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Onwards to chapter 7!

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"What do we have next?" Lily asked, leaning over her plate to check Laura's timetable.

"Er.Potions." Laura sighed. "Professor Green is handing our essays back today."

"What do you have to be worried about?" Sirius poked her in the ribs. "You have the top marks in the class.behind Lily."

Lily blushed slightly. Yeah, yeah she was the top student in every class, because she never had had friends until third year, so she spent all of her spare time in the library with extra credit work. She became accustomed to it and never ended her habit.

"Don't be a prat, Sirius." Laura rolled her eyes. "I am not the person with the second highest grades, and you know it."

"Yes you are, every thing that has been handed back was top marks." Sirius said. "Lily beat you because of the extra work she put in."

"Why do you emphasize extra like it's a bad thing?" Lily frowned.

"Yeah." Laura rounded on her new boyfriend.

Sirius gave them a pathetic smile as an excuse.

"Just because you marauders don't bother doing any of the assignments doesn't mean you four are bad boys." Cassie said.

"We don't think we're bad boys." Remus retaliated.

"Oh PLEASE." Cassie rolled her eyes.

Lily could sense an argument coming on and hastily changed the subject.

"Let's go." Lily stood up.

"We have ten minutes!" James pleaded.

"Fine." Lily sat down again and rested her chin on her hands.

"That was easy." James muttered.

"Excuse me?" Lily asked.

"It was easy to persuade you to sit back down again." James said and then felt her forehead. "Are you feeling alright?"

"No." Lily said, taking another swig of pumpkin juice.

"Lily, NO!" James knocked the goblet out of her hand.

Lily sat with her hand curved in the air. "What's the matter with you?"

"Sorry." James said simply. "Gina-she-just-she-"

"What about her?" Cassie asked, glaring at the giggling blonde five seats away.

"She-" Laura started. "She threatened to poison Lily."

Cassie snorted.

"Why?" Lily asked in all seriousness.

"Because she's a bit-"

"Sirius!" Laura hissed.

"What, pumpkin?" Sirius asked, sliding his arm around her waist.

"Don't do that, it's annoying." Laura said.

"No-you're annoying." Sirius shot back at her. Good job, Sirius.

"No, you are."

"No-you are."

"No-"

"OKAY." Lily massaged her temples. "You're both annoying."

"Whoa, you really aren't feeling well, are you?" James said.

"Are you actually showing concern for someone other than yourself for once?" Lily asked.

James looked at her. Everyone did. First of all, Lily was the nicest person in the school, second, she liked this boy. Something was wrong.

"Lil, let's go to the hospital wing-" Cassie started.

"No." Lily snapped. "I am not a baby, so stop treating me like one."

"Lil are you sure you are alright?" Laura asked.

"Yes, goddamn it!" Lily said and heaved up her bag.

"What is up your butt?" Cassie asked.

"Just leave alone, alright?" Lily said and stalked out of the Great Hall.

James watched her leave. "I'm going to go talk to her."

"Be careful...she's never acted this way before." Laura warned.

Cassie looked over at Gina. She was still her annoyingly happy, peppy self and was currently laughing and talking with her friends. With a flip of blonde hair she stood and walked out of the Great Hall with her groupies.

Meanwhile, James had followed Lily all the way to the Common Room and watched her walk up the stairs to her room.

"Lily." He called, waiting at the bottom of the staircases.

She stopped and didn't even turn around. "What?"

"I was just wondering if you were alright." James said.

"I'm fine." She said forcefully.

"Could you turn around?" James asked politely.

Lily turned around with a scowl on her face and folded her arms under her chest.

"Thanks." James smiled at her to try and ease the awkwardness. He stared at her and wondered why she scowled at him. Her bright eyes were dull and stale, while her expression distorted her features. She was quite pretty when she smiled sincerely.

"Why are you staring at me?" Lily asked in an annoyed tone.

"Uh-Lil.." James stepped up a few steps before she held her palm out in front of her.

"Spit it out, James." Lily said, sounding rather bored. "I need some sleep."

"Why are you acting like this?" He asked.

"You are such a loser." She said, looking at him with pity.

"What?" He yelled.

"Did you hear me?" Lily said and then stepped down to him. "Loser."

"What is your problem?" He asked.

Suddenly she slapped him across the face without warning.

Lily just smiled at him with malice in her beautiful face. She opened her mouth to say something before her eyes rolled back in her head and fainted.

"Lily!" James caught her and tried shaking her awake. "Lily, come on...please wake up!"

She did not stir while he did this, so he slipped his arm under her knees and carried her to her dorm. He lay her on what he thought was her bed, since there was a picture of her and a blonde girl that looked a bit like her atop it.

He stared at her for quite a while, wondering why she had been acting so different.

"Maybe I should change." He mumbled to himself. "I mean, what's the point of using girls, anyway?" He looked at Lily, resting peacefully, her head turned to the side and her auburn hair touching the creamy skin on her face. "She is kinda...kinda pretty." He said to himself. He looked at her again. No. She was beautiful. James just couldn't admit it. Even though he knew how perfect she was, he could never use her like he had the other hundred girls he'd gone out with in the past year.

He watched her chest rise and fall with soft breathing. He reached out and stroked some of her hair with his right hand. He pulled away immediately. "What am I doing?"

He got up and started walking towards the door when he heard a gasp of air from behind him.

"Lily!" He cried, rushing over to her side.

Lily looked at him with her usual sweet smile. She was back again. Only she was suddenly breathing hard and sweating.

"Are-are you alright?" he asked, sitting on the bed next to hers. (A/N: I don't like the dorms in the movie.my version is three beds against a wall, and two against the other. Whatever, just not the movie one with that ugly heater thing in the middle of the room.)

"I-I-I-I-I" She stuttered.

"Look, Lil. Calm down." James said, watching her look around the room frantically.

"I don't remember a thing!" She screamed. "I just know that I drank some juice at lunch, and Laura talking to me, and-and-" She stopped looking at James in horror.

"What?" he asked, kneeling at her side. "What is it?"

"I insulted you!" She said and covered her mouth with her hand.

"Who cares! I get insulted all the time!" James said. "Are-are you alright?"

Lily ran into the bathroom and fell to the floor, leaning over the toilet bowl. Finally, she vomited and flushed the toilet. James rushed to her side and rubbed her back, hoping against hope she didn't vomit again.

"I feel horrible." She moaned and clutched her stomach.

"Come." James said, lifting her up. "Lie down, you'll feel a lot better."

"I'm so sorry James! I didn't even know I was insulting you! Or Cassie! It was like, something took over my body." Lily said and felt her forehead before she lay back onto her fluffy pillow.

"You didn't mean those things you said?" James asked slowly.

"No." Lily said, closing he eyes as she talked. "I think-I think someone slipped something into my drink."

"Were you poisoned?" James asked. Even if Lily were the victim of a Quidditch accident, she would know what bones she had broken and how to fix them.

"Yes and no." Lily answered.

"How is it yes and no?" James asked.

"Well, whatever it is.that person was clever enough to only put a few drops of the Noxious poison mixed with some kind of personality potion." Lily said, her heart rate gradually slowing down.

"Noxious poison?" James asked.

"Yes, it can kill very easily if you drink enough.but I only got a little taste of it." Lily said. "I'm very lucky I didn't drink my whole goblet."

"Couldn't you taste the poison, though?" James asked.

"No, Noxious has no taste." Lily verified for James and then smiled at him. "Thanks for bringing me up here after I conked out."

"No problem." He said.

"Oh no!" Lily sat up again. "Were missing potions!"

"Why don't I take you to the Hospital Wing." James said.

"Won't we get in trouble?" Lily asked.

"We'll just tell Madam Pomfrey our story." James said, taking Lily's hand to help her off the bed.

"Alright." Lily said.

Once they had gotten to the entrance of the Hospital Wing, James stopped.

"What?" Lily asked.

James slipped his arm under her knees and around her back before he lifted her off the floor.

"No!" She squealed. "James-don't."

"It has to seem realistic." James smirked, seeing a slight red tint creeping up her pearly white cheeks.

"Oh! My dears!" Madam Pomfrey bustled over to James, who had been lowering Lily onto a bed. "What has happened?"

"She was poisoned, and she vomited a few minutes ago." James said.

"Why didn't you bring her straight over to me?" Madam Pomfrey asked hysterically.

"She wouldn't have made it." James explained.

"Well, she certainly has been Noxious poisoned. Is that-"

"Personality Potion." Lily said.

"Why on earth would someone want to slip that in with a poison?" Madam Pomfrey asked quizzically.

"Probably so that I couldn't die from the poison, and I am sure the potion was for a reason." Lily said.

"You have a fever, lie back while I get the remedy." Madam Pomfrey tutted. "I still don't know how they did it."

"Did what?" Lily and James asked together. "Well, normally, Noxious poison would explode with anything added to it." Madam Pomfrey said and then bustled away.

"Well." Lily said miserably. "Now I am going to fail potions."

"Lil, you couldn't fail potions if you stopped doing work from here until the end of term."

"Yeah..well-still." Lily said with great difficulty.

"Lily what's happened to your voice?" James asked.

"It's going away-" Lily moved her mouth but no sound came out.

"Here we are." Madam Pomfrey held up a green bottle, poured a purple powder into a glass ,and mixed it with water.

"She's lost her voice." James said.

"Yes, that is one of the side effects." Madam Pomfrey said, obviously showing pity for Lily.

Lily made a face so funny after she drank the substance that James laughed out loud. She smacked him again and glared at him and started mouthing furiously, and suddenly she fell back into her pillows into a dreamless sleep.

"Boy am I glad I can't hear her." James said.

"It's the Personality potion being brought out by the poison. This is odd. I don't think anyone has ever tried mixing the two together before." She said.

"May I stay here?" James asked.

"Of course, but I must speak to you for a moment." Madam Pomfrey pulled him until they were out of Lily's earshot.

"What is it?" James asked.

"I ask you something. Did Lily start acting differently towards you?"

"Yes, she insulted me and slapped me across the face." James said. "Why?"

"I must tell you dear boy, a Personality potion is used for an enemy." Madam Pomfrey said quietly.

"And?" James asked impatiently.

"Well, the person who drinks the potion will show cruelty towards her friends and the utmost hatred...for the one person they are in love with." She said and walked calmly away.

James stood there, dumbfounded. "In love with?" He looked over at Lily, resting peacefully in her bed. "No way."