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Authoress' Note- For your reading pleasure and the need I feel to have longer chapters seven and eight have been combined. E.D.J.
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Professor D. S. Silvers-Yes the war has begun! I'm so glad you like Peter being bold now and then!
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Ch. 7- The Row That Started It All
Lily stood talking with Emmeline and their fellow first year Gryffindor, Isabella or Bella Meadows, when James's friend Black strode over to her at the end of class.
Clasping her hand in mock bravado, he said triumphantly, "Dear Lily! I, Sirius Black, have restored your honor by attacking the accursed Severus Snape!" He bowed low and then left skipping like a girl after James.
"I'll explain just in case you have no idea what Sirius just said," said Remus Lupin, rolling his eyes as he suddenly popped up next their table. "He dumped Snape's own potion on him because Snape called you a Mudblood. We just couldn't take that lying down. So Sirius volunteered to do the dirty work." Remus nodded to Emmeline and Bella and then walked over to where Peter was gathering up his Potions things.
"What's a Mudblood?" Lily asked as they made their way to the Great Hall for lunch.
Both Emmeline and Bella grimaced in distaste.
Bella tugged at a strand of wavy blonde hair and said uncomfortably, "It's what some wizards call Muggle-borns. It's really rude. It means the person has dirty blood, which of course isn't true. Some wizards think only people from old pureblood wizarding families should be in our society."
"Oh," said Lily sulkily. "That's so rude. But they didn't need to attack Snape for me! I could have handled it myself."
Lily was still angry at dinner. Angry that someone could say something so mean and hurtful to her and angry that James Potter and his friends didn't think she could take care of herself in matters involving rude peers.
When James and his friends sat down next to her, Lily leaned over to James, who was shoveling down mashed potatoes, and whispered, "You didn't have to that you know."
"Do what?" asked James, confused. "Eat that last scoop of potato?"
"No. Defend me, restore my honor, or whatever that prat was talking about after Potions," she said, waving her hands and pointing at Sirius, who looked bewildered and offended at being called a prat.
"What?" asked Remus, squinting at her.
"You didn't need to dump a potion on Snape because he called me a Mudblood," Lily stated slowly and distinctly.
"Okay," said Sirius, absently stirring a finger in his goblet of pumpkin juice. "Why?"
"I can fight my own battles!" Lily said angrily, her green eyes glinting dangerously bright.
"No one said you couldn't!" said James, taken aback. "We didn't think you'd mind seeing as Snape insulted you in the worst way possible!"
"I don't think you did it to help me," stated Lily. She was surprised at her boldness, but she decided to keep going.
"What?" asked James angrily.
"I think you did it to put James Potter and his friends on the map," said Lily. "You wanted to say, 'No one messes with James, Sirius, Remus, or Peter.' You didn't dump that potion on Snape because he insulted me; it was because he insulted Black! Because he offended all of you!" She glared at Sirius, who wisely remained quiet. "What are you going to do if some first year annoys you next year?" She was addressing James now.
"I don't know, Evans," said James lightly. "I suppose I'd just hex 'em."
Lily looked utterly horrified.
"You know I wasn't the one who spilled the potion on Snape!" James yelled angrily.
"But you didn't stop it, and you bloody well would have done it yourself if Black hadn't!" she spat back.
"Couldn't we have dumped the potion on Snape because he insulted both you and Sirius?" said Remus, venturing back to the previous topic.
"No," said Lily indignantly. "Because why would I matter to any of you? You're all idiots who only care about how you look to other people. You dump a potion on a Slytherin everyone hates; you four look like heroes to all of Gryffindor. You make me so sick! But you know what? Why should it matter to me? If you want to inflate you overly large egos more, why should I care?"
Lily strode off, and all four of the Marauders stared as she exited the Great Hall.
"Well, I personally don't think we deserved that," commented Sirius. "Does it mean we're completely evil if we want people to know who we are?"
"I don't know, mate," said Remus rather tiredly, his head drooping, but then he jerked up quickly. "I just remembered I'm supposed to go see Madam Pomfrey! She said I'd probably have to stay overnight in the hospital wing, so she can find if I'm ill with something contagious. I won't be in the dormitory tonight."
He quickly rushed out of the Great Hall.
"Well I think Evans hates you now, mate," said Sirius. He snorted. "You and your overly large ego."
"Great, wonderful, this is just great!" said James angrily, spilling pumpkin juice all over the table.
"Get over yourself! You liked her for like two days!" exclaimed Peter in a voice quite unlike his own.
James and Sirius stared at him, and Peter turned a bit pink.
"You know what?" said James thoughtfully. "You're right, Peter. I'll just forget it all!"
I highly doubt that, thought Sirius, as James changed the subject to the topic of more pranks to pull on that git Severus Snape.
Or should we say Snivellus?
Lily stomped along the seventh floor corridor until she reached the Fat Lady's portrait, which guarded the entrance to Gryffindor Tower. She glared at the Fat Lady for a moment before saying angrily: "Shrivelfig!"
As Lily climbed through the portrait hole, the Fat Lady exclaimed, "Now really! It's not that difficult a password! There's no need to get angry!"
Lily ran up to her dormitory and flung herself onto her four-poster bed. "That brainless prat, James Potter," she murmured hotly. "I can't believe I ever thought he was sweet!" She groaned inwardly at the thought.
"Lily?" came two voices from the doorway.
"Em? Bella?" she said, looking up as she wiped away angry tears.
The two girls rushed over to Lily.
"It's alright, Lils," said Emmeline soothingly, stroking Lily's red hair.
"Those bloody gits, those stupid berks," she grumbled under her breath.
"If it makes you feel better, they looked pretty bewildered after your dramatic exit," said Bella, giggling a bit.
"Especially Potter," added Emmeline.
Lily gave a small laugh."You do agree with me, don't you?"
"I suppose," said Emmeline, biting her lip slightly. "They do seem a bit too full of themselves. Especially Potter and Black."
"Notice how she doesn't mention Remus," said Bella in a singsong voice, bouncing on the end of Lily's bed.
"Shut it!" Emmeline hissed, throwing Lily's pillow at Bella.
"Remus? Remus Lupin?" Lily gasped, shocked at this new turn of events.
"What he's cute!" protested Emmeline, her face red as she continued to throw pillows at Bella. She sighed. "He was so sweet helping me in Charms yesterday, and he's really smart and funny too!"
"I think we've lost her," said Bella, giggling as she dodged another pillow.
"Well, he's better than Potter or Black," said Lily approvingly.
Bella snorted loudly at the mention of Black.
"What?" asked Lily and Emmeline.
Bella snorted again laughter showing in her hazel eyes. "Did you see him gawking at me at dinner?"
"Black?" asked Lily.
"Oh yes," said Emmeline, laughing. "I saw him! So what do you think Bella?"
"Of Black?" asked Bella, crinkling her nose in disgust. "He's quite fit and all, but I think he's much too egotistic for his own good. Like Potter really."
"Did you see him gaping at you, Lils?" asked Emmeline, a glint of mischief in her eyes.
"Potter?" squawked a now thoroughly disgusted Lily. "I'd hex him to New Zealand and back if I ever caught him stealing a glance at me!"
"Well, I doubt he'll be doing that anytime soon," said Bella. "He looked pretty angry."
"Great!" snapped Lily. "I don't care! He's just a useless boy!" Bella looked wounded so Lily said quickly: "I'm sorry. I'm just tired. I think I'll turn in now."
"It's fine, Lils," said Bella, "G'night."
"Ugh!" moaned James, flinging himself onto his four-poster bed and burying his head under the covers, groaning loudly.
"What?" Frank Longbottom asked curiously, as he entered the dormitory behind Peter.
"Evans. Fiery red hair? Great in Charms? An exploding bomb?" said Sirius, cuffing James in the back of the head as he sat down on his own bed. James gave him a murderous glare, but Sirius just gave him a smug smile.
"Oh ..." said Frank, a knowing tone to his voice. "The girl who yelled so loud you could hear her in New Zealand?"
"That's the one," said Peter with a slight smile.
"Quite a temper that one," said Frank lightly. "James fancy her?"
"Yeah," said Sirius, smirking despite himself.
"But I'm getting over it right now and you might as well not disturb me until I've succeed!" snapped James, beating his head against his pillow.
"Well, we should go to bed so as not to disturb Jamesie anymore," said Sirius in a singsong voice before lying down on his bed.
"G'night!" called the boys and they all drifted off to sleep.
All except James, who lay awake for a long time, staring at the large full moon outside the window.
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