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Chapter Eleven: The Chapter With A Lot Of Slapping

Remus walked out with Lily in his arms (as a friend!). James was very shaken. He sat down on the seat, his head in his hands.

'What have I done?' he murmured. Sirius came in at that moment with little Peter trotting at his heels.

'No, for the last time, Wormtail, Peta's already going out with Leonard Reaks!' Sirius exclaimed.

'But isn't Peter and Peta cute?' wailed Peter. 'And anyway, Leonard Reaks… reeks.' Sirius suddenly did a double take as he noticed James.

'Prongs, are you okay?' Sirius had been friends with James for forever and he knew him really well.

'Lily,' came out the choked reply. 'I… I called her a Mudblood.'

'You didn't, Prongs!' Sirius did another double take.

'I- She-' stuttered James, unable to find words. 'Damn you, you bastard!' James smashed his head against the window, knocking himself out (P.S.: For all you shocked Sirius lovers, James was talking about himself).

'Wormy, help me out,' grunted Sirius, trying to haul James up on the seat. Both of them finally managed to get James on the seat. Sirius sat next to the window and leaned his head against the cool glass. James could be such a hot head…

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A few compartments down, Lily was sobbing into Remus' chest, into his cleanly pressed Hogwarts robes. She shook again.

'James- James- he- he didn't- tell me- a dream-' Tears kept streaming out of her eyes. She was unable to control them.

'Shh, Lily,' said Remus soothingly. Lucius slid open the compartment door.

'Lupin, Evans, get out there,' said Lucius harshly. Lily turned towards him. She squinted at him through red eyes.

'Mudblood,' Malfoy spat. Lily didn't start crying.

'Slytherin filth,' she replied venomously. She lifted her hand again and SMACK. She slapped Lucius Malfoy with all her strength. 'Bloody wizard.' A dribble of blood came out from the corner of Malfoy's mouth. He wiped it with his hand. He lifted his hand to slap her back, but Lupin gripped his hand.

'You don't slap girls, do you?' Remus said with a fake air of surprise. 'Let's go, Lily.' Lucius scowled after Lily and Remus. He had a plan. Oh yes, a very good plan…

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Out in the corridors, Lily was no longer crying. She stormed into compartments, telling kids off for the littlest things.

'Shoelace untied. Detention with your Head of Year,' she snapped at a frightened first year. She scuttled off to tell her sixth year brother.

'That's right, go be a tell-tale!' called Lily after her. Her sixth year brother came up to Lily. He wore a surly expression and had thick eyebrows.

'You assaulted my sister, Henrietta,' he said in a light airy voice that did not suit him at all.

'And?' Lily raised her eyebrow. 'What do you want me to do about it? I'm a Prefect, you know.' She flashed her Prefect badge at the boy. He towered over her.

'Look,' he said in that strange airy voice. He undid his shoelace. 'Are you going to give me a detention too? I mean, look at your shoelace…' Lily looked down at her feet. Her right shoelace was untied.

'Oh. I'm sorry,' she apologized. 'It's just… I mean… don't worry.' She headed off, but the boy caught her arm.

'Do you, er… do you want to go to the Ball with me?' he asked nervously, going crimson.

'I'm not going,' scoffed Lily. 'Even if James Potter came up and asked me (even though he's asked me already), I wouldn't.'

'What has James Potter got to do with this?' asked the boy.

'None of your business. And I said no, I'm not going to the bloody Ball with you,' said Lily, glaring. The boy hurried away.

'Lily.' Remus put a warning hand on her shoulder. 'Don't be so…' He struggled for the word. 'Arrogant. Just like James.'

'I am not like James!'

'Yes, you are.' Remus sighed and walked away from Lily.

'Hey, Remus, where are you going?' He turned around to face Lily, his hands on her shoulders. His ears were reddening.

'Lily, I-' he stuttered. Then he gathered himself together and took a deep breath. 'Lily, will you go to the Ball with me?' His brown eyes twinkled strangely, even though he was looking down at the floor nervously.

'Remus, I'd love to!' said Lily in delight. She would be really happy to go to the Ball with one of her best friends.

'Right, well…' started Lupin, but Lily silenced him as Narcissa Black approached them. She slapped Lily hard across the face. Lily's face flew to the side. She turned back to face Narcissa.

'You're on,' she whispered.

'Bitch fight,' was the only thing that Remus said. Lily tackled Narcissa to the ground. Soon, there was biting, kicking and a lot of slapping going on. Narcissa dug her long nails into Lily's arm. Lily yelped with pain and then whipped out her wand as the two tumbled apart.

'Conjunctivitus!' she yelled. Narcissa's hands flew up to her eyes, but she drew out her wand with difficulty and aimed it at any random place.

'Tarantallegra!' she bellowed. Lucius Malfoy came out of the compartment door at which she was pointing at. Soon, he was doing a frenzied tap dance all over the place.

'Nar – cissa,' he hissed. 'What – stop – don't – pain.' Lily just looked at her watch mildly and spoke to Remus.

'Time's up. Let's go inform Alice and Lewis.' Remus and Lily headed for the Heads' compartment.

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'Damn,' said Lewis, as Remus opened the compartment door for Lily. He had been snogging Brittany. 'Is it my turn already? Let's go, Alice.' Frank came rushing into the compartment at that moment, bumping into Alice. He fell on top of her, grinning.

'Hello, Harding.'

'Longbottom, what do you want?' Alice snapped, getting up, but having a cheeky anticipating twinkle in her eye.

'Alice Harding, will I have the pleasure of attending the Hogwarts 20th Anniversary Ball with you?' Alice grinned, and just shook her head, laughing like Frank was making a joke, but she smiled and gave him an answer.

'Of course, Frank.'

'Lovely. I'll see you around?'

'Yep. I hope so.' Frank departed from the compartment with a big, silly grin on his face.

'Good on ya, Frank.' Remus slapped Frank Longbottom on the back as he headed out.

'Thanks, Lupin,' said Frank. 'Who are you taking to the Ball?'

'This lovely lady hear.' Lily grinned at being called a, "lovely lady".

'Ahh, Miss Evans,' said Longbottom.

'Hey, thanks for the chocolates!' called Lily as he slipped out. She lay back to relax. Lucius and Narcissa were sitting in the corner, Lucius massaging his feet and Narcissa rubbing her sore temples. Lily just grinned.

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The next morning, Lily woke up in her fine four-poster. She yawned. She really didn't want to get up, but Aleisha dragged her out of bed.

'Come on, sleepyhead! We've got Potions, and it's 9:30am!' Lily rolled out of bed with a slight thump.

'WHAT!' she screamed.

'Kidding,' said Aleisha, laughing. Lily picked up her timetable. Potions first thing in the morning. She took out her five thousand word essay from her trunk. By that time Aleisha was in Potions. Lily quickly changed into her uniform and grabbed her bag. She swung it over her shoulder, raced down to the Great Hall, grabbed a piece of toast and rushed to the Potions room. Armadillo Avery was waiting at the door, frowning.

'One and a half minutes late, Miss Evans. I expected better of you. Detention with me tonight,' he said. Lily panted into the classroom and sat down beside Aleisha.

'Naughty Lily, you're late!' she pretended to scold. Lily hurried up to Professor Avery in the middle of the lesson when she was supposed to be brewing her Love Potion.

'Here's my five thousand word essay on Boomslang skin, Sir,' she muttered, and placed the large scroll on the desk. Avery frowned.

'What essay?' he asked. James smothered a laugh behind his cauldron. Lily glared.

'Sorry, this is the wrong one,' Lily said quickly, and took the parchment back. She headed for James. She slapped him on the back of the head.

'Put in work there, eh, Evans?' Lily shoved the parchment into his cauldron. His Love Potion practically exploded, leaving him with his hair burnt. He just grinned through the soot on his face at Lily. Lily practically exploded too.

'James Potter!' she screamed at him. 'You are making my life a living hell! Why can't you leave me alone?' She stormed out of Potions class. Some Slytherins snickered. James' face fell. He was sure that she would find it funny. Fuming, annoyed at himself, he followed Lily out of the classroom, determined to find her.

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