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pinocchio: I didn't know if there were just two prefectsfor each house or two for every grade fifth and up in each house, I'd go back and change it, but it won't effect my plot at all so I'll just keep the mistake, but thanks so much for the review!
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Chapter 7: Transfiguration and Detention
Lily woke up refreshed and ready to officially get started on her plans for James. After her classes she would visit Professor Slughorn and have him "help" her whip up an engorgement potion.
Lily got out of bed and woke up Claire and Mariah. After fifteen minutes they were all ready to be seen in public and headed down to breakfast.
The girls were some of the first people to arrive at breakfast; the room was practically empty. Lily had hot chocolate and toast, Claire had pancakes and syrup and Mariah had bacon, eggs and sausage.
Only after her first bit of her toast James plopped down in the seat next to her. James normally would wrap his arms around her or something, but he restrained and tried to be more of a gentleman; he wanted to turn that small chance into a good chance.
"Hiii Jaaames," Mariah said, remembering what he had said the previous night.
"Well hiii Maaarrriiiaaah," James mocked.
"Oh Lily, why won't you just go out with him, he obviously really likes you, or should I say loves you," Mariah said.
"Like I said last night, maybe he will have a chance if he proves he can turn himself around," Lily said, "And that is the last I want to hear of it right now."
"Well speaking of love, where's my Remipoo?" Claire asked.
"Sleeping in as late as possible," James answered.
"I assume the same with Sirius?" Lily asked.
"You guessed it," said James.
"And what's Peter up to?" Mariah asked.
"You know what, I have no idea, he wasn't in the dorm when I woke up," James said, wondering himself what Peter might be up to. "I doubt it, but have any of you noticed how weird he has been acting lately, he keeps saying all this stuff about loyalty."
"What do you mean?" Claire asked.
"Well on the train he asked us whether we thought loyalty or your personal safety was more important," James said, "And also he seems a little jumpy too, I tapped him on the back and he screamed and then yelled at me for "almost giving him a heart attack." And then he apologized for yelling at me (but that's not out of the ordinary)."
"That is a little weird," Lily said, "but has Peter ever really been normal?"
"Well no, but he is still acting different than he usually does," James said.
"Oh well, I'm sure it's nothing serious," Lily said
"I know," James said, "I'm just a little worried about the guy."
"He will probably tell you if anything serious is up," Lily tried to comfort him.
"Hey James," a different voice said.
James turned around and saw Rachelle standing behind him, "Oh hey, what's up Rachelle?"
Rachelle was very pretty; she had light brown hair, bright sparkly blue eyes and a smile that could knock any guy out. James used to like her in his fourth year but he had gotten over her in his fifth year, when he started liking Lily. Rachelle started stroking James's hair.
James knew that Lily would never go out with him if he just let her keep going, "Can you please not do that."
"Sorry," Rachelle said like she had just been slapped in the face, "Can I talk to you in private?"
"What ever you can say to me you can say it right here," James said.
"Fine, will you go out with me?" Rachelle sounded a little uncomfortable.
"No," James answered simply.
"Why?" Rachelle sounded near tears, not necessarily because James said no, but because he said no in front of all of his friends.
"Because there is only one person I will ever go out with," James said.
"What the hell you've gone out with like five million girls!" Rachelle said.
"But now there is only one person I could ever go out with," James said.
"Who?" Rachelle was getting pissed off.
"Lily," he said simply.
Rachelle glared at Lily, "She isn't even going out with you."
"She isn't now, but trust me she will be mine eventually," James said determined to win Lily's heart.
"She never go out with you, she hates you, don't you Lily?" Rachelle said cruelly.
"I don't hate him, I may feel like it sometimes but I don't think I really hate him. James can be a really nice guy and I don't blame him for not going out with you," Lily said in James's defense.
"Do you want to fight me?" Rachelle threatened.
"I will if I have to," Lily said.
"Then let's go right here, right now," Rachelle said, pulling out her wand.
Lily completely forgot about her wand and punched Rachelle square in the nose. Blood began spilling out just like it had when she had punched her sister, and once again the nose she had punched was obviously broken.
Professor McGonagall then ran over to break up the fight to notice that it was already over and Lily had already won. She sent Rachelle off to the hospital wing escorted by Mariah and turned to Lily, "Miss Evans, I am extremely disappointed in you. Detention everyday this week. I believe you have my class today, I will notify you who you will server your detention with tonight." At that moment James threw his (metal) dish of syrup at Professor McGonagall and hit her right in the eye, and slowly a black eye began to appear and then disappeared along with the syrup with a flick of a wand.
James could practically see all the fury burning in Professor McGonagall's eyes; he knew he would get what he wanted out of it.
"MISTER POTTER!" Professor McGonagall gasped out; she was barely able to speak at first because she was so surprised, "What the hell was that for?"
"I don't know," James said innocently.
"A weeks detention for you also, a guess you and Lily will be serving those detentions together," McGonagall stormed off back to the staff table.
Lily looked at James, "Why did you do that?"
"So I could serve detention with you, I mean I'm sort of the reason you got in the fight, I might as well give you company and some help with whatever you or we have to do for detention," James said, hoping that the would score him points with Lily and not have him lose points.
"I think this is the first time that I appreciate you breaking the rules," Lily said, surprised by James's intentions. She thought he just felt like being annoying, "Although you should have thought of a way to do it without giving Professor McGonagall a black eye."
"At least I didn't break two people's noses in only two days," James was still very impressed by Lily for doing that.
"You know what, normally I'd think it was wrong," said Lily, "but they seriously deserved it."
"Oh, so Rachelle deserved a broken nose for asking me out?" James said, "Does that mean you were jealous?"
"No," Lily was telling the truth, "When someone says no you should just leave them alone, and plus she is the one who wanted to fight in the first place, it's not like I started it; it was more like self defense."
"I'm sure that's what it was," James said.
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The Gryffindors slowly filed into the transfiguration classroom accompanied by the Ravenclaws. Professor McGonagall walked over to Lily and James and handed them each a white slip of paper. Each of these slips read:
You will be serving your detentions every night this week with Mr. Filch, meet him in the dungeons outside of the potions room at 8:00.
James looked over at Lily and said sarcastically, "Wonderful, detention with Filch."
"Yeah well you know you asked for it," Lily referred to the syrup he had thrown at McGonagall.
"And I still don't regret it," James said truthfully.
Lily smiled at James because at that point she realized that he would spend seven nights of detention with filch (whom James hated miserably) just for her. Maybe James really did care about her, maybe he didn't just want her because he couldn't have her…but he sure did have a strange way of showing it…throwing syrup at Professor McGonagall.
Once everyone was in their seat Professor McGonagall began the rather difficult lesson, "Now, I probably wouldn't have you learning this so early on, but considering all of the circumstances with He Who Must Not Be Named it may come in handy knowing how to do this. Today you will start learning how to transfigure yourselves into something else."
Lily looked around the room to see the reactions of others to see if they were as excited as her. She had always wanted to be able to change herself, to know what it was like to not be human, ever since she was a little girl she wanted to know what it would be like. She wanted to know what it would be like to be maybe a dolphin, or a bird for as long as she could remember, it had always been one of her little secrets, a dream no one knew about. She didn't know why she always kept it a secret, she couldn't think of any solid reasons why she did, but she just felt that it was something to keep to herself.
Lily noticed that James, Sirius and even Peter seem particularly confident about this subject. Professor McGonagall seemed to notice their cockiness also, "How would you like to try first, in front of the class, Potter."
"I'd love to," James said.
McGonagall instructed James what spell to use, and told him to turn himself into a penguin.
James performed the spell and slowly shrunk down to a smaller size while he slowly transformed into one of those silly little birds in a tuxedo.
Professor McGonagall looked at the bird, surprised yet very impressed.
Lily looked at the penguin, wondering how on earth James managed to do that on his first try.
Professor McGonagall gave James the penguin an instruction, "Now, I know I didn't teach you this, as I didn't expect you to successfully transform yourself but you need to transform back to your usual self. It is extremely difficult to explain but you obviously have to do it without a wand. But don't worry; if you can't do it I can do it for-"
The penguin transformed back into James who looked even cockier then when Professor McGonagall announced that they would be transfiguring themselves.
"Mr. Potter!" Professor McGonagall exclaimed, "That was amazing, and on your first try! I never knew you had such talent in transfiguration, I mean I knew you were good but I didn't know your were that good!"
"Well I must say I am good," James bragged.
Lily looked at James with disgust, she knew he must have don't this before, he must have!''
After James's amazing performance Professor McGonagall instructed the class to begin attempting to transform themselves.
Both James and Sirius easily transformed themselves every time and even Peter successfully transformed himself multiple times, where on the other hand Lily and the rest of the class were completely unsuccessful.
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After her final class had finished, Lily made her way to Professor Slughorn's room in the dungeons.
Professor Slughorn was sitting in his desk scribbling words onto paper when Lily entered the room.
"Hi Professor," Lily said.
Professor Slughorn looked up and smiled at Lily, "Nice to see you Lily, I was just planning a Slug Club meeting."
"I noticed you didn't have one on the train," Lily said, secretly relieved.
"Oh I just hadn't decided who the new members would be yet so I postponed it," he said.
"I wanted to know if you could help me make some engorgement potion," Lily asked.
"Of course," he answered without even asking why in the world she needed engorgement potion.
Professor Slughorn then pulled out a cauldron and pretty much just made the potion himself, just instructing Lily to get him ingredients and an hour later Lily was leaving his classroom with a vile of engorgement potion.
Lily made her way back up to the Gryffindor common room with the vile sitting in her pocket and when she returned she found Claire and Remus having what looked like a serious talk.
"You don't seem like you really like me! When I come in the room you don't even say hi! You never kiss me; I always have to kiss you!" Claire said.
"I do like you," Remus protested.
"As a friend and that it, I know that's all you like me as," Claire said. "You're only going out with because I asked you no because you really want to be with me!"
"That's not it at all," Remus said.
"Okay then what is it," Claire said.
"I don't know, but believe me, I do really like you," Remus said.
"You know what, I don't think that you are being completely truthful about that, give me one reason why you really like me," Claire was glaring at Remus.
"Well you're really nice," Remus said.
"Well that's not enough for you to be my boyfriend," Claire said. "It's over; I hope we can still be friends."
Claire then got up and went up to the girls' dormitory and slammed the door.
Lily walked over and sat next to Remus, "You okay?"
"Yeah, I guess," Remus said glumly, "I really did like her you know."
"I know you did but once Claire believes one thing she believes it and doesn't change her mind," Lily said, "she got her mind stuck on the idea that you don't really like her."
"But don't worry," Lily said, patting the boy on the back, "I'm sure you'll find someone else who you really care for and who really cares for you."
"Lily, you're a smart girl," Remus said, "You know that there are very few people who will date a werewolf once they really know he's a werewolf."
"And if the girl you find is smart too, she'll know that being a werewolf doesn't change how great of a person you are, except maybe the one night of transformation," Lily said. "Remember when I found out, or when James, Sirius and Peter did. None of us cared because we all knew what a great person you are. Only dumb people will focus on that one night a month instead of the other twenty-nine or so, and you don't want to be with a dumb person like that anyways."
Remus smiled at Lily, not saying anything. In a way he was even sadder then before, if only James hadn't liked Lily first then he would have the chance to be with her. She was always so nice to him; he knew that he even had more of a chance with her than James but he could never betray James, who had done so much for him. James was the one who did so much work to make all of his transformations, and he had always stayed friends with him no matter what. Remus knew he could never do anything to hurt James that badly, as much as he liked Lily.
"Well I'm going to go see how Claire's doing," Lily said.
Lily got up and went up into the girls' dormitory and sat down on next to Claire on her bed.
"How you doing?" Lily asked.
"I can't believe Remus didn't really like me" Claire said. "He says he likes me because I'm nice, psh."
Lily didn't know what to say so she just stayed silent.
"I'm hungry," Claire suddenly changed the subject, "come on, let's go eat."
Lily and Claire made their way down to dinner. Lily noticed the Remus was no long in the common room.
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Lily looked at the time and saw that it was 7:45; she had fifteen minutes until she had to be in the dungeons for detention. Remus had not been at dinner so Lily decided to look for him really quick.
She didn't know where to look but she knew that Remus spent a lot of time in the library reading. But when she looked he wasn't there and she only had seven minutes until detention so she made her way to the dungeons.
When she got down there James was already sitting on the floor next to Professor Slughorn's door. He got up when he saw Lily.
"Hello," James said in a pleasant voice.
Lily looked at James reproachfully, "How exactly were you able transform yourself on your first try?"
"Oh, just natural talent," James lied.
"Oh yeah right," Lily rolled her eyes, "how did you do it?"
"Natural. Talent," James said simply.
"Just tell the truth already," Lily said.
"Practice," James said, hoping he wouldn't have to reveal that he was an animagi.
"Why the hell would you be practicing transforming, apparently with Sirius and Peter," Lily said.
"We wanted to know how," James answered.
"And Remus didn't or something?" Lily inquired.
"He, uh didn't want to because…because he didn't want to break the rules because he is a prefect and has responsibilities," James said slowly.
"And yet he'll pull pranks with you guys that could get him in a lot more trouble than that all the time," Lily said, "with a little encouragement from you and Sirius."
"I don't know, maybe he was worried he would do something wrong without a teacher there to help him," James said.
"And yet you and Sirius didn't try with all your might to get him to do it with you as you usually seem to," Lily said.
For the first time in his life, James was glad to see Filch, who was now standing in front of the two of them holding some rags, a bucket filled with water, soap, two mops and two feather dusters.
"Follow me you two ingrates," Filch said, "you two got of easy, back in my days you two would be whipped until the person whipping you (which would be me) feels that they've whipped you enough. Ooh you would bleed and bleed and bleed…" Filch went on and on about what would happen to them with gruesome details until they reached a door in which he stopped at.
"And since Dumbledore won't let me punish you as I wish, you will be cleaning out one of the storage rooms tonight, the muggle way," Filch said.
"It can't be that bad," Lily said, "I have to clean the muggle way every time I go home."
Lily took that statement back immediately after Filch opened the door. It was the most disgusting room she had seen in her life. There was garbage all over the place. There were shelves full of strange things that looked like they might be organs in a jar. There were tons of different bugs from beetles to spiders. There were layers of dust on everything in the room. There was dirt and grime everywhere and the room reeked or god knows what. There was a plate with a big glob of mold on it and the mystery of what food that mold had once been will never be solved. Lily felt like her dinner would come back up once she inhaled the awful stench of the room.
"Can't be that bad huh?" James said.
"Well my house has never been this disgusting," Lily said.
"I'd hope not," James said.
"I want this spotless before you are excused from detention," Filch said. "I will be checking in on you and I don't expect you to finish quickly so I will be able to tell if you've used magic."
At that Filch left Lily and James alone in the storage room.
"So," said James before Lily could get back on him about transfiguration, "where should we begin?"
"I suppose we should get rid of all the garbage," Lily said.
"He didn't give us a garbage can, so I suppose we have to use magic," James said, finding any excuse not to do it the muggle way.
"I guess so," Lily said, not at all against using magic. "You don't happen to know a spell for that, because I don't."
"Of course I do," James said, "I mean if I didn't my room would probably be a garbage can."
James then flipped his wand and muttered a spell and all of the trash littering the room disappeared.
"Well I guess we're going to have to clean some of this by hand," Lily said, starting to wish she hadn't punched Rachelle in the face.
"Urg," James said, "This room is disgusting! I can't believe Filch is making us clean all of this up; I'd almost rather have the whippings!
Lily picked up one of the jars with something red and slimy looking inside with a disgusted look on her face, "What the hell are we supposed to do with this?"
"I don't know, I guess we might as well keep it here, but I guess we should dust them off, huh," James said.
Lily grabbed one of the feather dusters and began dusting everything in sight, causing the dust to fly everywhere.
"You know what Lils," James coughed, "Why don't you just sit back, and I'll dust. I mean if it weren't for me you wouldn't even be in detention."
"Trying to be more of a gentleman, James?" Lily mocked but she still accepted his offer all the same.
James and Lily (but mostly James) were stuck cleaning the storage room until one o'clock in the morning, and that was with the help of occasional magic. Filch never noticed the use of it though, luckily none of his visits happened whilst the duo were using magic.
When Lily and James got back in the common room they both went up to their dormitories, without saying a single word to each other. They both desperately wanted to lay down in their beds and sleep. And both of them fell instantly to sleep the moment the reached their beds.
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A/N: hey people, hope you liked it! Please review and give me your opinions!