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Chapter Two – Classes
"Why do you love me?
Why do you love me?
Why do you love me?
You're driving me crazy."
Garbage – Why do you love me?
"Lily! Lily, get up!"
"Mmm…" Lily mumbled.
"Up or I'm getting cold water!" Julie threatened.
Lily promptly sat up and rubbed her eyes. "I'm up, I'm up!"
"Good," said Julie, sitting next to her friend. "You have about twenty minutes to get ready. After breakfast we have Charms, and then Potions. Ugh!"
Lily moaned too. She absolutely hated Potions. Professor Slughorn was irritating beyond all reason. He chose favorites from among the students, and invited them to lunches with him. Lily, Alli, and Julie, and James, Sirius, and Remus were always invited; Lily, Julie, and Remus for their brains, James Sirius and Alli for their rich and well-known families.
Then Lily's brain registered what Julie had said. "Twenty minutes!"
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Exactly twenty minutes later, Lily and Julie joined Alli at the Gryffindor table.
"Did you have to take so long?" Alli asked in a whiny voice.
"Look, it's not my fault you have no patience whatsoever." Lily told her. "At least Julie tried to get me up, unlike some people."
Alli grinned sheepishly. Then she looked to up the table towards the door. Lily and Julie turned around to see what she was looking at, and saw the marauders entering.
"Alli's just going googly-eyes for Sirius." Lily whispered to Julie, who laughed. Alli, regaining control, blushed. The girls laughed even harder as the four boys came over to sit with them.
"What, my dears ladies, is so funny?" Sirius asked, raising one eyebrow inquisitively.
"Nothing," said Lily, and the girl became downright hysterical. Sirius shrugged his shoulders and sat down to eat, while the other boys followed his example.
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The morning went exceptionally too slow for Lily's liking. She usually liked being in classes, but every once and a while, she didn't feel like being there. Today was one of those days. Now normally, if she felt like this, she would spend the class time not paying attention, but today, seeing as it was the first day of school, this wasn't an option.
Finally, after what felt like days, it was lunch time. Lily took the opportunity to space out, and didn't pay much attention to her friends' conversation, which resulted in many evil looks being thrown at her for not answering their questions. She decided to go to the library, where she could space out as much as she wanted, and read as well, for the last half an hour before class. James, noticing her weird mood, followed her.
"Hey Evans!" He said, sitting next to her.
Lily ignored him completely, and it wasn't because she was off in her own head. Geez! She thought. Why does he always bother me when I am obviously not in the mood to deal with him? I wish he would just leave me alone!
"Earth to Evans? You there?" James asked, hoping that she was simply a space cadet and not ignoring him.
"Yeah, I'm here," said Lily finally, shaking her head as if coming back to reality.
"Are you ok?" He asked, concerned.
"Yep, I'm fine," Lily said, nodding.
"Ok. Will you go out with me?" James seemed to have taken her lack of yelling at him as encouragement.
"Of course not!" Lily yelled, making sure that she wasn't too loud. She didn't need Madam Pince sweeping down on her at the moment. "How the hell did you get from a simple question to a date request? You are such a think-headed prick!"
He flinched. "Ouch. That bites."
"I was hoping that this year you would finally understand. Obviously my hopes were too high." Grabbing the book she was reading, she stormed out of the library, leaving James staring at nothing.
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That afternoon they were stuck in Defense against the Dark Arts, with the Slytherins.
"Today, just for good measure, will be a practice day." Professor Lerrant said, as she walked into the classroom. "I want you to get into groups of two or three and go over what we've learned in the past years. Preferably recent things," she added firmly, accenting the word recent after seeing the looks on the marauders faces. "Everything should be first attempted non-verbally, but if that doesn't work for certain spells than its fine to speak out loud. Oh, and one more thing. If you can't get into groups on your own, I'll be forced to help you."
With that the students began to get into groups. Lily, Alli and Julie decided to work together. James and Sirius were nearby them, as well as Remus and Peter and (A/N unfortunately) Severus Snape and his partner.
After practicing the stunning spell on each other many times (non-verbally), they sat down to rest a bit. Lily felt eyes on the back of her neck, so she turned. Potter was watching her again. She looked into his eyes for a moment, but when he didn't turn away, she did. What is wrong with him? she thought. He may have so-called "feelings" for me, but staring at me is no way to impress me. It's just going to decrease his grades when he doesn't get his work done. Although he does deserve it. She grinned to herself and began to twirl her hair in her fingers while she listened to Julie boss them around as to what they should practice next.
"Prongs? Earth to Prongs, calling you home from Planet Evans!" James snapped out of it to see his best friend looking at him concernedly. "Are you sure you don't need help?" Sirius asked. "I'm sure there's some kind of treatment for this."
James punched him.
"What? I was just saying," said Sirius, rubbing his left arm where he'd been punched. "Staring at a girl every once and a while is ok, but you've been off on Planet Evans almost everyday for the past couple years!"
"You know Padfoot," said Remus from the table next to them. "There's this thing; you wouldn't have heard of it. It's called love."
"Shut it, Moony," snapped Sirius. Remus thought he saw Sirius' eyes flash to Lily, Alli, and Julie, but a second later he was sure he was just seeing things.
"James, Lily would be more impressed with you if you don't fail Defense against the Dark Arts because you were too busy staring at her to get your work done." Remus told James, who was once again looking at Lily.
"You're right Moony," said James wistfully, turning away from the redhead. "What would I do without you here to guide me?"
"Probably get beat up by Evans a lot more!" A laughing Sirius told them. He shut up at the look from his best friend.
Back at the girls table, Lily and Julie were looking around to the other groups, watching their progress. Alli was sitting next to them, non-verbally and repeatedly turning her quill into a Muggle pencil and back again.
"Look over there," said Julie, pointing to Snape. "Snape's trying to do the silencing charm, but he's moving his wand wrong."
Alli looked up, her quill still a pencil. "You should tell him." She said sarcastically. "We'd hate for him to be making a mistake like that." She really just wanted to make Snape mad. Last year he had turned her school bag into a snake because she got involved in trying to stop a fight between him and the marauders. She hadn't gotten the chance to get him back, since that happened only about a week before school got out for the summer.
"Do I sense a different set of motives?" Lily asked her friend.
Alli grinned evilly. "I want to see his face when we tell blood traitors tell him he's wrong. Anyway, I owe him some embarrassment, after last year."
Lily and Julie rolled their eyes. "Fine, go ahead." Julie said.
"Hey Snape!" Alli called. "You're not moving your wand the right way."
"What are they doing?" Remus asked his friends, concerned.
"Alli's trying to embarrass Snivellus." James explained, seeing the look on his friend's face. He and Alli had known each other since before Hogwarts. The Potters and the Carters were friends, so they had almost grown up together. James often was able to tell what Alli was thinking, just by looking at her.
Snape glared at them with contempt. "Oh really?" He pointed his wand at Lily, and waved it. Lily felt her voice leave her, and tried to talk, but couldn't. Seeing as she could be heard, she proceeded to mouth any swearwords she could think of at Snape, causing all the marauders' jaws to drop.
"I don't need help from Mudbloods and blood traitors like you." He told them venomously.
"Hey Snivellus! Didn't your mother ever teach you good manners?" James asked him, furious that that idiot had cursed Lily.
"What are you gonna do Potter?" Snape asked. "Hex me as punishment?"
"What a good idea, Snivellus." James said, grinning. Only the girls and the marauders saw James point his wand at Snape from under the table. The next thing they knew, Snape had huge boils all over his face. To add insult to injury, his greasy black hair was now bright pink and standing straight up. All the Gryffindors broke into laughter.
Julie removed the spell from Lily, who failed to notice it was gone. "And as soon as this spell's off me," she was saying. "I'm going to kick your sorry little … oh. Voice's back." She turned slightly red as her friends began to laugh.
Crap! Lily thought. I'm probably bright red. Just what I need. And Potter defended me again! Why does he always do that? Doesn't he realize that I can handle things for myself? The git's just trying to show off! He is so self-centered! God, he irritates me!
"What is going on?" Professor Lerrant asked.
"Potter hexed me, professor." Snape said quickly.
"How is that possible? His wand is nowhere in sight."
"But professor…"
"No, Mr. Snape, I will not tolerate blaming other students. You were probably just practicing a spell that backfired. I know your history with Mr. Potter. Please go to the hospital wing, your boils need to be removed."
"You'll be sorry Potter!" Snape yelled angrily, exiting the class to peals of laughter.
"Now, please continue," said Professor Lerrant simply, and the class went back to work.
(A/N) I realized, I forgot a disclaimer for the first chapter! Well, you people shouldn't need it anyway, seeing as if I were the author of Harry Potter I wouldn't be wasting my time on a fanfiction site. Anyway, this is for the whole story.
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