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Enjoy!!
Chapter six: Problems solved
Lily sighed as she scanned the room, looking for some of her friends. She was worried about Devon. Devon had repeatedly told Lily that Amos didn't trust her. He had even accused her of cheating on him with Sirius a few times. So Lily was wondering 'why on earth was Dev dancing with Sirius like that if her relationship with Amos was rocky already?' Her thoughts were interrupted by a sharp poke in her right arm. She turned to tell the person off when she saw James. He was smiling at her.
"Want to dance?" he asked.
"What about Marissa?" she yelled, over the music.
"She's dancing with someone else right now," he yelled back, surprised his voice hasn't given up with all the yelling he's been doing.
Lily smiled, taking his hand as he led her onto the dance floor. As soon as they walked on, a slow song started, making Lily's stomach twist into a million knots. She had half a mind to pull away, but she let James' strong arms pull her gracefully into his arms. Lily relaxed as his hands settled on the small of her back. She awkwardly put her arms around his neck as they swayed to the music.
"So have you been enjoying yourself, Evans?" James asked as the music played softly.
"Yes, actually, I have," she said, wondering if she should tell James about Devon right now. Deciding to wait a few minutes, she looked up at him.
"What about you, Potter?" she asked, smiling softly.
James stared into Lily's glittering eyes, smiling. He wanted so desperately for them to stop calling each other by their surnames.
"I've been enjoying myself, Lily," he said, glad to call her by her first name. She did the smallest of double takes when James called her by her first name. She sighed, remembering Devon suddenly.
"I'm worried about Dev," she admitted, checking his reaction.
"Dev? What's wrong with her?" he asked seriously.
"She was dancing with Sirius. Like, REALLY dancing with him," she said, emphasizing the 'really'. James nodded, waiting for more.
"And Amos came up to them and started shouting at them," Lily said, worry coursing through her voice. "Devon ran out of the Hall crying, and they followed her. That's the last I saw of her." Lily watched his face change from worry to anger.
"I have to find her," James said. Lily dropped her arms and led him off the dance floor, looking for Devon. As they searched the crowd, Lily felt the smallest of squirms in her stomach. Was it disappointment? She shook it off as Devon had just walked into the Hall and was coming straight for them, her eyes red and puffy.
"Dev!" Lily and James yelled, running up to her.
"You okay?" Lily asked, hugging her.
"Y-yes, I'm f-fine," she said, stuttering.
"Who did this to you, Dev?" James asked from over Lily's shoulder.
"No one, James. Just please, leave it alone," Devon said, noticing the fury in voice.
He was about to answer her, when his eyes caught on something above her head. She turned around and saw Amos walking into the Hall. James growled and walked passed the two girls and toward Amos.
"Oh no," Devon whispered, miserably.
She saw them yelling at each other before James raised his fist to punch him. But Sirius ran up behind him and caught his arm, muttering something in his ear. Amos smirked and walked away into the crowd. James jerked his arm away from Sirius and stormed back to the girls, who in the meantime had been joined by Marissa, Addy, and Remus.
Lily told Marissa to go find Ashley and Mark and to meet them out in the Entrance Hall. They all walked out and James immediately started bombarding Devon with questions.
"What'd he do?" he asked, grabbing her arm.
"Let go, James!" she said, ripping her arm away from his grasp. "I took care of it, just please leave it alone!"
"I can't," James said earnestly, "not when some jealous asshole has been a jerk to you for no reason."
Devon sighed in resignation as she swayed back and forth. "I'm tired. I want to go back to the common room." Lily nodded in agreement, linking her arm with Devon's. She turned back to Sirius, "thanks for taking me tonight, Siri." He forced a smile, giving her a kiss on the cheek, "you're welcome, Lil."
Addy, Marissa, and Ashley made to follow them but Devon stopped them, "go back and have fun. I'm fine. Really," she reassured them. Devon turned back to Lily and walked up the staircase towards the Gryffindor common room.
Everyone in Gryffindor Tower slept in the next morning. Most didn't come back from the Ball until 1 o'clock in the morning. It was noon when their shades opened to allow the sun to pour in, illuminating every corner in the girl's dormitory.
"Get up!" someone sang.
"Oh God. Not this early, Marissa!" Devon moaned into her pillow.
"Wha-?" Marissa mumbled from behind her curtains. "What are y-you t-talking about?" she finished, stifling a huge yawn.
"You mean someone is a worse singer than you?" Devon said, still half asleep.
"Devvy! Devvy poo! Wake uuup!" that same person sang.
"Oh no," Devon murmured, recognizing the voice instantly: it was Sirius.
"Oh yes!" he said happily, jumping on her bed.
"Go 'way!" she whined.
"Can't go 'way!" he said, mimicking her baby voice. "Have to wake wee little Devvy up."
By this time, the whole dorm was awake and watching Sirius intently, seeing if he could wake Devon up unscathed. Sirius started poking Devon in her side and arms, making her growl with frustration.
"BLACK!" she screamed, finally giving up and jumping on top of him, beating him with her pillow.
Everyone was laughing as James, Remus, and Peter walked into the room.
"Whoa!" James said, watching his sister beat up Sirius. James was marveled at the fact that Devon seemed to get over Diggory so quickly. He watched Devon screaming at Sirius, whilst Sirius put his hands up as if he was giving up.
"Okay! Okay! I give up! I surrender!" he yelled, his voice muffled behind the pillow.
Devon smirked as she got up and got underneath her sheets again.
"Dev?" James said wearily, holding a pillow to shield himself from the oncoming attack.
"What?" she mumbled grumpily, her eyes closed.
"Look out," he warned.
"Look out? Look out for-"she stopped as three pillows started beating her head and body.
"Sirius Black!" she screamed, covering her head.
He was laughing merrily as Lily was standing next to him, commanding the charmed pillows with her wand.
"It's not me, Dev," he said, through laughs.
"LILY!"
As they had missed breakfast, everyone was anxious to eat lunch. As they were stuffing their faces, Remus looked around the table, noticing someone's absence.
"Where's Lily?"
Devon smirked into her pumpkin juice. "Let's just say she's in a sticky predicament."
Back up in the girls' 6th year dormitory, Lily Evans was in the process of trying to wash off all the syrup Devon had splattered on her in retaliation for the pillow attack.
Forty-five minutes later, Lily made her way down to the Great Hall to make sure she got something to eat. She walked in to see everyone getting up, already finished. "Bloody hell," she muttered in disbelief.
"Sorry, Lil!" Devon sang, walking passed her. Lily smirked as she turned around and poured some excess syrup on Devon's hair. Devon screamed as she felt the syrup slowly creep down her hair.
The Marauder's were bent over, holding their stomachs, as Devon glared daggers at Lily. Lily squeaked as she ran from the Hall, with Devon running after her.
The following Friday was the first Quidditch game of the season: Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw. James had insisted that the whole Gryffindor team attend, so that they could see some of their rival's tactics. Marissa had put up a fight, wanting to spend time with Mark, who had asked her out at the Halloween Ball. That Friday, Devon, James, Sirius, a reluctant Marissa, and the three new team members sat together watching the game.
"Slytherin has an excellent Seeker, so you need to keep an eye on her, Marissa!" James told her. Marissa rolled her eyes as she watched the Slytherin Seeker, Leila Zabini, dodge an oncoming bludger.
"Ravenclaw has unbeatable beaters," Sirius coughed at this loudly, "so they are able to stop the majority of the Slytherin Chasers," James said, keeping his eyes intently on the game.
"She's seen the snitch!" called the announcer.
Marissa stood up to watch Zabini dive toward the glittering snitch at the corner of the pitch. She gulped as Zabini rose out of the dive with the snitch in her hand. But the Slytherins weren't cheering, the Ravenclaws were.
"And the Ravenclaws win 250-170!"
Marissa looked disbelievingly at Leila, wondering why she caught the snitch.
"She knew their Chasers weren't getting anywhere," James explained as they walked back up to the castle. "This is good, Slytherin lost, so they're going to have to make up for lost ground."
Marissa knew she wasn't as good a seeker as Leila Zabini, so she hoped that their strength: the chasers and beaters would be able to pull what Ravenclaw did today.
Devon stood in the Gryffindor locker room, putting on her Quidditch robes. She noticed Marissa fumbling with her shin guards.
"Marissa, you okay?" Devon asked as she knelt down to help her friend.
"Y-yes, I'm fine," she muttered, wiping her sweaty hands on her pants.
"Look, Marissa, you'll be okay. You've gotten the snitch every time we play Slytherin. You have nothing to worry about," Devon said softly, taking Marissa's hand in hers and giving it a soft and reassuring squeeze.
"You girls ready?" James said from behind Marissa.
"Yeah, just calming Marissa down a bit," Devon explained.
"Mar? You okay?" James asked, sitting next to her.
"I'm fine. Just a little nervous after seeing that Zabini girl in action a few weeks ago," Marissa sighed.
James looked concerned. "Hey," he said, putting his arm around her shoulders, "You have nothing to worry about. Just keep an eye on her. You'll do great!"
Marissa smiled gratefully at him, grabbing her broom.
"And here come the Gryffindors!" said the commentator, Jessie Lewis. "Captain and chaser James Potter, followed by, Potter, Carigan, Black, Jackson, Malfoy, Langley."
The majority of the crowd roared with approval as the Gryffindor team flew onto the pitch.
Meanwhile, down in the crowd, Lily, Addy, Ashley, Remus, and Mark were looking worriedly up at Marissa.
"She was telling me how scared she was last night," Lily said.
"She'll be fine, she's never failed us," Mark said assuredly.
"The quaffle is released!"
Devon immediately caught the quaffle, zooming up the field toward the Slytherin keeper, Kevin Bletchley. She threw to the left goal post and scored.
"Devon Potter scores! Ten points to Gryffindor!"
Bletchley passed the quaffle to Lucius Malfoy as he streaked up the field toward the new Keeper Jessica Langley. As he prepared to throw, a bludger, courtesy of Sirius, knocked the quaffle out of his hand.
James flew underneath and caught the quaffle with ease. He flew up the field, dodging the two bludgers. Seeing one coming right towards him, he dropped the quaffle underneath him to Matthew Carigan, who successfully threw it into the center goal post.
"Ten more points to Gryffindor!"
After thirty more minutes, Gryffindor and Slytherin were neck-in-neck. 60- 60. Marissa was getting desperate, as she watched Leila look around for the snitch.
As she tugged her eyes away from Leila, Marissa saw the snitch hovering right in the middle of the field. Marissa locked eyes with Leila, knowing she had seen it too.
She shot off, towards the snitch. She saw Leila getting closer and closer to it. Leila had a faster broom than she did, so she was going to get there faster.
"Look at that! Both seekers have seen the snitch!"
The snitch was getting closer and closer and she lowered her body completely on her broom, urging it to push its limits. She stretched out her hand, centimeters away from the snitch, as a bludger came toward her head. Marissa didn't care. She willed herself to inch closer, as the bludger came in contact with her head, knocking her unconscious.
"Is she okay?"
"Of course she isn't, idiot! She got hit in the head with a bludger! How good would you be feeling right now?" snapped a blurring figure as Marissa opened her eyes.
"Look! She's awake!"
Marissa groaned as she tried to sit up to no avail. Her vision became clear as she saw her friends all around her, looking happy and relieved.
"My head is killing me!" Marissa growled.
"You got hit in the head with a bludger," Sirius explained stupidly.
"No crap Sherlock!" she snapped. Sirius smiled sheepishly.
"How long have I been unconscious?" she asked.
"Three weeks," Devon said sadly.
"Yeah! Meaning you have a lot of essays to make up!" James said happily.
"Shut up," Marissa said as she closed her eyes. Her mind wandered as someone swam into her head: Leila.
"Oh my God! The game!" she yelled. Marissa looked expectantly at her friends, who all looked disappointed. "No!"
"Mar-"Sirius started.
"No!"
"Mar-"James started, too.
"No! I'm so sorry! Oh gosh, no!"
"MARISSA!" Lily yelled. Marissa looked at Lily angrily.
"What?" she snapped.
"Look in your right hand," Lily said smiling.
Marissa looked down to see her hand clasped around a tiny golden snitch.
"The nurse couldn't pry it from your fingers," James laughed.
"No way?" Marissa said, thinking it was a dream.
"Yes way!" Remus said. "You caught it right when the bludger hit your head."
"Yeah, so this means the party is no longer postponed!" Sirius said, happily.
"Postponed?" Marissa asked.
"Yes, postponed," James said exasperatedly, "we couldn't have a celebration without the hero of the game!"
Marissa smiled at her friends, grateful to have them by her side.
A/N: I hated that chapter. I know the LJ stuff was rushed and I know Devon's anger/sadness over Diggory was short-lived, but I wanted to keep the story going. Blah. Anyway, review! You all should know by now that they make me happy! :o)
And thanks again to my two reviewers! Much appreciated!
Browneyedgirl2004: Another faithful reviewer! I feel so special! Yes, I continued with L/J fluff ... just a little bit though.
Enjoy!!
Chapter six: Problems solved
Lily sighed as she scanned the room, looking for some of her friends. She was worried about Devon. Devon had repeatedly told Lily that Amos didn't trust her. He had even accused her of cheating on him with Sirius a few times. So Lily was wondering 'why on earth was Dev dancing with Sirius like that if her relationship with Amos was rocky already?' Her thoughts were interrupted by a sharp poke in her right arm. She turned to tell the person off when she saw James. He was smiling at her.
"Want to dance?" he asked.
"What about Marissa?" she yelled, over the music.
"She's dancing with someone else right now," he yelled back, surprised his voice hasn't given up with all the yelling he's been doing.
Lily smiled, taking his hand as he led her onto the dance floor. As soon as they walked on, a slow song started, making Lily's stomach twist into a million knots. She had half a mind to pull away, but she let James' strong arms pull her gracefully into his arms. Lily relaxed as his hands settled on the small of her back. She awkwardly put her arms around his neck as they swayed to the music.
"So have you been enjoying yourself, Evans?" James asked as the music played softly.
"Yes, actually, I have," she said, wondering if she should tell James about Devon right now. Deciding to wait a few minutes, she looked up at him.
"What about you, Potter?" she asked, smiling softly.
James stared into Lily's glittering eyes, smiling. He wanted so desperately for them to stop calling each other by their surnames.
"I've been enjoying myself, Lily," he said, glad to call her by her first name. She did the smallest of double takes when James called her by her first name. She sighed, remembering Devon suddenly.
"I'm worried about Dev," she admitted, checking his reaction.
"Dev? What's wrong with her?" he asked seriously.
"She was dancing with Sirius. Like, REALLY dancing with him," she said, emphasizing the 'really'. James nodded, waiting for more.
"And Amos came up to them and started shouting at them," Lily said, worry coursing through her voice. "Devon ran out of the Hall crying, and they followed her. That's the last I saw of her." Lily watched his face change from worry to anger.
"I have to find her," James said. Lily dropped her arms and led him off the dance floor, looking for Devon. As they searched the crowd, Lily felt the smallest of squirms in her stomach. Was it disappointment? She shook it off as Devon had just walked into the Hall and was coming straight for them, her eyes red and puffy.
"Dev!" Lily and James yelled, running up to her.
"You okay?" Lily asked, hugging her.
"Y-yes, I'm f-fine," she said, stuttering.
"Who did this to you, Dev?" James asked from over Lily's shoulder.
"No one, James. Just please, leave it alone," Devon said, noticing the fury in voice.
He was about to answer her, when his eyes caught on something above her head. She turned around and saw Amos walking into the Hall. James growled and walked passed the two girls and toward Amos.
"Oh no," Devon whispered, miserably.
She saw them yelling at each other before James raised his fist to punch him. But Sirius ran up behind him and caught his arm, muttering something in his ear. Amos smirked and walked away into the crowd. James jerked his arm away from Sirius and stormed back to the girls, who in the meantime had been joined by Marissa, Addy, and Remus.
Lily told Marissa to go find Ashley and Mark and to meet them out in the Entrance Hall. They all walked out and James immediately started bombarding Devon with questions.
"What'd he do?" he asked, grabbing her arm.
"Let go, James!" she said, ripping her arm away from his grasp. "I took care of it, just please leave it alone!"
"I can't," James said earnestly, "not when some jealous asshole has been a jerk to you for no reason."
Devon sighed in resignation as she swayed back and forth. "I'm tired. I want to go back to the common room." Lily nodded in agreement, linking her arm with Devon's. She turned back to Sirius, "thanks for taking me tonight, Siri." He forced a smile, giving her a kiss on the cheek, "you're welcome, Lil."
Addy, Marissa, and Ashley made to follow them but Devon stopped them, "go back and have fun. I'm fine. Really," she reassured them. Devon turned back to Lily and walked up the staircase towards the Gryffindor common room.
Everyone in Gryffindor Tower slept in the next morning. Most didn't come back from the Ball until 1 o'clock in the morning. It was noon when their shades opened to allow the sun to pour in, illuminating every corner in the girl's dormitory.
"Get up!" someone sang.
"Oh God. Not this early, Marissa!" Devon moaned into her pillow.
"Wha-?" Marissa mumbled from behind her curtains. "What are y-you t-talking about?" she finished, stifling a huge yawn.
"You mean someone is a worse singer than you?" Devon said, still half asleep.
"Devvy! Devvy poo! Wake uuup!" that same person sang.
"Oh no," Devon murmured, recognizing the voice instantly: it was Sirius.
"Oh yes!" he said happily, jumping on her bed.
"Go 'way!" she whined.
"Can't go 'way!" he said, mimicking her baby voice. "Have to wake wee little Devvy up."
By this time, the whole dorm was awake and watching Sirius intently, seeing if he could wake Devon up unscathed. Sirius started poking Devon in her side and arms, making her growl with frustration.
"BLACK!" she screamed, finally giving up and jumping on top of him, beating him with her pillow.
Everyone was laughing as James, Remus, and Peter walked into the room.
"Whoa!" James said, watching his sister beat up Sirius. James was marveled at the fact that Devon seemed to get over Diggory so quickly. He watched Devon screaming at Sirius, whilst Sirius put his hands up as if he was giving up.
"Okay! Okay! I give up! I surrender!" he yelled, his voice muffled behind the pillow.
Devon smirked as she got up and got underneath her sheets again.
"Dev?" James said wearily, holding a pillow to shield himself from the oncoming attack.
"What?" she mumbled grumpily, her eyes closed.
"Look out," he warned.
"Look out? Look out for-"she stopped as three pillows started beating her head and body.
"Sirius Black!" she screamed, covering her head.
He was laughing merrily as Lily was standing next to him, commanding the charmed pillows with her wand.
"It's not me, Dev," he said, through laughs.
"LILY!"
As they had missed breakfast, everyone was anxious to eat lunch. As they were stuffing their faces, Remus looked around the table, noticing someone's absence.
"Where's Lily?"
Devon smirked into her pumpkin juice. "Let's just say she's in a sticky predicament."
Back up in the girls' 6th year dormitory, Lily Evans was in the process of trying to wash off all the syrup Devon had splattered on her in retaliation for the pillow attack.
Forty-five minutes later, Lily made her way down to the Great Hall to make sure she got something to eat. She walked in to see everyone getting up, already finished. "Bloody hell," she muttered in disbelief.
"Sorry, Lil!" Devon sang, walking passed her. Lily smirked as she turned around and poured some excess syrup on Devon's hair. Devon screamed as she felt the syrup slowly creep down her hair.
The Marauder's were bent over, holding their stomachs, as Devon glared daggers at Lily. Lily squeaked as she ran from the Hall, with Devon running after her.
The following Friday was the first Quidditch game of the season: Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw. James had insisted that the whole Gryffindor team attend, so that they could see some of their rival's tactics. Marissa had put up a fight, wanting to spend time with Mark, who had asked her out at the Halloween Ball. That Friday, Devon, James, Sirius, a reluctant Marissa, and the three new team members sat together watching the game.
"Slytherin has an excellent Seeker, so you need to keep an eye on her, Marissa!" James told her. Marissa rolled her eyes as she watched the Slytherin Seeker, Leila Zabini, dodge an oncoming bludger.
"Ravenclaw has unbeatable beaters," Sirius coughed at this loudly, "so they are able to stop the majority of the Slytherin Chasers," James said, keeping his eyes intently on the game.
"She's seen the snitch!" called the announcer.
Marissa stood up to watch Zabini dive toward the glittering snitch at the corner of the pitch. She gulped as Zabini rose out of the dive with the snitch in her hand. But the Slytherins weren't cheering, the Ravenclaws were.
"And the Ravenclaws win 250-170!"
Marissa looked disbelievingly at Leila, wondering why she caught the snitch.
"She knew their Chasers weren't getting anywhere," James explained as they walked back up to the castle. "This is good, Slytherin lost, so they're going to have to make up for lost ground."
Marissa knew she wasn't as good a seeker as Leila Zabini, so she hoped that their strength: the chasers and beaters would be able to pull what Ravenclaw did today.
Devon stood in the Gryffindor locker room, putting on her Quidditch robes. She noticed Marissa fumbling with her shin guards.
"Marissa, you okay?" Devon asked as she knelt down to help her friend.
"Y-yes, I'm fine," she muttered, wiping her sweaty hands on her pants.
"Look, Marissa, you'll be okay. You've gotten the snitch every time we play Slytherin. You have nothing to worry about," Devon said softly, taking Marissa's hand in hers and giving it a soft and reassuring squeeze.
"You girls ready?" James said from behind Marissa.
"Yeah, just calming Marissa down a bit," Devon explained.
"Mar? You okay?" James asked, sitting next to her.
"I'm fine. Just a little nervous after seeing that Zabini girl in action a few weeks ago," Marissa sighed.
James looked concerned. "Hey," he said, putting his arm around her shoulders, "You have nothing to worry about. Just keep an eye on her. You'll do great!"
Marissa smiled gratefully at him, grabbing her broom.
"And here come the Gryffindors!" said the commentator, Jessie Lewis. "Captain and chaser James Potter, followed by, Potter, Carigan, Black, Jackson, Malfoy, Langley."
The majority of the crowd roared with approval as the Gryffindor team flew onto the pitch.
Meanwhile, down in the crowd, Lily, Addy, Ashley, Remus, and Mark were looking worriedly up at Marissa.
"She was telling me how scared she was last night," Lily said.
"She'll be fine, she's never failed us," Mark said assuredly.
"The quaffle is released!"
Devon immediately caught the quaffle, zooming up the field toward the Slytherin keeper, Kevin Bletchley. She threw to the left goal post and scored.
"Devon Potter scores! Ten points to Gryffindor!"
Bletchley passed the quaffle to Lucius Malfoy as he streaked up the field toward the new Keeper Jessica Langley. As he prepared to throw, a bludger, courtesy of Sirius, knocked the quaffle out of his hand.
James flew underneath and caught the quaffle with ease. He flew up the field, dodging the two bludgers. Seeing one coming right towards him, he dropped the quaffle underneath him to Matthew Carigan, who successfully threw it into the center goal post.
"Ten more points to Gryffindor!"
After thirty more minutes, Gryffindor and Slytherin were neck-in-neck. 60- 60. Marissa was getting desperate, as she watched Leila look around for the snitch.
As she tugged her eyes away from Leila, Marissa saw the snitch hovering right in the middle of the field. Marissa locked eyes with Leila, knowing she had seen it too.
She shot off, towards the snitch. She saw Leila getting closer and closer to it. Leila had a faster broom than she did, so she was going to get there faster.
"Look at that! Both seekers have seen the snitch!"
The snitch was getting closer and closer and she lowered her body completely on her broom, urging it to push its limits. She stretched out her hand, centimeters away from the snitch, as a bludger came toward her head. Marissa didn't care. She willed herself to inch closer, as the bludger came in contact with her head, knocking her unconscious.
"Is she okay?"
"Of course she isn't, idiot! She got hit in the head with a bludger! How good would you be feeling right now?" snapped a blurring figure as Marissa opened her eyes.
"Look! She's awake!"
Marissa groaned as she tried to sit up to no avail. Her vision became clear as she saw her friends all around her, looking happy and relieved.
"My head is killing me!" Marissa growled.
"You got hit in the head with a bludger," Sirius explained stupidly.
"No crap Sherlock!" she snapped. Sirius smiled sheepishly.
"How long have I been unconscious?" she asked.
"Three weeks," Devon said sadly.
"Yeah! Meaning you have a lot of essays to make up!" James said happily.
"Shut up," Marissa said as she closed her eyes. Her mind wandered as someone swam into her head: Leila.
"Oh my God! The game!" she yelled. Marissa looked expectantly at her friends, who all looked disappointed. "No!"
"Mar-"Sirius started.
"No!"
"Mar-"James started, too.
"No! I'm so sorry! Oh gosh, no!"
"MARISSA!" Lily yelled. Marissa looked at Lily angrily.
"What?" she snapped.
"Look in your right hand," Lily said smiling.
Marissa looked down to see her hand clasped around a tiny golden snitch.
"The nurse couldn't pry it from your fingers," James laughed.
"No way?" Marissa said, thinking it was a dream.
"Yes way!" Remus said. "You caught it right when the bludger hit your head."
"Yeah, so this means the party is no longer postponed!" Sirius said, happily.
"Postponed?" Marissa asked.
"Yes, postponed," James said exasperatedly, "we couldn't have a celebration without the hero of the game!"
Marissa smiled at her friends, grateful to have them by her side.
A/N: I hated that chapter. I know the LJ stuff was rushed and I know Devon's anger/sadness over Diggory was short-lived, but I wanted to keep the story going. Blah. Anyway, review! You all should know by now that they make me happy! :o)
And thanks again to my two reviewers! Much appreciated!