(Dear readers: I apologized for all spelling/grammar/wierd mistakes I made last chapter. I was writing it at 10-11 at night.)

Chapter 10: Halloween, Part 1

Lily woke up, and hopped out of bed. The shock of cold air made her shiver.

"I better take a shower before Alanna gets in..." she thought.

After defrosting her body in the shower, and getting dressed, Lily went down to breakfast. Or tried to.

She was half asleep as she walked down the steps in the hall. On the middle step, Lily tried to pull her right foot off the step, and she fell onto her bum.

"What the?" Lily muttered. "Oh crap." Lily looked at her stuck foot and sighed. She was sunk up to her ankle in the trick step.

"Great..." Lily thought. She then heard voices, and turned to see Sirius, James, and Anya walking down the stairs.

"Hey, Lily! What's up?" Anya asked, looking at Lily.

"Oh, nothing... Except I'm stuck up to my ankle!" Lily said, frustrated. James laughed while grabbing Lily by her arm pits and lifting.

Anya looked at Sirus, and winked. She turned to Lily and James, who were having a tug of war with the trick step.

Anya walked over, and started pulled with them. After releasing Lily's foot, she gave Lily a little push,a nd sent her two friends tumbling down the stairs.

Lily landed hard, on top of James's stomach. "Owww..." James groaned.

Lily scrambled off his stomach, and helped him up. "sorry about that." Lily said, laughing.

"Ow... My stomach." James said, getting up and standing next to Lily.

"Oi! You, anya! Get down ehre so I can punch the hell out of you!" Lily yelled, and Anya turned to wave good bye to Sirius and then ran.

"Smart girl..." James muttered. Lily glared at him.

"C'mon, we have to get to class, dimwit." she said, stepping off.

"Don't you think we have enough time for breakfast firsT?" James said, laughing slightly. Lily rolled ehr eyes, and said, "You know what I mean!"

The two ate, and tlkaed to Remus who had gotten down there before them. He laughed as they told the story of Lily and the Stairs, and rolled his eyes as both Lily and James accused Anya most assuredly.

"Hey, you guys, we have Potions in 15 minutes. We better get going." Lily said.

As the three friends left the Great Hall, Anya, Sirius, and Alanna went in. As Lily pointed out the time, Sirus stole a few pieces of toast off the nearest table, and handed a few pieces to the girls. The friends walked all the way to the dungeons, and paired off as usual. Or, tried to.

"Ah, Mr. Potter. After trying to destroy my classroom the last time you were partnered with Mr. Black, you will be paired with Ms. Evans here." Professor Slughorn looked for a reaction out of the both of the boys, but the two just shrugged.

James turned to Lily once they sat down. "I noticed you're not a) beating your head on the desk, b) beating my head on the desk, or c) silently trying to posion the potion and making me drink it."

Lily rolled her eyes and grinned. "I never tried to beat your head on the desk. And, it's not so bad, working with you any more. At least you actually work these days." James smiled, and went to gather their ingredients.

Lily wiped the sweat from her brow. The potions classroom had become hot and steamy, due to the potions everyone was brewing.

"Hey, Lily, we're almost done." James said, stirrring the cauldron. Lily turned to him and nodded.

"So, Lily, have your friends figured out their costumes for tonight?" James asked, still stirring. Lily stopped him, and grabbed the spoon.

"You have to stir counter-clockwise 7 times between each 15 clockwise turn. And, yes, they have costumes." Lily said, stirring the cauldron's contents a bit more and handing the spoon back to James.

"Well, are you going to tell me what their costumes are?" James asked, using his wand to stir the cauldron from then on.

"No. I don't suppose I will. You'll just have to wait until tonight."

"Okay, what ever." James muttered, but he was still smiling. Lily stopped the spoon from stirring, and she added monkshood to the bubbling mass.

"Okay, Lily, what was the point of adding that? It's not on the board." James asked, staring into the cauldron. Lily rolled her eyes.

"The point is is that I noticed you put in too much asphodel. That would make the potion too strong, and it would become the Draught of The Living Dead. And that's bad. And I know for a fact that monkshood should counteract that, and we won't fail the assignment."

James looked abashed, and muttered, "Oh." Lily smiled cheekily, and began stirring the cauldron again.

"But, hey, I bet it wasn't your fault. I saw Snape bump the desk when you were measuring the asphodel. It was an accident. And no harm done, right?" Lily said, still stirring. James nodded, and checked the temperature of the potion, and looked at the texture.

"The temperature right on the mark, but the texture is too flat."

"That's okay. Watch this." Lily said, putting in some flobber worm mucus. James said, "Eewww..."

"James, I've been the best potions student since I was in first year. I'm not making a mistake." Lily said impaitntly. James shook his head, but kept his mouth shut.

"Here we go..." Lily muttered, watching as the cauldron began to bubble ever so slightly.

"Very nice work, Ms. Evans!" Professor Slughorn said, looking into the cauldron. "Will you explain how you got it this texture?"

"It is correct, sir, right?" Lily asked, anxiously. Professor Slughorn nodded, and Lily let out a breath.

"Well, sir, my partner accidently added too much asphodel. After noticing the problem thorugh the texture of the potion, I added some monkshood, which in this case counteract the extra asphodel." Lily took a breath, but Professor Slughorn stopped her.

"How did you know it would counteract the asphodel?" he asked. Lily smiled, and said, "In the potion's book, it mentions it some where. I just have an accurate memory."

"Okay, you can continue." Professor Slughorn said.Lily nodded.

"Well, then the texture became too flat, instead of when before it was too bubbly. Flobberworm mucus would thicken the potion without damaging the potion itself, right?" Lily asked, smiling at the aging professor.

"Yes, quite right, Ms. Evans. Mr. Potter, did you take note in this?" he asked James. James nodded, holding up a piece parchment andLily saw it had everything Lily ha said on it.

"Good, good. 40 points to Gryffindor, Ms. Evans, for sheer knowledge. And a bit of bravery. Not everyone would have taken a chance with that."

Lily felt happy as she left the potions classroom. She talked to Alanna about it, becuase Anya hated potions and anything related to it. Alanna was discussing with Lily about what type of posions were cured by the bezoar.

"Well, basically, anything with an animal ingredient. Some deadly plants, if used in a posion without any animal by-products, cannot be stopped by a bezoar. Ther are exceptions, and basically I probably am wrong." Lily said, ignoring Anya's reanactments of somone being posioned. She then started gagging. Anya abruptly stopped, and said, "hey, Lily, are you coming to watch the Quidditch game next Saturday?"

"No, Anya, I'm going to miss my best friend's first quidditch game of the season." Lily said sarcastically.

"Oh, how could you be so cruel?" Alanna said, laughing along wiht Lily.

"But, seriously, I'll come. I wouldn't miss it!"

"YAY!" Anya shouted, laughing heartily. Lily rolled her eyes, and she and Alanna headed into the Arithmancy classroom while Anya walked up to Divination.

At the beginning of 6th year, after they had all gotten their OWL results, they had asked Anya why she was still taking Divination. The replie was, "For lack of a better thing to do."

Lily rolled her eyes at the memory. She sat down, and waited for the class to begin.

Almost 6 hours later, and a few minutes after the feast, Lily was helping her friends get into their costumes in a dressing room off the Great Hall.

"Now, girls, I can't garauntee you'll win. There are a lot of other people entering the contest." Anya rolled her eyes.

"Now, hold still." Lily said, sticking out her tongue in concentration. The spell she was trying to do on Anya was difficult.

"Okay, you're both ready." Lily said, turning the two girls to the mirror.

"Wow." Alanna said. She was a cat girl, with cat ears and a whitish yellow (or blonde, hehe) cat suit. Lily had charmed the tail so it would move where Alanna wanted it to, like a real cat tail.

"Cool!" Anya was Alanna sister cat. They would show their costume as a pair. The cat ears and cat suit was a nice, sleek black, the same color as her hair. Alanna's cat suit had the same hair color as her suit, too.

"I hear you're not entering, Lily!" alanna said, smiling at her reflection. LIly shook her head.

Anya asked, "Why not?"

"Well, I have to judge." Lily answered, fixing her robes with her Head Girl pin.

"Okay..."

"I'll see you girls out on the stage!" Lily said, walking out of the dressign room. Her friends exited a minute later, and snuck behind the curtain where everyone who would be competing was waiting.

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