Chapter 18, N. E. W. T. s
"Do you realize we should have been studying since the beginning of the year, don't you? These are supposed to make up our entire future! What jobs we have. What jobs we want. I mean, to be an Auror is like trying to become a - a - pigeon!"
"Lily! Relax! You're obsessing over when we should have started that you're taking up all the time," James told her. Trying to get her to calm down.
"Yeah Lil, they can't be that hard. They said that the O. W. L. s last year would be killer, and they weren't that bad. Were they?" Sirius tried to console.
"That's only because everyone was studying so hard that you just remembered it upon command. Plus, everything was like one big review," Lily shot back.
"Yes, well, either way, just study for a little. Besides you have a memory better than anyone I've every met. Who else can remember how to make a potion better than Snape? Who else can remember 10 different spells to make James here dangle from a ceiling. So just relax, you'll do fine," Rin finished, not looking up at Lily because she was trying so hard to understand her horrible handwriting.
"I guess you're right."
"We know we're right," Remus corrected, "Where'd Wormtail go? Shouldn't he be here trying to study a little too?"
"I don't know, maybe off to Hogsmede. He never was one for studying was he?" Sirius supplied.
"Ahhh… I could go for some of Honeyduke's famous chocolate," James said out of thin air. Everyone else was too busy to notice what he said, they were too busy catching up on studying by then.
With N. E. W. T. s just around the corner, no one was speaking during class. Everyone was paying rapt attention during classes, trying to get a tiny bit more knowledge in their brains.
"So, how does everyone think they did?" Rin bounded in happily and sat next to Sirius for lunch.
"Not too bad, at least I don't think I failed anything," Sirius responded. "Peter here, I don't think was lucky enough though."
"I had to leave 10 questions unanswered, and 2 essays incomplete. Then on the demonstrating part, I made my bowl explode, but only after turning it into a steadily growing mushroom," Peter supplied. Everyone was laughing.
"Remus?"
"Fair, that essay on werewolves was particularly tough. I didn't think I was going to be able to answer it."
"You too!" Peter interjected.
"Wormtail, you're thicker than a tree trunk fifty miles long. You know that?" Sirius pointed out.
"Hey guys, what's for lunch, I'm starved." Lily just walked through the door, and sat next to Remus.
"Nothing special, how do you think you did on the exams?" Remus asked her.
"Eh… they were a lot easier than I expected them to be. Like question 19 c, I thought that had to be the easiest question ever. 'Name the ten different species of nargles and explain, in depth, what is so different about them.'"
"Are you kidding, I only thought there were two!" James had walked in during Lily's analysis of the test.
"Seriously! How? They're so easy to remember! There are flinky's and gihd, and msdh. You can't forget freter, and vede, and- "
"I really don't care Lily, taking the test was hard enough once. Twice I think I'll go insane," James said, cutting Lily off.
"But I like it when you go insane. You get all puffy and pink," Lily pouted.
"Really?"
"No, but I like to think that."
"You are the strangest person I've ever met," James could help but grin.
"Ahh… but you still love me, don't you?" Lily smiled widely, looking like a two year old who just put a pie in her fathers face, and was trying to get out of punishment.
"You bet!" and James kissed her.
"Hello? People," Lily muttered.
"So."
"Well, I'm not really fond of the whole PDA thing, Lily pointed out.
"Err… PDA?"
"Public Display of Affection, Sirius," Rin supplied.
"Fine, I can still hold your hand, can't I?" James asked hopefully.
"Si, sir-e," Lily said in a sing - song voice. " I gotta get going, they had to cancel our first test because one of the supervisors went missing, but they're back now. Off to Ancient Ruins! Yummy!"
"Um, does she always enjoy taking tests?" Peter asked, looking shocked.
"Hey, what can I say? She's one of a kind," Rin answered.
"Oh, I forgot to ask Lily something! See you later!" James sprinted out of the Great Hall.
"Lily! Hold on a second," James ran up to her.
"Yes?" she asked impatiently.
"Can you meet me by the Quidditch Pitch after class?"
"Oh, honestly, it couldn't have waited? Yes, yes, I'll be there. Bye," Lily had a tone in her voice saying quite clearly that 'if you make me late for this final exam, I will kill you.'
"Have fun!" James shouted running to the lake for some rest.
