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Author's Note: Thanks to my reviewer bskinnyrita/b for not only reviewing, but apologising for making me blush, awwww! Don't worry there will be plenty to come on the cuteness of Lily and James both being Deer! Yeah I have actually 13 Chapters but my beta has buggered off to Florida for two weeks and I am therefore unable to post anything beyond chapter 10 because they haven't been beta'd yet!!
Chapter Four - Tarot, Trewlawney and Tricks
"Good morning Lily! Sleep well last night did you?" Melody smirked at Lily in a knowing way and Lily frowned.
"Morning Melody and what are you talking about?" Melody smirked again as they began to walk down to breakfast.
"Well I didn't happen to sleep all that well last night, was woken by strange mutterings." Lily felt a light blush cover her cheeks but she brushed it off with a flick of her wrist.
"Peeves kept you up did he? I knew he was an old pervert, we'll have to put a jinxing spell on the dorm rooms." Melody scoffed as they entered the Great Hall and sat down at the table.
"Sure Peeves kept me up, as if Lily besides I'm not the one with bags under her eyes." Melody pointed at Lily's tired looking eyes before reaching over for some eggs and bacon to pile on her plate.
"Well detention dragged on for ages. Remould made us clean the entire Hospital wing floor without magic, he even confiscated our wands!"
"Without. Magic?" Melody nearly fell off the bench as she sat back down hard. "That's plain slavery! He should be fired for that, you only shouted a little!"
"It wasn't so bad, I've had to do worse when Petunia's ratted on me practising wand work." Melody began to eat enthusiastically,
"Fi mont snow mow ew snut tut fith rit." Lily shook her head at Melody as she reached for a piece of toast.
"She's not that bad really, besides she is my sister." Melody opened her mouth to speak revealing a mix of scrambled eggs and bacon but was interrupted by a loud swoop signalling the owl post. "Oh I wonder if Dad has owled back."
Lily craned her neck to see if she could spot Tawny in the group of owls flying above them.
"OH!" There was a loud exclamation from further down the table and both Melody and Lily looked to see who was making the commotion.
"GET IT OFF HIM!" Lily gave a small laugh as she saw Sirius sitting happily eating his eggs with a large black owl sat on top of his head and Peter in panic frantically trying to shoo it away.
"MR. BLACK!" Professor McGonagall's voice echoed around the Great Hall as she caught sight of the disorder. "Remove that owl from you're head immediately or I'll have you in detention for stupidity!" Sirius raised his hand upwards and the owl flew down and perched on his arm calmly.
Lily and Melody giggled at the escapade and Lily failed to notice that Tawny was shaking his leg at her impatiently. They was an annoyed hoot before Lily turned round and removed two letters from Tawny's leg and let him fly off.
"Oh two letters aren't you popular Christmas tree Evans?" Lucius mocked her from his table, his perfect owl barely able to make it to him it was so laden with sweets and letters.
"Bite me Malfoy!" Lily spat at him from across the room before turning back to her letters. The first one was from her father, saying everything was fine and he was glad she was okay and not to worry about owling him everyday because he had a large amount of work to deal with. The second one however was quite a mystery, there was no owl mark on it, which meant it had been sent from inside the school and the writing was slightly wonky but extremely neat.
Lily stuffed it into her Potions book and finished her toast quickly. She had Divination first and it took nearly half an hour to get up to Professor Trewlawney's tower.
"Melody? Are you done staring at Sirius or do we have to be late Divination?" Melody dropped her fork on the plate and turned to Lily.
"He could've heard that you know! Besides we're not going to be anywhere as late as we were for Potions yesterday!" Melody grabbed her bag and stood up, with one last look at Sirius she gave a heavy sigh and they exited the hall.
James watched Lily as she read her letter and then let his eyes follow her from the room.
"PRONGS?!" Sirius whacked James around the head with a spoon,
"Ow! What?" James grabbed at the side of his head.
"Hurry or we're going to be late for the old bat in the tower!" James muttered something rude and stood up.
"Moony? Hurry up old boy we don't want to miss another prediction about Wormtail's death!" Remus through Sirius a dirty look as he and Peter stood up and all four of them exited the hall.
"Prongs? What the Merlin is up with you today?" Sirius grabbed James's robes and pulled him to the right giving him a shove up the winding stairs.
"Nothing, nothing. Didn't sleep well last night. Was having horrible nightmares about have to mop the entire school!" James looked at Remus who gave a mysterious smile and a quick nod.
"Tough break Prongs but you'll be able to get some kip in this class!" Peter gave a snort of laughter and James shook his head as they finally made it to the top of the tower and into the classroom.
Yawning as soon as they entered all four boys took the final two tables left, right at the front.
"That kicks the sleeping idea out of the window." James muttered to Sirius.
"There's windows in this place?" Sirius looked around excitedly, "don't get my excited like that Prongs, I wanted to throw myself out of one of them."
"Good morning class." Professor Trewlawney's voice echoed softly around the classroom and it took tremendous effort from James and Sirius not to roll their eyes at her whispery voice.
"Oh good morning Professor Trewlawney." Melody was the only one to answer her; this was probably because she was the only one who believed that Divination was not a complete waste of time.
"Now class, this is the beginning of the best part of Divination. Everyone pull out their tarot cards, quickly now we don't want to waste the precious time." Each student pulled out the tarot cards and followed the Professor's instructions carefully.
James was poking fun at Sirius when Professor Trewlawney wafted up to their table and peered over Sirius's shoulder. "This is a very disturbing set of cards." The entire class gasped as she started describing the terrible things set out in the cards.
Melody was listening with rapture, while Lily was pulling out her potions and tearing at the mysterious letter. Opening it she read what was inside and frowned at the signature at the bottom.
'Lily, meet me outside by the fountain at seven o'clock. Prongs.'
She tilted her head in curiosity. Who the hell was Prongs?
"Miss Evans?" Lily jumped in fright at Professor Trewlawney's voice and quickly shoved the letter into her pocket. "Well I see someone would rather study potions than pay attention to my class." Professor Trewlawney was about to grab for the note when she gave a sharp gasp at the cards laid on the table. "These are considerably significant. Tell me Miss Evans are you dating anyone?" Lily blushed the same colour as her hair as the entire class looked at her.
"No." She whispered her eyes immediately looked over at James before she could stop them, but he was yawning and poking Sirius whilst mocking Professor Trewlawney.
"Oh well, then they're of no significance. Carry on with your potions work dear." Lily's face burned hotter as humiliation washed over her. Her gaze remained firmly on the tablecloth until the bell rang and she was allowed to leave.
"Oh Lily, what was all that about in Divination? Professor Trewlawney was very upset you know." Melody frowned at Lily whose nose was stuck firmly in a book.
"I don't know what you mean?"
"Well whilst you scampered off to Ancient Runes, Professor Trewlawney told me that your cards signalled a serious relationship in your future." Melody lowered her voice, "possibly even true love." Lily's book fell onto the table with a clatter,
"Melody, I still cannot believe someone as sensible as you actually believes Divination is a respectable use of magic." Melody pulled a face at Lily as she shoved a fork of mashed potato into her mouth.
"Fis!" Melody swallowed, "besides what were you looking at?" Lily pulled out the note from her pocket and handed it to Melody. "Oh who is Prongs?" She squeaked.
"Shush!" Melody nodded and Lily nonchalantly took a bite of her dinner. "I don't know, do you think I should go?"
"Of course you should go! It could be your true love." Lily rolled her eyes as Melody gave a sigh, "oh I wish mine had said that."
"What did they say?" Lily asked curiously.
"Nothing really," Melody avoided Lily's gaze as she looked down at the table. "Disappointment, betrayal, heartbreak." She gave a sigh and looked down the table at Sirius.
"Oh Mel, you can't believe everything Trewlawney says. How many times has she said Peter is going to die? And he's still living isn't he?" Melody nodded, "breathing?" Another nod, "having fun?" Melody gave a small laugh.
"Okay Evans I get the point." Her attention turned back to the note that was still lying between them. "Are you going to go?"
"I don't know."
Half past seven was striking loudly on the clock in the Gryffindor common room and the entire house was exploding with noise. First years were desperately trying to levitate feathers; second years were trying to storm through their Transfiguration homework. Third years were frantically figuring out why they had chosen their respective classes. Fourth years were being, well fourth years and everyone else was relaxing by the fire playing exploding snap and wizards' chess. Melody was engrossed in a game of wizards' chess with Sirius,
"Oi Padfoot!" There was a yell from across the room and Sirius turned around to see Remus and Peter all leaning over something on a table. James was heading their way with a mischievous smirk on his face. Sirius, who was losing frowned as James slapped him on the shoulder.
"Prongs not now! I'm losing to a girl here!" Melody sniggered for a second before pausing to recall where she'd heard that name before. "Go away till I can win."
James shook his head and reached over Sirius ordering a single piece to move he checked Melody and sent her Queen flying.
"Nice on Prongs." James and Sirius high-fived each other.
"That was cheating!" Melody squeaked in disgust.
"Still beat you." Sirius smirked at her.
"Yeah by cheating! If you can't beat me by yourself, well I'd say you're a-" Melody paused as the portrait hole opened and Lily ran straight through and up the stairs to her dorm room. With what appeared to be a face full of flashing red and green lights.
Three sets of eyes stared after her, "this isn't over Sirius. I want a re-match." Melody raised her eyebrows challengingly before she ran off after Lily. Sirius looked at James.
"What was all that about?" James shrugged,
"Pass."
"Lily?" Melody looked into the dorm room and saw Lily lying face down on her bed. Small sobs were shaking her body. "What happened?"
"Someone" sob, "hexed" sob "me." Lily turned and showed Melody her face that was decorated with red and green spots that were flashing in patterns.
"Who was it?" Melody wrapped her arm around her friend and gave her a hug.
"I don't know." Lily gave a huge sob and then hiccupped. "Whoever this Prongs is I suppose." Melody bit her lip,
"I know who it is." Lily looked up her eyes still sparkling with tears.
"Who?" Melody shook her head,
"I don't think I should tell you until you counter your face, it's making me feel sick." Lily muttered something and the spots disappeared.
"Okay."
"Well I was playing Sirius at wizards' chess, and winning-"
"Get to the point Mel." Lily snapped.
"Alright, anyway James Potter came over and Sirius called him Prongs." Melody took a deep breath and waited for Lily to explode with anger. Instead she burst into tears again.
It was only half an hour later that Melody had left Lily and wandered back down the stairs. The common room was nearly empty and only a few sixth and seventh years remained, doing well, what sixth and seventh years seemed to do all the time, snog.
Melody was fuming when she spotted Sirius and James sitting at the chessboard engrossed in their game. She stormed up to them,
"Back for another beating are you Mel?" Sirius smirked at James who smirked back. Melody took a deep breath and leaned up close to James.
"That was a filthy trick Potter!" She spat at him before turning to Sirius, "and you, we're no longer friends." Melody flung the chessboard onto the floor and stormed back to her dorm room.
"What the Merlin was that about?" James and Sirius frowned at Peter who had watched the whole thing from behind a chair.
"I can tell you." Remus appeared from his seat by the window. "Got your cloak with you Prongs?" James shook his head,
"It's up in-" James stopped, "I left it in the hospital wing."
"Moony don't play riddles with us." Sirius ordered darkly, "spit it out." Remus dropped a note in James's hand.
"This is Malfoy's writing!" Remus nodded.
"I'm guessing when he went to the hospital wing for painkillers," Sirius gave a small snigger, "he found the cloak and decided to have a little fun. Sent Lily a letter by owl snuck under the cloak and hexed her face so she looked like a Christmas tree. Leaving you to get the blame."
Author's Note: Thanks to my reviewer bskinnyrita/b for not only reviewing, but apologising for making me blush, awwww! Don't worry there will be plenty to come on the cuteness of Lily and James both being Deer! Yeah I have actually 13 Chapters but my beta has buggered off to Florida for two weeks and I am therefore unable to post anything beyond chapter 10 because they haven't been beta'd yet!!
Chapter Four - Tarot, Trewlawney and Tricks
"Good morning Lily! Sleep well last night did you?" Melody smirked at Lily in a knowing way and Lily frowned.
"Morning Melody and what are you talking about?" Melody smirked again as they began to walk down to breakfast.
"Well I didn't happen to sleep all that well last night, was woken by strange mutterings." Lily felt a light blush cover her cheeks but she brushed it off with a flick of her wrist.
"Peeves kept you up did he? I knew he was an old pervert, we'll have to put a jinxing spell on the dorm rooms." Melody scoffed as they entered the Great Hall and sat down at the table.
"Sure Peeves kept me up, as if Lily besides I'm not the one with bags under her eyes." Melody pointed at Lily's tired looking eyes before reaching over for some eggs and bacon to pile on her plate.
"Well detention dragged on for ages. Remould made us clean the entire Hospital wing floor without magic, he even confiscated our wands!"
"Without. Magic?" Melody nearly fell off the bench as she sat back down hard. "That's plain slavery! He should be fired for that, you only shouted a little!"
"It wasn't so bad, I've had to do worse when Petunia's ratted on me practising wand work." Melody began to eat enthusiastically,
"Fi mont snow mow ew snut tut fith rit." Lily shook her head at Melody as she reached for a piece of toast.
"She's not that bad really, besides she is my sister." Melody opened her mouth to speak revealing a mix of scrambled eggs and bacon but was interrupted by a loud swoop signalling the owl post. "Oh I wonder if Dad has owled back."
Lily craned her neck to see if she could spot Tawny in the group of owls flying above them.
"OH!" There was a loud exclamation from further down the table and both Melody and Lily looked to see who was making the commotion.
"GET IT OFF HIM!" Lily gave a small laugh as she saw Sirius sitting happily eating his eggs with a large black owl sat on top of his head and Peter in panic frantically trying to shoo it away.
"MR. BLACK!" Professor McGonagall's voice echoed around the Great Hall as she caught sight of the disorder. "Remove that owl from you're head immediately or I'll have you in detention for stupidity!" Sirius raised his hand upwards and the owl flew down and perched on his arm calmly.
Lily and Melody giggled at the escapade and Lily failed to notice that Tawny was shaking his leg at her impatiently. They was an annoyed hoot before Lily turned round and removed two letters from Tawny's leg and let him fly off.
"Oh two letters aren't you popular Christmas tree Evans?" Lucius mocked her from his table, his perfect owl barely able to make it to him it was so laden with sweets and letters.
"Bite me Malfoy!" Lily spat at him from across the room before turning back to her letters. The first one was from her father, saying everything was fine and he was glad she was okay and not to worry about owling him everyday because he had a large amount of work to deal with. The second one however was quite a mystery, there was no owl mark on it, which meant it had been sent from inside the school and the writing was slightly wonky but extremely neat.
Lily stuffed it into her Potions book and finished her toast quickly. She had Divination first and it took nearly half an hour to get up to Professor Trewlawney's tower.
"Melody? Are you done staring at Sirius or do we have to be late Divination?" Melody dropped her fork on the plate and turned to Lily.
"He could've heard that you know! Besides we're not going to be anywhere as late as we were for Potions yesterday!" Melody grabbed her bag and stood up, with one last look at Sirius she gave a heavy sigh and they exited the hall.
James watched Lily as she read her letter and then let his eyes follow her from the room.
"PRONGS?!" Sirius whacked James around the head with a spoon,
"Ow! What?" James grabbed at the side of his head.
"Hurry or we're going to be late for the old bat in the tower!" James muttered something rude and stood up.
"Moony? Hurry up old boy we don't want to miss another prediction about Wormtail's death!" Remus through Sirius a dirty look as he and Peter stood up and all four of them exited the hall.
"Prongs? What the Merlin is up with you today?" Sirius grabbed James's robes and pulled him to the right giving him a shove up the winding stairs.
"Nothing, nothing. Didn't sleep well last night. Was having horrible nightmares about have to mop the entire school!" James looked at Remus who gave a mysterious smile and a quick nod.
"Tough break Prongs but you'll be able to get some kip in this class!" Peter gave a snort of laughter and James shook his head as they finally made it to the top of the tower and into the classroom.
Yawning as soon as they entered all four boys took the final two tables left, right at the front.
"That kicks the sleeping idea out of the window." James muttered to Sirius.
"There's windows in this place?" Sirius looked around excitedly, "don't get my excited like that Prongs, I wanted to throw myself out of one of them."
"Good morning class." Professor Trewlawney's voice echoed softly around the classroom and it took tremendous effort from James and Sirius not to roll their eyes at her whispery voice.
"Oh good morning Professor Trewlawney." Melody was the only one to answer her; this was probably because she was the only one who believed that Divination was not a complete waste of time.
"Now class, this is the beginning of the best part of Divination. Everyone pull out their tarot cards, quickly now we don't want to waste the precious time." Each student pulled out the tarot cards and followed the Professor's instructions carefully.
James was poking fun at Sirius when Professor Trewlawney wafted up to their table and peered over Sirius's shoulder. "This is a very disturbing set of cards." The entire class gasped as she started describing the terrible things set out in the cards.
Melody was listening with rapture, while Lily was pulling out her potions and tearing at the mysterious letter. Opening it she read what was inside and frowned at the signature at the bottom.
'Lily, meet me outside by the fountain at seven o'clock. Prongs.'
She tilted her head in curiosity. Who the hell was Prongs?
"Miss Evans?" Lily jumped in fright at Professor Trewlawney's voice and quickly shoved the letter into her pocket. "Well I see someone would rather study potions than pay attention to my class." Professor Trewlawney was about to grab for the note when she gave a sharp gasp at the cards laid on the table. "These are considerably significant. Tell me Miss Evans are you dating anyone?" Lily blushed the same colour as her hair as the entire class looked at her.
"No." She whispered her eyes immediately looked over at James before she could stop them, but he was yawning and poking Sirius whilst mocking Professor Trewlawney.
"Oh well, then they're of no significance. Carry on with your potions work dear." Lily's face burned hotter as humiliation washed over her. Her gaze remained firmly on the tablecloth until the bell rang and she was allowed to leave.
"Oh Lily, what was all that about in Divination? Professor Trewlawney was very upset you know." Melody frowned at Lily whose nose was stuck firmly in a book.
"I don't know what you mean?"
"Well whilst you scampered off to Ancient Runes, Professor Trewlawney told me that your cards signalled a serious relationship in your future." Melody lowered her voice, "possibly even true love." Lily's book fell onto the table with a clatter,
"Melody, I still cannot believe someone as sensible as you actually believes Divination is a respectable use of magic." Melody pulled a face at Lily as she shoved a fork of mashed potato into her mouth.
"Fis!" Melody swallowed, "besides what were you looking at?" Lily pulled out the note from her pocket and handed it to Melody. "Oh who is Prongs?" She squeaked.
"Shush!" Melody nodded and Lily nonchalantly took a bite of her dinner. "I don't know, do you think I should go?"
"Of course you should go! It could be your true love." Lily rolled her eyes as Melody gave a sigh, "oh I wish mine had said that."
"What did they say?" Lily asked curiously.
"Nothing really," Melody avoided Lily's gaze as she looked down at the table. "Disappointment, betrayal, heartbreak." She gave a sigh and looked down the table at Sirius.
"Oh Mel, you can't believe everything Trewlawney says. How many times has she said Peter is going to die? And he's still living isn't he?" Melody nodded, "breathing?" Another nod, "having fun?" Melody gave a small laugh.
"Okay Evans I get the point." Her attention turned back to the note that was still lying between them. "Are you going to go?"
"I don't know."
Half past seven was striking loudly on the clock in the Gryffindor common room and the entire house was exploding with noise. First years were desperately trying to levitate feathers; second years were trying to storm through their Transfiguration homework. Third years were frantically figuring out why they had chosen their respective classes. Fourth years were being, well fourth years and everyone else was relaxing by the fire playing exploding snap and wizards' chess. Melody was engrossed in a game of wizards' chess with Sirius,
"Oi Padfoot!" There was a yell from across the room and Sirius turned around to see Remus and Peter all leaning over something on a table. James was heading their way with a mischievous smirk on his face. Sirius, who was losing frowned as James slapped him on the shoulder.
"Prongs not now! I'm losing to a girl here!" Melody sniggered for a second before pausing to recall where she'd heard that name before. "Go away till I can win."
James shook his head and reached over Sirius ordering a single piece to move he checked Melody and sent her Queen flying.
"Nice on Prongs." James and Sirius high-fived each other.
"That was cheating!" Melody squeaked in disgust.
"Still beat you." Sirius smirked at her.
"Yeah by cheating! If you can't beat me by yourself, well I'd say you're a-" Melody paused as the portrait hole opened and Lily ran straight through and up the stairs to her dorm room. With what appeared to be a face full of flashing red and green lights.
Three sets of eyes stared after her, "this isn't over Sirius. I want a re-match." Melody raised her eyebrows challengingly before she ran off after Lily. Sirius looked at James.
"What was all that about?" James shrugged,
"Pass."
"Lily?" Melody looked into the dorm room and saw Lily lying face down on her bed. Small sobs were shaking her body. "What happened?"
"Someone" sob, "hexed" sob "me." Lily turned and showed Melody her face that was decorated with red and green spots that were flashing in patterns.
"Who was it?" Melody wrapped her arm around her friend and gave her a hug.
"I don't know." Lily gave a huge sob and then hiccupped. "Whoever this Prongs is I suppose." Melody bit her lip,
"I know who it is." Lily looked up her eyes still sparkling with tears.
"Who?" Melody shook her head,
"I don't think I should tell you until you counter your face, it's making me feel sick." Lily muttered something and the spots disappeared.
"Okay."
"Well I was playing Sirius at wizards' chess, and winning-"
"Get to the point Mel." Lily snapped.
"Alright, anyway James Potter came over and Sirius called him Prongs." Melody took a deep breath and waited for Lily to explode with anger. Instead she burst into tears again.
It was only half an hour later that Melody had left Lily and wandered back down the stairs. The common room was nearly empty and only a few sixth and seventh years remained, doing well, what sixth and seventh years seemed to do all the time, snog.
Melody was fuming when she spotted Sirius and James sitting at the chessboard engrossed in their game. She stormed up to them,
"Back for another beating are you Mel?" Sirius smirked at James who smirked back. Melody took a deep breath and leaned up close to James.
"That was a filthy trick Potter!" She spat at him before turning to Sirius, "and you, we're no longer friends." Melody flung the chessboard onto the floor and stormed back to her dorm room.
"What the Merlin was that about?" James and Sirius frowned at Peter who had watched the whole thing from behind a chair.
"I can tell you." Remus appeared from his seat by the window. "Got your cloak with you Prongs?" James shook his head,
"It's up in-" James stopped, "I left it in the hospital wing."
"Moony don't play riddles with us." Sirius ordered darkly, "spit it out." Remus dropped a note in James's hand.
"This is Malfoy's writing!" Remus nodded.
"I'm guessing when he went to the hospital wing for painkillers," Sirius gave a small snigger, "he found the cloak and decided to have a little fun. Sent Lily a letter by owl snuck under the cloak and hexed her face so she looked like a Christmas tree. Leaving you to get the blame."