A/n: THANKS SARAH! and if you didn't get my review, yes i would be happy if you could drag some people into reading this fic (LOLZ) im so happy that you think that it's actually good. (cuz, i honestly, don't, well YET. i just love writing! though i like this chappie...)

this is actually one of my better chapters (in my opinion). there is some l/j action but still on sorta rocky friend terms.

Disclaimer: a conversation w/ myself: person one: what fic on this site honestly doesn't have one of these? person 2: i don't know ma'am. well, find out! i haven't read ONE fic without these! well, then the person without one would have to own harry potter.that's perposterous! (sp?) Only Joanne Kathleen Rowling can! And if she wrote one of these fics it would be published and not on a FANfiction site! Tell that to the makers of fanfiction .net!

ok. if u didn't understand THAT:

Disclaimer:I own nothing (in this chapter) but my thoughts. There, can you comprehend that?

Charms (i'll let the readers figure out the chapter title...)

Lily point of view

Oh my goodness, was I just NICE to Potter??? Well, he's changed so it's not like I was nice to the old him, but still, James Potter is James Potter no matter how you look at him, so, I SHOULD be nice? Oh my god, I'm so confused! I thought after I said that thing about their prank, but I didn't have much time to worry about it, classes started right after breakfast. As we were walking out of the hall, James and I looked at our schedules, they were EXACTLY the same. I asked him what he was planning to be after 7th Year and he said proudly, "An auror, like my mum and dad." I told him, "I'm going to be an auror too, if I can. I heard the training is tough, especially after those attacks that have started by that "Lord" Voldy-thingy." He replied, "VOLDEMORT!" in a fierce manner. I told him that it wasn't my fault I didn't know; I was muggleborn for heavens sake! He told me that it was okay, "It's just that....well, he killed my parents so I want to avenge them and defend their honor. And yours too, if you'd let me." He muttered the last part, as though I wouldn't hear, I did but I didn't say anything. If it was my parents who had been killed, I wouldn't have been strong like him. I would have broken down and cried forever. He was the bravest person I ever knew, considering his situation. I only then realized how unfeeling I had been all those years. I mean really, if you had lost you're parents to Volde-de-de-mort (ugh, i stuttered the name even in my THOUGHTS! I mean, I'm a GRYFFINDOR for heaven's sake!) and the girl you went after thought you were a git, you might be at an all time low. But James was a different case altogether. He didn't even let me know that that had happened, he hid it inside him. He was a true Gryffindor. (A/N:HINT! HINT!!!!) So, as to show how much I felt sorry, in an akward moment, I gave him a great big hug, and whispered softly (A/N: I like how that sounds, "whispered softly" it's like repeating the same thing, but not really...) "sorry..." not really explaining why. He probably understood what i meant though, 'cause he hugged me tighter as if i kept him alive. We stood there in the corridor, hugging for the longest time, until the clock towers (A/N: Ok, i don't remember if there are clock towers that dong the hour at hogwarts...but it's my fic, so there will be. comprende?) chimed 9 times indicated that classes started 5 minutes ago and that we were supposed to be in the Charms classroom, while we were in, well, around, North Tower. (A/N: spur of the moment! i wanted them to be suspiciously late. but i couldn't think of something that was farther from the other classrooms than North Tower. so don't ask how they got there. they were just walking and got lost....i guess. but as i have said b4, it is MY fic. so don't pay attention to my rambling. just read. (im just a lil crazi todai. ignore it.) ) so we broke apart, grabbed our bags and literally RAN to the staircases, while i wished for escalators. the Charms classroom (A/N: hey sarah! (and any silent readers, if i have any) do you know where the classroom is? cuz i have no clue!) was on the 1st floor of the castle, next to the Great Hall, so we didn't have a great excuse for tardiness. When we got to the door, breathless, I attempted speech and said, "James...:pant: I should :pant: go first :pant: so he:pant: won't think :pant: we were :pant: together..." he nodded, we rested for a minute and then, after i regained composure, I said, " You know why i said that right?"

"Yeah, so YOUR friends won't think you're with me, and so MY friends won't think you're with me." he said, sort of disappointedly, but hiding it.

"Well, you ARE nicer this year," i said

"Thanks, I guess"

"Welcome James"

James's pov

That's time two. I thought. It was the second time since 7th year had started he called me James. Well, in her normal tone.

"'Kay, so are you gonna come up with an excuse?" I wasn't up to thinking, i was still in awe at how much she had changed.

"Yeah, i have a PERFECT SOLUTION!" she exclaimed

"What?" i replied, confusedly

"We could say that Dumbledore wanted to see us! So we were in his office..."

"Yeah, but wouldn't he find out?" you had to give props to the old man, he could weasel anything out of a student.

"No doubt he knows where we were anyway. He finds out EVERYTHING!"she undoubtedly knew this professor too.

"OKAY! THAT'S the PERFECT SOLUTION! i never could use the headmaster before as an excuse, unless i was in trouble!" I said. it was all too perfect.

So we walked together, into the classroom telling Professor Flitwick their PROFOUND story. He believed them and said that they were reviewing cheering charms,so they didn't miss anything. "But you two have to be partners, there's no one left." he stated.

"Okay professor" they said in unison, happy not to have to explain anything to their friends.

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