A Hogwarts Cinderella

By: Tiger Lily21

Chapter Five

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The next morning Lily woke up late. The other girls were already gone. Hurriedly Lily dressed and ran down to breakfast.

"Morning Lily!" sang out Remus.

"And why are we so cheerful this morning?" asked Lily sarcastically.

" I am, why aren't you?" asked Remus.

"Violet," said Lily simply.

"No need to worry about her," said Remus breezily, "James took care of her. For a while anyways."

"Huh?" asked Lily.

" Ask him yourself," said Remus and went back to his breakfast.

As if on cue James sat down next to Lily, holding a large birdcage.

"What's in there?" asked Lily.

"You mean Who's in there?' "said James with a smile.

"You didn't!" exclaimed Lily.

" I did," said James, grinning and obviously quite proud of himself.

With a flourish he pulled the cover off the cage to reveal a violently purple parrot.

"Awwwk! Evans! Cracker! Cracker!" squawked the parrot, making no sense at all.

Lily burst out laughing. "H-how d-did you d-do that?" she gasped between gales of laughter.

"Practice," said James smugly.

"Awwk! Fifteen! Fifteen! Getcha ! Getcha!" squawked Violet the parrot.

"Not yet you birdbrain!" said James, covering the cage once more.

"I thought we'd leave her like this for a while," he said, "Just to teach her a lesson."

"It would be better if you'd changed her into a bug and squished her," thought Lily.

But all she said was, " Will it really do any good to have her squawking at us 24/7? What were you thinking?"

"She'll stay in my dormitory," said James quickly, " And this way she won't bother us so we can talk."

"Uh, one problem genius," said Lily. " Weren't you the one telling me all about how Violet has spies all over just yesterday? Did that occur to you when you did this?" She motioned at the cage.

"Uh,well, uh, no but... I, see..." James trailed off foolishly. "Okay, so I wasn't thinking when I transfigured her. But I don't know how to change her back yet!"

"Out! Out!Out!" squawked Violet from inside the covered cage.

"I don't know what she means but we have Charms in fifteen minutes. We'd better get going," said Lily.

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"Thompson, Rose!"

Professor Flitwick was calling roll.

"Here!" said Rose.

"Thompson, Violet!"

No answer.

"Ms. Thompson?"

Still no answer.

"Awwk! Here! Present! Accounted for! Cracker! Awwk!"

"Good," said Professor Flitwick.

"Tiller, Ab-"

Professor Flitwick stopped, looked around and spotted Violet the parrot in the cage on James's desk.

"Mr. Potter!" he squeaked. " What have you done to Ms. Thompson?"

" I transfigured her into a parrot, sir," said James. "I think she looks better this way, don't you?"

"Ye- No! Change her back!"

"I can't," said James breezily. "We haven't learned that yet."

"Twenty points from Gryffindor!" said Professor Flitwick, now clearly angry.

Violet continued to shock the teachers with her new looks and rude manners. (Well, ruder I guess.) Professor McGonagall took a further twenty points from Gryffindor but gave James ten back for the complicated transfiguration he'd done. She also gave him a detention.

In Potions Violet squawked out, "Professor! Professor! Kissy-kissy! Slappy-slappy!"

Professor Dibrom, thinking it was James who'd said it (he could do a very good imitation of a parrot) took fifty points from Gryffindor and gave him two more detentions.

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As Lily had pointed out that morning, Violet's spies were under orders to watch Lily's every move. They were just waiting to pounce on her if she set so much as a toe inside the seventh-year girls' dormitory. So, when bedtime rolled around, Lily had a problem.

"Where am I going to sleep?" she asked Remus.

James,who was sitting nearby, said quickly, " You can have my bed."

Remus looked at James strangely but said nothing.

"Uh, no thanks," said Lily. "I'll just sleep on the couch down here."

"As you wish," said James. But he watched her very closely as she Summoned blankets and a pillow from her dormitory.

The next morning Lily woke up not knowing where she was. She sat up and looked around. A loud snore from her right made her look in that direction. Sirius Black was sleeping in the bed next to hers. She was in the boys' dormitory.

"Auuuugh!" she cried and ran out of the room and down the stairs to the common room.

James Potter was asleep on the couch under her blanket, his messy-haired head on her pillow.

"Oh no," she groaned as the full severity of the situation. James had switched places with her, giving her his bed and sleeping on the couch instead.

"James," she whispered, leaning over to whisper in his ear. "It's time to wake up. Wake up!"

James just rolled over and gave a loud snore.

She shook him gently.

"I...love... you... Lady..." he mumbled in his sleep.

"Oh, come on James!" cried Lily, sad for a reason she couldn't figure out. "Wake up, you dolt!"

"That won't work," said a voice on the stairs behind her.

Lily turned to see Remus, looking tired and tousle-haired, sitting on the stairs.

"Well then what will work?" asked Lily.

" You could kiss him," he said with a grin.

"EEEEEWWWWW!" cried Lily. "I can't kiss him!"

"Hit him with a pillow then," said Remus.

Lily yanked the pillow out from under James's head and hit him in the face with it.

It didn't work.

"You'll have to kiss him," said Remus.

"Oh fine," sighed Lily. "I'll kiss him but I'm running away as soon as I do. And don't you dare tell him I did it!"

"Why won't you let James know how you feel?" asked Remus.

"I can't," said Lily. "Violet's spies are out to get me and anyways I want to do this my own way. Close your eyes."

Remus obediently covered his eyes. Lily bent over and kissed James gently on the lips. A tingling sensation flowed through her, shocking hre. she wrenched her lips away and ran out of the common room.

A/N: Well, Lily finally kissed James. But James hasn't kissed Lily yet. And what about Violet? Will she ever become a human again? (Unfortunately, yes, but she'll stay a parrot for at least the next chapter.) So, did you like this chapter? Review and tell me what you thought. Toodles!

--Tiger Lily21