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Chapter 9
Hogsmeade
The next day, Katie woke up very early. She lay in bed listening to the rhythmic sound of her friends sleeping. Soon after, Katie decided to get up because she couldn't sleep anymore. She went down to the common room to start on her homework. She was getting loads from all of her Professors because she was in her NEWT year.
There was already someone there sitting by the fireplace. Their messy black hair was visible over the top of the armchair. They were asleep with an astronomy textbook open in their lap. Katie laughed and sat on the sofa opposite and got out her transfiguration homework. She wasn't very good at transfiguration and often struggled with the work.
James stirred and woke up. Where was he? He was still in the common room and must have fallen asleep last night whilst he was doing his astronomy homework. He rubbed his eyes and looked around. Katie was there as well. He smiled at her and said "hi" she hurried a hi back. She is pretty James thought, he got up and looked over her shoulder. She was doing transfiguration, his favourite subject. He knew he would get an O, the highest mark you can get. She was stuck on a question.
Just as he was going to tell her the answer Sirius, Lily, Vicky and Remus appeared closely followed by a very tired looking Peter. James, who was still leant forwards over Katie's shoulder immediately stood up straight and greeted the others.
"Are you going to Hogsmeade today?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah" Lily replied. They all trooped down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"Any moment now!" said Sirius, watching the Slytherin table.
"What have you done this time!" said Vicky. Turning around to look at the Slytherins.
"You'll see, it shouldn't happen any moment…. NOW!" James said and suddenly Snape's face started growing feathers. Sirius, James, Remus and Peter were laughing. Snape grew more feathers and a beak and soon there was an owl sat where Snape had been sitting. It looked very ruffled and glared at the marauders. Vicky sighed and shook her head they were always up to stuff like that. Professor Kondola quickly gave the boys detentions and then turned Snape back into himself. He spat out a few feathers and went back to eating his breakfast.
After breakfast, Callum Hadley checked off the students going to Hogsmeade. Lily, Vicky, Katie, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were just about to step out of the castle when they heard a cry.
"Hey wait for me!" it was Aries. Sirius laughed and shook his head "you can't come with us"
"Please" Aries asked.
"What year are you in?" asked Callum gruffly.
"First, but my brother's there so I can go with him can't I?" Aries replied.
"No!" Aries looked crestfallen and shuffled away.
They walked to the three broomsticks for some butterbeer. There were many students as well as teaches. Lily, James, Remus, Vicky, Katie, Sirius and Peter managed to grab an empty table. They all talked amongst themselves except for Lily and James. James still had not forgiven Lily for going with Snape instead of him.
Sirius was boasting to James and Remus about his latest girlfriend. Sirius managed to have a different girlfriend every week and none of them seemed to last longer than that.
"Her name's Becca Hall! She's a Hufflepuff and she's really nice! I think it might last longer than a week this time!" Sirius said proudly.
"Yeah right Padfoot! In your dreams! Like you can keep any girl longer than a week!" James retorted.
"It's the truth!" Sirius said. James laughed at him.
After they finished their butterbeers they left the three broomsticks and decided to split up for a bit. The girls went to Gladrag's Wizardwear to look at dress robes for the Christmas ball whilst the boys' went to Zonko's to fill their robes with dungbombs.
"Wow! I love these dress robes!" Vicky said. She was holding a pure-white dress with a v neckline. She tried it on and when she appeared moments later Katie and Lily gasped. It fitted her perfectly. They forced her to buy it and Katie told Vicky "shame it's not pink!" Vicky and Lily laughed. The door swung open and Kate and Robyn appeared. They sneered at Vicky's dress robes and said "ugh! That dress makes you look so fat!" Vicky blushed and turned away.
"Just because you want it yourself!" Lily retorted.
"Like I'd want one of those ugly old things when I can have a beautiful one!" smirked Kate. They turned away and laughed as they walked out of the shop.
"Ignore them Vicky, you now their mission in life is to stir people up" said Katie as she too went to pick out a dress robe.
A few minutes later they walked out of Gladrag's laden with a bag each. Lily bumped into someone and said "sorry" to him or her. The person grabbed her arm and turned her around. It was Snape.
"Ah, Lily my precious. I've been wondering when I would see you again" Lily looked frightened, she hadn't spoken to him since the awful night. She tried to free her arm but Snape's grip was too strong. He glared at her.
"You've been avoiding me. Why?" she couldn't believe what she was hearing. It was rather obvious why she was avoiding him.
"Hmm, let's see, how about you tell me?"
He smirked "I was only having a bit of fun Lily, surely you know that!"
Over Snape's shoulder Lily saw two figures approaching. It was James and Sirius.
"SNIVELLUS!" Sirius shouted. Snape closed his eyes and loosened his grip on Lily's arm.
"Why if it isn't Mr Arrogant and Mr Bighead."
"What are you doing Snivellus? Why are you holding Lily?" James asked
"None of your business" Snape said. Lily managed to break free of his grip and ran towards James and Sirius. Snape snarled and walked away.
"Bye Snivellus!" Sirius shouted "what did he want Lily?"
"Nothing it doesn't matter" She saw James and Sirius exchanged glances but didn't press on any further.
Rita Skeeter came up to Lily and she tried to run, but there was no way out because of the crowd that had gathered.
"So, Lily, as you know I work for the Hogwarts Times, the school newspaper and I saw what happened and I'd like to do an article on it." She reached into her bright green bag and got out a piece or parchment, which floated, by her side. "Oh, I'm going to use my brand new Quick Quotes Quill, I just got it for my birthday. Testing, testing, this is Rita Skeeter writing for the Hogwarts Times, interviewing Lily Evans."
The Quill was scratching across the parchment and Lily looked at it.
Rita Skeeter is 17, pretty and blonde and is interviewing the head girl Lily Evans, plain and redheaded for the Hogwarts Times.
"So, Lily, how did you feel when Severus Snape grabbed you? Scared, worried, nervous?" she asked looking at Lily closely.
"Um… worried?" Lily stammered looking at her friends for support but they just shrugged.
Lily was terrified when her boyfriend Severus Snape grabbed her by the arm, she has the worst taste in men, but I suppose that that's the best she could get.
"What? That's not true! Snape's not my boyfriend!"
"Whatever you say Lily! So, how long have you been going out then?"
The pair have been together as long as anyone can remember and Lily can't wait to get married and have kids.
"That's not true! It's all lies! I hate Snape! I would never go out with him! Stop writing and don't publish that! It's all lies I tell you lies!" Lily was close to tears and Katie and Vicky helped to push their way through the crowd to get her out of the centre of attention.
James and Sirius followed looking concerned they were worried about Lily and neither of them liked seeing Lily like this. She looked as if she was about t cry and she did as soon as they sat down on the hill near the shrieking shack.
"I…it's not true…none of it is...I ...Don't like…S…s…s…Snape!" Lily said between sobs. They all gathered round her and comforted her, except James he didn't know what to believe.
When Lily had calmed down they met up with Remus who was coming out of the post office.
"Where's Peter?" Lily asked.
"Don't know he just kinda disappeared" Remus said. They didn't think of Peter again, as they didn't particularly like. He was a nuisance but always tagged along after James.
They trudged along back to the castle and went straight to their common room. The girls put their dress robes away then returned and sat by the fire to finish their homework, well Lily and Vicky did Katie was too busy organising pranks with the boys.
"So using Prongs' cloak we sneak into the Slytherin common room and you, Katie and you, Moony charm the walls to be red and gold whilst me and Prongs place invisible dungbombs strategically around the room! Ok! And don't worry Remmie we won't get caught, we never have done!" Sirius said looking at Remus.
"Don't call me Remmie!" Remus said glaring at Sirius.
"Whatever you say, Remmie!"
"Stop it!"
"Ok REMMIE!"
Soon Remus was chasing Sirius around the room and hitting him. Sirius went to leap over the sofa but misjudged it and tripped over it and fell on his face. Remus stopped and laughed at him. James and Katie were, yet again, playing exploding snap. Lily watched them laugh and joke jealously. She knew she shouldn't be jealous really, after all they were only friends and she didn't really like James all that much anyway. Although Katie did joke about liking him. Soon they all went up to their dormitories, as they were tired.
