Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling, except for the ones you
don't recognize. Some aspects of this story is based off of a book called
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals.
A/N: meh. Fixing fixing fixing lovely lovely fixing...
JUST TO TELL YOU, THEY'RE IN 6TH YEAR.
Chapter 6:
Lily could only stare at the endless sea of angry people lining up on the station.
"I really hadn't thought about protestors." Tijana said worriedly. "I wonder how we're going to get through that angry mob."
"I'm pretty sure they have some way to get us in without getting us hurt." Michael said.
"This is just what I expected." Tony said, sighing.
"Thanks for setting the mood." Tijana said mockingly.
Magical signs were shooting off everywhere, with bright angry red lights, giving messages such as, "You don't belong," and other terrible things. Angry faces were yelling and screaming, fists and wands thrust up into the air to add to their anger. Jostling and bumping in a sea of madness, Aurors were trying hard to keep the protestors off the station, lining up with their wands and moving them out the way.
"Who are they?" Tijana asked, pointing to the Aurors.
"They're Aurors. They're here on the account of the Ministry of Magic. Of course we could have always gotten dementors from Azkaban, but they figured it was a bit too strong for you four." Professor Dumbledore said, scaring all four of them.
"Dementors?" Michael said, ears perked up. "I heard of them. Scary beings they are. Don't want to mess with them. Is it true that when they are around you, you tend to lose the feelings of good?"
"Yes. You'll learn loads about it in your Defense against the Dark Arts class. We should be leaving now." Dumbledore replied.
All 4 students scrambled to pull their luggage out.
"NO! You don't need those! They'll come get it for you and it will wind up in your dorms. Don't worry about them. Right now lets get you off and onto the boats."
"Boats?" Lily exclaimed. "You mean Hogwarts has a lake?"
Dumbledore could only smile at her. He pushed all four of them outside and into the walkway made out of protestors and Aurors, all of them yelling, screaming, pushing. Lily couldn't bear it as the angry voices pierced through her ears, tearing at her heart and soul. She looked down at the ground and walked quickly, grabbing Tijana and urging her to walk fast. The two boys also hasted themselves, looking grim, their faces pale in color.
Lily was trying hard to block out the voices from her head, staring at the ground intently, as if she could have opened the earth and allow all of the protestors fall into hell. But it could never happen. She was so focused on keeping the voices out she suddenly gave out a yell as she fell to the cobblestone ground. Tijana has fallen on top of her because a protestor had gone crazy with anger and shoved Tijana, wand out of his robes.
Tijana eyed the wand, terrified her face constricted with utter most horror and fear. "Lily..." She whispered, gripping her hand hard.
"Come on, get up! WATCH OUT!" Lily screamed, which prompted another scream from Tijana.
The protestor had cast a spell on Tijana which then was intervened by an Auror, punching him square in the jaw, hard.
Panting hard, Tijana managed out an "Ohmigod!"
"Come on! We have to get out of here. This time we run!" Lily said to Tijana, grabbing and pulling her up. She pulled Tijana into a run and ran straight ahead for the boats.
Already Michael and Tony were in one and the protestors had suddenly broke loose from the restraints of the Aurors and followed viciously after the students.
"Oh my god they're after us! RUN!" Lily screamed, breaking off with Tijana and now running for their own lives. The two boys beckoned them to come in quick, their faces held panic and urgency. "Come on!" Tony yelled, jumping up and down.
Finally Lily and Tijana climbed and scrambled into the same boat with the boys. Lily reached her hand out of the boat to push if off but before her hand had even reached the concrete wall, the boat had already begun to slosh in the water and move quickly, as if it sensed danger coming. The protestors lined up near the water, some falling into it from the impact of people pushing them or because they were continuing after them, but the boat carried them out of their reach, and closer and closer to their new home.
Tijana let out a deep breath as she turned around to look ahead and away from the protestors. "I hope the Aurors aren't hurt."
"Whatever. I'm just glad to be out of that mob." Michael said. "So, where is this boat taking us?"
"Hogwarts! Where else you fool?" Tijana said.
Professor Dumbledore met them at the docks, carrying a lantern. "I hope the protestors weren't too much out of hand. I am very sorry that I had to leave you, I had some matters to attend to."
The 4 muggleborns could only nod their heads and stare at how vast the Hogwarts castle was.
"Follow me, I'll be leading you to the Great Hall and after that we will show you to your dorms. The other students will help you find your way around the castle."
"More like they'll get us lost." Michael whispered to Lily.
"And I would like to present our 4 new, ahem, students that will be attending our classes for the rest of the year." The Headmaster announced at his table, holding a half-full goblet towards them.
"Why is it half-full?" Tijana asked.
"Maybe because we're mudblo-I mean, muggleborns." Tony started, but then caught the glare from Lily.
"Okay, now they're going to announce your house and you will got to their tables and start eating your dinner." Dumbledore said.
As the Headmaster announced that Lily would be heading toward Gryffindor, there was a ragtag applause, nothing more than a few silent claps. Lily could see the cold glares from the Gryffindor table where some weren't even clapping. Lily lowered her eyes as she took her seat at the other end of the table. She suddenly felt alone; her friends were in different houses, even though they would be together for some time. She didn't feel ready, she felt insecure, afraid.
It was the same for every one of Lily's new friends. They didn't feel ready to go, seeing how big the school was and how scary it would be to be the only muggleborn. But when it was Tony's turn, the Slytherin table didn't even applaud except glare and snicker under their breaths. Tony had that same, scary, emotionless expression on his face.
'Its like as if he's a zombie, he can get hurt, he can't die again, all he can do is look ahead as if nothing's there.' Lily thought. 'I feel sorry for him. Slytherin was never the house that could accept any differences.'
"And now, we congratulate our new students and wish them a very, eventful year." The Headmaster politely said and then sat down. "Let the feast begin!"
All the purebloods were staring at Lily at the other end of the table, who apparently scooted to the back for minor protection. They watched her grab some meat and mashed potatoes with gravy. They even watched her eat. Lily was very aware of them watching and felt uncomfortable being watched by a thousand pairs of eyes burning holes into her body. She finally put her fork and spoon down and looked at them. This time her eyes were filled of what feeling the others had in their eyes. Loathing. Malice. Hate.
"Don't you know it's rude to stare at people who are eating? Or are you just staring at me because I'm eating and you're starving? If you hadn't looked already you blockheads, there's food on the table." Lily said coldly.
The purebloods looked away and began eating, now murmuring and spreading gossip.
Lily continued her dinner.
"Well, lookey here, we have a mudblood in our house." Sirius said eyeing the redheaded girl. Sirius had ruff black hair and brown eyes. He was well built and he was about 6'2.
"Yes it's quite obvious that we have one." A boy with sandy blonde hair said. He was sort of a tall, lanky guy with sincere blue eyes and pale skin. He almost looked as if he was going to throw up. "She's rather pretty."
6 pairs of eyes looked at sandy blonde haired boy in dismay and shock.
"What?"
"Remus! She's a mudblood! A witch with filth in her blood! Its stained!" Sirius said. "We can't have them learn here or even live with us! They have to leave! We have to get them expelled!"
The boy named Remus was about to say something when a voice cut in.
"That's not possible, the Ministry are the head of this, not the Headmaster." Peter pointed out. He was the plump one of the three, with almost rat like features on his face.
"My point exactly!" Remus said. "And they aren't any different from us."
"But they are different!" Sirius hissed.
"So? Aren't I a werewolf? Isn't that different too?" Remus said matter-of- factly.
"I've got the perfect prank for all of them." James said, breaking the fight, eying the mudblood evilly. He smiled, a look so evilly handsome on his face. James was the leader of the gang. He was the most dazzling, most charming bachelor of the school. With a charismatic smile and mischievous blue eyes and his wild black hair, any girl would die for him. He was well- built and stood up at 6'3, the most tallest guy at Hogwarts.
Sirius smiled. "That's my boy! My Jamsie has always thought up of something to do! Whats the plan Prongs?"
"So, Prongs, what's the plan?" Sirius asked.
"His plan is not to attack the girl and have them become friends with us right Prongs?" Remus said.
Sirius glared at him. "What kind of Marauder are you? You are supposed to be supportive of us!" He whacked Remus on the back, causing Remus to choke on this food.
"Oh shut up Sirius!"
"Actually its really not a prank, its more like we just have to drive the school against them." James said absently mindly, still eyeing Lily at the far end of the table.
"We don't need to do that! The school is already dead set against the mudbloods!" Sirius exclaimed.
"I know, but what's a better way than us just fueling them?" James said, breaking his eye contact with Lily's figure and turning his eyes on Sirius.
"But how?"
"Simple, create a riot, have secret meetings, discuss how we're going to attack them." James said. "Its easy enough. All we need to do is to prank them now and see how the school will react."
"I doubt the school will react James, I mean they'll just probably start a food fight or something." Remus said, shrugging.
James frowned. "That seems like a good idea, but the downfall is that we'll all get plummeted by food, including us."
"Including a great big yelling from the Headmaster." Remus added. "And we'll probably have to clean up the whole mess without any help from our wands, that means we will grab a mop, some water and a whole bunch of nice big, yellow spongies."
"Spongies?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, SPONGIES." Remus said. "They're big fat yellow thingies with holes in them and they soak up water like Peter filled up with food."
"What?" Peter said, his mouth half full looking at Remus.
Sirius looked at Peter in disgust for a second. "Okay, so maybe James is right. A food fight wouldn't be the answer." Sirius looked over to James.
"Prongs! What plan do you have?!"
"I don't actually." James said sitting back in his chair and letting out a sigh. "But the yellow spongies doesn't sound like a too bad idea." He snickered, putting his hands up to his head as if he was relaxing under the sun, he eyed Sirius and grinned widely.
Sirius raised an eyebrow for a second then made a mischievous face. He quickly put all sorts of food into four goblets, cream cheese, butter, some goo from the chicken and other things he thought would be disgusting enough.
"Yeah, spongies doesn't sound too bad. Not at all." James said again.
"Its sponges." Lily corrected, one eyebrow raised.
James's face broke into a sudden, wicked grin. 'Perfect.' He thought. He looked up at her. "Well we know what kind of mudblood this girl is. A know it all!" He laughed. "Why don't you join Ravenclaw? Their the most sharpest of us all! I doubt you have even one bit of the famed Gryffindor courage!"
"Want a bet?" Lily said, grabbing a pitcher of pumpkin juice. She pulled James's collar and slowly poured it down his back.
Lily could only smile in triumph at the sight but what she didn't know that James had secretly transfigured some goblets that Sirius was filling it up into thick, yellow, disgusting sponges, filled with all the disgusting foods that Sirius managed to squeeze into the goblets.
"Shit!" He yelped, jumping up and shoving the pitcher off to the ground. He glared at the filthy human being. He grinned. "I guess its time to use these yellow spongies!" He said, smirking madly. He grabbed on the sponges and threw at Lily, its guts spilling all over her blouse and oozing down her skirt.
Lily could only gasp in horror. "You know, this might actually turn into a food fight!" She shrieked.
Sirius pelted another sponge on Lily, this time all over her hair.
"You just wasted one you idiot!" Peter yelled. "I was going to throw them at the other mudbloods!"
James threw his arms up in the air, attracting some attention of other students, who were now watching the scene with complete amusement plastered on their faces. They began to laugh and point at Lily, who, blushed as deep of a red as her hair.
"At this rate, we might as well have a food fight!" James exclaimed, grabbing his wand and pointing at Lily.
A flicker of fear crossed over Lily's eyes, but she regained posture. "I know some spells too." She whispered, eyeing James's wand.
James grinned. "No doubt about it. But I don't think you know what I have learned! I read about you. The Minister, however filthy-minded he may be, said you always dreamed of being a part of Hogwarts. Today, you get your wish granted." Piercingly blue eyes met cool jade ones, as if they sent off sparks fly and attacked each other mentally.
Before Lily could open her mouth, she found herself painfully shaped into a statue, her arms thrust up angelically above her head, her legs forced in a position to show her curves and her head thrust up. She could feel herself being pulled to the corner of the ceiling and stuck there. Suddenly a nauseatingly feeling came over her body. She couldn't look down for her face was thrust upward, but she could fell her legs grow stiff and hard. It felt liked as if she was coated with ice, only it wasn't cold but it froze her into place. It crawled all the way up, freezing her stomach, neck, shoulders and her arms and hands. It crawled nearly up to her face if it wasn't Dumbledore who froze the spell.
The whole school was laughing, pointing up at the fine ivory carved mudblood frozen in place on the ceiling, her underwear for all the world to be seen. Few wizard photographers managed to take some pictures, who of course, sneaked in to see the four mudbloods.
Lily's face turned into a deep red and tears were starting to fall. She tried to look to her left and saw that her fellow muggleborn students were also set on the other corners of the Great Hall.
Suddenly, Lily felt herself suddenly melt and soften from her position and suddenly screamed loudly at herself falling. She stopped midair and found herself being softly seated into her chair.
"Well its good to have you back Ms. Evans." Professor Dumbledore said. "I don't quite like the idea of you being literally a part of Hogwarts, but I'm pretty sure that all of us, Mr. Potter, would love you to be a part of Hogwarts in a much different way, again, Mr. Potter."
James nodded, an innocent look plastered over his face. "I'm very sorry Professor Dumbledore." He said, in such a sickeningly sweet voice, it made Lily wanted to retch right there and then.
She caught his eyes, and met the fiercest glare ever.
The two sat far away from each other, while students continued their dinner. However, neither ate for all they did was stare at each other with evil thoughts running through their mind and torturous fantasies that would lead into sweet revenge.
Dinner ended and all the students went up to their dormitories for bed, climbing up the ever shifting stairs and yawning. Lily followed her Gryffindor classmates, walking closely behind. She still eyed the back of that Potter's head, who was laughing geefully at the other boy's remark.
"I'm telling you Prongs! Spongies might have been one your greatest opening acts! I can't believe it! Two pranks in one!" Sirius exclaimed, laughing so hard, tears fell out from his eyes.
"Yeah, spongies it is!" James said, roaring with laughter, holding Sirius and the stair railing to support themselves.
Lily passed them and eyed them with all the daggers in the world. "Its sponges." She said.
A/N: I'm really sorry for this chapter to be so slowly put up. This was a really hard chapter to rewrite and I was suffering from a writer's block for a very long time. I didn't really want the food fight in there because it seemed really cliché and it was not at all my style or taste. But then again, I didn't really know what to write for the meeting with James and Lily. A prank I thought, but what kind of prank? I didn't really make one up or had one set, I just went with the flow of my brain. The statues don't sound that great but at least its something.
I am in great need of a beta reader. Please e-mail me and name the subject Beta reader.
A/N: meh. Fixing fixing fixing lovely lovely fixing...
JUST TO TELL YOU, THEY'RE IN 6TH YEAR.
Chapter 6:
Lily could only stare at the endless sea of angry people lining up on the station.
"I really hadn't thought about protestors." Tijana said worriedly. "I wonder how we're going to get through that angry mob."
"I'm pretty sure they have some way to get us in without getting us hurt." Michael said.
"This is just what I expected." Tony said, sighing.
"Thanks for setting the mood." Tijana said mockingly.
Magical signs were shooting off everywhere, with bright angry red lights, giving messages such as, "You don't belong," and other terrible things. Angry faces were yelling and screaming, fists and wands thrust up into the air to add to their anger. Jostling and bumping in a sea of madness, Aurors were trying hard to keep the protestors off the station, lining up with their wands and moving them out the way.
"Who are they?" Tijana asked, pointing to the Aurors.
"They're Aurors. They're here on the account of the Ministry of Magic. Of course we could have always gotten dementors from Azkaban, but they figured it was a bit too strong for you four." Professor Dumbledore said, scaring all four of them.
"Dementors?" Michael said, ears perked up. "I heard of them. Scary beings they are. Don't want to mess with them. Is it true that when they are around you, you tend to lose the feelings of good?"
"Yes. You'll learn loads about it in your Defense against the Dark Arts class. We should be leaving now." Dumbledore replied.
All 4 students scrambled to pull their luggage out.
"NO! You don't need those! They'll come get it for you and it will wind up in your dorms. Don't worry about them. Right now lets get you off and onto the boats."
"Boats?" Lily exclaimed. "You mean Hogwarts has a lake?"
Dumbledore could only smile at her. He pushed all four of them outside and into the walkway made out of protestors and Aurors, all of them yelling, screaming, pushing. Lily couldn't bear it as the angry voices pierced through her ears, tearing at her heart and soul. She looked down at the ground and walked quickly, grabbing Tijana and urging her to walk fast. The two boys also hasted themselves, looking grim, their faces pale in color.
Lily was trying hard to block out the voices from her head, staring at the ground intently, as if she could have opened the earth and allow all of the protestors fall into hell. But it could never happen. She was so focused on keeping the voices out she suddenly gave out a yell as she fell to the cobblestone ground. Tijana has fallen on top of her because a protestor had gone crazy with anger and shoved Tijana, wand out of his robes.
Tijana eyed the wand, terrified her face constricted with utter most horror and fear. "Lily..." She whispered, gripping her hand hard.
"Come on, get up! WATCH OUT!" Lily screamed, which prompted another scream from Tijana.
The protestor had cast a spell on Tijana which then was intervened by an Auror, punching him square in the jaw, hard.
Panting hard, Tijana managed out an "Ohmigod!"
"Come on! We have to get out of here. This time we run!" Lily said to Tijana, grabbing and pulling her up. She pulled Tijana into a run and ran straight ahead for the boats.
Already Michael and Tony were in one and the protestors had suddenly broke loose from the restraints of the Aurors and followed viciously after the students.
"Oh my god they're after us! RUN!" Lily screamed, breaking off with Tijana and now running for their own lives. The two boys beckoned them to come in quick, their faces held panic and urgency. "Come on!" Tony yelled, jumping up and down.
Finally Lily and Tijana climbed and scrambled into the same boat with the boys. Lily reached her hand out of the boat to push if off but before her hand had even reached the concrete wall, the boat had already begun to slosh in the water and move quickly, as if it sensed danger coming. The protestors lined up near the water, some falling into it from the impact of people pushing them or because they were continuing after them, but the boat carried them out of their reach, and closer and closer to their new home.
Tijana let out a deep breath as she turned around to look ahead and away from the protestors. "I hope the Aurors aren't hurt."
"Whatever. I'm just glad to be out of that mob." Michael said. "So, where is this boat taking us?"
"Hogwarts! Where else you fool?" Tijana said.
Professor Dumbledore met them at the docks, carrying a lantern. "I hope the protestors weren't too much out of hand. I am very sorry that I had to leave you, I had some matters to attend to."
The 4 muggleborns could only nod their heads and stare at how vast the Hogwarts castle was.
"Follow me, I'll be leading you to the Great Hall and after that we will show you to your dorms. The other students will help you find your way around the castle."
"More like they'll get us lost." Michael whispered to Lily.
"And I would like to present our 4 new, ahem, students that will be attending our classes for the rest of the year." The Headmaster announced at his table, holding a half-full goblet towards them.
"Why is it half-full?" Tijana asked.
"Maybe because we're mudblo-I mean, muggleborns." Tony started, but then caught the glare from Lily.
"Okay, now they're going to announce your house and you will got to their tables and start eating your dinner." Dumbledore said.
As the Headmaster announced that Lily would be heading toward Gryffindor, there was a ragtag applause, nothing more than a few silent claps. Lily could see the cold glares from the Gryffindor table where some weren't even clapping. Lily lowered her eyes as she took her seat at the other end of the table. She suddenly felt alone; her friends were in different houses, even though they would be together for some time. She didn't feel ready, she felt insecure, afraid.
It was the same for every one of Lily's new friends. They didn't feel ready to go, seeing how big the school was and how scary it would be to be the only muggleborn. But when it was Tony's turn, the Slytherin table didn't even applaud except glare and snicker under their breaths. Tony had that same, scary, emotionless expression on his face.
'Its like as if he's a zombie, he can get hurt, he can't die again, all he can do is look ahead as if nothing's there.' Lily thought. 'I feel sorry for him. Slytherin was never the house that could accept any differences.'
"And now, we congratulate our new students and wish them a very, eventful year." The Headmaster politely said and then sat down. "Let the feast begin!"
All the purebloods were staring at Lily at the other end of the table, who apparently scooted to the back for minor protection. They watched her grab some meat and mashed potatoes with gravy. They even watched her eat. Lily was very aware of them watching and felt uncomfortable being watched by a thousand pairs of eyes burning holes into her body. She finally put her fork and spoon down and looked at them. This time her eyes were filled of what feeling the others had in their eyes. Loathing. Malice. Hate.
"Don't you know it's rude to stare at people who are eating? Or are you just staring at me because I'm eating and you're starving? If you hadn't looked already you blockheads, there's food on the table." Lily said coldly.
The purebloods looked away and began eating, now murmuring and spreading gossip.
Lily continued her dinner.
"Well, lookey here, we have a mudblood in our house." Sirius said eyeing the redheaded girl. Sirius had ruff black hair and brown eyes. He was well built and he was about 6'2.
"Yes it's quite obvious that we have one." A boy with sandy blonde hair said. He was sort of a tall, lanky guy with sincere blue eyes and pale skin. He almost looked as if he was going to throw up. "She's rather pretty."
6 pairs of eyes looked at sandy blonde haired boy in dismay and shock.
"What?"
"Remus! She's a mudblood! A witch with filth in her blood! Its stained!" Sirius said. "We can't have them learn here or even live with us! They have to leave! We have to get them expelled!"
The boy named Remus was about to say something when a voice cut in.
"That's not possible, the Ministry are the head of this, not the Headmaster." Peter pointed out. He was the plump one of the three, with almost rat like features on his face.
"My point exactly!" Remus said. "And they aren't any different from us."
"But they are different!" Sirius hissed.
"So? Aren't I a werewolf? Isn't that different too?" Remus said matter-of- factly.
"I've got the perfect prank for all of them." James said, breaking the fight, eying the mudblood evilly. He smiled, a look so evilly handsome on his face. James was the leader of the gang. He was the most dazzling, most charming bachelor of the school. With a charismatic smile and mischievous blue eyes and his wild black hair, any girl would die for him. He was well- built and stood up at 6'3, the most tallest guy at Hogwarts.
Sirius smiled. "That's my boy! My Jamsie has always thought up of something to do! Whats the plan Prongs?"
"So, Prongs, what's the plan?" Sirius asked.
"His plan is not to attack the girl and have them become friends with us right Prongs?" Remus said.
Sirius glared at him. "What kind of Marauder are you? You are supposed to be supportive of us!" He whacked Remus on the back, causing Remus to choke on this food.
"Oh shut up Sirius!"
"Actually its really not a prank, its more like we just have to drive the school against them." James said absently mindly, still eyeing Lily at the far end of the table.
"We don't need to do that! The school is already dead set against the mudbloods!" Sirius exclaimed.
"I know, but what's a better way than us just fueling them?" James said, breaking his eye contact with Lily's figure and turning his eyes on Sirius.
"But how?"
"Simple, create a riot, have secret meetings, discuss how we're going to attack them." James said. "Its easy enough. All we need to do is to prank them now and see how the school will react."
"I doubt the school will react James, I mean they'll just probably start a food fight or something." Remus said, shrugging.
James frowned. "That seems like a good idea, but the downfall is that we'll all get plummeted by food, including us."
"Including a great big yelling from the Headmaster." Remus added. "And we'll probably have to clean up the whole mess without any help from our wands, that means we will grab a mop, some water and a whole bunch of nice big, yellow spongies."
"Spongies?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, SPONGIES." Remus said. "They're big fat yellow thingies with holes in them and they soak up water like Peter filled up with food."
"What?" Peter said, his mouth half full looking at Remus.
Sirius looked at Peter in disgust for a second. "Okay, so maybe James is right. A food fight wouldn't be the answer." Sirius looked over to James.
"Prongs! What plan do you have?!"
"I don't actually." James said sitting back in his chair and letting out a sigh. "But the yellow spongies doesn't sound like a too bad idea." He snickered, putting his hands up to his head as if he was relaxing under the sun, he eyed Sirius and grinned widely.
Sirius raised an eyebrow for a second then made a mischievous face. He quickly put all sorts of food into four goblets, cream cheese, butter, some goo from the chicken and other things he thought would be disgusting enough.
"Yeah, spongies doesn't sound too bad. Not at all." James said again.
"Its sponges." Lily corrected, one eyebrow raised.
James's face broke into a sudden, wicked grin. 'Perfect.' He thought. He looked up at her. "Well we know what kind of mudblood this girl is. A know it all!" He laughed. "Why don't you join Ravenclaw? Their the most sharpest of us all! I doubt you have even one bit of the famed Gryffindor courage!"
"Want a bet?" Lily said, grabbing a pitcher of pumpkin juice. She pulled James's collar and slowly poured it down his back.
Lily could only smile in triumph at the sight but what she didn't know that James had secretly transfigured some goblets that Sirius was filling it up into thick, yellow, disgusting sponges, filled with all the disgusting foods that Sirius managed to squeeze into the goblets.
"Shit!" He yelped, jumping up and shoving the pitcher off to the ground. He glared at the filthy human being. He grinned. "I guess its time to use these yellow spongies!" He said, smirking madly. He grabbed on the sponges and threw at Lily, its guts spilling all over her blouse and oozing down her skirt.
Lily could only gasp in horror. "You know, this might actually turn into a food fight!" She shrieked.
Sirius pelted another sponge on Lily, this time all over her hair.
"You just wasted one you idiot!" Peter yelled. "I was going to throw them at the other mudbloods!"
James threw his arms up in the air, attracting some attention of other students, who were now watching the scene with complete amusement plastered on their faces. They began to laugh and point at Lily, who, blushed as deep of a red as her hair.
"At this rate, we might as well have a food fight!" James exclaimed, grabbing his wand and pointing at Lily.
A flicker of fear crossed over Lily's eyes, but she regained posture. "I know some spells too." She whispered, eyeing James's wand.
James grinned. "No doubt about it. But I don't think you know what I have learned! I read about you. The Minister, however filthy-minded he may be, said you always dreamed of being a part of Hogwarts. Today, you get your wish granted." Piercingly blue eyes met cool jade ones, as if they sent off sparks fly and attacked each other mentally.
Before Lily could open her mouth, she found herself painfully shaped into a statue, her arms thrust up angelically above her head, her legs forced in a position to show her curves and her head thrust up. She could feel herself being pulled to the corner of the ceiling and stuck there. Suddenly a nauseatingly feeling came over her body. She couldn't look down for her face was thrust upward, but she could fell her legs grow stiff and hard. It felt liked as if she was coated with ice, only it wasn't cold but it froze her into place. It crawled all the way up, freezing her stomach, neck, shoulders and her arms and hands. It crawled nearly up to her face if it wasn't Dumbledore who froze the spell.
The whole school was laughing, pointing up at the fine ivory carved mudblood frozen in place on the ceiling, her underwear for all the world to be seen. Few wizard photographers managed to take some pictures, who of course, sneaked in to see the four mudbloods.
Lily's face turned into a deep red and tears were starting to fall. She tried to look to her left and saw that her fellow muggleborn students were also set on the other corners of the Great Hall.
Suddenly, Lily felt herself suddenly melt and soften from her position and suddenly screamed loudly at herself falling. She stopped midair and found herself being softly seated into her chair.
"Well its good to have you back Ms. Evans." Professor Dumbledore said. "I don't quite like the idea of you being literally a part of Hogwarts, but I'm pretty sure that all of us, Mr. Potter, would love you to be a part of Hogwarts in a much different way, again, Mr. Potter."
James nodded, an innocent look plastered over his face. "I'm very sorry Professor Dumbledore." He said, in such a sickeningly sweet voice, it made Lily wanted to retch right there and then.
She caught his eyes, and met the fiercest glare ever.
The two sat far away from each other, while students continued their dinner. However, neither ate for all they did was stare at each other with evil thoughts running through their mind and torturous fantasies that would lead into sweet revenge.
Dinner ended and all the students went up to their dormitories for bed, climbing up the ever shifting stairs and yawning. Lily followed her Gryffindor classmates, walking closely behind. She still eyed the back of that Potter's head, who was laughing geefully at the other boy's remark.
"I'm telling you Prongs! Spongies might have been one your greatest opening acts! I can't believe it! Two pranks in one!" Sirius exclaimed, laughing so hard, tears fell out from his eyes.
"Yeah, spongies it is!" James said, roaring with laughter, holding Sirius and the stair railing to support themselves.
Lily passed them and eyed them with all the daggers in the world. "Its sponges." She said.
A/N: I'm really sorry for this chapter to be so slowly put up. This was a really hard chapter to rewrite and I was suffering from a writer's block for a very long time. I didn't really want the food fight in there because it seemed really cliché and it was not at all my style or taste. But then again, I didn't really know what to write for the meeting with James and Lily. A prank I thought, but what kind of prank? I didn't really make one up or had one set, I just went with the flow of my brain. The statues don't sound that great but at least its something.
I am in great need of a beta reader. Please e-mail me and name the subject Beta reader.