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Chapter Eight
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James chewed obnoxiously on his droobles best blowing gum. Professor McGonagall glared at him. Professor Dumbledore hummed the tune of "I wanna rock and roll all night" to himself.

"Stop it." Professor McGonagall snapped, "The gum. Please get rid of it."

James stood up and walked slowly to the bin, chewing loudly as he went. He spat out his gum and returned to his seat. He looked around the classroom, which was now silent, with the exception of Professor Dumbledore's random humming. James wondered what had possessed him to come early. He started tapping his hands on his thighs to the beat of "total eclipse of the heart", which Professor Dumbledore had just started to hum. He nodded his head to the beat as he tapped louder and louder. He then realised that Professor Dumbledore had been humming louder as he tapped louder. Professor McGonagall stared at the exchange, dumfounded, shaking her head vaguely.

James somehow began to sing, "Turn around, every now and then I get a little bit lonely…" he mumbled indistinctly as he forgot the words. "Turn around, Every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears."

"Turn around," Sung Professor Dumbledore, rocking in his seat to the beat that James was now tapping on the table.

"Every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by." The two sung in unison. "Turn around, Every now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes. Turn around bright eyes, Every now and then I fall apart."

Without reason, Professor McGonagall joined in. "And I need you now tonight and I need you more than ever. And if you only hold me tight we'll be holding on forever." James was fascinated as the Professor's loosened up and began singing loudly with him. "And we'll only be making it right because we'll never be wrong together we can take it to the end of the line. Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time, I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark, we're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks."

James saw Lily appear at the door, shocked, and grinned at her as he sung along with the teachers. "I really need you tonight. Forever's gonna start tonight, forever's gonna start tonight."

"What in Merlin's name is going on here?" Lily snapped once she had found her voice. Professor McGonagall jumped and immediately turned a shade of pink.

"I've been spending way too much time with Sirius." James said happily.

"Clearly." Lily shook her head, "Look, I don't think I want to know. Let's just put this extreme insanity behind us and…well do whatever we came here to do."

"Right you are, Miss Evans." Professor Dumbledore said, standing up, "We have finally arranged the, er, Head Room that you requested and I believed that some kind of inaugural ceremony was in order."

"Sounds good to me." James said happily, "Are you okay, Minerva? You don't look too pleased. Perhaps another tune will cheer you up…"

"NO! No, I'm quite right. Let's go." She turned on her heel and marched out the door. James skipped after her, followed by Lily and Professor Dumbledore.

Lily turned to Professor Dumbledore, "Ahh, Professor, just before…"

"You were right when you said you didn't want to know." He replied simply and smiled pleasantly. "I trust you won't turn up late for any meetings in the future."

"Definitely not. I was just wondering how James managed to get you and Professor McGonagall started."

"What makes you think it was James that started it?" He answered and walked faster to close the gap between them and James.

Professor McGonagall was waiting for them outside a door at the end of a deserted corridor on the fifth floor.

"The password is Belladonna- and that's what you'll be given if you misbehave in there. Have a good day." Professor McGonagall turned and walked away.

"Not the inauguration I expected," Professor Dumbledore said, "Not to worry- Belladonna."

The door clicked and opened and the three entered. The room was bigger then they expected, containing two large desks, a bookshelf, a deep maroon couch and a grand fireplace. Professor Dumbledore pointed his wand at the fireplace and the room was lit up by the light of the flames that soon occupied it. Lily looked around like a child in Honeydukes. She looked over the books on the bookshelf and then examined the two portraits on the wall beside the door. She recognised one as her own from the end of her sixth year and guessed the one next to it was a recent one of James. He was holding his broomstick and looking esteemed. She read the small gold plaque under her portrait. It read Lily Evans, Head Girl 1977.

"Now, I don't want you to worry about your privacy. Professor McGonagall and I know the password for precautionary reasons, but we are the only ones and we will not be disturbing you in here unless it's important." He sat on the couch, "That fireplace isn't connected to the floo network so don't go trying anything!" He smiled warmly at the two, "You really deserve this. I expect great things from the two of you." He stood up and walked towards the door, "Have fun, good bye."

He left, leaving Lily and James alone. James lay down on the couch and smiled as he watched Lily examine the many books on the shelf. "I love you Lily."

"I am rather fantastic aren't I? This room was a great idea."

"No, I mean…I love you, with all my heart. I can never imagine my life without you." He sat up as she walked towards him, tears of joy filling her eyes.

"You really mean all this? You don't think we're too different to ever work in the real world?"

"What are you talking about…we're perfect." Lily sat next to James and kissed him. "Lets get married."

"What? Married? We're seventeen." Lily said quickly.

"I mean after, later…when we've finished school I want us to live together and eventually get married and have kids."

"Kids?"

"Yeah. A boy first. He'll look just like me, but with neater hair…and your eyes. Then a girl, we'll call her Anne and she'll be our little princess."

Lily smiled at James, purely content for the first time in her life. She felt secure and eternal. "Can we call our boy Harry?"

"I was thinking James Jnr." James said with a laugh.

"How about Harry James Potter. He'll be amazing and he'll mean something to the world…maybe even as much as you mean to me."

"The only problem is…" James trailed off, looking down at his knees.

"We can't hide forever." Lily finished.

James kissed Lily's forehead and stroked her hair. The two remained silent for a while. James finally broke the silence, "Do you think we should tell people? We'll have to eventually I suppose, but…I don't know how we'll do it or how they'll react."

"Do…do you want to meet my parents? We could stay with them at Christmas."

"Only if I can visit my parents first. I want to tell them, but I don't want you to be there."

"Why not?"

"Potter family temper, we'll just yell for hours until I win, which I will. They're not bad people, quite the opposite, but there's so much pressure on them- a pure blood family in a world of hate. They spend too much time with Sirius's parents and all the rest of the pure blood snobs."

"James…" Lily said suddenly, "I love you too. Now tell me how you managed to get the Professor's to sing."

"What makes you think I started it?"