James and Lily had set themselves down at a table near a window with dozens of taffy- like candies scattered on it, and a small plant James had said to be a Nalidodin. They had spent the last half hour eating the sticky candy and talking about everything and nothing at all.
"You're kind of weird, you know," said Lily at one point. "I was actually planning of A History of Magic."
"Why get another?" James asked, eating another sticky piece of candy.
"Well, my sister has taken to ripping out the pages of all my books."
"Ah, little ones can do that to you…"
"Sure," Lily said loudly and matter- of- factly, "but it doesn't help much that she's not two, she's sixteen!" She crumpled up a wrapper. James gave her a confused look. "My sister's a muggle. I'm muggle- born. My sister doesn't generally like the fact that I have the ability to turn her into a beaver or something." She started playing with the wrapper.
"So," James said. "She ruins your books, tries to steal your wand and-"
"And she calls me a freak every chance she gets, yep." She threw the wrapper in to the Nalidodin pot.
"You never know," James replied, trying to eat a piece of candy at the same time. "she could come around…" He threw his wrapper in the pot.
Lily threw two more in and said, "Yeah, I just have to prepare myself for if she doesn't come around." She threw in another. Tried to get the stick off her hands. Threw another. "Plus, it's costing me a lot of money on books, as well."
James only half- heard the last bit. He was focused on getting his wrappers into the plant pot on the far end of the table…. Until finally, he got one in to Lily's miss. "HA! Victory!"
Lily gave his a defiant look and said, " Yeah… you sure you don't want to keep the wrappers to help make your hair stick Potter?"
And with that, James realized the kind of friendship this was going to turn out to be.
Lily and James had spent the better part of the next three weeks discussing things the rest of the group deemed 'unimportant'. At one point during Transfiguration, while they were supposed to be trying to change a piece of string into a shower head, Lily, observing James, got angry at him for 'not trying hard enough'.
"You're not moving your wand right!"
"I don't see you trying at all, Evans," he spat. "Besides, this is completely pointless. Really unnecessary!"
"It's for a grade, Potter, of course its necessary!"
"Lily, can you think of any time in the future where you're going to need to change an old piece of string into a shower head? Can you?" he asked.
Lily seemed a little stunned at the question. "Well… if you have an excess of string lying around, then it will come very in handy if your shower is broken."
"See, Lily, that's your problem. You don't question anything! You're just going to be going by in life, wasting your time doing pointless things. When there are a whole bunch of better things you could be doing, you know?"
"I suppose so…" she said.
"Hey, Prongsie?" Asked Remus politely, not taking his eyes off the string.
"Yes, Moony?" replied James equally mannered.
Sirius seemed very intent to changing his string, flinging his wand in different directions, "Shut up, please?"
"Yeah alright hang on. We only live once Lily, er- well, as far as we know. So what a waste of time! Like… like the Muggles with the tell-a-na- vision." Lily giggled at the mispronunciation. "Or us witches and wizards who just must get the newspaper everyday to read about the latest gossip." He half- heartedly tried the spell again. And grumbled in defeat. "Whatever I don't care."
"But you know," she said, "It's always good to try new things…" she sat up straight and with a flick of the wrist and the correct pronunciation, her pathetic piece of string turned into a shower head. In response to James' dropped jaw she said, "I taught myself last year when the one in the girls bathroom broke." Remus pointed and laughed.
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