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James and Lily: A Match Made in Hogwarts

Chapter 5

Lily continued having the dreams, but she had found a charm that stopped her from talking in her sleep. She found it quite useful. She didn't tell James that she was still having them, though. She knew he'd be worried and she didn't want him to nag her about them all the time. She had managed to avoid James for a few days. Until the school's first visit to Hogsmeade…..

She, Carly, and Isabella had just been signed out by Filch when the Mauraders came up behind them.

"Lily Evans!" James burst out behind her. He grabbed her hand and kissed the top of it. "You look absolutely radiant today! How DO you do it?"

She scowled at him and pulled her hand out of his reach, and wiped it on her long, black robes.

"Why must you and your dopey friends follow us wherever we go? Are you some kind of stalker or what?" she demanded. "Leave us alone! "Come on guys." She told her friends.

But Carly was blushing at something Sirius had just told her and Isabella and Remus were having a serious discussion about their latest Arithmacy lesson. Peter was just standing there, stuffing sweets in his piggy face.

"Goodbye, Potter." Lily told him. She seized her friends, by the arms and dragged them down the path to Hogsmeade.

"Lils! Why'd you do that? Remus and I were talking about our Arithmacy homework!" Isabella told her angrily.

"And Sirius told me he'd never seen me look so beautiful!" Carly said.

Lily let out a groan. "Honestly, how can you two stand them? Sirius can be just as much as a jerk as James sometimes!"

"Lily, they were just talking to us. It's not a big deal!" Isabella said. "You complain about him so much that someone might get the idea that you actually like James!"

Lily could feel her face start to turn red. She turned away from them when she said, "How can you say that, Izzy? I'd never like someone as big headed as him!"

"I don't know, Lily. You do talk about him all the time!" Carly piped up.

"I don't talk about him all the time! He just makes me so mad! Forget about it! Let's just go to Three Broomsticks and get a butterbeer," Lily said, trying to steer the conversation to something else.

As the three girls went into Three Broomsticks, the Mauraders came out of the joke shop down the street, loaded with bags full of items.

"So, Padfoot, do you have a thing for Carly?" James asked.

"Well, I think she's cute as hell. She's a really good Chaser, too! I like her and I think she kind of likes me, too. What about you, Moony? I think that Isabella girl likes you!"

"She's my Arithmacy partner." Remus said as though it was some kind of law.

"She can be another kind of partner, if you know what I mean!" Sirius nudged him in the ribs a few times.

Remus gave him an outraged look. "Sirius, she's a really nice girl and I don't think of her that way!"

"Gosh, Padfoot! You're such a pervert!" James said with mock sincerity.

"Shut it, Prongs! You're no better than he is with Lily!"

"I don't think of her that way either, you prat! I wish she'd just give me a chance though, she's always looking at me like I'm about to pull some crazy stunt!"

"That's because you are always about to pull some stunt!" Remus piped up.

James laughed. "True."

They headed into Three Broomsticks and walked up to Madam Rosmerta at the counter.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the famous Marauders from Hogwarts. What can I get you four to drink today?" Madam Rosmerta said, giving them a big smile.

"We'll take four butterbeers please, my dear Rosie." Sirius said, turning on the charm. "And might I say, you are looking quite ravishing this morning as usual." He winked at her.

"Mr. Black, you are quite the charmer. Here, ( she thrusted the four butterbeers into his hands) take these, and don't be telling the other students that I just gave them to you for free!"

Sirius gave her another wink. "Thanks Rosie!"

He passed them around to the others. James began to look for an empty table. But, it looked like they were all taken. His eyes roamed around the pub, until the stopped on Lily and her friends. They were sitting in a huge booth. There was enough room for the four Marauders at their table.

"Come on. I've found us a table." He led them over to Lily's booth.

"What is it now, Potter?" she demanded.

"Well, Lilith, (Lily scowled, he must have just made that nickname up) as you can see, there aren't anymore empty tables in here and you three are taking up that big ol' booth by yourselves. The right thing to do would be to let us sit down." He gestured to himself and the other Marauders.

"And why should we let you sit with us, Potter?" she gave him a mean look.

"Come on Lily! Let them sit with us!" Carly whispered to her across the table. Her eyes were locked on Sirius.

"Yeah, Lils, there isn't any other place for them to sit!" Isabella pleaded.

"Oh…all right. You and your friends can sit down. But no funny stuff!" she told them.

They all gave her a huge smile and Remus said, "Thank you, Lily."

Lily had been sitting on one bench by herself while Carly and Isabella sat on the other. James sat down next to Lily and Isabella got up so Sirius could squeeze in next to Carly, so Isabella could sit next to Remus. When Peter sat down next to James, he had to move even closer to Lily. She turned to look at him and their eyes met. She felt like a deer trapped in the headlights. Their faces were only a few inches away. She turned away from him, she could feel her face burn and she knew everyone else at the table was watching them.

"So! she said loudly. What's in the bags?" she nodded at the joke shop bags they had set on the table.

"Those, (James tore his eyes from her face) are the latest developments from Zonko's."

"Yeah, we're going to use those to torture Snivelly and his little gang of Slytherins!" Sirius said happily.

"Oh, I should have known." Lily said. "You know, as Head Girl, I could confiscate those." But after she saw the looks on their faces she quickly said. "But, as long as you don't hurt anybody, I don't see any reason too."

They all sighed with relief. "Good!" Sirius said. "I spent all my money on that stuff."

"Yeah, it's got to last until the next Hogsmeade visit." James said.

Sirius began chatting with Carly while Remus and Isabella started talking, once again, about their Arithmacy homework. Peter took out his homework and started to work slowly thru it. He was cramming more sweets into his mouth. James shook is head at this, and turned to Lily.

"So, Lilith, lovely day isn't it?" he asked pleasantly.

"Yes, it's really nice today."

When he didn't saying anything right away, she reached under the table into her bag, and pulled out her Charms homework.

"Bloody Hell, Lilith. Is homework all you do?"

She gave him a small smile. "Yeah, Potter. Unlike you, I actually care about my homework. Not that it really matters for you. You're the best in every class without even trying!"

" Stop it! You're making me blush! Thanks for the compliment, Lilith! But I think you're actually beating me in some classes." He told her.

Her smile widened. "I think we're about tied." She pointed around James at Peter, who took no notice. "What's his-"

She was interrupted by Severus Snape.

"Well, look what we have here!" he sneered at them. "A bunch of Mudbloods and pure blood traitors."

James and Sirius pushed Peter and Remus out of their seats so they could jump out, and pulled their wands. Severus had pulled his own wand.

"You should choose you're friends more carefully." He said to James and Sirius. "You're sitting in the company of a mudblood, you know." He pointed at Lily.

Lily jumped out of the booth and pulled her own wand. "Petrificus Totalus!" she shouted.

Snape's arms and legs were bound instantly to his sides and he fell backwards, stiff as a board.

"Good one, Evans." James told her.

"Thanks." She replied.

One of Severus's friends quickly ran over and muttered the countercurse. Snape picked himself up off the ground. He had a look of pure venom in his dark eyes. He took a step towards Lily and she took a step back, her eyes wide with sudden fear.

"I would watch it, if I were you, Mudblood," he said in a small, oily voice. "Someone could sneak up on you in a dark corridor and attack you."

James jumped between them.

"Leave her alone, you stupid, greasy git!" he shouted at him.

"Yeah, and get out of here, before I curse you into oblivion." Sirius piped up.

Snape shot them one last, long, menacing glare and then he walked out of the pub. Noise started up again, for everyone in the pub had been watching them with interest. Lily sank back down into the booth, and a tear leaked out of her pretty green eye. James sank down to his knees his front of her.

"Come on." Sirius muttered to Remus, Peter, Carly and Isabella. They scrambled out of the booth and hurried out the door, leaving James and Lily alone at the table.

James put his hands on hers, that were scrunched together in her lap. She raised her head to look at him.

"Lily, don't even give that greasy little prat a thought. You're worth a hundred of him!"

"I know…." Another tear leaked out of her eye. "But it really hurts when someone calls you a Mudblood. Like you're too disgusting to even be here. You don't know what it's like." She put her head back down and more tears fell.

James raised her chin. "Forget about him! No one else thinks of you that way, its just that stupid Slytherin idiot!"

She smiled shakily at him. "Thanks….James."

He grinned at her. "No problem. Come on, let's go find the others."

He pulled her to her feet. Lily brushed the tears off her face and grabbed her bags. She handed James his and Sirius's Zonko's bags.

"Thanks." He told her. Then he grabbed her free hand and pulled her thru the pub, weaving though table and chairs.

When they walked out the pub doors, they met their friends, who were waiting for them.

"Ready to go?" Remus asked them all. Carly and Isabella looked down at Lily and James's hands. She looked down to see what they were staring at. To her horror, she was still holding his hand. She pulled it away quickly and felt a blush creep onto her cheeks. Carly and Isabella nudged each other's ribs, giving each other a knowing look. Sirius and Remus had noticed their hands, and gave James a look that said "Go, James!"

When Lily pulled her hand from his, James looked surprised for a second then recovered by putting a big smile on his face.

"Well, guys, we're getting out of here." Isabella told them.

"Yeah, see you later!" Carly gave Sirius a wink.

"Ok, Bye!" the Marauders chorused.

"See you in the tower, Lily!" James added with a smile.

Lily looked at him with a dazed look on her face, like she had just realized where she was and what she was doing.

"Yeah……..bye…………" she gave them a small wave. Her friends grabbed both her arms and tugged her down the road, like she was a little kid whose feet didn't want to move.

Sirius stared after them. "Wow, Prongs. I think Lily might be starting to like you."

"Yeah, I hope so." James stared hopefully after Lily, watching her pretty red head disappear down the path.

"WHEW* That Chapter was really hard! I've been working on it for hours! I'm trying to get a chapter out a day.  I think I'll put a Quidditch Match in the next chapter. What do you guys think? Well, it's late and I'm tired. I'll get started on Chapter 6  A.S.A.P. and I'll probably have it up sometime tomorrow! Thanks for reading!