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Divination and History Class

When Lily walked out of the potions classroom and started walking up to the Divination classroom in the North Tower, she was so upset on how awful the class went that she had forgotten about Madame Pomfry's 'request'. But unfortunately for her, James Potter did not forget.

As she walked her came up next to her, his friends trailing behind to watch, and put his arm around her.

"You alright Lily? You look upset. Maybe I should take you to the hospital wing, Madame Pomfry did say –"

"YOU KNOW WHAT POTTER? I DON'T REALLY CARE ON WHAT SHE SAID, OK! SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"Whoa Lily, calm down there a little," he said backing off. "You don't need to get so upset!"

Lily looked up shocked. What did she just do? She hadn't meant to scream at him. She hadn't meant to scream at all really. She looked up at him and muttered, "sorry" really quickly and then ran off to the Divination classroom not wanting to chance losing her temper again. She knew that she got angry really fast but she normally could control it. She would have to keep a better eye on it from now on.

When Lily got to the tower everyone was still standing around it waiting to get in. She immediately saw someone though that she really did NOT want to see. Owen Brooker was standing not ten feet away from her. Please don't turn around, Please don't turn around! Lily silently prayed. But that didn't help for he turned around not even ten seconds later, looked her in the eyes, and walked over to her.

"Hello Lily," Owen said as he smirked at her.

Lily groaned inside. He obviously remembered her. "Go away Owen, I don't want to talk to you."

"Why Lily, that is very rude of you. You shouldn't talk like that to people. Tsk tsk…"

Lily looked around for someone, anyone that she could go over and talk to but didn't see anyone but the Marauders as they walked up the stairs. Lily gulped. She couldn't stay around by him. She remembered what he had done to her and she hated him for it it. Any human being would hate someone for doing that it. He was the reason that she and Anika hadn't spoken for years, thus them not really remembering each other.

"Please just go away."

"But Lily, we have so much to catch up on!" Owen said as rubbed his finger across her face.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Lily all but screamed at him as she backed up. She kept backing up and hit something solid. She turned around to see Potter and was almost relieved.

James watched Lily's face as it turned from fear to that of hope. "Lily, are you alright?" He asked softly as he put his hands on her shoulders trying to comfort her.

Lily looked at him as if suddenly realizing who was touching her. Much to her relief the trapdoor opened to get into the classroom and she quickly climbed up with everyone else.

The room that she walked into was extremely different than it was. It didn't really look like a real classroom anymore. Armchairs and poufs in there surrounded many small circular tables. The curtains on the windows were closed and the lamps were draped in dark cloth giving the room very little light. There was a small fire burning that gave off a rather sick smell. The shelves were crammed with clutter. All in all, the whole classroom gave off an eerie feel. It was completely changed from the old classroom.

Lily took a seat on one of the armchairs and Anika and, much to her disgust, Owen sat down in the other two armchairs surrounding the table. Lily tried to politely ignore them as much as possible and she waited for Professor Trelawny to arrive.

"Welcome to Divination. Divination is the most difficult study of all the arts of magic. And if you don't have the sight, I can not teach you very much at all. Books won't help you much here." Lily rolled her eyes. They had heard this speech so many times before from their previous professor.

Professor Trelawny glanced around the room and locked eyes with Lily. "The thing that you have been dreading will happen on Friday, January 13th." Lily looked up, unscathed. What has she been dreading? Nothing, nothing whatsoever. Loony divination teacher, she doesn't even know what she's talking about.

"I don't know how far you have gone in your learning so we will start off with the basics. Today we will start our unit on reading tea leaves. Now, everyone will divide up into pairs. Take a cup from the shelf and come over to me to get it filled. Then sit down and drink it until only the dregs remain. Swill these around in the cup three times with the left hand and then turn the cup upside down on the saucer to wait for the last of the tea to drain away. Then switch cups with you partner to read them. To read them use pages five and six of you textbook.

Lily quickly looked around to catch Anika's eye but she had already found a partner from Ravenclaw and she saw that she was stuck with Owen. This was worse than being stuck with Potter. Lily glanced over in his direction as she went to get her teacup. He was laughing along with his friends as they took their teacups to their seats. Lily got hers filled, sat down and drank it.

"Here, let's switch." Lily said, trying to control herself so that she wouldn't blow up. She switched teacups with him and opened her book to pages five and six. The shapes that she saw shocked her. There was a snake, which according to the book meant treachery, and a twisted sun, which meant happiness amongst other's pain. Lily looked up to see a sly smirk on Owen's face. "Fine, you go first. What does mine say."

"You have a falcon, a deadly enemy." He looked up and smirked at Lily's evil glare. "A club, which means that there will be an attack on you. A skull, meaning that there is danger in your path. And some sort of a deer, which means that an unknown friend will help you when you are in grave danger."

Lily looked at him, hatred evident in her eyes. "Fine, load of rubbish that was. You have a snake, which means that you are full of treachery, a twisted sun, which means that you will have happiness amongst another's pain. You also have-"

What Owen also had was never found out because there was a sudden shrill scream from Professor Trelawny as she looked at someone's cup. When Lily turned around she saw that it was Potter's, she just rolled her eyes. Whatever was in his cup probably was just charmed there. But she paid attention to what Professor Trelawny said anyway.

"My child, my poor poor child. This is beyond what I can say… this is terrible… it's better not to ask…"

Peter bravely spoke up, "What is in his cup professor?"

"My dear, in every direction the grim is in its place."

Several people gasped in horror. One grim was bad enough, but in every direction? Lily just rolled her eyes again and walked up to Professor Trelawny. "Professor, might I have a look at that cup?" She asked, ignoring the death glare she was getting from James and Sirius.

Professor Trelawny shakily handed over the cup to Lily, scowling slightly. Lily looked in and saw exactly what she expected; traces of an illusion charms. But instead of undoing it, she decided to have a little bit of fun.

Lily spoke looking Potter straight in the eye, "what an unpleasant cup. I expect that you will be more careful when you do your charms then, won't you?" She smirked and walked back to her seat awaiting the end of class.

The professor looked startled and announced softly that that was the end of class and that the class was dismissed without any homework.

James got up eager to catch up to Lily. After all, he WAS her escort for the day. He also wanted to ask her why she didn't rat on him and Sirius. He could tell that she knew that he had charmed the cup. Plus it was normally against her nature to not tell on someone if they had done something wrong, especially if that someone was him, James Potter. She loved getting him in trouble the most. He didn't really know why really. He never did anything to her, except to try and get her to go out with him. Finally he spotted a red head moving quickly down the corridor and he raced to catch up.

"Lily! Lily Evans wait up!" Heads turned as he raced by but Lily just kept on walking at her same speed, if not faster than she was before. "Lily Evans, you are by far the hardest person to get a hold of." He said as he finally caught up.

Lily looked at him furious. "Was that meant as a compliment? Because it wasn't very funny or nice for that matter."

James just looked at her dumbfounded. "Well Lily, I was just wondering. Why didn't you rat on me and Sirius back there when you had the chance?"

Lily looked at him with a cold stare, "That is for me to know and for you NOT to find out." And with that she flipped her hair over her shoulder and all but ran towards the Great Hall leaving James to figure out what she just said.

Today he was really bothering her. She didn't know if it was because of the fact that Owen was now at Hogwarts or not, but James Potter had suddenly become much more annoying than he had previously seemed.

Lily finally had reached the doors of the Great Hall and walked to her seat next to Jessica and Ashley. "Hello Jessica, Ashley. How was Muggle Studies?"

"Oh, it was a bore, as usual. No homework though, thank heavens. At least now we have time to work on that Potions essay on ooh what was it on again?"

"The affects of Willyworm root on Gazling wood, two rolls of parchment." Lily said automatically. "And don't forget, anymore than that will get points taken away and any less would do the same thing. So make sure that it is exact."

"Oh yeah… well, you don't know with this new Professor. I mean, he could be a lot different than Professor Tweening." They all looked up at the staff table and saw Professor Acrorrie scowling at the students. "On second thought, maybe not. Let's just play it safe."

When they finished their lunch they went outside to get a start on their Potions essay that was due the next Wednesday. Lily was nearing the end of her second roll of parchment when she saw James Potter and his group start to head over their direction out of the corner of her eye.

"Don't look now girls, but James and his gang are coming this way!" Ashley squealed.

Ashley and Jessica giggled. "James is sooo dreamy! I wish that he would go out with me…" Jessica sighed.

Lily looked at them in surprise and didn't have a chance to say anything before James had gotten there.

"Hello Lily my darling! How are you this fine morning, or should I say afternoon?"

Lily's response was to ignore him completely and continue with her homework. Only three more inches and she could pack up and go.

James sat down on the ground, ignoring the giggles that Jessica and Ashley were making. "You know Lily dearest, the first Hogsmeade visit is going to be soon. We should start planning!"

Only two more inches.

James was enjoying this. He knew that Lily wouldn't speak to him or get up until she had finished her homework. She hated interrupting it and leaving part of it unfinished until the next time she had a chance to do it. "Let's see. We could go to Honeydukes and I could get you some chocolate. Then we could go to the Three Broomsticks and I could buy you a mug of Butterbeer," One more inch. "After that we could head to the garden and walk around for awhile and then we could go to Zonko's and –"

Lily had slammed her potions book shut and started packing her bag. "Potter, stop bothering me. You know I don't want to go to Hogsmeade with you. Now why don't you just leave."

"No. I don't want to. I have gotten rather comfortable right here."

"Fine. Then I am going to leave." Lily snapped. Then she turned to Jessica and Ashley. "I'll see you back at the dorm or in History of Magic. If you beat me there, save me a seat?"

"Sure Lillian. See you later!"

Lily stalked off fuming trying not to listen to James' "Just think about it?" as she went. If Potter wasn't so stupidly arrogant, obnoxious, a stupid prat, an insufferable git, and many more things that are too indecent to put here. She made it all the way up to her dormitories without meeting anyone and she gratefully put her stuff on the floor.

Noticing that she still had fifteen minutes before she had to get ready for class she decided to open some more of her presents. She had gotten some chocolate frogs, licorice wands, and Bertie Botts Every Falvor beans from Lauren and Mary. Mrs. Potter had given her several muggle books, some muggle candy (Skittles, M &M's, etc…), and a few more shirts. Sarah had even given her a present (a book on pranks), but in a note that came with it she told her that she had gotten it a long time before and that Lily wasn't to tell Dani about it. Her parents had given her a planner, this was attached with a note from Mrs. Potter.

Lily,

We have wonderful news! Mr. Potter discovered something at our last visit to your parent's home. You remember the curse that you collapsed from late in this summer, at about the beginning of August? Well, he thinks that your parents are under the same curse. He isn't sure how yet but his team of Aurorers are trying to work on it. They don't have too much time but they hope to have figured it out by Christmas time. I was planning on telling you at Christmas for a Christmas present you know, but if he gets done early you can plan on coming home for Christmas this year. Isn't that wonderful? Well I hope that you have a pleasant birthday dear. Say hi to James for me and make sure that he doesn't get into any trouble. I hope to be seeing you at Christmas time over at your parent's house. I hope that you have a wonderful birthday.

Love,

Mr. and Mrs. Potter

Lily was in tears by the end of the letter. Her parents were only under a curse, something was making them do it! She started getting ready for History of Magic tears still streaming down her face.

She was able to make it to the History of Magic classroom without running into anyone. When she entered it realized that she was ten minutes early. She had forgotten that although they had an hour break after lunch they still had 15 minutes after it to get to class. She searched through her bag making sure that she had her special quick-quotes quill with her. She smiled, she always used this quill for this class. She couldn't pay attention very well to Professor Binns so she had bought one of them to take her notes for her. Lily knew that these were made mostly for reporters and that they twisted the words of the speaker so she cast a spell on it to take down only the exact words of the professor and the professor only.

The rest of the class filtered in and Jessica and Ashley sat next to her and Isaac and Matt sat behind her. Then Professor Binns floated though the door and started droning on and on about some war that was fought some time ago. Lily's quill quickly started writing.

Jessica leaned over and whispered, "You think that you could make a copy of your notes for me and Ashley when class is done?"

"Sure, this way you can save you hand and not write all of class." Lily smiled and Jessica turned to Ashley and whispered something in her ears. Then they both stopped writing.

James looked over at Lily during History of Magic class. She was so beautiful, her laugh, her smile, and her eyes. He sighed, she was just sitting there, so beautiful, laughing with her friends. She wasn't even paying attention to Professor Binns. He looked over at Dani and Sarah who were sitting behind him. Dani was glaring at Lily, she had been doing that all day too. What was with them? He resolved to ask Sarah (he didn't want to ask Dani because he knew that she would blow up) right after class.

Lily all of a sudden looked in his direction, glaring, and he looked swiftly down at his "notes" that he had been taking. Boy was she mad today, it was her birthday too! He had to do something to cheer her up.

"Hey Padfoot." He whispered, "It's Lils' birthday today… what should I do for her?"

"Let's see. She hates you, and you bug the crap out of her so… I know!!!!"

"What?!" James asked eagerly.

"You could leave her alone for a week!"

"Nice try Padfoot, but that is NOT something I will do! I couldn't do that to myself! I can't not talk to her for one week… that is like 168 hours! I can't do that to myself!"

"Uh, Prongs. This would be a gift to Lily. Not something for you. It's supposed to make the receiver happy, not necessarily the giver."

James looked at him, "Since when have you gotten so smart."

"Duh, I'm Sirius! Why else?"

James glared at him then turned back to looking at Lily. He would do anything for her. But why did Sirius have to say something as rash as that. Lily was, she was… Lily was perfect! Why would, should her leave her alone for a week? But if it would really make her happy… "Sirius my friend, I bet I could do it for longer than a week. I say that I can do it for… well… um. How does a month sound?"

"Perfect my four legged friend. I think that this is the one present that you could give her that she will actually appreciate."

James grinned and began writing a note to Lily.

By the end of class James Potter had finished his note and Lily had had a wonderful time talking to her new friends just about life in general. Something she hadn't done with anyone for a while.

Lily grinned the entire way to Astronomy class; Potter hadn't bugged her since their break so that gave her the perfect peace she needed to come up with a perfect replacement for the prank that she and the Jusketeers were going to pull.

The astronomy class was rather short and no homework was assigned giving the students time to relax for the weekend once they finished their potion's essay. James decided to send his letter to Lily before dinner so that she would get it before the night was through and headed off to the owlry immediately. And Lily headed straight for the great hall in hopes of meeting up with Kevin, who she hadn't seen since Potions.

Sorry that I didn't update right away. But here is the update today! Thanks to the reviewers, DIFFEN-DOOFER, and Elfobsession2931.

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