The Diary of Lily Audrey Potter
Chapter Thirty-three: I Set the Common Room on Fire
Authors Notes: Writing this chapter involved listening to a lot of alternative music, playing air guitar and red hair dye. It would be best not to check up on my mental state. Fine. I took a break from science fair and I got tired of random reviews saying weird stuff waiting for me to update.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter things. Nope, not I.
Dedication: I dedicate this chapter to….my friends who don't know how important they are. You guys help me when I can't figure out AIM, office assistants for Microsoft Word, and if I should go do insane things that will get me killed. You guys are great. Without you, I would be a disorganized mess with no knowledge.
February 19th, 9:00 AM
Great Hall
Hermione is convinced that I need to go into crisis counseling. She says that the impact having James being attacked and my other two brothers attempt suicide has scarred my mind. Then she proceeded to give me a lecture on how I'm not the only one who suffers from the pain of James being attacked. Other people care too. I got tired of her lecturing me, so I got up and walked out of her office. So now I have another week of detention.
Sometimes I just wish that my parent's friends would stop acting like my parents. It's nice that they care and everything, but its times like this when I only need one set of parents, not twenty.
Besides that, the media has been all over James' attack. My parents have been owling me; telling me how it's good that I never left Hogwarts, because I would have to fight off the press. I don't really want to do that, so as much as I want to be with James, I'm going to have to stay here.
Bray is going into Hogsmead with the rest of the school who aren't fighting off the press, so I have to give her a list and some money of what to give me. Jay is staying here, and we are going to catch up on homework. Well, I am at any rate.
Lily
Later, Noon
Slytherin Common Rooms
I am going to kill Libby. And I don't think anyone is going to stop me. My skin matches my hair. I walked to the Head Dorms to see if Remus had gone home yet, when Libby pops out of nowhere, says something, and the next thing I knew, I was auburn. If this isn't social injustice, then I don't know what is.
So Hermione sees me and lectures me AGAIN on how because my mind is corrupted it has turned my skin auburn. I just wish she would shut up. Or lose the ability to talk. Then, to make matters worse, Snape skips down the hallway. He sees me, takes five points from Gryffindor for indecent body color, and then skipped away. I keep telling people the world is ending, but does anyone believe me?
Lily
Later
Common Room
I am now green. Jay tired to change my skin color and she turned me green. Don't ask me how, but I'm green now. Bray walked in from being out with Drew all day and thought I had some weird form of dragon pox, and that I was going to die. Then she proceeded to run around screaming that I was going to die because I was green. Once Jay got her to shut up and stop running, we explained to her that it was Libby. Now Libby isn't going to live past graduation.
Right now Jay and Bray are thinking up something horrid I could do to Libby to make her pay for what she did to me. I've run out of ideas, and the two of them are getting tired of pranking each other.
Time for bed, more homework in the morning.
Lily
February 21st, 8:00 AM
Great Hall
I have just seen the single most horrid thing in my life. Snape walked up to Sinistra and kissed her.
You can get off the floor now.
A few first years fell off the benches, and the egg that Sirius was about to throw in my hair fell out of his hand. The hall was completely silent, and the only sound you could hear was a third year from Ravenclaw farting. It was if the world had ended. Then, as in normal Hogwarts fashion, ten seconds later, everyone was talking again. Sirius threw egg in my hair, and Dan squirted syrup at my robes.
But still. SNAPE has a better romance life than me. AND I'M NOT PAST SIXTY.
I seriously need some help.
Later, 11:30 AM
History of Magic
I just got back from McGonagall's office. I went there for career counseling, and spent twenty minutes talking about how I have no goals in life and such. McGonagall suggested journalism, but I'm not too fond of the press. She said I need to play with my strengths, and my reply was what strengths? What am I honestly good at? What should I do with my life?
Everyone around me is either going on to a wizarding university or going off to some wonderful job in Albania or something like that. Jay has already decided to look into a cure for vampirism, and Bray is going into fashion. But, me? I'm the kid that doesn't know what to do with her life. Right now I'm more worried about making it through lunch, and then we'll see about surviving till dinner. But the rest of my life? I don't know. What should I do with my life?
Lily
Later
My Dorm
I've locked myself in my dorm because I need time to myself. I just got an owl from Remus who, unfortunately, had to spend time at home because of being suspended, telling me that James has gotten worse. They don't know if he'll survive the next twenty-four hours, and this is making me feel like insane crap.
I want to be there with him, to be able to be there with Remus as he sees all this, but I can't. The minute I leave this dorm, this castle even, the press will be all over me, hounding me about James, which only makes life ten times worse. I want to be alone, to be able to be normal. But I guess once I was born, nothing was the same. Nothing will ever be normal.
Sirius has a right to know about James, but I have a feeling Remus wrote to him too. My letter was covered in tear stains, and I don't know if that was from Remus or me.
I need a hug.
February 25th, 7:00 PM
Common Room
Homework. Eww. Why do teachers insist upon ladling us with homework that they know will never get done? I know N.E.W.T.s are coming up and everything, but really, is giving us so much homework that even the Spanish people of this school turn pale going to fix everything? I mean, seriously, how do teachers expect us to live through these tests if we haven't seen our friends in nearly a week? And that's true, I have had so much homework I haven't seen Jay or Bray in almost four days.
I think we should have a break. Gryffindor house should rebel and demand a week of no homework. Maybe we should do that…earn us a break from homework…
Lily
Ten minutes later
My dorm
I forgot Hermione was our head of house. I had gotten some sixth and fifth years to join me in throwing our homework out the window when Hermione comes in and summons all our homework back. This earned another lecture on how homework reinforces what the professor's teach. Urg.
Lily
Later
Great Hall
I was listening to a new band Arcadia and was playing air guitar when a second year hit me in the head with a pillow.
In retaliation, I hit her on the head with a cushion. Another second year hit me in the stomach with a pillow, and I threw an oversized pillow at her, which landed in the fire and caught fire. The pillow caught the drapes on fire, and in a few short minutes, most of Gryffindor Tower was ablaze.
I honestly didn't mean to catch the tower on fire…it just happened. Seriously, everything just caught fire and boom, here we are in The Great Hall waiting for the tower to be restored. No one got punished for it because it was a group effort, but I really didn't mean to do it. Really.
Lily
March 1st, 5:00 PM
Library
I just met the most amazing person. His name is Heath Claec, and he is a seventh year Ravenclaw. Heath is SO cute. He has black hair which he spikes, and he is really pale because he hangs out in the library reading books on wandless magic. I just met him like five minutes ago, and he is AMAZING.
End Remarks: So…I have a plot idea to take us to May. I am happy. This will—hopefully—be over in ten more chapters. Hopefully. So please review, join my club (details in my bio) and stick around for ten more chapters!
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