The New Girl

Chapter 6

Luckily it was Saturday that day and they didn't have to eat quickly.

Peter soon joined them and Lily got to know Peter a bit more.

He hadn't been around much and she wanted to get to know him like she knew the rest of the Marauders.

Peter was shorter than other boys, and wasn't as famous with the girls of Hogwarts.

He was very quiet and didn't talk much but he soon opened up to Lily, when she tried to strike up a conversation with him.

She wanted to know why he hadn't been around a lot but knew that it was he business and would probably not want to talk about it.

They soon started talking about quidditch and everyone joined is as well.


After breakfast they all decided to sit in the common room and have a little Wizards Chess tournament.

It lasted most of the afternoon, Peter, Sirius and Emily, were out first (they weren't that good and preferred Exploding Snap) and watched as Remus, Lily and James played.

After about an hour, Remus lost to Lily who had always loved chess.

She smirked at James.

"You're going down Potter." She said setting up her pieces.

"Yeah, right after you Evans." He said with the same smirk as Lily.

"Well we'll just have to see then wont we?"

James nodded and moved one of his pawns.


"How long have they been playing?" asked Emily, looking over at the pair who were concentrating intensely.

Remus glanced at his watch.

"Oh, I'd say about an hour or so."

"This has to be the longest chess game ever." Said Peter who was playing Exploding Snap with Sirius, who nodded in agreement.

After another thirty minutes, the group jumped when they heard Lily yell.

"HA! CHECK MATE!"

They all rushed over to see Lily smiling smugly, and James who was frowning at the chessboard.

She was so amusing when she won a game.

She jumped up and did he really funny victory dance.

"Oh yeah! I beat James Potter at Chess!"

The group laughed at Lily and waited for her to sit back down.

When she did she stuck out her hand to James.

"Good Game."

James nodded and shook her hand.

"Good Game."

But as James tried to release his hand, no one noticed Sirius muttered a spell and James realized that he couldn't remove his hand.

Lily and James both turned to Sirius, who was trying to look innocent but couldn't help but smile.

"SIRIUS!"

Lily and James yelled, while taking out their wands and both threw a curse at him.

Sirius easily dodge both curses and ran out of the room.

Everyone was laughing, and when Lily and James tried to get up but failed only made them laugh harder.

"Shut up you guys it's not funny."

Lily said frowning.

James agreed and they both got up slowly and started to head for the portrait whole when Emily called out.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Lily."

Lily turned to her, confused.

"Why?"

Emily shook her head and smiled, Lily could be so dense sometimes.

"Because Lily," she said, "You'll have a herd of jealous girls after you, you're holding Hogwarts most popular guy's hand."

"Oh yeah." Lily said quietly.

In the first month at Hogwarts she learned that there were many girls at Hogwarts who hated lily because she was a friend of the Marauders.

Most girls would give their right arms to be able to hang out with the Marauders for even an hour.

Lily seemed closer with James than any of the other Marauders and everyone (except Lily and James) noticed that they were beginning to become quite close friends.

They spent a lot of time together, weather it was when they were doing homework or just hang out.

Lily and James sighed and hoped that the spell would wear off soon.


Lily and James were getting nervous when supper came around (they had skipped lunch, but the others had brought of food for them), they were just about to go to dinner when James noticed that the bond that he had felt when the spell had been in effect, wasn't there anymore and tried to remove his hand and was able to release it.

"Oh thank the stars! I didn't want to miss dinner."

Said James, Lily nodded in agreement and followed they others to dinner.

Lily and James didn't say it out loud but both of them seemed to like holding hands and had felt almost as if something was missing when they had released their hands.

But they both put it to the back of their minds, because they didn't think that the other would like them or if it didn't work out, it would ruin their friendship.


October had gone quite fast and uneventful except for the quidditch team tryouts, which had gone great and Lily had made the team.

There was a game on the second weekend of November, and the Griffindor Team had been practicing intensely.

James was a tough coach, but was a great seeker.

As the game came closer and closer, Lily got nervous.

It was her first game at Hogwarts and she was nervous she would mess up.

They were going to be playing the Slytherin Team, and Lily really wanted to prove herself to Malfoy.

"Come on Lily, you have to eat something." Said Emily.

It was the morning of the match and Lily was really nervous.

James came down a little while later and tried to get her to eat as well.

After about five minutes of arguing Lily agreed to eat something because James had pulled the puppy dog eyes, which no girl could resist, well actually Lily felt a little better because James had encouraged her.

At around ten thirty, everyone began to head towards the Quidditch Field and that was the cue for the Griffindor quidditch team to head for the change rooms.

When they had all changed, James gave a pre-match talk.

"Ok, guys this is it. We've practiced really hard and I have great faith in this team. So lets go out there and kick Slytherin's Butt!"

Everyone cheered and followed James onto the Field.


(A.N-- Okay there's chapter 6 next chapter the quidditch match!! R&R)