Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling, only Jane, Adea, Kayla and any other characters not in the book belong to me
A/N: Thank you everyone for your reviews, again I appreciated them. Hope you all enjoyed HBP.
Luminous
She sits in a corner
No one knows why
They never see her
As they walk past
She's part of a wall
Her skin is the paint
And her clothes are the pattern
They don't see her but she sees them
What are they thinking?
Do they know I'm here?
I have no voice
At least not one that can be heard
Because they're part of a world where I don't exist
They laugh and they smile
How does that feel?
I've tried it before
But happiness rejects me
They're part of a world where;
Good emotions exist
I'm part of a world where;
Where good emotions don't
The person gasped and turned around.
It was a girl, a beautiful one at that. The fire illuminated her face.
She had straight hair. It was sleek and jet-black. Her eyes were so brown they were almost black and speckled with forest green; they were emblazoned with fear and seemed eerily dull with…pain? Her skin was a soft olive tone and utterly flawless.
'Who are you?' Remus asked intrigued.
'I'm…I'm no one, in fact I'm not even here' the girl replied.
'Yes you are, I can see you, you're sitting right there' Remus said.
'No, no I'm not' she said and leapt up and made a dash for her dormitory.
'I will find you' Remus yelled up the staircase.
-Who was that? I've never seen her around before. She must be a Gryffindor otherwise she wouldn't be in here –
Remus walked over to the coffee table and examined the books and their titles.
The Standard Book of Spells Grade 7A Further Insight Into the Past
NEWT Potion Theory
Advanced Arithmancy
Advanced Charms: When you're already an expert
Remus was really confused now. These were NEWT books designed for seventh years and the last one was for someone like Lily whose skills surpassed the spells taught in the curriculum. Yet these couldn't possibly be Lily's books, he knew for a fact that Lily didn't take Arithmancy.
-Whose could they be? I mean I know all the seventh years. No wait; no I don't, there is one. Adea Qureshi. But she isn't in Gryffindor-
Remus opened the cover of Advanced Charms: When you're Already an Expert to see if there was a name inside.
There was a name.
Well Remus thought it was a name. It was still useless; it seemed to be written in a different language. A language entirely unknown to Remus. Whoever this person was obviously intent on hiding and seemed to be good at it. The book was labelled so that even those logical enough to check for a name still wouldn't be able to find an answer, it could only be identified by the owner and the few people in the castle who could read the writing as well.
-I'll ask someone in the morning, right now, bed- and with that Remus left the mystery for the night and resigned to his dormitory.
Adea bolted upstairs and threw the door open. She dived onto her bed but rolled right off and landed with a thud onto the cold stone floor.
'OW, ow, ow, ow' she moaned clutching her back. –Well that hurt; remind me to never dive onto the bed again-
'Dee? Is that you?' Kayla mumbled amidst the darkness. Adea sighed –Great-
'Sorry Kay, I'd forgotten you were such a light sleeper'
'It's alright, what happened?'
'Fell off my bed' Adea said.
'Ouch! Are you okay?' Kayla asked.
'Fine. Do me a favour will you?'
'Sure, what is it?'
'Distract Remus for the next couple of weeks or so' Adea said offhandedly.
'Uh why?' Kayla asked suspiciously. Adea fidgeted a bit.
'Well I was downstairs. I was…I was, well-singing and Remus saw me'
'WHAT!' Kayla cried but her concern was interrupted by a loud snore coming from Jane's area of the room. Kayla shook her head and calmed down. 'What happened Adea?' she asked.
'Well I told you I was singing and as soon as I finished I heard him say I was good and I realised that he must've been listening and then I turned around and he started asking me who I was. I ran up here and he shouted, "I will find you" so I just need you to keep an eye on him and keep him distracted ok?' Adea recalled, her friend consented with a nod of the head.
'Are you okay' Kayla whispered after a while. Adea nodded. 'Yeah fine, don't worry about it. We should be getting to bed'. Both girls returned to their respective beds and fell asleep after a few minutes.
Remus got up early the next day to wait for Kayla and all of her friends. He knew Lily always came to the Common Room in the mornings to walk down to breakfast with her friends.
After waiting for about fifteen minutes a cheery redhead walked into the room, whistling happily. She seemed to ignore Remus as she walked to the girl's staircase 'KAYLA, JANE, DEE' she yelled.
'Dee? Who's Dee?' came a voice from behind her –Shit! – 'Remus! What are you doing here?' Lily cried. Remus persisted.
'Who's Dee?' he asked again. Lily sought an excuse and tried the first thing that came to her head. 'Dee? Did I say Dee? I mean t to say The' she said and then realised how lame it sounded. Remus raised his eyebrows.
'And why would you say The?' Remus asked.
'Well you see I was going to say "The Great Hall is waiting" but then Jane and Kayla would just shout at me for being too perky and I decided against it' Lily finished. Remus nodded and left it at that. Lily was a little surprised at Remus' perceptiveness and realised that something must be up so she decided to yell Kayla a warning.
'KAY! REMUS IS WAITING FOR YOU' Kayla and Jane rushed downstairs but no Adea.
Kayla immediately engaged Remus in a passionate kiss; giving Jane just enough time to tell Lily what was going on.
'Remus found out about Adea so she'll have to hang around upstairs for a bit. Don't say anything no glances to her direction no holding back to walk with her, no nothing.' Jane whispered hurriedly. Lily was shocked though some things made sense now. 'No wonder' Lily muttered. Jane looked at her quizzically.
'This morning when I called you down, I called Dee as well. Remus was sitting here and started asking all sorts of question about why I said Dee as well' Lily explained, Jane raised her eyebrows. 'I didn't actually expect him to continue with his curiosity' she said, Lily shrugged and then smiled.
'Looks like Kayla's doing a good job of making him forget though' Lily commented. She and Jane looked to the sofa where two teenagers were currently very absorbed with each other. Jane cleared her throat loudly as two second years stood watching Kayla and Remus in shock.
'Kayla, Remus. Please? Honestly! Not in front of the children!' Lily mock scolded. The two sprang apart. Remus blushed but Kayla straightened her blouse, entirely unperturbed. She then turned to glare at the two second years who immediately broke into a run and exited the common room. Lily tutted.
'Five points from Gryffindor' The Head Girl muttered lazily. Kayla made a noise like an angry cat. 'What? Why?' Kayla cried, outraged. Lily gave her a stern look. 'You continue to be unkind to the younger pupils and for that I will have to take points' Lily said airily.
'I'm nice to Gabby!' Kayla reasoned, Lily sighed.
'Being nice to one out of a possible thirty pupils doesn't help your case Kayla, especially if that one pupil happens to be your sister' Lily said. The other girl rolled her eyes. 'Fine whatever, I'll just talk to James about it' Kayla said haughtily as she folded her arms. Now Lily rolled her eyes.
'Good Morning!' The first year in question said brightly. Kayla looked at Lily and then ran forward to hug her little sister. Gabby was definitely surprised, though her sister was brilliant she never gave random hugs. What Kayla did next surprised her even more.
Kayla turned and smiled at her sister's friends, who froze with shock at this act of kindness coming from Kayla Simmons.
'Hey I don't think I've talked to you very much you're Jaylin right?' The girl, Jaylin nodded. Kayla smiled again and continued 'I love your earrings!' she then turned to the girl on the other side of Gabrielle. This girl was particularly innocent looking and had pretty features.
'And you must be…Nerissa? Right?' The girl nodded fearfully. 'Well you are going to be a stunner someday aren't you?' Kayla praised. Nerissa blushed and stammered a small thanks.
'Hey Gabby could you guys go upstairs and grab my compact for me, I need to talk to Lily' Kayla said sweetly. Gabrielle looked at Kayla with suspicion before climbing back up the staircase with her friends.
'Well?' Kayla asked, looking round at Lily expectantly. Lily rolled her eyes before saying 'Five points to Gryffindor'. Kayla cheered but Lily cut her off
'But…you have to keep being nice to them' Lily challenged. Kayla's smile faltered a little. 'Keep? Being nice?' she asked, the redhead nodded smugly. Kayla looked as if she had an extremely unpleasant taste in her mouth. She sighed 'Fine, but only for a month' Kayla and Lily shook on it and Lily added 'who knows? You might even end up liking them'.
Gabrielle, Nerissa and Jaylin came bounding down the staircase. Gabrielle chucked the compact to Kayla who checked herself once over before storing it in her bag. Remus smiled. 'Hey Gabrielle why don't you and your friends join us for breakfast. I owe you one anyway Gabby anyway' Gabrielle shrugged. 'Sure, why not? Come on' Remus smiled again and said 'just go on for a sec I need to talk to these three about something' Gabrielle shrugged again and led her friends out of the portrait hole.
Remus faced the three seventh year girls. All of who now wore anxious looks on their faces.
'Guys I just wanted to ask you about these books' Remus said as he pulled out the five books he'd found in the common room the night before. 'Now, these are seventh year books and they're not yours' he pointed out. Jane, Kayla and Lily exchanged glances.
'Yes they are' Lily said.
'Grade 7 and Arithmancy are mine'
'Potions and Charms are mine'
'History of Magic's mine'
Remus raised his eyebrow and opened the cover of "A Further Insight Into the Past" and pointed at the writing inside. 'See this' he jabbed a finger at the writing. 'This is a name, I can't read it but I know it's a name, now it's written on each of the books. They're not yours but do you know who they belong to' he said sternly. The girls exchanged glances and decided it would be best to say no.
They shook their heads. Remus looked thoughtful.
'I think I know someone who could read this' and Remus took off. 'Who are you going to?' Lily shouted. 'Mohsin' he shouted back. Lily sighed in relief.
Kayla and Jane went to join James, Sirius, Peter, Gabrielle and her friends at breakfast while Lily waited for Adea to come down.
Adea thundered down the stairs in a mad rush. 'Oh finally he's gone!' she exclaimed. Lily didn't reply she merely said 'Follow him down and get your books' Adea nodded and walked out of the portrait hole as well while Lily made her way down to breakfast.
'Hey Waqar! Slow down!' Remus called through the corridor. Waqar stopped and turned around as Remus caught up, brandishing the books in the Ravenclaw's face.
'Can you read this for me' Remus pointed at the writing 'and tell me whose books these are' Waqar scanned the name –These are Adea's
'No problem Remus, it's easy they're mine' Waqar said calmly. Remus raised his eyebrows. 'And why were your books in the Gryffindor Common Room?'
'I was tutoring someone'
'Tutoring? Who were you tutoring?'
'Felicity Williams' Waqar replied without thought.
'She's a sixth year, these are seventh year books' Remus said.
'Can't blame a kid for wanting to be ahead can you?'
Remus shook his head and handed the books over to his fellow prefect. 'Here you go. Sorry about not believing you and everything, see you later?' Remus said.
Ever since Halloween when Waqar had been spending more time with the Marauders and the girls, Remus and Waqar had become good friends. They had a lot in common. They both liked to read and were popular. They were soft spoken and didn't like to cause too much trouble but in Remus' case it was slightly harder.
'Sure don't worry about it, you're the prefect it's your job isn't it? See you later' Waqar said glancing at a shadow in the distance. Remus nodded and walked onwards to breakfast.
Waqar stood tapping his foot lightly and smiling slightly. Adea ran to him with a relieved look on his face.
'Do you know this is like the time I took the blame for when you nicked those sugar quills from your cousin' he said.
Adea smiled at him sheepishly. 'Sorry but thanks for getting my books for me' she said.
'Oh it's fine. Something tells me I'll be taking blame for even more in the future' Waqar said
'That's right, you have the rest of your life to spend with me yet' Adea joked.
'Oh God I know how am I ever gonna' survive?' Waqar sighed.
'Oh you know you love me really' Adea said. Waqar rolled his eyes and looked at her.
His breath got caught as he gazed into her eyes. The way they were still glassy from waking up. And how they glowed as she smiled. How even when she smiled he could detect the pain she felt from her burden. And most of all he noticed how they still didn't contain love when she looked at him.
'Yeah I suppose so' he muttered. Adea laughed. Waqar slung his arm round her shoulder and led her into the Great Hall for breakfast.
James and Lily were having an emergency Head meeting, something about James having an "on-the-spot", supposedly genius idea. Lily rolled her eyes when Peter had given her the message but decided to meet him anyway. Besides it got her out of Potions. Head Meetings always did. When she went to see Jabin about it at the beginning of the lesson she noticed that James hadn't even bothered to excuse himself.
-Typical James- 'Professor?'
'Ah Miss Evans. What a…pleasure, I'm sure' Jabin sneered. Lily took a deep breath and let it go. 'Sir, oh sorry I mean miss' here Lily gave Jabin a fake sweet smile. 'I have a Head's meeting to attend right about...now so I won't be in this lesson' Lily excused. The other woman sniffed 'oh what a shame'. Without another word Lily turned and left the dungeon.
She walked into the Head's lounge to find James reading 'Pride and Prejudice' a muggle book by Jane Austen that Lily absolutely adored. She had left it on the table the night before and forgot to put it back in her room.
'James? Didn't know you liked muggle books or any books for that matter' Lily joked
'Just wanted to see what they were like' Lily looked at the page he was holding and raised her eyebrows. 'You've gotten quiet far' James shrugged as he carefully placed the book back on the table.
'So, genius idea?'
'Hm? Oh that…yeah I don't have one'
'So why am I missing Potions?'
'I thought it'd be nice, you know. Just you and me. James and Lily quality time'
'James! It's February!'
'Oh no! Not February! Say it ain't so Lily say it ain't so' James replied hysterically, Lily kicked him hard causing James to howl in pain.
'Do you know? We're kind of like Darcy and Elizabeth in a way' James commented after the pain had subsided. Lily mulled it over and said 'Except that Darcy and Elizabeth never exactly become friends and she falls in love with him'. James sighed.
'Yes but you could fall in love with me if you didn't have that whole mental block-against-James Potter thing going'
'What are you talking about? I have no mental-block against you!'
'Oh really?'
'Fine, describe your perfect guy' Lily gave him a weird look.
'Do you know scary it is that you're asking me that?' Lily said, James rolled his eyes. 'There is a point to this, just do it would you Evans' he commanded.
'Fine. The perfect guy would have to definitely be taller than me, have to have a good physique, not too muscular but not scrawny either. He doesn't have to have any particular facial features just as long as I found him attractive. He'd have to be confident but not arrogant. He'd have to be intelligent and be able to hold stimulating conversation. A good sense of humour. He'd need to have some sort of fault, I find faultless people amazingly annoying. He would have to be sensitive, honest, loyal and…and he'd have to have an air of mystery about him as well' Lily finished.
'OK ok now which of those do I have?' James asked crossing his arms smugly. Lily rolled her eyes.
'I see where this is going. Can you say persistent?'
'Yes I can'
'Don't you be cute with me Potter'
'Can't help it Evans' Lily rolled her eyes at the use of her last name and sighed in resignation. 'Fine, you win' she consented.
'Well you are taller than me. And physique…' Lily shrugged passively yet fighting tooth and nail to fight back the blush that was daring to creep across her cheeks at the memory of seeing James' "physique".
'Oh don't you give me any of that. I saw you staring at my physique that day. I'll answer your questions for you. I do a lot of jogging, weight lifting, press-ups it's not all Quidditch although my brutal team practises help. But to be honest with you it felt quite degrading to have you stare like that.' James said in the same tone Lily had used with him for so many years. Well except that Lily's tone wasn't fake.
'You can't talk! All you've done for the past seven years is stare at my arse, chest and in the summers my legs! In fact you still do it' Lily cried. James shrugged.
'What can I say Lily? You're too damn gorgeous' he said offhandedly, as Lily blushed prettily. 'Can we go back to me being your perfect guy?' James said
'You are not my perfect guy!'
'Yeah yeah whatever you want to call it'. Lily sighed and continued.
'Well you are attractive-don't twist my words- Aha! I've got you now. You James Potter, are arrogant how are you going to shoot that one down?' Lily folded her arms and smiled triumphantly.
'Oh come on Lily I haven't been that arrogant. At least not this year' James whined. Lily thought about and grudgingly agreed. 'Ok fine, you are intelligent and you have a good sense of humour, no doubt. Fault?'
'Evans, I wear glasses'
'Good point. That'll do. Well you are sensitive, or at least you were at Christmas. Honest…well I suppose you are honest you've never really cheated on any of your girlfriends have you? God knows you're loyal. So all that's left is…mystery. You're not mysterious' Lily finished matter of factly.
James thought hard. 'Wait here'. He went into his bedroom and fished out a wad of parchment. He went back into the lounge and thrust them into Lily's arms.
Lily shot him a curious look but James kept his gaze firmly focused on the ground.
She leafed through them and gasped. They were the parchments he doodled on in classes. A lot of them were her initials beautifully engraved into the parchment. More than just doodles. There were lots of pictures of a broomstick with a lily entwined around it. There were several poems and songs obviously dedicated to her. And Lily noticed with a smile, lots of Mrs.Lily Potters. There were pictures of lilies blooming. There was a sketch of an emerald with a pair of snitch wings fluttering around the page. Parchment upon parchment of his artwork, all dedicated, centred and focused on her.
Lily was shocked but she didn't start feeling tears until she saw the parchment right at the bottom. It had a date and title. It was meant for a History of Magic lesson in their first year, but James must've gotten bored because instead there being notes on Binns' lectures there was a heart with her and James' initials on them with an arrow going through. Obviously the work of an eleven year old.
There were so many emotional and beautiful things in the pile she was holding but of all the things this little love heart meant most to her. It showed her that never, not once in seven years had James stopped caring about her. It showed her that no matter how many teenage insecurities she went through on different days it never mattered to James and it proved wrong the very theory she had believed to be true from day one. He didn't just like her for the chase, or because he was attracted to her body. James liked her for her, nothing else.
Lily gazed up at him with tear stained cheeks. 'Is this what you do when you're bored in lessons?' James met her gaze.
Lily couldn't deny it any longer she knew it. She was falling for James, falling fast.
'Do you mind if I keep these?' Lily whispered softly, James shook his head. She slowly got up and went to her bedroom.
Once she got inside she collapsed onto the floor, leaning on the back of her door, breathing heavily.
-What's happening? This isn't supposed to happen, this was never supposed to happen. When did he become so perfect? Why does he like me? I'm not special enough for him. Who is he? He's like a whole new person now. No he's always been the same person, you've just never realised it-
The tears were now rolling freely down her cheeks. Why, she didn't know. Maybe it was confusion, shock, joy, maybe even remorse. She didn't know but in the back of her head underneath the haze of confusion, her mind knew this was the best most indescribable emotion ever.
Shakily she retrieved her special box. She fingered the mint green raw silk after placing the parchments inside it.
'Seriously Kayla you should've heard her, her voice it was just so, so…I don't know' Remus sighed at lunch the following day. He went back to sipping his pumpkin juice. Kayla smiled nervously as her and Gabrielle exchanged glances.
'You know if I was the jealous type I might be worried' Kayla said.
'What do you mean' Remus asked.
'The way you go on about this girl, one might think…' Remus smiled at his girlfriend's comment.
'This girl could sing as well as she wants and have the nicest features but she'll never be as gorgeous as you' Remus said. Kayla smiled and gave him a kiss.
'Ugh!' came a voice. The couple turned to look at Gabby who sat with fork in mid-air looking revolted. 'God! Could you two be anymore disgusting? Honestly' she shuddered as Kayla and Remus laughed.
The bell rang. Remus picked up his bag and slung it over his shoulder. 'Well I'm off to Ancient Runes, you have Muggle Studies, I'll walk you there come on' he offered. Kayla got up and together they walked out of the Great Hall and onto their lessons.
'Oh wow am I glad we're back' Kayla noted
'Any particular reason?' Remus asked
'Yeah I hated carrying my own books, opening my own doors and pulling out my own chairs' Kayla listed
'Well if that's all you wanted me for' Remus said as he opened the door of her classroom for her and handed her books 'Then I'd best be off' and he started to walk away.
'Hey what about my kiss?' Kayla called, still standing in the doorway. Remus walked on as if he hadn't heard her. Kayla rolled her eyes and took a seat.
Adea sat in Ancient Runes sitting beside Waqar and thought back to her days before Hogwarts
Flashback
'Adea, why are you so scrawny?' Mandy says poking at me as if I was some sort of odd animal
'Yeah and why do you always put your hand up in lessons?' Claire says as she does what's supposed to be impression of me in classes. The other girls laugh. 'Why d'you talk so quiet?'
'Yeah and you talk posh as well'
'And you always wear that stupid necklace, it's so ugly'
'And weird stuff always happens when you're around'
'And you have no friends'
'HEY!' comes a new voice. Waqar's voice, he's pushing through the crowd of jeering girls all hovering over me. 'Are you ok?' he's asking, I nod. The other girls start whispering, that's never good.
'Waqar fancies Adea. Waqar fancies Adea' they sing, I groan inwardly. Waqar looks furious. 'Waqar's gonna' give you all black eyes if you don't get out of Adea's face' he shouts menacingly. The girls look scared, he looks at them again. 'NOW' he yells, they scurry away in different directions.
End Flashback
-Wow it seems like another life. I have female friends now, by chance of course. I know people will be nicer now but I couldn't face anyone else, too many memories, too many hurtful memories. And on top of the…no just forget about it ok –
She caught Waqar's eye and offered him a weak smile, which he returned before turning back to Professor Cummings and proceeding with the note taking.
Half an hour later the bell rung and Waqar and Adea quietly slipped out of class. Remus stood standing beside Lily's desk, waiting patiently like a good friend.
Lily looked up at him in surprise. 'Oh Remus! You're here, oh hey listen you go on, you have a lesson to get to and anyway McGonagall's classroom isn't that far from here' she said. Remus smiled and headed off to his next lesson.
Lily's head was buzzing with thoughts of the day before. She liked James, she knew it but her pride stopped her from doing anything. On top of everything she didn't have anyone to talk to about it. Kayla and Remus were back together and never went anywhere without each other unless they had to. Adea was spending an unusually large amount of time with Waqar these days. And Jane…. well Jane…
In all honesty Lily felt that out of all of her friends, she connected with Jane the least. As much as she loved her, there was just something in the both of their personalities that made them very different from each other and hard to relate to. Jane was an only child yet the most motherly of them all, oddly enough. There was just something motherly about Jane. And Lily knew that whenever she was upset Jane would always be the one she'd hold her arms out to like she would have done to her mother back home. Yet there was just something…
For some inexplicable reason Jane suddenly seemed like the right person to talk to in this situation. Lily looked at her watch and broke off in a run; she had one minute to get to her Transfiguration lesson.
The lessons flew by but the end of the day couldn't have come sooner for Lily. All she wanted to do was talk to Jane or anybody about her problems before she exploded. Fortunately Lily managed to catch Jane in the corridor after their last lessons.
'Hey Jane!' Lily called. A black haired girl with bright purple streaks turned around and smiled at Lily. Lily smiled back –wow Jane must really like that black she's had it in since Halloween- Jane walked over to her.
'Salutations' Jane said
'Um, hi?' Lily replied awkwardly
'I was messing, don't worry about it' Lily laughed at this. Jane looked at her redheaded friend questioningly 'How can I be of service to you?'
'Oh right. I um need to talk to you about something, quite important' Lily said, Jane looked amazed.
'You want to talk to me?' she asked and Lily nodded.
Jane shrugged. 'OK where do you want to go?'
'My room or the Room of Requirement?' Lily suggested and Jane's eyes slid out of focus while she smiled slightly. 'Hang on a minute Lily' Lily looked puzzled as she waited while Jane began to scan the heads in the corridor. –Where is he? He was just in class with me- She suddenly spotted who she was looking for.
'Sirius!' Jane called, Sirius looked up and grinned. She ran to him put her hand to hand to the back of his neck and started kissing him impulsively. Sirius was shocked but slowly started to kiss back with the same energy. The girls cooed over the sweetness of it all and the boys just stared at the two. Jane pulled away and walked back to Lily without another glance at her boyfriend.
'Let's go to your room'
Lily was smiling sadly. 'What was that about?' she asked, Jane shrugged. As they started walking through the designated corridor, making their way to mahogany door Lily said 'Do you know how many people would kill to have what you and Sirius have?'
'Yeah and I know how many people would kill to have I have with Sirius' Lily laughed as she led the way through the lounge and into her spotless, snow white room. They sat down as Lily procured some sugar quills and two cans of Pepsi, she handed one to Jane.
'So you and Sirius are happy right? I mean you guys are like perfect' Lily said
'I guess we are' Jane replied
'Have you and Sirius ever…' Lily looked at Jane meaningfully
'…Slept together? No, we've only been together for like two months!' Jane cried
'I know plenty of girls who'd put out for Sirius Black in a week' Lily muttered, Jane rolled her eyes in agreement. Lily spoke again 'Has Sirius ever…' another meaningful look.
'…Tried? Nope. He knows that if he ever tries without consulting me first I'd be up and out in a second' Jane said matter-of-factly. Lily grinned 'you've got him whipped. Wow! My friend: the girl who tamed Sirius Black'
'He won't admit it though' Jane said as she sucked on her sugar quill 'So what did you want to talk about Lils?' she asked.
Lily sighed, she'd almost forgotten. 'What do you do when something you swore would never happen actually happens?' Jane looked thoughtful. 'Do you want to elaborate?' she asked. Lily nodded reluctantly.
'I think…I think I'm falling for James' Lily mumbled. Jane's eyes widened with shock. 'For James? No, no, no. No, right?' she asked Jane incredulously as is she expected Lily to burst out and laughing and splutter "as if". But she didn't get an answer.
'You're serious? Oh my god! I can't believe this. I mean wow…I-I…how?' Jane asked.
Lily thought back. –When did all of this start anyway? Last night just triggered it but when did it start? Not Halloween, maybe Christmas? It must've been Christmas because I started paying him odd attention after the holidays. Well he was really nice about that whole Petunia thing…but there's something else. What is it? The kiss idiot. Kiss? Oh my god that stupid mistletoe kiss. It wasn't stupid you know it. – And she did. Just the thought of it made her run her finger over her lips as she remembered how she felt when their lips brushed.
She gasped as she found herself wishing that it had lasted longer. Lily looked back at Jane with fearful eyes.
'It's been going on since Christmas Eve! Oh my god! I didn't even know. Oh my…wow' Lily whispered. Jane stared at her as Lily continued.
'Ok I'm going to tell you something, I haven't told anyone, anyone. Not even Dee' Jane nodded and signalled for her to continue. Lily took a long, deep breath.
'On, on you know…Christmas Eve. Sirius well sometime he must've messed with the mistletoe or something because we were under it and we couldn't move we were completely glued to the spot. So, so we you know…we kissed' Jane grinned and whistled.
'So is that it? Just a kiss, did you feel anything, what? Come on tell me tell me tell me' Jane squealed, Lily laughed –That's so un-Janeish- 'Alright, alright calm down would you? Yes I did feel something' Jane looked ready to explode as she started flapping her hands signalling for Lily to go on.
'It was…it was like a huge electric shock, a nice electric shock' Lily smiled in spite of herself. 'So what do I do?' Jane got a hold of herself as she took a deep breath.
'Well first of all you're going to have go down just like I did' Jane remarked smugly but Lily was confused. Jane looked devious 'Crush time!' she cried. Lily looked fearful, and shook her head.
'No, Jane. Come on now, let's be fair. Oh please!' Lily pleaded but Jane shook her head and Lily knew her mind was not to be changed. Lily sighed resignedly.
'Then what do I do?' Lily asked, Jane gave Lily a significant look. 'After you've told your friends there's only one thing you can do Lils'. Lily bit her lip and looked hesitant of the idea.
'There's no dodging it Lily'
'James doesn't really need to know, does he?' Lily argued weakly
'Yeah, I mean what does it matter that you might spend the rest of your life thinking: what if…' Lily laughed at dramatics of that comment, it didn't last long though.
'I mean seriously it's not that big of a deal is it? I'd get over him eventually' Lily reasoned
'Right, of course. I mean it's not that big of a deal that James could be your soul mate' Jane said simply. Lily bit her lip again and asked 'D'you think?' her friend shrugged.
'Couldn't hurt to give it a go, could it?'
'But what if he isn't my soul mate, I'd be upset' Lily said, she was fishing for excuses now but Jane shrugged again.
'Like you said Lils' and here Jane got up and heaved Lily up too 'you'll get over it eventually' she gave Lily another significant look and looked to the window.
'You have an owl' Jane then hugged Lily and left the room, closing the door quietly behind her.
Lily thought for a minute before attending to her owl.
'Hello Artemis' she untied the letter from Artemis' leg 'you know where the Owlery is by now, don't you?' The owl hooted in response before hopping out of the window and soaring over the Hogwarts grounds to the Owlery.
The letter was addressed to her and obviously written by Petunia. Again like Petunia's other letter it was short and harshly blunt.
Lily Marie,
Be a bridesmaid at my wedding.
PetuniaLily screamed in frustration. This was getting ridiculous. She and her sister were finally having some sort of a sibling relationship only they were acting more like woman and mother-in-law and even those relationships probably had more words in their conversations.
She stormed into James' room to find him working on some homework, he looked up distractedly and upon seeing her he blushed and looked at his feet. Lily suddenly realising she was before James did the same.
'Do you have any floo powder?' she mumbled almost incoherently. James nodded and reached into the drawer of his desk. He pulled out a small pot, which when uncovered contained sparkling green powder. Floo powder.
She took the pot into the lounge. Lily put her head near the fire, took a pinch of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace. '15 Goddetia Avenue!' Lily roared and felt an odd sensation.
She felt her head spin and travel past all the fireplaces along the way to her own. Her head suddenly stopped and she felt extremely dizzy.
'Petunia! Petunia! Petunia! Where are you?' Lily's head called at the image of her living room. It smiled slightly at the familiar sight, her heart ached a little and she found herself feeling slightly homesick.
'What on Earth?' cried a confused voice and Lily saw a flash of somewhat faded blonde hair and her smile grew wider. Rosalind Evans appeared. She had grey eyes, was quite short and very slender with faded blonde hair that had been passed onto her eldest daughter.
'Mum!' Lily cried.
'Lily?'
'Yep it's me'
'Oh Lily darling! You don't know how much I've wanted to see that head, now where's the rest of you?'
'Oh mum I'm still in Hogwarts my head can just see you at the same time' Lily explained patiently. Mrs. Evans looked pleasantly surprised and delighted at this new discovery.
'So why do we bother with letters when I can talk and see you at the same time like this?'
'Mum that is something you'll understand when you go through the experience that is floo transport' Lily said wisely and her mother smiled.
'By the way can you eat through that thing because I just made some of my famous strawberry jam and I could do with an expert opinion' her mother said excitedly and Lily grinned. 'Go on then just put a bit on the spoon and quickly shove it into my mouth without getting burnt'.
Mrs. Evans approached Lily's head with a spoonful of jam, which Lily quickly swallowed. 'Mmmmmm, one of your best, not the best, that was summer before last, but definitely one of the best. Her mother nodded in a satisfied way and then looked confused.
'Lily what are you doing here?' Rosalind asked. Lily rolled her eyes and wanted to smack her forehead but obviously couldn't.
'I wanted to talk to Petunia…privately. Do you mind?' Lily said meekly. On the contrary her mother looked thrilled at the thought of her daughters talking things out. 'Oh of course sweetheart let me get her' and the older woman disappeared up the staircase and in the distance Lily could hear the faint cries of 'Petunia! Petunia! You'll never guess who's downstairs!'
For some odd reason, Petunia came charging down the stairs as if actually excited to see Lily. She straightened up as she got closer and concealed her excited smile but not quickly enough for Lily to miss it.
'Lily! You're in the fire' Petunia said in greeting
'I noticed' Lily replied coldly and felt a satisfaction at seeing her sister wince at her tone.
'We need to talk' Lily said brusquely. Petunia nodded curtly. The sisters then fell silent.
'Wow! We haven't done this for a while' Petunia said, Lily's head rolled it's eyes.
'Okay let's start from that thing you sent me at Christmas' Lily said
'You mean the letter?' Petunia said
'Petunia that was hardly a letter' Petunia shrugged.
'Why couldn't I see your fiancé? Do you not like me? Are you ashamed of me' Lily prompted, her sister looked uneasy.
'Not of you per se' Petunia said, quietly as she twiddled her thumbs, Lily looked expectant. 'Well then? You could've at least told me you were seeing someone, or that you were engaged'
'There is a reason, I promise'
'Go on then let's hear it, promise I won't get angry' Lily said.
Petunia took a deep breath. 'Right okay. I know we've never really got along, but you know we were normal. I just, ever since you got your letter I just don't understand you anymore. I mean you're still my sister and I lo- I just don't like magic. Actually I hate magic. I haven't said anything, but I hate talking to you like that, in the fire and everything' Lily, whose eyebrows had been raised ever since Petunia couldn't say that she loved Lily, now realised something.
Petunia was always one of those people who could never understand anything that was so completely different than things that were routine to her. And if there was one thing Petunia hated, it was not being able to understand something. Petunia had always basked in the feeling of being able to relate to everything around her so when she couldn't, she just blocked it out. It made sense now.
'Magic's just freaky. I hate your nose biting teacups and your dumb frogspawn soap, it is disgusting and I have a phobia of your stick thing' Petunia continued
'It's a wand Petunia' Lily said, irritated.
'As for not introducing you to Vernon. Well Vernon, the thing I love most about him is that he loves everything orderly and neat. And well you're magic and everything…it just wasn't good for him to know. I wanted us to seem perfect so I told him you attended a top of the line private boarding school' Lily felt disgusted at what her sister was spouting, Petunia didn't even seem to realise this might be hurting Lily.
'Oh well aren't you ashamed of me being a bridesmaid at your wedding?' Lily asked coldly
'I didn't say I was ashamed of you' Lily rolled her eyes as Petunia ploughed on 'I mean there just wouldn't be enough time during the wedding for Vernon to find out and you are my sister, I did always want you to be my wedding, I just don't like who you are'.
There. She'd said it. And now there was no point in her sticking around. Lily blinked in understanding; Petunia understood that her younger sister was about to leave. 'Lils, before you leave. I-I just want to tell you something. Like I said you are my sister and-and I lo-well I don't hate you' Petunia said brightly as if proud of herself for being able to say it.
Lily looked at the now unrecognisable girl in front of her and said 'you're my sister too and I do love you but I do hate you at the same time. Never thought I'd be able to say that with a straight face, but I guess, now, I can'.
Petunia was deeply affected by her words. 'Lily I'm sorry' but Lily laughed at that and replied 'of course you are'. A thought just occurred to Petunia 'are you still going to be a bridesmaid?' she asked hopefully, Lily laughed again.
'Of course I am, can't have something as small as me spoil your dream wedding can we?' and with those quiet words Lily retracted her head from her parents' fireplace and returned her whole self to Hogwarts.
She sat by the flickering fire and watched as it licked the sides of it's location. Her heart had completely shattered.
James walked out of his room to get something from the lounge, he saw Lily seated by the fire. It flames illuminating her hair beautifully making it seem even more spectacular than usual. He smiled until he noticed the look on her face: a mournful brooding look.
'Lily?' he called out to her softly. She slowly raised her head to look at him. In that instance all of her problems with him vanished, in that instant she wanted him to comfort her, to be able to cry into his shoulder as he stroked her hair.
James made his way to her. He took hold o her shoulders forcing her to face him. 'What's wrong Lily?' but the redhead just shook her head and James understood that she'd rather not talk about it. He hugged her and Lily broke down and she started sobbing uncontrollably.
James didn't say anything as he held her. He knew Lily didn't expect him to. She just needed him to be there for her and he was more than happy to.
The next morning as Lily heard the birds twitter and sing to indicate morning, she felt infinitely better. But, considering yesterday's events she didn't really know why.
Suddenly she realised exactly where she'd fallen asleep. On the floor of the lounge by the comforting fumes of the fire which resided there no more. As she tried to heave herself up she found herself unable to. Lily gasped as she looked at her stomach.
James' arm was wrapped around her waist protectively. As she turned her head she noticed that he had her pressed so tight against him, there was less than an inch between them. Lily instinctively blushed as she inwardly admonished herself for be stupid enough to not realise this when she first woke up. She'd have had to be blind or senseless not to realise it.
She tried prising his arm off but to no avail. He would not let go of his firm hold on her. Lily didn't want to wake him up, or maybe she didn't want to move from this position, either way as she relaxed herself back into the position she was in before waking up she felt herself melt. James' arms just felt so safe as if no wrong could happen as long as she stayed there. All of her other worries disappeared, lying there and thinking about they just weren't important anymore. Just so long as she had James.
-But you don't have James. What is with you? First you tell me off for not liking James now you're making me feel bad because I do like him. I'm not trying to make you feel bad I'm just trying to make you do something about the fact that you don't have him yet, but that could change you know. I don't have to listen to you, what will happen will happen, so get lost-
Lily cast her emerald glance on the clock and noticed that it was 8.40 am. Lessons started at nine, she had to be at breakfast as well. There was absolutely no way she could get ready n ten minutes. With a reluctant sigh she tried to shake James awake.
'James, James wake up we'll be late. Come on at least let me out, I'll make your excuses' Lily whispered hoarsely. It had no effect whatsoever on James. He didn't move he just made a small sound. She heard him muttering and smiled –aw he sleep talks. Listen to yourself, would you? – Lily leaned closer? (If it was possible to see if she could make anything out.
'Love you Lils' James muttered. Lily laughed softly as she took in his sleeping form properly. James looked so utterly peaceful and so, so angelic. He looked cute to put it in a nutshell. Lily ran her fingers through his stubborn hair.
James groaned in protest. 'Mmmmmm who is that?' he reached out to grab the hand.
'So that's the key to waking James Potter up huh?' Lily teased as she removed her hand from his hair.
'Lily? No don't stop it's rather nice actually' James said
'I don't think so because of you I now have only 5 minutes to get ready and get to breakfast' Lily scolded softly. James opened his eyes, which had remained adamantly shut up until then.
He stared at his and Lily's close proximity. 'Oh my god! Did something happen…' he said nervously but Lily cut him off. 'No nothing happened in fact you were the perfect gentleman' James sighed in relief and then looked at her properly and noticed his arm wrapped tightly around her waist. Lily noticed where his glance was headed.
'Yes I would've been up much earlier if it hadn't been for that' Lily laughed. James blushed as he removed his arm and mumbled an apology. At first Lily was confused as to why he was blushing and then realised she had been blushing for the very same reason. They were way too close, too close for comfort. Yet oddly it felt comfortable.
Lily blushed as well. 'I'll just be getting up then since you now have three minutes to get ready' James said as smoothly as was possible. He got up and turned around very quickly as if not being able to look at Lily.
'Hey James?' Lily called at his retreating figure. James stopped indicating that he'd heard but didn't turn around. 'Thank you for staying with me last night, I really needed it' James nodded and hurried off to his room. Lily ran to hr room as well to get changed in record time.
James shut the door and leaned on the back of it. 'Oh god, I need a cold shower, now' and he grabbed his things and ran into his bathroom. –Being that close to Lily in a state of consciousness, ha a I thinking –
Oddly enough Lily hadn't noticed James' ah-uncomfortable situation because she was too wrapped up in the feeling of warmth she'd felt when she'd been in his arms. Without his arm around her waist now, Lily felt…lonely.
-Oh god, it's more serious than I thought-
Within the next two minutes the two of them were dressed and out of there, rushed but the job was done.
Lily noticed James that avoided her gaze as he spoke. 'What day is it?' James asked
'Oh uh…Wednesday' Lily replied as she flicked her hair and exited the chamber with James.
'Shit! Come on, we have to move!' James said frantically, grabbing Lily's elbow and dragging her in the direction of the Great Hall.
'Why what is it? James, let go!' Lily said, James let go immediately as he replied 'You'll see' and he ushered her into the Great Hall so fast that they reached it with one minute to spare.
As they took their seats all four of the girls noticed that the Marauders looked particularly devious today as they ate their breakfast and were slightly worried.
As Lily poured milk into her cereal bowl, whispers erupted followed by giggling, which became steadily louder with each nanosecond. When she looked up she was met with the most bizarre sight she'd ever seen.
Professor Jabin had just walked into the Great Hall. She obviously hadn't looked in the mirror. Jabin was wearing a hot pink bathrobe that stopped, horrifically, at the knees baring her mannish and disgustingly hairy legs. A bright orange towel was wrapped around her head. Her face was covered in a thick, pasty layer of mud mask through which her incredibly bushy eyebrows (though as far as Lily could remember they weren't normally like that) could be seen. They protruded like odd little tufts. Not only were her eyebrows visible but her newfound moustache was as well.
The funny thing was that Jabin thought she looked perfectly normal and obviously she was deaf as well because the students (sans the Slytherins) were now howling with laughter. As she strolled onwards towards her seat at the Head Table people caught a glimpse of her back.
On the back of the hot pink bathrobe, in large, thick white letters read the words: 'I upset Lily Evans and this is my punishment'. She then sat down, took some toast produced an issue of the Daily Prophet and continued with her everyday breakfast routine.
The Marauders cast a glance at Dumbledore whose blue eyes sparkled with pleasant amusement. They then directed their eyes towards Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall looked like she was trying her absolute best not to laugh but couldn't refrain from smirking (it was a common known fact that McGonagall and Jabin had been at Hogwarts together and had been rivals ever since). None of the teachers, the students noticed, bothered to tell the Potions Mistress of her current state.
All too soon Professor McGonagall came to her senses. She rose out of her seat, still smirking, and looked directly at where the Marauders were sitting at the Gryffindor table.
'Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew and Miss Evans, report to my office immediately!'
James looked uneasy and Lily's jaw dropped as her name was bellowed by the Transfiguration teacher. Slowly but surely Lily rose from her own seat along with the Marauders and followed her Head of House to her office.
'Sit' Professor McGonagall snapped when they reached her office. All five of them sat down.
Professor McGonagall though not smirking still was still smiling.
'I think we'll start with Miss Evans. I am very disappointed in you, you are the Head Girl!' the older woman reminded making Lily feel extremely guilty for no reason.
' I know Professor, I'm sorry I…OW' James had just stepped on Lily's foot as she was apologising. She gave him a look that plainly said 'what the hell was that for?' to which James replied with a look that said 'what the hell are you doing?' At that Lily came to her senses.
'No wait a second. Professor I had nothing to do with this' Lily said. Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows. 'You had nothing to do with this?' she asked sceptically to which Lily adamantly shook her head. 'So why was your name written on the back of that bathrobe?' she asked again but this time Lily looked to James.
'That was my doing Professor' James admitted, McGonagall turned her head towards him. 'Your doing? And why would you write "I upset Lily Evans so this is my punishment" on back of that bathrobe?' James had more trouble explaining this one because the truth sounded stupid.
'Well you see we had this lesson and uh Professor Jabin was bullying Lily' James started slightly exaggerating the roll of events 'and Lily was very upset at the end so I thought it only fair that Professor Jabin get punishment for singling out and bullying individual students for no reason' James finished as eloquently as possible.
Professor McGonagall sighed and turned to the remaining three 'and I'm guessing you hoodlums just needed a reason to prank someone' Peter looked terrified, Remus stared up at the ceiling and Sirius grinned at her.
'Well with the exception of Miss Evans I have to tell you that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Pranking students is one thing but to completely defy the rules and prank teachers, well… Especially you Mr. Potter. How many times must I remind you? You. Are. Head. Boy. We are now in February and you still haven't managed to grasp the concept' Professor McGonagall scolded though her anger did not seem entirely genuine. James had now taken to staring at the ceiling as well.
'For this act of disobedience and outright disrespect I shall give you all one detention each and take away five points from Gryffindor each' Professor McGonagall said.
The Marauders grinned at their Head's intended feeble punishment. Sirius flashed Professor McGonagall his winning smile even though he knew it had no effect on her.
'See Minnie, no one can resist a good old-fashioned prank on Professor Jabin' McGonagall's mouth reduced to a thinner line at Sirius' remark. 'Black don't push it' she then pointed to the door and all five of them left, four of them wearing broad smiles.
That Saturday the girls gathered in the Seventh Year Girls Dormitory for their sleepover. Jane had promised that something big would be revealed.
'Once the sleeping bags had been arranged and the food had been summoned the girls sat down.
'Someone change my hair!' Jane whined. Lily smiled, she had felt a lot closer to Jane after they'd talked and she and Jane had spent a lot of time together in the week since Adea and Kayla had been off in their own little worlds and so they had nothing better to do.
'I'll do it, I haven't done it in ages' Lily volunteered. She went to the vanity table to stand behind Jane. 'Keep the purple streaks, I like those' Jane ordered, Lily nodded as she tilted her head from one side to the other trying to envisage a colour for her friend. Eventually she thought of one.
She flicked her wand and muttered an incantation, Jane's hair turned indigo. Jane smiled 'I like it, lets leave it like that'. An idea had just struck Lily.
'Hang on a sec, I just want to try something' She waved her wand again and cleared every bit of dye (except the streaks).
There in front of the mirror sat Jane, her hair had gone from straight violet to wavy locks of luscious deep brown. Which, as it happened, set off the purple streaks nicely.
'Wow! Kay! Dee! Look at Jane!' Lily called, beckoning the other two.
Jane suddenly looked less dotty and a lot more beautiful. She looked childlike and innocent, pure and very vulnerable. Her silver eyes didn't seem so eerie, they seemed to fit. Her pale skin contrasted oddly with her hair but instead of making her look sickly or timid it gave her a slightly fairylike quality. Jane looked at her reflection as though she was looking at a stranger.
'Wow Jane you look gorgeous'
'Yeah amazing'
Jane looked uneasy now. 'Lils change it back, change it back please, now' Lily was confused at her friend's request.
'Why? Sirius will be blown away when he sees you like this tomorrow' Lily said. Jane frowned. 'Sirius doesn't mind how I look as long as I'm me. And this…this isn't me' Jane ended softly. Kayla raised her eyebrows. 'Not you? How can you say that? This is your natural hair colour'
'And…' Jane said expectantly, Lily shrugged. 'Ok, it's your hair I guess' she flicked her wand again and Jane's hair became Indigo and purple again.
Jane sighed contently as she examined her reflection and turned around. 'OK girls. Now, crush time!' she said as she clapped her hands to grab their attention. Lily groaned. Saying crush time now only applied to Lily as the rest of them already had boyfriends or something of that sort.
'I'm going to kill you Jane!' Lily cried but Jane stuck out her tongue. 'Of course you will sweetheart' Jane said in a babying voice. Kayla looked interested. 'Why Lils, is there something we should know?' she asked teasingly while Adea just laughed.
As always Adea Qureshi knew what was going on and she hadn't even been told.
'Oh go on Lils you have to tell or we'll force it out of you' Adea brandished her wand 'in the mood for dancing Lily?' she threatened laughingly. Lily put on a pitiful look as she mumbled two words 'James Potter'.
'What was that I didn't catch that?' Kayla said she leaned closer. Lily scowled.
'JAMES POTTER okay? I have a crush on James Potter, are you happy? Go on then laugh, all of you, you have a minute' Lily huffed. Adea, Jane and Kayla however sat there with blank looks on their faces.
'Woah calm down Lils. Time of the month?' Kayla asked sympathetically. Lily gave her a 'look'. Kayla shrugged. 'So what am I going to do?' Adea spoke up.
'Well first you're going to tell us what happened.
Lily looked to Jane who encouraged her with a nod of her head.
'Well we um- we might have kissed' the redhead mumbled. Chaos broke loose. They started to squeal and shriek and hug Lily simultaneously. 'Okay okay okay. Calm down!' Lily said. The girls settled down and tuned in to listen to Lily once again.
'Well you know ever since then I suppose he's grown on me. Then on Valentine's Day he was at the Three Broomsticks with Dulcie Fairbairn from Hufflepuff and I swear time stopped, felt like I couldn't breathe'
'I KNEW IT!' Kayla cried suddenly. The other three looked to her but she shook it off 'sorry, you had to be there'. Lily shrugged and continued with the story.
Then a couple of days ago he made me tell him about my perfect guy. And all of a sudden I realised that he was sitting right there, chasing me the whole time, it was James.
'Aaaaaaawwwwww' Adea and Kayla chorused.
'So what do I do now' Lily asked but started again as all three of them opened their mouths 'that doesn't involve telling James' the mouths all shut. Lily groaned at their help.
'You are kidding me! Do you know how humiliating that's going to be?' Lily whined, Adea looked at her wisely. 'Lily you are going to have to swallow your pride' she advised. Jane nodded in agreement and added 'yeah it doesn't have to be humiliating. You could take a leaf out of Kayla's book, just snog him to death, he'll get the message'
'OI!' Kayla cried and shoved a pillow in her best friend's direction.
Lily was deep in thought. The thought of snogging James to death didn't seem so disgusting anymore.
'You know I might just do that' Lily mused but no one heard her as a pillow fight had broken out and Lily could do nothing but join in. Ah…good times.
A/n: There you go! Not much going on at the minute. Tune in next time for a very important chapter. Speaking of the next chapter. Here's the thing: I'm going on holiday for just under two months. Long time for a holiday, yes I know but there's ots to be done. I may or may not be able to post a new chapter, I can't be certain. I can promise you that as soon as I get back I'll post a new chapter. Okay review, even if it is to shout at me, I don't care.
Review Responses:
Jennifer88: Wow! You must've read a really early version of that chapter, i could've sworn I fixed that asap, but hey. Ssshhhh lets keep it a secret that it ever happened, thanks for your review
Cheesytrees: Thank you so much for this review, it was very sweet. As for your question, Sirius doesn't know about Adea does he? ;) Thanks again.
Padfoot76: Thanks for your review, it made me smile. Yes, I'm planning to continue, even with the new cannon. I love this thing. Anyway keep reading and reviewing.
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SHANEY:Thanks for the review! Now onto your questions: as much as I don't want to say this, Adea's reason can't be divulged just yet, sorry. Oh and Lily and James? Wait and see...