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Chapter 3
"Ok, guys. First match of the season," James said feeling a bit nervous. After all, the big day wasn't even a full 24 hours away. In fact it wasn't even a full four hours away. In about two hours, he'd be playing against Slytherin in the first quidditch game of the year.
"Come on, Prongs. There's nothing to worry about. You're a pro when it comes to this," Sirius said punching him lightly.
"Well I guess I must be if Mr. Huge Ego tells me that."
"I have a huge ego?? Well look who's talking! I'm not the one who's staring at myself in the mirror right now." Sirius argued.
"Hey, I don't wanna look bad out there," said James. He stared at himself in the mirror and winked cheekily.
"Honestly, you could go out wearing a potato sack and it wouldn't make a difference to all your admirers,"
"I know," James smiled slyly.
James wasn't the most popular guy in the school but he was the most popular 6th year and definitely one of the top five. All the girls thought he was just adorable and even Lily, if caught in her best mood would say he wasn't that bad looking. Of course, once realizing what she said she would hastily add something obnoxious which would cross the first statement out, but still. So naturally, all the girls in school would want to go out with him. Well, all except one. Lily Evans. But he didn't let that bother him. Nope, not at all.
"So, full moon tonight, huh?" James said casually, as he rummaged under his bed, looking for his broom.
"Yep. Tonight we do our thing."
"Are you sure you wanna do this guys?"Remus asked. "It's really dangerous, you know. You don't have to. I mean it. I won't be mad,"
"No, we don't know. I mean you've only told us that how many times?" Sirius said sarcastically "Come on Remus, if we didn't want to, we wouldn't have thought this up."
"Didn't practice start fifteen minutes ago?" Peter asked all of a sudden.
"Crap," James said, as he banged his head under the bed. He rubbed it gently. "Found my broom. See you later," He bounded out of the room, with his broomstick in his hand, running as fast as he could. The team was gonna kill him.
He turned a corridor and smashed straight into someone. The person toppled over onto the floor and cursed angrily.
"Shoot. I'm really sorry," he said flashing her his famous lopsided smile. It faded as soon as the person got up and he saw her bright red hair. Of course he would have to bump into Lily. He groaned inwardly. It wasn't that he hated her; he really didn't. But how could you really like someone who you knew that their hearts desire was to see you horribly humiliated and fantasized the ten best ways how?
"Are you ok?" he asked her, holding out his hand to help her.
She scowled and got up herself, brushing off her robes.
"Oh, I'm perfectly fine," she said sarcastically. Her eyes narrowed at him and she said "Don't we have a quidditch game today?"
"Yeah," he answered "First of the season. Why?"
"Aren't you supposed to be at practice?"
He groaned loudly as he remembered that, and yelled over his shoulder "Sorry for bumping into you, Lil. Gotta run," and turned the corridor, cursing his horrible luck.
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"Woo-hoo! Come on guys! The match is starting soon," Lynn shrieked as she jumped up and down on her bed giggling madly. Lily stared at her and rolled her eyes, shaking her head. Lynn's blonde hair bounced with her and her blue eyes twinkled merrily as she tried to pull Lily on the bed with her "Come on Lil! Don't you have ANY school spirit? Even a tiny ounce?"
Lily looked at her horrified for a few seconds and pulled out of her grasp. She threw up her hands annoyed "I think I'll stay right here on the floor, thank you very much. And why is it that everyone thinks I'm the school grouch? Just because I'm not acting like a total idiot openly declaring my undying love for Hogwarts doesn't mean I don't like it!"
"I'm just joking, you goose," Lynn said, jumping off her bed. She adjusted her ponytail, smoothed out her outfit for any imaginary creases, and took a quick look in the mirror before she said "Really guys, don't you wanna get good seats?"
"We're coming," Annie said rolling her big brown eyes. "Calm down!"
"Ok, Ok," Lynn said as she pulled Annie's and Lynn's hands, steering them out of their dormitory. "Joy Johnson, get your butt out here" She said loudly.
"Shut up, Lynn," Lily hissed. "Can you talk any louder?" She looked around at the common room seeing all the other people there. "Do you want to be mention in Rita Skeeter's stupid newsletter?"
"What did you say about my newsletter?" she heard Rita Skeeter say.
'Oh great. Why did that always happen?'
"Oh, I was only saying how interesting they are and that I hope you write another one soon," she said sweetly.
"I'm sure," Rita glared at her.
"Well, got to go now. Bye!" Lily rushed over to Joy who had just came into the Common Room.
She rolled her eyes at Annie, who shook her head and mouthed 'Weirdo'.
"Joyniekinns, where were you?" Lynn said as Joy approached them.
"Proffesor McGonagol held me back for a few minutes. It seems that I didn't do too well on the last exam," She said sadly.
"No problem," Lily jumped in quickly. "I can tutor you. We'll have your grade back up in no time, babe."
"I'll ask her. Thanks Lily," Joy gave Lily a quick squeeze and the group began to walk to the quidditch field.
"You do know we're about a half an hour early?" Annie asked raising her eyebrow.
"So what? Then we get to see them practice!" Lynn said happily.
"Oh, the greatness of seeing the Gryffindor team at practice. I may faint from just hearing the mention of it," Lily said, clutching her heart.
"You mean you may faint from the mention of James Potter," Annie joked knowing just the mention of his name would send Lily into a tirade of his horribleness.
"No I do not and if I did than it would only be because just the mention of him makes me want to die since he's such a jerk," Lily said stoutly. "But while we're on the subject, he bumped right into me today and pushed me on to the floor. Than when I sweetly remind he has practice he just runs off and doesn't even thank me for the helpful reminder!"
"What has the world come too?" Lynn said dramatically, throwing her arm around Lily. "How dare he not answer queen Lily?"
"Stop it Lynn,"
"Well, I'm sure your little reminder wasn't too sweet,"
"New topic," Annie put in. Lily shot her a grateful look. "So how are things going with you and Peter?"
"Oh, he's just perfect," Lynn gushed, with a faraway look on her face. She launched in a long speech of all his remarkable qualities and attributes. Lily tuned out as soon as they got to the field. She'd heard this millions of times before anyways, so she was NOT missing anything.
"So where should we sit?" Lily asked, interrupting Lynn.
"Duh," Lynn said waving a hand at the first row. "Where else?" She rolled her eyes.
They took seats and watched the Gryffindors for a few minutes who were at the time getting a rather loud, enthusiastic pep talk by the Griffindor captain.
"Thank gosh I'm not on the quidditch team," Joy remarked "All the pressure…"
"Plus, we'd be losing every game," Annie teased.
"Hey!" she hit Annie playfully.
"We do have a great team, though. Don't we?"
"All except for Potter. They only picked him because he has Daddy's money to fund them," Lily denounced.
"You don't think he's good?" Annie stared at her bewildered. "He's only one of the best chasers we've ever had!"
"OK, so maybe I do," Lily admitted. "But I'm not supposed to say anything positive about my enemy, so we'll keep that confidential,"
Lynn, Annie, and Joy all rolled their eyes at her.
"What?" She exclaimed.
"Oh, nothing," They said in unison.
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"Less than two minutes for the games to start," James said nervously to himself.
He looked out at the crowd. The seats were filled with students, some cheering him on, others jeering. He flew closer to the ground and saw Fawnera, his current girlfriend.
"She looks hot," he said to himself. He wasn't surprised though, she always did. With her light blonde hair and dark blue eyes, she was one of those people who always looked put together and as if they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine.
He flew closer to where she was sitting and winked at her cheekily. She squealed happily and all the girls around her sighed happily, each thinking that wink was especially for them. He smiled and shook his head humorously. It worked every time. Fawnera blew him a kiss her friends giggled madly.
He heard someone snort and looked down and saw Lily Evans sitting below Fawnera with her friends. She looked pretty even as her emerald eyes glared up at him. As their eyes met he smiled and gave her a look that said 'What did I do? '. Her brow furrowed even more, and then laughing at the idea that formed in his mind, he winked at her pointedly.
He would have stayed more to see her reaction but at that moment he heard the commentator's voice boom "… and Potter as chaser. Wait a second where is he? Oh there he is, off with the ladies as usual. Well get back here James. Before it starts without you!"
James grinned sheepishly at the crowd and flew back to the center of the field to face the Slytherin chasers. He looked across at his particular enemy from the house, Severus Snape.
They gave each other looks of murder as the Madame Hooch signaled for the game to start.
"Eat dust Potter," He heard Snape mutter in his ear as he flew passed him. James gritted his teeth and tightened his grip on the broom forcing himself to concentrate. He watched as the other team scored their first goal and then their second. He frowned angrily, clenching his fists.
He watched as his team gained possession of the quaffle and saw Riana, another chaser to him on the team, signaling to him that she was about the throw him the quaffle. He moved in closer to the goal posts and caught the ball easily. He directed his broom forward, ducking a bludger, weaving in and out of the Slytherin players.
"And Potter has the quaffle. Look at him go! It's no surprise he can fly well, he's been on the team for four years and he's one of the best chasers Gryffindor has ever had. Plus, he comes from a long line of quidditch players including his father who was a great keeper back in his day. Well, back to the game. It looks as though the Gryffindors may be getting their first goal soon." James heard the commentator say as he flew closer to the goal and narrowly missed another bludger.
'Concentrate,' he reminded himself 'You can do this.'
"Ooh, wait! It's starting to look bad for the Gryffindors as the Slytherin team moves in James. He may be a good flyer but he can't take on a whole team by himself!"
James saw this was true as the circle of Slytherins moved in closer. He saw Snape leer at him as he drew nearer, his hand out to steal the ball. James looked up at the goal posts. It wasn't to far away and he could probably make it if he threw it hard enough. He leaned his arm back and threw it with all his might, accidentally hitting Snape in the nose. James watched as it sailed through the sky and into the goal.
"Yes," He shouted, pumping his fists happily. He saw the crowd cheering and the commentators mouth moving but couldn't hear them. His blood was pumping too loud and he felt his adrenaline soar upwards in his body.
Maybe they could win after all.
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"We scored, we scored!" Lily cried jumping up and down waving her hands in the air crazily.
"You mean James POTTER scored," Annie said pointedly.
"Who cares? The point is WE SCORED," she shrieked the last part happily while she and Lynn did a happy little jig.
She hadn't expected to go this crazy at the quidditch match but she couldn't help herself. It was way too much fun. Plus, now maybe this would bring up the teams spirits so they could play better.
Lily laughed as she saw Snape rub his nose. She couldn't believe James had hit him in the nose in front of the whole school, but she was glad anyway. Snape was the most disgusting creature that had walked the planet, as far as she was concerned.
Like Lily had thought, the Gryffindors began to play harder and tougher and penalties were issued back and forth. The game was getting closer but so far Gryffindor was beating Slytherin 70-60. The snitch had been seen once already and the Gryffindor seeker had almost caught it but he lost track of it when he was forced to duck as a bludger came his way.
"Oooh, this is too exiting," she squealed happily. "I think we're gonna win!"
"I know we're gonna," Joy answered her as they scored yet again.
"And the Griffindors have made an amazing comeback since the beginning of the game and are playing better than ever. But Slytherins don't have to despair yet. They still have a chance of winning. That is, as long as the Griffindors don't catch the Sni- Wait, the snitch has been sighted! And its gonna be a harsh race as both team seekers, at breakneck speed seemed to be at equal distance from the snitch. Andrew Bell (Gryffindor seeker) is gaining more speed. He seems to be inching closer to the snitch by the minute-"
Lily's heart pounded faster than ever and she gripped Lynn and Annie's hands in excitement. 'We're going to win,' she thought happily.
"And his hand's out to catch the snitch and he's getting closer and closer and- Oh no, it can't be true! And Andrew Bell is out of the race as he ducks to miss a bludger,"
Lily's heart dropped in disappointment. This wasn't fair! They just had to win!
"But don't get your hopes to down yet, Gryffindors! It seems as if the Slytherin seeker has also lost sight of the snitch. No wait, he hasn't. He's right on its tail and getting closer by the second- Whoa, that bludger was a close one but it still hasn't unfazed him. And his arms stretched out to catch the ball and he's getting clo- He's got it! Lestrange has the snitch! And the Slytherins win 220-80!"
"No," Lily cried angrily making a fist at the Slytherins. "It just isn't fair! We were so close!"
"This sucks, doesn't it," Lynn said sadly. "Well, we're not out of the run for the Quidditch cup yet, but it's almost impossible for us to win it. We should have won!"
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James stared down sadly at the crowd and hung his head. They lost? How could they have lost?! They had been winning! He flew down and got off his broom. He looked over at the Slytherin team and saw them cheering happily, slapping each other on the back, and celebrating. 'That should have been us,' he thought. Snape saw him looking over and grinning evilly flew down.
"I told you we'd win. At this isn't the only match we'll win. You can kiss the quidditch cup goodbye this year Potter,"
"That's what you think," James retorted even though he knew what Snape was saying was probably true "We still can win the Quidditch cup and we're gonna,"
Snape just laughed and walked away to join his teammates.
"We better win," he muttered. He saw Sirius and walked over to where he, Remus, and Peter were sitting. They all looked at him sadly and shook their heads.
"Damn Slytherins," Sirius said darkly. "Should've let Snape been beat up by the Womping Willow. He would've deserved every blow he got."
"Can't be helped now."
"James, it's awful what happened," Fawnera said as she rushed over to comfort him. She kissed him on the mouth, hard. She really was a great kisser, and smart too. But only book smart though, she had no common sense at all. Or at least that was the way she acted around him.
"It sure sucks," he muttered.
"Well, James, we'll be going in now. Don't forget about tonight,"
"I won't," he answered. He watched them disappear in the crowd and looked down at Fawnera's admiring face. He kissed her again and said "Well, I got to go, but I'll see you tomorrow, right?"
She nodded eagerly and then he took off to find Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
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Lily yawned as she closed the book shut. Finally, now she could finally sleep! It was late, she knew, but how late? She glanced at her watch and gasped. One o' clock? She hadn't meant to stay in the library that long! She had been given permission by Professor Sprout to be able to stay in the library an hour past curfew since she was looking for books for help in herbology. But this was way past the time she was supposed to be back in the dormitories.
"Great, just great," She said nervously, wrapping a piece of hair around her finger nervously. "If Filch catches me I'm so DEAD!"
Ok, she could do this. She would just have to walk back VERY fast and VERY quietly. Lily walked to the door of the library and peeked at the hall to see if anyone was there. When she saw there wasn't anyone she tiptoed quietly through it and hit behind the wall. She was trying to catch her breath when she thought she heard footsteps from the direction she had just came in.
Lily ran blindly throughout the castle and up the steps. She was almost home free! She slowed down and began to walk to the room where the portrait of the Fat Lady was. She was almost there when all of a sudden she saw a dark figure jump out at her.
She gasped and jumped back. As the figure stepped closer to her she saw who it was- Severus Snape. He leered down at her and moved closer to her. She took a step back. This could NOT be good.
"So," he said softly. "You found out my little secret. Well, now you know that I was going to prank you Griffindors, don't you?"
"I didn't before but now I do," Lily muttered.
"Well, that can all be fixed," he sneered pointing his wand at her "With one flick of my wand I can modify your memory. Isn't it great how magic works, mudblood?"
"Put your wand down and don't call me that, Snape. You probably couldn't modify my memory anyways. As I recall, aren't you having a bit of a problem in charms?" Lily said, surprised how calm her voice had come out. Because calm was far from the way she felt.
"Your not scared, are you?" He said glaring at her. When she met his gaze he said "Good, you shouldn't be. You should be terrified,"
And then he laughed.
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James strolled out of the Common Room, not nervous at all about being caught. After all, he was wearing an invisibility cloak and he had the marauder map. He was supposed to meet Sirius, Remus, and Peter in front of the Womping Willow to get ready for the transformations. This was only the third time he'd ever transformed into his animagi form, so it was still really cool.
He and Sirius had thought this up in their second year when they found out Remus was a werewolf. It had taken them four years, a lot of research, and too many close calls, to finally accomplish the task of becoming an animagi.
James picked up his pace. He didn't want to be late. As he came to the steps, he began to hear voices. A low, evil male one and higher, calm female one. He slowed down and began to walk more cautiously.
He came close enough to be able to see the speakers and saw a guy with black hair with his arm outstretched pointing his wand at a red-haired girl.
"Oh my gosh," he said softly. "It's Snape and Lily. It looks as if he's going to curse her. What's she doing up anyways?"
'That's not important right now,' his subconscious said ' The important thing is to help Lily,'
"Ok, right," he whispered. "I'll just hex Snape. This should be easy. I've always wanted to save a damsel in distress. Here's my chance."
He began to walk faster and then started running. He jumped into the room where Lily and Snape were, pulled out his wand and said the first thing that came to his mind
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Lily let Snape keep talking as she began to reach for her wand. As long as Snape didn't notice that, she'd be fine. She'd already planned out what she was going to do to him. Lily had just put her hand around her wand when she heard a loud noise.
She turned around, but before she could she heard the low murmur of a spell being said. She felt it hit her and all of a sudden she began tap dancing. She looked over at he person who did it, but saw nothing there. And then all of a sudden James Potter appeared out of thin air.
"You stupid prat," she screamed. "Whose side are you on anyways?"
James began to laugh and was on the floor. "I…I..meant to h-hit Snape, but.. I aimed my wand wrong, I g-guess," he said through his laughter.
"You think that's funny," she said angrily, forgetting about Snape. "Turn me back or I'll give you something to laugh about!"
When he didn't answer she pulled out her wand and muttered a spell that would make him feel as if someone wouldn't stop tickling him "Stop it," he wheezed.
Snape chose this time to run down the steps and get away.
"You numskull!" she said still dancing "I was about to get him and you ruined everything!"
"Stop…it!" He said again.
She rolled her eyes and said the counter curse. James immediately stopped laughing and got up.
"Now change me back, Potter,"
"Why should I," he said laughing.
"Because if you don't, I'll kill you!"
He just laughed again and then pointed his wand at her. She instantly stopped dancing and put her hands on her hips.
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'Well, that went well,' he thought sarcastically.
"I really am sorry," he said. "I meant to get Snape. But it did get him to leave, so I guess I still fulfilled my purpose."
"How'd you get here anyways?" Lily asked. "You appeared out of thin air. And you couldn't have apparated. You can't in Hogwarts,"
Shoot. He forgot she'd seen him with the invisibility cloak. Not being able to come up with a good enough excuse he admitted "I was wearing an invisibility cloak,"
"An invisibility cloak?" her eyes widened. "How'd you get one?"
"Family heirloom."
He knew what question would be coming next. 'Why were you out here anyways?' He saw her lips open ready to form the words, and knowing he wouldn't have an answer, he began to run down the stairs and shouted " I'm late! Bye Lily."
"Well, thanks a lot!" he heard her shout sarcastically.
Great. He'd better come up with a good enough excuse to satisfy her by tomorrow.
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Chapter 3
"Ok, guys. First match of the season," James said feeling a bit nervous. After all, the big day wasn't even a full 24 hours away. In fact it wasn't even a full four hours away. In about two hours, he'd be playing against Slytherin in the first quidditch game of the year.
"Come on, Prongs. There's nothing to worry about. You're a pro when it comes to this," Sirius said punching him lightly.
"Well I guess I must be if Mr. Huge Ego tells me that."
"I have a huge ego?? Well look who's talking! I'm not the one who's staring at myself in the mirror right now." Sirius argued.
"Hey, I don't wanna look bad out there," said James. He stared at himself in the mirror and winked cheekily.
"Honestly, you could go out wearing a potato sack and it wouldn't make a difference to all your admirers,"
"I know," James smiled slyly.
James wasn't the most popular guy in the school but he was the most popular 6th year and definitely one of the top five. All the girls thought he was just adorable and even Lily, if caught in her best mood would say he wasn't that bad looking. Of course, once realizing what she said she would hastily add something obnoxious which would cross the first statement out, but still. So naturally, all the girls in school would want to go out with him. Well, all except one. Lily Evans. But he didn't let that bother him. Nope, not at all.
"So, full moon tonight, huh?" James said casually, as he rummaged under his bed, looking for his broom.
"Yep. Tonight we do our thing."
"Are you sure you wanna do this guys?"Remus asked. "It's really dangerous, you know. You don't have to. I mean it. I won't be mad,"
"No, we don't know. I mean you've only told us that how many times?" Sirius said sarcastically "Come on Remus, if we didn't want to, we wouldn't have thought this up."
"Didn't practice start fifteen minutes ago?" Peter asked all of a sudden.
"Crap," James said, as he banged his head under the bed. He rubbed it gently. "Found my broom. See you later," He bounded out of the room, with his broomstick in his hand, running as fast as he could. The team was gonna kill him.
He turned a corridor and smashed straight into someone. The person toppled over onto the floor and cursed angrily.
"Shoot. I'm really sorry," he said flashing her his famous lopsided smile. It faded as soon as the person got up and he saw her bright red hair. Of course he would have to bump into Lily. He groaned inwardly. It wasn't that he hated her; he really didn't. But how could you really like someone who you knew that their hearts desire was to see you horribly humiliated and fantasized the ten best ways how?
"Are you ok?" he asked her, holding out his hand to help her.
She scowled and got up herself, brushing off her robes.
"Oh, I'm perfectly fine," she said sarcastically. Her eyes narrowed at him and she said "Don't we have a quidditch game today?"
"Yeah," he answered "First of the season. Why?"
"Aren't you supposed to be at practice?"
He groaned loudly as he remembered that, and yelled over his shoulder "Sorry for bumping into you, Lil. Gotta run," and turned the corridor, cursing his horrible luck.
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"Woo-hoo! Come on guys! The match is starting soon," Lynn shrieked as she jumped up and down on her bed giggling madly. Lily stared at her and rolled her eyes, shaking her head. Lynn's blonde hair bounced with her and her blue eyes twinkled merrily as she tried to pull Lily on the bed with her "Come on Lil! Don't you have ANY school spirit? Even a tiny ounce?"
Lily looked at her horrified for a few seconds and pulled out of her grasp. She threw up her hands annoyed "I think I'll stay right here on the floor, thank you very much. And why is it that everyone thinks I'm the school grouch? Just because I'm not acting like a total idiot openly declaring my undying love for Hogwarts doesn't mean I don't like it!"
"I'm just joking, you goose," Lynn said, jumping off her bed. She adjusted her ponytail, smoothed out her outfit for any imaginary creases, and took a quick look in the mirror before she said "Really guys, don't you wanna get good seats?"
"We're coming," Annie said rolling her big brown eyes. "Calm down!"
"Ok, Ok," Lynn said as she pulled Annie's and Lynn's hands, steering them out of their dormitory. "Joy Johnson, get your butt out here" She said loudly.
"Shut up, Lynn," Lily hissed. "Can you talk any louder?" She looked around at the common room seeing all the other people there. "Do you want to be mention in Rita Skeeter's stupid newsletter?"
"What did you say about my newsletter?" she heard Rita Skeeter say.
'Oh great. Why did that always happen?'
"Oh, I was only saying how interesting they are and that I hope you write another one soon," she said sweetly.
"I'm sure," Rita glared at her.
"Well, got to go now. Bye!" Lily rushed over to Joy who had just came into the Common Room.
She rolled her eyes at Annie, who shook her head and mouthed 'Weirdo'.
"Joyniekinns, where were you?" Lynn said as Joy approached them.
"Proffesor McGonagol held me back for a few minutes. It seems that I didn't do too well on the last exam," She said sadly.
"No problem," Lily jumped in quickly. "I can tutor you. We'll have your grade back up in no time, babe."
"I'll ask her. Thanks Lily," Joy gave Lily a quick squeeze and the group began to walk to the quidditch field.
"You do know we're about a half an hour early?" Annie asked raising her eyebrow.
"So what? Then we get to see them practice!" Lynn said happily.
"Oh, the greatness of seeing the Gryffindor team at practice. I may faint from just hearing the mention of it," Lily said, clutching her heart.
"You mean you may faint from the mention of James Potter," Annie joked knowing just the mention of his name would send Lily into a tirade of his horribleness.
"No I do not and if I did than it would only be because just the mention of him makes me want to die since he's such a jerk," Lily said stoutly. "But while we're on the subject, he bumped right into me today and pushed me on to the floor. Than when I sweetly remind he has practice he just runs off and doesn't even thank me for the helpful reminder!"
"What has the world come too?" Lynn said dramatically, throwing her arm around Lily. "How dare he not answer queen Lily?"
"Stop it Lynn,"
"Well, I'm sure your little reminder wasn't too sweet,"
"New topic," Annie put in. Lily shot her a grateful look. "So how are things going with you and Peter?"
"Oh, he's just perfect," Lynn gushed, with a faraway look on her face. She launched in a long speech of all his remarkable qualities and attributes. Lily tuned out as soon as they got to the field. She'd heard this millions of times before anyways, so she was NOT missing anything.
"So where should we sit?" Lily asked, interrupting Lynn.
"Duh," Lynn said waving a hand at the first row. "Where else?" She rolled her eyes.
They took seats and watched the Gryffindors for a few minutes who were at the time getting a rather loud, enthusiastic pep talk by the Griffindor captain.
"Thank gosh I'm not on the quidditch team," Joy remarked "All the pressure…"
"Plus, we'd be losing every game," Annie teased.
"Hey!" she hit Annie playfully.
"We do have a great team, though. Don't we?"
"All except for Potter. They only picked him because he has Daddy's money to fund them," Lily denounced.
"You don't think he's good?" Annie stared at her bewildered. "He's only one of the best chasers we've ever had!"
"OK, so maybe I do," Lily admitted. "But I'm not supposed to say anything positive about my enemy, so we'll keep that confidential,"
Lynn, Annie, and Joy all rolled their eyes at her.
"What?" She exclaimed.
"Oh, nothing," They said in unison.
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"Less than two minutes for the games to start," James said nervously to himself.
He looked out at the crowd. The seats were filled with students, some cheering him on, others jeering. He flew closer to the ground and saw Fawnera, his current girlfriend.
"She looks hot," he said to himself. He wasn't surprised though, she always did. With her light blonde hair and dark blue eyes, she was one of those people who always looked put together and as if they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine.
He flew closer to where she was sitting and winked at her cheekily. She squealed happily and all the girls around her sighed happily, each thinking that wink was especially for them. He smiled and shook his head humorously. It worked every time. Fawnera blew him a kiss her friends giggled madly.
He heard someone snort and looked down and saw Lily Evans sitting below Fawnera with her friends. She looked pretty even as her emerald eyes glared up at him. As their eyes met he smiled and gave her a look that said 'What did I do? '. Her brow furrowed even more, and then laughing at the idea that formed in his mind, he winked at her pointedly.
He would have stayed more to see her reaction but at that moment he heard the commentator's voice boom "… and Potter as chaser. Wait a second where is he? Oh there he is, off with the ladies as usual. Well get back here James. Before it starts without you!"
James grinned sheepishly at the crowd and flew back to the center of the field to face the Slytherin chasers. He looked across at his particular enemy from the house, Severus Snape.
They gave each other looks of murder as the Madame Hooch signaled for the game to start.
"Eat dust Potter," He heard Snape mutter in his ear as he flew passed him. James gritted his teeth and tightened his grip on the broom forcing himself to concentrate. He watched as the other team scored their first goal and then their second. He frowned angrily, clenching his fists.
He watched as his team gained possession of the quaffle and saw Riana, another chaser to him on the team, signaling to him that she was about the throw him the quaffle. He moved in closer to the goal posts and caught the ball easily. He directed his broom forward, ducking a bludger, weaving in and out of the Slytherin players.
"And Potter has the quaffle. Look at him go! It's no surprise he can fly well, he's been on the team for four years and he's one of the best chasers Gryffindor has ever had. Plus, he comes from a long line of quidditch players including his father who was a great keeper back in his day. Well, back to the game. It looks as though the Gryffindors may be getting their first goal soon." James heard the commentator say as he flew closer to the goal and narrowly missed another bludger.
'Concentrate,' he reminded himself 'You can do this.'
"Ooh, wait! It's starting to look bad for the Gryffindors as the Slytherin team moves in James. He may be a good flyer but he can't take on a whole team by himself!"
James saw this was true as the circle of Slytherins moved in closer. He saw Snape leer at him as he drew nearer, his hand out to steal the ball. James looked up at the goal posts. It wasn't to far away and he could probably make it if he threw it hard enough. He leaned his arm back and threw it with all his might, accidentally hitting Snape in the nose. James watched as it sailed through the sky and into the goal.
"Yes," He shouted, pumping his fists happily. He saw the crowd cheering and the commentators mouth moving but couldn't hear them. His blood was pumping too loud and he felt his adrenaline soar upwards in his body.
Maybe they could win after all.
*~*
"We scored, we scored!" Lily cried jumping up and down waving her hands in the air crazily.
"You mean James POTTER scored," Annie said pointedly.
"Who cares? The point is WE SCORED," she shrieked the last part happily while she and Lynn did a happy little jig.
She hadn't expected to go this crazy at the quidditch match but she couldn't help herself. It was way too much fun. Plus, now maybe this would bring up the teams spirits so they could play better.
Lily laughed as she saw Snape rub his nose. She couldn't believe James had hit him in the nose in front of the whole school, but she was glad anyway. Snape was the most disgusting creature that had walked the planet, as far as she was concerned.
Like Lily had thought, the Gryffindors began to play harder and tougher and penalties were issued back and forth. The game was getting closer but so far Gryffindor was beating Slytherin 70-60. The snitch had been seen once already and the Gryffindor seeker had almost caught it but he lost track of it when he was forced to duck as a bludger came his way.
"Oooh, this is too exiting," she squealed happily. "I think we're gonna win!"
"I know we're gonna," Joy answered her as they scored yet again.
"And the Griffindors have made an amazing comeback since the beginning of the game and are playing better than ever. But Slytherins don't have to despair yet. They still have a chance of winning. That is, as long as the Griffindors don't catch the Sni- Wait, the snitch has been sighted! And its gonna be a harsh race as both team seekers, at breakneck speed seemed to be at equal distance from the snitch. Andrew Bell (Gryffindor seeker) is gaining more speed. He seems to be inching closer to the snitch by the minute-"
Lily's heart pounded faster than ever and she gripped Lynn and Annie's hands in excitement. 'We're going to win,' she thought happily.
"And his hand's out to catch the snitch and he's getting closer and closer and- Oh no, it can't be true! And Andrew Bell is out of the race as he ducks to miss a bludger,"
Lily's heart dropped in disappointment. This wasn't fair! They just had to win!
"But don't get your hopes to down yet, Gryffindors! It seems as if the Slytherin seeker has also lost sight of the snitch. No wait, he hasn't. He's right on its tail and getting closer by the second- Whoa, that bludger was a close one but it still hasn't unfazed him. And his arms stretched out to catch the ball and he's getting clo- He's got it! Lestrange has the snitch! And the Slytherins win 220-80!"
"No," Lily cried angrily making a fist at the Slytherins. "It just isn't fair! We were so close!"
"This sucks, doesn't it," Lynn said sadly. "Well, we're not out of the run for the Quidditch cup yet, but it's almost impossible for us to win it. We should have won!"
*~*
James stared down sadly at the crowd and hung his head. They lost? How could they have lost?! They had been winning! He flew down and got off his broom. He looked over at the Slytherin team and saw them cheering happily, slapping each other on the back, and celebrating. 'That should have been us,' he thought. Snape saw him looking over and grinning evilly flew down.
"I told you we'd win. At this isn't the only match we'll win. You can kiss the quidditch cup goodbye this year Potter,"
"That's what you think," James retorted even though he knew what Snape was saying was probably true "We still can win the Quidditch cup and we're gonna,"
Snape just laughed and walked away to join his teammates.
"We better win," he muttered. He saw Sirius and walked over to where he, Remus, and Peter were sitting. They all looked at him sadly and shook their heads.
"Damn Slytherins," Sirius said darkly. "Should've let Snape been beat up by the Womping Willow. He would've deserved every blow he got."
"Can't be helped now."
"James, it's awful what happened," Fawnera said as she rushed over to comfort him. She kissed him on the mouth, hard. She really was a great kisser, and smart too. But only book smart though, she had no common sense at all. Or at least that was the way she acted around him.
"It sure sucks," he muttered.
"Well, James, we'll be going in now. Don't forget about tonight,"
"I won't," he answered. He watched them disappear in the crowd and looked down at Fawnera's admiring face. He kissed her again and said "Well, I got to go, but I'll see you tomorrow, right?"
She nodded eagerly and then he took off to find Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
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Lily yawned as she closed the book shut. Finally, now she could finally sleep! It was late, she knew, but how late? She glanced at her watch and gasped. One o' clock? She hadn't meant to stay in the library that long! She had been given permission by Professor Sprout to be able to stay in the library an hour past curfew since she was looking for books for help in herbology. But this was way past the time she was supposed to be back in the dormitories.
"Great, just great," She said nervously, wrapping a piece of hair around her finger nervously. "If Filch catches me I'm so DEAD!"
Ok, she could do this. She would just have to walk back VERY fast and VERY quietly. Lily walked to the door of the library and peeked at the hall to see if anyone was there. When she saw there wasn't anyone she tiptoed quietly through it and hit behind the wall. She was trying to catch her breath when she thought she heard footsteps from the direction she had just came in.
Lily ran blindly throughout the castle and up the steps. She was almost home free! She slowed down and began to walk to the room where the portrait of the Fat Lady was. She was almost there when all of a sudden she saw a dark figure jump out at her.
She gasped and jumped back. As the figure stepped closer to her she saw who it was- Severus Snape. He leered down at her and moved closer to her. She took a step back. This could NOT be good.
"So," he said softly. "You found out my little secret. Well, now you know that I was going to prank you Griffindors, don't you?"
"I didn't before but now I do," Lily muttered.
"Well, that can all be fixed," he sneered pointing his wand at her "With one flick of my wand I can modify your memory. Isn't it great how magic works, mudblood?"
"Put your wand down and don't call me that, Snape. You probably couldn't modify my memory anyways. As I recall, aren't you having a bit of a problem in charms?" Lily said, surprised how calm her voice had come out. Because calm was far from the way she felt.
"Your not scared, are you?" He said glaring at her. When she met his gaze he said "Good, you shouldn't be. You should be terrified,"
And then he laughed.
*~*
James strolled out of the Common Room, not nervous at all about being caught. After all, he was wearing an invisibility cloak and he had the marauder map. He was supposed to meet Sirius, Remus, and Peter in front of the Womping Willow to get ready for the transformations. This was only the third time he'd ever transformed into his animagi form, so it was still really cool.
He and Sirius had thought this up in their second year when they found out Remus was a werewolf. It had taken them four years, a lot of research, and too many close calls, to finally accomplish the task of becoming an animagi.
James picked up his pace. He didn't want to be late. As he came to the steps, he began to hear voices. A low, evil male one and higher, calm female one. He slowed down and began to walk more cautiously.
He came close enough to be able to see the speakers and saw a guy with black hair with his arm outstretched pointing his wand at a red-haired girl.
"Oh my gosh," he said softly. "It's Snape and Lily. It looks as if he's going to curse her. What's she doing up anyways?"
'That's not important right now,' his subconscious said ' The important thing is to help Lily,'
"Ok, right," he whispered. "I'll just hex Snape. This should be easy. I've always wanted to save a damsel in distress. Here's my chance."
He began to walk faster and then started running. He jumped into the room where Lily and Snape were, pulled out his wand and said the first thing that came to his mind
*~*
Lily let Snape keep talking as she began to reach for her wand. As long as Snape didn't notice that, she'd be fine. She'd already planned out what she was going to do to him. Lily had just put her hand around her wand when she heard a loud noise.
She turned around, but before she could she heard the low murmur of a spell being said. She felt it hit her and all of a sudden she began tap dancing. She looked over at he person who did it, but saw nothing there. And then all of a sudden James Potter appeared out of thin air.
"You stupid prat," she screamed. "Whose side are you on anyways?"
James began to laugh and was on the floor. "I…I..meant to h-hit Snape, but.. I aimed my wand wrong, I g-guess," he said through his laughter.
"You think that's funny," she said angrily, forgetting about Snape. "Turn me back or I'll give you something to laugh about!"
When he didn't answer she pulled out her wand and muttered a spell that would make him feel as if someone wouldn't stop tickling him "Stop it," he wheezed.
Snape chose this time to run down the steps and get away.
"You numskull!" she said still dancing "I was about to get him and you ruined everything!"
"Stop…it!" He said again.
She rolled her eyes and said the counter curse. James immediately stopped laughing and got up.
"Now change me back, Potter,"
"Why should I," he said laughing.
"Because if you don't, I'll kill you!"
He just laughed again and then pointed his wand at her. She instantly stopped dancing and put her hands on her hips.
*~*
'Well, that went well,' he thought sarcastically.
"I really am sorry," he said. "I meant to get Snape. But it did get him to leave, so I guess I still fulfilled my purpose."
"How'd you get here anyways?" Lily asked. "You appeared out of thin air. And you couldn't have apparated. You can't in Hogwarts,"
Shoot. He forgot she'd seen him with the invisibility cloak. Not being able to come up with a good enough excuse he admitted "I was wearing an invisibility cloak,"
"An invisibility cloak?" her eyes widened. "How'd you get one?"
"Family heirloom."
He knew what question would be coming next. 'Why were you out here anyways?' He saw her lips open ready to form the words, and knowing he wouldn't have an answer, he began to run down the stairs and shouted " I'm late! Bye Lily."
"Well, thanks a lot!" he heard her shout sarcastically.
Great. He'd better come up with a good enough excuse to satisfy her by tomorrow.
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