Chapter 4- Attack to the heart
There detention meant only one thing- meeting the new caretaker! Or more like terrorising the new caretaker. Filch had a funny feeling that after meeting these boys he knew why Pringle had opted for an early retirement!
James was surprised to realise that almost a month had already passed of this school year. He had been very busy, with quidditch practice three nights a week (he was a chaser), as well as tutoring twice a week, a detention what seemed to be every other day, followed by a few make out sessions with various girls and as many pranks as he could fit in (and believe me that's a lot!).
Not to mention the prefects meeting he had to attend. He was shocked to find out that the red head he was tutoring, Lily Evans, was also a prefect. He wandered how she had managed to obtain this position, as in classes she didn't seem to be doing that great. She was also really shy whilst he taught her, only ever speaking when he asked her a question.
Four nights after the Halloween feast James had been tutoring Lily. She had done the switching spell, which he asked her to, fine. And now he was heading up to the Griffindor tower, he was almost there when he decided he was hungry (as he always was at 8.30!), so he turned round and headed in the direction of the kitchen. But as he walked past the defence against the dark arts classroom, he heard a small, delicate squeal;
"Come on mudblood, it's just a bit of fun!" James peered round the door and saw two emerald green eyes the size of saucers, tears streaming out. Snape had lily cornered and seemed to be advancing on her.
James went ballistic. Although he didn't particularly care for this girl much, she was completely helpless and innocent. James couldn't stand men who took advantage of girls like that! Something, which had never happened to James before, happened. His temper got the better of him and Snape was thrown across the room, without James even touching him.
"Don't you dare ever touch lily or any other girl again!" James spat. He had stood to his full height clenching his fists and narrowing his eyes giving him a deadly scary appearance, which even Peeves the poltergeist, would cower from.
"Ow come on Potter, she's just a mudblood! Surely you know the rule. Have all the fun you want with mudbloods and muggles but the pure bloods are for the serious stuff!" At this comment Snape was thrown across the room again. This time though it was a lot harder, leaving him dazed.
James went over to the corner where lily was; something about how helpless and vulnerable she seemed made him put an arm around her and guide her out of the room. Cradling her like a baby, he guided her down to the kitchens and sat her at a small table.
Immediately house elves swarmed the couple asking them for instructions. James told them he needed 2 cups of hot cocoa, some biscuits and a warm blanket, as lily was currently shaking. Snape may not have hurt her but he had treated her pretty rough none the less.
She was wearing some loose jogging bottoms and a baggy white jumper hiding her petite figure, making her skin look paler and her hair more vibrant. To James she seemed frail and fragile.
"Are you alright?" James spoke to her for the first time since they had left the classroom. She nodded. "No your not." He stated, he wrapped the blanket a house elf had given to him, around her and did the first thing, which came into his mind, he hugged her. "It's ok, you're safe now." He soothed.
They sat in silence for about half an hour. "Thank you." Lily said in a voice no louder than a whisper. James was a little shocked, she had spoken UN prompted. "For what?" he replied.
"For saving me from that. that slime ball." "Ow, it was nothing. And one would have done it." "No. Nobody has ever stood up for me before, not when I've been called a mudblood, of a. a freak or anything!" James didn't know what to say to this.
"You can't have met any decent people then." He stated firmly yet quietly. She looked at her shoes. "Who would call you a freak?" he asked.
"My. my sister." "Why?" "You don't really want to hear this. I don't want to waste your time with stupid, childish tales of my sinister sister." "Come on, tell me. I really want to know." Lily didn't really feel like telling him this, she thought he would think she were stupid, but he sounded sincere so she said;
"Well ever since I was little I was always doing things which nobody could explain, for instance when I was 7 there was this jumper which I hated, but my mum insisted on me wearing it, then one day she made me go to put it on and I was upset about it, then it suddenly burst into flames. It always happened around me, so my sister called me a freak. But she was never really THAT horrible to me until I got accepted to Hogwarts, which is when she started telling me that I was wasting my time at this freak school and that I would never amount to anything."
Lily paused for a second then said what seemed to have been on her mind for quite some time. "And you know what, she's right! Isn't she? I WON'T amount to anything! I can't even do simple spells, let alone expect to get a career in the magical world!"
"But I don't get it?" "What?" "I don't get how you can't do spells in class, yet you can when I tutor you?" "I. I just freeze, all those people there, and watching " "THAT'S IT! I can't believe I didn't see it before. I'm such an idiot!"
"What?" lily asked, half scared, half confused. "You're shy! And you have no confidence, all because your sister was cruel to you and nasty and . jealous." "She. you. What?"
"Lily" James turned and looked into her eyes, those eyes. "Lily, your not bad at magic. In fact from what I have seen you're good, better than good, in fact, you're excellent! You don't need tutoring, you need training, in how to believe in yourself and then your abilities can grow and flourish!"
"Are you sure?" She questioned. "Positive!" He replied, leaving no room for argument. "And you would do this for me?" "You have to have more faith in people, you know not everybody is out to get you!"
"You know you're a lot different to how I thought you were." "How did you think I was?"
"Well, when I first met you I . you . you seemed a little arrogant. Sorry!" she said blushing. "But I don't think that now. Now I know you're not. You have been kinder to me in one night than most people have ever been to me." She quickly added.
"Well, a lot of us are guilty of judging books by their covers." She didn't seem as bad as he originally thought. In actual fact she seemed really sweet. "So your parents aren't happy that you're a witch?" James asked.
"Oh no they were ecstatic! It's just my sister, Petunia. She hates anything weird and wonderful. It's funny really, she's kinda the opposite of Snape. What's your family like?" "Ow, well my mum is lovely, she has never worked, and she's always been at home so she could look after me and my two sisters. I think maybe she would have liked to work, but my father never wanted her to.
She's the loveliest person I know! But my father is a different story. He seems to think he is something special, just because he is some famous quidditch star. He isn't a supporter of the dark movement, but he isn't against it. I can't stand the way he prides himself on his blood."
James stopped he had just spilt his inner most feelings about his father, to someone he barely knew. He hadn't even told Sirius this stuff. There was just something about Lily, which made him want to trust her.
"So that's why you pull those pranks? There just a cover?" "No, I just enjoy winding my father up with those. Did you know that every single male Potter has been made Head boy and got no less than 20 newts. So of course that's what everybody expects of me! I'm also expected to become quidditch captain and follow in my father's footsteps, becoming a great and famous quidditch player. I can tell you now that is not going to happen."
"Why not?" "Quidditch is great. But for fun. Doing it every day will just ruin it. I want to go into the ministry. And I want to do something to be remembered for."
"That's good, you should do what you want to." Was all lily could think to reply with. James noticed that she seemed to have come out of her shell a little and was actually sharing her feelings. "Do you know what you want to do when you're older?" He asked her.
"I don't know?" "Ow come on you must have some sort of idea?" "Well." She seemed to be contemplating her answer "Promise not to tell anyone!"
"I promise!" "Well I want to help people somehow. I don't know how yet though."
"Like charity work?" "Yes, but something I can still get paid for." "Do you like children? You could work in an orphanage. You know since this new dark lord has started to gain power a lot of children have been left parentless."
"Ow that's terrible. I would love to do something like that, I love children. I only wish there was something I could do to help now!" "Maybe there is!" "What do you mean?"
"Maybe we could arrange some sort of charity event to raise money for orphanages or something!" "James." "Yes?"
"Is there anything you are bad at, because you seem so perfect!" Lily said with a cheeky grin. James leaned towards her, and softly kissed her on the lips. She kissed him back then realising what was happening, pulled away. "Sorry" She said, "I didn't mean to mislead you." "You mean you don't want to kiss me?" James asked rather taken a back.
"No, I mean I don't really know you THAT well?" she replied. "Ow, I'm soooo sorry, it's just I've never just been friends with a girl."
"Why not?" "Well they always want more, so I just expect that now." "Ow that must be terrible."
"It is sometimes, like when I just want a conversation or something." "Well, I promise I will never treat you like that." James blushed.
"I'm surprised I've never really talked to you before. We've had our first non work related conversation tonight and I already feel I've known you all my life." James said, suddenly breaking the silence.
"You know if you weren't so shy people would be flocking around you!" "Oh yeah!" Lily challenged, picking up a freshly baked pie, which was cooling on the side, ready for breakfast. "You wouldn't." James stated, not actually believing lily would do such a thing.
But she did! He looked up at her a mischievous grin spreading across his face. He was liking her more and more by the minute.
"You're going to pay for that!" He said chasing after her.
Three hours later Lily and James were covered head to toe with food, as was half the kitchen. "Oh my gosh!" Lily exclaimed, "Look at the mess we've made."
"Not to worry," James smiled "Cleaneous Totalem" And with that everything was cleaned. "That one is a must if you are a marauder!"
Lily smiled, "One more thing, it seems we have talked the night away. It's seven o'clock in the morning!" "You're kidding me!" James looked around and sure enough the house elves were all scurrying around preparing food and sending it up to the house tables.
James escorted Lily back to the Ravenclaw common room. "In spite of what happened, I'm really enjoyed last night. Thank you, James, thanks for sticking up for me." Lily smiled.
"No problem, Lil's." Lily like the way that sounded. She didn't normally like her name shortened but she liked how it sounded coming from James. "We still meeting in the library for our session on Thursday?" He asked.
"Yeah. Thursday at seven." She confirmed. They said a slow goodbye and James headed up to the Griffindor common room.
"Man, where were you last night?" Sirius said when James walked through the Griffindor portrait hole. "I was having a good clear out in my mind."
"Yeah what ever!" Sirius said in disbelief. "Who was she?" "Just leave it ok!" James snapped. "I'm going to bed!" "Ah sorry to break it to you mate, but we've got transfiguration in ." Sirius looked at his watch, it read "Get you're a$$ to transfiguration! You're late!" "In five minutes ago." He finished.
James groaned. After transfiguration Mcgonnagal called James to her desk.
"Mr Potter. How is it going with miss Evans?" She asked. "Well I think we've just had a break through. I've arranged a few extra sessions with her to help. Touch wood she should start improving soon."
"Very good. You know I see great potential in her; one of the many reasons the staff and I made her prefect was because we felt there was something more to her than meets the eye. Thank you for helping us James I will award 5 points to Griffindor, to you." "Thank you professor"
The rest of the day went really slowly for James. As he hadn't had any sleep, he was eagerly awaiting the end of lessons, so he could get into the nice warm bed, which was calling him. He managed the whole day; the only problem was that he couldn't think of anything but Lily.
In the morning he kept dismissing his thought, saying to himself, its just lack of sleep. But by the end of the day he had come up with a list of tasks, which would help make her more confident.
"Or more like excuses to talk to her and spend time with her!" His conscience kept telling him. James noticed that every time he saw even just a flicker of red hair he got butterflies in the pit of his stomach, or that he would smile at lily just to see her smile back.
He noticed in classes with her all he seemed to take in was how lily took her left foot out of her shoe and poked her tongue out slightly when she was concentrating. And whenever she wasn't in uniform she always wore the same old baggy white jumper.
He didn't know what had gotten into him. He had never felt like this before. James wasn't the only one who had noticed a change in him though. Sirius was worried about James, in two days he had gone from fun loving, confident James to hard-working, constantly spacing out James.
Sirius wondered what was going on in his best friend's mind, that was until Thursday morning. They were walking down the charms corridor on their way to their next lesson, which was with the Ravenclaws.
James saw lily and went to say hi. Sirius watched his buddy, intently; there was something, in his eyes, which was different. They were staring directly into hers. Normally they would be further south when he was talking to a girl or just past their head if it were a boy.
You see James had always had a subconscious thing about eye contact, he didn't like it. Sirius had known James since they were five. Their dads used to do business. And he knew James pretty well, they were closer than brothers. But Sirius had never seen James act like this before.
The way he talked to lily, his head tilted so he was more her level (She was quite a few inches shorter) His hands were in his pockets, and his feet were shuffling from side to side. If Sirius was not mistaken, James was nervous. Did James have a crush on this nerdy, geeky Ravenclaw? If he did then it would be a first. James had never fancied anyone.
Later on Sirius put the question forward; "James, you know that girl you tutor." "Lily?" He replied in what he hoped was an off hand manor. "Uh, yeah that's the one. Has anything happened between you?"
"I think I've found the reason she's been doing badly in class." "Oh what's that?" "She lacks confidence, she has a lot of power. I can just feel it in her. But she's too afraid to use it."
"Ow, well is there anything else between you? Like have you kissed her or anything?" "No we decided it was best just to be friends." Shock took over Sirius, he could clearly see this girl had an affect on James and if it were any other girl, he would of made a move on them in an instance. But lily seemed to be different.
"So you don't even fancy her?" He questioned. "No way, I admit she's hot. (Hot? Where did that come from, Sirius thought.) But she seems so vulnerable. She's more like a sister to me." Sirius could tell he was lying, as he was running his hand through his hair.
Sirius knew James too well.
There detention meant only one thing- meeting the new caretaker! Or more like terrorising the new caretaker. Filch had a funny feeling that after meeting these boys he knew why Pringle had opted for an early retirement!
James was surprised to realise that almost a month had already passed of this school year. He had been very busy, with quidditch practice three nights a week (he was a chaser), as well as tutoring twice a week, a detention what seemed to be every other day, followed by a few make out sessions with various girls and as many pranks as he could fit in (and believe me that's a lot!).
Not to mention the prefects meeting he had to attend. He was shocked to find out that the red head he was tutoring, Lily Evans, was also a prefect. He wandered how she had managed to obtain this position, as in classes she didn't seem to be doing that great. She was also really shy whilst he taught her, only ever speaking when he asked her a question.
Four nights after the Halloween feast James had been tutoring Lily. She had done the switching spell, which he asked her to, fine. And now he was heading up to the Griffindor tower, he was almost there when he decided he was hungry (as he always was at 8.30!), so he turned round and headed in the direction of the kitchen. But as he walked past the defence against the dark arts classroom, he heard a small, delicate squeal;
"Come on mudblood, it's just a bit of fun!" James peered round the door and saw two emerald green eyes the size of saucers, tears streaming out. Snape had lily cornered and seemed to be advancing on her.
James went ballistic. Although he didn't particularly care for this girl much, she was completely helpless and innocent. James couldn't stand men who took advantage of girls like that! Something, which had never happened to James before, happened. His temper got the better of him and Snape was thrown across the room, without James even touching him.
"Don't you dare ever touch lily or any other girl again!" James spat. He had stood to his full height clenching his fists and narrowing his eyes giving him a deadly scary appearance, which even Peeves the poltergeist, would cower from.
"Ow come on Potter, she's just a mudblood! Surely you know the rule. Have all the fun you want with mudbloods and muggles but the pure bloods are for the serious stuff!" At this comment Snape was thrown across the room again. This time though it was a lot harder, leaving him dazed.
James went over to the corner where lily was; something about how helpless and vulnerable she seemed made him put an arm around her and guide her out of the room. Cradling her like a baby, he guided her down to the kitchens and sat her at a small table.
Immediately house elves swarmed the couple asking them for instructions. James told them he needed 2 cups of hot cocoa, some biscuits and a warm blanket, as lily was currently shaking. Snape may not have hurt her but he had treated her pretty rough none the less.
She was wearing some loose jogging bottoms and a baggy white jumper hiding her petite figure, making her skin look paler and her hair more vibrant. To James she seemed frail and fragile.
"Are you alright?" James spoke to her for the first time since they had left the classroom. She nodded. "No your not." He stated, he wrapped the blanket a house elf had given to him, around her and did the first thing, which came into his mind, he hugged her. "It's ok, you're safe now." He soothed.
They sat in silence for about half an hour. "Thank you." Lily said in a voice no louder than a whisper. James was a little shocked, she had spoken UN prompted. "For what?" he replied.
"For saving me from that. that slime ball." "Ow, it was nothing. And one would have done it." "No. Nobody has ever stood up for me before, not when I've been called a mudblood, of a. a freak or anything!" James didn't know what to say to this.
"You can't have met any decent people then." He stated firmly yet quietly. She looked at her shoes. "Who would call you a freak?" he asked.
"My. my sister." "Why?" "You don't really want to hear this. I don't want to waste your time with stupid, childish tales of my sinister sister." "Come on, tell me. I really want to know." Lily didn't really feel like telling him this, she thought he would think she were stupid, but he sounded sincere so she said;
"Well ever since I was little I was always doing things which nobody could explain, for instance when I was 7 there was this jumper which I hated, but my mum insisted on me wearing it, then one day she made me go to put it on and I was upset about it, then it suddenly burst into flames. It always happened around me, so my sister called me a freak. But she was never really THAT horrible to me until I got accepted to Hogwarts, which is when she started telling me that I was wasting my time at this freak school and that I would never amount to anything."
Lily paused for a second then said what seemed to have been on her mind for quite some time. "And you know what, she's right! Isn't she? I WON'T amount to anything! I can't even do simple spells, let alone expect to get a career in the magical world!"
"But I don't get it?" "What?" "I don't get how you can't do spells in class, yet you can when I tutor you?" "I. I just freeze, all those people there, and watching " "THAT'S IT! I can't believe I didn't see it before. I'm such an idiot!"
"What?" lily asked, half scared, half confused. "You're shy! And you have no confidence, all because your sister was cruel to you and nasty and . jealous." "She. you. What?"
"Lily" James turned and looked into her eyes, those eyes. "Lily, your not bad at magic. In fact from what I have seen you're good, better than good, in fact, you're excellent! You don't need tutoring, you need training, in how to believe in yourself and then your abilities can grow and flourish!"
"Are you sure?" She questioned. "Positive!" He replied, leaving no room for argument. "And you would do this for me?" "You have to have more faith in people, you know not everybody is out to get you!"
"You know you're a lot different to how I thought you were." "How did you think I was?"
"Well, when I first met you I . you . you seemed a little arrogant. Sorry!" she said blushing. "But I don't think that now. Now I know you're not. You have been kinder to me in one night than most people have ever been to me." She quickly added.
"Well, a lot of us are guilty of judging books by their covers." She didn't seem as bad as he originally thought. In actual fact she seemed really sweet. "So your parents aren't happy that you're a witch?" James asked.
"Oh no they were ecstatic! It's just my sister, Petunia. She hates anything weird and wonderful. It's funny really, she's kinda the opposite of Snape. What's your family like?" "Ow, well my mum is lovely, she has never worked, and she's always been at home so she could look after me and my two sisters. I think maybe she would have liked to work, but my father never wanted her to.
She's the loveliest person I know! But my father is a different story. He seems to think he is something special, just because he is some famous quidditch star. He isn't a supporter of the dark movement, but he isn't against it. I can't stand the way he prides himself on his blood."
James stopped he had just spilt his inner most feelings about his father, to someone he barely knew. He hadn't even told Sirius this stuff. There was just something about Lily, which made him want to trust her.
"So that's why you pull those pranks? There just a cover?" "No, I just enjoy winding my father up with those. Did you know that every single male Potter has been made Head boy and got no less than 20 newts. So of course that's what everybody expects of me! I'm also expected to become quidditch captain and follow in my father's footsteps, becoming a great and famous quidditch player. I can tell you now that is not going to happen."
"Why not?" "Quidditch is great. But for fun. Doing it every day will just ruin it. I want to go into the ministry. And I want to do something to be remembered for."
"That's good, you should do what you want to." Was all lily could think to reply with. James noticed that she seemed to have come out of her shell a little and was actually sharing her feelings. "Do you know what you want to do when you're older?" He asked her.
"I don't know?" "Ow come on you must have some sort of idea?" "Well." She seemed to be contemplating her answer "Promise not to tell anyone!"
"I promise!" "Well I want to help people somehow. I don't know how yet though."
"Like charity work?" "Yes, but something I can still get paid for." "Do you like children? You could work in an orphanage. You know since this new dark lord has started to gain power a lot of children have been left parentless."
"Ow that's terrible. I would love to do something like that, I love children. I only wish there was something I could do to help now!" "Maybe there is!" "What do you mean?"
"Maybe we could arrange some sort of charity event to raise money for orphanages or something!" "James." "Yes?"
"Is there anything you are bad at, because you seem so perfect!" Lily said with a cheeky grin. James leaned towards her, and softly kissed her on the lips. She kissed him back then realising what was happening, pulled away. "Sorry" She said, "I didn't mean to mislead you." "You mean you don't want to kiss me?" James asked rather taken a back.
"No, I mean I don't really know you THAT well?" she replied. "Ow, I'm soooo sorry, it's just I've never just been friends with a girl."
"Why not?" "Well they always want more, so I just expect that now." "Ow that must be terrible."
"It is sometimes, like when I just want a conversation or something." "Well, I promise I will never treat you like that." James blushed.
"I'm surprised I've never really talked to you before. We've had our first non work related conversation tonight and I already feel I've known you all my life." James said, suddenly breaking the silence.
"You know if you weren't so shy people would be flocking around you!" "Oh yeah!" Lily challenged, picking up a freshly baked pie, which was cooling on the side, ready for breakfast. "You wouldn't." James stated, not actually believing lily would do such a thing.
But she did! He looked up at her a mischievous grin spreading across his face. He was liking her more and more by the minute.
"You're going to pay for that!" He said chasing after her.
Three hours later Lily and James were covered head to toe with food, as was half the kitchen. "Oh my gosh!" Lily exclaimed, "Look at the mess we've made."
"Not to worry," James smiled "Cleaneous Totalem" And with that everything was cleaned. "That one is a must if you are a marauder!"
Lily smiled, "One more thing, it seems we have talked the night away. It's seven o'clock in the morning!" "You're kidding me!" James looked around and sure enough the house elves were all scurrying around preparing food and sending it up to the house tables.
James escorted Lily back to the Ravenclaw common room. "In spite of what happened, I'm really enjoyed last night. Thank you, James, thanks for sticking up for me." Lily smiled.
"No problem, Lil's." Lily like the way that sounded. She didn't normally like her name shortened but she liked how it sounded coming from James. "We still meeting in the library for our session on Thursday?" He asked.
"Yeah. Thursday at seven." She confirmed. They said a slow goodbye and James headed up to the Griffindor common room.
"Man, where were you last night?" Sirius said when James walked through the Griffindor portrait hole. "I was having a good clear out in my mind."
"Yeah what ever!" Sirius said in disbelief. "Who was she?" "Just leave it ok!" James snapped. "I'm going to bed!" "Ah sorry to break it to you mate, but we've got transfiguration in ." Sirius looked at his watch, it read "Get you're a$$ to transfiguration! You're late!" "In five minutes ago." He finished.
James groaned. After transfiguration Mcgonnagal called James to her desk.
"Mr Potter. How is it going with miss Evans?" She asked. "Well I think we've just had a break through. I've arranged a few extra sessions with her to help. Touch wood she should start improving soon."
"Very good. You know I see great potential in her; one of the many reasons the staff and I made her prefect was because we felt there was something more to her than meets the eye. Thank you for helping us James I will award 5 points to Griffindor, to you." "Thank you professor"
The rest of the day went really slowly for James. As he hadn't had any sleep, he was eagerly awaiting the end of lessons, so he could get into the nice warm bed, which was calling him. He managed the whole day; the only problem was that he couldn't think of anything but Lily.
In the morning he kept dismissing his thought, saying to himself, its just lack of sleep. But by the end of the day he had come up with a list of tasks, which would help make her more confident.
"Or more like excuses to talk to her and spend time with her!" His conscience kept telling him. James noticed that every time he saw even just a flicker of red hair he got butterflies in the pit of his stomach, or that he would smile at lily just to see her smile back.
He noticed in classes with her all he seemed to take in was how lily took her left foot out of her shoe and poked her tongue out slightly when she was concentrating. And whenever she wasn't in uniform she always wore the same old baggy white jumper.
He didn't know what had gotten into him. He had never felt like this before. James wasn't the only one who had noticed a change in him though. Sirius was worried about James, in two days he had gone from fun loving, confident James to hard-working, constantly spacing out James.
Sirius wondered what was going on in his best friend's mind, that was until Thursday morning. They were walking down the charms corridor on their way to their next lesson, which was with the Ravenclaws.
James saw lily and went to say hi. Sirius watched his buddy, intently; there was something, in his eyes, which was different. They were staring directly into hers. Normally they would be further south when he was talking to a girl or just past their head if it were a boy.
You see James had always had a subconscious thing about eye contact, he didn't like it. Sirius had known James since they were five. Their dads used to do business. And he knew James pretty well, they were closer than brothers. But Sirius had never seen James act like this before.
The way he talked to lily, his head tilted so he was more her level (She was quite a few inches shorter) His hands were in his pockets, and his feet were shuffling from side to side. If Sirius was not mistaken, James was nervous. Did James have a crush on this nerdy, geeky Ravenclaw? If he did then it would be a first. James had never fancied anyone.
Later on Sirius put the question forward; "James, you know that girl you tutor." "Lily?" He replied in what he hoped was an off hand manor. "Uh, yeah that's the one. Has anything happened between you?"
"I think I've found the reason she's been doing badly in class." "Oh what's that?" "She lacks confidence, she has a lot of power. I can just feel it in her. But she's too afraid to use it."
"Ow, well is there anything else between you? Like have you kissed her or anything?" "No we decided it was best just to be friends." Shock took over Sirius, he could clearly see this girl had an affect on James and if it were any other girl, he would of made a move on them in an instance. But lily seemed to be different.
"So you don't even fancy her?" He questioned. "No way, I admit she's hot. (Hot? Where did that come from, Sirius thought.) But she seems so vulnerable. She's more like a sister to me." Sirius could tell he was lying, as he was running his hand through his hair.
Sirius knew James too well.