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A Little Bit of Magic
Chapter 6 ~ If That's How She Wants To Play
Lily was sitting in Potions, bored as usual. Professor Ling was explaining Shrinking Potions, a subject Lily knew back to front. It's not as if she had tried to memorize the subject. However, in the summer holidays, she was so bored, as her friends had been away for most of the time, so she amused herself by reading her new books for the new school year. She had found the book fascinating anyway, as she loved to learn more about the wizarding world.
This unfortunately was making classes unbearable. Professor Ling, stroking his brown beard, and cleaning his large glasses kept asking Lily questions, which she happened to know the answers to.
"Well done again Lily, 10 points for Gryffindor. I wonder, could you tell us who discovered the main ingredient for the shrinking potion, and what was the strange circumstance in which it was found?"
Lily sighed. She had to answer. "Jeffery Broach" She said softly "He was having a garden picnic, when he took a sip of tea, which unbeknown to him had a petal of the oyster flower in it. His tongue swelled down to the size of a hairclip"
"Excellent Lily! Superb! You must have studied really hard in the holidays"
"That's because she has no life" Severus Snape called out
"Settle down class. Please do not make fun of my best student"
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"You little smartarse!"
"Talking spell book"
"Owl Brain"
The slytherns verbally attacked Lily after class, giving her dark looks of hatred.
"I guess she wants us to think she's good at something, being a mudblood and everything" The cold voice of Severus Snape joined his friends'
"Yeah I suppose she has to have something to make up for all that filthy blood" Mathew Crummer sneered in agreement
Out off nowhere, James appeared
"Leave her alone!" he shouted
"Yeah sure Jamsie boy," Mathew said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Fancy the Mudblood know-it-all, do you?"
"He must think she can do all his homework for him" Clive Beats added "As he's utterly hopeless himself"
'Piss off snakehead."
"Whatca gonna do Jamsie? Throw a quaffle at us?"
"How bout this?" He said. "Tarantallegra!" he called, forcing Mathew's, Clive's, and Severus's legs to dance crazily.
"Are you ok?" James asked Lily, concerned, as the slytherns danced off.
"I was doing just fine until you barged in" She snapped
But those jerks were giving you such a hard time"
"The only jerk I saw you."
"God Lily! Will you listen to yourself? I'm just trying to help you"
"I will if that means I don't have to listen to you!"
"Lily, what happened to the Cinderella I met at that concert? Why can't you just be her again? I loved her!"
"Cinderella would be right in front of you, if you were Prongs, not some superman-wannabe, called James Potter"
She tossed her hair back. "Now if you would excuse me, I'm going to be late of Arithmancy" James watched as she walked off. If that's the way she wants to play it, fine.
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His blood was boiling, he was so angry with Lily. He had tried to be nice, but she just kept the insults coming. What did I do to deserve this? He thought as he walked up. Remus and Sirius met up with James outside their ancient runes class room. He was so thankful they were in his class; he could not stand to be alone at a time like this, just replaying the events in his mind. Luckily, there were many detractions coming.
"Hey Prongs" Remus greeted him
"The professor is in there already, setting up, so we aren't allowed to go in yet." Sirius explained
"Fun. Who is he anyway?"
Sirius grinned. "You are not going to believe this, but Nutrag! You know the head boy from our first year?"
"Holey shit! I guess I shouldn't be that surprised, really. He had teacher written over him at school."
"Remember when he gave you and me, James, detention for playing exploding snap next to where he was trying to do his homework?" Asked Sirius
"He never liked me much either, especially since I knocked that book out of his hands at the train station on the very first day of school" laughed Remus
"Oh I remember that. Then he found out it was my dog's fault, so I wasn't his favorite student ever either." James joined in the laughter
"Did you bring Zach this year? I haven't seen him, and he's a bit hard to miss." Remus asked
Just then, the door opened and Professor Nutrag told everyone to come inside.
Once everyone was seated in the sunny class room, he walked up to the black board and introduced himself
"Good Morning class, my name is Professor Nutrag. I was a student at Hogwarts myself, as a few of you may remember. I myself recognize a few faces here. Mr Potter, you were the one with that insane hound. Mr Black, have you broken that record of 81 detentions in a school year yet? Mr Lupin, who I hope has gained a feeling of respect for textbooks.
Anyway, it is a privilege to teach at Hogwarts, and I will be taking your ancient runes class for the whole year, unless by some miracle Professor Binns gets killed and I get to take over History of Magic, a subject I adore"
"Sir, sir" A feminine voice piped up "Isn't it impossible to kill a ghost?"
"Quiet Pamela, don't destroy the hope in my heart. For all the seven years I was a student here, I had this dream of one day being able to deliver the joy of history of magic to the world of Hogwarts.
He paused, and looked around the room for effect.
"Then this year, it comes to my attention that old Binns has finally passed away. What joy filled me! For all those years I had watched him grow older, and I was just waiting for that day. However, all my dreams were extinguished when I found his ghost taking my beloved class! That just shouldn't be allowed! IT IS NOT RIGHT! He shouted, with raised arms, his head back, the passion taking over his body"
A little while later, Professor Nutrag had calmed down and the class was reading silently, interrupted only by the Professor's mumblings like
"Just leaves his body behind, hey" and "Having ghosts as teachers, what is coming next? A basilisk as the librarian?"
As the bell rang to announce the end of the lesson, Nutrag stood up and was heading for the door to check whether Professor Binns had vanished yet. He had almost made it out of the room, when Pamela shouted
"Please Sir! Do we have any homework tonight?"
The entire class groaned, but no one, not even the slytherns did anything more
It's so unfair thought James Lily just answers questions he is asked, while Pamela can get away with ruining our freedom and social life in the evenings, and only gets a few groans. Hang on, why do I even care? Lily has made it pretty clear she doesn't. If she wants me to, she should act civil. That's it. No more caring. Moving on now.
"Uh..." Professor Nutrag looked stuck. He flicked hurriedly through the textbook "um, just read pages uh…33 to 35, answers question, oh and you have time, could you research possible ways to kill ghosts. Thank you, good bye."
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'Wow' thought Lily. 'Another whole day without killing Potter. Sometimes even I amaze myself'.
She glanced around the common room, trying to find her friends. She saw Kiri with Sirius curled up on the couch; Tara was flirting with a group of sixth year boys. This was one definite down point of the consolidation for Lily; her friends had less time for her with all the new boys to check out. She looked to where Remus was sitting. He was still nice to her, even though she had declared war on his friend. Unfortunately, he was with James. 'Plan B failed then' She thought. She could see Diana and Melody, who had always been very nice to Lily, as she had shared a dormitory with them for a few years, but they were fiddling with Melody's instrument, something which Lily didn't know anything about. She didn't actually know anyone else in the common room, being a shy girl, didn't often venture outside her comfort zone. Everyone knew her friends, not her.
'I can't just stand here alone the whole night; I might as well find someone to talk to'
She glanced around the room for someone sitting alone, who didn't look to scary. Her eyes fell on a short boy, with light brown hair, who looked familiar.
'I know he was in some of my classes today' she thought. Now what was his name? It was something simple, John…Harry…Paul…Peter…Yeah, 'Peter'. That was it.
"Hey Peter" The boy looked up
"Hi" He squeaked
"I'm Lily. I'm in your potions class."
"Are you the smart one who got all those questions right?" Peter asked
"I don't know about 'smart' really. I just happened to remember the right stuff."
"I wish that would happen to me" Peter sighed "I try to study hard, but I never seem to do as well as James"
"Potter?" Queried Lily "I didn't know he was overly smart"
"Of course he is" Answered peter. "He's the best at everything! Studies, quiddich, getting girls, popularity, friendship, just everything"
"Peter, reality check. Number one, he didn't get any questions in Potions, number two, he mightn't even get on the quiddich team this year with us girls taking over, three, he doesn't have a girlfriend at the moment, four, If he's such a good friend, why are you over there with him and Remus now?
"I'm not I their ancient rune class, and they're doing their homework from that now" Peter answered. "And he does so have a girlfriend. She's called Cindy. He told me so. He met her at this concert over the holidays, which I couldn't go to because of a family holiday."
"Sorry to inform you Peter, he has no girlfriend. He met me at that concert, and thought my name was Cindy. I think I would know if I was Potters girlfriend, thank god"
"No!" Peter squeaked loudly "I can't be true, it can't be. James is perfect!"
"Ok, lets ask him ourselves then" Lily said, getting to her feet. Peter scurried along behind her.
"There's no way he'll ever buy that" James was saying
"Why ever not? Vacuuming a ghost sounds like a perfectly reasonable suggestion
"Ahem" Lily coughed
"What the hell do you want Princess? Asked James
"Hey Lils, hey Peter" Remus greeted
"Oh hey Peter. What are you doing with Evans?
"Potter, Am I your girlfriend?"
"Evans, if that's a pick-up line, it sucks."
"Yes or no, Potter. It's a simple enough question, even for your brain capacity"
"No. Why the hell would I want you?
Lily turned to Peter.
"Potter not so perfect after all, hey?" And with that, Lily went up to her room.
"OK Peter, stay away from her at all costs" Instructed James
"Yeah ok. She's scary."
"Got that in one" James grinned
"What's that" Asked Peter, pointing at a piece of parchment that was titled 'Proven Ways to Exterminate Ghosts'
1) Dance the 'Ghost busting hop', described below, chanting 'Ghost, Ghost melt away, don't come back to collect your pay [insert name of ghost] you will melt away, into nothing, and make my day', whilst wearing a jumpsuit with the sacred Patten of pink and green spots. *NOTE will only work when witnesses are present
2) Suck the ghost up, using a muggle device known as a 'vacuum cleaner'
3) Put twenty Gallons in the third cage in the owlerly, and await results.
4) Pour hot tea over the ghost, while it is hovering above the slythern table
5) Make a potion consisting of ½ cup of bubotubor pus, 1 Cup frog brains, 3 squashed slugs, ¼ teaspoon of own toe nails, 3 cups of Muddy water, 8 cockroaches, 1 page from a textbook that is precious to you, drink, and the first ghost you lay eyes upon will be Exterminated
6)Wearing silver war paint, blue eye shadow, mascara, pink lipstick, walk up to ghost, strip down to underwear, and say the following words backwards: ' I Evol Uoy ' [*NOTE again, will only work with witnesses present.]
These are all ancient methods which have worked in to past, try every one of them; you never know which one will work.
"Homework" Remus answered
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Annabelle had received letters from both Lily and James that day. She had been very amused that had met again at the concert, just the way it had been planned by her. However, now they were back at Hogwarts, their opinions seemed to have reverted back to what they were years ago.
'If only they could give each other another chance' thought Annabelle. 'Just one more chance to prove that they really had changed. But for that to happen, they both would have to be in disguise, or they wouldn't even try! Hang on... Disguise…
With that, Annabelle grabbed her scrapbook from a couple of years ago.
"Quiddich tickets…Christmas Cards…Exam Results…Ah, Party invitations. Annabelle found the one she was searching for:
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Dear Annabelle
You are invited to Eddie's Polyjuice Party on the 18th of April.
You will be given a bottle of ready made potion, and a choice of hair to determine what person you change into. More potion must be consumed each 59 minutes, and you must not let anyone know who you really are.
See you there, Eddie .
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"Yes!" She shouted. That
was what she would do. She'd set them up, get them talking, and they would not
know! She quickly grabbed a pen.
Dear Lily, Poor you for having to put up with that boy again! I guess you
though you'd never have to see him again after that family dinner. But are you
really, truly, absolutely, positively sure he hasn't changed? Maybe he was
shocked to see you too. Anyway, make sure you are free over the Christmas break.
I'm organizing a surprise, and you are invited! Send me your exact holiday
dates, so I can tell you when it's going to be. Meanwhile, good luck putting up
with that James person. And By the way, if you need a good jinx, try 'elbbab.'
It makes the victim talk backwards for two hours. Very amusing.
Please Write Back, Love Anna.
Hey James
You're mad at me? I'm offended. And that superman shirt was cute when you were little. But hey, weren't you confessing a little too much in point H)? I could easily owl that to Lily Evans, you know. So to make sure I don't, make sure you're free over your Christmas break. I'm planning a party, and you HAVE to come. If you don't, Paperclip will be heading toward Lily Evans. So watch out!
Love Belle
She grabbed Paperclip, and tied the letters to his foot. As she threw him out into the night, she said
"And now for Planning"
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(A/N) Hope you liked. I had heaps of fun writing the ancient runes homework! And also could you please tell me what you want to see more of in my story: like more or less fights, more or less of Kiri & Sirius, more or less humor from Kiri's father, more or less random stuff like Prof Nutrag, or anything else. Oh and I'd also like suggestions what hairs Annabelle chooses from Lil & James to have at her party, in the next chap. I think that's about it, so thanks for reading!