Okay, so I only got six reviews for my last chapter. Oh well, its better than I have done previously. I do hope for more reviews in future chapters, which would be great. I would like to thank my six reviewers:
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6 Plus 2 Makes 8 (he he, I can do math):
When they had almost reached the portrait hole, James started up a conversation with Lily. "Look Lily, I am really sorry about what I said earlier. I didn't know it was you, if I did, trust me I wouldn't have said that. You know I don't think that anymore. Now, I think you're beautiful."
"Awww. That's really sweet James, but do you know what's even sweeter, the fact that you didn't start talking to me until, as you said, I'm beautiful now."
"Come on Lily. You know I didn't mean any of it. Please. I don't know what I would do if you were mad at me for all eternity."
"Well, the longest I've stayed mad at anyone before was a couple days, but eternity, that could be a challenge." She gave out a slight giggle at James' horrified look. "Listen, I know you sorry and you didn't know what you were saying and who you were saying it to. In no way does this make us friends, but I do forgive you. I'm not sure if I could trust you completely knowing you say mean things behind people's back, but I do forgive you." When she had finished forgiving James they had already reached the portrait of the fat lady. "Let's go inside, I'm sure the fat lady will not want to have to just wait for us. We have to tell everyone what happened. I wonder how Sirius is going to take this."
"Excuse me Miss. Evans," said the portrait sternly. "I don't like to be referred to as the 'fat lady'. Why not just the Gryffindor portrait lady, or the lady in the pink dress? I don't even think that I am that fat."
"I'm sorry; I'll try to remember that in the future." Lily turned towards and rolled her eyes. She then headed inside of the common room after saying the password (giant squid). James just looked after her with a mixed look of sorrow and relief in her eyes. He then quickly followed.
As soon as the pair entered the massive room, the four friends rushed up to them. They both immediately noticed two other 4th year Gryffindors with them. They were Erin and Maegan. The friends explained that while Lily and James were in the meeting, the two girls came up and started talking to the rest of the friends. The six hit it off pretty well. Immediately after the explanation, Sirius asked about the meeting. They quickly revealed everything Dumbledore had told them earlier, leaving out one specific detail. "Wicked," said Sirius. "I wonder why I didn't get picked for that. I should have been chosen rather than James."
"You weren't chosen because you are a brainless oaf who takes every chance you get to make other people's lives horrible," Arabella mumbled under her breath although everyone heard her and started laughing.
"I resent the fact that you called me a brainless oaf, I am not an oaf."
"So you admit the fact that you are brainless." (A/N/: There, a funny comment. There will be more in later chapters when they are all better friends.) Sirius gave her a death glare as Lily tried to calm everyone down to finish their story.
"I'm sure you want to do it now but..." James paused. "There's one part we haven't told you yet. We won't be allowed inside the Gryffindor common room except for holidays and balls and stuff like that." The look of horror in their friend's faces was quite visible. "But, you guys can always come visit us. It's not like we'll never see you. Relax." Now their friend's faces showed some sign of relief.
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Erin and Maegan were both very smart. Maegan had blonde wavy that reached just passed her shoulders. She also had these magical violet eyes. She was about 5'7", very tan, and before Lily, the prettiest girl in the year. Erin has short, purple, spiked hair. She also wore black contacts that made her eyes look very deep. She was about 5'3", very pale, and covered in a million freckles.
These eight friends immediately were considerer inseparable. James, Sirius, and Remus were easily the most popular guys in the school, and always have been. Now, Arabella and Lily have joined the ranks of most popular girls with Erin and Maegan. Even though the eight were always talking, Lily and James still weren't. They didn't talk and they wouldn't prank each other. Meanwhile, Lily was trying to pretend James just wasn't there, while he silently watched her from behind his books, food, or whatever else he had on hand.
The other three marauders could easily tell that something hasn't been right with James lately. One day they decided to confront him about it. James was sitting on a chair, facing the fireplace, staring vacuously into the fire. Secretly, Remus preformed a spell that bound James to the chair, waking him from his trance. Sirius started, "Prongs, don't talk, just listen." James nodded at his three friends. "We have all noticed you staring off into space all of the time. It doesn't matter if we're in the common room, class, talking in our dorm, or eating. What the fuck is going on?!?!?!"
"You guys, it's nothing, really." His friends all gave him a knowing look. "Okay, so there is something, but don't worry Padfoot, the daydreaming will end soon. My problem is completely over."
"Prongsie boy, what is it?"
"Well, I dunno. I just really liked Lily for a long time, but she won't give me the time of day. Except, it doesn't matter anymore, because today I realized I was over her. That's all. I thought if you knew, you would make fun of me. Well maybe not you not, but Padfoot definitely." He finished by cutting off Remus in his attempt to object to his statement about teasing.
"Okay," the three boys believed James, so the subject was dropped for a while. Except, for James was far from over Lily. He was falling for her more and more every day. Little did he know, so were Sirius and Remus.
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The four girls, who were never extremely close before (except Maegan and Erin), soon came to know everything about each other. One day they decided to play a secret game. How it works, is that you throw around a ball to everyone, in any order, if you mess up, you tell your deepest, darkest secret. Then, if you mess up again, you have to tell someone else's deepest, darkest secret. (A/N: I know this game sounds so fucking lame, but I needed to come up with a game. Don't criticize the chapter because the kind of game this is. Please ignore it.)
Erin grabbed a ball of socks out of her drawer, and started the game. The first person to mess up was Bella (A/N: I'm calling her Bella now instead of Arabella, it's shorter.). Her biggest secret was that her mom was a squib, and her dad was a muggle. Her parents were very surprised, and proud, when she got her letter. She was not considered a muggleborn, because her whole family, on her mom's side, was a witch or a wizard.
Erin was next to mess up. She revealed she was a Metamorphmagus; she was able to change how she looked whenever she wanted. At home she always looked like she used to, her parents did not like to see her with multi- color hair (at the moment it was short and black with neon green highlights). At school she only changed her hair color, because she still needed to be recognizable. The other three girls all begged her to change her hair to what it usually looked like. She obliged, changing her hair into waist length, semi-straight, dirty blonde hair. She quickly changed back.
Maegan messed up next. Instead of going right into her secret, she had to give the girls a little background information. "I'm sure you three have all heard about time turners." Erin and Bella nodded to show they understood. "Well, a time turner is something, that depending on how many times you turn the thing over, you can go back in time for several hours. There is also this special gift called 'Timeturnorous' (A/N: Lame again, I know). It lets you go back up to 5 hours without a time turner. I have that gift, but it's really no big deal at all."
Finally, when they almost decided to quit the game, Lily messed up. She also had to go into a speech. "I'm so sorry guys, but I can't tell you my deepest, darkest secret. If I did, you guys would be in more trouble then you know. I f you want, I can tell you my second deepest darkest secret. My first...you can't know! Again, I'm sorry."
"Okay," said Maegan. "So what's your second?" The girls all laughed as Lily told them that secret (A/N: hint, it had something to do with Petunia!). Two of the girls did fine not knowing the secret, one wasn't, and she let it show.
"Lily!" called Erin. They were in the common room about an hour after they had played the game. "Please tell me your secret. Knowing someone else knows something I don't just kills me! Please tell."
"Erin I can't, you'll be in so much trouble if I do."
"Oh please, now I want to know more than before."
"No! Quit asking me!"
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Erin spent a long time trying to figure out what she should do. She tried to ask Lily for hints, but Lily was adamant in not revealing anything about her secret. She tried to ask their other friends for hints, but they knew less than she did, if anything. Erin was unable to find out anything about Lily's mysterious secret.
One night Erin was awoken by a weird noise. It sounded like a person talking...to themselves. Lily was mumbling something in her sleep, "Daddy...no...please go...you'll be hurt...deatheaters...I hate you...dead?" Erin was unable to figure out everything Lily was saying. She just couldn't understand what it all meant. She decided to find out tomorrow. The next day, she confronted Lily.
"Lily! Sweetie, I heard you mumbling something in your sleep last night." Lily look a little frightened. "Lils, you were talking about your dad, deatheaters, and death. What happened?"
It took a little while for Lily to finally speak. "You just can't leave this alone can you. Why does this secret even matter? Please, will you just drop it?" She turned around crying and run up to her dorm, crying.
That's it. I'm going to find out what her secret is. Erin left the portrait hole to go to the library; she had a little research to do. She needed to find the strongest truth potion she could.
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Bella and Maegan were sitting in the dorm talking when Lily rushed in. When they asked Lily what was wrong, they were very surprised by her answer. She told then everything that had happened with Erin over the past few days, ending with why she was crying. The two girls gave her sympathizing looks and tried to comfort her. In the middle of this process, Erin walked in.
"Hey guys, do you think I could talk to Lily alone for a moment?" The two friends left to leave the girls alone. "I'm really sorry Lily. I didn't realize that this secret was that big. If I did, I never would have pushed you. Here, drink this; it will make you feel better." Lily nodded and took the mug. As soon as she had taken her first sip, she had a vacant glaze in her eyes. "Wow, this actually worked. I wonder how I'm not getting an A in Potions class." The first thing Erin did was ask Lily about her secret.
She started her story, "Four years ago, over Christmas break, Voldemort was after me. I don't know why, but he sent his most trusted deatheater to my house." Lily paused while Erin gulped, not sure if she wanted to know the rest. "The deatheater tried to step in front of my dad to reach me. My dad wouldn't let him go past. He killed my dad, because he tried to save me. When the deatheater turned to me and shouted 'Avada Kadavra', it rebounded and killed him. I was left with just a scar right here," she said this pointing towards her chest. "Now, more than before, Voldemort is after me, and anyone who knows my secret."
Erin froze. She had no idea what she was going to say. Lily stirred, and Erin could tell the potion was beginning to wear off. Lily looked at Erin's frozen face and gave her a questioning look.
"Oh my god, Lily! I'm so sorry!"
"Erin relax, what did you do?"
"I...I...I really wanted to find out what your secret was..."
"Well I knew that already, and I've forgiven you."
"Well that's great, but don't forgive me just yet."
"What do you mean?"
"I gave you a truth potion so I could found out your secret. I just gave it to you. I asked you about your secret. You just told me everything."
Lily was dumbfounded. How could one of her seven best friends do this to her? "You little bitch! How could you do that?! Do you know how much trouble you are in now?! I hate you! That was one of the worst ideas you could ever have. I can't believe you would do that to me!" Lily than ran out of the room crying. She needed to find somebody, anybody.
"Oh my god, what have I done?"
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So what do you think? I know it's not amazing, but it's not the worst thing I've ever written. It could be the longest though. I hope you all like it! R/R.
Sophia
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NaleyScott23 my new betareader (I finally know what one is, thanks to her.)
Alia
Allyson
SatanBarbie
Isa
Your reviews meant so much to me. Well, on with my story.
Disclaimer: Okay, so anything you didn't recognize before reading the beginning of my story belongs to me!!!! Everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling.
6 Plus 2 Makes 8 (he he, I can do math):
When they had almost reached the portrait hole, James started up a conversation with Lily. "Look Lily, I am really sorry about what I said earlier. I didn't know it was you, if I did, trust me I wouldn't have said that. You know I don't think that anymore. Now, I think you're beautiful."
"Awww. That's really sweet James, but do you know what's even sweeter, the fact that you didn't start talking to me until, as you said, I'm beautiful now."
"Come on Lily. You know I didn't mean any of it. Please. I don't know what I would do if you were mad at me for all eternity."
"Well, the longest I've stayed mad at anyone before was a couple days, but eternity, that could be a challenge." She gave out a slight giggle at James' horrified look. "Listen, I know you sorry and you didn't know what you were saying and who you were saying it to. In no way does this make us friends, but I do forgive you. I'm not sure if I could trust you completely knowing you say mean things behind people's back, but I do forgive you." When she had finished forgiving James they had already reached the portrait of the fat lady. "Let's go inside, I'm sure the fat lady will not want to have to just wait for us. We have to tell everyone what happened. I wonder how Sirius is going to take this."
"Excuse me Miss. Evans," said the portrait sternly. "I don't like to be referred to as the 'fat lady'. Why not just the Gryffindor portrait lady, or the lady in the pink dress? I don't even think that I am that fat."
"I'm sorry; I'll try to remember that in the future." Lily turned towards and rolled her eyes. She then headed inside of the common room after saying the password (giant squid). James just looked after her with a mixed look of sorrow and relief in her eyes. He then quickly followed.
As soon as the pair entered the massive room, the four friends rushed up to them. They both immediately noticed two other 4th year Gryffindors with them. They were Erin and Maegan. The friends explained that while Lily and James were in the meeting, the two girls came up and started talking to the rest of the friends. The six hit it off pretty well. Immediately after the explanation, Sirius asked about the meeting. They quickly revealed everything Dumbledore had told them earlier, leaving out one specific detail. "Wicked," said Sirius. "I wonder why I didn't get picked for that. I should have been chosen rather than James."
"You weren't chosen because you are a brainless oaf who takes every chance you get to make other people's lives horrible," Arabella mumbled under her breath although everyone heard her and started laughing.
"I resent the fact that you called me a brainless oaf, I am not an oaf."
"So you admit the fact that you are brainless." (A/N/: There, a funny comment. There will be more in later chapters when they are all better friends.) Sirius gave her a death glare as Lily tried to calm everyone down to finish their story.
"I'm sure you want to do it now but..." James paused. "There's one part we haven't told you yet. We won't be allowed inside the Gryffindor common room except for holidays and balls and stuff like that." The look of horror in their friend's faces was quite visible. "But, you guys can always come visit us. It's not like we'll never see you. Relax." Now their friend's faces showed some sign of relief.
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Erin and Maegan were both very smart. Maegan had blonde wavy that reached just passed her shoulders. She also had these magical violet eyes. She was about 5'7", very tan, and before Lily, the prettiest girl in the year. Erin has short, purple, spiked hair. She also wore black contacts that made her eyes look very deep. She was about 5'3", very pale, and covered in a million freckles.
These eight friends immediately were considerer inseparable. James, Sirius, and Remus were easily the most popular guys in the school, and always have been. Now, Arabella and Lily have joined the ranks of most popular girls with Erin and Maegan. Even though the eight were always talking, Lily and James still weren't. They didn't talk and they wouldn't prank each other. Meanwhile, Lily was trying to pretend James just wasn't there, while he silently watched her from behind his books, food, or whatever else he had on hand.
The other three marauders could easily tell that something hasn't been right with James lately. One day they decided to confront him about it. James was sitting on a chair, facing the fireplace, staring vacuously into the fire. Secretly, Remus preformed a spell that bound James to the chair, waking him from his trance. Sirius started, "Prongs, don't talk, just listen." James nodded at his three friends. "We have all noticed you staring off into space all of the time. It doesn't matter if we're in the common room, class, talking in our dorm, or eating. What the fuck is going on?!?!?!"
"You guys, it's nothing, really." His friends all gave him a knowing look. "Okay, so there is something, but don't worry Padfoot, the daydreaming will end soon. My problem is completely over."
"Prongsie boy, what is it?"
"Well, I dunno. I just really liked Lily for a long time, but she won't give me the time of day. Except, it doesn't matter anymore, because today I realized I was over her. That's all. I thought if you knew, you would make fun of me. Well maybe not you not, but Padfoot definitely." He finished by cutting off Remus in his attempt to object to his statement about teasing.
"Okay," the three boys believed James, so the subject was dropped for a while. Except, for James was far from over Lily. He was falling for her more and more every day. Little did he know, so were Sirius and Remus.
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The four girls, who were never extremely close before (except Maegan and Erin), soon came to know everything about each other. One day they decided to play a secret game. How it works, is that you throw around a ball to everyone, in any order, if you mess up, you tell your deepest, darkest secret. Then, if you mess up again, you have to tell someone else's deepest, darkest secret. (A/N: I know this game sounds so fucking lame, but I needed to come up with a game. Don't criticize the chapter because the kind of game this is. Please ignore it.)
Erin grabbed a ball of socks out of her drawer, and started the game. The first person to mess up was Bella (A/N: I'm calling her Bella now instead of Arabella, it's shorter.). Her biggest secret was that her mom was a squib, and her dad was a muggle. Her parents were very surprised, and proud, when she got her letter. She was not considered a muggleborn, because her whole family, on her mom's side, was a witch or a wizard.
Erin was next to mess up. She revealed she was a Metamorphmagus; she was able to change how she looked whenever she wanted. At home she always looked like she used to, her parents did not like to see her with multi- color hair (at the moment it was short and black with neon green highlights). At school she only changed her hair color, because she still needed to be recognizable. The other three girls all begged her to change her hair to what it usually looked like. She obliged, changing her hair into waist length, semi-straight, dirty blonde hair. She quickly changed back.
Maegan messed up next. Instead of going right into her secret, she had to give the girls a little background information. "I'm sure you three have all heard about time turners." Erin and Bella nodded to show they understood. "Well, a time turner is something, that depending on how many times you turn the thing over, you can go back in time for several hours. There is also this special gift called 'Timeturnorous' (A/N: Lame again, I know). It lets you go back up to 5 hours without a time turner. I have that gift, but it's really no big deal at all."
Finally, when they almost decided to quit the game, Lily messed up. She also had to go into a speech. "I'm so sorry guys, but I can't tell you my deepest, darkest secret. If I did, you guys would be in more trouble then you know. I f you want, I can tell you my second deepest darkest secret. My first...you can't know! Again, I'm sorry."
"Okay," said Maegan. "So what's your second?" The girls all laughed as Lily told them that secret (A/N: hint, it had something to do with Petunia!). Two of the girls did fine not knowing the secret, one wasn't, and she let it show.
"Lily!" called Erin. They were in the common room about an hour after they had played the game. "Please tell me your secret. Knowing someone else knows something I don't just kills me! Please tell."
"Erin I can't, you'll be in so much trouble if I do."
"Oh please, now I want to know more than before."
"No! Quit asking me!"
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Erin spent a long time trying to figure out what she should do. She tried to ask Lily for hints, but Lily was adamant in not revealing anything about her secret. She tried to ask their other friends for hints, but they knew less than she did, if anything. Erin was unable to find out anything about Lily's mysterious secret.
One night Erin was awoken by a weird noise. It sounded like a person talking...to themselves. Lily was mumbling something in her sleep, "Daddy...no...please go...you'll be hurt...deatheaters...I hate you...dead?" Erin was unable to figure out everything Lily was saying. She just couldn't understand what it all meant. She decided to find out tomorrow. The next day, she confronted Lily.
"Lily! Sweetie, I heard you mumbling something in your sleep last night." Lily look a little frightened. "Lils, you were talking about your dad, deatheaters, and death. What happened?"
It took a little while for Lily to finally speak. "You just can't leave this alone can you. Why does this secret even matter? Please, will you just drop it?" She turned around crying and run up to her dorm, crying.
That's it. I'm going to find out what her secret is. Erin left the portrait hole to go to the library; she had a little research to do. She needed to find the strongest truth potion she could.
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Bella and Maegan were sitting in the dorm talking when Lily rushed in. When they asked Lily what was wrong, they were very surprised by her answer. She told then everything that had happened with Erin over the past few days, ending with why she was crying. The two girls gave her sympathizing looks and tried to comfort her. In the middle of this process, Erin walked in.
"Hey guys, do you think I could talk to Lily alone for a moment?" The two friends left to leave the girls alone. "I'm really sorry Lily. I didn't realize that this secret was that big. If I did, I never would have pushed you. Here, drink this; it will make you feel better." Lily nodded and took the mug. As soon as she had taken her first sip, she had a vacant glaze in her eyes. "Wow, this actually worked. I wonder how I'm not getting an A in Potions class." The first thing Erin did was ask Lily about her secret.
She started her story, "Four years ago, over Christmas break, Voldemort was after me. I don't know why, but he sent his most trusted deatheater to my house." Lily paused while Erin gulped, not sure if she wanted to know the rest. "The deatheater tried to step in front of my dad to reach me. My dad wouldn't let him go past. He killed my dad, because he tried to save me. When the deatheater turned to me and shouted 'Avada Kadavra', it rebounded and killed him. I was left with just a scar right here," she said this pointing towards her chest. "Now, more than before, Voldemort is after me, and anyone who knows my secret."
Erin froze. She had no idea what she was going to say. Lily stirred, and Erin could tell the potion was beginning to wear off. Lily looked at Erin's frozen face and gave her a questioning look.
"Oh my god, Lily! I'm so sorry!"
"Erin relax, what did you do?"
"I...I...I really wanted to find out what your secret was..."
"Well I knew that already, and I've forgiven you."
"Well that's great, but don't forgive me just yet."
"What do you mean?"
"I gave you a truth potion so I could found out your secret. I just gave it to you. I asked you about your secret. You just told me everything."
Lily was dumbfounded. How could one of her seven best friends do this to her? "You little bitch! How could you do that?! Do you know how much trouble you are in now?! I hate you! That was one of the worst ideas you could ever have. I can't believe you would do that to me!" Lily than ran out of the room crying. She needed to find somebody, anybody.
"Oh my god, what have I done?"
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So what do you think? I know it's not amazing, but it's not the worst thing I've ever written. It could be the longest though. I hope you all like it! R/R.
Sophia