Chapter 5- A week of work
That evening James arrived at the library at 6.30, to wait for lily, but he found that she was already there. "Hey, why are you so early? I thought we were meeting at 7."
"Ow well I've been here since after dinner, I'm always here." She said timidly. "Ow. Well you ready top get started?" "Sure, what are we doing today?"
"Well." A mischievous grin played across his face. "I have a few activities planned for the next few weeks. This is next weeks itinerary!" He handed lily a list and watched her closely, to see her reaction. She looked at the list. It read:
Monday- 5oclock Quidditch practice
Tuesday- 5oclock Quidditch practice
6oclock Hagrid's hut
Wednesday- 5oclock quidditch practice
9oclock Kitchen and pranks with marauders
Thursday- 6oclock Hagrid's hut
7oclock prefect meeting
Friday- 5oclock Quidditch practice
8oClock party in Griffindor common room.
Saturday- Hogsmeade with James
Sunday- Rest and Quidditch practice.
Lily looked up, confusion dawning on her face. "Why on earth do I have to practice quidditch so much?" "We are going to train you up so you can play in the Ravenclaw quidditch team!" James said proudly.
"NO WAY! 1. All the places in our team are taken, and 2. I can't even sit on a broom without falling off, let alone play quidditch on one." She said all shyness forgotten. "1. The Ravenclaw seeker has a minor leg injury so he is unable to play.
Word is they will be holding tryouts for a reserve. And 2. I will train you." James said in a voice and tone, which was clearly mocking to her. Smooth he thought to himself. "Sorry, but not even you're that good. I can't even fly normally!" she said as stern as Mcgonnagal.
"Are you forgetting who I am? James Harold Potter. Chaser on the Griffindor team, who are reining champions, for the past 7 years. Son of Harold Potter captain and star chaser of the Abbey Axes!"
"Ok, ok!" she said disbelievingly. "If by some chance in hell, I did make it onto the team who would we be against anyway?"
"Umm.Griffindor." He said quietly. "So I would be against you? . Oh. I get it! You've been told to sabotage Ravenclaw. and saw this as the perfect opportunity! I may be shy, but not stupid!"
She turned to leave. But James grabbed her shoulder quickly. A tingle shot down her spine. "Lily, come on, it's not like that." He said in a voice, which seemed to be trembling and just above a whisper. She turned back and saw his eyes were full of compassion and .fright?
"Ok. I'm sorry, I'm just not used to people being nice. That's all." She smiled and he smiled back. "Why are we going to Hagrid's hut?" "Ow. He said we could help tend to some of the magical creatures he looks after."
"Ow groovy! What types?" James explained about some of the animals. And they talked quietly about anything and everything, until the grumpy librarian kicked them out of the library.
James walked lily back to her common room, after what happened the other night he wasn't going to take any chances with her. James informed his fellow marauders of his plans for lily and asked them for help.
They of course being the great friends they were obliged. They spent the rest of the weekend planning I told you they were occasionally organised).
Finally it was Monday- 5oclock James met lily in the entrance hall and led her to the quidditch pitch. (He had booked it) Upon entering it, it lit up and lily noticed 3 boys walking towards her, she hid behind James. James grabbed her hand and tugged her out in front of him.
"Come on, they won't bite!" He smirked. "At least not hard! Lily meet my best friends. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew."
Sirius grabbed her hand from James who was still holding it. "Mademoiselle" He smiled then kissed her hand. However Remus and Peter both merely smiled and said a brief "Hi", shocking lily a bit, as she expected ALL of the marauders to be over confident and egotistical all the time, not just James and Sirius.
"Tonight, we will be showing you the sit on and hold your broom." James said, handing her a broom. It read "Shooting star" Even though it was the newest, fastest model yet, lily was not impressed. For one she didn't know those facts as she didn't follow sports and that sort of thing and also she was thinking more along the lines of "Oh great, more people to watch me make a fool of myself!" James seemed to read her mind.
"Don't worry lil's. You'll be fine. We're here to help you. We wouldn't make fun of you in any way!" Wondering what on earth she had gotten herself into, she said, "OK" and climbed onto the broomstick.
James was as good as his word and after about an hour, the boys had managed to teach lily the finer points of flying and now she was able to fly around pretty steadily.
The following day the boys taught her the rules of quidditch, demonstrating all the positions. They then threw golf balls for her to catch, first on the ground then on the broom. Finally James gave her two books. "Quidditch through the ages", and a "Where's Wendeline" book, this had one page and every time you opened it the witch, Wedneline was in a different scene hiding somewhere. The idea was, that it would improve how quickly lily could spot the snitch.
After practice it was to Hagrid's hut. First they went in and had a cup of tea with him. Lily accepted some of his treacle tart but James knew from experience, that Hagrid's cooking was bad to eat.
For instance his rock cakes really lived up to their name. They talked a bit about their quidditch plans and schoolwork, and then Hagrid took them out to show them some magical creatures. James knew about most of the animals as he took care of magical creatures, classes but lily didn't, so she was interested in what was there.
There were Narnels, Snail like creatures, which carried their homes on their backs but could also change colour and move quite fast, as a defence mechanism. They were also able to cure rashes with the slime they excreted.
There were also Nifflers, pig like creatures which like gold. James found that one out the hard way.
The solid gold watch he was wearing disappeared and was deposited into Hagrid's lap. Thankfully though Hagrid was a person as honest as they come and returned it without the Niffler seeing.
"Oh Merlin. Thanks my father would slaughter me if he found I lost that! It was a birthday present." He said. They looked at a couple of other creatures until they got to their prime subject. It was a beautiful pink Heffalump. Heffalumps are creatures, which greatly resemble elephants, but are the size of a small dog. Their big ears are used for flying and they have sensitive hearing.
Their trunks or snouts (How ever long it is.) are used for sniffing out things. They are the magical version of a sniffer dog. Finally their eyes can see a very long distance, however only in black and red. They come in many different colours; this pink one was only a baby.
"Aww, awent we a cute wittle fewwow!" Lily said in a baby voice, which made James' heart melt. "I need you two ta look after him for me. His mother left 'im 'bout an hour after he were born. Needs feeding once every two days, 2 mice and a bowl a water." "Ok, no problem." James said.
Hagrid left Lily and James to play with the new baby Heffalump.
"What should we call him?" Lily asked. "I don't know. He looks kinda like a Hufflepuff." James sn!ggered .
"I Know." Lily burst out, totally uncharacteristically "How about Helga!" James laughed. "Helga the Heffalump it is!" he said. "I love animals." She stated with a dreamy expression on her face. "I want oodles of kids, who will have oodles pets."
James smiled, "Yeah Kids and animals are great. I want five, two boys and three girls." The conversation went on like this for a while. Lily had become very comfortable with James, he was her protector, he looked after her and taught her new things. He showed her new people and that there was more to life then work. That people could be trusted. But they could never be more than just friend's right? She had promised him that she would never be like all those other girls.
Wednesday at five they were back out on the quidditch field. Lily today was having her first go on actually catching the real snitch. Remus and Peter were hitting one of the bludgers around, Sirius was also looking for the snitch and James was yelling advice at lily. This was supposed to train lily for game play. But lily wasn't doing too well. Sirius was going easy on her and still winning. In the end they put peter up against her (Quidditch wasn't his best sport!)
"Don't worry lil's, we still have plenty of time to practice." James reassured her. "Anyway, go in have a shower and get changed into something comfortable. We have a busy night ahead of us. I will meet you outside your common room in one hour." He finished.
One hour on the dot Lily came out of the Ravenclaw common room, which was concealed by a suit of armour, to find James waiting for her.
"The others are waiting for us in the kitchen." He said smiling. Lily was wearing some baggy, ripped jeans, a black tee shirt and her usual baggy white jumper. Come to think of it, she always wore that jumper, James thought. In fact he couldn't remember a time when she wasn't wearing it. He lead her once more to the kitchens, this time she took in a lot more. It was down a corridor the floor below the great hall. And did James just start tickling a pear? The pear turned into a door handle and behind the painting
(which was of a pair and various other fruits!) was the kitchen. James' friends Peter, Remus and Sirius were all sitting at a table, stuffing their faces but all at the same time looking at a piece of parchment. It was only then lily realised there was a small creature with big ears looking up at her.
"Ahh!" she screamed, and ran and hid behind James. This confused James, surely she wasn't afraid of house elves? She had seen them the other night. "What's wrong?" He asked. "What is that thing?" She whispered.
"That's a house elf. You saw them the other night, remember?" "I wasn't really paying attention to my surroundings, I was . well, I was in shock."
"I suppose. Well this is Spaggage the house elf. H won't hurt you, in fact house elves are lovely creatures. Their role in life is to help wizards or their masters, with what ever they need. They normally only come with rich wizarding families or big manors. Hogwarts has well over 100. We know each and everyone by name." He finished proudly.
"Sorry, miss, for scaring miss." Said Spaggage the house elf. "Does miss want anything?" "I would accept something, or the house elves will be offended!" Sirius shouted. "And if there offended then we will be black listed!" Remus added.
"Yeah" Peter said. "Ow, ok, um may I have some pumpkin juice please?" She said shyly. "Certainly miss, thank you." The little elf said, running off with its request, a broad smile playing on its face. "You could've had anything you wanted and you ask for pumpkin juice?" James said in mock disgust.
"Sorry." Lily said, tears welling in her eyes, afraid that she had offended one of her only friends. "No, it's ok. I was only joking." James added hastily.
"What prank are we doing tonight?" Remus asked, wanting to change the subject quickly to avoid any more embarrassment for his friend.
"I thought we could try something special as lily is a first timer. Peter did you bring the P.G.?" "Err.umm."Peter started. "Don't worry, I got it." Remus laughed. Oh how useless his mate was.
They showed the book to lily. She was fascinated, of course they made her swear she would take its secrets to her grave. The Idea was to teach her to trust people by showing them they could trust in her. "It needs to be something which will last a while and will amaze everyone."
They discussed it for a while, and decided on some decorating. They went into the dark, empty great hall and looked up at the ceiling, it was very high and full of wooden beams. "Are you sure this will work lil's?" James questioned. "I'm not sure if we'll be powerful enough? But we can try." "Ok. After 3" Sirius said, "1." All five of them looked up, "2." They all raised their wands. "3!"
"Starskycium enchantatalcar!" they all charmed.
The ceiling went all smoky, once the smoke had cleared there was a dark starry night sky. "Wow" they all admired.
"Lily where did you find that charm?" Sirius asked in awe. Only now could he see what James said, that she was very smart and very powerful. "Urr. um. uh. in a book. I, I f.f.found the libraries restricted section." She blushed.
"Nice one!" He replied, giving her a smile and a thumbs up.
The next morning the school entered the great hall to find a clear November sky greeting them. They all found it rather lovely. And once again Mcgonnagal called Dumbledore to breakfast.
"Messer's Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew, I would like for you to come and see me after you finish your breakfast, please." The boys all gulped and lily gave a guilty glance in their direction, when they got up so did she. "Lil's where are you going?" James asked.
"I'm going with you." She smiled pleasantly. "No your not!" James said forcefully. "You needn't be in trouble, he doesn't suspect you."
"Look, I am as much to blame as you! In fact even more so. As I was the one who came up with the Idea." James could see there was no swaying her. Merlin, he thought, she has morals too. What a girl!
They reached Dumbledore's office. This was becoming routine. He looked a little surprised to see lily there. "Ahh, miss Evans, to what do I owe this pleasure?" He said. "No, not pleasure. I'm here with the boys." She replied nervously.
This was the first time she had ever been in trouble. "Ow, well if you are here for the same reason as these gentlemen, then pleasure it must be." "Huh?" Came from four males. "Well I want to thank you for the beautiful addition, to the great hall." "You do?" The boys said in sync. Lily giggled and James pouted at her.
"However did you manage to do that?" He asked, wondering how five fifth years could manage such powerful magic. "Well sir, lily found out how to do it." James said pushing lily forward.
"Miss Evans?" Dumbledore prompted. "Well. I. err. found it in a book, I was reading. It was about decorating. We all did the charm at once." "Incredible. And how long will it last?" "Twenty four hours sir."
"Well, I may have to make it more permanent then. And lets see, 5 points each to Griffindor to the boys, and as miss Evans found the charm, 10 points to Ravenclaw." "Thank you sir." The boys all said at once.
"Thank you sir." Lily said with a massive smile. "You may go now." And they all left, passing Mcgonnagal on the way up.
"Ah Minerva" "You wanted to talk Albus?"
"Yes I wanted to ask you how miss Evans is doing." She bowed her head. "But I believe I have just seen. It seems our plan is working." "What?" Mcgonnagal questioned.
"She was primarily responsible for the fiasco at breakfast this morning." "But how? That is such advanced magic. And she still shows no sign of improvement?" "Ah, didn't I tell you she posses a great power, and she only needed a key to unlock it. I believe she has found her key." "Oh my, what is it?"
"Not it, but who. I sense that it is mr Potter." "J. James Potter?" She said disbelievingly. "Yes. I believe I see some sort of connection between them. Not much different to the one which Godric Griffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw shared."
That evening James arrived at the library at 6.30, to wait for lily, but he found that she was already there. "Hey, why are you so early? I thought we were meeting at 7."
"Ow well I've been here since after dinner, I'm always here." She said timidly. "Ow. Well you ready top get started?" "Sure, what are we doing today?"
"Well." A mischievous grin played across his face. "I have a few activities planned for the next few weeks. This is next weeks itinerary!" He handed lily a list and watched her closely, to see her reaction. She looked at the list. It read:
Monday- 5oclock Quidditch practice
Tuesday- 5oclock Quidditch practice
6oclock Hagrid's hut
Wednesday- 5oclock quidditch practice
9oclock Kitchen and pranks with marauders
Thursday- 6oclock Hagrid's hut
7oclock prefect meeting
Friday- 5oclock Quidditch practice
8oClock party in Griffindor common room.
Saturday- Hogsmeade with James
Sunday- Rest and Quidditch practice.
Lily looked up, confusion dawning on her face. "Why on earth do I have to practice quidditch so much?" "We are going to train you up so you can play in the Ravenclaw quidditch team!" James said proudly.
"NO WAY! 1. All the places in our team are taken, and 2. I can't even sit on a broom without falling off, let alone play quidditch on one." She said all shyness forgotten. "1. The Ravenclaw seeker has a minor leg injury so he is unable to play.
Word is they will be holding tryouts for a reserve. And 2. I will train you." James said in a voice and tone, which was clearly mocking to her. Smooth he thought to himself. "Sorry, but not even you're that good. I can't even fly normally!" she said as stern as Mcgonnagal.
"Are you forgetting who I am? James Harold Potter. Chaser on the Griffindor team, who are reining champions, for the past 7 years. Son of Harold Potter captain and star chaser of the Abbey Axes!"
"Ok, ok!" she said disbelievingly. "If by some chance in hell, I did make it onto the team who would we be against anyway?"
"Umm.Griffindor." He said quietly. "So I would be against you? . Oh. I get it! You've been told to sabotage Ravenclaw. and saw this as the perfect opportunity! I may be shy, but not stupid!"
She turned to leave. But James grabbed her shoulder quickly. A tingle shot down her spine. "Lily, come on, it's not like that." He said in a voice, which seemed to be trembling and just above a whisper. She turned back and saw his eyes were full of compassion and .fright?
"Ok. I'm sorry, I'm just not used to people being nice. That's all." She smiled and he smiled back. "Why are we going to Hagrid's hut?" "Ow. He said we could help tend to some of the magical creatures he looks after."
"Ow groovy! What types?" James explained about some of the animals. And they talked quietly about anything and everything, until the grumpy librarian kicked them out of the library.
James walked lily back to her common room, after what happened the other night he wasn't going to take any chances with her. James informed his fellow marauders of his plans for lily and asked them for help.
They of course being the great friends they were obliged. They spent the rest of the weekend planning I told you they were occasionally organised).
Finally it was Monday- 5oclock James met lily in the entrance hall and led her to the quidditch pitch. (He had booked it) Upon entering it, it lit up and lily noticed 3 boys walking towards her, she hid behind James. James grabbed her hand and tugged her out in front of him.
"Come on, they won't bite!" He smirked. "At least not hard! Lily meet my best friends. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew."
Sirius grabbed her hand from James who was still holding it. "Mademoiselle" He smiled then kissed her hand. However Remus and Peter both merely smiled and said a brief "Hi", shocking lily a bit, as she expected ALL of the marauders to be over confident and egotistical all the time, not just James and Sirius.
"Tonight, we will be showing you the sit on and hold your broom." James said, handing her a broom. It read "Shooting star" Even though it was the newest, fastest model yet, lily was not impressed. For one she didn't know those facts as she didn't follow sports and that sort of thing and also she was thinking more along the lines of "Oh great, more people to watch me make a fool of myself!" James seemed to read her mind.
"Don't worry lil's. You'll be fine. We're here to help you. We wouldn't make fun of you in any way!" Wondering what on earth she had gotten herself into, she said, "OK" and climbed onto the broomstick.
James was as good as his word and after about an hour, the boys had managed to teach lily the finer points of flying and now she was able to fly around pretty steadily.
The following day the boys taught her the rules of quidditch, demonstrating all the positions. They then threw golf balls for her to catch, first on the ground then on the broom. Finally James gave her two books. "Quidditch through the ages", and a "Where's Wendeline" book, this had one page and every time you opened it the witch, Wedneline was in a different scene hiding somewhere. The idea was, that it would improve how quickly lily could spot the snitch.
After practice it was to Hagrid's hut. First they went in and had a cup of tea with him. Lily accepted some of his treacle tart but James knew from experience, that Hagrid's cooking was bad to eat.
For instance his rock cakes really lived up to their name. They talked a bit about their quidditch plans and schoolwork, and then Hagrid took them out to show them some magical creatures. James knew about most of the animals as he took care of magical creatures, classes but lily didn't, so she was interested in what was there.
There were Narnels, Snail like creatures, which carried their homes on their backs but could also change colour and move quite fast, as a defence mechanism. They were also able to cure rashes with the slime they excreted.
There were also Nifflers, pig like creatures which like gold. James found that one out the hard way.
The solid gold watch he was wearing disappeared and was deposited into Hagrid's lap. Thankfully though Hagrid was a person as honest as they come and returned it without the Niffler seeing.
"Oh Merlin. Thanks my father would slaughter me if he found I lost that! It was a birthday present." He said. They looked at a couple of other creatures until they got to their prime subject. It was a beautiful pink Heffalump. Heffalumps are creatures, which greatly resemble elephants, but are the size of a small dog. Their big ears are used for flying and they have sensitive hearing.
Their trunks or snouts (How ever long it is.) are used for sniffing out things. They are the magical version of a sniffer dog. Finally their eyes can see a very long distance, however only in black and red. They come in many different colours; this pink one was only a baby.
"Aww, awent we a cute wittle fewwow!" Lily said in a baby voice, which made James' heart melt. "I need you two ta look after him for me. His mother left 'im 'bout an hour after he were born. Needs feeding once every two days, 2 mice and a bowl a water." "Ok, no problem." James said.
Hagrid left Lily and James to play with the new baby Heffalump.
"What should we call him?" Lily asked. "I don't know. He looks kinda like a Hufflepuff." James sn!ggered .
"I Know." Lily burst out, totally uncharacteristically "How about Helga!" James laughed. "Helga the Heffalump it is!" he said. "I love animals." She stated with a dreamy expression on her face. "I want oodles of kids, who will have oodles pets."
James smiled, "Yeah Kids and animals are great. I want five, two boys and three girls." The conversation went on like this for a while. Lily had become very comfortable with James, he was her protector, he looked after her and taught her new things. He showed her new people and that there was more to life then work. That people could be trusted. But they could never be more than just friend's right? She had promised him that she would never be like all those other girls.
Wednesday at five they were back out on the quidditch field. Lily today was having her first go on actually catching the real snitch. Remus and Peter were hitting one of the bludgers around, Sirius was also looking for the snitch and James was yelling advice at lily. This was supposed to train lily for game play. But lily wasn't doing too well. Sirius was going easy on her and still winning. In the end they put peter up against her (Quidditch wasn't his best sport!)
"Don't worry lil's, we still have plenty of time to practice." James reassured her. "Anyway, go in have a shower and get changed into something comfortable. We have a busy night ahead of us. I will meet you outside your common room in one hour." He finished.
One hour on the dot Lily came out of the Ravenclaw common room, which was concealed by a suit of armour, to find James waiting for her.
"The others are waiting for us in the kitchen." He said smiling. Lily was wearing some baggy, ripped jeans, a black tee shirt and her usual baggy white jumper. Come to think of it, she always wore that jumper, James thought. In fact he couldn't remember a time when she wasn't wearing it. He lead her once more to the kitchens, this time she took in a lot more. It was down a corridor the floor below the great hall. And did James just start tickling a pear? The pear turned into a door handle and behind the painting
(which was of a pair and various other fruits!) was the kitchen. James' friends Peter, Remus and Sirius were all sitting at a table, stuffing their faces but all at the same time looking at a piece of parchment. It was only then lily realised there was a small creature with big ears looking up at her.
"Ahh!" she screamed, and ran and hid behind James. This confused James, surely she wasn't afraid of house elves? She had seen them the other night. "What's wrong?" He asked. "What is that thing?" She whispered.
"That's a house elf. You saw them the other night, remember?" "I wasn't really paying attention to my surroundings, I was . well, I was in shock."
"I suppose. Well this is Spaggage the house elf. H won't hurt you, in fact house elves are lovely creatures. Their role in life is to help wizards or their masters, with what ever they need. They normally only come with rich wizarding families or big manors. Hogwarts has well over 100. We know each and everyone by name." He finished proudly.
"Sorry, miss, for scaring miss." Said Spaggage the house elf. "Does miss want anything?" "I would accept something, or the house elves will be offended!" Sirius shouted. "And if there offended then we will be black listed!" Remus added.
"Yeah" Peter said. "Ow, ok, um may I have some pumpkin juice please?" She said shyly. "Certainly miss, thank you." The little elf said, running off with its request, a broad smile playing on its face. "You could've had anything you wanted and you ask for pumpkin juice?" James said in mock disgust.
"Sorry." Lily said, tears welling in her eyes, afraid that she had offended one of her only friends. "No, it's ok. I was only joking." James added hastily.
"What prank are we doing tonight?" Remus asked, wanting to change the subject quickly to avoid any more embarrassment for his friend.
"I thought we could try something special as lily is a first timer. Peter did you bring the P.G.?" "Err.umm."Peter started. "Don't worry, I got it." Remus laughed. Oh how useless his mate was.
They showed the book to lily. She was fascinated, of course they made her swear she would take its secrets to her grave. The Idea was to teach her to trust people by showing them they could trust in her. "It needs to be something which will last a while and will amaze everyone."
They discussed it for a while, and decided on some decorating. They went into the dark, empty great hall and looked up at the ceiling, it was very high and full of wooden beams. "Are you sure this will work lil's?" James questioned. "I'm not sure if we'll be powerful enough? But we can try." "Ok. After 3" Sirius said, "1." All five of them looked up, "2." They all raised their wands. "3!"
"Starskycium enchantatalcar!" they all charmed.
The ceiling went all smoky, once the smoke had cleared there was a dark starry night sky. "Wow" they all admired.
"Lily where did you find that charm?" Sirius asked in awe. Only now could he see what James said, that she was very smart and very powerful. "Urr. um. uh. in a book. I, I f.f.found the libraries restricted section." She blushed.
"Nice one!" He replied, giving her a smile and a thumbs up.
The next morning the school entered the great hall to find a clear November sky greeting them. They all found it rather lovely. And once again Mcgonnagal called Dumbledore to breakfast.
"Messer's Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew, I would like for you to come and see me after you finish your breakfast, please." The boys all gulped and lily gave a guilty glance in their direction, when they got up so did she. "Lil's where are you going?" James asked.
"I'm going with you." She smiled pleasantly. "No your not!" James said forcefully. "You needn't be in trouble, he doesn't suspect you."
"Look, I am as much to blame as you! In fact even more so. As I was the one who came up with the Idea." James could see there was no swaying her. Merlin, he thought, she has morals too. What a girl!
They reached Dumbledore's office. This was becoming routine. He looked a little surprised to see lily there. "Ahh, miss Evans, to what do I owe this pleasure?" He said. "No, not pleasure. I'm here with the boys." She replied nervously.
This was the first time she had ever been in trouble. "Ow, well if you are here for the same reason as these gentlemen, then pleasure it must be." "Huh?" Came from four males. "Well I want to thank you for the beautiful addition, to the great hall." "You do?" The boys said in sync. Lily giggled and James pouted at her.
"However did you manage to do that?" He asked, wondering how five fifth years could manage such powerful magic. "Well sir, lily found out how to do it." James said pushing lily forward.
"Miss Evans?" Dumbledore prompted. "Well. I. err. found it in a book, I was reading. It was about decorating. We all did the charm at once." "Incredible. And how long will it last?" "Twenty four hours sir."
"Well, I may have to make it more permanent then. And lets see, 5 points each to Griffindor to the boys, and as miss Evans found the charm, 10 points to Ravenclaw." "Thank you sir." The boys all said at once.
"Thank you sir." Lily said with a massive smile. "You may go now." And they all left, passing Mcgonnagal on the way up.
"Ah Minerva" "You wanted to talk Albus?"
"Yes I wanted to ask you how miss Evans is doing." She bowed her head. "But I believe I have just seen. It seems our plan is working." "What?" Mcgonnagal questioned.
"She was primarily responsible for the fiasco at breakfast this morning." "But how? That is such advanced magic. And she still shows no sign of improvement?" "Ah, didn't I tell you she posses a great power, and she only needed a key to unlock it. I believe she has found her key." "Oh my, what is it?"
"Not it, but who. I sense that it is mr Potter." "J. James Potter?" She said disbelievingly. "Yes. I believe I see some sort of connection between them. Not much different to the one which Godric Griffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw shared."