(a/n) Hey Everyone! Merry Christmas (if you read this before the 25th.) Just so you know, the first about page of the chapter was written on a seat in about the third art gallery my mum had taken me to, so I was in a sort of anti-art gallery mood. And I did TRY to appreciate the art. A painting of horses was quite cool. And the fashion bit. But I was still bored. So you are warned. 

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A Little Bit of Magic

Chapter 5 ~ Realization

Lily Dear! Look! There's Edith Sartinier." Lily's gran said upon seeing an old friend, "You'll be ok for a moment while I find the details for the art gallery we are going to visit on Monday"

"OK Gran, I'll just find my friends." Lily said while thinking 'Why anyone would voluntary go to an art gallery is beyond me'

Not long later, Lily walk behind a cart of trunks, and heard Tara's voice just before she saw her two best friends with three boys.

'Wow Tara's getting quicker everyday getting the guys. I mean we're not even on our way to school yet'

Lil lil lil lil lil lil lil lil! Tara yelled out "Look who we found!"

Lily looked closer, and saw the three boys were actually Padfoot, Prongs, and Moony!

"Hey Cinderella" Prongs said smiling at Lily

Hey you never said you were at Hogwarts!" Lily and James exclaimed at the same time

"Well you guys didn't either" answered Sirius and Kiri together.

Kiri laughed. "Great minds think alike, hey" She said looking at Sirius

Tara caught Lily's eye and winked, gesturing Kiri and Sirius.

"Oh Lily, look who I met up with!" Lily's gran had returned with a group of four women "You remember Sandra, don't you? She's James's mother. She's going to come to the gallery with us" She said gesturing the other three ladies

'The entire family has bad taste then' Lily thought, remembering the disaster meeting with the Potter family, before she even started at Hogwarts 'James with superman, his father with that orange wig, and now the mother, who was the best of the lot, liking art galleries!'

"Hey mum, did I leave a green bag in the car?" Prongs asked

"Yes you did, James dear, and I threw it in to these muggle contraptions known as garbage bins. You can't still be doing that muggle studies assignment comparing our screaming yoyos to muggle ones"

Lily gasped. Memories were rushing though her head. Hey mum… Yes, you did James...…Wonderful school Hogwarts is. James is off there next year too…. You remember Sandra, don't you? She's James's mother. Lily screamed! Lily really only hated two things in life: walking around Art galleries for hours and hours, and being deceived. "You're James" She shouted, hoping she was so wrong

"Yeah, James replied, that's my name. I know it's boring, but you can just call me Prongs, Cinderella"

"Lily sighed. I'm not Cinderella. I'm Lily. Lily Evans. This is my Grandmother"

"No! No way. No Freaking way. That snobby little princess I met a few years ago can't be you. It can't be!" James was shocked. 'This was Lily Evans? Wow she had changed, and definitely for the better'

"It's true and…"

"Oh My God! You've changed so much from that that stuck up brat I met"

"So I was now brat was I? Well you were bloody immature! With that stupid dog, the superman shirt, and that bloody ghoul"

"He still has a superman shirt" Sirius helpfully put in

"You lied" Lily snarled

"Oh and you didn't now didn't now did you? Cinderella. Sure. I've never seen someone who is less princessish. And with that red hair, and red face from yelling, you look as red as a tomato. And tomatoes aren't beautiful" If Lily was going to play it this way, fine then.

"YOU CALLED ME PURPLE!" Screamed Lily

"Um lil" Kiri said softly "Actually he called you red"

"I'm not a bloody chameleon either." Lily's voice went dangerously low "Five years ago he agreed with that ghoul of his who said I was turning purple"

"Well Gregory and I were wrong. Purple is too good a colour for you."

"Good. I hate the colour purple"

"Good I love it"

"Good. I don't like boys who wear purple"

"Good.  I like to wear purple. I also like girls who do wear it"

"Good. I never wear purple"

"Good. I ONLY like girls who do wear it"

"Good. You'll hate me then"

"Good. I want to hate you"

"Good. I hate you too"

"Oh so original"

"Wow James. You hate her, she hates you. Oh my god, you have so much in common." Sirius interrupted there argument, otherwise it would've gone on for days.

"Good." James replied. "Cos opposites attract"

"Good. Even if you were chalk and I was cheese, I wouldn't be attracted to you"

"Good. I hate cheese"

"All aboard" The conductor called, offering very welcome relief to Kiri, Tara, Remus and Sirius. However, even though James and Lily had stopped screaming, they were still staring at each other, eyeing one another off, like two cats fighting over a feed.

"Oh come on!" Kiri muttered, frustratedly pulling Lily into an empty carriage. Unfortunately, Remus shoved James into the same one.

After they were all seated, with Lily and James as far away from one another as the build of the carriage allowed, Tara realized she had no idea who Padfoot and Moony were either. It was entirely possible she had been out with either one before, or she was related to one of then, or anything. This information was quite important really.

"So Padfoot, Moony who are you?"

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After the great feast had finished, and the school song was sung, Professor Dumbledore announced that the houses should separate into there respective common rooms. When Lily and James found that they were both following the Gryffindor prefect they were less than impressed.

"So you're a Gryffindor now, are you?" Lily commented with her voice filled with hate

"Well, I always have been, where as you look as though you've escaped from the slytheren common room."

"I was just about to ask the same of you and Hufflepuff.

"Though really you really do have the temper of lion, but still the poison of a snake"

"And beaver is too cute to be you"

"What the hell would you know about cute?"

"I don't want to know. I don't do cute"

"I can tell"

"You ca…."

The staircase gave a sudden movement then, causing Lily to lose her balance and fall over the edge. She managed to grasp the side of the stair worth a sweaty hand and she could feel herself slipping…slipping…slippe…Suddenly James's head appeared above her 

"Having fun down there?" he asked with a grin

Well I can't fall now! James will think I'm not strong. Lily was now determined to hang on. She used every once of her strength to hold the edge of the stair.

"I was having the time of my life, but then you appeared so I'm forced to look at you, and that isn't good"

"You could just close your eyes" James suggested

"You think I'd waste that much effort on you?" Lily's grip tightened of the stair. It was more than blood at stake now; it was pride.

 "Well, I dunno, maybe 'cos you're hanging off a staircase many levels up and if you slip, you'll fall into the second year herbology slime growing project"

"Hmn. What's more disgusting? Slime or James, Slime or James, Slime or James? That is the question.

"Lily, don't be stupid. Just grab my hand"

"Why in hell would I touch your hand?"

"Oh Lil. Cried Tara exasperated. Grab my hand then"

"I' perfectly fine Taz. Really…I meant to do it. I'll come up myself when James goes"

However, Tara took her hand regardless and dragged Lily up upon solid ground

"The red and purple snake with the temper of a lion couldn't manage it by her self hey?"

"I didn't need your help anyway," Lily turned and shoved James off the staircase. After muttering a slow falling spell, (she didn't actually want to kill him) she yelled down "AND DON'T CALL ME PURPLE!"

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By the time James managed to climb up the stairs covered in flashing blue and mustard coloured slime, the boys and girls had retreated to their separated dormorties. Except for two. Kiri and Sirius had slipped away from the rest of the Gryffindors in the commotion of Lily and the staircase.

"I am so happy I've met up with you again Padfoot. I thought I'd never see you again after the concert"

"I know exactly how you feel. Many times, I have regretted not asking for a phone number after a perfect night. But with you it must have meant to happen"

"Did you top divination last year or something?

"I sound like it, don't I?"

"But you're exactly right. We should take this chance we've been given"

"So will you be my girlfriend Kiri?"

"Oh of course I will Sirius. Did you really think I'd say no?"

"Nup" Sirius grinned "Not for one second"
Kiri stared into Sirius's brown eyes "Oh I love you" She whispered before collapsing into his strong arms.

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Melody and Diana were already asleep, and Kiri was no where to be found, so Tara decided it was time to have a girl talk with Lily

"Lil, why did you do that to poor James? I mean you pushed him off a flight of stairs! I hope he's OK"

"Taz, You saw the way he was mocking me and of course he'll be ok. I did put the slow falling spell on him, so it will be just like floating down. His pride will be the only thing that will be damaged. And I'm glad it will be. Even so, I can't say I'd be too upset if he had to spend a week in the hospital wing. At least he couldn't call me purple"

Tara rolled her eyes "I just can't understand how you too had such a good time at that concert and now you can properly get to know him, don't want anything to do with him"

"Even at the concert we weren't as quite as wrapped around each other as Kirlee and Sirius were."

"Well I didn't except you two would be pashing before the day was over, but I did expect you would be friendly, or even more"

"You just don't get it Taz. When I met him before Hogwarts He was just so immature and was quite nasty to me. But that I could forgive if he had changed. But he hasn't. Anyway, why are we spending our first night back discussing such a pathetic topic as James Potter? What about you and Remus?"

"What about us? We're just good friends"

"You have a lot of 'good friends' Taz. I saw the way you were dancing with him"

"Yeah that's just it. Dancing. There was nothing more to it. He was just another boy at just another party"

"Really?"

"Yeah, that's why I said it. Plus the boy's school just joined us. I don't want to appear taken before I have a good look at who's new. The Ravenclaws look a good place to start"

"Lily laughed. Well I can't keep my eyes open for another millisecond so good night"

"Oh Lil, stay awake" Tara pleaded, but Lily was already in dreamland.

"Well Fred. How are you? I hate morning people, always go to sleep to quickly and spoil the fun" Tara didn't feel like going to sleep yet, and she wanted to press Kirlee for details on her 'disappearance' so she fell back to her last resort; Talking to her stuffed elephant.

Kiri was quite worried about her friend when she walked in the door and heard her describing her wedding to an elephant

"The cars will have white ribbons on them, and the table cloths will be white too. It won't be in a tradionial church though. I think outside a castle on green lawn. And I will have glitter confetti tossed on me after the wedding. No rice at all."

"Um hey Taz" Kiri interrupted

"Bout time you got back. So, tell me everything"

"Every? Well, Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated, Almonds are a member of the peach family, Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite, It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket, and the reason fire stations have circular staircases is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

"Yeah…sure Kiri. Do you have any random facts about Miss Kiralee White and Mr Sirius Black? Oh My God. That totally goes together! White and Black!" 

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Dear Anna

Do you remember that boy I wrote to you about many years ago? His name was James Potter, and I was complaining after having dinner with his family how immature he was. Well guess what? First, he goes to Hogwarts and is in my year. Second, He is just as immature as he was then. And he infuriates me so much! Third, and defiantly worst of all, I met him at that concert I told you about- Wingardium Leviosa. We got on real well, but when I found out who he was today, I found he hasn't changed a bit. Must go; I want to be awake enough tomorrow to turn James into a toucan.

Love Lily

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Hey Belle

This is James. I am mad at you. For many reasons.

a) In a letter long ago, you told me to go easy on Lily Evans.

b) You also suggested going to that concert (which btw was awesome) and therefore made me think Lily Evans was cool

c) You gave me that superman shirt for my birthday when I was 10, something Lily Evans constantly pays me out about You didn't warn me about Lily Evans.

d) How after a few years at the same school as her you didn't realize what a stuck-up bitch she was?

 e) You, being a head girl last year must have helped the second years with that herbology slime assignment. Why did you leave it there? why mustard? Why not purple?

f) You didn't try to stop the consolidation of the boys and girls campuses. Not that I mind the other girls. Some of them look quite hot. But just one girl…

g) Why didn't you pretend Lily Evans wasn't either a boy or girl so she couldn't move to this bigger co-ed Hogwarts and had do her schooling in the lake with the giant squid, the only other of her race?

h) Why Belle, why couldn't you be hear this year. Prove to Lily Evans I'm not all bad. I want to prove that so much. If you were here, she might've kept the personality that she had at the concert. And I want that more than anything.