Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling, only original creations are credited to me..
Author's Note: Well, I'm back with Chapter Four!!! You have no idea how much I'm actually enjoying writing this fic... crappy as it may be- it's still a lot of fun! I have never enjoyed writing this much! The more feedback I get, the more I enjoy it :-) Anyway, I think I talk too much in my AN....
Frodo Fanatic: I'm glad to have the honor of being your first reviewer :) Reading yours was fun! (*update again soon!!*) About your question- when I think about it I guess I should've put Snape. I was originally thinking of Lucius Malfoy but I haven't even mentioned him in here yet. Thanks ^_^
potterchick1: Thank you! I'm happy you're liking it!
ali: write me a fanfic so I can read it too!! :)
One Last thing- since Lily and James are at Hogwarts, obviously the teachers are different ones than in the Harry Potter books. I thought you might like to know the teachers' names: (Most of them are pretty lame)
Transfiguration- Professor McGonagall (I think I once said this as Fudge in Chap. 1 and that was my bad- I'll change it ASAP) Potions- Pofessor Weldrip Herbology- Professor Dingleberry History of Magic- Professor Binns Care of Magical Creatures- Professor Kettering Divination- Professor Windbough Charms- Professor Flitwick Defense Against the Dark Arts- TBA Nurse- Madame Ratchett Janitor/ Caretaker- Zarvox Bean Dumbledore's still the headmaster, of course!
Ok, I'll shut up now- ONTO THE STORY!
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Sunday had already rolled by. The following week passed even faster, especially since it was the last week before summer holidays. Most teachers didn't bother trying to teach the children much, like Professor Kettering, the Care For Magical Creatures teacher. She let them chase gnomes behind the Herbology greenhouses to their content. Professor Dingleberry, however, who was having her students tidy them in time for the end of the year, was not at all pleased about the racket the students (especially James and his gang) were making. Professor WIndbough was letting her students use any method to foretell summer fortunes to fellow students. Professor McGonagall, to the students' dislike, kept them working until the very last minute. She made them start working on transfiguring animals into other animals, which was one of the most difficult units of transfiguration. Professor Binns, too was trying to get in the last factors that led to the great troll migration.
James and his gang were much more mischevious than usual, anxious and antsy because holidays were so near. On Monday they went down to the kitchens and started a food fight that had the house elves completely petrified. Caretaker Zarvox Bean was sent down to investigate, but he never found the Marauders because the four of them had managed to take refuge under James' invisbility cloak. Later that week, they started selling answers from the O.W.L.s to fourth years who were willing to pay one galleon per answer. James and Sirius had sneaked into the secret hidden room where test forms were kept and nicked the answer sheet.
Thursday of that week during their free period, the marauders (with the exception of Peter who mumbled something about not having his own broom and not wanting to use one of the school's) played a game of Quidditch- James against Remus and Sirius. As he had expected, James won the game and caught the snitch. However, as he dived for the snitch, he knocked right into Remus' broom, and plumeted to the ground. Luckily, it was only a three meter fall. James was lying face-down in the mud when Remus got off his broom to attend to James. He shook James shoulders, "You alright?"
Sirius, who had seen James fall, came over and called to him, "Prongs!"
James sat up, his face expressed glory and was slightly condescending as he opened his palm to show the snitch he had caught. He wiped his face on the tail of his robes, only to find that his nose was bleeding. Remus helped James to feet and handed him a white hanky from inside his robes with the initials "RL" embroidered on it. "Why don't you put the brooms away and I'll take Prongs here to the hospital wing?" Remus said to Sirius.The question was more of a statement and he was already walking up the steps inside the castle.
Sporting a bloody nose (and now quite bloody Quidditch robes), James and Remus made their way down the corridor to the hospital wing. By the time they went in the door and were received by Madame Ratchett whose face changed from a rather pleasant rosy glow to a pallid complexion faster than a traffic light.
Aghast and wide-eyed, she inquired what happened.
Remus explained what happened.
"Well, give him here at once," Madame Ratchett said, regaining her composure. She immediately proceeded to shoo Remus out the door and plunked James down in a chair. "Tsk, tsk. You never learn, James," she said and got out her wand. "Here, give me that handkerchief, please." She held out her other hand to take the bloodied handkerchief and tossed it into a hamper. "Let's have a look at that nose of yours... Oh, dear, quite bloody, isn't it... no, I'm quite certain it's not broken... There, hold that in place there... Open wide-" she forced him to swallow a spoonful of a green substance that smelled like boys' Quidditch Changing Rooms.
"Argh..." James made a choking noise as the liquid ran down his throat.
"Just swallow... good boy..." The door opened. "Keep holding that kerchief to your nose," she said as she attended to the two girls who had entered the room.
James grunted. He saw Madame Ratchett attending to one of the girls who had entered. Next to her he saw a flash of red. "Evans!" he blurted.
The girl was indeed, Lily Evans and was clearly not injured. She stared at him, up and down and merely raised her eyebrows. Then she turned back to her rather short, blonde friend.
Not discouraged at all, James stood up (still holding the hanky to his nose) and walked over to Lily. "How'd you know I was here, Evans?" he said, flashing a grin.
She pursed her lips and looked away.
"You haven't changed your mind about going out wi-"
Madame Ratchett suddenly noticed James. "What are you doing out of your seat, Potter? SIT BACK DOWN," she said firmly.
James grumbled a little, but trudged back to his seat, ruffling his hair. When he had sat down, he called over to Madame Ratchett, asking if he could take the hanky off now. She looked up and quickly acknowledged him with a nod. Wiping the dried blood from his face with a damp cloth, he saw Lily at the door, about to leave.
"Lily!" he called to her.
She half turned, lips pursed. She looked at him with an icy gaze and quickly left.
James touched the hair at the back of his head again. Probably still upset about the Hogsmeade thing, he mused. How long do you think it'll take her to get over it, he asked himself as he finished wiping his face with the cloth.
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"How's your ankle now?" Lily asked.
"Much better," said Sasha, tossing her blonde curls. "Well, you know what I realized, Lily?"
"What?"
"Everything has its bad sides and good sides..."
Lily's laughter rang out clear and genuine. "You took this long to figure it out?" she teased her friend.
"Well, what I mean was helping Professor Dingleberry clean up during our free period was kind of bad. But then when she let us out for break that was good. And then chasing gnomes like we used to as little kids was fun. Then tripping and fracturing my ankle was bad... but then we meet Potter in the hospital wing was good!" she grinned in a playful way.
Lily gave an exasperated sigh. "I don't think anyone quite understands the pure contempt I feel for Potter-"
"You feel WHAT for James?" Sirius had somehow managed to sneak up on the girls.
Lily blushed all the way up to her hair roots. "Nothing for Potter," she said, deeply emphasizing "nothing".
Sirius grinned. "Sure," he said and winked at Lily. "Don't worry, I won't tell him what I heard."
"It was NOTHING..." Lily opened her mouth, appalled, still blushing furiously.
Sasha, too was blushing for some reason unbeknownst to Lily, and was staring at the ground.
"How are you, McGovern?" Sirius said to Sasha.
There was a bright gleam in Sasha's eyes and she flashed a 100-watt smile. "Fine, Black. You?"
"Couldn't be better... Can't wait for the holidays."
"Oh, me neither!..." They started an enthusiastic conversation but Lily didn't join in and she was barely listening. She was imagining what life would be like when people would spread the rumor around that she had a thing for Potter after all. Potter would come up to her... and ask her why she had said no the whole time, when he had been hearing from various people that she actually liked him... She'd tell him that it was all false... He'd ask her out again... she'd say no, of course. Maybe she'd even slap him. Yes, she'd slap him. That would push him back into reality... Or Perhaps not..? Perhaps she'd look at his hazel eyes full of sorrow and remorse. He'd look at her with profound caring and- dare she say it? -Love? He'd give an eloquent speech about what a jerk he'd been and say he was truly sorry. Then she'd melt and they wou- NO. No, they wouldn't. He was James Potter, after all.
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James woke up early on the last day of school. He and Sirius spent their morning hours down in the Kitchens. There, they surreptitiously switched the breakfast ingredients. It had all started out as a game.
"I dare you to switch the sugar and the salt in the kitchens before breakfast," Sirius had said the night before.
"Then we both know not to eat any of the pastries tomorrow," James said, a mischevious grin forming on his lips.
Sirius sported an identical grin and they both crawled into their juxtaposed four-posters.
"Sirius!"
"Mhm?"
"You hex the stoves, so they won't work!"
"You got it.."
"Good Night, then."
"G'night."
For a while the boys' dormitory was quiet. Then, "Sirius? You don't think Lily likes her oatmeal cooked or pastries, do you?"
"How'm I s'possed to know, mate?" Sirius said, groggy.
"Iono.... so far I've only seen her eat biscuits and jam at breakfast..."
"Sleep!" commanded Sirius.
James turned on his other side and slowly closed his eyes.
The next morning, they did as planned. They watched several students grab jelly and cinnamon rolls, and then grimace as they chewed and swallowed.
Lily who ate her usual bread roll with jam, looked puzzled at Vanessa, who had put down her cinnamon roll in disgust. She hurriedly picked up her orange juice and drained her glass.
"What's wrong?" Lily said, taking a bite.
"This cinnamon roll doesn't taste like a cinnamon roll..."
Lily laughed, "Do they ever, really?"
"It tastes more like vegamite," Vanessa made a face.
"Let's see," said Nadine.
"Go ahead," Vanessa replied, pushing her plate towards Nadine.
Nadine's reaction was most similar to Vanessa's. "Tastes like someone switched the ingredients... it's really salty!"
Lily looked around the room. She saw James and Sirius sniggering amongst themselves. "I know who the culprits of this prank are," she said.
"Who?"
"Potter and Black. They look like they know something we don't."
Sasha, Nadine, and Vanessa stretched their necks to get a look at James and Sirius. "Hmmm, I think you're right, Lily."
"Ugh," said Lily, "I bet this was Potter's idea.... He needs to GROW UP.."
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The Dinner Feast that night was much better than the breakfast had been. Lily had already packed and her trunk and her owl, Zephyr were all at the foot of her bed. She was impatient to get home and enjoy summer, despite the numerous difficult homework assignments she'd received. She enjoyed the feast much more than she thought she would, and at the end, the whole school sang the Hogwarts song:
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what we've forgot, Just do your best, We'll do the rest, And learn until our brains are rot!"
Lily tossed and turned her last night in her four-poster. Finally, she fell asleep, however. She fell into a deep, dreamless sleep and did not wake up until Vanessa shook her awake early in the morning, already fully clothed.
"Time to leave!" she said brightly.
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AN: It could just be me but my chapters seem to get longer and longer and worse and worse and more boring... T_T Anyway, I want to know what YOU think- make me happy and review please! ^.^
Author's Note: Well, I'm back with Chapter Four!!! You have no idea how much I'm actually enjoying writing this fic... crappy as it may be- it's still a lot of fun! I have never enjoyed writing this much! The more feedback I get, the more I enjoy it :-) Anyway, I think I talk too much in my AN....
Frodo Fanatic: I'm glad to have the honor of being your first reviewer :) Reading yours was fun! (*update again soon!!*) About your question- when I think about it I guess I should've put Snape. I was originally thinking of Lucius Malfoy but I haven't even mentioned him in here yet. Thanks ^_^
potterchick1: Thank you! I'm happy you're liking it!
ali: write me a fanfic so I can read it too!! :)
One Last thing- since Lily and James are at Hogwarts, obviously the teachers are different ones than in the Harry Potter books. I thought you might like to know the teachers' names: (Most of them are pretty lame)
Transfiguration- Professor McGonagall (I think I once said this as Fudge in Chap. 1 and that was my bad- I'll change it ASAP) Potions- Pofessor Weldrip Herbology- Professor Dingleberry History of Magic- Professor Binns Care of Magical Creatures- Professor Kettering Divination- Professor Windbough Charms- Professor Flitwick Defense Against the Dark Arts- TBA Nurse- Madame Ratchett Janitor/ Caretaker- Zarvox Bean Dumbledore's still the headmaster, of course!
Ok, I'll shut up now- ONTO THE STORY!
*__________________________________________*
Sunday had already rolled by. The following week passed even faster, especially since it was the last week before summer holidays. Most teachers didn't bother trying to teach the children much, like Professor Kettering, the Care For Magical Creatures teacher. She let them chase gnomes behind the Herbology greenhouses to their content. Professor Dingleberry, however, who was having her students tidy them in time for the end of the year, was not at all pleased about the racket the students (especially James and his gang) were making. Professor WIndbough was letting her students use any method to foretell summer fortunes to fellow students. Professor McGonagall, to the students' dislike, kept them working until the very last minute. She made them start working on transfiguring animals into other animals, which was one of the most difficult units of transfiguration. Professor Binns, too was trying to get in the last factors that led to the great troll migration.
James and his gang were much more mischevious than usual, anxious and antsy because holidays were so near. On Monday they went down to the kitchens and started a food fight that had the house elves completely petrified. Caretaker Zarvox Bean was sent down to investigate, but he never found the Marauders because the four of them had managed to take refuge under James' invisbility cloak. Later that week, they started selling answers from the O.W.L.s to fourth years who were willing to pay one galleon per answer. James and Sirius had sneaked into the secret hidden room where test forms were kept and nicked the answer sheet.
Thursday of that week during their free period, the marauders (with the exception of Peter who mumbled something about not having his own broom and not wanting to use one of the school's) played a game of Quidditch- James against Remus and Sirius. As he had expected, James won the game and caught the snitch. However, as he dived for the snitch, he knocked right into Remus' broom, and plumeted to the ground. Luckily, it was only a three meter fall. James was lying face-down in the mud when Remus got off his broom to attend to James. He shook James shoulders, "You alright?"
Sirius, who had seen James fall, came over and called to him, "Prongs!"
James sat up, his face expressed glory and was slightly condescending as he opened his palm to show the snitch he had caught. He wiped his face on the tail of his robes, only to find that his nose was bleeding. Remus helped James to feet and handed him a white hanky from inside his robes with the initials "RL" embroidered on it. "Why don't you put the brooms away and I'll take Prongs here to the hospital wing?" Remus said to Sirius.The question was more of a statement and he was already walking up the steps inside the castle.
Sporting a bloody nose (and now quite bloody Quidditch robes), James and Remus made their way down the corridor to the hospital wing. By the time they went in the door and were received by Madame Ratchett whose face changed from a rather pleasant rosy glow to a pallid complexion faster than a traffic light.
Aghast and wide-eyed, she inquired what happened.
Remus explained what happened.
"Well, give him here at once," Madame Ratchett said, regaining her composure. She immediately proceeded to shoo Remus out the door and plunked James down in a chair. "Tsk, tsk. You never learn, James," she said and got out her wand. "Here, give me that handkerchief, please." She held out her other hand to take the bloodied handkerchief and tossed it into a hamper. "Let's have a look at that nose of yours... Oh, dear, quite bloody, isn't it... no, I'm quite certain it's not broken... There, hold that in place there... Open wide-" she forced him to swallow a spoonful of a green substance that smelled like boys' Quidditch Changing Rooms.
"Argh..." James made a choking noise as the liquid ran down his throat.
"Just swallow... good boy..." The door opened. "Keep holding that kerchief to your nose," she said as she attended to the two girls who had entered the room.
James grunted. He saw Madame Ratchett attending to one of the girls who had entered. Next to her he saw a flash of red. "Evans!" he blurted.
The girl was indeed, Lily Evans and was clearly not injured. She stared at him, up and down and merely raised her eyebrows. Then she turned back to her rather short, blonde friend.
Not discouraged at all, James stood up (still holding the hanky to his nose) and walked over to Lily. "How'd you know I was here, Evans?" he said, flashing a grin.
She pursed her lips and looked away.
"You haven't changed your mind about going out wi-"
Madame Ratchett suddenly noticed James. "What are you doing out of your seat, Potter? SIT BACK DOWN," she said firmly.
James grumbled a little, but trudged back to his seat, ruffling his hair. When he had sat down, he called over to Madame Ratchett, asking if he could take the hanky off now. She looked up and quickly acknowledged him with a nod. Wiping the dried blood from his face with a damp cloth, he saw Lily at the door, about to leave.
"Lily!" he called to her.
She half turned, lips pursed. She looked at him with an icy gaze and quickly left.
James touched the hair at the back of his head again. Probably still upset about the Hogsmeade thing, he mused. How long do you think it'll take her to get over it, he asked himself as he finished wiping his face with the cloth.
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"How's your ankle now?" Lily asked.
"Much better," said Sasha, tossing her blonde curls. "Well, you know what I realized, Lily?"
"What?"
"Everything has its bad sides and good sides..."
Lily's laughter rang out clear and genuine. "You took this long to figure it out?" she teased her friend.
"Well, what I mean was helping Professor Dingleberry clean up during our free period was kind of bad. But then when she let us out for break that was good. And then chasing gnomes like we used to as little kids was fun. Then tripping and fracturing my ankle was bad... but then we meet Potter in the hospital wing was good!" she grinned in a playful way.
Lily gave an exasperated sigh. "I don't think anyone quite understands the pure contempt I feel for Potter-"
"You feel WHAT for James?" Sirius had somehow managed to sneak up on the girls.
Lily blushed all the way up to her hair roots. "Nothing for Potter," she said, deeply emphasizing "nothing".
Sirius grinned. "Sure," he said and winked at Lily. "Don't worry, I won't tell him what I heard."
"It was NOTHING..." Lily opened her mouth, appalled, still blushing furiously.
Sasha, too was blushing for some reason unbeknownst to Lily, and was staring at the ground.
"How are you, McGovern?" Sirius said to Sasha.
There was a bright gleam in Sasha's eyes and she flashed a 100-watt smile. "Fine, Black. You?"
"Couldn't be better... Can't wait for the holidays."
"Oh, me neither!..." They started an enthusiastic conversation but Lily didn't join in and she was barely listening. She was imagining what life would be like when people would spread the rumor around that she had a thing for Potter after all. Potter would come up to her... and ask her why she had said no the whole time, when he had been hearing from various people that she actually liked him... She'd tell him that it was all false... He'd ask her out again... she'd say no, of course. Maybe she'd even slap him. Yes, she'd slap him. That would push him back into reality... Or Perhaps not..? Perhaps she'd look at his hazel eyes full of sorrow and remorse. He'd look at her with profound caring and- dare she say it? -Love? He'd give an eloquent speech about what a jerk he'd been and say he was truly sorry. Then she'd melt and they wou- NO. No, they wouldn't. He was James Potter, after all.
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James woke up early on the last day of school. He and Sirius spent their morning hours down in the Kitchens. There, they surreptitiously switched the breakfast ingredients. It had all started out as a game.
"I dare you to switch the sugar and the salt in the kitchens before breakfast," Sirius had said the night before.
"Then we both know not to eat any of the pastries tomorrow," James said, a mischevious grin forming on his lips.
Sirius sported an identical grin and they both crawled into their juxtaposed four-posters.
"Sirius!"
"Mhm?"
"You hex the stoves, so they won't work!"
"You got it.."
"Good Night, then."
"G'night."
For a while the boys' dormitory was quiet. Then, "Sirius? You don't think Lily likes her oatmeal cooked or pastries, do you?"
"How'm I s'possed to know, mate?" Sirius said, groggy.
"Iono.... so far I've only seen her eat biscuits and jam at breakfast..."
"Sleep!" commanded Sirius.
James turned on his other side and slowly closed his eyes.
The next morning, they did as planned. They watched several students grab jelly and cinnamon rolls, and then grimace as they chewed and swallowed.
Lily who ate her usual bread roll with jam, looked puzzled at Vanessa, who had put down her cinnamon roll in disgust. She hurriedly picked up her orange juice and drained her glass.
"What's wrong?" Lily said, taking a bite.
"This cinnamon roll doesn't taste like a cinnamon roll..."
Lily laughed, "Do they ever, really?"
"It tastes more like vegamite," Vanessa made a face.
"Let's see," said Nadine.
"Go ahead," Vanessa replied, pushing her plate towards Nadine.
Nadine's reaction was most similar to Vanessa's. "Tastes like someone switched the ingredients... it's really salty!"
Lily looked around the room. She saw James and Sirius sniggering amongst themselves. "I know who the culprits of this prank are," she said.
"Who?"
"Potter and Black. They look like they know something we don't."
Sasha, Nadine, and Vanessa stretched their necks to get a look at James and Sirius. "Hmmm, I think you're right, Lily."
"Ugh," said Lily, "I bet this was Potter's idea.... He needs to GROW UP.."
_______________________________________
The Dinner Feast that night was much better than the breakfast had been. Lily had already packed and her trunk and her owl, Zephyr were all at the foot of her bed. She was impatient to get home and enjoy summer, despite the numerous difficult homework assignments she'd received. She enjoyed the feast much more than she thought she would, and at the end, the whole school sang the Hogwarts song:
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what we've forgot, Just do your best, We'll do the rest, And learn until our brains are rot!"
Lily tossed and turned her last night in her four-poster. Finally, she fell asleep, however. She fell into a deep, dreamless sleep and did not wake up until Vanessa shook her awake early in the morning, already fully clothed.
"Time to leave!" she said brightly.
*________________________________________*
AN: It could just be me but my chapters seem to get longer and longer and worse and worse and more boring... T_T Anyway, I want to know what YOU think- make me happy and review please! ^.^