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BEFORE THE BOY WHO LIVED

CHAPTER 6

Tis' the season to rip the head off James Potter…

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"James, James, wake up!" It took James a few minutes to register that Peter was shaking him awake.

"What, why?" he asked Peter bluntly.

"Remus is missing again!"

"Again?"

"Yea, his bed is empty again!" James got up and pulled aside the hangings on Remus' bed there was an envelope sitting on the empty pillows. James ripped it open it read:

Dear James, Sirius, Lily, and Peter,

I have gone to go see my grandmother who has fallen fatally ill I apologize for this being on such short notice. Please forgive me. I will be back as soon as possible.

Yours,

Remus

"This is the third time already he's been gone, we really should wake Sirius and tell him." As Peter turned towards Sirius' bed James put his hand on his shoulder to stop him.

"Peter, be reasonable, are you really going to get Sirius awake before 11am on a Saturday?"

"No."

"Right, now let's go down to breakfast."

The two boys walked lazily down the corridors towards the Great Hall when –to their surprise- they heard Sirius panting behind them.

"W..wa..wait u..up!" James and Peter turned around to let Sirius catch up "Guess what, Remus is missing again, for the third time! This time he didn't even leave a note."

"We know he's gone Sirius, and yes he did leave us a letter." James tossed him the letter from Remus. Sirius scanned it over.

"I thought his grandmother fell ill two months ago."

"No that was his father," said James.

"I thought he said that his puffskein died two months ago and he had to go bury it," piped up Peter

"No, no that was last month he had to do that," said Sirius

"You've got it wrong, last month he had to go and see his Great Aunt…er…Edna I think he said, and two months before that his father was sick," said James

The boys walked into the Great Hall for breakfast and Lily was very disappointed to see that there were only three of them.

"Where's Remus?" she asked Genny

"I'm not really sure. He's not really one to miss out on breakfast is he?"

"No, he's not. I'm not sure what's up. He was missing last month too."

"Really? I didn't notice he wasn't here last month."

"You wouldn't have, that was the week you were in the Hospital Wing for your back."

"That's right."

"I'm going to find out what's wrong." Lily got up and walked over to the other end of the Gryfinndor table. "Where's Remus?"

"What? No "Hi"?"

"No Black. No "Hi". Where is Remus?"

"He's with his grandmother who has just fallen fatally ill. Why do you ask?"

"How do you know?"

"He left me, James, Peter, and you a letter."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Well you see we just came down for breakfast ourselves."

"Oh, right. Well let me know next time you see or hear from him."

"Whatever Evans." Lily went back to where Genny was waiting for her.

"So, what's happened with Remus?" she asked interestedly

"He's visiting with his grandmother, who has fallen fatally ill."

"Oh, wow, poor Remus."

"Yeah, that's what I thought. I hope he and his grandmother are alright." The two girls left the castle and went for a walk around the grounds completely enjoying the first day of December.

Their holidays would begin soon and Professor McGonagall was making a list of those going home over Christmas, much to Lily's disgrace Genny signed the list, Remus' name was on there as well when the list was posted in the common room. And even though Sirius and Peter were leaving as well that did not help Lily in being able to escape the terror that is James Potter, who was also staying.

On Wednesday Remus returned to a bunch of very worried friends. That was something he had never experienced before, it was a lovely feeling to have 5 other people worry about you than your parents.

He was on his way to breakfast rather early when he met up with Lily.

"Oh good, you're back! We were all worried for you. How is she doing?"

"Who?" he asked very confused.

"Your grandmother!"

"Right…she is doing a whole lot better I don't think we'll have to worry about her too much right now."

"Good! I'm so glad!" Remus was glad too. He was glad he had such great friends, even though most like him didn't. 

The last days of school dragged by slowly until Lily found her two best friends being whisked away on a train back to London. She was officially dreading going back into the castle away from underneath the snow-covered tree only to be faced with having to spend the rest of her holidays with James.

'It's not as bad as spending them with Petunia and Mrs. Gwen though.' She thought bitterly. Her parents informed her they were going to Belgium to visit her great-grandfather, both she and her sister were welcome to come as well, but Lily declined, so did Petunia who now had to stay with Mrs. Gwen seeing as she was only twelve. Neither of them liked Great-Grandfather very much at all. He was old and very boring. It was not fun to go and stay with him.

Lily awoke the next morning to find Yuri asleep on her chest.

"Aww, good morning my pretty little kitten," she tried to say, but no noise came out. She tried yelling, and screaming and making all sorts of sounds, but to no avail. She was remaining silent.

Lily knew now why she hadn't seen Potter all day. He'd been working on something like this. She was already going to hurt him and the holidays had hardly started.

She went down to breakfast early to find only one table was set up, even the head table was nowhere in sight. Professor Dumbledore, Professor Flitwick, and some 3rd year Huffelpuffs were the only ones down to eat this early.

Lily had sat down and began to eat when she heard a familiar voice behind her.

"Enjoy your pumpkin juice last night Evans?" hissed James into her ear.

Lily tried to yell furiously at him but no sound came out.

"Ms. Evans is something the matter?" asked Professor Dumbledore

"Oh no Professor," answered James, "she's merely been jinxed"

"Mr. Potter, you know that spells are not to be performed outside of classes."

"No, no, you see it is a game. If two people say the same thing at the same time and one person shouts 'JINX!' afterwards, then the other one must remain silent until…well, I won't tell you because well you see, that would take the fun out of it."

"Yes, I see Mr. Potter we wouldn't want that to happen."

Lily was about to burst, though she couldn't make any sound. 'I AM GOING TO PERSONALLY MAUL EVERY BIT OF YOU JAMES POTTER!' she thought angrily. Actually, angrily was an understatement. Lily was bloody furious.

After she had finished eating Lily got up to go back to the common room when Professor McGonagall walked into the Great Hall.

"Good morning Ms. Evans!" she said happily to Lily who couldn't say a thing so she didn't bother and she continued to walk grimly out of the Hall.

"Albus, is there something wrong with Lily?"

"She's been jinxed."

"Oh, yes, I see."

A day later her voice came back. And she was not happy; neither were the seventh year Gryfinndors who remained for the purpose of studying. As soon as she could talk again Lily was going to let James know it.

"OH, JAaaAAaMES! I KNOW YOU'RE STILL UP IN YOUR DORM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU HOW YOU THOUGHT YOU SOULD GO AND DO SUCH A THING! IT'S THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS FOR GOODNESS SAKE! COULDN'T YOU BE A BIT MORE REASONABLE? AND LET ME AT LEAST ENJOY MY CHRISTMAS, EVEN IF I HAVE TO SPEND IT WITHOUT EITHER REMUS OR GENNY, I HAVE TO SPEND IT WITH YOU, AND SOME OTHER SEVENTH YEARS I DON'T KNOW…"

James was indeed upstairs in the dormitory, underneath his blankets with his pillows pressed against his ears…and Sirius' and Remus' pillows as well. He was wishing that Genny was here too, she was the calm one and she was the only one that really new how to help control Lily's amazing temper.

After Lily calmed down she went out to go sit by the lake.

She sat and pondered Potter making her silent for two days, should she do something back to him? The obvious answer was yes, and she was going to get him good; she wasn't a sister to Petunia for nothing. 

"GEEZ OH PETE EVANS!! WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DID YOU DO TO ME?"

This particular morning it was James' turn to be yelling. A long sigh could be heard from studious Gryfinndors as they left in search of peace and quiet.

"Oh, my goodness, now what did happen to you Potter? Please, do tell." 

James was currently sporting a bright pink curly hair-do, which didn't work very well because his hair wasn't very long. He was also giving off a wretched smell.

"I DON'T KNOW EVANS! I WOKE UP AND MY HAIR WAS PINK AND CURLY AND IT REALLY SMELLS!"

"Oh, have you never heard of hair dye and a perm? I thought you would like them."

"A PERM? WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?"

"Well, since you are not from a muggle family I wouldn't expect you to know what it was, but it curls your hair. Usually it's permanent, but you're lucky I only had a temporary one, I was going to use it on myself, but I think it suits you better."

"WHAT ABOUT THE PINK?"

"Oh, that one is just a charm."

"AND WHY IN THE WORLD DO I SMELL LIKE I JUST RAN OVER A SKUNK WITH ONE OF YOUR MUGGLE CARS?"

Lily laughed. "That is the worst part of the perm, it smells to high heavens. It's even worse when it's being put in. You are so lucky you weren't awake when I put it in. And I really can't believe how you slept through it."

"You'll have to remember that I room with Sirius Black. Now, when does the color come out?"

"By Christmas Day."

"I HAVE TO HAVE PINK HARI UNTIL CHRISTMAS?"

"Yes."

"What about the curls?"

"Until the end of the holidays."

"No. Way."

"Yes way Potter."

"What about the smell?"

"As soon as you take a shower. Actually, three showers should do it."

A smile crept across James lips. "Hold on. If I take a shower won't these curls come out?"

"No." His face fell. "I did the perm about 15 hours ago. You'll be good to go until Remus, Sirius, Peter, and Genny get back." Lily then turned on her heel and left to go to lunch.

Lily rather enjoyed the rest of her holidays. Potter seemed to have come to terms that if he pranked her…she would get him back.

On Christmas morning Lily awoke to a small pile of presents at the foot of her bed.

 She received a green leather journal from her parents, a shoelace from Petunia, some wizard chocolate from Remus, a charm bracelet from Genny, miscellaneous gifts from aunts and such which mainly consisted of knitted jumpers and tacky jewelry, and a rather large box from James and Sirius that she immediately threw in the fireplace. The box hissed and shook violently then shriveled up into ashes. Lily was immensely grateful she had refrained from opening it.

Then to her surprise a large tawny owl was banging on the window with a letter tied to it's leg. Lily rushed to the window to let it in. It came swooping into the dormitory sat on Genny's empty bed and held it's leg out.

Lily took the letter and thanked the owl before it was on its way. It was from Remus. The letter read:

Lily,

            Hope you are having a happy Christmas. I wanted to thank you for the pictures of James. All of us had a laugh over them; even if we are supposed to be his friends... don't let him know we were laughing at his pink curly hair. I am currently at Sirius' house with Peter right now, and let me tell you this is probably the last time I'll be here for a stay. His mother is barking mad. Anyways, thank you very much for the muggle candy-I had never even heard of Mars Bars! They were delicious. I'll see you in a week.

Remus

Lily had to smile as she read her letter and walked down to go eat, as she remembered James' reaction. It was a good thing she got the Ravenclaw boy to take that picture for her. Today his pink hair would disappear. And in a week it will be completely back to normal.

To James the end of the holidays couldn't come soon enough. He'd had his fill of curly pink hair.

Sirius commented on how hilarious it was when he returned. When James asked how they knew Remus, Sirius, and Peter all held up identical pictures of him storming around the castle. His rage would have been frightening except for his hair-do.

"I now know that it is very dangerous to prank on a muggle born who is skilled at charms and revenge," said Sirius. "And I am making a vow never to prank her, ever. I rather like my hair thank you very much. And I can deal with hating her from a distance."

James just scowled. Then Sirius and Peter stood up to leave.

"Where are you going?" James asked them.

"Well, remember how Professor Crick froze the Whomping Willow while we were planting it?"

"Yes. I remember."

"Well, those Ravenclaws, Kary, Caleb, and Daniel, are holding contests on who can get close enough to freeze it.

             

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