Disclaimer- I'm not releasing a book on July 16th. So no, I do not own Harry Potter and friends or foes.

Dedication - to my new editor- Laura!!

A Little More

Chapter one: Mud puddles and contracts

"Wacha thinkin' about Prongs?"

"Nothin'."

"You're lying on your back, staring into space, Prongsie boy, there must be something you're thinking about."

"He's obviously thinking about Lily."

"Hmmm?" James asked, at the mention of Lily's name. They all burst out laughing.

"See! I told you he was thinking about Lily!"

"Shut up Remus," James grunted, not even lifting his head from the grass to look at them.

"Sure Prongs."

"It's true! I'm dead serious. I was NOT thinking about Lily," James said matter o' factly.

"I'm gonna look like that when I'm dead?"

"Padfoot," James said "those jokes are so old I can smell them rotting." Sirius only grinned and nudged James' shoulder with his foot.

"You know you love them Prongs."

"No, I don't."

"Yes you do."

"No, I don't."

"Yes you do."

"No, I don't."

"Okay okay. Break it up you two." Remus said, "as much as I'd love to waste my time watching you argue, James has to get to Quiditch practice. That's why we came over to get you James, so you wouldn't be late," he said, looking pointedly at James.

"Quiditch?" James quirked an eyebrow. "Quiditch isn't until 6:30."

"It's now 6:27" A look of horror passed over his face. He jumped up and sprinted towards the pitch.


"Hey Lily!"

"Oh, hey Christina. What's up?" Lily slowed down as Christina caught up with her. Christina was a 3rd year Hufflepuff that she was tutoring.

"Umm, I can't get this one charm that we're working on."

"What is it?"

"It's a slowing charm."

"Oh. I see why you're having trouble with it. Slowing charms can be pretty complicated." Lily started explaining the theory, and then the wrist movement, and how to properly pronounce it.

"Ok. Now lets find something you can practice on." Lily glanced around for a couple seconds before she saw exactly what she wanted.

"Try it on that boy over there. The one with black hair and glasses."

"He won't mind, will he?"

Lily grinned maliciously."Oh, we're old friends, he won't mind."

"Ok," Christina said slowly. Lily was a great tutor, but she was really scary sometimes. That look was notorious. She seriously doubted that this boy wouldn't mind.

"SLAWDORSO!"


Finally he could see the Quiditch Pitch. Huffing and puffing, he continued to push himself. He may not care if he was late to class, but he had yet to be late for a Quiditch practice. And he only had 40 seconds to get there.

Suddenly his legs halted to a stop. But his upper body kept moving. Pretty soon he started to windmill. (Sounds funny huh?) In other words he started to wave his arms around like a lunatic. But it was too late; he was already heading face first towards the ground. Right before he landed a deep gooey mud puddle appeared in front of him.

"Good try Christina, but that wasn't a slowing down charm. You said sladorso instead of sladorsa. It was an excellent halting charm though," Lily said through a giggle. As soon as she had realized that Christina had charmed him to stop completely, she couldn't resist adding a mud puddle to the package.

"Lillian Rose Evans! You had better get over here right now!" James said through a mouthful of mud. Lily walked toward him but stayed several feel away.

"Yes?" Lily answered innocently.

"Don't give me that look! Help me up."

"Fine," Lily groaned and stuck out her hand. Big Mistake.

"EWWWWWW!!!!!!" The whole student body probably heard her. "James! What'd you do that for?!"

"Well, since you created this mud hole, I thought you should see how it turned out."

Lily grinned evilly. "I guess you're right. I would be a horrible person if I didn't share though." She picked up a glob and shoved it down the front of his shirt. James got up and staggered back ward.

"You did not just do that."

"I think I did Mr. Potter."

"You are sooo dead."

SPLAT! "Ewwwwwwwww!!! You guys! I don't care if you role in the mud, but I don't want to!" Christina ended up with a mud glob on her chest.

"Oops, sorry. I was aiming for Lily."

"You're gona get it now James!" screamed Lily

"You're on!"

Soon they were throwing mud all over, including Christina.


"Where could he be? He's NEVER late to practice," said Arthur Weasly, a 7th year beater. He would have been captain, if James weren't on the team. But there was no doubt in anyone's mind-James was the best man for the job. Even if he was a 6th year.

"I'm starting to get worried guys. James wouldn't miss a practice if he had to crawl through a pit of snakes. And you know he hates snakes," said Rachel Bell, a 6th year chaser, who also happened to be James' cousin.

"Like he'd ever admit to that," someone muttered.

"You're probably right Elise," Rachel grinned. "Maybe we should go look for him. He's 10 minutes late already. Something might be wrong."

"Yeah. Lets go."

"James! You didn't show up to practice for this!?" Rachel yelled. She looked down upon the scene. Lily, James, and Christina were covered in mud from head to toe.

"I'm sorry guys, I guess I got a little side tracked." He faked a glare at Lily, but his mouth twitched, so the whole attempt was in vain.

"A little? This is NOT a little!" Arthur snorted. Rachel was too funny sometimes. She whirled around to face him, fury shone in her eyes. "Do you find this funny Arthur?"

God, she is soo hot when she's mad, he thought. "Of course not. I just had an itch that's all."

She glared and spun to face James again. "You realize we just spent valuable practice time because you get distracted when ever you're girlfriend is around? ("Hey! I'm not his girlfriend!" lily interjected) can't you snog on some one else's watch? Because you are wasting my time. I could be finishing my potions essay right now. And I'm not gona let this slip. I'm going to go write your mum a letter right now." Satisfied with her lecture, Rachel turned on her heel and tried to walk away, but didn't manage.

Lily gasped. Rachel sputtered. "You did not just trip me Potter. You did not just pull me into the mud." James smiled with satisfaction. He knew she'd forget all about writing to his mum if he made revenge worthwhile. He hadn't spent all those nights alone in his room grounded for nothing.

"Potter."

"Yes Rachel dearest?" He knew exactly what pushed her buttons.

"Get over here."

"I don't think that's such a good idea" James tried to take a step back, but was pushed forward by Lily, right into the not so loving arms of Rachel, who pushed him to the ground.

"I've got you Rachel." Lily said, who pinned James down, while Rachel pelted him with mud. James tried to protect his face, and started to wiggle around trying to get away from his attackers. To no avail.

After a couple minutes, "Should I let him go, Rachel?"

"Yeah, I think that's enough for tonight." Lily let go of James, and he jumped up and scurried backwards, coughing and spitting the mud out that had gotten in his mouth.

"Lily! How could you!?"

"Sorry James. Normally I would have helped you, especially since Rachel called me your girlfriend," Lily shuddered at this and shot a glare towards Rachel "But under said circumstances, I had to help her."

"Under what circumstances? Cousin attacks- you help out attackee. It's that simple."

"I'm afraid it's not Jamsie, I signed a contract."

Just then, Arthur let out a strangled cry. Lily looked up and laughed. Bianca, another chaser, had Arthur by the ear and was pulling him toward them. He was whimpering. "That hurts! Let go! Please!!!!"

Bianca then pushed him forward. "Hey, you guys- sorry to break this up. But I found him," at this she jerked her head towards Arthur "silently guffawing back there at your" she pointed at Lily and Rachel, "expense."

"Oh was he?" Rachel looked him up and down, as if assessing him, grinning maliciously. "Well, what should we do with him?"

"Hey!" James intercepted "what's all this about ganging up on us! First it's me and now it's Arthur? What have you girls been doing? Watching old gangster movies?"

meanwhile

"Hey! Sirius! Remus! Over here!" Sirius and Remus had come up behind the group. Tim (the griffindoor Keeper, and a 5th year) wanted to make sure he got to them before the girls could. Now that Elise had joined their ranks, he knew that they needed to be stopped. "Hurry! The girls are ganging up on us! We have to plan an attack! Oh, and why weren't you at practice today Sirius?"

"Oh," Sirius laughed. "I had a detention. I put a dung bomb in one of the girl's toilets. It blew up when someone flushed it." He snickered loudly, "it was so hilarious to watch the girl come running out, screaming."

"Who was it?" Tim asked.

Sirius let out a barking laugh "some first year Hufflepuff."

Tim grinned widely. Classic, he thought.

"Any way-what's this about planning an attack?" Remus smiled maliciously. Anything to get Bianca back, he thought.

"Moony, my boy! I knew you had it in you!" they then huddled together.

Back to the girls

Rachel ignored him. What is he blabbering about anyway? A smoothie? Or maybe he said a movie? "Anyway- Elise-what should we do to them?" (Oh, so now it's them? Gona attack me too hmm?) "Shut up James." Lily lightly hit him on the shoulder.

"Well…" Elise began, "I think we should…" she was interrupted by a glob of wet earth hitting her in the back of the neck. Pretty soon there was mud flying everywhere, hitting the girls mercilessly, while the boys sat back and watched.

"Great spell Remus," whispered Tim

"Thanks. Used it in a snowball fight once."


Later on at dinner, sitting at their usual spot at the Griffindoor table, one of Lily's best friend's complained loudly. "I can't believe I missed it! I just had to decide to stay inside today!" She groaned.

"Don't feel too bad Abbs. They got us REALLY good. I never did figure out how to stop them. The mud chased us all the way to the dorm. I just shut the door before it could get in," Lily looked relieved.

"Still!" Abby said, "we haven't had a good mud fight in ages!"

They continued to talk until a certain Sirius Black showed up and sat across from them, James, Remus, and Peter in tow. Remus sat next to Sirius, James next to her, and Peter next to Abby.

Lily smiled brightly at them, "so Remus, great spell out there. Remember that one snowball fight a couple years back? The one we had at James's house?"

"Yeah, that one where we made the igloo?"

"Yeah, that's the one. Didn't you use the same spell then?"

"Actually," Remus replied, "I did use the same spell."

"Oh. I didn't think you would be able to use one spell for both snow and mud."

"Oh yeah. You can use that spell for just about anything. It works differently depending on what you are using though."

"Oh I get it. Cool. Thanks Remus."

"No problem," Remus smiled slightly. Usually Lily would be shooting looks to kill right about now-especially at him. But she seemed to be in a very good mood.

"Wait a second, why are you being so nice?" Sirius exclaimed. "Usually you wouldn't even be talking to us."

"For you're information Sirius—I decided to forgive you guys. After all, it was only mud. Right Rachel?"

Rachel had come up a moment before and pushed James out of his seat and into the next one over so that she'd be by Lily. Rachel looked strangely at Lily. She had no clue what was going on, but she decided to go with it. "We have both decided that a mud fight is no reason to be mad."

"Wow." Sirius said. Things were finally looking up for him. "Great!" He exclaimed, "you know we hate it when you're mad at us."

"Sure you are," Lily answered sarcastically. But being Sirius, he missed the sarcasm.

James was confused. Lily had mentioned something about a contract earlier. She had said- 'Normally I would have helped you, but I signed a contract.' What was that about? He decided he would ask. "Lily?"

"Yeah James?"

"What contract did you sign that said you couldn't help me?"

Lily laughed, like she had been expecting James to ask her this. "A while ago- we (as in Rachel, Abby, Melissa, Victoria and myself) decided to make some rules."

"And . . .?"

"Sorry James, that's all you need to know."

"Hey! That's not fair! How long ago did you make these 'rules'?"

"Ummm, I think right before we had that prank war in 4th year."

Lily looked to her friends before nodding affirmative. She then stood and grabbed her cloak off the back of her chair. " I'll see you guys later ok? I've got to get to the library before it closes."

"Hey! Get back here! I want to hear about those contracts!" James called after her.

"Too late Jamsie, you know she won't say anything else. And I won't either," Rachel said as an after thought when she saw James' face.

"Oh come on! You're my favorite cousin!"

" You really think that's going to work?"

"It was worth a try." James said. He would just have to do some snooping later on.

"Family. Isn't it enough that I have to spend the holidays with him?" He heard Rachel mutter as she too left the table.

"Hey! Don't leave me!" Abby ran to catch up with Rachel.

"Okay James, they're gone. What's all this about contracts?!" ……

Author's note: hope every one likes it! School is starting the day after tomorrow so I'm not sure when I'll write more. REVIEW!!! I know you want to !! 