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Ignorance Part 2:
It was first day back and I was at the breakfast table catching up on the holiday's my friends had during summer.
"So, he's gorgeous with brown hair blue eyes ad he has an accent! Lila was gushing about the boy she met while she was in France
"So you guys only understood each other whenever you were kissing? Came Sunny's question
"No" said Lila shrewdly "I understood most things he said but not all things"
"So the things you didn't understand you understood when he gave you the national kiss. You know French kiss? Sunny asked looking at all of us
"Why do you like guys with accents?" I asked
"Dunno, it's exciting!" came the answer
"Hmmm" Shay was brooding a bit
"What's wrong? Sunny asked concerned
"A boy?" Lila asked
"Just because you got some foreign idiot who can't understand what the hell you're saying doesn't mean everyone has boy problems OK! Shay yelled
"I was just asking, ANYWAY" Lila was about to continue
"We'll hear it some other time" I told Lila
"Is it subjects?" I asked
Shay shook her head.
"Then?" Sunny asked
"You do relies this is the beginning of the NEWT's years? Shay asked
We were quite for a ahile after that, as what had been said sunk in.
For once Shay wasn't all fun and games.
That was when Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin and James Potter walked by us to the other side of the Gryffindor table. Shay brightened up instantly.
"Oy, Potter not even a Good morning to your love Lily?" Shay yelled
"Bet five galleons that James will ask Lily out ten times by the end of today" Shay asked without anyone but us hearing.
"Shay!" I cried "Shut up! And thank God he's not saying anything!"
"I wonder why?" Lila wondered suddenly lifted gushing of Pierre or Gilles or whatever the French boy's name was.
"Who cares" Sunny said
McGonagall came down the table to the sixth years to check our subjects and handing out timetables.
"Miss. Evans, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration, Potions, Ancient Runes, Arithmacy and Herbology. All Outstandings, fine off you go" McGonagall let me leave
I was cleared, I checked my timetable as I walked away to find I had a double of Potions and a free study period, in which we could do anything we wanted. I waited outside for the rest for my friends.
Potter and his friends came out; Remus, Sirius and Peter ran over and compared timetables while James just walked away. I saw Sirius and Remus give each other a look.
"What happened just then? asked Lila when she came out
"Potter's in a foul mood today" I replied unsure of what had just occurred
Lila was cleared to do Charms, Ancient Runes, DADA (Defence Against the Dark Arts), Transfiguration and Divination. Then Shay came cleared for Muggle Studies, Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, Transfiguration, Charms and DADA. Last Sunny came out after a long discussion with Professor McGonagall.
"What did she say?" We jumped on her
"I definitely can't do Transfiguration with an Acceptable or Herbology. But I have hmm, let me see DADA, Divination, Charms (I have to do the best I can in Charms I only got an A but Flitwick said he would accept an A), Potions and Care of Magical Creatures.
"That's really good" We chorused
"What do you guys have now?" We asked each other
"Double Potions for me, Shay and Sunny" I replied "Then I've got a free.
"Double free" smirked Lila "Then Divination".
"I've got no frees this morning" moaned Sunny
"Free period too after double potions!" Shay yelled as she, Sunny and I ran off to the Dungeons already 3 minutes late.
Professor Slughorn didn't care that we were late; he kept telling me all through the lesson how glad he was to have me in his class.
I saw Potter, Remus and Sirius were in the class.
Remus and Sirius waved but Potter didn't.
Strange.
During my free study period I finished my 3 foot essay while Shay managed to get a foot of hers done on why reasons why people used potions to change aspects about their lives i.e. love.
"A FREE period is to study" Shay told me when I had finished
"Keyword missing, free STUDY period, a free STUDY period is to STUDY" I retorted.
"What do you have now? Shay asked
"Hmmm, well you, Lila and I have Transfiguration I don't think Sunny does, I think she has a free" I replied
"Translation: Homework, homework, homework" Shay sang
In Transfiguration, Sirius, Remus and Peter would wave or talk to us but Potter didn't do anything to show he acknowledged us.
As we headed off to lunch Lila muttered in my ear,
"I don't think potter is in a foul mood, I think he has something against us I think you in particular"
"Not surprising considering how Lily treated him last year. Damn I won't get my five galleons today" Shay muttered
"Oh, not again!" I cried
"James is definitely ignoring you" Shay concluded after he went past us.
"Just in a foul mood" I replied
"Keep telling yourself that, Lily. And Shay I don't think you'll get your any galleons this year" Lila told Shay and I
"Why ever not?" Shay asked
"Dunno, just a feeling" came the reply
"Can't rely on feelings always, Lila" Shay retorted
But I had to admit as the term went by; I began to notice Potter really was ignoring me. It wasn't against my friends, because I heard him talk to them but when I cam it was like a iron clamp was on his mouth and he wouldn't look at me.
IT WAS LIKE I DIDN'T EXIST!
Sirius, Remus and Peter would still talk but not Potter, but Potter would talk to my friends and help them but not me.
By Christmas I had gotten the message that James Potter definitely was not going to talk to me anytime soon let alone ask me out.
As the year plodded on, I couldn't help but feel rejected, whenever Potter looked away when he saw me, when he talked to my friends and not to me and gave me the silent treatment whenever I TRIED to talk to him. It was like he was in Slytherin and I was in Gryffindor but without the sneering and the comments it was just hostility.
What had happened to Potter during the summer for him to be so hostile to ME?
I accidentally pondered this aloud thinking no one was in the dormitory, but Shay had just come in.
"God Lily, don't tell me you don't have any idea why" she cried
"I don't Shay, I really don't" I replied
"Think back to last year" she told me
I did.
After awhile I asked
"Are you saying he's ignoring me because I kept rejecting his invites for me to go out with him?"
"Alleluia! Finally a winner!" Shay yelled
"You can't be serious" I said
"Oh Lily, you may think that what you said wasn't hurtful but really it is Lily. What you sometimes say to him is really hurtful" Shay told me patiently as she sat down next to me on my bed.
"Really?" I asked in a small voice
"Yes, really?" she told me. "Remember when you burnt those roses he sent to you on Valentines Day?" she asked
Flashback: Valentines Day morning in the Gryffindor common room in Fifth year.
Everyone heard the loud screech of a barn owl which signaled that the post was arriving.
Then a big tawny colored owl was flying towards the window with what looked like a big bunch of roses
Lily: What on earth is that?
Shay: Looks like someone's getting a big valentine
Lila: Awww, how sweet!
Sunny: I think its for Lily
Shay: No way!
So Sunny was right the owl did indeed land on the table in front of Lily leaving the roses in front of her before flying off.
Lily's mouth was wide open
Shay: If only a fly would fly into Lily's mouth now
Most people in the common room were looking at Lily
Sirius: Awww, James you shouldn't have!(In a high pitched voice, presumably to imitate a girl)
Sirius: (In the same high pitched voice) James I love you and I'll marry you!
Lila: That is so sweet!
Shay: I agree, oh look there's a card! Dear Lily, go out with me I love you. AWW how cute!
Sunny muttering in Lily's ear: Remember what I told you!
Lily (to James): Pathetic Potter! Go out with you, after all the names you've called me! And you love me! PAH! You don't even know what love is! INCENDIO!
The roses became black ashes, which she took into her hand went to James Potter and threw them at his face, covering him in ash. With that lily walked out of the Common room.
End of Flash back
"Understand what I meant?" Shay asked
I nodded tears forming in my eyes.
"But I couldn't help myself, he called me so many names" I wailed after awhile of silence
"Because he liked you!" Shay countered
"But it wasn't the names was it? It was something else" Shay declared
"Well, Potter was only asking me out because well…he's already gone out with the girls in our year, the year above us and the year below us!" I cried
"You sounded like Sunny when you said that" Shay said. Then her eyes widened as if in surprise, "Sunny told you that didn't she? No wonder you hated him so much!"
"But it's true! Sunny is right!" I yelled tears coming down my face
"Well about James going out with every girl in our year, the year above and below us (except for Slytherins), I'm not sure. But the chase part is just a load of tosh" Shay explained. "I think James really does like you, but one can only endure so much rejection" she said.
"Well what am I supposed to do now?" I moaned "Apoligise?" I asked
"Don't think that's going to work, Lily" Shay answered "I guess you shouldn't do anything"
"Shayla Dredges is telling me not to do anything about something!" I yelled "Are you sick?"
"No, I'm not sick! I just don't think you should do anything. Just go on the way you usually do." Shay said
I didn't say anything I just kept my eyes on the wooden floor.
After awhile,
"Lily? Do you like James? Are you feeling a spark for him? Are you…." Shay asked excitedly
"Oh, sod off would you! I just feel bad because of……"I started to reply when Shay finished it off for me
"Being rejected so many times? Yeah well Lily, what goes around comes around"
"Are you still saying I shouldn't do anything and just carry on as usual?" I asked her
"Yes."
"I guess that would be better, its not as though anything I do now will make him speak to em let alone acknowledge me" I said
"Exactly, I've got to see James about the new play he's made for the next quidditch game against Hufflepuff. Remember what I told you. Don't do anything about it, James will come around eventually" Shay told me as she got up off the bed.
"Night. And Shay" I called
"Yeah?"
"Thanks"
"Welcome" she smiled. And I'm not sure if this was my imagination or whatever I think I heard her say as she went out the door
"Don't do anything; I'll do it for you"
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