Second last chapter and I am really excited! I have the next chapter written, and shall probably post it next weekend!
Disclaimer: I shall own harry potter when the sky turns pink (any second now...)
Reviewer of the Chapter and New Reviewer
elise bentwin: wow thank for all of those reviews! not onlythat, but you were the 100th reviewer! how lucky is that! I really appreciate all the feedback you gave me on my chapters! This is my first fic (technically) and I didn't really know what to write at first. I have to admit though, it turned into something else! I wasn't planning on having it centered around them having their first kiss. but it transformed... and I couldn't stop it! And very sorry to confuse in some parts...Thanks and Enjoy!
Most Excited by the Prospect of a 7 Year-old's Fic and Most Touched by Her Sisters' Sirius and James Antics
MissCheviousHP: y-you! how dare you! you really need to read your fic to me! i won't be able to read it otherwise, because my other fic is taking precedence over everyday things... like sleeping in my own bed! the first night i didn't sleep in our room was because i didn't want to make you fall asleep with the light on, and then the next night was the same reason... the third night i was mad and was avoiding you... and last night i was in the room before you, but i didn't write anything because i was exhausted! awesome review! keep it up! (P.S. stop staring at James and I like that!)
Most Transformed by Harry Potter
May Olivia: that's really nuts that you checked all those cages! hehe... i would have checked the rat maybe... but not the dogs and cats... ok i lied... maybe the dogs. anyway, i am sorry i am torturing my reviewers! but i must please myself first, so that's why they haven't kissed yet... and i know that kind of selfish... but Jo said so herself... oh well! i have a feeling you will do wonders with requirement 1 or 4! i will leave you on that evil note!
New Reviewer! Reviewed My Story in 5 Words (I still luv yaz!) and Really Cool Pen Name
green-eyed lily2093: yay! i love getting new reviewers! did you read my whole story? goody! i hope you enjoy the last two chapters, and i will get you to babble if its the last thing i do! watch i'll give a lesson...think...random subject... a telephone! i really want to call someone right now and act like ron in the beginning of the third book! the only problem is if i call someone i know... they will know who called them... and if i called someone i didn't know... i would chicken out! see? ENJOY!
Owns Best Time of Day and Fellow Scorpio
unknownspecies: yellow. hmm... one of my little sisters' favorite color is yellow... maybe its because her hair is yellow...excuse me...to her it is 'lellow'. anyway, scorpios rock! with regards to this chapter ok this is kind of a spoiler...no... i won't tell you! i will finish this note at the bottom!
Pinkest Person Ever and Calls Cretean Sister 'Sirius'
Prongsie-Jamesie: sorry James! i couldn't resist sis! you are truly the pinkest person ever! you didn't give me a chance to read this chapter to you! but i can't help it! i had to post... even though you have never even heard one word of this chapter... i couldn't resist! and i know you will hate me for the title i have given you... so here's a sorry in advance... i know that you will make me suffer throughout your review...
Lily's POV
The next couple of days had a very depressed air about them.
I woke up, dragged myself out of bed, and went into the bathroom to brush my teeth.
I could hear two people down in Common Room conversing.
Despite their attempts to be quiet, since they thought I was sleeping, I heard garbled bits of their conversation.
"Oh……come on Prongs!"
"No Padfoot……should have knocked…….. really…….get some man…."
"But…. you……having fun……in the Common Room!"
Ugh! They were still talking about that.
I could die of humiliation.
Fortunately, the sound of my hard bristled toothbrush was able to conceal the rest of their argument.
After rushing back into my room and changing, I walked as fast as I could down the stairs, holding onto the banister just in case I had a clumsy moment.
I could see James and Sirius seated across from one another. James was leaning forwards, elbows on knees; he appeared to be ecstatic… or really light-headed…hmm….
I descended the last step, and my foot made a loud slapping noise when it came into contact with the floor. Damn!
James looked up quicker than a snitch. Immediately his eyes brightened and a grin flashed across his flushed face.
"Lily," he greeted me by standing up and hitting the small table in front of him with both knees.
"I…. need to go to the library," I couldn't get my brain to work.
Just a few more steps to the tapestry and freedom……
"Lily, it's almost vacation," Sirius provided for an eager looking James.
"Precisely….someone stopped me from completing my Transfiguration assignment yesterday!" I glowered at the both of them.
"James can't help it if he's so damn hot you can't pay attention!"
I glared daggers at Sirius. His hair was back to normal….or possibly even more charming than usual….I wouldn't know. (A/N: sorry for cutting it off in the first place! but that's the type of thing that would hit home for Padfoot!)
My eyes flashed across James' face, the smile was growing, and he appeared to have lost his head. Why is he staring at the ceiling?
"Besides," Sirius continued unaware I had zoned out during his spiel, "There's only a week of classes left before Christmas!"
I rolled my eyes hoping it would produce the slightest amount of guilt in that lazy dog's soul. "Fine," I shouted in his face.
I was every bit proud of making Sirius wince as I was of every Outstanding I had ever received.
It wasn't that I didn't want to be with James, it was his guard dog that made me want to scream!
James' eyes now blazed with the unmistakable twinkle of happiness which only inhabited him when he drank the last years' Halloween punch…..peculiar.
My heart began jogging in my chest.
Confound you! I screamed at it! Why should I be nervous!
After yesterday though, therewas no doubt in my mind about how James liked me.
In fact, we had come this close to snogging!
But once again…the moment was destined to be ruined…..but not by my gracefulness or lack thereof, nope…not even by the fact I was utterly accident-prone around James.
The problem no longer appeared to be centered on me, but circumstance.
James POV
Earlier….
"Padfoot, do you really think this will work," I asked Sirius, my eyes lingering for one short moment on the small bottle in my hand. A small bottle which contained a certain luck changing potion, known as Felix Felicis.
"Look Prongs, you only need to tweak the situation," he replied coolly, not even stopping to think about the ideas and hopes he was implanting within my skull, "Think about it, if I hadn't walked in on you two…"
But what he thought would have happened if he hadn't walked in, I never found out. Because at that precise moment, I decided to chug the small amount of golden liquid we had stolen from Professor Slughorn.
"How does it feel," Sirius was bouncing up and down upon his toes waiting for my answer.
My face was growing warm.
I like having control.
Random thought which messed up and mental part of my brain did you escape from?
"I feel light and happy!" I stared up at the ceiling, I sort of felt dizzy and… and …wicked!
The ceiling must be made of pure gold!
"Whoa, Prongs, come back to me…come back to me…..COME BACK TO ME," Sirius snapped his fingers in front of my face.
Cool!
"All right James, what should we do? Hmm… it's weird being the responsible one," Padfoot pouted. I stared in disbelief. I never noticed how big his lower lip could get.
"I think I'll go to the Common Room. Yeah…the Common Room…that sounds great…," I mumbled, my face smiling of its own accord.
"Brilliant!"
I staggered forward and Padfoot quickly braced me.
"You know….I think I would have fallen if you didn't do that." I still couldn't help the grinning.
I didn't know which of the two 'Sirius-es' to watch as they both patted my back with an encouraging smile.
We started walking towards the Common Room, and my flower girl.
"You know what?" My eyes didn't want to stay focused.
"What Prongs?"
"If we ever had a son, Padfoot, his last name would be Blatter!" I laughed at the thought. What kind of genius am I?
"Some potion…" Sirius raised one weary eyebrow, he seemed worried. I stopped listening as he continued, "Are you sure Felix wasn't an alcoholic?"
Hey! His hair is back! (A/N: Shout out to FallenMystery
Lily's POV
James looked slightly out of it but happy nonetheless.
"I'll just leave you two alone…," Sirius wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and left the room, whistling as the tapestry swished closed behind him.
I rolled my eyes appreciatively.
"So," James started, "how's –"
Just then, the four friends I had been neglecting for the past few weeks waltzed in the room.
"Lily," Serena shouted. Krizz walked in next to her, with golden eyes aglow.
"Oh Merlin," Alice's blonde hair was glossier than ever.
Beki just smiled even happier than the time Krizz overdone her Cheering charm.
"We have so much catching up to do!" I screamed and raced toward them.
I glanced back; James had a very thoughtful and slightly put-out look upon his face.
I waved, feeling slightly guilty as I saw him trying to convince me he was fine.
My girls and I headed up to my room.
With a great leap, we simultaneously plopped onto my bed. There was a slight rumpling noise, and the bed shook...a little.
Serena handed me a roll of parchment, "Lils, what is this?"
I glanced down at my handwriting, "Oh just that awful Transfiguration Essay… I still haven't finished it!"
"Looks done to me!" She turned and started having a conversation with Alice.
"So Lily, what have you been up to lately," Beki asked, beaming that she had her best friend back!
As I set the yellowish paper down on my desk I saw a loopy handwriting much unlike my own.
Oh my gosh! My jaw dropped involuntarily.
James finished my essay!
James POV
That did not just happen! How did that just happen!
Padfoot sprinted into the room, "Prongs, what just happened?"
I gritted my teeth and my eyes were starting to focus better, "I'm not quite sure."
"I just saw Lily's friends walk in here," Sirius exclaimed trying to put his hair in 'the' position, the one he claimed framed his face perfectly, "Bloody hair…never been the same….since your girlfriend—"
"Right…my giiiiirlfriend."
Remus and Peter walked in the room.
Way to mess things up more!
"Stupid….Felix Felicis….doesn't…ruddy…well…work—"
"What," Moony had a slight smile playing upon his features.
Peter appeared to have fallen asleep on the couch, and was snoring, in a pixie-ish way…if that's possible…..
"Oh that," Padfoot began.
I knew then and there that Padfoot was going to drag the story out as long as possible…and play up his 'heroic' actions.
Like when we saw Mrs. Norris' twenty feet away from us on the map….
"And there she was on the map. Two feet away! Literally on top of us, and do you know what I did," Remus didn't even answer, Sirius would keep going anyway.
Padfoot was standing in the middle of the room, on top of the table, all eyes on him….well all of the portraits' eyes anyways….
"I transformed in the blink of an eye into a dog and barked that ole cat off!"
In actuality, he cowered in the corner of the classroom under the invisibility cloak, whimpering about cats trying to take over the world.
"Then I told James…there it is! The Felix Felicis! We had done it we found it! I courageously plunged my hand into the dark cabinet, not caring what evil creatures were just waiting to attack my beautiful limb! My hand closed around the small bottle of VICTORY! I held it up for James to see. He thanked me profusely, and offered to do my homework for the rest of my life, which I turned down! I wasn't in it for the prize! I was there to support my friend in his decision of thievery. So we headed back up here, James drank it all…didn't save me a drop… and well… all luck seems to have run away, like Snivellus from a shower. End of story."
He bowed dramatically. Only pausing for one moment before springing off of the table and onto the chair, closest to Remus and I.
"And tell me, did James act oddly after drinking it," Moony asked interestedly.
"Yes," Sirius nodded vigorously.
"And did this liquid by any chance have an alcoholic scent to it?"
"You've smelled it too!" Padfoot looked beyond excited. "What are the odds of that!"
"Not rare at all I'm afraid." Moony turned to me, with a slightly sad expression upon his scarred face. "I am under the impression that you found Slughorn's emergency bottle of fire whiskey!"
"I knew it smelled familiar. Knew I smelled it before...hmm... I know...last year….whenI spiked the Halloween punch!" Insert maniacal laughing here.
I turned to face Padfoot, who immediately became frightened, and began searching for a place to hide.
"PADFOOT!"
"I didn't do anything," he screamed as I tackled him. Removing him from the chair he had comfortably nestled his bum in.
"That probably made circumstances worse! You nitwit! Heroically fighting off Mrs. Norris. And locating the Felix Felicis! Hmph!"
I punched him in the stomach, which he politely returned.
Peter jolted awake and asked us why we didn't invite him to the tickling fight.
Moonyjust sat on the same red chair, which had lately become accustomed to his backside,and began reading 200 Indications: When it's Time to Get New Friends.
unknownspecies: what i was saying was sorry to make you suffer, but they don't even get close in this chapter!
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Pranks Are So Siriusly Padfoot