"Hey James."

"Good evening, my flower of perfection."

"For Merlin's sake…"

"I'll ignore that. How are you then?"

"Fine. Have you gotten over your momentary flash of insanity?"

"I dunno if James has."

"Potter. Don't-"

"I'm joking. Or should I say 'James is joking?'"

"You can be so frustrating sometimes."

"Thank you. Don't have a fit now, I was joking."

"Glad to hear it. I'm also glad to see you haven't been arse-ish lately. Congratulations."

"I try…. Can you believe we'll be graduating in seven months?"

"I know. It's so weird. We'll be out in the world. Not to mention we have N.E.W.Ts. Ick."

"O-ho. Ms. Lily Evans unenthusiastic about schoolwork, eh? What is that… a first?"

"For one who claims to love me you shouldn't be so surprised."

"Really? Is this a common occurrence then?"

"Come on. I may do well at school but that doesn't automatically mean I like to do it. In fact I really despise it. You do well but you don't like it either. Unless all these years you've just been fooling three-quarters of the school."

"Wrong. I fool the entire school…. No, you do have me there. I really hate schoolwork, but I do well enough. I am Head Boy after all."

"True. I know first hand. Unfortunately…"

"Lily. That hurts."

"Who can't take a joke now, eh?"

"Well if you hadn't sounded so mean when you said it then maybe I would have known."

"Maybe if you weren't Jim the Dim you would have known."

"If you weren't Lily-Godzilly then I wouldn't have to decipher if you were joking or being cruel as usual."

"Watch it, James! You're about to lose all your privileges!"

"Why do you get to revoke my privileges like I'm some child?"

"Well, James, it's pretty simple, if you act like a four-year-old, you're gonna get treated like one."

"But you are not my mum! It's not your right to say what I can and cannot do, Evans."

"When we talk about whether you're allowed to eat too many sweets, yeah, that's not my problem. But when we talk about if you're allowed to come near ME, then I'd say I have the over-riding opinion!"

"I have tried really hard to be nice to you, Lily. But if you keep treating me like a bad pet that you need to scold and then act like you're Merlin come again, with all the power over me to control every thing I say that may displease you, then I would rather not even try!"

"Fine then. I'd like it more that way anyhow!"