Welcome to Chapter 8. I got so many reviews on the last chapter, THANK YOU
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Bows
down) I thank all thee who has reviewed. I have been thinking that I may
need to up the rating of my story. I have the next eight or so chapters
planed out in my head and certain things happen that I feel that I should
up the rating to R, even though the real rating should be around PG-15/16.
It is just an idea; I will have to get a lot further to make an final
decision.
Also I made a mistake in one of my other chapters. I had originally thought that Tonks was blasted off the Black Family tree because SHE was the one who married a muggle, Ted Tonks. When someone pointed that out, I re-read that chapter in OotP, and as it turns out that person was right. Sorry about that mistake. (Hits self over head) I know, I'm a baka, no need to say it.
Currently listening to The Two Towers soundtrack, I am on the song Isengaurd Unleashed. If you are like me, and you analyze the music in the movie and are able to name each track the songs come form at any given moment from the soundtracks and movies, then you know at the beginning of the song is the music that plays when that Uruk-Hai bastard kills poor Haldir. I know that he dies in the book, but not at Helms Deep, as a matter of fact he dies during an assault on Lothloiren. So why have him die in Helm's Deep, huh? HUH? Those bastards.
Note: this is just my take on the goings on at Hogwarts when the Marauders were there, but I believe that Peter was slipping information to Voldemort during their seventh year, but he didn't become a fully fledged Death Eater until after he left Hogwarts. So that is what is what will be happening in my fic. I think the same thing for Bellatrix as well, only she was just passing on information about Dumbledore, and not the Potters. Well that is just my silly take on everything, it will all be more clear by the time Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince comes out. I wonder who the Half Blood Prince is; I don't think it is a new character but just someone that we don't know anything about. I personally think that it is either Dumbledore (we were NEVER EVER told that Dumbledore is pureblood, half blood, or muggle-born. Rowling NEVER says that, and he is powerful enough and he plays a major role), Snape (face it people, we don't know jack shit about Snape. Hell he could easily be the father of Luna Lovegood for all we know. No I don't think he is the father of Luna Lovegood, but you know what I mean) or James Potter (I know that most of us assume that he is pureblood, but Rowling has never said out and out, James Potter was a pureblood/half blood/muggle-born). Those are just my theories.
Disclaimer: All is property of J.K Rowling. Nothing but Anthy, Amberle and Professor Lantis are mine. All you blood sucking lawyers can go screw a tree, because I do not own them. Besides if you sued me, you would get.... ABSOLUTLY NOTHING! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH! A couple of the names I use in this chapter are from the Celtic myth of Nuada and the Silver Arm, and I don't own those either. It is a pretty cool myth, and for those of you who have played the PC game, Beyond Atlantis, you know where a bunch of the names came from. That is one friggan awesome game; the only bad thing is you have to have an IQ of 160 to beat it without a walkthrough. I managed to get through the Ireland stage, and half of the Maya stage without help, but then I got to China and HOLY CRAP was that hard, especially when you are in the turtle room that took me almost four hours to understand. The part in Hell was pretty cool though, and Tan-Yun was a cool character, even if he was pushy and demanded that damn mushroom of immortality. Took me a while to understand how you got the correct order of stamps too, on the back of the fan that girl in the red china dress is the correct order of stamps. The hard part is finding which animal gives you certain stamps. Ughh....that took forever.
By the way, I know what happens to Lily in this chapter is extremely overdone, but it had to happen for later plot developments. Or not-so-later plot developments. (Snicker)
Enjoy chapter 8
XVIX
Lily walked the darkened corridors of Hogwarts and made it back to the library. As she thought, Lily found her wand lying on one of the tables. After mentally smacking herself for leaving it Lily put her wand back into her robes and continued back to the Gryffindor Common Room. It was very much unlike Lily to forget anything, much less her wand, the most important thing she owned. She glanced around the dark corner to make sure that there wasn't a teacher on the prowl and Lily made a quick dash up the dark corridor. Running into a teacher would be the worst thing she could do, especially if it was McGonagall or Lantis. Lily pushed the thoughts aside, but then a soft chuckle was heard.
Lily stopped dead in her tracks. Only Professor Lantis would laugh like that whenever he caught a student. She swallowed the lump in her throat and turned to see the person who emitted that chuckle. It was a student! Lily couldn't believe it, but as she looked at the student Lily recognized him at once as Rodulphos Lestrange of Slytherin. He was stocky with lanky hair, the color of dead grass. Rodulphos was most known for his involvement in the so-called, 'Dark Arts Group of Hogwarts'. But after remembering that she had a Head Girl Badge, Lily got her voice back and said to Lestrange, "What are you doing here at this time of night? You are not Head Boy nor are you a Prefect. I would suggest that you go to bed before I alert one of the Professors," Lily said in the bossiest voice she could conjure given the situation.
"Has the poor little mudblood lost her way?" Rodulphos mocked in his ice cold voice that sent shivers up Lily's spine.
"I guess I do need to inform one of the Professors that you are out of bed at this hour," Lily said. She turned around and began walking in the direction of Madam Prince's office. Lily knew that Madam Prince couldn't do much because he wasn't in the library or destroying any property but Rodulphos Lestrange gave Lily the creeps and she wanted to get back to her warm and safe bed as soon as possible.
But as Lily began to head towards Madam Prince's office, Rodulphos sprang behind Lily and grabbed her wrist. Lily let out a small scream. "Ten points from Slytherin, Lestrange. If you don't let me go I will make if fifty points," she threatened.
"That is if you can get the words out of your mouth," Lestrange mocked as he pulled out his wand and muttered,"Silenceio". Lily immediately lost her voice, although it was clear to the eye that she was screaming out a combination of curses, and swears so bad that it would make a sailor blush. "Much better. Now I don't have to listen to your over-sized mouth," Rodulphos said. Lily mouthed something along the lines of, 'Take this off me now you ass-faced bastard,' but one couldn't be certain. "Now that I that I have your attention, it would be in your best interest to not struggle," he said.
Rodulphos began to circle Lily like a piece of meat that he was eyeing with hunger. "It would seem that you have been getting in the way of our plans, mudblood. Of course, you haven't done anything yet but it is always best to eliminate the threat before it strikes, wouldn't you agree mudblood? Yes, you and Potter would pose quite the threat against us and now we are forced to take care of it," mocked Lestrange. "But seeing as how what a beautiful mudblood you are, I think that I can make some use of you before your time is here".
Lily was having some trouble absorbing the situation, but she knew that she wouldn't have enough time to absorb it completely if she wanted to get out of this situation. That bastard, Lily thought savagely. I may not be able to say aloud any spells but everyone of the male sex has a weakness, thought she. While waiting for an opportune moment, Lily noticed a smirk a mile wide lie on that bastard's face. It was clear that he expected Lily to comply to his every will if she wanted to survive. For a split second he paused in front of Lily and that was when she rammed her knee into every man's weakness. A wave of pride washed across Lily as Rodulphos lay sprawled across the ground clutching his groin.
"Y-y-you b-bi-bitch," he managed to stammer out. Lily smiled, and pulled out her own wand and began to mutter the counter curse that would allow her to speak but Rodulphos bellowed out, "CRUCIO". The spell hit Lily dead in the chest and she fell down feeling as if a thousand white hot knives had been stabbed all throughout her body. Lily screamed like she hadn't screamed in her life, but no sound came out. Once the pain began to subside, Rodulphos cried out "CRUICO" again. It was pain beyond anything she had felt in her life, pain almost beyond endurance. She felt as if she was going to die. Again the pain began to die away, but this time Rodulphos had rose to his feet and picked Lily up by the collar of her uniform. "That ought to teach you," he spat at her. Lily didn't do anything but stare him down with a look that reflected nothing but pure hatred, a loathing so pure that it rid her of all other emotion. She was doing her best to reach her wand and curse that bastard away from her, but the after affects of the curse had her sweaty and shaking. If only I could reach my wand, Lily thought desperately. Her lack of submission caused Rodulphos to lose his patience and he threw his hand back and smacked Lily across her check with all his might, leaving a bright purple bruise.
"RICTUSEMPRA," roared a voice from behind. Rodulphos didn't have enough time to react, and the stunning spell hit him right smack dab square in the gut. With a plunk, the limp body of Rodulphos Lestrange lie sprawled out in the floor. Shakily Lily stood up to see the dim outline of James Potter.
"James," Lily whispered so that only she could hear it. Lily's heart had begun to subconscious beat a mile a minute again with his mere presence, and Lily did not fight the relief she felt at that moment. "James...," she muttered again.
"Lily are you okay?" questioned James with the most concern he had in his voice that anyone had ever heard. His hazel eyes shined though the darkness with concern, and it would almost seem...they shined with love. "Lily ...," he trailed on. Lily's bright green eyes which also shone through the night were brimmed with tears.
"JAMES," Lily exclaimed and she flung herself into his chest and began to sob into it. James just stood there wide-eyed. He had seen them on the Marauder's Map, but the map didn't tell what the two individuals were doing. James had seen that bastard on the map, and his suspicions were confirmed. James began stroking Lily's head in comfort, and just allowing her to cry into his cloths. James had arrived just in time to see Lestrange slap Lily and that was when he stunned him. But his train of thought was soon interrupted by the sound of several teachers marching rapidly up the stairs. Without explanation, James cupped a hand over Lily's mouth and threw his Invisibility Cloak over the pair of them. He could hear Lily breathing rabidly and signaled to her to be quite. She too mush have heard the teachers because it was then when the corridor was silent enough to hear a pin drop.
Professor McGonagall, Madam Prince, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Lantis and Professor Flynn, head of Slytherin house came rushing to see the body of Rodulphos Lestrange. While under the cloak, James and Lily heard every word that was spoken.
"What happened here?" Professor Flynn growled. He was a stocky man with thick grey hair and eyes. His eyebrows were so bushy they seemed to cover his eyes, and many wondered how he could see. Oddly enough Professor Flynn was Defense against Dark Arts teacher, and rather friendly to everyone. On the other hand, Professor Flynn was a man never to be crossed; it could be argued that he had taken a leaf out of Alastor Moody's bucket.
"It looks as if someone stunned him," Professor Lantis said.
"But who would be out at this hour? The only students who had detention were Potter and Evans, and Owen confirmed that the two had gone back to the Gryffindor Tower," said Professor McGonagall.
"I told you what I knew, all I heard was this young man making quite a ruckus at this time of night, and I knew that he wasn't a Prefect or Head," Madam Prince said simply. With skin as wrinkled as her heart, Madam Prince turned around and went back to her office.
"Well someone had to have stunned him. Or more likely the fool acted like his usual idiotic self and the stunning spell he was attempting backfired," Lantis said coldly.
"Well it looks like he was stunned by the Rictusempra spell, which doesn't have a counter curse until it wears off. Let's go a head and take him up to Poppy. By the looks of things he won't be waking up for a few days," Professor Dumbledore said.
"I will find out who did this to my student, and make sure he is expelled," Flynn said dangerously as he pulled out his trunk and magically levitated him up to the Hospital Wing. Professor Flynn saw to it that Rodulphos made it to the Hospital Wing while the rest of the teachers went back to bed. Several minutes later when the coast was clear, James and Lily ran at full speed up to the Gryffindor Tower.
Once the pair was back in the tower James asked Lily again what happened. Lily seemed too shaken up to answer. James didn't want to press the issue if Lily wasn't ready to talk about it. Just as James went up to his dormitory, Lily said softly "Yes Potter".
"Yes to what, Lily," James asked with a puzzled look on his face, thankful that it was dark.
"To say thanks, I will go out with you," Lily said with a smile.
"You...WHAT?" James nearly yelled. After being attacked, and barely avoided expulsion, and a detention KNOW Lily wanted to go out with him. The way a girl's mind worked never did make any sense.
"Hush, before you wake up the whole tower. Next Hogsmead visit I will go out with you on a date. We can do whatever you want. My way of saying thank you," Lily said.
"Ughh okay. Night Lily," James managed to spit out. As Lily walked up to the girl's dormitory, James felt like his quality of life had just shot through the room. He felt like yelling to the world that he would soon be going on a date with Lily Evans, the one girl that resisted the charm of the Marauders, and the girl he had been head over heels for since his third year. James had a grin from ear to ear, and was in pure bliss all they to his dormitory and when he eventually fell asleep Lily's beautiful face graced his dreams.
VIV (next morning at breakfast)
James was still feeling like a million Galleons the next morning during breakfast. He even commented on what a nice day it promised to be, to which Sirius asked him if he had been smoking Floo Powder. Even though the next visit to Hogsmead was almost a month away, James was counting down the nanoseconds. As it turned out the next Hogsmead visit was on the day everyone got out for Christmas Vacation, so the village wouldn't be packed with as many students. When he was added liberal amounts of marmalade to his toast was when Sirius had asked about why he had been acting like he had been smoking Floo Powder.
"Prongs that is it! Saying that today looks like a beautiful day, having a look of pure bliss on your face, and not making faces at Snape OR Lily; either you have gone mad or you had sex with Lily Evans last night," Sirius said with a disgusted look on his face.
"Even better, I got a date off of Lily Evans last night during detention," James said. Sirius chocked on his food, Remus dropped his orange juice spilling the table cloth, and Peter's jaw dropped.
"You WHAT! What did you have to do, resort to blackmailing her saying that you will curse her family if she doesn't go out with you?" Sirius gawked. It was amazing, he was the first guy that didn't have to be a studious know it all to score a date with Lily Evans. Sirius had to commend his friend on his amazing charm, nothing but that would have worked Lily Evans over.
"No, I asked her out and she said yes," James said simply, choosing purposely to leave out what happened outside the library.
"Prongs, I believe you are leaving out the part where you put Lily under the Imperious curse and forced her to agree," Remus said.
"Gees, Padfoot, Moony. You are acting like I am a pushy prick whose only purpose in life is to get everyone of the female sex into bed, "James said with mock insult in his voice and on his face.
"I wouldn't say a prick, but yeah something along those lines," Sirius said.
"Shove it," James said.
"So you didn't blackmail her or curse her?" Peter squeaked (A/N: Die peter. Die.)
"Nope. She agreed 110%, "James said proudly.
New that James Potter and Lily Evans were going out spread throughout the school life wildfire. It was due mainly to the fact that the most popular guy in Hogwarts was going out with the most studious and short tempered girl in Hogwarts. Guys had been flocking to James congratulating him on scoring Lily Evans. Many of them claimed that they had asked her out but only received a large red, hand shaped mark across their face that refused to go away. Girls were throwing Lily looks of the utmost loathing, while attempting to curse Lily in the halls for going out with James Potter. The Slytherins seemed, however, unaffected and only resorted to their usual name calling, or in Snape's case attempting to curse the Marauders even more. That on the other hand only ended with Snape in the Hospital Wing sprouting dog ears and a tail. Even the teachers seemed to know about their date. Well then again, the teachers were the first ones to hear because they always had to deal with the animosity between the two. News that they were going out seemed to shock them, well all but Professor Dumbledore.
Dumbledore had purposely paired them up as Head Boy and Head Girl. Originally he considered Remus for the position as Head Boy but then he figured that James could use a little more responsibility, and he may like pranks but he had his heart in the right place. Dumbledore seemed to know that the two would eventually get together. Lily had claimed the spot as Head Girl since her fifth year when she was awarded her first Prefect Badge. He seemed to know that opposites attract, and kept an eye on the two. James obviously realized this much more sooner than Lily, but didn't really know what to make of it. Watching the pair constantly bicker always brought an extra twinkle in Dumbledore's blue eyes.
However as mid-November set in the talk of the castle was no longer that Lily and James were going out, but the up-coming Quidditch Match; Gryffindor verses Slytherin. Tension between the two rival houses reached an all time high. Dorcas eventually found herself in danger of being ambushed by the Slytherins because she was a Beater on the Gryffindor team. James too was in literally mortal danger after an attempt to curse the bones out of his arm on the night before the Quidditch match. Bellatrix Black, Severus Snape, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle ended up cursing James while he was in the library, and he lost half his bones in his left hand. Of course James got the last laugh because he managed to curse them back with his Bat-Boggy curse. Unfortunately all this took place in front of Madam Prince, and James got thirty pointes taken away from Gryffindor(fifteen for him and Sirius), and ninety points were subtracted from Slytherin (15 for Bellatrix, Snape, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle). James ended up in the Hospital Wing for the rest of the night, waiting for his bones to re-grow. Lily visited him for a short while, and whished him good luck for the Quidditch match the next day.
On Saturday morning, James woke up with all his bones in tack. After one last check up from the nurse, he was free to go. James made his way down to the Great Hall where it exploded with applause when he entered, with three fourths of the school rooting for a Gryffindor victory. The Slytherins on the other hand welcomed James with a series of boo's, but they couldn't do anything else under the watchful eyes of McGonagall and Lantis. The two of them would be glad for an excuse to give a student detention. James took a seat next to Sirius, Remus and Peter. The four of them chatted away until they saw Dorcas leave the table and head off to the locker rooms to get changed. After saying farewell, and cheers of good luck, James took off to the locker rooms. Half way he was met up by the Gryffindor Seeker, Nuada (pronounced: New-Ah-duh) Fomachah (Fo-maa-ha). He was a lanky boy with stringy brown hair and chocolate colored eyes. He wasn't exactly the friendliest Seeker the team ever had, but the boy had talent.
After James had changed into his scarlet Quidditch robes, he waited by the doors of the locker rooms for the rest of the team to arrive. Dorcas was the second finished, followed by Nuada. "Time to kick the Slytherin team's ass...again," Dorcas said.
"And kick it with pride," Nuada said.
Soon fellow Chasers, Aine Midge a flame haired Irish girl with eyes the color of red wine, and an attitude to match the color of her hair, and Felin had arrived. The pair was twin brother and sister, and both had amazing talent. Clutching his Silver Arrow 44, James was on the lookout for the remaining Chaser, other Beater and Keeper. A boy with hair the color of corn soon arrived, Robert Macmillan, the team's Keeper. After five more minutes the other Beater, a boy with dark brown hair and eyes of raven that went by the name of Hunter Bragg arrived with a smug look on his face, and the last Chaser, a girl with silver blonde, short cut, curly hair and grey eyes Mia Seizmore had at last made it. For another ten more minutes the team discussed their strategy for beating the Slytherins, which was simply hit the Bludger to the face of every single Slytherin Chaser, and take out the Seeker first. "I am counting on you two, Dorcas, Hunter. Show them that we can kick their ass any day of the weeks," James said. Both Dorcas and Hunter smirked and laughed the thousands of footsteps could be heard in the locker rooms as the students of Hogwarts all went over to the stands.
At the sound of Madam Wood's whistle, the team went forth onto the field. Madam Wood was quite a young and good looking witch that had the allure of a dragon. She was a fair player, and an overall nice person. But she did tend to get a little over the edge about Quidditch, claiming that it was her life's work. At one point the Asian looking witch was a member of the Chudley Cannons, but the kicked her off the team for violating the team's 'inter-dating policy'. Once onto the field, James and the other Slytherin team captain, Kirk Jadus, who resembled a rather pissed off alligator, stared each other down. "Captains, shake hands," ordered Madam Wood. James and Kirk exchanged looks of 'my-team-is-better-than-your-team-is-and-we-are- going-to-win' and shook the other's hand, but it looked as if they were trying to break the other's wrist. Satisfied, Madam Wood blew her whistle again, and released the Bludgers and Snitch. Both Keepers raced to the goalposts. Nuada and the Slytherin Seeker were both eyeing the snitch hungrily and watched it disappear from view. With the Quaffle in hand, Madam Wood threw it up into air and James was the one to catch it. Three fourths of the crowed cheered as the game began and James raced towards the goalposts with the Quaffle.
Above the screaming crowd was Sierra Blue, a very pretty black girl who was doing the commentary with the magical purple Megaphone. "And their off, Potter with the Quaffle. Potter races down to the Slytherin goalposts, but...ouch that had to hurt, a Bludger was sent his way by the Slytherin beaters. Potter dropped the Quaffle but was caught by Aine Midge. Gryffindor still has the advantage and it looks as if...yes...SHE SCORED! 10-0 to Gryffindor," Sierra announced, earning a large shout from the Gryffindor supporters and a wave of boos from the 200 green clad Slytherins.
James did a victory clap for Aine, but was pissed at himself for being hit by a Bludger so early in the game. Focusing his mind back in the task, James dodged another Bludger that came pelting his way and raced to the goalposts. Checking behind his shoulder, James noticed that Nuada hadn't yet seen the Snitch. Silently cursing, James went back to catching the Quaffle.
"The Quaffle is back in position. Midge passes to Potter, Potter to the other Midge. GRYFINNDOR SCORES! 20-0 to Gryffindor," Sierra exclaimed.
Lily, Anthy and Amberle screamed at the top of their lungs along with the other two thirds of the school. The Slytherin team was being their usual bumbling selves, valuing size over skill. Lily, who under any circumstances hated flying she did love to see the Quidditch games; but on that day she seemed to be screaming more enthusiastically than usual. Lily guessed it was because James who was flying and even Lily had to admit, the two had become much closer over past events. Lily's attention however was thrown back into the game when a title wave of Boo's was issued from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
"THAT WAS DELIBERATE! THOSE CHEATING, NASTY, SCUM-FACED...," Sierra cursed. The Slytherin captain apparently stole one of the bats from his Beaters and hit a Bludger square in the gut of Macmillan, the Gryffindor Keeper knocking him unconscious. Gryffindor was awarded a foul, while Madam Wood was shouting, "Do NOT attack the Keeper unless the Quaffle is within scoring range!"
"Miss Blue that is enough! Get back to the game," the voice of Professor McGonagall screamed.
"Ehh...Hehe...Yes Professor. After that apparent bit of cheating Gryffindor is awarded a foul. Potter approaches and...YES I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! GRYFFINDOR SCORES AGAIN! 30-0, To Gryffindor," Sierra shouted.
James had to congratulate himself. Even though the Keeper seemed to be a complete moron and didn't acknowledge that James was aiming for the right hoop, James had once again earned another goal for Gryffindor. James dared a glance at Lily who was cheering and jumping up and down like a maniac. He loved how her face lit up whenever she was happy. It was like seeing the sun after months of winter. When Lily noticed he was staring at her, James flirtatiously winked at her, causing a blush to creep across her face. Just before game play was to resume James saw Dorcas staring at him with a smirk on her face. "James, get your mind off of Lily and back to the game. We don't want to lose our advantage do we?" she shouted. At the last second, James was able to resume his position. Dorcas was right, his mind had to stay focused on the task at hand, and this was no time for him to be thinking dirty thoughts about Lily.
About another forty-five minutes into the game the score was 90-30 to Gryffindor. The three times Slytherin had scored Sierra almost lost her commentary privilege for swearing so badly in the megaphone that Professor McGonagall tried to tug it away from her. But the Slytherins were beginning to become desperate. Their Seeker had feinted three times in hopes of putting the Gryffindor Seeker out of commission. Of course the only thing that had happened was the Slytherin Seeker misjudging the distance from the ground and twice he hit it with a hard thud, breaking his nose which was currently pouring out blood. James shot a glance at Nuada who was still circling the sky above for the Snitch. If that pace kept up, the game would be going on into the night.
Back in the stands Lily's checks were flushed a light pink. She could have sworn that James had winked at her. It was like they were boyfriend and girlfriend! It was true that Lily had agreed to go out with him on one date, but that was because of what outside the library. For once, she was grateful for James' constant curiosity and skillfulness with a wand. Of course if the two hadn't come from utterly despising each other to friends because of their Head Duties, Lily would never ever have asked him out. He seemed to deflate his overgrown head quite a bit, and as it turned out he was a rather decent human being, which surprised Lily because she had thought him the scum of the Earth, not fit to wipe mud from the boots of the Malfoy family. Lily smiled, the thought made her heart become really soft and warm, a feeling that, although she would never admit it openly, she loved. Again Lily's attention was on the game again because the crowd had gasped and she saw the two Seekers diving for the Snitch at full speed.
The game was on a momentary hold, because all the players were frozen with adrenaline. The Slytherin players prayed that Nuada was feinting, but when he pulled out of a spectacular dive with a tiny golden ball clutched in his hands, nothing but sulky looks were on their faces. "150 POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR, THEY WIN! 140-30, TO GRYFFINDOR!" Sierra exclaimed so loud that everyone had to cover their ears.
But that was nothing compared to the student's reaction. Three of the four houses were scream and jumping up and down excitedly. The Slytherins were silent in defeat. The Gryffindor team did a victory lap around the stadium and when James passed Lily he winked at her again. This time instead of blushing Lily found herself laughing and giggling, which caused Anthy and Amberle to look at her curiously.
"Hey Lily, Potter didn't give you something foreign for pumpkin juice did he? You and he seem to be getting along, and his life, nor the cutting off of his penis, has been threatened once all year," Anthy said.
"His life or the cutting off of his penis?" Amberle said.
"Ughh... long story. You haven't been at Hogwarts long enough to know the rivalry that usual goes on between those two," Anthy said, causing both Amberle and Lily to laugh.
"Well I haven't threatened him to your knowledge that is," Lily said with a smirk.
VIV (two weeks later)
Two weeks after the Quidditch game, the excitement soon turned to the up coming Hogsmead trip. Girls were chatting animatedly about how they needed to stock up on their beauty supplies, or they needed to buy a gift for their boyfriend. Most of the boys were saying how they needed more Dungbombs, or how they needed to update their Wizarding Card collection. Amberle and Dorcas who both collected Wizard Cards were comparing collections and trading cards very lively in their dormitory one night. Lily and Anthy were busy playing a game of Chess, to which Lily was loosing very badly. Lily noticed that Anthy had been rubbing her arm like something was burning, so Lily asked, "Anthy, has something happened to your arm?".
"It's nothing. The other day during charms I said the incantation wrong, and ended up burning my arm pretty bad," Anthy said.
"Why haven't you had the nurse see it?" Lily asked.
"I have. She did all she could and sent me on my way, but it still hurts," Anthy managed to say, but not quite meeting Lily's eyes.
Satisfied with the answer she got, Lily was in the process of taking one of Anthy's knights. But once the Knight was destroyed, Anthy resorted with taking Lily's Queen.
"Damn, do you always have to be so...merciless," Lily asked with her lip sticking out.
"The world of competition is always hard," Anthy smirked.
As Anthy checked her King, Lily began to worry about her date with James. It was in three days, and she was getting quite nervous. What was she going to do an entire day with James Potter?
XVIVX (end chapter) YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND OUT NEXT CHAPTER! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I love doing that. Thank you all for all of your reviews, they mean sooooooooooo much. I got this chapter out in only two days because even though I love writing cliffies, when I read them I hate waiting to find out and I didn't want to keep you all hanging in suspense. (Dodges tomatoes). I have never written a Quidditch game before, and I am quite happy with the way it came out. For all of you, who think that I am having a go at everyone who lives in America through Amberle, don't think that. I have talked to a bunch of British people, and they all have the same views on Americans. I live in America and damn proud of it too.
I am still debating about whether or not to change the rating. I could use your advice. In around five/six chapters I feel that the rating will go up above PG-13, but not quite at R. it includes a make-out scene which goes a lot further than the one in the last chapter, more and more violence, and Peter bashing. I am still stuck on what to do. Advice would be very much appreciated.
I must go, I ate too much during dinner and I am feeling the after-effects. All flames will be laughed at and deleted.
Sayonara Narya of the fire
Also I made a mistake in one of my other chapters. I had originally thought that Tonks was blasted off the Black Family tree because SHE was the one who married a muggle, Ted Tonks. When someone pointed that out, I re-read that chapter in OotP, and as it turns out that person was right. Sorry about that mistake. (Hits self over head) I know, I'm a baka, no need to say it.
Currently listening to The Two Towers soundtrack, I am on the song Isengaurd Unleashed. If you are like me, and you analyze the music in the movie and are able to name each track the songs come form at any given moment from the soundtracks and movies, then you know at the beginning of the song is the music that plays when that Uruk-Hai bastard kills poor Haldir. I know that he dies in the book, but not at Helms Deep, as a matter of fact he dies during an assault on Lothloiren. So why have him die in Helm's Deep, huh? HUH? Those bastards.
Note: this is just my take on the goings on at Hogwarts when the Marauders were there, but I believe that Peter was slipping information to Voldemort during their seventh year, but he didn't become a fully fledged Death Eater until after he left Hogwarts. So that is what is what will be happening in my fic. I think the same thing for Bellatrix as well, only she was just passing on information about Dumbledore, and not the Potters. Well that is just my silly take on everything, it will all be more clear by the time Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince comes out. I wonder who the Half Blood Prince is; I don't think it is a new character but just someone that we don't know anything about. I personally think that it is either Dumbledore (we were NEVER EVER told that Dumbledore is pureblood, half blood, or muggle-born. Rowling NEVER says that, and he is powerful enough and he plays a major role), Snape (face it people, we don't know jack shit about Snape. Hell he could easily be the father of Luna Lovegood for all we know. No I don't think he is the father of Luna Lovegood, but you know what I mean) or James Potter (I know that most of us assume that he is pureblood, but Rowling has never said out and out, James Potter was a pureblood/half blood/muggle-born). Those are just my theories.
Disclaimer: All is property of J.K Rowling. Nothing but Anthy, Amberle and Professor Lantis are mine. All you blood sucking lawyers can go screw a tree, because I do not own them. Besides if you sued me, you would get.... ABSOLUTLY NOTHING! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH! A couple of the names I use in this chapter are from the Celtic myth of Nuada and the Silver Arm, and I don't own those either. It is a pretty cool myth, and for those of you who have played the PC game, Beyond Atlantis, you know where a bunch of the names came from. That is one friggan awesome game; the only bad thing is you have to have an IQ of 160 to beat it without a walkthrough. I managed to get through the Ireland stage, and half of the Maya stage without help, but then I got to China and HOLY CRAP was that hard, especially when you are in the turtle room that took me almost four hours to understand. The part in Hell was pretty cool though, and Tan-Yun was a cool character, even if he was pushy and demanded that damn mushroom of immortality. Took me a while to understand how you got the correct order of stamps too, on the back of the fan that girl in the red china dress is the correct order of stamps. The hard part is finding which animal gives you certain stamps. Ughh....that took forever.
By the way, I know what happens to Lily in this chapter is extremely overdone, but it had to happen for later plot developments. Or not-so-later plot developments. (Snicker)
Enjoy chapter 8
XVIX
Lily walked the darkened corridors of Hogwarts and made it back to the library. As she thought, Lily found her wand lying on one of the tables. After mentally smacking herself for leaving it Lily put her wand back into her robes and continued back to the Gryffindor Common Room. It was very much unlike Lily to forget anything, much less her wand, the most important thing she owned. She glanced around the dark corner to make sure that there wasn't a teacher on the prowl and Lily made a quick dash up the dark corridor. Running into a teacher would be the worst thing she could do, especially if it was McGonagall or Lantis. Lily pushed the thoughts aside, but then a soft chuckle was heard.
Lily stopped dead in her tracks. Only Professor Lantis would laugh like that whenever he caught a student. She swallowed the lump in her throat and turned to see the person who emitted that chuckle. It was a student! Lily couldn't believe it, but as she looked at the student Lily recognized him at once as Rodulphos Lestrange of Slytherin. He was stocky with lanky hair, the color of dead grass. Rodulphos was most known for his involvement in the so-called, 'Dark Arts Group of Hogwarts'. But after remembering that she had a Head Girl Badge, Lily got her voice back and said to Lestrange, "What are you doing here at this time of night? You are not Head Boy nor are you a Prefect. I would suggest that you go to bed before I alert one of the Professors," Lily said in the bossiest voice she could conjure given the situation.
"Has the poor little mudblood lost her way?" Rodulphos mocked in his ice cold voice that sent shivers up Lily's spine.
"I guess I do need to inform one of the Professors that you are out of bed at this hour," Lily said. She turned around and began walking in the direction of Madam Prince's office. Lily knew that Madam Prince couldn't do much because he wasn't in the library or destroying any property but Rodulphos Lestrange gave Lily the creeps and she wanted to get back to her warm and safe bed as soon as possible.
But as Lily began to head towards Madam Prince's office, Rodulphos sprang behind Lily and grabbed her wrist. Lily let out a small scream. "Ten points from Slytherin, Lestrange. If you don't let me go I will make if fifty points," she threatened.
"That is if you can get the words out of your mouth," Lestrange mocked as he pulled out his wand and muttered,"Silenceio". Lily immediately lost her voice, although it was clear to the eye that she was screaming out a combination of curses, and swears so bad that it would make a sailor blush. "Much better. Now I don't have to listen to your over-sized mouth," Rodulphos said. Lily mouthed something along the lines of, 'Take this off me now you ass-faced bastard,' but one couldn't be certain. "Now that I that I have your attention, it would be in your best interest to not struggle," he said.
Rodulphos began to circle Lily like a piece of meat that he was eyeing with hunger. "It would seem that you have been getting in the way of our plans, mudblood. Of course, you haven't done anything yet but it is always best to eliminate the threat before it strikes, wouldn't you agree mudblood? Yes, you and Potter would pose quite the threat against us and now we are forced to take care of it," mocked Lestrange. "But seeing as how what a beautiful mudblood you are, I think that I can make some use of you before your time is here".
Lily was having some trouble absorbing the situation, but she knew that she wouldn't have enough time to absorb it completely if she wanted to get out of this situation. That bastard, Lily thought savagely. I may not be able to say aloud any spells but everyone of the male sex has a weakness, thought she. While waiting for an opportune moment, Lily noticed a smirk a mile wide lie on that bastard's face. It was clear that he expected Lily to comply to his every will if she wanted to survive. For a split second he paused in front of Lily and that was when she rammed her knee into every man's weakness. A wave of pride washed across Lily as Rodulphos lay sprawled across the ground clutching his groin.
"Y-y-you b-bi-bitch," he managed to stammer out. Lily smiled, and pulled out her own wand and began to mutter the counter curse that would allow her to speak but Rodulphos bellowed out, "CRUCIO". The spell hit Lily dead in the chest and she fell down feeling as if a thousand white hot knives had been stabbed all throughout her body. Lily screamed like she hadn't screamed in her life, but no sound came out. Once the pain began to subside, Rodulphos cried out "CRUICO" again. It was pain beyond anything she had felt in her life, pain almost beyond endurance. She felt as if she was going to die. Again the pain began to die away, but this time Rodulphos had rose to his feet and picked Lily up by the collar of her uniform. "That ought to teach you," he spat at her. Lily didn't do anything but stare him down with a look that reflected nothing but pure hatred, a loathing so pure that it rid her of all other emotion. She was doing her best to reach her wand and curse that bastard away from her, but the after affects of the curse had her sweaty and shaking. If only I could reach my wand, Lily thought desperately. Her lack of submission caused Rodulphos to lose his patience and he threw his hand back and smacked Lily across her check with all his might, leaving a bright purple bruise.
"RICTUSEMPRA," roared a voice from behind. Rodulphos didn't have enough time to react, and the stunning spell hit him right smack dab square in the gut. With a plunk, the limp body of Rodulphos Lestrange lie sprawled out in the floor. Shakily Lily stood up to see the dim outline of James Potter.
"James," Lily whispered so that only she could hear it. Lily's heart had begun to subconscious beat a mile a minute again with his mere presence, and Lily did not fight the relief she felt at that moment. "James...," she muttered again.
"Lily are you okay?" questioned James with the most concern he had in his voice that anyone had ever heard. His hazel eyes shined though the darkness with concern, and it would almost seem...they shined with love. "Lily ...," he trailed on. Lily's bright green eyes which also shone through the night were brimmed with tears.
"JAMES," Lily exclaimed and she flung herself into his chest and began to sob into it. James just stood there wide-eyed. He had seen them on the Marauder's Map, but the map didn't tell what the two individuals were doing. James had seen that bastard on the map, and his suspicions were confirmed. James began stroking Lily's head in comfort, and just allowing her to cry into his cloths. James had arrived just in time to see Lestrange slap Lily and that was when he stunned him. But his train of thought was soon interrupted by the sound of several teachers marching rapidly up the stairs. Without explanation, James cupped a hand over Lily's mouth and threw his Invisibility Cloak over the pair of them. He could hear Lily breathing rabidly and signaled to her to be quite. She too mush have heard the teachers because it was then when the corridor was silent enough to hear a pin drop.
Professor McGonagall, Madam Prince, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Lantis and Professor Flynn, head of Slytherin house came rushing to see the body of Rodulphos Lestrange. While under the cloak, James and Lily heard every word that was spoken.
"What happened here?" Professor Flynn growled. He was a stocky man with thick grey hair and eyes. His eyebrows were so bushy they seemed to cover his eyes, and many wondered how he could see. Oddly enough Professor Flynn was Defense against Dark Arts teacher, and rather friendly to everyone. On the other hand, Professor Flynn was a man never to be crossed; it could be argued that he had taken a leaf out of Alastor Moody's bucket.
"It looks as if someone stunned him," Professor Lantis said.
"But who would be out at this hour? The only students who had detention were Potter and Evans, and Owen confirmed that the two had gone back to the Gryffindor Tower," said Professor McGonagall.
"I told you what I knew, all I heard was this young man making quite a ruckus at this time of night, and I knew that he wasn't a Prefect or Head," Madam Prince said simply. With skin as wrinkled as her heart, Madam Prince turned around and went back to her office.
"Well someone had to have stunned him. Or more likely the fool acted like his usual idiotic self and the stunning spell he was attempting backfired," Lantis said coldly.
"Well it looks like he was stunned by the Rictusempra spell, which doesn't have a counter curse until it wears off. Let's go a head and take him up to Poppy. By the looks of things he won't be waking up for a few days," Professor Dumbledore said.
"I will find out who did this to my student, and make sure he is expelled," Flynn said dangerously as he pulled out his trunk and magically levitated him up to the Hospital Wing. Professor Flynn saw to it that Rodulphos made it to the Hospital Wing while the rest of the teachers went back to bed. Several minutes later when the coast was clear, James and Lily ran at full speed up to the Gryffindor Tower.
Once the pair was back in the tower James asked Lily again what happened. Lily seemed too shaken up to answer. James didn't want to press the issue if Lily wasn't ready to talk about it. Just as James went up to his dormitory, Lily said softly "Yes Potter".
"Yes to what, Lily," James asked with a puzzled look on his face, thankful that it was dark.
"To say thanks, I will go out with you," Lily said with a smile.
"You...WHAT?" James nearly yelled. After being attacked, and barely avoided expulsion, and a detention KNOW Lily wanted to go out with him. The way a girl's mind worked never did make any sense.
"Hush, before you wake up the whole tower. Next Hogsmead visit I will go out with you on a date. We can do whatever you want. My way of saying thank you," Lily said.
"Ughh okay. Night Lily," James managed to spit out. As Lily walked up to the girl's dormitory, James felt like his quality of life had just shot through the room. He felt like yelling to the world that he would soon be going on a date with Lily Evans, the one girl that resisted the charm of the Marauders, and the girl he had been head over heels for since his third year. James had a grin from ear to ear, and was in pure bliss all they to his dormitory and when he eventually fell asleep Lily's beautiful face graced his dreams.
VIV (next morning at breakfast)
James was still feeling like a million Galleons the next morning during breakfast. He even commented on what a nice day it promised to be, to which Sirius asked him if he had been smoking Floo Powder. Even though the next visit to Hogsmead was almost a month away, James was counting down the nanoseconds. As it turned out the next Hogsmead visit was on the day everyone got out for Christmas Vacation, so the village wouldn't be packed with as many students. When he was added liberal amounts of marmalade to his toast was when Sirius had asked about why he had been acting like he had been smoking Floo Powder.
"Prongs that is it! Saying that today looks like a beautiful day, having a look of pure bliss on your face, and not making faces at Snape OR Lily; either you have gone mad or you had sex with Lily Evans last night," Sirius said with a disgusted look on his face.
"Even better, I got a date off of Lily Evans last night during detention," James said. Sirius chocked on his food, Remus dropped his orange juice spilling the table cloth, and Peter's jaw dropped.
"You WHAT! What did you have to do, resort to blackmailing her saying that you will curse her family if she doesn't go out with you?" Sirius gawked. It was amazing, he was the first guy that didn't have to be a studious know it all to score a date with Lily Evans. Sirius had to commend his friend on his amazing charm, nothing but that would have worked Lily Evans over.
"No, I asked her out and she said yes," James said simply, choosing purposely to leave out what happened outside the library.
"Prongs, I believe you are leaving out the part where you put Lily under the Imperious curse and forced her to agree," Remus said.
"Gees, Padfoot, Moony. You are acting like I am a pushy prick whose only purpose in life is to get everyone of the female sex into bed, "James said with mock insult in his voice and on his face.
"I wouldn't say a prick, but yeah something along those lines," Sirius said.
"Shove it," James said.
"So you didn't blackmail her or curse her?" Peter squeaked (A/N: Die peter. Die.)
"Nope. She agreed 110%, "James said proudly.
New that James Potter and Lily Evans were going out spread throughout the school life wildfire. It was due mainly to the fact that the most popular guy in Hogwarts was going out with the most studious and short tempered girl in Hogwarts. Guys had been flocking to James congratulating him on scoring Lily Evans. Many of them claimed that they had asked her out but only received a large red, hand shaped mark across their face that refused to go away. Girls were throwing Lily looks of the utmost loathing, while attempting to curse Lily in the halls for going out with James Potter. The Slytherins seemed, however, unaffected and only resorted to their usual name calling, or in Snape's case attempting to curse the Marauders even more. That on the other hand only ended with Snape in the Hospital Wing sprouting dog ears and a tail. Even the teachers seemed to know about their date. Well then again, the teachers were the first ones to hear because they always had to deal with the animosity between the two. News that they were going out seemed to shock them, well all but Professor Dumbledore.
Dumbledore had purposely paired them up as Head Boy and Head Girl. Originally he considered Remus for the position as Head Boy but then he figured that James could use a little more responsibility, and he may like pranks but he had his heart in the right place. Dumbledore seemed to know that the two would eventually get together. Lily had claimed the spot as Head Girl since her fifth year when she was awarded her first Prefect Badge. He seemed to know that opposites attract, and kept an eye on the two. James obviously realized this much more sooner than Lily, but didn't really know what to make of it. Watching the pair constantly bicker always brought an extra twinkle in Dumbledore's blue eyes.
However as mid-November set in the talk of the castle was no longer that Lily and James were going out, but the up-coming Quidditch Match; Gryffindor verses Slytherin. Tension between the two rival houses reached an all time high. Dorcas eventually found herself in danger of being ambushed by the Slytherins because she was a Beater on the Gryffindor team. James too was in literally mortal danger after an attempt to curse the bones out of his arm on the night before the Quidditch match. Bellatrix Black, Severus Snape, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle ended up cursing James while he was in the library, and he lost half his bones in his left hand. Of course James got the last laugh because he managed to curse them back with his Bat-Boggy curse. Unfortunately all this took place in front of Madam Prince, and James got thirty pointes taken away from Gryffindor(fifteen for him and Sirius), and ninety points were subtracted from Slytherin (15 for Bellatrix, Snape, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle). James ended up in the Hospital Wing for the rest of the night, waiting for his bones to re-grow. Lily visited him for a short while, and whished him good luck for the Quidditch match the next day.
On Saturday morning, James woke up with all his bones in tack. After one last check up from the nurse, he was free to go. James made his way down to the Great Hall where it exploded with applause when he entered, with three fourths of the school rooting for a Gryffindor victory. The Slytherins on the other hand welcomed James with a series of boo's, but they couldn't do anything else under the watchful eyes of McGonagall and Lantis. The two of them would be glad for an excuse to give a student detention. James took a seat next to Sirius, Remus and Peter. The four of them chatted away until they saw Dorcas leave the table and head off to the locker rooms to get changed. After saying farewell, and cheers of good luck, James took off to the locker rooms. Half way he was met up by the Gryffindor Seeker, Nuada (pronounced: New-Ah-duh) Fomachah (Fo-maa-ha). He was a lanky boy with stringy brown hair and chocolate colored eyes. He wasn't exactly the friendliest Seeker the team ever had, but the boy had talent.
After James had changed into his scarlet Quidditch robes, he waited by the doors of the locker rooms for the rest of the team to arrive. Dorcas was the second finished, followed by Nuada. "Time to kick the Slytherin team's ass...again," Dorcas said.
"And kick it with pride," Nuada said.
Soon fellow Chasers, Aine Midge a flame haired Irish girl with eyes the color of red wine, and an attitude to match the color of her hair, and Felin had arrived. The pair was twin brother and sister, and both had amazing talent. Clutching his Silver Arrow 44, James was on the lookout for the remaining Chaser, other Beater and Keeper. A boy with hair the color of corn soon arrived, Robert Macmillan, the team's Keeper. After five more minutes the other Beater, a boy with dark brown hair and eyes of raven that went by the name of Hunter Bragg arrived with a smug look on his face, and the last Chaser, a girl with silver blonde, short cut, curly hair and grey eyes Mia Seizmore had at last made it. For another ten more minutes the team discussed their strategy for beating the Slytherins, which was simply hit the Bludger to the face of every single Slytherin Chaser, and take out the Seeker first. "I am counting on you two, Dorcas, Hunter. Show them that we can kick their ass any day of the weeks," James said. Both Dorcas and Hunter smirked and laughed the thousands of footsteps could be heard in the locker rooms as the students of Hogwarts all went over to the stands.
At the sound of Madam Wood's whistle, the team went forth onto the field. Madam Wood was quite a young and good looking witch that had the allure of a dragon. She was a fair player, and an overall nice person. But she did tend to get a little over the edge about Quidditch, claiming that it was her life's work. At one point the Asian looking witch was a member of the Chudley Cannons, but the kicked her off the team for violating the team's 'inter-dating policy'. Once onto the field, James and the other Slytherin team captain, Kirk Jadus, who resembled a rather pissed off alligator, stared each other down. "Captains, shake hands," ordered Madam Wood. James and Kirk exchanged looks of 'my-team-is-better-than-your-team-is-and-we-are- going-to-win' and shook the other's hand, but it looked as if they were trying to break the other's wrist. Satisfied, Madam Wood blew her whistle again, and released the Bludgers and Snitch. Both Keepers raced to the goalposts. Nuada and the Slytherin Seeker were both eyeing the snitch hungrily and watched it disappear from view. With the Quaffle in hand, Madam Wood threw it up into air and James was the one to catch it. Three fourths of the crowed cheered as the game began and James raced towards the goalposts with the Quaffle.
Above the screaming crowd was Sierra Blue, a very pretty black girl who was doing the commentary with the magical purple Megaphone. "And their off, Potter with the Quaffle. Potter races down to the Slytherin goalposts, but...ouch that had to hurt, a Bludger was sent his way by the Slytherin beaters. Potter dropped the Quaffle but was caught by Aine Midge. Gryffindor still has the advantage and it looks as if...yes...SHE SCORED! 10-0 to Gryffindor," Sierra announced, earning a large shout from the Gryffindor supporters and a wave of boos from the 200 green clad Slytherins.
James did a victory clap for Aine, but was pissed at himself for being hit by a Bludger so early in the game. Focusing his mind back in the task, James dodged another Bludger that came pelting his way and raced to the goalposts. Checking behind his shoulder, James noticed that Nuada hadn't yet seen the Snitch. Silently cursing, James went back to catching the Quaffle.
"The Quaffle is back in position. Midge passes to Potter, Potter to the other Midge. GRYFINNDOR SCORES! 20-0 to Gryffindor," Sierra exclaimed.
Lily, Anthy and Amberle screamed at the top of their lungs along with the other two thirds of the school. The Slytherin team was being their usual bumbling selves, valuing size over skill. Lily, who under any circumstances hated flying she did love to see the Quidditch games; but on that day she seemed to be screaming more enthusiastically than usual. Lily guessed it was because James who was flying and even Lily had to admit, the two had become much closer over past events. Lily's attention however was thrown back into the game when a title wave of Boo's was issued from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
"THAT WAS DELIBERATE! THOSE CHEATING, NASTY, SCUM-FACED...," Sierra cursed. The Slytherin captain apparently stole one of the bats from his Beaters and hit a Bludger square in the gut of Macmillan, the Gryffindor Keeper knocking him unconscious. Gryffindor was awarded a foul, while Madam Wood was shouting, "Do NOT attack the Keeper unless the Quaffle is within scoring range!"
"Miss Blue that is enough! Get back to the game," the voice of Professor McGonagall screamed.
"Ehh...Hehe...Yes Professor. After that apparent bit of cheating Gryffindor is awarded a foul. Potter approaches and...YES I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! GRYFFINDOR SCORES AGAIN! 30-0, To Gryffindor," Sierra shouted.
James had to congratulate himself. Even though the Keeper seemed to be a complete moron and didn't acknowledge that James was aiming for the right hoop, James had once again earned another goal for Gryffindor. James dared a glance at Lily who was cheering and jumping up and down like a maniac. He loved how her face lit up whenever she was happy. It was like seeing the sun after months of winter. When Lily noticed he was staring at her, James flirtatiously winked at her, causing a blush to creep across her face. Just before game play was to resume James saw Dorcas staring at him with a smirk on her face. "James, get your mind off of Lily and back to the game. We don't want to lose our advantage do we?" she shouted. At the last second, James was able to resume his position. Dorcas was right, his mind had to stay focused on the task at hand, and this was no time for him to be thinking dirty thoughts about Lily.
About another forty-five minutes into the game the score was 90-30 to Gryffindor. The three times Slytherin had scored Sierra almost lost her commentary privilege for swearing so badly in the megaphone that Professor McGonagall tried to tug it away from her. But the Slytherins were beginning to become desperate. Their Seeker had feinted three times in hopes of putting the Gryffindor Seeker out of commission. Of course the only thing that had happened was the Slytherin Seeker misjudging the distance from the ground and twice he hit it with a hard thud, breaking his nose which was currently pouring out blood. James shot a glance at Nuada who was still circling the sky above for the Snitch. If that pace kept up, the game would be going on into the night.
Back in the stands Lily's checks were flushed a light pink. She could have sworn that James had winked at her. It was like they were boyfriend and girlfriend! It was true that Lily had agreed to go out with him on one date, but that was because of what outside the library. For once, she was grateful for James' constant curiosity and skillfulness with a wand. Of course if the two hadn't come from utterly despising each other to friends because of their Head Duties, Lily would never ever have asked him out. He seemed to deflate his overgrown head quite a bit, and as it turned out he was a rather decent human being, which surprised Lily because she had thought him the scum of the Earth, not fit to wipe mud from the boots of the Malfoy family. Lily smiled, the thought made her heart become really soft and warm, a feeling that, although she would never admit it openly, she loved. Again Lily's attention was on the game again because the crowd had gasped and she saw the two Seekers diving for the Snitch at full speed.
The game was on a momentary hold, because all the players were frozen with adrenaline. The Slytherin players prayed that Nuada was feinting, but when he pulled out of a spectacular dive with a tiny golden ball clutched in his hands, nothing but sulky looks were on their faces. "150 POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR, THEY WIN! 140-30, TO GRYFFINDOR!" Sierra exclaimed so loud that everyone had to cover their ears.
But that was nothing compared to the student's reaction. Three of the four houses were scream and jumping up and down excitedly. The Slytherins were silent in defeat. The Gryffindor team did a victory lap around the stadium and when James passed Lily he winked at her again. This time instead of blushing Lily found herself laughing and giggling, which caused Anthy and Amberle to look at her curiously.
"Hey Lily, Potter didn't give you something foreign for pumpkin juice did he? You and he seem to be getting along, and his life, nor the cutting off of his penis, has been threatened once all year," Anthy said.
"His life or the cutting off of his penis?" Amberle said.
"Ughh... long story. You haven't been at Hogwarts long enough to know the rivalry that usual goes on between those two," Anthy said, causing both Amberle and Lily to laugh.
"Well I haven't threatened him to your knowledge that is," Lily said with a smirk.
VIV (two weeks later)
Two weeks after the Quidditch game, the excitement soon turned to the up coming Hogsmead trip. Girls were chatting animatedly about how they needed to stock up on their beauty supplies, or they needed to buy a gift for their boyfriend. Most of the boys were saying how they needed more Dungbombs, or how they needed to update their Wizarding Card collection. Amberle and Dorcas who both collected Wizard Cards were comparing collections and trading cards very lively in their dormitory one night. Lily and Anthy were busy playing a game of Chess, to which Lily was loosing very badly. Lily noticed that Anthy had been rubbing her arm like something was burning, so Lily asked, "Anthy, has something happened to your arm?".
"It's nothing. The other day during charms I said the incantation wrong, and ended up burning my arm pretty bad," Anthy said.
"Why haven't you had the nurse see it?" Lily asked.
"I have. She did all she could and sent me on my way, but it still hurts," Anthy managed to say, but not quite meeting Lily's eyes.
Satisfied with the answer she got, Lily was in the process of taking one of Anthy's knights. But once the Knight was destroyed, Anthy resorted with taking Lily's Queen.
"Damn, do you always have to be so...merciless," Lily asked with her lip sticking out.
"The world of competition is always hard," Anthy smirked.
As Anthy checked her King, Lily began to worry about her date with James. It was in three days, and she was getting quite nervous. What was she going to do an entire day with James Potter?
XVIVX (end chapter) YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND OUT NEXT CHAPTER! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I love doing that. Thank you all for all of your reviews, they mean sooooooooooo much. I got this chapter out in only two days because even though I love writing cliffies, when I read them I hate waiting to find out and I didn't want to keep you all hanging in suspense. (Dodges tomatoes). I have never written a Quidditch game before, and I am quite happy with the way it came out. For all of you, who think that I am having a go at everyone who lives in America through Amberle, don't think that. I have talked to a bunch of British people, and they all have the same views on Americans. I live in America and damn proud of it too.
I am still debating about whether or not to change the rating. I could use your advice. In around five/six chapters I feel that the rating will go up above PG-13, but not quite at R. it includes a make-out scene which goes a lot further than the one in the last chapter, more and more violence, and Peter bashing. I am still stuck on what to do. Advice would be very much appreciated.
I must go, I ate too much during dinner and I am feeling the after-effects. All flames will be laughed at and deleted.
Sayonara Narya of the fire