said still frowning. Sirius mouthed silently, too appalled to speak.
"Is she feeling okay?" James asked.
"I don't know...." I shook my head and went up stairs to go to bed. "What the hell is Bernadette thinking?" Lo's voice echoed through my head. Haven had always seemed more likely to date a Slytherin, not sweet Bernadette...I drifted off into an uneasy sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hey Bernadette!" I caught her just as she was about to leave the common room.
"Oh uh-Hey." She said giving me an awkward smile.
"What's wrong?" I asked, not returning her feeble grin.
"I can't hangout with you." She said quickly. I felt as thought someone had slapped me.
"Why not?" I asked softly.
"Your a muggle-born....Amudblood, Don't you see what's going on? Andy can't date a girl who hangs around with-with a mudblood." she said and bolted from the common without a backwards glance. A paper fell from her pocket, curios and angry I bent down and unfolded the parchment. It was the warning from last year, sent to her from the death-eaters. Was she going to join them?
"Lily, what's up?" Lo asked concerned at the indignant and horrified look on my face.
"Lily?" Remus asked gently.
"Hey watch out, MOVE!" James was pushing several first years out of his way to get to me. Silent tears poured down my cheek.
"Bernadette called me a mudblood. She says that's why she wont hang out with me anymore and I found this warning, it fell from her robes." I said, my voice sounded oddly detached. James pulled me against him, holding me as I stood shaking in the common room. I rested me head against his chest.
"It will be okay. No one else will ever do that to you, I never will. Ipromise everything will be okay."James whispered.
"Gods, I don't know whether to hug Lily or go find Bernadette and kick her ass, forget wands I strangle the bitch." Lo rambled on and on. I finally stopped crying a few minutes later and pulled away from James.
"Thanks." I smiled, through my drying tears and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. He blushed.
"Lets go to breakfast." I suggested.
"Yeah, Bernadette will be there I can curse her nose off." Lo said gripping her wand.
"NO!" Remus shouted grabbing her wand.
"Remus, is right you not getting expelled over Bernadette, she isn't worth it." I said as we walked to the great hall together.
"Oh, well, well, well what have we got here?" Bellatrix was smiling, I hate it when she is happy. I imagined her crying and I felt slightly better.
"Hey Bernadette! Come here, your old friends have graced us with their presence." Snape called. Since when had he and Bernadette been on firstname terms? Bernadette stood up from where she had been sitting at the Slytherin table, and sneered. At least she didn't call me a mudblood again.
"Its pretty pathetic when your own friends, dump you for your enemies." Bellatrix chuckled. I hated to admit it, but she was right.
"Shut up Bellatrix." Sirius said angrily.
"Fine, I can see some people just can't handle the truth very well." She said sympathetically before sitting down--next to Bernadette, my old best friend.
"I don't believe it." I said watching them.
"Neither do I." James squeezed my hand, I felt a little better. Some people were still on my side. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "What the hell? James asked in transfiguration that day.
"What's wrong?" Lo asked
"My homework...All the writing disappeared." He said confused I cracked up.
"Sorry bout that Potter." I said smirking. Bernadette was smiling too, she tried to catch my eye andI looked away. I was so mad at her I could hardly stand breath the same air.
"It was your quill that did this, huh?" James asked grinning.
"Yep." I said proudly.
"Rictusempra!" he called, pointing his wand at me. I was hit with the tickling charm and was on my knees laughing uncontrollably when McGonagall entered the room, looking at me as though I were completely mad, before seeing James pointing his wand at me and understanding the situation.
"Finite incantem." she said and I sat on the floor trying to catch my breath, still half laughing.
"Next time you will get detention Mr. Potter." McGonagall said sternly.
"Okie Dokie Professor." James said helping me back in my seat. McGonagal's face softened as though she were about to smile.
"Now! To furniture transfiguration!" she said beginning the lesson.
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It was now almost October. School went by as usual. No further kisses with James and I wasn't sure whether I should be relieved or not. The truth is, I don't mind Kissing, it is every bit as sweet as the dreams, its the aftermath that gets annoying. I don't want to date him right now! He doesn't need to take everything so personally.
Hey Evans!" I was walking down to care of magical creatures with Lo and Bernadette when I heard James's voice behind me.
"What's up Potter?" I asked. Tossing my longish red hair out of my face.
"I was thinking, that maybe you and your friends could hang out with me and Sirius, Remus and Peter on Halloween. There is a Hogsmeade visit that day. I thought it might be fun." He said trying to act as though it wouldn't matter if I said no, but I knew he would be crushed.
"Of course it will be fun. Count us in." I smiled.
"Oh, well cool. I'll see you around then." he walked over to his friends, lookingvery smug.
"You and James make the best couple." Lo said smirking,
"So do you and Remus." I smirked back at her,
"So do Bernadette and Sirius." Lo winked at Bernadette who turned crimson.
"So do Haven and the giant squid." Lo added as we burst out laughing.
"What's so funny ladies?" Professor Kettleburn asked faintly annoyed we had disrupted class as he was about to began.
"N-Nothing. Sorry Professor." I said trying to keep a straight face.
"Very well then." He said frowning slightly and returned to his lesson about the Yeti.
"So why does James call you 'Evans' still? You two kissed, and he can't call you 'Lily?" Bernadette whispered as the professor looked at his reference book.
"He called me Lily once..." I whispered back.
"Once? Great! So kiss him one more time and the git will call you Lily twice." Lo said rolling her eyes.
"What's the big deal if he wants to call me Evans?" I asked.
"Its not abig deal, its just weird. Remus doesn't call me Ping." Lo said pretending to be taking notes.
"Yeah, but you and Remus are going out. Me and James aren't" I said out of the corner of my mouth.
"True but neither are me and you, but I don't call you Evans and we never even kissed." Lo said grinning. I put my hand over my mouth to keep from giggling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Lily, Lily, tell me your heart is true! I'm completely crazy over the love of youuuu!! I can't afford a carriage! It wont be a fancy marriage! But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a broomstick built for two!" James sang loudly as I entered the common room that night.
"James, James Lily says she loves youuu!" Lo began to sing back when I mumbled "Silencio!" and she continued to mouth her own version of the song, but no sound came from her mouth.
"Gods, I love silencing charms." I said smiling at Lo, who flicked me off, while returning mysmile.
"Hey Evans?" James called out still standing on the other side of the common room.
"Hey Potter?" I called back. "Catch!" He threw me what looked like an innocent white ball. When I caught it---
"POTTER!" I yelled frustrated. The "innocent" white ball had exploded covering me in what seemed to be stinksap.
"Scrouifgy"Bernadette said trying not to laugh as the foul green liquid disappeared.
"Thanks Potter." I grumbled sarcastically. "A-anyt-ime Evans!" he said still laughing. I bit my lip trying to think of a way to get him back...the dumb-arse git.
"Come on." I waved my friends to follow me as we entered our dorm.
"Any suggestions for payback?" I asked Lo, Bernadette, Lark and Haven as we sat in a circle on the floor.
"Finite incantem." I said to Lo who was silent and sulky. She brightened as the curse was taken off her.
"Throw a dungbomb at him?" Lark said shrugging.
"Throw him at a dungbomb?" Logrinned.
"Now there's an a good idea, Lo" Bernadette laughed.
"Maybe we could bewitch his mirror so he thinks he has a mustache or a big zit?" Lark said
"Maybe we could make his quill write only "James is an arse, James is a prat, James is a git" over and over and over an over-"
"Okay, Lo we get it." I said smiling,
"What if we gave him a quill, that would write in ink that would disappear after a few hours...He would do all his homework at night and the next morning it will be gone!" Bernadette said smiling.
"And where would we get such a quill?" Haven asked raising her eyebrows.
"Right in my trunk. Bethem let me use it to do some of my summer homework. I nearly killed her but she said I could keep the quill, so I would forgive her." Bernadette explained, pulling an ordinary looking black quill from her trunk.
"I like the idea." Lark piped.
"Yeah, but is he really dense enough to fall for it?" Haven askeddoubtfully.
"OOOOH YEEEAH." I said loudly.
"Then lets do it! Tomorrow night, even he would be suspicious if we offered him a 'gift' tonight." I said smiling and went to the door.
"Whose up for dinner?" Lo asked jumping up with me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Tomorrow is the full moon. Bet'cha can't wait, can ya Remus?" James teased at breakfast the next morning.
"Oh yes, I love the moon." He said through gritted teeth.
"Your not being sarcastic, are ya Rem?" Sirius warned trying to sound stern.
"NOOO." Remus said with such obvious sarcasm Sirius waved his finger disapprovingly, but the act wasn't very good as Sirius was laughing while he lectured.
"Sarcasm isn't appealing. Not at all, son." he chocked through snorts.
"Since when am I your son?" Remus asked confused.
"This conversation is getting kinda weird." Bernadette said inching away from Sirius, whom she was sitting nexttoo.
"You scare easy Shadow." Sirius said smirking.
"No I don't." she disagreed. Sirius mumbled something under his breath and a golf ball sized, hairy spider appeared next to Bernadette's goblet.
"AHHHHH!" She screamed and jumped off the bench, half the great hall looking at her. Sirius tried to keep a straight face, while avoiding Bernadette's eyes.
"Get a grip." Lo said impatiently flicking her wand and vanishing the spider.
"You don't scare easy? yeeeeah riiiiiiiiiiiiight, and Lily isn't over emotional." Sirius smirked.
"Shut up Black." Bernadette, couldn't help but smile.
"If I must." He quieted and returned to eating his porridge.
"Hey did you guys here about the care for magical creatures lesson today?" James asked suddenly.
"No, what about it?" I said turning towards him.
"We are going to be studying a beast who has an evil nature, hideous features. A beast so terrifying, so hairy so foul..." James brokeoff shuddering.
"What is it?" Lark asked anxiously, she seemed to have forgotten she wasn't even in our care for magical creatures class...
"Snivellus!" James said dramatically. We all started laughing, mostly because Snape and his friends were walking by an had heard EVERYTHING James had just said.
"Oh really?" Snape said his eyes flashing. James whipped around.
"Good morning, Snivelly, we were just talking about you." James greeted cheerfully.
"And so I heard." Snape's lip curled.
"Oh really? So wasn't my description of you alarmingly accurate?" James said, proudly.
"No, it sounded more as though you were describing yourself." Snape retorted. James laughed.
"Great comeback, your so clever!" He said sarcastically. Snape raised his wand when Professor McGongall caught his eye. Sulking he walked away mouthing "Watch your back! " as he stalked out of the great hall.
"Slimy git." Remus said resentfully watching him go.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We didn't study Snape in class today, Potter, you lied." I said as we sat by the fire doing homework.
"Sorry 'bout that Evans." he said smiling. He was so cute....
"Want to borrow my quill?" I offered handing the bewitched quill to him.
"I have my own." He said but found it wasn't in his bag. Lo took it when he went to the bathroom.
"Must have fallen out."he frowned. I handed mine to him again.
"Thanks." he said taking the quill and beginning his transfiguration essay. I meet Bernadette's eye and we turned away snickering.
"What is so funny?"James asked suspiciously.
"Bernadette had ink on her nose." I lied quickly. Mumbling, about idiot girls he returned to his homework.
"I need some sleep for tomorrow night." Remus said kissing Lo on the cheek and ascending the stairs to his room.
"Poor, mate." Sirius said watching him go.
"Oh guess what!?"Bernadette exclaimed excitedly.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I made friends with a Slytherin." She beamed.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you right." Sirius said shaking his head disbelievingly.
"I am officially friends with-"
"It better not be Bellatrix or Snape." Lo said harshly.
"Like I would talk to Bellatrix or Snape!" she said making a face.
"I'm friends with Jared Moon. His twin is in our house, James Moon." She said
"The kid who copied my house and my name is the twin of your new buddy?" James grumbled.
"Yes, he is. Get over yourself Potter." She said rolling her eyes.
"So congratulations, I guess." I said
"Thanks! I invited him to study with us in the library tonight...who is coming?"
"Forget it." Lo said quickly.
"Callisto is coming." Bernadette smiled.
"You convinced my little sister to go meet some slithering ass?"Lo asked indignantly.
"Yep." Bernadettedeclared.
"I'm coming too then. Your gonna try and set my baby sister up with that bastard."
"I am not going to try and set them up. And how can you say he is a bastard when you don't know him?"Bernadette asked.
"Oh fine, but if he turns out to be evil or something and marries my sister the blame is all on you." Lo grinned.
"In that unlikely situation...Okay the blame lies on me." Bernadette smiled.
"Deal." she and Lo shook hands.
"Are you coming Lily?" Bernadette asked.
"Yeah, sure why not?" I shouldered my book bag.
"Haven, Lark wanna tag along?" I asked them.
"No thanks." Haven said giving us a reproving look as we set off for the library.
"So what are we? Some bizarre Gryffindor welcoming committee for Slytherin first years?" Lo asked Bernadette as we exited the portrait.
"Not exactly..." Bernadette shrugged.
"Is anyone else going to be there, besides the Moon kid?" I asked.
"Maybe."Bernadette mumbled evasively.
"Who else?" Lo demanded.
"No one." Bernadette insisted, staring at her shoes. We didn't have anymore time to press the matter as we had arrived at the library.
"Hey Bernadette! Over here!" Called a seventh year Slytherin boy who was sitting with Callisto and Jared Moon.
"Hey! Everyone I would like to introduce you to Andrew Not." Bernadette said grinning.
"So, are you part of Bernadette's whole project "Befriend a Slytherin?" Lo asked bluntly.
"I guess so. She is part of my project 'befriend a Gryffindor." He smiled.
"I see....So your the only two idiots who took the message seriously?" Lo questioned.
"Yeah, I think so." Bernadette
"It figures, that you would be one of the only people who takes an old hat's advice." Lo teased Bernadette.
"So, who are you friends?" Nott asked watching us.
"Oh, this is Lo Ping and Lily Evans." Bernadette, pointed us each out.
"Oh, cool.Anyway, your coming to hang with me late r on after our studying session right?" Nott asked.
"Of course! We made plans didn't we?" Bernadette said grinning like an idiot.
"Yeah." He couldn't take his eyes off of her.
"Okay maybe I'm wrong but are you two going out?" Lo asked
"You didn't know?" Nott asked throwing his arm around Bernadette's shoulders.
"Well, um lets get studying, shall we?" I asked taking out my books. An hour passed before another word was spoken between us.
"Well I'm finished, wanna go back to the common room Lily?" Lo asked not looking at Bernadette.
"Sure." I stood up quickly waving Bernadette, Callisto and her new Slytherin friends good-bye.
"What the hell is Bernadette thinking? I thought she liked Black!" Lo shook her head angrily as we entered through the fat lady and stomped up the stairs to the girls dormitory.
"What's wrong with her?" Remus asked.
"Bernadette has a Slytherin boyfriend."I frowned.
"WHAT?" cried two indignant voices in unison.
"Yes that's right, Potter, Black. Bernadette is going out with a Slytherin. Andrew Nott, I think he said his name was." I said still frowning. Sirius mouthed silently, too appalled to speak.
"Is she feeling okay?" James asked.
"I don't know...." I shook my head and went up stairs to go to bed. "What the hell is Bernadette thinking?" Lo's voice echoed through my head. Haven had always seemed more likely to date a Slytherin, not sweet Bernadette...I drifted off into an uneasy sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hey Bernadette!" I caught her just as she was about to leave the common room.
"Oh uh-Hey." She said giving me an awkward smile.
"What's wrong?" I asked, not returning her feeble grin.
"I can't hangout with you." She said quickly. I felt as thought someone had slapped me.
"Why not?" I asked softly.
"Your a muggle-born....Amudblood, Don't you see what's going on? Andy can't date a girl who hangs around with-with a mudblood." she said and bolted from the common without a backwards glance. A paper fell from her pocket, curios and angry I bent down and unfolded the parchment. It was the warning from last year, sent to her from the death-eaters. Was she going to join them?
"Lily, what's up?" Lo asked concerned at the indignant and horrified look on my face.
"Lily?" Remus asked gently.
"Hey watch out, MOVE!" James was pushing several first years out of his way to get to me. Silent tears poured down my cheek.
"Bernadette called me a mudblood. She says that's why she wont hang out with me anymore and I found this warning, it fell from her robes." I said, my voice sounded oddly detached. James pulled me against him, holding me as I stood shaking in the common room. I rested me head against his chest.
"It will be okay. No one else will ever do that to you, I never will. Ipromise everything will be okay."James whispered.
"Gods, I don't know whether to hug Lily or go find Bernadette and kick her ass, forget wands I strangle the bitch." Lo rambled on and on. I finally stopped crying a few minutes later and pulled away from James.
"Thanks." I smiled, through my drying tears and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. He blushed.
"Lets go to breakfast." I suggested.
"Yeah, Bernadette will be there I can curse her nose off." Lo said gripping her wand.
"NO!" Remus shouted grabbing her wand.
"Remus, is right you not getting expelled over Bernadette, she isn't worth it." I said as we walked to the great hall together.
"Oh, well, well, well what have we got here?" Bellatrix was smiling, I hate it when she is happy. I imagined her crying and I felt slightly better.
"Hey Bernadette! Come here, your old friends have graced us with their presence." Snape called. Since when had he and Bernadette been on firstname terms? Bernadette stood up from where she had been sitting at the Slytherin table, and sneered. At least she didn't call me a mudblood again.
"Its pretty pathetic when your own friends, dump you for your enemies." Bellatrix chuckled. I hated to admit it, but she was right.
"Shut up Bellatrix." Sirius said angrily.
"Fine, I can see some people just can't handle the truth very well." She said sympathetically before sitting down--next to Bernadette, my old best friend.
"I don't believe it." I said watching them.
"Neither do I." James squeezed my hand, I felt a little better. Some people were still on my side. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "What the hell? James asked in transfiguration that day.
"What's wrong?" Lo asked
"My homework...All the writing disappeared." He said confused I cracked up.
"Sorry bout that Potter." I said smirking. Bernadette was smiling too, she tried to catch my eye andI looked away. I was so mad at her I could hardly stand breath the same air.
"It was your quill that did this, huh?" James asked grinning.
"Yep." I said proudly.
"Rictusempra!" he called, pointing his wand at me. I was hit with the tickling charm and was on my knees laughing uncontrollably when McGonagall entered the room, looking at me as though I were completely mad, before seeing James pointing his wand at me and understanding the situation.
"Finite incantem." she said and I sat on the floor trying to catch my breath, still half laughing.
"Next time you will get detention Mr. Potter." McGonagall said sternly.
"Okie Dokie Professor." James said helping me back in my seat. McGonagal's face softened as though she were about to smile.
"Now! To furniture transfiguration!" she said beginning the lesson.
AN: RE-POST:My readers must hate me now....*hides* im sorry! There will be more Lily/James in the future and as for Bernadette, I suppose you will all just have to wait and see what happens. I am trying to post as much as I can before school starts bc I am so incredabley sorry but I am starting school August 27th and once school and drama club start up I am going to try and post one chapter every week, but it might be every two weeks depending on my homework. I PROMISE That I will complete this story. PROMISE. I wont give up on it, UNLESS I stop getting reviews. I will keep writingg as long as you all are reading. I will re-post this choater once my betaa have seen it, but REVIEW NOW so READ & REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW-your faithful author-April PS: thanks Mindy!! ^_^