Memories to Remember

By JamesPotterIsMine

Chapter 6 Lily and Her Friends

A red haired beauty, a green eyed smarty, a kind hearted cutie, a harp playing angel, picture this all rolled into one and you have one person. Miss Lily Marie Evans. Lily had everything she needed. Like her great friends, Misses Tabby Carson, Anne-Marie Lowny, Paige Elliot, Rhianna Torra, and Tara Mimmi.

Tabby was a sporty cat-loving girl who played chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Even though she seemed rough when around others, when she was alone or with her closest friends she would play the guitar so gently.

Anne-Marie was a tall French model and exchange student with blonde hair and blue eyes. She could easily make boys fall in love with her good looks, but she didn't want to just be some stuck up model, she wanted to be an entertainer too. Singing, dancing, acting, or playing the flute, you name it, she was good at it.

Paige Elliot was a black haired, hazel eyed girl who was very shy. She preferred to spend time in the library with a good book then outside playing sports. She also loved to play her violin with the others.

Rhianna had slightly curled golden hair and was the most talkative one in the group. She played the clarinet when she wanted to get her mind off things.

Tara was an Indian girl with long dark brown hair and was quite short compared to the others. She was also very thin and slender and had a very high pitched squeaky voice. She was quite adorable with her large brown shining eyes. She played the bells, some how, she made the bells tinkle together in a beautiful way no one else could achieve.

Together, they all had three things in common:

They could all play instruments, and pretty damn good too.

2) They could all sing wonderful tunes.

3) They were all way too shy to do any of that in front of anyone but each other.

They weren't planning to change this 'shyness' problem either, why change something when they liked it just the way it was? But, nothing can stay forever, happiness, sadness, embarrassment, or shame will all pass, including shyness.

The Gryffindor common room was quiet, too quiet. Lily looked up suspiciously, over the mountains and mountains of books that Paige had helped them pile in a corner of the large red and gold room. Lily looked back down at her book on how to transform water goblets into birds correctly, only to look up again seconds later.

"Ok, is it just me, or is something wrong with this picture?" Lily asked tiredly, looking through two staggering piles of books and some wispy golden hair.

"Nah, I've got that feeling to, the one when you think that some ones watching you, or about to attack you or-" Rhianna's muffled voice was interrupted by a very high pitched one.

"Or prank you. If I didn't know better, I'd say that those Marauders were up to no good. I give up; I want to be able to see who I'm talking to!"

There was a great deal of shuffling and a soft thud as someone shut a large book heavily. Lily looked up and watched as Tara's big eyes stared into hers.

"Hi, Lily Flower!" she said excitedly, before pushing some books aside and walking slowly across the table, trying her best not to knock any books over.

"Tara! Get of da (the) table! Eet (it) ees (is) dangerous!" came Anne-Marie's heavily accented voice.

"I think she's got the right idea, I'm coming up too!" after a few moments of fumbling and books shifting, Tabby was up there too.

"See, I'm not dead." Tabby said sticking her tongue out in Anne-Maries direction.

"Yet." Mumbled Lily angrily as she shut 'Transfiguration, Transforming for the Transformed' and pulled 'That's Charming, a Children's Guide to Simple Charms' closer to her.

"Hey, Annie, come up here and help us climb Mt. Book-more!" cried Tara as Tabby lifted her up on top of a tall stack of books.

"But, are ve (we) zuppose' (supposed) too?" Anne-Marie asked timidly as she shut her grey cloth covered book slowly.

"Hey, have we ever steered you wrong?" Tabby stated lamely as she put her hands on her hips.

"Vell (well), der (there) vas (was) da (the) time ven (when)-" Anne-Marie started, but was interrupted as two pairs of hands grabbed her arms and pulled her up on to the table.

"Lily, c'mon up!" Tabby laughed as she climbed a stack of books.

"Guys, we're supposed to be studying, we have-" BANG! A door was slammed shut loudly making all the girls jump, knocking each other and books over.

All the girls screamed as the heavy books fell on them and the table snapped in two from the growing weight.

"Oh, God, are you ok?" asked an anxious voice. Everyone looked up into the worried face of Remus Lupin.

"Oh yah," said Tabby sarcastically, who was sporting a black eye. "We all love having books topple on top of us!" Remus looked sadly at them and moved forward.

"I'm really sorry, Tabby. I'm sorry everyone! I shouldn't have slammed that door..." he flicked his wand at Tabby, and her eye went back to normal. After fixing all f our miner injuries, he hurriedly left the room.

"Wonder what's wrong with him..." Tara squeaked, more to herself then the others.

"Um, have you guys seen Rhianna?" Lily asked, pushing her way through some books, searching for her friend.

"I'm under here!" came Rhianna's muffled voice as her head suddenly appeared from one of the bigger piles of books. Suddenly Tabby jumped out of the piles of books and cried,

"We are so dead! Paige is going to kill us when she sees this-"

"Sees what?" came Paige's soft quiet voice, just before she screamed.

"What did you do to those poor books?"

"Ar' (are) you more concerned about zee (the) books zen (then) us?" asked Anne-Marie angrily as she shifted some of the leather bound books out of her way.

"No, I'm just more concerned about what you are doing to those books! Now, get away from those books!"

Everyone quickly scrambled and stumbled away from the pages of parchment as quickly as we could, knowing when Paige got mad, ohh, you were so dead. Paige whipped out her wand and moved it in one great sweeping motion. All the books flew into neat piles and fixed their torn pages. When all pages were settled on a pile, Paige turned and glared at all of us.

"We are going to return these books." Paige murmured through gritted teeth. "And you are going to get them back in there proper places on the shelves without ripping, tearing, or in any other way damaging these books. If something happens to them, there are going to be serious consequences."

Everyone nodded silently, not wanting her to get angry again. Carefully, each girl levitated a pile of books out of the portrait hole and down the hall. Lily couldn't help but notice that Tabby had been handed the shabbiest books to carry.

The group moved wordlessly down the halls and up the staircase, Paige leading the way solemnly. After reaching the Library, they carefully placed each book back where they belonged under the watchful eye of Paige, who moved slowly from one to the other like a hawk. Lily carefully took the last book from the table were they had set the books down and placed it gently onto the shelf.

"There, we're done." She said quietly as she sat down on a chair next to Rhianna, Tara, and Tabby.

"Eet's (it's) a good ding (thing) do (to), my 'ands (hands) are covered een (in) dust!" Anne-Marie grumbled as she walked over.

"Guys!" Paige whispered as loud as she dared (since they hadn't ruined any more books, she had gotten over it) "Guys, look at this!"

All the girls watched as Remus Lupin and James Potter walked into the Library, talking quietly. As they walked by they heard James say,

"-in Ireland, and that was only because of-" but that was all they heard.

"What's Potter doing in the Library?" asked Rhianna, looking at the others with disbelief.

"A better question is," said Tabby still starring at the boys. "How the hell did Potter learn to read?" They looked over and watched as the two boys buried themselves under their own books and read in quiet fascination.

"Vell (well), I guess you learn somezing (something) new every day..." Anne-Marie muttered as James showed Remus something in his book.

Tara shook her head and left, Rhianna and Tabby following suit. They (as in Tara Rhianna and Tabby) normally hung out by themselves, having more in common then with Anne-Marie, Lily, and Paige. They pretty much only knew each other because they shared a dorm room.

Lily was thoroughly disturbed by this, why would James be in the Library, reading no less?

"I'm not sure that's James, it can't be! I'm pretty sure James can't read. Especially a book called 'Dark Arts, Curses and Jinxes That Still Haven't Been Outsmarted'" Paige muttered. Paige had very good eyesight, and she had easily spotted the title.

"Yah, dat (that) doesn't zound (sound) like zomeding (something) Jamez (James) vould (would) read eef (if) 'e (he) even reads..." Anne-Marie agreed. Lily simply stared at the two, brow furrowed and thinking furiously.

"Come on," she said finally. "We should get down to dinner." The others exchanged glances then nodded, following Lily out the door.

A/N another chap, come and gone! I hope this was a little bit more like others were looking for, like length. There are 1,695 words in this chapter, bit longer huh?

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