Serendipity
Chapter 8: A Night of Magic
By: Ruth3
Disclaimer: I own NOTHING that you RECOGNISE; all belongs to J.K.'s brilliant mind and the richest woman in Britain!
Warnings: It's Lily. It's James. Attending the same school. Enough said.
Author's Note: I am proud to announce that I have received the "inspiration" to continue all three of my fics; this will be the first of the three to be updated. I graduated from 8th grade, and am enjoying every moment of summer. I'm sure all of you have seen Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, how did you all like it? When you drop a review, make sure to mention the latest movie installment of Harry Potter! I hope you enjoy this chapter; it should be the best thus far.
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Let the Harsh Words Begin…
I hate the way you're always right,
I hate the way you lie,
I hate that you make me laugh,
even worse that you make me cry.
Lily had an uneasy sleep all week, waking constantly because of the strange dreams that she continuously had; although she couldn't hold onto them long enough to understand what they were or what they could mean. Being the first one to rise on the first Saturday in October, she put on her robes, tied up her hair, and gathered her bag and books as she climbed down the stairs to eat breakfast alone.
She buttered her toast as she read Most Frequently Used Charms – keeping her mind off her anxious thoughts. Lily mentally bookmarked all the charms that would be interesting to experiment with or if she ever needed to use them, as she did this time briskly flew by and the Great Hall was attracting more students by the minute. Lily seemed to have blocked out the rest of the world as she contentedly read and ate by herself.
Soon, Haylee, Clara, and Sadie sat themselves around Lily – with Haylee next to Lily and Clara and Sadie across from her. They began chatting and filling their plates with the various breakfast assortments. Clara cheerfully was the first to recognize Lily with a, "Good morning Lils!" Lily continued reading not hearing her, but it made it seem as if she was purposely ignoring her friends.
"Lily dear, would you mind passing the butter?" Sadie asked – still no answer. Sadie cleared her throat and gave a look to the other girls as she reached her arm over Lily's book to get the butter herself.
Startled, Lily jumped and snapped, "What are you doing?!" Her friends look at each other with complete exasperation and disgust.
"We were trying to eat breakfast with you, but obviously that was a terrible idea," Haylee said coolly.
"Lily, I don't know what has been bothering you; but you need to figure it out. Or else you're going to realize one day that those who mattered to you are no longer there," Clara warningly announced as she motioned to the other girls to grab a piece of toast and exit the Great Hall, leaving Lily to her isolation.
"You know, someday, I think I might write a book about being a werewolf – give complete details about how painful and lonely it really is. Instead of giving werewolves such a "scary" and "dangerous" image that these blokes do," Remus said as he lifted his noise out of Werewolves Part II: A Guide to the Dangerous.
"Remus, mate, I'm sure that'll give you a great image," Sirius stated as his arm hair simmered from playing Exploding Snap with James.
"W-well, werewolves a-are s-sc-scary and d-da-dangerous," Peter stuttered.
"Shove it Wormtail," James shot, "If there was a cure or some antidote that kept them sane during transformation then there wouldn't be so much discrimination about it." Remus made a mental note to look into potions that have been created or trialed that might make his monthly transformations less painful and dangerous.
"…Anyways," Sirius started questioningly, "Tonight seems like a perfect night to do some exploration, how about it Prongs? Whip out your father's old cloak again?" Sirius tried to meet James' gaze, but could tell what the answer was going to be. "Come on James! We haven't done anything in ages – and it wouldn't be causing mischief, just finding new passages and stuff."
"Sorry, mate, I already have plans for tonight," James regretfully said.
Sirius' eyes lit up, "Who's the girl that you now fancy? I bet it is Kyladis Kallbury, have you seen her piercing grey eyes? They are worst than Moony's!"
James chuckled, "No girl, Padfoot."
Sirius looked outraged, "Then I demand to know what is more bloody important then hanging with your best mates?"
"Head meeting," James stated, sighing.
"Ridiculous," Sirius muttered, "Never thought I'd live to see the day that school was more important than your mates. I guess I don't know what your priorities are anymore, James." And with that, he dropped the last card that purposely exploded into James' face and left the dormitory.
"Sirius!" James yelled, with no luck. "This isn't my fault dammit!" James yelled furiously, banging his hand to the table.
"He'll come around," Remus said reassuringly, "just give him time. Besides, it's probably time for you to get ready to go anyways." James pulled out his pocked watch, and the afternoon had gone by quicker than expected for it was already 5:43 and he needed to meet Lily in the Charms classroom at six o'clock.
"Your right, Lily sent an owl this morning to meet her in the Charms classroom at six and knowing me, it'll take me fifteen minutes to get there. But, I do wonder how she got our professor to let her use the classroom…"
Remus laughed, "Probably because she is the best Charms student in years, and possibly because she is Head Girl; just a thought though, mate." James shrugged, changed his shirt grabbed his bag and hurried down to meet Lily.
Lily pulled two chairs up to a clear table and started laying sketches that she had made and a folder that contained the necessary requirements that Dumbledore requested only to open when James is present. Lily took out two quills and ink and set them neatly on the table and took out two rolls of parchment. Glancing at the magical clock that was in the corner of the room which read 6:07, she sighed, Perfect Potter is late, for all he knows I could have had plans for this evening and needed to take care of this then depart immediately. Then again, he probably assumed that no one would want to make plans with me anyways…
"Humph hem"
Lily looked up, and there was James standing there while staring at her attentively; blushing and shaking her head to regain her structure she motioned for him to sit down, "No need for you to stand, Potter – looks as if we're going to be here for awhile."
"Why thanks, Evans, for your oh-so-kind gesture of permitting me to sit down," James coolly said.
Growing red in the face, Lily replied angrily, "If it's not too hard for you Potter, could we just have one night where we don't have to tear at each others' throats constantly. We have work to do and I'm really not in the mood, thanks."
"What is that?" James asked, nodding towards the folder.
"This?" Lily said opening the folder, "Something Dumbledore gave me that he requested that I would open in your presence."
"Why'd he give – " James began, but saw the nasty look Lily shot him. "Err – shall we look through it then? Discover its mysteries…"
Lily pulled out two identical pieces of parchment that were in Dumbledore's handwriting, placing one in front of James and keeping the other. Lily read, "'Dear Mr. Potter and Miss Evans –
I am pleased to accept your idea of having the first Halloween Hogsmeade and Fair festivities here at Hogwarts. It is a splendid idea and an excellent way for students to appreciate the holiday. I would like the fair, however, to start by 8:00 and may last until midnight – no later.
You may come up with as many activities at the fair as wanted, as long as you are able to find a pupil and a professor to run each one. The only two that I want for certain are:
1) A mystical horse carriage ride around the school grounds and lake
2) Music for dancing
You two will be requested to open the dancing and be the first to ride the carriage. I recommend introducing whoever you choose to have for live entertainment that evening first, then open the dancing, and around 10:30start the horse carriage rides. During that time you two are free to go to whatever else will be set up; you don't need to take part in or monitor the dancing all night.
Sincerely,
Headmaster of Hogwarts
Albus Dumbledore'"
Lily looked appalled and James looked disgusted. "I-I have to spend a whole night with you? That could have been the best night of my life!" James acidly whined.
Lily was outraged, "Spend the night with me? What about you? I haven't had a break in seven years, this would be the first night that I could accompany my mates and be – "
"Normal?" James hissed. Lily sat back and froze – staring at James with hurt written all over her face. James, taking a deep breath to regain his composure glanced at Lily and saw how much his words had affected her.
"Look, Lily; I'm – "
Lily got up and heaved all of her things into her bag quickly with much aggression, "Don't apologize Potter, I don't want your pity. You meant that with every ounce of your soul. I for one, however, am going to go work on this to make sure it's perfect for the students," spitting each word clearly to James' face. She then threw her bag over her shoulders and departed quickly, almost running. James hastily put his things into his bag and ran out after her, only to discover an empty, dark corridor.
Why must he be such an arrogant slime ball? He doesn't even think before he speaks! I don't know what anyone sees in him, there's nothing to fancy,Lily breathed heavily, Concentrate Lily, concentrate…
She scribbled down a few more ideas that could take place that evening besides the dancing and the carriages. So far her list contained of:
Booths
Find the Red Bat – A red circle will be inserted on the inside of three bats out of the 24 that will be hanging from a tree, every time a person picks out the "winning bat" they get a prize.
Win a Magical Fish – Bowls will magically be black and inside a specific few will contain a fish, the person randomly hovers a pebble over the desired one; the pebble will drop into the bowl and cause the bowl to become clear where they'll discover if the bowl they chose has a fish in it or not. Fishes turn into fudge by midnight.
Plenty of Pumpkin – Everything will relate to pumpkins. There will be pumpkin pie, pumpkin juice, pumpkin cookies, pumpkins, etc. There will be contests of "Who can (such as eat) the most pumpkin!"
Witch's Brew – You will have to guess by the three given hints of what you must formulate that matched the specific concoction, if you guess wrong you must drink what you make and if you guess right; you get a prize.
Activities
Music – Performed by: Vampire Vixens, from 9:00 until midnight
Dancing – From 9:00 until midnight
Magical Pumpkin Carriage Rides – From 10:40 until midnight. Each one lasts 20 minutes. Ten carriages will go at a time, each will take a different path. Maximum people in one: six, minimum: two.
Jack-O'-Lantern Carving – Whoever carves the best, or most creative, design wins.
Broom Racing – Four people will race at a time for prizes.
Food
Anything pumpkin-related
Butter beer
Hot Cocoa
Pastries
Pot roast
Chicken
Candy
Lily looked it over and seemed content for the ideas. She decided that it should start at 9:00 and go until midnight, Students need to be back from Hogsmeade by 8:30 so they have time to wash up and leave their stuff in their dormitories before coming onto the grounds, satisfied with everything; Lily rolled up the parchment and stuffed it into her bag. She pulled out her pocket watch and noticed it was nearly 10 o'clock, she stood up and stretched then collected her things and started walking out of the library; she made a mental note to thank the librarian for permitting her stay past hours.
She exhaustedly climbed the stairs to the portrait of the Fat Lady, murmured, "Frolicking Fairies," and walked into the common room. Without taking notice to who was still up she walked toward the girls' dormitories. However, half way there someone grabbed her arm, "Evans to show how terribly sorry I am for my – err – uncalled for remark, I went around asking people if they would like to volunteer for the fair." Somewhat embarrassed, James handed Lily the list that had to have had about a hundred names that were 5th year and up.
Lily looked at the list astonished, reading each one carefully; she glanced up at James and saw his pink cheeks but was soon grinning. Lily couldn't help but offer a sigh of relief and she flashed James a beautiful smile. "This is delightful news, Potter. I just finished putting a list together of activities and events that, hopefully, will take place that night." James smiled at Lily's delight as she continued, "Would you like to look over the list? To – umm – make sure I didn't forget anything? Or, if you have any of your own ideas that you'd like to add; that would be fine too…" She trailed off.
"Sure." James replied, "Shall we sit down then?" As he motioned towards the vacant couch and table. Lily nodded and led him to the couch where she sat down and pulled out the parchment and rough drafts of the fairgrounds that she created.
"Wow," James said looking over the map, "How'd you get the things to move?" He asked astonished.
Lily looked pleased, "A simple charm spell."
"You're going to have to teach me that one sometime," James replied smirking. Lily smiled and showed him the list that she put together and explained each event more thoroughly.
"Sirius would love to be in charge of the Plenty of Pumpkin – as long as he could eat as much food as we wanted from the booth," James said chuckling. "These are all brilliant ideas, Evans! I think that will be plenty to do for three hours; seems like you have it all under control."
Lily smiled politely, "Thanks, Potter," then released a laugh and said, "Now, you can figure out which people on the list you created want to work what. Make sure you have two people per thing, and make sure that at least one of them is responsible."
"Fine then," James said, faking a hurt look. Lily laughed but was interrupted by a large yawn.
"Well…" Lily said, "I think I'm going to go to bed. I have a lot of work to do tomorrow. Goodnight, Potter." She got up and rolled the list of events for James to keep and rolled up the map for herself, then started to walk off.
"Err – Evans?" James said. Lily turned around and he continued, "One last thing. Umm, would you mind creating posters with me tomorrow to place around school and on the boards so that it attracts more attention?"
Lily grinned mischievously, "And, why do you need my help, Potter – did you not learn how to create posters?"
James shuffled his feet and replied, "I just thought they'd look cooler if you did that charm thing you did with the map – making things move and stuff."
"Sure Potter, I'd love to," and she turned around.
"Goodnight Lily," James whispered and headed to his dormitory.
Lily and James met in the charms classroom once again after lunch to start working on the posters. Lily showed James how to make objects move on parchment and to even make them have a thought bubble. James was utterly amazed by Lily's brilliance and couldn't help but repetitively saying, "That's bloody brilliant!"
Lily smiled, "Really, Potter, if you'd actually read a book I'm sure you could figure a lot of this stuff out yourself; it's not like you aren't talented or that thick when it comes to magic."
James cockily grinned, "I know, but I'm not into charms nearly as much as you. I like to transform things, like this," and with a flick of his wand he transformed the grandfather clock into a brilliant fountain that had doves in it.
"Brilliant," Lily cried, "That is very advanced magic, Potter, how did you possibly learn that?"
James shrugged, "It just came naturally, I guess, kind of like Quidditch."
"Schoolwork I can understand, but Quidditch? Totally pointless," Lily stated matter-of-factly.
"How could you think that? You've never even played a game of it! ("And neither do I want to," Lily stated.) It is the greatest adrenaline you could possibly get, and you actually feel – free. It's just you and the broom soaring into the air – it's wonderful," James ended, almost poetically.
"Besides," Lily shrugged, "I'm scared of heights."
James flicked his wand a little too hard and smudged the picture. "James!" Lily cried as she undid it.
"You're scared of heights?" James yelped, "When was the last time you got on a broom, then?"
"First year," Lily replied.
James' hazel eyes flickered with an idea, "We'll have to change that then."
"No way!" Lily cried.
"Fine then, whatever you say," James replied with a mischievous grin that he couldn't hide.
"Alright, well I think we're pretty much done. Why don't you go around and hang these up," Lily handed him a pile of posters, "And I'll go give these four to the Heads of Houses to post in their common rooms." Lily stood up with the four best posters and started walking off, but then turned around at the doorway, "I'll see you in classes tomorrow, I s'pose."
"See you later, then," James replied picking up the posters while transforming the grandfather clock back to normal. He then walked out to post the posters around the school.
Sometimes you have to
forget the rules,
follow your heart,
and see where it takes you.
Author's Note: How was it? Was it good enough for being like 6 months over-due? I mean, I'm such a terrible person; I can't believe I left all my faithful reviewers just hang like that. I feel absolutely terrible. So to make it up to you…
I will update this fic by adding the next chapter by Wednesday. I promise!!!!!!!
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Ruth3
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