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The next few months passed with James and his gang pulling pranks on Lily and her friends. Lily hadn't done anything about it yet but now after the third prank that month she decided that she needed to do something. Alas, exams were near and Lily put all of her time into studying for them. She really wanted to do well. After exams, she thought, she would think of a master prank to pull on James Potter.

"Heads!" someone shouted. Lily looked up from her book just in time to see a book hurdling at her head. "Sorry!" the person shouted. Lily looked at the person. It was none other than James Potter. "Oh, Evans, never mind, it's just you," he said upon noticing that Lily would have been the person hit with the heavy textbook.

"Potter, I'm trying to study," Lily informed the annoying boy.

"Whatever. I haven't picked up a book yet. Who needs to study?" James said.

"Apparently you do," Lily muttered. James rolled his eyes and went back to levitating his textbook. Lily continued to study.

"Hey, Lily, can Tara and I study with you? Three minds are better than one," Dylan asked the determined studier.

"Yeah, sure," Lily said and made room on the table for her two friends. Dylan and Tara spread out their books on the table and the three friends continued to study for their difficult exams.

"Hey guys, are you ready to go down to dinner?" Shannon asked the three.

"Wow, it's dinner time already?" Lily asked.

"Yeah," Shannon replied.

"Wow, last time I looked up it was barely past noon!" Tara said.

"Well, it's dinner time now and I'm going down. Are you guys coming?" Shannon announced.

"Yeah, I guess," Dylan replied. Lily, Dylan, and Tara packed up their books and followed Shannon down to the dining hall. Lily and Dylan sat across from Tara and Shannon.

"So, what did you do today?" Tara asked Shannon.

"Nothing really. I hung out with Sirius and Potter all day," Shannon replied.

"Have you even started to study?" Lily asked.

"Don't sweat it. I always study the night before. My mind's like a sponge. It works for every test," Shannon stated.

"But this is the first wizarding exam you're doing. You don't want to bomb it!" Lily said.

"I won't, relax," Shannon attempted to calm her friend.

"Hey, Shann," Sirius greeted Shannon.

"Hey, Sirius," Shannon replied. Sirius sat down next to Shannon.

"Have you begun to study?" Lily asked Sirius.

"No, why?" Sirius replied.

"Don't worry about it, Sirius. Lily's just nervous for the exam," Shannon informed Sirius. Sirius nodded.

"Don't be nervous, Lily. You'll do fine. You get everything right in class," Remus said to try to calm Lily down.

"But exams make me nervous," Lily confided.

"They make everyone nervous. You're a good student, you'll be fine," Remus consoled her.

"But when I'm nervous I turn into a wreck!" Lily exclaimed.

"Tell me about it. And you call her a good student, Remus? I would call her a know-it-all" James chimed in. That was it, Lily cracked. She started to cry and ran up to the dormitory.

"Sheesh, Potter, cut her some slack why don't you. She's stressed right now, okay?" Dylan asked of James.

"What did I do?" James asked innocently. Tara rolled her eyes and left the table for the dormitory to cheer up Lily.

"Man, I can't stand him!" Lily shrieked.

"Yeah, I know. That Potter's a jerk!" Tara agreed.

"He's not only that. He's a conceited, obnoxious, mean, snobby, show-offy jerk!" Lily added.

"I totally agree."

"I'm sorry. I'm just a little stressed. I've never been good with exams. And all of this stuff is new to me."

"It's new to all of us, Lily. Even Potter."

"Yeah, but he's from a wizard family! I'm from a muggle family."

"But he still didn't know all of this."

"It probably helps him that he is."

"Lily, you're just stressed and tired. Go to bed and get some sleep," Tara ordered Lily. Lily did not object and went upstairs and changed into her pajamas and slept.

Meanwhile in the dining room, the boys and Shannon were having a different conversation. "I didn't mean to make her cry," James said.

"Yeah, well you did. You're always pulling her strings," Shannon replied.

"Yeah, but-" James tried to defend himself.

"Can you give her a break? There's a lot on her mind right now. She really wants to do well on these exams. They mean a lot to her. She's been studying her butt off! You making fun of her is not really helping," Shannon cut him off.

"Yeah, well. Why do girls have to be so sensitive?" James asked exasperated.

"Excuse me?" Shannon asked taken back.

"You heard me. Girls are way to sensitive. You say something you mean as a joke, they start to cry and call you a mean, cold-hearted bully."

"HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT I AM A GIRL TOO, JAMES? I'm sorry. If I'm way to sensitive to be around you, I guess I should leave too!" Shannon yelled at him.

"See? My point exactly," James said.

"AARG!" Shannon yelled and stormed off to the dormitory.

"Are you happy now, Potter? That's four girls that you have upset within the past hour," Dylan asked James.

"Oh, have I upset another one now too?" James shot back.

"Why you little-" Dylan started to reply.

"I guess that is a yes," James cut him off. Dylan had enough of James and punched him right in the eye. James punched Dylan back. The two were furiously entangled in a string of kicks and punches until Professor Dumbledore came to separate the two.

"Mr. Potter, Mr. Simon, Professor Dippet would like to see you two in his office," Professor Dumbledore said. James shrugged and Dylan glared at James. The two followed Dumbledore to a statue.

"Password," the statue ordered.

"Bowtruckle," Dumbledore replied. The statue nodded and a door appeared. "The headmaster fancies magical creatures. If he were not headmaster he would have the Care of Magical Creatures class," Dumbledore informed the two students as they walked through the door. Inside the door was a room with a very tall ceiling. A staircase appeared and it cascaded to a door very high up. Dumbledore stepped on the staircase. James and Dylan followed his move. The staircase started to spin the three upwards to the door. One they were up to the door, Dumbledore announced, "The headmaster will be up in a moment. Wait in here for him. And don't touch anything." He opened the door and let the two boys in. They went and sat down on two chairs in front of the desk and waited.