Note: Hey peepz don't worry the story hasn't ended yet! Thanks for all of you who bothered to read this and review it! I really like your comments and I will improve. I also realised I missed the Quidditch Finals but anyway, I'll write it in sometime. They were cancelled due to, umm… bad weather? Anyway DisFordiana77 this is FanFiction you can do anything you want so I put Hagrid in there too… Sorry if the NEW PARAGRAPH thing is annoying you I can't seem to insert those break line thingos they don't show up… I'll find a way of doing the paragraph thingos… anyway read chapter six and enjoy!
Chapter Six: The Patronus'Oh, no!' The next Hogsmeade trip was just days away. Lily was staring up at the big poster, James on the other side.
'Yes!'
'No, it's on Friday! Oh, wait, I've got a good excuse… I missed those private tutoring groups for Charms, they're on Friday too, I should really go and get away from Potter…' Lily hurried out of the Gryffindor Common Room and into Professor Durno's office.
'I'm really sorry I haven't been turning up to those tutoring groups… just that amnesia stuff,' she explained.
'That's quite alright, Miss Evans.'
'No, I'm really sorry, I'll come this Friday-'
'But that's the trip to Hogsmeade. You don't want to miss that!'
'That's okay.' Lily grinned.
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James grinned as he thought of the upcoming Friday Hogsmeade trip. Lily approached him.
'The Hogsmeade trip is on Friday,' she started.
'I know,' said James.
'But… I can't go.'
'You promised!'
'No… I've got a Charms tutoring group.' A plan slowly formed in James' mind. Lily couldn't get away from him.
'That's okay. Next time, I suppose.'
'Okay. See you in Charms, Potter.'
'Bye Lily!'
"Bye Lily!" Honestly, that jerk thinks I'm in love with him or something, thought Lily, annoyed.
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In Charms, the class were learning the Furnunculus Charm.
'The spell is Furyno. Rubeus Hagrid, are you paying any attention?' Hagrid was staring at a photograph of his father under his desk. He was eleven, and his father was perched on his shoulder, looking extremely happy. Hagrid had just been accepted to Hogwarts.
'Oh, wha', Professor?'
'Show us the Furnunculus Charm, Hagrid,' said Professor Durno.
'Oh, ah… Furryno!' Hagrid directed his wand at a spider on the windowsill. His wand exploded, leaving Hagrid with his great mane of bushy hair singed. The whole class laughed.
'It's Furyno, Hagrid, not Furryno,' explained Lily.
'Oh, wha'?'
'Hagrid, you've got to pay attention!'
'Furyno!' James cried. The spider Hagrid had tried to curse twitched and then fell down on its back, clearly unconscious.
'Well done, Potter,' complimented Durno. The rest of his sentence Lily could not hear. James just nodded and shot a glance at Lily. She gripped her wand so tightly it snapped in two. She was sure he was going to play a prank on her or something like that.
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On Friday, Lily tromped up to the chilly Charms room where Professor Durno and a few other students were.
'Oh, he's late… never mind, let's just start without him,' Durno muttered. Lily assumed he was talking about another student. 'Since you are all advanced students, I have am having a private tutoring group. For those of you who came to the previous tutoring groups last term, you have done very well. For those of you who are new, I will tell you what we have been working on. We have pretty much been working on the Patronus Charm; a very advanced Charm that Lily Evans here can perform. Please, Lily, show us your Patronus.' Lily got her brown knobbly wand from her robes, mended cleverly by Remus. Now, what was one of her happiest moments? Yes, when she got accepted to Hogwarts!
'Expecto Patronum!' she bellowed. A silvery light shot from her wand, then disappeared. That was odd.
'Lily, think of something else,' pressed Durno. Lily gripped her wand tighter and thought about the joke Sirius had told her the other day.
'Expecto Patronum!' She tried again. A faint silvery fawn shot from her wand tip, wavered for a moment in the air, and then disappeared.
'Miss Evans, you could do it in class the other day… are you sure you're feeling okay?'
'Umm… yes, I'm fine,' muttered Lily. Lily couldn't make her Patronus because she wasn't with James, and she couldn't remember any of the happy moments together. She used to think of James and that made her happy, that way she could make her Patronus. But now she had taken the Memory Potion and her Patronus was very weak. At that moment, James burst in. Lily's mouth dropped open.
'Sorry I'm late, Professor!'
'That's fine, Potter… now, I will pair you up and keep working on your Patronus!' James was paired up with Lily.
'Evans, it's rude to have your mouth hanging open like that,' said James, and snapped her mouth close with his hand under her chin. 'You know you can't avoid me.' Lily fumed. James grinned.
'Expecto Patronum!' A stag shot out of his wand, and charged at Lily.
'Protego!' The stag rebounded off Lily's shield. It evaporated into thin air. James grinned again.
'Sorry Evans, my mistake. Perhaps you're too weak for my stag.'
'Shut up,' she snapped. She was about to make her way over to James, wand out, to curse him, but she tripped over the woolly carpet and fell into his arms instead. They were just millimetres away.
It's so easy to kiss her now, thought James. He looked into her deep green eyes. They were so beautiful. Her red hair flowed out behind her back. He leaned closer to Lily. Then… But I can't make her. Lily slithered from James' grip.
'Expecto Patronum!' A fawn shot out of Lily's wand. Finally her Patronus had worked. She hadn't been thinking of anything. It had just been James' touch.
Note: Okay I know it's sort of gay Lily tripped but anyway… enjoy the next chapter!