Like Magic
A/n: Again! You guys are so freakin awesome! I hate to say it, but this is my last chapter until Tuesday! Sorry! But when I come back from my vacation- I'll be back for good. I really wanted to get this chapter out, lucky number six! I hope guys enjoy it, I'll be back before you know it! Thank you for all the kick ass reviews!!
-Chapter Six: Potions Brewing and Prophecies Found-
I'm not going to lie and say James' behavior didn't affect me. It was the quite opposite actually, it drove me up the wall! Every day at dinner giggling girls surrounded our group of friends. I have to hand it to Sirius thought, he proved us wrong.
Sirius, unlike James, seemed to have ganged quite a bit of class. Ever since that night in the common room whenever he asked Jessie to Hogsmeade, he stuck by her. It really looked as if they might have had a relationship. James was a completely different story.
On the night of September 21st, the Gryffindor Quidditch team was having a late practice. Due to the winning of the Slytherin team in the first match, James, who was unfortunately captain, insisted on practicing ten times harder.
I was on my way to the Head's room when I stopped around a corner. I heard a shriek of laughter and paused to see what I could hear.
"Honestly! You actually thought that he liked you? How sweet is that," the voice was full of spite. A heard a muffled sob.
"Shut your mouth you filthy slut." This voice was quiet and trembling, but still I recognized it.
"Oh, temper temper. I knew Miss Evans had one, but I assume now that all red-headed tramps do." The first voice replied, full of venom. I clinched my fists.
"Lily Evans is far from a tramp, dear, you seemed to have filled that position quite well." I heard a painful slap, and cry of outrage. The portrait closed and I slipped into a corner as a group of girls passed. I gasped as I saw who was leading the pack.
That filthy, little, Katie Wood.
I hurried into the common room, the Gryffindor common room that is. I saw red hair in the corner and sighed. It was Layla. I walked up and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Here to tease me some more then?" She turned around and gasped. "Oh Lily, I'm sorry I thought you were-"Her eyes got dark and I saw her tense up. I shot her a sympathetic smile.
"I take it you and dear ole' Mr. Potter called it quits?" I asked putting a hand on her shoulder. She laughed harshly.
"Oh no, Mr. Potter quit it himself whenever I caught him snogging that little slut on the quidditch pitch." Layla was shaking. I stepped back.
"He cheated on you?" I asked perplexed that James would do that. He was a player, no doubt, but I had never heard of him to cheat on any girl.
"Wanna know what the crazy thing is?" She asked with an evil smile. I nodded slowly.
"He was looking into her eyes the whole damn time."
That night I lay in bed thinking of everything Layla had told me. Who kissed with their eyes open? Maybe a first timer, but no. James had shown the world he knew what he was doing. I figured I could ask the guys, they seemed to know James' screwy head better than anyone else.
I was in the bathroom the next morning when it happened. James ran in and right there, at the toilet by my right leg, he threw up. It was almost like he had a hang over.
"Dammit Potter" I cursed at him, and he looked up. His eyes were blood- shot.
"Sorry Lily," in light of everything that was happening I couldn't help it, I still counted. Eight, it was the eighth time he had said my name in 21 days.
"This is what you get for drinking you great Prat!" I told him grabbing my wand and muttering spells to clean everything up.
"I didn't drink last night..." He told me and I rolled my eyes.
"Sure you didn't Potter." I stepped over him and was about to walk out when he called my name. Bloody Potter, that was number nine.
"Lily, I think I'm really sick, like I ate something bad. Could you help me down to Poppy? Or maybe go ask Sirius to come get me?" He looked so pathetic, lying on the floor glasses askew and breathing deeply. I just nodded and walked out.
"Sirius!" I was running to the Great Hall, why I was worrying about stupid Potter then, I had no clue. Mandi looked worried.
"What is it? Are you hurt?" She was grabbing me by the arms as I shook my head.
"Potter- he's sick. I need you to take him to the Hospital Wing." I was directing this to Remus and Sirius and they nodded and ran off. I sat down, gasping for air.
"What happened Lily?" Marla asked me sitting beside me. I shrugged.
"He woke up and hurled, that's all I know. He said he hasn't had anything to drink." I added the last part, knowing Mandi and Marla thought like I did.
Classes past slowly that day. James didn't come to any of them, Sirius had told me Madam Pomfrey wanted to keep him in bed all day until she figured out what was wrong. By divination time I was annoyed, with James there to keep everyone's attention it was going to be extremely boring. And heck was I wrong.
"Class," Professor Hicks addressed the room. I coughed all the incense and such was driving my sinuses insane.
"It has come to my attention that many of you have begun to see things." Many students glanced at one another. I for one was lost because the only thing I had seen so far were girls in tears that James was ill.
"Now you may wonder why, you suddenly have gained this power. But I must tell you it isn't what you think." I watched as Sirius's head popped up. He was immediately drawn into the lecture.
"The Dark Lord has many powers, and he seeks many more." She looked around. "The power of foresight is not common at all, and many of you are confused as to why you have blossomed this power, rather over night." She nodded at a few of the kids and kept talking. I looked at Mandi and she shrugged, I was relived to know I wasn't the only one who seemed to be lacking the powers Hicks was talking about.
"I must ask you all to come see me, one by one. I want you to tell me what you have seen lately, be it in dreams or what not. If you feel you haven't claimed these powers, tell me that also." She went to a table in far corner of the class.
"Sirius Black!" She called and with that, class had begun.
James stayed in the hospital for two days. Each day I wasn't very surprised to see Katie Wood at his side, helping him sip pumpkin juice. I was going mad over it. I hadn't even had the chance to chew James out over cheating on Layla. I'm afraid I didn't even get that chance, because the day James left the hospital wing, was the day we went to Hogsmeade.
I was rather excited to spend the day with Marla, Remus, Sirius, and Jessie. Mandi made it totally clear she wanted to spend the day with bloody Greg Davis, I was pissed, but she had made her final decision. To my delight, I wouldn't have to see James and Katie until lunch, when we met them at Three Broomsticks.
"Oh I want these!" Marla was carrying a stack of quidditch magazines through the store. I laughed.
"A tad bit obsessive aren't we?" I asked raising an eyebrow. She stuck her tongue out at me. Remus suddenly came out of nowhere and grabbed my hand.
"Look at this!" He pulled me through different aisles until we stopped in front of a bookshelf. "Wow Remus, it's um... books." I said trying to hold back a laugh. He rolled his eyes. He pulled out a red leathered book and turned it to the middle. And he began to read.
'Prophecies concerning the 20th century started to develop whenever the first school was built. This school of course was Hogwarts. There were many predictions of dark, dangerous wizards gaining a tremendous amount of strength and then being defeated.
We, the writers of this book feel there is nothing different with this 'Lord Voldemort' character. For Meredith Trelawney, grandmother of the famous Cassandra Trelawney has already made a prediction on him. Or who we believe to be him. We're not too sure what it means, but we have faith it means defeat. The prophecy goes as follows:
'For the son of the pure and the brave will cause him to fall one night. With only the love of heroes to be- can stop the deadly fight. With powers like none before them, the pure and wild will overcome, for the child that's born between them ... the Dark one he will over come.'
I looked at Remus and raised an eyebrow. "That was, kind of freaky." I said being totally honest.
"I think it's fascinating!" He told me closing the book and staring at the cover.
"Pure and the wild? Those are quite opposites." I laughed and Remus just nodded and smiled. "You have no idea flower, no idea at all."
The meeting at Three Broomsticks caused quite a riot. I guess I should explain what took place. The six of us, Marla, Remus, Sirius, Jessie, Peter, and myself, were seated at a table in the back. I heard the bell on the door jingle and rolled my eyes as James and Katie entered. The weird thing is, James looked completely unhappy.
"What's got you down Prongs?" Remus asked as he sat down. James shrugged.
"I don't know, we've been having a lovely time, right Jimmy?" Katie cooed and put her hand on James' chin. I watched with interest as she turned his head where his eyes were staring into hers. It was like magic (excuse the pun) actually.
James started to smile, and to my disgust, sweat. I saw as he moved uncomfortably in his seat and put a hand on Katie's leg. Honestly, I could see his hands. She giggled and I stood up.
"I think I'm going to be sick." I said walking out. I heard James' voice before I shut the door though.
"Where'd Evans go?"
Marla caught up with me within seconds. I kept my eyes on the ground until we reached the edge of the woods and I sat down.
"That was sort of scary wasn't it?" She asked me picking grass and throwing it. I raised an eyebrow.
"What? Sirius and the whole drinking butterbeer through his nose? I know, made my head hurt." I laughed, Marla smiled but shook her head.
"No, the thing with James and Katie." She looked at me and I just stared.
"What the hell are you talking about?" I asked her, more confused than I knew she wanted me to be.
"You don't think it's odd how he was totally uninterested in her, then he looks in her eyes and she coos and he gets turned on like a lamp?" She looked angry and it all clicked in my mind.
'Wanna know what the strange thing is?.... He was looking into her eyes the whole time.... I dunno mate, there was something about her eyes...'
"Bloody hell!" I yelled and Marla jumped. "What?" She looked at me like I had grown an extra head.
"It's so bloody obvious, how could I have missed it!? It's her freakin' eyes Marla!" and with that I ran to a carriage and went back to school.
For the next few hours I was in the library, searching for anything I could on love potions or illegal charms and enchantments Katie could have used on James. I knew he wouldn't dump Layla for any reason. And deep down I hoped he wouldn't want to forget me that fast either. Then I found it.
'Brewing time can take up to five days, one must tell what they want the opposite person to feel for them. Eye contact is necessary to keep charm in tact. Potion must be drunk with some form of liquid. The person under the spell is possible to get ill if potion is taken too much.'
I ran to the Gryffindor common room, I had to tell the others. It was for James' own safety, or that's what I kept telling myself at least.
"Mandi!" I screamed it as I ran inside. Mandy younger students looked at me bewildered and Mandi came running down the stairs.
"What!? What's wrong, are you ill?" She was clenching her side tight.
"It's Katie! She's given James a love potion!" I told her hurriedly and she just looked apprehensive. "What? We have to hurry and tell the others!"
"Lily ..." She started slowly. I couldn't understand why she wasn't worried. "Lily, no offense hun, but don't you think you're going out of your way just a tad to ruin this for James?" My mouth dropped open.
"What in the blazes are you on about!?" I yelled and she flinched slightly.
"Look, I'm not crazy about Katie either, and it's obvious you've gained some new feelings for James-"I stopped her.
"I do not have any bloody feelings for... for 'Potter'!" I spat his name out and Mandi gave me a small, pathetic smile.
"You have too Lily. You're even a bigger bitch to him now then-"
"WHAT!?" I screamed. It was unbelievable, my own friend. My 'best' friend was accusing me of being a bitch, liking my enemy, AND lying about something important. I just glared at her and walked out.
"Bloody lunatic doesn't even believe me." I said in a low whisper, I saw a light coming out from underneath a classroom, I knew to be out of use. It was also after hours.
"Stupid hormone driven kids." I said tip towing to the door. I pulled it open slowly and let out a silent gasp. Katie was standing over a cauldron smiling and whispering to herself...
"A pinch of desire .... A full drop of lust..."
A/n: yay! That's it for today kids! I'm REALLY sorry I won't be able to update for a few days, but I'm taking a long needed vacation with a friend. For those of you who don't know, I live in Louisiana, and for the full month of June we've had straight rain, which is quite out of character for us in the summer. I'm finally getting away from it though!
You guys are the coolest and I love you so much! I can't wait to update to hear more from you guys!!! And just a small note to Melissa Black13- Mexico? Wow, I just got back actually, I was down there with my church youth group at the beginning of June. A word of advice- don't drink the water! And don't eat the vegetables, since they're washed in the water! Lol. Have fun though!
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