Living A Legend
Book 1- A Clash of Wills
Chapter 9- Heroes and Nuisances
It turned out that John decided to stay several more days at Hogwarts. He slept in the Gryffindor Common room, and was often seen conversing animatedly about Quidditch with Frank Longbottom. All of the Gryffindors were quite impressed with James' older brother, even Lily. Though she would never admit it, she had what was almost a crush on the older boy.
And she was not alone. Several of the seventh year girls had taken to fawning over the good looking Qudditch player, and Dora kept following him around.
James stopped playing pranks for a little while as well, much to the delight of the rest of the school. Even Sirius seemed to be under the influence of John Potter.
One night Lily woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and on her way decided to head down to the common room to sneak a peak at the sleeping legend. When she arrived, she saw that he was gone and sighed ready to return to bed. Suddenly she saw a figure appear out of the corner of her eye. It was John, standing by the portrait hole and clutching a cloak in his arms. She could have sworn he had not been there a moment ago.
"Where did you . . ." Lily trailed off, her eyes roaming suspiciously.
John's normally pale face looked a few shade paler than usual. "Uh, what do you mean, I was here the whole time." He gulped. "the question is, why are you down here and out of bed? Perhaps somebody has a bit of a crush."
Lily blushed and turned without further comment, and rushed up the stairs.
The next morning, Lily was somewhat more shy around John than the morning before. At breakfast, John was sitting with James, Sirius and Remus. And Lily hesitated while Dora and Brittany rushed to join them.
John grinned, noticing the delay, and called out to her. "Hey Lily! Shed the timid act, show us some of your fiery temper to match your hair!"
It took her a moment to understand that he had been making fun of her hair and disposition. Her shyness left her quickly.
"Like I would be in a hurry to sit by the likes of you! Everyone thinks you are special because you are good at some silly sport! I know better. You're no different from James really!"
James glared, but John only laughed. "Now there is the girl James told me about. Not really a Lily at all you know, really more of a Dragon, shooting fire out of her mouth at anyone who might get in her way. Don't be offended Lily, it's a compliment really. Everyone always makes way for a dragon. A lily might be delicate and polite, but a dragon has power, and a beauty all it's own"
John patted the bench on his left side, motioning for Lily to sit down. She did, reluctantly.
"And I think you are an idiot. What with all of the nonsense that comes out of your mouth."
James rolled his eyes and was about to comment, but just then a gaggle of sixth year girls swarmed the older boy asking for autographs and poor James was drowned out.
John spent the rest of his time at Hogwarts, teasing one read headed girl whom he called "Dragon."
To her surprise, Lily did not really hate him, although she teased back quite a bit. It was more of a good-natured animosity than a violent one, such as the Lily and James Feud. John seemed to think that the problems James had with her were quite trivial, though neither of the first years found it so.
One day, the castle awoke to find John gone. He had moved on. Most of the school was in a very glum mood. Lily and James' mood was dampened even further by the detentions they had been assigned for that afternoon. they had to dust all the crystals on chandeliers from around the school, which had all been de-assembled especially for them.
Once again, the two were up far into the night, miserably scrubbing each crystal until it they all glowed.
Snape took the opportunity to make them feel even worse, as he stalked the hall gleefully, rubbing their punishment in their faces. "Oh Potter! Missed a spot.," he would cry, before dodging a filthy rag lobbed at him by James.
The next morning, Lily was still depressed from the night's torturous monotony, but her plight was not shared by the majority of the other students. Even James, her fellow victim wore a sincere smile.
"James' brother is sending us tickets for his next Quidditch match! We get to miss Potions and Defense against the Dark Arts on Tuesday." Sirius greeted them cheerfully. "James, Peter, Remus, and I are getting tickets, along with a whole load of sixth and seventh year girls, oh and the Gryffindor Quidditch team of course."
Just then, James joined the table. "It's too bad you won't be invited girls." he remarked angelically, his devilish side visible beneath his transparent smile.
Lily just shrugged, pretending not to care. "It's just Quidditch."
Still, it bothered her more than she would say. Brittany and Dora picked up on it and tried to cheer her up, to no avail.
Lily's bad mood lasted until breakfast on Monday, the day before the Legendary Quidditch match. All over, owls were bringing Lucky students Quidditch tickets by mail. Lily sighed and watched them land. Just when all the owls began to clear out, and breakfast had grown cold, Lothlorien made a grand entrance, clutching in her beak a tiny white envelope.
Slightly puzzled, Lily tore the top of the envelope and out fell a ticket and a note.
"Dragon," it read. "Please keep my brother in line. Hope you enjoy- John.
Her face lit up so fast that her friends were amazed at her sudden mood swing.
"Lily," Dora cried, "What is it?"
Lily grinned hugely, but then sobered quickly. "I got a ticket. Don't tell any of the boys, I can't wait to see the look on James' face when I show up at the match!"
Brittany, who was examining the ticket suddenly burst out, "Lily, this is a luxury box ticket!"
"Is that good?" Lily asked, confused.
"Those are only the best seats around!" Brittany replied exuberantly. Then realizing the attention she was attracting, added in a whisper, "I saw Sirius's ticket earlier, and it is only in the stands. James is going to die when he sees you have a box seat!"
Lessons flew by quickly and before she knew it, it was time for Defense against the Dark Arts. Lily knew that the students attending the match would be called out of the class, so she went with a smile, careful to be extra antagonizing to James.
James and the others, were marauding around, walking nightmares to those who remained ticket less, but Lily took the abuse.
When an owl flew into the classroom with a list of excused students, it took much effort for Lily to stop herself from jumping out of her seat.
"Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew and Evans," Professor Lacy read dutifully.
Lily happily watched the shock register on the boys faces before commenting, "Oh, it looks like I will be going after all." She pulled her ticket out of her robes and pretended to examine it closely. "Luxury box, what does that mean?" she mused aloud, enjoying the look of horror on James' face.
"Luxury boxes are only for Ministry personnel, and the players' families," Sirius sounded shocked.
"Each player gets four seats reserved each game for family, and the top row is for important people who want to attend." Brittany volunteered helpfully. "It seems like John has chosen Lily to join the rest of his family in the luxury box."
For once in his life, James was completely speechless.
"Nice to meet you," Lily shook hands with James's parents, after they had insisted on an introduction.
"It's nice to finally meet some of James's friends other than Sirius." Mr. Potter smiled warmly.
"She's not my friend," muttered James unhappily, glancing over to the cheaper seats in which his real friends were seated.
His mother nudged him and apologized for her son.
"Oh don't you worry, Mrs. Potter. I am perfectly used to him. He's like this all the time." Lily smiled charmingly.
The Luxury box turned out to be exactly that. Lily could see the entire field from where she sat, and was also aware that she sat among some prestigious wizards, who were very important in the wizarding world.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, girls and boys, it is my duty; my pleasure and my privilege to introduce you to the Britain Boggarts!" the announcer began. "William Worthington, Keeper!" he called out as, a tan robed player rushed on to the field amidst loud applause.
Lily squinted through her binoculars, to watch the players enter the field, impressive upon their brooms.
"Jordan Tessa, chaser! Ulrich VanUten, chaser! Jesse Frank, chaser! Ryan James, beater! Loriela Landings, beater! And . . . John Potter, Seeker!
At his name, Lily proceeded to climb atop her chair and cheer wildly waving her arms in the air.
Not to be outdone by a girl, James too, climbed onto his seat and began to jump up and down and shoot sparks out of his wand.
"Go Johnny!" Mrs. Potter called politely from her seated position. Mr. Potter only clapped heartily, along with the majority in the box.
Lily was not even aware that the game had begun, until several moments after the starting whistle had sounded. the players moved so quickly, dashing here and there through the sky that Lily had difficulty keeping her gaze on them.
Compared to Hogwarts Qudditch, there was no contest, these teams were amazingly good. Lily found herself constantly asking, "what happened?"
Mr. and Mrs. Potter were only too glad to answer her many questions, but James would only sigh and roll his eyes, too afraid to do more under the careful gaze of his parents.
After only half an hour, John went suddenly into a quick dive, and the French seeker was quick to follow. It seemed to Lily that the two men had turned into a mere smear of color streaking down towards the ground. then suddenly, John came out of the dive and plummeted skyward, a glint of gold clutched between his fingers.
"He got the Snitch! He got the Snitch!" James yelled excitedly, standing quickly and jumping up and down.
Lily stood too, and before she knew it she felt herself enveloped in James' arms. He had been hugging everyone in sight. He quickly realized his mistake and jumped back, but not before Lily could throw in one quick shove.
After the crowd had dispersed, Lily found a trinket vendor and purchased a full size poster of John's face, which she had promised to buy for Brittany as well as a rosette that Dora had wanted.
Lily was unfolding the poster of the winking John, when a voice came out from behind her ear.
"Oh, that's nice! Do you know where I could buy one of those?" Lily turned and shrieked when she saw John standing next to her.
She bopped him on the head with the poster. "It's not for me, it's for my friend," she spoke defensively.
John laughed and gave her a hug, which she tried in vain to squirm out of. "That is the little Dragon I like. Now, how badly did you annoy my brother?"
Lily grinned impishly. "Just a hair."
"Well I expected more than that. We'll just have to fix that won't we. Let's go find him." John dragged her in the direction where James had last been seen.
"It was awesome! He was so furious! And the game was cool too. I can't believe John gave me the ticket!" Lily babbled excitedly as Brittany admired her moving poster and Dora sat anxiously on the bed.
"You should have gotten him to autograph it," Brittany whined dreamily, staring into John's hazel larger than life eyes."
Lily tried to think of something to say, but her smile was so wide it was hard to talk.
Book 1- A Clash of Wills
Chapter 9- Heroes and Nuisances
It turned out that John decided to stay several more days at Hogwarts. He slept in the Gryffindor Common room, and was often seen conversing animatedly about Quidditch with Frank Longbottom. All of the Gryffindors were quite impressed with James' older brother, even Lily. Though she would never admit it, she had what was almost a crush on the older boy.
And she was not alone. Several of the seventh year girls had taken to fawning over the good looking Qudditch player, and Dora kept following him around.
James stopped playing pranks for a little while as well, much to the delight of the rest of the school. Even Sirius seemed to be under the influence of John Potter.
One night Lily woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and on her way decided to head down to the common room to sneak a peak at the sleeping legend. When she arrived, she saw that he was gone and sighed ready to return to bed. Suddenly she saw a figure appear out of the corner of her eye. It was John, standing by the portrait hole and clutching a cloak in his arms. She could have sworn he had not been there a moment ago.
"Where did you . . ." Lily trailed off, her eyes roaming suspiciously.
John's normally pale face looked a few shade paler than usual. "Uh, what do you mean, I was here the whole time." He gulped. "the question is, why are you down here and out of bed? Perhaps somebody has a bit of a crush."
Lily blushed and turned without further comment, and rushed up the stairs.
The next morning, Lily was somewhat more shy around John than the morning before. At breakfast, John was sitting with James, Sirius and Remus. And Lily hesitated while Dora and Brittany rushed to join them.
John grinned, noticing the delay, and called out to her. "Hey Lily! Shed the timid act, show us some of your fiery temper to match your hair!"
It took her a moment to understand that he had been making fun of her hair and disposition. Her shyness left her quickly.
"Like I would be in a hurry to sit by the likes of you! Everyone thinks you are special because you are good at some silly sport! I know better. You're no different from James really!"
James glared, but John only laughed. "Now there is the girl James told me about. Not really a Lily at all you know, really more of a Dragon, shooting fire out of her mouth at anyone who might get in her way. Don't be offended Lily, it's a compliment really. Everyone always makes way for a dragon. A lily might be delicate and polite, but a dragon has power, and a beauty all it's own"
John patted the bench on his left side, motioning for Lily to sit down. She did, reluctantly.
"And I think you are an idiot. What with all of the nonsense that comes out of your mouth."
James rolled his eyes and was about to comment, but just then a gaggle of sixth year girls swarmed the older boy asking for autographs and poor James was drowned out.
John spent the rest of his time at Hogwarts, teasing one read headed girl whom he called "Dragon."
To her surprise, Lily did not really hate him, although she teased back quite a bit. It was more of a good-natured animosity than a violent one, such as the Lily and James Feud. John seemed to think that the problems James had with her were quite trivial, though neither of the first years found it so.
One day, the castle awoke to find John gone. He had moved on. Most of the school was in a very glum mood. Lily and James' mood was dampened even further by the detentions they had been assigned for that afternoon. they had to dust all the crystals on chandeliers from around the school, which had all been de-assembled especially for them.
Once again, the two were up far into the night, miserably scrubbing each crystal until it they all glowed.
Snape took the opportunity to make them feel even worse, as he stalked the hall gleefully, rubbing their punishment in their faces. "Oh Potter! Missed a spot.," he would cry, before dodging a filthy rag lobbed at him by James.
The next morning, Lily was still depressed from the night's torturous monotony, but her plight was not shared by the majority of the other students. Even James, her fellow victim wore a sincere smile.
"James' brother is sending us tickets for his next Quidditch match! We get to miss Potions and Defense against the Dark Arts on Tuesday." Sirius greeted them cheerfully. "James, Peter, Remus, and I are getting tickets, along with a whole load of sixth and seventh year girls, oh and the Gryffindor Quidditch team of course."
Just then, James joined the table. "It's too bad you won't be invited girls." he remarked angelically, his devilish side visible beneath his transparent smile.
Lily just shrugged, pretending not to care. "It's just Quidditch."
Still, it bothered her more than she would say. Brittany and Dora picked up on it and tried to cheer her up, to no avail.
Lily's bad mood lasted until breakfast on Monday, the day before the Legendary Quidditch match. All over, owls were bringing Lucky students Quidditch tickets by mail. Lily sighed and watched them land. Just when all the owls began to clear out, and breakfast had grown cold, Lothlorien made a grand entrance, clutching in her beak a tiny white envelope.
Slightly puzzled, Lily tore the top of the envelope and out fell a ticket and a note.
"Dragon," it read. "Please keep my brother in line. Hope you enjoy- John.
Her face lit up so fast that her friends were amazed at her sudden mood swing.
"Lily," Dora cried, "What is it?"
Lily grinned hugely, but then sobered quickly. "I got a ticket. Don't tell any of the boys, I can't wait to see the look on James' face when I show up at the match!"
Brittany, who was examining the ticket suddenly burst out, "Lily, this is a luxury box ticket!"
"Is that good?" Lily asked, confused.
"Those are only the best seats around!" Brittany replied exuberantly. Then realizing the attention she was attracting, added in a whisper, "I saw Sirius's ticket earlier, and it is only in the stands. James is going to die when he sees you have a box seat!"
Lessons flew by quickly and before she knew it, it was time for Defense against the Dark Arts. Lily knew that the students attending the match would be called out of the class, so she went with a smile, careful to be extra antagonizing to James.
James and the others, were marauding around, walking nightmares to those who remained ticket less, but Lily took the abuse.
When an owl flew into the classroom with a list of excused students, it took much effort for Lily to stop herself from jumping out of her seat.
"Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew and Evans," Professor Lacy read dutifully.
Lily happily watched the shock register on the boys faces before commenting, "Oh, it looks like I will be going after all." She pulled her ticket out of her robes and pretended to examine it closely. "Luxury box, what does that mean?" she mused aloud, enjoying the look of horror on James' face.
"Luxury boxes are only for Ministry personnel, and the players' families," Sirius sounded shocked.
"Each player gets four seats reserved each game for family, and the top row is for important people who want to attend." Brittany volunteered helpfully. "It seems like John has chosen Lily to join the rest of his family in the luxury box."
For once in his life, James was completely speechless.
"Nice to meet you," Lily shook hands with James's parents, after they had insisted on an introduction.
"It's nice to finally meet some of James's friends other than Sirius." Mr. Potter smiled warmly.
"She's not my friend," muttered James unhappily, glancing over to the cheaper seats in which his real friends were seated.
His mother nudged him and apologized for her son.
"Oh don't you worry, Mrs. Potter. I am perfectly used to him. He's like this all the time." Lily smiled charmingly.
The Luxury box turned out to be exactly that. Lily could see the entire field from where she sat, and was also aware that she sat among some prestigious wizards, who were very important in the wizarding world.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, girls and boys, it is my duty; my pleasure and my privilege to introduce you to the Britain Boggarts!" the announcer began. "William Worthington, Keeper!" he called out as, a tan robed player rushed on to the field amidst loud applause.
Lily squinted through her binoculars, to watch the players enter the field, impressive upon their brooms.
"Jordan Tessa, chaser! Ulrich VanUten, chaser! Jesse Frank, chaser! Ryan James, beater! Loriela Landings, beater! And . . . John Potter, Seeker!
At his name, Lily proceeded to climb atop her chair and cheer wildly waving her arms in the air.
Not to be outdone by a girl, James too, climbed onto his seat and began to jump up and down and shoot sparks out of his wand.
"Go Johnny!" Mrs. Potter called politely from her seated position. Mr. Potter only clapped heartily, along with the majority in the box.
Lily was not even aware that the game had begun, until several moments after the starting whistle had sounded. the players moved so quickly, dashing here and there through the sky that Lily had difficulty keeping her gaze on them.
Compared to Hogwarts Qudditch, there was no contest, these teams were amazingly good. Lily found herself constantly asking, "what happened?"
Mr. and Mrs. Potter were only too glad to answer her many questions, but James would only sigh and roll his eyes, too afraid to do more under the careful gaze of his parents.
After only half an hour, John went suddenly into a quick dive, and the French seeker was quick to follow. It seemed to Lily that the two men had turned into a mere smear of color streaking down towards the ground. then suddenly, John came out of the dive and plummeted skyward, a glint of gold clutched between his fingers.
"He got the Snitch! He got the Snitch!" James yelled excitedly, standing quickly and jumping up and down.
Lily stood too, and before she knew it she felt herself enveloped in James' arms. He had been hugging everyone in sight. He quickly realized his mistake and jumped back, but not before Lily could throw in one quick shove.
After the crowd had dispersed, Lily found a trinket vendor and purchased a full size poster of John's face, which she had promised to buy for Brittany as well as a rosette that Dora had wanted.
Lily was unfolding the poster of the winking John, when a voice came out from behind her ear.
"Oh, that's nice! Do you know where I could buy one of those?" Lily turned and shrieked when she saw John standing next to her.
She bopped him on the head with the poster. "It's not for me, it's for my friend," she spoke defensively.
John laughed and gave her a hug, which she tried in vain to squirm out of. "That is the little Dragon I like. Now, how badly did you annoy my brother?"
Lily grinned impishly. "Just a hair."
"Well I expected more than that. We'll just have to fix that won't we. Let's go find him." John dragged her in the direction where James had last been seen.
"It was awesome! He was so furious! And the game was cool too. I can't believe John gave me the ticket!" Lily babbled excitedly as Brittany admired her moving poster and Dora sat anxiously on the bed.
"You should have gotten him to autograph it," Brittany whined dreamily, staring into John's hazel larger than life eyes."
Lily tried to think of something to say, but her smile was so wide it was hard to talk.