Lily and James' Best Years
Thanx to: Meche Zimms, for a really nice review- 300 chocolate frogs.
Chapter 7- Christmas at Hogwarts
It was Christmas, and the three marauders grew more and more excited as Christmas approached. Lily and James were going closer, while Sirius and Millicent broke up, neither of them was a long-relationship kind of person, actually, Sirius' longest relationship was a month and a half.
"Professor Flitwick, how do you do it again? Point and wave.or wave and turn." Peter was making Books fly and professor Flitwick was trying to make him stop, Sirius and James laughed as one of the books landed squarely on Snape's head.
"Alright there, Snivellus?" laughed Sirius, Lily gave James a warning look when he opened his mouth to contribute to the comment.
Lily was making every one of her pillows grow bigger and bigger, and then with a little nod of her wand, blow up, James did the same. She smiled.
"You do know we're supposed to just make then bigger, right?" she grinned.
"Yep." said James.
***
It was about five hours later and Lily was helping professor McGonagall decorate the Christmas trees, considering that she was a prefect.
"Can I help?" asked James. Smiling.
The Professor looked at him and then at Lily.
"Ms. Evans- would you mind-?"
"I don't mind, not at all." Said Lily, smiling at James, McGonagall looked confused.
"They're finally dating." Said Sirius from a corner, McGonagall smiled and didn't say anything else.
"What do you think, fairies?" asked Lily
"No, fairies are annoying, I mean, we have them decorating the trees every year. Maybe we should put some pictures of me on the tree." James smiled at Lily; he knew talking like that drove her crazy.
"James!"
"Okay, so maybe hundreds of little snitches?" asked James hopefully.
"Five."
"Ten."
"Five"
"Seven"
"Five."
"Seven"
"One."
"Okay, five." said James, smiling slightly.
"Wonderful." Said Lily and waved her wand, five little snitches appeared in her hand. She put them on the tree.
"And let's make them wave they're wings like real snitches." James waved his wand and the snitches' wings started moving quickly.
"Now, I think some gold and red little lions are in order." said James, waving his wand again.
"Alright, but you will have to give some decorations for the other houses." Said professor McGonagall, James growled. McGonagall glared at him.
"Yes professor." He said quickly.
***
"Mistletoe." pointed out Kayla, grinning at Remus. And it was, as she said, mistletoe on the ceiling right on top of them.
"Yeah."
"So."
"Shouldn't we."
"Probably should." Said Remus and they kissed.
"Moony and Kayla.I'd never-" Sirius never finished his sentence.
"That is enough." Professor Carlton, their defense against the dark arts teacher, also their favorite one, came between his two students.
"Oh, come on Pro. Carlton- It's tradition!" said James, his hand going around Lily's waist slowly, she looked at him, surprised, he grinned and she gave him a look of approval.
"Very well, but only because you all got Excellent on your homework." smiled Professor Carlton, giving them their homework.
"Thanks." said Sirius, putting his paper in his bag and his hand sliding casually to his hair.
"Oh, you give yourself the grade-"
"You just write it out." completed the Murderers.
"Exactly. Now, James, I mean POTTER," he said as professor McGonagall came by. "Your work has approved very much since I noticed that miss Evans has been more than civil to you.is something-?" Carlton gave them all a questioning look.
"We're dating." answered Lily, smiling at James.
"Though they're acting like they're engaged, a couple weeks ago they were kissing on James's bed-"Sirius was stopped by James putting a hand on his mouth.
"Excuse us." He smiled at Carlton and then took Sirius to a far corner and kicked him, Sirius laughed.
"What?!"
"You can't just tell our teacher how and where I kiss Lily!"
"Why not?"
"Sirius!"
"James!"
"You have to grow up sometime!"
"Who says? Besides, I think Hogwarts isn't ready for a serious Sirius."
"It's not that funny."
"Yes it is."
"Padfoot!"
"Oh, come on, Prongs, just because you prefer to be with Lily, and Remus is boring doesn't mean I can't live."
"I don't prefer Lily over you! I Just feel more comfortable kissing HER." James protested, grinning at Sirius's laughter. "I don't care about you not growing up, a lot, but I don't want everybody to know everything I do with Lily."
"Fine."
"Thank you."
"Come on! Lunch's waiting! See you Professor Carlton!" Millicent called and they went to the great hall.
***
The common room was full of noise.
"No way!"
"I know! Isn't that the coolest?!"
"Totally!"
Sirius rolled his eyes and the marauders laughed.
"Oh my god! Isn't that so cool, James?!" Sirius laughed.
"The coolest! OH MY GOD! I CAN'T WAIT!" James laughed. "A REAL BAND COMING TO HOGSMID ON THE SAME WEEKEND WE GO WHAT COULD BE BETTER?!" Millicent, lily, and Kayla were the only ones that didn't laugh.
"I want some more deserts.let's go to the kitchens." Sirius got up.
"I'll stay here." Squeaked Peter.
"Okay, what about you, Moony?"
"I think I'll stay too."
"Alright...ladies? What about you?" asked James.
"I'd like to go." Said Millicent, getting up and abandoning the try to get some of her homework done.
"Me too." Lily said, surprising everybody.
"James's done you good, girl." Said Millicent, smiling.
***
"Hey guys!" as the four friends went into the kitchens, hundreds of house elves came to them right away.
"Any chance we can get some firewhisky?" asked Sirius.
"Two, please." said James sitting down.
"James, you're not allowed!" said Lily, sitting down next to him, Sirius looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"So?"
"Two firewhiskies." One of the house elves ran into the kitchen, in the meantime, the four ate cookies, cakes, and such, brought to them by the other house elves.
"What would mistresses want?" asked a little house elf, smiling at the girls.
"Umm.a butterbeer please." said Millicent.
"I would like some tea." answered Lily.
"Yes mi ladies. Kirpa will get the drinks." Said the house elf and ran to the kitchen.
"Match tomorrow. Any thoughts?" asked Sirius, sloping in his chair.
"Gryffindor will win for sure." said Millicent, smiling at James. "I mean, we have James as a seeker and it's only Hufflepuff."
"But they have a really good team this year, it's not going to be easy."
"Stop being so modest! You're great at quiddich!" Lily took her tea from the house elf. "Thanks." James became a little red and drank his firewisky.
"HOO!" Sirius drank his and they all laughed.
***
"James, James, you'll be late for the quiddich match! Wake up!"
"James?"
James woke up to see four faces; there were the marauders and Lily.
"Lily? What are you doing here?"
"Waking you up."
"Well, I can't think of something better to wake up to then your face." said James, smiling. She smiled back.
"Come on, you have a quiddich match in three hours." She said, and opened a closet.
"Now, get dressed and come downstairs, there's something you should probably see." She said, handing James some cloths, she kissed him on the cheek quickly and went out of the boys' dormitories.
"What is going on here?" James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were coming down the stairs. Everything was dark and James couldn't see a thing.
"This is not funny!" squeaked Peter.
"What, afraid of the dark, Peter?" Sirius and James laughed.
"POTTER! POTTER! POTTER!" James looked around as the lights turned on.
"What the-?" the room was full of 'POTTER' posters and everybody were smiling.
"Nice! Now all we need is Snivellus as a piñata and we're all set." Sirius said, releasing a bark like laugh.
***
"AND THE GRIFFINDOR TEAM IS ON THE PITCH!
ALISON!
NAKER!
YALOM!
HARFEG! WOOD! (Sorry, couldn't resist.) GRINKER
AND..POTTERRR!" The players got on the pitch and circled the field, then went into position.
Now, captains, shake hands!" James shaked hands with Melgoy, the Hufflepuff quiddich captain.
"Good luck." said Melgoy.
"'Luck." answered James, smiling.
"Now, I want a fair game! ON MY WHISTLE!" bellowed Ms. Honker and the sound of whistling were heard around the pitch.
James pushed hard from the ground they the game began.
"Alison's got the quaffle, passes to Harfeg, Harfeg takes it and shoots.he.misses."
A big 'AWWW!' Was heard from the Gryffindor side and some 'YAY!' Cries were heard from Hufflepuff.
After two scores from Gryffindor, and one from Hufflepuff, James saw the snitch. It was right under one of the Hufflepuff beaters. He went for it, the Hufflepuff seeker noticed it too, but James was a lot closer, and faster. He felt his hand closing on the snitch and the whistle was heard.
"James Potter catches the snitch! Gryffindor wins!!!"
James smiled and got off his broom, hundreds of Gryffindors were coming his way, but his team mates were faster, they all embraced him in a big group hug.
"YEA! Now we just need ten points on the next match and we get the quiddich cup! Again!" yelled Megira Alison, beaming.
Then the marauders got in the huge crown, beaming.
"Nice catch!" said Remus.
"As always." Said Sirius and James together, smiling, they always did this.
"James!" Lily shoveled her way through the crowd, followed by Millicent and Kayla. "You were wonderful!" she said, grinning.
"Thanks." Said James smiling, then he felt a couple of people gripping his legs and sitting him on their shoulders.
"Come on guys! Save it for the cup!" said James, laughing.
"No way!" said some second years and James laughed some more, he couldn't help it. He was just too happy.
"Hey Lily, want to get a butterbeer later at Hogsmid?" asked James, trying to get down from people's shoulders. Then, he almost fell from somebody but they managed to grip his leg before he felt to the ground, head first, so that he found him self hanging upside down, laughing with Lily.
"Sure." She said and he beamed.
"Great! Hey, Padfoot, want to help me out here?" Sirius released another bark-like laugh and with Remus's and Peter's help managed to get James on the ground again.
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Squeaked peter, they all looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"I'm worried about him." Sirius told James, James nodded. "Same here." Peter peeked at them both.
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Yeah, I know, I'm a horrible person to stop here. (Hee hee hee) But don't worry, I still love you all, even the people that aren't nice.and even the people that don't have red shoes in their closet.I forgive you but you'll have to buy a pair!!! ANYWAY-I don't feel like answering a lot of reviews.that's the reason I didn't answer reviews last chapter either, please forgive me. thank you.see mom? THEY forgive me, aren't you proud of me? Ha? Ha?
OK- I'm scaring myself now.and that almost never happens so I guess I really do have problems.
I'm reading the best book(s), except for the Harry Potter books o' course*1. (Princess' Diaries) they're the best.*1.I hope you understood this little thing I just did.Love ya'll,
P.S For the low-low price of 2 reviews you'll get the next chapter (which is already almost finished!) So review- Please review! Thanks, Elizabeth.
Thanx to: Meche Zimms, for a really nice review- 300 chocolate frogs.
Chapter 7- Christmas at Hogwarts
It was Christmas, and the three marauders grew more and more excited as Christmas approached. Lily and James were going closer, while Sirius and Millicent broke up, neither of them was a long-relationship kind of person, actually, Sirius' longest relationship was a month and a half.
"Professor Flitwick, how do you do it again? Point and wave.or wave and turn." Peter was making Books fly and professor Flitwick was trying to make him stop, Sirius and James laughed as one of the books landed squarely on Snape's head.
"Alright there, Snivellus?" laughed Sirius, Lily gave James a warning look when he opened his mouth to contribute to the comment.
Lily was making every one of her pillows grow bigger and bigger, and then with a little nod of her wand, blow up, James did the same. She smiled.
"You do know we're supposed to just make then bigger, right?" she grinned.
"Yep." said James.
***
It was about five hours later and Lily was helping professor McGonagall decorate the Christmas trees, considering that she was a prefect.
"Can I help?" asked James. Smiling.
The Professor looked at him and then at Lily.
"Ms. Evans- would you mind-?"
"I don't mind, not at all." Said Lily, smiling at James, McGonagall looked confused.
"They're finally dating." Said Sirius from a corner, McGonagall smiled and didn't say anything else.
"What do you think, fairies?" asked Lily
"No, fairies are annoying, I mean, we have them decorating the trees every year. Maybe we should put some pictures of me on the tree." James smiled at Lily; he knew talking like that drove her crazy.
"James!"
"Okay, so maybe hundreds of little snitches?" asked James hopefully.
"Five."
"Ten."
"Five"
"Seven"
"Five."
"Seven"
"One."
"Okay, five." said James, smiling slightly.
"Wonderful." Said Lily and waved her wand, five little snitches appeared in her hand. She put them on the tree.
"And let's make them wave they're wings like real snitches." James waved his wand and the snitches' wings started moving quickly.
"Now, I think some gold and red little lions are in order." said James, waving his wand again.
"Alright, but you will have to give some decorations for the other houses." Said professor McGonagall, James growled. McGonagall glared at him.
"Yes professor." He said quickly.
***
"Mistletoe." pointed out Kayla, grinning at Remus. And it was, as she said, mistletoe on the ceiling right on top of them.
"Yeah."
"So."
"Shouldn't we."
"Probably should." Said Remus and they kissed.
"Moony and Kayla.I'd never-" Sirius never finished his sentence.
"That is enough." Professor Carlton, their defense against the dark arts teacher, also their favorite one, came between his two students.
"Oh, come on Pro. Carlton- It's tradition!" said James, his hand going around Lily's waist slowly, she looked at him, surprised, he grinned and she gave him a look of approval.
"Very well, but only because you all got Excellent on your homework." smiled Professor Carlton, giving them their homework.
"Thanks." said Sirius, putting his paper in his bag and his hand sliding casually to his hair.
"Oh, you give yourself the grade-"
"You just write it out." completed the Murderers.
"Exactly. Now, James, I mean POTTER," he said as professor McGonagall came by. "Your work has approved very much since I noticed that miss Evans has been more than civil to you.is something-?" Carlton gave them all a questioning look.
"We're dating." answered Lily, smiling at James.
"Though they're acting like they're engaged, a couple weeks ago they were kissing on James's bed-"Sirius was stopped by James putting a hand on his mouth.
"Excuse us." He smiled at Carlton and then took Sirius to a far corner and kicked him, Sirius laughed.
"What?!"
"You can't just tell our teacher how and where I kiss Lily!"
"Why not?"
"Sirius!"
"James!"
"You have to grow up sometime!"
"Who says? Besides, I think Hogwarts isn't ready for a serious Sirius."
"It's not that funny."
"Yes it is."
"Padfoot!"
"Oh, come on, Prongs, just because you prefer to be with Lily, and Remus is boring doesn't mean I can't live."
"I don't prefer Lily over you! I Just feel more comfortable kissing HER." James protested, grinning at Sirius's laughter. "I don't care about you not growing up, a lot, but I don't want everybody to know everything I do with Lily."
"Fine."
"Thank you."
"Come on! Lunch's waiting! See you Professor Carlton!" Millicent called and they went to the great hall.
***
The common room was full of noise.
"No way!"
"I know! Isn't that the coolest?!"
"Totally!"
Sirius rolled his eyes and the marauders laughed.
"Oh my god! Isn't that so cool, James?!" Sirius laughed.
"The coolest! OH MY GOD! I CAN'T WAIT!" James laughed. "A REAL BAND COMING TO HOGSMID ON THE SAME WEEKEND WE GO WHAT COULD BE BETTER?!" Millicent, lily, and Kayla were the only ones that didn't laugh.
"I want some more deserts.let's go to the kitchens." Sirius got up.
"I'll stay here." Squeaked Peter.
"Okay, what about you, Moony?"
"I think I'll stay too."
"Alright...ladies? What about you?" asked James.
"I'd like to go." Said Millicent, getting up and abandoning the try to get some of her homework done.
"Me too." Lily said, surprising everybody.
"James's done you good, girl." Said Millicent, smiling.
***
"Hey guys!" as the four friends went into the kitchens, hundreds of house elves came to them right away.
"Any chance we can get some firewhisky?" asked Sirius.
"Two, please." said James sitting down.
"James, you're not allowed!" said Lily, sitting down next to him, Sirius looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"So?"
"Two firewhiskies." One of the house elves ran into the kitchen, in the meantime, the four ate cookies, cakes, and such, brought to them by the other house elves.
"What would mistresses want?" asked a little house elf, smiling at the girls.
"Umm.a butterbeer please." said Millicent.
"I would like some tea." answered Lily.
"Yes mi ladies. Kirpa will get the drinks." Said the house elf and ran to the kitchen.
"Match tomorrow. Any thoughts?" asked Sirius, sloping in his chair.
"Gryffindor will win for sure." said Millicent, smiling at James. "I mean, we have James as a seeker and it's only Hufflepuff."
"But they have a really good team this year, it's not going to be easy."
"Stop being so modest! You're great at quiddich!" Lily took her tea from the house elf. "Thanks." James became a little red and drank his firewisky.
"HOO!" Sirius drank his and they all laughed.
***
"James, James, you'll be late for the quiddich match! Wake up!"
"James?"
James woke up to see four faces; there were the marauders and Lily.
"Lily? What are you doing here?"
"Waking you up."
"Well, I can't think of something better to wake up to then your face." said James, smiling. She smiled back.
"Come on, you have a quiddich match in three hours." She said, and opened a closet.
"Now, get dressed and come downstairs, there's something you should probably see." She said, handing James some cloths, she kissed him on the cheek quickly and went out of the boys' dormitories.
"What is going on here?" James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were coming down the stairs. Everything was dark and James couldn't see a thing.
"This is not funny!" squeaked Peter.
"What, afraid of the dark, Peter?" Sirius and James laughed.
"POTTER! POTTER! POTTER!" James looked around as the lights turned on.
"What the-?" the room was full of 'POTTER' posters and everybody were smiling.
"Nice! Now all we need is Snivellus as a piñata and we're all set." Sirius said, releasing a bark like laugh.
***
"AND THE GRIFFINDOR TEAM IS ON THE PITCH!
ALISON!
NAKER!
YALOM!
HARFEG! WOOD! (Sorry, couldn't resist.) GRINKER
AND..POTTERRR!" The players got on the pitch and circled the field, then went into position.
Now, captains, shake hands!" James shaked hands with Melgoy, the Hufflepuff quiddich captain.
"Good luck." said Melgoy.
"'Luck." answered James, smiling.
"Now, I want a fair game! ON MY WHISTLE!" bellowed Ms. Honker and the sound of whistling were heard around the pitch.
James pushed hard from the ground they the game began.
"Alison's got the quaffle, passes to Harfeg, Harfeg takes it and shoots.he.misses."
A big 'AWWW!' Was heard from the Gryffindor side and some 'YAY!' Cries were heard from Hufflepuff.
After two scores from Gryffindor, and one from Hufflepuff, James saw the snitch. It was right under one of the Hufflepuff beaters. He went for it, the Hufflepuff seeker noticed it too, but James was a lot closer, and faster. He felt his hand closing on the snitch and the whistle was heard.
"James Potter catches the snitch! Gryffindor wins!!!"
James smiled and got off his broom, hundreds of Gryffindors were coming his way, but his team mates were faster, they all embraced him in a big group hug.
"YEA! Now we just need ten points on the next match and we get the quiddich cup! Again!" yelled Megira Alison, beaming.
Then the marauders got in the huge crown, beaming.
"Nice catch!" said Remus.
"As always." Said Sirius and James together, smiling, they always did this.
"James!" Lily shoveled her way through the crowd, followed by Millicent and Kayla. "You were wonderful!" she said, grinning.
"Thanks." Said James smiling, then he felt a couple of people gripping his legs and sitting him on their shoulders.
"Come on guys! Save it for the cup!" said James, laughing.
"No way!" said some second years and James laughed some more, he couldn't help it. He was just too happy.
"Hey Lily, want to get a butterbeer later at Hogsmid?" asked James, trying to get down from people's shoulders. Then, he almost fell from somebody but they managed to grip his leg before he felt to the ground, head first, so that he found him self hanging upside down, laughing with Lily.
"Sure." She said and he beamed.
"Great! Hey, Padfoot, want to help me out here?" Sirius released another bark-like laugh and with Remus's and Peter's help managed to get James on the ground again.
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Squeaked peter, they all looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"I'm worried about him." Sirius told James, James nodded. "Same here." Peter peeked at them both.
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Yeah, I know, I'm a horrible person to stop here. (Hee hee hee) But don't worry, I still love you all, even the people that aren't nice.and even the people that don't have red shoes in their closet.I forgive you but you'll have to buy a pair!!! ANYWAY-I don't feel like answering a lot of reviews.that's the reason I didn't answer reviews last chapter either, please forgive me. thank you.see mom? THEY forgive me, aren't you proud of me? Ha? Ha?
OK- I'm scaring myself now.and that almost never happens so I guess I really do have problems.
I'm reading the best book(s), except for the Harry Potter books o' course*1. (Princess' Diaries) they're the best.*1.I hope you understood this little thing I just did.Love ya'll,
P.S For the low-low price of 2 reviews you'll get the next chapter (which is already almost finished!) So review- Please review! Thanks, Elizabeth.