"I'll Never Give in to You" – A Lily and James story
A/N – This is my second fan-fic, so please be nice and R&R
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Chapter Seven – James is an idiot, Toto and Edelweiss
Lily walked into Dumbledore's office, levitating her trunk in front of her. James was already there and looked very exited.
"I can't wait to get there Evans! Do you think we'll have to share a room?" He winked suggestively.
Lily rolled her eyes. "Well Potter, as much as I would love to share a room with you, you hunky sex god, I don't think anyone would dare to subject me to such torture." She paused "And anyway, its not like we'll run out of room. Beauxbatons is going to be practically empty with none of the normal students there."
"Oh…yeah, I guess your right."
"Of course I'm right Potter."
"Evans, I've been thinking...well I think that we should start calling each other by our first names from now on. I mean...people might get confused if they hear us calling each other Evans and Potter, instead of our real names." Said James awkwardly.
"You, thinking? Well, good idea, for once, James. You're right, we've got to convince every one at the Summit that we get along and make a fabulous team."
"We may not get along that well, Evans, I mean Lily, but we still make a pretty good team, if I may say so myself."
"Yeah, I guess so."
Just then, Dumbledore strode into his office via a connecting door.
"Everybody ready?" He asked.
Lily and James nodded. Holding tight to their respective trunks, they reached out and touched the pocket watch that Dumbledore had removed from his pocket. The all too familiar hook-behind-navel-tugging-feeling was present and after several minutes in limbo, Lily, James and Professor Dumbledore arrived at their destination.
They were standing in a surreal landscape. The sky was a swirling mass of silvery gray cloud and the ground was covered in a think blanket of snow. Lily did a 360-degree turn. There was nothing to be seen on the horizon. No trees, no buildings and no other people.
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Said James, in a sickly female voice, breaking the silence.
"You know what Potter –"
"James." He corrected her immediately.
"James. I'm seriously beginning to doubt your sexuality. You tell me that you are in love with me, but are you sure? You're obsessed with musicals! Girly ones! Don't you think that's just a little bit campy? Are you sure that your apparent longing to date me doesn't stem from your long repressed desire to co-ordinate my wardrobe and style my hair?"
James was shocked, speechless and enraged.
"Evans." He growled.
"Lily." She corrected him, automatically. Then she saw his murderous expression.
"Oh calm down James! Come on, I've seen you snogging enough girls, and enjoying it, to know that you're not gay."
James visibly relaxed.
"Sirius, Remus and Peter like them too, you know." He said defensively. "Sirius' all time favourite film is The Sound of Music. He thinks that Leisel looks utterly shaggable."
Lily giggled, imagining Sirius singing Edelweiss.
Dumbledore cleared his throat to get their attention. They both jumped and blushed, as they had forgotten that he was there.
"Lily, James. In order to get to Beauxbatons we need to similtaneously say the incantation, Videor Lacus."
Lily and James got their wands out.
"On the count of three. One, two, three."
As as they said the incantation, a circular, opaque, sapphire blue lake appeared in the snow, and gliding towards them was a large silver Longboat. Lily thought that she had heard someone whisper the incantation with them from behind her, but she couldn't see anyone when she turned around. After an encouraging nod from Dumbledore, they climbed aboard.
Professor Dumbledore tapped the side of the boat with his wand and muttered:
"Navis Permoveo." The boat began to glide across the lake. When they reached the centre of the lake, it stopped.
Dumbledore pointed his wand straight ahead, and muttered:
"Effrego per Obex." The boat began to move again and Lily shivered and heard James shudder beside her as they passed through some kind of invisible barrier. Lily was distinctly reminded of the plunging-into-ice feeling she had experienced when she accidentally walked through the Fat Friar while doing her Prefect rounds in fifth year.
Immaculate green lawns suddenly replaced the snow-covered grounds that surrounded the lake and the dark blue water softened and sparkled. And ahead of them, as they neared the shore, an elephantine palace of white marble appeared.
They climbed ashore and were surprised to find two Aurors behind them removing Invisibility Cloaks.
"Ah! Lachlan, Emery. Nice to see you join us, visible to everyone at last!"
"Merely a security precaution, Albus."
Lily looked confused.
"Dumbledore can see through invisibility cloaks." James explained.
Lily nodded. But how did James know that particular piece of trivia?
They crossed the lawn and made their way up the flight of wide marble stairs. They were checked over by Security Trolls and more Aurors at the door before finally gaining admittance.
Their footsteps echoed in the enourmous ovular entrance hall that was glittering with flaming torch brackets. A choir of Wood-Nymphs was serenading them from the left side of the room, accompanied by a string quartet. The large fountain in the centre of the room was occupied by multipe be-jewelled golfish, that swam nochalantly through its crystal depths.
James heard Lily gasp beside him and grinned to himself. Ten students and a man who looked to be in his late 30s were sitting on silver thrones against the wall. Three thrones in the middle were raised higher than the others, with the one in between them, even higher than the other two. The man sitting in the middle rose as Lily, James and Professor Dumbledore came to a halt in front of them and his students followed his lead. He was wearing robes of dark blue velvet, wheras his students were all wearing pale blue silk robes.
"Dumbledore, it is a pleasure to be aquainted with you again." Said the man, in a husky voice with a very strong french accent.
"It's good to see you too Olivier." Replied Dumbledore, smiling and shaking his hand.
"May I present my Head Students?" He gestured to the students behind him as he said their names. "Head Girl Jolie Descartes et Head Boy Achille Delacour. Et mon Prefects, Ariane Thibault, Cerise Vespasien, Delphine Ambroise, Sylvie Jourdain, Corin Ermengelde, Hercule Gautier, Leopold Matthieu et Rainier Laurant."
Dumbledore nodded and smiled at them.
"These are my Head Students, James Potter and Lily Evans. Lily, James, this is Monsieur Papillion." James and Lily nodded and smiled.
"Ariane et Delphine, take Monsieur Potter et Madamoiselle Evans to their rooms, sil vous plait. You will be called when everyone has arrived and we are ready for lunch."
Two of the female prefects standing behind their headmaster came forward. One with chesnut brown hair and hazel eyes gave James and Lily a friendly smile, while the blonde next to her ignored Lily, but smiled flirtatiously at James.
"This way." Said the brunette.
The blonde was chatting with James in patchy english, so Lily decided to strike up a convesation with the friendlier brunette.
"Comment t'appelle tu?" Lily asked her.
"Je m'appelle Ariane. Tu parle francais?"
Lily smiled.
"Oui, un peu."
Lily noticed James looking at her incredulously.
"You speak French?" He asked, somewhat impressed.
"A bit. It was one of my subjects in primary school."
"They actually teach you useful stuff at those muggle schools?"
Lily rolled her eyes and continued her rudely interrupted conversation with Ariane.
"J'apologise Ariane." Ariane smiled.
"That is allright. May I converse with you in english? I need to practice."
"Yes, of course!"
"So James, he is your petit garcon?"
"James? No he's not my boyfriend!" Lily laughed.
"Ah, so you are 'only friends'?" She asked slyly.
"No, I wouldn't say that we were friends.We're acquaintances really. He's just a friend of a friend of mine."
Spells – Created by using an incredibly useful English to Latin translator I found in Google
Videor Lacus – translates to: appear lake
Navis Permoveo – translates to: boat move
Effrego per Obex – translates to: break through barrier
Sounds so much more emotive in Latin, doesn't it?
A/N: I want to make it clear that I have nothing, absolutely nothing against homosexuals, so I don't want anyone to be offended!