Read! Very important! I have revised Ch. II already, I'm very sorry.. but this is much better. If you have read the old one, you can just proceed to the part when Lily was in the train, I've altered a few things and added a few more. If you haven't read this yet then.. what're you waitin' for! XD
Title: Akunamatata
Author: jAwbr3aker
Disclaimer: Mrs. J.K. Rowling owns every character in this story except for those of which I will announce are mine. The Harry Potter world belongs to her. This is only a tribute to the magical fantasy that has inspired millions of people. I dedicate this AU fic to all of those who share my passion.
Rating: M for possible lemons.
Summary: An unfortunate black-hooded person randomly steals a bag of galleons from an unsuspecting shopper in Diagon Alley, who happens to be the infamous James Potter, a renowned school marauder, used-to-be ladies man, highly trained Auror of four years, and future Hogwarts professor. Lily's life couldn't be anymore thrilling, especially when it's finally her last year in school, and to her surprise, she became two people she did not expect, the Head Girl and a subject for blackmail.
Author's note: Thanks to my reviewers I was inspired to write. I never knew that reviews could me so happy!
To my very first reviewers:
storynverse – (My very first reviewer) OHO! This story is for you! Or more like, this update is for you!
angelofmynightmare – haha, james is definitely gonna need it.. later, and yes, Lily doesn't know James.. yet. Ah- explanation later ;) read on, find out. Ahh the curiosity.
grannyHPfan – HA! I love your name. I've read so many LJ fics. While the love/hate thing really is interesting, you kinda get tired when you read the same thing over and over again. I've always wanted to write a story about a student/teacher affair. I do have an idea for a canon.. but this one is more interestingXD I love AU fics also.
Loves to dance – I like to dance too. Although the plot is different, I was inspired by a fic called Hot for Teacher, by erak. Now that, I think, is original, and very well written. I'm quite bummed that she stopped updating, but oh well.. La Resistance lives on(that's from South Park). Waaa.. I never knew Akunamatata was spelled Hakuna Matata, but yes it is that, the catchphrase of Timone and Pumba.
I'm Filipino, I'm accustomed to texting the pinoy way and making everything short as good as possible. That's my lame excuse.
Now, on with the story…
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Previously on Ch. I: Diagon Alley…
Clink.
She did not notice the odd looks people were throwing at her in a distance or the kids pointing and laughing in her direction from the muggle playground. She looked down to the ground, where a small bag tied by string lay above a dry patch of sunken grass. She stared at it, breathing heavily for a minute, until her heartbeat slowed down a great deal. She picked the small bag up by the string, only noticing then how much heavier it was than before, there must be like twenty shillings in there.
Sitting up more comfortably, she yanked at the string and poured the contents onto her palm. Her eyes almost went out from its sockets. A few of its contents slipped through her fingers and fell to the ground, there were at least ten gold coins and a few shillings that shone brightly in her scrawny little hands. It was more than what she had expected, a lot more than what she had hoped for. Her heart throbbed once more. She didn't want this much, she didn't need this much. A sick feeling erupted from her stomach, she felt queasy.
Oh no… what have I done!
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Chapter II: Snoopy and Licorice Snap
August 27th, 9:23:56 p.m.
London flat, 52nd St.,
Egrets Crescent,
Este Esteban Building.
"It's not a laughing matter! This is highly inappropriate…" James found himself saying as he watched his best friends laughing their arses off in his living room couch. Even Remus, the most reasonable of them all, couldn't contain his laughter.
He had just called them over three days before his departure for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, saying that he had just met with Dumbledore the day before, due to an emergency lunch break. Puzzling, but it was a patent request. The old professor deliberately asked him to take over a teaching job at his former school. He apologized profusely on how late his offer was, also craftily hinting a subtle desperation. James had half the mind to decline the offer, but seeing the determined look of the old man, he found it difficult to refuse and say flat out a definite NO.. N-O, the answer is no!
"Yes," came the answer before he could think it over more carefully, then, his mind drifted off to Mad-eye Moody. He opened his mouth in hopes that it would talk itself out of the situation, but Dumbledore had beaten him to it, saying: "No worries James, I've talked this over with Alastor before our auspicious meeting." He gave his famous warm smile. "Those Lamb Chops are excellent, together with the salad, it's far exquisite!" Dumbledore said before giving a quick farewell as he stood up, rather swiftly I might add, and vanishing before one could say Quidditch.
Now, what could be possibly laughable at being offered a teaching job by Albus Dumbledore?
Nothing.
"Yah! Yah! We know all about that from the office James. Now, tell us about this pouchlifter you came across Diagon Alley." Sirius, who was lying back on the sofa, bored all the while James prattled on about Professor Dumbledore's unexpected offer, suddenly quirked an ear when Peter had cut off James' train of discussion, all the while a grinning Lupin looked on interestingly at James.
"Oh, you mean the girl-?"
"What? You never said anything about a girl." Sirius cut in, looking at James now instead of the ceiling, which he found more interesting to watch a minute ago. He sat up abruptly, his lip twitching and his eyes twinkling with unmistakable mischief.
"Well, I've told you all about it in the letter, didn't I?" There was a murmur of disagreement in which James wasn't able to discern a word that escaped each of three pairs of lips.
"Ok, ok… So I didn't say the whole story-" He was again interrupted by one of his friends, but it was Remus who had made a remark: "Ha! I knew there was something odd when you said you let the mugger go."
"Bet it was a sexy mugger, moony." Sirius added on, smiling toothily and wiggling his eyebrows slyly.
"Bet she was very sexy, padfoot, if she could charm her way out of James' grasp!" Peter piped.
The three adults gave a hearty laugh, completely ignoring James, who was trying to cut in-between his friends' banter, miserably and to no success.
"Bloody hell…" James mumbled under his breath as he paced back and forth in front of his three so-called friends. The laughing died out, and he found himself staring back at three smiling faces. He stopped in his tracks. "What?"
"Your pacing, she must really be that sexy. Eh? So did you guys shag or what?" commented, none other than, Sirius Black.
"W- NO! Sirius, why would I shag someone who had just stolen my bag of winnings?"
"I don't know, you tell me." was the smooth reply, as Sirius sat back and crossed his arms, the smile that melted hearts, of both women's and men's, never leaving its place.
"Look! The bloody girl looked no younger than sixteen. I was surprised is all when I saw that she was in fact a bloody girl. "AND I didn't intend to let her go, but she suddenly-" He caught himself before he could finish off his sentence, coughing nervously.
"She suddenly what, Prongs?" asked Remus eagerly, grinning like a maniac.
"She- ah- she." James racked his brain, his hand shooting its way to his messy
dark hair. "ah- nothing, forget it.." He added on lamely, averting his gaze.
"What? So she did shag you!-"
"That's a pretty good shag, if James is this messed up-"
"That's Pedophilia though, Prongs-" Remus commented on, a mock stern look surmounting his face.
"Stop with the shagging talks!" James cried in frustration. "She kneed me right on the groin, alright? I was surprised, then she just.." He was still pacing, when he looked over to his friends.
They were shocked with the sudden outbreak, but it was pretty much short lived and in seconds they broke into barks of laughter.
James sighed in defeat, and slumped on the opposite sofa from his friends. A tired smile tugged on his lips as he watched his friends and looked back on the little incident that happened not three days ago.
A flash of a pair of green eyes adorned by a pale face, and the scent of fragrant mixture of herbs that wafted from long brilliant red locks of hair suddenly appeared and came out of nowhere.
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September 1st, Hogwarts Express, random compartment
"Where did you get all this money?" A freckled bespectacled pony tailed twelve year old third year Ravenclaw asked in awe as she snooped over Lily's bag.
Not a second later, the bag Disappeared from the young girl's puny fingers. The girl stared at her hands, and then looked up at a fuming, though pale, Head girl, whose hair appeared like fire against the sunlight shooting through the compartment window, saying: "Hey!" before cringing and pushing her glasses up her nose nervously.
"Snoopy, how many times have I told you not to snoop around other people's stuff?"
"Hrmph!" The little girl crossed her arms, as she whipped her head sideways, chin up in defiance, her two pigtails swaying as she did so.
"Oh Lily, leave the poor girl alone. You've been cross all the while we've been on board. Tell me, is there a matter?" A soft voice spoke from a corner of the compartment. A young lady, roughly the same age as Lily, had looked up, pausing with her knitting, and stared inquiringly at Lily.
Lily turned to the familiar voice of Mallory, and sighed languidly. She smiled apologetically at the scrawny, fragile-looking girl, with a heart-shaped face and moss green eyes.. her wavy light brown hair hung loosely around her shoulders. Lily's energy visibly drained as she slumped against an opposite seat, which squealed in surprise. There was a loud crunching of a Daily Prophet newspaper and two high pitched voices yelled out in unison: "LILY!" Lily looked over to see two pairs of dark chocolate eyes glaring at her.
"Oops! Sorry Beth.. Linda." Lily stood up, a mock surprised look etched on her face as she concealed laughter through pursed lips, then positioned herself between Snoopy and another girl with startling blue eyes and shoulder-length dark brown hair gathered in a messy ponytail, who was earlier immersed on biting her nails and now openly cackling with laughter.
"You did that on purpose!" whined Beth. "And you call yourself Head Girl." huffed Linda, a mirror image of Beth, who had long honey blonde hair that reached her midriff. The twins looked and sounded very much alike, and upon meeting them the first time and knowing them over the years, Lily had found it impossible to tell them apart. Both had matching full cherry-pink lips, and large chocolate eyes, with long curling lashes. They make the best puppy-dog eyes.
"Eh! You're Head Girl, Lily?" The girl, who had cackled merrily, asked in surprise, shock, and awe.
Lily turned to stare at a pair of startling blue eyes. "Yes, Kendra, you diminutive toad.. we've only just been talking about it in the last hour, after I got back from my duties."
"No you haven't, I would have heard about it if you had, obviously." The girl, Kendra, retorted rolling her eyes, a crease forming in her forehead as she tried to recall what had transpired when she was preoccupied with more important matters.
"Oh you heard alright, you just didn't listen." said yet another girl beside the twins. She had a pale face and long straight silky dark hair dislodged a pair of spectrespecs from a straight and prominent nose with dainty fingers. Very poised. "Kendra, you should really stop that very unladylike habbit of biting your nails, it's very unbecoming. Here Snoopy, this new magazine of yours sure is bizarre." She handed The Quibbler to the youngest girl, dubbed Snoopy.
"Ooh Give it here, I want to see it." The twins cut in excitedly, while Kendra decided on opening a box of Deluxe Sugar Quills, and started nibbling on something sweet and edible instead of biting her nails.
"Stop calling me Snoopy, Xhandry! I have a name you know! It's Gerdy." Spat the little girl, towards her upperclassman and fellow Ravenclaw.
"You mean Gertrude…" was the nonchalant reply of the black-haired beauty.
Snoopy growled and stomped out the compartment door.
Xhandry had taken out a new book, that read Quintessence: A Quest on the leatherbound cover, and was reading on as if nothing had happened whatsoever when she felt a few eyes fixed on her. She looked up, not at all too surprised, to see all of her compartment buddies staring at her. She raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"You know she doesn't like to be reminded of her whole name." Linda or Beth commented, she couldn't tell which one was which.
She thought for two seconds, staring blankly at them before saying: "Eh." then resumed to reading her book. A few sighs was heard.
Hours passed and Gertrude didn't return. The six girls had laughed, joked around, and chatted about boys, summer vacation, school, new fashion, new anything-and-everything, and more about boys.
"So what happened to Kenneth?-"
"What about him-?"
"Oh you mean, the one with muggle.. what do you call it?... brackets-? What's- its-?
"You mean braces?"
"I thought Adam was the one with the braces-"
"Oh so that's what you call it-"
"Nuh-uh, Adam was the bloke Lily dumped over spicy chicken wings-"
"No! I did no such thing."
"Wha-? Who dumped who-"
"I heard he had a big-"
"I can't believe you dumped him ov-"
"Beth!"
"No I did NOT!"
In-between their lively banters and loud chatter, a few people would drop by their compartment door to ask for the Head girl, or simply greet them a happy back-to-Hogwarts-day. Some of Lily's friends had stopped by to say hello, including Alice Bungen who had sat together with her in every train ride till she and Frank Longbottom started going out in their last year. She felt sad that Alice spent less time with her, but Lily was happy that her close friend finally found a great boyfriend.
The Food Trolley passed them twice already, and Lily and her friends had been pigging on Chocolate Frogs, Berty Botts' Every Flavor Beans, Pumpkin Pastries, Cauldron Cakes, and more junk food.
Full, tired, and contented, Lily rested her head by the window pane, and looked outside utterly mesmerized by the vast landscapes and mountains that quickly moved away from her sight. It began to darken outside as the sun hid behind dark and murky clouds.
"Bloody hell..!" Lily heard someone mutter. She knew it was Xhandry. The girl hated the rain. "I'm going to throw a Fanged Frisbee at Gertrude if it starts to pour."
Lily smiled pensively as she thought of the money that she spent on her food.
Messy black hair, and dark-rimmed glasses. Lily blinked the image away. Ever since she arrived home that fateful day, her grandmother Rebecca, her only living family/relative, had been pestering her and asking why she looked so pale throughout dinner and the next few days.
Minutes later, small droplets of rain started spluttering against the glass window. She looked over to her friends. Mallory was sleeping soundly beside her, and the twins were giggling silently opposite them as they took turns with the spectrespecs, while Xhandry, who was sitting at the right hand corner beside the twins, took out a new leather-bound book called The Devil's Snare, a horror/thriller, by Tanya Kashuk. Kendra left half an hour ago, saying she had business to attend to, Quidditch ofcourse. She was a Gryffindor Chaser after all.
"Kiki.. no more Licorice Snap.." Malory murmured in her sleep.
Lily yawned, as her eyes started drooping-
BAM! The compartment shook.. And so did the whole train.
End of Chapter..
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ooOOoOooo that was a lengthy update. If you guys have any questions or comments, reviewXD I like answering reviews.
My own created characters:
Snoopy – is a nickname for Gertrude, Gurdy in short. She's the 3rd year with glasses, freckles, and pigtails. (Ravenclaw)
Mallory – scrawny, and green-eyed. The soft spoken one. (Gryffindor)
Beth and Linda – the honey blonde haired twins. I thought of making them Bertha and Rita but.. lol (Hufflepuff)
Kendra – the nail-biter, with startling blue eyes. (Gryffindor)
Xhandry – the dark-haired beauty from Ravenclaw. (Ravenclaw)