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Chapter 3-Bad News
"I can't believe I slept in a room across from James Potter, and lived! Last year at least there were two stairways separating us!" Lily desperately wanted to be back in her old dorm with her friends. She decided that she should get up, get dressed, and go down to breakfast.

After Lily got dressed and left the comfort of her room, she found James sprawled on the couch of their common room waiting for her. "Good morning, sunshine," he grinned.

"Don't call me that!" Lily snapped and walked to the portrait hole.

James leapt up from his seat and hurried to catch up with her. "Hey, wait up!"

"No!" Lily shouted and darted off down the hall.

James ran up along side Lily. "You do realize that you're stuck with me now," he grinned.

Lily stopped and glared at him with narrowed eyes. "I am not stuck with you if I don't want to be!"

"Lils," James paused, "that's where you're wrong. I'm like a stray dog. Once you feed me, or in this case, acknowledge that I'm alive, you're stuck with me for all eternity."

Lily huffed and started her trek to the Great Hall. "I don't want to see James Potter, let alone have a conversation with him. Why can't he just leave me alone?"

James was still following her, but decided it would be better to stay a few paces behind so he could think of new ways to make her like him. "This is tough. What would make Lily like me? Maybe Remus will know, seeming as she actually talks to him."

James' thoughts kept him occupied for the rest of the way to the Great Hall. He watched Lily go join her friends and start laughing about something or another. "One day, Lily Evans, one day."

"One day what?" someone asked from behind him.

James turned around to see who had spoken to him. "What do you want, Snivellus?" He looked at Snape's greasy hair and started laughing, "You haven't taken a bath in a while, I presume. Wait, I forgot. You always look and smell this bad," James said and wrinkled his nose in disgust.

"You better watch your back, Potter," Snape spat. "Oh, and watch your filthy mudblood's, too," he added as an afterthought and glared at James.

"Don't call her that!" James shouted and whipped out his wand. By this time, the students at the end of the Gryffindor table close to James and Snape were staring.

"What's the matter? Does it hurt your little feelings?" Snape laughed and started walking off.

Once Snape turned his back, James shot a hex at him that caused his arms bones to become flexible. "You should take your own advice, Snivellus." James laughed and turned around only to be face to face with Professor McGonagall.

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Lily and her friends were watching James and Snape's argument warily. They had heard James shout something a moment ago and noticed that his wand was out. Lily saw James point his wand and saw Snape fall to the floor, his arms and legs flailing about madly. "Look," she started laughing, "Snape can't move!"

Lily's friends eyed her suspiciously. Since when did she laugh at James Potter's pranks and antics?

"Why aren't you guys laughing? Snape just got what he deserves. He's absolutely wretched!"

"Lily," Monica started cautiously, "do you realize that James is the one who just hexed him?"

"Yes,' Lily snapped back. "I know it was James."

Caroline leaned over the table and stared at Lily. "Are you ill?"

"I am fine! Am I not allowed to laugh when I find something funny?"

"It's just that the Lily we saw and spoke with yesterday despises anything and everything James Potter says or does," Jennifer said. "Look," she pointed over to where James and extremely angry Professor McGonagall stood.

"How much detention do you think he got for this one?" Monica asked.

Lily was about to answer her question when Remus, Sirius, and Peter sat down near the girls. "What'd he do this time?" Remus asked.

Jennifer smiled at him before replying, "He hexed Snape with a bendable bone or jelly hex."

Sirius started chuckling. He cleared his throat then yelled over to James. "NICE ONE!"

James looked at Sirius and gave him a quick thumbs up, while McGonagall gave him a disapproving look.

"SORRY PROFESSOR! PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR PUNISHMENT!" Sirius grinned. "How much detention do you think he got for this one?"

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After McGonagall walked off, James looked over at Lily. He was surprised to find her staring at him. Though when their eyes met she blushed and turned to Monica and said something to cause them both to laugh.

"Well here goes nothing. Chin up, man." James walked over to where Lily was sitting and sat down in the empty seat beside her. Lily pretended not to notice him sit down.

"Prongs, how long did you get?" Sirius asked giving James a congratulating smile.

"Cleaning the trophies for tonight only. Seeming as I'm the first person to clean them since last year, she probably figured they were bad enough for me to do one night only," James informed them.

"Why did you hex Snape in front of all the teachers anyways?" Lily asked, finally acknowledging James' presence.

"He called you a filthy mudblood," James replied coldly with a disgusted look on his face. "I don't why he thinks he can, anyways. You're so much better than he is. You're smart," James softened his tone into a whisper so that she only could hear what he was about to say, "and beautiful and perfect in every way."

Lily blushed and turned to Monica, who was staring curiously when she the red flush in Lily's cheeks. "So Moni, what ab-"Lily was interrupted by the flapping of numerous wings.

An owl dropped the Daily Prophet in front of her. She was about to pick it up and see if there was anything interesting to read in it, when James snatched it off of the table and stared at the front page horrorstruck. "Th-that's my h-hous-se," he stammered.

A/N-I know killing James' parents off on their second day back at Hogwarts is pretty cruel, but there is some sanity to my madness. Please R&R.

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