.-"‾‾': Like Morning Sunshine :'‾‾"-.
By Fizban Hat
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any associated characters and locales. They belong to Ms. Rowling. I do own the plot, and any characters or things you don't recognise.
Summary: AU, a few things were changed. What if Hogwarts had a military slant? Lily Evans' teachers want her and every other student to be able to protect themselves when they aren't at Hogwarts, especially in dark times like these. So they added a few military elements to the curriculum. After all what good is a dead wizard?
.-"‾‾': Chapter Three: First Year Fun :'‾‾"-.
Something was biting her nose. Something with very fishy breath was biting her nose. Something with fishy breath and furry grey paws was biting her nose. Something that belonged to Remus was biting her nose.
"Icarus, Jania's bed is over there." Lily muttered sleepily as she shooed the fluffy grey kitten away.
A few minutes later. "Quit 'iting my 'ose, Icky. I'm up." Jania grumbled.
Lily glanced at the glowing dial of her watch, five in the morning. She fell back to sleep to as she heard Jania getting up.
"Here." Jania grumbled. Shoving a paper bag filled with elastics, hairclips and bobby pins at James. "Why did I have to get them? If this is a prank it sucks."
"It does not suck!" James said hotly. "Trust me, by the end of the week, Lily will be begging to give me back my Quidditch posters. Tomorrow I want you to take all the ink. Oh, and give me your elastic."
"Why?" Jania growled.
"So Lily doesn't get suspicious." James answered cheerfully. Still growling Jania handed him the rubber band that held her hair in its braid.
"Why do I have to help you anyway?" Jania grumbled as she helped herself to some breakfast.
"Oh look, there's Uncle Sebby." Sirius chirped, waving at someone behind Jania's shoulder. Jania yelped and dove under the table.
"No one's there Jania." Lily said as sat down. Jania's head popped up, and looked about sceptically before she sat back down, kicking Sirius in the shin.
"Where are all the elastics, Potter?" Lily demanded. James shrugged innocently. "I know you took them. But let me tell you, you aren't getting your stupid posters back until I get an apology. And if you don't give me back our hair things, I'll tell Professor McGonagall."
Beside her, Jania made a funny noise, half-yelp, half-yawn, as Remus kicked her in the shin. "Uh… Lily, if you tell McGonagall, that James took the hair whatchamacallits, you'll have to tell her why. Which means you'll have to admit you took his posters and started it. McGonagall's not going to look at that lightly." Jania paused here, yawning widely. "You'll probably land yourself a detention." She finished lightly.
Lily fumed. "Fine."
Lily was eating breakfast in stony silence as Dawn and Marré came down and joined them.
"Jania, what are you doing?" Dawn asked, as she sat down.
"Cutting my shoelace." Jania grunted as she sat back up, a piece of shoelace clutched in her hand. Slowing she tied the end of her braid up with it.
"Um… Where are our hair things?" Marré asked softly, while buttering a muffin.
"Potter." Lily said darkly.
"Yes, dearest?" James said sarcastically.
"Come on Jania, we're going to the library." Lily ordered. When Jania made no move to get up, Lily grabbed her braid and dragged her away from the table.
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"Miss Evans." The Potions Master said sharply, "I would have thought that you, Miss Star and Miss Mendambar, had more sense then to show up in my class with your hair down. This is Potions, not History of Magic. Loose hair could catch in something, or worse, it could end up in your potion and ruin an hour or more of hard work. Pull your hair back with something before you continue."
"But sir, we err… lost all our hair ties." Lily explained.
"Then borrow one, or use a piece of string." The Professor said sharply.
Jania sighed loudly, as she grabbed her knife and cut the ends off the rest of her shoelaces. She handed one to each of them, and they rather clumsily pulled their hair back. Lily scowled fiercely at James, to no avail.
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"Miss Evans," Professor McGonagall said severely. "Why are you not taking notes?"
"I don't have any ink, Ma'am." Lily replied politely.
"Borrow some from Mister Potter." Professor McGonagall ordered, before going back to writing her notes.
Lily groaned.
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"Miss Evans, why aren't you taking notes today?" Professor McGonagall asked sharply.
"I misplaced my quills." Lily said quietly.
"Mister Potter, will lend you one." McGonagall said sharply.
"Lily this would all end, if you'd just return my posters." James said, handing her an electric yellow quill. Beside Remus, Jania was writing with an oversized bright pink Ostrich feather. She looked quite put out. Lily thanked the founders, that at least her borrowed quill wasn't a monstrosity like that.
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It was Friday, thank the Founders. After the quills, it had been their socks and shoes. They had been forced to go to class in their bare feet. Then today their parchment had mysteriously disappeared. Lily rubbed her forehead. She was going crazy. Why did he have to take the small things, that didn't really matter, unless they all went missing at the same time? Just then, Professor Flitwick's voice cut through her thoughts.
"Honestly Lily, it's not like you to be so forgetful. Have you been getting enough sleep?" He asked kindly.
No, Lily thought, I haven't. She had stayed awake every night this week, trying to catch Potter taking their things. Lily was quite curious, as to how he had managed to get into the girls dorm, boys weren't able to get in, she knew from having read Hogwarts, A History. The only male that had been in their dorm was Icarus and Lily doubted he was the one taking their stuff.
"If you're not better prepared next week, I'm afraid I'll have to give you detention." Professor Flitwick told her.
Lily blanched. Detention? She couldn't afford another detention. Her parents were so disappointed she had gotten one the first week of school. She couldn't bear to disappoint her parents, not when they were so proud she was a witch.
The bell rang, and the class filed out, thankful they hadn't been set any homework.
Her, Jania, Marré and Dawn were down by the lake, sitting in the shade of one the trees, enjoying their free afternoon. The weather was unseasonably warm, probably the last nice day before the fall rains hit.
"Halloween Feast tonight." Jania announced from where she sprawled on the grass, playing catch with Marré's Rememberall.
"It is?" Lily asked, she forgotten all about it being Halloween with everything.
"Yeah, where have you been? Mars?"
"No. I've just been thinking about more important things than a stupid holiday." Lily snapped at Jania, who shrugged and continued to play catch with herself.
"Honestly, Lily, why can't you just give him the poster back?" Dawn asked.
"Because, he hasn't apologized for getting me detention!" Lily said angrily.
"You're about to get yourself one without his help." Jania said, helpfully pointing out that fact.
"Shut it, Jania!"
"I was just saying… Is a measly little apology worth getting yourself landed with another detention?"
"Jania." Lily growled warningly.
"It's just one little Quidditch poster… All you have to do is give it back and all your problems are solved…"
"JANIA!" The other three girls shouted.
"Bah." Jania grumbled and went back to catching the rememberall, ignoring them.
"She is right though Lily." Marré said softly.
"Of course I'm right. I'm Jania." Jania announced arrogantly. Before swearing to herself when Lily whacked her upside the head. "Grah. Well remember when you're in detention that I was the one who kindly suggested a way to get out of it… but you didn't take it, so you're leaping what the cow sowed."
"Reaping what you sowed." Dawn corrected absently. Jania shrugged.
After an eternity Lily finally replied. "Yes, I suppose you are right."
"So what you going to do, practise turning towards the other mountain peak?"
"It's turning the other cheek, Jania." Marré said kindly.
Dinner that night was a fun affair. Lily scowled grumpily all evening at James, who crowed in delight at everything, and was generally more cheerful than the occasion warranted.
"That's better." Jania said yawning. "Now I can get some sleep. No more getting up early to steal socks or parchments."
Lily blinked very slowly, and replayed what Jania had just said. "YOU were the one taking the stuff?!"
"Yeah." Jania nodded, completely oblivious.
"Why hello Uncle Sebby." Lily said cheerfully to someone behind Jania, "What will be doing at class next time?"
"Oh, I thought we could play a muggle game of dodge ball. To… uh… hone your reflexes…" Uncle Sebby replied, he obviously didn't want to teach the kids anything military or life saving in their first year. "And how's my little Johnny-ah? Uh… Jania where did you go?"
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Quidditch try-outs were today, Lily remembered as she woke up. She had promised Jania she would go watch with her, since first years couldn't try out. There were two positions open, Beater and Chaser. Sitting in the stands with Remus, Sirius and Peter, Lily wondered where James and Jania were, obsessed as they were she had thought they would be here first. Looking down at the pitch, she saw that though try-outs had officially started about five minutes ago, only four people had shown up. Two of them looked suspiciously like James and Jania.
"Look, there they are!" Sirius said, pointing to the two on the pitch. "I hope they make the team."
"They won't Sirius, first years aren't allowed their own brooms because they aren't allowed on the team. Letting them on the team would only cause the other houses to complain, and first years to complain about the broom rule." Remus said calmly.
"So?" Peter asked, "If they're good, they should be on the team."
"Hear, hear!" Sirius shouted, before turning to Remus. "You do want Gryffindor to win don't you?"
"Yes, of course I do but…"
"Then you want them on the team." Sirius said with finality.
Down on the Quidditch pitch, Lily watched as James and Jania, mounted on the school's 'inferior' brooms took the sky with the other two. It was clear, even to Lily, with her limited knowledge of brooms that the two, though no doubt mounted on the best school brooms, were outstripped by the class and power of the other brooms. The four of them trying out, were set against four of the regular team, as two beaters and two chasers. Right now, according to Sirius, James and Jania were beaters.
As she saw the two of them fly around the pitch whacking the, what had Sirius called them, Bludgers, at the other team. Although neither had experience, it was obvious they had some talent; they flew better than the two older kids trying out. And actually managed to stop one of the chasers from scoring with a bludger.
After half an hour, the team captain William Wood, whistled for them to change positions. Jania and James were now chasers. They faired better than the other pair at chasers, and would probably have scored a couple goals if their brooms hadn't been outstripped. Nearing the end of the try-out Lily could see it was beginning to get to them. When they finally landed on the pitch, the four in the stands rushed down to them.
"Well?" Jania demanded of Captain Wood.
"You two have talent, and with practise would make excellent beaters or chasers, but the rules are the rules. No first years."
"So?" James asked pugnaciously.
"I can't put first years on the team. You don't have brooms, you're not allowed to have brooms, and though McGonagall is sweet on Quidditch I know she won't go for having you two on the team. Maybe she would have, if you knew how to behave, but… The best I can do is argue to put you on as reserves, playing if someone is out with their broom, mind you." Wood said, dismissing them, muttering silently to himself about why Quidditch might not be popular with the Gryffindors right now, most likely because of Slytherin and Ravenclaw winning the cup for the past ten years. It wasn't his fault no one was interested in Quidditch and those that were, were abysmal despite how hard he pushed them and trained them.
"I suppose that's better than nothing." James said as they walked back to the castle.
"Yeah, I suppose." Jania agreed, "We'll just have to practise every night, you, me and Sirius. The two chasers and one beater, and seeker will be open next year. I think I want to go for Chaser, trickier flying involved."
"I want to be a beater," Sirius announced, "then I can whack the bludger at the Slytherins, and whoever else on the opposing team I don't like."
"That leaves me as the other chaser." James said, "Suits me, like Jania said trickier flying."
"Aren't you three overlooking a minor fact?" Remus asked, he was met with three blank stares. "You might not make the team."
"Trust me, we'll make the team." James said determined. Lily didn't bother to try and argue with them, it was no use at any rate.
"If we get our homework done before dinner, we could sneak out and practise after dinner." Lily sighed.
"Are you suggesting we break the rules?" James asked mockingly aghast.
"Yes, but only this once."
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By the time Christmas holidays had rolled around, Lily had quite forgiven Jania, and no longer set her up to be caught by Uncle Sebby, amusing though it was. The holidays officially started day after tomorrow, and today they had their last class. It was defence class with Uncle Sebby, who had decided to have all the first years have a lesson together, to mark the end of the term or something.
Trudging out to the Quidditch pitch with Jania, how along with James and Sirius had been true to their word and snuck out every night to practise. Wood had managed to get McGonagall to let him mark them as reserves reluctantly, she had only relented because Wood said they wouldn't need to be allowed brooms and would just play on the regular player's broom. So Wood made them go to practise with the other players, and made them stay late so he could give them some one on one training. Everything they learned they taught to Sirius, Remus, or Lily, who was forced to go with the three when Remus was sick or one of his family was which happened at regular intervals.
They arrived at the pitch to see Uncle Sebby already there, wearing a bright yellow robe, electric green cloak, and fluorescent pink earmuffs. Beside her Jania cursed under her breath.
"Well today class, I decided to give you a real military lesson." He said cheerily once everyone had arrived and roll call had been taken. The entire first year of students leaned forward with bated breath, "We're going to have a snowball fight."
The other kids groaned, they had thought it would be something interesting, but Jania grinned wickedly and whispered, "When he says snowball fight, he means snow ball war. This will be fun."
"Now now, don't look so glum chums, this will be loads of fun and a huge lesson in tactics and teamwork." Uncle Sebby said, tossing up and down a snowball. "As you can see, the pitch has been divided into two halves." Indeed it had, in the middle of the field was a large red line that had been magicked into the snow. "That divides each side's territory. Two houses will be on this side, two on the other. You'll notice that scattered across the field are piles of snowballs, each pile is magicked to refill itself, and the snowballs themselves are magicked. If you are hit more than three times with a snowball, you will be magicked into a sleep and will only wake at the end of the game, when one side is defeated or concedes to the other. Now don't worry about catching a cold, it's also magicked to release a spell to keep you warm until you wake. While building your fortifications, you will be allowed to use what magic you know and the tools I have set aside for each team, but only snow can be used as a defence and weapon. No using the shovels to built catapults or the like. Now, to give you an incentive to win, the team members of victorious team shall each receive a five galleon gift certificate to Honeydukes." The First Years cheered, "You can redeem it by Owl Post of course, since first years can't go to Hogsmeade, but moving along. The teams will be Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor and Slytherin." Sebby clapped his hands together and walked delightedly to the stands. "Oh and one more thing, you have exactly one hour to build your forts."
"Slytherins!" Sirius shouted, "Is you uncle insane!?"
"Quite possibly." Jania said calmly.
"Well, Sirius can you at least try to get along with them?" Lily asked, but before she had even finished speaking Sirius had already leapt at Severus and was currently trying to throttle him. Remus and James unsuccessfully trying to pull him off. Lily turned towards Jania's uncle and saw that he wasn't about to do anything. She turned around just in time to see Jania's boot collide with Sirius' face. What in the world?
Sirius leapt up and jumped at Jania, who dodged out of his way, stooping to sweep him off his feet. Sirius landed in the snow, and got up hastily to resume his attack. James and Remus grabbed him.
"Chill Sirius. And don't even try it Snape, or I'll have Lily charm your ears off." Jania said coolly.
"Okay Jania, enough with the act." James said, still holding the struggling Sirius. "What is it?"
"Out of everyone here, I am the only one with training- And Sirius if you behave yourself I'll give you my gift certificate." Jania snapped.
"What makes you so sure we will win?" Severus asked nastily.
Jania gave him a flat look. "Lily tell me what the other team is doing while I size up our playing field."
Lily turned around and looked at the other side of the field. "Well, they've already started building their forts. They don't look to sturdy right now though, and they're all working together."
"How many snowball piles are they protecting?" Jania asked.
"All of them."
"Good. That's all I needed to know, Lily." Jania said, "Now we're going to defend this two piles here, they're the biggest and at a central location where we can hit most of the targets. I want the forts to be three feet high, big enough to protect up but small enough to throw over. Slytherins you build the one of the right, us Gryffindors will build this one here. Once we're done the main forts, we'll build to foot high embankments in front of the two piles closest to the enemy line on both the right and left. Undertsand?"
"Why should we work with you?" Narcissa snapped. "We can win this thing on our own."
"Narcissa is right of course, we could win this on our own. We are Slytherins, after all. Not mudbloods and blood traitors." Bellatrix hissed.
Lily ignored them, she had no clue what a mudblood or a blood traitor was, the others appeared offended, very offended, but before they could do anything Lily spoke, turning to Severus, she addressed him ignoring the others. "Severus, I know you will make the Slytherins help us. Because if you don't we'll all fail this assignment, and though us Gryffindors failing won't bother you, if you yourself fail, it will pull you down from first in the grades race and I will take your place. You don't want that do you?"
Snape glared at her for a long moment. "Fine. We'll work with you this once."
By the end of the hour, Jania's defences had built to her specifications, and they were ready for the attack. James complained loudly that the Slytherins would throw snowballs at them knocking them out, but Lily was certain they wouldn't, Snape revelled in being cleverer than the rest of the year and wouldn't do anything to jeopardize his position, and knocking out a team mate, even accidentally, lost the team a lot of points, and gave you the lowest mark possible.
Jania using a spell that allowed the whole team to hear her ordered them not to fire yet. The boys chaffed at being bossed about a girl, even if it was Jania, but Lily didn't mind. Jania knew what she was doing, or at least seemed too, and she knew that if the roles were reversed and Lily knew how to do something that Jania didn't, Jania would follow her lead without hesitation.
"Let them sweat. Let them make the first move, let them condemn themselves." She said calmly, watching the other side for movement.
It came suddenly, or so it seemed to Lily, the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws stood up and with a yell started volleying snowballs at them.
"Don't return fire yet." Jania said, after a few minutes the snowballs stopped flying, the other team had run out. "Return fire."
The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were caught off guard, they had believed that they had managed to faint everyone, they managed to take down almost half of them. Once they ran out of snowballs they retreated behind their forts.
"What now, mighty commander?" Sirius asked, grinning.
"We wait for our snowballs to refill then attack again; unfortunately our trick won't work this time, so we'll be taking fire. Try to get as many as you can. Have we lost anyone?"
"Narcissa." Snape hissed using the same spell Jania had to be heard.
"Tough luck. Be careful people."
By the time Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff had conceded their side had lost Narcissa, Marré and Peter. After collecting gift certificates and congratulations from Uncle Sebby, they headed back into the castle soaked to the bone.
"Why'd your uncle pair us with the Slytherins? He knows about the rivalry between us." James asked.
"So we would understand that sometimes to accomplish a mission it means having to work with people we don't like." Lily replied before Jania even opened her mouth.
Jania shrugged. "Better than what I was going to say."
"What were you going to say?" Remus asked.
"He's sadistic and thought depriving Sirius of chocolate would be amusing."
"I think Lily hit on the point." Remus said.
"Speaking of chocolate, had over your certificate." Sirius demanded.
Jania gave him the certificate without protest. "I hate chocolate."
"Jania, Honeydukes doesn't just sell chocolate." James said, and then went on to describe the wondrous treats the store offered, Jania grew more and more angry by the second. Sirius prudently took off running, Jania close behind trying to reclaim her certificate.
"Why did you three stay here during Christmas Holidays?" Lily asked.
"To keep Sirius company." James said.
"I didn't want to go home." Sirius said through a mouthful of food, with a meaningful glance towards the Slytherin table, across the room. Severus was the only one sitting there but Lily understood what he meant.
"Oh." Was all she said, "I stayed because Petunia didn't want me and my 'strangeness' at home when she was having her boyfriend 'round for the first time."
"What a bint." Jania snorted.
"I don't mind." Lily insisted.
"Then I'll mind for you."
"JANIA!" Lily screamed, "WAKE UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS!"
"Grah."
Lily promptly smashed Jania upside the head with a pillow, the two were happily having a pillow fight when an annoyed voice was heard.
"Get down here with your presents, so we can open them all together." Sirius shouted up at them.
Lily and Jania obediently grabbed their respective pile of presents and headed downstairs in their pyjamas.
"Holy Hannah Hufflepuff, Kalten!" Exclaimed Seamus O'Riley, "Where'd you get that monstrosity!"
Jania looked down at her pyjamas, they were bright pink with orange, so maybe they clashed a little, but they were pyjamas, no one cared what you slept in.
"Uncle Sebby?" Remus asked sympathetically. Jania nodded sullenly.
Lily looked down at her presents and started to open them. Petunia had sent her a book on etiquette, with paragraphs highlighted, and chapters marked important, along with a note that read.
So you won't ruin my social life with your 'unnatural tendencies'.
Petunia
Lily set it aside and opened Sirius' gift and was surprised that it was a can of nuts, she opened it for a few to snack on before breakfast and was rewarded with spring snakes jumping out at her. Sirius howled with laughter.
"Muggles. Simple but sweet." He gasped. Lily just shook her head.
She got 'A Girl's Book of Charms' from Remus, chocolate frogs from Peter, an unbreakable quill from James, a jar of colour changing ink from Dawn, a beautifully framed picture of the group from Marré and a… uh… just what the heck was it from Jania.
"What is this?" Both of the girls asked at the same time.
"That's a-"
"It's a-"
"You go first."
"It's a charm bracelet. I've got one too." Lily said, showing Jania the bracelet on her wrist. "The little wizard hat represents our first year here."
"Neato. How do I work it?" Jania asked, trying to figure out to work the little clasp at the end. Remus rolled his eyes at her and put it on Jania's arm. Who looked offended at the thought that a boy knew how to work a clasp better than her.
"So what is this, Jania?" Lily said, lifting up the contraption.
"Oh, that. It's a mini handheld crossbow. You work it like this." Jania said grabbing the thing and showing Lily how to work it. Going as far as to shoot Patrick's hat off his head.
"KALTEN!" He roared standing up. Jania prudently ran for the exit. The rest laughed.
"Well this may be useful sometime." Lily mused putting it down and opening the present from her parents. They had gotten her an anthology of short stories, which was quite a heavy tome. Probably due to her complaining about lack of fun reading material.
"Should we go to breakfast now?" James asked.
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Spring break wasn't nearly so much as Christmas had been. Lily groaned as she sat at one of the tables late at night, drawing up revision notes. If only she'd paid more attention is history.
"Jania, what do you know about the important battles of the first goblin uprising?" Lily asked, looking at Jania across the table. Who was believe it or not more exhausted than she looked, and she looked half dead, Jania was practising nightly Quidditch for next year as well as studying with Lily.
"Loads, want my notes?" Jania asked, as she looked up from copying the potions revision Lily had already worked out.
"Yeah." Lily nodded. Taking the proffered notes and leafing through them, Lily saw that they contained more than she had hoped for. The dates of the battles, in order of what Jania thought was important, then detailed descriptions of the actual battles, down to the techniques and tactics used, then mini-biographies of the key players. Lily blinked, the only other class Jania had notes like this in was DADA. Most of the time her notes consisted of Remus' handwriting, and her own doodles, which were of the various ways that teacher could get killed by any number of monsters.
Focusing back on the task at hand. Lily bent her head and began to write some more point form notes. After a couple more hours Lily's hand was cramped up and she decided to call it a night. Seeing as Jania was already asleep across the table from her, Lily decided to close her eyes for a few moments before waking up the sleeping stone.
"Gah! We're late for class!" Lily shouted, waking up to find the sun already high in the sky. Jania mumbled something in response and fell off her chair.
"I was doing so good too. Only bad day in the whole year! What am I going to do!? Jania?! Jania?!" Lily said, knocking a book accidentally into Jania's head. She cracked an eye open.
"Lily, chill out, it's Sunday. Classes start tomorrow." Then promptly went back to sleep.
"Oh right." Lily said surprised, then sat down and started to write out her notes again. Trying very hard to ignore how everyone in the common room was staring at her. Today was not a good day.
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"Lily, no more studying. Your brain will fall out." Jania said, as she struggled to stay awake.
Lily hardly heard her; she was cramming in some last minute studying, exams started in the morning. She had to be prepared; she couldn't disappoint her parents by bringing home mediocre grades. Lily finally looked up from her feverish studying when she heard an unhealthy clunk. It was just Jania falling out of her chair and smashing her head on the fireplace. How her friend could sleep through the stress of exams she didn't know.
"Lily! You missed the Potions exam!" Sirius cheerfully sang out, as he came down the stairs that morning.
"NO! I couldn't have. Do you think I can retake it! It wasn't my fault!" Lily was shoving stuff into her bag rapidly as she rambled on about needing to be able to retake the test. James decided to take pity on her.
"Lily, cool it, we got an hour before the exam. Sirius was messing with you." James said before laughing at the look on Lily's face.
Lily did the only thing she could think of. She threw a textbook at him. It hit Seamus O'Riley, who was knocked out cold. "Do you think we should wake him?" Remus asked, having joined them just in time to see the book go flying.
"No, let's just run." Sirius suggested. "Well what are we waiting for?"
"I gotta wake Jania up." Lily said, and continued to shove things into her bag absently. Remus bent down and pinched Jania's ear.
"Yeow! What was that for!?" Jania demanded, waking up immediately for a change.
"We're going to run away from Seamus. Wanna come?" Sirius asked grinning insanely.
"Sure. Race you!" Jania replied and took off screaming like a banshee followed closely by Sirius who screamed even louder.
"Are any of my friends sane?" Remus mused quietly as he followed after them.
"Oh yeah! Who's wicked spiffing?" Sirius exclaimed as they sat at the Gryffindor table for the Leaving Feast.
"The Headmaster." Jania replied blandly.
"No me, silly."
"Why?" Peter asked.
"Why 'cause so far out of all of us, I've raked in the most detention. That puts me in first." Sirius crowed.
"Who cares?" Jania remarked, and was promptly kicked in the shin.
"Whatcha all doing this summer?" Dawn asked, popping her bubblegum.
"I'll be practising Quidditch." James exclaimed, and launched into a description of the broom he was going to get.
"I'll be avoiding my family." Sirius said cheerfully. Lily blinked, how could he be cheerful about something like that?
"I'll be being forced to pretend I'm not a witch." Lily said lightly.
"I'm going to France for the summer, to stay with my Aunt." Marré said quietly.
"I'm going to America for a couple weeks. That's why I'm practising chewing gum. I heard it's cool over there." Dawn said, snapping her gum again.
"What about you Jania? Remus?" Lily prompted.
"I'll just be staying around the house. Maybe do some fishing." Remus answered.
"I'll be hiding under a rock, wishing I was invisible." Jania announced, glancing sourly at her Uncle.
"Don't worry Jania; I'll see if you can come visit for a while." Lily said laughing. Jania perked up.
"You do that."
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Post Script: Sorry about the wait in between, I was planning what would happen. And taking a break from writing/reading fanfiction. I needed to concentrate on some other stuff for a bit. I will now be going and catching up the stories I read and such. I'll try to warn you next time. ; I'm going to do all of Second, Third in the next couple chapters. Tell me if you think I'm moving to fast. Oh, and for those of you
RECOMMENDATION: Fairy Gifts from the Sea by Quis – Awesome short. A rare Colin/Ginny, something I'd like to see more of. XD
Laura E: Hehehehe! You're not bad yourself.
pinkchicklet: Thanks for the review.
WedgieAntilles: I love your name! XD huge Star Wars fan Thanks for the review!
First Light of Eos: I hate the 'Hufflepuffs are useless' crap. I liked them from the very beginning when I heard about their house from the sorting hat. I'm not quite sure how I want Jania pronounced, but that's just her uncle's way of doing it. And I didn't have James and Sirius fighting because they liked but just because they liked to argue… I do that with my friends all the time, even on topics that hold no interest, so I thought Jamesa and Sirius might do the same thing.