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A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! You guys totally reached my goal of fifty!! Yay!! Claps for you!! Umm… Check out the website I made last time I was bored… ... Look around, sign my guestbook, and tell me how to improve! Also, my story *Prophecy: That Cat Had It Coming* is begging for reviews! Anywho, hope you like this chapter…
A/N 2: Hey! Thanks to everyone who read and/or reviewed the last rewrite!! Hug! Mk, well, this was the last chapter I had to rewrite, so I should have an actual new chapter w/in the next week and for everyone who's been going crazy waiting to read the next chapter of *The Line Between Love and Hate*, I've decided not to rewrite it… So, there should be a new chapter on that by Saturday or Sunday… Hmm… That's about all! So, w/out further ado, here's chapter 10 revisited!!
"So, where are you two going to snog now that evil b—girl isn't allowed in Gryffindor house?" Sirius asked that evening after he got back to Gryffindor common room. He had waited a while for James and the other lads to catch up to him, but they hadn't come… Yet…
"Well, I guess we could just lay low for a while or something," Frank said dejectedly.
"Or, you could break up," Sirius suggested hopefully. Why anyone would chose to spend time they didn't have to with Bellatrix was beyond Sirius. For the love of… Her own mother didn't even like her very much. Or was that Sirius' mother that didn't like him?
"Please—remind me. What exactly do you have against Bellatrix?" Frank asked with a raised eyebrow.
"She's the daughter my parents always wanted," Sirius began. It's not that they had always wanted a daughter, it's that they had always wanted a firstborn child that wasn't Sirius. Unless, of course, that firstborn child happened to be a squib.
"So? Why is that a bad thing?" Frank cut in questioningly.
"Because they wanted me to be a girl," Sirius mumbled. Why he said that, he never knew. It seemed like the right explanation. True, they hadn't wanted him to be a girl, but if he were a girl who had been sorted into Slytherin, then they would want him—her? Stupid Bellatrix. They had let her get away with being sorted into Ravenclaw
"What?" Frank asked in confusion.
"Nothing," Sirius said quickly. He didn't really want Frank going around and telling the whole school about how his parents wanting him to be a girl. He had a reputation to uphold! It was bad enough with Lily and Snape going around and making all those insinuations about he and James. "Anyway, she's the daughter they always wanted which means she's just like the rest of those horrid people."
"What's so horrid about your family?" Frank asked.
"They're all obsessed with bloodlines… Bit silly if you ask me," Sirius said. He had never understood it. In his opinion, a person's character is much more important than where they came from, right? Maybe he had just spent to much of his childhood at James' house.
"Well, what's so bad about being obsessed with bloodlines?" Frank asked accusingly.
"They'd kill Evans if we let them," Sirius said bitterly. It was true. They would kill and torture Lily and every other muggle-born if they could get away with it. Fortunately, the closest a Black had ever come to being in power was when Sirius' great grand uncle or something of that nature had been made headmaster. Also fortunate, the ministry wouldn't allow him to torture muggle borns.
"I see," Frank said in response.
"Sirius Orion Black!" Lily shouted as she ran into the room through the portrait hall with Ava hot on her heels. She was going to get him just as bad as she got James! She was so mad! "Don't even bother! You can't hide from me!"
"Lily, how lovely to see you on this beautiful—" Sirius began. He was trying to casually change the subject, but looking up at her, he found that his attempt had not worked. She was so angry that her face seemed to be as red as her hair.
"Don't bother!" Lily shrieked at him. Stupid Sirius! What on earth would possess him to snog her? He had to know about how she like—James! That was it! He had done it to get back at James! Why hadn't she seen it earlier? Oh well, Sirius would still pay! "If you ever, ever attempt to snog me again—"
"Why, Lily, you're looking mighty beautiful—" Sirius said, trying to smooth over the angry red-head. He knew that it wasn't working, but later, at his funeral after Lily had killed him, Ava and Frank could give a eulogy about how he was charming until the last moment…
"Don't even bother!" Lily shouted at him. Even though he hadn't snogged her for a bet, she was still furious at him for snogging her! Friends don't snog friends to get back at other friends!
Ava was standing behind her, turning red with contained laughter. Poor Lily. Poor James. And, at this moment, poor Sirius.
"Whatever has young James done to get you in such a pinch?" Sirius asked calmly. He was scared to stop talking. Maybe if he distracted her, she wouldn't kill him. Then, more help would arrive and—voila!
Lily clenched her teeth. It was bad enough that he had pulled her right into the middle of their stupid fight, but to pretend that it had never happened---the nerve!
"You little—" Lily began to say before shrieking and running out of the room.
"Hello," Sirius said, waving at the crowd of onlookers that had been watching in interest. He hadn't noticed that they had all turned around to watch, but he was busy focusing on not letting Lily kill him…
They all looked at him with wide eyes before turning back to their work and/or conversations.
"What on earth did you do?" Frank asked as Ava threw herself down into one of the red, poofy chairs that she liked so much.
"He snogged Lily in an attempt to get back at James," Ava said as she examined her nails. She had to admit, it was a pretty good idea. Sirius kissing Lily before he did would haunt James for the rest of his life. Hell, it was downright brilliant!
"Where is James?" Sirius asked in a worried voice. Why were there so many people who wanted to kill him tonight?
"Don't worry—Lily bought you some time to flee the country. She cursed James so that he can only speak in French. They're all currently hunting like idiots for a counter-curse," Ava said. She could just picture them frantically flipping through all the books in the library like idiots!
Sirius groaned loudly. He couldn't believe she had done that. James would never let them hear the end of it!
"What?" Frank asked.
"James will be even more obsessed with Lily now that she's shown an interest in pranking," Sirius said with his head in his hands. Now, Lily was not only smart, beautiful, and kind, but she also knew how to prank people. James would be floating on air about this one.
"What?" Frank asked, confused.
"It may not make any sense, but it sure will in James' mind. How long should it take them to find the counter-curse?" Sirius asked, looking at Ava hopefully. James couldn't curse him until he could speak French, right?
"A lifetime," Ava said casually. Even she had to admit it, the idea was downright brilliant on Lily's part.
"I'm guessing Lily hid the book?" Frank asked.
"No, it'll just be hard to find the counter-curse in a book when the curse was just invented about five to ten minutes ago," Ava said with a shrug. Lily now had James wrapped around her little finger. He would go crazy speaking French.
"Great," Sirius said sarcastically. He had to give Lily credit, the plan was brilliant and simple. The sort of things that the Marauders strived for. "On the plus side, I have plenty of time to bum around before fleeing."
"Yeah, you think you have problems?" Ava asked crossly. If that was Sirius' biggest problem, he had no clue!
Sirius nodded as though it were obvious. James wanting to jinx him to who-knows-where seemed to be a pretty big problem.
"If Lily never calms down, then I might just have to follow James around for the rest of our lives, translating everything he says until we both grow old and wrinkled and die." Ava said in a fakely cheery voice. It definitely contrasted with the look on her face and her attitude. Following James around was not her idea of a good time.
"That's pleasant," Sirius said quietly. He didn't want to piss off Ava too seeing as how having three people wanting to kill him in one night would be a bad thing. Wait, scratch that. Four people. Lily, James, Ava, and Snivelly. Though, over the past year he had gotten used to Snape wanting to kill him.
Ava glared at him.
"I'm guessing they don't know that there's not counter-curse?" Sirius asked. If he knew his friends—and he did—they were all in the library, searching frantically for the counter-jinx. Priceless.
"Nope," Ava said with a sigh.
"How about if we don't tell them?" Sirius asked. The idea of Remus, James, and Peter searching through all the books in the library for a counter-jinx that didn't exist yet was priceless.
"Agreed," Ava said, leaning over and shaking his hand with a sly smile on her face. Sure, James would be furious when he found out, but the opportunity was too great to pass up.
"Do you lads think that Lily checked out the book in advance… You know… So he'll be speaking French as long as she wants him to?" Peter squeaked looking worried. It sounded like the type of thing Lily would do.
"Je ne sais pas," James said with a shrug.
Remus and Peter looked at each other in confusion before Remus shrugged and started searching through the next book in the stack.
"I wouldn't put it past her," Remus told Peter with a sigh. Lily was too smart to make a blunder and jinx James with a jinx that he could easily find the counter-jinx to.
"Oui," James said causing an awkward silence.
"James," Remus began. He didn't want to be mean, but--
James looked up questioningly.
"--Do us all a favor and don't talk until Ava's around."
"I have a question," Peter squeaked. Something had been bothering him since Lily jinx James.
Remus and James looked up.
"If Lily didn't want to know what James was blabbering on about, then why did she make him speak a language that Ava could understand?" Peter asked in a confused voice. It didn't seem like Lily wanted to know what he was saying at all.
"Moi—" James began to say, but stopped talking at the glared he received from Remus and Peter.
"My guess is that she made a careless mistake and forgot that Ava speaks French. Either that or she wanted James to be understood if absolutely necessary," Remus said. Having served prefect duties with Lily for over a year, he knew that she was too smart for her plan to not be perfect.
"That doesn't sound like Lily," Peter said referring to Remus's first guess.
"Yeah, my guess would be the latter," Remus said with a sad smile. She was just too smart to make that sort of mistake, right?
Lily awoke from a deep sleep, refreshed, and happy as she stretched out in her bed. She wanted to stay there all day. Sleeping and watching the birds play through the window. So peaceful…
"Lily!" Ava screamed out as soon as she heard Lily yawning. She and Lily had to have a talk. If Lily thought, well, it didn't matter what she thought, she was wrong because Ava simply wouldn't have it!
"What?" Lily asked with a groan. Sleep. Birds. Warm blankets.
"You'd better set him right! I may damn well be the only person in this school who speaks French and I am not—I repeat, not going to spend all my time with him until you see fit to allow him to speak in a language that the rest of the country understands," Ava said with her hands on her hips in a what-I-say-goes voice. She just could not handle being around James that long! Wasn't living across the street from him bad enough? No, their mothers had to be best friends, but wasn't that enough? Apparently Lily didn't think so!
"Ava," Lily began as she flopped out of bed, "James needs to learn a lesson."
"Lily, Sirius is the one who snogged you," Ava said with a raised eyebrow as she attempted to charm her golden-brown hair into curls. Shouldn't Sirius be the one speaking French? Ava wouldn't mind following him around all the time… He was much obnoxious than her almost-brother.
"Yeah, but James needs to learn what it's like to be pranked," Lily said as she pulled on her Hogwarts uniform skirt. Also, he needed to quit pranking people so she could begin to think about someday trusting him.
"Why on earth do you care?" Ava whined as she pulled her fingers through her hair—obviously annoyed with the effect.
Lily's face grew a bit red.
"Be—because he just needs to learn," Lily stuttered. Ava would see right through it. She always had. She always would.
Ava looked up at her. She suddenly understood everything and wondered why she hadn't before.
"Or because you're sick of waiting for him to grow up," Ava said with a sly smile. If Lily would just tell James why she wouldn't trust him!
"Ava!" Lily said in annoyance. Was she really that transparent or was Ava simply freakishly intuitive? Or maybe a bit of both?
"Whatever," Ava said before running her fingers through her hair and screaming. Stupid hair. She could never get it right!
"Here, let me help you," Lily said, pulling out her wand and charming Ava's hair into picture perfect curls.
"Thanks," Ava muttered. Of course, Lily performed that Charm perfectly. Just like every other Charm!
"Where is everyone?" Lily asked, looking around to see that Marie and Eliza weren't there. Good. She didn't need Marie listening and then going off to tell everyone.
"Breakfast, duh," Ava said before slapping Lily upside the back of her head gently. "Idiot," she muttered. And people called her the least bright of the two.
"Who's the one who can't charm her hair into curls again?" Lily asked with a knowing smile.
"Shut-up," Ava said as she scrunched her face in annoyance. The curling Charm was hard! "How long are you going to leave James like that?"
"Well, I think he really needs to learn his lesson," Lily said with a knowing nod. He really did. Even if it didn't result in the two of them being together, it was a life lesson. Most people learn it at, like, eight. It was far past time for James to learn it.
"How long will that be?" Ava asked. Wait a second, how would they know what James had learned the lesson if Ava was the only one who knew what he was saying?
"Well it depends," Lily began.
"Upon what?" Ava asked.
"On, not upon," Lily corrected her.
"Whatever. Depends on what?" Ava asked, glaring at her.
"Well, it depends on when I have time to invent a counter-curse," Lily said casually as though they were speaking of the weather.
"Lily!" Ava scolded her.
"Looks like you better start doing your own homework," Lily said with a sympathetic smile.
"Yeah, and letting you copy," Ava answered.
"No, I prefer to do my own, thank you very much," Lily said, pulling her hair into a low, loose bun.
"But if you copy, you'll have more time to—" Ava began to argue.
"Quite honestly, setting James right isn't on the top of my list of urgent things to do," Lily said sympathetically as she pulled tendrils out of the bun to frame her face.
"What's more important?" Ava asked.
"Well, at the moment, my priority list is… Finishing the essay due tomorrow, finishing my romance novel, and—if I have the time—re-categorizing my shoe collection," Lily said as she ticked off the list of things she had to do that night.
"Re-categorizing your shoes!?" Ava shrieked.
"Yes… They're everywhere. I can't find the match to any of them and all my black ones, brown ones, and trainers are all mixed together which makes my dressing in a matching fashion quite complicated," Lily said, nodding for emphasis.
"Lily," Ava began.
"Yes?"
"You're insane."
"I know, isn't it pleasant?
"No."
~~Stay tuned to find out how long it takes Lily to set James right! Hope you enjoyed this chapter! BTW, does anyone actually understand French? Let's see, I'm at 51 reviews right now, so I'm hoping for 56 before I post another chapter! Hugz~~
Aurora_Borealis~ Yeah, isn't it adorable! No? Ok, then, nevermind…
Chiquita-3~ Yeah, James knocked Sirius out so that Sirius couldn't discredit his story… You can email me next time your confused… Lol! Yeah, I love Remus in this story! Lol! Not as much as I love Sirius though!
MoreHPplease~ I'm glad you enjoyed them! Three hours of homework is never anything to laugh at! I hope you enjoyed this chapter too… BTW, if you're looking to laugh, you could read *Prophecy: That Cat Had It Coming*… I guarantee a few laughs from it and it needs a bit of love! See? Win-win situation!
Fuzzylamp~ I'm glad you liked the curse! It waz Hillary of Hillary and Jess's idea! I would majorly recommend reading their stories which can be found on my favorite list! It's good for lots of laughter!
Queen of Zan~ Ok, if you're still in denial about Sirius' death, I won't speak of it anymore! I promise! (I should make a one-shot about Sirius dying… What? Not funny? J/J) Of course you're a thank you type person! You reviews are hilarious! They always put a smile on my face!
PotterChick1~ I'm glad you liked it!! Yay! I can't take credit for the idea though… See above… Let's say that James may be speaking in the Parisian-tongue for a while… Atleast, until Lily cools down and afterall, she is a fiery redhead…
~~People who reviewed the rewrite~~
Lannei~ Lol! Thanks for reviewing! Just to let you know, I had said fifty when I had originally posted chapter nine. I was just waiting to post this one until I had time to re-write it! It's the next chapter you guys are going to have to wait for! Lol!
Elven Dagger~ Lily's not too naïve! Lol! She just really likes him and when people like a person, they tend to be naïve when it comes to that person, right? Lol! Oh well, thanks for reviewing! I'm glad you like my Sirius! You should read one of the other stories I wrote w/him. In my opinion, he's funnier in those!
Artichoke~ I'm writing as fast as I can! I swear!