hey hey guys! so yes, i think this would somehow qualify as AU now... which i think is kinda fun, i've never written an AU before...so let me know how i'm doing with this whole AU-ness
The next morning Lily woke up at quarter after six. Pansy was already up an hurrying around the room.
"This has to be illegal, Pansy," Lily groaned, rolling out of bed and sticking her feet into her warm, welcoming slippers.
"I know, but you get used to it after a while," Lily said nothing as she walked into her closet. She sighed as she went into her bathroom and quickly washed her face, brushed her teeth and debated on how to do her hair. She walked back into the closet and over the her section of school clothes, quickly she threw everything on and went back into the bathroom to finish up her hair.
Lily stepped out of her closet a few minutes later, her auburn hair hung down straight just below her shoulders, her slytherin tie was tied loosely, her cloak hung over her arm and her bag was slung over her shoulder.
"You ready to go em?" Pansy asked walking towards their personal door.
"I guess. At least as ready as I'll ever be." Pansy grinned and together they stepped out into the hall and they walked up to the dining hall.
"Snape will hand out your schedule, we won't have every class together, but some we will, just follow people around, you'll find everything alright," she said as they sat down next to each other, which they made sure was far away from Draco and Blaise.
Lily was in the middle of eating a blueberry muffin when owls swopped down from a window high up in the rafters, she watched as they dropped letters and packages to awaiting students. Once they all left Lily turned to Pansy and stared at her.
"What?" Pansy asked, looking at the girl, confused.
"That was really weird. Does that happen every day?" she asked, staring up at the window they all came through.
Pansy smiled. "Yes, unless weather is bad, then you only get one or two owls."
"There's no owl post station at the school?" Pansy shook her head and Lily sighed, "that's crazy talk." she said taking another bite of her muffin. Pansy burst into a small fit of laughter that quieted as she got her schedule and read over it.
"What do you have first?" Lily asked leaning towards Pansy and peering over her shoulder to look at her schedule.
"Divination," Pansy said, looking over at Lily and grinning at the face she was making.
"Ew, I took that, I hated it, I still have to take that...but, I have potions first, double period."
Pansy nodded. "I could have taken potions, well that potions, but I took a course over the summer, so now I'm at a higher lever than you are now."
"Oh, awesome, what do you wanna do?" Lily asked, folding her schedule and putting it into her bag.
"I wanna be a potions teacher, but any teacher will do just fine for me; what about you?"
"Auror, it would be fun I think, and I love fighting and dueling, and that's a huge part of training. I just have to get there first." Pansy agreed as people started filing out of the hall. The two of them were some of the last to leave, but luckily for Lily she had shrunken everything she needed so she simply asked Pansy the way to the potions classroom and quickly headed that way.
Upon arriving she found only a few people; including Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco. Harry was sitting by himself, while Ron and Hermione sat together at the table in front of Harry. Draco was standing by Harry, his hands down on the desk, Draco was wearing his classic smirk, while Harry's face as well as Ron's was contorted in anger, Hermione looked shocked. Lily glanced around the classroom and noticing there were barely any people figured it would all work out ok. As she walked forward she only heard one word; 'Sirius'.
"Watchya doing Draco?" she asked cheerfully, coming up beside him, her Malfoy smirk set firmly in place. Draco turned and grinned.
"Meet my cousin, Potter. Emily Fitzgerald." Draco looked back at Harry, Lily grinned and winked quickly as Harry tried to tie his words together.
Lily spoke quickly while he was still working it all out. "You didn't answer my question Draco. What are you doing?" she asked, her voice growing cold.
"I was just talking to Potter, the Weasel and Mudblood about how not sorry I am to hear that Sirius Black died. Escaped for Azkaban he did, murdered innocents too." Lily nodded and turned to Draco, ignoring Harry and trying to act on this before he did something stupid.
"Is that so?"
Draco nodded, "Your... Godfather, was it?... he was an idiot, just like your parents were Potter, your end will be just like theirs." Harry and Ron both lunged for Malfoy, but Hermione and Lily were to fast for them, Hermione grabbed Ron's arm and Lily quickly pushed Harry back down into his seat, Lily held him at bay as Draco started to laugh, and then Lily glared at Harry and shook her head, took her bag off of her shoulder and spun around to Draco.
"I'm sorry Draco, was something funny to you?"
"Just them...trying to get to me... it didn't work... it wont..."Lily quickly slapped him across the face and stood there defiantly as Draco regained his senses.
"Should I hit you again, or do you get the point?" she asked. Draco stared at her while Ron hissed, 'yeah, hit him again, Em!' Lily shrugged and hit Draco again, even harder than last time. "Now you listen to me, and you listen good. I don't ever want to hear you talk about innocent people escaping from Azkaban, and you know Sirius was innocent. Never talk about things you have no room to talk about, your father escaped from there and he deserved it, he tortured innocents for FUN!" Lily paused to take a breath, Draco went to say something, but Lily slapped him again. "Don't interrupt me Draco. Now about Sirius being an idiot... he wasn't, you are, so from now on you're just gonna shut up alright? And leave Harry, Hermione and Ron alone, next time I wont stop them from giving you what you deserve."
Draco stared at her and smirked, "Em, Sirius killed those people."
She shook her head violently. "No, Peter did it, you know he did it; he deserved that Azkaban sentence, not Sirius. Now shut up Draco."
"Make me, I'll tell father on you." Lily sighed, exasperated and grabbed him at the collar of his cloak, pulling him to the front of the classroom and pushing him down into a chair.
"What's he gonna do? Tell my dead daddy on me? Make no mistake Draco, your father doesn't scare me, and don't you forget how my father left this earth."
Draco's eyes grew wide and then he shrunk away from her. "Alright, alright, just stop hitting me," he whined, putting his head down on his desk.
"Fine." Lily said grinning. She quickly snapped his ear, causing him to grab at it and whine in pain.
"Hey Em, sit by me." Blaise said, coming up behind her and reaching for her hand. Lily spun around quickly and slapped his hand away.
"Um, how about not? Why don't you sit by the idiot here and try to learn what the term, 'I'm not interested' means." Blaise nodded and Lily quickly retreated back to where she had dropped her bag, but didn't find it there.
"Hey Harry?" she asked, spinning in a circle, making sure she didn't miss it.
"Yeah Em?"
"Where's my bag at?" she asked, looking up at him. He smiled at her and pointed to the bag on the table beside him. Lily smiled and reached for it, but he grabbed her arm and looked at her sternly.
"You can sit there. I figured you wouldn't wanna sit by Draco, but if you don't wanna sit here either thats fine, but everyone is almost here now, you can try to get a seat though." Lily shook her head and walked behind him and slid into the chair.
"No, thanks, I appreciate it. I was gonna ask, but I thought you might not wanna sit by me after what just happened." Harry shook his head and Ron quickly spun around.
"Are you kidding me? That was bloody brilliant. I wish I could have done that!" Ron gushed.
Lily simply shrugged. "But you would have been in big trouble, he normally fights back, but I'm family, and a girl, he wont hit me, plus he deathly afraid of me, so I definitely have an advantage," Lily fiddled with the rings on her fingers as she watched Ron.
Ron smiled. "Hermione hit him in our third year; didn't you Mione?"
Hermione turned and gave Lily a coy smile, "I did, and boy did it feel good." Lily smiled at her and pulled out her potions book. Draco spun around and glared at them. Lily rolled her eyes as the door slammed shut. The room quieted immediately as the teacher came forward, his cloak billowing out around him.
"I will not tolerate any fooling around this year, you all are advanced, and some of you I'm rather surprised made it this far," his eyes lingered on Harry for a moment, causing a few Slytherins to giggle and snigger, but he quickly silenced them. "Get to work, everything will be on the board, and Miss. Fitzgerald, please come up to my desk for a few moments." he tapped the board and instructions for a complex potion appeared.
"I'll set up while you talk to Snape," Harry whispered, standing to go over to the ingredient cabinet.
"Alright, hopefully this wont take long." Lily said standing as well and walking to the front of the room. Professor Snape was seated at his desk watching his students bustle around the room, getting ready to make the potion. He turned to Lily when she reached his desk.
"I understand, Miss. Fitzgerald, that you have a slight knack for potions. Your teacher from America told me you were quite a valuable pupil," Lily shrugged as Snape continued one. "If the records I have on you are correct, then you are slightly ahead of the class, why is this?"
"Well you see professor, my old teacher - Miss. Watson- took select students and tested them to see how well we could handle more difficult potions. I was one of those students," she said quietly.
"And you excelled. In this year most students start a backwards decline, and I have a tutoring army ready to help them, their peers. I want you to be one of them. You do after all have a knack for potions."
"Among other things."
"Like Defense Against the Dark Arts, which doesn't surprise me, coming from the family line that you do." Lily only stared at him. "The Malfoy's Miss. Fitzgerald."
Lily smirked. "Have you ever seen Draco perform any Dark Arts defense spells?... well lets just say it never works that well for him."
Snape smiled at her. "So you aren't a normal Malfoy, you remind me of your mother, she wasn't stereotype Malfoy either. Tutoring sessions start in two weeks; can I count on you being there?"
"Of course Professor, I'll be there." Lily stated politely.
Snape nodded. "Good. 7p.m. sharp we start, so be there a few minutes before hand. Now get back to work." he said standing slowly and walking around the room to observe everyone's progress. Lily quickly hurried back to Harry only to find him just sitting there, squinting at the board.
"What are you doing?" she asked slipping into her seat and grabbing the first ingredient to start working on it.
"I can't really see the board, I think my eyes have gotten worse, and I always do things wrong." Lily nodded, dropping the shredded bat wings into the cauldron.
"Alright, well, this is rather simple to make. You just take those four things and chop them up, make sure they're really small, I'll stir this." Harry nodded and the two of them got to work, quickly catching up and passing the rest of the class.
Snape stopped in front of their desk as Harry was slowly adding the last ingredient: peppermint leaves, crushed to a liquid-like cream. Lily was stirring counterclockwise, counting quietly out loud and nodding to Harry for his signal to add more.
"Now stop Harry, no more," Lily said, quickly switching to stir clockwise. "Turn off the heat slowly, count to forty and when you get there, it should be off." Harry nodded and set to work on his task, counting slowly. Snape watched the two of them work and then went on his way.
"Its off now. Harry said, standing and staring expectantly into the cauldron. "So is it right? Did we do it?" He asked, looking up at Lily. She smiled at him and stopped stirring.
" I think so, but we'll find out for sure in a few minutes, stand away from the cauldron until that happens."
"Why?"
"Just do it, don't ask. Trust me, you'll regret it if you don't listen." Harry complied and helped her clean and organize their station. Lily made sure Harry stayed at the station while she went to clean the stirring rod. She was making her way back when the results came out, a large plume of smoke burst out of the potion, causing students to move away quickly. Harry groaned and moved towards the potions, Lily rushed forward beaming.
"Good job, Harry." she said picking up a phial.
Harry stared at her exasperated, "what do you mean 'good job'! It just went 'POOF'!" he cried, throwing his arms in the air.
Lily grinned at him, "I know, thats what its supposed to do. Can you handle clean up?" Harry nodded wordlessly as she sealed the phial and walked up to Professor Snape's desk.
He looked at her and silently took the phial from her.
"Keep it. That the contents in the cauldron and pout them into 500 ml bottles"
Lily quickly grabbed multiple bottles and went back to her desk.
"What are those for?" Harry asked, picking one up and looking at her.
"We fill them." together they worked quickly and had the bottles filled and their station cleaned. Lily and Harry walked the phials up to the desk and Snape just sat there.
"Where do you want these Professor?" Harry asked timidly.
Snape looked at them like they had both just grown a third eye. "Take them to Pomfrey, then do what you please. That is all you had to do today, and I don't want bothersome students with nothing to do goofing around while other students are working," Harry and Lily said nothing, but quickly obeyed, grabbing their bags and books as best they could.
Lily shut the door with her foot and looked at Harry expectantly. "Lead the way, I'm totally lost." Harry nodded and made his way out of the dungeons, Lily walked quickly behind him, grumbling as she went.
Harry stopped once out in the main hall and turned to look back at her. "Having any trouble Em?" he asked, flashing her a lopsided grin. Lily sighed and stopped in front of him. She nodded and let go of the flasks, Harry lunged at them, dropping his own in the process and Lily quickly flicked her wrist, suspending them all in the air. Harry straightened up and stared at her, his jaw hanging open. Lily smiled at him.
"That's a secret. Promise not to tell?" Harry shut his mouth and nodded at her.
"Where'd you learn to do that?" he asked while watching her shrink her potions book , put it in her bag and sling it over her shoulder.
"I didn't. I was born that way, its hard to learn though, unless you have a small trait of that power in you already." together they started walking, instep with one another.
"Do you think I do?" Harry asked hopefully, his eyes bright watching her suspend the flasks as they walked.
"I suppose so, somewhere deep inside of you. After all, next to Dumbledore, and Voldemort, I think you're the most powerful, well of course you will be once you can harness all of your powers." Harry nodded and stopped in front of the door.
"Should I take some?" he asked, indicating the flasks.
Lily nodded, "Yes, please," Harry took as many as he could carry and the rest Lily engulfed in her arms. She knocked on the door and in silence they waited for the nurse to answer. When she did, she quickly ushered them inside and over to her storage cabinet.
Lily watched her with a bemused smile as she wondered if all Wizarding school nurses were like this. Hurried and a little flustered, and coming off as just a little out of it at times.
As soon as they were pushed out of the infirmary Harry looked at her.
"So what do you have next?" he asked. Lily reached for he schedule and looked it over.
She glanced back up at him and smiled. "Care of Magical creatures." she watched Harry's face tighten and become mostly unreadable, unreadable except for his eyes. Lily said nothing to him.
"Me too. I'll show you where its at, you can meet Hagrid too." Lily nodded and slowly followed behind him, thinking, trying to understand him, to see him in a different light than everyone else did.
They stepped through the doors and walked down the stairs, the sight stunning Lily.
"Woah," she said, spinning around and backing up slowly. Harry watched her, perplexed, thinking about how she was so unlike everyone else at the school. "Its beautiful." she continued, her eyes traveling over the grounds now.
"We'll have time to look later, lets keep going." he said, walking away towards the familiar sight of Hagrid's hut, a place he didn't want to be at the moment, at least not without a large number of people.
"Why?" he heard her ask from behind him. He turned to see her walking off towards the whomping willow, completely clueless as to what would happen to her if she only took a few more steps. Harry rushed towards her and tackled her to the ground just in time. He rolled them out of the way and ended up on top of her. They froze for a few moments, she was staring at him. Harry felt his cheeks go red and he quickly got up, grabbing her wrist and taking her with him.
"Thank you," Lily said, smirking at him.
Harry turned to her. "What?" he asked.
"Barely know you. That was a little forward of you, Mr. Potter." she said, not looking at him, but at the now calming tree.
"I didn't mean... you were going to get... sorry." he said, hanging his head. Lily turned to him, a small smile gracing her features.
"I was only kidding. Geeze Louise, calm down Harry. Its ok, I don't mind Harry." Harry's head snapped over to her as her eyes went wider. "Oh, gosh, I didn't mean it that way." she said, fumbling over her words. An evil smirk crossed Harry's face.
"Sure." he said skeptically, walking away from her, trying to contain his laughter, he had known what she meant.
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