A/N Another chapter! Constructive criticism please and let me know what you think! Nice loooooong reviews appreciated!

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Wish Upon A Star

Chapter Two

The Great hall was filled with the sounds of clinking plants and clashing cutlery. The roof was a deep velvety purple, with a few stars studding the sky like diamonds. All the houses were assembled and the chatter of voices went on in the background. Lily sighed. She had spent the whole day being ridiculed by the Slytherins for having blue hair, and she was thoroughly sick of it. If James really did like her, as he and her friends were always saying, then he was going about winning her over in entirely the wrong way. Lily looked up to the Professors table, and saw Dumbledor gazing thoughtfully up at the stars on the ceiling. Lily flicked her gaze upwards and was struck with the beauty of the night. Every second the purple hue was deepening to a midnight blue, and more stars were appearing to light up the sky. Ashley, who came up noisily to sit beside her, pulled Lily out of her reverie.

"Hey Lily! You look…..blue…." Ashley made an attempt at a corny joke. She giggled, but seeing as Lily wasn't laughing, decided to clarify. "Blue as in sad, as well as the hair," she stated.

"Yeah, Ash. I got it," Lily said in monotone. Ashley's face took on an expression of concern, just as Raven, Robyn and Sally joined them.

"What's up, Lily?" Robyn asked with the same expression as Ashley's on her face. Lily sighed.

"I guess that it's just having blue hair. I just want Potter to stop bugging me! And to stop asking me out! I'm never going to say yes!" Sally patted Lily consolingly on the back.

"Well Lily, it's not bad. At least if worst comes to worst you can ask him to take you to the ball. I have nobody…….." Her friends turned to her in amazement.

"What are you talking about, Sally? Every guy in the school would take you!"

"By nobody, I mean nobody good looking," she replied in a duh-duh sort of voice. Lily and Robyn buried their faces in their hands, while Ashley and Raven laughed hysterically at her antics.

"I'm serious!" Sally protested, but by this time everyone was laughing, and paid her no attention. Sally flipped her hair disdainfully.

"Though Lily, really. When you think about it, can you imagine how many girls in our grade would kill to go to the ball with James Potter? And by kill, I literally mean, kill." Raven eyed Lily, her voice grim, as if she actually expected Lily to be murdered in her sleep.

"They can have him," Lily said scornfully. "I don't want to go to the ball with him!"

"Sure," Raven said, drawing the word out. Lily glared, before turning her gaze back to the ceiling. The stars twinkled down on her merrily, now surrounded by an almost black. If stars could be care free and happy, she imagined they would be. Lily sighed. Man, she envied those stars.

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James stared up at the roof of the Great Hall. The ceiling was really quite inspiring. To think that in the whole universe, he was that small a person, insignificant compared to the stars. Just then, James caught a snatch of Lily's conversation from further down the table. He recognized her voice instantly.

"…….And to stop asking me out! I'm never going to say yes!" He could tell from here that Lily was angry. He tensed and sat up straighter in his seat. Why was he doing this to Lily? Sure, her getting angry with him meant that he talked to her at all, but she obviously was just starting to hate him more and more. He was about to walk over and apologize, when the rest of the Marauders walked up and sat down next to him.

"Jamsie boy!" Sirius shouted jovially, "It looks as if you have caused Lily trouble again! Well done!" Sirius finished this statement with a slap on the back, nearly knocking James out of his chair.

"It wasn't that bad, was it?" James asked, genuinely worried.

"You know as well us," Remus said softly, "She hasn't had a moment rest all day. Even the teachers were asking why her hair was blue. Some of them, who don't know her, of course, even suggested that she had dies it on purpose just to rile the authority up."

"Honestly," Sirius said shaking his head, "You'd think those Professors would be used to it by now! Think of all the times we've done Snape's hair!"

"Ah, there's the thing you see," Peter piped in, "Lily is in Gryffindor and a girl." James felt like hanging his head in shame. He hadn't meant to be so mean to Lily.

"I, uh, have got to go… somewhere…." James excused himself and walked off quickly leaving his friends gaping after him. Sirius shook his head.

"He could have just turned her hair back from here." Peter looked at him questioningly.

"How do you know he's gone to turn her hair back?" Peter asked. Sirius shrugged.

"It's obvious."

Remus shook his head, smiling. "Duh."

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Lily and her friends were laughing as some first years argued about which racing broom was best, when Raven suddenly gasped.

"Lily!" She said shocked, "Your hair is red!" Lily grabbed a strand of hair and held it ecstatically in front of her face, while exclaiming excitedly. Ashley on the other hand, was straining her neck, smiling manically, to see where James Potter had exited the hall only moments before. She caught a glimpse of his head craning around a corner, looking at Lily, before disappearing again. Ashley grabbed Lily's arm and tugged with super strength, while Lily yelped in pain.

"Go check your hair in a mirror!" Ashley gabbled, "There's one over there." Ashley pointed to the archway where she had seen James Potter disappear.

"Ow, okay, okay. Just let go of my arm." Ashley let go, and Lily rubbed her arm tenderly. She walked off to the archway, throwing a bemused glance back at Ashley. As soon as Lily had her back turned, Ashley set off after her, the rest of the Gryffindor girls looking highly amused. Ashley followed stealthily, quiet as a mouse.

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Lily glanced around in the empty hallway, looking for the mirror Ashley had mentioned. Lily thought she had seen one here once before, but these walls were always changing. She walked around a corner, and found James gazing out of a small window across the inky lake.

"Hey, James," she called, her voice echoing off the stone walls, "You seen a mirror anywhere?" James jumped around in surprise.

"Lily! Why are you here?" He automatically ruffled his hair, and pushed his glasses back on to his nose. Lily's gaze narrowed.

"You don't seem very surprised my hair turned back," she said suspiciously. Then her look softened. "Did you turn it back?"

"I- uh-" James stumbled over his words while Lily looked at him with an almost smile. "Well……the truth is……." James paused, "I'm a shoddy spell caster, that's all." Lily's face fell slightly. She had almost been expecting him to have done something nice. She sighed, almost forlorn. It would've been nice to think there was some good in James Potter.

Lily waved slightly. "Well, later then. I better head back to the dorms." As she walked off, James watched her retreating back and had the urge to call out to her.

"Uh, Lily?"

"Yes, James?" She looked at him as if they were friends, and James felt his heart leap.

"Will you go out with me?" The friendly look fell off Lily's face faster than James could have hexed Snape.

"No," she snapped. She ground her teeth in frustration. Any thoughts that James might be an all right guy were gone. Couldn't he ever just leave something alone? Lily turned on her heel, and marched away to her dorm, muttering about 'bloody womanizers' the whole way. James just stared after her.

From around a pillar Ashley grinned as she watched the exchange. They were so love/hate, she thought to herself, and they don't even know it! A sudden movement made her glance over at the pillar opposite her. Behind it was standing Sirius, with an identical grin to Ashley's on his face. He looked over at her slowly, and winked slyly. Ashley winked back.

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Lily stared out her dorm room window at the magnificent sky above. Not even the Great Hall ceiling compared to the real thing, with the wind on her face. A shooting star swished across the sky, leaving a trail of sparkles behind it. A sudden though struck Lily.

"I wish…" she trailed off as she realized that she didn't actually know what to wish for. Unbidden, and image of James Potter leapt to her mind, with his annoying smile and pushy attitude.

"I wish James Potter would stop asking me out." She smiled grimly. There was a wish not wasted.

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James still stood at the window where Lily had left him. He watched the stars, not really thinking about anything. Just then a shooting star shot out across the sky, sparkling and flying as fast as a snitch. A sudden impulse took him over, and he made a wish, smiling to himself.

"I wish that the next time I ask her out, Lily Evans will say yes."

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Dumbledor watched the star shoot out of his wand and fly across the night sky, illuminating everything in its path. The night sky tonight had rather inspired him. The star he had just sent off was enchanted to grant every wish that was made on it. Not anything harmful of course, just the little things. Another ingenious clause, if he did think so himself was that the wishes would wear off after a week. After all, it wouldn't be had to have children being able to fly forever.

He wondered if, in the morning, there would be many first years leading around ponies. After all, it was what he would wish for. That, and a pair of new bed socks.

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