Chapter 5: Potions

"Today class, we will be working in pairs and I will assign you a potion to make and test," stated their Potion's teacher; Professor Slughorn.

"Okay, Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin you will do the incorpus momentum. Sirius let out a "yes". Everyone knew that Remus was really good at almost all his classes. "You better help out this time Padfoot," uttered Remus seriously. "Evans and Potter, you will be working on the seento amoura." continued the Professor.

James smiled widely to Lily. The professor continued calling out names. "And finally, Mr. Snape and Mr. Pettigrew, the serpendrum feres."

"I will give you two weeks to complete this assignment." Said Professor Slughorn pacing down the classroom. "You will have no time to work on it in class so you will need to work on it in your own time." He looked carefully at the students. "Do not think that because you have two weeks, you can procrastinate! For each one of these potions take at least a week to brew before it is ready, and then another week to test it out."

The Professor kept talking and James was focused, but not on the class, rather, a particular red haired student in the class.

"Yes…erm" Slughorn called.

"Lily" she responded. "I was wondering whether or not we are going to do the Felix Felices? My friend in Seventh Year told me that she made them last year in your class.

"Why yes! But for the moment we will work on simple potions and ones that will be tested on your newts that are coming up!"

The bell rang and students filed out of the room.

"A project on the first week of school? That's a bit much isn't it?" cried Sirius in revulsion.

"Yeah, um Padfoot… hold on a second" James spoke, picking up his bag and heading towards Lily. Sirius smiled and rolled his eyes, and left with Remus and Peter.

"So Evans, when do you want to start working on the project?" questioned James.

"Um, I was thinking we would meet after classes? That way we can get an early start."

"Sounds good" agreed James flashing his famous Potter grin.

Chris came up behind her and out his arm around her. "Ready Lily?"

Lily smiled. "yup, let's go"

"See you later Evans," James gave her an attractive wink as he turned to leave.

James was meeting Lily in the library to work on their potion and he wanted to make a good impression, so he arrived at the library a little earlier.

"James?" spoke an astonished Lily. She came a little later and expected to be waiting for James for at least half and hour.

"Oh Lily! I was wondering when you were going to arrive" James spoke playfully leaning back in his chair. She blushed. She noticed that she had been doing that a lot lately. Lily also saw that he had already gotten out the books they needed.

"Ok, you start looking in these books and I'll look in these. We'll need to find the ingredients, but I think we should first look up what kind of potion were supposed to be making." Declared Lily.

James nodded and they began opening their books and skimming through them. James occasionally looked up to watch Lily and when she noticed, he would look back down at his book pretending he found something important.

"What!" exclaimed Lily impatiently.

"Nothing" spoke James and looking back down.

"Okay, well let me see your notes then" she said firmly. James confidently handed her his notes.

"The seento amoura," Lily read out loud "is a potion used to make the consumer express his or her feelings liberally. Moreover, it causes the person to show their love with the person they most desperately desire. The consumer also will enter a sort of trance and will have no recollection of what happened when the potion was in affect. The person who takes this potion does not fall in love out of random, but rather it shows the true persons' love for another." Finished Lily.

"Good notes" she said impressed.

"Why thank you" said James smiling.

"Okay now that we know what the potion does, we need the ingredients. Ahh here it is" she said scrolling down at the bottom page of her book. "Wait how are we going to get all of this?" asked Lily fretfully.

James leaned in to look at the list of ingredients, very near Lily's face. Lily was now noticing how close they were.

"I know!" said James suddenly, he grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her out of the Library.

"Where are we going Potter?"

"To the Room of Requirements—a room that is filled with things you need when you need them." said James

"That makes no since" said Lily impatiently, stopping, and crossing her arms.

James laughed. "You're so stubborn, now come on!" he grabbed her hand once again and kept walking.

"Look who's talking" mumbled Lily

"You'll see what I mean in a second" said James. "here we are" he said opening the door.

Lily gasped. "James this is brilliant!"

James felt his insides tumble when she heard him say his name.

"You called me James!" he said happily.

"Oh get a grip... Potter" she added cheekily. "Oh but it has everything we need, the rose petals, the tree sap, the wolf's hair, everything!"

"Told you it was good" said James smiling.

They began brewing the potion and Lily forgot completely about her hatred towards James. Lily laughed as she saw some soot on James' nose and James crossed his eyes to see the dirt which caused Lily to laugh harder. Then he began laughing from Lily's laugh and before they knew it, they were laughing uncontrollably, not remembering why they were laughing.

"So what next love?" said James wiping the tear from his eyes.

Lily ignored the comment and said, "I think that's done, all we have to do now is stir and wait for ten minutes."

"Ok so what was your favourite prank we pulled? I know you like them" James claimed knowingly and grinning.

"Fine" said Lily grinning maliciously "two years ago when you dumped frog slime on Bellatrix"

'HA I knew you like it!" he said pointed at her smiling from ear to ear.

"That's only because she was rude to me before" said Lily justifying herself.

"Still" said James smirking.

Lily felt very comfortable talking to James and she was having a good time.

"okay I just have to know though, how on earth did you get past the Slythrin common room to dye their stuff pink?" asked Lily eagerly.

Really, James and Sirius had used his invisibility cloak. "oh Lily, it would be no fun sharing the secrets would it?"

"Oh I don't know, I think it would" Lily said inching close to his face. Her mind kept telling her to stop but she her heart was more insisting.

"Yeah?" said James barely touching her lips.

"Yeah" said Lily wanting him to kiss her badly. But then they saw bubbles coming out of their cauldron.

"I think we've stirred enough," said Lily jumping back "what the heck was that? You're with Chris remember! " thought Lily to herself.

"Ya" said James feeling irritated by the ruined moment.

"Oh merlin!" said Lily looking at her watch, "time went by fast"

"Like they say, time flies when you're with James!" said James smiling.

"That is so cheesy Potter" Lily rolled her eyes except this time, she did something quite different. She laughed. For some reason, he didn't sound so arrogant.

Lily cleared everything up and James put the cauldron at the corner of the room to leave it brewing.

They walked down the corridor to the Head's common room silently, and James said the password and the door opened.

"Thanks for working hard" said Lily as they stop at the entrance to their rooms.

"Of course, anything for my Lily flower" said James happily.

Lily smiled as she turned the door knob. "Good night…James" she said.

"Sweet dreams Lily" he said, watching her smile and open her door. He sighed as she left and then went to his room.

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