JAMES POV:
I really do think that Giants should have rights… really, what the hell do I care for? That was ages ago!
He couldn't get what happened in History out of his head.
And honestly! I don't pick on first years that much! Most of the time they just put themselves right out there! It's like they're asking to be hexed!
"Oy! James! You look ever- so- deep in thought, and as much as I hate to interrupt this once in a lifetime moment… I'M STARVED! Can we get to lunch please!" James saw a group of 3rd years giggling off to the side of the hall.
Can't go five minutes without some girls attention, can you Sirius?
"Uh, yeah, you go… I have to run by the common room. Just to get some books and stuff." He ruffles his hair, which got an, if not equal, better reaction form the girls across the way than Sirius had. He made his way toward the common room.
"Yeah, okay!" Lupin called after him, "Just don't hex any first years on the way there! They might form a group defending their rights!" And then they walked toward their lunch. And James went to have a talk with an Alice Shortt.
James walked into the Great Hall and started toward where he and his friends ate- a little less than half way down the table. Then he saw that he immediately had two choices. At the far end of the table was a head full of red.
Maybe I can make it passed them unnoticed…?
"Hey, James-ie!" called Peter, trying desperately to sound like Sirius. Then with a mouth full of mashed potatoes he called, "Whereyagoin'?" Sirius and Remus looked up. But James made his way, head held high, eyes unfaultered, pretending he couldn't hear his friends.
He sat down across from Lily and two other girls to her right and left. He was surprised to see Alice as one of them. He meant his first words to be toward Lily, and for them to just be a quick apology, but he felt the need to remind Alice of what they had just been talking about not even five minutes before.
"Alice, how'd you get down here so fast?" he said quietly and tried to fit in a casual wink at the end.
"Oh!" she responded, "I took the short cut next to the tapestry across from the fat lady." Her face was unreadable. He turned his head to look at Lily who looked rather puzzled.
"So!" he started, "Play any good Quidditch lately?" pause. Apparently the two girls thought this was funny. Lily did not.
"Why do I suddenly find myself sitting next to a group of under- average- intelligent losers?" Lily asked aloud through the laughs staring at the salad bowl.
"Er, Lily- listen! I just wanted to apologize for what happened in Hobbs class today."
"Is that so?" she replied.
"I think um… I mean, I don't believe in slavery! Like- at all! I completely agree with you… like… 100 percent. I basically just went against you because, well, they dared me to. My friends that is- my friends dared me. Well, mainly Remus. But that's only because well, he knows how smart you are, and I didn't. Er- well, now I know. But he knew I didn't know then, so he decided to sort of… trick me in a way… I guess." Idiot, idiot, idiot!
"So let me get this straight…" she started. "You want to apologize for something you've done… you regret doing what your friends told you to do… you wish you hadn't drawn attention to yourself in the middle of class…?" she turned to Jessica. "Either way you say it, it just sounds weird."
He looked down at his plate.
"However…" She went on, "It's okay. I accept your apology. Besides it was kind of fun, right?" She smiled.
Alice interrupted. "OHHHH! How sweet! And what's even more sweet is if you go up and look on your bed, lily an-"
I told her not to tell!
"OWW" Lily cried.
"Oh, bloody hell…" he was trying to kick Alice under the table- evidentially, he kicked Lily instead.
"God, Potter! What the hell is your problem!" she stood up.
"Lily, I'm sorry! I- EVANS!" but she already got up and stormed out of the Hall, leaving James next to two confused, giggling girls, and wondering how that went wrong so quicky.