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Chapter 12
Flashes
James was struggling to get to sleep. He was full of too much energy. He decided to get up and he went to the window. In the next bed lay Sirius, his best friend since before he could remember. They had always done everything together and they were inseparable, they were clever but too lazy to work. He knew he had to try to work extra hard to gain the NEWTs he needed to become an auror, his dream job. Of course Sirius had wanted to become and auror too. They would become aurors together and fight along side each other. Sirius stirred and James held his breath. The last thing he wanted to do was wake him up because James wanted to think by himself and he knew what Sirius was like when he was awake. Finally Sirius continued his heavy rhythmic breathing and James breathed a sigh of relief. He decided to go for a little wander around the school grounds. He opened his wooden trunk and got out his invisibility cloak, which he had inherited from his grandfather.
He pulled it on quickly and hurried out of his dormitory and through the portrait of the fat lady. He walked around letting his feet guide him wherever he wanted to go. He went to the head boy and girl's room.
"Disney films are cool," he said to the portrait of Sir Cadogen. He went inside and saw to his surprise that someone was already there she was fat asleep in the chair and James walked cautiously up to her. He sat in the armchair opposite her and watched her sleep. She looks so peaceful, he though. As the first of the sun's rays came up, James crept out and went to the Gryffindor common room. Soon later he heard Lily come in also looking happier that he had ever been before.
James and Sirius went down the Great Hall and a flock of owls swooped down low to deliver parcels and letters to their owners. James looked up instinctively and saw Yhitzl his parents' owl, had arrived with a letter and long thin parcel in its claws. Yhitzl came to a halt, delivered the letter and waited for James to give her a reward. James scrambled around and finally gave Yhitlz scraps of his food. He opened the letter, it read:
To James,
I hope you are staying out of trouble, your dad and I have enclosed a present for you. I hope it will come of use to you.
Love mum XXX
James opened the parcel and gasped. It couldn't be, it was, it was the Dream Chaser 2000, the best broom ever to be made. His face lit up and he couldn't help but smile. Sirius leaned over and whistled. Soon everyone of the Gryffindor table had got up to see James' new broom.
"Well, well, Potter has a new broom. Why don't we all bow to him" most of the Slytherins laughed and egged Snape on. James was fuming. He grabbed his wand and was just about to say Epelliarmus when he decided against it. He saw Kondola look nastily at him but seeing as James hadn't done anything, he just pursed his lips together and took a sip of pumpkin juice from his golden goblet, Snape went away, upset James hadn't done anything.
First lesson was charms. They had Professor Flickwick; he was so small that he had to stand on books to see above his desk.
"Today we will be learning how to summon things. It isn't very complicated but it is essential for your NEWTs. First you hold your wand in your hand, think about the object you want to summon and then say 'accio' and the name of the object you are summoning. You must say it clearly and the object will move towards you. You can now practise with these cushions!" the class was filled with cries of 'accio' everyone managed to do it easily and they didn't have to do anything else for the rest of the lesson.
Soon cries of 'help' could be heard from Peter. Anna and Sarah had summoned him as a joke. They laughed uncontrollably. Peter was slowly being pulled towards the two girls. Finally Professor Flitwick stopped them but didn't give them detention. He chuckled quietly and didn't give them any homework.
James, Sirius and Remus trooped out and went to lunch; they sat on the Gryffindor table, ate and then went to the library to do their piles of homework. Professor had set them a five-foot essay on the uses of veritasium and how to make it. James started but couldn't concentrate. He was thinking of something else, to be precise, someone else. Lily. Thinking about Lily always made him happy. He fantasised about him and her getting together. Remus looking at him with an expectant face brought him back to earth.
"What sorry?" he asked Remus.
"I asked, what are you doing for Christmas?"
"I dunno, I'll probably go home and spend some time with my parents. How about you?"
"Well I always go home so I don't hurt anyone." He said looking at the ground. It truly was a shame that someone as nice as that had such a terrible cross to bare. They left the conversation at that, as Remus was now deep in thought. Soon they left the library and went to their last lesson. James had divination with Peter, Lily, Vicky and Katie. Professor Trelawny was always predicting someone's death, this year it was Peter's and last it had been Katie's.
They climbed the stairs and were blasted with heat as they came up the trap door. She never turned off the fire and it was constantly hot in there.
"We have covered Unfogging the future, now we will learn to read each other's minds. You must clear your mind first and then focus on one important thing that you want your partner to see. No let's see… Peter come here and I will read your mind." Peter looked like a rabbit in the headlights. His eyes opened wide and he looked terrified. "Come along Peter dear, we don't have all day and it won't hurt…. much!" he looked even more worried and dragged himself to the front. They all knew that she was going to tell him that he was going to die soon. "Now Peter, I want you to clear your mind and focus on a specific thought. I will mind read now." She closed her eyes showing the heavily caked on thick purple eyeshadow and the spidery eyelashes. "Hmmm…. You are thinking, you are thinking, you are thinking of James. You are scared he will find something out. Ooo! Let's see if we can find out what!" Peter turned white and James rolled his eyes, it was probably that he loved him or something. "I'm sorry dear I cannot see it. Maybe the stars are prohibiting it form me" she frowned. And told the rest of the class to have a go.
James looked helplessly around. He didn't want to be stuck with Peter for a partner. Lily looked lost too. He suddenly went over to her.
"Lily do you want to be my partner please?" Lily considered it for a moment. Peter was hovering around wondering whether he should ask James to be his partner. Lily said she would and went to a corner with James who was ecstatic. Peter stood by himself before Trelawny sighed and went to read his mind again.
"Right, who's going to read who's mind first?" Lily asked.
"I'll read yours first" James said. James stared into her green eyes, the most beautiful things he'd ever seen he thought and said the first thing that came into his head.
"You're thinking of Katie and Vicky leaving you out" Lily was shocked. Her green eyes pierced into his hazel ones. James was beginning to feel uncomfortable.
"Yes, James you did it first time! My turn now!" Lily said. She looked into his eyes. He concentrated on the thought of Lily. Him and Lily going out, getting married and having a baby. He was in a very dreamlike state. He saw his child with messy black hair and sharp green eyes holding a map with a pair of red haired twins behind him. He saw him under a cloak with a bushy haired girl and a tall red haired boy holding the same map. The map at first looked like an old piece of parchment but it had hidden qualities. It showed where everyone in the school was and all the secret passages were.
"James? James? Are you alright?" Lily's voice was full of concern and he found himself feeling tired and he had a headache. Also he was now on the floor. People were staring at him and peter looked like he was about to cry. James got up shakily and told Professor Trelawny that he was going to the hospital wing.
"What did you see? Did you have a vision? Tell me!" she asked.
"No, it was nothing, I just have a head ache that's all." And he left the classroom. Professor Trelawny took his experience to tell the class that James was going to die instead of Peter.
James made his way to the hospital wing and was greeted by Miranda Coo, the school nurse. She gave him some medicine and he explained what had happened. She made a noise of disapproval and sent him to bed. He fell fast asleep, as he had no energy left.
