Okay, so, it took me long enough! Sorry I had writers block because of the excitment of the forth movie coming out! Coz I'm in Australian it didn't come out until yesterday and I saw it, it was REALLY good, but sad! Anyway I managed to get this one finished. The next one hopefully won't take as long, speaking of long, as promised, I have tried to make this one longer, I think it is. Anyway before I leave you in peace to read the story I'd like to say 2 things.
1. I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters or the stuff that belongs to J.K. Rowlings
2. I'd like to say thank you to Lily and James Love 4 Ever for reviewing , it really means a lot :sniffs: . Also anyone besides them reading this, READ THEIR STORY, IT'S REALLY GOOD!

Anyway, on with the story...

CHAPTER 3:

Lily woke up the next morning feeling very sick. She had a feeling that she had had too many potatoes, corn, bread rolls, salad, chops, pudding, ice cream and the list went on. After thinking up all the things she ate she understood why she was feeling sick.

She rolled over to see that Jaz and Jackie's beds were empty so slowly she got out of bed. She had a shower, got changed, jumped out of the portrait hole and headed down to breakfast.

Lily's first days were never good. All she does all holidays is lounge around but when she gets to Hogwarts it's always STRAIGHT into work. The professors never give the students a chance to ease into the whole homework idea. Lily knew it would be even worst this year because it was 6th year, the year when you started your N.E.W.T. work.

"Morning" Lily said drowsily as she sat down across from Jaz.

"Morning sunshine, we're super excited about starting school again, aren't we?" Jaz said in a very enthusiastic voice.

"What happened to you?" Lily asked pouring herself a glass of coffee.

"Nothing, maybe I'm just excited about school starting! I mean I always am"

"Yeah but your never super excited about it, this is just not normal, it's scary" Jackie mumbled as she said sitting down next to Lily. "Something's up. Spill" she said taking a sip of the glass of coffee Lily had just passed her.

"Well, I just think that well I dunno, I'm just excited" she said

"I think someone needs to have their meds adjusted" Jackie whispered in Lily's ear. Lily held her hand over her mouth to try and stop herself from straying half-digested coffee over Jaz. Jaz glared at Jackie suspiciously.

"What did you say?" Jaz asked. But Jackie was saved the trauma of having to admit what she said by Professor McGonagall passing down the timetables. At this point Emma had come grumpily down and was sitting next to Jaz groaning about it being to early.

"Divination, double potions, ALL with Slytherins. Then Charms with Ravenclaw" Emma complained.

"Speak for yourself. Potions with Slytherin (well apart from that), DADA with Ravenclaw, Muggle Studies with Hufflepuff then Charms with Ravenclaw." Lily said triumphantly. The girls spent the rest of breakfast comparing timetables and Lily's was by far the best. But the only problem was she didn't have many classes with her friends. Jaz glanced at her watch and announced that she and Emma should start walking if they wanted to get to class in time because they had Divination and Divination wasn't the closest or most interesting class. In fact it was no secret that their professor, Professor Forman, was a fraud but still Dumbledore insisted that she was a true seer.

After about 10minutes Emma and Jaz had left Lily decided to head towards the dungeons for Potions. Jackie had DADA in a very close classroom.

"Oh great, we're in the class with the mudblood!" a voice spat as Lily arrived outside the dungeons.

"Nice to see you too, Malfoy" Lily replied coolly her eyes narrowing as she looked at his cold grey eyes. His white blonde hair hung at his shoulders as he looked around at his friends. Snape and Narcissa (sorry I don't know Narcissa's last name ) stepped closer to Malfoy glaring at Lily with such hate. Snape withdrew his wand and pointed it at Lily.

"Puticara –" Snape begun in a dark voice.

"Snivellus, good to see you again, have you wiped your noise? Because something looks different" James said enthusiastically from behind Lily. He had just arrived at the dungeons when he saw Snape pointing his wand at Lily. "Maybe it's grown, your noise." James contemplated.

"Nah, impossible" Sirius emerged from behind James. "Because, I mean there's a length a nose can get and well" Sirius studied Snape, his black greasy hair hung over the sides of his pale pointy face. His long robes that swept over his skinny, repulsive body were just as greasy as he was. "I think you reached maximum growth a long time ago."

Snape pointed his wand at Sirius but their professor arrived. Professor Slughorn was a plump man, very short. His silver walrus-like moustache was on his round face. All of the exquisite suits he wore looked as if they had been dry cleaned 5 time and the over-polished buttons on them were always exactly the same colour. But he was also the head of Slytherin.

"This year, although only your 6th year, you will be starting the easier parts of your N.E.W.T. level work." their professor begun once they were all inside and had taken a seat at the many different desks. "It is after all your year of preparation. Do not think that this year will be easy because you don't have a major test. I mean, look at Fiona Sherman, an old student of mine. She was actually president of 'the Slug Club' for a while. It was quite funny, one time when Amelia Strapforton came in and…" Slughorn trailed off and giggled to himself. James just rolled his, every lesson Professor Slughorn found an excuse to bring up his famous 'Slug Club' "Anyway, she didn't get where she is now by slacking off the year before her N.E.W.T.s. Now to begin: Today we will be making a potion called the Draught of Living Death." Lily smiled she had made this potion a million times in 'Slug Club'. This was going to be an easy lesson. "Now I know that some of you will find this easier than others. But may I suggest, once she has finished her own of course, which shouldn't take too long, Lily Evans for help, she has, after all, perfected this potion countless times." Professor Slughorn smiled down at Lily and she smiled back. She was by far his favourite student, even if she was a Gryffindor. "The instructions are on the board" he said and with a flick of his wand the method for making a Draught of Living Death potion appeared. "Now table by table you can go and get your ingredients, let's start over here with Malfoy's table. You can go get your ingredients."

Malfoy and his table stood up and piled over to the storage cabinet and started gathering ingredients. As they did that, James and Sirius came over and sat next to Lily.

"And what do you think your doing?" she demanded.

"Getting extra help" James said simply

"You have after all perfected this potion countless times" Sirius said doing a perfect imitation of Professor Slughorn. Lily put her hand over her mouth and pretended to cough, trying to hide her smile at Sirius' comment.

"Yeah well, I don't want to help you!" she said glaring at James
"Come now; come now Lily, sharing is caring" Sirius mocked "sharing your talents of course" Lily just glared at him. Professor Slughorn arrived at Lily's side.

"What's all this racket about?" he questioned glancing from Lily to Sirius to James.

"Oh, Lily has just agreed to help us with our potion today Professor" Sirius said

"I –" Lily began but Professor Slughorn was to fast.

"Oh, how kind Lily; hopefully some of that kindness will rub off on James, and Sirius of course" Slughorn had never like James that much but was always on the look out for talent, and James being as gifted as he was, was chosen straight away for the 'Slug Club'. James had graciously accepted but on their first meeting he pulled a major prank causing meeting to be cancelled and re-located for several weeks. "So Lily, why don't you go and get your ingredients?" Slughorn smiled and walked off.

"Well Lilykins, show us the way" Sirius mocked sarcastically. So much for an easy lesson, Lily thought to herself.

Lily met Emma on the way to her next class. She stormed straight past Emma without even realizing it was her.

"But no!" Lily fumed as she walked past.

"Hey Lily" Emma said slightly nervously, Lily looked like she was in one of those moods, one of those moves that could only be caused by… "James's in your class, eh?"

"How did you know?" she asked suspiciously

"He's the only person that can get you this mad" she said simply taking a bite from the apple she'd just taken out of her bag. "So, what'd he do?" she asked

"Well, first he volunteered me to help Sirius and him make their potions. Then even though I told exactly what to put, I even pointed at it for crying out loud, he picks up the valerian roots. I mean how thick do you have to be to pick up valerian roots when I told him to pick the Sopophorous Beans that were in the jar labeled 'SOPOPHOROUS BEANS'? So then his whole potion exploded and now I have to tutor him! Like every night for a week!" Lily looked at Emma waiting for her to break into her whole 'poor Lily' thing she always did. "A WEEK!" Lily yelled when she got no response. Emma just bit into her apple again.

"Look Lily, you're just over reacting, James is just winding you up. The more of a reaction he gets the more he'll wind. Just forget about, don't pay any attention to him. Look I gotta go coz Sluggie so has it in for me. Anyway I'll meet you at lunch, usual spot. Tootles" and with that Emma walked off towards the direction Lily had come from leaving Lily there gob smacked at what Emma had just said, I am so not over reacting! Lily thought angryily. But she just sighed and headed off for her DADA class.

"Hi Lily" said a familiar voice as she entered her DADA room. She jumped because she hadn't really expected him.

"Oh, Steve, you scared me" Lily sighed. "So how was your first class? Glad to back?" she asked.

"Well, actually it was pretty bad, but it just got better" Steve said. It was weird because when James would say something like that he always said it so confidently, but the way Steve said it was as if he was asking for her permission to compliment her.

"Me too." she said flirtily, when a man who was about medium height came in. He had dark brown messy hair and very dark brown, almost black eyes. His face was small, round and had a very distinct banana shaped cut across his cheek.

"Students, students, settle down. Now I am Professor Cunner" he begun "and this year you will be not only face your worst fears but you will seek them out. This year we will be dealing with vampires, boggarts, we will be taking a further look into Red Caps, Hinkypunks, we will learn to say spells in your minds and also we will be looking at the controlling, the painful and the assassinating Unforgivable Curses" the whole class gasped. "Now, competition –"

"Sorry we're late Professor," said a voice from the door "Got caught up"

Lily put her head in her hands. NO NO NO! Not again! Lily thought angrily. She turned around to see Sirius, James and Remus standing at the door.

"It's okay boys, but make sure it doesn't happen again" Professor Cunner said with an emotion Lily couldn't pick up, she thought it might be anger. Well, at least the professor won't like them, she thought happily to herself when a huge smile spread across the professors' face. "Can't have last years 3 best students missing out on the beginning of my lesson, can we?" Or not. "So where were we? Oh yes that's right competition, what is competition? Is it simply competing against someone for something? No, it's much more than that. It's the determination, the want, the need to do better than someone. Competition is what can keep you going when you're near death. So this year, in my class, there will be a competition for 3 trophies, the most improved, whoever does the best in the end of year written test and whoever does best in the practical end of year test. But students, good luck because in this class we have Remus Lupin, winner of the written test and James Potter winner of the practical. I have to win that practical trophy! Lily thought. "You're all feeling it now, the want to get those trophies. Now everyone wands out books away" the whole class began to look around at each other with excitement. None of them had had a practical class for ages. "We're going to start this class with the basics, cover them in 2 maybe 3 lesson then more onto the harder stuff." Lily smiled. She could already tell Professor Cunner was going to be her favourite DADA teacher.

When Professor Cunner said basics, he meant basics, they said they would start off with the disarming spell and shield spell.

"So let's get a pair up here to demonstrate. Potter, up you pop and …" His eyes scanned quickly over the class until they met with Lily's. "You, up you come." he said to Lily. "Now James, you will be protecting yourself from the disarming spell Miss …" he looked at Lily inquisitively.

"Evans, Lily Evans" Lily replied quickly.

"the lovely Miss Evans will be firing, now when you're ready" he said to Lily

"Expelliarmus" Lily shouted but James was too quick, by the time she'd said her fourth syllable he'd shouted

"Portego" and Lily was thrown back a couple of steps.

"Oh, to bad Lily" Sirius said in a sorrow voice sarcastically

"Mr Black? Something to say?" their professor said. "Now that was a nice try Lily, any one else?" he asked

"I'd like to have another go Professor, if that's all right" Lily said as casually as she could.

"Yes, I don't see why not. When you're ready" he said

"Expelliarmus" Lily shouted her wand pointing at James but just at the last second she pointed it at Professor Cunner causing his wand to fly 5 feet into the air. James had shouted a shield spell but as no spell was coming at him nothing happened. So then as he finished his shield spell Lily shouted 'expelliarmus' pointing her wand directly at James and James, being caught off guard, had his wand sprang out of his hand and towards Lily.

"Very good, Miss Evans, excellent! A sneaky way to trick your opponent, 10 points to Gryffindor!" Cunner said clapping as he picked up his wand. Lily picked up James' wand which stood half a metre in front of her. She handed it to James but noticed he didn't look very happy, Lily smirked.

"Oh, to bad James" Lily said in the same sorrow sarcastic voice Sirius had used. To this James just grunted and snatched his wand.

For the rest of the lesson they practiced some more basic spells in pairs, Lily had paired up with Steven, who was quite a good student but not as good as Lily, though Lily got the impression that half the time he was letting her win.

Lily met Emma, who wasn't isn't the best mood, at the tree by the lake where they always sat after they'd gone to the Great Hall and gotten some food. Lily had just come from Muggle Studies, which for her was very easy. But Emma had just come from Potions, which was by far her worst subject, with Slytherins, which didn't help at all. Jackie and Jaz came out a couple of minutes later.

"Did you guys see the wasps on the Slytherin table?" Jackie said casually as she sat down.

"Wasps..?" Emma as she took some food out of her bag.

"Yeah, something hexed the Slytherin table so that if they tried to get something to eat hundred of wasps flew at them." Jaz replied

"Maruaders" Jackie added. Lily stood up but Jackie stopped her and said. "They've stopped now, McGonagall came in gave them their detentions, they're gone." she said with a strained voice. Lily was obviously stronger than she thought.

The rest they spent talking about random things like the Giant Squid and what they thought was going to be the hardest subject this year. Then when it was time to go they all headed off to Charms.

On the way to class Jackie and Lily, much to Lily displeasure, were talking about Quidditch. Lily wasn't a very big fan of Quidditch but Jackie was a massive fan. Her favourite team, the Wimbourne Wasps, were currently coming first in the competition and Lily knew she would never hear the end of it.

"No but, everyone thought that that goal was Meeson, but it was actually Joliba who set it up. People just don't understand…" Jackie was interrupted by a boy running straight into Lily. All his friends laughed and Emma came rushing over past Jackie to help Lily up.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" said a familiar voice. Lily opened one eye to see Steven standing over her.

"This is the second time- oh Lily! Oh gosh now I'm embarrassed! Second time I've run you over" Steven laughed slightly blushing, you could tell he was trying to make a joke of it, but was really well, like he had said, embarrassed.

"Oh, its fine Steven, just try not to make a habit of it!" Lily said smiling.

"Oooooh! So you're Steven!" Emma said excitedly. Steven smiled nervously.

"Lily mentioned me?" he said still quite nervous

"Once or twice; you swept her off her feet…literally!" Emma said

"Um, well I better get going" said a very red faced Steven turning back to his friends who were still rolling around on the floor. "I am really sorry" he added before walking away.

"So that's the legendary Steven" Jackie said, Lily had spent half the night talking about him.

"He's cute" Emma said before continuing to walk as if nothing had happened. So together they walked towards their Charms room.

So that's it. Did you like it? I didn't! I thought it was crap! Anyway, please tell me your thoughts. I was also thinking about taking out the whole trophies thing in DADA, what do you think? Please let me know!