© Ariana Veelagrace and Clara Maplewood, years 2000-2002
Lily
Chapter 27
A/N: This really doesn't have much of a plot,
or anything to do with the rest of the story, but it's an enjoyable read! To
all Americans: Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
In the common room, James was holding his ears again. Everyone else had gone
into the dormitories except he and Lily, and she was, frankly, giving him hell.
"What are you, some kind of chauvinist? I walk up, and I've got my wand-I
can fend for myself, you know!-and you say, 'stay out of this, Lily,' like I
can't!" James just sat there, holding his ears and taking it. Somehow, he
couldn't bring himself to fight back. "That
was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me, you idiot! You just shoved
me aside like a dust bunny or something that was in your way! Well, say
something! Don't you have anything to
say for yourself?"
He stood up slowly and looked Lily straight in the eyes. "Yes, I do. I'm
sorry." Then, without another word, he turned and walked up the dormitory
steps.
Lily sat down with a frustrated sigh and looked after James just in time to see
the silvery material fall down the stairs out of his pocket. She got to her
feet and picked it up. As she held the
Invisibility Cloak, a mischievous smile crossed her angry features.
"Teach HIM to call me 'Mudblood,'" she
muttered to herself, sweeping the cloak over her head.
Lily walked down the corridor, trying to find some Slytherin
to follow to their common room entrance. She saw a Gryffindor or two, a Hufflepuff, and she even caught sight of Vanessa's
fire-colored robes retreating behind a statue of an eagle, but not a single Slytherin walked by. Until, that is, she saw a pale-faced
boy with silvery blonde hair walk by. She followed Lucius,
stepping softly in his wake.
When they reached a long stretch of bare stone wall, Lucius
shouted out, "Parseltongue!" and a hidden
door opened in the stone wall. He, and, unbeknownst to him, Lily, walked through
the door and into the common room.
Lily wrinkled her nose. It really was pretty gloomy in here, no wonder most Slytherins turned out to be evil. It had rough, unwelcoming
stone walls and ceiling, from which hung chains with green-tinted lights at the
end. There was an elaborate mantelpiece right in front of them, and high-backed
chairs were scattered around the room. (A/N:
most of this description can be found in CoS. I didn't plagiarize
exactly, but many of the terms are straight out of the book.)
Lucius yawned, rather bored, obviously, and walked up
the forbidding-looking stairs to the boy's dormitory. Lily followed, holding
her breath in anticipation of what a Slytherin boys'
dormitory must smell like.
Once in the dormitory, Lily waited until Lucius was
more or less asleep. Then, she slowly opened the curtains of the first bed she
could find. Luckily enough, it was Severus Snape, looking as sour as ever. His hand was lying, open,
out to his side.
Lily giggled evilly. Exactly what she wanted. She took
out the shaving cream she had picked up just for this occasion and filled his
hand with it. Using an old Muggle trick she had
learned in Girl Scout Camp, she tickled his face with a feather and watched as
he smeared the shaving cream all over his own face. Lily looked around the room
for something else to do. Just making him look like the Abominable Snowman
wasn't enough, she had to do something that would really
embarrass him...Then, she noticed a large box holding
the closet partially open.
"Filibuster's No-match, Wet-Start fireworks..." she read to herself.
She grabbed a few and wedged them under Severus's
mattress, charming them with her wand to go off as soon as he woke up. Lily
left, still chuckling wickedly.
The next morning in the common room, Lily's mood had somewhat improved, though
her ribs were still sore. She still was a little icy towards James in light of
his pigheaded response the previous night at the dance. She had woken up early,
and was waiting to give James his cloak back.
James, however, was a late riser, and Lily had to wait until the common room
was nearly full to accomplish her mission. He walked in,
avoiding Lily's side of the room with a slightly frightened look on his face,
and Lily sprang up and walked across to him. "You dropped your cloak last night.
Here." She shoved it abruptly into his hands.
"Oh! Um...thanks," he said. Then his expression turned suspicious.
"You didn't..."
His answer came in the form of several loud explosions and a resounding, "YEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!!"
emanating from the direction of the Slytherin
dormitories.