"Oh come on Evens we're not that bad." James said in a disgustingly innocent voice.
"Yeah and hanging out with dementors isn't that bad," Lily mumbled sarcastically.
"What was that?" James asked.
"Oh nothing just saying that the prefects are going to be here soon so we have to give them the passwords to the common rooms and tell them to patrol the corridor on the train." Lily said. She wasn't in the mood to start a fight right now. Lily turned to Cat and said "You can go hang out with everyone else and after I talk to the prefects I'll come find you, ok?"
"Yeah sure," Cat replied. "Just don't kill anyone, I'd hate to have to bail you out of Azkaban," She murmured in Lily as she exited the compartment to find their friends.
"Let me have the pleasure of walking to your destination Miss Watson." Sirius volunteered as Cat was sliding the door open.
"No, I'm fine thanks" Cat said rolling her eyes and walked out of the compartment before Sirius could follow her.
Lily watched Cat walk out the door and then turned to James, who had changed into his uniform before he came to the compartment, and said, "The prefects were told to come to this compartment at 11:15. That's in five minutes."
"Ok so we can just hang out." James said as he spread out on the couch.
"Look Potter, if you mess this up I will personally make sure you die a very slow and painful death." Lily threatened ignoring the comment Cat had made as she left. She knew he would find a way to screw this up for her.
"What could I possibly do to make you lose your position as Head Girl?" James asked innocently. He loved to make her mad. He thought she looked most beautiful when her eyes would start flashing at him. But she always looked pretty. Lily was the most beautiful girl in the world. He had no chance with her what so ever and he knew that. But he was still determined to try. There's was no one else James could ever love and he would make Lily love him if it was the last thing he did. What was there to lose anyway? Besides his life, which she's already threatened.
"I know you and your friends are planning to pull some silly little prank and then we will both get in trouble for it." Lily said angrily.
"I won't screw it up. I'm not an idiot!" James said a little louder. He desperately wanted Lily to trust him. Though he didn't thin it was likely.
"Yeah sure you're not." Lily muttered and apparently Sirius had heard her because he snorted with laughter almost causing pumpkin juice to come out his nose.
"Padfoot shut up." James told Sirius. Sirius knew how James felt about Lily. The entire school knew how he felt about Lily actually. But Sirius knew how deeply he felt for her. He had tried to change over the summer for her. James knew that she thought he was an arrogant prat. Maybe just maybe this would be his year. But then again he had been saying that for three years now.
At least Lily knew he was human, an improvement at least.
Last year Sirius had told Snape to take the secret passage under the whomping willow and see where Remus went every month. When James had found out he had to run after Snape and they were almost killed as a result. Lily had coincidently happened to be outside at the same time all this happened. She had been walking back to the castle from Hagrid's hut and seen everything. Dumbledore had used her as a witness to what had happened that night. That's how she found out about Remus' being a werewolf. She had told him that she didn't know he actually had a heart. She was surprised that James would go save Snape. James may have hated Snape but he wouldn't ever put him in mortal danger. Ever since then Lily hadn't hated him as deeply. Oh she still hated him but she didn't loathe his entire being like she did earlier. James figured that if he saved a few more lives Lily should at least be able to tolerate his presence by the end of the year.
Just then all the prefects started to file in. Remus, Sirius, and Peter all sat on the couch to be out of the way. Not that they were allowed to be in this compartment anyway but Lily had to pick her battles or she would never have peace in her life. While she and James waited for all the prefects to arrive as watched Remus take out his DADA book and start reading, Peter pick up a magazine off the table and start flipping through it while eating Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean occasionally spitting one out, and Sirius was talking animatedly to a Gryffindor prefect who had sat down next to him. The prefect was obviously also on the quidditch team and they were obviously talking about quidditch.
"Ok can I have everyone's attention?" Lily said loudly so she could be heard over everyone's conversations. But no one had heard her.
James noticed this and simply said in a normal conversation voice "People can we please calm down? I believe our lovely Head Girl has something you say to you all," oh the power one holds when you're popular.
"Thank you" Lily said turning red from embarrassment. "There are just a few announcements I have to give you before you can return to your friends. As you all know you are responsible for taking all of the first years to the common rooms after the feast. The passwords are posted on the bulletin board over there," she said as she pointed to a bulletin board over by the snack bar. "Secondly you are to be patrolling the train corridors periodically throughout the train ride. And you will also be given schedules as to when we will be patrolling the corridors of the castle to make sure there are no students out after hours. That will be given to you at the meeting on September 3 at 7:30 pm. You are all expected to be there. That's all for now. Please see the common room passwords before you leave." Lily finished out of breath. She watched all the prefects make sure they got the passwords and watched them leave. Having heard this exact speech the last two years it wasn't hard to know what everyone was supposed to do.
"Ok well I'm off to see my friends." Lily told James. "Please don't destroy the compartment. And please patrol the corridor every so often. See you in a while." Then she left the compartment to find her friends.
Back in the compartment James turned to Sirius and said, "Well, that want well didn't it?"
"It could have been much worse. And it has been much worse. Remember in 5th year with Snape..." Sirius replied with a dreamy expression on his face as he imagined Snape hanging upside down in the air. "Those were the days." Sirius continued grinning like a maniac.
"Yeah Lily didn't even acknowledge I existed for the next three months, definitively the good old days." James said sarcastically.
"Well she didn't even raise her voice this time. That's a big improvement Prongs," Remus joined the conversation.
"True," James murmured as he imagined how beautiful Lily looked when he first walked in to the compartment. She seemed to be more beautiful every time he saw her.
"Oi, Prongsie!" Sirius shouted. "Anyone in there?" He asked as he knocked on James' head as if it were a door to see if anyone was home.
"What?... Hey! That's hurts," James was pulled from his day dream from the pounding on his head.
"This place is too serious and depressing." Sirius pouted. "I think it's time for us to start the party. It is our last year so we should at least go out with a bang! And you're Head Boy so, as I've already pointed out to you, we can get away with anything." He said as he ginned like a maniac.
"What do you have in mind?" James said mischievously.
"Well I did stock up on Dung Bombs in Diagon Alley and I happen to know which compartment our friend Snape is sitting." Sirius said in a dreamy voice.
"Here we go again." Remus murmured.
'Thank god that's over' Lily thought as she left the Head compartment to go look for her friends. 'I was really losing my patience and I still have the entire year left with those morons so I can't lose it this early. That will be one good thing about leaving Hogwarts. No more of Potter and his Morons or whatever they call themselves.' Lily was walking down the corridor looking in the compartments as she went. She finally found her friends in one of the last compartments on the train.
"Hey!" Lily said as she saw Sam, Jo, and Anna for the first time in months. They were all eating chocolate frogs and giggling about an article in Teen Witch Weekly.
"Oh my god! LILY!" They all screamed at the same time and Lily knew that half the train heard them. They jumped up to hug Lily and knocked over tons of chocolate frogs that had been sitting in their laps and on the seats. They squealed and screamed for several minutes before Lily sat down next Cat who hadn't gotten up when Lily came in but watched with a very amused expression as her friends had attacked Lily.
"So how was you summer Lily?" Anna asked as she sat on the floor where she had been because all the seats that her friends weren't sitting were covered in Chocolate frog rappers and magazines.
"It was good. The usual. Not much happened. I really missed the wizarding world. I hate not knowing what's going on." Lily said.
"Yeah well not much has been going on. You-Know-Who was unusually quiet this summer. There was one attack at the very end of June and we haven't heard from him since." Anna said reassuring Lily that she hadn't missed anything.
"Yeah but that's even worse." Jo piped up. "If we don't know where he is and what he's doing, he's most likely gathering more followers and making plans."
"Yeah" Cat said as everyone else nodded.
"And it really screwed up my summer because mum wouldn't let me go shopping in London because she was afraid that he could attack at any moment." Sam said.
"Only you would say that Sam." Lily said as everyone else giggled.
"Well it's the truth. It's not like it's any safer at my house. There aren't any wards or anything. It's not safe like Hogwarts. Those Death thingys could pop up at anytime and kill us." Sam said more seriously.
"They're Death Eaters, Sam." Anna corrected her.
"But yeah she is right." Lily said not missing the point of what Sam had said. "My family is all muggle. I'm so scared that they could be attacked at any moment. Lord Voldemort hates muggle-borns and muggles. My family is more likely to be attacked. You are all pure bloods."
"They'll be fine." Cat reassured Lily.
"Anyway onto a lighter subject..." Sam started and all fell into giggles again. "As I was saying, I think Dan might ask me out think year!" She continued after the giggles had subsided.
"Who the hell is Dan?" Cat and Anna asked at the same time. They were the loudest and most out going of the group of friends.
"You know that Ravenclaw. Blond Hair, Blue eyes, really tall, really smart..." Sam drifted off.
"Yeah I know him he's a prefect." Lily said.
"Still? I though he was a shoe-in for the Head Boy position." Sam said.
"Nope he's still a prefect." Lily replied.
"Who is the new Head Boy anyway?" Jo asked curiously. "Cat wouldn't tell us and told us to ask you."
"Oh you know just a guy." Lily said glaring with all her might at Cat who as ignoring Lily and just smiling.
"Yeah does this guy have a name?" Anna asked.
"Yeah... he has a name." Lily knew what the reaction of her friends was going to be when they found out.
"And?" Anna pushed.
"And what?" Lily asked trying to act innocent.
"Lily Evans! Why won't you just spit it out already?" Anna shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Fine... theheadboyisJamesPotter." Lily said at fast as she could.
"And in English would be nice too." Sam said flatly.
"Fine! I said JAMES POTTER!" Lily said his name so loud she was sure that the people in the compartments around her heard her perfectly. And just as she suspected they all burst into peals of laughter. They were clutching their sides and rolling around on the ground.
"How is that even possible?" Sam asked. "He wasn't even a prefect."
"I know" Lily said exasperated. "I think Dumbledore is just trying to drive me crazy."
"Well there has to be some reason why he made Head Boy." Jo said logically.
"Like what? He's always in trouble, he's irresponsible, he's a jerk to everyone, and he's just an all around pain in the ass!" Lily answered.
"But he is top in all of his classes. You and James have higher grades than even all the Ravenclaws. And he's Captain on the quidditch team. It shows he has some responsibility and he can work for things he cares about." Anna said trying to defend her quidditch captain.
"You're just saying that because you like the fact that he makes us win the quidditch cup. If you weren't on the team you would care less, besides Potter doesn't care about anything other than quidditch." Lily retorted.
"Not true." Sam countered Lily's statement. "He cares about you" She finished smugly.
Lily was about to tackle Sam for what she just said when a loud explosion went off. "What the Hell?" Lily said more to herself than to anyone else in the compartment.
